Hi,
Does anyone else experience problems with low ram? My ram usage is almost constantly at 700mb+ leaving only 50mb available. This leads to redraws and forced app closing.
I love everything about this phone but the ram shortage is becoming a real showstopper. Can anyone suggest af fix? I'm running go launcher on foxhound 0.5 - should I go for cyanogen mod?
I really like smart stay, the face recognition in gallery and burst shot, hdr etc. in camera - I would hate to loose these features.
//Peter
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Anytime I used the default launcher and add one or more samsung widgets, the homescreens start to lag like crazy when swiping between them. I definitely expect more for a high-end 1ghz phone. Are samsungs widgets just that bad that they suck that much life out of the phone? I also get very slight skipping when I have music playing. Anyone else having any of these issues?
The Samsung Widgets are really bad, IMO. They're slow, must use a lot of memory or something. I'm using ADW, Tunewiki for music, and I really don't need the others. The only thing I really like so far about the TW ui is the ability to change the fonts easily, even if there are only a couple of options.
Babyface1249 said:
Anytime I used the default launcher and add one or more samsung widgets, the homescreens start to lag like crazy when swiping between them. I definitely expect more for a high-end 1ghz phone. Are samsungs widgets just that bad that they suck that much life out of the phone? I also get very slight skipping when I have music playing. Anyone else having any of these issues?
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in my experience it wasn't the widgets that bogged down the phone, i think it's the ROM that needs an update because it opens apps all the time i don't even touch, i know this becuase my task manager tells me and i have to close these apps constantly. currently this is my only real problem with the phone and it's making me want to return it
Hi there, on my second vibrant. I'm having some issues with this one and I need help determining if they are hardware related.
I'm running 3 homescreens with:
Beautiful widgets
Pure messenger widget
Switch pro
Pandora
I'm also running launcher pro.
I have some major lag problems when launching apps. It takes a minute or so to open most apps, plus I get a lot of black screens. I've factory reset the phone twice and the issues go away for a while on stock settings but the phone starts to lag a bit as I load apps.
Any ideas?
I might just return it....even though the phone runs ok on stock settings, might have a hard time returning it.
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most likely software.. and related to one of the apps you have dl'd. as you said in your post, the phone works fine stock and doesnt start to act up until you load apps.
i would suggest you just install your apps one by one and have a small testing phase between each one. then when it starts lagging you will know what app to avoid.
Wait did this happen on both phones. Even if not, still sounds like something you've done to the phone. I would root and run autostarts to prevent certain items from opening. It's all in the sticky if you want to try.
Its both, look into the lag fix. Launcherpro + all widgets are running off the internal sd along with the appdata (thats moved in the lag fix) and with the poor performing I/O of the internal sd, it lags. The stock launcher + samsung apps is built into the system dir (internal nand) so doesn't lag as bad.
No, I returned the first phone because the homekey wasn't working.
Once the apps do manage to load, I notice that there isn't anything I can do to slow the phone down. Certainly seems more and more like a software bug...Maybe Launcher Pro isn't playing nice (even though I've reinstalled it a few times, and after factory reset). That or the Pure Messenger widget (scrollable) is what's screwing everything up. It worked fine on my Mytouch 3gs though...We'll see.
I'll add apps one by one until I find the culprit.
OK, thus far installed ADW instead of Launcher Pro...
Everything seems to work really well thus far. ADW seems to handle scrollable pure messenger widget much better than Launcher Pro. I think that was the source of my incredible lag.
Still testing, but has anyone else had issues with the scrollable pure messenger widget and Launcher Pro?
Does anyone know if widgets have any major impact on overall phone performance? I know they must take up some performance but does anyone notice any difference when they disable particular widgets or perhaps other objects? Just curious what everyone's take on this is. Any problem widgets for people would be greatly appreciated for future knowledge.
I can notice that several widgets on multiple homescreens can often hurt performance (obviously) but I think it really depends on what other programs you're running in the background. If you have a few widgets updating constantly, but not many other background processes, you'll be fine. If you have lots of background processes AND widgets, it may be noticeable.
If you get a lot of lag just moving homescreens, and have very low free RAM, then it might be a good idea to cut down on the widgets to help yourself out.
I personally only use one 4x2 twitter widget and a 4x1 music widget. I run a pretty tight ship and don't notice any slowdowns. I regularly have 100mb+ of free RAM though.
i usually have like 150 to 200 MB free lol guess I run a very tight ship, with maybe 2 or 3 exceptions I basically have it set so nothing runs without my telling it too. I have the news and weather widget, extended controls widget, doggcatcher widget, and the led flashlight widget, and like 2 or 3 more small 1 by1 widgets running on multiple home-screens. I was just wondering if it would make a difference lol. Not sure if it was me but when I re-ROM my phone it always seems snappier, but then I restore my apps and widgets, so not sure if it's the apps or the widgets weighing it down. Still pretty snappy overall though
I don't think they cause a major impact on performance, but definitely think they are taking up memory. I use GoLauncher's Task manager widget to keep an eye on what pops up, just about all the widgets I've got on the screens pops up on the task list. (CM7's Strobe/light, a2sd, fancy widget pro, etc)
However, more often I've noticed running processes from non-widgets I don't even use or haven't used in awhile, like yahoo messenger and one game. These take up anywhere from 3-15mb of memory.
I'd like to think that there is an association between consistent free memory and battery drain, but I don't really know of a way to log or test this.
hmm true, i noticed that I tend to have more problems with too little ram, rather than processor performance...
I've only got 2 widgets that actually take any battery to use. One is 3g Watdh Dog and another is Battery Monitor Widget. That's about it really, hardly uses any power at all. None at all actually haha.. Oh and a wifi on/off widget I find really useful too.
Does anybody else have problems with the launcher reloading? I have this problem with both the stock launcher and Apex. I still have this problem even after locking Apex into memory. Any remedies for this?
Thanks!
I do. Not sure how to fix it to be honest. I've tried many roms.
Im using nova and have this problem. I even have agressive checked (stay in memory)
Also tried the build prop edit. Neither worked
Would love to have a sure fire way to keep the launcher in memory
Still looking for a solution to this problem..
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Does "Pimp My ROM" work on the Nexus 10? You could always lock the launcher in memory.
Good question, I stay away from pimp my room cause I know it causes issues in Roms sometimes
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Does "Pimp My ROM" work on the Nexus 10? You could always lock the launcher in memory.
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Locking the launcher in memory doesn't stop the launcher from reloading in my experience.
Isnt the definition of "redrawing" meaning it has to be reloaded because the app was no longer in memory?
Still, if whatever is being used to lock an app in memory does not work then you can always renice the process to put it into the range where the Android OOM manager knows it shouldnt be killed off. I like setting my launcher to have a priority of -17 and my keyboard with a priority of -20. Other systemUI I usually give -15, and (on my phone at least) I have the phone as -19 and google voice as -18. This means that the keyboard is always the most responsive thing there is so no matter what is going on the keyboard never lags when typing. Next is phone so that when a call comes in it doesnt load all laggy like. Google Voice is my texting app and also has to do with the phone so that also gets a high priority. Then the launcher and user interface are also high so their transitions and such always get priority over other things going on in the background. This keeps everything about them smooth since it is unaffected by other background tasks. The smoothness of the system stuff is the primary benefit, but having these values also tells the system they have so high of a priority that they should not be killed off ever when more RAM is needed and other things should be killed instead.
Other things you can do is to set the package installer to be a really low priority so it gets killed as soon as it is no longer actively doing something and also so that installing or updating in the background doesnt completely lag up the system when it starts writing data to disk.
I have the 2GB ram variant of the Redmi 3S. Unfortunately the ram management is very poor in both miui & custom roms. I use basic apps like Facebook, WhatsApp, messenger & all Google apps. Apps close all the time in background and multitasking is almost impossible. Anyone else having the problem? Any solutions?
Even without any background apps running I get only less than 800mb
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I have the 2GB ram variant of the Redmi 3S. Unfortunately the ram management is very poor in both miui & custom roms. I use basic apps like Facebook, WhatsApp, messenger & all Google apps. Apps close all the time in background and multitasking is almost impossible. Anyone else having the problem? Any solutions?
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Yaa!...here too facing same problem... Actually,yes, RAM optimization of this device is not so gud...use a official custom ROM...might help.
I found the solution. Use Kernel Aduitor to change the minfree values. You can use the 'very light' preset in Low Memory Killer section, it works really well & I'm able to do some quite heavy multitasking.