New mobile time - but which network?

[Littlepeahead]

Erm, erm, it seems to be working OK. Apps update automatically when I turn on wifi at home and sometimes it says canot update as insufficient memory. That's the apps that can't be moved to the SD card though.

I'm just trying to get the phone to connect to Kies so I can put an album on there and that won't work at all.

[PyroUK]

That should just be actual physical memory then but if I recall you said you had a fair few gig left on the phone.

Try plugging it in to the pc to update the apps, it should solve the issue of memory. I say should.

Also adding the music should work via pc.

[NTECUK]

Have you go Kess on your Mac?
if so plug it in and see what it reports

[Littlepeahead]

Don't have a Mac, have it on my PC but it doesn't seem to want to work and I've reinstalled Kies and still no joy.

I may go and put a record on and send some faxes!

[NTECUK]

Go in to the phones storage.
Have a look what system storage you have,I think S2 only has 2GB
and if its had one android update then trying to get another one on there an't gona fitAlso
if you have allot of mutimeda texts they eat up storage
and clear cache on your apps regular helps ease space

[ethariel]

Before doing anything too drrastic, just charge it up and sit with it on at work, then around 1400 hours, just go into the settings and select battery, from there it will tell you what's been chewing away at your power levels.

From what you said at the start of the thread though it sounds like Orange may have lost a tower near you and as the signal is a lot lower the phone is constantly searching for a signal and probably swapping back and forth accress 2G/3G which will indeed kill your battery fairly fast.

If you call Orange and whinge at them they may just send you a 'booster' that (if your IT are really nice) you can just plug into the network to get internet access and it will route your calls via that (and hopefully reduce the battery drain).

As for the 'Not Enough Memory' yep thats an S2 issue allright, it only has 1 Gb of RAM and all the basic carp that comes preinstalled from a carrier plus android it's self tends to take a good 60% chunk of that straight off. Apps are oftenwritten quite poorly these days as most phones have 2Gb plus of ram now so struggle to work on the limited (relativley speaking) resources of an 'older' generation phone.

[Littlepeahead]

Colin I think you may be right on both counts as having poor signal is making the phone work harder to find a signal.

Orange can offer no explanation. I think the phone just running itself is eating up the RAM.

Samsung Galaxy S3 has removable battery.
so u can replace it when it bricks or remove it when phone goes crazee.
that is a deal sealer in my view.