Related
hello all,
sorry if this has been asked before (it prolly has been, i didnt find it though):
the atrix got 1gb ram right? after a reboot there is only around 570mb free ram...
after a few days without rebooting iam stuck around 440-480mb ram...
1st: where is my 1gb?
2nd: why do i even loose more ram?
sorry iam really new to android.
thanks for the help.
There is a reserve amount for android and motoblur then whatever apps u got running in background
Sent from my greyblur 1.57 atrix
grncivic2001 said:
There is a reserve amount for android and motoblur then whatever apps u got running in background
Sent from my greyblur 1.57 atrix
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
yea i know android needs some itself but is it 50% ??? i mean the LG optimus only got 512mb... in my case id have 0 left... something strange here?
i got the launcherPro running. should be motoblur disabled now?.
thanks for the fast answer !
Yes it has 1gb 200mb is reserved for the webtop and 800mb is for android
you might want to read up on how linux and android USE ram also. free ram is wasted ram
is it bloatware
So its normal i only have roughly 600 mb left. Ok thx a lot.
Can you help me with another problem.?
I read somewhere that you don't need a task killer. I have always used one to get back to like 500mb. Now you tell me unused ram is wasted ram. I installed autokiller after some advice and opened some games and stuff. Later i was at 154 unused ram. After 2 hours standby i was at 237mb unused ram. Would i ever get back to 400+ ? And is it really better or at least soesnt matter for battery life?
Thx for help
Smintz said:
So its normal i only have roughly 600 mb left. Ok thx a lot.
Can you help me with another problem.?
I read somewhere that you don't need a task killer. I have always used one to get back to like 500mb. Now you tell me unused ram is wasted ram. I installed autokiller after some advice and opened some games and stuff. Later i was at 154 unused ram. After 2 hours standby i was at 237mb unused ram. Would i ever get back to 400+ ? And is it really better or at least soesnt matter for battery life?
Thx for help
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I found that to be true (not needing a task killer) but only under Gingerbread (I've noticed that since I upgraded my Nexus One to Gingerbread), but on FroYo that's not really the case, or so I've noitced.
However I found that the task killer included on the Atrix works really well (much better than any other on the Market). It's just a matter of selecting the apps that you don't want to auto close and that's it. The battery last a bit longer and the device does not heat up at all.
Cheers!
RayanMX
Heres how I see it.
On your computer, you're always scrambling for more ram right? Because you are running multiple applications at once. You have a music player, a game, chat, windows itself, antivirus etc.
On your phone, it depends more on your processor speed. You arent multitasking like crazy (and if you are your phone would start to heat up really rapidly) Android allocates ram accordingly to what you are running in the foreground and apps that arent open but were opened recently. That way, if you reopen a recently closed app, it is still in memory and will open quicker. If you don't access the closed app after a while, it will clear itself from memory. You definitely don't need a task killer for android, only more processing speed.
I only have 325 of ram
Sent from my MB860 using XDA App
Pirateghost said:
you might want to read up on how linux and android USE ram also. free ram is wasted ram
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Bingo. So many people freak out that they don't have enough RAM... it's getting annoying seeing as how the Android OS has been out for a long enough time to understand this now.
Even of you cant find it it doesnt matter. Your phone will tell you.
Sent from my MB860 using XDA App
I have like 600 when running chongoblur it quickly goes down to 400 something but still this thing is a devastator of worlds
Sent from my Googletron
Why does my system ROM say it only has 324MB of space? It is almost full?
Im running Navalynt's cherryblur? My internal ROM is still 2GB and has plenty of space but I was installing an app and it said insufficient storage?
Thanks
Sent from my MB860 using XDA App
tykazowsky said:
Why does my system ROM say it only has 324MB of space? It is almost full?
Im running Navalynt's cherryblur? My internal ROM is still 2GB and has plenty of space but I was installing an app and it said insufficient storage?
Thanks
Sent from my MB860 using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
..Mine too..
on my HTC Amaze 4G, at least 250 MB ROM memory is needed before the "insufficient memory available" bug appears everytime you install an app. As soon as you move apps to external memory in order to save ROM memory, your apps will start to lose integrity and the whole android experience will suck. HTC Amaze 4G has 2.5 GB ROM in total, apparently HTC one S has ~2.2 GB ROM in total but with the same number of apps, one S can achieve 1.8 GB free ROM memory. Correct me if I'm wrong, One series users. There must be something wrong with Amaze's ROM memory utilisation.
otivaeey said:
on my HTC Amaze 4G, at least 250 MB ROM memory is needed before the "insufficient memory available" bug appears everytime you install an app. As soon as you move apps to external memory in order to save ROM memory, your apps will start to lose integrity and the whole android experience will suck. HTC Amaze 4G has 2.5 GB ROM in total, apparently HTC one S has ~2.2 GB ROM in total but with the same number of apps, one S can achieve 1.8 GB free ROM memory. Correct me if I'm wrong, One series users. There must be something wrong with Amaze's ROM memory utilisation.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Wrong manufacturer, wrong phone model, wrong forum!!!
Here is a simple dumb question about ram: if it's true that "free ram is wasted ram", why does my phone gets super slow when I have less than 200mb free?
I use ICS.
Sent from my XT910 using Tapatalk 2
drunkenbard16 said:
Here is a simple dumb question about ram: if it's true that "free ram is wasted ram", why does my phone gets super slow when I have less than 200mb free?
I use ICS.
Sent from my XT910 using Tapatalk 2
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You have balance the free RAM and the used one. Too much free RAM is not good, because you won't have true multitasking (the program sent to background will automatically closed down). but otherwise, too few free RAM, the phone will struggle to store things and the phone will lag.
125MB-150MB free RAM is a range that i personally recommend for a 1GB phone. You might have additional bloatware or u're using memory intensive app like Browser which is common lag source for an Android phone. Even Browser on Windows machine eats up memory quite a bit.
I'm using ram manager, set to "balance". It seems to be helping with that.
Sent from my XT910 using Tapatalk 2
I need 250 free or start getting slow, around 200 starts getting really laggy, around 150 phone gets hot and FC stuff. Less then a 80 phone reboots. Then I got 350 free for a while.
AndroidGreg said:
I need 250 free or start getting slow, around 200 starts getting really laggy, around 150 phone gets hot and FC stuff. Less then a 80 phone reboots. Then I got 350 free for a while.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
same here, I need at least 200mb free or my phone will behave like a drunken tortoise.
Sent from my XT910 using Tapatalk 2
I think that it doesn't depends on the RAM itself, maybe there's an app using CPU all time, so you have to manually force close it.
But sometimes, with very little free RAM, the phone is continuously moving apps from cache, or closing unused ones, and that can make your phone a bit slower in some moments.
I strongly recommend you to NOT use task killers, instead you should root yoiur phone and use V6 Supercharger script or Autokiller app.
Almost 2 weeks ago I updated my SGS2 4.0.4 ICS to 4.1.2 JB. Before I updated it the ram memory was going down to only 230 mb of 827 and after the applications that always go on were going on it was like 300 mb or so. After I updated the software I noticed that if I clear the ram memory it goes down to 300 and coming back to 400 using 100 more mb than on ICS. I thought and still believe that if I have 426 mb free its ok.
Yesterday it started to go down only to 500 mb and normally staying at 600 mb normally which worried me. If I had a single application opened I was using 700 mb + so sometimes it was blocking...
At first I thought it might be because of all the applications having occupied like 2/5 of the system memory 2/11 of the usb memory storage and 1 gb of 2 of he sd card.
So I decided to format the card and everything. After that I even deleted many applications from the device so I have occupied only 640mb in use and 1.30 gb free.
For a while it was all good having again 300-400 mb in use.
I deleted every application I don't use for great functionality.
Now it is using again 600-700 mb and it drives me crazy.
I mention that I only downloaded 4 applications dedicated to personalize my phone like ninjamorph, framework, busybox, root checker. It also seems that my phone has no root accses
Thanks for reading!
I did search the forum for a solution, but I only found a thread with a single answer which recommend tasker and green power, things I tried and didn't help...
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda app-developers app
Philz kernel for root and ram will sort it self out dont worrtly about it. Clear ram if you like phone will do as it wants
i9100
alliance 7.3
Even though I tried yesterday and it didn't work I restarted my phone and it seems to get lower than 300
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda app-developers app
What didnt work? Ram go's up and down. Ice was less ram than jb but jelly offers more tuan ics so ram is higher. Mine is steady to 590mb. All blotwear removed. Was about 630mb with.
i9100
alliance 7.3
Well it shouldn't use 300 mb more than ICS obviously and after I restarted the phone went and still works normally (400mb in use).
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda app-developers app
Free RAM depends on a lot of factors mate. Even having a rogue app can use up all your RAM and freeze ur device!
"To err is human, to forgive is divine"
Sent from my SGS II
I am using s6 edge. Out of 3 gb ram . i have only 500 mb - 600 mb free .
phone consuming more ram,even if i killed background process its automatically starting again,
almost 85 % ram memory is full .
need help to free up ram memory.
I have this scenario since day one for this phone.. Interesting there is no lag.. But for couple of days, I am having random reboot.. Some people are saying it's due to ram overload.. If you are not having any issues like that then don't bother about the high ram usage.
Also, you can use Clean Master app and it's widget to free up ram. Even after clean up, I rarely see the usage stay below 2 gb for long..
Sent from my SM-G925I using Tapatalk
This is not an issue. It's the way android works, most of the free mem is filled by system cache for overall system speed up.Why do you need more free(unused) ram?
Sent from my SM-G925F using Tapatalk
Thank u Friend
Thank you
muhib.al.karim said:
I have this scenario since day one for this phone.. Interesting there is no lag.. But for couple of days, I am having random reboot.. Some people are saying it's due to ram overload.. If you are not having any issues like that then don't bother about the high ram usage.
Also, you can use Clean Master app and it's widget to free up ram. Even after clean up, I rarely see the usage stay below 2 gb for long..
Sent from my SM-G925I using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse