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Free up memory on desire hd?

Hi guys is there a good app that will free memory up as I was looking at what memory was free earlier and realised it was low at 118mb so alot was being used so I restarted and have 360mb spare. I realise that apps close themselves? So I medal good program to free some memory
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Are you having issues with speed, or are you just looking at your free memory and thinking tha 118MB is low?
Android is clever enough to make sure that it has enough memory to do what it is currently doing, so should you need more than 118MB for an app, something else will get closed down.
There is no point in closing down apps just to get more free memory. By closing apps that aren't ready to be closed you may end up causing more damage than good.

Well I do a bench mark test and get good results when more memory 's free and tbh I don't think it slows down when its got less RAM spare I just thought maybe things should be closed down
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First time android user ya see as was iPhone owner for years and must say this is so much better, so I'm just getting used to it
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vimto25 said:
Hi guys is there a good app that will free memory up as I was looking at what memory was free earlier and realised it was low at 118mb so alot was being used so I restarted and have 360mb spare. I realise that apps close themselves? So I medal good program to free some memory
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Mine sits at around the same figure. Don't worry about it, Android will handle it for you, shutting down apps as it needs to. Doing anything yourself will probably just have an adverse effect.

Ok thanks for feedback
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Available Ram

I downloaded The app ELIXIR to use for system information read outs and its stating that my mytouch4g on has 628MB of ram... arent these phones suppose to have 768MB of ram?
am i missing something here?

Some of the ram is reserved for the gpu, radio, etc. There's 640 or so leftover for apps.
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Ohhh ok gotcha, I just wasnt sure cause this is my 2nd my touch and from the system app my first my touch had a ton more available memory left over from everything the system ran (though I never ran elixir in the other phone) and this one has significantly less left over ram even at boot from a restart
does your mytouch say the same thing?
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If you want to see how much space for apps, etc, go to settings, sd& phone storage, look at internal storage. You should have around 1.1GB after a reset.
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I've never tried this elixer app but if I do "free" from the command line it says I have 642080k of total memory. This is about 628MB so I'd say we are showing the same thing.
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Memory???

I'm curious the box says 1gb of ram yet in settings under running services its about 512 if you add the used plus the free, what gives?
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As far as i know the other 512 mb ram is reserved for video.

Ahh, that makes sense..
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Typical marketing crap then. I wish I'd know I only had 512MB of system RAM after the video took the rest. Is it not even dynamic like those crappy video cards in PCs?

Is 1GB of RAM enough for you?

Does the nexus have exactly 1 gb of Ram or is some used for the system? And it is enough for you?
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640k is all the RAM you'll ever need...
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So the nexus 7 has only 640 of usable ram?
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974MB available RAM which is really really hard to use all of. In-fact, I've never come remotely close..

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640k is all the RAM you'll ever need...
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:laugh: i dunno... loading himem.sys to get to my extra 2MB of ram was pretty fantastic.
kevin130 said:
So the nexus 7 has only 640 of usable ram?
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Nexus 7 has ~975MB of ram available. This only has 640K of usable ram

On vanilla android it is plenty, on crapwiz or sense it isn't.
simple as that really.
The N7 is such an improvement over my S3 multitasking wise.
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I've never came close to using up all the memory. I think 1gb is more than enough for the average user.

I have 16...What are u talking about?

Nvm

swisstourist said:
I have 16...What are u talking about?
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Yes. Yes you do....
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swisstourist said:
I have 16...What are u talking about?
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Two types of memory in the Nexus 7.
1GB that the CPU uses to actually run the applications.
8GB or more used for storage.
As per the 1GB? There are many tabs out there that are only 512MB.
Depends on the foot print for the future "Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory" OS. That could take almost 1TB

And how u controll this 1gb.?
It works. U don't care. It runs well... So 1 g is well enough. no?

The 1gb is fine. Wish it could have at least been 1.5gb to future proof it better but hey $200 for my 8gb, no complaints here.
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I still remember using a PC with Pentium 2 in it, running windows 95, and 32 Megs of RAM is plenty. And 128 mb is like having a supercomputer.
The whole computer itself cost more than 400$.

I heard that it has something to do with RAM. Sometimes when you come back to the web browser after awhile, the page has to be reloaded. Is this due to the lack of RAM? How do I prevent tell Android to reserve a certain amount of RAM for the browser?

Or stop burning up all your ram with - running apps in the background, live wallpapers, slideshows, widgets, weather lock screen, email sync every 30 seconds and whatever other rubbish is clogging up the system... whenever I check my running apps screen I always have 575MB free ram... way more than needed

webslasher said:
I still remember using a PC with Pentium 2 in it, running windows 95, and 32 Megs of RAM is plenty. And 128 mb is like having a supercomputer.
The whole computer itself cost more than 400$.
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Dang now your making me feel old I remember how excited I was to upgrade from my windows 3.1 PC to a laptop with a Pentium 1 and 16mb of ram. Now that was a big upgrade.
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b00mb00mchuck said:
Or stop burning up all your ram with - running apps in the background, live wallpapers, slideshows, widgets, weather lock screen, email sync every 30 seconds and whatever other rubbish is clogging up the system... whenever I check my running apps screen I always have 575MB free ram... way more than needed
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+1

I have around 975 MB of RAM. For me, it is definitely more than enough.

brooksyx said:
Dang now your making me feel old I remember how excited I was to upgrade from my windows 3.1 PC to a laptop with a Pentium 1 and 16mb of ram. Now that was a big upgrade.
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LOL, i remember windows 3.1 too, we need to type "windows" in ms-dos in order to get into windows , but i was too young to understand what really is windows that time, i thought it was an application.
Sorry for out of topic tho

How much ram does your Nexus 7 use?

When I was running stock, I was using about high 300-400MB.
After unlocked, rooted & installed AOKP with Nova launcher + Franco kernal, I'm at high 500-600MB, even with all the tasks killed.
Just wondering if this is normal?

Unlike a computer, android using a high amount of memory is a good thing.
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Unused RAM is wasted RAM ...
Android is freeing the memory as soon as it needs it for more important tasks, so it's OK to see almost all RAM occupied.
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AndDiSa said:
Unused RAM is wasted RAM ...
Android is freeing the memory as soon as it needs it for more important tasks, so it's OK to see almost all RAM occupied.
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Thanks for sharing. Helps alot. Do we need to clear recent apps too? Am always on 450mb-520mb of RAM and 4xxmb of free RAM in my Nexus 7...

About 50% with 92 apps installed

100% of RAM is always in use. Save for processor cache, it's the fastest storage media in the device.
Pages not mapped into process VM address space or reserved by the kernel are used for file cache.
Because read-only shared libraries can be mapped into many processes, and the entire dalvik engine is supported by hundreds of shared native libraries, having them pre-loaded into at least one process address space decreases new app loading time. Additionally, it makes computing a "memory used" statistic a little bit odd. (See for example the definition of "PSS" used by the procrank utility).
Which brings up a germane question for all participants in this thread: what are you using to report the so-called "memory used" value?
I'll bet it's not something from /proc/meminfo ...