[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] danielvelez:
Seems like memory issues?

Hello there.

First, I´m really happy with your work.

What I´m running Now on my G4 Cid Locked wizard:

ROM 6.0.0.0 WWE

RADIO 02.69.11

ExtROM: Empty

Actually I don´t have the manufacturer original rom and I´m wondering how can I get it out of an untouched Wizard Phone, but that´s another history that i will be posting on the SoftSPL thread...

I first flashed the Wizard Love rom and after a hard reset, I flashed yours.

As there was a lot of free program memory, i decided to give it a go on with the wizard service tool in order to get a little more performance with a bigger pagepool... I made it 12 mb and it seem to work just fine... Nevertheless, I started running out of memory with a few programs running on the background, so I went again to the default 6mb...

Meanwhile I also took a peak into the Extended Rom and found many cabs from the wizard love installation, so I decided to Format the rom using Wizard Service Tool. Now the extended room is just empty.

I´m also using Pbar (a small task manager application that you should put in your next compilation instead of alt-tab... attaching the zip...) and got the free program memory displaying right under the clock.

Now when I start the wizard from a soft reset, I get a nice 27.82 mb of program memory to spare

Here comes the memory issue:

I start Windows Media Player, and try to play small mp3 96kb song...

the memory starts to drop until finally the song ends and the windows media player jumps to another song... then the memory goes up again to 26.5, and as it starts to play, the memory starts to drop to...

I´m not sure if this has anything to do with the advanced setting (advanced configuration tool from Schap´s) under the performance tab that I haven´t move at all, or if it has anything to do with messing up and down with the pagepool, or even formatting the extrom that was not being use at all.

Anyway I did not get the chance of testing the Windows Media Player before messing around so I´m not sure if I can do something to fix this issue or if I definetly have to re-flash again from scratch...

Is the Wizard Love a good start for this room anyway?

P.D. - Using Audio Manager does not seems to have the same behaviour. only drops down the memory like 5-6 mb that I believe that´s quite high...

Any ideas?

Ok. I had some time off, as my beautiful wife is getting late tonight, so before she arrives I re-started everything once more. Reflashed Wizard Love, then did a hard reset (don´t know if that´s necesary as the Flashing will do that), then installed seamessly the TNT 5.0 Proff with HTC Home, and just after original boot up with automatic configuration I inserted my SD with my music and give it a try on Windows Media Player...

As I did not had no memory software installed, I went for the pre-installed taskmanager while playing some music on windows media player, and found out that Windows Media Player is eating up more than 19 mb of program memory!!!! playing a small 3 mb mp3 song... Miraculously it did not crashed at all, but played without issues, but using every resource...

This must be an issue worth looking into...

I can´t remember (and actually forgot to try) what happened to the program memory under Wizard Love Rom when running Windows Media Player, as since I bougth this phone I haven´t really been more than 2 hours at a time on WM5, and amost all the time I have been messing around with TNT 5.0