RAM issues in S60 mobiles

After had installed Handy Taskman in my mobile, I am spending a lot of time looking the behavior of the RAM memory in my Nokia N73 ME mobile. After a month (maybe a little less) of experiments I came up with some really intresting results! Nokia should improve memory handling.

Let’s take things step by step. First of all, maybe it useful to mention that my mobile has 44 MB of RAM. I never switch it off (only if it is extremly necessary) , so after some hours (around a day), the free RAM is 9,6 MB (picture 1) with only the music running (and the application that takes the screenshots – I can not close it because I won’t take the screenshots). By closing music as well, we have 11 MB of free RAM (picture 2). So, only the stand by mode uses 33 MB of RAM (44-11=33) minus the RAM used from screenshots application.

Picture 1	Picture 2	Picture 3

So far so good (in a way). The funny part comes now. If I restart my mobile and check directly my free RAM, without having opened any application (but the screenshot one, in order to take the screenshot), there are 19 MB of free RAM (picture 3).

This means that after a while 9.4 MB are trash (19-9.6 = 9.4). Mainly, this trash is because of the mobiles’ applications (such as messages, contacts, etc). I think that this is an issue that Nokia should really take a look at… as soon as possible.