Hi,
Tried to search for this but couldn't find it anywhere. Basically, as I use the apps on my JAMin day to day, I find that the free Program memory is continually dropping (and the 'in use' level is rising). I use the device mainly for playing MP3 (via WMP10), reviewing some Word documents (size of any new ones loaded is taken into account before complaining about losing space!), syncing with my Outlook calendar, phone calls, SMS and playing some games. I have not connected to the Internet to date. Even after simply playing music for 45-60 minutes I can see that the free program memory has reduced from what it was before I started playing the music!
Turning the device off then on clears this back (I usually have around 24Mb free). I installed Memmaid thinking this would identify the temporary files and clear them, however it only seems to pickup a few kB (though I only have the trial version loaded at present - is the trial version a full version, or could there be functionality missing?).
Any advice as to where this space is going, the file names or locations, etc. would be much appreciated. I'd like to find either an app that clears this space up properly, or to find where the files are so that I can clear them out myself as needed, without having to turn the device off.
At present, the only apps I have loaded onto the device are:
SPB PocketPlus
SPB ToPlay
Superdoku
Memmaid
I think Windows Media Players eats memory too much, just usless. I compared it with another Music Player such as GS player which is one of the best freely available music player. The WM10 ate abt 15 MB of memory for just playing an MP3 while on GS player it ate just 2.5 MB.
Maybe you can use attached program to find out which folder is creeping up with info...
The above program will only show you where your storage memory is. What the OP wanted to know is where his program memory is going.
I think its more or less a "feature" of Windows Mobile that as you open and close apps and work more and more on it, it will continually eat up ram. This is a gradual process and while I start with 24mb ram in the morning, I have around 17-18mb free by night time.
If you have a program installed which has a memory leak, this figure might be lower.
I have my device set to backup each night so it soft resets at night after the backup. This makes my phone fresh for the day with full program memory free.
A soft reset every now and then when you find your program memory low is a good idea. Other than that, there's not much you can do.
There are some programs which claim to free up some RAM, like Memmaid's Free up RAM program or SKTools's Clean Up Memory. These help to a very short extent...I find it better just to soft reset. Memmaid's program hardly works, while SKTools' program usually manages to free up around 2mb or something, although it takes a long time.
I was going to write what PhoenixAG wrote. clap for him.
Storage memory is no problem but Program memory is a problem. And soft reseting is better then adding those programs to your mobile.
Try changing your mp3 player from WM10. it just leaks memory
I recall reading somewhere that it ws a good idea to do a soft reset on smart phones/PDAs every week or so anyway, so I guess I'll just keep doing that.
Now, to open a can of worms, what is a good MP3 player to replace WMP10 with? Probably no great free/shareware ones out there I suppose......
Thank you.
Regarding mp3 players, I haven't used my Prophet as an mp3 player because I have an iPod.
But I remember on my old Axim X30, I used to use Pocket Player...although that program was quite resource intensive, if I remember correctly. I have heard good things about Pocket Music too.
Other than that, I have no clue
Easy - just use Mortplayer - free and very useful, and you can put a skin that looks like an Ipod
how can i remove WMP10 ?
is there a good replacement for moves files ?
TCPMP is the best for both audio and video files, its freeware and u can download a lot of plugings like FFMPEG, VORBIS and AC3
hope this helps
Oh yeah, I forgot about TCPMP. I don't have a dedicated music player installed so I let TCPMP handle any audio files I have. And it handles Video excellently of course.
Overall, its an amazing software and its free. What more do you want?
I use TCPMP for videos as it is the best at what it does, i.e. play videos.
However I find Mortplayer better for mp3's, more features, playlist, multiple equaliser settings, and the skins and especially car skins make it much more user-friendly.
And yeah, it's free.
I have Mortplayer installed too and as u said skins are nice, buttons are big (i use steel skin) but if are short of memory u may want to use only one player thats why i offered TCPMP.
Anyway both are good players
I noticed that when I opened Windows Media Player to play my music, the available RAM drops from 80Mb to 20Mb. no other applications running...
It means that WM alone consumes 60Mb of RAM???
Had anyone observed this?
yankee said:
I noticed that when I opened Windows Media Player to play my music, the available RAM drops from 80Mb to 20Mb. no other applications running...
It means that WM alone consumes 60Mb of RAM???
Had anyone observed this?
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don't use windows media player then, i use Pocket music to play my music and it's much better then WMP, specially in turns of sound quality.
wu5262 said:
don't use windows media player then, i use Pocket music to play my music and it's much better then WMP, specially in turns of sound quality.
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Thanks Wu,
I hope this will be fixed on future Dopod ROM upgrade..
yankee said:
Thanks Wu,
I hope this will be fixed on future Dopod ROM upgrade..
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Hi Wu and Yankee,
Thanks for the tip. I'm using pocket music now. It takes up just a couple of MB when runnig rather than the close to 50MB by window media player.
Just one thing though, how do you get microsoft voice commander to use this and play the music? Or can you only start the program without becoming a DJ?
I am currently running dcd 2.3.2 and am getting the error "storage memory too low" then the video stops. I have 89.7 megs of free storage device memory and 19 megs of free ram. I also have a 4 gb storage card. I have run many rom images and not had this problem. I love this rom for the speed of the gps lock and the fact that this is the first rom that my device does not ever lock up in stand by mode. TCPMP player plays very choppy video. Is there away to fix WMP or fix the choppiness of TCPMP and set it as default player in outlook.
If You Are Running Oxios Close Apps Then Thats The Problem With Wmp And To Fix Tcpmp Just Change The Video Settings To Raw Frame Buffer
so, I came across a problem with tcpmp a few weeks ago where the program wouldn't play video at a decent frame rate when installed to the phone storage.
which I find strange as I would have thought that running the program and reading the video from the same source would result in slow down its self!
so my question is, is the internal storage more slow than the memory card and if so could the storage of sms be moved to the sd card for speed improvements.
if this is the case then lots of other things could also be moved to the sd card!
your thoughts ?
hmmm
nobody interested in this?
I would hazard a guess that this is because the phone is running the player from the same source as the video is stored, so it can only access either the program, or the video file at any one time, not both together, so it accesses the system for a second, then the video, then the system, then the video,,, but if the video is on the card, it can access the system and the video at the same time.
that's the point
ill be more through
if the program is installed to the phone storage ie tcpmp installed to phone memory, then when you play a video it jogs! very low fps.
now if you installed the program to the memory card, which is where the video is stored also then its played a full fps
it is much much faster, so this either tells you the memory card can read files quicker than the phone storage or there is a problem with the phone storage talking to main memory.
that's my point! sms takes an age to load if you have more 20 message on the same thread. moving these messages to the storage card permanently may increase loading times of each thread.
try it your self with tcpmp you will get what I mean, the videos I'm using are dvd rips in avi format
Hi!
Just sharing experience:
Started filling up internal memory with pics and vids. For a while I kept deleting some unnecessary stuff just to stay afloat. Having maybe 0.5 GB free space.
But the other night I bit the bullet and moved a lot of media from the phone to my Nas. So I got over 10 GB available on internal.
Right away I noticed a big improvement on performance and smoothness on my M7.
Also: battery seems to last longer.
So from now on I'll keep better watch over my memory usage and try to keep a couple of GBs free.
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I wonder if it has something to do with the media scanner process, and having less media for it to scan.
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I wonder if it has something to do with the media scanner process, and having less media for it to scan.
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must be.. Surely this would also cause issues for media stored on an external SD also?
yes.. especially if you had a corrupt image or music file which could cause the process to get stuck.
some custom roms add an init.d script to kill the media server to keep this from happening.