[MarcioAB]

Hello, considering N97 small C: Phone and that some applications installs only in C: Phone and consume a large amount of that memory, I would like to have a list of these applications. Allow me start by 2 appls.

1. QuickOffice AM Viewer version 6 - Upgrade from QuickOffice from v4 to v6 will eat 15 MB of C: Phone. That includes the download. Application Manager will indicate the consumption is only 4 MB but that is not correct.

If you remove QuickOffice AM version 6, it will still continue to eat 7MB of C: Phone.

QuickOffice AM is a great application, so you need to balance cost x benefit.

2. Nokia Maps 3.x - This 6 MB application will ask you what drive you want to install and you will say E: Mass, but it will be installed on C: Phone anyway, so be aware. Remove it seems to be ok - you get your memory back.

Are there any other nice applications that are large C: Phone memory eater out there ?

Thank you to share.

Marcio

[pkwakman]

Nokia Messaging. Appears to eat more C: memory over time. Have to remove and reinstall it to get it back.

[grschinon]

Google maps.

If installed on C: it will also use C: as its data cache.

[MarcioAB]

pkwakman: Just double check this: 

Menu / Messaging /  Options / Settings / Other / Memory in Use = E: Mass memory.

In my case, it's set to C: Phone memory and if I try to change it to E: Mass memory, I got the following error: Server is Busy !

But I have other application ( Lotus Notes ) using Messaging, so I think that is the reason why the server is busy.

Regards

Marcio

[MarcioAB]

grschinon : Ok, but if installed on E: Mass, I think Google will not harm C: Phone.

I wonder why someone will install it in C: Phone, unless by mistake.

And in this case, removal of Google Maps by Application Manager is clean/ok and will not leave "lost" files behind like QuickOffice.

[matt_t]

Java Runtime Environment 2.0 eats 4mb on C:  but will transfer a lot of system files to E: in the process.

Ovi Contacts uses 1mb on C:

Nokia Messaging and Maps when upgraded use a lot of C: as mentioned above.

Installing the new (and improved) YouTube app from Ovi will install it to E: and remove the nasty C: based app in the process.

Ovi Store update installs 3 files to C: which between them use almost 1mb too.

[MarcioAB]

matt_t: thanks for the comment regard YouTube. Quick question: Why do you need JRE ? I did not install JRE and run some Java appls ( Opera Mini and Sametime ) ...

PC Suite phone-side also installs only in C: Phone despite it does not use much memory ( 300 KB only ).

[matt_t]

An earlier version of Nokia's JRE is already installed on the devices, 2.0 is an update to that, although it's still in beta at Nokia's betalabs.  It contains many bug fixes and optimisations and, like I mentioned earlier, moves a lot of files to E:  My E: drive had about 9MB of files moved to it from C:

[MarcioAB]

matt_t: Just installed Nokia JRT 2.0 beta and my C: Phone memory dropped 6 MB ( Application Manager says it's a 4 MB application ). In my case I do not see files going to E: Mass, but I do not have many java applications, that by the way keep working as with original Nokia Java.

Removing Nokia JRT 2.0 beta allows to recover all 6 MB ( good ... they are learning )

Do not see reason to upgrade Java for now.

Regards

Marcio

N97 RM-507 code 0575400 firmware 12.2.024.C01.01