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[Q] Is my RAM usage 387/784MB normal?

I'm assuming some is being used by the OS

Part of the ram is reserved for the gpu in every android phone
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How much RAM are you showing?
my phone says I have 784mb of ram, I thought we were supposed to have 1GB. Can you guys check your phone please?
I checked in manage applications and using Elixir.
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Same here
Samsung hercules! !

You're always using ram,so you'll never see 1gb free because processes and apps are using it.
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jburnette87 said:
You're always using ram,so you'll never see 1gb free because processes and apps are using
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On another bubble bursting note, the International & AT&T Galaxy S IIs, both show 837MB of RAM.

ronj1986 said:
On another bubble bursting note, the International & AT&T Galaxy S IIs, both show 837MB of RAM.
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Isn't some of the RAM allocated to the GPU? The Adreno 220 might require more RAM relative to the Mali as doesn't the Mali have its own dedicated RAM?
Just wondering.

Here's my info
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Mine also shows 784mb. I think its all that Tmobile bloatware. I hear most of them are installed as part of the system so they are all taking up that RAM. It should be around 830 shouldn't it? if root is available this should be fixed right?

Painguy said:
Mine also shows 784mb. I think its all that Tmobile bloatware. I hear most of them are installed as part of the system so they are all taking up that RAM. It should be around 830 shouldn't it? if root is available this should be fixed right?
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Yes with root it will help bump up ram, but we will not get full access to the advertised 1gb of ram.
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OuncE718 said:
Yes with root it will help bump up ram, but we will not get full access to the advertised 1gb of ram.
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of course thats a given. that unavailable amount is used by the GPU & system correct?

784 here too. On a side note, I found something running called "tethering manager" & "wi-fi sharing manager", so maybe they're whats stopping people from tethering freely.

Painguy said:
of course thats a given. that unavailable amount is used by the GPU & system correct?
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Yes, your correct. Android OS is built to multitask so the system has many different apps running in the background at all times to help certain system apps to loud up immediately etc.
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The international and AT&T's Galaxy SII don't have all that crap on their phone. Ours has so much bloatware that's using the RAM that's why we're at 784. If you remove all the crapware that T-mobile put you'll get 837 too.

Mine shows 1.932GB of system storage.
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RAM amount
Can someone with Terminal installed or adb shell access on their GSII tell me the amount of total RAM reported by the "free" command?
Thanks!
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Wow. I love it!
Thank you!
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Greetings:
I wonder if my ram usage is normal. I currently have 387 / 784MB. It occupies more than 50% even though I don't have any active application running. Why is that? What do you have?
Thanks.

Yep, that's what I'm seeing as well.

free RAM in Xperia S

I've got 150-180MB of free RAM in Xperia S (generic 2.55 CE1) (settings-apps-running)
and you?
ICS restarts my opera mobile everytime I open smth else... no real multitasking...
do you have more memory?

I have 220mb all time, but max when i clean memory with advanced task killer is 330mb. PAC 20.0.0
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The higher the screen resolution the bigger ram need to render.
For example, Xperia P have 1GB of ram. And my free ram around 400-450mb. But on Xperia Z for example, it have 2GB of ram but user report only have around 900-1000mb free ram.
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EVen I have around 200MB mostly. Hoping JB will give better result!

it is normal of cource,especially if you have many apps installed..
on 4.2.2 jb (cm10.1) i ve got 359 ram and i've got 3 pages of apps...(with the pre installed ones)

I've got around 450 max if I clear on CM10. I usually don't have too many apps running. I find Facebook Maps and Fruit ninja bothering especially. But still: free RAM is wasted RAM. Low RAM doesn't slow down performance until it gets critical low levels.

Stock ics.latest 2.55!
I have 400mb until 420mb free ram.
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spahbod said:
Stock ics.latest 2.55!
I have 400mb until 420mb free ram.
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Wat app are you using?
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element800 said:
Wat app are you using?
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Dx toolbox.
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4.0.4 jellybean ported version,,
free ram 200mb

Sv: free RAM in Xperia S
Yet another free ram post - something new and refreshing.
Somewhere around..

TheFirstFishy said:
Yet another free ram post - something new and refreshing.
Somewhere around..
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this..
@others please read before continuing
http://www.androidcentral.com/ram-what-it-how-its-used-and-why-you-shouldnt-care

How come so less ram. I use which 512 mb ram but still 200 280 mb free
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subh98 said:
How come so less ram. I use which 512 mb ram but still 200 280 mb free
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Did you read my post before?
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I dont believe that: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6426198
I prefer windows not linux ram using

Jaapp said:
I've got around 450 max if I clear on CM10. I usually don't have too many apps running. I find Facebook Maps and Fruit ninja bothering especially. But still: free RAM is wasted RAM. Low RAM doesn't slow down performance until it gets critical low levels.
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how low is to be considered as critically low?

What's your average remaining memory at the end of the day?

As the title say, I usually get just about 500-700 MB left at the end of the day. That's without killing apps the whole day. Is that just fine?
Also why do RAM starts at 1750? I thought we have a 2Gb Ram? I'm on x14 Rom if that even mean anything. TIA.
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I think this way- unused RAM is wasted RAM I usually have 700-200 mb left. The 1.7gb is probably because some of it is allocated elsewhere? Not really sure..
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I don't look at it as wasted because it doesn't go anywhere if you don't use it. I just thought the phone starts to go laggy when you have almost used up most of it.
Can android OS sort of free some RAM by closing some apps that's been inactive for a long time automatically?
Maybe that function is there and I just don't know where to find it. A help will surely be appreciated.
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I think that if you feel like you've used your phone "regularly" and you still have 500-700mb at the end of the day, that's great!
Android does have some memory management, and unused ram is "wasted ram", but on earlier devices, the android system and a few apps would use a majority of the memory, and so to be able to use your memory with the apps you were using right then, you had to use some pretty aggressive memory management.
500mb is still a nice chunk of ram to have left over, in my opinion.

None my phone does not last till the night. Battery is very good for a phone this big but I am a very heavy user as well
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android memory management All you need to know
I did a quick search and this was first one that came up.. Leave android alone to manage itself . Killing apps and background processes in Android just causes the phone to work harder.
The above does not apply to bad or rogue apps that you have NOT USED or started.
read this post and you will understand why the above is VERY important on android .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=904023
There are thousands of other post about memory management.. Just use the search ...

jinda628 said:
As the title say, I usually get just about 500-700 MB left at the end of the day. That's without killing apps the whole day. Is that just fine?
Also why do RAM starts at 1750? I thought we have a 2Gb Ram? I'm on x14 Rom if that even mean anything. TIA.
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Look at that notification bar LOL
CARBON NIGHTLY | CABIN FEVER WHISKY

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Look at that notification bar LOL
CARBON NIGHTLY | CABIN FEVER WHISKY
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lol! I guess that's what's eating my mem up hehe.
Anyway, the phone is fine, just wanna know if the mem usage is normal.
Also why does my SS says 1750mb? I thought note 2's mem is 2gb?
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System processes and video card
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You_got_owned123 said:
System processes and video card
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I see. So if I have this phone factory resetted/wiped without any user apps, I should have/see 1750gb remaining ideally?
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jinda628 said:
I see. So if I have this phone factory resetted/wiped without any user apps, I should have/see 1750gb remaining ideally?
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No.. android will pre load apps into ram.. It swaps them out for those used most by the user as time goes on. It will keep Most all the apps sitting in ram waiting . The cpu and system is designed to do this. Holding something in ram.Is less taxing on the batter and cpu cycles then it is releasing it and freeing ram..
in android / Linux FREE RAM IS WASTED RAM.. this is the part you are not understanding.. Android will use minimum of half the available ram at all times. If you kill process or remove one app . it will bring the next most used app up. KILLING apps or process from ram just makes your phone work harder and use more battery... Read Article. One more thing. Say you have 10 apps sitting in ram using 80% of your ram.. Then launch one games that needs 50%. android will shut down apps sitting in ram for the least used and provide to the Game..So killing off apps only cause the os to have to think about ram kill and launch apps. Not to mention it does not keep a accurate account of apps you do actually use the most. Working the cpu harder . there for using more battery ..

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What is this beautiful font?

jinda628 said:
I see. So if I have this phone factory resetted/wiped without any user apps, I should have/see 1750gb remaining ideally?
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No, because there are apps that run off the get go. Such things like the keyboard, launcher, etc. Those don't usually fall under system RAM.. so you'll never really have 1750 Mb free. The 1750 includes more than just user apps.
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Low ram

Please help! I don't know why my phone is running low on ram. I'm using greenify donate and fast reboot pro but still running low on ram. Apps like browser, gangstar Vegas and rr3 always crashes! I'm so frustrated with this phone!
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Try removing the bloatware if you run too many apps, will help you free some ram
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also setting your oom values to agresive should start killing apps more
i found that ram cleaners were the cause of my lack of ram
so i stopped using them, i have also learned to delete apps i dont use
these few things should help
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I've removed Google+ and I'll try to remove other apps like Google search. I hope it will work
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You can root ur device and can use link2sd to link all your apps yo sdcard .Hope this will help
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0,o That's Weird!
luigi0824 said:
Please help! I don't know why my phone is running low on ram. I'm using greenify donate and fast reboot pro but still running low on ram. Apps like browser, gangstar Vegas and rr3 always crashes! I'm so frustrated with this phone!View attachment 2525583
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Check my attachment, I too have an Xperia S, and at the moment I'm running over 17 apps, you see the scroll bar on the screenshot right?? and I still have around 150mb of RAM free.. If you don't mind, can you upload a screenshot of the cached processes? It's most probably bloatware.. If you can upload the screenshot.. We can figure out what eats up your RAM so much.. and remove those bloatware.. :good:

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Do you use tapatalk very often? it seems to be consuming a lot of ram.. If your phone has any apps that you don't really use, remove them.. saves up ram and space..

Do you use Tasker by any chance.. If no then you should give it a try.. It really helps you to manage majority of things all together.. Like for example: you using SetCPU for profile triggers, same thing can me done with Tasker plus it consumes less ram.. And can use greenify through it.. As it is a plugin of Tasker..
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Envious_Data said:
also setting your oom values to agresive should start killing apps more
i found that ram cleaners were the cause of my lack of ram
so i stopped using them, i have also learned to delete apps i dont use
these few things should help
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How do you set your oom to agresive?
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You can use apps like android tuner to change your values to agressive
(see attatchment)
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Download GREENIFY App from play store
Its an awesome app, you can hibernate downloaded apps which you dont use it oftenly
like games browser etc
Disclaimer dont hibernate messaging apps like Whatsapp, Viber wechat link etc
I am sure this will help u alot

Use Tasker to integrate other apps like SetCPU, Task killer, battery saver, etc..
It will help you a lot to increase your ram usage..
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[GUIDE] 220 Elements Safe to Freeze in Titanium Backup 4.4.2 NE6

Root and "Titanium Backup" are needed to disable most of those.
This is how i run my Note on Stock ROM, those are the things i do not use, frees me like half a GB a RAM, saves battery and makes my phone snappier.
Please dont be dumb, if you use Calculator, dont freeze it... and more important, if you dont have another keyboard app installed, please do not freeze "Samsung Keyboard" lol use common sence please.
Those elements are safe to freeze, do not delete em, is diferend, some things are needed present when phone boots or it might get stuck in bootloop, but you can freeze all that, just leave whatever you use.
If you are just freezing, there is nothing that can be messed up, if you see something isnt working right of the apps you are using, just go and enable it back in TB.
Here is the list, 20 screenshots of the "FROZEN" list in Titanium Backup, "YouTube" is the 220th i didnt want to crop/upload a whole screenshot for just 1 element, i watch youtube on the browser.. dont see any use of the app:
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This is how my RAM looks right after my phone boots:
2GB of free RAM ! ask the guys on stock ROM Galaxy S5s how they feel lol, without debloat they are like 1.3GB / 1.8GB

What's battery life look like after doing this?
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b0bii said:
What's battery life look like after doing this?
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insanely good, will post later, as i just instaled the NE6 so everything is wiped clean including battery stats, need few cycles or recharging to be correct...
i can feel it very good

Thanks for this!

Nice thanks for this
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But isn't unused RAM wasted RAM? Or something like that ☺

Mega Montana said:
But isn't unused RAM wasted RAM? Or something like that ☺
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Only if you have nothing to use it for, like you
im showing theres a lot of RAM to be filled with usefull programs you use instead bloatware, as then everything would open much snappier and save battery, or if its filled half way with bloatware already Android will start closing your oldest open apps automaticly when there isnt enough RAM for all apps that are running...
and bloatware aways runs, so itll be the apps you installed to be closed..
Hope you get it
that is extreme Freeze tho, im just showing what CAN be frozen, so people arent afraid to do so when they wan to stop an element..

Nice

Thanks!!!
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Froze something makes the email app crash when you use the pull down notifications lol
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Froze something makes the email app crash when you use the pull down notifications lol
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CheesyNutz said:
Froze something makes the email app crash when you use the pull down notifications lol
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Did you freeze the magazine app that comes with touch wiz? I had similar issues before
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elosogrande7076 said:
Did you freeze the magazine app that comes with touch wiz? I had similar issues before
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just unfrose my magazine and unclick open with swipe up

CheesyNutz said:
Froze something makes the email app crash when you use the pull down notifications lol
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you use diferend email account than gmail? did you freeze "Email" or "Exchange" ?
Gmail should not give you any problems with the above 220 elements frozen, i never used the other build in email app, so i cant be sure.

hristopelov said:
you use diferend email account than gmail? did you freeze "Email" or "Exchange" ?
Gmail should not give you any problems with the above 220 elements frozen, i never used the other build in email app, so i cant be sure.
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Nope Gmail is my main account
Did not freeze any of them
Did freeze magazine though
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Anything in here that might effect my gps?

vibrantliker said:
Anything in here that might effect my gps?
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I would like to know this as well, my gps won't work either

SuperSmashedBro said:
I would like to know this as well, my gps won't work either
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Mine ok soon as I went outside.

SuperSmashedBro said:
I would like to know this as well, my gps won't work either
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It should not be, ive done this with many phones few years back, this is mainly samsung bloatware, google services that i dont need i know they run whenever they want in the background, all the widgets, fonts, wallpapers you wont use so no need them been loaded in RAM, and some apps that arent OS effective..
still, unfreeze everything, and see if something that was frozen was your problem...