Help Memory usage

[h2orescuemedic]

I am new to smart phones and have had my Atrix2 for about 3 weeks. My question is, The phone seems to stay around 70-80% memory used after the phone has been on for a while. For a phone with 1 gig of ram shouldn't it have more memory free? After a restart it hangs around 50-60% till i start playing on the phone.

I noticed this after i installed the mobo task killer.

i was thinking about doing a factory reset, and starting over because i have installed and deleted a few apps i won't ever try again.

thanks for any help

 

[itsallgood]

it really depends on what apps and widgets are running in the background. The more widgets you have and notification update setting, the more memory is used. What I do is for certain 3rd party apps I downloaded, if it doesn't have an exit button, I end it or have it on the auto end list in the stock apps manager.

 

[h2orescuemedic]

Thanks for your reply

 

[jswiss8608]

Ever since Gingerbread I do not install task killers any more. I don't know about everyone else, but they seem to really mess up my phones. I used to be with Tmobile and had the Samsung galaxy S 4G and I installed the mobo task killer as well, and it seemed to totally mess things up. The phone seemed to run sluggish and slow. I tried uninstalling it, but it was the same way, I ended up factory resetting it and seemed much better at that point. I have the Atrix 2 now through AT&T and this phone seems amazing compared to the 2 Samsung phones I had through tmobile. I do not beleive you even need a task killer for it. Gingerbread does a pretty good job in my opinion. I also agree with itsallgood depends what is all running. You can kill apps with the built in task manager as well.