Hi!
Because of the low memory issue in the International edition, I request for all Kernel Dev's that implement the possibility of the use of Swap file.
There are programs that make and use this Swap file to get more free RAM, but this programs needs that the Kernel support it.
Like :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...sMSwxLDEsIm9yZy5hemFzb2Z0LmZyZWUuc3dhcHBlciJd
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=lv.n3o.swapper2&feature=nav_other
What do you think?
Cheers!
P.D:sorry for my bad english.
I think you are in the wrong section. There is a dedicated section for questions and not in the Development thread
What Low memory issue??? We have 1GB of RAM (almost) on the device! Everything works smooth on the phone!
maybe he wanna say that free memories are from 2xx~3xx mb only, which is actually less than S2 even S3 also has 1GB ram.
If the files can increase more free ram, it would be good for some heavy games and softwares to run more smoothly.
Wrong forum, but indeed I agree.
It's virtually impossible to run 2 heavy programs at once. One of them will always close when it's in the background, even if it implements a Service.
For example, Waze - It closes whenever I receive a phone call.
Just annoying. Problems I never had on S II
eitama said:
Wrong forum, but indeed I agree.
It's virtually impossible to run 2 heavy programs at once. One of them will always close when it's in the background, even if it implements a Service.
For example, Waze - It closes whenever I receive a phone call.
Just annoying. Problems I never had on S II
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This is exactly that I mean.
Sorry for the mistake to put this topic in this subforum, please, any mod move it to the correct section.
Cheers!
Wow, I definitely want this! Kernel devs : please implement this!!!
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Swap will make the phone lag terribly since the ssd writing/reading speeds are far inferior to what you neel for normal operations.
It also makes sure the internal/external storage will not live very long.
While it's a good idea to combat memory issues, paging to disk is not suitable for normal situations.
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Haha we have not needed swap since the days of the HTC hero
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Swap will make the phone lag terribly since the ssd writing/reading speeds are far inferior to what you neel for normal operations.
It also makes sure the internal/external storage will not live very long.
While it's a good idea to combat memory issues, paging to disk is not suitable for normal situations.
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Swap file to internal SD: max speed 26MB/s I think there is not a problem, but I prefer more memory. And I tell that implement the function and optional you can enable it, if you don't want you don't need to enable.
Cheers!
Can I ask you why you think you have low memory?
please select one of the following:
1) Phone going so slow it takes age to do anything I ask
2) Apps keep getting killed mid-use
3) I have looked at the numbers and they look low....
I can't choose any option. I want to explain:
-I open Internet Browser and open a Web with many videos, photos, etc, and browser closes itself.
-Open 1 game (NOVA3 for example), then put it on background to see a Web Page or check email... or open the Web browser, open 3 Webs then go to email to check, then go again to browser and all is closed, the phone needs to open all Webs again (in this case is your first option).
I think that you prefer a UNIX computer with 256MB of RAM than a UNIX computer with 16GB of RAM because you optimize the 256MB of RAM. I prefer waste memory (really don't waste it) because I want to RUN many programs at the same time.
Sorry for my very bad english, because I can't explain exactly what I want.
I'm SYSADMIN and I know what I say.
Cheers.
I understand where your coming from but I think you have failed to understand the purpose of multi-tasking on a phone (and the reason that not many phones have more than 1gb of ram yet).
Multi-tasking on a phone is designed to let you go from webpage to sms, or music to email etc, i.e. between smaller, less hungry apps.
Switching between a high ram usage game and other things is always going to be a problem, the phone was never designed to allow you to multi-task while gaming.
I know that this is a phone, not a Core I7 - 16GB RAM - SSD with Windows 7 Ultimate, but, Did you have a SGS2? with SGS2 you can make what you want and you don't have this problems off memory.
I said an example of a Web page with a lot of videos and photos that make Browser closed., not only with Games.
This is Why I want to try the Swap file. Off course if the phone goes slow down I'll prefer no Swap file, but I think that is a good idea.
Perhaps with a new firmware update Samsung solve this issue...
Cheers!
Off course if the phone goes slow down I'll prefer no Swap file, but I think that is a good idea.
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Have you ever had your Windows computer have to heavily page to disk (aka swap)? Even with my OCZ Vertex4 it's unbearable.
Just get rid of all the background apps (such as AllShare) that the S3 has running and you should be better off, it got rid of any hint of memory underrun I my had.
Get Houmiak TaskManager from market, find out which apps are running and freeze them in Titanium Backup. Problem solved
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I understand where your coming from but I think you have failed to understand the purpose of multi-tasking on a phone (and the reason that not many phones have more than 1gb of ram yet).
Multi-tasking on a phone is designed to let you go from webpage to sms, or music to email etc, i.e. between smaller, less hungry apps.
Switching between a high ram usage game and other things is always going to be a problem, the phone was never designed to allow you to multi-task while gaming.
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You are wrong.
This is my 4th Android phone.
Multitasking between several Applications which implement the Service Android Class should be possible without any of the services being killed.
I don't care about the Activity. I care about the service.
Example :
I run Torque & Waze at the same time and tend to skip between them.
If I receive an incoming call, they are both killed because of low memory.
How do I know? when I go back to either of them, the state is not kept, and waze even complains about not being stopped correctly.
Believe me I removed ANY resident useless services, uninstall about 30 system apps from wanam lite using titanium pro, and still, no good.
These things used to work on older phones like SGSII and Galaxy Note and even SGS I with stock samsung roms.
There is no reason SGS III should suffer regression in this department.
It is very easy to understand that while samsung have added plenty of "Cool" features to the phone, they have left us with an overwhelming amount of garbage. I want smart stay, I want usb OTG, I want the camera app, I want Touchwiz dialer and I want HDMI,
But not at the expense of basic use-cases.
Hell, on the Galaxy Note I was sometimes shocked at the amount of Activities left in the ram, I was impressed. Having 10 apps running in task manager. And no, I never closed them. I don't used task killers, and I don't care about "Free" ram.
I care about my Applications life cycle which sadly sucks on SGS III.
BTW, Galaxy Note had the same screen resolution give or take as the SGS III.
Something is terribly under optimized.
600MB used just by core crap.
PS. I am angry at samsung, not at you, apologies if I sound harsh.
It's also aggravating when posters here instantly assume other posters only care about Free ram. HERE - TAKE MY FREE RAM.
About the swap to sdcard, I'm not sure that is the solution.
But I am sure we need "A" solution.
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If anyone knows how I can understand exactly which process/app/apk/activiy/service is taking how much, I would happily compare it to Galaxy Note. I'm sure we will find basic applications taking too much.
If it's the GPU reserving too much memory, I am willing to settle for less GPU ram while not running games. Hell, the Galaxy Note was not that slower then SGS III
It even preserved me a lot of time which I now waste on Navigating multiple times with waze when it is closed because of a phone call.
Don't know if this has anything to with it as I haven't received my S3 yet. With the HTCOneX I had this problem as well. Then I found out, that in the
"settings".
in the "development section"
"Don't keep activities" which is unticked by default. One has to tick it ( I went on recent apps to make sure it would be saved) and then untick it again. Afterwards the HTC1X was quite cabable of multitasking. The default setting seems to have some hybrid impact and has to be set straight by hand.
Hopefully this helps your issue.
eitama said:
You are wrong.
This is my 4th Android phone.
Multitasking between several Applications which implement the Service Android Class should be possible without any of the services being killed.
I don't care about the Activity. I care about the service.
Example :
I run Torque & Waze at the same time and tend to skip between them.
If I receive an incoming call, they are both killed because of low memory.
How do I know? when I go back to either of them, the state is not kept, and waze even complains about not being stopped correctly.
Believe me I removed ANY resident useless services, uninstall about 30 system apps from wanam lite using titanium pro, and still, no good.
These things used to work on older phones like SGSII and Galaxy Note and even SGS I with stock samsung roms.
There is no reason SGS III should suffer regression in this department.
It is very easy to understand that while samsung have added plenty of "Cool" features to the phone, they have left us with an overwhelming amount of garbage. I want smart stay, I want usb OTG, I want the camera app, I want Touchwiz dialer and I want HDMI,
But not at the expense of basic use-cases.
Hell, on the Galaxy Note I was sometimes shocked at the amount of Activities left in the ram, I was impressed. Having 10 apps running in task manager. And no, I never closed them. I don't used task killers, and I don't care about "Free" ram.
I care about my Applications life cycle which sadly sucks on SGS III.
BTW, Galaxy Note had the same screen resolution give or take as the SGS III.
Something is terribly under optimized.
600MB used just by core crap.
PS. I am angry at samsung, not at you, apologies if I sound harsh.
It's also aggravating when posters here instantly assume other posters only care about Free ram. HERE - TAKE MY FREE RAM.
About the swap to sdcard, I'm not sure that is the solution.
But I am sure we need "A" solution.
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If anyone knows how I can understand exactly which process/app/apk/activiy/service is taking how much, I would happily compare it to Galaxy Note. I'm sure we will find basic applications taking too much.
If it's the GPU reserving too much memory, I am willing to settle for less GPU ram while not running games. Hell, the Galaxy Note was not that slower then SGS III
It even preserved me a lot of time which I now waste on Navigating multiple times with waze when it is closed because of a phone call.
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I'm completely with you on this.. .. I have had both the original galaxy, the s 2 the note and other Android phones with this one being my first where larger apps are closing due to low memory resources. I had Nova, my browser, videos, music, angry birds and other processes in the background on my s2 with only388megs used out of 863.... this phone, I load the browser and everything in the background closes with 675megs used out of 754.... not cool. There must be some kinda solution.. why is it that my note and s 2 have 140 more free ram anyways?
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I've had my vibrant since it came out. They have 512 of ram hardware. I know we've gotten up to 344 or so with tweaking, but why can't we get the full 512 at all?
I have a feeling it has to do with Samsung or drivers, but with everything I've seen devs overcome I can't see why this is still a problem.
I have a nook color which has inferior hardware overall, but the biggest reason I see it as more stable is it never has memory management issues(running any rom). My biggest reasons to dump my vibrant for a Hercules or comparable is because of the constant ram issues the vibrant has that they wont, along with better hardware.
Maybe the answer is out there, but I haven't seen it in a whole year(so answers could be outdated), nor it brought up for a very long time.
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That 512 MB is shared ram. So some of it is dedicated to the video processor which is built into CPU. Phones have to be slim and light I don't think well be seeing dedicated videocards and soundcards anytime soon.
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The simple answer is that our system needs to set aside a certain amount of ram for the actual OS to use, nothing that we can necessarily touch. Certain apps occupy memory at all times and we're left with whatever memory hasn't been allocated by OS. I'm not the most technical but that's the general consensus from what I've read over the last 2 years of running Android.
If you want to really push the limits of what free ram you can achieve, I would highly suggest reading the OP of this thread. In there you'll see how you can adjust the way your system handles recently opened and closed apps. My phone feels a million times better, just using those simple to use tweaks/scripts.
Let me know if you need any help.
- Mat
dardani89 said:
That 512 MB is shared ram. So some of it is dedicated to the video processor which is built into CPU. Phones have to be slim and light I don't think well be seeing dedicated videocards and soundcards anytime soon.
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I know the nook has no dedicated gpu, but it makes use of most if not all of that ram.. unless I am playing a graphically intensive game, it rarely drops below 100mb available ram, usually staying around 150+ until I've opened a ton of apps. Oh, and many phones that are coming out have a dedicated gpu, such as all of the variants of the samsung galaxy S II. it has a Dual-core 1.2GHz ARM Cortex-A9 proccessor, Mali-400MP GPU, Exynos chipset.. and awesome battery life I have heard.
Either way, my nook color doesn't experience the laggyness that my vibrant does until I have used so much it makes sense, but considering my vibrant stays around 60mb of available ram +/- most of the time..
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The simple answer is that our system needs to set aside a certain amount of ram for the actual OS to use, nothing that we can necessarily touch. Certain apps occupy memory at all times and we're left with whatever memory hasn't been allocated by OS. I'm not the most technical but that's the general consensus from what I've read over the last 2 years of running Android.
If you want to really push the limits of what free ram you can achieve, I would highly suggest reading the OP of this thread. In there you'll see how you can adjust the way your system handles recently opened and closed apps. My phone feels a million times better, just using those simple to use tweaks/scripts.
Let me know if you need any help.
- Mat
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You have no idea how hard I have been trying to find that app, I was going to try it when I was running simply honeyv5 because the memory issues were so horrible, but I couldn't find it again, and minfreemanager was the next best thing.. so I am VERY glad you posted it.
Are you using a specific set of pre-made settings, a specific script, or some custom setup, and which?
I am just trying to get my vibrant as usable as possible until the hercules and other comparable phones come out, so I can weigh them against each other. I don't regret my vibrant, but I wish I had waited a little longer so I had made a more informed choice.. if I can make it kickass again, at least for a few months, I will be a happy guy. Thanks again.
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I know the nook has no dedicated gpu, but it makes use of most if not all of that ram.. unless I am playing a graphically intensive game, it rarely drops below 100mb available ram, usually staying around 150+ until I've opened a ton of apps. Oh, and many phones that are coming out have a dedicated gpu, such as all of the variants of the samsung galaxy S II. it has a Dual-core 1.2GHz ARM Cortex-A9 proccessor, Mali-400MP GPU, Exynos chipset.. and awesome battery life I have heard.
Either way, my nook color doesn't experience the laggyness that my vibrant does until I have used so much it makes sense, but considering my vibrant stays around 60mb of available ram +/- most of the time..
You have no idea how hard I have been trying to find that app, I was going to try it when I was running simply honeyv5 because the memory issues were so horrible, but I couldn't find it again, and minfreemanager was the next best thing.. so I am VERY glad you posted it.
Are you using a specific set of pre-made settings, a specific script, or some custom setup, and which?
I am just trying to get my vibrant as usable as possible until the hercules and other comparable phones come out, so I can weigh them against each other. I don't regret my vibrant, but I wish I had waited a little longer so I had made a more informed choice.. if I can make it kickass again, at least for a few months, I will be a happy guy. Thanks again.
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No problem man. I'm actually using option #9 in V8 right now and it's been a dream. It stops holding apps in memory after not using them a few seconds, which is great for what I'm looking for. What you'll find is that it manages the memory and how quickly things are slotted around (different priorities that android gives particular applications; Launcher, Dialer, Messaging, etc.). You can actually try every option and see which you find the best.
I started out with option #2 and then moved all the way down as I found things I didn't like in some, but liked in others.Give it a shot man!
- Mat
Mattymat said:
No problem man. I'm actually using option #9 in V8 right now and it's been a dream. It stops holding apps in memory after not using them a few seconds, which is great for what I'm looking for. What you'll find is that it manages the memory and how quickly things are slotted around (different priorities that android gives particular applications; Launcher, Dialer, Messaging, etc.). You can actually try every option and see which you find the best.
I started out with option #2 and then moved all the way down as I found things I didn't like in some, but liked in others.Give it a shot man!
- Mat
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I'm actually using number 2 now in the allandroidv8 script, and if anything maybe it is too aggressive, but it has it's snappiness back. Looking at how they set the rom I'm using and the one before it, it looks like they didn't tweak it at all from stock cm7.. if anything I think they've made tweaks it more recent nightlies better than those roms! Simply honey(who brags about how great they are) and Biff ron both need some tweaking.. I'm gonna play with it, but thanks for posting what I was trying so hard to find
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Can some one please explain why i see only 779 Mb of memory on my Galaxy S3
The rest is reserved for graphics
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out of 1024 mb only 778 or 779 is available for user because the rest is reserved for hardware and graphics
There's a recent topic by devoted developer Andreilux in original android development section regarding this issue, you should check it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1856133
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Thank you everyone for the clarification.
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There's a recent topic by devoted developer Andreilux in original android development section regarding this issue, you should check it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1856133
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wow thanks . imissed this thread
This is why I was so pissed when they gave the US versions of the SGS III 2GB of ram instead of the regular 1GB.
I know it only has a dual core but we could really use that extra GB...
Out of the 779, almost 550-600 MB are used, even during bootup.
Why?
eggman89 said:
Out of the 779, almost 550-600 MB are used, even during bootup.
Why?
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It's not used its being cached, that's the way android handles memory. Free memory = wasted memory in Android.
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bala_gamer said:
It's not used its being cached, that's the way android handles memory. Free memory = wasted memory in Android.
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Great but why multitasking in S3 is so f****d up compaired to s2?! For example if you let opera to download a bigger file in background you will have one surprise: download will fail cause the task manager will kill the app. This is not happening in s2. Or if you are playing a game and you receive a phone call if you speak more then, let's say 10 minutes the game is killed. Also not happening in s2.
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We have a bigger screen, more resolution, a bigger cpu and gpu etc. 1 gb of ram unfortunately simply is not enough for a quality multi taking. Please note Samsung has just announced Galaxy Note 2 with 2 gb of ram! So, instead of fine tuning ram with low level optimizations why not more muscle said they.
There are a few ways to free some ram and use a swap file to maximize ram usage. I got perfect results with hard swap and now waiting for a compatible kernel for JB.
Meanwhile please have a look at these topics: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1812668 and
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1814311
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I've been meaning to ask about this.
I keep getting redraw in the chrome browser which in turn loses the place I was reading. I'll come out of chrome and open up 2 apps (just recreated it by opening twitter and tv guide) then go back in chrome which will then refresh the page.
Is this a problem with memory usage or the launcher being useless (I'm running apex)?
I am rooted but it happened before root
Im using Apex and the same happens with me when using chrome sometimes. It doesnt refresh just redraws the screen, as if i manually refresh there is new data viewable on the page which wasnt there last time i was looking
I am using Galaxy S series from the beginning for years and I kind a feel like Samsung development team decided to move slightly different than we, the customers, wanted. I think somewhere along the road a guy from marketing department told them that it is better to come with new apps in each new phone than to polish what we have in hand. It may sound firm on paper but it sucks in real life. Now, I don't want to insult Samsung software developers in any way or to undermine their efforts in these devices but it's clear every time we have apps working with 75% productivity which is like updating your living room furniture without assembled with all texture for example. I don't want a phone with half baked, new and used applications but a device which is fully optimized.
I'll give you a very simple example: First Galaxy S came with Wolfson audio chip on it, which has still a very good quality. But there was a great place for improvement and a qualified developer, Supercurio, came with Voodoo sound which some of still use it to listen to music. It was that quality. Samsung decided to work with Yamaha in Galaxy S 2 which produced silly and funny results as we all know, which was a big mistake from Samsung team. Now they have included again Wolfson chipset in S 3, which is great. Now what do you expect as an ordinary customer? Samsung uses Wolfson again, they know very well about Supercurio and great Voodoo sound but instead of utilizing him we find that nothing has been done on Samsung side to utilise this. It's like giving a customer a live, unbucked chicken in a restaurant and to say him eat it himself. What is funny here, in ICS Siyah kernel, developer Gökhan Moral, used some parts of voodoo sound code and voila we have a way better sound in our S 3 devices with a two and half years of code. While we, the excited users are trying to get more from our devices the head of developers are sitting in Samsung center thinking about what a useless thing can I bring on the table next time instead of getting it better.
It's the same from the beginning in screen, memory, etc. The did choose not use a simple notification led stubbornly and deliberately for two phone versions for Christ's sake. And we are still waiting for Supercurio to come up with Display Expert who has been working on it for about two years for better color production, contrast, image quality etc. It's funny that many custom kernels use the feature for improving fonts readability. What I am saying is, it's Samsung who should be dealing with these fine tuning things in order for the customer to get the best benefit from the device, not excited developers. It seems to me Samsung is paying a useless salary to many people in software development.
Sorry, it's been a long post but this is what I feel about three years of Samsung experience. The reason I can not get angry to other manufacturers is that they just can't get a quality hardware. So there's not a place for development much in HTC, Sony, Motorola or LG products. Samsung comes with great hardware and spoils it by following HTC; they also used so much energy and time on Touch3D - Sense interface and forgot to improve the rest of the device. Samsung puts too much and unimportant effort to Touchwiz and forgets the rest software.
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Im using Apex and the same happens with me when using chrome sometimes. It doesnt refresh just redraws the screen, as if i manually refresh there is new data viewable on the page which wasnt there last time i was looking
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Yeah it's not great problem but it's a bit of ballache, I am thinking about flashing a different rom but waiting until JB has been released so maybe that will solve the problem.
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Great but why multitasking in S3 is so f****d up compaired to s2?! For example if you let opera to download a bigger file in background you will have one surprise: download will fail cause the task manager will kill the app. This is not happening in s2. Or if you are playing a game and you receive a phone call if you speak more then, let's say 10 minutes the game is killed. Also not happening in s2.
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Regardless of the mobile higher memory utilization will trigger task killing in the background, s2 didn't had this problem because it consumed less memory. S3 uses more memory, but still by tweaking it properly you can minimise taks killing. Disabling some unwanted apps in stock rom will release more memory and thus in turn reduce the chances of task getting killed.
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It's not used its being cached, that's the way android handles memory. Free memory = wasted memory in Android.
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thats not true at all free ram not wasted ram , when the system start to kill apps and launcher u will not be happy at all :silly::silly:
I've been quietly lurking on this site for about 2 weeks since I got a nook tablet (16GB) with an N2A card (which was horrible). I came to this site looking for a way to mod my device and ended up learning a lot more than I intended. I have sampled quite a few ROMs on here and am astonished at the amount of work that has gone into these ports. I have a device that is so much more functional it's not even funny. Already I've reclaimed the space that BN had partitioned from users. I still have a lot to learn but I wanted to express my thanks to all the developers who work hard on these. I am very appreciative that a device which is technically 'obsolete' can be revitalized and turned into something very usable. I am still trying out various ROMs to try to see which is giving me the best stability and RAM use. So far the one I am using I unfortunately forgot the name of. Any way of finding out which ROM you might have flashed? What I like about it is most of the ROMs use so much RAM I am left with around 200MB of RAM without anything running. One particular ROM I'm using consistently gives me around 400-450 MB of free RAM even with some background apps running. A HUGE improvement. A couple ROMS literally left me with less than 100MB. Anyway if anyone has any advice or happens to know how to determine which ROM I might be using I'd be very happy. Mainly I wanted to introduce myself and thank the developers. GREAT STUFF!
Some info that most Android users are not aware of, as its a bit non-intuitive:
Having less memory (RAM) available is actually a good thing. Apps can be "running" in the background without actually using the processor or other resources. They are cached via the RAM in order to allow you to relaunch them quickly. Android's memory management is quite good, albeit different from say Windows.
This is why Task Killers are generally a bad idea. I used to use them as a means to kill apps when they froze or whatever, but now, with the roms I have on my devices, I have set long-press of the back button to kill the current app, should I need to do this.
Read this article for a bit more info.
tl;dr less memory available is not necessarily a bad thing on Android.
Sorry for delayed reply
Forgive my tardy response. Our internet was out for 2 days. I understand what you are saying but what I was noticing was a huge number of active programs that were not in use, nor are commonly in use enough to justify their being cached. One particular ROM was leaving me with less than 200 MB of RAM with the same processes referred to above being inactive as well. A 200MB difference with the same stuff running. The particular one I'm on now keeps a number of things running in the background and still leaves me with well over 300MB with 4-5 programs going at the same time. So while I agree with you that some might be doing more cache than others, my experience is telling me the build with the most RAM (ie whichever one I am using...I unfortunately forgot which I installed...a CM10 but not sure if it was the cherry pick or chris'.) is the one that is managing the memory the best. I can figure out no other explanation for the same number of programs using an extra 200 MB of memory over another rom and thinking that is a good thing. For example, the ones I am thinking of are running stuff in the background I don't even use. Power Amp is a huge offender for whatever reason. I see no reason to have it running 24/7 but it does!
ok i do not know why android sucks at multi tasking
on my IPOD4 i can run 100 applications with no lag
and on my SGS3 i can't run more then 20 apps (yes i have already tried supercharger and bestmultitask tweaks)
its even worst when the cache size gets more and more
i don't reboot my phone often
i like how ios makes a save point when you switch to another app which helps in multitasking many apps
can we have that thing on android too ?
or maybe android is meant to be like this ?
Sounds like a troll
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I dont know, but the only thing ive noticed is my benchmarks fell after I flashed the polish jb rom and rooted but not much difference performance wise
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I dont know, but the only thing ive noticed is my benchmarks fell after I flashed the polish jb rom and rooted but not much difference performance wise
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20 apps on my s3
100 apps on ios
thats a big difference for me
abelle_abelle said:
ok i do not know why android sucks at multi tasking
on my IPOD4 i can run 100 applications with no lag
and on my SGS3 i can't run more then 20 apps (yes i have already tried supercharger and bestmultitask tweaks)
its even worst when the cache size gets more and more
i don't reboot my phone often
i like how ios makes a save point when you switch to another app which helps in multitasking many apps
can we have that thing on android too ?
or maybe android is meant to be like this ?
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Probably because iOS doesn't use true multi-tasking? It takes a shot of the application and stores that, rather than keeping the application "alive" in the background like Android does.
wtf are you talking about, i have also an ipod touch 4g and having more than 3 apps running on "background" makes the device laggy as hell but that's to be expected when it only has 256mb of ram, and the fact that you have "100" apps appearing on the "multitasking" bottom bar, doesn't mean all of them are running, in fact you'll be lucky if only 3 of them are. Android does something similar but in a more realistic way, it keeps running the apps processes on background when you hit the home button, but if you have a lot of apps in this state it'll auto delete from memory some of the least important to keep ram free.
i've never experience lag on the galaxy s3 as much you state, with 1gb of ram that's unlikely to happen anyway.
abelle_abelle said:
ok i do not know why android sucks at multi tasking
on my IPOD4 i can run 100 applications with no lag
and on my SGS3 i can't run more then 20 apps (yes i have already tried supercharger and bestmultitask tweaks)
its even worst when the cache size gets more and more
i don't reboot my phone often
i like how ios makes a save point when you switch to another app which helps in multitasking many apps
can we have that thing on android too ?
or maybe android is meant to be like this ?
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Mate seriously, just get lost! You've come into an ANDROID and S3 forum and just basically called it ****! And worst of all, after all the rubbish about Samsung vs Apple, you have the audacity to compare the S3 which runs ANDROID to iOS....seriously?? Thread reported to moderator!
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There are loads of posts explaining this, this guy didn't even bother to search/read a bit. No point to reply, even.
If you like the icrap better, just stick to that.
Again, another useless thread.
1)iOS doesn't have true multitasking, it "pauses" the apps (LoL).
2)The S3 won't be able to multitask 20 apps, nor does the iPhone anyways. (even if it shows it is, in the taskmanager it will be closed and reloaded when you want to access it, (not multitasking).
3)I swear i saw a post like this before stating the same "100 apps", troll?
Go buy yourself an icrap.
Mods Please Close Thread Case Solved.
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abelle_abelle said:
ok i do not know why android sucks at multi tasking
on my IPOD4 i can run 100 applications with no lag
and on my SGS3 i can't run more then 20 apps (yes i have already tried supercharger and bestmultitask tweaks)
its even worst when the cache size gets more and more
i don't reboot my phone often
i like how ios makes a save point when you switch to another app which helps in multitasking many apps
can we have that thing on android too ?
or maybe android is meant to be like this ?
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Because iOS puts Applications into suspended mode (with 10 minute limit on background data activity.) After which iOS forcefully terminates the application in question. What does this mean? It means the majority of your "100" apps that are listed on the double tap line is inactive/closed. That bar isn't the multitasking bar, but a 'recently opened' application bar.
You'd be hard pressed to find 3-4 apps open concurrently at the same time and working completely on iOS. While iOS certainly does NOT have true multitasking like Android does (running actual concurrent applications without being in 'low-power/suspend mode'), it doesn't mean it's worse than Android. It's just different philosophy to Mobile OS design... But I think it does pose a question, does that 'Recently Opened' app bar really serve to nothing else but fool ignorant users (you, in this case) into thinking iOS multi-tasks much more than it actually does?
The original poster might be on to something.. I when I was using a Palm Treo I noticed it was wickedly fast at multitasking, but whenever I use an Apple running IOS things seem to get bogged down. Perhaps Apple needs to use better CPU or operating system.
Lol. 100 apps? I think those are just recently opened apps. Those are not running..
lol take a chill pill
is there a way to do that on android like ios pause apps so that i can multitask more apps ??
Fair question. What's the point of burning up CPU cycles (and hence battery) needlessly ?
abelle_abelle said:
lol take a chill pill
is there a way to do that on android like ios pause apps so that i can multitask more apps ??
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Apparently you have a problem understanding the concept of multi-tasking.
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/112013-how-multitasking-works-on-android-and-ios
Educate yourself and then ask less foolish questions.
Rado_vr6 said:
Sounds like a troll
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You sound right http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1949513
adamkhanmian said:
I dont know, but the only thing ive noticed is my benchmarks fell after I flashed the polish jb rom and rooted but not much difference performance wise
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Noob style! You really don't know SEVERAL key things about Android. Specially that none of the benchmark apps benefit from the S III's quad core.
You get a V12 Ferrari and try to benchmark it's engine on rocky, icy or muddy terrain, you'll come to the conclusion that it's a crappy car. Is the test the problem or the car the problem?
See, for each kind of car there are kinds of tests that are more suitable for it. You don't make a rally car undergo tests that are more suitable for a track car, and vice versa.
Forget about benchmarking the S III with the current apps.
The Polish ROM was the first JB, ROM and dozens of users reported that it was buggy and crappy. Much more evolved ROMs have been released, specially the unbranded UK ROM (CSC = BTU). If you're still using the Polish ROM, then you're a noob and haven't followed through the users remarks on it.
Android's JB multitasking is years ahead of anything apple has.
I have Samsung drivers
atlas 2.2
odin 1.3
gbbootloaders
cmw4 fixed for cm7
CI500_VZW_EH03_GB_CM
and mutliple releases of CM10.1
I followed instructions exactly how [GUIDE] Installing a Rom/CWM recovery/Root or going back to Stock say to do.
I always end up with a bootloop after flashing. The instructions are flawed. Or, one or more files are corrupted.
fewert said:
I have Samsung drivers
atlas 2.2
odin 1.3
gbbootloaders
cmw4 fixed for cm7
CI500_VZW_EH03_GB_CM
and mutliple releases of CM10.1
I followed instructions exactly how [GUIDE] Installing a Rom/CWM recovery/Root or going back to Stock say to do.
I always end up with a bootloop after flashing. The instructions are flawed. Or, one or more files are corrupted.
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Did you look at my post which further explains the process.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=53235945
Have you installed cm10.1 multiple times?
Some times it doesn't always set thing up in one flash
hhp_211 said:
Did you look at my post which further explains the process.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=53235945
Have you installed cm10.1 multiple times?
Some times it doesn't always set thing up in one flash
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Yeah I read a post saying to do what you just described with success.
However, this phone is really poor. I have tried GB, ICS, JB and all of them I get similar performance just different features.
The phone can't handle two apps at once regardless of the rom.
I was traveling to a different city to get something on Craigs. It constantly would shutdown my Maps and Navigation when I wanted to read a Kik message.
If I have Kik open and want to read a txt msg, it takes like 10 seconds after clicking the txt msg icon to show the txt.
Is there an app or method that everyone uses on this phone that I don't know about to get this phone to run speedy? Or, is it just so outdated it can't run modern versions of apps?
I just want navigation, txt, kik, and a light browser like dolphin.
Can a Fascinate handle all that and be snappy and quick??
In the mean time, I am switching over to my S3, though I don't like how it's so big I can't reach all the screen with one hand.
fewert said:
Yeah I read a post saying to do what you just described with success.
However, this phone is really poor. I have tried GB, ICS, JB and all of them I get similar performance just different features.
The phone can't handle two apps at once regardless of the rom.
I was traveling to a different city to get something on Craigs. It constantly would shutdown my Maps and Navigation when I wanted to read a Kik message.
If I have Kik open and want to read a txt msg, it takes like 10 seconds after clicking the txt msg icon to show the txt.
Is there an app or method that everyone uses on this phone that I don't know about to get this phone to run speedy? Or, is it just so outdated it can't run modern versions of apps?
I just want navigation, txt, kik, and a light browser like dolphin.
Can a Fascinate handle all that and be snappy and quick??
In the mean time, I am switching over to my S3, though I don't like how it's so big I can't reach all the screen with one hand.
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i think you should understand that this phone has a single-core CPU. running at 1GHz. this phone is almost 4 years old. it's amazing this thing can even run things like Kitkat at all, let alone with the relative finesse the most recent unjust build provides.
it took me a while to realize that apps these days are not optimized for single-core CPUs, it took upgrading to a gs4 to realize that. the fascinate is an admittedly, well, slow phone. or its not meant for multitasking, definitely.
the s3 runs circles around this phone. almost anything does. i've never really found anything that allows for the multitasking and insane speed that i get out of my s4, the closest i've ever gotten was cm7, but that even in its stable release had tons of SOD problems (sleep of death, phone locks and never comes back on).
part of the issue is that the fascinate has 512MB of RAM. back in 2010, it was adequate. not even good, just.. alright. these days the norm is 2GB. a phone with 1GB of RAM is considered outdated. despite google's efforts to optimize kitkat for 512MB devices, this phone's GPU shares RAM with the system, and depending on the configuration, usually 100+ MB is reserved for the GPU, leaving typically about 360-384MB of RAM. You can get more (the kitkat ROM i've mentioned allows 416MB of RAM to the system) but things will start breaking, particularly HD video recording and torch, among other things
skepticmisfit said:
i think you should understand that this phone has a single-core CPU. running at 1GHz. this phone is almost 4 years old. it's amazing this thing can even run things like Kitkat at all, let alone with the relative finesse the most recent unjust build provides.
it took me a while to realize that apps these days are not optimized for single-core CPUs, it took upgrading to a gs4 to realize that. the fascinate is an admittedly, well, slow phone. or its not meant for multitasking, definitely.
the s3 runs circles around this phone. almost anything does. i've never really found anything that allows for the multitasking and insane speed that i get out of my s4, the closest i've ever gotten was cm7, but that even in its stable release had tons of SOD problems (sleep of death, phone locks and never comes back on).
part of the issue is that the fascinate has 512MB of RAM. back in 2010, it was adequate. not even good, just.. alright. these days the norm is 2GB. a phone with 1GB of RAM is considered outdated. despite google's efforts to optimize kitkat for 512MB devices, this phone's GPU shares RAM with the system, and depending on the configuration, usually 100+ MB is reserved for the GPU, leaving typically about 360-384MB of RAM. You can get more (the kitkat ROM i've mentioned allows 416MB of RAM to the system) but things will start breaking, particularly HD video recording and torch, among other things
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Lol my phone e400 is super multitasker
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fewert said:
Yeah I read a post saying to do what you just described with success.
However, this phone is really poor. I have tried GB, ICS, JB and all of them I get similar performance just different features.
The phone can't handle two apps at once regardless of the rom.
I was traveling to a different city to get something on Craigs. It constantly would shutdown my Maps and Navigation when I wanted to read a Kik message.
If I have Kik open and want to read a txt msg, it takes like 10 seconds after clicking the txt msg icon to show the txt.
Is there an app or method that everyone uses on this phone that I don't know about to get this phone to run speedy? Or, is it just so outdated it can't run modern versions of apps?
I just want navigation, txt, kik, and a light browser like dolphin.
Can a Fascinate handle all that and be snappy and quick??
In the mean time, I am switching over to my S3, though I don't like how it's so big I can't reach all the screen with one hand.
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skepticmisfit said:
i think you should understand that this phone has a single-core CPU. running at 1GHz. this phone is almost 4 years old. it's amazing this thing can even run things like Kitkat at all, let alone with the relative finesse the most recent unjust build provides.
it took me a while to realize that apps these days are not optimized for single-core CPUs, it took upgrading to a gs4 to realize that. the fascinate is an admittedly, well, slow phone. or its not meant for multitasking, definitely.
the s3 runs circles around this phone. almost anything does. i've never really found anything that allows for the multitasking and insane speed that i get out of my s4, the closest i've ever gotten was cm7, but that even in its stable release had tons of SOD problems (sleep of death, phone locks and never comes back on).
part of the issue is that the fascinate has 512MB of RAM. back in 2010, it was adequate. not even good, just.. alright. these days the norm is 2GB. a phone with 1GB of RAM is considered outdated. despite google's efforts to optimize kitkat for 512MB devices, this phone's GPU shares RAM with the system, and depending on the configuration, usually 100+ MB is reserved for the GPU, leaving typically about 360-384MB of RAM. You can get more (the kitkat ROM i've mentioned allows 416MB of RAM to the system) but things will start breaking, particularly HD video recording and torch, among other things
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I have not used the kik so I can't really say about it's performance,,, I have seen on the 4.4 kitkat rom from Unjust when I have used google maps navigation it was a huge battery sucker, no matter if I only put it on device [gps] only. I could barely even use it and on a charge it was still draining it faster than it could take it.
i did not have this on jellybean roms
I have not had the the problems you describe '10 seconds to open an app'.
Hangouts used to be slow opening initially but their latest update has made it much faster
I don't think it's multitasking is bad for what it is as a phone given it's specs,,, but everyone use a phone differently,,,
so I mostly agree with the overall jest of what skept is saying,,, it is ultimately limited by the 512MB ram available to use.
for GB and JB roms you can also look at the V6 Supercharger thread, it does help with multi-tasking, it can be a bit hard to understand how to implement it but once you figure that out it goes decent, boot up and time till initial use are much longer than normal, but you just have to plan your reboots for when plenty of time allows
i think jellybean roms are very good performers and given the face that you can use a different kernel that allows for overclocking up 1400 Mhz if desired,,, it's a give and take though,,,, over 1200Mhz and battery life goes south very quickly. [luckily the battery doesn't take long to charge, usually 1 hour,,, and even 5 minutes here or 10 minutes there will really help it last through the day]
Most of the earlier jellybean [4.1.x] versions seemed to give better battery life from what I remember than the newer [4.2.x] ones
and there are a lot of different ones to choose from to suite your style or needs from basic cm to full customization.
most of them were stable enough to be daily drivers,,, the big thing is you will just have to read up on a particular one or just break down and try some to see if they fit what you want.
With all that said though the fascinate will never perform like an S3, S4, Nexus, Nexus 4, Moto G, Moto X
I would consider checking out the Motorola Moto G, it's physical dimensions are nearly she same as the fassy but a hugely better phone, screen size, etc and depending on your phone carrier needs it can be had for as little as $65 bucks...
Well lg optimus l3 is very powerful and performant in fact of multitasking if you're a dev or not a complete noob.My phone can go until 1.2 ghz without probs and its factory clock speed was 800 mhz.Most apps aren't optimized for multi-cores and l3 is single core.384 mb of ram are enough on stock and 301 mb aren't enough on cm.But my kernels got swap.
Battery is very good:10days in stand by,2 days in normal use.
Antutu sucks but i don't believe in it.
So its up to the devs,we're good devs and there are more than 100000 l3s in the world.Now we're getting dualboot.Its all about devs,its all about devs.
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