Quite an annoying problem that only started showing itself after switching to Eclipse. When clearing RAM the phone will sometimes show a blank home page and you'll have to wait about 10-20 seconds for it to fix itself. It seems like the TouchWiz Launcher is getting closed by clearing RAM and it has to restart itself. Another app I was using had to restart TW and it did the exact same thing(blank home page for about half a minute). Pictures below.
Would really appreciate some help, can't stand it sometimes. Even if no one has a fix I would still appreciate some confirmation that this is an Eclipse bug. Thanks for taking the time guys.
When you clear ram it tells you that it may stop running processes. It is not surprising that the launcher has to reload. You should never have to clear ram, android will shut down things on its own to make room for new running apps.
yes it seems to shut down the launcher for a moment..but mine comes back in like 2 seconds tops...for em it doesnt do it all the time..like I just tried it and it went right back to the homescreen immediately
@hoppermi I understand that but sometimes the RAM almost caps, I've gotten to 300 before with no processes open(well I had Skype and other such apps running in the background). Still, this was never a problem with GC or Humble. Can't speak for stock since I stayed on it for about 8 hours but it seems like a problem with TW.
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This even happens on the Stock on occasion. Not 100% though, but every so often.
"RAM almost capping" -- assuming you mean what I think you mean -- is perfectly normal Android behavior. That's exactly why Google so adamantly recommends against running task killers. If you do actually run out of RAM, the OS will end tasks automatically.
Haha I totally forgot about that, I always wondered why I have 260mb being used, open then close PvZ or Angry birds and I'm suddenly only using 180mb. Well thanks, guess I'm done clearing RAM for the time being. Still odd that this only happens with TW.
I think most launchers try to keep themselves in the memory...the one that came with Eclipse apparently does not.
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Greetings,
I have an unrooted Thunderbolt running launcher pro. When I exit applications, often there is a significant delay in loading up the home screens. Sometimes it happens so often that the device becomes paralyzed for 15 or more seconds before my home screen along with apps pop in.
What are the reasons for this? I have tons of apps, many of which have not been moved to the SD card.
I have tried going back to sense, but the problem persists making me think it isn't a launcher related issue.
Thoughts?
so i get a better picture of whats happening
1. when you first installed launcher pro did it have this lag or did it happen latter.
2. by going back to sense do you mean uninstalling all of launcher pro.
3.- strange question i know but - have you completely powered off the device recently, by that i mean power off like normal and pull the battery then just let it sit for like 10 minuets.
Thanks for your prompt reply.
The problem persists even after taking battery out and restarting.
I did not uninstall launcherpro, I just switched temporarily back to sense to see if I could replicate the problem, and I did.
The problem seems to be getting worse as time goes on, the reason I think it may have to do with adding all of these free apps of the day from amazon.
When I initially installed launcher pro, I never had the problem.
I also seem to be having random reboots several times a day.
priapos said:
Thanks for your prompt reply.
The problem persists even after taking battery out and restarting.
I did not uninstall launcherpro, I just switched temporarily back to sense to see if I could replicate the problem, and I did.
The problem seems to be getting worse as time goes on, the reason I think it may have to do with adding all of these free apps of the day from amazon.
When I initially installed launcher pro, I never had the problem.
I also seem to be having random reboots several times a day.
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i think whats happening is your RAM running low on memory, sense uses a lot of RAM like 300+ Megs and you can't stop it unless you root.(not trying to peer pressure you or anything). but for the time being i suggest to go into settings/apps/running and see if you have apps running in the background that take a lot of memory space. and force stop the ones you don't use that often.
and as for the reboots could you check the baseband version in the about phone part of settings?
Stock, unrooted, still locked, as it came from the factory One S:
Do you ever find that when you close an app and go back to the launcher (Rosie), Rosie has been purged from memory and needs to reload? Takes about 10 seconds with the "loading" animation before you can do anything. Pretty poor really for a standard setup. Will be rooting at the weekend, but any other tips to stop this happening?
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Stock, unrooted, still locked, as it came from the factory One S:
Do you ever find that when you close an app and go back to the launcher (Rosie), Rosie has been purged from memory and needs to reload? Takes about 10 seconds with the "loading" animation before you can do anything. Pretty poor really for a standard setup. Will be rooting at the weekend, but any other tips to stop this happening?
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Yes I have also seen this a few times, especially if I had a lot of tabs open in the browser then go back to the home screen.
the only time i got this, was when i was disabling bloatware apps in settings
speaking of memory, I have total memory of 701160kb, with 34684kb free according to vellamo system info. is this correct? I thought we should have 1GB of ram??
The system always allocates a certain amount for normal operating
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The system always allocates a certain amount for normal operating
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exactly what i also thought, but presumed when it says total it included the system usage.
kuroneko007 said:
Stock, unrooted, still locked, as it came from the factory One S:
Do you ever find that when you close an app and go back to the launcher (Rosie), Rosie has been purged from memory and needs to reload? Takes about 10 seconds with the "loading" animation before you can do anything. Pretty poor really for a standard setup. Will be rooting at the weekend, but any other tips to stop this happening?
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Without a proper analysis of what happened, It's quite difficult to say if this is a right behaviour of Android. Android handles the memory itself, because it is based on JAVA. When an application needs more memory, Android tries to allocate to it, sometimes this could mean taking away the memory of Rosie (homescreen) if it is needed.
This could happen regardless how many memory you have. In theory if you run a lot of apps at the same time without closing them, Android may do so. So no need to worry if this was what happened to you. However, if it happens a lot even if you don't have big apps running at background, it may indicate something is not quite right. I don't know what it would be cos this is IMO at the software level so should happen to everyone and be a potential bug.
Rooting the phone and removing bloatware may be benefitial cos you get rid of lots of annoying background tasks which take x amount of memory.
Im also having this problem.
I tryed close all apps, now its 618 used and 67 mb free.
In the list (under apps - running) only few apps are listed, and they make only total of ~95mb, where are other 500 used?
After reboot +- same apps showed, only using 100mb and toatly 350used 340free...
What kind of phones do you guys have? Branded and locked by operator?
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Tried a couple of different ROMS out there, and I'm still getting frequent pausing, temporary locking up on my Gtab when trying to open apps. Am I rushing the poor old guy!? Usually it starts responding again before I even hit "wait" but the frequent pop-up when it slows is really getting to me. Anyone experiencing anything similar? Any good fixes???
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What roms are you using? I had this issue with the last dirty bean but get it much less if at all with the 120dpi smoothbean. You can change the governor settins under settings/performance/processor as well as limit background processes to 2/1 that seems to help. I laso turn off sync on gmail which helps.
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Tried a couple of different ROMS out there, and I'm still getting frequent pausing, temporary locking up on my Gtab when trying to open apps. Am I rushing the poor old guy!? Usually it starts responding again before I even hit "wait" but the frequent pop-up when it slows is really getting to me. Anyone experiencing anything similar? Any good fixes???
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1. Try Advanced Task Killer and hit the widget button to nuke the memory hogs. There is
a lot of people who dont recommend task killing as a solution, but it seems to get me past the
force closes.
2. Try an old froyo rom like Vegan or TNT Lite 4.4
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Recently I was having similar problems with the gtablet slowing down a lot, so I started uninstalling some of my apps.
I had about 220 apps with Application Storage at 212MB free. I messed some uninstall and got into a boot loop.
At which point I did a factory reset. The factory reset ROM was a lot faster. So when I restored my apps and settings
froim Titanium backup, I restored about 120 of them with Application Free Storage at about 700 MB now.
All the slowness of apps and market have gone away.
So I would say if you see a lot of Force Closes or hangs especially during Market Update, considering cutting
down on the number of apps you have. The key metric to see if you are getting full is the
Settings->Storage->Tablet Storage->Application Storage (for Froyo ROMs)
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Hello everybody.
first of all i just want to mention that im really happy with the phone, especially after moving from galaxy s3 with its horrendous memory tasker and RAM.
ive noticed a problem thats been really bothering me:
after a day of use , maybe more, there seems to be a lot less memory available for the device, resulting in chrome/chrome beta reloading every time that i go back to it, even without performing any actions or loading new apps - simply moving to whatsapp for example and back to chrome - Bang! the browser reloads. I want to emphasize that this is not the normal behavior for chrome, as this does not occur after a fresh restart.
When i go to services running, there is about 800mb of ram left, but when i go to ES task manager, there is only 400mb, i dunno the cause for this difference, but i do know that despite disliking task managers very much , Pressing "Kill ALL" will restore the desired behavior for a while (no reloads).
I tried to root the phone and install Greenify , but this doesnt seem to be helping.
did anyone notice any similar behavior? thanks.
In my experience, chrome and chrome beta are huge memory hogs and refresh quite often no matter what. For that reason, I stay away from it and stick with the aosp browser. It's fast and light.
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i understand what you're saying - but im referring to the data displayed by es task manager (having a lot less memory than reported) and also to the fact that after a reboot , or closing all task, the phone does have enough memory to come back to chrome without reloading it .
notice im not complaining about the memory used by chrome, also having more than 500MB of RAM left should be enough anyway no?
also - as far as i know AOSP browser is no longer supported, no?
I've also experienced this on my N5. Sometimes when switching away from chrome and then back again, even briefly, will cause the web page to refresh. This is extremely annoying especially when you're on a internet banking page which will require you to re-login.
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I've also experienced this on my N5. Sometimes when switching away from chrome and then back again, even briefly, will cause the web page to refresh. This is extremely annoying especially when you're on a internet banking page which will require you to re-login.
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this is exactly what im experiencing.
however, since it doesnt happen after restart or killing all apps, it is somehow memory related, but with having 800mb free, i dont really understand the issue :/
Surely the Android devs at google use internet banking, hopefully a fix arrives soon...!
I nerfed chrome as its so messed I cant even use it also drains batter like no tommarow it was always reloading for me to I went to opera it has working word wrap and way less draw on batter.
This has anyways happened to me. Since gal nexus, n4, n5, and n7. /shrug. Maybe it's a nexus thing? I thought this happened on all devices with chrome.
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I've had S4 and N4 and it certainly doesn't happen, at least not from switching away from chrome and back again within a few seconds. But those devices were on Android 4.3.
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This has anyways happened to me. Since gal nexus, n4, n5, and n7. /shrug. Maybe it's a nexus thing? I thought this happened on all devices with chrome.
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It happens on galaxy s3 but that device has 1gb of memory with only 100mb or less available usually . nexus 5 even at its worst state has more than 500MB, so it def. shouldnt happen.
After side loading the 4.4.1 update (got tired of waiting for the ota) the chrome reloading seems to be fixed! I've only done brief testing but it looks promising.
I've been trying to diagnose this issue for a long time now, but haven't got any closer to a conclusion.
As the title says, my problem is that the phone is a lot of the time very slow in simple tasks like launching an app or performing a certain activity. I also find it freezing a lot, and it's really annoying, almost unusable.
Sometimes, the UI is very responsive and smooth, but most of the time it's the complete opposite. I started to notice this with Facebook's Messenger app, but I found that it's not the actual cause.
So I analyzed the CPU and RAM, both of which seem to not be the issue. And then I decided to test the Disk R/W speeds, and found that doing even very simple tasks or even not doing anything at all gets the disk read speeds to 100%. That's the most logical explanation to this that I could get to.
I did factory reset, clean flashed a new ROM, and all that aswell.
Does anyone have this problem and is there a solution?
Theres really not much to do. The phone is getting older and 2gb of ram(assuming you have 2gb model) is not the best in 2017. The real problem is unoptimized apps like facebook,mesenger,snapchat... The fix would be to go back to miui because it never keeps apps running in the background. I do to myself encounter this problem with any AOSP based rom. You can try clearing cache and dalvik.
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Theres really not much to do. The phone is getting older and 2gb of ram(assuming you have 2gb model) is not the best in 2017. The real problem is unoptimized apps like facebook,mesenger,snapchat... The fix would be to go back to miui because it never keeps apps running in the background. I do to myself encounter this problem with any AOSP based rom. You can try clearing cache and dalvik.
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Does LOS' option in developer options to not keep any app running in background work in the same way? Do push notifications function then?
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Does LOS' option in developer options to not keep any app running in background work in the same way? Do push notifications function then?
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You can try, never tried it myself. Probably same as miui and you probably will lose notifications, thats whats good about miui, it starts app every so to get notifications.