Re: [Bitpim-devel] fyi... wrote 3.5mb .mp3 ringtone to vx4500

[greg c. <gre...@ya...>]

would it help development in any way to know how much
memory the vx4500 has... if it would I will risk
having to trade my phone in... if not then I wont.

thanks
greg


--- Roger Binns <ro...@ro...> wrote:
> > I hope this information is usefull.
> 
> Not really :-)
> 
> > dont know what
> > effect it will have on the phones operating system
> if
> > I exceed memory using bitpim. 
> 
> I tried it on my phone once.  In the protocol the
> first 
> packet says how big the file is going to be, so the
> phone
> does know in advance if it is going to be too big. 
> Except
> they don't anything about it.
> 
> You can quite happily start writing a too large file
> until
> the file system fills up, at which point the phone
> crashes
> and goes into offline mode.  You can reboot it and
> then
> delete the file.
> 
> If the phone goes into an infinite reboot cycle
> (rare, but
> can happen with the older models) take it back to
> Verizon
> and they will replace it.
> 
> This stuff is even discussed in the Brew developer
> forums.
> There is no way programmatically to find out the
> amount
> of free memory, or to be defensive about its use. 
> The
> only known technique to find out how much is free is
> to
> fill it up.
> 
> Roger
> 
> 
>
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