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Good RAM management?

franhound

franhound

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Yeah, sure, "free RAM is wasted RAM."
But I think my phone is taking this way too seriously.

The free RAM gets smaller and smaller the longer the running time gets, and eventually it'll start to lag and I'm gonna have to reboot.

Is this normal for Android? Or is there any way I can prevent this?
 
Your phone is lagging because you have 5 services running with 2 restarting and a couple processes running in the background. Not because your RAM is full. Close those apps properly and you shouldn't have a problem.
 
SulkyAndroid17 said:
Your phone is lagging because you have 5 service's running with 2 restarting and a couple processes running in the background. Not because your RAM is full. Close those apps properly and you shouldn't have a problem.
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Should I close all those processes, or just the "restarting" ones?
 
Well you can't close settings while using it or you'll receive a force close error. When you're done, use the back button to exit. Maybe leave Facebook if you want to receive it's notifications. Then you have an office suite and 2 games. So if you're not working or playing, close'em.
 
SulkyAndroid17 said:
Well you can't close settings while using it or you'll receive a force close error. When you're done, use the back button to exit. Maybe leave Facebook if you want to receive it's notifications. Then you have an office suite and 2 games. So if you're not working or playing, close'em.
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Another thing, so you said that the RAM being full isn't the reason that my phone is lagging. Meaning that it's okay to leave it with around 30 mb left of free space, and just focus on getting rid of the misbehaving apps?

I wanna get back to the "free RAM is wasted RAM" notion. So the number of available RAM doesn't decide the speed and fluidity of my phone?
 
Full RAM slowing you down is like saying a full SD card slows you down. Both are places to store information. RAM is just the faster of the two.

Android has a garbage collector that monitors usage and deletes things that aren't used. If your phone has a need to constantly be deleting or swapping apps then you may notice a performance decrease. Though this is usually minimal, since these actions happen quickly.

These should explain RAM better:
http://androidforums.com/android-applications/335110-why-you-dont-need-task-killer.html
http://androidforums.com/android-lounge/700625-all-my-apps-installed-into-ram-how-should.html
http://www.androidcentral.com/ram-what-it-how-its-used-and-why-you-shouldnt-care
 
SulkyAndroid17 said:
Full RAM slowing you down is like saying a full SD card slows you down. Both are places to store information. RAM is just the faster of the two.

Android has a garbage collector that monitors usage and deletes things that aren't used. If your phone has a need to constantly be deleting or swapping apps then you may notice a performance decrease. Though this is usually minimal, since these actions happen quickly.

These should explain RAM better:
http://androidforums.com/android-applications/335110-why-you-dont-need-task-killer.html
http://androidforums.com/android-lounge/700625-all-my-apps-installed-into-ram-how-should.html
RAM: What it is, how it's used, and why you shouldn't care | Android Central
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So, to end this, do I have to make sure that the "running services" list is empty, or not?
 
Not literally empty, I mean, close the stuff that I don't need? Or should I just let my Android manage it in its own?
 
Hey guys,
I have a lava iris 406q, with a qualcomm snapdragon 200 quad core processor and 1gb ram. The problem i have with this phone is, after a day of usage the ram is completely used and everything stops working. The ram goes down to 50mb n if i check the running apps only 5 or something apps will be running in the background. Il have to reboot the phone twice everyday. And the phone is running on stock android 4.3. Please help me guys.....:(
 
You probably have a poorly coded app (or apps) that is 'sticking' in RAM, IOW the app(s) are refusing to close out of RAM as it should when RAM is needed for other processes. Install System Panel or similar and that might help you track down the cause of your trouble.
 
Get Greenify!

Greenify is an app that helps close apps running in the background that may be eating resources. Put all the apps you want to close in the Hibernate list, but leave chat apps like WhatsApp and BBM out.
 
Yeah mate I use minimal gapps so had to get g+ from Play :confused:
I love g+ but it's giving me terrible wakelocks even with notifications off.
Might have a play around with the "wakelocks blocker" feature on my rom :thumbup:
 
Crashdamage said:
You probably have a poorly coded app (or apps) that is 'sticking' in RAM, IOW the app(s) are refusing to close out of RAM as it should when RAM is needed for other processes. Install System Panel or similar and that might help you track down the cause of your trouble.
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Thanks for the reply,
How can i get to know the poorly coded apps if i use the system panel app??
I have attached the screenshot u can take a look at the processes running and the amount of ram left out of 1gb.And only 3 to 4 apps are running as u can see in the pic.
 

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Tsepz_GP said:
Get Greenify!

Greenify is an app that helps close apps running in the background that may be eating resources. Put all the apps you want to close in the Hibernate list, but leave chat apps like WhatsApp and BBM out.
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Thanks for the reply,
I have used greenify b4 on my other phones. But i have not rooted this phone yet, i dint find any guides to root this phone. as it is very new to the market here.
 
SiddharthaS said:
Thanks for the reply,
How can i get to know the poorly coded apps if i use the system panel app??
I have attached the screenshot u can take a look at the processes running and the amount of ram left out of 1gb.And only 3 to 4 apps are running as u can see in the pic.
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The RAM use in that screenshot looks fine. You're using a bit over half but that's not a problem. What is BackClean? It's using the generic app icon. Did you install that?

Before you need to restart your phone, do any of those app's memory increase in size? Does their memory use go up over time? Which ones?

Does anything interesting appear when you click "Show Cached Processes"? I bet you have more apps loaded than you think.
 
SulkyAndroid17 said:
The RAM use in that screenshot looks fine. You're using a bit over half but that's not a problem. What is BackClean? It's using the generic app icon. Did you install that?

Before you need to restart your phone, do any of those app's memory increase in size? Does their memory use go up over time? Which ones?

Does anything interesting appear when you click "Show Cached Processes"? I bet you have more apps loaded than you think.
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SulkyAndroid,
No i did not install backclean. I guess it came with the phone pre installed.
The android screen goes blank and none of the apps launch even the launcher crashes, all the apps jus start and crash. at this time i restart my phone. So in this case i am not able to see which apps are using up the memory.
And in the cached processes i have facebook google search as i use google home launcher thts all
 
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