Storage question?

[xj911]

Great forum guys...already have had some fun modding my 8525.

I'm a convert, new to WinMo, been a Symbian supporter for 5+ years...so WinMo is new to me.

I have a noobish question. I've been loading ringtones, and .cab files onto my phone and seem to be running low on storage.

1. How do I tell how much space is left on my phone?
2. What files can I delete to make some room for important stuff?

I've searched the forum...but haven't found anything conclusive yet.

Thanks!

xj

[ach2]

I can answer the easy question...

To find how much storage you have go to START\SETTINGS\SYSTEM\MEMORY then select the main/storage card tab.

If you're running out of memory you can try unlocking and unhiding the extended rom which should give give you a few extra MB's. Most of the cooked WM6 roms here include Schap's advanced config which will do this for you (or maybe it can be downloaded as a cab file).

As for deleting files - the only safe ones I know about are my data files, unused programs (via uninstal) or some ringtones or other sounds in the windows or windows\rings directory.

[fone_fanatic]

to check your memory go to start>settings>system>memory then on the bottom theres 3 tabs..Main, Storage Card, and Running Programs..

Under Main you have Storage and Program.. Program is your ram and storage is your device memory which you can install apps to. Go to running programs and you really should only have activesyn running (if you have an exchange account that is). Anything else open is eating up your ram and will cause your device to run slow.

Now on the bottom of the memory settings it says Find large files using storage memory. Click on find and you can remove whatever you don't want.. (i don't think it'll pull up system files in the search)

My advice is to only install critical apps and apps that will be running on your today screen onto the device itself.. everything else should be installed to yoru Storage card.

If you don't delete cabs after installing them, move them over to yur storage card if you want them for later reference but they shouldn't be taking up device memory after they're installed.

[xj911]

thanks for the input guys, already helping me out. I look forward to being a contributing member of the forums...I'm gonna check out the wiki and sticky threads in more detail to get all the info I can.

Thanks again :)