To keep your Blackberry Pearl running at the peak of its capabilities, youre going to want to make sure youre not wasting valuable memory on stuff you dont need. Youd be surprised at what hogs up the memory. Well look at a few of the main items and how to delete or manage them.

It’s important to know how much memory is available on your Pearl. This can be done quickly by following these steps:

1. Select the little icon that mostly like looks like a wrench. This is the options icon.

2. Scroll to status and click.

3. FILE TOTAL lists the absolute capacity of your phones memory.

4. The portion of that capacity available is listed as FILE FREE.

The bigger the number listed under FILE FREE, the more memory you have available and the faster your phone will run.

The quickest and easiest thing to do is delete as much as you can from your inbox. Email can build up quickly, especially if you’re syncing with several addresses. Think twice before saving messages.

Content Compression

One of the quickest and easiest steps you can take to free up valuable memory on your Blackberry Pearl is to enable Content Compression. I dont know exactly how much room youll gain from this, because Ive always used it on my Pearl. If youre isnt already enabled, heres how you do it:

1. Open up the screen with all of the icons. You can usually get her by hitting the “Blackberry button” just to the left of the pearl.

2. Find the wrench icon and click on it.

3. Use the pearl to move down to “SECURITY OPTIONS” and press the pearl button.

4. Move down to GENERAL SETTINGS and click.

5. Scroll to and click on CONTENT COMPRESSION.

6. Make sure ENABLED is selected. If not, do so now.

7. Press the Blackberry Button (7 dots left of the pearl).

8. Scroll down and select Save.

Thats it. Youve just enabled Content Compression. This will reduce the amount of memory used for all content, including picures, videos, music, calendar information and messages.

Delete Applications You Dont Use

You should take some time to go through all of the applications installed on your Blackberry Pearl and delete any you know you don’t need. I never play Brick Breaker, so I deleted it. There are a few programs you don’t really need that you could probably delete.

1. Open up the main screen with all of your icons.

2. Scroll to and click on options (looks like a wrench).

3. Scroll to and click on Advanced Options.

4. Click APPLICATIONS and wait for the list to build.

5. Highlight any applications you don’t use and want to delete.

6. Click on the little button just to the left of the pearl. It should have 7 little dots on it.

7. Select DELETE and press the pearl.

8. That’s it. Now select any other programs you want to delete.

Note: Some applications will require you to restart your Blackberry Pearl before theyre completely removed.

There are a number of other tricks you can use to free up memory on your Pearl. Try the above steps and see if you still need more room. You should see a big increase in the performance of your Blackberry Pearl.