Phone formatting (part 1)

When it comes to formatting, I am usually retiscent to performing it myself. Whether it's a USB drive, a pc hard drive, a phone memory, a memory card,..., it's always hard for me to decide to press that "format" button. Perhaps it's just the fear of losing some information I forgot to back up, or the fear of messing the device up, but I keep telling myself: it's still functionning, let's leave the format for later.

Now my phone is still functionning but I decided to give it a total make-over (ie format) which includes the phone's internal memory and the memory card. I won't do things half-way. Reasons why I decided to go for that is that:

- the phone's free internal memory is now lower than 3MB no matter what I do and it seems that many registry and system files, etc, have not been properly deleted after uninstalling certain apps, etc.

- the phone's performance speed is getting slower and slower, especially when opening a contact's details

- sms sending is getting slower even with the SMS_acceleration app from Nokia running

- the phone keeps rebooting randomly and while using the gallery

- the blaster theme installed by mistake on the phone memory is starting to i.r.r.i.t.a.t.e me since it can't be deleted by the theme deleting trick

I believe a total formatting (not just restoring factory settings) would solve a couple of these problems. So I'm going to do it (lemme hear those hoorays). But first, I'm going to take a couple of days to sync sms and contacts with my pc, make sure nothing is missing, move all my memory card files to my pc, write down all the important settings I have used (for messaging, camera, connectivity and all the apps I have installed). That promises to keep me busy for the whole week I think, but being an as we call it here "2emm 3aj2a" (very chaotic person), I have to make sure I lose no contact detail, no files, no pics, no vids, no documents,..., NOTHING.

The official preparation for the formatting starts tomorrow, so wish me luck. I'll write down the free RAM, memory card and internal memory. I'll also write take the time it needs to boot now, the time it needs to open the cam, etc... and compare these numbers with those i will have after the formatting. Hopefully, the overall performance will be better and worth the trouble.

Any ideas, any advices are welcome. It's my first formatting so i'm a novice.

P.S: I would love to download the firmware upgrade from Nokia, but I'm on dial-up so there's NO way i'm spending 7-8 hrs to download the usually 50MB or more firmware file.