Memory Management and Optimizing Performance
Printer-friendly versionConserve battery power—turn off backlighting
Submitted Tuesday, December 11, 2007
On some touch screen devices, you can press and hold down the power on/off button to turn off the screen backlighting (hold the button down again to turn it back on). Turning it off will save you power, but it will also make the screen difficult to view in a poorly lit environment.
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Realign screen to improve tap response
Submitted Tuesday, January 8, 2008
If you find that the display on your touch screen device is slow to respond to taps or isn’t responding accurately, try realigning it. To do this, go to Start >Settings >System tab >Screen and tap on the Align Screen button.
Align Screen asks you to tap on a series of five crosshair icons that appear in the center and four corners of the screen. Be sure to press down on the crosshairs as firmly and accurately as possible to ensure that your screen will be aligned correctly.
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Avoiding problems with the Windows Mobile shutdown model
Submitted Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Werner Ruotsalainen discusses ways you can improve the management of opening and closing processes. Click here for the article.
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Protect yourself from text spammers
Submitted Wednesday, August 29, 2007
To avoid receiving text message spam, call 888-382-1222 to register with the National Do Not Call List, which will block your number for five years. You must call from the number you wish to block. Or, you can register at donotcall.gov.
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File Store/ Built-in Storage deletion upon WM 5 install
Submitted Wednesday, August 8, 2007
If you upgrade your Pocket PC to Windows Mobile 5.0, you will lose your File Store/ Built-in storage during the install. This is because WM 5 takes up more flash ROM.
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General tips on saving memory
Submitted Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Here are some memory-saving tips from some of our experts’ posts in the Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine blogs from 5/1-5/2/07 (smartphonemag.com/blogs):
Don’t worry about airport x-rays
Submitted Tuesday, May 15, 2007
When you are going through security screening at airports, don’t worry about your device going through the x-ray scanners. Neither the device nor any storage cards will be affected by the x-rays.
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Watch out when using soft-sided luggage
Submitted Wednesday, December 13, 2006
If you're packing a Pocket PC or Smartphone in a knapsack or fabric luggage, keep the device away from the thin fabric sides of the bag and put it in a carrying case or surround it with bubble wrap or something else that will absorb shock and impacts.
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If your device is running slowly, do a soft reset
Submitted Wednesday, December 13, 2006
If your device is running slowly or becomes inoperable, the first thing you should do to remedy the situation is do a soft reset. This clears your devices memory. It is non-destructive—you do not lose data or programs you’ve installed on your device.
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The difference between program and storage memory
Submitted Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Your device has two kinds of main (internal) memory: program memory and storage memory.
Main Memory
Main memory is the internal memory of the device, and it is divided into two types: Program memory and Storage memory.
Program memory
Program memory is temporary memory that programs use when they are running.
How to adjust storage/program memory on a Pre-WM5 Pocket PC
Submitted Friday, December 8, 2006
On Pre-WM5 Pocket PCs, the memory slider found in Start >Settings >System >Memory lets you change the amount of RAM to used for file storage and the operation of programs.
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How to free up memory
Submitted Friday, December 8, 2006
Free up storage memory by deleting unnecessary files, moving files to a storage card, deleting temporary Internet files, removing third-party programs you don’t use, and configuring your Inbox to save e-mail attachments to a storage card. You can also stop any currently running programs in the Start >Settings >System >Memory >Running Programs tab (smartphones: Start >Task Manager).
How to add file storage space with storage cards
Submitted Friday, December 8, 2006
To add file storage space on your Windows Mobile device, purchase a compatible storage card and slip it into the card slot on your device.
How to defragment your built-in File Store
Submitted Friday, February 23, 2007
If you happen to have a pre-Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC with built-in storage, or File Store (FS) (it's called iPAQ File Store, LOOXstore, Built-in Storage, or something similar depending on your particular Pocket PC brand), you may want to regularly defragment it, particularly if you often write to it. To do this, copy the contents of your File Store into a temporary storage folder, and delete the original File Store. Then copy your temporary File Store back to the original location.
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To overclock or not?
Submitted Friday, February 23, 2007
Intel's XScale processors have spawned a cottage industry in "overclocking" software. The XScale CPUs are designed to be able to run at more than one speed. The benefit is that CPU speed can be scaled to the task at hand: higher speeds for graphics-intensive or multimedia applications, lower speeds for spreadsheets and word-processing. Overclocking software overrides the built-in governors on the speed, pushing the processor to the max at all times.
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