Hello guys! I have rooted my kindle fire HD with your help and after few months (of happy user) my browsers (Dolphin or Mozilla) do crash regularly ... I seen that my available RAM is close to 50-100 MB and I'm wondering if this is the case. My question is "what more programs can I uninstall from it" ? Do we need all the Amazon things? Thanks !
Ram isn't the area that the programs are stored on, ram is random access memory, programs do operations in it and cache data to it, if you want to free up ram, just force close some apps, or do what I do and use go task manager and hit general kill.
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Sorry forgot to mention that I do use a kill app... When I do so, the browser seems to work in better way. Thanks for your reply!
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Hello all,
I recently bought my N1 about 4 days ago. So far its been great. Easily one of the best phones I've ever owned. However, I am having this problem where apps in android seem to startup by themselves. I'm using Advanced Task killer to kill em but ill kill them and then like a minute later they're back up and running without me starting them. Its quite annoying as my battery is taking a beating from it having to close and open apps and repeat. The biggest offenders of this are the voice apps such as voice search, voice dialer, Google voice (which isn't even setup), and the amazon mp3 store. A few third party apps I downloaded tend to do this as well.
Have any of you guys experienced this? Is there any way to fix it? Thanks in advance! XD
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decoyjoe said:
Hello all,
I recently bought my N1 about 4 days ago. So far its been great. Easily one of the best phones I've ever owned. However, I am having this problem where apps in android seem to startup by themselves. I'm using Advanced Task killer to kill em but ill kill them and then like a minute later they're back up and running without me starting them. Its quite annoying as my battery is taking a beating from it having to close and open apps and repeat. The biggest offenders of this are the voice apps such as voice search, voice dialer, Google voice (which isn't even setup), and the amazon mp3 store. A few third party apps I downloaded tend to do this as well.
Have any of you guys experienced this? Is there any way to fix it? Thanks in advance! XD
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Do not worry about app running in the background, what you are probably seeing is the list of what was run, Android is verry good at managing memory, in fact I do not even use a task manager and I am fine with it.
Well that's the thing. Some of these apps that startup I have never run such as the mp3 store. So I close it and I get an additional 10megs of memory. But then it just starts back up. So I don't know how to stop it all together.
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There are apps that automatically run in the background but don't effect performance like Google voice voice dialer etc..what I did was add them to the ignore list. Trust me those apps are always running no matter how many times you close them
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Like has already been said, stop worrying about it. Those apps are NOT stealing memory, they're NOT using battery.
Free memory does not benefit you. Android will automatically load apps in to memory so that they are available to switch to fast as possible.
You should not kill apps unless they are bisbehaving. Killing off apps forces Android to load them back into memory if its algorithm thinks you are likely to use it. The act of loading data into memory uses power and Android tries hard to avoid it.
I was obsessed with managing my memory and running apps when I bought my nexus one. Everyone at that time suggested task killers so I got one of those. I had crappy performance with random sluggishness. I figured I just needed to kill off more apps. Eventually I read an article from an Android dev explaining this stuff and I backed off and have had a much better experience since.
I wish Google was more vocal on this subject. Everyone thinking auto task killing is a necessity on Android really gives it a black eye.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=712352
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2) App that loses focus goes to background. That's the way OS is built. If you want apps to be killed on losing focus, get iOS 3 to run on your device.
3) The market has task killers because they can be written for multitasking OS, and because they help dealing with bad apps. Not for any other reason.
4) The OS loads some of your most used tasks when it runs, even if you don't know about it. Just loads in the memory, and allocates no CPU time. If you leave your phone unattended, your free memory goes down by itself. Why? Because free memory is wasted memory. You can check the "EMPTY" processes in Astro, for example.
5) The best task killer is careful selection of your apps. You see hangups? Find out the app that's doing it and remove it, or kill it specifically after running if it's necessary.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=678205
Remove your task killer (or, if you insist, just clear the auto-kill list), erase all you think you know about memory management - because you don't know - and stop worrying.
Hi,
i've started to noticed that my Tab P1000 is lagging quite badly. Open and closing of any apps takes about 1 second or so. i'm not sure what's wrong and don't know when it started. i then explore into memory usage and memory booster app is telling me that free memory is only about 34%. The number of tasks running in the background is also quite huge (24 at a time).
Is the memory usage normal? i've tried to delete any un-used apps but it doesn't seem to help. Are there any ways i can improve the memory and the overall performance?
i'm running custom rom (overcome) kernal 2.6.35.7 overcome v3.3.1.
Any advice will be appreciated.
I had this, I cleared all of the app cache files and seems a lot better now.
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you can try to wipe app cache, then use autoruns to disable all rubbish. and use overclock
I use taskxp from market, not just because its a task killer, but because it allows you to switch easily between open tasks, very helpful if you are running more tasks than holding home key menu will show (which is only 8 last accessed tasks)... anyway as a task killer it is very stable and customizable, I never have a lag or a unwanted task running in background (most games I notice will run in background even when you don't open them and I just kill them and free up my memory
SGT+CM7=AWESOMENESS!!!
This Taskxp thingy seems very handy! Thanks
Ernesto de Bernardis
N900 - Galaxy Tab 7"
Make sure to turn off the swipe to launch option, it annoys the hell outta me
SGT+CM7=AWESOMENESS!!!
Hello guys, why is RAM usage is very high on our Moto. The firmware is set to be close to AOSP but with no apps running in the background it consumes around 550+ mb. everyone facing it ?
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My thoughts exactly. I think its because of some of the built-in apps ie gmail, email,chrome,google play books, games and motorola's own apps etc . These stock apps cant be deleted without rooting, which is what I'am waiting for in moto G.
My previous xperia c phone too had very high ram usage initially, until I deleted the apps . After removing, I always had 550 or 500 MB free ram no matter what I did. And it was running on 4.2
Yes.. I have installed some apps. If I root it then we may get more free ram...
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My thoughts exactly. I think its because of some of the built-in apps ie gmail, email,chrome,google play books, games and motorola's own apps etc . These stock apps cant be deleted without rooting, which is what I'am waiting for in moto G.
My previous xperia c phone too had very high ram usage initially, until I deleted the apps . After removing, I always had 550 or 500 MB free ram no matter what I did. And it was running on 4.2
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i have rooted and deleted play games,book,newsstand, Google+,movies but still there is high usage of memory.
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Have you tried deleting some of motorola's stock apps ?? Or if you dont need push emails, why dont you try deleting emails,gmails, google+, google drive etc ?
catch my drift?
why are you using task manager? Try seeing the ram usage in running apps in ''Apps'' section
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nice information has been useful to have been.
Hello,
I'm a little behind the times as I just installed cm 12.1 on my Nook HD+.
I'm running into available RAM problems with my Nook HD+.
First, I've tried reducing the number of apps that start at boot,
either through the Boot Manager app or by turning off "run at startup"
in the app's info. Boot Manager does not list all of my apps, and
turning off "run at startup" is not present as an option in many app info's.
Also, many apps seem to magically reclaim RAM after being shut down
by a task manager. I have a few questions.
What are the best apps available for boot management? Are there better ones
than Boot Manager?
Does the RAM reclaiming happen irregardless of the task killer?
What are the memory management "secrets" of Lollipop (or Marshmallow)?
Do I have to live with fewer apps on my Nook HD+?
Is there a good source that describes memory management for Android?
Thanks
You should never have to manually manage apps that are in RAM with Android. It does it automatically and efficiently. What makes you think there is a problem? The HD+ has 1GB of RAM and android keeps it automatically full so that apps can start quickly.
You might be confusing RAM with available storage space and with a 16GB device you can run out of storage space very quickly if you install many apps and a lot of media.
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Hello again,
NO, I am definitely talking about RAM. I've installed Advanced Task Manager
and it reports available memory. After boot, available RAM is approximately
150-250MB only. At 150MB apps start crashing. It's hard to keep the browser
running without a crash after a few minutes. Right now, to prevent trouble
I have to "boost" to get back over 200MB. After a minute in an app,
other apps have restarted and RAM drops from that 200MB quickly. I don't
like to boost so often. If you need the specific .zip I installed, I can post
that for everyone . I guess development of CM 12.1 has finished.
Greenify is the solution
THE Solution: Greenify. Amazingly simple hibernation app.
Who needs freeze apps.
Thank you
Hey guys. After a restart I am usually sitting at around 425 mb of free RAM. Most of the apps I run are light, FB Lite, Smart Keyboard Pro, etc. so it runs pretty fast to me, but it seems to slow down significantly when it gets to the low 300's. I am annoyed everytime I see the Amazon Video App (or Whisperplay Daemon) constantly running even though I don't use it or know what it is for. Most all my apps I use are third party.
How much ram do you guys with this device usually have free and is there any tips to get even more. I do not have a PC and obviously we can't root 5.4 right now.
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Hey guys. After a restart I am usually sitting at around 425 mb of free RAM. Most of the apps I run are light, FB Lite, Smart Keyboard Pro, etc. so it runs pretty fast to me, but it seems to slow down significantly when it gets to the low 300's. I am annoyed everytime I see the Amazon Video App (or Whisperplay Daemon) constantly running even though I don't use it or know what it is for. Most all my apps I use are third party.
How much ram do you guys with this device usually have free and is there any tips to get even more. I do not have a PC and obviously we can't root 5.4 right now.
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FireOS uses several techniques (KSM, ZRAM, aggresive swapping) to insure apps will not force close due to limited resources. Downside is a significant degradation in performance. You can not tune these parameters nor prevent preinstalled apps from aggravating the situation without root permissions.
Two options:
- limit the number of apps you launch; swipe them away when finished
- reduce the number of preinstalled apps by running a debloat script
If you opt for the latter be sure to read through the caveats; you will probably want to make some modifications to the default script.