Comments on: How To Recover Phone Memory On Your Nokia N97

By: Michael H

Michael H — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:06:18 +0000

Really wish someone could come up with a small app which would script cleaning up these folders and directories on a scheduled basis. Would make life a lot easier.

By: Muyi

Muyi — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:56:14 +0000

Hi, When I tried to redirect ovi to install in the 32gb mem (options/accounts/settings/installation preferences) there is no drop down to select 32gb mem. The only option is phone memory.

Any ideas as I’m down to 7.9mb phone mem at the moment!

By: kubas

kubas — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:38:53 +0000

i dont get it

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By: Ravdula

Ravdula — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:12:01 +0000

I’ve not been able to use Y-browser, but have found that Xplore works well!

http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/discussions/board/message?message.uid=568930

I am still, however, finding it impossible to locate the ‘Cache’ or ‘dmgr’ folders? Can anyone help?
Thanks,

By: alcapone23

alcapone23 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:33:58 +0000

it does work jane michael.
many thnx

By: Jan Michael

Jan Michael — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:20:25 +0000

Open the Ovi Store application settings and make sure it is set to install applications on your E: drive. To do this navigate to Options>Account>Settings>Installation Preferences.

for that step…. i can’t locate the settings for the OVI STORE application…..

that is the settings for the ovi store on the phone right? Thanks!

By: lauren

lauren — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:10:00 +0000

when i clicked the download link for Ybrowser, it said not compatible with my phone….. “huh”?? !!!

I just restored factory settings, and have 22mb free…43mb used by “other”. is annoying me immensely.

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By: Vaibhav Sharma

Vaibhav Sharma — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:33:11 +0000

I’m glad it was useful.

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:06:52 +0000

Brilliant advice, just did everything you said and I know have almost 40mb free on the phone memory.

Thank you very much!

By: tony

tony — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:13:33 +0000

thanks for the tips, much appreciated.

but in all honesty, why didnt nokia give us the phone all sorted out like this before we bought it?

By: jared

jared — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:01:37 +0000

@ juwlz
- if you connect the phone via USB Mass Storage Mode, all apps using the E: drive will exit and some (like messaging) will automatically note that E: is inaccessible and therefore switch to the default drive (C: of course).
- solution: don’t connect via mass storage mode. on a mac, use nokia multimedia transfer to get stuff to/from the phone. on windows? i don’t know, maybe pc suite doesn’t do the job for you? there’s enough storage, get it all on there once, then set the usb mode to automatically use PC Suite mode.

@ noob
- there is a free app called Y-browser that allows you to access the system folders. I used it no more than 10 minutes ago to delete the dmgr folder you asked about. you can get it here:
http://www.drjukka.com/YBrowser.html
- there are, of course, other apps for this too. this one is free and well respected and the only one i’ve tested with.

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By: noob

noob — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:05:26 +0000

hey guys, is there any way to access the c:\system\dmgr to delete some files ?

By: juwlz

juwlz — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:34:03 +0000

There seems to be a firmware bug. I keep changing my messaging settings to use E:, and at some point (haven’t identified how/when yet, but it could be related to changing Profiles), it gets switched back to C: again. So, every so often (every day?) I have to change it again.

Unfortunately, if you use the transfer option to transfer stuff from another phone (an E90 in my case), the transfer seems to stick everything on the C: drive .

Julie

By: Vaibhav Sharma

Vaibhav Sharma — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:34:45 +0000

Jas, contacts only take a few KB’s so don’t worry about them and no you can’t transfer them there, you can only make a backup.

These other files include anything from the cache to the files applications generate. The problem is that a lot of these files are in the ’sys’ directory which is inaccessible.

By: Jas

Jas — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:44:18 +0000

This is a very good piece of info Vaibhav. Thanks for this!!

After changing the storage source for Messages, I checked out the c: drive memory details in file manager:

Memory in Use: 52MB
Free memory: 21MB
SIS application: 8875KB
Other Files: 43MB
Calender, Contacts & Documents amount to very little space

Which are these other files occupying a huge 43MB? Can anything be deleted amongst the “other files” to free up more memory in c: drive?

By: Jas

Jas — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:54:45 +0000

Can I save/transfer contacts to E:drive?

By: Vaibhav Sharma

Vaibhav Sharma — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:34:35 +0000

Dwane, for the inbuilt client yes, but Nokia Messaging installs itself on the phone memory by default.

Ratkat, can’t agree more. People will not be able to understand how did their 32GB get filled so quickly when they didn’t even fill it completely.