Improving memory usage - decrease "other" in media card

What is "other" in media card memory in the app manager?
Its taking up a lot of space, how can I get rid of it?
Whatsapp is advicing me that my memory is almost full, but it;s the only app I have and the media card can't be full (10 pics and 1 small video).
I've deleted games, not used languages, but still 1,7 GB of "others".

Try to reformat the media card.
Also, keep in mind that everything you download goes to the "others" folder first and after the download is complete, it goes to where it's supposed to be but it leaves a footprint in the "other" folder.
What I'm trying to say is, the 1.7gb you see might be the footprints of the many files you've downloaded in the past.
Good luck!

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Then try to format it from another device than your Pearl.
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BB can't see media card but PC can

Hi, I'm attempting to install a 4 gb Micro SDHC card into my Blackberry 8330 but I'm not having any luck. I can see and work with the card from my PC but not the BB. Here are the details:
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Are you attempting the format or looking at the Media Card from the BB WHILE you are plugged to the USB?
Unplug and try it all again.
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1.3GB of 2GB media card is occupied by 'others' in memory use

I have a 2GB media card and 1.3 GB of which is occupied by this 'others' in memory use. As far as I remember it was around 600 MB when I bought the phone(Curve 9360).I am giving the details of memory use.
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Go to the Media > Explore > Media Card and see what folders you have installed there other than the routine Pictures, Music, Video, etc... for instance I have some third apps which create new folders and store data there (CardStar, flycast, ShowMeTheImages, Themes, Fixmo Screenshots, Databases.
The "other" space is likely occupied by such as that.
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Media card and phone memory

Hi! How do I assign certain files (music; photos) etc to go directly to media card and not the phone memory...

Check the app settings.
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No memory even though I have a media card

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Hi 1132christy and welcome to the BlackBerry Support Community Forums!
What size media card do you currently have in your BlackBerry smartphone? Can you verify that your pictures are set to save on your media card? From the Camera, press the menu button and chosoe Options to see the option.
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What are Microsoft- or other's-best practice or recommendation of Disk usage, CPU usage, memory usage monitoring to prevent system trouble ?

We use win2003,win2008,win2012 servers.
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XP PC Does not see Media Card. Device Memory and Media Card are not available.....

I am starting a new thread because the old one was marked as resolved and it isn't.
My Windows XP desktop is no longer seeing my BB Storm Media Card. I am getting the error:
"Device Memory and Media Card are not available because the Mass Storage is currently in use."
I have followed these directions:
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SAVE
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Hi there!
Give this KB a try perhaps?
KB19717 The BlackBerry smartphone is not detected as a USB Mass Storage Device when connected to a computer
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Media card - 2 GB - memory problem

8100 Pearl - unable to load more than about 200 mb of mp3 music. Card shows plenty of add'l space available, but get error message that card is full. Have formatted card several times in the phone and reloaded mp3s. Same problem. Ideas?

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High RAM memory usage compared to other systems

I'm suffering with memory usage problems, only in open 2 tabs of facebook(it's only for example, any 'heavy' page freeze also) in firefox*(for example also, but this occur in chromium also) freeze computer.
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I'm using XFCE with compiz (yes, compiz, since use a very lightweight openbox-based session doesn't help, then compiz...) when system start (after login) system is consuming 130MB approximately of RAM.
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320.1 MiB
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as you can see in 'ps_mem' memory usage isn't nothing absurdly it's ok.
another example, this problem stop me make certain things, for example is impossible browsing in web while programming in eclipse, this is very uncomfortable.
other thing, this not occur in Windows XP, I can open more than 10 tabs in firefox, and eclipse open, etc...
any needing information, tell-me!
firefox*: with memory cache turned off in about:config
Last edited by hotvic (2013-08-12 17:42:21)

hotvic, could you please change the title to something more descriptive? 'memory problems' sounds like you have problems e.g. remembering / recalling things, which is not an Arch issue ;P
kenny3794 wrote:
I've had some limiting performance with browsers lately (Firefox and Chromium). I found it had a considerable cache size utilizing lots of fragmented space on my home directory. I cleared the cache and have since set a limit to the cache size of 30 MB for Firefox. Between multiple users across multiple browser sessions, I had at least 2 GB of cache data on my 10 GB home partition! So far (1 day), this has been helpful. Perhaps this could help you also?
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How to decrease memory usage in XE 11.2

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Does anybody know what I'm needing to change?
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Hi,
This might help
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Sync problem and unusual amount of "Other" in memory usage

I have an iPod touch with 8.1.2 installed.
I will begin by the sync problems I was experiencing two days ago. First, some songs I tried to manually add were greyed out in the list. Then the sync got stuck at "Waiting for chagnes to apply". Then, all the songs in the iPod seemingly got corrupted. After some restores, the memory usage bar showed DOUBLE the amount of memory used, and half of that was "Other". 48 GB of "Other".
After restoring a copy from the day before, and then installing 8.1.2 (I had 8.1.1) the iPod seemed to sync right. Then, I noticed two things. First, many songs and albums didn't had the artwork. Second, many songs were missing. (I should say that I manually manage the music in my iPod). Today, I started manually adding songs and albums. After syncing many album covers were still missing. Then, after adding some abums, almost 10GB of "Other" appeared on the usage bar.
I would like to know how to solve this issue.

Restore the iPod since you have to remove the corruption and also:
stuck on waiting for changes to be applied
Waiting for changes to be applied solution
Re: "Waiting for changes to be applied"

After upgrading ipod touch4 to ISO 5, why is the 'other' memory usage running at 25gb?

just upgraded my ipod touch4 to iso 5 and discovered that the "other" memory usage is running at 25gb and basically uses all of my 32gb capacity. Something mucst be wrong???

it is icloud's backup and photostream feature. Turn them off and reboot the device and the space will come back.

App Download and "Other" Memory Usage

For a month or so I've noticed that my iPhone 5s "Other" memory was on the order of 6gb... Deleted texts and emails attempting to reduce that size, to no avail...
Today I noticed that an App (Numbers) that had begun to download from the App Store (about a month ago), had not finished (WiFi was required for the large download, but had been turned off and on several times, but not long enough for the download to complete). It wasn't obvious to be that Numbers hadn't finished downloading...
I deleted Numbers from the iPhone, and installed it from iTunes on my iMac.
Upon the deletion of Numbers, my "Other" memory usage went from 6gb down to 2.25 gb, which was reasonable with some large maps and Good Reader docs I have on the phone...
The Numbers app is about 224Mb in size... So, it appears that the iPhone sets aside a very large part of memory for an app as it downloads, and then clears that memory once the app is installed...(though the amount cleared was on the order of 17x the size of the Numbers app...)
I notice a similar usage of Time Machine storage space... Small Time Machine saves require very large amounts of HDD space to be reserved for the backup... Wonder if the same logic is applied to the iPhone... Or perhaps every time WiFi was turned on and Numbers would reattempt to download, the amount of Other memory it required from the iPhone would increase...?
Anyone else noticed this behavior?
Bob

Update...
For "grins" I just un-checked "Sync Music", and synced my iPhone... Other Data went to zero. Re-checked "Sync Music" and synced, and only had 250Mb of Other on the iPhone. After a full sync with 7gb music, the Other memory number is back up to 2.23gb...
Interesting...
Bob

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