S60 smartphones RAM management

Smartphones are made to behave smartly and are considered as siblings of the Omnipresent computers and Laptops. As the topic says RAM in a smartphone is not huge when compared to that of computers, here are some things which u can do inorder to maintain RAM in its level of operation so that u can avoid annoying "Memory Full" warnings

Important Note: Below procedures applies to Symbian S60 V3 and V5 devices

1. First make sure you dont have any applications running in the background and close all Open applications, a long press on the Menu key will show the applications running in the background and exit all those

2. Some third party applications are needed in order to access system folders, accessing with the inbulit file manager is not possible on some smartphones. Applications like X-plore and Y-browser serves for good purpose and helps in clearing ur "Cache" folder of your phone, a simple Google search on these applications can do wonders

3. Third Party applications again, Handy Taskman and Jbtaskman other two applications which helps in manging your device applications, Some applications such as Camera, Log, Gallery etc wont give back the RAM they have consumed to the device once closed(exit) and stays in the background eating RAM by using Handy Taskman or Jbtaskman you can close them to get back the amount of RAM these application consume

Note: Pressing the Red(call end key) button doesn't exit some application, so always Use Options > exit to to exit from an application

The above three procedures manges RAM usage in the device, the upcoming procedure helps in maintaining the Phone memory in tact

Phone memory is another important aspect the specification sheet of device says Inbuilt phone memory is 100mb means that it is amount of shared memory between the phone and RAM in this case free executable RAM can be around 30-35 Mb and the rest is user storage Phone memory its better to have some memory on the phone

Store your messages and e-mail attachments on to your memory card by changing the storage location Messaging > options > settings > other > Memory in use, bychanging to memory card the apllication may respond slowly and it depends on your comfort level