Hi everyone,
I notice my TOTAL RAM (not used RAM) is gradually decreasing. For example, my total RAM started at 1.79, then went to 1.69, not at 1.59. Is this normal? Why is it decreasing? What can I do to increase to total RAM back to out of box (or close thereto) of 1.79?
Thanks for your help.
Uhhh I just checked mine and I have 1.56 wtf. I swore it was 1.79 before I switched to jb tw.
Actual ram available on this device is 1.6gb on touchwiz...aosp roms might be slightly more.
kench33 said:
Uhhh I just checked mine and I have 1.56 wtf. I swore it was 1.79 before I switched to jb tw.
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Exactly. I know my S3 started at 1.79 out the box. Now at 1.59. Although I've rooted my phone previously, I unrooted my phone and am now back o stock. Any help to get total RAM back up is appreciated.
kdubs71 said:
Exactly. I know my S3 started at 1.79 out the box. Now at 1.59. Although I've rooted my phone previously, I unrooted my phone and am now back o stock. Any help to get total RAM back up is appreciated.
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Haven't you accepted OTA's since you first had this phone? The small difference in ram missing is likely because of newer firmware updates similar to, for example, the missing internal storage of your 16GB or 32 GB that is dedicated to TW. Couldn't the same hold true for ram since we don't get a full 2 GB out of the box? If you've used Odin to return to stock and your available ram hasn't changed to what you remember it was at, there's likely no getting that back.
My max has been at/around 1.62 GB of ram FWIW.
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Mine is also 1.59. If everyone the same it being used by new OS/firmware. If you are even close to using it all need to kill some apps running apps.. I have 200+ apps on mine and still only using half of it.
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Haven't you accepted OTA's since you first had this phone? The small difference in ram missing is likely because of newer firmware updates similar to, for example, the missing internal storage of your 16GB or 32 GB that is dedicated to TW. Couldn't the same hold true for ram since we don't get a full 2 GB out of the box? If you've used Odin to return to stock and your available ram hasn't changed to what you remember it was at, there's likely no getting that back.
My max has been at/around 1.62 GB of ram FWIW.
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Yes I've accepted OTAs. Currently on VRLHE. Not sure what happened to RAM. Just don't like to see it going down like this. maybe future OTAs will help.
They are obviously reallocating it somewhere, maybe the gpu?
1630 ram here on AOSP.
Couple things, touchwiz hogs up a lot of ram, so if you are on a touchwiz rom you WILL have less ram. AOSP roms use far less ram, so if your on AOSP you'll have a lot more (hence me having 1630). Free ram is wasted ram as well, if its not being used then its being wasted. And finally as updates come things can be relocated to other places, just because you can't see it doesn't mean its not there and not doing something helpful
kdubs71 said:
Hi everyone,
I notice my TOTAL RAM (not used RAM) is gradually decreasing. For example, my total RAM started at 1.79, then went to 1.69, not at 1.59. Is this normal? Why is it decreasing? What can I do to increase to total RAM back to out of box (or close thereto) of 1.79?
Thanks for your help.
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I think I have noticed the same thing efore
Just a question, why are we concerned with "only" having 1.59gb of ram? Is that not enough to run with? I mean damn most phone that come out the same time had 1gb. I see wanting to know whats using it but I wouldn't be worried about running out. Haha
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droidx2.3.3 said:
Just a question, why are we concerned with "only" having 1.59gb of ram? Is that not enough to run with? I mean damn most phone that come out the same time had 1gb. I see wanting to know whats using it but I wouldn't be worried about running out. Haha
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Agreed. 2 gigs of ram (1.6x actual ram) is more than enough ram. The reason why so many phones now that have 1gig of ram run slow is because so much of that ram is used by Sense, touchwiz, motoblur, etc which slows everything down. That's why AOSP is nice to have as an option because you get so much more actual ram to use thats not being sucked up by manufacturer skins. Getting 2gigs is a huge plus solely because of the touchwiz UI, because if we only had 1gig like the international version we'd be stuck with things appearing to run slower than they should.
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Agreed. 2 gigs of ram (1.6x actual ram) is more than enough ram. The reason why so many phones now that have 1gig of ram run slow is because so much of that ram is used by Sense, touchwiz, motoblur, etc which slows everything down. That's why AOSP is nice to have as an option because you get so much more actual ram to use thats not being sucked up by manufacturer skins. Getting 2gigs is a huge plus solely because of the touchwiz UI, because if we only had 1gig like the international version we'd be stuck with things appearing to run slower than they should.
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I know the feeling about the laggy feel of not enough ram. I came from a droid x with only 512mb. Most times it wad bearable but others it was an annoyance.
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I wondered this same thing, but with no other phones to compare to. But yes, I'm down to 1.59GB as well
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Allright, everyone has their noob questions and here's mine:
The HTC Inspire has 768MB RAM, correct? Yes.
So why is it that whenever I go to Settings > Applications > Running services
I see it saying 140Mb Used + 416MB Free.
That's only 556MB RAM.
It always adds up to that number.
Where's my other 212MB RAM being used?
I'm currently using Android Revolution HD 4.0 Beta 2
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Allright, everyone has their noob questions and here's mine:
The HTC Inspire has 768MB RAM, correct? Yes.
So why is it that whenever I go to Settings > Applications > Running services
I see it saying 140Mb Used + 416MB Free.
That's only 556MB RAM.
It always adds up to that number.
Where's my other 212MB RAM being used?
I'm currently using Android Revolution HD 4.0 Beta 2
Thanks.
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I'm not an expert but I recall someone saying it sets some side for the video processor to use.
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A portion of the RAM is used by the OS, all the processes it needs, the launcher, and sense UI stuff.
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A portion of the RAM is used by the OS, all the processes it needs, the launcher, and sense UI stuff.
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True, but those "system processes" are also shown with that 556MB, and they usually take up around 200MB of it. Leaving me with about 350MB RAM if I'm running nothing.
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What he says is true...on a fresh boot with nothing running i usually have between 350mb and 365mb free and the Android OS and HTC UI are in the list of whats being used.
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Theres some being set aside for hardware. The gpu may use some, theres probably a good bit set aside for the radio. Like the galaxy s, some may be able to be skimmed from here and there to give a little more user accessible RAM, but I've looked into this 0%. My kernel for the captivated is able to give around 30 extra MB or RAM accessible to the user with everything still working 100%(hd video recording etc). There is 768 mb or RAM in the phone though, some of its just reserved for things that need some of it dedicated, its not dynamically distributed as hardware needs it, instead its set aside UNTIL the hardware needs it.
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True, but those "system processes" are also shown with that 556MB, and they usually take up around 200MB of it. Leaving me with about 350MB RAM if I'm running nothing.
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Not everything appears though in running lists, the launcher for example takes up at least 20-30Mb of RAM just to run. Other internal processes just aren't shown. Sense UI stuff I bet is a big part of it.
You can set your task manager/viewer/killer to show all the system processes and whatnot.
It doesn't show 768 total ram.
I have this same question about the 4gigs of storage I've seen reported... I only see 1gig myself
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You can set your task manager/viewer/killer to show all the system processes and whatnot.
It doesn't show 768 total ram.
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And it never will. Read my post above. It's 100% the answer to this thread, same as every other phone
arajay said:
I have this same question about the 4gigs of storage I've seen reported... I only see 1gig myself
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The theory behind this is that the 4GB has been formatted to Single Layer. When you do this to flash memory, it becomes faster and more stable, but you lose half of the storage space. So 4GB goes to 2GB. Take out for the operating system, and you are left with about a gig.
Once you format to single layer, you cannot go back. I know it sounds like false advertising, but i am fine with my system partitions being faster and more stable in exchange for losing a couple of gig. There is always SD cards.
I hope this helps.
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The theory behind this is that the 4GB has been formatted to Single Layer. When you do this to flash memory, it becomes faster and more stable, but you lose half of the storage space. So 4GB goes to 2GB. Take out for the operating system, and you are left with about a gig.
Once you format to single layer, you cannot go back. I know it sounds like false advertising, but i am fine with my system partitions being faster and more stable in exchange for losing a couple of gig. There is always SD cards.
I hope this helps.
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That was a great answer! Thank you for helping me to understand
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Yup that was the same the same question/ordeal when the g2 vision came out and this was the answer that was found.
On my phone i can get at least 175mb of ram free. For some weird reason my phone says in total of ram i have 576mb. But the specs online says its 768mb of ram. My gf myTouch 4g (non-slide) has more ram available than my slide. I will like to know your phone's ram? how much you have free?
Mine says the same thing. My guess is it has dedicated some ram as video memory.
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tevroc said:
Mine says the same thing. My guess is it has dedicated some ram as video memory.
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Yes
sonicjam said:
On my phone i can get at least 175mb of ram free. For some weird reason my phone says in total of ram i have 576mb. But the specs online says its 768mb of ram. My gf myTouch 4g (non-slide) has more ram available than my slide. I will like to know your phone's ram? how much you have free?
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The OS itself reserves RAM for the GPU/Camera/Driver files like radio/cell/etc...
On Sense 3.0 a lot of RAM is used for sense to function since it has extended features compared to Stock/vanilla. You can use the task manager in the status/notification bar to close some apps but not all will be closed...There are background services and some apps that stay in RAM so that they can open faster later on...If you're phone is rooted then you can use the supercharger link in my sig to at least help with the available RAM issue and gain speed if that's an issue. I have a MT4G and I get more Free Ram than you when using the MT4GS's ROM or even the sensation's ROM too. Mines is normally around 200+. Please go in to settings->Manage apps->And look at running services
Yeah this is my 1st Android and I'm learning a lot about it. I am wondering if anyone else has the same space of ram. Man I wished it was 1gb of ram that would be awesome.
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sonicjam said:
Yeah this is my 1st Android and I'm learning a lot about it. I am wondering if anyone else has the same space of ram. Man I wished it was 1gb of ram that would be awesome.
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Low Ram is not a bad thing, this means android is caching files for faster access things later, this way that RAM is being used up. Most android phones have 512MB or less, imagine if you had that much on this phone, the EVO3D doesn't have as much as you would think available, as you know it also has Sense 3.0 . Your RAM issue can be addressed by closing active apps via the task manager as I had said before, or going directly into settings-->manage apps-->services or the options mentioning running apps.
I see what you mean it makes sense to me. So i'm good then.
It sucks!!
I hard reset my phone because my nephews install too much crap on it...and all i have free ram is 180-183....??? Is that what everyone gets??
For some reason, my friend's 4g Slide (khaki color) has more ram when I do a hard reset....
I have 177mb free with no applications running. 575mb total
The phone as shipped runs way to many background programs. I was never over 200mb free. I rooted my phone and have stripped out a ton of useless apps. I now see 400mb free when the phone starts but it usually ends up with ~350mb free.
If I kill EVERYTHING except a couple of processes (weather, beautiful widgets, wpclock, sense) i can get 235mb of free ram.
It honestly doesn't matter, the phone still performs great with less than 100mb free ram.
Edit: The HTC task manager says 174mb free, w/no apps running. ATK on the other hand, shows a tons of things that are running that don't need to be
My Account
Amazon Appstore
Google+
GMail
Elixir
Maps
Music
Notes
Video Chat
Twitter
I kill everything and get 220mb free ram.
raduque said:
If I kill EVERYTHING except a couple of processes (weather, beautiful widgets, wpclock, sense) i can get 235mb of free ram.
It honestly doesn't matter, the phone still performs great with less than 100mb free ram.
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If you think it runs great now try running it with the useless junk stripped out. It is easily 30-50% faster.
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If you think it runs great now try running it with the useless junk stripped out. It is easily 30-50% faster.
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I have deleted most everything that it came with (except a few things I would use anyway) and it really didn't change much except that I get more unused ram when I hit "kill selected apps" in ATK
It looks like KJ3 ROM on captivate uses more RAM that KH3. To confirm this can I reuest guys to post their RAM usage for KH, KI and all KJ versions. Please use TaskManager to clear memory and note the base RAM......it may not be accurate but will give an idea. In my experience KH3 runs around 170 MB and KJ3 is at 230 MB.
Thanks for any input
im on a kj3 rom using about 230 myself.
RAM in android is SUPPOSED to be used... free RAM is wasted RAM.
studacris said:
RAM in android is SUPPOSED to be used... free RAM is wasted RAM.
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only true if the ram is taken by cache not some unknow process/bloatware.
erbsmokah said:
im on a kj3 rom using about 230 myself.
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Thanks, erbsmokah for your input.
studacris said:
RAM in android is SUPPOSED to be used... free RAM is wasted RAM.
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Yes, but if you follow peoples comments on KJ3, like I am doing, KJ3 is using a much larger RAM amount, AND when further customized by adding apps, live wallpapers etc, is actually SLOWING the phone considerably. This making the phone real sluggish........which is new for a android ROM......??
EDIT: would you mind sharing your ROM and RAM?
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only true if the ram is taken by cache not some unknow process/bloatware.
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I agree with this especially on the KJ3......Something is different in what is running in the background, and I hope I can investigate if this turns out to be true for other people.
I agree and went back to fatsy ki rom and it stays faster longer without lag.
I also monitor free ram and once it gets below 40, it lags badly, over 50 it flies.
I think this phone really needed 1 gig like the gs2
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electroau said:
I think this phone really needed 1 gig like the gs2
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+1, if the captivate had more ram, I'd still be using it.
Simba501 said:
+1, if the captivate had more ram, I'd still be using it.
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+1 I myself am willing to agree..........if this RAM usage is a consensus on KJ3 then maybe the cappy is reaching its last usable ROM update? This is important to know......
EDIT: Of course, since this a leak release, then ATT/Samsung are fooling around with this build........., and maybe come back to normal on next leak ?? As a captivate owner, I would like to know what life my phone has as a "advanced" device........
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Yes, but if you follow peoples comments on KJ3, like I am doing, KJ3 is using a much larger RAM amount, AND when further customized by adding apps, live wallpapers etc, is actually SLOWING the phone considerably. This making the phone real sluggish........which is new for a android ROM......??
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Fusion x beta kj3 267mb Ram used ATM. But no lag whatsoever.
If you find that the ram does get bogged down just on this firmware version then perhaps the lmk settings in the kernel aren't as aggressive, which would be easily fixed by SOURCE CODE.
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Fusion x beta kj3 267mb Ram used ATM. But no lag whatsoever.
If you find that the ram does get bogged down just on this firmware version then perhaps the lmk settings in the kernel aren't as aggressive, which would be easily fixed by SOURCE CODE.
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Point well taken........
But due you expect LMK to let ~100 MB slip by? It seems a little too much, since the limit on cappy is about 370 (usable). I would think we so much consumption LMK would kick in earlier?????
My KJ3 is using 227 MB. Free memory is ~50 MB. It lags significantly at times. However, I used Auto Memory Manager and set the Android internal task killer to "aggressive" and it keeps ~100 MB free an there is not lag at all now. I haven't noticed (yet) that apps get killed prematurely, which could be an issue with this setting. I'm using the Samurai 1.2 kernel overclocked to 1.252 GHz (no Voodoo lag fix). Other than the occasional black screen on the Gallery, my Captivate has been running pretty fast and seems to have as good a battery life as I remember ever having.
Edit #1: I don't think Auto Memory Manager is needed with Samurai 1.2. This kernel is tweaked already. I set Auto Memory Manager back to default settings, uninstalled it, then re-installed the kernel.
Here's another tip, move all of your apps from the internal SD card to phone memory. Having them on the SD card cause significant lag, crashing, and rebooting for me.
Edit #2: I switched to Pinnacle 1.3 with the latest Boog's kernel, and my KH3 is using 329 MB (the same as KJ3 I was using before (I must have made a typo above when I claimed 227 MB on KJ3 (I verified this before I switched to KH3/Pinnacle)). What governs how much RAM is used? Does it really make any difference? Free memory makes a huge difference in lag, however.
On latest MIUI and i have ~200 MBs of free memory!
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Surely not that much... M on miui too n the lowest I get is 80,otherwise I am up there at 130ish... But then I have a crapload of services in the background. But yes, I do get 200 when I clear memory.
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Can someone explain this to me?
I don't know why, I have the same thing, but I think its related to how you would order a 16gb microsd and have, for instance 14.03 gb.
Some of it gets used by kernel space and video ram.
Think of this as a computer, a computer with a video card that doesn't have on board RAM will reserved some portion of the RAM for it's own used and will not show the full the full system RAM because of that portion being reserved. It's computer's nature.
scsa20 said:
Think of this as a computer, a computer with a video card that doesn't have on board RAM will reserved some portion of the RAM for it's own used and will not show the full the full system RAM because of that portion being reserved. It's computer's nature.
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Great way of putting out
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scsa20 said:
Think of this as a computer, a computer with a video card that doesn't have on board RAM will reserved some portion of the RAM for it's own used and will not show the full the full system RAM because of that portion being reserved. It's computer's nature.
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Basically this.
If you look at any Android device, you'll notice it doesn't list the full amount of RAM that it physically has. It's just the nature of the operating system.
With 1.62GB reserved for use by applications, who can complain? That's equal to or more than pretty much any Android device in existence at the moment.
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Basically this.
If you look at any Android device, you'll notice it doesn't list the full amount of RAM that it physically has. It's just the nature of the operating system.
With 1.62GB reserved for use by applications, who can complain? That's equal to or more than pretty much any Android device in existence at the moment.
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I was pretty sure is more and ANY android phone in existance except US variants of gs3 (and Korean one too maybe?)
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Bloat sucks! Like others have said, roughly 380mb of ram is reserved for the system.
droidstyle said:
Bloat sucks! Like others have said, roughly 380mb of ram is reserved for the system.
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Without that "bloat" your RAM wouldn't work at all.
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Without that "bloat" your RAM wouldn't work at all.
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Huh. Think about what you just said.
Bloat is by definition superfluous data that is not required. And the ram would still work, it just wouldn't have anything to run so it wouldn't have a function.
What you were probably trying to say was without the necessary required system files the ram would be largely useless. Of course that really isn't relevant in addressing what droidstyle said.
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Without that "bloat" your RAM wouldn't work at all.
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derpy derp, please refer to bobloblaw's post!
can't see the attachment in the OP, but I assume based off the comments they are noticing the 1.6Gb available to user, which is as others have explained, after all the system gets it's memory and all
then out of that, at least on my CM10 JB build, with a lot of apps running, there is still 1GB of ram free, so there's 600Mb actively in use by apps and what not....
be really glad you have a full gigabyte of free ram, you could be like the Exynos guys and get a gimped 1Gb of ram and have only 100!150Mb free, and have your apps and stuff having to reload and stuff just to maintain free memory for overhead.
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Huh. Think about what you just said.
Bloat is by definition superfluous data that is not required. And the ram would still work, it just wouldn't have anything to run so it wouldn't have a function.
What you were probably trying to say was without the necessary required system files the ram would be largely useless. Of course that really isn't relevant in addressing what droidstyle said.
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Yes that is what I was trying to say. Thank you. But it is not irrelevant because by definition bloat would not be necessary files to my way of thinking. Bloat (the way I think of it) are files taking up space that are not necessary. This 380k is necessary.
the 380 is mostly necessary. you and droidstyle are both correct, no not all of that is useless stuff but honestly probably a majority of it is crap running in the background, stock apps and widgets and processes, that nobody will ever need.
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I was pretty sure is more and ANY android phone in existance except US variants of gs3 (and Korean one too maybe?)
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LG Optimus LTE II announced the same day as the Galaxy S III comes with 2 GB of RAM. Although, if I recall correctly, the usable memory is something like 1.2 GB.
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LG Optimus LTE II announced the same day as the Galaxy S III comes with 2 GB of RAM. Although, if I recall correctly, the usable memory is something like 1.2 GB.
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2GB of ram is quickly becoming the norm. It's nice after a couple days let say I have opened 60 apps, and when i go back to an app from the day before after using my phone the entire time, to be able to go back to that app and have it be right where i left it, having lost nothing......also it's nice to be able to run very involving launchers and not have to wait on it to reload from time to time......
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Huh. Think about what you just said.
Bloat is by definition superfluous data that is not required. And the ram would still work, it just wouldn't have anything to run so it wouldn't have a function.
What you were probably trying to say was without the necessary required system files the ram would be largely useless. Of course that really isn't relevant in addressing what droidstyle said.
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Your so called bloat isn't loaded into ram unless you launch it and I'm certain it isn't using the system reserved ram but would use the free ram pool. I would assume its the os and video memory that is using that space not some vzw apps you aren't using.
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Your so called bloat isn't loaded into ram unless you launch it and I'm certain it isn't using the system reserved ram but would use the free ram pool. I would assume its the os and video memory that is using that space not some vzw apps you aren't using.
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a lot of the Samsung stuff is indeed loaded into RAM.
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Can someone explain this to me?
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[/COLOR]Agree that it's being used by the video display. Video memory has to come from somewhere.
How much free ram are you seeing on your nexus 5?
Don't worry about free ram. Android uses it very efficiently. Free ram is wasted ram.
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jd1639 said:
Don't worry about free ram. Android uses it very efficiently. Free ram is wasted ram.
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Well KitKat is supposed to use less memory yet when I had my nexus 4 on 4.3 I had more free ram
izbrian said:
Well KitKat is supposed to use less memory yet when I had my nexus 4 on 4.3 I had more free ram
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Does your N4 have a custom ROM?
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Does your N4 have a custom ROM?
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Don't have it anymore and no when I had it completely stock but was seeing up to 1.5 free ram yet on my nexus 5 it's 1.35-1.41
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Don't have it anymore and no when I had it completely stock but was seeing up to 1.5 free ram yet on my nexus 5 it's 1.35-1.41
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KitKat uses RAM if it's able to. You have 2 GB of RAM. You don't need to worry about it.
KitKat would probably use RAM in a different way if it were installed on a 512MB RAM phone.
Edit: As of now, I have 1.2 GB of RAM free on my N4, after closing all apps, but the system is fast, and battery life is great!
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Don't worry about free ram. Android uses it very efficiently. Free ram is wasted ram.
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Why are people still preaching this nonsense?
This has never been the case on any of my Android phones. The apps and phone starts lagging when a lot of ram is consumed.
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Elisha said:
Why are people still preaching this nonsense?
This has never been the case on any of my Android phones. The apps and phone starts lagging when a lot of ram is consumed.
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Think how much it would lag if you're not using that ram. So why do you want free ram free.
No one answered the question
Elisha said:
Why are people still preaching this nonsense?
This has never been the case on any of my Android phones. The apps and phone starts lagging when a lot of ram is consumed.
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http://www.androidcentral.com/ram-what-it-how-its-used-and-why-you-shouldnt-care
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No one answered the question
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Because it's a silly, pointless question.
In order to answer your question, I would have to answer the following: "What apps do I have installed? How many? Which ones are syncing with what service? How many? How often? Am I sure you REALLY killed them, and they didn't immediately relaunch upon being killed? What system tasks were affected? Are we talking about immediately after a boot? 10minutes? After a kill-all command? When do you want this measurement?" ... etc.
What exactly are you hoping to accomplish and/or discover by polling this community for such information? Do you feel that your Nexus 5 is somehow diminished or the performance is somehow affected by not having as much free RAM available as your Nexus 4?
Depends on how many apps you got installed. Your question makes no sense.
unremarked said:
Because it's a silly, pointless question.
In order to answer your question, I would have to answer the following: "What apps do I have installed? How many? Which ones are syncing with what service? How many? How often? Am I sure you REALLY killed them, and they didn't immediately relaunch upon being killed? What system tasks were affected? Are we talking about immediately after a boot? 10minutes? After a kill-all command? When do you want this measurement?" ... etc.
What exactly are you hoping to accomplish and/or discover by polling this community for such information? Do you feel that your Nexus 5 is somehow diminished or the performance is somehow affected by not having as much free RAM available as your Nexus 4?
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Well guess you're right didn't of think of it like that