Hi All,

Using TaskMan I have discovered that my N80 with v4 FW has a pretty serious memory leak (discovered when low memory errors displayed using Nokia WEB browser)

At lunchtime my TaskMan claimed my N80 had around 10Mb of Free Memory, 33Mb of free Phone Disk and 200Mb of Memory card.

I rebooted the phone as I thought I should have more than 10Mb free, and then ran TaskMan again. Now I had 17.4Mb of free Memory, whilst Phone Disk and Memory Card values had not changed significantly.

In the last few minuted I checked memory usage with TaskMan and I now have only 15.3Mb Memory Free (once again Phone Disk and Memory Card have not changed values to any degree)

My N80 is set to collect eMail every 60 minutes during working hours, using GPRS and the Nokia inbuild email app. I have also sent and received half a dozen SMS and made one voice call. I also have F-Secure Virus Scanner installed. Where has the missing 2.1Mb gone since 1pm?

By the way, when I Compress Memory using TaskMan, the 15.3Mb Memory free dropped to 14.8Mb. As usual, the Phone Disk and Memory Card usage remains more or less unchanged.

Finally, I rebooted my N80 and I now have 17.4 Mb Memory free again.


1. Does anyone else experience this or have any suggestions how to track down where the memory leak is coming from?

2. Do N80 owners with v3.0167 FW experience the same results?

3. Completely unrelated question: Does anyone know how to move the Nokia Browser cache from Phone Memory to Memory Card? I discovered 8Mb of Cache files on my Phone Internal Memory recently and had to clear it to stop Low Memory Errors whilst browsing.


Dez :o

this 17.5 mb u refer to is RAM memory, everytime u use fone it drops in size until u reboot, its normal altho it does drop quite fast, nokia need to extend the ram to around 24 mb wich wud b a great improvment, what FW u using? iv got v4 and on boot up i have 19 mb

this 17.5 mb u refer to is RAM memory, everytime u use fone it drops in size until u reboot, its normal altho it does drop quite fast, nokia need to extend the ram to around 24 mb wich wud b a great improvment, what FW u using? iv got v4 and on boot up i have 19 mb

I am on v4.0623.0.41
26-07-2006
RM92
Nokia N80 (01)

Same as most of the v4 users I expect.

I didn't know Symbian 3rd suffered from serious memory leaks in normal use, thought they had fixed it in 2nd edition? Oh well!

Thanks for the info. ;)

With this theme you can have about 1MB more free RAM:

d2k.hu/ig/S60v3 (http://www.d2k.hu/ig/S60v3/)

With this theme you can have about 1MB more free RAM:

d2k.hu/ig/S60v3 (http://www.d2k.hu/ig/S60v3/)

Thanks! Will give it a try tonight.

Does anyone know if/how to relocate the (Web) Cache folder from C: to the Memory Card? It was a major stupid idea of Nokia's to save it in the Phone Memory instead of the Phone Disk or Memory Card.

Dez

Hi All,

Using TaskMan I have discovered that my N80 with v4 FW has a pretty serious memory leak (discovered when low memory errors displayed using Nokia WEB browser)

At lunchtime my TaskMan claimed my N80 had around 10Mb of Free Memory, 33Mb of free Phone Disk and 200Mb of Memory card.

I rebooted the phone as I thought I should have more than 10Mb free, and then ran TaskMan again. Now I had 17.4Mb of free Memory, whilst Phone Disk and Memory Card values had not changed significantly.

In the last few minuted I checked memory usage with TaskMan and I now have only 15.3Mb Memory Free (once again Phone Disk and Memory Card have not changed values to any degree)

My N80 is set to collect eMail every 60 minutes during working hours, using GPRS and the Nokia inbuild email app. I have also sent and received half a dozen SMS and made one voice call. I also have F-Secure Virus Scanner installed. Where has the missing 2.1Mb gone since 1pm?

By the way, when I Compress Memory using TaskMan, the 15.3Mb Memory free dropped to 14.8Mb. As usual, the Phone Disk and Memory Card usage remains more or less unchanged.

Finally, I rebooted my N80 and I now have 17.4 Mb Memory free again.


1. Does anyone else experience this or have any suggestions how to track down where the memory leak is coming from?

2. Do N80 owners with v3.0167 FW experience the same results?

3. Completely unrelated question: Does anyone know how to move the Nokia Browser cache from Phone Memory to Memory Card? I discovered 8Mb of Cache files on my Phone Internal Memory recently and had to clear it to stop Low Memory Errors whilst browsing.


Dez :oTo answer your 2nd question V3 Orange FW of the N80 is alot worse with regard memory leaks. My N80 used to boot with approx 15Mb of free RAM and this would usually drop to between 10-11Mb. Running the web application would chew memory down to 8Mb or lower.

Now that I am running V4 generic FW the phone boots to approx 19Mb of free RAM and this normally drops to approx 16-17Mb. Of course if I run the web app this drops to about 13Mb.

Just sharing my experience.

S.

Memory leaks used to be much worst with the 3.x version of the firmware. Now it is better but it does still leak which means that you are better off restarting the phone to gain the memory back.

To answer your 2nd question V3 Orange FW of the N80 is alot worse with regard memory leaks. My N80 used to boot with approx 15Mb of free RAM and this would usually drop to between 10-11Mb. Running the web application would chew memory down to 8Mb or lower.

Now that I am running V4 generic FW the phone boots to approx 19Mb of free RAM and this normally drops to approx 16-17Mb. Of course if I run the web app this drops to about 13Mb.

Just sharing my experience.

S.

Thanks for the feedback - I suppose I should be glad I don't have Orange FW?? lol

Today's readings are that after 24 hours use - a few voice calls, SMS, and eMails (no WEB browsing that I can remember) TaskMan says I have 11.73Mb Phone Memory free, instead of the 17.4Mb I started with after a reboot.

I guess a reboot every 24 hours (or possibly switch off the N80 whilst charging overnight) would be a good habit to get into?


The next big question...

Is there any way to reboot an N80 without powering it off first? On the N70 both TaskMan and FExplorer had functions to do this...



Cheers,
Dez