[lloydsfm]

Hello, I am a new Blackberry user. Could someone please explain to me the difference between each of the memories on BB Bold: Application Memory (reads about 5MB free), Device Memory (reads about 858MB free), and Media Card (reads about 7.5GB free). I was running an application the other day and my BB complained it ran out of memory. Which memory and how do I fix this?

Thanks.

[Ivc]

I think that this description is more or less accurate:

Application memory = RAM

Device memory = the on-board storage for files and data, total of 1GB.

Media Card = the 8GB microSD card you must have put in the side slot.

Your application memory is running quite low, probably as a result of memory leak (see numerous other threads on here about that). My Bold's application memory usually runs in the high 20's or low 30's. Do a battery pull re-set every now and then, and the problem you've described shouldn't happen.

[lloydsfm]

Thanks.

If Application Memory is similar to RAM on my computer, are the actual applications I have downloaded and installed stored on the device memory and then when these applications are running, they are using the "Application Memory"? My concern is with such low application memory compared to my device memory, I am limited on how many applications I can install.

[TheBigNewt]

I think you're right in your assumptions. With other BBs it was "memory free". If you ran low then incoming messages wouldn't be stored and never came. But now you have different places for stuff (device memory and app memory). You need more app memory. Sounds like you store apps themselves in device memory, which is a lot.