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The Streets - 11 Nov 2007 20:50 GMT

I've had my Motorol PERL for less than a year. Initially
I was able to take 6 or 7 pictures at the highest resolution.
Now I'm lucky if I can take even 1 picture at the lowest
resolution without getting an "Insufficient Memory"
error.

I've deleted everything I can think of -- all old photos,
every Java game, etc. I just kept one ringtone and 1
picture as my wallpaper.

I seems like the free memory is somehow tied up or
unavailable. The display shows only 44.8kb free. I can't
be sure, but I think that the amount of free memory
decreases a little every time I take a picture, even after
I've deleted the picture.

If this was my computer, I'd think it needed to be
"de-fragged".

Any ideas/suggestions?

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Steve Sobol - 11 Nov 2007 21:02 GMT

> I've had my Motorol PERL for less than a year. Initially
> I was able to take 6 or 7 pictures at the highest resolution.
> Now I'm lucky if I can take even 1 picture at the lowest
> resolution without getting an "Insufficient Memory"
> error.

Do you mean "PEBL"?

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The Streets - 11 Nov 2007 21:24 GMT

>> I've had my Motorol PERL for less than a year. Initially
>> I was able to take 6 or 7 pictures at the highest resolution.
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>
> Do you mean "PEBL"?

Yes -- sorry, senior moment.

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Steve Sobol - 11 Nov 2007 23:10 GMT

>> Do you mean "PEBL"?
>
> Yes -- sorry, senior moment.

OK, I have one of those.

The PEBL can store ringtones (MIDI or MP3), graphics, small videos and Java
Mobile Edition applications. All of those things use the phone's memory, and
the PEBL (at least the T-Mobile PEBL I have) has 5MB of memory and no space
to stick a memory card in. Check all of those things, see if there's more
stuff you can clean out.

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The Streets - 12 Nov 2007 01:20 GMT

>>> Do you mean "PEBL"?
>>
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> to stick a memory card in. Check all of those things, see if there's more
> stuff you can clean out.

Checking my phone ...
Games and Apps says "No Java Apps Installed"
Multimedia Themes only has Moto
Multimedia Videos only has SEEITMOTO
Multimedia Sounds has just the ones that came with the phone
(and which I can't delete) plus the one ringtone I've downloaded
(8.85kb)
Multimedia Pictures also has just the ones that came with the phone
(and which I can't delete) plus the one picture I'm using as my
wallpaper (71.1kb)
That's everything I can think of.

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Andreas Wenzel - 12 Nov 2007 08:08 GMT

The Streets schrieb:

> [...]
> Checking my phone ...
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> wallpaper (71.1kb)
> That's everything I can think of.

I would try a master reset and a master clear to bring the phone back to
the status it came from the factory in. To do this, go to main menu ->
settings -> general setup and select master reset and then master clear.
The security code the phone asks for should be 000000.

But be aware that this will also erase all phone book entries from the
phone's internal phonebook. Entries on the SIM card will remain untouched.

Andreas

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The Streets - 13 Nov 2007 00:35 GMT

> The Streets schrieb:
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>> wallpaper (71.1kb)
>> That's everything I can think of.

Found the problem ...
I've been taking pictures; emailing them and then deleting them. What
I didn't realize was that after emailing they were being saved in my
phone's message outbox. Once I deleted the 107 messages in the outbox,
my free space is back up to 6328kb.

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