Re:Nokia G22 with eco design and repairability
by reocha on Friday May 05, 2023 @10:28PM
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Memory paging, windows calls it a pagefile and Linux calls it a swap partition/file. Considering phones use nand flash (which has limited numbers of writes) this seems like a good way to kill the nand faster.
Re:Nokia G22 with eco design and repairability
by ragingrobot on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @04:35PM
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Sorry I was away for a few days.
I wasn't speaking of a pagefile (I know what that is). WinPPC had a setting where you could sacrifice adjust how the onboard RAM was used, as both storage and program memory were RAM in these devices. One could adjust how much to use for each. It was limited in how much, but it was possible.
This is the only source I could find, as these devices are so old, info is hard to find. This refers to CE, but includes the later rebranded Windows for PocketPCs.
Re:Nokia G22 with eco design and repairability
by jay_kyburz on Friday May 05, 2023 @08:24PM
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Oh, semi relevant story. I have a Nokia T20 tablet and love it, but a few weeks ago it started rebooting every two hours. We can hear those Nokia chimes going off at all hours of the day and night.
I was happy to discover they offer 3 year warranty, but I have to send it off via courier for repair.
I'm very interested to find out what they are going to do to repair a tablet that has no obvious broken features, but where there is something clearly wrong.
And how long it will take? Weeks or Months?
And are they really going to pay an engineer to pop open and try and and fix a tablet that is only $400
If I'm not mistaken, this is something Windows for PocketPCs did way back.
More info here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_paging
I wasn't speaking of a pagefile (I know what that is). WinPPC had a setting where you could sacrifice adjust how the onboard RAM was used, as both storage and program memory were RAM in these devices. One could adjust how much to use for each. It was limited in how much, but it was possible.
https://www.hpcfactor.com/support/cesd/200191/how_to_adjust_...
This is the only source I could find, as these devices are so old, info is hard to find. This refers to CE, but includes the later rebranded Windows for PocketPCs.
I was happy to discover they offer 3 year warranty, but I have to send it off via courier for repair.
I'm very interested to find out what they are going to do to repair a tablet that has no obvious broken features, but where there is something clearly wrong.
And how long it will take? Weeks or Months?
And are they really going to pay an engineer to pop open and try and and fix a tablet that is only $400