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Memory usage sucks on my i4
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A couple questions for you:
Did you jailbreak the phone?
Are you noticing any performance issues due to the decrease in available RAM?
Most likely it's safari keeping the tabs up that's using up the memory.
A couple questions for you:
Did you jailbreak the phone?
Are you noticing any performance issues due to the decrease in available RAM?
Most likely it's safari keeping the tabs up that's using up the memory.
Why are you worried about available memory? This isn't a windows phone. Just use it and it will take care of itself.
Exactly. It s not a windows phone so I shouldn't have to do this. And how will it take care of itself? Its not going to free up memory on it's own.
I have that Memory Free app that has a button to "free memory" but it doesn't work now in iOS4 so I have to keep rebooting.
Again, why are you worried about your memory usage? You should be glad it's being utilized and not sitting around doing nothing.
Unix based systems manage memory well so you don't need to do anything. Now if you did a jailbreak then you might need to worry about apps with memory leaks.
Unix based systems manage memory well so you don't need to do anything. Now if you did a jailbreak then you might need to worry about apps with memory leaks.
iOS4 as well as its predecessors are OSX based. OSX does work like windows. It fills its available memory up and unloads as its needed else ware. Having 50 megs left seems perfectly normal and as long as your not suffering from performance issues (not perceived performance issues) you shouldn't worry. Use it and enjoy it.
I guess I just don't understand how the memory is utilized then in the phones. Why add another 256M of RAM in the i4 over the 3Gs then. My 3Gs used to always not get down past 80 or 90 and I am running the same apps on my new phone.
Because now that multitasking has been added, more apps can be opened at once before the phone needs to close one to make room for a new one.
Well as of now none of my apps have MT support yet. Sure they are down in the system tray when I double click, but none are still running because every time I try to access them from down there they all still start up from the beginning again. So far I am getting NO MT from this phone with the exception of my music apps.
I never understand this obsession of wanting the most free RAM possible, RAM is of absolutely no value unless it is being used. As long as it is being managed properly by the OS and made available when necessary you will not see any performance issues. In reality if you constantly purge it so you always have 256MB free then you are basically defeating the purpose of having 512MB of ram and your iPhone 4 will be under-performing and end up running no better than a 3GS.
Yup.
C'mon though...you're a Demi-God, rdowns. You know that's not how it works here on the forums, especially this time of year.
*nudge*you are basing this on an app that you say doesnt work?
The memory free app hasnt been updated for iOS4 yet. You have a lot more memory than you think
Some of the standard iOS apps are multitasking for starters. I really don't understand why you're worry about free memory...
The OP strikes me as a dramaqueen since theres absolutely no use for this thread. You never got an error message and your phone never slowed down so wtf dude???