Six memory management tips to boost your Blackberry's performance

This week we offer you detailed instructions on how to use BlackBerry Desktop Manager software to intelligently monitor and manage your device memory - and seriously improve performance.
6/17/2008 7:00:00 AM By: Al Sacco

From the BlackBerry home screen, click the Media icon to launch your media folder. On the main screen--the one that displays additional icons for Music, Ringtones, Pictures, Video, etc.--click your BlackBerry Menu key and select Options.

Roughly halfway down the Media Options page, you'll see a value in megabytes (MB) for Reserved Pictures Memory--zero, two or five. Multiply that number by 1024 to convert it to KB, and record the result.

5) Calculate the Total Memory in Use

Next, you'll need to calculate the Total Amount of Device Memory In Use. To do so, simply the values your recorded for Total Application Space, Total Size and, if necessary, Reserved Picture Memory.

6) Determine Specific Amount of Free File Memory

Finally, you need to subtract the Total Amount of Device Memory in Use from your BlackBerry's Total Flash Memory.

If you're using a BlackBerry 8xxx series handheld, yourTotal Flash Memory is 62500 KB, according to RIM--unless you're using the recently released Curve 8330, which has 94500 KB of flash memory.

If the number you come up with for Specify Free File Memory is less than 5120 KB, you'll want to visit our BlackBerry Memory tips page post haste.

For more on calculating your specific BlackBerry memory use at any given time, check out RIM's knowledge base article on the subject.

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