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 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:43:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Summer http://www.bbgeeks.com/blackberry-guides/8-ways-to-trim-the-fat-from-your-blackberry-88493/comment-page-1/#comment-18390 Summer Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:53:46 +0000 http://www.bbgeeks.com/?p=493#comment-18390 Thanks for the tips! I went through and used each one, including the memory cleaner. As you listed it, now I must enter a password each time I unlock my phone. When I realized that this really is a pain, I went back to options- security- general ptions and disabled content potection and also disabled memory cleaner. But I am still required to use a password to unlock my phone. How can I disable this function? Thanks for the tips! I went through and used each one, including the memory cleaner. As you listed it, now I must enter a password each time I unlock my phone. When I realized that this really is a pain, I went back to options- security- general ptions and disabled content potection and also disabled memory cleaner. But I am still required to use a password to unlock my phone. How can I disable this function?

]]> By: Cooper http://www.bbgeeks.com/blackberry-guides/8-ways-to-trim-the-fat-from-your-blackberry-88493/comment-page-1/#comment-18186 Cooper Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:32:28 +0000 http://www.bbgeeks.com/?p=493#comment-18186 Excellent find @Mandy thanks for contributing. Excellent find @Mandy thanks for contributing.

]]> By: Mandy http://www.bbgeeks.com/blackberry-guides/8-ways-to-trim-the-fat-from-your-blackberry-88493/comment-page-1/#comment-18161 Mandy Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:49:40 +0000 http://www.bbgeeks.com/?p=493#comment-18161 In following Cooper's steps to recovering memory on my daughter's Blackberry, I stumbled across another one - the custom dictionary. As the device learns, it saves names and words that you frequently use to help it make suggestions when you type something. Over time, this dictionary can become quite extensive. In the custom dictionary, I discovered a lot of 'text speak' abbreviations and acronyms, single letters and misspelled words...some were misspelled intentionally, as we commonly do when texting, but there were several words that were listed with as many as seven different spellings, all incorrect. Some of the acronyms were listed in every combination of upper and lower case letters possible...etc.... There is an option that allows you to clear the custom dictionary and take all of the words and phrases out. Or, if you want some of them left in, it is worthwhile to go through the list once and a while to remove anything that might have gotten saved in there as a result of a typo or rushed texting. In following Cooper’s steps to recovering memory on my daughter’s Blackberry, I stumbled across another one – the custom dictionary. As the device learns, it saves names and words that you frequently use to help it make suggestions when you type something. Over time, this dictionary can become quite extensive. In the custom dictionary, I discovered a lot of ‘text speak’ abbreviations and acronyms, single letters and misspelled words…some were misspelled intentionally, as we commonly do when texting, but there were several words that were listed with as many as seven different spellings, all incorrect. Some of the acronyms were listed in every combination of upper and lower case letters possible…etc…. There is an option that allows you to clear the custom dictionary and take all of the words and phrases out. Or, if you want some of them left in, it is worthwhile to go through the list once and a while to remove anything that might have gotten saved in there as a result of a typo or rushed texting.

]]> By: tyler http://www.bbgeeks.com/blackberry-guides/8-ways-to-trim-the-fat-from-your-blackberry-88493/comment-page-1/#comment-17898 tyler Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:36:00 +0000 http://www.bbgeeks.com/?p=493#comment-17898 You don't need the password on to use memory cleaner. Once you get it on your home screen turn the password off. Then go back into security options and memory cleaner is still there just enable it again. You don’t need the password on to use memory cleaner. Once you get it on your home screen turn the password off. Then go back into security options and memory cleaner is still there just enable it again.

]]> By: Semone http://www.bbgeeks.com/blackberry-guides/8-ways-to-trim-the-fat-from-your-blackberry-88493/comment-page-1/#comment-16749 Semone Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:46:24 +0000 http://www.bbgeeks.com/?p=493#comment-16749 my blackberry 8520 is automatically restarting after every two or three minutes i am not using media card and the battery is ok also i don't understand the problem any body help me please? my blackberry 8520 is automatically restarting after every two or three minutes i am not using media card and the battery is ok also i don’t understand the problem any body help me please?

]]> 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

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