How can we set more free RAM in our xperia s? I saw it was only 635MB via Scriptmanager. Maybe Dalvik to cache?
The rest is allocated dynamically and will be freed up as needed. Never mess with android RAM management unless you're entirely sure you need it.
thanks.. its frustrating to see your xperia lag after a while.. while an galaxy s2 doesn't
i need turbointercooler kit in it!:highfive:
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I'm running dagr8s alpha 2 ics rom. And I know that it has lower ram than the gb roms. But lately I have been running Tasker (amazing app btw) numbers and it keeps notifying me that I have low ram and it might not work properly. I go to applications in settings and check my ram and it says I only have 98mb free. I end all tasks and clear ram and then still I have like 120-130 free. I'm afraid that this is a too low amount. And wanted your opinions on what I should do. Is this enough should I just ignore the warnings will Tasker still run fine? How can I get more ram? Are any of you also experiencing low ram?
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Taller uses ram also. I run trebuchet launcher on alpha 2 and have no real issues. If it gets slow you can hold home and clear things out. Running a lot of widgets still affect ram also.
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If you go to developer options in settings at the bottom and select the background processes and set it to 3 processes at most that helps alot...also if u change ur dalvik heap to 64 that also helps a ton...DO NOT and I repeat do not set it below 64 as u will soft brick your phone
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You must understand how Android uses memory, it loads your frequentlyused programs into ram so when you go to use them, they open much faster than if they would if they had to open "fresh" each time.the lmk (low memory killer) should take care of everything if you ate currently using a process that uses a lot of memory it will kill off apps as it needs to.
Put simply: FREE RAM IS WASTED RAM.
Have a marine navigation program "Navionics USA EAST" that wouldn't open in ICS(leak and Saurom) unless I cleared RAM. No issue onstock GB, and runs fine on sgh-i777 ICS? Tried debloating leak, but didn't help much. Will try limiting running programs when back on ICS.
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Free Ram is wasted ram. Never thought about it like that. I understand but i would still like some free ram just so its available for other apps i open. I did use the task manager to kill running apps and clear ram and it didnt free up that much ram that is why i was worried.
Ill try limiting background proccess to .
Also how do i set dalvik heap to 64? And what exactly does this accomplish?
Thanks for the replies guys.
Yes set it to 3 processes at most. Task manaher killers r just crap dnt use them
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Welcome to ICS. This is exactly why I DONT like ICS - the memory footprint is huge just for ICS alone.
Free ram is not entirely wasted ram.
Let me explain.
So, my phone RAM is completely (or nearly) filled and I open a new app. There is now a long delay as Android goes to work closing app(s) down and doing garbage collection to free up memory for the new app I just tried to open but it only frees up enough for the one app I just opened.
And now, every app I go to open is going to have this long delay.
What you really want is about 80% ram usage - enough that there is free ram to open new apps without Android having to scurry around to free up a bunch of memory.
I dont know if there is a way to force a certain amount of ram to be free but imo, thats what youd really want.
I only have 6 user apps on my phone and Im running stock GB so even if I opened everything at once, there would be plenty of ram to have them open all at once (Go Launcher, Blue Skies (paid), Battery Power Widget, System Tuner Pro, BeyondPod, & Audible).
It's called "minfree memory," what you want is an app that will allow you to modify those values. Back when I had a Captivate, I used an app called AutoKiller for that purpose. I haven't needed it on the Note though. You can find it in the Android market.
Is it possible for apps to crash when the phone doesnt have enough free memory (RAM)?
-Once you go NOTE, you'd say 4 inches a Joke
How much RAM do you guys have available when running GB. The phone only sees 767Mb of RAM out of the 1Gb is that normal?
yea i think thats normal because the phone system uses some of that ram to make the phone work. Like if you ever had a sd card or an ipod that was say an 8gb ipod you actually only have like 7.66gb free.
But yeah I would like more ram availabe so the phone can load apps quickly and wont have to waste time closing stuff. I dont think free ram is wasted ram
As said before, Android uses ram differently since it based upon Linux. If the entire ROM runs around 600-800mB and most of it gets loaded into RAM, this will leave you with 400-200mB free RAM but the entire OS is already loaded and ready to go! Once you load a RAM intensive application, Android/Linux kernel will free space for that application.
I believe GPU consumes an excess of RAM to handle this beast's resolution/size.
I have to go back to GB. Delay in apps opening is getting old compared to i777 daily driver.
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Thanks for the info, guys.
Hi pls is their anyone who could fix the high ram usage a mod or something?
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What do you exactly think ram is, or "high ram usage"?
What are you expecting to be fixed?
This phone has plenty of ram, stop looking at the numbers and thinking your too high, don't listen to anyone that tells you that you need to kill tasks to make the phone better, they are all wrong!
Android works on a linux kernel, its not like windows and does not slow down (noticeably) when you multi-task, it manages its ram usage, it caches processes to save you time and battery next time. When it's ram is truly full (which I doubt yours ever is) it kills it's own apps.
So in summary unless android is closing all your apps when your trying to use them, stop worrying about ram!
/rant
Please everyone stop saying that Windows does not use the RAM for Cache.
Just because it doesn't show the values in Task Manager doesn't mean it isn't doing so. The Resource Monitor tells otherwise.
port76, if you're rooted you can throw out all the apps that you do not use (e.g. the whole Samsung-Cloud stuff, Samsung Accounts, AllShare, ...) which will give you several MB more of RAM available for caching.
For the rest, refer to this: http://www.linuxatemyram.com/
ivy thrown all bloatware still high ram it was perfect on my s2 in fact my s2 has more ram sometimes my s3 lags .. thanks anyway guys for feedback :thumbup:
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No mention of what firmware you are using . Try updating top latest firmware .
jje
ram usage is fine on the S3, theres no fix needed.
unused ram = useless ram
if ur S3 lags, it must be something else
Jesus F****** christ!
I would rather have a fix for the redrawing of my launcher...
When i'm browsing and go back to the launcher it redraws/restarts...
Because other launchers beside touchwiz are not locked in the memory...
thread closed. there are plenty of discussions on ram usage. please use the search function
Dear Members,
Greetings!
I have recently purchased a brand new Sony Xperia P (ICS 4.0.4). I have started adding applications to my phone and almost all of them are presently on the phone memory. I have been using Android for almost a year now (my previous device was Samsung Galaxy Pop CDMA) and understand that the phone memory starts decreasing as and when there is a build up of cache with each application. Hence I have always cleared cache memory to free up the space.
What seems to be the issue with my new Sony Xperia P is that whenever I clear cache from the apps, my phone memory seems to decrease (instead of the increase). I had a total of 370 MB used after all applications were installed (there has been no update to any of the applications yet). After 6 days of usage, I found my phone memory started to decrease and then I had about 401 MB used up. The extra 30 MB used up was due to cache. I started removing the cache from each application. Went back to check if my memory increased, I was surprised to see that it now shows 443 MB used. I rebooted the device but still it shows the same amount 443MB.
Can anyone please explain me what should I be doing to increase the memory OR do I not understand how Android works (your honest feedback would be most appreciated)?
Best Regards,
RCP
just let ICS manage the memory and don't worry about it
android is not the same as windows, ever heard of "free memory is wasted memory"?
do you have any performance issues? if no, then leave it alone
Astral07 said:
just let ICS manage the memory and don't worry about it
android is not the same as windows, ever heard of "free memory is wasted memory"?
do you have any performance issues? if no, then leave it alone
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I understand what you say. No performance issues yet. Thanks a lot for your reply Astral07 and helping me know more about the concept of android's memory management
Also cache is a different partition, /data partition Is what you want
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Even when i open my phone i have 160 free ram out of 340 ram without any program running!is there a way to free up more ram?
P.S. sorry for bad english!
Change the rom u're using =)
I Prefer GB roms because they're faster than ICS
You can use a program, which will be manage your RAM. I use ES Manager. When my phone is lagging, i click on widget with this program, and i have clear unuseful apps from RAM.
160 mb free ram not enough? Then u sure never feel the 50 mb free ram from low end devices don't u?
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What device are you using
When I'm killing tasks on my Xperia Ray and I see 160 mb free on RAM, I start dancing in circles:silly:.
Is your phone still laggy with this much free RAM, or why are you asking this
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Even when i open my phone i have 160 free ram out of 340 ram without any program running!is there a way to free up more ram?
P.S. sorry for bad english!
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Free ram is a wasted ram
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^^Exactly.
Even if ram is 160mb, your phone should be quite smooth. Free ram only plays an important role in benchmarks, and benchmarks don't mean anything. Real experience and performance is very important. However, if you want to free more ram, remove unnecessary system apps, using init.d scripts, build.prop tweaks, custom kernel, better adreno drivers etc. After doing all this, I always get 200mb+ free ram in stock ics.
I am litlle noob and new for this custom roms stuff..
I have installed Advanced Xperia X10i ROM and it's working nice, a stable and kind fast rom ...
but I noticed sthing in the running application I only have about 150 Mb used ram and about 50 Mb free ram...
my X10 has 280 Mb ram where is the rest 80 Mb ram... please help...!!!
x10 has 384 mb rram, from which about 100 are used for system and gpu. maybe there went somethoming wrong?
flash again
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Do clean install and wipe everything and all if fine
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Interesting.
I notice the same. Almost 70-80MB missing.
If I add my running and free memory as seen in settings -> applications I consistently get ~200MB
So, are we not accounting for an allocation of RAM somewhere?
I have also read somewhere Android 2.3 allocates about 100MB to the system processes as #free -m reports 285MB available in total.
In the 'running' applications I don't see the XPERIA Home process 32MB(app size) and Status Bar process 32MB(app size) and if I start the widget picker, it's not shown as a running application either but they are active system processes and thus allocated memory.
Now if you add all these 'other' applications that are not in the running apps list the used memory may make more sense.
Looking at the system through a terminal emulator and commands like ps, free and etc may provide some insight too.
I have a feeling(I don't know for sure), any reinstall of the ROM may mean you just end up with the same results.