BlackBerry® Bold™

[AlanGuggenheim]

After having many BB devices, the ATT Bold 9000 was very attractive and I bought two of them because of its 1GB of internal memory plus external card.I have been very disappointed by the memory management issues:

1-      Out of the 1GB, only 128MB is available for “Application memory” – This is the MOST MISLEADING AND DISAPOINTING POINT

2-      Which means when the device boots, about 20MB only are available for new and dynamic data, which is barely enough, while 860MB of “Device memory” are totally free and useless (I am very careful to store all my media on the external card)

3-      The memory manager does not release all the memory used by applications, even when they are closed properly (not escape, but menu/close)

4-      So after a few hours of work (I work a lot, admittedly) memory runs low (below 10MB, and soon 5MB then 0…) and the BB becomes unresponsive and starts deleting my emails… Requiring a hard reboot

5-      The Memory cleaner program, though activated and run manually, does not help much at this stage (ATT version 4.6.0.167 of OS)

6-      There are no supported way to delete useless “sample files” such as music (2MB on my bundle), pictures,… 

I would request you release very soon:

1-      An update of the OS that fixes the memory management issues

2-      An update of the memory cleaner that really recovers all the memory

3-      A tool or an approved way to delete sample files or move them out of the “Application Memory” and into the “Device Memory” at least

4-      A tool or an update of the OS that let us allocate more of the 1GB of built-in flash to Application Memory (This can be a special process done once at reboot, does not need to be dynamic)

5-      An update of the OS that can use all of the 1GB built-in memory (or at least most of it, for sure more than 500MB)

[Abhijit]

Hope RIM is listening. I am having the same problem with Blackberry Bold. Sometimes i get an low memory message and i had to reboot the device.

Is Bold really having this as a known issue ?

Regards,

Abhijit Chandekar

[gemsongg]

Hope RIM will take this as a serious issue and consider the above posts. I am also facing the same problem with my bold 9000. I would suggest for a software upgrade to make use of 859 MB of device memory. Else my Bold 9000 is turning into a e-waste.

Kindly waiting for some actions from RIM.

Regards
Gemz

[gemsongg]

Due to the non-availability of application memory my phone is very slow and I even hate browsing and doing something on my BOLD 9000. Kindly clear this issue of the BOLD 9000 users.. This is actually the problem with all Bold 9000 users. But all of them are not willing to post it in this forum.. So consider this as the request from all 9000 users..
Regards

[gemsongg]

Dear sir

My bold 9000 can load Blackberryforum and other BB sites very fast such that it will take only 2-3 seconds to load it. While loading other pages such as gmail,facebook etc it is taking very long time to load. Even sometimes the pages fail to load. Kindly tell me a method to overcome this. Also the pages are very large in size. How can I reduce the size like opera mini or some other browsers do. Kindly suggest a method.

Thanks

[BillJ]

Let's keep in mind that the Bold 9000 is many years old by now.  It's running OS 5, which was never famous for browsing to begin with.  The Bold 9000 is good for many things, including messaging, but if you're looking for speedy browsing, OS 5 is not where you want to be.

Upgrading to a phone running OS 7 is what you need to do if you're looking for performance.  Keep the Bold 9000 for simple messaging and use your OS 7 device for everything else.

Cheers. 

[gemsongg]

So you mean I hav to carry two BB phones for two purposes and with two numbers? Is it? That's really very difficult. can you suggest the best phone that I can buy in the market? I mean BB.

Thanks

[gemsongg]

Simply upgrading the phone is not as simple as we say for me. So I don't think I can get a new one in the near future. So I will have to get accustomed with this slow speeds and other application related problems. I mean the phone getting hanged up..

Thanks

[BillJ]

Carrying two phones isn't very practical.  I simply meant to imply that the Bold 9000 is a dinosaur in today's smartphone market.  I owned one many years ago but have since owned a Bold 9700, a Torch 9800 and a Torch 9860 (my current phone).  If you're looking for a phone that will keep up with your browsing and messaging requirements, I suggest the Bold 9790 (non-touchscreen), the Bold 9900 (touchscreen with physical keypad) or the Torch 9810 (touchscreen with physical keypad) or Torch 9850/9860 (full touchscreen).  All of these devices run OS 7, which is the most current OS offered by RIM (they can all be upgraded to OS 7.1 which includes Wi-Fi Hotspot).

Cheers.