I have a Verizon Droid Charge, and despite the 512MB of memory, I still find myself struggling to manage memory. I feel like the background services are soaking my resources. Could this be true potentially. Mainly I am referring to the Facebook and Twitter apps, and a few others. So I have resorted to removing these apps and accessing them through the browser. Is there any features or anything I am missing by using the browser over the app? Are there any other excellent mobile sites that can replace having an additional app? So far I feel like there has been some decent improvement in battery life and general speed.
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I am not sure about others but one of my primary purposes for getting my View was as a personal entertainment device. I use it for my music, movies, and netflix. I also have installed the kindle, nook, and fbreader apps on it for reading. I was wondering if anybody that has used the readers have some idea of the effect on the battery. I was wondering if one of the apps tended to use the battery faster than the others? I am working on the assumption that if you use the same background, font, and other settings that effect the display, they should all be about the same for battery usage unless one of them is a resource hog.
I've read many threads on the forum with conflicting views on Cache/RAM management. Generally, I use my phone (X10MP) only for SMS, calls and some very light web surfing (if I can find a hotspot).
Currently my RAM hovers somewhere between 60-80 MB used and 70-90 MB free.
I don't know the exact about of RAM I have though.
Just want to get some opinions if there is a need for me to clear the cache in the RAM. There are many applications that are cached in the RAM which I do not use very often. These range from things such as Media, Google Playstore and a few other things.
Is it possible to prevent these applications from being cached in the RAM? Especially since I do not use them often. I'm aware of apps that can kill such cached apps but the reviews for these management apps are kind of mixed.
Secondly, I'm just trying to fish for some suggestions on QR Code reader. Anyone have good recommendations? The ones on the Market have much mixed reviews so I just wanted to get a second opinion.
Any other applications that are beneficial/essential to help the X10MP run smoothly while not sacrificing battery life?
I'm currently using nAa kernel with MiniCM7 2.20 flashed.
Browser -> Dolphin HD
Gallery -> QuickPic
File Explorer -> Root Explorer (I can't seem to attach files via email using this though.)
Thank you =)
I was wondering if there is a way to always keep commonly used apps preloaded into memory for instant access. (sms, contacts, browser)
xemi1 said:
I was wondering if there is a way to always keep commonly used apps preloaded into memory for instant access. (sms, contacts, browser)
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Start them once, and they will be remaining in memory until Android OS decides the memory is better needed elsewhere.
What you describes is not The Android Way. Primary memory is the most critical resource in Android, lacking virtual memory. Due to this fact, an app may be killed by the OS if more memory is needed for other needs. On the other hand, an app often used, is very likely to reside in memory, giving you this "instant access" you want. If you'd be able to lock an app and its memory, the phone would get out-of-memory not being able to release it when you try stating Angry Birds.
This said, some devices have "Don't keep activities", "Background limit: no processes" or so much bloatware installed, leaving an app gets it more or less instant killed, causing the next start of it to be considerably slower. In this case, the solution is to adjust those parameters, not forcing your apps active.
Read this thread. It might give you some light. Specially the " bulletproof " thing.
The only reason I'm needing this is because of the buggy dialer/contacts that comes with the stock sgs s3 ics 404, where if they go out of the memory they take like 1 sec to load, whereas different dialers and any other stuff is pretty much instant.
It's annoying to experience that delay whenever you need to make a call on a flagship smartphone.
And other market dialers are ugly and/or need the stock dialer to open for them to work.
I would like to avoid rooting g and losing my warranty as well.
Our i717 has 1GB ram, but after installing some basic apps, such as Whatsapp, weather, news and stock market apps, google chrome, apex and facebook etc., I only have about 280MB of ram left? After running one or two apps, I have less than 180MB remaining, and openning any new apps is much slower than before. Anyone has any ideas or did some research on what is the minimum ram that should be maintained without much deterioration in speed or performance?
I would suggest taking a look at this article found here
Hi,
I'm looking for application to protect access to other my applications like gallery or messengers. Now i'm using CM Locker (com.cmcm.locker). It works but consumes a lot of ram, cpu, battery and has a sooo many permissions. Can you recommend any alternatives?