my eris has completely crashed twice know, requiring me to restore it to factory settings twice within the first two weeks ive gotten it. this is very irritating and everyone ive asked says im either using or downloading too many apps. Ive used smart phones before but none so heavily reliant on apps. Ive used advanced taskiller and all that but the phone continues to freeze and then have to rip the battery out and start all over like i pulled it out the box. I' am considering upgrading to the motorola droid given its higher processing speed and google NAV. Any suggestions?
Do you know roughly how many apps you had DL'ed each time you ran in to problems?
When you did the FR (factory reset), did you do it from the menus with a live phone (Settings->Security->Factory data reset), or were you forced to do it with the cold-start factory reset (Phone off, press Vol-Down, Send, and Power/End)?
Just curious... what
exactly were the symptoms you were observing that made you decide to do a FR? The freezing? Something else, such as HTC Sense crashing immediately on reboot?
As far as the question "how many apps are too many?" goes, there are at least two good answers:
- it only takes one poorly written app to make your phone misbehave.
-or-
- so many (good apps) that there is very little system memory remaining
You can observe the amount of free system memory (built-in flash memory) by going to
Settings -> SD card & phone storage.
(Look at the "Available Space" at the bottom of the page)
You certainly need to keep it above zero - but since it is very hard to predict how much system memory various apps and system processes will use for their own private data stores, you should be conservative - personally, I would feel uncomfortable if I saw it get below 20 Mb.
I would take bjf88's advice to heart - add apps slowly, so that you will be able to notice if something dramatic changes; hopefully uninstalling will correct the problem (although there are reports on this board of apps that caused problems that uninstalls would not correct).
It is possible that you have a unit with defective hardware - unfortunately, about the only way you can be sure that that is the case is to run the thing using only stock applications for a week or so to see if the problem still crops up - take it back and get it exchanged for a new unit before your 30 days are up if that is the case.
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