My N900 internal memory is full

Hi
I am Nelson Lobo and I possess the nokia n900. I simply love the phone but now its giving some problems
I have been installing apps and uninstalling them to save space. However I find that even though i uninstall the apps, the free memory space keeps on getting lesser and lesser. That means these apps leave some files behind even after being uninstalled.
Now I have very less internal memory and even though i have uninstalled all teh other unnecessary apps, it is still showing me memory low.
So was thinking of flashing my N900 (the internal memory). Pls can you suggest what can I do to empty the internal memory
Regards
Nelson
NLobo

you may have residual data left as you suggest. but man....that is a lot of data if you are just installing applications. not sure you could really be using all of them.
follow my direction in the top12 thread that is sticky on the top of the maemo board.
also, you can try the talk.maemo.org board. many gurus there.

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