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hey guys...so I was playing with the phone, installed some apps here and there and went to mem info and i saw that my available memory is never over 70 mb off the 345 !!!!
this might be causing some lag and maybe overwork the processor and messing with my battery life
I moved most of the apps to the usb part and still...I reset it..went up but then drastically went down again
Im running superaosp 8.6 .... I have no idea why is this...MY nexus one there was always at least 100 mb left (used app2sd)..kinda annoying to be honest
any advice?
If you go through the list of running apps and services, is there anything out of the ordinary?
Try to close all of them and see what happens.
Greetz
PS: I have about 180mb free if I only let the vital stuff running - Google services, BLN, Maps (LocationService) and Swiftkey
I've got 156 MB free on mine.at least that's what the running services screen tells me.
However android optimizer tells me that I've got 35 MB free? What's going on? Is the stock android running services panel not showing everything?
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^^^exactly my thing...On the running services are it shows about 140 free but on thememinfo i have about 50...really weird
Another thing ...my battery usage goes :
display 40 percent
isnt that a little too high??
autorotation off, auto brightness off
Well I think on the running services it probably only shows you services that are actually running (actively). Whereas other programs (such as android optimizer) tells you the memory used by all programs that have been started at boot time.
I'm now just guessing here but many of these boot started programas might have been passivated by the Android OS onto disk so they don't really take actual RAM until you switch to any of them. Only to get passivated again after you exit them.
I get 40% usage of screen as well. It's normal, it's what takes the most. I've got auto brigthness on and it's usually quite dim. Auto-rotation is always on.
I would only get concerned if the Android System starts taking much battery use, rising above 10%. This might indicate some program misusing the system and keeping the phone awake too much.
Go Weather had such an effect on my Nexus S so I switched it off. Other programs that track your location in real time (like some weather programs... Weather Bug, but can be configured) can take a toll on the wake time of the Android System.
running services shows my device having 234mb free ram
rault18 said:
hey guys...so I was playing with the phone, installed some apps here and there and went to mem info and i saw that my available memory is never over 70 mb off the 345 !!!!
this might be causing some lag and maybe overwork the processor and messing with my battery life
I moved most of the apps to the usb part and still...I reset it..went up but then drastically went down again
Im running superaosp 8.6 .... I have no idea why is this...MY nexus one there was always at least 100 mb left (used app2sd)..kinda annoying to be honest
any advice?
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By saying "moved to the USB part" do you mean you moved most of them to the SD memory? If so, doing that will make your Nexus even slower. Memory and available app storage are two different things. I think you're confusing the two.
Nexus S and NS4G have:
1GB of app storage
16GB of SD storage
345MB of RAM
Also, having low memory available actually means your system is properly alocating all available recources. Do some reading on how androind manages memory. It's definitly not your typical Windows scenario Another thing to keep in mind is that RAM which is reported isn't accurate to what the usual "free memory" ideology is.
Awesome answer sir!!! Thank you..it def help me understand some of the stuff.still a little confusing tho
Nexus one and s are def little different from each other
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rault18 said:
Awesome answer sir!!! Thank you..it def help me understand some of the stuff.still a little confusing tho
Nexus one and s are def little different from each other
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Yeah, they are different but besides the specs same rules apply. SD storage will be slower to respond than internal app storage and ram is filled up just about the same way.
Btw, this is a Nexus S section, isn't it?
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Yes it is..thus I mentioned and compared my one to my s
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May i ask why is the ram used always 500-600 / 776 even after closing all programs? Is this normal?
Yes, it is normal, but with touch of some devs we could get more
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Honestly, the fact that a lot of RAM is being used is a good thing. Think about it. If you have loads of free unused RAM, then that's just really high speed memory that isn't being used to make your system and apps run and load faster.
Jade Eyed Wolf said:
Honestly, the fact that a lot of RAM is being used is a good thing. Think about it. If you have loads of free unused RAM, then that's just really high speed memory that isn't being used to make your system and apps run and load faster.
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make sense but somehow looking at that amount of ram use doesn't seem to justify the speed i feel
Well, maybe just get use to it and hope it gets better after some nice update
The only problem of too much used ram is that the garbage collection on the the Tab7.7 is quite bad and needs to be tweaked once you have 50mb free ram it starts to significantly slow down till the low memory killer decides to kick in.
elsonhwx said:
make sense but somehow looking at that amount of ram use doesn't seem to justify the speed i feel
Well, maybe just get use to it and hope it gets better after some nice update
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I not sure how many times this needs to be repeated, but the lag is due to honeycomb and touchwiz, and likely won't change till ICS arrives.
Jade Eyed Wolf said:
Honestly, the fact that a lot of RAM is being used is a good thing. Think about it. If you have loads of free unused RAM, then that's just really high speed memory that isn't being used to make your system and apps run and load faster.
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Except that most of it is filled with bloatware that most of us won't even use.
I hate how Android decides for me what it will load. I have no control of it and that is annoying. I wish it was more like a PC where you can uninstall the crap you don't want and be shut of it for good.
DaveC1964 said:
Except that most of it is filled with bloatware that most of us won't even use.
I hate how Android decides for me what it will load. I have no control of it and that is annoying. I wish it was more like a PC where you can uninstall the crap you don't want and be shut of it for good.
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A windows 8 tablet might give you just that and I would assume the modding community for it will be bigger.
DaveC1964 said:
I wish it was more like a PC where you can uninstall the crap you don't want and be shut of it for good.
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You can... root it (takes around 2 minutes) and use Titanium Backup to freeze or even uninstall system apps.
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You can... root it (takes around 2 minutes) and use Titanium Backup to freeze or even uninstall system apps.
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which apps can be freeze ?
Thank you
might as well try installing autostarts app so you will have control on the app that will run on certain event, such as during boot up, when wifi is turned on etc. saves ram and loading times (during boot up not the app themselves)
I just uninstalled a bunch of stuff, about 61 APK's this includes apps that I will never use and widgets that I dont use that auto starts.
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which apps can be freeze ?
Thank you
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That is a very good question. Whats apps could safely be frozen that wont interfeer with the operation of the tab. Everytime i clear ram using the stock task manager it closes over 20 apps, i would like to know what they are and if i really need them.
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Mine is always used maxed at 650mb.. If I clear them, it will go down to 420.. sometime even 380..
650MB sounds about right as we only have 766MB of usable mem, andriod tends to keep between 75-95mb of free ram for god knows what.
i just get tired of stupid TouchWiz to kill my browser or Reader each time i go to Home launcher and open something else
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You can... root it (takes around 2 minutes) and use Titanium Backup to freeze or even uninstall system apps.
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I tried that on my phone and it ended up freezing the GUI somehow (even though I only froze bloat) so I could no longer use the phone at all. I had to reflash the FW through odin and set up all over again. What a pain. I am a bit aprehensive to freeze anything now.
which system apps that we suppose to freez and it's save??do you have any suggestion??
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i am having some issues with the ram - it gets to a point where the device becomes unresponsive using around 750 mb of ram - not sure exactly why and i dont always have alot of apps open - i am forced to hold the power button down and restart - i am rooted running the magnolia tab 1.1 beta - i dont remember if this was happening before i rooted / running this rom - i am not running any widgets at all now and it is still happening - anyone else having this issue ?
I suspect the missing ram may have been stolen by the Mali graphics adapter. I'm not certain but since this is a SOC there isn't any place to put ram so it just nicks done system ram. It seems like a lot to go missing but texture can be pretty large these days.
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hi
please give me an app for closing applications automatically for more space ram
thanks
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=android+application+to+free+up+ram
Why?
Android will handle the memory by itself if needed.
Got to ask why? As said above it manages its own memory. Free ram is wasted!
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Got to ask why? As said above it manages its own memory. Free ram is wasted!
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And i.say why not. Why let the system manage the ram. The ram manage is poor. They are apps that that always run on its self but they a not used all the time and that's why its good to have a app killer. I using ES task manger its free and good.
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testacount said:
And i.say why not. Why let the system manage the ram. The ram manage is poor. They are apps that that always run on its self but they a not used all the time and that's why its good to have a app killer. I using ES task manger its free and good.
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for the last time android handles its RAM well, free RAM is completely wasted, it keeps apps running so you can quickly re open them...its called multitasking.
If a app (like a game) is opened that needs alot of RAM the manger just kills some apps to free enough RAM for it.
There is no need for free ram at all its doing NOTHING
testacount said:
And i.say why not. Why let the system manage the ram. The ram manage is poor. They are apps that that always run on its self but they a not used all the time and that's why its good to have a app killer. I using ES task manger its free and good.
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It is well known that most automatic task killers actually cause poor performance and battery life because they don't allow the OS to manage itself properly.
Task killers do have a place in killing errant processes, but never automatically.
Remember, just because a process is "running" doesn't mean it is consuming any CPU cycles, and as has already been mentioned, free RAM is wasted RAM.
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I do not agree
If free RAM is wasted RAM, then why does phone get fast and more responsive when you clear RAM from (default) task manager ?
It means free RAM is doing something.
If free RAM was wasted RAM, phone should be always running snappier with everything kept in the memory. But it does not.
I never used any third party task manager though, but tweaking LMK always yieds better performance. That means default memory management is not so good.
Boy124 said:
I do not agree
If free RAM is wasted RAM, then why does phone get fast and more responsive when you clear RAM from (default) task manager ?
It means free RAM is doing somthing.
If free RAM was wasted RAM, phone should be always running snappier with everything kept in the memory. But it does not.
I never used any third party task manager though, but tweaking LMK always yealds better performance. That means default memory management not so good.
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If your device it slowing down when less ram is free then you have a rouge app taking up processing time, its processing time that slow down the phone NOT free ram, when a app is 'running' in the background it shouldnt be using any processing time however some rouge apps do not manger this well at all and keep running processors
ES Task manager from Google play. Just put system apps to ignore list. But...
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zacthespack said:
If your device it slowing down when less ram is free then you have a rouge app taking up processing time, its processing time that slow down the phone NOT free ram, when a app is 'running' in the background it shouldnt be using any processing time however some rouge apps do not manger this well at all and keep running processors
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Methinks the word you are looking for is rogue, unless you really mean "red" apps!
Apologies - pet hate of mine on this site, but.nowhere near as much as the "loose when they mean lose" brigade!
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Dave
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foxmeister said:
Methinks the word you are looking for is rogue, unless you really mean "red" apps!
Apologies - pet hate of mine on this site, but.nowhere near as much as the "loose when they mean lose" brigade!
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Dave
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I do yes, sorry being dyslexic is never good on forums
It's not needed. Consider the RAM as some food. The food not eaten is just wasted food. Unused RAM is just wasted. When you run an app or game that needs much more RAM, some other apps are killed. Android manages it's RAM really very efficiently. Specially on note, I never have to use any app killer.
Edit: Task killers do nothing but use more CPU and decrease battery life. If you kill 10 'good' apps with X task killer, and then have to open them again, you are doing nothing but using CPU cycles and battery to reopen the same apps that you closed. You walk 10 miles and then come back from where you started for no reason and again walk the same 10 miles just consume more energy, apart from making you look like a complete fool. Do not use task killers. Just check if you got a bad app.
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testacount said:
And i.say why not. Why let the system manage the ram. The ram manage is poor. They are apps that that always run on its self but they a not used all the time and that's why its good to have a app killer. I using ES task manger its free and good.
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But when you kill these "not used" apps the system will have to reload from scratch when required consuming more CPU (and battery) most apps task killers say are running are mearly cached. Read up on this as it is different from running. Android is not windows!
i can only open about 3-4 app before my ram is full and its forcing to closing app . seriously ? wtf is this .
i feel like this phone is worse than n95 .
if i open a web page one youtube link and i still have in memory my message app it will start closing app and sometime it even close the Touch wiz widget so they have to re appear and load for 4 second . i cant believe they only putted 1gb of ram with all there touchwiz bloarware.
Ram issues
Check what apps are running on the background, i would check primarily things you log into that are always logged in like FB, Gtalk, Skype. although even with all those running you shouldnt have issues, maybe try doing a cache and dalvik cache wipe reboot and check changes.
MY BEST FIX is rooting, flashing an AOSP based rom that normally for me they use 350 to 400mb on a normal basis instead of 550-600mb in a sammy based rom.
mine is usally 800-1g and im constantly clearing memory. I dont get it either.
1slow4G said:
mine is usally 800-1g and im constantly clearing memory. I dont get it either.
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S3 has a horrible memory management.
1 gb ram ain't enough for the beast.
Launcher redraw on a Top end phone is an Epic fail.
Selina40Kyle said:
S3 has a horrible memory management.
1 gb ram ain't enough for the beast.
Launcher redraw on a Top end phone is an Epic fail.
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I agree, I just opened every app i have and went up to 1.26gb.. and when i have no apps open it jumps from 800-1gb on its own.. so i guess its all in the system that takes up most of the space
Selina40Kyle said:
S3 has a horrible memory management.
1 gb ram ain't enough for the beast.
Launcher redraw on a Top end phone is an Epic fail.
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Jeez 1gb is more than enough
Problem is with the Samsung bloatware. Kies, Remote Controls and all those other services. Delete kiesexe and freeze the Samsung crap inc SVoice..
I see no need to sync to Samsung and Google. The Google services are enough.. The Samsung store is only worth unfreezing for those free offers. The four tracking services ain't needed etc I use Avast to do that etc.
Getting 285M free apx after bootup, same as ICS, on 4.1.2 now. 12 widgets, FB, G+, Fancy widgets, Jorte etc
Also make sure not to run supercharger. It kills multitasking!
Disable all the Bloatware or freeze it using link2sd.
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Still sitting between 540mb and 630mb maximum
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Kojaes
My 2gb i747m really makes use of the extra ram. It not only can handle 50 background apps with stock rom as apposed to 15-20 for the 1gb version (assuming there is enough ram), but it will boot with about 1.6-1.7gb available, about 700mb used, and 1gb free, and will use memory up to about 200mb free before killing apps to make room for new apps. Bottom line, it multitasks like a S.O.B. My opinion based on 2.5 years Android experience...is that 2gb ram helps big time...especially if you do not optimize your system.
If I had the 1gb version, I would consider a lighter rom as some have mentioned, but also the V6 Supercharger app with specific settings to allow maximum multitasking while remaining stable...which might take some experimenting. I would install Titanium Backup Pro and freeze as many non needed apps to prevent them from loading at boot and using up precious ram. Also, for some apps, I use AutoRuns to prevent them from loading at boot time.
Also remember...that some apps will stay in RAM when it's plentiful. But other apps are programed to allow Android to kill them after a certain length of idle time when they haven't been used.
Ram management is fine on the S3.
If you are not happy with it use a task killer, custom rom/kernel and/or supercharger v6 script.
Also if your ram<100 then you should start making complaints.
My free ram is at 120mb-160mb and i'm happy,no lags,no slowdowns,nothing at all.
Android preloads apps in memmory in order to open faster when we launch them.
Free ram really is wasted ram...it cancels multitasking and if you've bough a 600$ phone and can't multitask with it then you're worth of your fate.
nfsmw_gr said:
Ram management is fine on the S3.
If you are not happy with it use a task killer, custom rom/kernel and/or supercharger v6 script.
Also if your ram<100 then you should start making complaints.
My free ram is at 120mb-160mb and i'm happy,no lags,no slowdowns,nothing at all.
Android preloads apps in memmory in order to open faster when we launch them.
Free ram really is wasted ram...it cancels multitasking and if you've bough a 600$ phone and can't multitask with it then you're worth of your fate.
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The fact that an user has to get task killer and manage memory by him own: FAIL!
I know android pre loads stuff in memory, but it got the priority all wrong.
Why does it keep killing msging, phone and the GODDAMN launcher .
While it never kils the stupid stuff like "Google Book mark Sync", unless you freeze it.
There's no denying that 1gb has crippled S3 badly.
You can claim "Free ram is wasted ram" and throw down links, but at the end of the day it is giving me a bad experience.
Case in point:
1) Launcher Redraw:
Two points to it:
->Bad priority (I'm not sure if it's either a Samsung fault or Android; OOM 6 isn't the way to go).
-> Less ram.
The fact that browsing through play store for 15 mins and then hitting Home button results in launcher redraw is pathetic.
Less ram is the culprit( atleast one of the).
On such an expensive device this is just EPIC FAIL.
Sure we can do Super recharge and try removing the bloatware, but these are quick fixes and doesn't get rid of the main problem.
Not to mention not every one finds all this stuff easy.
The fact that you have to do tweaking on the 'supposedly greatest android phone' to make it work smoothly is an EPIC FAIL.
Custom Roms for an device as expensive as S3, should be there to enhance functionality and increase features. Not to make it works the way it should have out of the box.
2) Sh**ty Multitasking:
Trust me, my iPod touch does better multi tasking that S3 for day to day experience. (I am not an apple troll, btw)
And it doesn't even have a true multitasking and the specs are no where near S3.
When I pause a game, and resume it after an hour it starts from exactly same place . Try that with S3.
Try to use your phone when many apps are getting updated and notification bar is constantly changing.
It'll lag the hell out.
There's no defending to these points.
This is where Apple excels , by giving user everything perfect from out of the box.
Sure you can't do much, but what ever you can, you do it smoothly.
What makes me sad is that Samsung is so close to it, yet they screwed the experience.
And I'm not even going to talk about Contacts and Phone apps.
nfsmw_gr said:
Ram management is fine on the S3.
If you are not happy with it use a task killer, custom rom/kernel and/or supercharger v6 script.
Also if your ram<100 then you should start making complaints.
My free ram is at 120mb-160mb and i'm happy,no lags,no slowdowns,nothing at all.
Android preloads apps in memmory in order to open faster when we launch them.
Free ram really is wasted ram...it cancels multitasking and if you've bough a 600$ phone and can't multitask with it then you're worth of your fate.
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Sorry but this is complete and utter drivel. Stop quoting websites and Google and start wising up.
If you have a game that needs to run and it uses 100mb and the phone has no free ram it kills something else.
This would be fine if the phone loaded the apps quickly but it doesn't.
Custom ROMs do not fix the lack of ram and neither do any of the memory management scripts.
My phone has around 200mb to 300mb though and it still loads and reloads phone and messaging and browser randomly.
Sgs3 is useless at memory management and anyone who says otherwise is living in a dreamland.
No lags and slowdowns is just blatantly not true as your messaging app and phone app will frequently take up to two seconds to load if you are using any Samsung ROM.
biffsmash said:
Sorry but this is complete and utter drivel. Stop quoting websites and Google and start wising up.
If you have a game that needs to run and it uses 100mb and the phone has no free ram it kills something else.
This would be fine if the phone loaded the apps quickly but it doesn't.
Custom ROMs do not fix the lack of ram and neither do any of the memory management scripts.
My phone has around 200mb to 300mb though and it still loads and reloads phone and messaging and browser randomly.
Sgs3 is useless at memory management and anyone who says otherwise is living in a dreamland.
No lags and slowdowns is just blatantly not true as your messaging app and phone app will frequently take up to two seconds to load if you are using any Samsung ROM.
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True that.
I have no idea what is stored for 500-600Mb ram if not the important things like Phone, Msg and Launcher.
Useless stuff.
It is just marketing and business politics, Samsung knew that 1GB is not at all future proof but that is exactly what they need so they can sell the Note 2 and the i9305.
And still they sold over 30M i9300 devices.
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True that.
I have no idea what is stored for 500-600Mb ram if not the important things like Phone, Msg and Launcher.
Useless stuff.
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Man, Android loads that stuff itself based on usage, OOM settings and Minfree values. The other stuff is services that need to run full time so that Kies sync, Location and other Samsung bloat that is really not doing anything most of the time.
Ya I know.
I wonder how can the most important thing, launcher, has an OOM of 6.
Stupid really.
Is it a fault of Android or Samsung messed it up.
In all the galaxy nexus videos I've never seen launcher redraws.
So maybe Samsung messed up for whatever reason.
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"Free ram is wasted ram"
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that remark has been misused greatly by people that can't code for ass and fail at memory optimisation.
It was originally in reference to the Superfetch feature in Vista/7 storing frequently accessed data in ram for faster application startup. It wasn't meant to be applied to applications that use huge amounts of memory for no good reason.
much of Androids poor memory management is Java related, who knows, maybe Google will get a clue and dump the Dalvik VM eventually for a native operating system.
Use aokp or cm 10
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Use aokp or cm 10
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For many of us, camera is an important thing.
aakarani said:
Disable all the Bloatware or freeze it using link2sd.
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Still sitting between 540mb and 630mb maximum
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Is it in the app store ?
Is there any way to freeze samsung permanently without root ?
does link2sd need root to work ?
is advance task killer enough to kill all samsung bloatware ?
Kojaes said:
Is it in the app store ?
Is there any way to freeze samsung permanently without root ?
does link2sd need root to work ?
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1) Yes.
2) Yes. You can go to "manage apps", select the applications. There will be an option called "Disable". No need for any app.
3) See above
By default (no additional apps installed yet), Note 3 consume almost 1,4GB of its RAM. Is it normal? Can we disable or uninstall some useless apps/services from it? Any recommendation? I need more free RAM to run other apps.
Device doesn't manage its memory well enough for you?
this beast suck a lots of memory, i ran only few apps memory remain at 400mb free WTF, when i clear memory i saw it clear 40+ apps ,so it look like many samsung junk apps run in background.
-No custom for me at this time, i'm not big fan of Omega Rom. Wait for more custom rom.
Why wouldn't you want the device to cache Apps in RAM?
RAM is there to be used, not to be empty so you can see a big non-utilized number. If new opened applications need more RAM, the OS will automatically clear the old stored data to make room for new ones. It even explains this in the task manager if you bothered to read.
RAM is indeed to be used. But it's not pleasant to see your rebootet phone is slurping up 1GB of ram immediatly.
I've rooted mine and loaded up Omega. I deleted all useless apps. I'm running now on 500 - 700MB after booting up
This means for me less bloatware and more private apps that I downloaded can be cached
Win-Win Situation
After clearing memory I have a gig used somehow and it's pissing me off to be quite honest cause I can't work out what's using it all
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Drizzy xS said:
After clearing memory I have a gig used somehow and it's pissing me off to be quite honest cause I can't work out what's using it all
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I'm with MohJee here; Android is just using as much memory as it can because it's faster to access the RAM than the storage. The boot processes use RAM, and if there is enough RAM in the system, then the boot processes will just use that RAM in order to avoid swapping, hence helping the device boot faster. The amount of 'free' RAM you see after system boot is just the RAM that was not used by the boot processes; the 'used' RAM is not necessarily being used by active processes. It looks used, but it's in fact free to take.
Whenever an app needs memory, the OS loads it up in RAM until there is no more RAM available, in which case the OS will just clear some unused memory to make room for the new app. This is more efficient than cleaning memory as soon as you leave an app, because then if you reopen an app you closed a while back, you don't need to load all the data in memory, it's already there.
Basically, unless you run a lot of processes or you have very little RAM, the RAM being full is a good thing in the Android world.
The RAM should get used in any Android device, with 3GB of ram, it seems like the phone is caching almost everything it can, it doesn't seem to affect usage as it kills non used apps and loads the ones you open if it reaches the limit.
This is perfectly normal, and how it should work.
Im suffering the same .. my Note II usually consumed 600-900MB but my Note 3 suffers 1.3-2GB smh. I'd be grateful if someone gave me a valid solution ^^
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Riccardo123 said:
Im suffering the same .. my Note II usually consumed 600-900MB but my Note 3 suffers 1.3-2GB smh. I'd be grateful if someone gave me a valid solution ^^
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I'd recommend reading the 2 posts above yours.
I am having launcher redraw issue. Could that be due to high ram usage?
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1.2GB after doing a lot of things, drops to 700MB if I clean using Taskmanager.
ShadowLea said:
1.2GB after doing a lot of things, drops to 700MB if I clean using Taskmanager.
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Wow haha
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Riccardo123 said:
Wow haha
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Yea, upon a reboot it only has 689MB in use. Even running 6 apps at the same time (Tapatalk, Firefox, Gmail, Outlook, Whatsapp, Oh!Edu Towns) it still sticks to about 1.28GB In Use.
All I did was clear out the bloatware as much as non-root allows, replaced Touchwiz(480MB usage) with Apex(68MB usage), turned off all sync and location services, and I don't use Facebook.
ShadowLea said:
Yea, upon a reboot it only has 689MB in use. Even running 6 apps at the same time (Tapatalk, Firefox, Gmail, Outlook, Whatsapp, Oh!Edu Towns) it still sticks to about 1.28GB In Use.
All I did was clear out the bloatware as much as non-root allows, replaced Touchwiz(480MB usage) with Apex(68MB usage), turned off all sync and location services, and I don't use Facebook.
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Im not going to root but idk how to clear bloatware .. I think FB eats lot of ram , smart ideas there though lolz
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2.66gb max?
... samsung screwed with us claiming the 3gb bs.
they loaded a bunch of **** that constantly loads. all their dumb software screwing with the consumer.
So they give more, and reserve almost half a gig or more on some devices.. the North American has a max of 2.38gb so reserved a lot more.
the note 2 had max 1.75 but less crap loading in the background
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habs101 said:
2.66gb max?
... samsung screwed with us claiming the 3gb bs.
they loaded a bunch of **** that constantly loads. all their dumb software screwing with the consumer.
So they give more, and reserve almost half a gig or more on some devices.. the North American has a max of 2.38gb so reserved a lot more.
the note 2 had max 1.75 but less crap loading in the background
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Even If they put 5gb, 4.77 will be full. Phone doesnt get slow, however I have launcher redraw issues.
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