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So do you guys use it and what does it exactly do? And also what does 3g turbocharger and kick ass kernel tweak do?
Basically everytime the memory drops below the thresholds set by v6, the system will start killing of apps running in the background which frees up memory that you most probably aren't using, Im currently on the aggressive settings so everytime my memory drops below 150mb the system starts killing apps. Its basically just tweaking the internal task killer to be slightly more aggressive. It also locks the launcher so the system cannot kill it if the memory drops too low.
The 3g tweaks, I think adjust or add some settings to the build.prop which supposedly make it faster although I haven't noticed much difference with that and the kernel tweaks I'm not too sure where the changes are made but again I don't see a great change from it. Definitely recommend v6 supercharger though.
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Basically everytime the memory drops below the thresholds set by v6, the system will start killing of apps running in the background which frees up memory that you most probably aren't using, Im currently on the aggressive settings so everytime my memory drops below 150mb the system starts killing apps.
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Great. Let's take 150MiB of RAM and then don't do anything useful with it. Processes aren't supposed to be killed unless you actually run out of memory.
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It also locks the launcher so the system cannot kill it if the memory drops too low.
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That seems innocent, but it won't help you if the launcher has a memory leak. If the launcher kept getting killed, it was telling you that your low memory thresholds are too high. Under normal circumstances, the launcher won't get killed. But if it grows too much, it'll get killed and the OS won't crash.
When you force close an application through the application manager, it shows you a warning. There's a reason for that (exactly what it says). And since Android 2.2, the framework can take care of itself just fine. No need for any 3rd party task killers.
Lol..... Thought you'd have something to say on it, actually mate the way my phone is usually setup there is nothing running in the background to kill anyway, thanks to autostarts I only have apps running that I need and make sure that I close things properly after use, so it really doesn't matter which settings I use whether they be low such as 30mb before it starts killing the first lot of empty apps or high such as 150mb as my setup rarely drops below because there is only the bare minimum running in the first place.
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Allright, it's not that RAM would slowly wear and tear by using it but at least you're not buying that it's better for performance. And I just wonder how these apps are made, as a thought experiment to figure out the mindset of whoever wrote this task killer.
...So let's make an app which looks real cool and doesn't do anything useful in particular! Wait, no one would download that! Hmm... Oh, I know! Let's call it "V6 Supercharger"! Yeah, that sounds awesome! Now people will download it for sure! It's the coolest thing since sliced bread!
It's the same with those programs like "Registry Booster". How did that happen? Someone must've woke up one day, turned on his PC, started poking in the registry, saw lots of keys which aren't really strictly necessary but are there anyway and thought like "Hmm, what if I made a program which removes all these unneeded keys? MS-Windows would be ZOMG faster!!111eleventyone". Then made it look real slick with a custom skin and a speedometer showing progress and say at the end that the registry has been "boosted". And since this guy is such a nice fellow, he threw in some extra free toolbars into the mix as well. Users always appreciate having more toolbars to click on and agreements to ignore.
Ok, I'll stop ranting now. Enjoy your week
Try explaining that to the dev who created it here. Honestly, it would be better, because, I am pretty sure most members here are not as technically inclined as you.:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991276
You're just setting him up so I can tear him apart... aren't you?
The poor bastard doesn't even know what it is... he thinks it's a task killer app... heh
No, I would like him to discuss all the technical aspects with you. Because, clearly, he's wasting his effort as a developer here educating non-technical people like me, and the majority here on the Wildfire Forums.
And before you accuse me of trying to set people up, I can assure you I have nothing against you / your script or anything. Rather, I have used your script, and came away impressed with it.
I know you you weren't doing anything like that... I'm always putting down these clowns that think that suffocating the phone is good... idiots lol
Like I say, what the hell good is phone if you can't make a call because of some crap hogging the ram?
Besides, I doubt very much he has any technical skills at all... like I said before, he doesn't even know what it is so he's not very techinical
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what does it exactly do?
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It makes you feel good.
And I definitely noticed a 0.00001ms speed difference when opening apps.
Another liar
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Another liar
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Yeah lol. Most people in this forum are wannabe developers who know **** about developing but they like to act like they do. Apart from few people who actually know stuff and the others like me who acknowledge the fact that we don't know anything
Fact is, those who know they don't know learn more than those that think they know it all
Less than a year ago, I knew 0 about android.
And when I started the supercharger script, I knew nothing about linux scripting.
Just started off with a few commands and everytime I wanted to try something new or add something... I googled it up.
And I'm still figuring it out.
For example, I set my 256mb device to have 25mb free with the number I use in slot 3.
So whatever memory tool I use will show I have 25 or 30mb free... great - that's what I want
But when I was doing up the recent update and enhanced the Fast Engine Flush, I wanted to show before and after using the "free" command.
To my surprise, system tuner shows that I have 30mb free while the free command shows I have only 5mb free!
So what's that mean? Why that difference of 25mb?
It means that all that "free ram" is actually being used for cache.
And it's giving me speed
So to those that think it's great to have ram clogged with apps when the system is starving for space to use for cache...
BOOYA!
Really have trouble using your scripts and I think after enabling 3gturbotweak thing my 2g data isn't working haven't tried 3g.
I can't recall it affecting 2g... so I assume 2g used to work (I don't get 2g - it's unavailable)
But if you unturbocharge, the 2g/3g goes back to normal, no?
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I can't recall it affecting 2g... so I assume 2g used to work (I don't get 2g - it's unavailable)
But if you unturbocharge, the 2g/3g goes back to normal, no?
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Well I had to format system data and cache and wiped everything and now it's working again so I'm not completely sure if it was the turbocharge thing.
The idea that you can magically "supercharge" your OS by freeing up memory is fundamentally flawed.
what the hell good is phone if you can't make a call because of some crap hogging the ram
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If this is really a problem on your phone, you're doing it wrong. I haven't done anything to free up ram and the amount of ram available on my wildfire is currently 108,48MiB. I start 10 random apps, Angry Birds, and Angry Birds Rio. 40,68MiB still free. I start Angry Birds Seasons and end up with 49,66MiB free and 9 apps died, including the first angry birds. Running out of ram is in general not a failure mode of Android and at no point was I unable to place a call. I close the 2 remaining open instances of Angry Birds the normal back-button way, 147,68MiB free.
I'm always putting down these clowns that think that suffocating the phone is good... idiots lol
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I just wanted to quote that.
And when I started the supercharger script, I knew nothing about linux scripting.
Just started off with a few commands and everytime I wanted to try something new or add something... I googled it up.
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That's exactly the impression I had. Now take it from someone who has run Linux both embedded and on his desktop for the past 12 years. Your app doesn't improve anything, and I'd be glad to be proven wrong because you would've actually made a discovery we can use to improve Android and Linux with. From your post I understand it you change vm kernel parameters such that the oom killer is invoked sooner. This is actually detrimental to the stability of the OS, the oom killer is only meant to be invoked as a _last_resort_. The Android framework has its own means to free up memory, including calling onLowMemory in any application and doing a gc run. This does not cause instability and is completely transparent to the user. I've only ever had to manually kill applications in a broken state and others for debugging purposes, which is why the Force Close button exists.
It means that all that "free ram" is actually being used for cache.
And it's giving me speed
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If the output looks anything like this:
Code:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3456 3325 131 0 10 93
-/+ buffers/cache: 3221 235
Then you've just never bothered to look. You can clearly see in the second line it makes a calculation for you which is exactly what it says in the leftmost column. And of course completely disregard the fact that cached pages are invalidated on a write (marked dirty) and reads from an mtd are really fast already anyway.
So to those that think it's great to have ram clogged with apps when the system is starving for space to use for cache
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This is not how it works! For starters, ram cannot be "clogged". A drain pipe can be clogged but ram is made of digital circuitry, not plumbing. And second, there is no resource starvation in the page cache. It's just an old optimisation to keep data pages in memory for longer to serve repeated reads and give them back whenever they're needed for something else. More apps in ram can actually mean less reads are necessary because the data is already there (especially if you tend to switch between recent apps). Since Android 3.0, application developers are encouraged to use Loaders which cause filesystem I/O to be performed on a background thread. And applications which actually use the available ram always trump applications designed to use as little ram possible in performance. Between a collection of loaded objects and a cached filesystem, the collection always wins. You have 256 to 512 MiB of RAM in a typical Android device. The average application is 18 to 30 MiB. It can manage. Especially when you consider the fact that the UI only shows 1 task at a time and pressing the back button usually destroys the activity you were in. The gc takes care of its remains.
Now here's something which will actually improve write speeds on /data: Open up settings, applications, manage applications. Sort by size. Remove the biggest apps you don't need and move the rest to SD if you can (you can use "pm setInstallLocation 2" as root to move non-froyo-aware apps to SD). I've been using the market a lot lately so I just removed aDosBox, Albert Heijn, PocketCloud, Pulse and moved Dolphin Browser to SD which meant 47.25MiB free on /data. On a 175MiB partition, 30% of it is about 52MiB so I'd try to keep the available space around 50MiB. If your phone is low on storage, doing this will perceivably improve performance.
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Well I had to format system data and cache and wiped everything and now it's working again so I'm not completely sure if it was the turbocharge thing.
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Same thing happened to me, but every time i turned 3g on the phone rebooted and i got stuck in a bootloop, i had to use the ruu update to restore phone.
I would stay away from the network tweaks. It doesnt improve speed anyway.
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The idea that you can magically "supercharge" your OS by freeing up memory is fundamentally flawed.If this is really a problem on your phone, you're doing it wrong. I haven't done anything to free up ram and the amount of ram available on my wildfire is currently 108,48MiB. I start 10 random apps, Angry Birds, and Angry Birds Rio. 40,68MiB still free. I start Angry Birds Seasons and end up with 49,66MiB free and 9 apps died, including the first angry birds. Running out of ram is in general not a failure mode of Android and at no point was I unable to place a call. I close the 2 remaining open instances of Angry Birds the normal back-button way, 147,68MiB free.
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All that you said is very informative.
What are your minfrees?
Set them to something like 6, 12, 16, 18, 26, 30.
Run a bunch of apps...
See how great it runs then
Fact of the matter is, user's with 1GB ram devices notice a real improvement.
Not placebo.
Pressing the home or back button has an instant effect without hesitation - which indeed happens on stock roms.
Yes in theory I'm sure it all makes sense and I apologize for using layman's terms such as "clogging".
An android phone is not a Linux PC so I believe it's not a great idea to configure it like it is a Linux PC.
They have difference purposes.
Anyway, in theory, a bumble bee can't fly - but it does.
i can only open about 3-4 app before my ram is full and its forcing to closing app . seriously ? wtf is this .
i feel like this phone is worse than n95 .
if i open a web page one youtube link and i still have in memory my message app it will start closing app and sometime it even close the Touch wiz widget so they have to re appear and load for 4 second . i cant believe they only putted 1gb of ram with all there touchwiz bloarware.
Ram issues
Check what apps are running on the background, i would check primarily things you log into that are always logged in like FB, Gtalk, Skype. although even with all those running you shouldnt have issues, maybe try doing a cache and dalvik cache wipe reboot and check changes.
MY BEST FIX is rooting, flashing an AOSP based rom that normally for me they use 350 to 400mb on a normal basis instead of 550-600mb in a sammy based rom.
mine is usally 800-1g and im constantly clearing memory. I dont get it either.
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mine is usally 800-1g and im constantly clearing memory. I dont get it either.
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S3 has a horrible memory management.
1 gb ram ain't enough for the beast.
Launcher redraw on a Top end phone is an Epic fail.
Selina40Kyle said:
S3 has a horrible memory management.
1 gb ram ain't enough for the beast.
Launcher redraw on a Top end phone is an Epic fail.
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I agree, I just opened every app i have and went up to 1.26gb.. and when i have no apps open it jumps from 800-1gb on its own.. so i guess its all in the system that takes up most of the space
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S3 has a horrible memory management.
1 gb ram ain't enough for the beast.
Launcher redraw on a Top end phone is an Epic fail.
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Jeez 1gb is more than enough
Problem is with the Samsung bloatware. Kies, Remote Controls and all those other services. Delete kiesexe and freeze the Samsung crap inc SVoice..
I see no need to sync to Samsung and Google. The Google services are enough.. The Samsung store is only worth unfreezing for those free offers. The four tracking services ain't needed etc I use Avast to do that etc.
Getting 285M free apx after bootup, same as ICS, on 4.1.2 now. 12 widgets, FB, G+, Fancy widgets, Jorte etc
Also make sure not to run supercharger. It kills multitasking!
Disable all the Bloatware or freeze it using link2sd.
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Still sitting between 540mb and 630mb maximum
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My 2gb i747m really makes use of the extra ram. It not only can handle 50 background apps with stock rom as apposed to 15-20 for the 1gb version (assuming there is enough ram), but it will boot with about 1.6-1.7gb available, about 700mb used, and 1gb free, and will use memory up to about 200mb free before killing apps to make room for new apps. Bottom line, it multitasks like a S.O.B. My opinion based on 2.5 years Android experience...is that 2gb ram helps big time...especially if you do not optimize your system.
If I had the 1gb version, I would consider a lighter rom as some have mentioned, but also the V6 Supercharger app with specific settings to allow maximum multitasking while remaining stable...which might take some experimenting. I would install Titanium Backup Pro and freeze as many non needed apps to prevent them from loading at boot and using up precious ram. Also, for some apps, I use AutoRuns to prevent them from loading at boot time.
Also remember...that some apps will stay in RAM when it's plentiful. But other apps are programed to allow Android to kill them after a certain length of idle time when they haven't been used.
Ram management is fine on the S3.
If you are not happy with it use a task killer, custom rom/kernel and/or supercharger v6 script.
Also if your ram<100 then you should start making complaints.
My free ram is at 120mb-160mb and i'm happy,no lags,no slowdowns,nothing at all.
Android preloads apps in memmory in order to open faster when we launch them.
Free ram really is wasted ram...it cancels multitasking and if you've bough a 600$ phone and can't multitask with it then you're worth of your fate.
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Ram management is fine on the S3.
If you are not happy with it use a task killer, custom rom/kernel and/or supercharger v6 script.
Also if your ram<100 then you should start making complaints.
My free ram is at 120mb-160mb and i'm happy,no lags,no slowdowns,nothing at all.
Android preloads apps in memmory in order to open faster when we launch them.
Free ram really is wasted ram...it cancels multitasking and if you've bough a 600$ phone and can't multitask with it then you're worth of your fate.
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The fact that an user has to get task killer and manage memory by him own: FAIL!
I know android pre loads stuff in memory, but it got the priority all wrong.
Why does it keep killing msging, phone and the GODDAMN launcher .
While it never kils the stupid stuff like "Google Book mark Sync", unless you freeze it.
There's no denying that 1gb has crippled S3 badly.
You can claim "Free ram is wasted ram" and throw down links, but at the end of the day it is giving me a bad experience.
Case in point:
1) Launcher Redraw:
Two points to it:
->Bad priority (I'm not sure if it's either a Samsung fault or Android; OOM 6 isn't the way to go).
-> Less ram.
The fact that browsing through play store for 15 mins and then hitting Home button results in launcher redraw is pathetic.
Less ram is the culprit( atleast one of the).
On such an expensive device this is just EPIC FAIL.
Sure we can do Super recharge and try removing the bloatware, but these are quick fixes and doesn't get rid of the main problem.
Not to mention not every one finds all this stuff easy.
The fact that you have to do tweaking on the 'supposedly greatest android phone' to make it work smoothly is an EPIC FAIL.
Custom Roms for an device as expensive as S3, should be there to enhance functionality and increase features. Not to make it works the way it should have out of the box.
2) Sh**ty Multitasking:
Trust me, my iPod touch does better multi tasking that S3 for day to day experience. (I am not an apple troll, btw)
And it doesn't even have a true multitasking and the specs are no where near S3.
When I pause a game, and resume it after an hour it starts from exactly same place . Try that with S3.
Try to use your phone when many apps are getting updated and notification bar is constantly changing.
It'll lag the hell out.
There's no defending to these points.
This is where Apple excels , by giving user everything perfect from out of the box.
Sure you can't do much, but what ever you can, you do it smoothly.
What makes me sad is that Samsung is so close to it, yet they screwed the experience.
And I'm not even going to talk about Contacts and Phone apps.
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Ram management is fine on the S3.
If you are not happy with it use a task killer, custom rom/kernel and/or supercharger v6 script.
Also if your ram<100 then you should start making complaints.
My free ram is at 120mb-160mb and i'm happy,no lags,no slowdowns,nothing at all.
Android preloads apps in memmory in order to open faster when we launch them.
Free ram really is wasted ram...it cancels multitasking and if you've bough a 600$ phone and can't multitask with it then you're worth of your fate.
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Sorry but this is complete and utter drivel. Stop quoting websites and Google and start wising up.
If you have a game that needs to run and it uses 100mb and the phone has no free ram it kills something else.
This would be fine if the phone loaded the apps quickly but it doesn't.
Custom ROMs do not fix the lack of ram and neither do any of the memory management scripts.
My phone has around 200mb to 300mb though and it still loads and reloads phone and messaging and browser randomly.
Sgs3 is useless at memory management and anyone who says otherwise is living in a dreamland.
No lags and slowdowns is just blatantly not true as your messaging app and phone app will frequently take up to two seconds to load if you are using any Samsung ROM.
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Sorry but this is complete and utter drivel. Stop quoting websites and Google and start wising up.
If you have a game that needs to run and it uses 100mb and the phone has no free ram it kills something else.
This would be fine if the phone loaded the apps quickly but it doesn't.
Custom ROMs do not fix the lack of ram and neither do any of the memory management scripts.
My phone has around 200mb to 300mb though and it still loads and reloads phone and messaging and browser randomly.
Sgs3 is useless at memory management and anyone who says otherwise is living in a dreamland.
No lags and slowdowns is just blatantly not true as your messaging app and phone app will frequently take up to two seconds to load if you are using any Samsung ROM.
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True that.
I have no idea what is stored for 500-600Mb ram if not the important things like Phone, Msg and Launcher.
Useless stuff.
It is just marketing and business politics, Samsung knew that 1GB is not at all future proof but that is exactly what they need so they can sell the Note 2 and the i9305.
And still they sold over 30M i9300 devices.
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True that.
I have no idea what is stored for 500-600Mb ram if not the important things like Phone, Msg and Launcher.
Useless stuff.
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Man, Android loads that stuff itself based on usage, OOM settings and Minfree values. The other stuff is services that need to run full time so that Kies sync, Location and other Samsung bloat that is really not doing anything most of the time.
Ya I know.
I wonder how can the most important thing, launcher, has an OOM of 6.
Stupid really.
Is it a fault of Android or Samsung messed it up.
In all the galaxy nexus videos I've never seen launcher redraws.
So maybe Samsung messed up for whatever reason.
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"Free ram is wasted ram"
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that remark has been misused greatly by people that can't code for ass and fail at memory optimisation.
It was originally in reference to the Superfetch feature in Vista/7 storing frequently accessed data in ram for faster application startup. It wasn't meant to be applied to applications that use huge amounts of memory for no good reason.
much of Androids poor memory management is Java related, who knows, maybe Google will get a clue and dump the Dalvik VM eventually for a native operating system.
Use aokp or cm 10
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Use aokp or cm 10
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For many of us, camera is an important thing.
aakarani said:
Disable all the Bloatware or freeze it using link2sd.
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Still sitting between 540mb and 630mb maximum
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Is it in the app store ?
Is there any way to freeze samsung permanently without root ?
does link2sd need root to work ?
is advance task killer enough to kill all samsung bloatware ?
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Is it in the app store ?
Is there any way to freeze samsung permanently without root ?
does link2sd need root to work ?
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1) Yes.
2) Yes. You can go to "manage apps", select the applications. There will be an option called "Disable". No need for any app.
3) See above
I would be very grateful if you G2 owners could reboot your phones and report how much RAM you have available after a fresh start.
The reason I'm asking is that I noticed in a video that the RAM was only around 500 MB with only 5 apps open, and then I saw this screenshot: just 320 MB of available with only 2 apps open!
Is the G2 really that low on RAM??
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I would be very grateful if you G2 owners could reboot your phones and report how much RAM you have available after a fresh start.
The reason I'm asking is that I noticed in a video that the RAM was only around 500 MB with only 5 apps open, and then I saw this screenshot: just 320 MB of available with only 2 apps open!
Is the G2 really that low on RAM??
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have you shut off services/apps you don't need? i noticed this on a verizon model they had at the store. Had 500mb left. i then tinkered and disabled many of the bloat apps and took the phone to 1.2GB of free ram. i don't know if this relates to your phone too. but the bloat slowly kills it at first.
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have you shut off services/apps you don't need? i noticed this on a verizon model they had at the store. Had 500mb left. i then tinkered and disabled many of the bloat apps and took the phone to 1.2GB of free ram. i don't know if this relates to your phone too. but the bloat slowly kills it at first.
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That's not a screenshot of my G2, it's from GSMArenas review. I don't own a G2 (yet), the low RAM figures I have seen makes me hesitant to buy one - hence my question.
But if I go ahead and get one it will be an unlocked/unbranded phone, so there will be no carrier apps on it.
Either way, what apps did you close down/disable on the model at the store?
Mines AT&T, but with most of the bloat disabled, I'm at 832. That's with stuff running and not a clean boot. Keep in mind, however, how Linux uses memory. Empty memory is wasted memory.
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RAM is meant to be used or it is useless. Android OS caches a ton of things in RAM since it doesnt cost anything or drain any significant extra battery so it looks like a lot of memory is used. If you need more RAM for your own open apps it will flush out unused cached data and apps to make room for whatever you are actually wanting to run. Having 300-400MB free RAM is pretty much perfect amount because it means a bunch of stuff is cached and ready to load fast but it also leaves enough space for a good number of your own things to be open and running before old stuff gets flushed out.
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...Empty memory is wasted memory.
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EniGmA1987 said:
RAM is meant to be used or it is useless.... Having 300-400MB free RAM is pretty much perfect amount because it means a bunch of stuff is cached and ready to load fast but it also leaves enough space for a good number of your own things to be open and running before old stuff gets flushed out.
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400 MB is what I have on my Xperia T after a reboot (no bloatware), as soon as you leave the browser and check 2-3 other apps and then return to the browser (20 seconds later) it has flushed the pages from memory and has to redownload the pages. In Pulse it kicks you out from the story (and even the category) you were reading when the app reloads, all as a result of the low RAM.
I also have the Asus Padfone 2 which has 1.5 GB of free RAM after boot, and it doesn't do any of that flushing, all your opened apps are in memory (because there is room for it), and the user experience compared to the Xperia T is like day and night due to that extra RAM.
So that's only partially true: used memory is good as long as it's made up of YOUR apps that are in memory, but 400 MB of free RAM for user-running apps is simply too little on Android, and I have my own experience, and couple of "Android-geek" friends who also complain the very same issue on their phones (Galaxy Nexus + S3), to back it up.
Since I only buy unbranded phones I'm curious what kind of bloatware you have disabled on your carrier-branded phones?
I'm having concerns with the ram. I usually have 750 on a fresh boot and 300 -400 average daily. My issues are when apps close randomly such as Sirius radio or tune in radio.
For example I'll be listening to one of those apps and get a call or pause it, when I go back to listen the app is closed. Or after a call on my previous phones it would resume. On the G2 it doesn't resume playing because the app is closed. That is not acceptable.
Another example is in the stock task switcher is I try to go back to an app I used say yesterday it will still be in the task switch but if I press it to go back to it will not respond to my touch. I have to actually go back and relaunch the app from the menu. Anyone else having these issues?
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RAM is meant to be used or it is useless. Android OS caches a ton of things in RAM since it doesnt cost anything or drain any significant extra battery so it looks like a lot of memory is used. If you need more RAM for your own open apps it will flush out unused cached data and apps to make room for whatever you are actually wanting to run. Having 300-400MB free RAM is pretty much perfect amount because it means a bunch of stuff is cached and ready to load fast but it also leaves enough space for a good number of your own things to be open and running before old stuff gets flushed out.
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Yeah, I don't get people. They think free ram is magically going to make the phone faster. RAM is meant to be used. If your phone is not using ram, then it's not going as fast as it could. I usually have around 400-600MB free. I have frozen all apps that I think are bloat or I don't use.
Using cleanrom 1.0 I have over 600MB free. With open apps. No complaints.
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To less off fee ram and android will start shut down backgroundapps to free up some. So little free ram is good on any linux. You surf the net on your browser and want to have any backgroundapps alive and kicking? You need ram So kill all bloatware and services you don't need, works in S4 and should work on the clone
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verks said:
I'm having concerns with the ram. I usually have 750 on a fresh boot and 300 -400 average daily. My issues are when apps close randomly such as Sirius radio or tune in radio.
For example I'll be listening to one of those apps and get a call or pause it, when I go back to listen the app is closed. Or after a call on my previous phones it would resume. On the G2 it doesn't resume playing because the app is closed. That is not acceptable.
Another example is in the stock task switcher is I try to go back to an app I used say yesterday it will still be in the task switch but if I press it to go back to it will not respond to my touch. I have to actually go back and relaunch the app from the menu. Anyone else having these issues?
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Your Sirius app closing when you switch to another app is a typical behavior when you are low on ram, so the system immediately closes down an app when it goes to the background in order to free up memory. It's very frustrating, and it was the only reason I stopped using my Xperia T. Never had that problem with my Padfone 2 though, precisely because of all that free ram available at any point.
The task switcher issue you're describing is a bug though, I have never heard of it before but the OS should not behave like that.
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Yeah, I don't get people. They think free ram is magically going to make the phone faster. RAM is meant to be used. If your phone is not using ram, then it's not going as fast as it could. I usually have around 400-600MB free. I have frozen all apps that I think are bloat or I don't use.
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And I don't get people who reply to threads they haven't read (or don't understand). It's not about speed.
dondavis007 said:
To less off fee ram and android will start shut down backgroundapps to free up some. So little free ram is good on any linux. You surf the net on your browser and want to have any backgroundapps alive and kicking? You need ram So kill all bloatware and services you don't need, works in S4 and should work on the clone
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^This
All that "free memory is wasted memory"-talk is nonsense in this context, but people have read that phrase someplace and are now throwing it around whenever they hear the word "RAM", regardless of context.
hduty said:
I also have the Asus Padfone 2 which has 1.5 GB of free RAM after boot
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Proof or GO of this thread. Nonsense and BS. Padfone 2 can haz 1.5 AVAILABLE memomy from boot, but it's not FREE memory. And that't ppl such as you that constantly spreading BS all around making other ppl believe that something's wrong with G2
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^This
All that "free memory is wasted memory"-talk is nonsense in this context, but people have read that phrase someplace and are now throwing it around whenever they hear the word "RAM", regardless of context.
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Exactly! I too own an HTC One X+ and the biggest and only real complain is the crappy ram management. My device does only have 1gb of ram though. Say i'm using Pandora, i receive a call, end call, phone goes back to Pandora but opens it from scratch, that to me is crappy app/ram whatever you want to call it management. I just figured it was due to my device only having 1gb of ram but does Pandora and stock Dialer app really use that much ram? No, not even close which again concludes me to think crappy Android OS 4.1 ram management.
Sad to see this G2 device "top of the line hardware" with 2gb or ram does the same exact thing. Only thing these two devices have in common, using Android OS. Mine is 4.1 and this device 4.2 but obviously no difference as users saying they get the same issue here.
I'm also using a custom rom with as many tweaks possible "to prevent this"
from happening.
I remember my old HTC Diamond doing this too and that device only came with i believe 256mb of ram, sad that to today there is still no resolution to this issue.
Worst part is if you're playing a graphics intense game like dead trigger, get a phone call, even if you ignore it and device goes back to dead trigger, the game now restarts from scratch and all progress never saved as if you weren't even playing the game. Total waste!
My att G2 has about 650 with alll loatwear installed,
after clean tool i get around 800.
When more dev. happens its going to be possible to have 1.2+ with optimization , LG has alot crap running.
People should actually go read how Android manages RAM before spewing nonsense. Stop caring about free ram. Android will manage the amount of RAM it uses. I had the GNex and when using slacker with maps and glympse I would get the low memory message sometimes but at no time did those apps close or crash. With the G2's 2GB of RAM, it's should be able to run all your apps just fine.
http://www.androidcentral.com/ram-what-it-how-its-used-and-why-you-shouldnt-care
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html#ProcessLifecycle
"Process Lifecycle
The Android system attempts to keep application process around for as long as possible, but eventually will need to remove old processes when memory runs low. As described in Activity Lifecycle, the decision about which process to remove is intimately tied to the state of the user's interaction with it. In general, there are four states a process can be in based on the activities running in it, listed here in order of importance. The system will kill less important processes (the last ones) before it resorts to killing more important processes (the first ones).
The foreground activity (the activity at the top of the screen that the user is currently interacting with) is considered the most important. Its process will only be killed as a last resort, if it uses more memory than is available on the device. Generally at this point the device has reached a memory paging state, so this is required in order to keep the user interface responsive.
A visible activity (an activity that is visible to the user but not in the foreground, such as one sitting behind a foreground dialog) is considered extremely important and will not be killed unless that is required to keep the foreground activity running.
A background activity (an activity that is not visible to the user and has been paused) is no longer critical, so the system may safely kill its process to reclaim memory for other foreground or visible processes. If its process needs to be killed, when the user navigates back to the activity (making it visible on the screen again), its onCreate(Bundle) method will be called with the savedInstanceState it had previously supplied in onSaveInstanceState(Bundle) so that it can restart itself in the same state as the user last left it.
An empty process is one hosting no activities or other application components (such as Service or BroadcastReceiver classes). These are killed very quickly by the system as memory becomes low. For this reason, any background operation you do outside of an activity must be executed in the context of an activity BroadcastReceiver or Service to ensure that the system knows it needs to keep your process around.
Sometimes an Activity may need to do a long-running operation that exists independently of the activity lifecycle itself. An example may be a camera application that allows you to upload a picture to a web site. The upload may take a long time, and the application should allow the user to leave the application will it is executing. To accomplish this, your Activity should start a Service in which the upload takes place. This allows the system to properly prioritize your process (considering it to be more important than other non-visible applications) for the duration of the upload, independent of whether the original activity is paused, stopped, or finished."
BTW, this is what I get on fresh boot, and I haven't even frozen or uninstalled all of the bloatware apps in the ROM.
On another note, you should stop acting like a **** OP. If you ask a question on a forum expect answers from all sorts of people. If you dont like some of those answers dont ask in the first place.
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Proof or GO of this thread. Nonsense and BS. Padfone 2 can haz 1.5 AVAILABLE memomy from boot, but it's not FREE memory. And that't ppl such as you that constantly spreading BS all around making other ppl believe that something's wrong with G2
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So who's spreading the BS?
Now GO of this thread.
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People should actually go read how Android manages RAM before spewing nonsense. Stop caring about free ram. Android will manage the amount of RAM it uses. I had the GNex and when using slacker with maps and glympse I would get the low memory message sometimes but at no time did those apps close or crash. With the G2's 2GB of RAM, it's should be able to run all your apps just fine.
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The only nonsense around here is the assertion that the amount of free ram on a phone is of no concern. Android's memory management can't perform miracles, nor circumvent basic computer science. If this was all about memory management we wouldn't be seeing phones with 2GB, and even 3GB of ram instead of 1GB, would we?
An app can only be loaded into and run from free memory, and if there is not enough of it the OS will try to make more available, i.e close down/cache/freeze/tombstone/swap some other running process that's currently alive (e.g. some other app that's currently running). If that closed process happens to be an app the user was running, and that the user expects to be alive when he returns to it, then you can encounter the scenarios described by some people in this thread - including myself, with apps being shut down unexpectedly in the background (I'm simplifying a little but for this discussion it's close enough...). More free ram means the OS is much less likely to close down apps opened by the user, simply because there is no reason to close them (and *here* is where the expression "unused memory is wasted memory" becomes relevant).
The exact implementation of *how* and *when* Android closes/freezes apps is what the memory management is all about, and what the text you posted explains. The talk about Android's memory management originally came from all the task managers people were using on their Android phones up until 2-3 years ago, which started to interfere with how the OS was supposed to work. But that is a completely separate discussion, irrelevant to what we are talking about here.
I honestly can't explain it any simpler than that. In other words, free (as in "unused") memory is fundamental in *any* OS for a good user experience, because your apps are going to run in that free memory, and the more of it you have the more apps you can run simultaneously without the OS closing them down in the background.
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Just found this while I was searching for another story:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/08/30/htc-one-mini-review-the-awkward-ram-deprived-middle-child/
Note the title, and the "Not so good"-summary:
RAM. There isn't enough. 1GB does not cut it, HTC, and it was a tragic misstep to only give the One mini a single gig. Task switching and opening / closing apps becomes maddeningly slow the more you use the phone. It ruins the experience for me when this is happening many, many times a day.
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So how come it's an issue on the Mini if the concern for free ram is "nonsense" and it's all about Android's memory management??
The issues described in the Mini-review is exactly what I faced with my Xperia T, and the reason why I asked the question here in the first place.
So I will repeat it for the last time: the amount of free ram you have on your phone is fundamental and - contrary to what some of you believe and have repeated here over again - anything but "nonsense", and has nothing to do with "unused memory is wasted memory" and all that talk about Android's memory management.
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BTW, this is what I get on fresh boot, and I haven't even frozen or uninstalled all of the bloatware apps in the ROM.
On another note, you should stop acting like a **** OP. If you ask a question on a forum expect answers from all sorts of people. If you dont like some of those answers dont ask in the first place.
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No more **** than someone who replies with "yeah, I don't get people", acting like a smarta**, while in reality completely missing the point of the question.
Either way, thanks for posting your numbers.
I've noticed lately that CM11 is using abnormal amounts of memory. It doesn't slow my phone down all that much, but it's just bothering me because I know its not supposed to. Before I got this G2, my S3 ran CM10.2 and it used a ton less memory (between 4 and 600mb).
And from what I know, KitKat is supposed to use less resources.
I also have a normal amount of processes running. Just basic apps like Snapchat, Kik, Voice and Voice+, and all the normal Google services that always run. I even uninstalled FB cause I barely use it and at any given time it would be using up 70mb, and it made no difference,
I cant just keep killing my apps cause they reopen automatically. Even when I do, it doesn't even make a temporary difference. Even when I kill the cached apps.
Its just really bothering me. Any suggestions?
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sawyerbenjamin said:
I've noticed lately that CM11 is using abnormal amounts of memory. It doesn't slow my phone down all that much, but it's just bothering me because I know its not supposed to. Before I got this G2, my S3 ran CM10.2 and it used a ton less memory (between 4 and 600mb).
And from what I know, KitKat is supposed to use less resources.
I also have a normal amount of processes running. Just basic apps like Snapchat, Kik, Voice and Voice+, and all the normal Google services that always run. I even uninstalled FB cause I barely use it and at any given time it would be using up 70mb, and it made no difference,
I cant just keep killing my apps cause they reopen automatically. Even when I do, it doesn't even make a temporary difference. Even when I kill the cached apps.
Its just really bothering me. Any suggestions?
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The amount of free ram looks fine. That's what I get on my end with stock LG G2
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It bothers me so much that people still don't know how Android runs and manages resources.
It's not Windows, it's not MacOS, it's Android, it allocates everything on the RAM so that it can be accessed faster, and this improves load times, multitasking, etc.
Free RAM is pretty much wasted RAM and please, do not install task killers nor kill tasks manually. Android does it alone and does it better. Whenever it needs free RAM it will shut down something that's not being used and haven't been used in a long time to free that RAM up.
As two others have stated, free RAM is wasted RAM. I only have about 600mb of RAM free on the Optimus G3 ROM.
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As two others have stated, free RAM is wasted RAM. I only have about 600mb of RAM free on the Optimus G3 ROM.
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I hope I don't sound stupid. It's just more of an OCD thing. Just a couple days ago and prior to that, my phone stuck around 750-850mb. Now its using a over a gig 100% of the time and its just bothering me. I figured there was an actual reason for this. Maybe its from Xposed modules? I never noticed it until I started using Xposed a couple days ago.
But its not a big deal I guess.
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I hope I don't sound stupid. It's just more of an OCD thing. Just a couple days ago and prior to that, my phone stuck around 750-850mb. Now its using a over a gig 100% of the time and its just bothering me. I figured there was an actual reason for this. Maybe its from Xposed modules? I never noticed it until I started using Xposed a couple days ago.
But its not a big deal I guess.
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If you're not having actual performance issues as a result, then don't worry about it. If you always have X amount of free RAM, then you don't need that RAM. As has already been stated, free/unused RAM is wasted RAM. Something most people don't understand about how computers work is that storage and RAM and two completely separate things. Storage is just that - STORAGE. Nothing runs directly from storage. RAM is where things run. When you - or the system - goes to run an application, it gets read from the slow storage and loaded into the much faster RAM and runs from there. This is why more RAM is better (notice I didn't say more free RAM). It allows more applications to be cached in RAM ready to run fast - or to keep more services loaded to allow for more cool features.
More RAM is better, but if you're always clearing it out to keep X amount free and then reloading the same apps again, you are doing yourself no favors from a performance perspective. I am sure you have plenty available at all times for the system to load new apps. It will kill them on its own either when it needs to, or when it sees that haven't accessed that app after a certain amount of time.
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If you're not having actual performance issues as a result, then don't worry about it. If you always have X amount of free RAM, then you don't need that RAM. As has already been stated, free/unused RAM is wasted RAM. Something most people don't understand about how computers work is that storage and RAM and two completely separate things. Storage is just that - STORAGE. Nothing runs directly from storage. RAM is where things run. When you - or the system - goes to run an application, it gets read from the slow storage and loaded into the much faster RAM and runs from there. This is why more RAM is better (notice I didn't say more free RAM). It allows more applications to be cached in RAM ready to run fast - or to keep more services loaded to allow for more cool features.
More RAM is better, but if you're always clearing it out to keep X amount free and then reloading the same apps again, you are doing yourself no favors from a performance perspective. I am sure you have plenty available at all times for the system to load new apps. It will kill them on its own either when it needs to, or when it sees that haven't accessed that app after a certain amount of time.
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I am 100% fully aware of what Random Access Memory is and what purpose it serves, and I can distinguish it from storage. I know far more than the very basics of a computer. I was just wondering what was using all the extra RAM up. It was bothering me because prior, my phone was using a lot less. Idk why you assumed I didn't understand what RAM and storage was.
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I am 100% fully aware of what Random Access Memory is and what purpose it serves, and I can distinguish it from storage. I know far more than the very basics of a computer. I was just wondering what was using all the extra RAM up. It was bothering me because prior, my phone was using a lot less. Idk why you assumed I didn't understand what RAM and storage was.
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Read your own post again and see if you can figure out why i thought it needed explaining.
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Read your own post again and see if you can figure out why i thought it needed explaining.
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Yeah I didn't mention storage once.
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Yeah I didn't mention storage once.
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EDIT: No, you didn't mention storage. But just by asking the question, people generally are demonstrating a clear lack of understanding about how computers work. I usually just keep quiet, but every now and then, I feel compelled to fully explain it in the hope that the topic won't return. Alas, it always does.
I apologize that you were the unlucky one that I singled out on this occasion. I did not mean to offend. I thought I was being helpful. Maybe I helped someone else.
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Good night to all. I have the stock unbranded rom for Argentina v4.4.2 and I am very disappointed with it performance. I use one app to clean ram and liberate the ram used by app in background that I am not using. The problem is that I have 900 mb unused ram and the phone has lag... When I open an app I have lag, when type on keyboard I have lag, etc. Several times and really, it's very angry for me . Any solution? Some files must be to erase? Maybe I didn't the full wipe correctly when I had installed the new rom.. Really, I don't know...
Thanks in advance!
Did you try a factory reset? You can also root the device and uninstall bloatware. I like using "System App Remover" for this purpose. Flashing a custom rom would be my recommendation, but if you want to stick with the stock rom, I would say you should just get rid everything you don't need and see if that helps.
First of all stop using those ram clean apps. They do more harm then good. It doesn't matter how much ram unused ram you have left. Android takes care of it. It isn't Windows where it matters.
It can be multiple things. The first thing you could try is to do a factory reset and/or try a different rom.
Lennyz1988 said:
First of all stop using those ram clean apps. They do more harm then good. It doesn't matter how much ram unused ram you have left. Android takes care of it. It isn't Windows where it matters.
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I've heard this argument a million times now, but I don't buy it. Android does a terrible job of managing ram on its own. I've always had hugely improved performance once I started manually controlling running processes.
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I've heard this argument a million times now, but I don't buy it. Android does a terrible job of managing ram on its own. I've always had hugely improved performance once I started manually controlling running processes.
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+1 with @Lennyz1988
Ram cleaning apps damage the phone than helping it much.
Be done with the bloat and the unnecessary stuff that we linger on with and I bet you wont need a ram cleaning app.
Since the day I am on CM, I dont remember when I last used the ram manager.
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+1 with @Lennyz1988
Ram cleaning apps damage the phone than helping it much.
Be done with the bloat and the unnecessary stuff that we linger on with and I bet you wont need a ram cleaning app.
Since the day I am on CM, I dont remember when I last used the ram manager.
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Despite all the people who make this claim, I'm yet to hear a single convincing argument as to how these apps actually damage the phone. I don't have bloat because I have exclusively used AOSP based ROMs for years. I don't have a single app on my devices that I don't use regularly.
You're advocating great practice by suggesting to avoid software bloat before trying to clean out RAM, but step one isn't always enough. On my GS4 I have no need for a RAM cleaning app because it just barely has sufficient RAM to handle what I use it for. Occasionally, I kill applications individually through the Android system, but it's nothing too crazy so I don't need something to handle multiple app terminations simultaneously.
Newer software keeps needing more and more RAM, and older devices have difficulty providing what is demanded. I have the lightest possible ROM I could find for my tf101, but the fact is it simply becomes unresponsive when I am multitasking unless I regularly clear out the memory. 1GB of RAM is too much of a limiting factor. We could avoid this whole problem if manufacturers focused on providing sufficient memory rather than pointlessly high resolution displays and overpowered CPUs and GPUs. Until then, we will continue to see the effects of Android's terrible memory management. It leaves tons of things running when there is no use for them. RAM cleaning apps free you from that disaster by allowing you to create rules for sets of applications rather than having Android refusing to terminate processes that should not be running.
Thanks to all! It's obvious that to use cleaners app add one more process running and take off free ram. This problem take a long time already and I must say that I had tried a lot of roms, official and customized.. The problem is the same. It's like with the across the time add specific files to the system storage and it's not deleted when I make a factory reset.. I have not idea to do to clean this problem.. It's frustrated right now because I have 2 Gb of ram and it doesn't seems enough..
Tomorrow I will a new factory reset to prove if the performance increase..
Thanks!
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Thanks to all! It's obvious that to use cleaners app add one more process running and take off free ram. This problem take a long time already and I must say that I had tried a lot of roms, official and customized.. The problem is the same. It's like with the across the time add specific files to the system storage and it's not deleted when I make a factory reset.. I have not idea to do to clean this problem.. It's frustrated right now because I have 2 Gb of ram and it doesn't seems enough..
Tomorrow I will a new factory reset to prove if the performance increase..
Thanks!
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IMHO it is a hardware fault. If nothing has helped, go to the samsung care and act like a child who knows nothing if they ask you about something
Trust me, it wont help.
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