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Old 09-03-2007, 07:51 PM
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Originally Posted by erwos View Post
Let me take a guess at this one.

Most flash filesystems don't do their writes in real-time - they'll buffer them up for some specified period of time, and then do them in one burst. Saves wear-and-tear on the flash memory, since it has a limited (albeit large) number of writes.
Yup...never thought about that, so it does make perfect sense. I guess it's by design, so there's no way around it.

The chances of a txt/email coming in and then having to reset the phone before the commit period is pretty slim I'd say.

I think I've had it happen twice in 2 years.
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