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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.
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.
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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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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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I got my S5 nearly a week ago now and I am not overly impressed. When I signed into my Google account it never auto installed my apps and I still haven't got around to it so only minimum apps installed, I have installed Clean Master and its constantly reporting slowness and to boost etc. Put it this way when I press the home button the home screen redraws most of the time, I had similar issues on my old Moto G, ram usage was nearly always full and its the same with the S5. Every thing seems slower than my Moto G which ran stock android, the camera esperically is slow.
Any ideas? I put it down to TW
My phone doesn't act like that, I don't use any apps like clean master either. Since you don't have all of your apps reinstalled do a factory reset. Maybe you have a lemon, maybe just glitches.
Get that clean master garbage off your phone, will do more harm than good.
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Yeah Cleanmaster is garbage. I use CCleaner on mine and my S5 runs smooth. Also what ever you do, don't use Advanced Task Killer.
damon7620 said:
Yeah Cleanmaster is garbage. I use CCleaner on mine and my S5 runs smooth. Also what ever you do, don't use Advanced Task Killer.
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Any of those cleaners are pretty wothless honestly, they are comparable to the mycleanpc crap.
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Agreed
Got to admit the GS5 is pretty poor when it comes to RAM usage. Mine is generally idling at about 1.10 GB and i don't have alot of apps installed as i only started using it this week. My GS3LTE was usually idling at around 800MB.
Your comparing phones separated by years and completely different hardware and functionality. Why would you expect them to be remotely the same as far as RAM usage?
I uninstalled Clean master and installed Nova, yes it has helped, I don't know I think I expected this phone to be blazing fast and its not, I think that might just be Android though.
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I uninstalled Clean master and installed Nova, yes it has helped, I don't know I think I expected this phone to be blazing fast and its not, I think that might just be Android though.
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My phone is blazing fast :/ stock android with nova launcher, bunch of applications. Try a factory reset.
metalfan78 said:
Your comparing phones separated by years and completely different hardware and functionality. Why would you expect them to be remotely the same as far as RAM usage?
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I don't expect them to be similar, my point was surely RAM usage should get better with progress not worse., especially when the S5 mentioned is basically still stock and the G3 was two years old, and thus filled with apps that were using said RAM. Surly background usage shouldn't be so high straight out the box.
I understand what you are saying, but the s5 has more ram so Samsung was able to add more bloat and Samsung apps. The only way to reduce ram usage is to debloat your phone.
metalfan78 said:
I understand what you are saying, but the s5 has more ram so Samsung was able to add more bloat and Samsung apps. The only way to reduce ram usage is to debloat your phone.
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Nah my GS3 was the LTE version which had the same amount of RAM as the S5, ie 2GB.
Been considering removing all the bloatware, took a few of the service provider apps off and a couple of Google apps so far, but it's something I have to look into more before I get a bit too delete happy with it. Need to find a thread with a decent guide to what you can and can't delete. Don't want to brick my brand new phone.
Even with Bloatware though, it really shouldn't be a high as it is, when, like i said, my GS3 was idling at 200MB less and was loaded with apps.
There is a list here somewhere of apk's that are safe to remove. There are quite a few apps that the s3 didn't have that run in the background.
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There is a list here somewhere of apk's that are safe to remove. There are quite a few apps that the s3 didn't have that run in the background.
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I have a list of things like Amazon, Amazon music, Pinterest, that I don't use but I can't uninstall without root and they are running in the background.
I am not having this issue, even when i was on stock it didn't seem bad(to me at least), i am on a rom and I have greenify and this that and the other, and i can idle with almost 600 or 800 free.
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I just got a Note 5 last week to mess around with a bit.
One of the first things i noticed was how much better multi-tasking / task switching is.
On the Note 4 the task switcher usually functions as a fancy launcer where it just re-lauches the app instead of resumes where i left it.
On the Note 5 it really saves the apps state allowing flawless switching like classic alt-tab on the desktop.
Is there any way to get this kind of task switching / memory management on my Note 4? I figure it has enough RAM to serve that functionality so i assume it's a software thing.
it should already work like that, unless an app uses too much RAM.
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it should already work like that, unless an app uses too much RAM.
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It really doesn't most of the time.
Specially with games, they will just restart. Even if i just switch to the browser for a few seconds. Phone still has free ram.
I tried several roms from completely stripped TW roms to stock to CM both 5.1.1 and 6.0.1.
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As fast as my S8.
Very fast. No slowdowns at all.
Is anyone experiencing any lag?
I also have some ram issues. Went from browser to Snapchat and both apps had to completely reload. It seems to be happening more and more. I do have a pixel 2 wallpaper set...
funkymonkey_01 said:
Is anyone experiencing any lag?
I also have some ram issues. Went from browser to Snapchat and both apps had to completely reload. It seems to be happening more and more. I do have a pixel 2 wallpaper set...
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No lag/reload/ram issues here. I average 2.4/2.7GB, and apps are pretty snappy to load.
If you're mentioning the Pixel 2 wallpaper, try removing it and see if that makes a difference?
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No lag/reload/ram issues here. I average 2.4/2.7GB, and apps are pretty snappy to load.
If you're mentioning the Pixel 2 wallpaper, try removing it and see if that makes a difference?
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Yeah I think it was def the live wallpaper. I reset to a regular static one and performance seemed to pick up a little. However, I still think there might be some ram issues.
funkymonkey_01 said:
Yeah I think it was def the live wallpaper. I reset to a regular static one and performance seemed to pick up a little. However, I still think there might be some ram issues.
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Yeah this was my worry, RAM. Their is not enough of it
SR3TLAW said:
Yeah this was my worry, RAM. Their is not enough of it
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3GB is just fine IMO. I haven't seen any slowdowns whatsoever. I'm using 2.1 out of 2.7 GB.
My old 2GB 5x was a bit cramped, but the 3GB in the x4 is great.
4 gb model. 70 apps installed. 1.4gb free ram. Moves pretty fluid without any lags etc.