Internet Browsing - Out of Memory Trick

[music101]

Hi

People were talkking about how they removed the battery cover and were able to do certain things so I was curious. I took my N91 and slid the battery cover off so it shutdown/dismounted/whatever the HDD.

I then ran Best Taskman and it showed almost 25 Mbytes of free RAM. I slide the battery cover back on it drops to 12 Mbytes. So what does this mean

1- Nokia (like IPOD) must use a RAM buffer. This is so that when you listen to songs it loads 2-3 songs intoo the buffer so you avoid skipping and improve battery life.

2- They must load this at boot up or anytime the HDD is active. What it means is less RAM for programs even if they dont use the HDD

So Im sure that some of you have run into the "out of memory" message when browsing (its ram memory not HDD etc). Even if you follow the Nokia TIPs it can eventually happen with certain web sites etc. I have disabled images, history, mini-map to improve things and even started using the Opera browser which is not such a memory Hog. However here is the trick for people. If you plan to start a browsing session

1- Power on/off the N91 to clear RAM
2- Slide the battery cover off so it shuts down the HDD
3- Then start browsing (dont worry about the HDD since its shut down ) Note ofcourse you cannot download anything to the HDD while browsing)

With all that extra RAM I was able to browse a very long time with no problem.

Only thing is after a long session you need to power off the device before slipping the cover back on since the N91 seems to want to grab its ram buffer again when the HDD is started up and if it cant find the RAM it needs it has issues)

Anyhow it was intertesting

music

[N91 Guru]

thanx alot dude... i noticed that too... genious lol... but im not too comfortable taking my battery cover off in public im scared i might leave it somewhere anyho the message now comes rarely cause of 2.1 and when it does come just clear the cache and its usually all good... thanx for the fantastic tip though...




Akash

[DanteLectro]

Originally Posted by music101

I then ran Best Taskman and it showed almost 25 Mbytes of free RAM. I slide the battery cover back on it drops to 12 Mbytes. So what does this mean

1- Nokia (like IPOD) must use a RAM buffer. This is so that when you listen to songs it loads 2-3 songs intoo the buffer so you avoid skipping and improve battery life.

2- They must load this at boot up or anytime the HDD is active. What it means is less RAM for programs even if they dont use the HDD

I have a N91 8GB and as far as i experienced it doesn't load several songs into the buffer, only the one you're listening to. The HDD starts up each time a new song is about to begin. It starts up even when "repeat song" is enabled, this means it reloads the song each time, even if it was in the RAM previously. About dropping the RAM from 25 to 12 when the cover is replaced, i think the music player simply preoccupies the RAM for itself. It's because the Music application automaticly starts up when you turn the phone on, and you can't even close that application. This is why the music key is placed on the phone and it's always active - it's a real music phone or whatever after all