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Memory usage question

Peter123

Peter123

Android Enthusiast
What is eating up memory?

When I received the refurb it said 131Mb free space.
I have installed a few apps (google voice, notepad, swype) it shrank by 1 Mb (only)

After the nightly profilactic battery pull for 1 minute I rebooted the phone
and now I have 120 Mb. Where did the 10Mb go?

Peter
 
I thought swype was over 4MB? Have you used the internet browser? That'll eat up 6MB of cache.
 
Peter123 said:
What is eating up memory?

When I received the refurb it said 131Mb free space.
I have installed a few apps (google voice, notepad, swype) it shrank by 1 Mb (only)

After the nightly profilactic battery pull for 1 minute I rebooted the phone
and now I have 120 Mb. Where did the 10Mb go?

Peter
Click to expand...

Did you do any internet surfing? Browser cache can climb to be many MBs very quickly. Easy to check and clean:

Settings -> Applications -> Manager Applications -> select Browser -> Cache (Clear Cache button)

Check you memory usage before and after and see if this accounts for the difference.
 
scary alien said:
Did you do any internet surfing? Browser cache can climb to be many MBs very quickly. Easy to check and clean:

Settings -> Applications -> Manager Applications -> select Browser -> Cache (Clear Cache button)

Check you memory usage before and after and see if this accounts for the difference.
Click to expand...

I have not used the browser at all on this phone - still it had ~200kb in cache...
I looked around other prgrams' caches - cleared up about 3 Mb...
Peter
 
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