Indestructible files ???

[Steve-L]

Hi,

Hope someone can help me here - my O2 XDA Exec has been steadily getting slower and slower of late - been months since I installed anything new - takes several minutes to boot up...

Anyway decided to have a clear-out so deleted loads of messages, cleared out temp files, duplicate notifications etc. with Pocket Mechanic... then rebooted to see if my clean-up had helped.

It didn't - All the duplicate notifications came back - and so did all the text and MMS messages! I've tried 3 times now - even deleting everything in the deleted items folder - reboot and bang they're back again! What on earth is going on, and more importantly what can I do to sort it???

Thanks in advance!

[alexei]

Have you tried to delete them through active sync? when you explore your PDA? try that... just go to de folders you want and delete the files, like the files in the folder "Temp".

If you can not delete them... check the attributes of the file if they are read only.... otherwise you have the last resort to flash the same ROM or new ROM that you can find on this forum.

Have you check at settings/system/memory and see if you have enough free memory... have you tried at tab "running programs" and try to stop all... see if the pda gets noticable faster??

[Steve-L]

I can't try activesync until I get home from work...

According to the Memory utility I have:

9.28MB of free Storage Memory
24.07MB of free Program Memory
(I have 1.5GB free on my SD card but that's not really relevant)

There are no running programs listed in task manager.

What I don't understand is when I delete the messages - they vanish, same for the notification queue, so long as I don't reboot they're gone. Something during boot-up seems to be copying them back???

[alexei]

Try these... take your SD card out of your PDA... then delete the files you want... boot up without the SD Card and see if they are back.

[Steve-L]

Thought you might be on to something there... but nooooooooooooo :-(

Removed card, deleted, checked everything was deleted, rebooted (still without the SD card) and everything is back again! Bloody weird!

Cheers,

Steve

[alexei]

Okay.. hmmm.... which file explorer do you use? resco, standard file explorer of WM5.0 or total commander???

if you use other than the standard file explorer of WM5.0 try using that one... i have a feeling that you tried that one already...

[Steve-L]

For that last test without the SD card I was just deleting Text/MMS messages using the standard mail viewer software. Highlighting all messages, deleting them then emptying the Deleted Items folder...

[matt1971]

For that last test without the SD card I was just deleting Text/MMS messages using the standard mail viewer software. Highlighting all messages, deleting them then emptying the Deleted Items folder...

How about the option in Text messages to clear all text messages? (Dont think it actually empties the deleted folder though - thats a manual process)

Remember reading that after creating a new email account, if the universal is soft reset within 5 minutes, then the account will not be saved. Perhaps the reverse is true in that you have to wait 5 minutes after deleting before resetting.

Matt

[Steve-L]

Remember reading that after creating a new email account, if the universal is soft reset within 5 minutes, then the account will not be saved. Perhaps the reverse is true in that you have to wait 5 minutes after deleting before resetting.

Give that man a cigar! :D

Deleted - waited 10 minutes (to be extra safe) and rebooted. Messages remained deleted. What an annoying "feature" - must have always been like that but I've never rebooted soon enough to notice!

Now to see if the same applies to the notification queue :?: EDIT: Yes it does! :D :D :D

Thanks,

Steve

[sl9]

Yeah there is an entry in the notifications queue, repllog or something like that, that fires every 5 minutes. Its purpose seems to be to write changes that you've made from cache RAM to the built-in flash storage memory, the idea is that it extends the life of the flash memory and probably the battery too.

So if you make changes to things like outlook and the notifications queue and then soft reset without waiting at least 5 minutes, then you will lose those changes. Really the OS should be saving those changes whenever you request a soft reset, a minor bug perhaps, but one that should be easy to solve with a third party app...