I have been monitoring the memory usage with ATK on an unrooted stock EVO. It is showing me nothing running and 96MB free. I reboot and go into ATK and kill all the running apps (Why do I care to have the football app running?) Kill all tasks and I have close to 200MB avail. So, where did my 110 MB go through out the day?
Is anyone seeing a mem leak in Toast's rooted ROM?
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Hi Guys,
DOes anyone experience the problem of the desire killing off active/background apps even though there still is 100MB of RAM left??
I'm on Leedriod 1.5 and i have autokiller installed with just "optimum" settings active. I also have process manager installed without the auto kill service activated.
Regardless of what I do and how many apps I open, my free RAM can never drop below 100MB. The phone just starts killing off the background processes at that point.
Can anyone help me figure out why this is happening?
Thanks!!
How can you blame the OS when you have an active task killer installed???
AND it isn't even a stock Desire but a rooted one, running who knows what settings.
My car drives badly after I changed the engine and put two handbrakes on... LMAO!
things like this i do not simply understand
a taskmanager: ends processes to free up ram
your question: why is my ram so high?
PLEASE tell me you see the resemblance.
What a useless topic
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Autokiller is only set to kill apps when free range reaches 50mb. However, the os seems to be doing it much earlier at 100mb.
That is the reason I'm asking. Just wanted to know if by default the desire 's settings are configured that way
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Can anyone help me figure out why this is happening?
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First of all, try removing all your task killers/process managers for a time and see what stock Android process management is doing. In addition, if you have spare parts installed, check that you haven't set process management to aggressive. Just because you've told your task killers not to start killing until there is less than 50mb free, doesn't mean that this is what they are actually doing!
IMHO, all auto task killers are a waste of time - having everything killed at 50mb free memory is just a waste of 50mb of memory, but that is beside the point!
Regards,
Dave
I have started to notice the performance of my htc Desire degrading.
Apps take longer to load. Where before it was almost instant, now I have to look at plain black or white screens while the apps load.
Not sure what could be causing the problem. Anyway i can find out whats the causel?
Its a stock unrooted 2.1 desire.
Only things i have loaded recently is HTC IME keyboard mod and "what the doodle". all other apps were running for a long time.
Stock Unrooted 2.1? Just install 2.2, it's much faster.
I have found that the amount of available memory/RAM decreases the more you use the device. Not sure if its due to a memory leak somewhere, apps getting greedy with RAM, or what. I find that when it gets to a point thats too low for my taste, or performance starts to degrade, a simple restart works to clear up the issue. This happens even with a task manager, so I am not sure what the cause of the memory degradation is.
Mine did the same whilst on 2.1
Does a re-boot not speed things back up? If not it could be a dodgy app hogging memory.
When this happened to me, I fixed it by backing up using mybackup pro (worth every penny) and doing a factory reset. Takes only half an hour, and gets your desire back to box fresh speedy. Just be mindful of which apps you put back on.
I also take it your stock desire is branded? When your carrier releases 2.2 to you, you'll see a vast improvement too.
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I noticed this on my Desire (2.2 custom ROM) just now, and it seems to be a memory thing as according to "Android System Information" the CPU usage is low (under 10%) while the RAM usage is high (only 7% free). Is there any way to prevent the RAM going so low and performance degrading as a result? Will a task killer help for this? (I've read not to use them as Android's meant to take care of tasks but if it's not doing a good enough job of clearing up old tasks then surely it would be better to use one?)
Es task manager works well for me when my ram is getting low. Nice not having to reboot. Im on froyo 2.2
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Stock Desire on 2.1 used to slow down once it got to about 40mb free. Now running 2.2 and its always above 100mb. Runs fast all the time now but I keep my task manager from the 1.5 days as its handy to know what is running and using up the RAM
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ergoulf said:
Es task manager works well for me when my ram is getting low. Nice not having to reboot. Im on froyo 2.2
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What do you do in ES Task Manager to free up your RAM? I tried "Kill All" but it didn't seem to have much effect (still stays at around 40 MB free). Had to restart in the end to get the performance back up to scratch (now has over 140 MB free).
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I have found that the amount of available memory/RAM decreases the more you use the device. Not sure if its due to a memory leak somewhere, apps getting greedy with RAM, or what. I find that when it gets to a point thats too low for my taste, or performance starts to degrade, a simple restart works to clear up the issue. This happens even with a task manager, so I am not sure what the cause of the memory degradation is.
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Same issue here and i suspect that default browser is the cause.
When free RAM goes very low, generally after one or two days from the startup in my case, i use free app OSManager to see all running processes. This app shows several instances of default browser process (called Internet), each one eating 40-50 Mb of RAM and in sleep state (not zombie). System never removes them and manual killing doesn't work, so there stay in memory over time. I tried different task managers, but only OSManager shows this detail.
To confirm this hypothesis, now i start to use Dolphin instead of default browser: in a couple of days, i will know if the issue is still present.
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Same issue here and i suspect that default browser is the cause.
When free RAM goes very low, generally after one or two days from the startup in my case, i use free app OSManager to see all running processes. This app shows several instances of default browser process (called Internet), each one eating 40-50 Mb of RAM and in sleep state (not zombie). System never removes them and manual killing doesn't work, so there stay in memory over time. I tried different task managers, but only OSManager shows this detail.
To confirm this hypothesis, now i start to use Dolphin instead of default browser: in a couple of days, i will know if the issue is still present.
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Well, this isn't the cause for me as I have always run Dolphin Browser HD on the Desire. I don't use the default browser. I think it's mainly system processes that just stack up in the background. I found that going through and trimming the list of system processes did free up the memory, but it's just as fast to restart the device.
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I am currently running the rcm rom but have issues with the ram becoming low very quickly. I had the same issue with stock rom so it aint the rom. I am using advanced task killer to auto kill apps every hour. My ram often goes down to 90mb without hardly any apps been open. Any ideas
Uninstall advanced task killer, it does more evil then good when running android 2.2 or above.
Thanks for the reply, what do you recommend doing to kill aps etc
Nothing, Android 2.2 or above automatically closes the apps not needed. Never used such thing myself, Ram always above 90 MB.
I have just switched to leedriod 2.4.1 seems to have solved the issues, looks like the gb roms arent quite there yet!
I'm running a 4.2.1 JB rom with a 2.6.38.8 evervolv-dives-jellybean kernal and I'm having problems with what acts like RAM shortage problems where a game or program will just close as if its overloading the ram. Is there a way to reallocate more of the stock memory to be used as system RAM or should I try a different kernal?
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I'm running a 4.2.1 JB rom with a 2.6.38.8 evervolv-dives-jellybean kernal and I'm having problems with what acts like RAM shortage problems where a game or program will just close as if its overloading the ram. Is there a way to reallocate more of the stock memory to be used as system RAM or should I try a different kernal?
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Use less apps. Android kills apps when it's low on memory. You can't magically allocate more memory than the device has.
Hi guys, so my 3 year old Gnex VZW verison has served me well but I find it just chokes itself so quickly (ram free under 100mb) so I need your help! I have gone back to 4.2.2 stock (rooted and xposed framework) and this is what I find happening,,
In no time flat, 25 apps/services are loaded in memory, I have tried Advanced task Killer, Greenify, smartbooster and none really do the trick. My pain in the butt combination of apps getting stuck in recents menu that I have to clear manually, then advance task kill then greenify just to prevent the Nexus from chocking itself is a chore.
My gnex cannot be the only one that chokes so hard so fast, at no time does it ever have more than 300mb ram free (even after fresh boot) and after just a few minutes of use i'm choking at just under 100mb (to the point things take for ever to load until I clear, clear, clear), so help me obi-wan kenobi, you're my only hope!
Thanks guys!
riz
p.s. i have also used LagFix (fstrim) too
* update, root plus greenify and no task killers installed seems to keep the gnex running pretty decent. Still have to clear out recent apps all the time to free up ram but at least greenify keeps most apps from loading unnecessarily and hogging ram/resources
What I have done are in the past are:
1. I got a Kitkat rom and installed bsmitty's Dirty V Kernel SR (Super Ram) version. It adds (or more like, retrieves) about 60mb of ram, if I am not mistaken. Anyhow, when your phone is chocking like that, 60mb might be the life-saver.
2. Uninstall apps you don't use! At some point, you are installing apps like crazy while not uninstalling the ones that you seldom use... and they end up being memory hogs. This has been by far the best solution for me. My Gnex on the latest Lollipop rom is running comfortably with 320mb rams free max. Most of the time, it runs with at least 200 mb of rams free.
+Apps like FB are especially heavy. Just uninstall them and add them to your bookmarks. I found this effective in terms of releasing ram.
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What I have done are in the past are:
1. I got a Kitkat rom and installed bsmitty's Dirty V Kernel SR (Super Ram) version. It adds (or more like, retrieves) about 60mb of ram, if I am not mistaken. Anyhow, when your phone is chocking like that, 60mb might be the life-saver.
2. Uninstall apps you don't use! At some point, you are installing apps like crazy while not uninstalling the ones that you seldom use... and they end up being memory hogs. This has been by far the best solution for me. My Gnex on the latest Lollipop rom is running comfortably with 320mb rams free max. Most of the time, it runs with at least 200 mb of rams free.
+Apps like FB are especially heavy. Just uninstall them and add them to your bookmarks. I found this effective in terms of releasing ram.
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I'll look into Kernel SR but you might look into greenify, it allows you to hibernate apps (like Facebook) until the user launches it, you basically can keep all those apps from auto-launching as android allows and keeps them out of memory (automatically) until called upon. The task managers along with greenify were cancelling each other out, task managers would bring things out of hibernation just for greenify to hibernate them, it was a vicious circle until i uninstalled task killer and have greenified only
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...might look into greenify, it allows you to hibernate apps (like Facebook) until the user launches it...
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Thanks for the suggestion, I really appreciate it. I have already used it before though, and because I am a light-user, I gained little utility from installing greenify. Hope you figure out a way to get your phone running smoothly without ram-choking.