Mobile Phone Defrag

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Jahee

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All the new phones with the Symbian and Windows etc platforms are great, until they start to get clogged up and a bit sluggish with all the installs etc you've put on.

The thought crossed my mind to see if i can defrag it, but since the phone doesnt get identified as a seperate drive theres no option to do so, so i was wondering, may be a stupid question, but, are there any programs out there that do this?
 
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pulse8

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The phone doesn't work on a hard drive so even if you could defrag the phone it probably wouldn't make much of a difference.
 
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OpenThirdEye

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Some of the 3rd party apps for the Windows devices attempt to free up some of the RAM from time to time. I dunno how well it really works, though. My Q still runs like ass.
 
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Raduque

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Phones use flash ram. You can't defrag a flash drive, even if it had a drive letter.

Also, if your phone is running slowly, powercycle it more.
 
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Cal166

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Originally posted by: OpenThirdEye
Some of the 3rd party apps for the Windows devices attempt to free up some of the RAM from time to time. I dunno how well it really works, though. My Q still runs like ass.
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Verizon GUI blows. Probably designed by the people they have on the commercial.
 
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LegendKiller

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Originally posted by: MisterJackson
Originally posted by: LegendKiller
This thread is funny. Technology nub FTL.
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ironic to say the least.
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Nub, noob, newb, all the same. Any person who knows tech well will know that HDD's have to depend on a racetrack pattern and a seek head that depends on rotational speed to access random bits. Since this pattern, and the non-linear nature of fragmented bits, requires the head to read non-sequential bits and seek the information, often waiting for a single bit of non-optimized information until the rotation comes back around.

Since ram can random read, since it doesn't have to depend on rotational and head seek times, it is not prone to being fragmented.

 
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Jahee

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Originally posted by: LegendKiller

Nub, noob, newb, all the same. Any person who knows tech well will know that HDD's have to depend on a racetrack pattern and a seek head that depends on rotational speed to access random bits. Since this pattern, and the non-linear nature of fragmented bits, requires the head to read non-sequential bits and seek the information, often waiting for a single bit of non-optimized information until the rotation comes back around.

Since ram can random read, since it doesn't have to depend on rotational and head seek times, it is not prone to being fragmented.
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Well i'm not any person who knows tech!

And to Radique, whats a powercycle?

Edit: Also, if its not fragmented data that increases the seek times, what is it?
 
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trmiv

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Originally posted by: Jahee
Originally posted by: LegendKiller

Nub, noob, newb, all the same. Any person who knows tech well will know that HDD's have to depend on a racetrack pattern and a seek head that depends on rotational speed to access random bits. Since this pattern, and the non-linear nature of fragmented bits, requires the head to read non-sequential bits and seek the information, often waiting for a single bit of non-optimized information until the rotation comes back around.

Since ram can random read, since it doesn't have to depend on rotational and head seek times, it is not prone to being fragmented.
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Well i'm not any person who knows tech!

And to Radique, whats a powercycle?

Edit: Also, if its not fragmented data that increases the seek times, what is it?
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Powercycle is a fancy way of saying turn it off and then back on. Geeks love to use that term.
 
TallBill

TallBill

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Originally posted by: LegendKiller

Nub, noob, newb, all the same. Any person who knows tech well will know that HDD's have to depend on a racetrack pattern and a seek head that depends on rotational speed to access random bits. Since this pattern, and the non-linear nature of fragmented bits, requires the head to read non-sequential bits and seek the information, often waiting for a single bit of non-optimized information until the rotation comes back around.

Since ram can random read, since it doesn't have to depend on rotational and head seek times, it is not prone to being fragmented.
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Minus all the jargon I knew that you cant defrag a flash based phone.
 
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LegendKiller

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Originally posted by: TallBill
Originally posted by: LegendKiller

Nub, noob, newb, all the same. Any person who knows tech well will know that HDD's have to depend on a racetrack pattern and a seek head that depends on rotational speed to access random bits. Since this pattern, and the non-linear nature of fragmented bits, requires the head to read non-sequential bits and seek the information, often waiting for a single bit of non-optimized information until the rotation comes back around.

Since ram can random read, since it doesn't have to depend on rotational and head seek times, it is not prone to being fragmented.
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Minus all the jargon I knew that you cant defrag a flash based phone.
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lol.

I always explain defrag like this.

Imagine you are trying to play a record. Instead of putting the record on, setting the needle down, and listening, the music is scattered all over. You have to pick the needle up every 5 seconds and move it, lengthening out the time of the song and making it sound like crap.

It's always a good lay-mans way of describing it.


 
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Jahee

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Originally posted by: TallBill
Originally posted by: LegendKiller

Nub, noob, newb, all the same. Any person who knows tech well will know that HDD's have to depend on a racetrack pattern and a seek head that depends on rotational speed to access random bits. Since this pattern, and the non-linear nature of fragmented bits, requires the head to read non-sequential bits and seek the information, often waiting for a single bit of non-optimized information until the rotation comes back around.

Since ram can random read, since it doesn't have to depend on rotational and head seek times, it is not prone to being fragmented.
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Minus all the jargon I knew that you cant defrag a flash based phone.
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To be honest i didnt even think about whether it was flash based, just assumed it was HDD.
 
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