I woke up today with a new issue, out of space? like only 20 mb of internal memory? last time i checked i had like almost 600, what happened here?
You tell us.
Go to Settings > Applications > Manage Applications. Select the "All" tab, hit the menu button, and select "Sort by Size."
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Hiya!
I currently have enough apps that I'm using 6 pages in my applications tray. As many of you here probably do as well, I often install apps that I know I won't use often, simply because I may need them when I'm not within range of 3G.
I was wondering, though, if there's a limit to the number of apps that we can install due to a maximum number of screens in the app tray?
Thanks!
IDtheTarget said:
Hiya!
I currently have enough apps that I'm using 6 pages in my applications tray. As many of you here probably do as well, I often install apps that I know I won't use often, simply because I may need them when I'm not within range of 3G.
I was wondering, though, if there's a limit to the number of apps that we can install due to a maximum number of screens in the app tray?
Thanks!
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No clue if there's a hard limit (beyond what's available storage wise of course). One of my best friends is up to 13 screens full of crap-ware in his Fascinate, so I'd say you're a long way from being at a limit.
Long press on your home button to activate your Task Manager
Click Summary
View the Program bar graph.
Should say XXX/1.87GB
or
Settings > SD card and phone storage > Application Storage > Avaliable Space
kizer said:
Long press on your home button to activate your Task Manager
Click Summary
View the Program bar graph.
Should say XXX/1.87GB
or
Settings > SD card and phone storage > Application Storage > Avaliable Space
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I think i like that new Task Manager app.
It's pretty cool.
Hi,
I'm slightly confused by the memory... in Task Manager it says something like Used 600MB, Free 208MB.
However, if I click Menu and go to Advanced > Running Services, it has at the bottom something like RAM - 240MB used, 516MB free.
What are the different screens telling me?
I'm very new to android and enjoying my S3 for two weeks. Sorry for the dump question but I'm still not sure about the interface that is shown after long press of home button.
a) Is it just a dummy task history including all active and inactive applications executed previously.
b) Or... Is it a task manager that shows only active background (consuming ram) applications.
I know that any application that have a RAM place will consume the battery, So which one of above item is the true one ?
An important second question: What does "Remove All" button do ? Just clears task history or kills all active background tasks ?
Regards...
buyukbang said:
I'm very new to android and enjoying my S3 for two weeks. Sorry for the dump question but I'm still not sure about the interface that is shown after long press of home button.
a) Is it just a dummy task history including all active and inactive applications executed previously.
b) Or... Is it a task manager that shows only active background (consuming ram) applications.
I know that any application that have a RAM place will consume the battery, So which one of above item is the true one ?
An important second question: What does "Remove All" button do ? Just clears task history or kills all active background tasks ?
Regards...
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It's a history, not a list of active apps. From that screen, press task manager at the bottom left and go to the active applications tab on the very left (scroll the list of tabs if necessary). There you can see the list of active apps.
Don't forget that to exit most apps, you have to use the back button (or the exit fuction if the app has one, like Skype) rather than the home button.
buyukbang said:
I'm very new to android and enjoying my S3 for two weeks. Sorry for the dump question but I'm still not sure about the interface that is shown after long press of home button.
a) Is it just a dummy task history including all active and inactive applications executed previously.
b) Or... Is it a task manager that shows only active background (consuming ram) applications.
I know that any application that have a RAM place will consume the battery, So which one of above item is the true one ?
An important second question: What does "Remove All" button do ? Just clears task history or kills all active background tasks ?
Regards...
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Well, i'm not using stock rom so i'm not very sure. But i think that's just inactive applications executed previously. If they were background tasks, and you killed them, they would continue running background later. You can check apps in Settings -> Apps -> Running
Semi-noob said:
Well, i'm not using stock rom so i'm not very sure. But i think that's just inactive applications executed previously. If they were background tasks, and you killed them, they would continue running background later. You can check apps in Settings -> Apps -> Running
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Here is a decent article that explains why you shouldn't get too worried about seeing apps in your running apps list. If you're worried about conserving the battery, it is much more important to switch off stuff when you don't need it. For example do not use auto-sync, just manually sync what you want time to time. Manually switch off everything that you do not use before leaving your phone idle, like the wifi, mobile data, gps, etc. Also it's a paradox but it seems that you have to set your "keep wi-fi on during sleep" to always in the wifi advanced settings!?
Thank you guys. This information is really usuaful for me !
@daviddema,
I read the article, thx for that, too. So do I understand correctly:
Even a completely empty RAM consumes as much as the one filled with cache data (to start it faster in the future) of stopped applications ?
buyukbang said:
Even a completely empty RAM consumes as much as the one filled with cache data (to start it faster in the future) of stopped applications ?
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Yes.
Empty RAM uses as much power as used RAM.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda premium
Thank you for the answer. Now it's more clear for me...
nodstuff said:
Yes.
Empty RAM uses as much power as used RAM.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda premium
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TAP and hold on empty space > Set wallpaper > Lock screen > I now have only two options in Android 4.1.2 T-Mobile Galaxy S2:
Gallery or Wallpapers (why no other picture browsing apps I installed where I wouldn't have this problem?)
So I choose Gallery and ten million thumbnail pictures load. OK, so how do I browse to the location if I know where it is?
Surely my only option is not to check each and every of the the ten million random links, looking for the picture?
I know where it is, why can't i browse through the folders on my external SD card!?
Often when I press the recent apps button to choose an app that I was just using, the app resets (often I have to re-enter the app password - extra aggravating).
I reset the cache partition but can't think of anything else.
As info - it has been occuring since I got the phone. I doubt it's a RAM issue because I'm using the same apps the I was using on a much older phone.
Any help, please?
Check battery usage settings. Look for optimized apps and disabled it for your apps.
If still not working, try this:
Activate Developer options by going to Settings -> About phone.
Tap repeatedly on Build Number (5 times). Go back to main screen of Settings and tap on Developer options.
Scroll down and verify the following:
-> "Don't keep activities" is off
-> Adjust "Background process limit" to "At most, 4 processes". (default is standard limit)