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Are SD booster apps from the market any good?
I've seen one by a 'daniel mehrmaan' & its getting good reviews.
Just wondered that's all
Cheers.
I use it and have mine set on the recommended 2048 seems better than without.
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Thanks for the reply.
Yes your right. Although its an SD booster, my whole phone seems snappier.
Must say I am quite pleased. usually I see apps like this and they just seem like gimmicks that dont really work.
Thanks alot bud.
Cheers.
If you want a truly snappy DHD check out the ROM in my sig (TB Fusion3d)
Play around with the cache size and test it with sd card speed test to see if there is any gain. different size sd would affect the cache size..
Greetings, was just wondering if my amount of free memory is good right now. I am running a classic desire with CM7 A2SD and I also use autokiller (ultimate settings). Now on startup I can squeeze up to 288-290mb free with 80-85mb used. A bit later on though it usually drops to 260-275mb free. Phone feels quite snappy tbh but still are those values good or can I get more out of it?
You shouldn't use auto killer. But yeh it is good having that amount of free memory.
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Thanks for your reply, I am not a fan of app killing programs generally, but heard that this one gets the job really done and actually I get higher values with it. Why is it not suggested to use this? I've done some research and it seems opinions on process killing are quite controversal.. Anyways, thx again for info
You do not need to or better should not use a task killer in android:
http://geekfor.me/faq/you-shouldnt-be-using-a-task-killer-with-android/
Hi Arc Users,
Do you guys encounter low memory after long period of usage? It seems like the memory does not free up after using the phone for a long time. I mainly use the phone for FB, Camera and messaging.
When the phone hits like 50+MB ram or so it starts to slow down and if it goes lower than 40MB my home screen starts to lag and the app icons take a few secs to load every time i return to home screen. I'll usually reboot the phone but its quite a pain considering the boot timing for my phone is rather long, like close to 1 min.
What are the possible solutions? I've heard that advanced task killers are unnecessary for Gingerbread. If thats the case, how do I free up more memory or have better memory management for the Arc?
Am a first time android user, appreciate any advice from you guys
Thanks!
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Root is the solution. Delete apps and services which you do not use.
I haven't any problem either when free ram goes down to 30MB and i don't use a taskiller.
Just what are you doing when you run out of ram? Never did I run out of ram yet. Running ram hungry games will free up more what is needed as I experienced. When I return to homescreen, it takes a while (around 2 secs) because it will free up ram from the game, then load the homescreen launcher from start/scratch.
Same here but my Arc works fine, even with 30-40MB RAM, so it isn't a real problem.
But it would be nice from SE to make 400-450MB of the 512MB RAM available for the user.
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But it would be nice from SE to make 400-450MB of the 512MB RAM available for the user.
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What? That is a completely pointless excercise if you understand how ram is handled by the os.
You need to root and remove bloat, check ya settings etc to get better performance. I found letting things constantly access the network was a juice eater, I don't want fb to check every 4 seconds, I update it when I want to read it lol
I use a task manager, but only because I like to see what is running and using resources. I rarely actually kill any apps, just occasionally a few things I rarely use. Even then it fills the space with other stuff.
:edit: sorry flo95, that sounded a bit crappy, no bad attitude was intended.
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This is the solution...https://market.android.com/details?id=com.lim.android.automemman&feature=search_result
not a task killer... a memory manager that enhances googles memory management.
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Just what are you doing when you run out of ram? Never did I run out of ram yet. Running ram hungry games will free up more what is needed as I experienced. When I return to homescreen, it takes a while (around 2 secs) because it will free up ram from the game, then load the homescreen launcher from start/scratch.
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I do not play games with my Arc. I just used facebook, MSN, Camera and messaging occasionally throughout the day. Medium usage.
It runs smoothly for several days but maybe after a week or two, the RAM starts to get low.
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This is the solution...
not a task killer... a memory manager that enhances googles memory management.
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Thanks! Working so far... will monitor after a week or so.
Try a cache cleaner also will free up some space for ya
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I use battery guard as a task killer. It comes with a widget where you can see the available amount of ram.
I'm happy about it. Though a lot of people say a task killer doesn't help I have no negative experience using this one... and I never go below 130 ram.
I still think it does help to close tasks that otherwise keep running in the background... But I'm new on android so I could be wrong.
Hey guys
Have you tried this script
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1111145
maybe this can help w/o having to install apps or task-killers. Should work on Xperia Arc but I don't guarantee it.
That script seems to do basically the same thing as auto memory manager.. (per my previous post..)..
PS.. I currently have mine set to aggressive.
I installed a single widget from Beautiful Widget yesterday and today I've had the launcher redraw itself multiple times and this is aomethig I've never seen before. How much free RAM should be available? I'm hovering around 120. Stock Nex HSPA running 4.0.1 on T-Mobile.
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I usually hover around 350mb free... 120 is seeming a little low. Are you exiting apps with the home button or the back button?
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Either or, no preference either way.
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Are you stock?
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Often i stay around 120mb free ram so i think you are functioning normally.
Free ram is unused ram.
You only need as much free ram as the next, uncached task will require. On Android this is unlikely to ever be more than 80MB.
On this basis, if you have 120 free you should be fine.
djmcnz said:
Free ram is unused ram.
You only need as much free ram as the next, uncached task will require. On Android this is unlikely to ever be more than 80MB.
On this basis, if you have 120 free you should be fine.
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Uh no. Free RAM consists of cached but not currently running apps and cached kernel resources. It is by no means "unused".
You also need a lot more free RAM than what the next app you are going to run requires, due to kernel caches and paging policy problems. If you are actually interested in learning how memory management works I suggest you read up on virtual memory first before giving others advice.
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Uh no. Free RAM consists of cached but not currently running apps. It is by no means "unused".
You also need a lot more free RAM than what the next app you are going to run requires, due to kernel caches and paging policy problems. If you are actually interested in learning how memory management works I suggest you read up on virtual memory first before giving others advice.
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Don't be snide, it's unbecoming.
"Free" in the context that the OP used it is exactly that, free and unused - as in not used by anything at all, empty. Perhaps you might want to look that one up.
I responded to him in context and accurately. From an end user perspective it's a more helpful answer than a technical one about paging, caches and kernels...
I suggest downloading Cache Cleaner NG (yes, the "NG" one) from the Market if you're having lag or other problems. This will help no matter which definition of "free RAM" you choose to adopt I can say, though, that in my experience a lot of lag and force close issues have had more to do with cache and app data than with "free RAM." For example, on my Fascinate I'd have 120 MB or so of "free RAM" according to my system settings, but I'd still have major lag and more force closes than a chain of Circuit City stores until I cleared app cache using Cache Cleaner NG. This is different from wiping the cache partition in recovery.
Terminators run on Android
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Don't be snide, it's unbecoming.
"Free" in the context that the OP used it is exactly that, free and unused - as in not used by anything at all, empty. Perhaps you might want to look that one up.
I responded to him in context and accurately. From an end user perspective it's a more helpful answer than a technical one about paging, caches and kernels...
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Free in the context? There is no context needed here, as there is no ambiguity. Free here refers to exactly one thing: the amount of free memory reported by the Android system. The Android system uses a Linux kernel and reports free memory the way all Linux systems report free memory: all kernel and userland caches are reported as free memory. Free memory is not unused memory. Free memory is physical memory pages that are not currently marked in use by any virtual page entries. Free memory is used as cache by the virtual memory system. If you understand the virtual memory system at all you'd realize that truly "free and unused" memory doesn't even make sense in a virtual memory system. Truly unused memory is just cold cache, once the cache has been warmed up, the idea of unused memory becomes irrelevant.
Basically OP, you should never have to worry about it. This phone has more than enough RAM to handle anything you throw at it. If it ever feels "sluggish" just give it a reboot. No need chasing your tail to free up 15MB of RAM that won't make a difference anyways.
Thank you. This is what I figured as I've had quite a bit of experience with Android dating back to the G1 (it's why I don't have a task killer installed). Yeah, the lag is annoying although it's way better than my Xoom's. I was just wondering what you guys were hovering at.
I do have an app that turns itself on in my running apps list (it's ESPN's Fantasy Football app) I want to keep the app but it's sort of annoying seeing it pop up there all the time. Is there a way I can force it to stay off?
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Thank you. This is what I figured as I've had quite a bit of experience with Android dating back to the G1 (it's why I don't have a task killer installed). Yeah, the lag is annoying although it's way better than my Xoom's. I was just wondering what you guys were hovering at.
I do have an app that turns itself on in my running apps list (it's ESPN's Fantasy Football app) I want to keep the app but it's sort of annoying seeing it pop up there all the time. Is there a way I can force it to stay off?
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Do you have a widget running for this app? Any app that has a widget on the main screen will automatically run because of said widget.
I personally think thats REALLY low. I'm typically sitting over 400MB free with a couple widgets running and battery monitor in the background as well.
As of this moment I'm showing 367 free. Apps running: Angry birds RIO, Phone, Google Music (with music streaming currently), battery monitor, settings page.
4.0.1 is not memory efficient at all compared to 4.0.2&4.0.3. Not only are the newer builds more efficient with RAM but the size of the ROM on disk is much leaner.
After a reboot and once the dust was settled seems like I have 346 MB of free RAM, something you should try just to see how much you are starting with.
So I'm assuming you're on a build other than 4.0.1? I just tried a reboot and am sitting at 290MB free, I'll monitor it to see how long it takes to get back to the low 100's.
As for the Fantasy Football app, it does NOT have a widget. And apps that HAVE widgets, like Pandora, Evernote, Music, Docs, Soundhound, none of those show up in running OR cached apps.
How much FREE memory do you guys have when in normal usage (with browser, Facebook, whatsapp, tapatalk open..)??
Here I usually get 200 free, so I constantly have to free memory (it goes from 200 to 450, but few minutes later, it will be the same thing).
Help, anyone??
I usually have 1.1 gb free with kakao, whatsapp and basic apps running in the background. I close Facebook as I leave it, Facebook is a big memory hog.
I have about 900-1.1 gb used
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Damn, 4-5 times my free memory!
I think I will reset the phone and reinstall everything again..
Any other hints??
artssa said:
Damn, 4-5 times my free memory!
I think I will reset the phone and reinstall everything again..
Any other hints??
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Look at what is running. It sound like something is running in the background that is sucking up the memory. If you do a reset and re-install of everything, before you find out what is causing the memory problem you may be right back to square one.
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Look at what is running. It sound like something is running in the background that is sucking up the memory. If you do a reset and re-install of everything, before you find out what is causing the memory problem you may be right back to square one.
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I agree with this, when your talking free "ram" as shown in the task manager , it is what is running at the time, not what is installed?
In my system i have not seen the "ram" ammount drop below about 350m ever.
Usually ranging between 200-400 free. Usually if I close the browser and clear my task manager, I can get higher. The thing is, why would you want all that unused? If your battery isn't being drained and your phone isn't lagging, you should be good to go.
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Hmm!!!!!
only 200 MB free??
I have 500-700 free everytime!!
well, even if it is only 10 MB free, you should not worry about it(its a smartphone), until it affects performance of battery life!
to check whats eating up your RAM, go to settings>>general tab>>apps>>running tab!
you can also go to battery settings to check the most power hungry apps!
or you can install DU Battery Saver!
PsykoGeek said:
I agree with this, when your talking free "ram" as shown in the task manager , it is what is running at the time, not what is installed?
In my system i have not seen the "ram" ammount drop below about 350m ever.
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PsykoGeek ram or memory is what I was talking about but that also includes the apps or software that is installed on the phone also If the underline problem is not found first, anyone can do a factory reset and re-install the app and there is a very high percentage that it will come back.
I would look at the app that I have downloaded and start to turn them off one by one and see which one could be the culprit. After you found one or two, see if you can live with out them.
High RAM usage is actually a good thing on Android unless you use a lot of emulators like I do. On PC, low RAM is good, but on here the more RAM that's used the better it is. Makes opening apps much faster. What would be killing the battery is an app keeping your device awake even when the screen is off.
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Neroga said:
High RAM usage is actually a good thing on Android unless you use a lot of emulators like I do. On PC, low RAM is good, but on here the more RAM that's used the better it is. Makes opening apps much faster. What would be killing the battery is an app keeping your device awake even when the screen is off.
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Let me first say my Ram is usually around 350. But now I have a question, how is low ram a good thing and I am not trying to start anything I just like to learn more about the Andriod OS. I have use Wndows OS for year and it was always, like you said, bad to have low ram. So what has Adroid done to reverse that?
Again just trying to understand.
With 7 apps open.
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