Can anyone tell me why i am losing Program Memory whenever i burn a new ROM?
I started off with 110MB of Program memory and now ive got 85MB of Memory after installing.
Anyway of getting the memory?
could it be that different roms utilise different amounts of ram they need to use
v1xz said:
Can anyone tell me why i am losing Program Memory whenever i burn a new ROM?
I started off with 110MB of Program memory and now ive got 85MB of Memory after installing.
Anyway of getting the memory?
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look at this thread and you'll find your answer.if you can't find your answer than you must not have read enough or at all.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=383904&highlight=gweni
If you're loosing memory then you should think of taking some Ginko.
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Hello, i am in need of a good memory cleaner. I am running a program that closes programs completly, but even after it says they are closed my ram is still low. is tehre a program out there that will monitor you program memory and keep it clean all the time. i am tired of rebooting to get my memory back. thanks for any help!
Ok so I have been looking for an answer for a little bit and have found very little so...
Is it better to load programs onto the phones memory or onto a SD card?
I would think it would take a lot more memory/power to pull files off of a SD card rather than from the device itself, but then you dont have a lot of memory on the phone?
pros and cons of each. THANKS
I put "device" programs (eg quick menu, oto etc) onto main memory and games, apps onto the sd card. That way I figure the apps which are in use alot will already be in memory and easier to open and the apps/games I don't always use can be pulled from storage card when I want to use them.
If you max out the Storage memory on your device, many programs won't be able to run (they still need room to store temp files, etc.), and you'll start getting warnings.
I've found the performance hit in using SD-base applications to be negligible...
You want as much room on your phone as possible. WM will run faster, and if you max out your phone memory, you'll notice a decrease in performance not to mention the low memory warnings you'll get.
The question is do you ever remove your microSD? If you do, you need to install the softwares that you use all the time into the phone memory. Otherwise, I found the performence different is very little between the 2 memory location.
EkS said:
You want as much room on your phone as possible. WM will run faster, and if you max out your phone memory, you'll notice a decrease in performance not to mention the low memory warnings you'll get.
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It used to be true with WM2003, but I don't think it applies to WM6. The storage and running memory areas are now separated.
I will try to keep the device memory as free as possible, because the phone will run faster, so only system program will be installed on the device, also programs like pocket cm and worldmate uses more power to startup, so I also put them in the phone and not memory card, as this will create less errors.
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I've had a scenario where the storage memory dropped to <5mb only. Coz of that I couldn't launch Youtube which required at least 8mb of memory.
I've tried stopping all running programs, using Memmaid and soft-resetting but to no avail. The memory remained at <5mb.
I only got back my storage memory to its optimum level on doing a hard reset. Is there a way I can regain storage memory without doing a hard reset?
I have the same problem. Have you been able to fix it without a hard reset? Tnx.
I had this problem yesterday, Lost about 12meg but i can't find where.
maybe opera stores its cache in the storage? but if it does i cant find where.
rumpleforeskin said:
I had this problem yesterday, Lost about 12meg but i can't find where.
maybe opera stores its cache in the storage? but if it does i cant find where.
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Try to run Advanced Config and change the storage folder for cache, downloads, temp files etc to internal memory. it may work. But my guess is that the storage memory is low to begin with. You run/install a couple of programs and it's in red.
My own solution is to flash to a "modified" ROM which gets rid of unnecessary pre-installed programs to free up space. Works wonders. Now I am not in red after installing like 20 programs on my diamond and believe me, it's MUCH faster. There is whole ROM section for diamond in xda-developers for you guys to play around. Read carefully and thoroughly before you try. It's not like adding a new software but you wipe out the ROM (Read only memory) and HTC will tell you that the warranty is void if you do that.
thanks for the info
im running TLR3 at the moment and generally happy with the amount of memory it left me, i was just a little supprised at having 12 mg dissapear on me.
i followed your advice about moving the caches to the internal storage, hope this will prevent the situation recoccuring.
thanks
Hello everybody
First, plz excuse my very bad english..
I would like to know if its possible, and if yes, how, to use internal memory to make the same thing than a swap linux partition, but on the phone memory, not on SD
I would like to know if there is a tutorial or anythings that speak about this..
It could be very interesting to save SD card life and i don't care about to loose memory for my apps
Thx for Help
Fabulous, speaking for a few members of Smartphone France community
I thought about this myself (putting swap partition on internal storage), since it should be faster.
After thinking for a while though I realised that wearing out an SD card is one thing, destroying the internal flash is far worse.
even with a swap partition on your phone the sdcard will still last around 2 and a half years. i thought people had quit this about sdcard life. My sdcard will probably be around then my phone.
besides when the sdcard doesn't just die on day. the "dead parts" parts of the sdcard will just no longer be used. meaning there will be less overall storage space on the card but it will still function
I don't think that's a particularly good idea. The sd card might stay longer with you than your phone, but if your phone's internal memory breaks you can't just shrug and buy a new one.
That said, if you're set on doing this, you could probably put a swap file in /cache. Without OTA updates that doesn't get used for much anyway.
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I don't think that's a particularly good idea. The sd card might stay longer with you than your phone, but if your phone's internal memory breaks you can't just shrug and buy a new one.
That said, if you're set on doing this, you could probably put a swap file in /cache. Without OTA updates that doesn't get used for much anyway.
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i wasn't suggesting what the OP said, i have a linux-swap partition, i was simply that the card will most likely last longer than the phone but why ruin internal phone memory, that would make it unusable. I agree that you should put the swap file on the sdcard
is it possible ? yes
but like everyones sayd just don't do it , you might break your phone very fast and you won't gain any significant speed either
a class 6 card is about the same speed as internal storage and theyre relatively cheap now
Even if you could it probably wouldn't be worth it and there is already a very limited amount of memory in the phone. It would be safer for the phone and you would be able to have a larger swap file by using the sdcard.
If you are dead set on it, about 5 minutes of googling didn't turn up any howto's on making the swap on the system memory but here are a couple howto's one is the linux swap file and the other is adding the swap to the sdcard. The instructions shouldn't be hard to adapt for the main system flash memory
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-add-a-swap-file-howto/
http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f8/adding-swap-space-ram-to-g1-16325/
i still don't understand why people insist on using sdcard for swap space. It'd make sense if the sdcard were used exclusively for swap, but with all the r/w operations going on (app read, media read/write, and swap read/write), not even a class 6 card provides enough bandwidth for doing swap operations effectively... I'm with cyan on this one, and a good compcache setup is the best choice atm.
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i still don't understand why people insist on using sdcard for swap space. It'd make sense if the sdcard were used exclusively for swap, but with all the r/w operations going on (app read, media read/write, and swap read/write), not even a class 6 card provides enough bandwidth for doing swap operations effectively... I'm with cyan on this one, and a good compcache setup is the best choice atm.
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I have around 15-20 mb free internal memory when using cyanogen rom but around 1 to 2 mb free when using hero rom
sd swap use around 50 mb on hero rom with swapiness at 70%
you absolutly need to swap in hero rom
samygent said:
I have around 15-20 mb free internal memory when using cyanogen rom but around 1 to 2 mb free when using hero rom
sd swap use around 50 mb on hero rom with swapiness at 70%
you absolutly need to swap in hero rom
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If Apps2SD is running correctly you should have 89mb free on Cyanogen and about 50-70mb on Hero :-S
AdrianK said:
If Apps2SD is running correctly you should have 89mb free on Cyanogen and about 50-70mb on Hero :-S
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apps2d doesn't have anything to do with swap partition or does it ?
# free
free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 97860 95896 1964 0 360
Swap: 104412 57060 47352
Total: 202272 152956 49316
#
swapiness at 70 and everything run's very smoothly
edit : yah i love tabulation
increase ram
Fabulous691 said:
Hello everybody
First, plz excuse my very bad english..
I would like to know if its possible, and if yes, how, to use internal memory to make the same thing than a swap linux partition, but on the phone memory, not on SD
I would like to know if there is a tutorial or anythings that speak about this..
It could be very interesting to save SD card life and i don't care about to loose memory for my apps
Thx for Help
Fabulous, speaking for a few members of Smartphone France community
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please tell me how to convert internal memory into ram. I will be very thankfull to you
With people trying different ROM all the time would it affect the lifespan of the internal storage? If so, can you replace it then whenever it gives out? Cheers!
No, it is soldered down. Desoldering it would be more-or-less akin to performing the miracle of walking on water.
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With people trying different ROM all the time would it affect the lifespan of the internal storage? If so, can you replace it then whenever it gives out? Cheers!
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While I'm sure that there is a finite limit to the amount of read/write cycles that can be done on the memory of the phone, if you are really worried, you can just load all of your apps onto a microSD (and just tear up that memory instead).
While I am not sure if it is possible to run the whole OS from the microSD slot, it has been done on other devices but would be slow and buggy.
However, if you want to only limit the total number of read/write cycles on the physical memory, a great way is by moving apps to external storage, but bear in mind they will run slower.
Also, you will probably upgrade your phone far earlier than you might have a problem with the internal storage corrupting.
In terms of flashing ROMs, this is somewhat of a valid point, but once there is a stable ICS rom of your liking, chances are at least some of us will be flashing much less