Comments on: 8 Ways to Trim the Fat From Your BlackBerry http://www.bbgeeks.com/blackberry-guides/8-ways-to-trim-the-fat-from-your-blackberry-88493/ Industry coverage, news, original feature articles, how to guides, videos, podcasts and reviews of BlackBerry service providers, software, accessories, hosted exchange providers and more Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:41:12 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Rob Alfieri http://www.bbgeeks.com/blackberry-guides/8-ways-to-trim-the-fat-from-your-blackberry-88493/comment-page-1/#comment-15429 Rob Alfieri Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:45:18 +0000 http://www.bbgeeks.com/?p=493#comment-15429 Very useful tips to free up memory; however, memory leaks are created by applications that take memory and don't give it back. Badly behaved apps will keep requesting memory until the device runs out. It can be a difficult task to determine the guilt app. The only way is to remove all none pre-installed apps and then add one app at a time a day and checking to see if after installing the app memory starts to dwindle. Then report the problem to the softwate vendor. If the problem exists without any 3rd party apps installed, report the issue to Blackberry support. Best bet, boot your Blackberry everyday by pressing left alt-right shift-backspace. Regards, Rob Very useful tips to free up memory; however, memory leaks are created by applications that take memory and don’t give it back. Badly behaved apps will keep requesting memory until the device runs out. It can be a difficult task to determine the guilt app. The only way is to remove all none pre-installed apps and then add one app at a time a day and checking to see if after installing the app memory starts to dwindle. Then report the problem to the softwate vendor. If the problem exists without any 3rd party apps installed, report the issue to Blackberry support. Best bet, boot your Blackberry everyday by pressing left alt-right shift-backspace.

Regards,
Rob

]]> By: Cooper http://www.bbgeeks.com/blackberry-guides/8-ways-to-trim-the-fat-from-your-blackberry-88493/comment-page-1/#comment-14905 Cooper Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:47:23 +0000 http://www.bbgeeks.com/?p=493#comment-14905 @Linda yes you are correct - the steps are to reclaim the leaked memory once it has been eaten by the apps. Perhaps we should write an article about that - thank you for the suggestion. There is an application that you may find handy that does just what you are asking for. Check out the Aerize Card Loader app here: http://store.bbgeeks.com/product.asp?id=18931 @Linda

yes you are correct – the steps are to reclaim the leaked memory once it has been eaten by the apps.

Perhaps we should write an article about that – thank you for the suggestion. There is an application that you may find handy that does just what you are asking for. Check out the Aerize Card Loader app here: http://store.bbgeeks.com/product.asp?id=18931

]]> By: Linda http://www.bbgeeks.com/blackberry-guides/8-ways-to-trim-the-fat-from-your-blackberry-88493/comment-page-1/#comment-14889 Linda Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:11:04 +0000 http://www.bbgeeks.com/?p=493#comment-14889 you know, these "tips" do not prevent memory leaks. The leaks are happening, these just get them back and at the expense of stuff I don't want to lose like contacts or messages. now there are cool apps that i can download but every time that i access them, more memory are being used up. what would be much more useful is how to install apps on the external memory stick which i have 8gb of! and all the cache and things should be downloaded to my 8gb! now THAT would be a great article. you know, these “tips” do not prevent memory leaks. The leaks are happening, these just get them back and at the expense of stuff I don’t want to lose like contacts or messages. now there are cool apps that i can download but every time that i access them, more memory are being used up. what would be much more useful is how to install apps on the external memory stick which i have 8gb of! and all the cache and things should be downloaded to my 8gb! now THAT would be a great article.

]]> By: Patti http://www.bbgeeks.com/blackberry-guides/8-ways-to-trim-the-fat-from-your-blackberry-88493/comment-page-1/#comment-14868 Patti Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:03:17 +0000 http://www.bbgeeks.com/?p=493#comment-14868 How about save your picutres, video, ringtones and music to your SD card? They don't have to be saved on the phone. I wish we could save contacts and emails to the sd card but that isn't an option...yet. How about save your picutres, video, ringtones and music to your SD card? They don’t have to be saved on the phone. I wish we could save contacts and emails to the sd card but that isn’t an option…yet.

]]> By: sunny http://www.bbgeeks.com/blackberry-guides/8-ways-to-trim-the-fat-from-your-blackberry-88493/comment-page-1/#comment-14111 sunny Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:45:24 +0000 http://www.bbgeeks.com/?p=493#comment-14111 Dear sir my 8310 work for 2 month and conected to may computer just transferring some songs it just die no red light no nothing what could it be i will be much obliged Regards Sunny Dear sir
my 8310 work for 2 month and conected to may computer just transferring some songs it just die no red light no nothing what could it be
i will be much obliged

Regards
Sunny

]]> By: kate http://www.bbgeeks.com/blackberry-guides/8-ways-to-trim-the-fat-from-your-blackberry-88493/comment-page-1/#comment-13081 kate Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:15:38 +0000 http://www.bbgeeks.com/?p=493#comment-13081 I knew about a lot of these "tricks" to clear up the memory on my curve 8320, BUT I'd NEVER heard of the alt+lglg one on the main screen and I've read ALOT of BB blogs! I got 75752MB just by running it the 1st time! :) THANKS MR. TIPSTER!! I knew about a lot of these “tricks” to clear up the memory on my curve 8320, BUT I’d NEVER heard of the alt+lglg one on the main screen and I’ve read ALOT of BB blogs! I got 75752MB just by running it the 1st time! :) THANKS MR. TIPSTER!!

]]> By: Gary http://www.bbgeeks.com/blackberry-guides/8-ways-to-trim-the-fat-from-your-blackberry-88493/comment-page-1/#comment-12906 Gary Sat, 01 Aug 2009 05:08:40 +0000 http://www.bbgeeks.com/?p=493#comment-12906 I checked the sample video that came with the Tour from Verizon. It was over 5 mb! I used to pull the battery from my 8830 several times a day. Even after flushing the memory that way, I would still have less than 11 mb available. I checked the sample video that came with the Tour from Verizon. It was over 5 mb!

I used to pull the battery from my 8830 several times a day. Even after flushing the memory that way, I would still have less than 11 mb available.

]]> By: Russ http://www.bbgeeks.com/blackberry-guides/8-ways-to-trim-the-fat-from-your-blackberry-88493/comment-page-1/#comment-10722 Russ Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:14:35 +0000 http://www.bbgeeks.com/?p=493#comment-10722 Thabk yor for the great tips. I followed all of them. Thabk yor for the great tips. I followed all of them.

]]> By: Ben http://www.bbgeeks.com/blackberry-guides/8-ways-to-trim-the-fat-from-your-blackberry-88493/comment-page-1/#comment-10462 Ben Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:41:29 +0000 http://www.bbgeeks.com/?p=493#comment-10462 1) Deleting contact pictures. I assigned by mistake the same picture to all my contacts in the address book. Now the BB assignes this picture to each new contact. I am deleting the picture 1 by 1 but takes for ever, and even worst the BB keeps addingg it. I tried to delete them from my PC and then sincronize, but got an error message (needed to restore the picture). 2) New software version. While sincronizing I am presented with the option to upgrade to a newer software version (I have 4.2.2.170. Thois newer version adds video recording and other features. When I confirm then it goes through all the download process and then installs it, but at the end an error message. I have a curve 8310 from ATT. Any ideas? 1) Deleting contact pictures.
I assigned by mistake the same picture to all my contacts in the address book. Now the BB assignes this picture to each new contact. I am deleting the picture 1 by 1 but takes for ever, and even worst the BB keeps addingg it. I tried to delete them from my PC and then sincronize, but got an error message (needed to restore the picture).
2) New software version.
While sincronizing I am presented with the option to upgrade to a newer software version (I have 4.2.2.170. Thois newer version adds video recording and other features. When I confirm then it goes through all the download process and then installs it, but at the end an error message.

I have a curve 8310 from ATT.

Any ideas?

]]> By: vizcara http://www.bbgeeks.com/blackberry-guides/8-ways-to-trim-the-fat-from-your-blackberry-88493/comment-page-1/#comment-9974 vizcara Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:19:15 +0000 http://www.bbgeeks.com/?p=493#comment-9974 Great tips thanks a lot. Funny I was just going to tweet you how to "Highlight" a group of chunk of SMS text to delete. On my old nokia I could "Mark" or "Unmark" a select amount of messages then just hit delete and just those messages were deleted. I knew there was a way to do it. I just could not find out how. And as for the ATT manual "LoL" it has next to no info on anything at all.. Sad. Great tips thanks a lot. Funny I was just going to tweet you how to “Highlight” a group of chunk of SMS text to delete. On my old nokia I could “Mark” or “Unmark” a select amount of messages then just hit delete and just those messages were deleted. I knew there was a way to do it. I just could not find out how. And as for the ATT manual “LoL” it has next to no info on anything at all.. Sad.

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