Increase available memory on the pearl

**Spamdumpster** · #61 05-16-2007 -

djpapesh - Unless your carrier is the carrier that released the OS that you downloaded and installed, you have to delete a file called vendor.xml. Search for it in program files/common files/research in motion -- it's in one of the subfolders, but I forget which one. The file restricts the ability to load OS's released by other carriers; deleting the file removes the restriction. If you need more info, try searching for vendor.xml and you'll find lots of threads that discuss it. Most agree that it's perfectly safe to delete the file and install an OS released by another carrier (as long as it's GSM to GSM, or CDMA to CDMA).

djpapesh · #62 05-16-2007 -

nope, didnt know i had to, so i should delete that file as well the same way i deleted the other ones, then run the apploader and it shoudl take it from there, thank you very much for the help

djpapesh · #63 05-16-2007 -

ok, yes i found it, and i am on tmobile and downloaded from cingular, i found the vendor file and deleted it and all i have to do is plug in the phone and run the app loader and it should do the trick? thanks a million

laz · #64 05-16-2007 -

yo thx alot for this I can't wait to do it, great breakdown sounds like a snap to perform. mods you should make this a sticky hehe

laz · #65 05-16-2007 -

hey do you know what initials are for Spanish cuz I need to keep that one as well. I'm thinking sp maybe????

adelina · #66 05-16-2007 -

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Originally Posted by laz

hey do you know what initials are for Spanish cuz I need to keep that one as well. I'm thinking sp maybe????

Or ES

djpapesh · #67 05-16-2007 -

ok, i got the new OS in and everything is working great right now, i went from having about 29mb to 46, huge difference and makes me happy, anyways, after deleting all the preloaded pics and tones, the fles still show up but everything says 0kb, not too big of a deal but was wondering if there was a way to get rid of that, thanks!!!

laz · #68 05-16-2007 -

well here i go wish me luck hehe

laz · #69 05-16-2007 -

ok nm a battery pull and it seems to be ok whew!!! lol hey can someone tell me how to check for free memory in mb? cuz i dont know what 22222222222bytes means lol

**reddog187** · #70 05-16-2007 -

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Originally Posted by laz

ok nm a battery pull and it seems to be ok whew!!! lol hey can someone tell me how to check for free memory in mb? cuz i dont know what 22222222222bytes means lol

just read the first two numbers and that's your mb

wbackous · #71 05-16-2007 -

If you're really curious, you can put your memory available in bytes into Google. For example: my Pearl has 41762320 bytes free at the moment. If I Google for "41762320 bytes in megabytes" it tells me that I've got 39.827652 megabytes free. 1 megabyte = 1024 kilobytes = 1048576 bytes.

More info than you ever wanted to know, I'm sure.

laz · #72 05-17-2007 -

sweet thx guyz, I got 12mb free lol badass. Hey after doing this a few themes show image not available error ya know and I can't select it, any idea what i deleted that would cause this?

trickgasm · #73 05-20-2007 -

sorry guys I'm a newb but I have deleted the sample video and now I still have the file name blackberry.avi with 0.00k

how do I get rid of this?

wassona · #74 05-22-2007 -

Teehehe...

Sure glad that I made a backup file of my blackberry.alx. When the phone rebooted it was crazy looking with uncaught exceptions. REINSTALL!!!

**reddog187** · #75 05-22-2007 -

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Originally Posted by trickgasm

sorry guys I'm a newb but I have deleted the sample video and now I still have the file name blackberry.avi with 0.00k

how do I get rid of this?

The file is actually gone, you just can't get rid of that part. The same thing will happen if you remove the sample pics and ringtones.