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Don't DOWNLOAD MemoryUp it HAS ADWARE

There was a disturbance in the Android App Market today as an application called MemoryUp was allegedly erasing contacts and installing adware. The mystery is how it got there in the first place.
The app, created by a developer named Peter Liu to optimize the handset's memory, was also responsible for random memory wipes and email account spamming.
At the Android forums, users who had downloaded the app and suffered the consequences were, understandably, up in arms and warning others to not download the app.
User “kr33p1n” (via Geek.com) said, “Doesn’t work at all erased my phone numbers and froze my phone.” User "Mark" added, “Do not download. Destroyed my memory card/system delete. Then my email was spammed. TMobile can’t stop you from downloading this! So don’t!”
Other victims claimed their SD cards were wiped clean; others still said their email accounts were spammed and adware was installed on the handset.
What's really mind-boggling is that, as of this writing, 10,000-50,000 downloads had taken place, with around 932 ratings logged (mostly negative, one star, see pic). We really can't understand how such an app got there in the first place.
The sad thing is that, as noted by many Android forum dwellers, Java cleans up memory on its own as required, no outside help necessary.
Editor's Note: I did not link to the MemoryUp web page because it had obnoxious pop up ads. [Geek.com - Thanks, Chris!]
http://i.gizmodo.com/5138822/rogue-android-app-allegedly-destroying-g1-memory-installing-adware

I was one of those that downloaded it, Hell I even suggested that it did in fact do something.... but then I decided to really try and see a difference and lo and behold there's no difference as far as performance goes.
Still I never would have assumed that there was anything like adware on it, but one thing is certain IT DOES NOTHING TO INCREASE PERFORMANCE, so there's really no point to it anyways.

I don't see it on the Market now. It must have been taken down.

Yeah there is another post in main dream forum. Believe it or not handango has been selling it. Great post by both of you to get the word out about this garbage!!

Yea, I sent vendors of the product a message and links regarding this issue. Hopefully it'll be pulled off the stores soon.

I did some investigation on this issue. I managed to get the program to delete my contacts on a dummy account I set up. I started getting some weird issues, like I couldn't use my camera anymore because it said I need to install my SD Card. That was a red flag to me. So I pulled the card and opened it up on my test laptop and here is the screen shot of the sh!t I found. Needless to say I'm pretty upset by this.
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Nothing from this card can be deleted. Tried using chmod a+x to regain access and remove the... whatever those files are but I got back a message stating that the file system was read-only and that the permission set 40700 was unrecognized and could not be changed. I did some more research and found that the file types are octet data files. Opening them in gedit doesn't display anything. Not sure if its some other encoding that I can't view through standard text editing. Nevertheless, I'm sick of dealing with this issue and have started trying to get this thing banned from as many outlets as possible.

Woah! That's seriously messed up. Definitely wasn't doing that when I installed it. Now that I think about it though my pc caught that malware that sets up an "autorun.inf" at the root of all drives to run crap some time ago. I don't really visit weird pages and I'm pretty careful not to get any virus/malware/adware so I was kinda surprised. Anyways I remember seeing somebody else 3 or 4 days after saying their g1's card had the same thing. Not being one to believe in coincidence, I'm willing to bet he also installed this on his android at some point.

Exactly, I had an autorun.inf and an start.exe file embedded on all my sd cards that came in contact with my pc after pulling some files from my G1. Things got so bad I just gave up and went full blown Linux in hopes of catching and fixing the problems. I lost control of cmd, task manager and regedit on my windows machines. Couldn't get any antivirus programs to completely clean the infected drives.

d474rpr said:
Exactly, I had an autorun.inf and an start.exe file embedded on all my sd cards that came in contact with my pc after pulling some files from my G1. Things got so bad I just gave up and went full blown Linux in hopes of catching and fixing the problems. I lost control of cmd, task manager and regedit on my windows machines. Couldn't get any antivirus programs to completely clean the infected drives.
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Aha! Oh and Malwarebytes' anti-malware got rid of it for me immediately. Anyways, Blue*lable mentioned something probably even more important than the program being adware, and that's the fact that despite all the negative remarks on the comments, so on and so forth, people were still downloading it. Now as you all know the comments section is full of comments made by idiots (for the most part), and many don't even read the comments because of it (I can at least say that I don't read them anymore), so there's a little thread on the official android forums where a few of us have tried to convince google to do something about it. The thread is:
http://www.google.com/support/forum...ad?fid=6aa202f080f83438000460b52bc0c075&hl=en
If any of you have some free time let google know that nobody warned us about all those irrelevant and disrespectful comments when we got this phone. They are slowly taking care of somethings, but they really need to up the ante and implement some sort of moderation or something.
PS. sorry for going off topic and hijacking the thread.

yeah, got that one too, though before downgrading from rc30 to rc29 and back to rc33... but anyway, it garbled my SD so bad that it did not worked on any of my readers connected to pc (either windows or linux) however... while mounted in my G1 and connected to the windows based machine, i was able to remove and put back partition (since i could not format card because under "size" was unknown) after that format, and voila... works like a charm... used built-in windows partition tool.
hope that helps in case of problems.
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d474rpr said:
I did some investigation on this issue. I managed to get the program to delete my contacts on a dummy account I set up. I started getting some weird issues, like I couldn't use my camera anymore because it said I need to install my SD Card. That was a red flag to me. So I pulled the card and opened it up on my test laptop and here is the screen shot of the sh!t I found. Needless to say I'm pretty upset by this.
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Nothing from this card can be deleted. Tried using chmod a+x to regain access and remove the... whatever those files are but I got back a message stating that the file system was read-only and that the permission set 40700 was unrecognized and could not be changed. I did some more research and found that the file types are octet data files. Opening them in gedit doesn't display anything. Not sure if its some other encoding that I can't view through standard text editing. Nevertheless, I'm sick of dealing with this issue and have started trying to get this thing banned from as many outlets as possible.
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I had that happen on my phone too,but i DIDNT use memory up....I think what happened was google did an eval and decided there was nothing bad...
BTW,that card will never work again, happened to me
Talk to whoever soldyou the phone: its defective

memoryup
Hmm I must have the super antidote virus G1 cause as much as I try for the program to fck something up on my phone such as delete my contacs,spam email, or something at this point I really feel like I'm not using the application as I'm supposed to I can't seem to make it do what 90% of the ppl say it does I try to run it 3 times a day hoping for some malfuction on my phone or atleast 1 contact to erase but I just can't seem to do it maybe someone in here can teach me how to use this app the proper so that atleast I get one spam emailor one contact deleted and ill be content with that and I would feel much better too knowing I don't have a super G1. I'm open to any suggestions on how to make this app work

pdspatrick said:
I had that happen on my phone too,but i DIDNT use memory up....I think what happened was google did an eval and decided there was nothing bad...
BTW,that card will never work again, happened to me
Talk to whoever soldyou the phone: its defective
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I appreciate your suggestion but the phone is not defective.
The card that was infected was a Sony Micro USB drive, not the SD card from my phone. When the application was ran in my emulator it caused the sd.iso to have more data than what I was able to see. I moved this data from my windows box to my laptop running Ubuntu to get a better look. That's when I discovered that the only application residing in the sd.iso image was memoryup and a gaggle of octal files that I haven't been able to decode. Immediately after running that application my work PC became infected to the point of having to completely format the harddrives. My USB drive is also unsalvagable. If I can be proven wrong and that this application had nothing to do with my experience I will openly apoligize for my misdiagnosis. I have been working in the mobile device industry for several years and have never had any issues as to the extent of what I'm assuming this application caused. I find it curious as to why the application was removed from the Market and several online stores that carried the application if there wasn't a problem to begin with. If anyone has any further information on the contacts being deleted, if maybe this was an attack on the actual gmail accounts or if it was device based... what was causing everyone to have simular issues around the same time with adware/spyware/viral infections on SD cards/PC's??? Feedback please!!!

[Q] my galaxy is very very annoyed

I have no clue what happened....my galaxy was working fine...laggy a bit, but nothing i cant handle. I was at a club last night and recorded a 20 mins video...its saved. So as of this mornign my galaxy has been crawlingggg to load things....everything is either delayed or going really slow. NoLed is slow, chomp sms popup is slow....this phone is starting to commit suicide or something....any ideas why my phone started to all of a sudden lag alot?....when it didnt before???....and no lag fix is not a option for me.

Back up the video on your pc then delete it from the phone and see if that restores it back to its original speed.

sean2476 said:
Back up the video on your pc then delete it from the phone and see if that restores it back to its original speed.
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trying that now....for some reason kies seem to take forever to transfer video to pc. sigh....

Have u tried rebooting ur phone?

Seifer1975 said:
Have u tried rebooting ur phone?
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yes i have and am now trasnferring the video...but Kies is taking sooooo long to do so. Its a real pain. I hope it was lagging cause of the massive amounts of videos i have...we shall see. (if i can get the video transferred)

if you're rooted you can try adjusting the minfree settings using the minfree app

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I have no clue what happened....my galaxy was working fine...laggy a bit, but nothing i cant handle. I was at a club last night and recorded a 20 mins video...its saved. So as of this mornign my galaxy has been crawlingggg to load things....everything is either delayed or going really slow. NoLed is slow, chomp sms popup is slow....this phone is starting to commit suicide or something....any ideas why my phone started to all of a sudden lag alot?....when it didnt before???....and no lag fix is not a option for me.
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This is what happened to my galaxy s as well. I have no recovery mode and root/lag fix was not an option for me till i found my solution step by step. I applied One click lag fix and it become so much smoother and faster. Sms notification has no delay even on Chomp Sms. =) The hardware of Galaxy S was good, but the firmware is a problem.

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This is what happened to my galaxy s as well. I have no recovery mode and root/lag fix was not an option for me till i found my solution step by step. I applied One click lag fix and it become so much smoother and faster. Sms notification has no delay even on Chomp Sms. =) The hardware of Galaxy S was good, but the firmware is a problem.
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it seems ok now....(well not really )...but the reason i dont want to apply a lag fix is cause of the "reported" internal sd card fails....and i dont have $ for a new phone if this one gets screwed over.

install Task Manager
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8422188&postcount=99
and Auto Run Killer
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8123924&postcount=40
optimize your phone, and the lags will be gone
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I have no clue what happened....my galaxy was working fine...laggy a bit, but nothing i cant handle. I was at a club last night and recorded a 20 mins video...its saved. So as of this mornign my galaxy has been crawlingggg to load things....everything is either delayed or going really slow. NoLed is slow, chomp sms popup is slow....this phone is starting to commit suicide or something....any ideas why my phone started to all of a sudden lag alot?....when it didnt before???....and no lag fix is not a option for me.
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AllGamer said:
install Task Manager
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8422188&postcount=99
and Auto Run Killer
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8123924&postcount=40
optimize your phone, and the lags will be gone
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i have auto killer and i just use stock task manager...as alot of people have been saying other task managers are useless cause Android OS is designed to handle it....confused....

the stock task manager is not that great, and the widget only works on the stock launcher.
the task manager the one i linked you can setup white list and black list
so it will automatically allow what to run, and kill what should not be running on its own

I wouldn't of used Kies to make the transfer, should've used a mass storage and transferred it using windows explorer. Also, I'd advocate against the task manager. I haven't used one on the SGS in about 2 months, back when I did I never let it run 24/7, sometimes I'd manually open it and kill almost all tasks. Task killers, such as ATK, will almost surely hurt your battery life if you let them run in the background, in fact, I'd even bet on it.
These days, I try to keep all my favorite programs in the background (unless they use CPU while idle, but even GTalk is great on battery life, as is LauncherPro and the widgets I have elected to keep). As long as you use the same 10-20 apps you should be fine, even if you use more you might be fine but not quite as good depending on how many apps you have loaded and storage space you use in total.
Since I highly doubt that the file size was huge and would overload the system, I wonder if a bug either sprang up and/or (maybe more likely) you created a hardware problem such as overheating your phone and processor and are now having issues. If nothing else works, try to back up all your apps and info to an SD card and then do a factory reset. If your problems continue then it's hardware.

Now I dont know whether to.keep the task apps or not lol...2 different opinions here...
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The lagfixes don't increase the amount of writes to the internal SD and they certainly don't break it. Any of the lagfixes in the FAQ (see my sig) are well tested and nearly 100% safe. I would definitely recommend to either use voodoo or the modded version that uses the stock-kernel. You won't believe your eyes.
The reason your phone got so damn slow was because of RFS. The camera APP caches on the /data partition and when it does so, it created a massive amount of file system errors (a related thread can be found here).

Darkstriker said:
The lagfixes don't increase the amount of writes to the internal SD and they certainly don't break it. Any of the lagfixes in the FAQ (see my sig) are well tested and nearly 100% safe. I would definitely recommend to either use voodoo or the modded version that uses the stock-kernel. You won't believe your eyes.
The reason your phone got so damn slow was because of RFS. The camera APP caches on the /data partition and when it does so, it created a massive amount of file system errors (a related thread can be found here).
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So if i apply a lag fix...either OCLF or Voodoo...you can Guarantee i wont see a internal sd failure?...cause i remember All Gamer talking about how he wanted to fix the lag fix to write onto sd card or something like that...(dont quote me) its 100% safe?

AllGamer said:
the stock task manager is not that great, and the widget only works on the stock launcher.
the task manager the one i linked you can setup white list and black list
so it will automatically allow what to run, and kill what should not be running on its own
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Don't many developers etc say not to run task killers? They actually cause more drain on the phone and battery?
http://lifehacker.com/5650894/andro...ed-what-they-do-and-why-you-shouldnt-use-them
Note, however, that this is still a contested notion. A lot of developers (including ROM builder extraordinaire, Cyanogen) will not even look at your bug reports if you're using a task killer. In this humble blogger's opinion, your best bet is to stay away from regular task killer usage entirely.
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i trust the hard fact results of the good it is doing in my phone, rather than some biased believes that just lags the phone if not actioned upon.

I dont know if I would call advice from well known developers as biased. Especially considering several others have shared this setiment. But what ever floats your boat. You are some what of a mr know it all here...
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think about it logically, you do nothing to the phone and it lags like hell
or you can install legit software which easily lets you choose what to run and what not to run
result: system is squeaky clean and snappy fast
vs.
do nothing: system lags like hell, come to the forum complain the phone lags and claim other people are right we should do nothing and have an unusable phone.

Well the lag on my phone is minimal, it actually performs quite well. My phone died without any lag fixes etc, so I am not putting any of that on now. My problem is GPS is useless and the random shutdowns.

Myback up pro and this phone

Anyone use this program? I have for a long time now and it has always been great. Soon as I got the note 4 that seems to have changed.
Curious if others face the same issue. I am reaching out to the company about it.
I did a backup of my note 3. Moved the SD card to the note 4. Restored my backup and noticed all my data for literally half my 180+ apps was gone.
Now, I go to swap roms and do my backup, view my backup and everything is there. Then I wipe, flash new rom and then go to restore my backup. Bunch of apps are missing. So now I am annoyed. They showed backed up prior to swapping roms.
So I then use root explorer and look at the folder for the backups. Guess what, the apps and data for the apps is there and works as I manually installed one of the APKs and manually restored the data.
So. The data and files is there, but the program pretends they are not.
So now got me thinking. I grab the original backup for the note 3 when moving to the note 4 and all the data files are there, the ones it said weren't!
Seems to be a note 4 issue (or firmware/software) as I put the old backup from my note 3 on the note 3 and restored it and all the data restored.
So. Any thoughts? As stated bugging the company too, just curious if someone has already been there done that.
Thanks!
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nosympathy said:
Anyone use this program? I have for a long time now and it has always been great. Soon as I got the note 4 that seems to have changed.
Curious if others face the same issue. I am reaching out to the company about it.
I did a backup of my note 3. Moved the SD card to the note 4. Restored my backup and noticed all my data for literally half my 180+ apps was gone.
Now, I go to swap roms and do my backup, view my backup and everything is there. Then I wipe, flash new rom and then go to restore my backup. Bunch of apps are missing. So now I am annoyed. They showed backed up prior to swapping roms.
So I then use root explorer and look at the folder for the backups. Guess what, the apps and data for the apps is there and works as I manually installed one of the APKs and manually restored the data.
So. The data and files is there, but the program pretends they are not.
So now got me thinking. I grab the original backup for the note 3 when moving to the note 4 and all the data files are there, the ones it said weren't!
Seems to be a note 4 issue (or firmware/software) as I put the old backup from my note 3 on the note 3 and restored it and all the data restored.
So. Any thoughts? As stated bugging the company too, just curious if someone has already been there done that.
Thanks!
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Never ever use a back up from a different phone. Note 3 Handel's the apps in a night and day difference then the note 4. If you contact reware they will tell you the same. U let the apps load from play store. Then when you set up all our apps make a fresh backup to use as base.
BAD ASS NOTE 4 + BAD ASS GEAR S

BACARDILIMON said:
Never ever use a back up from a different phone. Note 3 Handel's the apps in a night and day difference then the note 4. If you contact reware they will tell you the same. U let the apps load from play store. Then when you set up all our apps make a fresh backup to use as base.
BAD ASS NOTE 4 + BAD ASS GEAR S
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Never had trouble before swapping from HTC to Samsung to Etc. Before In fact. Most apps moved fine. It was literally a split in half list. Say 180 apps backed up. The first 60 restore data and the last 60 don't.
And that wouldn't explain the fact it was backing up certain apps, like nova launcher and restoring it on the note 4 and now it doesn't after the last update. Its like those apps don't exist.
Yet, as I said, I can see the actual files and data in the backup folders.
The app will restore APKs even if the data cant be restored.
Sorry not buying it.
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nosympathy said:
Never had trouble before swapping from HTC to Samsung to Etc. Before In fact. Most apps moved fine. It was literally a split in half list. Say 180 apps backed up. The first 60 restore data and the last 60 don't.
And that wouldn't explain the fact it was backing up certain apps, like nova launcher and restoring it on the note 4 and now it doesn't after the last update. Its like those apps don't exist.
Yet, as I said, I can see the actual files and data in the backup folders.
The app will restore APKs even if the data cant be restored.
Sorry not buying it.
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Cool I guessing you know more than the devs who made the app. So carry on.
BAD ASS NOTE 4 + BAD ASS GEAR S

BACARDILIMON said:
Cool I guessing you know more than the devs who made the app. So carry on.
BAD ASS NOTE 4 + BAD ASS GEAR S
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Just fresh installed nova, made some changes to add data to the app, backed up with mybackup pro, go to restore, shows the backup folder but no files to restore.
Sure enough, check the folder and it is in there. It did actually back it up.
Not saying I know more, just more confident they screwed the app up with the latest update for sure and possibly prior.
Just wanted to see if others are seeing the same.
My back up pro was fresh installed last night.
Edit: my backup made prior to their latest update per the playstore, restores nova launcher just fine from that backup.
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I use MyBackup Pro (latest version), and I don't have any of the issues that you speak of.
I would only "restore" non system apps across different roms and make sure that the installation folder in the root folder is the same
the Note 3 and Note 4 do NOT have the same folder structure
Try restoring the App ONLY, no data

Amd4life said:
I use MyBackup Pro (latest version), and I don't have any of the issues that you speak of.
I would only "restore" non system apps across different roms and make sure that the installation folder in the root folder is the same
the Note 3 and Note 4 do NOT have the same folder structure
Try restoring the App ONLY, no data
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Interesting. I have never backed up and/or restored system apps. I know how messy that can be.
I am long past the point of note 3 to note 4. Still doesn't make sense but I can let that go. I understand a different file structure but that doesn't explain why it restored almost exactly half and only the first half of data. I find it hard to believe the apps were installed in a way that makes the first half different from the second half exactly.
As for my current condition, I don't get the choice to restore only data, only apk, or apk+data. I don't even get that far. It backed up apps installed on my Note 4, flashed a new ROM, then apps magically disappeared from the backup.
There is a file that MBP uses to view the backup files. Its almost as if the backups for select files are not being written to this file so it ignores them. See below. In my backup folder is nova. If I view the same backup in MBP, Nova doesn't exist. I see it tho, it is right there. I manually restored it myself!
It should at least let me restore the apk and attempt the data if it sees the data file. If not it will restore and say ".apk restored - no data"
My prior backup before their latest update restored 185apps. Current backup restored 174 apps. I have not deleted any apps in that time frame but I have added new apps. Both prior and current backup were done on the note 4.
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Here is the actual screen trying to restore. Notice nova isn't listed.
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Just like to update this as I was correct.
Per the company it does corrupt at times and no way to fix it.
Good to know it is the app screwing up. Guess I will be looking for a different backup solution now!
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About the GS6 memory problems (Let's Discuss)

By now many of you might've seen this or a similar article already: SamMobile - Poor RAM management affecting the Galaxy S6 and S6 edge
Disabled apps list in Post #9
From my understanding, the OS is over-aggressively causing apps to close in order to retain some sort of free amount of RAM. Could be a memory leak caused by Lollipop or something else, not sure. And just like the article OP said, unused RAM is wasted RAM on Android because it's Linux. Not Windows. So I'm failing to see the issue.
Have you guys been seeing a direct correlation between low amounts of current RAM and Android closing background apps more aggressively over time?
Have your phones been getting slower?
I'm not saying I found a solution but since running the Debloater tool using my own customized set of "disabled" apps, I have managed to free up about 400-500mb of RAM on average. Again the goal of Android isn't to consistently have tons of free RAM and close all the apps because Android is not Windows. But we have been seeing 3GB of RAM getting easily filled up even just after a reboot (well I have). Our phones shouldn't be using the full 3GB of RAM just after boot even with Touchwiz (especially after Samsung's quest to reduce the bloatedness of Touchwiz).
Those more knowledgeable than I please comment!
Anyway, here is my current RAM usage screenshot after disabling those apps I told you about. Not too shabby and I have noticed a bit zippier speeds, especially from screen off to launcher using the fingerprint lock.
This is the built in Touchwiz "RAM booster" that I accidentally found.
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What apps did you disable, do you have a list handy

commandocon said:
What apps did you disable, do you have a list handy
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I will post the modified list of apps to use with that debloater tool when I get some time to re-review it. Originally I used someone elses list but quickly found out that they basically ripped apart the OS with actually causing any FC's. But they also left out important things like the Play Store and others. I don't want to do that to you guys or myself again.

About 800mb free at the moment. I do notice that it spikes upon wake (from about 800 free to 500 free) but quickly resets back near 800. I don't aggressively close apps or anything else like that, so this is after a whole day of video playback, play music, browsing, and phone/text.
So far I haven't noticed any significant memory leak, or at least one that's affecting performance.

I've seem the ram booster somewhere, but can't find it now. Where did you find it.
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mine is generally 800-900 free with no personal interaction on closing anything. i have never touched that stuff. i have not noticed any sluggishness that would make me check RAM and havent even disabled anything but the Verizon labeled stuff.
not saying a technical look doesnt show an issue but as just using it i have not noticed a problem.

How do we get the app sammobile has?
Verizon didnt give it to us

fletch33 said:
mine is generally 800-900 free with no personal interaction on closing anything. i have never touched that stuff. i have not noticed any sluggishness that would make me check RAM and havent even disabled anything but the Verizon labeled stuff.
not saying a technical look doesnt show an issue but as just using it i have not noticed a problem.
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That's good, so that means it isn't everyone. Or at least you haven't done enough on the phone to cause it to basically consume all of the RAM. I know on my white 32gb Edge that I would often only have 200mb free. But since I exchanged that for my 64gb sapphire things have been better. Not sure why.
Either way I'm going to compile the the list from 119 into much less, maybe 70-80, momentarily. Just as to help debloat.

Here's a better list of apps that can be disabled. I added back in several apps that the majority of people would normally use. There may be some that you wouldn't personally use, but just keep in mind some people do. This isn't the ultimate debloat by any means but it does strip out a lot of stuff while leaving the good stuff in tact. Yes there are a couple Verizon things that I left out because some people do actually want to see their account on their phone, etc.
I hope this helps.
In the program, right click on "read device packages" and go to import and import this text file. MAKE SURE TO UNCHECK ALL OF YOUR PERSONAL APPS OR THEY WILL AUTOMATICALLY GET DISABLED. They will be listed as "base.apk" files.

How did you access a ram booster program on the VZW S6 Edge...? Can't find it anywhere...

mdonnelly1127 said:
How did you access a ram booster program on the VZW S6 Edge...? Can't find it anywhere...
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I've been using this app All in one Gestures
I have my back button setup to do "kill app" for a long press. And for some reason when I long press it while in the launcher it pulls up the RAM booster. I've not been able to find it anywhere else. It was purely by accident that I found this lol.

Syn Ack said:
I've been using this app All in one Gestures
I have my back button setup to do "kill app" for a long press. And for some reason when I long press it while in the launcher it pulls up the RAM booster. I've not been able to find it anywhere else. It was purely by accident that I found this lol.
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Good find. I just set the back button up to "kill app" with a single tap. It will bring up the RAM booster if I long press the back button in the launcher also.

One of the most common signs is memory loss, especially forgetting recently learned information. But i don't face this problem yet.

Just read about an update pushing out to EU S6/Edge devices that (reportedly) fix the memory leak issues. No other word on any other changes, but it's only about 140mb so there can't be that many changes.
Never been crazy about positing external links here, so if you're interested in reading about it just Google it.

"Other" storage problem

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I already do a factory data for like five times for each week since i bought this phone, the other on storage keeps filing up and i cant find the reasons why, i disabled auto update for system apps and software update as well as on playstore. But still keeps increasing day by day. Any solutions?

Question firmware version used...and phone model
Under developer mode..enable "CPU usage"
See..what app is busy doing stuff
or
install Catlog from f-droid see what's running and see error log
or
Run the antivirus app? or update firmware to latest ?
just..some thoughts
interesting issue..

Its a xiaomi redmi 9 global version 4/64 running the lates miui 12.0.3

Im sorry.im new to this but i cant find cpu usage on developers option. I also installed catlog but i dont know how to use it.and which anti virus are you refering to?also I already installed the latest firmware

Update

perhaps:
Google play/installed apps/review free space
or
DiskUsage | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
© 2010-2021 F-Droid Limited and Contributors
www.f-droid.org
or
Storage Analyzer & Disk Usage – Apps on Google Play
Deep scanning device storage analyzer and disk cleaner in your hands
play.google.com

Still cant detect anything with that. It only tells me how much storage i use but only shows the same data i can see on my file managaer

File manager
internal storage
show hidden files
miui
gallery
cloud
trashbin
delete all the files inside the trashbin.
hope it will help you.

I have the same problem, i tried factory reset how many times, hard reset 2x, the problem still exist. Waiting for firmware update but it takes time and the storage is full again while waiting. Any suggestions friends?

I wonder if the app MIUIREX can help. Any idea who already used this app??

Hi all,
my two cents here. It seems that somehow when info is deleted ends in a kind of partition that the cell can't reach or show. I've tried all the storage cleaning apps I could find to no avail.
When plugging to a PC it doesn't show the big files either. In fact, when you look at it as a drive connected to PC it seems to be full; however if you select the contents there's little occupation.
I've also promoted to miui 12 but the issue persists. I've noticed as well that it takes longer to fill when there's no SIM card inserted. It takes a couple of days instead of hours to fill the Other Files storage.
My only other option now is to try and root it with Magisk and try a custom ROM, but never done that before and I don't want to brick it if there's any other option.
PS - there are some other entries for this same problem in mi.com and other pages for this and other xiaomi models and all of them seem to be unfixed, so I wonder if it could be a HW problem instead.

I've had a bit of a time trifling with this device, it's a great bit of kit and a sweet deal. I had the same/similar issue and found that the MIUI local backups never expired. I found a long list of historic backups in the MIUI settings, you can delete them there or just delete MIUI>backups in File Manager. Then perhaps turn off local backups.
Hopefully this is the same for you, holla back.

Thanks for the hint, but no luck either. There's nothing, even toggling on the "hidden files" option, that takes a big amount of space in my device.
Probably the matter is exactly that; the device is not deleting backups but the real issue seems to be that I'm not able to locate them (probably not even see them).

Same problem here; different phone (Note 10) but same problem with MIUI12. Other files category increases by about 2GB/day, even while hardly using the phone. This issue has been reported all over the web, but Xiaomi seems reluctant to admit they have such a basic file operation issue:
Other Files Under Storage Space Keeps Increasing After MIUI 12 Update
To access other files under storage space, head over to settings>>my device>>storage. Compare your details with the pictures above and see if you're also affected.
adimorahblog.com
https://c.mi.com/thread-3370135-1-0.html?t=1602138830713
Invalid - "Other files" filling up my phone very rapidly
In the past 2 months or so I have had this issues where the 64G of my xiaomi mi 8 is being bloated by "other files". They appear predominantly when I delete large video files, so I strongly suspect there is a problem in the MIUI 12 with deleting files properly. At some point my phone becomes 99%...
xiaomi.eu
"Other" storage problem
I already do a factory data for like five times for each week since i bought this phone, the other on storage keeps filing up and i cant find the reasons why, i disabled auto update for system apps and software update as well as on playstore. But...
forum.xda-developers.com
https://www.la-besace.fr/4rtyys/fc237e-miui-12-bug
https://c.mi.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=3678151&page=1&extra=#pid19385517

Hi there. I have the same issue since last month. I bought the phone last year on May and the problem just came last month. The "Other Files" increased by 3 - 4 GB per day without any reasons. After doing factory reset, my phone memory got full after 1 week (64GB). I went to Xiaomi Service Center. They format the memory and install older version of the OS. However, it didn't help. My phone memory got full after 2 weeks. I went back to the service center, and they had no idea too. Then they replaced the motherboard. Technically speaking, my phone is new, with the new IMEI number. But surprisingly, my memory got full again after 2 weeks! Fortunately, my phone is still under warranty. I insist to get new phone but the procedure is not that easy. I'm requested to go back to service center next week. Hopefully there will be a good news.

Thanks @pangayoman please let us know how you go!
Factory reset seems the only solution here too (Note 10 lite) but over time the other files still increase. Strangely enough all the cleaning and storage analyzer tools don't see the other files at all and can't remove any of it....
Did anyone try a custom rom, like crDroid? That may rule out hardware issues....

I haven't tried a custom ROM yet, as I never did it before, but I think it's time to try it now. Otherwise I have a brick as I can't use the apps I need even if I spend more time installing than using them.

Can someone help me?? Like CCleaner shows that my apps occupied 3+gb,but system shows that my apps occupied 8gb...how can I get access to system storage (apps & apps data)?? (like I can't even click it and find out what takes so much memory)

Licurus said:
Can someone help me?? Like CCleaner shows that my apps occupied 3+gb,but system shows that my apps occupied 8gb...how can I get access to system storage (apps & apps data)?? (like I can't even click it and find out what takes so much memory)
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I have my system in a different language, so the translation might be inaccurate, but it should be something like this: settings--> about my phone --> tap on storage --> Tap on Apps & Data. That should do the trick. The problem discussed here is slightly different, though.

Install 12.0.3 indonesia stable . xiaomi solve this problem in this rom