Re: can no longer use Widsets since June update

render  2008/07/01 06:27 UTC

momcat1 wrote: Isn't there something that can be done with the code, to make Widsets work properly on an SD card? Additionally, even though it does run when installed on phone memory, any other activity on the phone forces Widsets to close immediately.

Working slower from SD is a feature of older S60 phones (with 2.x and 3.1 Series60 software). It got a lot better in 3.2, that is used in newest phones. N78 and so on.

Phone closing WidSets has to do with the actual memory usage (ram). Symbian platform shuts down programs that are on background if foreground program needs more memory than is available.

How many widgets you have on your dashboard? You can also monitor the memory usage by turning Diagnostic mode on in WidSets settings and then selecting "Show memory" from Diagnostic menu.

I have E90 and it has a lot of ram. I can ran 2 different versions of WidSets, browser, music player and Putty at the same time. There are 34 widgets on my dashboard and "Show memory" tells that it's using 3.5Mb of Java heap, of course the actual memory footprint is higher as the Java virtual machine itself uses some megs of memory.