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[Q] RAM?

can somebody tell me how much ram the sensation has? i was playing with the phone in t-mobile today and it said that the phone has 558MB Total with 120MB free. i was under the impression that it was 728MB RAM. Can someone please clarify? cause if its only 558MB RAM than i will just stick with the G2X.

Per HTC's website, 768MB.
http://www.htc.com/www/product/sensation/specification.html

howetechnical said:
Per HTC's website, 768MB.
http://www.htc.com/www/product/sensation/specification.html
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Thanks but i already saw that. Its known that Europe phones are sometimes different to U.S. phones so i am trying to find out if the U.S. version really does have 768MB RAM. Cause like i said the Sensation in the t-mobile store only had About 120MB free & about 580MB TOTAL

they are the exact same damn phone. seriously, why not just go to the HTC site & look the info up?
http://www.htc.com/us/support/sensation4g-tmobile/tech-specs/

It got 768mb of ram indeed. Some of it reserved by android, this is pretty common i think, at least on my previous htc phones.
The task managers show the wrong info of ram tho, head into "running applications" and look at the bottom to see how much is used and available.

Part of the ram are reserved for the hardware such as graphic chip.
Also to find the TRUE amount of ram available, goto Setting --> Applications --> Running Services, it will tell you how much ram is avalibe at the bottom. You can also create a short cut for this on the home screen.
Edit: there should be more than 300mb of free ram when the phone boots on.

Bigmille said:
Part of the ram are reserved for the hardware such as graphic chip.
Also to find the TRUE amount of ram available, goto Setting --> Applications --> Running Services, it will tell you how much ram is avalibe at the bottom. You can also create a short cut for this on the home screen.
Edit: there should be more than 300mb of free ram when the phone boots on.
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The PS3 has 256mb total ram.............so all the people saying the ram is slowing it down, GET REAL, its' a non-issue.

Bigmille said:
Part of the ram are reserved for the hardware such as graphic chip.
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Sorry for pushing this old thread. So it is normal to "only" have 580 MB total RAM?
thx,
uxu
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uxu said:
Sorry for pushing this old thread. So it is normal to "only" have 580 MB total RAM?
thx,
uxu
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As stated before (all you had to do was read the thread) some ram is reserved by the OS for GPU and other processes so yes it is normal to see this

I always wondered wich ram did I have because in the setting and software info it says 768mb but with task manager it says 568mb
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It doesn't matter. On a PC, it might matter how much ram you have depending on what you do. Just use your phone and Android will take care of everything else for you.

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RAM Status

Hold your home key and click on ram status and someone tell me is this is normal? I only got like four to five programs running and I'm always at like 50 to 70 mb left.
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Looks fine to me
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depends on your launcher and widgets. and sometimes your browsing history. you csn clear it with no ill effects.

Only got 15 widgets but just thought it was kinda low. What type of numbers are you guys getting?
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I keep my phone fairly bare. I like it to run fast
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only 15 widgets huh? is that sarcasm? well I have about 140mb free. it could be some differences in the freememkiller settings or it could be that I only have one widget and 3apps open. considering opera alone is useing 40mb id say you ram use is about righr for 15 widgets.

Nah didn't think around 15 widgets was a lot ><
This is all I really got on my screens...

what launcher are you using to get your messaging app to look like that? and to have the badges on the bottom?

Mine is currently at 232MB out of 428MB. I don't have much running other than the usual background processes/programs... 3 widgets running, no open apps at the moment.
For as much as you have going on (widgets, etc), I'd say your RAM usage seems about normal. Have you cleared memory?

jimmie48jj said:
what launcher are you using to get your messaging app to look like that? and to have the badges on the bottom?
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Launcher pro
bassistguy said:
Mine is currently at 232MB out of 428MB. I don't have much running other than the usual background processes/programs... 3 widgets running, no open apps at the moment.
For as much as you have going on (widgets, etc), I'd say your RAM usage seems about normal. Have you cleared memory?
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Yea whenever I use my task kilter it goes to 190ish then drops
as programs restart. Guess I was freaking out over nothing.
It's just strange that my motorola backflip has more ram with the same apps and widgets going. I guess cm7 really makes an insane difference.
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Dev Related

Hi there devs,
Rcently my friend told me about a rom for their fone which gave total ram as free, the developers of the rom developed some tweak to do that
here's the link: http://www.living-optimus.com/2013/07/p350-tweak-para-liberar-ram.html ,
i just think this might help G3 development. Posting this is Dev section coz its kinda important stuff and needs to catch a few eyes.
here the result they got
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Total free ram. Is that even possibly?
Nevertheless, Looks like some build prop tweak. Trying it right away.

Is it worth to have so much free ram? It is said that unused ram is wasted or am I mistaken?

zygis10 said:
Is it worth to have so much free ram? It is said that unused ram is wasted or am I mistaken?
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More RAM = more multitasking, apps won't get closed as often if system is running out of RAM.

not total free ram...maybe the core applications are provided different portion of the total ram ...dunno what just guessin

I think u are right aarun. maybe the system is pre-allotted some portion of the ram. And the rest may be given to the user apps. But this can b a bad idea cos if the system may want more RAM like on first boot or sth there may be problems. Sometimes even the system gives away some part of its RAM usage when some apps require it. But in this case of partitioning the RAM this may not be possible. Lets see though what this mod has to offer.....

There are three tweaks there which one should i pick? If this really works i won't buy a new phone next year!

@aarrun
can u upload build.prop and system.prop files from ur friends phone and xda link of the rom ur friend is using.

superfrancy97 said:
There are three tweaks there which one should i pick? If this really works i won't buy a new phone next year!
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OK, i translated the page and the real tweak is the fourth. I tried it on my phone and RAM got optimized a little (i have 54 applications installed and normally i get 40-50 Mb of free RAM now i'm getting 100-110 MB of free ram). This evening i will try the other improvements too!
I am on CyanogenMod Alpha9 MTD and here's my build.prop.
Always do a Nandroid backup and build.prop backup before trying this stuff.

awesome!!!! Its really working!

amarendar94 said:
awesome!!!! Its really working!
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I did a data wipe to test if i really could get total RAM free but the maximum of RAM free i could obtain was 152 MB
Is the tweak really working?

[Q] Thread-xxxx consuming RAM

I was checking what apps consumes RAM from my galaxy nexus (running android 4.3, franco kernel), as there was a case when my available RAM went down to as low as 2MB!! So as expected, almost all applications get killed after removing them from foreground (including Launcher).
I checked System Monitor, and there were "apps" named Thread-xxxx consuming RAM. At one time, I noticed they were consuming around 80+MB to 90+MB. In the screenshot I attached, there are three Thread-xxx consuming around 50+MB each.
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Can anyone explain what are they for? They are not apps that can be "force closed", tapping on them doesn't do anything in system monitor.
They seem to free their consumed RAM after restart. So if I'm running out of RAM, i only need to restart my phone. Any other way to free their RAM without restarting?
Please tell me what other info I need to provide.. Thanks!

By the way, these Thread-xxxx processes appears only when the option "Show system processes" is checked.
I was again able to get a screenshot with those processes consuming RAM. Can't seem to find a way to free ram other than reboot.
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garuhhh said:
I checked System Monitor, and there were "apps" named Thread-xxxx consuming RAM. At one time, I noticed they were consuming around 80+MB to 90+MB. In the screenshot I attached, there are three Thread-xxx consuming around 50+MB each.
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How to handle threads in Android, and what you need to watch for
Processes and Threads

immortalneo said:
How to handle threads in Android, and what you need to watch for
Processes and Threads
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Thanks for taking time to reply,
but I need to know, on a user perspective, how do I kill those threads?
I'm not doing any app development.

I was trying to see whether one app is causing this problem. The first one I checked is Skype.
I didn't turn it on for 2 to 3 days, and no Sign of those Thread processes.. Until I made a video call with Hangouts, immediately after the video conference these Thread processes showed up again. See the attachment. It started with only one (the 70MB) then this morning there were two of them.
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I tried going back to Stock Kernel to see whether I'll see any RAM problems, but after almost a week of using stock kernel, I haven't experienced any of these problems. But i miss my good battery life with this kernel..
by the way, after reboot, I don't have these Thread-xxx processes, but after a few hours they start to show up (see the attached image). They're all 20+ processes. Although right now they don't consume RAM yet.
I hope somebody can give me a hint as to what these are. Googling is no use. Or at least a good keyword to use will also be fine.
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RAM Hog?

Is this normal RAM usage? I just got my phone today and have a minimum of apps installed on it. Also, what is the icon next to the 4G LTE icon?
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normal for a samsung lol

0dBu said:
Is this normal RAM usage? I just got my phone today and have a minimum of apps installed on it. Also, what is the icon next to the 4G LTE icon?
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Pretty much every Android device ends up essentially allocating nearly the maximum amount of a device's RAM to the OS itself. The OS then manages your various apps by utilizing that allocated RAM as well as scaling up or down its use of the RAM as necessary. So although it seems strange, there's actually more RAM available to apps than it appears.
Perfect normal.
As for the icon I don't know... NFC icon maybe?

There is a saying that goes a little like this "Free ram is wasted ram" and for the most part it is true.
Android is smart enough to deal with ram all on its own and unless you are noticing tab reloading or other issues with multitasking, you shouldn't care about the amount of "free" ram you have.
Also, icon next to your LTE icon is for NFC.
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I get that free RAM is wasted RAM and I'm not am Android noob, that just seemed excessive.

In my LG G2 before with 2 GB Ram I get 900mb user free and with my Note 3 before with 3 GB ram I get 1.9 GB user free RAM. I think this is excessive. Though I always root my device and use greenify with it but still.

If you know that free ram is wasted ram, instead of thinking it's excessive, you should be thinking "Why is there still 13% not being used?"

I have no issue with the phone using a ton of RAM, but I'm finding that when I'm in the car using Google Nav (foreground) and Pandora (background) together, will usually cause Pandora to close. The only time I've seent his before was when the memory leak was first introduced on my Nexus 5. Really odd stuff.