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I looked all over the forum but couldn't find somethinng similar. I just wanted to see just how much FREE RAM my fellow G2xers have on their phones. I do realized that it all depends on just how many apps, widgets, etc etc anyone is running on their phone which inturn will affect the performance/speed of the memory. So all I'm asking is to see what is the most memory anyone has seen on their phone WITH or WITHOUT running any apps/widgets. I'll be posting my screenshot ASAP.
Thanks

Here is mine.
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mhsamma said:
I looked all over the forum but couldn't find somethinng similar. I just wanted to see just how much FREE RAM my fellow G2xers have on their phones. I do realized that it all depends on just how many apps, widgets, etc etc anyone is running on their phone which inturn will affect the performance/speed of the memory. So all I'm asking is to see what is the most memory anyone has seen on their phone WITH or WITHOUT running any apps/widgets. I'll be posting my screenshot ASAP.
Thanks
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Unused RAM is wasted RAM.

mhsamma said:
Here is mine.
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What widget are you using to display wifi and cell data in square box on the left?
Thanks.

nomisunrider said:
Unused RAM is wasted RAM.
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I agree until you realize thats apps which shouldn't be using ram are forcing apps that you are still using to close... I wish Android allowed users to decide what stays in ram and what gets closed... like a PC. Those task killer apps would be far more useful than "auto" memory management.
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EP2008 said:
I agree until you realize thats apps which shouldn't be using ram are forcing apps that you are still using to close... I wish Android allowed users to decide what stays in ram and what gets closed... like a PC. Those task killer apps would be far more useful than "auto" memory management.
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But then how could google create your location data profile by running apps in the background

jcbofkc said:
What widget are you using to display wifi and cell data in square box on the left?
Thanks.
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It's called Data Counter Widget. Here is the link:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.roysolberg.android.datacounter&feature=search_result

nomisunrider said:
Unused RAM is wasted RAM.
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yea, but my aim is to better battery life.
unused ram around 207 MB when idling. no widgets, all unnecessary background apps removed except google voice

c19932 said:
yea, but my aim is to better battery life.
unused ram around 207 MB when idling. no widgets, all unnecessary background apps removed except google voice
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Wow that's impressive. I wish I can get that much. I also agree with you about having spare RAM saving battery life.

c19932 said:
yea, but my aim is to better battery life.
unused ram around 207 MB when idling. no widgets, all unnecessary background apps removed except google voice
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More free RAM doesn't mean better battery life. Especially if nothing is accessing

How do I have so much available RAM compared to some of you guys. I have 5 home screens filled with widgets and I still have 250mb free. Bottom left hand corner of the home screen is a widget.

jrwingate6 said:
How do I have so much available RAM compared to some of you guys. I have 5 home screens filled with widgets and I still have 250mb free. Bottom left hand corner of the home screen is a widget.
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Hmm... any ROMs or kernels you're running? I'm on stock rooted with paul's odex hack. Gonna finally try EBlood 1.0.2 so I'll take a RAM reading off a fresh install of that. Your RAM reading does look higher than any I've seen.

jsapp said:
More free RAM doesn't mean better battery life. Especially if nothing is accessing
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+1.. this man speaks truth.
Trying to cut down on ram to save battery life... that does notta, nothing, zilch. The ram is allocated to the app... but if the app isn't using CPU... it's sitting idle.
Then, people are trying to shut down an idle app with a task killer... It takes battery to turn on the screen, it takes the CPU to startup the task killer, it takes CPU to shut down the tasks, and then it uses CPU when the tasks start back up. All in the name of saving battery life? lol... ya right. It's adding fuel to the fire.
Use Watchdog... It will show you the apps that are running and how much CPU they are using. Most of them show 0.0%.. they are idle. Then uninstall watchdog cuz it eats battery to run and monitor the system's apps, lol.

r4d14n7 said:
Hmm... any ROMs or kernels you're running? I'm on stock rooted with paul's odex hack. Gonna finally try EBlood 1.0.2 so I'll take a RAM reading off a fresh install of that. Your RAM reading does look higher than any I've seen.
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No Roms. Just the odex hack. I have been u using this instal since I had my G2x which I bough on opening day.
Sent from my LG-P999 using XDA App

What the hell is wrong with the memory (RAM) usage on this phone?

Even my desire with latest htc sense and gingerbread I had at least 100mb free ram. With this phone I barely have 50mb free, the phone is slow, skinned launcher pro is laggy and when I try to see which app is eating so much, android system is at the top with ~70mb of usage. If I add all the other apps there I can't even reach 200mb in total, where is the rest of 300MB?
I assumed that aosp ROMs should be smooth and without problems, but my HTC Sense was way much more responsive!

Dunno but I have at least 465mb free on my SGS2

psp888 said:
Dunno but I have at least 465mb free on my SGS2
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Well that is great, but not really a helpful response. Still, nice phone you got there.

I'm not running Launcher Pro (yet), but with stock launcher I've got 151mb free.
I'm so pleased with the performance of the stock launcher in GB that I was afraid to switch to LP.
With all of these things though, there are so many variables that your mileage will differ greatly from everyone else's based on the # of apps, widgets, etc.
But right now, mine's humming right along.

756MB free on my NS4G

Myself, and others on the NS4G have all agreed, launcher pro hates this phone and runs terrible.. ADW is my preferred choice now.

I'm running ADW Launcher EX on my NS with 2.3.4 and I usually have around 145mb free. Gingerbread seems to be handling system resources well on my device, I rarely experience any lag. Are you rooted? If so you could do a full wipe and reinstall gingerbread fresh. That may straighten things out for you.

Are we talking about the same things here?
RAM = running programs
vs program storage?
The NS4G has 300mb of RAM with 1GB of program storage.
My NS4G averages 150mb of free RAM and storage hovers around 750mb.

I have about 174MB free ram on stock 2.3.4 if that helps.
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I've got about 130 free with stock rom/launcher.
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I don't think its a problem with this phone specifically, I think it has to do with gingerbread itself. As you can see in my sig (have to update it these days) I'm coming from an HTC Desire and if I ran an AOSP gingerbread ROM I was having the exact same issue with launcher pro. But the RAM memory was not there, I had above 100mb free all the time. Desire has the same amount of RAM as NS.
The free RAM displayed in running services is not accurate, if you want to see ur free RAM download quick sytem info or system info widget.
Here's a pic with my usage without browser running (just closed it, otherwise I would've had less then 50mb free):

On my NS4G, running the OpenSoju rom, and Launcher Pro, it is running like butter:

I think Gingerbread runs more like Windows 7 does on the PC.. If there is free RAM, it's going to use it to make the OS more responsive.. If demand rises for app or game usage it should (in theory) start freeing up RAM to compensate.

Exploring this further, there is definitely some conflicts of usage depending on what you use to view RAM.
Gingerbreads app management tells me I have 136M free.. While a system info app tells me 77M available.

I killed every single app I could see in quick system info and reached almost 150 mb free (for real, not the usage u see in running services) and even then launcher pro is laggy. When going into sense-like preview (pinch to zoom out) and sometimes even scrolling through screens it feels laggy, its certainly not as responsive as it was with my HTC Sense ROM on the HTC Desire.
ADW also feels laggy.
And I can confirm that froyo works just fine, this is a screw-up from google. And their launcher sucks!
Edit: Ok I removed all the 4x4 widgets and the phone is now ok, it runs fine. Apparently if you have a lot of widgets running on several home screens it will lag. Again, on froyo there is no such problem
I will try MIUI today and report back.

if you have a problem with memory handling try searching ANDmemory in xda. its still in beta but it does a pretty good job.

styckx said:
Exploring this further, there is definitely some conflicts of usage depending on what you use to view RAM.
Gingerbreads app management tells me I have 136M free.. While a system info app tells me 77M available.
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Are you running a custom rom? I want that battery indicator.

djorijun said:
756MB free on my NS4G
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Talking about RAM not ROM

I limited to 3 screens for now, a main screen and 2 side ones filled with 2x2 launcher pro widgets. It feels much smoother now, but the RAM usage is still big.

psp888 said:
Dunno but I have at least 465mb free on my SGS2
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Then what are you doing in this forum dummy.

[Q] ram issue ??

i know this was discussed before but i'm asking now after months and weeks of usage
is the device affected by the small amount of avilable ram ????
does this small amount of memory lead to lagging or reboating ??
i m going to get the device soon so i m worried about that issue

I wouldnt say it has a "small" amount of memory, just less than others.
I would consider myself a moderate user, I learned on WM5 and up to 6.5 to keep my unused apps down and my memory clear so I have not run into any problems here.
I have seen a few very brief frame drops in a game while something is going on in the background but it was very minimal and did not detract from my joy of the device.
The built in task manager does not accurately read the available ram as the advanced settings does which can be mis leading. Cleaning out of lot of running processes clears up even more. Sense eats a fair amount but I personally like it.
This is my first main Android experience and it has been nothing but a pleasure so far. Again I am a moderate user tinkering with a new to me OS. I email a lot, text a lot, read RSS regularly and surf the web a little bit. The rest is with the apps. Things have always loaded quickly and so far not crashed.

It has enough RAM. I had a MyTouch 4G for 8 months and now the Sensation, both have 768MB of RAM and neither phone has slowed or froze at all. A lot of phones only have 512MB of RAM.

honestly, if you need a gig of ram, you're either a dev who needs the resources, or your desktop PC is as cluttered as your closet/garage and cant be bother to clean it

xdafun4all said:
does this small amount of memory lead to lagging or reboating ??
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what does "reboat" mean?

nccu_eagles said:
what does "reboat" mean?
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he means rebooting

People need to stop thinking of Android in terms of their Windows desktop or WinMo. It handles memory completely different. Android sees unused ram as a wasted resource. Android will free up more ram if it needs it. If you look in the notification area you may only see ~100mb free. Then look in the "running applications" tab under settings-applications and you may see well over 200mb available to android. That's because Android has cached about 100mb of data to make it readily available because Android knows there are some programs/processes you use a lot and by caching it in available ram you can access them quicker without slowdown. But this 100mb of pre-cached "stuff" android will kill if it needs additional ram. That's why it shows it as available in Android settings.
Take a look at the Pre-gingerbread running services menu, it actually used to spell out how much was unused and how much was in running services Android knows it can kill to free more memory if needed. A sign of your phone really running low on memory is if your phone has to re-launch Rosie every time you press the home screen. This happened a lot on early builds of Sense 3.0 on the G2 because the G2 just didn't have enough ram to run Sense 3.0. Your phone won't lag/stutter just because it's low on memory. In fact killing a lot of these pre-cached items will be the cause of your phone's apparent lag as your phone attempts to relaunch a process or service that you killed.
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thanks for reply , but in some videos i noticed that the device is too laggy !!!!
how can u explain this ????
i mean during multitasking like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKfbXqJbXZQ

xdafun4all said:
thanks for reply , but in some videos i noticed that the device is too laggy !!!!
how can u explain this ????
i mean during multitasking like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKfbXqJbXZQ
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Its early software. Wait for an OTA or for it to be rooted and CID unlocked and then you will be able to remove Sense.
If I can say one thing about HTC, they support their phones much longer than ANY other company out there - hell they're one of the first to provide GB on a launch device - and they are also excellent about maintaining their own software (ie, Sense - the bloat hog on any Android or WinMo 6.5 device - as anyone can tell you, Sense 2.0 took at least 75MB of RAM to run - 3.0 has to be worse) so you can rest assured that your device will definitely speed up one way or the other.

but dont u think after all that it is a problem that the desire hd had more free ram than the sensation
i hope it can be solved with an update as i cant immagine it without sense :S

Go to a store and play with the phone....it's that simple. Watching a YouTube video about the phone can be misleading you have no idea what type if settings the guy was using
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xdafun4all said:
but dont u think after all that it is a problem that the desire hd had more free ram than the sensation
i hope it can be solved with an update as i cant immagine it without sense :S
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I have 220MB of RAM free and I'm running Scruff, A4A Radar, and a number of other apps in the background. Looking at my G2x, with the same apps running and NO Sense, I have 148MB free and the Sensation is not lagging like the G2x is.

[APP] YAMC - yet another memory cleaner

https://market.android.com/details?id=lovetere.yamc
Free up memory space in your phone and boost its performance!
Unlike other apps, YAMC kills running processes as the system does after low memory warning.
Instructions:
- click on Clean to free up memory without exit from the app,
- click on Yamc! to clean up memory exiting from the app.
When to use:
- when you use your smartphone for a long time;
- when you feel that system is slower.
FREE version is ad-supported.
FULL version specific features are:
- widget,
- no ads,
- just one permission required for killing the processes.
https://market.android.com/details?id=lovetere.yamc
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Versione 1.0.3.3 released.
Changelog:
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- new context menu showing process options

just to move up this conversation!

marlove said:
https://market.android.com/details?id=lovetere.yamc
Free up memory space in your phone and boost its performance!
Unlike other apps, YAMC kills running processes as the system does after low memory warning.
Instructions:
- click on Clean to free up memory without exit from the app,
- click on Yamc! to clean up memory exiting from the app.
When to use:
- when you use your smartphone for a long time;
- when you feel that system is slower.
FREE version is ad-supported.
FULL version specific features are:
- widget,
- no ads,
- just one permission required for killing the processes.
https://market.android.com/details?id=lovetere.yamc
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Up!!!

I like this one!
Bought the full version, and it is as simple and clean as I want it to be.

oleerik said:
I like this one!
Bought the full version, and it is as simple and clean as I want it to be.
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thanks!
new update available for the full version, now is possible to configure a periodic cleaning.
https://market.android.com/details?id=lovetere.yamc.full

so is this just a auto killer?

efan3719 said:
so is this just a auto killer?
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actually it is an automatic memory cleaner!

Up!

marlove said:
actually it is an automatic memory cleaner!
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What's special about this app compared to Auto Task Killer and the likes?
I mean automatic memory cleaner? What does it do? I've read the info and I don't quite get it to be honest...

MrEzzzkiel said:
What's special about this app compared to Auto Task Killer and the likes?
I mean automatic memory cleaner? What does it do? I've read the info and I don't quite get it to be honest...
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Hello,
Usually this kind of app allocates all the free memory available to trigger the OS low memory system.
This way the running apps are closed by OS itself according low memory system policies.
There are a lot of articles around the net explaining the android memory system and why Task Killers should not be used to free memory.
You can start with this article:
http://lifehacker.com/5650894/android-task-killers-explained-what-they-do-and-why-you-shouldnt-use-them
I use FMR Memory Cleaner that does the same.
Best.

martinsjt said:
Hello,
Usually this kind of app allocates all the free memory available to trigger the OS low memory system.
This way the running apps are closed by OS itself according low memory system policies.
There are a lot of articles around the net explaining the android memory system and why Task Killers should not be used to free memory.
You can start with this article:
http://lifehacker.com/5650894/android-task-killers-explained-what-they-do-and-why-you-shouldnt-use-them
I use FMR Memory Cleaner that does the same.
Best.
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YAMC uses another method to free up the memory: each app receives a message from the OS to be closed. The way the running apps are closed is safe and it preserves the system's performance.

Just bought the app to support further development, looks promising!

I'll also be trying this one out to see if it might improve my phones speed and feel...
It sounds like a good idea and after reading about the android way of using ram I regret buying ATK back in the day...
Thx!

I guess I bought the app instead of just trying it... Seems very promising... Thank you!

MrEzzzkiel said:
I guess I bought the app instead of just trying it... Seems very promising... Thank you!
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thanks for buying YAMC!
I configured the periodic cleaning interval to 30 minutes and I noticed a longer battery life. what do you think about it?

martinsjt said:
Hello,
Usually this kind of app allocates all the free memory available to trigger the OS low memory system.
This way the running apps are closed by OS itself according low memory system policies.
There are a lot of articles around the net explaining the android memory system and why Task Killers should not be used to free memory.
You can start with this article:
http://lifehacker.com/5650894/andro...ed-what-they-do-and-why-you-shouldnt-use-them
I use FMR Memory Cleaner that does the same.
Best.
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Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e
As i know its should be only bad when you use an autokill function and not if you tap a kill widget. Btw I'm still looking for an app that can kill services too...
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e

marlove said:
thanks for buying YAMC!
I configured the periodic cleaning interval to 30 minutes and I noticed a longer battery life. what do you think about it?
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I like it... Nice and simple UI... Easy to use... It's a good buy!

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I like it... Nice and simple UI... Easy to use... It's a good buy!
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thank you very much!

Up!!!

One XL Rogers LTE Ram size

Hi everyone,
According to XL Rogers specs, I might have 1 gig RAM but I only have 671 Mg.
Is it some king of Rogers limitation?
Can someone having a Rogers One XL release can confirm that?
Annoying because even with a few application in process, Sense is randomly restarting because, I think, of a lack of memory. It often happen right after using a browser for few minutes
Thanks!

I noticed that when looking at ATT One X
Would like to know as well. WTF..

i could be wrong but i think it's because the memory is shared with the gpu.

Weird because it shows 1Gig in parameters/hardware Info.
But still 671 in memory management and benchmark utilities...

That is normal. Some parts of the memory are reserved (for OS, GPU etc.) and are not accessible for all apps. For example, my Galaxy Nexus has 1GB RAM, but only "693 MB" is displayed under "about phone". That has always been the case for all Android phones, although how much of the memory is reserved differs between phones/ROMs.

tsekh501 said:
That is normal. Some parts of the memory are reserved (for OS, GPU etc.) and are not accessible for all apps. For example, my Galaxy Nexus has 1GB RAM, but only "693 MB" is displayed under "about phone". That has always been the case for all Android phones, although how much of the memory is reserved differs between phones/ROMs.
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I wonder why this always comes up when a new phone is released. When people buy a computer with 6 gigs of ram, do they get mad when Windows or OSX uses 2 of it?
It's the same concept here, but this always comes up.

If you run:
cat /proc/meminfo
That should give you all the physical memory available to Android.

Squeak22 said:
I wonder why this always comes up when a new phone is released. When people buy a computer with 6 gigs of ram, do they get mad when Windows or OSX uses 2 of it?
It's the same concept here, but this always comes up.
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It's not really the same concept, as that has to do with the 32-bit limitation. And yes, people did complaining a lot a few years ago when 4GB RAM started to become really affordable. People rarely complained about that these days, not because they finally understood the issue, but rather most computers are shipped with 64-bit OS now.

tsekh501 said:
It's not really the same concept, as that has to do with the 32-bit limitation. And yes, people did complaining a lot a few years ago when 4GB RAM started to become really affordable. People rarely complained about that these days, not because they finally understood the issue, but rather most computers are shipped with 64-bit OS now.
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/facepalm
When you load up task manager in windows, it shows how much free memory you have. The amount of free memory is NEVER what your total physical memory is. There is always about a third used for cached data, OS processes, and stupid widgets that you have running on the desktop.
Nowhere did I mention the 32bit limitation, that would be a valid issue.

Squeak22 said:
/facepalm
When you load up task manager in windows, it shows how much free memory you have. The amount of free memory is NEVER what your total physical memory is. There is always about a third used for cached data, OS processes, and stupid widgets that you have running on the desktop.
Nowhere did I mention the 32bit limitation, that would be a valid issue.
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There's no need to be so rash. He does have a valid point.
cat /proc/meminfo returns the following:
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Whereas the task manager displays 672MB total memory (used+free):

danada said:
There's no need to be so rash. He does have a valid point.
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150ish meg for ramdisk and another 150ish meg for GPU. Explained away.
This is common on every phone that's ever come out for the last year + with 1 gigs of ram.

Squeak22 said:
/facepalm
When you load up task manager in windows, it shows how much free memory you have. The amount of free memory is NEVER what your total physical memory is. There is always about a third used for cached data, OS processes, and stupid widgets that you have running on the desktop.
Nowhere did I mention the 32bit limitation, that would be a valid issue.
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That's free memory that you are talking about. Its total physical memory and I and OP were saying. My Windows 7 task manager always shows the actual total physical memory, and that wasn't the case with winxp before either sp2 or sp3 and tons of people whined about that on a daily basis.
The OP's question, however, concerns Android and it doesnt show the correct amount of physical memory on the phone. He is not saying "free memory", which is of course changing all the time depending on running apps.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA

I am seeing a total of 970ish MB's on my international htc one x. Currently 709MB used and 267MB free.
I believe some of the RAM is reserved for the GPU and since there are different GPU's in the two models it is probably what makes up the difference in available RAM.