best to install things to phone or memory card?

Author: web Add date: 04/27/2008 Publishing date: 04/27/2008 Hits: 0

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if i instal to phone can it stil be backed up onto the card and restored later on??

another question, each time i start phone up installing comes up trying to instal some apps that dont work since restore, cant remove them either. how can i get rid of them? find same app and re instal them?
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thanks

It doesn't much matter if you install apps in your phone memory or on removable media - you are not likely to be able to have them transfer properly after firmware update or backup with nokia suite. Some will work fine, but it all depends upon how well they were coded, the caged data directories don't help out in this situation much either.

With your applications that keep trying to install every time you insert your memory card, go in to your application manager and try to install them from there, if they still fail, take note of the number, might be something like A0000143, write them all down.

Connect your phone in data mode to the computer, or use a memory card reder and delete all files with reference to the number above in their name.
Edit: The numbers you get will not be what I wrote above, please don't use A00000143 :-)

This will fix the problem, it's a little tedious, but has worked for me every single time.

For stability ONLY install to the phone mem.

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All these points are arbitrary depending on your use!
However, I have never experienced a unstable phone with all apps on the phone mem becoming more stable once they were installed to mem card!
The opposite however is well documented and I have been able to induce instabilty during my farting about with Symbian S60 and WM5/6 phones as well as Pocket PC PDAs going back many a year.
Anyone who has a memcard installed phone and enjoys issue free usage is the exeption rather than the rule and this can be usually attributed to the set of installed apps in use. But, put on a wrong 'un and this will induce wobble and if this happens then where the app is installed is in my opinion the crucial factor. Remove that factor and the problems is solved.
So my advice remains always phone mem.

I used to install all my apps on the memory card (especially with my N70 since 20mb would fill up pretty quickly) but I've experienced problems having them on the memory card in my N95:

When I connect my phone to my PC in data transfer mode, it would fail because something was using the card. I would have to restart the phone in order for it to work.
When I try to remove the card, the screen would show a progress bar continuously, with the message "closing applications" or something like that. I would have to restart the phone again.

Since I started installing them on the phone's memory instead, I've not experienced these problems, and I still have 60-70Mb free.

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I didn't want to add to any heated discussion. I was just voicing what experience I've had with the matter. I can understand why I have problems using the memory card when there are apps installed on it. It'd be like asking windows if you can remove your second hard drive when there are important system files installed on it. It's going to kick off big time and crash, even though there's nothing technically wrong with installing apps on anything other than your primary drive.

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