Captain Cavalier;850983 wrote:Recently I was told by a sales rep that if I used all the internal memory of a cell phone on texts and/or photos that it would PERMANENTLY shut down the phone and would not be able to be fixed...in a sense, killing it.

Anyone else hear of this or is this some scheme to get you to buy memory cards or a more expensive phone?

raiderbuck;851114 wrote:That rep is smoking crack. Would using all the memory on your computer "kill" your computer?

karen lotz;851163 wrote:Yes?

Curly J;851182 wrote:No?

gport_tennis;851108 wrote:I am a sales rep for verizon wireless. having too many text messages or photos on a phone can slow it down it won't cause a phone to turn off and not be turned back on

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karen lotz;851163 wrote:Yes?

Curly J;851182 wrote:No?

FatHobbit;851196 wrote:Maybe?

karen lotz;851207 wrote:Yeah that first rep was just trying to get you to buy a new phone or something. Shady.

Curly J;851301 wrote:Was his name Sherm ???

sherm03;851305 wrote:You'll never be able to successfully use up all the internal memory on your phone because, as others have said, you will get a "low memory" message before it gets to that point. That first rep was just trying to sell a memory card.

Captain Cavalier;852032 wrote:What if the "Low memory" warning is ignored...teenagers? I would think that the phone would just not accept anymore texts or photos...not PERMANENTLY shut down.

sherm03;852071 wrote:Most phones now have an automatic "first in, last out" type setting where it will automatically start deleting the oldest messages to conserve memory.

Phones have segmented memory. There is memory set aside and fragmented out for the running of the phone. Essentially, the rest of it is just a large memory card. So even if that memory is used up, it will not tap into the fragmented memory set aside for the operation of the phone. So you can never successfully use up all the internal memory on your phone.

sherm03;852071 wrote:Most phones now have an automatic "first in, last out" type setting where it will automatically start deleting the oldest messages to conserve memory.

Phones have segmented memory. There is memory set aside and fragmented out for the running of the phone. Essentially, the rest of it is just a large memory card. So even if that memory is used up, it will not tap into the fragmented memory set aside for the operation of the phone. So you can never successfully use up all the internal memory on your phone.

tk421;853253 wrote:Even if you used up 100% of your hard drive, you still have the OS and programs installed. They will still run, it's not going to magically shut down your computer, you just won't be able to use any more memory.

dlazz;853292 wrote:Phones...I'm not sure. Computers can indeed "stop working" if they are completely full...but the process is fixable.

I would imagine phones would also stop working if they are full, but the process is likely to be fixable.

I know for a fact on Android phones, if the phone was "filled", you could boot into recovery mode and just wipe the damn thing. You'd lose everything on the phone, but it'd still boot.




It may not boot. The computer will chew up some space while it is booting, writing event logs and paging virtual memory. If a vital system service requires a little bit of space to be paged to virtual memory on the computer and the HDD is full, it will likely fail to start.

thavoice;855046 wrote:Let me guess.....was he trying to sell you a memory card or a phone with more internal memory?

Captain Cavalier;855097 wrote:Yep.

That's why I started to get suspicious.
Never heard of it and google posted not one result for it.

I'll be stayin' clear of that store.

wes_mantooth;855109 wrote:If you do buy memory....never buy it or any accessory from verizon.....overpriced