Ram Management

I am running latest nue rom, with a ton of extras i loaded including opera s2u2 and a couple other hogs and with oxios and quickclear i have a min of 18mb free

[quiqnezz]

Originally Posted by jpc0480

I downloaded memmaid and am really not impressed. When I started it I had 13mb of free ram. Once I ran reclaim my ram, it increased it to 14! That too me is not a significant amount.

This oxios everyone is speaking of, how much would that restore? After a soft reset I typically have around 24mb. If I run TomTom it drops down to 16mb. What I want to know is where did the 8mb go and why can't I get them back without soft resetting?

Once I get down to less than 12mb I'm pretty much screwed and soft reset bound.

You gotta really play with it and have it clean more junk then just the usual stock settings. There are tweaks you can do and settings to maximize extreme speed, or RAM, I personally use the extreme ram. You can also setup up scheduled clean ups.

Oxio is ok but you gotta run it manually everytime you wanna do a clean. Gets annoying really fast.

I'm running on average 17-19mb of free ram but i'm also running HTC home and a couple of other apps at all times. Of course RAM hungry apps like TomTom, googlemaps, livesearch, browsers are always going to eat the RAM up fast. With this phone it's a given. But I usually don't have multiple big apps like that running at the same time.

[gtarent]

Originally Posted by jpc0480

Quick Menu doesn't seem to solve the problem... I already have the new WM task manager as well as an app on the today screen that shows me my ram %. I am really looking for something to manage my ram. I know when to kill programs. I want to reclaim the mem leak if possible??

Quickmenu will recover ram if you use its hibernate function. Its a great little program.

[MrObvious]

Flashing a nice no2chem WM6.1 ROM makes a difference too.

[BigDinCA]

dotFred ask Manager with Oxios is what I've been using for months. I'm on roughly my 40th custom ROM and using nuePerformance I can verify roughly 23MB on boot and I tend to run around 18-20MB free. When I'm done with Google Maps or Opera or PIE, I just open up dotFred, force them completely closed and run Oxios. Did it an hour ago and in 10 seconds I went from 6MB to 18MB.

[joojoobee666]

dotFred Task Manager is the key here. Oxios is great, but if you closed a program and it never really "closed" (even though its not running according to windows task manager), check with dotFred Task Manager. I often find opera running in the background 5 mins after closing/exiting. Also, If you use GPSGate, it seems to have a nasty memory leak too (But after closing, it's all freed up again.)

But alas, you will still have to eventually reboot, just like regular windows. To much shoddy programming will eventually gobble all he RAM, though with the aforementioned measures, reboots should be a few DAYS apart. I usually have to end up rebooting because my GPS radio stopped responding ot task bar disappeared.

[popdog54]

Originally Posted by quiqnezz

Oxio is ok but you gotta run it manually everytime you wanna do a clean. Gets annoying really fast.
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Shantzg001, a regular on another forum, reworked Oxios to remove the ok popup. This allows you to schedule Oxis to run at given times without any interuptions. See here:

http://tech.shantanugoel.com/2008/04...ws-mobile.html

[jpc0480]

Originally Posted by quiqnezz

You gotta really play with it and have it clean more junk then just the usual stock settings. There are tweaks you can do and settings to maximize extreme speed, or RAM, I personally use the extreme ram. You can also setup up scheduled clean ups.

Oxio is ok but you gotta run it manually everytime you wanna do a clean. Gets annoying really fast.

I'm running on average 17-19mb of free ram but i'm also running HTC home and a couple of other apps at all times. Of course RAM hungry apps like TomTom, googlemaps, livesearch, browsers are always going to eat the RAM up fast. With this phone it's a given. But I usually don't have multiple big apps like that running at the same time.

I too am running HTC Home with the cube. On occasion I use Google Maps, TomTom, and Opera Mini. I mostly use Opera Mini. Anyway I have started playing with Memmaid and have found that with Extreme Ram I am getting all that I need. I ran it yesterday and when I fell below 13mb, I used Reclaim my Ram and came back up to 19mb! That's what I wanted! Normally from 13mb, I'm staring right at a soft reset... While soft resetting is not that bad, I just feel that if I soft reset once a day, that should be plenty. I knew that there had to be something out there with a way to restore leaks. Awesome, thanks for the tip!

[jpc0480]

Ok...

So I tried Memmaid, and Oxios. While Memmaid has more fancy features and a nice clean interface, I think Oxios gets the job done a whole hell of a lot better. I have been running for about 3 days without a soft reset! Even with Memmaid I was doing one every day or day and a half. Oxios is just too easy. Have it set up on the start menu and when I need the boost, BAM! there it is. Memmaid, I would have to run a scan, then reclaim my ram and not to mention that damn program is running in the background Let's eat some more ram!

Anyway after about a week trying each Oxios is the way to go...

With Memmaid avg RAM: 17mb
With Oxios avg RAM 20mb

Big difference when you're on a device that is challenged in that department. Especially if you're tired of closing your sms and email programs, just to free up that little extra.

[6800]

jpc0480 Hows that working for you still?

I don't mash on my PPC all that much, (still learning) So I usually don't have 12 things running at a time.

Although I noticed last night that I was running at 60% with nothing open or so I thought. So I soft reset and got it down to 47%. I too would like to get this down even more. Is it possible or am I stuck with running at 50% with nothing open?

Again...this is a company phone so tweaking is somewhat limited.

TIA