Nokia N97 ‘ The Flagship Device ‘ of Nokia has an inherent phone memory problem which makes it prone to hangovers and slowness . Nokia Pakistan has been getting these complains when people download their emails or put in thousands of contacts in the phone , ( people do have thousands of contacts like I have around 2500 ) . Nokia N97’s base phone memory is very low and on factory startup it’s around 45 mb which steeply falls down to single digit within a few days of use .
Nokia has realized this problem and has released a ‘ Memory Optimizer ‘ available through SW Update not through #*0000# and asking the phone to search for updates however it does not make a big difference .
My father is one of the proud owners of Nokia N97 who bought it on the first day of it’s official launch almost a month ago and for the past week his phone had been suffering from performance problems relating to screen not lighting up , slowness and occasional hang- ups , being the resident ‘ Nokia Guru’ he asked me to fix his phone and here how I did it .
When I got the phone in my hands , (I’m not allowed to touch it in normal circumstances as everyone know once I get it in my hands I’ll install all kind of soft wares on it ) the first thing I did was check the Phone memory and was not suproised to find it at only 6 MB . To find out about your phone memory go to Applications click on Office than on File MAnager and you can see the available memory on your phone .
To fix it , I opened the Phone memory and checked out the memory details and found a substantial chunk of memory eaten up by programs , images and videos .
I installed the ‘ Memory optimizer’ through SW Update and got only a measly 0.3 mb , I think what the software does is optimize and defragment the memory and that’s what it did giving me 6.3 mb of memory from 6 mb before .
Than I went to the Application Manager and checked out the list of applications installed
Nokia has installed all the bloatware i.e Widgets and Applications my father will never use on the Phone Memory like Face Book utilizing 1mb of Memory and no use for my father same goes for a number of other applications like Amazon 1mb , AP News 800 KB , Hi5 534 KB , Soccer 670 KB , Psiloc World Traveler 1mb , Accuweather 883 KB , OVI Store 205 KB and Slides 353 KB . I removed all these applications to gain a further of 10 mb .
The second step was to fix the Messaging . I’ve setup GMAIL account on my father’s phone so he can keep in touch with his emails and it has downloaded some 1545 headers in the phone at almost 2kb per header it has taken upto 3 mb of space . I went to the settings and shut down the Auto Retrievals and start the Auto Notification with limit of 50 emails .
The next step was to shift all the SMS and MMS messages to the 32GB Flash memory and delete all of them from the phone memory with future incomings to be saved in Flash Memory .
I also had to move all the pics and Videos to Phone memory and made changes in the Camera Settings to save all the pix to the 32 GB Flash memory .
I also removed the temp files and some TXT files on the C:/ directory .
How it all fared , finally I was able to reclaim 44mb of memory and get a total of 51mb Free Memory up from 6.3 after optimization .
The phone is working fine now , no more black screens , no more slowness and no more hang-ups
I did it 
and here’s the proof for it
So did I manage to solve your problems discuss in comments
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