How to fix “Memory Full” problem of the App. Manager on any Symbian s60 devices

Everyone who owns a Symbian s60 device will experience a problem after they installed excessive amount of applications on to their mobile device. When you try to open the Application Manager, it either breaks (by not let you from opening it) or moaning about “Memory Full”. And worse, you just cannot uninstall your applications from your device.

Have been reading several articles on the Internet, the problem can be identified as a bug from the Symbian operating system rather than any other memory problem on the device.

How we go about to fix this?

The solution is simple - delete some applications. We can use some 3rd applications like, UninstallKing, BatchUninstaller to remove the applications from the mobile device. (They are very small in size.) Thus, frees the application manager from loading excessive amount of items into its list.

With a 3rd party uninstaller installed on the device, we can actually do more than that. We can do some hacks (not really a hack on the device, no harms), on the Symbian. The way that Application manager works is by searching for all the folders (contains installation data for those applications that you have installed on your memory card) that are stored in the following two locations on your memory card: [Assume that E drive is your memory card storage]
- E:\sys\install\sysregistry
- E:\sys\uninstall

Since the Application Manager only searches for the visible folders in these two directories, we can hide all the folders in Windows; so that the Application Manger cannot find the folders and those entries will not be loaded into the Application Manager.

Now the applications installed on the E drive will not appear on the Application Manager, how we uninstall them then?

Obviously, we can use a 3rd party install manager to accomplish this. I have installed the UninstallKing on my Sony Erricsson U5i Vivaz, and hide all the entries from the Application Manager. It works well. Now I can install even more applications on my cellphone despite the notorious bug of the Symbian Application Manager.