[Q][4G] Very aggressive Low Memory Killer - Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey guys,
I recently bought a Moto G 4G and I really love it except for one thing: It seems like the Low Memory Killer kicks in way too early! I always got plenty of RAM free and it still kicks in. Today it even killed my music player and my launcher was redrawn while I was just browsing with Firefox
I don't use Facebook or Whatsapp or any other RAM hungry app, basically Firefox, TextSecure and Google Music are the only Apps I run.
So has anybody else experienced this? I own another device with 1 GB RAM and it can easily handle my apps simultanously. I also tried lowering the LMK values with no success. Am I missing something? Has anybody else experienced this?
I really appreciate your help!
Best regards,
blueflame4

I have the same problem with my Moto G 4G LTE device... a toast saying that there is low memory would appear just by using Teamviewer Quicksupport on it, and nothing else. Don't know why.

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Do apps need killing to speed android?

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This may be a daft question but do I need to keep killing apps so they do not use resources? I have installed a 16gb card in my HTC Hero and if I run music I note a slow down which goes when i force quit an app.
Have I misunderstood how the android os manages tasks? Any light happily recieved on this issue... thanks.
Well android i believe kills apps itself sometimes but it depends how you exit it.
Atleast on my MT3g there is some lag while music player is going even if all tasks are killed...less of crouse if i make sure they are but still. Sometimes i catch pandora or gallery or browser still in background so it always helps to kill them. Best app for that is Es Task manager - from all ones i tried this one works best.
Also your microsd card size wont make phone any faster if thats what you think, Also look into maybe some ROMs if you want your hero to be faster. I know Cyanogens rom for mt3g makes phone much quicker then t-mobile/google roms.
thanks. I think I am going to move to a G2 anyway. The HTC is too limited with Android 1.5

Memory limit issue!

I have noticed that occasionally browser closes itself while reading news and I'm being back to reloading news app. I thought perhaps it's my fingers touching back button. But after installing Tasker it gave me warnings, pointing to limited memory. My investigation shows that browser can take up to 150MB with few tabs open, depending how you exit the browser. With 370MB total on this phone it creates low memory condition and results in system killing all foreground processes to reclaim memory. So that's me being kicked out of my news :-l
I did factory reset thinking perhaps it's due to rooting but it's not it. I have a few apps but not that many.
Now the phone was marketed as gaming device. Do we know if the gpu memory 140MB is used at all for graphics by regular apps? Also is every game using it or is it utilized only by Tegra specific games?
I'm starting to think that 512MB is real issue, affecting phone's normal use. Even if you have your active app running ok often you may notice that your previous app was removed since system tries to clean background processes first. In my case news needs re-downloading and then I have to navigate to the place I left.
I just hope gingerbread will address the issue, to some extend.
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Have you frozen the Tmobile bloat? I got one memory error message before I rooted & froze. I haven't got any since & that is running a custom home (Go Launcher EX or SPB 3D) with Lookout, Watchdog, Wifi calling, Noom & a ton of custom live widgets.
Is this with the stock browser? I used Skyfire & it was a bit buggy so I use the stock but I keep my tab count to a minimum - usually less than 3 at a time because I have Flash enabled. In fact Flash could be your issue. Try disabling Flash and see what happens.
Bloatware was first thing axed. it's on stock browser. just checked dolphin browser with flash disabled and received low memory notification from tasker when browsing on three tabs. So it's not browser or flash specific. Can somebody confirm that browser can allocate 100 or more MB when using it actively? I was bit shocked seeing this.
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This never happened to me. I just checked my available memory when watching a flash video in the browser and it was still showing 137mb left. While playing pocket legends it is telling me I have 111mb left.
Sometimes certain apps that are coded wrong will suck up a ton of memory. This happened to me when I downloaded the NFL mobile app.
I can't speak for a g2x, but since my g2 has the same ram, I can say on stock browser regardless of the amount of ram I have available which always seems to be around 50 to 70, browsing has never been an issue for me. I only get insuffcient memory issues when installing apps from the market on rare occassions, redownload and it usually works. Not sure if this helps, but a phone with same memory specs just chiming in. I'm running cm7, a few widgets mostly utilities stuff.
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[Q]Ram issues Nexus S Jelly Bean!

This is my first post on XDA and although i'm not new to the android scene having owned a lot of devices in previous years but I never came down to post queries of my own cause everything used to go real smooth!
I recently got a Nexus S i9020t from a friend and tried flashing a Jelly Bean rom on my device.
No issues so far with everything working with every rom that i've tried...
The only thing that bugs me is the ram.
I've tried several kernels on top of different roms (Matrix, Air (Big-Mem version), Marmite etc.) designed for Jelly Bean but I never to seem get any greater ram than about 150-170 mb even on first boot with no applications installed and when I restore about 50 of my apps through titanium it goes down to 120-150 at max.
I have tried rebooting my device every now and then but the ram leak doesn't get any better.
That way most apps that I run crash my device (im a big fan of chrome on android but the lack of availability of free ram degrades performance)
I've been looking into using different free task managers on the play store but of no use.
Simply put, my question relates to the free ram this device can generate!
Can anyone give me an explanation as to the lack of free ram and what kernel, tips and tricks I could follow to improve it?
You can try flashing a kernel that supports BIGMEM(check the development section). Since you're new you won't be able to post any question regarding said mod. Basically gives you 50mb of extra RAM which, IIRC, takes away from the HD recording portion of the phone or something of that nature. The 512MB RAM sucks, but I never had an issue with it on mine. Then again, I never really ran a lot of applications. Android can handle the tasks on its own and free up memory when needed. But you may face a few launcher redraws now and then.
chronophase1 said:
You can try flashing a kernel that supports BIGMEM(check the development section). Since you're new you won't be able to post any question regarding said mod. Basically gives you 50mb of extra RAM which, IIRC, takes away from the HD recording portion of the phone or something of that nature. The 512MB RAM sucks, but I never had an issue with it on mine. Then again, I never really ran a lot of applications. Android can handle the tasks on its own and free up memory when needed. But you may face a few launcher redraws now and then.
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Yeah so like you said I did try the Big Mem versions of Air Kernel and Matrix but it was never really of much use. Matrix gives me about 180 mb of ram when the device has no foreground apps running (except the system processes of course) and Air goes to about 140-160 not more.
The thing that I don't get is that this other friend runs Jelly Bean on his Galaxy S with Devil Kernel or something and his free ram is above 190-ish.
Technically both sport the same hardware with a few extras on Nexus S (led flash, lack of gorila glass, NFC etc.) but it really doesn't make sense.
And about those Launcher redraws. Yeah, they've been going really frequent now that I installed and use chrome as my daily browser.
Overall, in my experience I'd say Matrix Kernel would be perfect if it weren't for that Voodoo Colour Mod. It gives a weird hue to my display orangy in nature but Air comes around well in that department.
We all understand what you're experiencing. Basically, our Nexus S devices just are not able to keep up with the ever increasing size of electronic files. Even though it's nice to be able to run JB, it really stretches the Nexus to it's limits. I too am torn, because I love the smoothness of 4.1.1, but to be honest, the phone can handle GB much easier. One other thing, Chrome is a huge consumer of ram ... really too much for the NS. As much as I love my Nexus, the handwriting is on the wall, if I really want to continue to enjoy all the new stuff coming our way.
The colors can be adjusted to your liking. Some kernels have a setting that's not the factory norm(ie Trinity). You also have to keep in mind some of that RAM has to be dedicated to the OS itself. You're gonna have to deal with the fact the phone has a memory limitation on 4.1. Sucks, but there's really not much else you can really do about it.
I could never get above 125MB on GB even with a custom kernel. With only 512MB ram, more than half of that is already used by Android itself, there's not much left for apps. That said, I would remove unnecessary widgets on home screens, install Autostarts, or ROM Toolbox, or Gemini App Manager or other autostart management app and turn off autorun triggers on apps. The less background apps the more rams you can free up. I'm currently running with about 75MB and it's smooth. I set auto free rams to start killing apps if it's below 45MB.
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I could never get above 125MB on GB even with a custom kernel. With only 512MB ram, more than half of that is already used by Android itself, there's not much left for apps. That said, I would remove unnecessary widgets on home screens, install Autostarts, or ROM Toolbox, or Gemini App Manager or other autostart management app and turn off autorun triggers on apps. The less background apps the more rams you can free up. I'm currently running with about 75MB and it's smooth. I set auto free rams to start killing apps if it's below 45MB.
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Those auto triggers you talk of what software do you use to counter those cause I just looked at the cached processes inside the stock Application Manager and it showed a few that always show up when my phone boots. Of those that I usually encounter is Titanium, Maps, Google Search and a two or three more. Killing them doesn't make much of a difference though. Either the ram display at the bottom is screwed or the ram just doesn't go up when I abort any one of them and after a while they again show up. How do I deal with them?
Some general points.
Yes we want more ram. But we want it to use it. Free ram is wasted ram.
Task managers suck. All of them.
Low ram should not crash your device.
Stop worrying about how me free ram you have
Chrome sucks. It sucks on all devices. Sucks on n7. AOSP just runs better.
Want to keep a little more free ram because your device lags when its low on ram. Go to developer options and limit background processes
I'm with al. No point in over-obsessing about it. Cached processes aren't doing anything. They're there for when you want to switch apps for quicker access, which part of the way Android operates. You can limit what starts on startup to increase boot time(probably not even worth it), which I do even though I just said it probably doesn't help much, with a startup manager.
I to am no fan of task killers. I've heard that they can sometimes consume more ram since some of the killed apps will try to start again.
I found the autostarts app very useful. I have disabled around 50% of all auto starts. Mainly for installed apps but also a bunch of system apps. Another useful tool is Auto Memory Manager which sets the ram level where the system kills apps according to their category (e.g. Foregroud, visible, hidden etc). I use the "mild" manager with the level for empty apps raised. I manage to get around 80 MB free when running nothing. However I have a performance ROM which might affect that number.
My Nexus S has been retired a long time now.. I'm currently using the GS3 with lots of rams so it's not an issue for me anymore dealing with low rams... However, same symptoms on the GS3 or any Android phone, the less available rams means more processes are running which can cause slow app responsiveness. Also, some app even runs in the background hogging load of cpu usage, that definitely slows down your phone. I use task manager to kill off those high cpu apps when they go wild. OS Monitor is a good app for monitoring cpu usage... GO SMS Pro is an example app that sometimes persistently consumes 30% - 50% cpu, killling it off makes the phone smooth again.
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Does this tablet just not want to multitask?

So I have had the tablet for a week now, running Marshmallow. Just rooted, nothing more. One thing that is driving me nuts with this tablet is that the way it uses its memory. It does not want to keep apps in memory.
For instance. I can be playing a game, jump out to Chrome, surf for a minute, go to email, then go back to my game and the game needs to reload. I look at the RAM and it says I have like 800mb free. This happens over and over to me.
Is this just normal for the Shield that it aggressively closes apps so fast. I am just comparing to my Nexus 7 that didn't behave like this and I thought it was very odd.
Any advice would be appreciated, thanks!
Good question. I self have noticed this behaver, but I have the K1 only for a bit more than a week too and upgrade directly to Android 6.0, so I can't say if that happens on 5.x too. A Bug? A "Feature" of Android 6.0 or of the K1 itself? What ever it is, I don't like it, makes no sense for me, the K1 have enough RAM.
jev3gs said:
So I have had the tablet for a week now, running Marshmallow. Just rooted, nothing more. One thing that is driving me nuts with this tablet is that the way it uses its memory. It does not want to keep apps in memory.
For instance. I can be playing a game, jump out to Chrome, surf for a minute, go to email, then go back to my game and the game needs to reload. I look at the RAM and it says I have like 800mb free. This happens over and over to me.
Is this just normal for the Shield that it aggressively closes apps so fast. I am just comparing to my Nexus 7 that didn't behave like this and I thought it was very odd.
Any advice would be appreciated, thanks!
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I'm noticing similar behavior but can't effectively tie it to the Marshmallow update either. I'm running stock with Action Launcher 3 as my launcher.
I see the same reload for apps when I've switched between multiple in one sitting. The one place I notice it frequently is in my use of Muzei, which I use in conjunction with Tapet, for changing wallpapers. It seems like at least once a day I access my tablet and notice that the wallpaper has reverted to a stock, static wallpaper and Muzei needs to be "activated".
sfringer said:
I'm noticing similar behavior but can't effectively tie it to the Marshmallow update either. I'm running stock with Action Launcher 3 as my launcher.
I see the same reload for apps when I've switched between multiple in one sitting. The one place I notice it frequently is in my use of Muzei, which I use in conjunction with Tapet, for changing wallpapers. It seems like at least once a day I access my tablet and notice that the wallpaper has reverted to a stock, static wallpaper and Muzei needs to be "activated".
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Well I have no went back to 5.1, and the same problem. I can be playing a game, come out to the browser for a minute or 2, then go back to the game and it needs to be fully reloaded. Honestly I am soo surprised it acts this way, especially with 2GB of ram. It is such a let down. I wish people would have mentioned this in there reviews in the product as I saw it no where. I hate to say it, but it drives me nuts enough I am about to be an Ex-shield owner. I like playing games on this but I am sure other people are like me where they play for 15 -20 minutes. Put it down for a little bit, come back and want to play more. This just doesn't allow for that. It acts more like a portable console. constantly needing to be relaunched.
It's really annoying that it dumps apps out of memory. Like say I'm in Facebook and I want to look up a link in chrome to reply to a comment with.. So I switch to chrome find the link, switch back to Facebook, and now I'm at the main page again and have to scroll and find where I was at and sometimes I just can't and give up. Why Nvidia why?!
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ou2mame said:
It's really annoying that it dumps apps out of memory. Like say I'm in Facebook and I want to look up a link in chrome to reply to a comment with.. So I switch to chrome find the link, switch back to Facebook, and now I'm at the main page again and have to scroll and find where I was at and sometimes I just can't and give up. Why Nvidia why?!
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As far as I can tell, this is a bug/feature that Nvidia is responsible for. At first, I used to worry about switching between a game like Real Racing 3 and Chrome browser. The game will almost certainly close. Now, the there's an even bigger problem. I can't have a reasonable amount of tabs open in Chrome. They reload each time I switch to them. I considered switching to Firefox and/or Opera to see if the problem would persist but I just can't do without Chrome's syncing capabilities.
The only thing keeping me from rooting and trying out a custom ROM is the loss of Nvidia's proprietary apps.
albert0pia said:
As far as I can tell, this is a bug/feature that Nvidia is responsible for. At first, I used to worry about switching between a game like Real Racing 3 and Chrome browser. The game will almost certainly close. Now, the there's an even bigger problem. I can't have a reasonable amount of tabs open in Chrome. They reload each time I switch to them. I considered switching to Firefox and/or Opera to see if the problem would persist but I just can't do without Chrome's syncing capabilities.
The only thing keeping me from rooting and trying out a custom ROM is the loss of Nvidia's proprietary apps.
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The chrome tab problem might not be tablet related. I have the same issue on my Sony Xperia Z3 compact and on my Nexus 9. Maybe chrome sucks up so much ram that it forces android to close app in the background and tabs to unload?
DBBGBA said:
The chrome tab problem might not be tablet related. I have the same issue on my Sony Xperia Z3 compact and on my Nexus 9. Maybe chrome sucks up so much ram that it forces android to close app in the background and tabs to unload?
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My Marshmallow-running HTC One M8 handles this better than the tablet that has a more powerful hardware. I don't know how many tabs my phone can handle at a time but I know the tablet doesn't even come close in that regard.
I didn't buy a 2GB RAM tablet only to have it treat my browser tabs like an iPad with 1GB of RAM.
Holy crap... uninstall Facebook and Messenger and this thing flies. I always felt like it gamed "ok" but the UI was laggy as hell. Uninstalled FB and Messenger and now this thing is a beast.
T1Pimp said:
Holy crap... uninstall Facebook and Messenger and this thing flies. I always felt like it gamed "ok" but the UI was laggy as hell. Uninstalled FB and Messenger and now this thing is a beast.
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I would recommend that on any android device. I've noticed on all of my devices with facebook that it was listed as the number one app for battery use even when I hadn't launched it in days. After uninstalling it I got improvements in battery life and now I just use their mobile website in chrome. I actually like that better as links open up in a new tab and there is no need to switch apps to go back and forth between facebook and web pages. I also created a home screen link to the facebook mobile website and put it in a folder on one of my home screens.
I hated the aggressive ram management of the stock rom initially so i rooted it and flashed BitO-k4 kernel , it improved but not up to the mark compared to my nexus 5x , now i use CM13 temasek's build (multirom) and it is way way better.
i think the stock rom is the initial culprit here, removing apps like facebook might help but things like swap , zram and ram management values present in stock will always be bottlenecks for true multitasking.
try using different kernels from our community it might help a bit.
Try kernels from 4pda.ru
http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=617264&view=findpost&p=48990563
or
http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=617264&view=findpost&p=46309014
T1Pimp said:
Holy crap... uninstall Facebook and Messenger and this thing flies. I always felt like it gamed "ok" but the UI was laggy as hell. Uninstalled FB and Messenger and now this thing is a beast.
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If you still want to use fb try the app tinfoil for Facebook. That kinda goes for anyone regardless of what they are using, it's a lot better. Facebook apps suck so bad with resources they slow just about anything down...

Aggressive memory management?

Sorry if this has been discussed before, I am new to the P20.
Does Huawei use some pretty aggressive memory management, or is it just me or setup? I typically have about 1.3 to 1.5GB free RAM, but when I switch tasks with the application switcher it seems like a lot of applications have to cold start and don't come back where I left them... I have a Moto G5 Plus (4GB RAM) device before, and never had this problem, could switch out of a game or Facebook and switch back and forth with no issues... Now if I am playing a simple puzzle game, minimize it and open FB or even something simple like a Google search, then switch back to the game it always restarts.
acejavelin said:
Sorry if this has been discussed before, I am new to the P20.
Does Huawei use some pretty aggressive memory management, or is it just me or setup? I typically have about 1.3 to 1.5GB free RAM, but when I switch tasks with the application switcher it seems like a lot of applications have to cold start and don't come back where I left them... I have a Moto G5 Plus (4GB RAM) device before, and never had this problem, could switch out of a game or Facebook and switch back and forth with no issues... Now if I am playing a simple puzzle game, minimize it and open FB or even something simple like a Google search, then switch back to the game it always restarts.
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I've experienced similar things. I really think that it's emui9 doing that and throttling background processes
Amphibius2 said:
I've experienced similar things. I really think that it's emui9 doing that and throttling background processes
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Could be... I have a lot of the Huawei services disabled and am running Nova Launcher and most of the Google applications rather than the Huawei ones. It's not really a problem most of the time, just a little annoying.
That is the biggest problem I have with this phone, I used to have a Huawei P10 with the same amount of RAM and I never experienced this problem.

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