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Cingular 8525 Device Speed Issue and Questions?
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Posted by: nutnbolt

Device: 8525

The first question, does installing tons of applications on storage (memory) slow down your device? (I'm not speaking of running several programs at once but, essentially installing softwares on the device other than SD.)

Second question, the theory of, anything that goes on your TODAY'S SCREEN, should go on the device, however, is there a specific limitation as to how much should go onto the device?

In other words, I noticed that my memory runs roughly between (from soft boot) 28m and an average of 20-25m. Usually the device starts feeling sluggish around 20-25m. It's tolerable but this is only having basic applications on the device. I noticed that once I went below 20m, I'm prone to crashing and severe slowdown on applications launching, closing, etc.

I currently have all my applications on the SD card. I won't focus on the non-today screen applications but I did install those softwares as well on the SD card. The only thing I have installed on the device are Resco Keyboard, Tengo, Flexmail.

Needless to say, my device runs pretty fast. I do get occasionaly lock ups. Lock ups such like when I press the Standby button, at times, when I press the standby button again to wake it up, it won't wake up. Lights are still blinking as if it was active but nothing. I have to actually remove the battery and turn it back on.

This issue could be caused by? (Today screen items installed on SD card?)

I will probably try to reinstall all the todays screen item on the device later on but I'm still testing as to what is the best thing to do. Obviously, there is no way around having certain applications on the SD card but this obviously leads me to my first question.

Here are my current software (there are more but non-essentials are no issue and are on the SD card).

SBSH PocketBreeze
SBSH Contact Breeze
Pocket Informant
SBSH Ilauncher
SBSH Pocket Weather
Flexmail
PhoneAlarm

These are all on the SD card.

What do you think?

Posted by: kenny6774

hey nutnbolt...I posted a lil while back my concern of my 8525 running sluggishly....well since using thru the trial period and then deleting both...IM+ and Agile Messenger...I have noticed a return to normalcy...runnin very well....I can run programs down to 3M...I can Sling, talk on the phone, and surf the net, with relatively little lag between functions...wish I could be more helpful

Posted by: nutnbolt

These are good to hear. I will look for your post to see what else went on. Agile messenger, on the other hand, I don't run all the time. I run it to chat and then when I'm finished I shut it off, rarely do I keep it on.

Anyone else?

Posted by: strikeIII

i read somewhere that if a lot of your programs are stored on your SD card then that can also cause some lag because the OS has to read it from the SD card and not main memory....could be wrong though....i have all my programs in main memory and i don't seem to experience much lag and i get rare lock-ups...and i'm currently running on 16-19MB of memory....