Defragment of card fixed my Android installation!

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Just a tip I thought I'd share...

My Android installation had grown very unstable (running Desire build v5 http://gamesquare.co.uk/desire.html ).

After just a minute or so it would just freeze. Also the the menu button (windows button) had stopped working in a program I'm using a lot. I tried to restart several times but the problems were still the same.

So I put my MicroSD card in my USB card reader and did a defrag on it and after that the problems were gone!!

So if your Android installation is getting unstable you might want to try to do a defrag on it. It would probably work with the built-in defrag program in Windows but I used http://www.mydefrag.com (freeware) since it has a special profile for flash disks that uses as few erase-write cycles as possible.

Does anyone know of any freeware defrag programs for Windows Mobile so that it can be fixed without using a PC?

Brgds... /Tubgirl

Great tip! I'm going to try this!

Cheers,

Shufflez

Is there any defrag program around for windows mobile maybe? That would be more comfortable and we would not need to take out the card.
Maybe someone already has seen such a tool?

By the way thanks for this useful tip.

Originally Posted by shufflez

Great tip! I'm going to try this!
Cheers,
Shufflez

Cool... let us know the result of your tests, please.

Brgds... /Tubgirl

defrag on sd cards on phones are not a good idea.

___Fragmentation is only a problem on moving hard drives - it slows down access to a file if it's spread all over the drive in small fragments. This doesn't matter with the solid state internal memeory of a phone - no moving parts = no delay retrieving different parts of the file.___

So on a hdd the storage closest to the center og the spinning disc inside will be the fastest part aka the operating system.

But in an sd (solid state storage) all files are spread over a little area witch will cause no lag or delay.

Defragmenting will maby help, but do it only once, not many times, that will kill the thing.

I had my ssd since january this year, and was on 58% fragmented in july, i degragmentet it and has been on 1-3% since, same with my sd card on my phone.