Question regarding the Internal memory of O2 XDA Exec [Archive]

siehook

29th August 2006, 10:57 AM

Hi all,

Could anyone please tell me the differences between the storage memory and the program memory? Yeah, I know this might sounds stupid and I also wish that the answer is really that straight forward.

I always thought that 'Program Memory' is suppose the memory quota for us to install application & softwares. Where, storage memory is just simply the portion of memory where we stores data that we creates.

But whenever I install applications, 'storage' is the memory which always to be used up. Yet, I can hardly use up my 'program' portion of memory...

Can anyone tell me why? and how to install applications in the program memory instead of storage memory?

Thank you very much.

Cheers!

PReDiToR

29th August 2006, 11:04 PM

Search would have helped a great deal here, FAQ.

Storage is Flash
Programs is RAM

WM5 works the same way as a desktop. It loads the OS from disk to RAM when you power it on. When you remove the battery everything is safely stored to disc, not RAM as WM2003 was. Battery can go flat, no backup battery needed.

GaZ

30th August 2006, 08:06 AM

Search would have helped a great deal here, FAQ.

Storage is Flash
Programs is RAM

WM5 works the same way as a desktop. It loads the OS from disk to RAM when you power it on. When you remove the battery everything is safely stored to disc, not RAM as WM2003 was. Battery can go flat, no backup battery needed.

..... so how do you save stuff to Program memory? Or is that just temp momory that stuff runs from when you execute it?

liverman666

30th August 2006, 02:53 PM

You can`t save stuff to program memory.The program memory is like the RAM in your PC,just used for temporary storage and running programs.The storage memory is like the hard drive in your PC,used for actually `storing` data.

GaZ

1st September 2006, 08:52 AM

You can`t save stuff to program memory.The program memory is like the RAM in your PC,just used for temporary storage and running programs.The storage memory is like the hard drive in your PC,used for actually `storing` data.

So why do they bother displaying it on the memory settings?

And does that mean it's different to how it was on the XDA2? That used to have a slider allowing you to change the allocation for storage/program memory.

FOSA

3rd September 2006, 04:59 AM

I find storage memory is the one you need to watch out. As you install more programs whether to SD card or to Program memory the storage memory goes down

Too low storage memory and your system will not perform properly. Install programs with large file size first then follow by programs with smaller file size otherwise you'll encounter installation 'Not enough memory' if you do it the other way round

:)