G+_David Herron Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 I'm new here so I'm sure this topic has come up before, but if the techies are right that "unused RAM is wasted RAM," then why do I observe my phone (Galaxy Nexus) get choppy and run slower when there is less available? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Johan Appelgren Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 The problem isn't free memory. It can be that you have bad apps installed that continue to do things in the background when they shouldn't which would explain why it helps for you to start killing cached processes. Or too many apps that really need to do things in the background to function. Also made worse by JB requiring a bit more memory than the Galaxy Nexus have. There simply isn't enough memory available for apps after the system has taken what it needs. At least that is what happens on mine. After a week uptime there's only about 200mb available for non-system apps for me, free + that used by non-system services in settings, apps. So if I for example use Chrome and listen to music the launcher gets kicked out, so when I press home it has to reload which takes time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Johan Appelgren Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 The memory issue I described might be some driver/kernel problem on the Galaxy Nexus because the system doesn't use as much memory on the Nexus 7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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