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Help to free ram

I have red about people here with 400Mb free ram using vista...I am using right now 950mb!!! I have installed only:
MagicDisc
winzip and winrar
Office 2007 (without Access and other things)
Skype and Messenger
Antivir
Firefox
Now I have closed Magic disc, skype and messenger closed, no explorer windows opened, any office apps closed, Origami closed and I use 817Mb...can someone tell me more about this? I am doing nothing and my ram is finished!
Thanks
PS: Aero not active, Vista SP1 and all the HTC updated drivers installed

defrag ram
use software allowing ram defragmentation
then do it after you close an aplication
i use silicon prairi mem turbo which allow me to defrage in 30 sec by typing crt+f
normally you always have around 400 m of free ram with word firefox msn runing,
you can obtain up to 600mb of free ram..

nicolas.maigne said:
use software allowing ram defragmentation
then do it after you close an aplication
i use silicon prairi mem turbo which allow me to defrage in 30 sec by typing crt+f
normally you always have around 400 m of free ram with word firefox msn runing,
you can obtain up to 600mb of free ram..
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Thanks for the tip, I'll try it and let you all now. Even if it is written for Windows Xp/2003 hope it will work well on Vista too if you are using it.

You could easily use the ReadyBoost in sight and use or share the memory of your SD card, you must first enable the facility in Vista, is not a real increase of ram, but it helps to choose an increase between 30% and 80% performance overall system, improving its performance, my advice is to share the amount of memory to use in SD, for example, I have one of 4Gb, 2Gb for ReadyBoost and 2 gigabytes of storage. If you want to share one more memory, you'll have to turn on Vista also ease of use memory more than 4Gb default is disabled. Best regards
http://askville.amazon.com/ready-boot-Windows-Vista-ReadyBoost-ReadyBoot/AnswerDetails.do?requestId=7355094&responseId=7361208
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You could easily use the ReadyBoost in sight and use or share the memory of your SD card, you must first enable the facility in Vista, is not a real increase of ram, but it helps to choose an increase between 30% and 80% performance overall system, improving its performance, my advice is to share the amount of memory to use in SD, for example, I have one of 4Gb, 2Gb for ReadyBoost and 2 gigabytes of storage. If you want to share one more memory, you'll have to turn on Vista also ease of use memory more than 4Gb default is disabled. Best regards
http://askville.amazon.com/ready-bo...tails.do?requestId=7355094&responseId=7361208
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Thanks, even if there are so many ideas about ReadyBoost...someone is happy with it, someone tells that encrypting all the datas makes the cpu slow...anyway I will try mem turboin a couple of minutes

AutoKiller minfree manager

Hi,
I have released my minfree manager. this app is designed to help make your phone run smoother
AutoKiller 0.8.2b
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Features:
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- pages/mb views
come on, check the main thread.

Interesting, thanks! I'll test it but I'm not convinced that it could really speed up the phone (I don't think task killers do, either). Having free memory in Android is basically useless from what I understand.

swissp said:
Interesting, thanks! I'll test it but I'm not convinced that it could really speed up the phone (I don't think task killers do, either). Having free memory in Android is basically useless from what I understand.
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i agree that free memory is useless, but background processes can consume resources worthless, this app (minfree setting) can keep balance between cached programs in background and unnecessary processes eating up mem and possibly cpu, battery. this wont make you have the set amount of memory empty, just kill types of processes when a certain memory level is reached. for more details i suggest to read the original forum at xda forum

ratson said:
i agree that free memory is useless, but background processes can consume resources worthless, this app (minfree setting) can keep balance between cached programs in background and unnecessary processes eating up mem and possibly cpu, battery. this wont make you have the set amount of memory empty, just kill types of processes when a certain memory level is reached. for more details i suggest to read the original forum at xda forum
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i lol every time people say that. apps in the background consume ram as well. ending them will phree ram. thats like saying the 10mb hack doesn't do anything because its just extra memory which is useless.

I don't think it makes it faster, but rather keeps it clean and manages memory so it does not end up lagging. Works great for me. You just need to pay attention to the settings.

0.9b is out, go get it

Safe to Greenify/Uninstall/Freeze list

Reply here with lists of system apps that you have safely greenified, frozen or even uninstalled! This is especially useful as we don't have custom recovery on our devices yet, so we can't uninstall system apps brazenly
Here's what I've frozen:
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Reply here with lists of system apps that you have safely greenified, frozen or even uninstalled! This is especially useful as we don't have custom recovery on our devices yet, so we can't uninstall system apps brazenly
What app do you use to freeze? You are rooted or not?
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xuggs said:
aloy99 said:
Reply here with lists of system apps that you have safely greenified, frozen or even uninstalled! This is especially useful as we don't have custom recovery on our devices yet, so we can't uninstall system apps brazenly
What app do you use to freeze? You are rooted or not?
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I am rooted. Using App Quarantine to freeze.
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I see that you had freezed quite a number of apps. Do you feel any improvements with all the apps that u freeze?
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I'm downloading the pre rooted ROM now, and I will try to uninstall the useless apps to create as "vanilla" a version of Android as possible. Will report back as to how it goes!

i tried to put greenify and use it to block system bloats....and i notice something it uses more battery usage...maybe if your rooted is therea difference ? im not rooted for now...the orientations of greenify is like the same orientation of zenfone stocks settings under settings ...apps..disable apps...so by using more apps like greenify it uses more rams thus create more battery usage...thats what i experience...dont know about you guys though...and lastly do you experience great more battery life with greenify on rooted ? tnx

Okay so I have a rooted phone and I have uninstalled many default system and Asus apps and now am left with a pretty clean android, except for the zenui which I can't remove.
The attached screenshots show the apps that are running after a fresh restart. As you can see I have a 2gb model and a healthy amount of ram left for apps.

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i tried to put greenify and use it to block system bloats....and i notice something it uses more battery usage...maybe if your rooted is therea difference ? im not rooted for now...the orientations of greenify is like the same orientation of zenfone stocks settings under settings ...apps..disable apps...so by using more apps like greenify it uses more rams thus create more battery usage...thats what i experience...dont know about you guys though...and lastly do you experience great more battery life with greenify on rooted ? tnx
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I am rooted and uninstalled a lot of the stock apps but there's no significant change in battery life I must say.

based on the pictures above i must say it does not really help alot..compared to mine non rooted....o.s lolipop 5 is the real culprit here i think...well im back no no greenify and use the systems built in apps disable tru setting....notice less battery usage now...well have to do is wait then for new updates thanks again.

I uninstall/greenify anyways because it bothers me to have apps I don't use running in the background and eating ram and battery, even if the end result of removing them isn't necessarily positive.

Is there an app that allows you to force-close all open apps that works on Android TV

I'm looking for an application that allows force-closing running applications, as its running down the memory and making the performance slow down. I'm not a huge fan of slowdowns, if anyone know of such a app, please type in it the comments below.
Thanks!

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Thanks you for providing me this download link. I will try this out when I get home tonight, looking forward to seeing it work. Why don't you submit it to the Google Play Store?

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id be willing to try this when i get home as well. what app did you modify exactly? id like to look into it on the play store before i get home and install yours on my shield.

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Hey man so i got to play with this a little bit last night. Thanks so much! It will definitely help when im testing out new apps and troubleshooting issues. But to be honest, using the app last night made me realize something......
The shield is pretty damn good at managing ram on its own. With no easy way to force close apps prior to the app you provided, I just let shield take care of it, assuming all my running apps that i didnt force close on my own, were using up all my free ram available. But last night when using your app, each time i tried to "kill all" i only got a meager 100-200MB free, at best. Even with all the apps running, i still had like over 1gig, usually 1.5, available. its awesome.
But yeah, still keeping this app for messing with stuff. Thanks.

Awesome, I'll give it a try too. It always annoys the hell out of me that I have to go into settings then apps then go through all my installed apps just to kill a frozen app. It would be awesome if someone could implement the "hold back to kill app" that is in most ROMs.
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The file for your modified app is no longer working, any chance of reuploading this please?
2017 and still no android Nokia until "autumn" in UK for my Sony TV to fix this.
Thanks

JJ-KwiK said:
Sure. - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rhythm.hexise.task
Again, I only modified the apk to add leanback support.
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can you please upload this .apk?
also does it show you a list of your running apps
i can not belevice how ****ty android O is ym mi box how could think removing this most basic of functionality was good idea , i mean it was not great on MM but at least you could see a list of your running apps

gdroid666 said:
can you please upload this .apk?
also does it show you a list of your running apps
i can not belevice how ****ty android O is ym mi box how could think removing this most basic of functionality was good idea , i mean it was not great on MM but at least you could see a list of your running apps
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You can though! Just press home twice. The (X) on that screen closes all apps too

millab said:
You can though! Just press home twice. The (X) on that screen closes all apps too
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nope it does not work
mi box on Oreo , pressing home twice does nothing

Zenfone 3 ZE520KL RAM issue

Hi everyone,
Since I got this phone I always had this RAM management issue, my model is the basic with 2GB of ram and I understand that it has it's limitations, but I'm so annoyed right now.
Basically the phone can't keep apps running in background, usually if I have Spotify playing and than start browsing on Chrome, Spotify will forced close.
Even when the phone was fresh out of the box it's ram usage was pretty high, but now that I updated to official Android Oreo all just got worse. Now the apps background services are being killed and I just don't receive notifications from WhatsApp, multitasking doesn't exist here.
The screenshots show the RAM usage.
*A fun fact is my old Zenfone 5 with 2GB of RAM is running Nougat (Lineage OS) and when all apps are closed it has about 1GB of free ram while my new Zenfone 3 never get more than 400MB free and still closing the background apps.
Please somebody help me cause the Asus Zentalk forum couldn't help me, I feel like I'm the only one who's having this problem.
*Sorry for my english.
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Have you done the following :
1. Be very selective of what should be kept in the background through Auto-start manager
2. Customize power saving options, extreme power saving will possibly kill everything
3. Wipe cache partition
4. Keep reasonable free space.
5. Disable or remove bloatware (it's achievable without root now)
6. Use lightweight launcher like Evie or stock launcher
7. Avoid unnecessary additional theming
I could hardly think of anything else at the moment, maybe other can come up with better solution. My ze552kl has 4/64 so I don't really deal with this kind of issue but we all did on our older phones.

sanctitude888 said:
Have you done the following :
1. Be very selective of what should be kept in the background through Auto-start manager
2. Customize power saving options, extreme power saving will possibly kill everything
3. Wipe cache partition
4. Keep reasonable free space.
5. Disable or remove bloatware (it's achievable without root now)
6. Use lightweight launcher like Evie or stock launcher
7. Avoid unnecessary additional theming
I could hardly think of anything else at the moment, maybe other can come up with better solution. My ze552kl has 4/64 so I don't really deal with this kind of issue but we all did on our older phones.
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I already did all of this, I don't have a lot off apps, all the bloatware that I didn't use I have disabled. As I said, even when the phone was new it never had much available ram, but now with Oreo it got worse.

Somebody correct me if I am wrong but ram in android is meant to be used. The more apps being allowed to run in background the more ram will be used to avoid opening the app from scratch. Most of us are so obssessed with free ram. The problem is not with free ram but with laggy experience. You may try one last thing in developer options, apps section and activate destroy activities as soon as user leaves it. Just another idea.

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Somebody correct me if I am wrong but ram in android is meant to be used. The more apps being allowed to run in background the more ram will be used to avoid opening the app from scratch. Most of us are so obssessed with free ram. The problem is not with free ram but with laggy experience. You may try one last thing in developer options, apps section and activate destroy activities as soon as user leaves it. Just another idea.
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The truth that you can see amount mem free but it not free like that. Ex: i have 800mb ram free but actually it have only 150mb, that why it make the device laggy. You can use the app called "Disk info" with have option "Mem preferences" which can see the truth mem free. If you want to solve this easy just unmount zram file, creat swap file (recommend 1GB storage) and yes, root is needed.

sanctitude888 said:
Somebody correct me if I am wrong but ram in android is meant to be used. The more apps being allowed to run in background the more ram will be used to avoid opening the app from scratch. Most of us are so obssessed with free ram. The problem is not with free ram but with laggy experience. You may try one last thing in developer options, apps section and activate destroy activities as soon as user leaves it. Just another idea.
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I'm complaining about my apps crashing because lack of free ram, not because the number of free ram.