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[Q] ICS Memory???

I have done the manual ICS update 4.04 that was recently released in the general section of the forum, and I noticed that the memory is much lower compared to 2.3.6. The memory averages around 50MB, sometimes 100MB, and showing used memory around 285MB. I was wondering if this is normal as some of my games force closes after i start to play. the games uses quite of bit of my phone's resources and was working perfectly on 2.3.6. Also, i use the GO Launcher EX and i tried not using the launcher, but it only frees up little bit of memory. My phone is not rooted, everything is stock of course. I was wondering if anyone else has the same or similar problems? or is this normal in terms of the ICS OS using more memory?

anyone knows????

Give me a list of what services are running and how much ram they're using. This is done through settings > apps > running.

The same is the case with my phone. Sadly thats a compromise for ICS, you have to install custom rom to free up more memory.

I had the same problem at first .
you have to install a ROM+KERNEL that support BIGMEM.
I use Pixel Rom 1.72+ Airkernel 3.9.5, I now have 180mb+ with many programs running. its super fast/stable
Try and you wont regret
Pixel Rom:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1411734
Air Kernel:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1469842
Give me your thoughts if you do try

ismailham said:
I had the same problem at first .
you have to install a ROM+KERNEL that support BIGMEM.
I use Pixel Rom 1.72+ Airkernel 3.9.5, I now have 180mb+ with many programs running. its super fast/stable
Try and you wont regret
Pixel Rom:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1411734
Air Kernel:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1469842
Give me your thoughts if you do try
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i was actually looking into that ROM and kernel. How is it in terms of performance and battery life. I'm looking for a ROM and Kernel that increases both lol.
Also right now it says 292MB used and 46MB free. the processes running are settings (34MB), go weather (4.9MB) go launcher ex(34MB), go sms pro(7.5MB), go switch widget (4.1MB), google services (8.5MB), android keyboard (11MB)
Also for extra info, here is cached processes:
go weather (4.8MB) launcher (14MB), media (5.1MB), my uploads(3.4MB), package access helper (3.5MB)
in total, including cached processes, 134.8 MB used

You're sure that is everything that is being shown in the two pages? If so, it looks like something in the background likes eating RAM and doesn't want to share.
Regardless, could you download terminal emulator or something similar (or just use adb shell) and type: "ps > /sdcard/ps.txt" and upload/copypaste the file/contents. It's not a particularly great way of figuring out memory usage but i can probably make do and see if something is wasting it. I know on a fresh boot i have much more lying around in the cache than that, without opening any apps - mostly google sutff.
E.g., 24MB launcher, 11mb core apps, 15mb maps (and more in running), 36mb play store and so on. Although currently on ~402mb bigmem, i don't remember it being much less before - still 200mb used (as always) and cache is generally filled to the brim.

Harbb said:
Regardless, could you download terminal emulator or something similar (or just use adb shell) and type: "ps > /sdcard/ps.txt" and upload/copypaste the file/contents. It's not a particularly great way of figuring out memory usage but i can probably make do and see if something is wasting it. I know on a fresh boot i have much more lying around in the cache than that, without opening any apps - mostly google sutff.
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Hi. I have the same memory problem, i created the ps.txt. I don't know how to read this txt..
What does mean these things :
USER PID PPID VSIZE RSS WCHAN PC NAME
What are ppid, vsize, rss wchan??
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PID -> Process IDentifier -> Wiki for more info
Vsize -> Virtual Size -> RAM usage (SWAP + Physical)
RSS -> Residential Set Size -> RAM usage (Physical only)
wchan -> Some waiting indicator, never looked into it
I just want a detailed list of what processes are using up the RAM. Basically i'm looking for something with excessively high RSS and just comparing it with my phones results.

Harbb said:
You're sure that is everything that is being shown in the two pages? If so, it looks like something in the background likes eating RAM and doesn't want to share.
Regardless, could you download terminal emulator or something similar (or just use adb shell) and type: "ps > /sdcard/ps.txt" and upload/copypaste the file/contents. It's not a particularly great way of figuring out memory usage but i can probably make do and see if something is wasting it. I know on a fresh boot i have much more lying around in the cache than that, without opening any apps - mostly google sutff.
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that is all it shows. Here is the ps.txt file. Thank you for your help

Too sleepy (and mentally deprived) at the moment to give a good answer. I would, however, try ditching go launcher altogether (preferably uninstall, hopefully not too much trouble) for a little while and see if it gets better. I can't tell for sure without better memory analyzers but it is possible golauncher has gone haywire (or maybe not, trial and error ).
If not this, i notice there are many kcryptd processes going on. To my knowledge that is kernel based but i know not what it does or what it's for, did you encrypt the phone by any chance? I havn't run stock in too long to remember how the ps list was. I should be able to give a better, more thorough answer tomorrow regardless though.
edit: also, i've attached my own ps log for reference. We're talking around 205mb used and 197mb free when that log was taken. Have a look. Note that RSS (all in kB) can be shared, so that 20mb from each go launcher process may well be the same ~20mb between all of them which they all have access to, so it's not 100mb+ used, just ~20mb.

I'm pretty sure I haven't encrypted anything, is there a way to find out what has been encrypted? I have removed go launcher ex and the themes. Will now see how the memory is, in the meantime, go sleep Harbb lol.

Basche said:
I'm pretty sure I haven't encrypted anything, is there a way to find out what has been encrypted? I have removed go launcher ex and the themes. Will now see how the memory is, in the meantime, go sleep Harbb lol.
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You would know if your phone was encrypted
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Wow I'll have to try that pixelrom and airkernel for sure (especially since I just recently rooted for the first time a couple days ago).
The miniscule account of RAM we have on our phones to play with is literally my only complaint about my Nexus S. If I could seriously UP the free/available RAM like ismailham says, I'd be falling in love with my phone all over again!
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MotorcycleKopp said:
Wow I'll have to try that pixelrom and airkernel for sure (especially since I just recently rooted for the first time a couple days ago).
The miniscule account of RAM we have on our phones to play with is literally my only complaint about my Nexus S. If I could seriously UP the free/available RAM like ismailham says, I'd be falling in love with my phone all over again!
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dude, i know what you mean, but i don't wanna void my warranty yet. Still got some months left

Basche said:
dude, i know what you mean, but i don't wanna void my warranty yet. Still got some months left
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You know you can lock bootloader on a nexus right?
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DarkhShadow said:
You know you can lock bootloader on a nexus right?
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i think people had some issues with that, not sure

Basche said:
i think people had some issues with that, not sure
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Only if they can't get into bootloader, and generally in that case Samsung can't either
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Basche said:
i think people had some issues with that, not sure
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Definitely non issue. Done it to send mine for repair for a failing BGA, it was near painless. The biggest "trouble" was removing CWM and SU to make it look stock.

polobunny said:
Definitely non issue. Done it to send mine for repair for a failing BGA, it was near painless. The biggest "trouble" was removing CWM and SU to make it look stock.
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how did u lock the bootloader

[Q] Why is phone so laggy?

I've got a sgs+ I updated to android 2.3.5 from 2.3.3 it improved the overall lagginess abit. I have tried almost everything not too difficult to smoothen things out because I'm not really into custom rom kinda deep stuff. For instance, temple run, lags every 10 secs and I fail. Angry birds? Same thing. My buddy with SGS "classic" does not have any of these kind of problems.
Ps: sorry for being NOOB
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Kond3P said:
I've got a sgs+ I updated to android 2.3.5 from 2.3.3 it improved the overall lagginess abit. I have tried almost everything not too difficult to smoothen things out because I'm not really into custom rom kinda deep stuff. For instance, temple run, lags every 10 secs and I fail. Angry birds? Same thing. My buddy with SGS "classic" does not have any of these kind of problems.
Ps: sorry for being NOOB
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If you want to have a better gaming experience (no lag..) you can either buy a phone with a stronger cpu, or root (which is really easy) and see if there is any custom kernels available for your device. With a custom rom and kernel you can make your phone more powerful than it is by increasing the speeds of your cpu. Phone's that don't have enough power don't play certain games well. I know you said you aren't into roms... It's really not that complicated. There is no way to make your phone more powerful, than to root and install a custom rom and kernel... Hope that helped.
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sdm14 said:
If you want to have a better gaming experience (no lag..) you can either buy a phone with a stronger cpu, or root (which is really easy) and see if there is any custom kernels available for your device. With a custom rom and kernel you can make your phone more powerful than it is by increasing the speeds of your cpu. Phone's that don't have enough power don't play certain games well. I know you said you aren't into roms... It's really not that complicated. There is no way to make your phone more powerful, than to root and install a custom rom and kernel... Hope that helped.
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The only problem with that is that the sgs+ has a 1.4ghz processor *COUGH*. its a single core but 1.4 is more than enough for temple run or angry birds. have you checked what programs are in the background? maybe there is a process that is polling every few seconds and lags the phone.

Dataslycer said:
The only problem with that is that the sgs+ has a 1.4ghz processor *COUGH*. its a single core but 1.4 is more than enough for temple run or angry birds. have you checked what programs are in the background? maybe there is a process that is polling every few seconds and lags the phone.
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Thanks for this. I'm trying to get my 10 helpful posts so I can post on threads.. Didn't know what exact specs were...lol. XDA is great! Tks for correcting that!
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When was the last time you turned your phone off?

dirtbikerr450 said:
When was the last time you turned your phone off?
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Yeah my phone too can get pretty laggy crashy and unstable when I am using it allot without turning it off.
ICS on my Samsung Gio lagged allot so I had to switch back to an earlyer version which increased my CPU performance by 400%, (however, graphic performance change was almost negligible)
You could also try something like a2sd, if you already have something like that your SDcard might be slow. (I suggest you get some confirmation on this one from more experienced android users before actually going and buying a new one, since I am quite new to this whole android stuff).
Hope I could be of service,
R.

You probably have a lot of apps running at the background. Try installing a 3rd party app manager and end all apps. I mean all. Should work. If not then your phone has a problem. SGS+ SHOULDN'T lag behind the SGS not unless the SGS is rooted.

What is your "better phone for games"? Will it be released for ever?
Buy an iPhone for 0 lag gaming.. Android has some lags.

If you don't want to root and install ROMs then pretty much your only option is to uninstall unnecessary services and apps. Try uninstalling an app, testing the game, and keep uninstalling untill you know which app is possibly the offending one.
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do a reboot,and use 3rd party task killer to see what had auto bootup and slowing down ur phone

My dad barely let me root to make a backup before updating. (my phone but still) And then there is warranty, I already have problems with GPS. I'm probably not going to do that. Thanks for trying, thanked.
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Dataslycer said:
The only problem with that is that the sgs+ has a 1.4ghz processor *COUGH*. its a single core but 1.4 is more than enough for temple run or angry birds. have you checked what programs are in the background? maybe there is a process that is polling every few seconds and lags the phone.
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I tried advanced task killer, but it really didn't make a difference. I think there are some self-restarters out there. And with app called watchdog, I didn't saw any active apps. Thanked
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If u root the thing and want to restore to factory default for warranty purpose, theres always odin. Just few clicks away and your phone is fresh default like its only been minutes its out of factory.

Putrid Polecat said:
If you don't want to root and install ROMs then pretty much your only option is to uninstall unnecessary services and apps. Try uninstalling an app, testing the game, and keep uninstalling untill you know which app is possibly the offending one.
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I did a factory reset. Then I tried to play something, it helped, probably the most. But there still was some lag? My friends stock non-rooted sgs classic runs better with like 70 apps installed.
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farukdgn said:
What is your "better phone for games"? Will it be released for ever?
Buy an iPhone for 0 lag gaming.. Android has some lags.
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I like the customizing of android. I can make my phone look like IPhone but not other way around.
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Reikyrr said:
Yeah my phone too can get pretty laggy crashy and unstable when I am using it allot without turning it off.
ICS on my Samsung Gio lagged allot so I had to switch back to an earlyer version which increased my CPU performance by 400%, (however, graphic performance change was almost negligible)
You could also try something like a2sd, if you already have something like that your SDcard might be slow. (I suggest you get some confirmation on this one from more experienced android users before actually going and buying a new one, since I am quite new to this whole android stuff).
Hope I could be of service,
R.
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Rebooting helps for some 10 minutes, I really don't want to reboot that often. My phone goes 40-50fps but lags 1/4 seconds every 10 secs. I sometimes get bigger fps drops when playing reckless racing 2. I guess that is for dual core processors, but mostly it runs fairly well apart from those little lags
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Thanks to anyone for quick responses. I appreciate it.
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Sigh...... advanced task killers or any of them are just a pile or **it, they just use up ram, on android we all know theres no way to close all apps, they'll just keep opening anyway and they can't close most apps. It drains your battery and has your processors trying harder with a ram drainage. Absolutely USELESS.

sensation lover said:
Sigh...... advanced task killers or any of them are just a pile or **it, they just use up ram, on android we all know theres no way to close all apps, they'll just keep opening anyway and they can't close most apps. It drains your battery and has your processors trying harder with a ram drainage. Absolutely USELESS.
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I knew that, that's why I used watchdog. It shows how much CPU power everything uses. Ram is there too but that is kinda useless.
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hello
dear user it may occur to you that sometimes when you apply a custom rom to a phone it is now built right for that phone because of all the different specs to that phone so it would be best advised to stick with the set defaults if you don't realy know what you are doind (like me) but also you could try and root is (universil androrot) and then use some programs like memory booster or just un install some apps from your device all together so free up some of the phones memorry.
hope it helped daveveej.

[GUIDE] Get rid of lag for your Galaxy S4 - Rooted phones only - Seeder.apk

So I keep hearing complaints about "lag" with the Galaxy S4. Some of you have it and some don't.
Well, debloating your ROM (removing junk apps that you don't use) will typically reduce lag since these extra apps aren't fighting for system resources. But that doesn't work for everyone.
Another thing to do is to flash an AOSP (android open source project) ROM. These ROM's (including gapps) are usually less than 300MB in total size, while a stock or even debloated stock TouchWiz ROM are almost always 800MB to 1.3+GB in size.
Another thing you can try is to install "Seeder". Some folks will suggest it doesn't really do anything for you. Some others will say it uses up a lot of battery. So I guess every application is different. Because for me, even with an AOSP ROM, I seem to get slightly faster system response time when I click on something. And I've left my phone alone over eight+hours and checked battery useage and don't see Seeder anywhere taking up any battery.
Here is the Seeder main application thread. There, you can "thank" the developer (lambgx02) and also ask questions about the app. You can also download Seeder from that thread for free.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1987032
Or, you can be a nice person and "buy" the app from the Play Store. At less than $2, it's not very expensive.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lcis.seeder&hl=en
You can either read about how/why the app works or doesn't. Or you can try it for yourself.
For me, it's a must-have on the S4 since even AOSP ROM's still have a small amount of lag when compared with the smoothed-out ROM's on the S3.\
REQUIREMENTS:
-Rooted ROM
-Canadian or USA or Euro S4's, it works for all of them.
-TouchWiz or AOSP, it doesn't matter which.
So, here's how to install it:
1) Download Seeder to your internal or external SD card. It doesn't matter where.
2) Using Root Explorer (or your file browser of choice), locate and click on the seeder.apk.
3) Select "Install".
4) Select "Install" again.
5) Click "open".
6) Read the disclaimer and click "OK".
7) Grant root permissions:
8) Make your settings identical to mine (to start with). I've actually since changed mine from "Moderate" to "Aggressive" because I noticed no change in battery life. So, why not.
9) Now reboot.
10) Wait two minutes after the phone comes back up (to allow background start-up processes to finish) and start using phone normally.
Good luck, hope it works for you as well as it works for me. This is not a "cure-all" for lag, but it should help speed up an otherwise healthy system.
Don't expect miracles either. Only a really fubard'd ROM might show HUGE differences. But this app will probably help a little bit.

I had tried this program on my ATT GNOTE after the new JB update that seemed to slow everyone's phones to a crawl. It did help somewhat, but not enough for it to become bearable.. Caved and bought the S4. Seems like the app DOES work.

This app is a myth that has been busted even by the xda portal.
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/entropy-seed-generator-not-all-its-hacked-up-to-be/
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Try this instead

plwalsh88 said:
This app is a myth that has been busted even by the xda portal.
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/entropy-seed-generator-not-all-its-hacked-up-to-be/
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I endorse the posting of this link. I actually intended to do so in the OP when I was typing up the original post (and lost it all to a BSOD).
The article refers more to the theory behind the "fix".
But end results are end results, and the app works for some people. It also does not work for some other folks.
Like I said in the OP, try it and see how it works for you.

CZ Eddie said:
I endorse the posting of this link. I actually intended to do so in the OP when I was typing up the original post (and lost it all to a BSOD).
The article refers more to the theory behind the "fix".
But end results are end results, and the app works for some people. It also does not work for some other folks.
Like I said in the OP, try it and see how it works for you.
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Right, and it shows that the theory behind the "fix" is flawed, having no effect on app execution. The only positive performance you're seeing is a result of boosting CPU speeds. It's not saying you're not seeing results. It's just that you're seeing them for the wrong reason; the same of which can be achieved by changing your CPU governor.
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plwalsh88 said:
the same of which can be achieved by changing your CPU governor.
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Negative. Because I've seen results on top of overlocking and governor changes.

CZ Eddie said:
Negative. Because I've seen results on top of overlocking and governor changes.
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I highly, highly doubt any other positive effects can be discernible on top of overclocking.
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The system lags because touchwiz has many many features beyond those that you can just simply remove with titanium backup and such, there are a lot of features;what they seem to call them. That adjust color and lighting beyond ambient at all times no matter what. Samsung needs to release an update which I know they're cooking up, that optimizes these resource hog and debugs that are constantly running in the background... Let's just hope we get it soon and not have to wait till 4.3 to get it. The only way to get rid of all of the lag is to switch to also otherwise there will always be a tad amount of it, until samsung fixes it themselves; there's only so much developers can conjure up

The only way to get rid of the lag is by installing a custom ROM, either AOSP/AOKP or a TW based ROM like Omega or Winam. Then installing a custom, polished kernel like KT's kernel. Then disabling the scroll cache.
That makes this thing run like it should have in the first place.

Yeah seeder sucks sorry to say its not actually doing much.

[Q] [Help] phone reboots when using game killer

Whenever i use game killer on an aosp rom and when i look for the values it reboots. i have tried on paranoid android and liquidsmooth and same thing happens. is there any specific settings on how to use it with an aosp rom? it works fine on touchwiz. any help with this will be gladly appreciated.

Did you happen to find out how to fix this?

since1876 said:
Did you happen to find out how to fix this?
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Nope. Maybe is because none uses this game hack apps
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picarito said:
Nope. Maybe is because none uses this game hack apps
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I have used it on kairosoft games and never had any problems with it so I can't help you out.

Thousands of people do my decision was to flash cleanbean which is a stripped touchwiz rom. It's not the best choice though since half my ram is in constant use but it works. It used to work fine on cyanogenmod I don't know what happened. Oh well.

since1876 said:
Thousands of people do my decision was to flash cleanbean which is a stripped touchwiz rom. It's not the best choice though since half my ram is in constant use but it works. It used to work fine on cyanogenmod I don't know what happened. Oh well.
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You know the old saying "Doc it hurts when I do this" .
Well don't do that then....
If your RAM is half full consistently, then your ROM is broken. The Android (Linux) OS memory manager strives to keep the RAM 80% used /full all the time so that apps load faster. If its less than that you either don't have any apps installed or, you dorkeked something. Lots of times people try to use auto task killers, which work against the OS and cause much memory thrashing and gnashing of teeth and resultant poor performance. Having 60% of the RAM free might make you feel better, but it won;t make your phone faster, just the opposite.

[Q] Why is my N5 so slow ?

I can't really put my finger in the cause, it seems to follow all N roms (though most are based on LOS, so..)
Sometimes the device crawls to a standstill, until i'm able to close all open apps, and then it gets snappy again.
I would consider this device at least as fast as my M7, but although the One is slower in general than the N5, it never gets slower...
I don't have weird apps installed, the most crazy ones are the Facebook messenger and chrome, the rest is google apps and whatsapp...

mine is showing same behaviour since a few days ago, ive enabled sync and enabled cm email, others things ive done is installing tumblr, i think some apps that works on 2nd plane arent managed well with ram autokill and somewhat with persistent services.
ill clean flash and disable sync forever [emoji14]
other thing ive noticed is other storage is permanent oversized and the phone cant really know whar is this
Pure CAF @ crLOS14.1

Is it insanely hot when it slows down? If that's the case it's overheating for some reason.

I used to have that problem last year. I kind of fixed it after I formated the memory while I was trying to have F2FS. I knew i'd lost everything in the memory so I did a backup and trough TWRP changed the partition to F2FS and it helped a lot. A friend's tab had the same problem and he fixed it that way

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Is it insanely hot when it slows down? If that's the case it's overheating for some reason.
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No... It stalls, it really seems iowait...

daedric said:
No... It stalls, it really seems iowait...
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Or maybe it went out of memory? Although I doubt it. One thing that comes to mind is mpdecision, sometimes it shuts down all cores except 0 and won't switch them back online, forcing you to do it manually or somehow wake it up. Have you tried keeping tabs on your cores with a monitor app? Anything mpdecision-rated in logcat when the crawls happen?

I was on Catacalysm until nougat, which can be considered stock. didn't have speed issues then.
when I flashed nougat all 3 roms i flashed had annoying lag which was not acceptable.
eventually me and other users discovered it was happening because of the memory filling up.
apparently the phone needs quite a bit of free memory to work well. tweaking memory management through kernel editor solved it for me.
I can't tell for sure if that's your issue but u can give it a try.

What I do is that I clean flash about every six months, generally upgrading to a higher version of android (stopped after 6.0.1 tho cuz of xposed), after backing my media. Once I restore that after the flash, I always have more space available than pre flash and it feels a lot faster. Might be a placebo, might not. But is it stupid if it works?

pingu11 said:
What I do is that I clean flash about every six months, generally upgrading to a higher version of android (stopped after 6.0.1 tho cuz of xposed), after backing my media. Once I restore that after the flash, I always have more space available than pre flash and it feels a lot faster. Might be a placebo, might not. But is it stupid if it works?
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Problem is, i'm starting to believe it's tied to N7.x

yossi_s1 said:
I was on Catacalysm until nougat, which can be considered stock. didn't have speed issues then.
when I flashed nougat all 3 roms i flashed had annoying lag which was not acceptable.
eventually me and other users discovered it was happening because of the memory filling up.
apparently the phone needs quite a bit of free memory to work well. tweaking memory management through kernel editor solved it for me.
I can't tell for sure if that's your issue but u can give it a try.
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Your findings are consistent with mine, it seems the device is running out of memory and is trying to swap out heavy apps to make do, namely chrome and facebook. While it's doing that, it's slow as hell. I've also had launcher re-start, like if the OOM had it killed.
Which settings did you tweak ? LowMemoryKiller ?

Yep, LMK set to exterminate.
I wonder what the original configuration was, not only for LMK but also CPU gov etc, Because honestly I think that even after tweaks it was still better on stock.
In general nougat doesn't really add much for me, M was great, I was in a hurry to upgrade because I had play services battery drain bug on M. That was terrible.
Also I noticed mine is thermal throttling really quickly, I don't know if its normal or not. I've been thinking about improving cooling with a mod but at this point my N5 is on its way out. In november I'll close 4 years with it and I'll get a new device (maybe 1+5?)

Memory issue
daedric said:
I can't really put my finger in the cause, it seems to follow all N roms (though most are based on LOS, so..)
Sometimes the device crawls to a standstill, until i'm able to close all open apps, and then it gets snappy again.
I would consider this device at least as fast as my M7, but although the One is slower in general than the N5, it never gets slower...
I don't have weird apps installed, the most crazy ones are the Facebook messenger and chrome, the rest is google apps and whatsapp...
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It's all because of memory,
3/4 cores are going offline and online regularly, but sometimes​ cores won't go online which create frizzing untill cores get online,
For solution you should be first root then install kernel editor you like and edit core to performance or high performance,
That solved my problems.

daedric said:
I can't really put my finger in the cause, it seems to follow all N roms (though most are based on LOS, so..)
Sometimes the device crawls to a standstill, until i'm able to close all open apps, and then it gets snappy again.
I would consider this device at least as fast as my M7, but although the One is slower in general than the N5, it never gets slower...
I don't have weird apps installed, the most crazy ones are the Facebook messenger and chrome, the rest is google apps and whatsapp...
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What gapps are you using? Using pico or Beans mini will let you put most of your Google apps on the user partition and not the system partition. You could also try an AOSP based ROM instead of a LOS based ROM like Krexus, Pure Nexus or Tesla

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What gapps are you using? Using pico or Beans mini will let you put most of your Google apps on the user partition and not the system partition. You could also try an AOSP based ROM instead of a LOS based ROM like Krexus, Pure Nexus or Tesla
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Using pico or Beans mini will let you put most of your Google apps on the user partition and not the system partition.
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And the advantage would be ?
You could also try an AOSP based ROM instead of a LOS based ROM like Krexus, Pure Nexus or Tesla
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I tried PureNexus, but it hasn't been update recently. I also suspect of a bug in LOS, since it seems to follow all roms, no matter the builder or kernel.

daedric said:
And the advantage would be ?
I tried PureNexus, but it hasn't been update recently. I also suspect of a bug in LOS, since it seems to follow all roms, no matter the builder or kernel.
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Using small gapps packages frees up space in /system, I never use full gapps packages on my Nexus 5 and I've never experienced this slow down you're having.
Pure Nexus just updated on May 13th, Tesla updated today. If you choose to flash one of them, be sure to wipe system in advanced wipe as well as data and caches before flashing
Pure Nexus https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=6733682732989
Tesla
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=529152257862726717&_utm_source=1-2-2

I don't think the suggestions in the last few comments will help. I'm pretty sure it's mainly a memory management settings issue.
if you want here's my profile in synapse (kernel settings editor you can find on google play). I'm currently testing it for a few days and it seems good so far but I still need to test it under really heavy load.
I'm running nitrogenOS with the kernel that comes with it. if you run something else you may have to tweak it a little.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1zh08kbh8hoyprl/test2.tgz?dl=0