So i noticed this on my old s2 with cyanogen 10.1 and now on my stock s3. The ram is always used a lot. So in android assitant i went to see what was in memory and turns out most of the stuff is widgets that im not using. Like facebook buttons and now on s3 stock some call forwarding widget that uses about 11 mb. I only noticed most of this stuff was widgets when i noticed that the titles were in blue and in android assistant blue stuff in ram is widgets. Now my problem is i only use a clock and weather widget and only one homescreen so it bothers my that all these widgets from other apps some of them bloatware are on ram and i never even used them. Is there anyway to stop these widgets from going to ram withtout uninstalling the apps that have them?
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What is the normal amount of RAM that should be free on the Stock Samsung TouchWiz Galaxy Tab 10.1?
I was using SPB Mobile Shell Experimental Tablet functions, but ran into issues with it not being able to authenticate over WIFI after a reboot. Then it would lock me out until I uninstall/reinstall, clear cache, data, etc... and start all over. It was very fluid, except I could not use Live Wallpaper.
So now I am making a go at it with the stock home (no other home installed.) And notice it is frequently laggy in picture transitions. I have tried live vs static wallpapers, and I still notice lag.
I do use Folder Organizer (free version), and I am curious if it could be the cause. However with no application showing in the task manager, I see 600mb/724mb in the RAM Manager (click on mini apps launch, task manager, ram manager tab.)
Is this normal? Low? I tend to group alot of apps (as you can get more on a screen) via the Folder Organizer, and then I do some accompanying widgets.
On the home/center screen - TouchWiz Clock, Weather, Agenda, AP Mobile, as well as my work folder, favorites folder, and main menu folder.
1 Screen Left - News and Internet Folder - CNN widgets x 2 (world and entertainment), yahoo finance widget
2 Screen Left - Shopping Folder and Games Folder
1 Screen Right - FriendCaster Pro Widget and Social Hub Widget
2 Screen Right - Multimedia Folder, Music Widget, Pandora Widget, and NetW Widgets x 2 - Disc Que and At Home Que
I am using MultiPicture Live Wall Paper and only pulling from the My WallPapers directory. This does a great job of display pictures in full screen, especially the ones ready for 10.1 screens. Most of which come from Wallpaper Wednesday for Galaxy Tabs.
Anyway, I do not feel this is too elaborate, but perhaps it is the FREE folder organizer? The sheer number of apps it has to display. Smallest is 10 apps and biggest is probably 20-30.
If anyone has any feedback, I would appreciate it.
im not sure with stock HC, but with stock Touchwiz it is too much apps running background..some will auto run and some will run when u enable sync.
mine will show some 400+/724 on first touch.
you can see all that bloatwares running background using quick system info
https://market.android.com/details?id=org.uguess.android.sysinfo.pro&feature=search_result
Thank you. That was a good view into things. For some reason it all dropped to 400 used without me seemingly doing anything. Very odd. Maybe the app has automatic feelers for bloated processes or something just went away magically.
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Have about 540 / 724 free with no apps running. That seems to be enough to then load four or five apps and have them keep their memory when switching (as opposed to the annoying having to reload web pages following switching to and from browser). Clear memory drops it down to 456.
I've got a few ideas for apps i'd love to have, but don't know if they exist, or which ones are best, so hopefully someone can help me out
1. Whenever Titanium Backup does a scheduled backup, it closes all apps and HTC sense in order to do a backup. Before doing this, i got about 120-140 free RAM, but after Titanium Backup does a backup, i'm up to 300-350 free RAM. I guess it frees alot of RAM when it closes all the programs.
My question is, is there any app that does this too? Without doing a backup? Maybe a simply 1-click widget that closes them all (including HTC sense) and then opens up the needed apps again?
2.1. I used to use normal HTC sense as my launcher, but switched to ADWLauncher EX. One of the two things i'm missing is a proper 1x1 widget to disable/enable 3g network. There are lots of apps that can make a shortcut to the settings, but i don't want this. I want one similar to the one in HTC Sense.
Any ideas?
2.2. There was a "Sync" 1x1 widget in HTC Sense, which forced it to sync all the items i had chosen whenever i clicked the widget, is there another 1x1 widget for this in the market?
3. In ADWLauncher EX, i can hide the status bar with a simple swipe, but is there any way to hide the app drawer shortcut (which is at the bottom of my screen, where the HTC sense navigation bar used to be), along with all my icons?
So the screen would be completely clean of everything, and all you could see is the wallpaper.
4. When i had my old HTC Desire, i used to have an app that would allow me to assign 1 wallpaper to each of my 7 homescreens, but i can't for the sake of me remember the name of the app, can anyone help me out?
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There is a lot off apps for killing running processes. Autokiller, advanced task killer and many more. If you want more ram, change rom .. Im running cm7 and have aprox 330mb free at all time.
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Randomly killing apps/processes is not advisable. Android was built to multi-task. Use Watch Dog Lite if you want too see what uses your RAM and CPU. Free RAM is wasted RAM, to some extent. And if you kill everything, you risk missing important things like texts, widget updates, etc.
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This is a problem that seems to occur only in ICS, but I don't know more than that. It didn't happen when I was running stock, stock/rooted, or Saurom. I'm using the Apex launcher but a quick Google search shows similar reports from people using Nova.
I'm running Flappjaxxx's ICS IMM76D UCLE2 Base (but I haven't updated to the new release that came out today). I've also noticed this on ICS Objection (with Apex launcher).
So, here's the issue: occasionally widgets will "Freeze" and stop updating. I've seen this with Beautiful Widgets (the clock will stop updating, so it will read 3:05 when it's actually 3:30), Android Pro Widgets (specifically the calendar and bookmark widgets--the calendar will not let you advance to different months, the bookmarks widget will not update to show new bookmarks if you refresh it), and the TweetCaster Pro widget (it will not update to show the latest tweets when you press the refresh button).
There is still some functionality with the widgets--they don't die completely. I can still touch the clock portion of Beautiful Widgets and get to the alarm settings. I can still touch individual days in the APW calendar widget and see appointments, and touch the header to launch the full calendar, and the APW Bookmarks widget is still scrollable, clicking individual bookmarks will launch those pages, and touching the header bar will launch the browser's default page. But for some reason they stop updating.
Things I know
1. Restarting Apex launcher appears to reset the widgets. They start fully functioning again.
That's about it.
RIght now I"m trying to determine if JuiceDefender might have something to do with it. I don't think it would because I've used JD on my other phones with no issues... HOWEVER, none of my other phones have ever run ICS. I don't know. Maybe ICS is different. I know JD had issues working with Gingerbread for a while...
Anyone have any thoughts? Questions? Experience with this? It's a bit mystifying. NOw that I know restarting Apex launcher gets everything working again it's a lot less annoying than it was (rebooting every time was a pain) but I'd still like to figure out how to make it go away.
I had same problem with beautiful widgets. my task killer was my problem.it was to aggressive
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Same problem.
Have this problem both with Omega 7.0 rom and cyanogenmod.
Some widgets freezes after some minutes when phone is in standby mode.
Just by tilting the phone and let the window be landscape and then tilt it back again will activate the widget.
But it is annoying....
i had the same problem with widgets freezing; i uninstall go weather widget and go launcher and now it s fine again !!
edit: oops it came back...no freeze with Apex but it's still freezing with Tsf..
reedit: i found my problem: it was "clever contact widget "that froze the others widgets but only with TSF shell (not with Apex!!!)
ubersoft said:
This is a problem that seems to occur only in ICS, but I don't know more than that. It didn't happen when I was running stock, stock/rooted, or Saurom. I'm using the Apex launcher but a quick Google search shows similar reports from people using Nova.
I'm running Flappjaxxx's ICS IMM76D UCLE2 Base (but I haven't updated to the new release that came out today). I've also noticed this on ICS Objection (with Apex launcher).
So, here's the issue: occasionally widgets will "Freeze" and stop updating. I've seen this with Beautiful Widgets (the clock will stop updating, so it will read 3:05 when it's actually 3:30), Android Pro Widgets (specifically the calendar and bookmark widgets--the calendar will not let you advance to different months, the bookmarks widget will not update to show new bookmarks if you refresh it), and the TweetCaster Pro widget (it will not update to show the latest tweets when you press the refresh button).
There is still some functionality with the widgets--they don't die completely. I can still touch the clock portion of Beautiful Widgets and get to the alarm settings. I can still touch individual days in the APW calendar widget and see appointments, and touch the header to launch the full calendar, and the APW Bookmarks widget is still scrollable, clicking individual bookmarks will launch those pages, and touching the header bar will launch the browser's default page. But for some reason they stop updating.
Things I know
1. Restarting Apex launcher appears to reset the widgets. They start fully functioning again.
That's about it.
RIght now I"m trying to determine if JuiceDefender might have something to do with it. I don't think it would because I've used JD on my other phones with no issues... HOWEVER, none of my other phones have ever run ICS. I don't know. Maybe ICS is different. I know JD had issues working with Gingerbread for a while...
Anyone have any thoughts? Questions? Experience with this? It's a bit mystifying. NOw that I know restarting Apex launcher gets everything working again it's a lot less annoying than it was (rebooting every time was a pain) but I'd still like to figure out how to make it go away.
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i'm using a motorola atrix 2 with stock ics and this's happening to me also , it's not any app that's causing this problem , it's a bug in ics as to many .. searched gooogle .. no launcher can help , i tried nova prime and apex but same happens to both , but now i'm on stock blur again and it doesn't happen so frequently but still happens, they say that only google can help in this case , they have to give an update .. so we have to hopw that they'll give us one soon .. until then we have to restart the launcher
note- try an anlog clock on your home screen , or anlaog and digital both home screens in a one home screen , you might notice that digital clock freezes when the analog clock works fine , i don't know why but that's happening to me ..
hi all, its been a long time now since i first thought on running my phone without any homescreen/launcher app, since i am no fan of fancy animations, rather than that i prefer a phone that doesn't lag and have a decent battery life I've installed the simpliest slimest launcher i know (slim launcher) it weighs only 0.9 mb, but still it uses ram and processor to run, now given that I'm on slimkat it jumped to me again, having slim pie /notification shortcuts, ive decided to set all my apps into those tools, meaning fill up three slim pie rows with essential apps and notification shortcuts with the rest, but before i do anything i would like to read some insights from other users, possible limitations when deleting my last launcher app, and if it would/wouldn't be beneficial regarding battery life and performance, atm i see just one limitation and it's the number of apps i can install to my phone due to the limited amount of free spaces on slim pie + notification shortcuts
any thoughts would be pretty much appreciated
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Well you can't run android without any launcher...
And there can never be any limitation as to the number of apps you have to install unless there is no space on your internal sd card...
As to number of widgets ,home screens, apps in pie that is limited as to which launcher and which rom you are using...
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actually you can, I've managed to mess up slim launcher several times trying to make it system app and ending up with no launcher app, still phone can get phone calls, music player plays when headphone is plugged in, regarding on how many apps i can install i mean if im not able to acces them through a launcher app, i have limited spaces on which i can place it's shortcuts, on slimpie its 20 slots using normal press and long press, and notification shortcuts i don't know atm
edit I've deleted my last launcher app and it's pretty much smooth
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Recently pulled my old i777 out of the drawer. After upgrading to 4.1.2 i found that the Active applications and assistive light widgets are both absent.
I had both these widgets on previous versions of android on this phone. I have another phone(i437p) running stock 4.1.2 which has both of these widgets.
I scoured the internet and found some people with this problem. Found some suggestions to download the galaxy apps application and i would be able to downloaded them from there but neither of these widgets are available for download on galaxy apps.
My question is if anyone knows how or where to download and install these stock widgets?
I understand i can access the active apps by holding down the home button then clicking the pie chart on the bottom left. I can also download any of the hundreds of flashlight apps on playstore. However i find it much more convenient to use the widgets right on my home screen. I also dont like downloading 3rd party apps which will be full of ads and eat my data and ram.
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Recently pulled my old i777 out of the drawer. After upgrading to 4.1.2 i found that the Active applications and assistive light widgets are both absent.
I had both these widgets on previous versions of android on this phone. I have another phone(i437p) running stock 4.1.2 which has both of these widgets.
I scoured the internet and found some people with this problem. Found some suggestions to download the galaxy apps application and i would be able to downloaded them from there but neither of these widgets are available for download on galaxy apps.
My question is if anyone knows how or where to download and install these stock widgets?
I understand i can access the active apps by holding down the home button then clicking the pie chart on the bottom left. I can also download any of the hundreds of flashlight apps on playstore. However i find it much more convenient to use the widgets right on my home screen. I also dont like downloading 3rd party apps which will be full of ads and eat my data and ram.
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Samsung removed the widget after ICS, but you'd have no trouble using one from the Play Store. Just find one without ads (if that's your concern), it won't run in the background and will work just the same as Assistive Light. Or you could install an AOSP rom, as they nearly all have a flashlight toggle/app built in.
the flashlight is not that big of deal i guess. The active applications widget is extremely useful.
I sucked it up and downloaded a widget from the market but they all have their own task killers equipped with ads and all. had to uninstall.
I also found the "shortcuts" option missing from the home screen. It might have allowed me to put a shortcut to active apps on my homesceen. This version of android on the s2 seems to be very limited. I know these widgets haven't been discontinued because newer phones running the same stock firmware have the widgets and shorcuts. I would be satisfied with a simple shorcut to active apps on the homescreen.