Using A Slow Blackberry Storm – Resetting BlackBerry Storm Solves the Problem of Speed
ShareI have been using my Blackberry Storm for most of my personal work now a days. Although it has significantly reduced my dependence on my laptop for accessing all my emails & posting on my websites, every now & then the performance of Blackberry Storm drops drastically.
The upgrade helped improve speed of the Blackberry Storm, but it has not been consistent. Lately, even after the upgrade, the Blackberry Storm seems to be running very slow again.
Last week, the performance had been dreadful. I know the mobile Yahoo! Messenger takes up a lot of memory on Blackberry Storm. So I had to switch off YIM. Microsoft Messenger has also started to give a connection error every time I try to either add a contact or delete one. So I logged off all the mobile messenger clients on my Blackberry Storm hoping that it will free up the memory.
But it did not. Finally, I had to reset the Blackberry Storm every other day. I take the battery out for about 15 – 20 seconds & then connect the battery back. This frees up all the memory & the performance gets lightening fast. But this is obviously no way to solve the memory leak!
It would be impossible to run the Blackberry Storm in a productive way if I have to switch off all my instant messengers or keep resetting the Blackberry Storm once everyday. Their help desk had no clue on this problem. Maybe because no one reported the issue.
I did find out, by trial & error, that the radio connection is taking up an awful lot of memory as well as battery. It could be, and its just a guess, that the memory leak occurs with every radio connection. Since the Blackberry Storm does not have WiFi, it connects to the internet by setting up a radio connection.
Anytime you want to connect to the internet to browse a website, or check emails, the Blackberry Storm makes a radio connection with the internet & that allows you to surf the net & view your emails. Each such connection could be leading to using up a lot of system memory & battery.
Once the free memory space goes down, the Blackberry Storm’s performance deteriorates. And over time, that is if you have kept your Blackberry Storm running for over 48 hours or so, the entire memory is used up & you can no longer actively use your device.
The only way I could come out of such a siatuation is to plug the battery out for 15 – 20 seconds & reset the device. I have reported this problem in the hopes that RIM will be able to fix the Blackberry Storm’s memory leak issue & give us a patch to get over it!
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Hi,
You more or less describe the type of problem I am having with my Storm too. I wish there was something that can be done. I didn’t contact support since I have one of those use-at-your-own-risk firmware update (4.7.90).
Please let us know if you get anywhere with that. The iPhone blows the Storm away right now in terms of responsiveness and it will continue to do so as long as the storm is so unstable.
For now the Storm cannot fulfill its original purpose which is to make me less dependent on my laptop.
My storm is also running slow, about the last week or so.
I still have the original os.75
Same thing. 4.7.75 update and it continues to start running slow and even freezes up. Portrait to Landscape starts lagging too. Where did you find .90? Did it help?
My Storm is a POS. I figured they would have released an ‘official’ update by now but now I realize that it’s the hardware, specifically the processor. It just can’t handle the basic applications on the phone no matter how optimized the OS is. I’m going to just bite the bullet and go back to ATT/Bold. I feel like a fool returning the Bold for this piece of junk. This phone is going to kill the Blackberry brand.
i put up 4.7.109 and it works sweet for now. well, had it up for an hour now. hope it stays that way.
no problem installing it and restoring all data. great!
If you do not get a satisfactory solution from RIMM and/or VW, just return it. It is afterall a product and these are hard times. Companies must be taught that customers come first and especially in these hard times, loyal customers are hard to come by.
Good luck.
I Have The Same Problem…Gosh Its Anoying
Use the QuickPull App. free in the app world. It simulates a Battery pull and can be scheduled to run automatically when you sleep. Solves the problem fast and makes the storm run much faster.