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Title: memory
Post by: pafletch on September 13, 2004, 12:05:59 am

I have a Zaurus 5500 and I am running into some memory issues, is there any way I can delete things I don't need to free up some memory.  For example games or things I don't use like the ir (beam receive) , ect.  How do I delete from everywhere the items are stored.  As things stand right now I have less then 2megs to run things and I can't open large docs, ect.  

Thank you
Paul

Title: memory
Post by: doseas on September 13, 2004, 05:26:28 pm

The pre-installed apps on the 5500 are located in ROM.  Only the links to the files are stored in RAM and these take an insignificant amount of memory.

Some of the PIM apps are set to "fast load", which means that they are pre-loaded in RAM, ready to run.  If you are willing to sacrifice load time to free up memory, tap & hold on the icons of the Datebook, Addressbook, and ToDo apps, then uncheck the FastLoad option.

Another alternative is to create a swap file.  If you have a SD or CF card for storing apps, you can then free up some "internal storage" to be used for swap, which will help when running multiple apps or opening large files.  Search this board or the Devnet board for info on creating a swap file.

Title: memory
Post by: pafletch on September 15, 2004, 08:32:42 pm

thank you this worked.  

Paul