Do we have something close to Smart manager on the V20? I have notice the phone slow uses most of its RAM up to a point only 720mb are left. I love having at least 1.5gb free in case I want to play games.
Ram management is very good on this phone. Don't worry about it. It'll just use the ram it needs and save state or throw out of ram other less used apps.
TempezT said:
Do we have something close to Smart manager on the V20? I have notice the phone slow uses most of its RAM up to a point only 720mb are left. I love having at least 1.5gb free in case I want to play games.
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Yes,it has Smart Cleaning,which is the same thing,it's a system app.
I find it unnecessary & would disable it if possible.
However,to each their own,you could probably create a shortcut to the RAM Management section with an app,or,via 3rd pary launcher such as Nova or Apex.
KOLIOSIS said:
Yes,it has Smart Cleaning,which is the same thing,it's a system app.
I find it unnecessary & would disable it if possible.
However,to each their own,you could probably create a shortcut to the RAM Management section with an app,or,via 3rd pary launcher such as Nova or Apex.
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I dont see the ram section on mine. Only Temporary files, Download folder and idle apps.
TempezT said:
I dont see the ram section on mine. Only Temporary files, Download folder and idle apps.
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My mistake, that's what I was looking at.
I don't see it either, I suppose you could download an app for that.
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unrooted and unbranded. lt15i 8gb.
not using timescape widget.
i am getting about 105mb. is that normal?
On a fresh boot? It's not a lot, but fine if you are using the stock home launcher which is pretty light. Things may get congested if you use other apps for PIM, email, clock etc over the stock ones since both will be loaded into ram.
My Xperia Arc (Lt15a) came with around 200MB of free space. Could it be bloatware that's on your phone?
CarbonX13 said:
My Xperia Arc (Lt15a) came with around 200MB of free space. Could it be bloatware that's on your phone?
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mine the same way and it usually doesn't go below 150 over time.
105mb is fine. There will be apps in memory that you arent currently using, but if you run an app that needs more memory then they will be unloaded to free up RAM.
Look at it this way: free RAM is wasted RAM.
sorry i am new to this (first andriod phone/owner for 2 days)
i just restarted phone and am getting 159mb in advanced task killer free (didn't kill anything)--is this a recommended way to check free memory?
i am using stock launcher/stock clock. the only non andriod widget i am using is the SE gallary.
are there any apps that show memory usage by app/component?
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in advanced task killer if i went to "info" from menu (also reachable from setup), i got a different list of running services which show 179mb free memory. which is different from the number above.
what is the difference?
I always have around 160-170MB free.
rumnyc said:
sorry i am new to this (first andriod phone/owner for 2 days)
i just restarted phone and am getting 159mb in advanced task killer free (didn't kill anything)--is this a recommended way to check free memory?
i am using stock launcher/stock clock. the only non andriod widget i am using is the SE gallary.
are there any apps that show memory usage by app/component?
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in advanced task killer if i went to "info" from menu (also reachable from setup), i got a different list of running services which show 179mb free memory. which is different from the number above.
what is the difference?
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ATK shows the correct amount which is 159mb. The one shown by settings has 20mb more because it cannot account for it's own ram usage, notice it cannot show the amount of memory used by settings.
rumnyc said:
are there any apps that show memory usage by app/component?
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Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications -> Running
This shows RAM usage (all the other tabs show how much internal phone storage is being used)
Having said that the total RAM free reported by settings is about 40MB higher than the amount reported by, third party apps like, say, TaskPanel. Weird.
mine tends to run around 50-60mb free, but I know if I start something ram heavy like a gameloft game up then shut it down I will have about 150mb free. It seems to manage it well.
Memory management is good on this phone. BTW Task Killing application can cause instability on your phone not really recommend.
daveybaby said:
Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications -> Running
This shows RAM usage (all the other tabs show how much internal phone storage is being used)
Having said that the total RAM free reported by settings is about 40MB higher than the amount reported by, third party apps like, say, TaskPanel. Weird.
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I explained why in the post just above yours. Lol....
constin said:
I explained why in the post just above yours. Lol....
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Heh, yeah, saw that after i posted. Meant to go back and edit it so that i didnt look like an idiot, but got distracted. So that makes me a double idiot
Still, kinda worrying if settings is using up 40MB (actually just checked again and the difference is 60MB!)
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Heh, yeah, saw that after i posted. Meant to go back and edit it so that i didnt look like an idiot, but got distracted. So that makes me a double idiot
Still, kinda worrying if settings is using up 40MB (actually just checked again and the difference is 60MB!)
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WTF--how can settings use 60mb? I noticed a similar difference in my phone as well....
This reminds me of the MS-DOS days when we had to memory manage the first 640k of RAM.
HIMEM.sys FTW!!!!
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Heh, yeah, saw that after i posted. Meant to go back and edit it so that i didnt look like an idiot, but got distracted. So that makes me a double idiot
Still, kinda worrying if settings is using up 40MB (actually just checked again and the difference is 60MB!)
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WTF--how can settings use 60mb? I noticed a similar difference in my phone as well....
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That's one reason I do not leave it to android alone to manage ram. Multiple services can link on to Settings ie. a battery indicator widget and other apps that retrieves info from Settings. The Settings service can end up hosting many processes which android does not release unless the system is critically low on ram, because I'm guessing it is a high priority service.
I use Advanced Task Killer to auto kill Settings when my Arc goes idle. Settings will get restarted by itself and then only consume the minimum amount of ram.
rumnyc said:
This reminds me of the MS-DOS days when we had to memory manage the first 640k of RAM.
HIMEM.sys FTW!!!!
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Lol, yes... good old days of getting games like ultima to run.
Hi friends,
trick for increment ram free exsist? sorry my bad english
Thanks
Get yourself a task manager and kill all unnecessary processes, but I don't really know what would you use that free RAM for
Graveir said:
Get yourself a task manager and kill all unnecessary processes, but I don't really know what would you use that free RAM for
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ok friend,
for you the best task manager?
double thanks
Use task killer its free in the market, as for me im using System panel.
allgsmnetwork said:
ok friend,
for you the best task manager?
double thanks
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advanced task manager is the best ,but check this article out
http://phandroid.com/2011/06/16/android-psa-stop-using-task-killer-apps-now/
Android system (2.2 and 2.3--> 2.1 is not too efficent in this) frees the memory itself, and caches things like Windows 7 (but in a far effective way). If you start a software that needs more RAM, then Android frees it for the app (or it tries to free it up: sometimes you have to run more than once a memory hog app to get it started), else it's precaches system things to fasten up the phone. So. If you have a lot of memory free, it's not always good.
Note that the problem starts if the CPU "can't rest". Then will come the less battery time, slowness, choppiness, etc. So: If there is an Application that has been loaded into memory, and runs in background and eating CPU cycles, then it's not good. In this case you have to close it manually. But not for the more RAM. You have to close it because Android itself MAYBE won't close it, because it recognizes as a running task (so it isn't an idle task) that is in use, and it keeps eating the CPU-->battery.
Hope this helps for the memory-geeks
Any useful tweaks or settings which I could use? There is many appn on the market and they allow to tweak internal memory management but I have no idea what settings to use.
No matter which I try, my phone always seem to stick to ~100MB RAM Free. Why so much? I'd prefer ~50MB RAM Free and more apps running without closing.
schriss said:
Any useful tweaks or settings which I could use? There is many appn on the market and they allow to tweak internal memory management but I have no idea what settings to use.
No matter which I try, my phone always seem to stick to ~100MB RAM Free. Why so much? I'd prefer ~50MB RAM Free and more apps running without closing.
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you mean you want 100mb ram free but only have 50mb? you can check out a ram cleaner script. the link is in my signature called mods for virtuous unity. just download the zip file, back up your phone and superwipe, then flash your rom then ram cleaning script then reboot and your done
Actually it was the other way around, I always had 100 MB free and my apps have been closed often. I played with one of the tools to tweak internal memory manager and now my free RAM goes down to 60 and apps stay in memory, this is what I wanted. FireFox Nightly takes a lot on its own...
Will play with settings some more before posting them here.
Only app and root needed, no scripts or Rom flashing.
I'm runing CoreDroid port, I love its theme.
My opinion is if what you perceive as a lack of available memory is not degrading the performance of your phone, including the apps which run on the phone, then it's a non-issue as the latest versions of Android have a much better handle on memory management than the older versions.
I agree but in my case system had 100MB RAM free but when I launched another app it would close other app and system would still have 100 MB RAM Free. So imagine me opening media player and listening to mp3 and then I launch Firefox and music stops, yet there is still 100 MB RAM Free.
I have changed settings and it's better now, Free RAM drops down to 60MB so I can have more apps running.
Previously, Firefox would close whenever I switched out of it, annoying.
how can I ?
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No point
Android will free ram if needed and ram cleaners and anti-viruses often mess this up
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how can I ?
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]May i ask why you need the RAM? Its android operating system after all if program requires more RAM the system will free enough. You have 1gb free which is more than enough. If you want to free more install some ram killer/cleaner like Clean Master,or uninstall some apps that you dont use. cheers :highfive:
thanks for answers
but it's about the battery, I wanna keep the phone on as much time as I can without needing to charge it
and I thought that all these running apps are consuming the battery and reducing its lifetime
Actually, having apps in the RAM saves battery. It's more battery-consuming to have to read the apps into RAM every time you want to use them. Better have them preloaded in the RAM and always ready-to-use.
They aren't 'running' in the background, but more like 'hibernating'.
If you really want to make sure no apps are consuming data and such in the background, then use Stamina Mode. Also checking which apps are allowed to automatically sync data is one way to go.
In the recent apps viewer, I can see at the bottom that there is always about 1,95GB of 3GB of ram free.. I was asking, is it possible to make the apps use more ram in the background for faster loading and will this use more battery?
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In the recent apps viewer, I can see at the bottom that there is always about 1,95GB of 3GB of ram free.. I was asking, is it possible to make the apps use more ram in the background for faster loading and will this use more battery?
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Not that I know if but if you did want to do that it would take a lot of time and heavy modifications how the phone uses ram etc but for now you can try going into Dev mode (tap build number 7 times) go to the bottom and click "background process limit" and set it to 4 but if you run out of ram or close to running out the phone stops the app.