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Well when you watch streamed video it downloads data

And if you watch hours of good quality video, like I-player shows , I'm guessing that must be bloody big chunks of data!?

Have a look for your contract with your provider or call them and ask. We've got a basic contract and don't ever have to pay extra or have reduced time/quality

I have an (Android) HTC Wildfire phone.

It keeps telling me I'm out of memory. Sometimes I can't even access the 6 photos I have stored on there.

I have very few apps and have uninstalled the unused gubbins. The apps which use/store a lot of data are FB and Hotmail, but these are needed. I've moved as much as possible to the SD card.

Any ideas how I can solve this?

Quote: TopBanana @ February 3 2012, 2:33 PM GMT

I have an (Android) HTC Wildfire phone.

It keeps telling me I'm out of memory. Sometimes I can't even access the 6 photos I have stored on there.

I have very few apps and have uninstalled the unused gubbins. The apps which use/store a lot of data are FB and Hotmail, but these are needed. I've moved as much as possible to the SD card.

Any ideas how I can solve this?

Maybe try delteing text messages you don't need? Not sure that would make a big difference though.

Also can you clear data from the Hotmail and Facebook apps? Kind of the same as clearing your internet history?

I thought if I deleted the data from the FB app it somehow restricts the usefulness of it?

Not sure sorry. I don't use a Fb app. When some of my apps, such as BBC News runs slow, clearing it helps.

Just Google the name of your phone and the error message that is displayed. I'm sure you'll find dozens of people who have solved the problem.

Buy external memory card/stick?

Thanks guys - good tips :)

Don't clear Data. Clear cache. I noticed that Market Place builds up cache in the MBs sometimes.

Ooooh, how do you do that, Lee?

EDIT: Done it.

Hasn't worked :(

TB just seen an Android tablet for £99,that's cheap only 7in.

Oooh, thanks dellas.

*Goes to Play.com*

Following my recent problems with my PC, which I cured simply with a registry cleaner, my AVG antivirus stopped working, so I downloaded Avast instead. Running it, I found 130 infections of a trojan! Is AVG so useless that it missed them? Most of them wouldn't fit in the virus chest, also I couldn't delete them for some reason, and my Spybot couldn't help, so I downloaded Emsisoft to give it a go. God knows why, but suddenly I was able to delete everything in the chest, dunno if it had anything to do with the Ensisoft; but the Emsisoft found a completely different trojan which the Avast had missed. Where will it end? Will I find new malware with every security product I install? It strikes me that you can't know what hasn't been found, so now I'm wondering what else might be lurking in the computer.

Is my standard Vista firewall good enough for the job?
Which security products are proven to be good?
Do I need to disable system restore to clean out malware hiding in system restore points?

My God, Noggot. Throw your pc in the bin. Have you tried Linux? Seeing as you are willing to tinker about a bit, you should have no real issue learning how to use it. It's not code input anymore. Most of them are as sophisticated as Windows in regards to their interface.

You can download a 'live cd' to try out any favour of Linux. You can run them from either a CD or USB stick and if you like what you see you can install permanently.

Google "UnetBootin" and have a look. It's a program that makes it easier to sample these Linux OS.

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