Blackberry 8900 Format the device memory or a media card, View the amount of available memory

User Guide Format the device memory or a media card

•Turn off the flash in the camera.

•Close third-party applications from the application menu when you are finished with them.

•Change your browser options for animated graphics so that they repeat less often on web pages.

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Format the device memory or a media card

If you format the BlackBerry® device memory or a media card, all the files in the device memory or on the media card are deleted.

1.In the device options, click Memory.

2.Press the Menu key.

3.Click Format.

4.Complete the instructions on the screen.

View the amount of available memory

To view the amount of memory available for application data or for storing files in the BlackBerry® device memory or on a media card, in the device options, click Memory.

Best practice: Optimizing your device performance

Try to maintain at least 400 KB of application memory on your BlackBerry® device. To increase the amount of application memory, try deleting items that you do not need from your device. Consider the following guidelines:

•Delete old email and MMS messages, especially messages with attachments.

•Delete contacts that are already in your organization's address book.

•Delete applications and languages that you do not use.

•If you recently updated the BlackBerry® Device Software over the wireless network, delete the previous version of the BlackBerry Device Software.

•Clear the browser cache.

To use less memory, try changing options for email messages, calendar entries, and media files. Consider the following guidelines:

•Reduce the amount of time that your device stores email messages and calendar entries.

•Stop forwarding email messages to your device when your device is connected to your computer.

•Receive only the first section of long email messages.

•If you changed the picture quality for pictures that you take, change the picture quality setting to Normal.

•Reduce the picture quality in the browser.

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