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My Nexus S thinks he's a Galaxy Nexus?!?!

This afternoon, my phone started to act really strange, it started to show options that are usually only present on the Gnex browser..
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but when I wanted to install an app made by my friend, the phone told me my memory was full and directed me to the 'manage apps' settings, where I noticed that there was another Gnex button..
I tried wiping cache+dalvik cache and I even fixed permissions, but neither of these things worked. So please help me!!

Using a CM10 based ROM maybe?
Go to Settings > System > Physical buttons > Show app button (or something similar, uncheck it)
Then reboot.

polobunny said:
Using a CM10 based ROM maybe?
Go to Settings > System > Physical buttons > Show app button (or something similar, uncheck it)
Then reboot.
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Thanksss!!!
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But I still can't install my friends app... tried it with an other 3rd party app, but that one doesn't work either
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jojoost said:
But I still can't install my friends app... tried it with an other 3rd party app, but that one doesn't work either
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Without an error message or the name of the app, we can't help you.
Edit: Nevermind, seen your message. Are you trying to pirate an app per chance? If you have any .odex files, in /data/app with the same name as the app, which could get created if you're trying to pirate an app, that could pose a problem with the install.
Make sure you have enough space on your "external" memory too, not just internal. Some apps will need to install additional data to the SDcard and show you that warning.

polobunny said:
Without an error message or the name of the app, we can't help you.
Edit: Nevermind, seen your message. Are you trying to pirate an app per chance? If you have any .odex files, in /data/app with the same name as the app, which could get created if you're trying to pirate an app, that could pose a problem with the install.
Make sure you have enough space on your "external" memory too, not just internal. Some apps will need to install additional data to the SDcard and show you that warning.
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Nope, its not a pirated app, still thanks, think I'm going to flash a new rom, as it also is getting buggier and laggier. But still I would like to thanks you!
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"system data" what is it?

I have a file on my internal sdcard called "system data" and it's over 500mb...
Can someone explain what it says and how to downsize it?
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spikedzombies said:
I have a file on my internal sdcard called "system data" and it's over 500mb...
Can someone explain what it says and how to downsize it?
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That's all your stuff needed to run your phone properly. If you want to downsize it you can delete unused ringtones and other sounds, but dont tinker with much more or you could brick your phone.

jbats said:
That's all your stuff needed to run your phone properly. If you want to downsize it you can delete unused ringtones and other sounds, but dont tinker with much more or you could brick your phone.
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I'm on a fresh format with everything on my external sdcard
There's no reason it should be that large
Internal memory
And
External sdcard
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spikedzombies said:
I'm on a fresh format with everything on my external sdcard
There's no reason it should be that large
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U need to use a root file explorer and do some digging, very curious. Report back the cause if u find

i spent 2 hours going through the entire internal sdcard.. and found nothing out of the ordinary.

spikedzombies said:
i spent 2 hours going through the entire internal sdcard.. and found nothing out of the ordinary.
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I've had this problem pop up even after running a clean install until I finally figured it out (for myself at least) SD card/DCIM/THUMBNAILS. It would usually use about 3.75 Gig if not more, until I would delete it and free up the space as it's really not needed.
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chinabear13 said:
I've had this problem pop up even after running a clean install until I finally figured it out (for myself at least) SD card/DCIM/THUMBNAILS. It would usually use about 3.75 Gig if not more, until I would delete it and free up the space as it's really not needed.
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I don't keep picture on my phone and I've cleared the thumbnail data multiple times.
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Bumping this hopefully someone knows the answer...
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[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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Android L - taking 1.2GB RAM

why does it takes 1.2 gb ram when i was with 4.4.4 it used only 600mb of ram with apps on
i barely have apps, i have 9.63 gb of space left, nfc off, low brightness.

It only uses about 600mb of ram -
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And 113 of that was the settings i was looking at to screen shot
Sent from my Android 5.0 Nexus 5

reboot more often, your phone will run better and will thank you.

simms22 said:
reboot more often, your phone will run better and will thank you.
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How and why does reboot help? Not a loaded question or sarcasm.

KyraOfFire said:
How and why does reboot help? Not a loaded question or sarcasm.
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it clears some caches and clears your ram from being held for one thing or another. i reboot every day, and my n5 always runs great.

simms22 said:
it clears some caches and clears your ram from being held for one thing or another. i reboot every day, and my n5 always runs great.
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Thanks, I'll give it a try.

simms22 said:
it clears some caches and clears your ram from being held for one thing or another. i reboot every day, and my n5 always runs great.
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you shouldn't have to reboot everyday. I suspect this is similar the memory leak issue that some users are experiencing. yes reboot does help, but it still comes back which isn't the solution.

Do you use Google Music? That app caches a lot. If you want to know what takes up your storage, download DiskUsage from the Play store. I always see Google Music taking up a lot of space. Then I just clear cache in the Google Music app.

rogerchew said:
you shouldn't have to reboot everyday. I suspect this is similar the memory leak issue that some users are experiencing. yes reboot does help, but it still comes back which isn't the solution.
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its been like that since the very first android. and ive been rebooting once a day since oct 18th, 2008. if you dont want to reboot, dont. but your phone will be happier.

This is definitely a bug. I hope Google will fix this asap.
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[Q] Android Without free RAM!!!!

Hi! I have an Xperia E dual (C1604) and i'm with this problem, everytime i look the phone have only 90~30MB of free RAM!So every eight hours must restart the phone! I'm using the Experia Black Edition ROM, greenify in all my apps (except the launcher and keyboard), and i'm having problems to acess big sites and play hard games because of this problem. Can someone help me?

Hello.
No one can exactly predict the problem/culprit without further information. But i think you should start with looing up, which apps or services is exactly taking the RAM. It would be a nice idea to try this app, [Startup Manager: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=imoblife.startupmanager&hl=da], and remove some startup items and see if the problem persists.

JACK_SNOWSTALKER said:
Hi! I have an Xperia E dual (C1604) and i'm with this problem, everytime i look the phone have only 90~30MB of free RAM!So every eight hours must restart the phone! I'm using the Experia Black Edition ROM, greenify in all my apps (except the launcher and keyboard), and i'm having problems to acess big sites and play hard games because of this problem. Can someone help me?
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In either way you wont be able to play high end games since its a low ram device i had the exact device but i threw it out the window and got a better phone suggest you doing that + more ram wont give you anything since the cpu and gpu is really really crap. so if you dont need to play games and just dont want the system to lag i suggest installing Android LimeOs 1.1 or 1.12 since its very very light weight i have
xperia go and another phone on xperia go it has 512 ram and with lime os there is about 200-100 mb left
thats the limit of free ram cuz the system rezerves about 300 mb

In either way you wont be able to play high end games since its a low ram device i had the exact device but i threw it out the window and got a better phone suggest you doing that + more ram wont give you anything since the cpu and gpu is really really crap. so if you dont need to play games and just dont want the system to lag i suggest installing Android LimeOs 1.1 or 1.12 since its very very light weight i have
xperia go and another phone on xperia go it has 512 ram and with lime os there is about 200-100 mb left
thats the limit of free ram cuz the system rezerves about 300 mb
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yeah, i know about that....but i don't have money to buy other phone, and if i had money to change my smartphone, i would not be asking. But thank you!!! I will search this Android ROM,thank you!
Hello.
No one can exactly predict the problem/culprit without further information. But i think you should start with looing up, which apps or services is exactly taking the RAM. It would be a nice idea to try this app, [Startup Manager: https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...manager&hl=da], and remove some startup items and see if the problem persists.
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this was the first thing i made when i installed the ROM and the apps.
Guys, my problem is, after hours, my android become slow, and without free RAM, i installed the "watchdog" app, and i saw, all memory is consumed by system apps (some are necessary, some not) and Whatsapp closes, my Launcher (smartlauncher 2) closes too, and it's pissing me off!
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