Memory usage question

[Peter123]

What is eating up memory?

When I received the refurb it said 131Mb free space.
I have installed a few apps (google voice, notepad, swype) it shrank by 1 Mb (only)

After the nightly profilactic battery pull for 1 minute I rebooted the phone
and now I have 120 Mb. Where did the 10Mb go?

Peter

 

[LED]

I thought swype was over 4MB? Have you used the internet browser? That'll eat up 6MB of cache.

 

[scary alien]

What is eating up memory?

When I received the refurb it said 131Mb free space.
I have installed a few apps (google voice, notepad, swype) it shrank by 1 Mb (only)

After the nightly profilactic battery pull for 1 minute I rebooted the phone
and now I have 120 Mb. Where did the 10Mb go?

Peter

Did you do any internet surfing? Browser cache can climb to be many MBs very quickly. Easy to check and clean:

Settings -> Applications -> Manager Applications -> select Browser -> Cache (Clear Cache button)

Check you memory usage before and after and see if this accounts for the difference.

 

[Peter123]

Did you do any internet surfing? Browser cache can climb to be many MBs very quickly. Easy to check and clean:

Settings -> Applications -> Manager Applications -> select Browser -> Cache (Clear Cache button)

Check you memory usage before and after and see if this accounts for the difference.

I have not used the browser at all on this phone - still it had ~200kb in cache...
I looked around other prgrams' caches - cleared up about 3 Mb...
Peter

 

[Peter123]

Is there an app that clears all caches with one button press?
Peter

 

[scary alien]

Is there an app that clears all caches with one button press?
Peter

Peter,

No personal experience, but here's some other folk's suggestion about Quick App Clean Cache (http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-cerisierbleu-qac-njjC.aspx)) via this forum link:http://androidforums.com/htc-droid-eris/65442-clearing-cache.html#post592799 (its a paid app...not too much though).

 

[xx_bishop_xx]

I've used HistoryEraser; free in the market. It works well for me. It doesn't clear everything with the touch of a button, but it clears with the touch of a couple of buttons.

HistoryEraser - Android app on AppBrain

*EDIT* and it allows for erasing of the market search history.