Is there any software out there that can free up memory by shutting down apps when the phone becomes idle... I used to have one on my SE W950 called Swiss Mgr Pro but I can't seem to find any that are compatible with smartphones.
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Hello there.
I´m a happy TNT 5.0 ROM user, and I was wondering if anybody can point me in the right direction about the restoration of the free program memory.
The software:
I´m actually using three different software applications to restore the program memory to it´s higher free memory, they are:
1. PBar - A small free task manager that I use to close all the applications running.
2. Oxios CloseApps - A small free application that came emmbedded inside TNT 5.0, to close all the applications. Actually when I run this after closing all applications with PBar, I still can get some free memory back.
3. Oxios Hibernate - Another small and free application, also from TNT 5.0, that sends a small command to all applications to free memory.
4. TaskManager: An application to check running process and memory.
So this is what is happening:
I softreset the device and get about 28.3 mb free program memory, but for the tests, it get´s down to 26.36mb as i´m using a screen capture software and task manager (Picture 1.
Then I play with the device for a while, opening applications, looking at big pictures, playing music, connecting to the internet using gprs and wi-fi, using windows live messenger, and then, closing everything again using the stated software in it´s order (1, 2, 3). By using each software, I get some free memory back, but still can get the memory that I get after a soft reset but only 24.58mb free.
As you can see on the attached files, the main difference is the memory that´s being used by the main 4 process, but still the difference is only 1.062 kb and as stated under the clock, there are still more than 700kb of memory that somehow got lost in the middle.
There´s one more process running on the "after playing" image, but it´s way under 10k, so it shouldn´t matter at all.
Actually when typing this thread, i received a call, and then the process called cprog.exe stoled some more free program memory that I can´t get back using neighter of the three applications stated above.
Anybody know how to deal with this? It´s possible to get near the same free memory back as the one you get after a soft reset?
One memory eater app
One of the most program memory vanisher applications, seems to be Windows Live Messenger, as after a soft reset, and then using it for a while, and even after closing all applications and sending hibernate and kill commands to everything, I ended up with almost 3.5 mb of free program memory lost in the process...
Where is all that free memory going?
Can I get it back somehow without needing to softreset?
Is there a good Application killer that does the trick?
Anybody?
there is a small memleak in tnt 5, i noticed it too, but all in all its still a great and fast rom, with neatly arranged apps
I used to have a Dutch language Vodafone s710, but after using some tricks found on this site I upgraded my phone to the new official HTC ROM. All is well and I really like the new style and possibilities...
However, I noticed the phone now has less RAM available directly after a reboot. The Voda branded device had up to 27.000 kbs of RAM free after restarting it, I now have only 24.000 to 24.500 kbs, even when I haven't used any programs. There's no funky software installed, only efficasoft GPRS monitor and SKtools Lite... and I had those installed pre-flashing as well.After a couple of hours of phoning, texting, internet etc there's only 18-20mb left.
Is this normal, does anyone have more RAM available with this new firmware? And where can i see where the memory goes?
p.s. Also I can't seem to find the HTC streaming media program anywhere, did they remove it or was it perhaps a voda install?
Yes, even i find that to be the case. Apart from the startup memory being less, there also seems to be some memory leak, as my RAM goes down rapidly. However, the overall performance of the ROM is faster, so thats an upside
After installation of some applications, WM always tells me to uninstall applications in case I need some more RAM. So far so good.
It recently occurs that I only have had 5 MB RAM free on my VDA GPS (Toshiba G710) and thus I decided to delete some applications.
How can I get a precise image of which application consumes which amount of RAM? Is there a graphical tools, which displays the RAM consumption as a chart?
Of course, I would like to identify the one with the most hunger, because a few days ago I had over 40 MB of RAM free and just installed a few...
(I hope I'm asking this in the right place.)
I have a simple (I hope) question about the Android OS. I think I understand that it monitors the apps running and leaves enough spare ram so the device can operate well. It seems to try to keep about 30MB free in my device (T-mobile Comet, Huawei U8150, I think. Running 2.2) but my device is slow and acts kind of buggy unless I keep about 50MB free. I've used manual and automatic apps to free up memory (which partially defeats the purpose and is ironic to use memory to free up memory). If the amount of ram the OS tries to keep free could just be set by the user (increased from ~30MB to ~50MB), then I wouldn't have to run an app to make the OS work like I'd prefer it work, snappier. (Forgive me for being a lightweight chicken but I don't want to root or change the OS of my device.) Other than uninstalling resident apps (I really don't want to part with any more of what I've already pared down to that must be resident) is there a setting to make it keep more ram free? Thanks for your help!
You can edit the values of androids internal memory managment.
Here are some infos on this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=622666
There are probably apps which can change those values too.
Is there a way to set hard limits on how much RAM individual Android apps can use? Seems most apps are greedy, and I'm running out of RAM, which makes switching between the apps I am currently using slow.
I used Titanium Backup to freeze all apps I don't use frequently, and now my ram usage is down to about 50%, where it used to be around 90%.
I also use an app called Auto Memory Manager, which controls Android's own memory management. You can tell it to free memory sooner than later, for different types of memory categories. But what made the most difference was freezing apps with Titanium Backup.
I'd still like to know if there is a memory policing app, but the aforementioned are good solutions.