Original post located at http://blog.alkankoray.net/Entries/2011/2/14_Do_You_Reboot_Your_BlackBerry_Regularly.html
Reboot BlackBerry
Since almost a year after upgrading my BlackBerry device’s OS to version 5.0 I have been facing with a weird problem – that my device’s free file space was decreasing to almost zero after a few days, forcing me to reboot it regularly.
After a clean reboot the free space was increasing back to it’s normal level, however more than a half of my battery was drained when the boot had completed. I knew that this was some kind of a bug but I accepted it and have been trying to live with that for a while. I installed an add-on,BerryJoose application, which was continuously monitoring the memory usage and was trying to free the memory whenever it was possible. Yet, I was only able to postpone the next reboot for at most a week.
Finally, I had some free time and thanks to my Calendar for the reminder, I Googled as “memory leak issue on blackberry os 5”. No solid results. So I decided to upgrade my OS version from 5.0.0.554 to 5.0.0.822 – AT&T’s latest version.
Surprisingly my device was booting a lot faster than before and the free memory was not decreasing at all day by day! So I would suggest you look for an upgrade for your device if you have a memory leak problem. Or even a downgrade might be useful. You can consider the following symptoms as a possible leak :
- -Your device freezes so often, even if you do not have a lot of applications installed.
- -You have to reboot your device at least once a week.
- -Free File amount decreases and converges to zero quickly after a reboot.
- -Restarting your device consumes more than a half of your battery.
If you are aware of such issues then upgrade your OS as soon as possible!
Have a productive day,
Koray
