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[Q] How much free memory do you have?

I´m just curious here, how much memory do you have free on your phone?
Mine are 148 MB free ROM and 281 MB free RAM.
Does this in anyway correlate to how fast games run?
Bring me some of your numbers! =)

the xperia play has a total of 380 MB ROM , its enough for lots of apps , and if its not , you can always move your apps to SD Card and free some space

silmes said:
I´m just curious here, how much memory do you have free on your phone?
Mine are 148 MB free ROM and 281 MB free RAM.
Does this in anyway correlate to how fast games run?
Bring me some of your numbers! =)
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More space make more speed.. if u want mor, just push your app to SDCARD..

On ics beta i have ~150m RAM
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Nxmate said:
On ics beta i have ~150m RAM
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That´s interesting. My numbers in the first post is on 4.0.2.A.0.42. I have removed apps that I deem unneccesary and want to make gaming run as speedy as possible.
I wonder if the new update will use more or less RAM than before, or if it even will be a difference?

Click the link in my signature to add more internal memory on your phones. I have about 275MB free on my internal memory now btw.

I have 52MB free

345MiB woot

86mb free. It looks like I need ti move more apps to sd.
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internal total 380mb..247mb free..use link2sd 2ext with 0.96gb total...598 free and about 180mb ram free..

About 20mb
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It's this bad
How do you guys have plenty of memory? I'm unrooted but even if I was I don't see how I could bring about drastic changes.
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anbu187 said:
Click the link in my signature to add more internal memory on your phones. I have about 275MB free on my internal memory now btw.
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Can't see anything in your sig on xda app?
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KindaUndisputed said:
It's this bad
How do you guys have plenty of memory? I'm unrooted but even if I was I don't see how I could bring about drastic changes.
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If you´re rooted you can bring about drastic changes in the memory-area, turn off stuff running in the background eating RAM-memory etc.
I have used titanium backup and deleted a lot of system apps that I don´t use. I use my phone for: Telephoning, Messaging, Surfing, Gaming (emulator), and Google Maps. Nothing more.

KindaUndisputed said:
It's this bad
How do you guys have plenty of memory? I'm unrooted but even if I was I don't see how I could bring about drastic changes.
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All I can tell you do is root and remove system apps. That frees up a lot of space. Also put everything on the sd card.

Only 150 ram on ics beta

SirDeadly said:
Only 150 ram on ics beta
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Is that it ? how the hell are we supposed to run games like Shadowgun and GTA 3 on Ice Cream Sandwich with that much free RAM ?!

sufy1000 said:
Is that it ? how the hell are we supposed to run games like Shadowgun and GTA 3 on Ice Cream Sandwich with that much free RAM ?!
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You must have a misunderstood concept of free RAM. Actually, the less free RAM you have, the faster your apps get. This free RAM is consumed by cached processes invisible to anything else that is not a system app. You can go to the Free RAM screen, press Menu and select Show Cached Processes to see your true free RAM. The more cached RAM there is, the faster it gets. I remember someone here at these forums actually posted the difference between "free" and free RAM, can't remember though. The Xperia Play can run BOTH of them at the same time, just like an iPhone 4S, especially if you are supercharged.
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320 could be 360 if I flash the 40mb increase. No apps on SD
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Also using Link2sd with a 2ext 1gb partition(575mb used/443mb free). Internal memory's at 201mb free. RAM is ~200(240 on boot, settles around 202).
-Stock R800x 2.3.3 rooted w/o vzw's bloatware. Ive got zeppelinrox's v6 Supercharger update9 r7 running with option 6 and bulletproof important apps. SetCPU stock speeds, just some profiles. Dalvik linked to sd as well.
I've gotta say it took some tweaking, but this phone is SNAPPY. All thanx to the devs here at xda. Lots of love fellas!

How to do with the lack of RAM?

Dunno for your, but for me it's hell. After boot's over, i have about 100mb of RAM avalaible and as it gets around 40mb, phone gets very laggy (like, call starts 2minutes after pressing call button...)
That happens quickly of course, since most apps use around 20mb (browser much more)... After that, only thing to do is reboot... And that take some time! And it can takesSo is there a way to "improve" that?

What I have started doing in my routine is when I am done using an app instead of just pressing the home button I press the back button until I am all the way out of the app. Also I don't use a task manager anymore since it seemed to hurt my phone more then help.
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I'm on doomlord kernel v14 with zRAM activated and Xperia s rom and when I'm not listening to music the ram free is around 200mb if you can I recommend you to flash that Rom doesn't has lot of internal apps and when flashing the firmware it gets a lot of internal memory free
Other would be that you buy ram manager pro from market its a very helpful app when to ram managing is related
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RAM Manager seems to hzve no effect...
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Jmayorga96 said:
I'm on doomlord kernel v14 with zRAM activated and Xperia s rom and when I'm not listening to music the ram free is around 200mb if you can I recommend you to flash that Rom doesn't has lot of internal apps and when flashing the firmware it gets a lot of internal memory free
Other would be that you buy ram manager pro from market its a very helpful app when to ram managing is related
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Do they have a CDMA version avaliable? And if so, what's the link? (For the rom of course)

kojinmalia said:
Dunno for your, but for me it's hell. After boot's over, i have about 100mb of RAM avalaible and as it gets around 40mb, phone gets very laggy (like, call starts 2minutes after pressing call button...)
That happens quickly of course, since most apps use around 20mb (browser much more)... After that, only thing to do is reboot... And that take some time! And it can takesSo is there a way to "improve" that?
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I use the v6 spercharger script and I have an average of 180mb free ( not when playing games)...try it just search the forum

Sneaky4296 said:
Do they have a CDMA version avaliable? And if so, what's the link? (For the rom of course)
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Ups that Rom is only for GSM buy try that app or v6 supercharger script both helps a lot
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I use v6 supercharger and titanium backup to move most of my apps to sdcard. I usually hover around 190-200mb free. And that is with all gameloft games, shadowgun, and about a total of 40+ games. I am also on stock Verizon rom with all bloat deleted via titanium. No lag anywhere. Everything is silky smooth.
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Try doing a clean flash and delete all the stock crap apps, then try with Ram manager, on my play i feel that supercharger is not helping in games, niether on battery life, i will try using zram from doomkernel.
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How do I enable the zram? I have the DooMKernel already installed.
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Im searching onto that XD

beez1717 said:
How do I enable the zram? I have the DooMKernel already installed.
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here u have file to enable zram (flash it):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25610363&postcount=2226

Try using auto memory manager
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i think about your problem with ram
(every method need root, some recovery too)
U can make swap file/partition if u have enough fast sdcard (i heard that min. is class 4, but more=better). Partition can be created using recovery i think (I never need this). Swap file can be created using a-swapper or Swapper for Root - I've newer used it too

Why the hell do so many people ***** about the lack of this and that? You had to known what you were getting into BEFORE you bought the damn thing! If not your just a retard and should sell your phone and buy something you'll be happy with or just deal with it
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yes flashing custom kernel is a good option to aid in that aspect.

thatsupnow said:
Why the hell do so many people ***** about the lack of this and that? You had to known what you were getting into BEFORE you bought the damn thing! If not your just a retard and should sell your phone and buy something you'll be happy with or just deal with it
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I switched from an OG droid so having 512 mb of ram is a dream in my opinion. Lol. I appreciate what I have and that is a sweet gaming phone that cost me $35 because I got the phone free and only had to pay the CA tax on the full unsubsidized price of the phone. I love my phone to death! Sure I could do with more ram but it works just fine for me as is ^_^
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beez1717 said:
I switched from an OG droid so having 512 mb of ram is a dream in my opinion. Lol. I appreciate what I have and that is a sweet gaming phone that cost me $35 because I got the phone free and only had to pay the CA tax on the full unsubsidized price of the phone. I love my phone to death! Sure I could do with more ram but it works just fine for me as is ^_^
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Exactly! Its not the absolute best but it is great none the less, it just seems like alot of people get the thing then come straight here to ***** about what it doesn't have. Makes me wonder where their mind was when they bought it or got it on contract
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V6 supercharge helps.
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kojinmalia said:
Dunno for your, but for me it's hell. After boot's over, i have about 100mb of RAM avalaible and as it gets around 40mb, phone gets very laggy (like, call starts 2minutes after pressing call button...)
That happens quickly of course, since most apps use around 20mb (browser much more)... After that, only thing to do is reboot... And that take some time! And it can takesSo is there a way to "improve" that?
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have tried to use the true ancestor rom?? I use the version 1.4b, and I have alrederor of 250 mb of free ram with facebook, and browser active player reaches 200 mb!!

Riddle me this...

2 phones, both run exactly the same apps, aside from the rooted one that runs cwm, titanium backup, setcpu, Dropbox.
1 phone - rooted, running stock ics, frozen apps, lean!
2 phone - stock ics.
Memory usage is less on the stock phone.
Ram manager
1 550mb
2 407mb
Applications running
1 451
2 380
What gives? I thought freezing was supposed to free up more memory...

How in the he*l do you have 450 applications???
Mine is more like your #1 but with over 50 more apps added, and I still have only 192, total, running and non running...
And the memory stays around 350.
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chances are he's only loaded each of those apps just once aside form facebook twitter and other stuff.. no one really uses all those apps

One just sucks moar. Awesome advice ftw
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Ya no one uses even ten percent of those apps.
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Sorry, those aren't apps running, it's mb of memory used.

No 2 phones are the same...
End of story
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Maximum RAM memory is used

Hi
It may be stupid question, Although all apps are closed maximum ram is used. System uses the ram for backend running applications but how can I get free up some RAM memory?
Rom: AOKP
Thanks in advance
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Kill unnecessary services running in the bg. Recent apps is just a list of recent apps not running ones.
And since RAM is random access memory saying RAM memory is like calling an ATM an ATM machine.

How do I kill bg services?
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Settings\apps\running.

I stopped the running apps & clear end cache processes but it didn't free only few MB
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ipskang said:
I stopped the running apps & clear end cache processes but it didn't free only few MB
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try to update to build 5 i understand that they fix ram leaking error

Build 5 improved it a lot
Thank you for the help
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Or saying vin number God that drives me nuts
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Another way to improve battery life.

Not sure if this has been mentioned before but. One thing I have done is remove all the clutter and sweep it under the rug. I never realized how much useless crap I actually install. Could be 150 to 200 apps. Recently what I did was rely on titanium backup for app storage. Basicly all I do on a fresh install is restore the bare minimum. For example, only the apps on my home screen. Anything more than that is too much. All the rest of the crap I leave it in the closet and if I really do need it I can quickly install it in seconds with titanium. By only having 6 or 10 apps vs. 200 apps for some reason my battery last much longer. You will be surprised at how many of those apps never get instaled after a week or two.
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I never have that many apps I stick with around 10-30 apps
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I have 141 apps (including blaotware) and I don't think uninstalling them will make a difference since most apps behave them selves and the other apps I just greenify them
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Oh, now. im talking about downloaded.

XxKINGxX2580 said:
Oh, now. im talking about downloaded.
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Yeah I know, there's only a
Like 20 bloatware apps, so over a 100 downloaded apps
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kevinrubio1 said:
I have 141 apps (including blaotware) and I don't think uninstalling them will make a difference since most apps behave them selves and the other apps I just greenify them
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Yes, this is the same idea. However not installing them from the get go leaves so much more space for the phone to do it's job. Just saying I noticed an improvement and it worth a try. With how many times we flash from one rom to another and then restore. You all got nothing to loose.
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With that many apps I can see how it would help, but damn I struggle to find 25 apps I would even want lol.
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All of my 30 apps which is few amount are more less root related resource apps that actually come in handy on a phon3 like titanium...zedge..setcpu...cpuspy...xda
..wikipedia... and maybe a game or two.
People that have more than 50 apps probably never even use them.. the most widely used part of any phone is sms txt messaging even over phone calls... and then the camera
Every other one of the million apps on android are mostly corny and useless.
Im sure there are a wide number of kool and use full ones but really think about the average app u run across.Its likely dumb!
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I think the goal is to improve battery life without ultimately sacrificing user experience.
Less apps does mean less things consuming ram and activating GPS, data etc which does consumes battery tho.
Every once in a while try just enabling power saver and closing apps when you don't need them.
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