Repeated Problem with vx8000
hi, my friend has the lg vx8000 and recently its quit letting her download ringtones. she had about 20 and the memory said that it was full yet 3% was used. she deleted over 5 songs and alot of pictures and it still said full. so she took it too the store and they replaced it since i was under the 1 year warranty. low and behold, the 2nd time the phone only let her download about 14 songs, even after she deleted the preset ringtones and had no pictures. she took it back and they did a "firmware" repair and gave it back to her "fixed". not even out of the parking lot and nothing on the phone is different, still error messages but this time 7% is full. she takes it back and gets another one and we fear that shes going to have the same p...
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Thompj4 said:...
hi, my friend has the lg vx8000 and recently its quit letting her download ringtones. she had about 20 and the memory said that it was full yet 3% was used. she deleted over 5 songs and alot of pictures and it still said full. so she took it too the store and they replaced it since i was under the 1 year warranty. low and behold, the 2nd time the phone only let her download about 14 songs, even after she deleted the preset ringtones and had no pictures. she took it back and they did a "firmware" repair and gave it back to her "fixed". not even out of the parking lot and nothing on the phone is different, still error messages but this time 7% is full. she takes it back and gets another one and we fear
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This is clearly buggy firmware or a bad batch of phones from LG.
According to searches, the issue is with reporting free memory in the phone.
Newer firmware actually allocates more memory from the phone to "itself" for its own needs.
So firmware upgrades (increasing version numbers) will only downsize the amount of available FLASH.
Memory on the vx8000 is a single common block, 32MB for everything.
(Internal Stuff) + (User Data) + (Cache).
My assumption is newever version of the firmware, caches (or caches more aggressively) more into the 32MB on-board flash.
Maybee LG will ID the bug, or roll-back on the cacheing.
See if this starts occuruing after issuing OTSP or "Browsing".
Another thing to consider is fragme...
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According to searches, the issue is with reporting free memory in the phone.
Newer firmware actually allocates more memory from the phone to "itself" for its own needs.
So firmware upgrades (increasing version numbers) will only downsize the amount of available FLASH.
Memory on the vx8000 is a single common block, 32MB for everything.
(Internal Stuff) + (User Data) + (Cache).
My assumption is newever version of the firmware, caches (or caches more aggressively) more into the 32MB on-board flash.
Maybee LG will ID the bug, or roll-back on the cacheing.
See if this starts occuruing after issuing OTSP or "Browsing".
Another thing to consider is fragme...
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All of them will do that, the phone seems to have a size limit in that folder. She can delete some of the current ringers that came on the phone to make space. I am assuming she is not using get it now to download these? I think some of the memory on that phone was dedicated to the music player on the front that never made it.
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