i was looking through the available ram after flashing a new rom. I installed the multitasking pro app saying i have 120mb left, also the same at other app e.g. task killer app,
But the ram showing in the "android setting -> running service" saying i have 180mb ram left, which is always about 50-60mb more.... I just wondering what is going on??
No matter what Rom or device the free memory shown under settings>manage applications>running services all ways shows higher than a proper task manager. The task manager is normally the correct figure.
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Hey, I've been encountering some issues with RAM on my Titan. it's probably some sort of misunderstanding on my part. Usually I have about 16MB free with nothing running. The Titan has 64MB RAM. When I look at processes, they should only be using about 11MB total. I don't understand what's going on here; where is this extra 36MB going? I'm using the No2Chem ROM.
Without getting into too much detail, there are other processes running as well that aren't listed in the Task Manager. Think of the basic task manager as the "Applications" tab on your normal Windows task manager; it shows programs that are running. While that may be empty - if you were to click on the "Processes" tab, you might find 30 different processes still running.
There ARE other memory manager apps you can find which will give you the detail on all the processes, just do a search for memory managers.
And - if it makes you feel any better, 16mb is about average as far as your memory goes. I have a few things running on mine, and get 8-10mb free - if I'm lucky...memory is the biggest drawback on this device, but not a total deal breaker for me. Its manageable.
Hi All,
i am a new user to PDA phones. I was using the PointUI home freeware(similar to SPB Home). On turning on the Audio manager, i found the phone becoming slow. The free memory shown was 9.15 MB.I hence uninstalled the PointUI freeware and checked the program memory usage. Even while not any applications,call or msg these are the stats:
Prog Mem: 43.24 MB
In Use: 22.16 MB
Free: 21.08 MB
I would like to know why the In Use memory is taking 50% of the space while NOT running any applications!
and is there any way to enhance the program performance?!!
Apolagize if the question is wierd..just a lay mans' question...
The memory usage is because the OS needs itself to be loaded into memory before you can use the phone. Like in a computer, if you have 1 GB RAM installed, you will not get one GB free when the system boots up. This is applicable to phones as well, it doesn't matter whether its a smartphone/pda or not.
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NO guys...u cant make your gene faster by any method even after installing only 1 app!
the fact is when u reboot yr pda the free memory is around 21mb
but as you open applications some of them continue to run in d background.
so use a 3rd party app like 'advanced task manager 0.8' to kill unwanted processes.,.then u will get atleast 12mb free!!
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Advanced Task Manager
Hi,
hey is the advenced task manager better than the one provided with the Phone???
If so .. how???? i mean you can see the running processes in the normal task manager too and delete them.....
If its better...then it would be great if you can paste the Download link for it
gshah said:
Hi All,
i am a new user to PDA phones. I was using the PointUI home freeware(similar to SPB Home). On turning on the Audio manager, i found the phone becoming slow. The free memory shown was 9.15 MB.I hence uninstalled the PointUI freeware and checked the program memory usage. Even while not any applications,call or msg these are the stats:
Prog Mem: 43.24 MB
In Use: 22.16 MB
Free: 21.08 MB
I would like to know why the In Use memory is taking 50% of the space while NOT running any applications!
and is there any way to enhance the program performance?!!
Apolagize if the question is wierd..just a lay mans' question...
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Point UI is a memory hog. it uses up huge memory. Try removing it, it should improve your system's memory usage dramatically. BTW usage of 22 mb is pretty ok.
Have you guys noticed a discrepancy in the amount of free ram being shown in third party apps and the android task manager? Where in third party apps like system info widget my free ram is around 90 while in the native android manager its around 170. Whats going on?
Hmm, same issue here.
I think android manager excludes the cached apps. if you load the android manager and press menu u can see the option to see cached apps. I'm not running any third party task managers but i think this could be the reason.
Hi friends,
trick for increment ram free exsist? sorry my bad english
Thanks
Get yourself a task manager and kill all unnecessary processes, but I don't really know what would you use that free RAM for
Graveir said:
Get yourself a task manager and kill all unnecessary processes, but I don't really know what would you use that free RAM for
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ok friend,
for you the best task manager?
double thanks
Use task killer its free in the market, as for me im using System panel.
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ok friend,
for you the best task manager?
double thanks
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advanced task manager is the best ,but check this article out
http://phandroid.com/2011/06/16/android-psa-stop-using-task-killer-apps-now/
Android system (2.2 and 2.3--> 2.1 is not too efficent in this) frees the memory itself, and caches things like Windows 7 (but in a far effective way). If you start a software that needs more RAM, then Android frees it for the app (or it tries to free it up: sometimes you have to run more than once a memory hog app to get it started), else it's precaches system things to fasten up the phone. So. If you have a lot of memory free, it's not always good.
Note that the problem starts if the CPU "can't rest". Then will come the less battery time, slowness, choppiness, etc. So: If there is an Application that has been loaded into memory, and runs in background and eating CPU cycles, then it's not good. In this case you have to close it manually. But not for the more RAM. You have to close it because Android itself MAYBE won't close it, because it recognizes as a running task (so it isn't an idle task) that is in use, and it keeps eating the CPU-->battery.
Hope this helps for the memory-geeks
Samsung 7.7 only a few days old with a few apps downloaded.
When checking Task Manager, under Ram Manager, my ram status shows 526mb/766mb.
This is with zero Active applications running.
Is HoneyComb using the majority of the 526mb?
Wheres the rest of my ram to total 1gb RAM?
Thanks in advance.
Sorry searched more and found it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1475698.html
I'm guessing it is just an inaccurate reading and the operating system does not run ~500mb by itself since iPad2's only has 500mb ram and it is still functional.