Comments on: Maximum Of 31 Applications In BlackBerry OS?

By: JerryD

JerryD — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:52:59 +0000

This must be very OS specific.

I have an 8800 (originally from Cingular) running 4.2.1.79 and have 73 icons displayed on my home screen and 89 in total. I obviously have well over 31 applications installed!

Well, aside from MAJOR hangs (15-30 seconds or more of the Hourglass – all my fault I know!), I haven’t seen any problem!

I got the device at the Cingular Launch event in February of ’07. I’ve seen other 8800′s running the same OS, but they are able to create folders on the Home Screen, and I am not.

By: RedNightHawk

RedNightHawk — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:12:27 +0000

I’d previously heard of a limit of sorts – only being able to have 512 COD files on the device. With the OS having a certain number of COD files, and then some apps adding more than one (some themes have multiple ones and then one app I tried used small COD files to organize databases it used and wound up with 10 or so COD files), you could theorectically run out that way.

I’ve had over 100 Java apps loaded at one time, but how could that be possible with 31 being the limit? Well, as Jon pointed out not all apps need to initialize at start up. Things like brickbreaker and others that don’t ask for a restart after installation likely don’t need to be initialized and shouldn’t count to the 31 limit. Others, like pocket day, or applications that mesh in with the OS would have to be initialized and would count to the 31 limit.

Having said that, I’d be surprised if your device didn’t suffer major lag time well before you reached that limit of 31. That’s a lot of programs to have running at one time, even if they’re only running partial threads and not the whole program.

By: Sems

Sems — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:53:51 +0000

Ronen,

Bold has double the memory, but most of it used by the OS, available space is nowhere near double

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:18:16 +0000

“Only 31 applications can initialize at start up”

Not all applications need to initialize at start up.

By: mo

mo — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:07:31 +0000

lol…ron ‘i kid’.

By: jscottbarnes

jscottbarnes — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:05:59 +0000

Lol – human p.a.

By: Ronen Halevy

Ronen Halevy — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:05:25 +0000

I doubt I will ever need that many but its just weird that there even is a limit…

By: mo

mo — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:00:22 +0000

31 apps…if u need 31 then get a laptop or umpc, when i get the bold i’m gonna put it in a glass case n just admire it.

ps: if anybody is gonna need 31 apps i suggest u get a human personal assistant.