The logic implemented in HandleForegroundEventL looks problematic.

Pls read HandleForegroundEventL documentation. This routine notify the UI about the background/foregroud status of the...

Symbian conventions like cleanup stack and two phase constructors are needed for production quality applications. But for normal application development, this conventions not needed.

Also,...

To send application to background, use
CEikonEnv::Static()->RootWin().SetOrdinalPosition(-1);

instead of
TApaTask::SendToBackground();

I found dynamic memory profiling is possible using following code snippet

int AllocatedBytes, TotalHeapCells, UsedHeapCells, FreeHeapCells, FreeBytes, BiggestBlock;
/* Get Process Heap Status */...

I am trying to capture keys ( left soft key and right soft key ) for an application, which is in background. The code snippet as follows

iKeyDevice0Handle =...

What about porting this code to s60? This looks a straight forward c++ code.

When I try to get heap status after taking a picture using native camera, the application exited with User 47 Panic.

I am checking the heap status after CCamera::PrepareImageCaptureL.

When...

When I am trying to download an image through RHttpSession, I am getting -36 error MHFRunL callback routine.

The device used is N91 and urls are verified with native browser. This is happening...

I have some interesting observation, When I am testing a memory intensive video streaming applications in Nokia third edition phones.

In nokia N93 Symbian OS sends EikCmdExit (to my application)...

When I am trying to google to get help for Symbian issues, I never noticed google indexing any forum-nokia posts.

Today I have cross-checked this by giving typical search strings and found,...

Thanks for everybody's help.

If anybody need to analyze process heap status, use following routine.

void GetHeapStatus(void)
{
int TotalHeapBytes, TotalHeapCells, UsedHeapCells,...

It seems we have an API (user::CountAllocCells() ) to check current free heap cells. Let me try this.

/******** Re pasted from other Thread, which is deprecated :) */

Symbian OS Internals ( Section: 7.5.2: Free Store Allocators and Heaps), provides details about Symbian default alloctor (RHeap).
...

This is one of the limitation of Symbian Heap Allocator. RHeap provides an API(Size()) to get heap Size. Description as follows

Gets the current size of the heap.
This is the total number of...

I observed these kind of scenarios, when use high priority rather than EPriorityStandard in CActive.

Please cross-check, the chances for mulitple Requests. Symbian AOs does not entertain an new...

It seems DevMan is not helpful for 3rd edition phones like N91, N93 etc. Also people doubts about this utility, Please see following comments.

> Memory Monitor
On January 21st, 2004 mayhem (not...

In Symbian OS Internals ( Section: 7.5.2: Free Store Allocators and Heaps), provides details about Symbian default alloctor (RHeap).

Default RHeap is defined as 'First fit, Address Ordered, Free...

My requirement is to get an ApI, which gives, Total Heap memory used by current process or a particular application.

I have observed Symbian OS behaving very differently based on the device. Some N91 devices (s/w version: V 3.00.060 03-11-06 RM-43 N91), after opening native browser, Symbian OS sending EikCmdExit to...

Please check did you packaged all resources and dlls in the sis file.

I have observed Symbian Heap allocator failing when application trying to allocate big chunk of memory ( 4K, 8K, 10 etc). I cross-checked total system memory availability and found memory more than...

I have observed Symbian Heap allocator failing when application trying to allocate big chunk of memory ( 4K, 8K, 10 etc). I cross-checked total system memory avilability and found memory more than...