HTC ChaCha: low memory too low?

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#91388 12-Oct-2011 11:49

Hi folks... I have a HTC ChaCha here that I use when I travel, with my spare SIM. It seems it's only 150 MB internal storage because it's now full with "145 MB used / 5.2 MB free".

Interestingly the specs say 512MB RAM/512MB ROM...

I can't see to be able to move apps to the SD card (Twitter and Facebook. Foursquare installed directly on the card).

How do we manage this?

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#532293 12-Oct-2011 12:00

Some apps can't be moved to SD - Facebook and twitter on my SGSII have the option to move to SD grey'ed out - I can move some games etc though

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#532297 12-Oct-2011 12:03

Hi

I suppose putting a custom Rom on it would add app2sd functionality.

I have a collegue using one and they tell me that it comes with 3 different Facebook apps for doing different things in Facebook and that the default one the button goes to isn't the one they wanted. i.e posting statuses and chat are different apps. How do you find the phone? is it the great facebook phone they bill it as?

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#532298 12-Oct-2011 12:06

I don't use Facebook directly - my updates go from Geekzone to Twitter, from there to Facebook. I would rather not have that button, or be able to customise it.

I like the keyboard. The battery life is terrible. The screen is not bad for an email/Twitter handset though.

I will do a hard reset and see how much memory is available immediately after.

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#532300 12-Oct-2011 12:16

Disappointed. After hard reset it comes back with "124 MB free".

Oh well...

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#532302 12-Oct-2011 12:24

freitasm: I don't use Facebook directly - my updates go from Geekzone to Twitter, from there to Facebook. I would rather not have that button, or be able to customise it.

I like the keyboard. The battery life is terrible. The screen is not bad for an email/Twitter handset though.

I will do a hard reset and see how much memory is available immediately after.

To be fair my SGSII also had bad battery life, it's fine on standby but when it's in use you just watch the battery life drain before your eyes

Still cracks me up that they are promoting the ChaCha as the 'sensation' in their online advertising.

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#532328 12-Oct-2011 13:19

Bugger that. I will just use the alt SIM card on my Windows Phone and be done with it...

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#532333 12-Oct-2011 13:30

Had a review unit of the ChaCha a little while ago and this was one of the biggest annoyances, only used it for a bit over a week and ran into the same problem. I had tried all the methods Android gives to you like the SD and cache clearing stuff but to no avail... One of the biggest limitations of Android that Im aware of tbh

As for the 512MB ROM part, I assume a large chunk of that is reserved for well the ROM and sense and drivers and such, leaving the remaining 150MB or so for apps.

Also battery life isnt too bad? I found it better than my HTC Trophy

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#532533 12-Oct-2011 21:18

Funny this was just posted, (not by me thought it might help)

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=97&topicid=91400

Does require root etc

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#579866 10-Feb-2012 17:06

I have to test an Android app, so I fished the HTC Chacha for this... It just notified me there's an update to Android 2.3.1 available now.

Installing this now. I somehow still don't think it will fix the low memory problem anyway.

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#579869 10-Feb-2012 17:13

freitasm: I have to test an Android app, so I fished the HTC Chacha for this... It just notified me there's an update to Android 2.3.1 available now.

Installing this now. I somehow still don't think it will fix the low memory problem anyway.

I had mine in September and it had 2.3.3... typo?

Only thing that'll fix that is moving applications to the SD card or deleting them. IIRC there was no integrated move apps to the SD card feature

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#579881 10-Feb-2012 17:37

Perhaps mine is two updates behind? Will check it...

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#579882 10-Feb-2012 17:40

Actually, after install it says 2.3.5...

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