Will android 1.5 aka cupcake fix these 2 memory problems?
folks it’s a little lengthy but bare with me. ok here we go…
besides the fact that we can’t save our apps to the memory card there seems to be something else that is eating up tons of my memory. 1st i read an article/blog about how this guy did a test/experiment with the market. he concluded that just going in the market and looking at apps will use your memory even if you don’t download the app. so i too did the same thing. when my phone’s accelerometer stopped working and the low memory icon was in my status bar permanently i did a reset. at the time i had a few kb. after the reset i went in and downloaded all of my apps again. but instead of going to each app and downloading it, i went to the “my apps” section and downloaded them all from there. at the end of that i had about 27 mb left. by the end of the week i was back down to 7 mb and the low memory icon was coming and going. now it’s back stuck there. then i noticed this…
none of my apps were working at all. they all kept force closing. so i looked at my memory and it was at 0. i shut my phone off and did a reboot (hold power+home for 20 secs then hit home+back). when i looked at my memory it went up to 4 mb. 4 MB!!!!! that is crazy! since this happened i have repeated this same thing at least 4x in the past week. so basically the phone is using up 4 mb of memory for SOMETHING and i have no idea what it is. when i turn my phone off and on it frees it up and i can then use my phone without interruption, except i have no accelerometer!!!!
does anyone know if cupcake will fix this HORRIBLE issue? i can call it a lot worse things but i’ll keep it clean for the kiddies.
on a side note how are they trying to compete with the iphone and i can only save about 20 apps on here b4 my memory is depleted? to make matters worse we can’t save them to our card. i already found out that still won’t be an option with cupcake…how absured! on my ipod touch i have about 6 pages of apps and each page holds 16 apps! much better quality apps on top of that! on this thing i put 1 iphone page worth of apps on here and i’m just about done! seriously google this is RIDICULOUS!
Android Cupcake
First restart your phone. You don’t really need cupcake. You can download an app called “App Manager” to save programs to your SIM. Also you can save virtual memory by using “MemoryForLemmings” , it wont clear up much but it is nice to keep that stuff at a minimum. Also you can manually update to Android 1.5 “Cupcake” by visiting the T-Mobile forums. They will tell you how to do it…