Hey guys. Is there any app that can tell me about every single process running and the RAM used by it? Every single means every user and system app/service/process currently running. I generally have about 450MB free RAM when I reboot. But then slowly, RAM usage keeps on increasing, even if I have nothing running. Killing everything and hibernating all apps running in background-- that doesnt help much. Android hardly shows any details..it just shows the currently running user processes and services. That "system" usage of the RAM keeps on increasing and doesn't decrease unless I reboot.
Any way to view what eats the RAM up? And kills those stupid useless bastards?
try MyAndroidTools and look into process
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Hello!
I've had the atrix for a couple of days now, and have noticed that some ram is disappearing.
I use advanced task killer, but I don't have it set to autokill. Instead, I just press the widget as a kill button occasionally throughout the day. I haven't modded the application to kill certain things, or to not kill certain things. It is functioning just as it is downloaded.
So in the morning, after a fresh restart, i pressed the kill switch and i had 550 mb of ram (roughly). This was constant for a few hours. then around lunch time, i pressed kill switch and i had 460 something. Than now around dinner time I have only 370 something mb of ram.
Is there something that I'm missing? Like system apps opening throughout the day that are unaffected by task killer?
Anyone have any advice as to managing apps because the atrix (and motoblur) try to run a lot of them.
Also, I thought this phone has 1 GB of ram. I guess some of it is tied up in things behind the curtain
Check the ram usage on your computer, install a few programs that have services that run, then look at your ram usage.
Same thing.
regarding the ram usage. I cant figure out what the phone is doing with 500mb of ram all the time. This os is able to run on other android devices with only 512mb of ram and consistently have 200-300 free mb of ram. What is the Atrix doing with all that ram?
being prepared for docking...
Webtop/media center/ etc...
skaboss610 said:
regarding the ram usage. I cant figure out what the phone is doing with 500mb of ram all the time. This os is able to run on other android devices with only 512mb of ram and consistently have 200-300 free mb of ram. What is the Atrix doing with all that ram?
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RAM not used is analogous to RAM not present in a way.
Android loads and keeps apps ready in memory for quick launch times. They are just loaded and kept, 0 CPU usage for any of them.
If u want to know more, check the thread 'android memory management' (link in my signature).
Hey
Till last week I used to have an average of 400-450mb RAM free on the phone. Now I have a max of 250-260mb free. All that I can remember doing different to the phone is installing a few games and other apps, which of course are not used 24/7.
I'm using Advanced Task Killer (free version) and I have set it on "Crazy" app killing every 30 mins. Still I'm stuck with around 200mb. I can feel the lag when scrolling through the homepages.
What did I do and more importantly what can I do?
did you try rebooting the phone..heheh
if you have CF-root .. boot into cwm..clear cache..clear dalvik cache and reboot..
You shouldn't have lag on the homescreen regardless of whether you have 200mb or 400mb of RAM left..
Are you using many widgets or a live wallpaper (or apps like 3g watchdog or anything that keeps a presence in the notification bar like SetCPU?), sounds like you have a memory hog somewhere
And forget using a task killer.. the apps will just start up again anyway which will waste more RAM, find AutoStarts from the market and stop useless junk starting up
Thanks guys for the quick response. I actually restarted for some other reason and found that the RAM was back upto 590-595mb, but thats probably just coz of system files not starting yet. Right now, say 30 min after restart its around 475mb.
I'm running the stock KE7 ROM, so I'll try clearing the cache in that and see what happens.
There is no point in having "free" ram on android. Uninstall ATK and just use your phone. The constant restarting of killed applications does more harm than good and might even cause your lag.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to limit or reduce the amount of ram that the phone uses. When i go to settings / apps/ running/ my phone consumes over 700mb of ram. When this happens my phone lags big time to the point it's almost unusable during those moments. I'm running SuperJelly m4 and have tried full wiping.
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Does anyone have any suggestions on how to limit or reduce the amount of ram that the phone uses. When i go to settings / apps/ running/ my phone consumes over 700mb of ram. When this happens my phone lags big time to the point it's almost unusable during those moments. I'm running SuperJelly m4 and have tried full wiping.
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Have a look at the applications that are running (if I may suggest, SystemPanel) and determine which is using the most amount of memory. From there you can figure out if a specific application is hogging all your memory or there is an abundance of processes that are unnecessarily running (from which you can freeze using Titanium Backup or Disable under Settings > Apps).
I agree, sounds like a bad app, memory leak etc..I'm using around 750-800mb with no issues. Also , if not rooted you should try it along with some custom roms/kernals. Much better processing management along with speed and battery
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I've have a Nexus 7 2012 running 4.3
On a clean install, the running apps tab in the settings showed Used RAM equal to 450 MB.
After installing some apps, now the Used RAM shows to be 560 MB.
I haven't installed apps that throw push ads or run background processes. I do have some free apps that show ads though.
I tried to stop cached processes an d running processes, bur that increased the RAM use. Even app ops doesn't list all my apps.
Is there any way I can reduce this RAM usage?
ROOT your phone and install GREENIFY app ...and for your problem,it a the ever existing problem of all android phones,in actual it's not a problem at all,ignore ram usage and enjoy your device,remember using task killers will drain your battery more faster ,as killed apps will again try to run and you will be trapped in this vicious circle.
how to get more free ram?? i have mmx a92. it lagging.. plz help (using Ram booster Pro)
Apps (activities) are usually cached, and "use" RAM. When RAM is needed, though, cached apps are "killed" to make space. This is all handled by the LMK (you can Google it if you want more information,) automatically. So in a certain aspect, free RAM is wasted RAM - if it is needed, it'll be made available. Struggling to get more free RAM is useless.
Take killers are also bad... Not only do they go against what I described above, but some apps use services. Those run in the background to provide various utility to the app, and can restart when killed. Task killers will kill them, but they'll only restart. So you'll only be gaining more CPU usage, more battery draining, and your task killer will actually be using RAM for itself.
In short: it'd probably be best if you got rid of your task killer, and learned to stop worrying (about the RAM) and love the bomb.