Hello all
i am kinda new to android
so i installed a task manager which shows me my current amount of RAM
and i found that only 50-70 MB of ram is available with me always
and also when ever i try to play NFS shift on mobile it gives error of less memory
so is there any fix available
also is it normal for everyone ???
aman11dhanpat said:
Hello all
i am kinda new to android
so i installed a task manager which shows me my current amount of RAM
and i found that only 50-70 MB of ram is available with me always
and also when ever i try to play NFS shift on mobile it gives error of less memory
so is there any fix available
also is it normal for everyone ???
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It doesnt seem normal for me. Mine is usually in the range of 150 MB to 200 MB depending on the tasks in the background. I use my i9000 for development and dont play games too often (except on my smoke breaks.... )
There are no "fixes" per se. You might however consider using "ATK" (Advanced Task Killer) or "Task Panel X". According to my observation as you keep using the phone for a prolonged period, services and apps will keep getting consuming resources even if you apparently think you had closed them. Its really an honest mistake pressing the "home" key to "close" applications, but I do it all the time too....
You could use ATK to close apps other than those in the "ignore mode" (a feature of ATK) after a specified duration. Does wonders to my RAM
Cheers....
Thanks a lot dude for your reply
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Note Specs say 1GB RAM. My unit shows 385MB used by applications and 100 MB available. Is the rest used by the System?? How to check if my unit has really 1GB RAM installed???
Note has 1gb Ram, 200mb. reserved for GPU
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OK, buT 200MB plus 385 MB used + 100MB available still do not make 1 GB!
Note have 792 available on OS, some it is user by android stock apps and services.
When I boot the phone with about 30 services and 400 apps installed I always have free about 380mb, so look the permissions to see what apps are autostarting with the boot and change them.
Galaxy Note RAM capacity
"When I boot the phone with about 30 services and 400 apps installed I always have free about 380mb, so look the permissions to see what apps are autostarting with the boot and change them."
Please tell me how to "look permissions" and change apps at boot???
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I hope you'll find answer to your questions. By the way, I'd like people to understand that free ram is UNUSED/USELESS. Our target as users and/or developers is to achieve the "enough ram for every process and app" objective. That is, we absolutely want that every bit of ram is used to make the whole system faster and readier. If you have services you need ready to be executed in ram, and you have ram for all of them, you have the best resources / results ratio. If you have 1GB of free ram and every app you need must be raised from scratch, you're not using your resources the optimal way. My 2c - maybe ot?
Good luck with your findings, anyway.
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Thanks for your message. However, I read in many forum messages that too many apps in the RAM slow down the display reaction, which I found myself too.
However, I've just done the 10-second soft reset and found my RAM usage went down to 187MB used and 530MB available for services. Also found in applications management RAM capacity info: 372MB used out of 800MB. I suppose difference comes from the fact that the first capacity info relates to the space available for applications and the second used capacity includes applications AND System.
But in this case it means the Note has 800MB and not 1GB of RAM as advertised!
It has 1GB as stated. 200 MB are used by the OS. 800+200=1000.
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Thanks for the message.
But why the active applications list on the bottom says 187MB used and 530MB available RAM , while the task manager/RAM management shows 372 MB used space out of 800MB??
This is what confuses me: in one place it is shown that 178MB is used and in another 372 MB used !???
Please clarify !
Radivoj said:
Thanks for the message.
But why the active applications list on the bottom says 187MB used and 530MB available RAM , while the task manager/RAM management shows 372 MB used space out of 800MB??
This is what confuses me: in one place it is shown that 178MB is used and in another 372 MB used !???
Please clarify !
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depends o nthe kernel you are using, but the note has 1gb of ram of whcih 800 is available for the system to use
Radivoj said:
why the active applications list on the bottom says 187MB used and 530MB available RAM , while the task manager/RAM management shows 372 MB used space out of 800MB??
This is what confuses me: in one place it is shown that 178MB is used and in another 372 MB used !???
Please clarify !
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The difference is because the active applications list in running services does not include the amount of RAM used to cache apps. You can press option key while in running services, there should be an option called "show cached processes".
If you add the amount of RAM used for both cached and running apps in running services, the total should be similar as the amount of RAM used in Samsung task manager.
This is because Android considers cached apps as free memory. They are background processes that are not visible or directly affect our use of the device and can be killed to free up memory to run service processes (i.e. user launched apps).
The cached processes basically are a list of recently used apps stores in reverse order, i.e. the least recently used app is at top of the list and most recently used app is at the bottom of the list. This way if the phone is running out of memory, it will start to kill off app at top of the list, so the app that was last used will be the last one to be killed.
The idea of cached processes is to improve the start-up time of an app the next time the user needs to run it.
P.S. I'm not an expert in Android operating system, this is just my general understanding of how Android RAM management processes.
Thank you very, very much for clarification. Now everything becomes clear and consistent !
Best regards,
Radi
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Note has 1gb Ram, 200mb. reserved for GPU
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When I check running applications tab insettings, I can see total RAM as 800 MB. Thanks for clarifying. I had the same doubt. But is there any way to check how much RAM is allocated to GPU using any android setting? I am keen to know this.
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So here I am running Infinitum (AOKP) v2.1 with Devil2 0.72, 402 MB edition.
So this is the amount of free ram I have:
~20 MB. *click*
NO WAIT! its 150 MB! *click*
errr... no... its still just ~20 MB *click*
So why would android tell me I got 150 MB of free ram and 'free' command tells me something quiet different? I really don't get it, hope some1 can enlighten me :/
Thanks!
Many apps are cached/pre-buffered like in Windows, so in reality RAM is used more. This 150MB physically is not free, but it's available for apps that needs RAM - memory from this 150MB will be 'cleared' instantly.
So I am not running critically low on memory?
But I guess more ram would anyway benefit the overall performance since android could cache/pre-buffer even more, right?
You can check Memory usage with the SystemPanel app: it will list all active applications / system processes and services / cached applications , showes what amout of ram they're using and can kill the unnecesserary apps on the spot with it!
Hey,
i want to discuss the RAM usage by apps especially on our RAZR i.
In the past few weeks i realized my phone was getting slower and slower, it's not nearly as fluent as it was once. It always kills apps when it shouldn't, WhatsApp doesn't run reliable etc (sometimes i get notifications MUCH later than i should and only after opening the app). Well, i have ~70mb RAM left.
Now comes the funny part, i don't think i use that much unnecessary apps. I don't play games, delete not used apps regulary. Easy Uninstaller shows me 96 apps (and yes, this is an unnecessary app, but it makes cleaning the phone much more comfortable - so it is allowed to stay)
So what kills the RAM?
Facebook Service - can't kill - 50mb
SRT AppGuard - to kill Facebooks GPS and Location sniffers - 25mb
Dropbox - Camera Upload - 34mb
Then there is some other stuff like WhatsApp, PowerAmp Service, Maps, which consume ~80mb in total.
Now here comes a special list:
Light Flow - 45mb
Nova Launcher - 60mb
3G Watchdog - 30mb
Lux - finally lowered auto brightness - 24mb
Smart WiFi Toggler - 27mb
SwiftKey - 63mb
Whats on that list? Basically everything i NEED to make the phone run the way it's intended to. This consumes 240mb of RAM. And those are all features that should be implemented into Android (WiFi Toggler, Lux, Light Flow) or run because the original is so bad that i can't stand it (Nova Launcher instead of stock alone because of homescreen alignment, 3G Watchdog [no prediction / clarity in stock monitor], SwiftKey).
Then there's the Moto stuff you can't deactivate:
SmartActions - 40mb
MotoCare (?) - 42mb
This is basically my RAM usage i can't get rid off. I am constantly suffering Android quitting apps when it shouldn't, even when i only switch between Opera / Chrome and Adobe Reader and stay in one app a bit too long it quits the other one. Even my old Desire HD - which had 768mb of RAM - did not do that, admittedly with a great AOKP rom.
How do you handle your RAM usage? Do you have remotely as much problems as i have to handle 1gb? I don't know what i could do to reduce my RAM usage. My new tablet, a Note 10.1, makes it feel even worse as everything runs so perfect, you just know that's the best that 4.1 will ever be. Right now, i have 700mb left. I never care about RAM usage and the best thing is, when i open an app i sometimes find out it was still running in the background, it instantly appears on the screen. The Moto needs a lot longer for it now and you feel it's an overloaded phone..
i got the same problems lol
thats why im looking for an app that kills apps that i no longer need in the moment and just restarts them when i need them (something like IOS does)
anyway some apps that you are using does not use as much ram in my phone
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Use Greenify to hibernate Apps if they are not in use. Works great here :thumbup:
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I guess it would be the perfect solution.. If I was rooted. I don't want to do it yet, I have to send it in because of the auxiliary port not working properly and I am only waiting for any friend to buy a new android so I could borrow his while the RAZR I is being repaired. But finally, thank you, I found a proper reason why I should root my phone. Maybe I'll try the app on my rooted note 10.1 even though I will never need it just to find out how it likes my apps.
I use an app called Fast Reboot Pro. It restarts all running apps to release memory. Doing this once a day keeps my phone slick. I recommend you try it. :thumbup:
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If you don't use SmartActions then you can disable it in the app menu. Should help a tiny bit!
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kkh786 said:
I use an app called Fast Reboot Pro. It restarts all running apps to release memory. Doing this once a day keeps my phone slick. I recommend you try it. :thumbup:
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I just installed Fast Reboot and it really does make a lot of difference. In one click of a button everything was like I just turned the phone off and on but it all happened within a second so much more conveniant. And you don't have to be rooted for it to work either.
I'll try this for a few days then buy the pro version.
Where the app menu to disable smart actions?
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Where the app menu to disable smart actions?
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Go into settings\apps\all apps
Find SmartActions in the list and click on it
If disable button is greyed out then you'll need to uninstall the updates first otherwise just click disable button at the top right.
Oops. I've accumulated 150 apps (need some editing), and run smartactions on my Razr i with, to my surpise, no noticeable slow-down or difficulty swopping between apps on my phone. I'm rooted, so Android firewall disables most of then when running on mobile data (with background data also disabled) but on wi-fi at home and work they all run - 845 RAM being used at the mo - 32 processes running. WiFi off at night though, one running app puts flight mode on. I usually do a manual reboot once a week, just to give the phone a break.
You should instal Pi-Lama 0.3 Most of the Motorola's bloatware are gone together with Blur stuff.
Mh .. I will send it in in maybe 3 weeks. When i get it back fixed, i think i'll do it. What i don't get about most phones on the market is that their hardware is really great but the customized Android is just awful. I don't get it.. Admittedly the Motorola UI is not that bad, but i prefer the stock android look. I find that only Samsung does a good job in customizing their software. Every other UI is unpractical, drains the battery or looks bad (my opinion) ..
I dont know how your Note tablet performs, but my GS3 was awful price to performance, it is neck and neck with the moto razr i and the moto is faster in single-running apps environment because of its very high clock and bandwith of the cpu. However, flipboard used 89mb and touchwiz thing used more than 120mb in total so, no cheers there.
No android customization is good enough. Most of them are pretty but not good enough. What's more, the GS3 died after 3 days, and no engenieer could explain it (sorry for bad level of english), it just died...
Regarding RAM issue, moto services, all in all, use 101mb as i calculated and non-stoppable servicies such as maps location, fb location, whats app service and so on takes up as much as 220mb (a bit less, but just rounding out numbers)
My entire RAM usage is of about +-600mb of 970mb. However, i use a VPN and intra-network app for my work and that eats up another 150mb adding swype and some other things such as ftp servers i get up to 800mb used and it doesnt lag but IT DOES close apps by itself. The GS3 did it too, but its multicore could open them a bit faster when more than 2 or 3 were already running.
Stock JB...around 500-600MB free...
I'm using latest Omar Rom and greenify, about 60 apps installed. When I kill all apps I've got:
Available: 475 MB
Inactive: 175 MB
Which gives me 650MB free RAM (avail and inactive is in fact free). Unfortunately it does't mean anything. Phone is'n as fast as I would like it to be, android is amazingly ****ty optimized. My previous phone (btw Defy) have had 512MB RAM and single core CPU - and with android GB (CM7) speed was comparable - apps were smaller and less "memory hungry" than on ICS or JB.
I'm too thinking about 2GB of RAM in phone (maybe XIAOMI MI2).
adddaamo said:
I'm using latest Omar Rom and greenify, about 60 apps installed. When I kill all apps I've got:
Available: 475 MB
Inactive: 175 MB
Which gives me 650MB free RAM (avail and inactive is in fact free). Unfortunately it does't mean anything. Phone is'n as fast as I would like it to be, android is amazingly ****ty optimized. My previous phone (btw Defy) have had 512MB RAM and single core CPU - and with android GB (CM7) speed was comparable - apps were smaller and less "memory hungry" than on ICS or JB.
I'm too thinking about 2GB of RAM in phone (maybe XIAOMI MI2).
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I'm really curious, What exactly do you need your phone do faster than it do right now?
I never see any Android Phone run faster than my razr i, the only problem is compatibility with some apps, and lack of development.
( i had a defy too, and you really can't compare defy with razr i)
diogo.sena said:
I'm really curious, What exactly do you need your phone do faster than it do right now?
I never see any Android Phone run faster than my razr i, the only problem is compatibility with some apps, and lack of development.
( i had a defy too, and you really can't compare defy with razr i)
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Heh, I've overclocked defy to 1300MHz, with CM and minimalist theme it worked really great
I want an android phone with constant 60FPS and instant startup of apps. Now on RazrI it takes couple seconds for Chrome to became operational - where it should be instantaneous, switching between big apps also lags from time to time.
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Heh, I've overclocked defy to 1300MHz, with CM and minimalist theme it worked really great
I want an android phone with constant 60FPS and instant startup of apps. Now on RazrI it takes couple seconds for Chrome to became operational - where it should be instantaneous, switching between big apps also lags from time to time.
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who said razr i wont run at 60fps?
to me, chrome is fast enough but stock browser is even faster.. (new opera mobile beta is using webkit too and seems good)
funny thing that you mentioned browsers, cause razr i is by far the best smartphone in any javascript benchmark
i agree that is not optimal for games, but is a great smartphone.
Hi, so I bought mina XT890 two months ago, and currently I habe 98MB of free RAM. I have disabled a lot of Motorola apps, and I think that 98mb of free RAM is too short for a 1GB phone... I guess there is something wrong, some stuff being used underground and I can't see it. My GF has a S3 Mini, and the RAM usage is much better. She has more apps and games than I do...
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Hi, so I bought mina XT890 two months ago, and currently I habe 98MB of free RAM. I have disabled a lot of Motorola apps, and I think that 98mb of free RAM is too short for a 1GB phone... I guess there is something wrong, some stuff being used underground and I can't see it. My GF has a S3 Mini, and the RAM usage is much better. She has more apps and games than I do...
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Do not observe how much free RAM do you have. Just compare how this phone works. It's really Fast and reacts immediatelly even you see only 98MB free RAM. It's much more better than S3 mini.
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My Snapdragon S10 is having a weird issue with RAM management. Over the course of a full day, basic apps like the Phone app or Textra will be closed and will need to be refreshed in memory when I open them.
I look at RAM under Device Care and there's around 5.5GB used and 1.9GB free. This is much lower than the free RAM I got on my Note 9 which usually has over 4GB free at all times.
I have Adaptive Battery disabled in the Battery settings as well. There's nothing that should be closing all my apps in the background.
Anyone else get this problem?
Think a few of my apps, like Twitter and Samsung watch app are having this issue.
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I'm down to 1GB of free RAM now on a 8GB phone...
Apps opened in background right now:
Phone
Textra
Whatsapp
Kiwi Browser
Gmail
Google Photos
No games and no heavy apps. How is the free RAM so low? And in a few hours all of these apps will get closed and I'll have to reopen them.
Anyone else with this problem? How much free RAM do you currently have? And not off a fresh reboot
I have the 12gb version and have been experiencing this. It seems to clear some apps if the phone has been on staying for a couple hours.
I have the same issue. The phone becomes really slow after like 2 days of use and had RAM usage of 6.8GB. I checked in Developers settings and it says that AndroidOS and systemUI use both 5.7GB?!?! Any fix or should we report to Samsung?
I have the exynos variant and apps never close for me. Currently it's using 4.7gb out of 8gb with 14 apps open.
I checked if the apps reloaded and they didn't. Under developer settings it says that the OS is using 2.2gb, Android is using 297mb and systemui is using 246mb.
Adaptive battery is on and uptime is probably 4 or 5 days.