I start this experiment to find out what leaks my Blackberry Bold’s memory. Except for the ones mentioned below, I run SocialScope all day long. So, is it the OS itself or one of the apps I run 24/7?
It will take more than one experiment (I need to run this every time I take out one of the apps from the list, and that will take at least 2-3 days every time.

This is purely a fun undertaking, at this time the Blackberry leaks are already legendary. They’ve tried their best at holding them at bay, even made a tool available to developers in order to improve Blackberry applications performances: the developers probably don’t use it or Quality Control is not all that important once you sell the app.

Day 1 :

29.01 MB at start-up. Social Scope closed down, iCallManager Light (call filter), Mobile Data Alerter, Dexrex SMS Back-up. UberTwitter not always online, just when I use it and then shut it down.
12.13: 21.77 MB Some SMS’ sent and a couple of emails. And of course, Doc2Go to help me write this down.
20.00: 17.86 MB No usage whatsoever, except for a few calls.
22.53: 17.38 MB SMS usage.
00.53: 19.10 MB UT on.

Day 2:

10.20: 14.88 MB No usage.
10.40: 17.24 MB UT and PodTrapper used.
19.20: 11.62 MB Yahoo Messenger and PodTrapper.

Day 3:

01.50: 9 MB PodTrapper, some games and UT from time to time.
09.05 – 9 MB – Emails.
22.00 – 2.40 MB – Emails

Day 4 :

09.26 – 3.13 MB – PodTrapper
17.00 – 2.8 MB – Email and UT usage (not on all the time).

Stand-by: 78 hours and I have to reboot because it won’t go to stand-by anymore (I use Auto-Stand-By). I have to say I am impressed with the OS stability. Other than the stand-by issue (I could always lock the keyboard which I never do) the phone doesn’t lag,responds quickly to commands, everything works as it should be, as it runs at boot-time with 29 MB of RAM.
As I write this post, I can’t help but noticing how much the OS was improved; I currently run .304 and I started with .147 when I bought the Bold. Since then, the OS had at least 10 revisions (I upgraded only 3 times) and it shows in stability,smoothness and overall improved performance. I still use Quick Pull Lite daily just to make sure I won’t have a problem, but only because it’s automatic and carries the task before I wake up, so no waiting around for me.
As for the leaking, it lasted more than expected, so for now I am not sure this is the way the OS is behaving. I’ll see in the next week or so.

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