Hey,
I'm using Apex 10.1 & Talon 0.5.1.3 kernel and I want to know once and for all, where does the ram go after a few days of using the phone?!
After I'm rebooting the phone, I have about 180 mb of free ram when I'm closing all the apps (using task manager).
After few days of using, the phone become laggy and I have 90 mb of free eam after closing all the apps.
Where have 90mb of ram gone?!
I tried to use the drop caches in memory freak, but it doesn't help.
Can you explain me + help me?
Thanks!
that kernel has a memory leak, it loses ram over a long uptime.
you can try another kernel or you can reboot your phone frequently until the dev finds and plugs the leak.
I think I will stay with this kernel and restart the phone every day.. hope the will find a way to fix the leak..
Thanks!
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Hey,
There are two problems that bother me since I've updated to GB.
1. I've noticed that in GB the ram is managed in a different way. When I'm rebooting the phone the average free ram after I'm cleaning all apps is about 140 MB, but after some days of using the phone, I can't past the 90 free mb (after cleaning apps) and my phone is about 30-40 free mb when in regular use, like some apps are being cached inside the phone's ram and I can't see them (even not when going to settings->applications->running services->show cached services).
The problem is very annoying because when the phone is about 30-40 free mb, he becomes very slow and laggy, but after a reboot he's smooth again.
Is there a way to solve this problem without rebooting the phone when it laggy?
2. When I used Froyo, I've loved the stock headphones because I could stop the music and pass songs with the mic button in the headphones. After upgrading to GB the mic button doesn't work so good, and when I'm trying to pass songs with double click it often stops the music (one click's action), or not working at all.
But when the phone is open (no locked) it is working great like in froyo.
Does anyone else have this problem? How can I solve it?
Thanks in advance!!
BTW: I'm using Apex 8.2 with talon 0.4.3 and KC1
For the ram issue try a different kernel.
Ionno about the headphone thing.
Is apex the only gb rom you've used, perhaps try another?
I updated to Apex 9.1 that comes with DarkCore kernel and the ram management is just awsome, and the problem with the headphones has been solved.
Thanks!
i tried almost every ics rom and at start they all were very fast but after some time they become much much slow. any solution for this
Can this be because of your installed applications and overall system debris.
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No not like that. I installed vry few apps but stil it gets slow. I tried Docs rom, slim rom even every 1 but they all get slow after some time. I always do full wipe and than instal clean fresh rom
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How much time passes before the system starts to run slower?
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Try restarting your phone, wiping up all the cache. Maybe this might help.
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I have exactly the same problem. Wiping cashe through CWM doesn't change anything, it still gets slower after a few hours or a day max.
I have SE xperia neo v, rooted, unlocked bootloader, rom pureness 11, kernel nightelf 1.4. It gets so slow it actually refreshes/crashes (not sure) ex launcher pro and I can't do anything but reboot. Then everything is great and very fast at the beginning and then gets slower.
There is about 70mb RAM both at the beginning and later when it gets slow so I suppose it's not the full ram problem? CPU is also mostly free, I check if games are not running in background so that is not the problem as well. Internal space: about 85mb free and a few GB free on SD.
I have lots of apps installed (about 50) but I think it would slow my mobile from the very beginning after reboot?
Any advice?
I'm no expert on these devices, but I can tell you what I do to help with this problem... I simply hold the home button down until the recent apps show and then slide them off the screen. My phone runs OK for a few hours until I rinse and repeat...
arkhadius said:
I have exactly the same problem. Wiping cashe through CWM doesn't change anything, it still gets slower after a few hours or a day max.
I have SE xperia neo v, rooted, unlocked bootloader, rom pureness 11, kernel nightelf 1.4. It gets so slow it actually refreshes/crashes (not sure) ex launcher pro and I can't do anything but reboot. Then everything is great and very fast at the beginning and then gets slower.
There is about 70mb RAM both at the beginning and later when it gets slow so I suppose it's not the full ram problem? CPU is also mostly free, I check if games are not running in background so that is not the problem as well. Internal space: about 85mb free and a few GB free on SD.
I have lots of apps installed (about 50) but I think it would slow my mobile from the very beginning after reboot?
Any advice?
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Snevey said:
I'm no expert on these devices, but I can tell you what I do to help with this problem... I simply hold the home button down until the recent apps show and then slide them off the screen. My phone runs OK for a few hours until I rinse and repeat...
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Thanks, I will try it when the phone gets slow again and let you know it it helped.
Edit:
Nope, that's not it at all. Deleted everything from recent apps the way you told. Go launcher EX is right now turning on and off constantly, most of apps that are usually open have long since closed themselves. I have to reboot, there's nothing else I can do.
Edit 2:
I have deleted a few apps that I don't or rarely use and 4/5 of games I had. It stopped crashing my launcher and I don't have to reboot anymore. So I guess it was just too many apps and games (unless on the way I've done sth else that helped that I'm not aware of).
Hello everybody,
I recently bought a galaxy note (this past saturday) and from day one, I've been having problems with the phone being too laggy. I've noticed that RAM usage never gets below 4-500 and when I open even one app (like facebook or the browser), it immediately spikes up and can get as high as 700+! Surely this is not normal! My Galaxy s2 does not have this problem at all.
Even after a factory reset the problem persists even when I haven't even installed any of my own apps yet! Could this be a hardware issue? It's running on 4.0.4. I've also had FC's. Tried switching to a costum rom (Rocket rom), but it has the exact same problem and even a slightly higher RAM usage.
I took it back to the store the other day, and the salesman pulled out their test phone (which had the exact software as mine) and it seemed to be having the same problems with the lagging and high RAM usage.
HELP!
http://m.androidcentral.com/ram-what-it-how-its-used-and-why-you-shouldnt-care
Ismo29 said:
Hello everybody,
I recently bought a galaxy note (this past saturday) and from day one, I've been having problems with the phone being too laggy. I've noticed that RAM usage never gets below 4-500 and when I open even one app (like facebook or the browser), it immediately spikes up and can get as high as 700+! Surely this is not normal! My Galaxy s2 does not have this problem at all.
Even after a factory reset the problem persists even when I haven't even installed any of my own apps yet! Could this be a hardware issue? It's running on 4.0.4. I've also had FC's. Tried switching to a costum rom (Rocket rom), but it has the exact same problem and even a slightly higher RAM usage.
I took it back to the store the other day, and the salesman pulled out their test phone (which had the exact software as mine) and it seemed to be having the same problems with the lagging and high RAM usage.
HELP!
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All I can tell you is that with a CLEAN install, I'm usually sitting around 600 megs used. And then after all my apps (including the ones that are scheduled and such) I sit around the same as you, 700 or more megs used. I feel your pain with the RAM issue. It seems that it's because of all the TW drivers and software. I am really glad that they decided to up the memory in the SG Note 2 to 2GB. I really hope that things do get smoother though with JB at least. But you're not alone.
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All I can tell you is that with a CLEAN install, I'm usually sitting around 600 megs used. And then after all my apps (including the ones that are scheduled and such) I sit around the same as you, 700 or more megs used. I feel your pain with the RAM issue. It seems that it's because of all the TW drivers and software. I am really glad that they decided to up the memory in the SG Note 2 to 2GB. I really hope that things do get smoother though with JB at least. But you're not alone.
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Flash gb rom in pc odin and while in gb rom go to CWMR and do the 3 wipes then flash ics rom in pc odin.
Try removing those unnecessary cluttered stock apps that you don't need (thru Titanium Backup), make sure you wipe cache partition & dalvik cache (only) in cwmr.
Reboot recovery and reboot system.. Check again if your still getting the same high Ram usage.
Uninstall google maps & facebook
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AA1973 said:
http://m.androidcentral.com/ram-what-it-how-its-used-and-why-you-shouldnt-care
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for the sake of future generations, I'd like to reiterate two most important points from the article quoted by AA1973:
- Unused RAM is wasted RAM.
- Task killers are bad.
OP.
It is a legitimate issue if you complain about lag and freezes, but apparently you mentioned only perceived high ram usage.
Read the post above mine.
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Try.n app named ''Smart RAM Booster''
Will work like magic...
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It is not abt the RAM that u need to worry.
But how good a ROM an kernel manage the RAM for highest performance and good battery life.
That's what all RAM about... Performance!
Same like computer.
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p107r0 said:
for the sake of future generations, I'd like to reiterate two most important points from the article quoted by AA1973:
- Unused RAM is wasted RAM.
- Task killers are bad.
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AMEN!!
I just want my Note to take all my RAM.
Check the developer option under settings tab
No further posts on this I guess but here's what I have observed:
1. Go to settings
2. Go to developer options ( 2nd last option)
3. Select "Background process limit". You will have plenty of options including "No background process".
4. Stop all unwanted running apps in the "applications" -> "running" tab
5. Press the home key for few seconds, you will see some apps shortcut displayed. Swipe it left or right to clear it.
The RAM should stay within limits for a long time. After a reboot the above process might have to be repeated.
My Gtn 7000 details:
Android version 4.04
Baseband ver n7000ddlr1
Kernel ver
3.0.15- 1163394
[email protected] #3
Build no. IMM76D.DDLRB
senseVsSTyle said:
No further posts on this I guess but here's what I have observed:
1. Go to settings
2. Go to developer options ( 2nd last option)
3. Select "Background process limit". You will have plenty of options including "No background process".
4. Stop all unwanted running apps in the "applications" -> "running" tab
5. Press the home key for few seconds, you will see some apps shortcut displayed. Swipe it left or right to clear it.
The RAM should stay within limits for a long time. After a reboot the above process might have to be repeated.
My Gtn 7000 details:
Android version 4.04
Baseband ver n7000ddlr1
Kernel ver
3.0.15- 1163394
[email protected] #3
Build no. IMM76D.DDLRB
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using dev options and limiting the process causes random refreshing of homescreen and apps not to work properly.
using multiwindow is also very difficult.
apps closes away some time while navigating away..
Using the App section of Dev options is not a very good idea on a daily run.
I've been suffering this alot with JB/ICS rom, my favorite thing to do after flashing a new ROM is to remove all the bloat wares, but that doesn't help with the high RAM usage (always uses up to 700MB+). So, I decided to flash back to JB a few days ago, and guess what, I open 7-8 apps at the same time with RAM usage is about 500-650MB.
As I read here and there, GPU rendering consumes more RAM, so...I think you get the idea
Source: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/hardware-accel.html
And with JB, memory leak is even worse.
Unfortunately ram managers do nothing in increasing performance or battery life its a complete myth. Ram itself is only accessed when needed for backup or temporary storage of small files. The ram management on Android will utilise as much as it can with usual apps used and system management. It has no effect on battery or performance UNTIL you have a leak on the rom which does happen.
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Visit This site on your Note to increase RAM
SpyderTracks said:
Unfortunately ram managers do nothing in increasing performance or battery life its a complete myth. Ram itself is only accessed when needed for backup or temporary storage of small files. The ram management on Android will utilise as much as it can with usual apps used and system management. It has no effect on battery or performance UNTIL you have a leak on the rom which does happen.
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I've always believed that free RAM is wasted RAM! Don't care too much about RAM consumption! Android is good enough to deal with RAM without task managers (actually they're more harmful than helpful!)
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azzledazzle said:
Visit This site on your Note to increase RAM
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Oh yeah! Is there an OTG cable to connect a DDR ram on note? :banghead:
nokiamodeln91 said:
Oh yeah! Is there an OTG cable to connect a DDR ram on note? :banghead:
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Im in my laboratory currently developing it
azzledazzle said:
Im in my laboratory currently developing it
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On You Go good sir, if you manage it can I get a freebie? Sure you could email it to me?
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I upgraded my phone to 4.1.2. now everything runs quite slowly.
The screen takes 10+ seconds to draw when coming out of an application.
The App Settings shows the phone has approx 100MB free to play with.
Is this normal for the upgrade from 4.0?
Hey feagy,
First question: Which rom do you use? Stock or custom?
Second one: Which apps are taking the most memory?
I'm using LiquidSmooth v3.1 and have round about 300 MB free memory.
Best,
HDSteff
I suppose that he has a stock rom. Slow drawing is, I think, a main issue of LG launcher. Try another one. Then there should be more free RAM, too.
Eventually, you can flash a custom rom , then almost all problems will be gone.
Hi guys,
I stumbled across the problem that my phone recently got slower and slower. I've done some research, which problems can cause my phone to be slowing down that much.
Eventually I discovered the phone's ram to be used to the limit. Most of the time, there were only round about 25 MB free ram, the rest (~825 MB) was already in use. I thought this to be my main problem.
I tried to fix this problem by installing a new rom. I installed liquid smooth from this Thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/one-mini-2/orig-development/rom-liquidsmooth-t3177000
Earlier I had Carbon installed (http://forum.xda-developers.com/one-mini-2/orig-development/rom-carbonrom-t3193493) with the same issue (high ram usage)
Anyway, after updating to a newer rom, deinstalling some apps, trying to get insight into the ram usage, I still didn't get my phone to be running smoothly.
Do you guys have any suggestions on how to get some more free ram so that starting a single app doesn't kill my whole os?
Or any other ideas how to get my phone to be running smoothly?
Best,
Blue
Blue696 said:
Hi guys,
I stumbled across the problem that my phone recently got slower and slower. I've done some research, which problems can cause my phone to be slowing down that much.
Eventually I discovered the phone's ram to be used to the limit. Most of the time, there were only round about 25 MB free ram, the rest (~825 MB) was already in use. I thought this to be my main problem.
I tried to fix this problem by installing a new rom. I installed liquid smooth from this Thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/one-mini-2/orig-development/rom-liquidsmooth-t3177000
Earlier I had Carbon installed (http://forum.xda-developers.com/one-mini-2/orig-development/rom-carbonrom-t3193493) with the same issue (high ram usage)
Anyway, after updating to a newer rom, deinstalling some apps, trying to get insight into the ram usage, I still didn't get my phone to be running smoothly.
Do you guys have any suggestions on how to get some more free ram so that starting a single app doesn't kill my whole os?
Or any other ideas how to get my phone to be running smoothly?
Best,
Blue
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Its normal for RAM to be used to max. Its how Android works. The phone closes apps to open new ones, etc,etc. Android makes the most of it, not like PC's.
i would look instead for something that could be using your CPU.
Blue696 said:
Hi guys,
I stumbled across the problem that my phone recently got slower and slower. I've done some research, which problems can cause my phone to be slowing down that much.
Eventually I discovered the phone's ram to be used to the limit. Most of the time, there were only round about 25 MB free ram, the rest (~825 MB) was already in use. I thought this to be my main problem.
I tried to fix this problem by installing a new rom. I installed liquid smooth from this Thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/one-mini-2/orig-development/rom-liquidsmooth-t3177000
Earlier I had Carbon installed (http://forum.xda-developers.com/one-mini-2/orig-development/rom-carbonrom-t3193493) with the same issue (high ram usage)
Anyway, after updating to a newer rom, deinstalling some apps, trying to get insight into the ram usage, I still didn't get my phone to be running smoothly.
Do you guys have any suggestions on how to get some more free ram so that starting a single app doesn't kill my whole os?
Or any other ideas how to get my phone to be running smoothly?
Best,
Blue
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Are you killing the apps you open or do you use the return key, clearing cache memory..