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[Q] Note 3 RAM consumption

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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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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Nexus 4 uses only 512MB???

Hello
I'm, still shocked.
Today I've upgraded to kitkat from 4.3. Everything stock and OTA.
I've noticed that heavy apps are often killed from RAM, so that when I open them again it takes a startup time as if it were the first time.
Then I have noticed that regardless of the apps I open, my memory usage is always around 500-550MB leaving 1300MB free!!
WTF.
Chrome is the most painful example.
1) Open some tabs in Chrome.
2) Then open some heavy apps, like play music, hangouts, youtube and calendar (maybe you should open some more to fill as RAM as possible).
3) Then open again Chrome
4) Chrome will reload tabs since it has been re-started again
If you have a look to the memory usage you will see aroun 500MBs. What about our 2GB!!!!
Being chrome so heavy, memory management decides to kill it each time, delivering a terrible user experience...
Any idea? Any solution apart from restoring 4.3???
Thanks a lot.

No kidding I'm still surprised. In the beginning I was using 800mb but now it sits at 475~mb ram usage. This is ridiculous and I'm using the heck out of it. On the downside its kicking my hangouts out of memory. When I launch hangouts, it takes a while to start up.
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It looks like the system is trying to limit itself to use only 500mb. Maybe that's what Google meant with Kitkat being more optimized? so much for 2gb ram...
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Now you mention it I am noticing a lot of apps restarting now. And hangouts is a prime example.
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So does this mean there is now no benefit in having 2GB ram? Kind of like having a laptop with 8GB ram running a 32 bit operating system that can only see 2.

CalabiYau said:
Hello
I'm, still shocked.
Today I've upgraded to kitkat from 4.3. Everything stock and OTA.
I've noticed that heavy apps are often killed from RAM, so that when I open them again it takes a startup time as if it were the first time.
Then I have noticed that regardless of the apps I open, my memory usage is always around 500-550MB leaving 1300MB free!!
WTF.
Chrome is the most painful example.
1) Open some tabs in Chrome.
2) Then open some heavy apps, like play music, hangouts, youtube and calendar (maybe you should open some more to fill as RAM as possible).
3) Then open again Chrome
4) Chrome will reload tabs since it has been re-started again
If you have a look to the memory usage you will see aroun 500MBs. What about our 2GB!!!!
Being chrome so heavy, memory management decides to kill it each time, delivering a terrible user experience...
Any idea? Any solution apart from restoring 4.3???
Thanks a lot.
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Per Google, KitKat is designed to run in older phone too, even at 512MB RAM can still run KitKat. For example, Nexus One which has only 512MB RAM and still able to run KitKat, not stock ROM per se.

are you sure??? I tried it on purpose. I opened asphalt 8, Dragon Realms, turned the music on on the Play music, Hangouts,Facebook, Google Currents, Chrome, and music tuner in capture mode, and I am able to switch between them seemlessly. I opened settings and it jumps to 719 MB RAM.
On the other hand I faced some weird lag on my N4 these past days with KitKat. I must say I already forgot how laggy Android was long long ago, and now I am forced to remember it.....
Stock 4.4, not rooted yet (for observation purposes)

Even my tapatalk app seems to get killed off all the time.
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This is a huge problem, can someone confirm if this is only on nexus 4 or even on the nexus 5 ?

Federico_96 said:
This is a huge problem, can someone confirm if this is only on nexus 4 or even on the nexus 5 ?
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Hmm maybe it's not only using 512mb... but mine reaches 1gb and kills stuff off relentlessly.

I just loaded around 11 apps. After switching to the first app; it refreshes. My ram never reaches 1GB.

Could it be something kernel side? I'm on faux kernel.

Now that u mentioned i checked on my phone .. i am on stock rooted.. my ram doesnt go above 600mb howmanyever apps i open it reaches 600 mb and then starts killing them .. this isnt cool ..!! now i understand why my apps restart on me sometimes .. this is a screwup .. whats the point in having 2gb ram and not getting the benefits out of it .. kitkat is supposed to support 512mb ram .. not make the max limit of the phone 512 mb .. hope this gets solved!

Can someone on stock do a backup then test faux kernel or some other kernel see if it's the same? As i sai mine reaches about 900-1000 before it starts killing off i still think this is a bit low. 2gb of ram so why not use it it's being wasted.

In stock is confirmed. Sometimes you can get up to 680-700 but then in some seconds they get reduced up to the 500 again...
A friend of mine has a Nexus 5. He did the same test and he get stable usage of 1Gb and no tab refresh/hangout re-start..
It is clearly a Nexus 4 issue. Final proof:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=322336
They say that it is logic management problem of android... Chrome has nothing to do except being so heavy... But it happens with lots of others...

I can also confirm this
I can also confirm this on Stock Nexus 4 Kitkat (Root).
I did not notice this before, since apps were loaded so seamlessly and quickly from cache (Is it because I'm using ART?), but Chrome gave it away since the tabs are refreshed.
It starts caching apps at ~800+ MB usage till it reaches ~500 MB.
It doesn't bother me performance wise, but is there a way to change the memory limit other than 800 MB on a rooted device?

Do you Know any custom kernel that allows this better usage?
The less intrusive possible since stock is fine for me except for this...
Faux? Semaphore? Another?

Im using semaphore but mine is same. Hangouts gonna restart, chrome refresh and launcher redraw. Maybe Google will fix it.
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i think your problem maybe related to OTA update .
i'm okay with Stock rom with factory image .
but i use franco kernel .

No wonder the kitkat makes my phone lag a lot.. Even apps like Facebook and whatsapp take time to load and lots of time to scroll.. And chrome gets stuck every time I scroll..
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see how much RAM left [photo]

i saw this post from a blogger [XQ55] on Google+ who manage to get galaxy note 4 and he show us how much Ram remain ! i think this will be an issue, what do you think ?

The only reason I can tell is stock and system apps took out lot of ram and that's it...

My note 4 has little ram left. About 300mb.
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bladefrost007 said:
My note 4 has little ram left. About 300mb.
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Mine always over 500mb, only sometimes got 400mb left, but then back to 800mb-1000mb+ after cleaned

I wish they just made the ram 4gb but performance wise it flies
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bladefrost007 said:
I wish they just made the ram 4gb but performance wise it flies
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Nah, 3gb is more than enough at this stage..... Maintenance is an issue. E.g. Have u close some of the "extra" functions and freeze those useless stock apps? Have u controlling your start up apps properly? How often u clean up your ram?
These are all the issues u needa take care of And the major problem is screen brightness. It eat a lot of your battery.....

I noticed to on this note 4 battery drains really fast when i crank up the brightness. But screen i very clear and readable without straining my eyes even on low brightness not like my note 2.
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I dont usually clear the ram. I just let android manage ram usage. Cannot feel performance difference after clearing the ram in fact apps startup is not instant and it takes a second or two because it loads it again in the ram.
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the same guy post a screen shot of his Ram [see attached photo] status after deleting & disable some preloaded apps and disable some gestures & animations and finally closing background running apps.
but he mention that he is really enjoing using the phone and he didn't facing any lag even with poor Ram.

if you know about android and how ram is handled, you would know that ANY unused ram is wasted ram..
there is nothing wrong with only small amounts of ram available; that is how the phone is SUPPOSED to work, useing as much available ram as possible

wase4711 said:
if you know about android and how ram is handled, you would know that ANY unused ram is wasted ram..
there is nothing wrong with only small amounts of ram available; that is how the phone is SUPPOSED to work, useing as much available ram as possible
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This. I'm on Moto G for now and I have never even tried to clean ram/close apps manually.

bronx said:
This. I'm on Moto G for now and I have never even tried to clean ram/close apps manually.
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True , the whole RAM scare is incorrect, and is about the same as the task-manager myth that surrounds Android from its beginning.

bladefrost007 said:
I noticed to on this note 4 battery drains really fast when i crank up the brightness. But screen i very clear and readable without straining my eyes even on low brightness not like my note 2.
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I dont usually clear the ram. I just let android manage ram usage. Cannot feel performance difference after clearing the ram in fact apps startup is not instant and it takes a second or two because it loads it again in the ram.
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Normally screen is the major problem about draining battery, so better not to set it too bright.
If u shut down most of the stock apps, u can tell the different I don't have to clear the ram quite often in my case, but i shutted down most of the samsung's bloat apps. I also managed the apps in start up, so now my Note 4 can always have about 400mb-700mb ram without clearing it. And u can use Seeder to give u a boost as well.
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if you know about android and how ram is handled, you would know that ANY unused ram is wasted ram..
there is nothing wrong with only small amounts of ram available; that is how the phone is SUPPOSED to work, useing as much available ram as possible
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bronx said:
This. I'm on Moto G for now and I have never even tried to clean ram/close apps manually.
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True , the whole RAM scare is incorrect, and is about the same as the task-manager myth that surrounds Android from its beginning.
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Actually it is true. Those used ram are standing by for the apps in the background. If we use ram manager to check, we can see heaps of the apps that we are not even using them, but they are there and they took bit of ram as well. This is juz my non theorizing understanding.....

angelky said:
Normally screen is the major problem about draining battery, so better not to set it too bright.
If u shut down most of the stock apps, u can tell the different I don't have to clear the ram quite often in my case, but i shutted down most of the samsung's bloat apps. I also managed the apps in start up, so now my Note 4 can always have about 400mb-700mb ram without clearing it. And u can use Seeder to give u a boost as well.
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Actually it is true. Those used ram are standing by for the apps in the background. If we use ram manager to check, we can see heaps of the apps that we are not even using them, but they are there and they took bit of ram as well. This is juz my non theorizing understanding.....
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Also true. You can disable them if you wish the OS won't even think of loading them into RAM, but then you will get other things filling the RAM.

[Q] Opening task switcher takes very long (2-4 seconds) on 5.0 Lollipop SM-G900F

I flashed the polish Android 5.0 lollipop on my SM-G900F Galaxy S5. I have the latest xxxBNL9 update. When i hit the task switcher (left) button it takes very long to minimize the screen and open the task switcher. Typically it takes 2-3 seconds. When i do it repetitively it goes quicker. I've already set the "transition animation scale" to off (or 0.5x) in "developer options". Frequently closing all apps also doesn't help.
Please help me. I multitask a lot and this delay is very annoying.

Unfortunately... this is android's fault, it is also experienced by some Nexus Roms.

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Unfortunately... this is android's fault, it is also experienced by some Nexus Roms.
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Well that surprises me. I thought it was the bulky touchwiz for sure. I guess there's nothinh to be done but wait for Google to fix it. Thank you for the information, could you provide a link for anyone else who has the same question?

pizzaman79 said:
Well that surprises me. I thought it was the bulky touchwiz for sure. I guess there's nothinh to be done but wait for Google to fix it. Thank you for the information, could you provide a link for anyone else who has the same question?
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I couldn't particularly find one on xda, but I've found lots of complaints on reddit..on Nexus and Android subs...just look it up..
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Agreed.
It was faster on 4.4.

There is a memory leak in 5.0 and even 5.0.1-2 that if you keep the phone on more than 2 days running the system eats up the RAM.
Was noted and linked to in the S5 firmware thread.

lynxblaine said:
There is a memory leak in 5.0 and even 5.0.1-2 that if you keep the phone on more than 2 days running the system eats up the RAM.
Was noted and linked to in the S5 firmware thread.
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Touchwiz is a bit of a memory leak on itself, but i think the memory leak doesn't just affect nexus phones, but also the Galaxy S5. When i look in my memory manager, with only a few small open apps (totalling less than 200mb) my memory is almost full, 1.4 /1.67gb used.
I don't know if that's the actual cause of the delay on opening the memory manager. It might well be, because with more memory it can keep the task switcher open/active longer. The times when there is a delay are probably when the task switcher app was closed because of low memory. When you open it several times, it goes much faster.
Note: I cleared my cache partition after a failed root attempt and reflashed the stock rom (without doing a factory reset). That helped a bit. It went from 2-4 seconds to 1-3 seconds to open the task switcher. It helped, but it's not a permanent fix.

The only temporary workaround as of yet is to reboot the phone regularly, like every 2 days.

2gb is really not enough for this phone... that's why we are seing a lag free note 3 touchwiz rom because it has 3 gb of ram.
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What you talking is nonsense. If 2 are gigabytes of RAM too little why are then 200 to 300 megabytes always free? If you have more than that it is useless. Why would anyone want to have a lot of RAM just sitting there and does nothing. Eats more battery, literally taking space in phone but does nothing.
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What you talking is nonsense. If 2 are gigabytes of RAM too little why are then 200 to 300 megabytes always free? If you have more than that it is useless. Why would anyone want to have a lot of RAM just sitting there and does nothing. Eats more battery, literally taking space in phone but does nothing.
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Having 200-300 MB of ram means yoh have too much crap running, i have 600ish free right now, and as far as i know having more ram would not affect battery life, nlt sure where you got that from.
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Rakuu said:
Having 200-300 MB of ram means yoh have too much crap running, i have 600ish free right now, and as far as i know having more ram would not affect battery life, nlt sure where you got that from.
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Of course it affects battery life because phone could have less RAM in total (physically less) which needs less juice. Less RAM needs less physical space and battery can be bigger. So again, if you have a lot free RAM just sitting there, it does nothing and I don`t know which smart ass even started comparing ROM optimization and free RAM.

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Of course it affects battery life because phone could have less RAM in total (physically less) which needs less juice. Less RAM needs less physical space and battery can be bigger. So again, if you have a lot free RAM just sitting there, it does nothing and I don`t know which smart ass even started comparing ROM optimization and free RAM.
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Other than having less size for the battery(which is is untrue, you could just have one larger sized ram stick) having more ram does not lead to less battery life. Like i said before where did you hear that? Googling that only brings up the contrary so im confused where you got that information.
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Sending 15 photos via fb messenger causes crash because it needs more ram.
Free ram isn't FREE RAM, it's cached memory, it is still being used but if an needs more it will free it and the cached process will be moved to swap or forced close...and yeah have fun sending a support or bug report to facebook, because they're not fixing it.
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Anyone else getting/noticing lag?

Hi, when unlocking my s6 edge plus by clicking the home button and leaving my finger on it (fingerprint sensor) there is a lag and the screen stays black. I then repeatedly clicked the home button to turn the screen on. Does this happen for anyone else? Thanks

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Hi, when unlocking my s6 edge plus by clicking the home button and leaving my finger on it (fingerprint sensor) there is a lag and the screen stays black. I then repeatedly clicked the home button to turn the screen on. Does this happen for anyone else? Thanks
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I was just thinking about where hv I read about the lag before. I found the thread, however, both of them were reported by you... No lags so far on mine!

First Samsung device I have ever used that had no lag!!! Nothing but blazing speed over here...

hayat55 said:
Hi, when unlocking my s6 edge plus by clicking the home button and leaving my finger on it (fingerprint sensor) there is a lag and the screen stays black. I then repeatedly clicked the home button to turn the screen on. Does this happen for anyone else? Thanks
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Yes some time, i observed that when its on low battery only(30-40%).,also on theme. have to check on stock theme

They gave 4 GB Ram in which they used 1.8 GB when it got shipped. I added 1 GB of applications that left with 1 GB of free RAM.When we start using the phone apps are taking 500 MB to execute which leaves with just 500 MB of free space. As apps get updates in the next 1 year this 500 MB free space will further decrease and hence I believe we will see this lag after 1 year but as of now i see nothing. What puzzles me is that some how 4 GB doesn't seem sufficient

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They gave 4 GB Ram in which they used 1.8 GB when it got shipped. I added 1 GB of applications that left with 1 GB of free RAM.When we start using the phone apps are taking 500 MB to execute which leaves with just 500 MB of free space. As apps get updates in the next 1 year this 500 MB free space will further decrease and hence I believe we will see this lag after 1 year but as of now i see nothing. What puzzles me is that some how 4 GB doesn't seem sufficient
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Think about other flagships which are coming with 3 GB RAM... And this one is LPDDR4, which is way faster than its predecessor. In a year, it won't make much of a difference. And if it does, you can always install a stock android ROM which will not even consume half of the available RAM even with several other applications running! You've got the best hardware, be sure of that..

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Think about other flagships which are coming with 3 GB RAM... And this one is LPDDR4, which is way faster than its predecessor. In a year, it won't make much of a difference. And if it does, you can always install a stock android ROM which will not even consume half of the available RAM even with several other applications running! You've got the best hardware, be sure of that..
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Agreed that it has best hardware and probably that is why there is no lag.Other flagships may come with 3 GB but probably they don't get shipped with 50% of RAM. May be Samsung used 50% probably because of Samsung Pay and Knox.
What I heard is that it gets slower as time goes and hence hope this time it doesn't happen.
I hate to install Custom Rom and I am that Geek and while i tried to install Cyanogen Mod in S3 it gave errors and had to use a temp fix to resolve the issue and took lot of time to find that temp sol.

vravik said:
Agreed that it has best hardware and probably that is why there is no lag.Other flagships may come with 3 GB but probably they don't get shipped with 50% of RAM. May be Samsung used 50% probably because of Samsung Pay and Knox.
What I heard is that it gets slower as time goes and hence hope this time it doesn't happen.
I hate to install Custom Rom and I am that Geek and while i tried to install Cyanogen Mod in S3 it gave errors and had to use a temp fix to resolve the issue and took lot of time to find that temp sol.
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Although I prefer Samsung ROM over the CM ( Yeah, I like the colors ), but CM did give me amazing performance in my earlier flagships. I'm not suggesting you to do it, however, if you do, just find the guide for exact model number as yours and read the comments before flashing. I started flashing with Sony W700i, then Moto Razr v3i, Moto ming, PSP 2000, N73, some BlackBerry, Samsung I5800, S2, S3, Note 2... Frankly, I had my bad time too, but that's how you learn...

Has anyone found a way to cut the ram usage down yet 1.8 GB used by their nonsense is really pissing me off and we can't root cause well lose Samsung pay
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Drizzy xS said:
Has anyone found a way to cut the ram usage down yet 1.8 GB used by their nonsense is really pissing me off and we can't root cause well lose Samsung pay
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Dude get package disabler pro from the playstore. No root required. Stop the bloat lol [emoji6]
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tatoo069sv said:
Dude get package disabler pro from the playstore. No root required. Stop the bloat lol [emoji6]
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Do you find your ram usage to be better after using this app and if you do what is your ram usage after?
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Do you find your ram usage to be better after using this app and if you do what is your ram usage after?
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I bought international factory unlocked version and I saw that Package disable pro is actually finds Samsung push service as bloatware and hence u have to be very carefull what you disable.Had i done that I think i wont get any updates from samsung.
I didnt see much increase in battery life or Increase in Free Ram.I will try thsi app after some time.

After clearing cache in recovery menu I found that the lag is a little less. We'll see though