Help Several Weird 3D Issues

[Ray-Ban]

Hey guys,

I have a few questions and figured i'd combine them into a single thread.

Case One: First, when viewing my task manager, my only applications running are:
1)internet 2) setting 3) people 4) facebook for HTC sense, however, my total memory is 802MB (shouldn't it be a gig of ram?), and my free is memory is 139MB.

Any idea why this might be? I have a sytem task manger I got on the marketplace, and it shows that I do have a few more apps running than what the task manager portrays, however it's frustrating because it seems my apps keep running sometimes even after I hit "close".

Question One: Is my memory usage(around 83% used) normal for the volume of apps I have running? Also, if I end/close a program, will the program still run, such as "messages", "gmail" or "facebook"?

Case Two: I installed the "facebook" app from the marketplace onto my phone. It added all of my contacts into my people, however it appears I also have an "HTC Sense" facebook app as well. In my phone contacts, I have two duplicate contacts: one with a facebook icon, one without.

Question Two: Which is the sense, and which isn't? Does anyone have both installed? Do I even need both installed? I dont feel like I have an actual "app" for the HTC sense facebook interface. What's the difference?

Thanks ahead of time!

 

[Ray-Ban]

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[EarlyMon]

Welcome to the forums!

Part of the 1 GB of ram you have is being mapped for hardware i/o ports various shared memory tasks (such as graphics). None of the system monitors will give an accurate of reading of your left-over memory, they really can't.

What system task manager did you get from the Market?

And, mostly Android apps will go into a sleeping state, taking literally just a few bytes and nothing more, so they'll stay in the process list of most process monitors. That's normal. Do not kill them.

 

[Ray-Ban]

Welcome to the forums!

Part of the 1 GB of ram you have is being mapped for hardware i/o ports various shared memory tasks (such as graphics). None of the system monitors will give an accurate of reading of your left-over memory, they really can't.

What system task manager did you get from the Market?

And, mostly Android apps will go into a sleeping state, taking literally just a few bytes and nothing more, so they'll stay in the process list of most process monitors. That's normal. Do not kill them.

System Panel.
https://market.android.com/details?id=nextapp.systempanel.r1&feature=search_result

Do you just not kill any apps then, leaving all of them running in the background in their idle state?

 

[EarlyMon]

System Panel.
https://market.android.com/details?id=nextapp.systempanel.r1&feature=search_result

Do you just not kill any apps then, leaving all of them running in the background in their idle state?

System Panel is a great app.

Yeah, go ahead and leave them - the background processes you probably want running and the ones actually sleeping aren't harmful.

Unless you need to isolate an app problem or need to kill one off for misbehaving (in other words, diagnostic stuff you'll do before a reset or before deciding which app is giving grief and needing an uninstall).

More on the Android way here: http://androidforums.com/htc-evo-3d/362038-memory-task-management.html

I'm not a FB user, so I can't speak at all to the second question, sorry.

 

[Ray-Ban]

System Panel is a great app.

Yeah, go ahead and leave them - the background processes you probably want running and the ones actually sleeping aren't harmful.

Unless you need to isolate an app problem or need to kill one off for misbehaving (in other words, diagnostic stuff you'll do before a reset or before deciding which app is giving grief and needing an uninstall).

More on the Android way here: http://androidforums.com/htc-evo-3d/362038-memory-task-management.html

I'm not a FB user, so I can't speak at all to the second question, sorry.

How much memory free do you usually have?

 

[EarlyMon]

How much memory free do you usually have?

From 70 to 300+ MB, it varies a lot.

 

[Ray-Ban]

From 70 to 300+ MB, it varies a lot.

Perfect. I wish I would have seen that link before I posted or I could've shortened this "questions" thread a bunch. Exactly what I need, thanks. I'll stop using the systempanel task manager to kill apps unless I really am experiencing slowdowns now that I have a better understanding of how android manages activities.

 

[EarlyMon]

No problem.

Tell you what - to keep the noise down, I'm going to close this one, and you can re-open a thread just asking about Facebook (put that in the title) - that should set you on your way to getting some feedback on that issue.