[Q]TouchWiz redrawal - Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

hello! sometimes happens and I hate it.
when i am using some app and i press center button che touchwiz is empty and in 1/2 second all appear.
i really hate it.
is there a way to fix it?
i also see that i have always 1,2 gb ram full and just 800 mb free..is it normal?or maybe correlated?
thanks

marci4na said:
hello! sometimes happens and I hate it.
when i am using some app and i press center button che touchwiz is empty and in 1/2 second all appear.
i really hate it.
is there a way to fix it?
i also see that i have always 1,2 gb ram full and just 800 mb free..is it normal?or maybe correlated?
thanks
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To the second question: that's completely normal, you don't have to worry about it. Not used RAM is wasted RAM. I'll let someone smarter answer the first question. There may come if there already isn't a fix that will lock the launcher to memory or something :fingers-crossed:

The redraws will be ironed out slowly in newer updates.
One thing that could help you in case you didn't do it allready is to go to S-Voice > settings > and disable that ,,open via the home key'' option .

thanks! i have uninstalled (just freeze) everything like s voice ecc..

LeJolly said:
To the second question: that's completely normal, you don't have to worry about it. Not used RAM is wasted RAM. I'll let someone smarter answer the first question. There may come if there already isn't a fix that will lock the launcher to memory or something :fingers-crossed:
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Visit the V6SuperCharger thread where you can patch your services.jar and make your launcher die hard, better OOM groupings etc....among many many other features.
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UpInTheAir said:
Visit the V6SuperCharger thread where you can patch your services.jar and make your launcher die hard, better OOM groupings etc....among many many other features.
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thansk but i must stay without root...i have promised myself THIS phone will remain untouch

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[Q] Ram ?

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.
Richdog said:
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.
koofaa said:
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
Richdog said:
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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replaced touchwiz with **APEX LAUNCHER**more mem avail

I've installed launch pro plus and now have about 250+mb free with many widgets onscreen. I guess touchwiz is resource hog.
Edit: after reading comments i switched to APEX launcher.. its even better.
Hows the multitasking on it.... can you play shadowgun, surf the web, do a text , make a call and then go back to the shadow gun game without the game having to restart. thanks
I thought LPP didn't work on ICS, I guess I was wrong!
Did you experiences any lags/slow-downs after that? I always thought touchwiz was hardware accelerated.
Launcher Pro hasn't been updated in forever. No thanks.
Nova or Apex Launcher would be my choice.
zigson said:
I thought LPP didn't work on ICS, I guess I was wrong!
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I have had mixed results running various roms. On some it didn't work at all and others very poorly. I have yet to see it work without any issues.
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Just Flash It !!!
it works ... but the code is heavily outdated, project is abanconed by the developer.
better get nova launcher, it got way more features (but lacks the LP widgets -- but who cares )
And about the RAM: dont worry ... Android is designed to use its RAM, not to keep the RAM empty --- still 750mb left which is enough
Can you take a screenshot of the available RAM after using Launcher Pro?
People should stop using LPP. It hasn't been updated for over a year. No support. The developer is not responsive.
Do not support these types of developers.
ronj1986 said:
Can you take a screenshot of the available RAM after using Launcher Pro?
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It's in teh first post
emahmood87 said:
Hows the multitasking on it.... can you play shadowgun, surf the web, do a text , make a call and then go back to the shadow gun game without the game having to restart. thanks
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Sorry didn't try yet
Hey,
How many Ram do you get after killing all apps in task manager ?
Thanks.
Are you still able to use the gestures like shake to sync and double tap to move to the top of the list?
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Sc0rp10 said:
Are you still able to use the gestures like shake to sync and double tap to move to the top of the list?
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Tried double tap on top sometimes it works sometimes it doesnt.
needhelp11 said:
Hey,
How many Ram do you get after killing all apps in task manager ?
Thanks.
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task manager + gotaskmanager all kill = about 300mb.
Thanks for your answer.
And if you use the Pop up play function ? (= watch a video )
How many Ram does it consume (or let free) ?
Oh boy! Here we go again with the Windows mentality of wanting free RAM. You guys really have no clue. Please go read up on how Linux and Android uses RAM and why free RAM is not really a great thing.
I just ask questions about RAM cause I lack of it on my SGS ... Try to put on a SGS 1 or 2 widgets and you will see if RAM is important or not ...
Intratech said:
Oh boy! Here we go again with the Windows mentality of wanting free RAM. You guys really have no clue. Please go read up on how Linux and Android uses RAM and why free RAM is not really a great thing.
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Isn't free ram important ? I don't want to know the technical side or anything because as far as I know having free ram makes multitasking plain brilliant .... I will give u an example on sgs 1 the ram was 329 mb of which touchwiz usually took about 200 mb so when suppose one is browsing the web with multiple tabs with flash pages loaded touchwiz would crash and it would a couple of seconds to reload secondly the app drawer will also reload taking upto 5 seconds.....now all these problems were taken care of in sgs 2 because it had a lot of ram so for me its important ....I hope that on sgs3 the user experience is perfect just like sgs2 ...m really looking forward to it
Just to let you guys know, do not use a task manager that kills apps in your minfree. Only use the task manager Samsung gave you that is taking memory outside of your min free.
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emahmood87 said:
Isn't free ram important ? I don't want to know the technical side or anything because as far as I know having free ram makes multitasking plain brilliant .... I will give u an example on sgs 1 the ram was 329 mb of which touchwiz usually took about 200 mb so when suppose one is browsing the web with multiple tabs with flash pages loaded touchwiz would crash and it would a couple of seconds to reload secondly the app drawer will also reload taking upto 5 seconds.....now all these problems were taken care of in sgs 2 because it had a lot of ram so for me its important ....I hope that on sgs3 the user experience is perfect just like sgs2 ...m really looking forward to it
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For PC it is. But not for Linux and Macs. Read this article to understand.
http://www.androidcentral.com/ram-what-it-how-its-used-and-why-you-shouldnt-care

Help! Android is killing launcher

I have this very bid problem. Almost every time i hit home the launcher is killed and has to reload. This happens with any possible launcher i've tried even system one and all the ROMs I've tried. I'm rooted of course and I really wish there's a fix to this problem..
monsterr said:
I have this very bid problem. Almost every time i hit home the launcher is killed and has to reload. This happens with any possible launcher i've tried even system one and all the ROMs I've tried. I'm rooted of course and I really wish there's a fix to this problem..
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what launcher? and you have something set to kill it. check in your main phone settings, developer options.. then check if you have this enabled.. dont keep activities. also check there if you set a background process limit.
simms22 said:
what launcher? and you have something set to kill it. check in your main phone settings, developer options.. then check if you have this enabled.. dont keep activities. also check there if you set a background process limit.
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I am using stock launcher with stock rooted ROM. Don't keep activities is off and backgrounds process limit is at standart. I don't have any apps set to kill activities or any task killers. I've got 1 gb free ram and it still kill the launcher while all the other open apps are still in memory
monsterr said:
I am using stock launcher with stock rooted ROM. Don't keep activities is off and backgrounds process limit is at standart. I don't have any apps set to kill activities or any task killers. I've got 1 gb free ram and it still kill the launcher while all the other open apps are still in memory
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if you are using some sort of task killer, or free ram app, make sure to set it to ignore the launcher.
simms22 said:
if you are using some sort of task killer, or free ram app, make sure to set it to ignore the launcher.
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I am not using any app of that sort
have you flashed any mods/tweaks?
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have you flashed any mods/tweaks?
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Nope. Stock rom with stock kernel and everything
This is just an inherent problem with the launcher. It can get killed, and you can't do anything about it short of installing tweaks and scripts. @simms22 pointed out a couple things you can check, but by default none of those should be there causing trouble to begin with, so yeah... until Google comes up with a solution.
dmo580 said:
This is just an inherent problem with the launcher. It can get killed, and you can't do anything about it short of installing tweaks and scripts. @simms22 pointed out a couple things you can check, but by default none of those should be there causing trouble to begin with, so yeah... until Google comes up with a solution.
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So I'm basically ****ed until Google does something about it?
Great. Do any of you have this problem with launcher being killed
monsterr said:
So I'm basically ****ed until Google does something about it?
Great. Do any of you have this problem with launcher being killed
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Yes but people usually tell me to stop using my crappy widgets and my crappy launcher (Apex). I can't help it. I don't think Google will do anything about it, and it seems the only solution that tends to work is either you make sure its a low memory launcher with few widgets or you go overkill on RAM like 16gb RAM on phones.
dmo580 said:
Yes but people usually tell me to stop using my crappy widgets and my crappy launcher (Apex). I can't help it. I don't think Google will do anything about it, and it seems the only solution that tends to work is either you make sure its a low memory launcher with few widgets or you go overkill on RAM like 16gb RAM on phones.
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I even tried apex with literally 4 icons and no widgets and it STILL got killed. WTF ?!?! And there's usually 1 gb of ram free...
monsterr said:
So I'm basically ****ed until Google does something about it?
Great. Do any of you have this problem with launcher being killed
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dmo580 said:
Yes but people usually tell me to stop using my crappy widgets and my crappy launcher (Apex). I can't help it. I don't think Google will do anything about it, and it seems the only solution that tends to work is either you make sure its a low memory launcher with few widgets or you go overkill on RAM like 16gb RAM on phones.
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except one time that i myself actually killed the launcher, mine has never redrawn on the nexus 4. and im using many widgets. i really do feel that there is something killing your launcher off(especially with 1gb of free ram available).
simms22 said:
except one time that i myself actually killed the launcher, mine has never redrawn on the nexus 4. and im using many widgets. i really do feel that there is something killing your launcher off(especially with 1gb of free ram available).
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Yea there is something but what could it be? I checked through my apps a couple of times and I don't see an app that could kill it off
monsterr said:
I have this very bid problem. Almost every time i hit home the launcher is killed and has to reload. This happens with any possible launcher i've tried even system one and all the ROMs I've tried. I'm rooted of course and I really wish there's a fix to this problem..
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Those thing happened to me when I use the MiHome Launcher. MiHome Launcher always "Force Close" then reload. But now, the Launcher has been fixed for Android 4.3, it works normally
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dmo580 said:
Yes but people usually tell me to stop using my crappy widgets and my crappy launcher (Apex). I can't help it. I don't think Google will do anything about it, and it seems the only solution that tends to work is either you make sure its a low memory launcher with few widgets or you go overkill on RAM like 16gb RAM on phones.
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16gb RAM? your phone? wew, it must be so enormous
You may try MiHome Launcher (MIUI Official Launcher). It works smoothly on my Nexus 4 - Stock ROM JB 4.3
monsterr said:
Yea there is something but what could it be? I checked through my apps a couple of times and I don't see an app that could kill it off
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are you on android 4.2.2 or 4.3?
simms22 said:
are you on android 4.2.2 or 4.3?
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4.3 but I had the same problem on 4.2.2
monsterr said:
4.3 but I had the same problem on 4.2.2
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Go to apps then all apps then select the launcher. Then select clear data... Tell me after that.
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faddyie said:
Go to apps then all apps then select the launcher. Then select clear data... Tell me after that.
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Didn't do the trick. Still had it redraw a couple of times...

[Q] change recent app

Hi
Is it possible to change number off recent app
For example reduce it from 12 to 8 in recent app screen
Thanks
Go to the bottom of developer options
Mavasilisk said:
Go to the bottom of developer options
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Thanks for answer
But in dev option i see just 4 process no more , i need to keep 8 recent app in recentapp screen
Thankd
babakhad said:
Thanks for answer
But in dev option i see just 4 process no more , i need to keep 8 recent app in recentapp screen
Thankd
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If said this way the only way to reduce it is to simply swipe it away from recent apps. Are you worried about RAM? You shouldn't be worried about it. Android manages its ram kinda good.I usually run my device for months without clearing recent apps or restarting it.
Mavasilisk said:
If said this way the only way to reduce it is to simply swipe it away from recent apps. Are you worried about RAM? You shouldn't be worried about it. Android manages its ram kinda good.I usually run my device for months without clearing recent apps or restarting it.
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Thanks for answer
But when recent app in my phone is more than 8 then the recent bottom reflex is very lagi and home bottom too but when it is less than 8 app in recent every thing is ok , and also i alwaye have about 500 mg free in app/running too
Thanks
babakhad said:
Thanks for answer
But when recent app in my phone is more than 8 then the recent bottom reflex is very lagi and home bottom too but when it is less than 8 app in recent every thing is ok , and also i alwaye have about 500 mg free in app/running too
Thanks
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I had this problem and it got fixed when I updated Google Search and GEL. BTW are you sure its really 500mb free? If so, what the hell are you running? :laugh:

Question about RAM usage

Hey guys, I hope you're all doing well.
My question is why in my RN7 that hast 4gb of RAM, there is alway at least 1.5GB free? I also noticed it in a friend's phone that have 3GB and with 1 or 2 GB free, I wouln't mind if my phone usage was low, but almost always it has to reload the apps that were opened before the 3rd or 4th most recent. I dont know if I'm making any sense but the RAM usage shouldn't be almost 100%?
Thank you
Is that for what u ask?
That's exactly what I mean, the RAM is free but several apps have to be reloaded after a while.
Edit: I think I found an answer, I suppose is the battery optimizer that closes apps after a while, if anyone knows about this, please confirm.
2Gb free here. On latest RevOS MIUI.
I'm not worried about using 2 of 4gigs, is the contrary, I want to use all the gigs so my apps don't reload too often and are ready to use
Psicovirus said:
I'm not worried about using 2 of 4gigs, is the contrary, I want to use all the gigs so my apps don't reload too often and are ready to use
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Linux don't work like windows.
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/mm/index.html
https://serversuit.com/community/technical-tips/view/how-does-linux-handle-ram.html
Psicovirus said:
I'm not worried about using 2 of 4gigs, is the contrary, I want to use all the gigs so my apps don't reload too often and are ready to use
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Change app battery saver of particular app to no restrictions and lock the app in recents. Maybe it'll not kill the app.
!!!!!!!Root2!!!!!! said:
Change app battery saver of particular app to no restrictions and lock the app in recents. Maybe it'll not kill the app.
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After a bit of usage, this is the answer I was looking for, I was not used to have a task killer built into the phone OS by default, doing what you said did the trick for me, thanks!

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