How to clean up memory on your Android phone

Yesterday my Android phone started complaining about low memory. A quick check gave me Navigon of course as a main consumer of space. 26mb and it refuses to shift to the SD card. It wasn't the top scorer though, that was contacts storage.

Some further investigation gave me http://android.appstorm.net/how-to/clear-space-without-rooting/ with some good step by step information on how to handle that.

While creating a backup of my gmail contacts I noticed that there were 2100 of them. Now I don't even know 210 people let alone 2100. So I dug into gmail and it seems it's added everyone I ever mailed to my contacts.

Anyway, using the instructions above I managed to shrink my contacts storage to 424 kb.

How to save battery life on an HTC Desire

Early this year I bought an HTC Desire to replace the horrible Nokia 5800 I had. Nifty little phone, I like it a lot but it eats trough a battery charge in a day or so. I finally got to grips with that. Here's my tips

• Disable dynamic wallpaper
• Disable any radios you do not use (bluetooth and wifi especially)
• Disable Wifi positioning (settings- location- use wireless networks)
• Set phone to GSM only if you don't need data (settings-wireless & networks -Mobile Networks -Network mode)

Now I get three days out of a single charge instead of just one day.