N97 mini locking up - out of memory

I am currently experiencing an intermittent fault with my wife's N97 mini phones, where, unexplainable, it "locks up" and prevents any functions other than the Home screen.
It eventually indicates that it has run out of memory and to close applications. There are no applications running and the only way to clear this fault is to remove the battery temporarily, and then replace it and turn the phone back on. All is good until the next "lock-up", usually within 1 - 2 weeks.
We were advised to update the software, but this has not made any difference.
My own N97 mini has not had this fault occur to date.

Looks like some application is tying up the phone memory and not freeing it afterwards. It could be an application your wife installed recently or a setting she changed or corruption of one of the existing applications. Every time you remove the battery, you reboot the phone and free it up again. I suggest resetting the phone using the *#7370# reset. This reset will wipe all data on the phone so please backup your phone before resetting. Try to backup the bare minimum to minimise the possibility of restoring the cause after rthe reset.

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I have a N97 mini and nearly all of the time it keeps locking up, only way to unlock is to switch it off, sometimes it just goes to 'MY 191' then just switches off without me doing anything. Recently it keeps locking up when trying to get on my messages.
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try a soft reset. backup your data, close all active internet connections, and dial *#7370#
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I,ve own my N97 mini for about a month now, been serving me well except for this problem...
I created a folder on the E:/ drive for storing musics I transfered via PC Siute but I noticed that I can't seem to find the onces I trasfered via Bluetooth. When I open the music player and refresh, it seems some of the musics are not added to it. When I open the folder I created for musics I see the songs there but when I go back to the music player it ain't there.
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Why on EARTH are you transferring music by Bluetooth ??? Simply connect the phone to your computer by usb cable in Mass Media mode. The phone will show in 'My Computer' as an external hard drive E. Open it and your music folder will be there. Then drag and drop any music you want FROM your computer TO the 'Music' folder on your phone, safely disconnect the phone from computer, go to music player and refresh music, that's all there is to it !!
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N97 Mini questions

Hi Ive just got a few questions
is there a way to turn the vibration off for when you lock the keys using the slide button but keep vibration fr when receiving alerts?
is there a way to increase the vibration so its more noticable?
Is there a way to have the battery life show as a percentage rather then as bars on the homescreen?
Is there a way to increase batterry life?
Is there an emergency charger that is compatible with the N97 mini ?
I have seen small memory cards such as these http://www.foneshop.com/nokia/n97-mini/memory-cards/sandisk-16gb-micro-sd-transflash-memory-card
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Well I only got the phone yesterday, so I'm not exactly an expert ;-)
But some I can answer.
Battery life. If you're not using the features, consider keeping WLAN and BlueTooth OFF. Dont check mail automatically too often (and perhaps only in daytime) et cetera
The phone is charged through a standard micro-usb-plug. So should be easy to find alternative chargers.
Yep, thats the type. Standard Micro-sd(hc) ...alias transflash
The 8GB is build in mem, not a card. So YES a 16GBworks and is usefull, and supplements the 8Gb, giving you a total of 24Gb.
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Hei all,
I’m using Nokia N97 mini.
Along with Phone memory and Mass memory, I inserted one 1GB memory card also.
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So, I aborted the whole operation. From then, I couldn’t find my personal data from the Mass memory.
Along with some system folders on the mass memory, I have one folder ‘My data’ in which I save all my data.
I’m unable to see the ‘My data’ folder.
It shows that ~2GB memory is being used on mass memory. If I check the size of all folders that i can see, its only 45MB.
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Download and install an app from www.ovi.com called y-browser and see if that allows you to see your folder.

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The product is N97, you don’t have in you drop down list!!!
I have had my n97 for about 10 days now and everything was going brilliant. It is a stunning piece of kit.
However on day 11. I repowered the n97, it kept on hanging the eventually got to boot after 20 attempts, but it was useless could not look up contacts. So I had taskman installed and killed loads of processes and uninstalled all the apps. It became usable as a very basic phone, but sluggish. Could use browser, maps, photos.
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Copyless thanks for the tip. Kudos added :-)
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I could not receive videos via bluetooth because they were 5MB. WHY on EARTH can they not default this to the E: drive.
Whoever made that decision in NOKIA should be fired what an idiot.
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Hi there NSeries experts!
I couldn´t find a topic related to my question,
so here´s my post:
I´ve got a little problem with my N97 mini
(type "RM-555" software-version: "11.0.102"):
The key lock button at the side of the phone
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