available memory question??

[jmorton10]

I am wondering how just low your available memory has to drop before it drastically affects the operation of any WM system??

I have two identical Verizon XV6800's (HTC Titan). Since I will never use any service but Verizon after trying all the others at one time or another, short of doing an ESN clone which is not as easy as it used to be I am stuck with Verizon's crappy phone selection (talk about a catch22 situation).

That being the case, I have spent an AWFUL long time tweaking/flashing/customizing etc. these two systems as best I can. In my everyday work phone (which absolutely 100% HAS to work), I am running dcd's 3.2.6 ROM which has been really impressive.

In the other phone, I am running nue3 pre3 which is really amazing in a lot of ways but not quite as stable for me (it did a hard reset at bootup all by itself yesterday). I run a ton of stuff on start-up that sucks available memory, but I like the way the stuff works so I live with the lower mem readings. Probably the biggest offender in that case is MS Voice Command, but after researching the heck out of it & FINALLY get it to work 100% (it works 100% from my S9 BT headset, announces incoming calls, reads me my appointments etc etc etc etc)I plan on keeping it. I also run Wisbar 3 adv for all of its features. I have both Ultimate Launcher with HTC Home & Mobile Shell with rumball's Diamond theme running together at all times.

I have EXACTLY the same programs/apps/tweaks (& I have an awful lot of programs) etc. installed in both setups so I could fairly compare the two ROM's. If I run the nue setup in high mem mode with the camera disabled, it boots with 6-8 more MB of available memory. If I boot the nue setup in low mem mode, the two setups show almost exactly the same available memory.

I would think the extra mem available in the nue setup would make quite a noticeable difference in the operation of the two setups, but that doesn't seem to be the case at all. I have had the dcd running just fine at a time when I checked the available mem & it was showing as little as 3.2MB. The thing just keeps running along & doesn't freeze up & if it is any slower it is not enough to notice.

The one & only difference I have ever seen between the two setups is Google Navigator will refuse to startup if the available mem is below around 11-12 MB. If I want to start GN in the dcd setup, I almost always have to soft reset it first (Oxios & mem-maid won't free up enough to let it startup). The nue setup will usually allow it to start with no problem (but even that is not 100%). GN is such a buggy POS that I rarely use it anyway, but it is a good memory test.

~John