Nokia N95 8GB, memory full?

Jay D

It's saying mem full, delete items. I have deleted loads of albums I have had on it. However with 2gb or so free it's still saying mem full. Is there a dif memory setting or something?

Thanks

Rsaeire

Jay D wrote: »

It's saying mem full, delete items. I have deleted loads of albums I have had on it. However with 2gb or so free it's still saying mem full. Is there a dif memory setting or something?

Thanks

You may need to reboot the handset in order for it to recognise that there is free memory available; if that was the cause in the first place.

The only other time I've seen a similar message is when there are too many applications open at the same time. This can easily be rectified by holding down the menu button, which then brings up the currently open applications list. From there you can select each one and exit them correctly by selecting "Options" and then "Exit".

PADRAIC.M

your phone internal memory could be full which is different to you 8gb memory

Tarakiwa

PADRAIC.M wrote: »

your phone internal memory could be full which is different to you 8gb memory

This was my 1st thoguht too!

Jay D

is there a way of selecting memory in use or something?

It's quite annoying.

strecker

Jay D wrote: »

It's saying mem full, delete items. I have deleted loads of albums I have had on it. However with 2gb or so free it's still saying mem full. Is there a dif memory setting or something?

Thanks

Now: WHENWHENWHEN DOES IT SAY THAT? What are you trying to do when you get the memory full message?

Jay D

use the net, send messages, look in phone book... etc.

what really got me was a load of pics I CUT from phone and put to computer actually just came bac.

wtf is up with that? are they dodgey or what's the story?

Random

Do you have any applications running in the background?

Have you restarted the phone since you starting getting these errors? - this is a bug I've had a couple of times with Symbian.

strecker

Right.
If you don't have one already, get a taskmanager. A good one - this one's free: http://www.symbian-freeware.com/download-jbaktaskman.html
It'll show ALL running processes and programmes, kill apps, show ram etc etc....
Good to investigate!
What you describe sounds like either a fw bug, or you have stuff running in the background without realising it. Stop deleting stuff! It's not about THAT! You get the error while trying to use apps; it's a ram issue. The n95/b has deman pageing - vaguely like vista's superfetchy thingy... That means clumsy apps like the gallery, etc start faster...but it also means that having loads of ram can still lead to 'freezes'.
A good taskmanager can help you figure out what app/process is clogging up your memory...
A firmware upgrade might also help, but not if you inadvertently tend to have apps run in the background that oughta be closed when unused. If you browse a lot, get used to cleaning the cache/history after long sessions. If you have thousands of pics and tracks, but them into subfolders of 10-20 items max for faster/easier indexing... Etc etc. These modern multitaskers are marvelous, but they'll only perform as well as the user. If you're a good user, try a fw-update. If s.o. has a better idea, consider me redundant

Sam Vimes

what usually solves this problem on symbians:messaging-options-settings-other-memory in use-memory card (which i think says something else on the 8gb)

And move all your messages to the memory card when it prompts (copy and don't save originals)

Edit: People are suggesting that it might be applications running in the background but that error message is "memory full. Close some applications and try again"

corglass

This works 100%. The memory issues refers to text messages. Delete them or move storage off phone and to 8gb

strecker

Sam Vimes wrote: »

what usually solves this problem on symbians:messaging-options-settings-other-memory in use-memory card (which i think says something else on the 8gb)

And move all your messages to the memory card when it prompts (copy and don't save originals)

Edit: People are suggesting that it might be applications running in the background but that error message is "memory full. Close some applications and try again"

Oops, yeah, I think you're right

(i have never been a message hog hahaha, and it's been a while since I had an N95)