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kdbwtg - 30 May 2006 18:48 GMT

I have a WM5 PDA Phone and it only has a mini SD slot, I have a 1GB card in
it, but I am trying to figure out how to make that my default storage instead
of it using my main memory so that I can reserve that for applications.

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Paul G. Tobey [eMVP] - 30 May 2006 19:01 GMT

WM5 doesn't work the way WM-previous did. There's already non-volatile
storage in your WM5 device and you are not sharing RAM between storage space
and program data space, so there's no longer a way to adjust the amount used
for each. All RAM is available for program use, although some, a
significant some, will already be taken when the device boots. SD Card
space will appear, probably as \Storage Card, in the filesystem.

Paul T.

>I have a WM5 PDA Phone and it only has a mini SD slot, I have a 1GB card in
> it, but I am trying to figure out how to make that my default storage
> instead
> of it using my main memory so that I can reserve that for applications.

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kdbwtg - 30 May 2006 19:22 GMT

The problem is that isnt miniSD only used for storage and cannot be used for
applications. I would really like to be able to default all my storage then
to my SD card and have the rest all reserved for applicaiton space. Is there
anyway to do this?

> WM5 doesn't work the way WM-previous did. There's already non-volatile
> storage in your WM5 device and you are not sharing RAM between storage space
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> > instead
> > of it using my main memory so that I can reserve that for applications.

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Paul G. Tobey [eMVP] - 30 May 2006 19:53 GMT

You lost me. It's flash. You can't use it like RAM ever. You can install
applications there, like you would with an extra hard disk on your PC. When
you try to install a new application, you should be prompted, on the device,
whether to install it to the device or to the storage card, if there's a
storage card installed.

Paul T.

> The problem is that isnt miniSD only used for storage and cannot be used
> for
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>> > instead
>> > of it using my main memory so that I can reserve that for applications.

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John Dallman - 30 May 2006 20:22 GMT

> You lost me. It's flash. You can't use it like RAM ever. You can
> install applications there, like you would with an extra hard disk on
> your PC. When you try to install a new application, you should be
> prompted, on the device, whether to install it to the device or to
> the storage card, if there's a storage card installed.

What he means is, can it be the default place for applications to save
their data files, and for said files to be synched from?

And the answer is no.

I have an interesting issue on WM5, on a Dell Axim 51v, that would have
the same subject line. Sometimes Word won't save a file, claiming that
it can't get hold of the memory it needs to do the same. The files
aren't real big - 20-30KB.

It seems to be a memory fragmentation issue. I find I can keep it from
happening thus:

1. Reset the machine.
2. Start Switcher Bar, and use it to kill the default instance of
Active Sync.
3. Start Work, so that it's really the only app running.
4. After each synch, use Switcher Bar to kill Active Sync again.

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Paul G. Tobey [eMVP] - 30 May 2006 20:41 GMT

I don't know of any way to make it the default, no. You should be able to
save files to \Storage Card\ from, say, Word with no problem. I don't do
that daily, but haven't seen any problems with it, as long as the card is
actually installed.

Paul T.

>> You lost me. It's flash. You can't use it like RAM ever. You can
>> install applications there, like you would with an extra hard disk on
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