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What do you mean by "clearing memory": erasing storage (e.g. a factory reset) or clearing RAM (an utterly counter-productive thing to do with an Android phone)? And what are you using to do it?
Welcome to AF, @Volcanos.
Which specific RAM manager app are you speaking about (there's quite a few in the Play Store)?
Do you have a specific need or reason you're using that particular app?
Since getting my first Android device in November of 2009, rooting all of them, I have yet to find a need or actually use a "RAM manager".
Yes, I'm sure there are indeed specific individual cases / instances where tweaking a parameter might be useful, but for the most part doing anything other than letting Android (and the underlying Linux kernel) handle memory management for you is not fruitful and is usually counterproductive and detrimental to performance.
Which specific RAM manager app are you speaking about (there's quite a few in the Play Store)?
Do you have a specific need or reason you're using that particular app?
Since getting my first Android device in November of 2009, rooting all of them, I have yet to find a need or actually use a "RAM manager".
Yes, I'm sure there are indeed specific individual cases / instances where tweaking a parameter might be useful, but for the most part doing anything other than letting Android (and the underlying Linux kernel) handle memory management for you is not fruitful and is usually counterproductive and detrimental to performance.
Hmm, I wonder if that's an add-on by Samsung or your carrier? (I hope it's not the Cheetah Mobile "clean master" snake oil that we've seen)
Honestly, Android/Linux will do what is listed by that screen you posted automatically and is not really necessary for a user to do/touch.
What do you see when you "...Tap here for more info."?
Honestly, Android/Linux will do what is listed by that screen you posted automatically and is not really necessary for a user to do/touch.
What do you see when you "...Tap here for more info."?
I click on update policy, but after a while it says "Unable to update the security policy. Make sure Wi-Fi is turned on and connected a network, then try again. For more information, visit www.samsung.com/seforandroid"
P.S. Wi-Fi is turned on.
P.S. Wi-Fi is turned on.
Well, that link goes to nowhere (thanks, Samsung 
).
Is this basically what you're seeing?
That's a snapshot taken from this video:
I'm guessing the above video is showing the same method you used to get to the Clear Memory option, yes?
If so, everything in that video reinforces what I said above: you don't need to do ANY of that--Android will automatically take care of that for you; killing processes and "clearing RAM" does NOTHING except make your device slower (note where the above screenshots says: "If you clear the memory manually, applications may take longer to open.").
Really.
).Is this basically what you're seeing?
That's a snapshot taken from this video:
I'm guessing the above video is showing the same method you used to get to the Clear Memory option, yes?
If so, everything in that video reinforces what I said above: you don't need to do ANY of that--Android will automatically take care of that for you; killing processes and "clearing RAM" does NOTHING except make your device slower (note where the above screenshots says: "If you clear the memory manually, applications may take longer to open.").
Really.
svim
Extreme Android User
Yeah it's a Samsung thing, long press on the Home button and the RAM manager is one of the options.
That message is tied to Samsung's very creepy Knox. Originally marketed as 'corporate security' feature, Knox also morphed into Samsung's way to hamper consumers from minimizing Samsung oversight on our phones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Knox
You might want to try restarting your Mini S4 into its Recovery Mode and then clear the system cache partition. The system cache is different than your app caches and it's stored in its own partition separate from where your personal data and apps are stored so this won't affect your stuff.
https://www.androidpit.com/forum/608584/how-to-clear-the-system-cache-for-the-samsung-galaxy-s4
But as @scary alien wrote, stop clearing your RAM. That's basically a step to take when you're having a specific problem, not a regular maintenance thing. Android's memory management is pretty sophisticated, the more you interfere with it the harder it has to work to compensate.