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My Eseries phone is often quite slow to respond after I pick it up
Q. My Eseries phone is often quite slow to respond after I pick it up, it seems to wait for a second or so before responding to my keypresses!
Can I use memory cards of over 8GB in my S60 phone?
Problems installing and removing Smart2Go
Q. I'm having real problems installing Smart2Go onto my smartphone. What tips can you offer?Losing space on disk C
Q. My smartphone is showing many megabytes less free space than there should be on my internal memory. Where's it all gone?Faster access to Camera
Q. Why does my E70's camera take so long to start up?Turning off 3G
Q. How do I turn off 3G functionality in my UIQ 3 device? I'm sure all the searching for a 3G signal is hammering my battery life!How much RAM is free?
Q. How can I tell how much RAM is free on my Sony Ericsson P990i?Why is Gallery so slow?
Q. Why is Gallery on both my Nokia S60 smartphones so incredibly slow? Surely something must be wrong?Do I need a firewall?
Q. On my PC I have the ZoneAlarm firewall loaded all the time, to protect myself against Internet-borne nasties. Do I need to do something similar for my smartphone?Struggles with PC Suite's 'Transfer music' function
Q. I'm struggling with PC Suite's 'Transfer music' function. Tracks seem to transfer very slowly and sometimes don't make it at all.How can I clean up my expansion card?
Q. Is there software that enables me to remove files left behind by uninstalled applications? I'd like to clean up my MMC and free up some space.Why do Web, Contacts and Calendar not exit when I use 'Exit'?
Q. Why do Web, Contacts and Calendar not exit when I use 'Exit'? They seem to disappear but then when I look at my running programs in iDesk, they're still there. Not that it's a problem, but I'm worried about the amount of RAM being used unnecessarily.Despite switching to Flight mode overnight, my battery is still sucked dry!
Q. I switch my P900 to ‘Flight’ mode overnight, in an attempt to try and prolong my battery life. I’m often travelling and away from an easy way of recharging and I’m regularly mystified by the way the P900’s battery gets sucked dry even when I’m not using it.
How can I speed up launching of my most-used applications?
Q. I’m always struggling to find and launch applications on my Sony Ericsson smartphone, the simple act of navigating between them seems to take an eternity. What do others do to speed things up?
How can I reclaim wasted memory in the Messaging system?
Q. I've had a message saying that my P800 is running low on memory. When I checked in the Storage Manager, just 0.8MB was available. My messages used the most space (4.4MB), even after I deleted everything in my Inbox, Outbox, Draft and Sent folders. How can I reclaim this space?
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Notes
Note: Some of the Q&A in this Support section were written by Steve Litchfield in his PDA Essentials magazine column from 2000 to 2005 and are republished here with permission. In many cases, the text has been revised and updated over that which appeared in the published magazine. In some cases, questions have been reworked from more specific queries on Internet forums, thanks to all who contribute to these. All text is copyrighted to Steve Litchfield, All About Symbian, PDA Essentials and other relevant contributors and commenters.
