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[Q] memory leak?

so far, this is my only issue with this phone. after restarting it, i'll have (via ATK) ~175M free with no programs being shown as running. after a day or two, it'll drop to ~90M free with no programs being shown as running.
is this due to a memory leak?
is this normal for 2.1?
is it the phone itself?
will it be addressed by 2.2, when available?
this is my first android device, and i've gotten used to it pretty quickly, but i've never seen anything like this.
thanks in advance

Don't know if this is going to be fixed anytime soon, but I use minfree to set the limits for memory usage and it seems to work pretty well.
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Lucke said:
so far, this is my only issue with this phone. after restarting it, i'll have (via ATK) ~175M free with no programs being shown as running. after a day or two, it'll drop to ~90M free with no programs being shown as running.
is this due to a memory leak?
is this normal for 2.1?
is it the phone itself?
will it be addressed by 2.2, when available?
this is my first android device, and i've gotten used to it pretty quickly, but i've never seen anything like this.
thanks in advance
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I was thinking the same thing. When I reboot my phone and do a task-kill, I'll have about 120 - 140 MB free. As the day goes by, it drops to 60 - 90 after a task-kill. Either something isn't freeing memory or ATK isn't reporting everything that's running.

skinien said:
I was thinking the same thing. When I reboot my phone and do a task-kill, I'll have about 120 - 140 MB free. As the day goes by, it drops to 60 - 90 after a task-kill. Either something isn't freeing memory or ATK isn't reporting everything that's running.
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I use auokiller(need root) and TaskOs(root not needed). The first one works pretty well at keeping everything above 100mb using my settings and the second one can end running apps and take the mem back up to the 150mb i get on boot

[Q] Nexus S random reboot and bug help!

Since I updated my Nexus S (i9020a to be exact) to ICS 4.0.4, my phone has been randomly rebooting like everyday! I did manually update it but I got stock Android and also I am unrooted not have my bootloader unlocked. Why is this happening so frequently? Should I factory reset my phone?

kyokeun1234 said:
Since I updated my Nexus S (i9020a to be exact) to ICS 4.0.4, my phone has been randomly rebooting like everyday! I did manually update it but I got stock Android and also I am unrooted not have my bootloader unlocked. Why is this happening so frequently? Should I factory reset my phone?
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Try that yes
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I just did. No reboot yet... hoping that this worth my data...
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I also had a spontaneous reboot a couple of days after I updated to 4.0.4.
It's only been four days total, so I'll be keeping an eye on it.
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nope... didn't get it there...
maybe you should wipe your cache and dalvik-cache... and don't forget to fix permissions...

savantist said:
nope... didn't get it there...
maybe you should wipe your cache and dalvik-cache... and don't forget to fix permissions...
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The thing is I'm not rooted and it seems that factory resetting actually did a job cuz no reboot so far... I'll update forum if this method works...
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Personally I've had several occurences of random reboots and actually at the phone lock into a reboot loop till I pulled the battery.
I think the issue is RAM management. The Nexus S doesn't have as much RAM as most tablets and it's younger sister the Galaxy Nexus. Something in how the OS decides which of the background services should be terminated and cached under heavy RAM load seems to be part of the problem.
For example, I seem to have improved my phone stability by removing apps that update in the background and don't need to (UAL, I'm looking at you ) and disabling background updates in other applications (TripIt, PodKicker Pro, etc) to prevent them from leaving background services running. That seems to have helped in my case.

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Personally I've had several occurences of random reboots and actually at the phone lock into a reboot loop till I pulled the battery.
I think the issue is RAM management. The Nexus S doesn't have as much RAM as most tablets and it's younger sister the Galaxy Nexus. Something in how the OS decides which of the background services should be terminated and cached under heavy RAM load seems to be part of the problem.
For example, I seem to have improved my phone stability by removing apps that update in the background and don't need to (UAL, I'm looking at you ) and disabling background updates in other applications (TripIt, PodKicker Pro, etc) to prevent them from leaving background services running. That seems to have helped in my case.
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You actually might be right! Ics probably is optimized for phone with duel core and at least 1gb of ram...
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kyokeun1234 said:
Since I updated my Nexus S (i9020a to be exact) to ICS 4.0.4, my phone has been randomly rebooting like everyday! I did manually update it but I got stock Android and also I am unrooted not have my bootloader unlocked. Why is this happening so frequently? Should I factory reset my phone?
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wipe data may solve this issue.

I have been running Pete's Bugless Beast which has both the ROM and Kernel updated to 4.0.4. Never had a random reboot.
I doubt it is a memory issue. When my phone doesn't have a foreground app open it usually has 130 MB ~ 150 MB free. I never see it go below 100 MB.

AeroEchelon said:
I have been running Pete's Bugless Beast which has both the ROM and Kernel updated to 4.0.4. Never had a random reboot.
I doubt it is a memory issue. When my phone doesn't have a foreground app open it usually has 130 MB ~ 150 MB free. I never see it go below 100 MB.
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My phone is not rooted, so is there any way to fix it without flashing anything?
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Exactly when is it powercycling?
Is it when running a certain app? When plugged in? When on standby? When you set it down or bump it?
There a number of different reasons the phone could be powercycling.
If it's while running a certain app or completely at random while you're not using it, unprevoked, first try hard resetting it. That will resolve the majority of issues.
If it's when you set it down or it's bumped, it's an issue with the battery making contact. Remove your battery, clean the contacts gently with a pencil eraser, make sure the contacts are clean and free from pocket lint on the phone itself and reinsert the battery.
If it's still doing it after a reset, it could be your processor. The best way I've found to test your processor is to max it out. You can do this by running a benchmark app over and over while everything on your phone is running. I personally use "Neocore" (available in the Play Store). Turn on your bluetooth, wifi, max your screen brightness, gps, every battery sucking processor running setting available. Run Neocore as 'Interactive Mode'. If you run that for an hour without powercycling, your processor is good. If it powercycles, you have a bad processor and should have your phone replaced through Samsung warranty.
Best of luck to you!

Random reboot
My phone is rebooting at least 15 times a day !
It is very random : during a phone call/installing an app/unlock the phone/writing with keyboard/phone is idle...
Applications are also often not responding...
I did a factory reset/wipe data several times but it didnt change anything.
Phone :Nexus S i9023
Carrier : unlocked ( HK )
OS/build number : Android 4.04/IMM76D
A really big amount of people posted the same issue on google mobile forum. ( i can't post link yet as it is my first post ) title "Random reboot of nexus with Android 4" ( please google it ) , but nobody mentionned anything with CPU. Could it be really that many people having a default CPU ?

After my last post, no reboots for while but now reboots are back with increasing frequency.
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I don't usually like resurrect a really old thread, but after a road trip where my Nexus S randomly rebooted 4-5 times while running Podkicker Pro and Maps Navigation I went and reset my device to factory defaults. The next day I had the phone reboot in the middle of a podcast. Today it rebooted halfway through the first ring when I received a call.
Seems to be, at least in my case, that the reboots are related to mp3 audio.
This lead me to find this bug logged against the galaxy nexus: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=22669
It doesn't provide an answer, but it does provide some insight. I think personally I might look at different ringtone formats and see if converting my custom ringtone to something other than MP3 will help, but I'm not optimistic.

RAM problems with Lollipop

Someone have problems of full ram with lollipop?
My nexus 5 after one day become very slow and all apps reboot itself and can't stay open in multitasking.
Only a reboot solve this problem. All stock. No root.

slv96 said:
Someone have problems of full ram with lollipop?
My nexus 5 after one day become very slow and all apps reboot itself and can't stay open in multitasking.
Only a reboot solve this problem. All stock. No root.
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How do you get to that screen? I haven't had any issues since my install about 17 hours ago.

radar5 said:
How do you get to that screen? I haven't had any issues since my install about 17 hours ago.
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Settings, apps, swipe left.

slv96 said:
Settings, apps, swipe left.
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I swiped right past it when I was looking. My RAM is nowhere near that. System 442 MB, Apps 635 RAM, Free 779MB

Day two here. Not an Issue. I clean wiped.
Did you dirty flash? If yes,reflash and do a clean.
Did you reinstall apps using googles back up? If yes, wipe and when resetting up do not use this service.
Did you just clean wipe because that usually fixes stuff? If not. You may want to try it.

slv96 said:
Someone have problems of full ram with lollipop?
My nexus 5 after one day become very slow and all apps reboot itself and can't stay open in multitasking.
Only a reboot solve this problem. All stock. No root.
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Weird... My system is only take about 200 MB

This problem happen also with last dev preview. Of course i have done a full wipe to install lollipop final.

I'm only using have the ram. No issues here. You may have an app not optimized for lollipop.

i know this may not be the optimal solution but FB apps? just run a day without them and then see if the problem still persists.

Only 67mb here....

Normal for me here too been running for almost 24 hours.

Memory leak?

Does anybody have feeling of huge memory leak?
My phone killed every app and sometimes even killed activities until reboot.

If you're on 5.0, then yes, everyone has it. Well known about.

Rusty! said:
If you're on 5.0, then yes, everyone has it. Well known about.
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Read about it extensively here but can't say I suffer from it myself.

I've had the launcher redraw itself once, and that was after 4 days uptime. Other than that it's been fine for me too
Whether this is because I keep all apps cleared when not in use I don't know though

EddyOS said:
I've had the launcher redraw itself once, and that was after 4 days uptime. Other than that it's been fine for me too
Whether this is because I keep all apps cleared when not in use I don't know though
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I'm guessing not because I never clear anything. But certainly my most recent handful of apps when brought back from recents all seem to open back up in their cached states instantaneously. I also can't see any evidence of memory leak when looking at RAM info.
I don't use GEL so cannot attest to any redraws there.

rootSU said:
I'm guessing not because I never clear anything. But certainly my most recent handful of apps when brought back from recents all seem to open back up in their cached states instantaneously. I also can't see any evidence of memory leak when looking at RAM info.
I don't use GEL so cannot attest to any redraws there.
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i use GEL, but see 0 evidence on my nexus 5 of a memory leak. no redraws, my recents always bring me back to where i was, browser stays in memory, and have plenty of free ram hanging around.

rootSU said:
I'm guessing not because I never clear anything. But certainly my most recent handful of apps when brought back from recents all seem to open back up in their cached states instantaneously. I also can't see any evidence of memory leak when looking at RAM info.
I don't use GEL so cannot attest to any redraws there.
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simms22 said:
i use GEL, but see 0 evidence on my nexus 5 of a memory leak. no redraws, my recents always bring me back to where i was, browser stays in memory, and have plenty of free ram hanging around.
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Same here. Not a SINGLE launcher redraw unless I purposefully killed it for whatever reason. Always have a large amount of RAM free. Don't know what people are complaining about lol.

Lethargy said:
Same here. Not a SINGLE launcher redraw unless I purposefully killed it for whatever reason. Always have a large amount of RAM free. Don't know what people are complaining about lol.
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my guess its their setups, or what they are using(apps, rom, kernel, whatever).

simms22 said:
my guess its their setups, or what they are using(apps, rom, kernel, whatever).
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I'm on stock, and it's system that starts hoarding the RAM, even though there is 600MB free ProcStats lists RAM usage as critical.
I'd like it to be my setup, so then I could bloody fix it ?

Rusty! said:
I'm on stock, and it's system that starts hoarding the RAM, even though there is 600MB free ProcStats lists RAM usage as critical.
I'd like it to be my setup, so then I could bloody fix it ?
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Doesn't happen here. Usually have about 1GB RAM free.

On completely stock N5 upgraded via OTA - serious problems as well. I've tried some of the various mitigation strategies noted online, disabling various google apps, fiddling with wifi, etc, but what works best for me for now is just rebooting my phone every morning, and just dealing with poor battery life.
Here is one thread:
https://code.google.com/p/android-developer-preview/issues/detail?id=1701
There are a number of other ones as well.

this happens to me as well. i found that it may related to wi-fi. android l was originally delayed due to some w-fi issue.
i keep my wi-fi turned off, then reboot. it's been good since. i posted my findings in google issue tracker (Issue 79729). someone else confirmed it helps them by keeping wi-fi off.
see below google issue tracker
post #102, #108, #112
code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=79729

Same problem here. Sometimes it is as low as 170 MB. It became difficult to take screenshot of this. So I had to take a picture from my friend's phone

adwacommunications said:
Same problem here. Sometimes it is as low as 170 MB. It became difficult to take screenshot of this. So I had to take a picture from my friend's phone
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Rebooted a couple hours ago but its the same as after 48 hours.
Also, get rid of that BatteryGuru crap.

All I know is if I don't reboot, after 1-2 days my phone will randomly freeze and become unresponsive until a reboot. Completely stock and the only 3rd party services in the background are Dashclock (35MB) and Llama (10MB).
It may have gotten better when I switched back to using 2.4Ghz WiFi mode but I can't tell since I reboot nightly now as a precaution.

Rusty! said:
If you're on 5.0, then yes, everyone has it. Well known about.
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Nope don't have any memory leak here

bblzd said:
All I know is if I don't reboot, after 1-2 days my phone will randomly freeze and become unresponsive until a reboot. Completely stock and the only 3rd party services in the background are Dashclock (35MB) and Llama (10MB).
It may have gotten better when I switched back to using 2.4Ghz WiFi mode but I can't tell since I reboot nightly now as a precaution.
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No issues here and I have Wi-Fi band set to automatic, and I also use both.

jayRokk said:
Nope don't have any memory leak here
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Lol that is only 10 hours after a reboot. Give it a couple days you might notice something then.
BTW I almost forgot, I disabled the browser tab integration because the 2 times the phone froze were while opening URL links. Once through a Reddit app and once through Chrome itself. Also before the phone froze completely it was displaying signs of sluggishness and being used fairly heavily on a mobile data connection.
I usually have multiple apps in my recents menu and they still often reload, but I'm going to try not rebooting for a few days to see if it freezes up again.

bblzd said:
Lol that is only 10 hours after a reboot. Give it a couple days you might notice something then.
BTW I almost forgot, I disabled the browser tab integration because the 2 times the phone froze were while opening URL links. Once through a Reddit app and once through Chrome itself. Also before the phone froze completely it was displaying signs of sluggishness and being used fairly heavily on a mobile data connection.
I usually have multiple apps in my recents menu and they still often reload, but I'm going to try not rebooting for a few days to see if it freezes up again.
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I will come here specifically to show you even after a week I'll have no memory leaks. And the reason its at 10h hours was because my phone had died. I don't normally let my phone die and its up for countless days
So far 14hrs but I'll comeback everyday just to prove the point, only certain people have this and that it isn't a Lollipop issue.

jayRokk said:
I will come here specifically to show you even after a week I'll have no memory leaks. And the reason its at 10h hours was because my phone had died. I don't normally let my phone die and its up for countless days
So far 14hrs but I'll comeback everyday just to prove the point, only certain people have this and that it isn't a Lollipop issue.
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If you feel it is necessary. That doesn't prove anything to me personally, my memory use seemed normal even as my phone became sluggish and eventually froze completely. All your screenshot tells me is you're running geeenify, perhaps that is helping? I may have even fixed my issue by disabling tab integration, something you might not be using. We all use different settings after all.
The only reason I think it might be memory related is because apps in the recents menu are frequently cleared from RAM.

A9 has become very slow

Have noticed over the last couple of days that my phone has become very slow.
It's a sim free phone in the UK and completely stock. I have not installed anything new app wise or made any kind of changes I can put it down to. When first purchased I found the phone to be very snappy in and out of apps despite the mid range hardware and 2gb ram.
I have no more than a dozen as installed . Just don't understand what's going on as it seems like there is a delay when you select anything or switch in and out of the app tray etc.

Rebooting it doesn't help?

Funny enough it does seem to have improved things. It was almost like the old Samsung slow down the get on the galaxy phones. Very strange, will just have to monitor it and see how things go.

hpsauce37 said:
Have noticed over the last couple of days that my phone has become very slow.
It's a sim free phone in the UK and completely stock. I have not installed anything new app wise or made any kind of changes I can put it down to. When first purchased I found the phone to be very snappy in and out of apps despite the mid range hardware and 2gb ram.
I have no more than a dozen as installed . Just don't understand what's going on as it seems like there is a delay when you select anything or switch in and out of the app tray etc.
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What ext sd card you are using? And did you merge it with internal sd card?
If not and your phone is just as simple and clean as you mentioned just earse it to factory default by going to reset
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Am using a SanDisk ultra 64gb card but have not used apps etc on it as don't really have many downloaded apps and didn't see the needed to free up space.
Don't really want to completely reset my phone.
Will see how it goes

Ive had the same issues, not sure why... cant even get google maps to load properly and Spotify locks up everytime I try to change song.. not good HTC!!

Simon_WM said:
Ive had the same issues, not sure why... cant even get google maps to load properly and Spotify locks up everytime I try to change song.. not good HTC!!
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I had a time that A9 got hot and slow, reboot didn't help. But I don't know what I did, it just went back to normal somehow. Fast and rarely get hot.

Alpert3 said:
I had a time that A9 got hot and slow, reboot didn't help. But I don't know what I did, it just went back to normal somehow. Fast and rarely get hot.
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My doesn't get hot, it just stupidly slow, and really annoying, but O2 haven't related the 6.0.1 Firmware so maybe that might fix the performance? otherwise I might root it and overclock it a little...
Really annoying as its only 4 months into a 2 year phone contract!

Simon_WM said:
My doesn't get hot, it just stupidly slow, and really annoying, but O2 haven't related the 6.0.1 Firmware so maybe that might fix the performance? otherwise I might root it and overclock it a little...
Really annoying as its only 4 months into a 2 year phone contract!
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In that case i suggest you to contact htc support or your carrier to demande a new device.
try root thing at last when you have no solutions or into a dead end.
Because root will remove the warrant.

Alpert3 said:
In that case i suggest you to contact htc support or your carrier to demande a new device.
try root thing at last when you have no solutions or into a dead end.
Because root will remove the warrant.
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Yeh, All theher HTC Devices have been fine... this one am not impressed with might take it to the place I orderd it from and see what they say.

Simon_WM said:
Yeh, All theher HTC Devices have been fine... this one am not impressed with might take it to the place I orderd it from and see what they say.
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I have 4 HTC devices, all of them are no issues.

Try to use a Task killer app, perhaps the 2GB ram have reached max capacity, kill some apps that you are not using and for the love of God disable Google bloatwares like hangout.google books...

My A9 has become extremely slow in the last couple of days.. I have tried dumping cache, cleansing apps, but nothing is working .. it seems that alot of people are experiencing the same thing at the same time .. what is going on ? This phone is becoming an embarrassment for the price I paid for it.

Yeah mine too. It's starting to drive me mad.
Texting is getting worse. Starts fine and just doesn't seem to keep up.

mine too... i'm starting to think about changing rom to cyanogenmod...

It's somehow weird to see that most people who are complaining here are new created account just to say bad things about the A9....SAMSUNG PAID DUDES AGAIN

I kinda have same issue,the phone has been turning off on it's own the last couple of days and then one time when i turned it on a lot of it's features aren't working,notifications doesn't show up on the notificationbar and i can't use shortcuts for gps,etc from it anymore and the onscreen home button doesn't get me home and the touch button doesn't too,it so slow and takes time to load the apps so i can tap on one of em,idk what happened,please help!

I bought one for my girlfriend, HTC one A9 16gb but with more than 5 completely lost... At the beginning everything was just fine, great speed and performance.
Because of it's lack of memory I decided to use the SD card as internal storage, micro SD 64Gb Sandisk class 10. After the format the HTC showed alert about the speed of the SD, it could not be enough fast.
After reinstalling apps and moving the heaviest to the SD it started to be very slow, WhatsApp took too much to open and even Google maps couldn't load properly, taking ages to work.
I ended up taking the SD out, using it as normal external storage. It went back to normal and now works good, the only thing now is that she only had 1.5Gb left for the apps and it runs out super fast just because of the thumbnails images and cache.
Has anyone tried with a high speed SD? Or has noticed this same problem?