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Hey, I'm running the stock rom on a At&T Tilt 2, most of the time I am using TouchFlo3D, once in awhile I'll switch to SPB Pocket Plus (Demo Version).
I notice when using TouchFlo3D I start with ~70MB of Ram after a soft-reset, but as I go throughout the day this takes a Very Fast dive, just using the program for messaging, etc.
When using SPB Pocket Plus (Demo version) I start with ~90MB and it keeps it up for much longer throughout the day...no need to soft-reset all day to bring it back up.
I know this would happen with my Samsung Epix running WM 6.1...but never to the extent of the Tilt 2, barely anything would fall off, I would never need to soft-reset just to get my Ram back throughout my day.
I always check my task manager too, making sure nothing stays running in the background.
Is this normal with the TouchFlo3D interface?
Anyway to free up more?
Thanks
it's a common issue with windows mobile phone to have these leaky ram. The stock rom seems to have more issue in my opinion. I think mail and also windows media will never fully close themself after you launch them.
Stock rom uses a bit more memory because of some bloatware that often got loaded. Though the latest rom (not officially out on att or htc site) seems to have less issue with slownees but still has leaky ram.
My opinion is that if you are concerned about hte ram leaky or slowness, try one of the custom roms, they often works better, faster, and took out most of the bloatware.
I had the tilt2 for about 6 months, I noticed some memory leak, but no concern, since I never had an issue with it, but since a few days ago I noticed that after turning the phone ON I have 35mb storage ram and 80mb program ram free but I can see the program memory going slowly down to 40mb and sometimes to 24mb in 20-30 min. Without ruinning any app!
What's running there? that I can't see.
I have stock At&t ROM and the 8gb MicroSD with as much I as can, pictures, videos google, bing, music, recordings etc. QUESTIONS
How I delete some of the at&t garbage with out using a custum ROM? (I don't know too much to do that)
Is there an app to manage the stolen ram?
I have over 1000 contacts, and gmail,live, hotmail and msn emails, can I move that to the microSD? how?
I would appreciate your help.
Pinguino1 said:
I had the tilt2 for about 6 months, I noticed some memory leak, but no concern, since I never had an issue with it, but since a few days ago I noticed that after turning the phone ON I have 35mb storage ram and 80mb program ram free but I can see the program memory going slowly down to 40mb and sometimes to 24mb in 20-30 min. Without ruinning any app!
What's running there? that I can't see.
I have stock At&t ROM and the 8gb MicroSD with as much I as can, pictures, videos google, bing, music, recordings etc. QUESTIONS
How I delete some of the at&t garbage with out using a custum ROM? (I don't know too much to do that)
Is there an app to manage the stolen ram?
I have over 1000 contacts, and gmail,live, hotmail and msn emails, can I move that to the microSD? how?
I would appreciate your help.
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I have a lot of contacts...but keep them all on the sim memory, I only copy over my main ppl that I talk with daily, so I can have their pics and set ringtones for them individually...a start to help with memory.
I have an 8GB card too...my memory isn't that low...the ram goes down throughout the day...faster than my last windows phone....try installing apps on the storage card verses the main memory...what I do when I can...have about 120mb of memory left on the device.
Download Crudscraper to remove nearly all traces of bloat AT&T added.
See my sig for results.
Consider investing in Mem Maid to keep on top of maintanence.
No program can remove things stored in ROM (including CrudScraper, which basically only deletes the shortcuts from the Start menu). The only way to actually get rid of the bloatware is with a custom ROM.
TF3D is a known memory hog with a lot of leakage. The new OEM ROM's version of Sense is just as bad. That's the price you pay for pretty home screens. The free CleanRAM is a good way to reclaim RAM during the day, but soft resetting is still the best way.
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TF3D is a known memory hog with a lot of leakage.
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Not true.
Miami_Son said:
No program can remove things stored in ROM (including CrudScraper, which basically only deletes the shortcuts from the Start menu). The only way to actually get rid of the bloatware is with a custom ROM.
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There's 226.05 MB of RAM used for Storage and 187.07 MB RAM used for Programs. ANYTHING within either CAN be deleted to free up space. Some badly decided removals (most) will cripple Windows, some sit taking up huge amounts of RAM. Games and music preloaded in particular.
Removing anything via Crudscraper (nothing vital) IS GONE. Watch the Storage RAM available increases to validate.
ONLY a hard reset will make Crudscraped items reappear. Otherwise they ARE erased from current OS.
Use freeware Treesize to breakout every RAM MB into tree-view directory. The "bloat" IS in user's control done carefully or just auto-magically running Crudscraper.
ROM is NOT same as RAM.
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ROM is NOT same as RAM.
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If you know this, then why are you so wrong about everything else? Nothing in ROM can be deleted manually. It may disappear (as in the case of Manila mods that overwrite files, for instance), but it isn't actually deleted. The OS and some of the carrier addons are in ROM. Crud Scraper does not delete anything in ROM. All it does is delete the shortcuts (*.lnk files) and any parts of the program that are in Storage Memory, but the parts that are in ROM remain taking up space. The only way to remove something from ROM is to install a custom ROM that has had those items removed. Much of the stuff users want to get rid of, like the AT$T crap, is in ROM and can't be deleted.
RAM! RAM! RAM! is the topic. NOT ROM (READ-ONLY)! One CAN increase available RAM deleting what's been previously written to it. Period.
Crudscraper reclaims 40-50MB if you actually read ANYTHING about it.
I notice the phone start lagging when there are less than 100Meg of available RAM on both 2.1 or 2.2 SGS.
Questions....
1. How do i make sure there will always be min 130 available when not in use?
I'm currently using Froyo Task Manager, ATK and SystemPanel together to make that happen manually. A better suggestion or use of them will be appreciated.
I also tried MemoryPlus and Taskkiller (The red android logo)
2. There are so many background service running some of them start with com.samsung.... (what are these?) do we need them?
3. Why some Apps always run without us telling them to run, or ask us to give them to permission to run on background at will?
ATK
In ATK in settings you have auto kill level, which is disabled on default.
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In ATK in settings you have auto kill level, which is disabled on default.
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I'm using JPC, ATK autokill will not able to kill at a system level like SystemPanel, so after a day of active use, the memory will still continue to reduce as some of the background service start consuming more and more memory or run more background process. E.g. Touchwiz from 17 Meg to 25 Meg.
So at the start with ATK, i will have 130Meg, after a day of active use i left with 80Meg. With Apps killed.
I use autokiller set to aggressive. memory left 152mb
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I use autokiller set to aggressive. memory left 152mb
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Cool, does that remain for few days? How often do you restart your phone?
free memory is bad memory!
why don't let android do it's job?! this ist linux with a clever memory management, not windows 95!!! deinstall all auto task killer android is handling the memory very well. it uses all it can get and if it's not enough it kills old uses apps from it. why have free memory, there is absolutely no reson for that! ram is fast, let the often used apps be there not on slow sd or nand!
Mykron said:
free memory is bad memory!
why don't let android do it's job?! this ist linux with a clever memory management, not windows 95!!! deinstall all auto task killer android is handling the memory very well. it uses all it can get and if it's not enough it kills old uses apps from it. why have free memory, there is absolutely no reson for that! ram is fast, let the often used apps be there not on slow sd or nand!
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QFT!
What is the point of having memory if it is constantly empty?
Think about it this way...If you had five friends at your house and you have five chairs, do you make 2 or 3 of your friends stand so there is always empty space or do you let everyone sit down and worry about something worthwhile?
Finguz said:
QFT!
What is the point of having memory if it is constantly empty?
Think about it this way...If you had five friends at your house and you have five chairs, do you make 2 or 3 of your friends stand so there is always empty space or do you let everyone sit down and worry about something worthwhile?
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True, upto a certain point... I don't think you need to have at least 100 or 150 mb free but it DOES seem to help to not let it get down to like 30mb...
For me:
-JM7
-animations off
-voodoo lag fix
-minfree manager set to preset agressive.
minfree manager customizes the android memory management system.
I love it this way, No lags when starting the Phone (DIALER) or anything else. The dialer annoys me the must, this must be lag free, if i want to dial i want to dial right away.
Btw, I think you have made some wrong assumptions about the Android memory management system, as mentioned, unused ram is wasted ram.
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True, upto a certain point... I don't think you need to have at least 100 or 150 mb free but it DOES seem to help to not let it get down to like 30mb...
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Agreed but I have never seen my Galaxy with free memory that low and I don't use a task killer. Of course I don't often have more than 3 or 4 apps running at the same time
This is not about letting ram do nothing.you surely don't wasn't your ram get used up by programs you don't want while you had no hand in this.All those services running I don't want.badly written programs that are hanging out in memory instead of closing.at least in symbian an app closed when you exited.
Why would you have 100MB free ? Do you have any application that needs 100MB to run ?! The android system already has enough memory to run so even if you could have 200MB of free memory you phone wouldn't run any faster you would just be able to lauch around 20 apps at the same time.
Read this:
http://geekfor.me/faq/you-shouldnt-be-using-a-task-killer-with-android/
Linux however isn’t generally affected by this. While I admit that I don’t know the architecture and reason for this… linux will run the same regardless of if you have 20mb free memory or 200mb.
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Agreed but I have never seen my Galaxy with free memory that low and I don't use a task killer. Of course I don't often have more than 3 or 4 apps running at the same time
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Dunno, I just noticed that one time my phone was VERY sluggish and memory free was around 20mb or so. Cleaning it up did seem to help (unless one of the programs killed was causing the lag of course).
Ah well... Whatever people choose right?
You guys can argue all you want that free RAM is a waste of RAM....
But it is a fact that the SGS runs much slower when the free RAM is low. This is the experience of all the SGS'es I have tried and my own as well. At least this is the case when running 2.1. I have not tested anyone with 2.2 yet.
It s starts to lag when memory is below 40 mb. So when it s low and you start an application it starts to lag. I set it to 50-55-60 and got hardly any lag. No need to keep so much free ram
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matty___ said:
It s starts to lag when memory is below 40 mb. So when it s low and you start an application it starts to lag. I set it to 50-55-60 and got hardly any lag. No need to keep so much free ram
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Which ROM are you using? as the low memory killer level for background apps is set at 40M which means you should have 40M free all the time or it will start killing background apps. This is also why task killers are useless, free ram is wasted ram for android.
I never had the experience that more free RAM is faster, perhaps with the stock rom but JC and upwards are all good by default. Animations off + Oneclick lagfix (or another) and the phone stays totally lag free.
Being an android user for 1,5 years now i'm very confident Taskkillers are useless except when an app is stuck. I've had periods where I used them allot but the phone only gets slower as the killed apps have to be loaded into the memory again.
Finguz said:
QFT!
What is the point of having memory if it is constantly empty?
Think about it this way...If you had five friends at your house and you have five chairs, do you make 2 or 3 of your friends stand so there is always empty space or do you let everyone sit down and worry about something worthwhile?
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Provided you are not expecting anymore friends. The problem happens if all your 5 friends are happily seated and along comes 2 more friends a-visiting. So you have to now move 2 inactive (for want of a better word) friends out of the seats so that you can accommodate the 2 new ones. This takes time. So why not move these friends out as soon as they become inactive so that the space is readily available when someone comes calling?
Try to have a read about garbage collector before argueing about free memory.
The more you try to have a large amount of memory, the more you will need major GC (and during major GC all activity is frozen).
If you let the system manage memory, it does minor GC as needed when it reaches min memory waterline (seems to be 50Mo on SGS).
Let the system do its job.
Get rid of task killer.
Mykron said:
free memory is bad memory!
why don't let android do it's job?! this ist linux with a clever memory management, not windows 95!!! deinstall all auto task killer android is handling the memory very well. it uses all it can get and if it's not enough it kills old uses apps from it. why have free memory, there is absolutely no reason for that! ram is fast, let the often used apps be there not on slow sd or nand!
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I completely disagree. OK, it is better to use memory, but the android memory management is extremely inefficient since it does not know which foreground and background processes are important to the user and which are not, even though it tries to figure that out. Since the Galaxy S does not allow the system to use the full 512MB of memory, this can be a critical factor. And the Galaxy S definitely lags massively when less then 70 or so MB of free RAM is available this is definitely a fact.
The biggest problem is that you cannot manually close apps and only have multitasking access to the last 6 apps used. If you use 7 apps simultaneously, the 1st app still consumes memory but you cannot even switch back to it. And there are so many useless background processes, starting up over and over again and consuming hundreds of MB memory if they are not killed in regular fashion.
Who needs gesture search, amazon mp3, layar, and all the samsung crap running in the background all the time. If you only have 10 such applications and each of them only consumes 15MB of ram, 150MB are wasted for nothing.
Every second market application registers itself as autostart on every boot, so to use a autostart manager is also mandatory.
Since everybody can easily develop for Android the application quality and resource efficiency is not always perfect. So in my opinion Android needs a task manager, this is why even Samsung integrates such a application.
Using a well configured ATK (set to ignore system applications, widgets and apps frequently used for multitasking and killing every else on screen off) and autokiller (strict setting) in addition to Autostart Manager (had to remove 40!!! useless apps from automatic startup) and lagfix, the SGS runs perfectly smooth.
I'm asking because I'm frequently out of RAM, causing extreme lags and launcher reboots. I know the CPU reserves 300MB, leaving 700MB, but how much do ROMs typically occupy? Any recommendation for leaner ROMs? Or perhaps there are modifications to enable more aggressive task killing (non-background tasks)?
843 said:
I'm asking because I'm frequently out of RAM, causing extreme lags and launcher reboots. I know the CPU reserves 300MB, leaving 700MB, but how much do ROMs typically occupy? Any recommendation for leaner ROMs? Or perhaps there are modifications to enable more aggressive task killing (non-background tasks)?
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Run out of RAM? never again with this Mod
Gnex Supported! :good::good::good:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2145133
How would that work since my GNex doesn't have an SD card? Isn't everything on the same internal memory?
843 said:
How would that work since my GNex doesn't have an SD card? Isn't everything on the same internal memory?
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First of all, that mod puts it in /system, /data and/or /cache. So it doesn't even try to use the sd card regardless.
Second, I just thought i would try it out and it throws out an error "incompatible with your device Galaxy Nexus (toro).
I figured maybe i would give swapper 2 a go again. It hasn't been updated in ages, but it seems to work. You can leave it on sdcard (which is just internal memory anyway) or change the directory to any you want. I changed mine to /cache since my sdcard is kind of full. Can even change the swapiness within the app. Only downside is the limit for it is 256mb. So far it seems to be working properly on Verizon Galaxy Nexus stock, rooted, 4.1.1 with lean kernel.
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I have done some tinkering. What seems to work for me is limiting background processes to 4 or less. These turn out to be cached processes which keep opened apps open. They eat up your remaining RAM and should ideally be removed if an app you're trying to run demands it. However, the removal process causes significant lag, possibly due to the slow internal memory the GNex has.
I'm running CM10 (4.1.2), and I have 245MB free right now. It has gone down to as low as 150MB, but rarely below. When using 4.2.2 based roms, I get as low as 40-50MB, which causes problems. I don't have high hopes for 4.3 right now.
I've noticed on my e975 EU version even with 0-1 apps open the ram free is only 1gb... Other phones have far more ram available including my previous nexus 4. Anyone else notice this? I often find with quite a few apps open I only have 2-300mb free
I've never seen less than 500mb free but its true. Never more than 1gb.
I checked earlier with 0 apps running it was at almost 1gb used.. what on earth is using almost 1gb!? If phones with only 1gb can use less than that on jelly bean.. why does this phone use so much?
According to ram usage i am using approx 400mb, task manager says im using 800mb. Maybe 400mb is reserved for system? This is on stock rom with only a few apps installed.
Keep in mind free ram is wasted ram. Free ram is like having a fast car and only using first gear. Still curious to know where it all ram is used nontheless.
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I get what your saying with 'Free ram is wasted ram' but when you run out of ram.... things will start to stutter.
Having a few apps open to find you only have like 300mb left is insane.
I've had phones with only 1gb ram before and with lots of apps open they are using like 700mb/1000mb... it's almost like this phone is going 'Oh I have 2gb available so i'm just going to chomp up 1gb for the sake of it and leave you with 1gb left....'
If you're root use an app called "Greenify". Simply hibernate the apps that don't use adding to the list of the app, then add the widget to hibernate the app that you added (all except whatsapp, twitter in my case). In addition I use a tasker manager (don't added to greenify) and add a widget too, that combination gave me 1,2 gb free using a lot of widgets
Im stock un-rooted.
I only have 2 widgets on my home screens, 1 is the standard world clock and the other is play music. Tried removing both and it barely made a dent...
kalo88 said:
Im stock un-rooted.
I only have 2 widgets on my home screens, 1 is the standard world clock and the other is play music. Tried removing both and it barely made a dent...
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That's weird, only 900 mb free?? Mmmm, try using advanced task manager from the play store (I don't remember if root is needed), that will free you more memory. But in the 900 doesn't mean that the phone will be heavier, backward the used ram is exploited to make the Optimus lighter
Seems odd eh...
I also have 600 - 700 MB of RAM when I do not use anything.
There are just icons on my homepage, and a calendar widget (stock one).
At this case, It gives me 600-700 MB of free RAM. I always use "clear RAM" button. But why it gives us so limited free ram?
I used to use 4X HD with 1GB of RAM. There were 350-400 MB free which almost same with this optimus g?
Can someone explain this situation?
Or I think we need a new update. or CM10.1
It just feels like the phone is using up too much or isn't optimised properly.
As said above, phones with only 1gb available use about 3-500mb... Our phone with 2gb available seems to use about 900mb-1gb with nothing running. It's like it's gone 'Oh there's twice as much free so I'll just use twice as much...'
What about the AOSP custom Roms ...is the ram usage is same on that kind of Roms too?
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No clue, i'm 100% stock unrooted Maybe someone will know.
My nexus 4 was far better at ram usage than my optimus g mind you. No matter what it never used more than 1.2gb
I think the Lg UI(stock firmware) is a memory hungry ...i suggest to try AOSP roms with lg skin :thumbup:
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Using cm10.1 and have always about 1.4gb free, and this is more than enough for everything.
Y, stock rom have a crazy high ram usage, now im on PA and got 1.2gb free.
My doubt would be if, on stock rom, you get many slowdowns when you experience this high RAM usage. For me (who doesn't still have a LGOG, but is seriously thinking of buying one), it's the thing that matters most - if the lack of free RAM results in worse usage.
Otherwise, most efforts could do more harm than good - a task killer that kills an app which will restart seconds later is wasting RAM and battery instead of saving them.
I'd give priority to greenifying unruly apps you need often and freezing apps you rarely/never need but won't/can't uninstall (with Titanium Backup, or any other app that can freeze system apps) - always making sure you're not freezing some system app that will bring your phone to its knees. With this well configured, I'd say a task killer would only bennefit those of you that rarely use your phone. Everyone who often takes it out of their pocket and updates Facebook/Twitter or plays games should let Android take care of itself, as it will keep in memory the apps you've been using the most - as it should.
Don't use task killer apps, they aren't good for Android. Maybe something like a LMK Manager but you need root to change lmk.
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It just feels like the phone is using up too much or isn't optimised properly.
As said above, phones with only 1gb available use about 3-500mb... Our phone with 2gb available seems to use about 900mb-1gb with nothing running. It's like it's gone 'Oh there's twice as much free so I'll just use twice as much...'
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M$ Windows does the same thing - if you have 2GB it uses only the half, if you have 8GB is use nearly 3,5-4GB. I think it preloads a few things including the most common used apps in memory perhaps?
Ok so I was running an app to check on CPU speeds (unrelated research) when I noticed that this same app was saying I only had 340mb of RAM free...
This seemed a bit strange, considering this tablet has 3GB of RAM on board, and I'm not really running anything at the moment.
I went into the storage setting page, and looked at running processes, and it says that I am using 2.5GB of my RAM.
but... if I add up all the ram usage on all the running processes, it only adds up to about 500mb....
So what is using up the other 2gb?
If anyone has any suggestions, it'd be nice, as at the moment it seems I only have 1gb of usable RAM in this device...
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Nevermind, I think I solved it... sort of. I found that the ram clearing button is in a different place than I remember, and I have managed to clear out some more space... though even after a full reset 1.5gb of ram is immediately being used. Seems a lot.
Though this is a stock rom etc so I suspect thats normal.
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nirurin said:
Ok so I was running an app to check on CPU speeds (unrelated research) when I noticed that this same app was saying I only had 340mb of RAM free...
This seemed a bit strange, considering this tablet has 3GB of RAM on board, and I'm not really running anything at the moment.
I went into the storage setting page, and looked at running processes, and it says that I am using 2.5GB of my RAM.
but... if I add up all the ram usage on all the running processes, it only adds up to about 500mb....
So what is using up the other 2gb?
If anyone has any suggestions, it'd be nice, as at the moment it seems I only have 1gb of usable RAM in this device...
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Nevermind, I think I solved it... sort of. I found that the ram clearing button is in a different place than I remember, and I have managed to clear out some more space... though even after a full reset 1.5gb of ram is immediately being used. Seems a lot.
Though this is a stock rom etc so I suspect thats normal.
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You probably aren't using all 2.5GB for actual running programs.
Windows 7 does a great job of managing money. If it has any unused memory it will hold often used programs or data in memory in case it's needed. If a running program needs that memory it's quickly shifted. Otherwise when you reopen that program you recently closed, it may load quickly from memory rather than from the drive. I suspect Android does things similar.
Modern systems programmers consider "free" memory to be wasted, so they put it to the best use they can anticipate. That gives you the benefit of all memory as often as possible. If they only allowed the memory to be used for what's needed right now, your Note would only have about 1 GB memory, and would be considerably slower.
It's a little like having the cook wash your car while waiting three hours for the turkey to cook. You get both the turkey and the car wash.
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You probably aren't using all 2.5GB for actual running programs.
Windows 7 does a great job of managing money. If it has any unused memory it will hold often used programs or data in memory in case it's needed. If a running program needs that memory it's quickly shifted. Otherwise when you reopen that program you recently closed, it may load quickly from memory rather than from the drive. I suspect Android does things similar.
Modern systems programmers consider "free" memory to be wasted, so they put it to the best use they can anticipate. That gives you the benefit of all memory as often as possible. If they only allowed the memory to be used for what's needed right now, your Note would only have about 1 GB memory, and would be considerably slower.
It's a little like having the cook wash your car while waiting three hours for the turkey to cook. You get both the turkey and the car wash.
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I'm guessing you mean android, not windows 7
Though I imagine both do the same thing lol
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I'm guessing you mean android, not windows 7
Though I imagine both do the same thing lol
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I used Windows 7 as an example because I know how it works. Like you, I imagine Android 4.3 does the same thing.
I was wondering about this as well. On my Note 2, when I clean the ram, it will go to 480-500 / 1.75g on this tab, ext I could get is 1.33/2.75.......
I went through and turned off a lot of the apps, it helped free up a little bit.
Does anyone have a list of the apps that are safe to turn off?
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I have LTE version with Snapdragon and when I start the tablet, it uses about 890MB of 2,35GB available (yes, it has 3GB RAM, but graphic processor uses some of this RAM)... When it loads all apps to RAM (about 50 of them, we know android do this) and I start few apps(FB, Gmail, Chrome, Hangouts for example), I still use only about 1,3GB of RAM... So almost 1GB is still free
In Android having too much free ram is not a good thing. Let your apps use it, you don't have to worry about not having enough ram, OS manages it well for you.
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In Android having too much free ram is not a good thing. Let your apps use it, you don't have to worry about not having enough ram, OS manages it well for you.
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Android is a mobile OS which means that it can backup and restore not needed apps if necessary and the 3GB are only the runtime memory beside this it can use the whole internal memory for "running" apps. So long Android got enough memory it holds all apps in memory which speed up the whole device. Therefore it is positive that the Note use his whole 3GB memory and don't think that killing apps or free memory will be a good idea. It will slow your device and produce lags.
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In Android having too much free ram is not a good thing. Let your apps use it, you don't have to worry about not having enough ram, OS manages it well for you.
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Android is a mobile OS which means that it can backup and restore not needed apps if necessary and the 3GB are only the runtime memory beside this it can use the whole internal memory for "running" apps. So long Android got enough memory it holds all apps in memory which speed up the whole device. Therefore it is positive that the Note use his whole 3GB memory and don't think that killing apps or free memory will be a good idea. It will slow your device and produce lags.
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They are both right. Android is based on linux. Linux uses ram very effectively to cache apps and data to speed up your system. When something needs ram it removes a different app or data from the ram to keep moving. It works totally different from Windows. Check out this article.
http://www.androidcentral.com/ram-what-it-how-its-used-and-why-you-shouldnt-care
Every day since Android came out someone asks this question somewhere... Is Google offline?
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If you want to change how your ram is managed, and you have root, you can use the v6 supercharger or a simple minfree setting app. V6 is in the developer section of the general android forum on this site. I've found that m ram fills up from cached apps. V6 will let you auto clear however often you want.