I have a Nokia 3230. Ok, not that hip, I guess now it's considered as old. I had a problem with it, it kept saying
"Not enough memory. Messages received cannot be saved", or something like that, I forgot to print screen. It happens when I send or received text messages (nerds like me got texts also ok!), and an annoying small envelope icon kept blinking on the far corner of the screen driving me mad.
Well, I tought maybe I got too many messages in my inbox. That is absolutely true on the first time I got the error, I got like 2548 messages (okay, exagerated, several hundreds only). So I delete them all (stashed it somewhere in my PC actually, don't play-play, I got you recorded). Then recently, I got the darn error again. This time, there's only like 50 messages. I deleted them again. But the error kept coming after tens of messages or so.
Obviously something fishy is going on. I used
FExplorer to browse the content of my phone flash memory, looking for suspicious files. BTW, FExplorer is a file explorer for Symbian OS, something like Windows Explorer for Windows OS. This is one piece of an awesome (and free!) software, don't leave home without it... Eventually, I came across this
"C:\system\Apps\VisualRadio\VisualRadio.ini" file which is 1.8MB in size. That's obscenely big according to mobile phone standard!
Not sure why in the heck that this file is so big. I downloaded it to my PC and opened it with an editor. It's a binary file, full of gibberish garbage. It's a setting file for the Visual Radio application (I guessed). I got like 15 station presets in there, doesn't make sense that it could grow to that insane proportion. So, living life as dangerously and over the edge as usual, I decided to delete it. Ok, I copied the file over to another place first (dangerous, not stupid), and backup my station presets (by backup I meant copy it over to a piece of paper). And here goes nothing, press the "C" button, "Delete VisualRadio.ini?", yep, finish 'em off. All done, I freed almost half of the phone memory.
The weird thing is, when I opened the Visual Radio, just to make sure it's working, I see that I still have all my presets. The VisualRadio.ini was re-created again, now only about 7KB in size. Nothing seems wrong. I guess maybe we gonna find out sooner or later. Hope my handphone doesn't get blowned up or anything.