I have over 800 contacts in my 7650, and so accessing them isn't that quick. However when trying to search for contacts to attach to a SMS message, the contacts list takes 16-18 seconds to open. Filtering is then as normal.
Any idea why this is so much slower than opening contacts normally, and is 3.16 firmware slower in this respect compared to the newer firmware ?
Cheers
En Croute
I have no scientific explanation but I think 800 contacts is a reasonable fact to wait 😊
I know 800 contacts is quite a lot 😮 (there were over a 1000, but I've been editing) !
My first concern is that this phone is designed to cope with those volumes, and the 6210 coped fine with 499 contacts.
My second concern is the difference in the time lag. Via contacts it's 2-3 seconds (acceptable), via Messaging it's 16 seconds - not good.
Anyone with an idea ?
Cheers
En_Croute
May be it takes longer because you are multitasking messaging with contacts. Try having contacts already open, don't exit from it, press the menu key and then start messaging, when you click in the TO box I expect it will be quicker as you are only task switching not opening another application.
It is a multitasking OS, but it is only a small phone not a GHz+ PC, so slow down is to be expected especially when you have lots of apps open.
Yes.. i experience it many time when i open too many appl at the same time.
But when i close unused appls, it's open up fast!
[quote="lakeywhite"]May be it takes longer because you are multitasking messaging with contacts. Try having contacts already open, don't exit from it, press the menu key and then start messaging, when you click in the TO box I expect it will be quicker as you are only task switching not opening another application.
It is a multitasking OS, but it is only a small phone not a GHz+ PC, so slow down is to be expected especially when you have lots of apps open.[/quote]
I tested this with no other apps open (except Key lock) and with contacts open it actually took 52 seconds, and with contacts closed also took 52 seconds. :cry:
In both cases, if I pressed "done" and re opened the list of recipients, to add additional contacts, it opened immediatly, but if I closed the message and re-opened a new SMS message, the selection took over 50 seconds to open. :x
I repeated this with KeyLock closed, and the results were the same.
The only way to speed this up is to open contacts, select a contact, and send a message via Options. Adding additional contacts only takes 5-10 seconds.
An easy solution 😃 , but something is not right.
I realise this is only a small phone, not a PC, but there is no point slowing down the functionality (my 6210 handled 499 contacts easily) with an improved OS. :evil:
Why do you need 800 contacts in your phone?
Unless you're a mobile telephone directory service? 😊
LittleCx
Well
Some are work, some are restaurants, most are friends.
No I don't call them all the time, but it's a sync with Outlook, and so they are all in there.
With the 6210 I had to keep a copy in a seperate folder, restricted to 500, and stripped of address and e-mail details. I don't want to have to do that for the 7650, that's why I bought it.
Why does it not do what it says on the tin "3.6 MB dynamic memory for images, phonebook, calendar, messages, and add-on applications". I don't see any restriction here.....
You should know by now that there are quite a few restrictions not mentioned by Nokia.
How much free space do you have on your phone?
800. Whew.
Take into account that your 6210 only had to cope with a maximum of 5 added fields to a contact, whereas the 7650 will attempt to load as many fields as possible.
I would hazard a guess that quite a few of your contacts have pictures added to them as well?
Check the size of your contacts database (go to contacts, choose options, and scroll down to "memory info". I'm curious to see what the poor phone has to cope with!
I can't offer much in the way of advice, but take heart that you don't have the kind of problems that 9000 communicator (the phone in the movie "The Saint"😉 owners had. It could also handle any amount of multi-field contacts, and as many SMSs as your heart desired, but would one day just slow down so much that the phone could not respond to the network fast enough to acknowledge an incoming sms, upon which the network would send it agan, which would just compound the problem..
Almost like the 7650 3.12 error with running out of memory, but your phone would die a beeping death. Ah, the good old days...
[quote="Snorbaard"]Check the size of your contacts database (go to contacts, choose options, and scroll down to "memory info". I'm curious to see what the poor phone has to cope with![/quote]
823 Contacts
0 Groups
741 kB Used
837 kB Free
A lot yes, but not excessive (IMHO)
A few thumnails as well, but again, not that many.
It seems we are all to able to accept mediocre as the norm.
And phone companies announce improvements as progress, but in a new more expensive model.
Cheers anyway
En Croute
I think your few thumbnails are slowing it down.
741 kB Used 837 kB Free looks to me like a almost full harddrive. Don�t know if that is the problem but when I look in to my contactinfos there�s just 115kb used but 2495kb free and I have some software installed as well. The other apps are packed with stacker, so they don�t use that much memory.
With the harddrive idea, it is the same with a filled HDD in your pc. It takes time to load programs or open pics.
Just an idea...
Tazz
Have you deleted the fields of each contact that are not in use?
Example: Delete the fax, email and Job Titles that are not used. That should free some space.
[quote="Doc"]Have you deleted the fields of each contact that are not in use?
Example: Delete the fax, email and Job Titles that are not used. That should free some space.[/quote]
Is there a quick way of doing this, or is a manual process ?
Alternativly, when I reset my sync, (still have XP issues), is there a way of customising/limiting fields to sync ?
Cheers for the help so far....
En_croute
Unfortunately, I only know the manual way.