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gnarly

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Jul 15, 2012
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I have 2 iPhone 3GS's and both of them are 32GB and are jailbroken and unlocked on 5.1.1 on the T-Mobile network BB: 6.15.00. Both of them have the exact same cydia apps/tweaks. Also both of them have the old bootrom. But for some reason one of them has very low ram. On one of them the highest it goes up to is around 125MB and on the other is around 50MB. I even tried deleting some daemons for the iPhone with less ram and deleting them has made no effect at all. Does anyone know how I can increase the ram?
 

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All jokes aside... there's no real way to increase the ram. I'm betting the next iPhone to have at least 1GB of Ram~

I've never owned a jailbroken iPhone, but is there some sort of task manager on Cydia? On Android I use a task manager to kill apps in-order to free up ram usage.. is there something similar for Jailbroken iPhones?
 
I fixed the issue.
I restored the slower iPhone completely without resorting a backup and set it up as a new iPhone. This fixed all of the lag issues.
Both iPhones now get around 125MBs of ram max.
 
All jokes aside... there's no real way to increase the ram. I'm betting the next iPhone to have at least 1GB of Ram~

I've never owned a jailbroken iPhone, but is there some sort of task manager on Cydia? On Android I use a task manager to kill apps in-order to free up ram usage.. is there something similar for Jailbroken iPhones?

If you double tap the Home button, you can hold the apps to close them in the dock.
 
If you double tap the Home button, you can hold the apps to close them in the dock.

Trouble is, it's difficult to tell which of those apps are actually using background services to multitask (and thus are actually consuming RAM which you might be able to free up) and which of them are simply suspended (and thus their state has been saved in Flash storage and they impose no measurable amount of RAM consumption).
 
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