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Originally Posted by geekwad
I am running on the latest Sprint ROM 3.35. The 64Mb of inadequate RAM is the main problem with the Mogul. It is an inferior product and there is not a ROM upgrade in June or any other month that is going to increase the RAM!! It is like trying to run Windows XP with 128Mb of RAM or a 56K dial-up modem instead of DSL to cruise the Internet. It just won't work.
HTC failed to do their home work or it would have a minimum of 128Mb of RAM. With the chip technology today, it could have been done. HTC obviously only field tested the Mogul as a phone and not a Pocket PC running applications that need RAM. Furthermore, HTC failed to build in a memory manager that would reclaim no longer used RAM. Instead HTC allows it to just leak away, requiring constant soft resets. If I sound angry, I am tired of messing with this piece of junk. For those of you out there that think the Mogul is the best thing since sliced bread, then make me a handsome offer to purchase my Mogul and we will both be happy. The Mogul is very attractive with GPS and other nice features, such as slick graphics capability, but it just does not and will not ever have enough horsepower to run without constant human intervention (soft resets). It is time to bite the bullet and find something else in the future that works !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Well, I'm running 3.35 stock on my phone ATM with none of the issues you have. 64MB of ram sucks, but you have to remember WM6 was an afterthought for this phone, it was originally designed for WM5.
The memory management is done by Windows Mobile itself. Memory doesn't just 'leak away' after applications exit, it is reclaimed by the OS. The reason you don't have much room free is because it is being used for caching to speed up the device. Room is made by dropping cache as it is needed, but empty ram is wasted ram. (This response applies to those complaining about Vista's "high memory usage" as well).
My phone has been about 2 weeks without a soft reset, with no major issues. Also, why do you need email checks more often than 5 minutes?