Memory (RAM) management made a big difference on my Evo. But when I try the standard tweaks on my Galaxy Nexus, it doesn't seem to do anyting.
System tuner pro:
Can move tweak sliders, but adjust minfree values do not make a difference in available memory.
Selecting "boot settings" crashes the app
Auto Memory Manager:
Can veiw OOM groupings, but cannot adjust values
Adjusting Min-frees does not seem to make a difference
V6 Supercharger:
Selecting min-frees does not work, will not display current min-frees
Neither "Bullet proof", nor "Hard to Kill" launcher settings work
Anyone have luck in good memory management? SeePU is constantly displaying low memory
Don't, just don't. Uninstall every memory management and task killer app you have and then reboot your phone, trust me, Android can handle memory on it's own - that's one of the functions of an operating system.
Manacit said:
Don't, just don't. Uninstall every memory management and task killer app you have and then reboot your phone, trust me, Android can handle memory on it's own - that's one of the functions of an operating system.
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Well for some devices with low memory these things can be helpful. But yeah with 1 GB RAM on this phone you will probably do more harm than good with those apps and scripts.
As for why they don't work in this phone, try asking the developers who created them to update them for Android 4.0. A lot of things have changed.
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I will post in the V6 thread as well about the issues running on this device.
As for why I want it to run on this device: It runs great off the bat, but quickly gets loaded down. Sure, android does a good job of killing apps on its own when needed, but I want that to happen in the background when the device is in my pocket, not when I pull it out and open a new application.
I had the same thing on my Galaxy Tab and managing the memory well works to keep it running lean.
And keep in mind I don't want an app killer, rather to tweak the internal values of the android memory management process:
OOM groupings - to control which applications are killed first in low memory situations, which ones are maintained, and which are never killed.
Minfrees - to control at which free memory levels each OOM grouping is selected for freeing up memory.
Check out the V6 thread for more info: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991276
I use system panel lite to the what processes are running and how much memory is being used how can I manage this properly so I can save on resources. my phone seems like it is using a lot of memory and cpu as well
I tried system auditor and I don't think that works well at all
I use OS Monitor to monitor processes and memory usage and I use Autorun Manager to control what apps allowed to run at startup and run by itself (enable/disable recievers).
I don't use any task management app. Android OS automagically do it for you.
For more information about task management on Andoid, I recomend you to read this article:
http://lifehacker.com/5650894/andro...ed-what-they-do-and-why-you-shouldnt-use-them
Hope it helps.
I use Android System Info (prev used it on the N1).
Has tabs for system, tasks and apps as well as 'overall'
and tracks memory and cpu%.
buzzcomp said:
I use OS Monitor to monitor processes and memory usage and I use Autorun Manager to control what apps allowed to run at startup and run by itself (enable/disable recievers).
I don't use any task management app. Android OS automagically do it for you.
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This. Unless you have a poorly coded app, I wouldn't even worry about it. I haven't used a task manager since my G1 days.
Unused ram is wasted ram. There is absolutely NO NEED to manage memory in android yourself, and you end up wasting battery/time/effort trying to so.
Tl;dr, android caches more recently used apps in memory, and clears memory when needed. Don't manage it yourself.
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In addition to what the guys above me said, you should look at what apps are always running in the background and pay attention to the permissions apps ask for before downloading them. Many apps will rerun themselves right after being closed by task managers making it a vicious circle of death for your battery.
I use system panel paid version with monitoring enabled to keep my processes in check. System panel is by far the best method on android. I just check the history over the last 2 hours, or I check it in the morning to see what it tracked all night while idle, and its by far the most accurate and most complete picture you can get to see what an android phone is doing.
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In addition to what the guys above me said, you should look at what apps are always running in the background and pay attention to the permissions apps ask for before downloading them. Many apps will rerun themselves right after being closed by task managers making it a vicious circle of death for your battery.
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Any app that starts with priority 300 is a service and will just start back up when killed. I like to look at processes with memory usage app by twistbyte. With this you can see all apps running and what priority they are running under. Know that any app running in 300 will use battery in background.
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I have a Galaxy nexus on android 4.3 and running 3d games have lots of lag. For example, the game with the most amount of lag is Modern Combat 4 with the meltdown update. Is there a way to improve the gpu processor power on the phone so that itwouldboost the framerate? Its always about 5-15 fps and im so annoyed. If there is a solution, could you let me know? My galaxy nexus is not rooted.
Does it plays smoothly then, for no reason, it gets laggy for some seconds, then come back to play everything smoothly again, then repeats? Or it just keeps being laggy at all times?
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Does it plays smoothly then, for no reason, it gets laggy for some seconds, then come back to play everything smoothly again, then repeats? Or it just keeps being laggy at all times?
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It does exactly that, it plays smooth for 5 seconds then ridiculous lag for 10 seconds then repeats like a loop.
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It does exactly that, it plays smooth for 5 seconds then ridiculous lag for 10 seconds then repeats like a loop.
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What I'm gonna tell you now may be related to what what is happening with your device or not. It was my problem, so if it's not this I don't know what can be happening.
First, the galaxy nexus can downvote it's processors when it's too hot, although it's probably not that, just keep that in mind.
Anyway, go to settings - apps then "running apps" and check the used and free ram. If you have high RAM usage (like, 600 mbs being used) than this is probably the problem. While you're in the game, your gnexus will try to clean RAM for it, but since your gnexus is already out of RAM, it will force close background app's and services, but since those are required to run all the time, all that's going to happen is that they will keep being restarted, causing lag in the apps that are running.
To check if this is the problem, just check how much free ram you have free. If it's too low, open a game (even temple run 2 or sub way surfers will do), then when the game starts, go back to settings-app-running apps and check for things restarting.
If this is the problem, then you need to see what is the apps that are consuming all your RAM (although it can be android itself, just keep reading).
Just check what apps are in the running part of the "running apps". If you have a lot of apps running, then you can try freezing some of them or unnistalling the ones that consume more RAM. BUT! it may be that there's just too much RAM being consumed even though you have few apps running, in this case, the problem is android itself.
I don't know if this happens to android 4.3 itself, the gnexus's version of it or if it's some app causing it, but there's a memory leak that will eventually consume all your RAM. I'll use my case as an exemple: I have some common apps running on background (facebook, messenger, whatsapp, airdroid, 3d watchdog). If everything is normal, my "used RAM" keeps aroung 430mb~. Leaving almost 200mb~ free for apps to use. But after some days using my phone, the used ram will grow to 500, then 550, then 600mb, eventually to 630mbs.
Check if this is happening to you. To check, simply reboot your device, then when it boots, check how your RAM is being used.
If it was normal before the reboot (around 500mb, probably even less) and stay this way after the reboot, then your problem is another one, then I can't help you.
If your RAM was high and after the reboot it's still high, check your running apps.
If it's high but after the reboot it's back to normal, then you just "solved" your problem. Just keep rebooting daily.
If this was your problem, then enjoy your phone. If it's not, you can try checking some other things like the I/O speed (which was solved in android 4.3. Check this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1971852&highlight=trim ).
ygorvaz said:
What I'm gonna tell you now may be related to what what is happening with your device or not. It was my problem, so if it's not this I don't know what can be happening.
First, the galaxy nexus can downvote it's processors when it's too hot, although it's probably not that, just keep that in mind.
Anyway, go to settings - apps then "running apps" and check the used and free ram. If you have high RAM usage (like, 600 mbs being used) than this is probably the problem. While you're in the game, your gnexus will try to clean RAM for it, but since your gnexus is already out of RAM, it will force close background app's and services, but since those are required to run all the time, all that's going to happen is that they will keep being restarted, causing lag in the apps that are running.
To check if this is the problem, just check how much free ram you have free. If it's too low, open a game (even temple run 2 or sub way surfers will do), then when the game starts, go back to settings-app-running apps and check for things restarting.
If this is the problem, then you need to see what is the apps that are consuming all your RAM (although it can be android itself, just keep reading).
Just check what apps are in the running part of the "running apps". If you have a lot of apps running, then you can try freezing some of them or unnistalling the ones that consume more RAM. BUT! it may be that there's just too much RAM being consumed even though you have few apps running, in this case, the problem is android itself.
I don't know if this happens to android 4.3 itself, the gnexus's version of it or if it's some app causing it, but there's a memory leak that will eventually consume all your RAM. I'll use my case as an exemple: I have some common apps running on background (facebook, messenger, whatsapp, airdroid, 3d watchdog). If everything is normal, my "used RAM" keeps aroung 430mb~. Leaving almost 200mb~ free for apps to use. But after some days using my phone, the used ram will grow to 500, then 550, then 600mb, eventually to 630mbs.
Check if this is happening to you. To check, simply reboot your device, then when it boots, check how your RAM is being used.
If it was normal before the reboot (around 500mb, probably even less) and stay this way after the reboot, then your problem is another one, then I can't help you.
If your RAM was high and after the reboot it's still high, check your running apps.
If it's high but after the reboot it's back to normal, then you just "solved" your problem. Just keep rebooting daily.
If this was your problem, then enjoy your phone. If it's not, you can try checking some other things like the I/O speed (which was solved in android 4.3. Check this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1971852&highlight=trim ).
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When I checked, I had about 300-400 megabytes of ram being used. Thank you for the info and the effort though. It has a dual core processor, it should be able to run well.
I figuare out the problem of the game lag, the CPU temperature limt!
If you're using custom kernel, set the limit to 74, and u will find out it smoothly on game play, plus if you of the gpu to 384, its almost lag free, but frame drop is also here coz the gpu power.
Does this work on stock kernel also? Last time i had custom kernel, lots of screen problems.
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Does this work on stock kernel also? Last time i had custom kernel, lots of screen problems.
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Nope, flash leankernel, wipe cacje and dalvik cache, install trickster mod, and adjust the settings.
Quite less you can do with stock kernel.
ok i have lean kernel but where do i change the setting in the franco kernel app
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ok i have lean kernel but where do i change the setting in the franco kernel app
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You need to use trickster mod not Franco app. The Franco app is optimized for the Franco kernel.
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OK I installed trickster but every time I try to change a setting, after a reboot, it goes back to stock. What now
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You need to use trickster mod not Franco app. The Franco app is optimized for the Franco kernel.
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FKU also incorporates LeanKernel Updater so why isn't it optimized
And just to add that the above trick of disabling thermal throttling works nicely for me. I always wondered about why playing PPSSPP produces random lag - setting the governor to "performance" won't help a bit - and FKU saved my ass!
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What do you guys think of adaptive battery on Android Pie? Can it be considered a stock alternative to Greenify? I hibernate nearly all of my installed apps and some syatem apps to keep the phone lag free and Greenify has never let me down. Can adaptive battery provide the same fuctionality? I turned it off right after Pie update and never used it since then
In my experience Adaptive Battery is just a marketing gag. I haven't recognised any differences with and without it.
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In my experience Adaptive Battery is just a marketing gag. I haven't recognised any differences with and without it.
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Have you manually restricted any app to run in the background so that it is shown on adaptive battery list? If you do these manipulations, adaptive battery acts just like Greenify, but I don't like the way it hibernates apps even when you are actively using the phone with your recently used app in the background (now hibernated)
Yup, I restricted some apps, but my battery time/SOT was still the same. IMHO if your apps aren't draining like hell, forget about all the optimizing. Android does a pretty good job on its own.
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Yup, I restricted some apps, but my battery time/SOT was still the same. IMHO if your apps aren't draining like hell, forget about all the optimizing. Android does a pretty good job on its own.
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Battery is not an issue (on this phone at least) but i don't like background apps eating up RAM. Built in adaptive battery turns running processes into caches processes when their background activity is restricted, however they still reside in RAM. Not to mention annoying ads and notifications that won't allow the phone go into deep sleep when mobile data is left on.
I hardly ever had less then 1GB ram left, but I'm no gamer or heavy multitasker.
I'm btw. using the 4GB version.
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Have you manually restricted any app to run in the background so that it is shown on adaptive battery list? If you do these manipulations, adaptive battery acts just like Greenify, but I don't like the way it hibernates apps even when you are actively using the phone with your recently used app in the background (now hibernated)
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I cant find this option in my phone.
Jadz.31 said:
I cant find this option in my phone.
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It's in app properties menu. You can also do the same thing in settings -> apps / notifications -> all apps. Click on an app name -> Advanced - > battery
Ok
gglface said:
It's in app properties menu. You can also do the same thing in settings -> apps / notifications -> all apps. Click on an app name -> Advanced - > battery
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Thank you