Motorola C370, C550, C450 technical manual Tips, Caveats

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Tips

It is much faster to read and write in big chunks than it is to do so in small chunks.

Whenever you close a RecordStore, the close command will not return until all the pending writes have been written. A successful call to close a RecordStore guarantees that the data got written. It is then safe to power off the phone; a side effect to this is that the close command may take a while to return. Therefore, if a RecordStore is opened and closed for every write performance will be greatly affected.

Caveats

The maximum number of RecordStores that the Motorola C370, C450, and C550 series of handsets supports depends on the number of files installed. Once the phone has 500 RecordStores (that includes resource files, wall papers, ring tones, and other files), then it will not be able to make more.

Therefore, if a MIDlet is to have many images, such as sprites used in animations, it may be advantageous to have them all in one image file and use clipping to display only what you need.

RecordStore can be of any size as long as there is file space available. A zero byte RecordStore is also allowed.

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Motorola C370, C550, C450 technical manual Tips, Caveats