[xion]

Where did all my memory go? I have a specific set of applications and PIM info that I have transferred between multiple devices over the years. I have measured this data to take up approximately 64mb of flash RAM on the device. On the 8330 of the 96mb or flash ram it brought me down to about 32mb of avail flash ram. 25mb to 35mb seems to be the threshold on most Blackberries before we get large lags, extended hourglass and freezing issues. So I went to the 8350i that had 128mb of flash ram. True to the math i had about 64mb left over. My lag and freezes reduced dramatically. The 4.6.0.204 os ran smoothly. I upgraded to the Tour on July 17th which is stated to have 256mb flash, so I should have about 192mb of ram leaving plenty for the os 4.7.1.40. BUT instead i only have 73.1 mb, just barely more than the 8350i that has half the memory. I am experiencing lags with no hour glass, hour glass lags, OS freezes requiring batt pull and delays in sending bbm. I have removed demo video, reduced my standard data pack, disabled content compression and protection and done multiple battery pulls. I still can not get more than 83mb, but then it drops back down to about 73mb. HELP. How do I get my 192mb of memory back? I need my device to stop with all the stalling and freezing. This was the main reason I upgraded to the 9630 Tour.

[daphne]

You should not be having problems due to memory when you have 73mb file free. I don't think memory is what's causing the freezing and lags.

Are you sure the apps are compatible with the 4.7 OS?

Oh, and please update your profile.

[MizLiz]

Are you saving stuff to your phone memory -- or your media card? They have a 16G one out now....

[akosnitzky]

Wirelessly posted (Its All About the U!)

Other than the video content, I am sure what the OP can save to the media card based on what I read

[xion]

Thank you to everyone who responded. I did a little research on the matter. My error was in an assumption that os 4.7.1.40 would consume approximately the same memory footprint as 4.6.0.204. I was wrong. I did some research on several brand new units out of the box. here are the real world usable memory comparisons:

Model
Advertised RAM
Observed OS MEM
Observed Avg Avail Mem
Observed Avg Boot Time

8130
64 MB
30 MB
34 MB
2.5 MIN

8330
96 MB
50 MB
46 MB
2.5 MIN

8350i
128 MB
61 MB
67 MB
4 MIN

9630
256 MB
145 MB
111 MB
6 - 10 MIN

I made some changes that increased the performance.

Delete Demo Video, Enable memory cleaning, Disable content compression and protection. I also trimmed down my PIM data base, this makes my sync with exchange/Google sync move faster. currently have 80.5 MB avail mem. I still see a 5-10 second freeze with no hour glass just after launch of most applications and during about every other bbm conversation. On a side note to this issue, it can appear to be a trackball issue, but is in reality a sw issue.

On another side note I have updated my forum profile to better reflect my current device.