Updating firmware on Nokia smartphones, or thanks for the memory
For the last couple of months, my Nokia 6630 mobile phone has been greeting me with the following message whenever I switch it on: "Memory low delete some data".
We're talking about internal phone memory here, not the memory card - a quick check revealed that I was left with only a few hundred kilobytes of free memory from the 10 MB I should have had available. This is strange, since I never install software on the phone itself if I can avoid it (although a couple of times I wasn’t given any choice). I can only conclude that something on my phone was leaking memory pretty seriously. But what? And what could I do about it?
Fortunately, help was at hand, in the shape of the Nokia Phone Software Update tool that I downloaded from the Nokia UK website. This tool updates the firmware on your phone, which is always a good idea, and what I was particularly interested in is the fact that it also reinstalls everything, wiping your phone clean in the process.
Five minutes later, and my phone was back to normal! Now I just have to reinstall a few apps...
[ UPDATE: I had to reinstall PC Suite as well, as my fresh new phone didn't seem to fancy syncing with my PC at first. ]