Keeping your Blackberry Pearl running at optimum speeds, you’ll need to be careful your internal memory doesn’t get bogged down with all sorts of garbage. If it’s not watched closely, it will get full quickly and your phone will start to bog down. I’m going to talk about the biggest issues and how to manage them.
It’s important to know how much memory is available on your Pearl. This can be done quickly by following these steps:
1. Go into your phone options. You’ll find these by clicking on the wrench icon.
2. Scroll to status and click.
3. The memory capacity of your phone is listed as FILE TOTAL.
4. The portion of that capacity available is listed as FILE FREE.
Our goal is to increase the number listed under FILE FREE. The bigger that number, the better your phone will run.
Clean out your inbox. I explain how to do this on my website, so I wont go into the details here.
Content Compression
If you don’t already have content compression enabled on your Pearl, you’ll want to do that next. I can’t tell you exactly how much room this will open up since I’ve used it from day one. If you’re not using it, it will give you a quick boost in available memory.
1. With the main screen open you’ll see all of your icons on one screen (not the home screen).
2. Click on the little wrench icon (options).
3. Use the pearl to move down to “SECURITY OPTIONS” and press the pearl button.
4. Using the pearl, select GENERAL SETTINGS.
5. Scroll down to Content Compression.
6. If ENABLED is not selected, do so now.
7. Press the Blackberry Button (7 dots left of the pearl).
8. Now choose SAVE.
That was easy wasn’t it? Now you have content compression enabled on your phone and you’ll open up a good amount of memory. This not only compression pictures, video and music, but also items in your calendar and inbox.
Deleting Programs You Never Use
You should take some time to go through all of the applications installed on your Blackberry Pearl and delete any you know you don’t need. I never play Brick Breaker, so I deleted it. There are a few programs you don’t really need that you could probably delete.
1. Go to your main screen.
2. Select the wrench icon. This will open up your options.
3. Highlight and select Advanced Options.
4. Scroll to and click on Applications.
5. Highlight any applications you don’t use and want to delete.
6. Scroll through and find any applications you dont want, need or use.
7. Select DELETE and press the pearl.
8. Scroll down to Delete and press the pearl button.
NOTICE: You may be asked to reboot your Pearl before the deletion process is completed.
There are a number of other tricks you can use to free up memory on your Pearl. Try the above steps and see if you still need more room. You should see a big increase in the performance of your Blackberry Pearl.
