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Memory usage sucks on my i4

Just wanted to comment: this is my first iphone I came from a windows world..

Its very hard for me not to worry about available memory, and leaving apps "open." But damn.. after a few days its so amazing to just *use* a phone and not worry about all that crap..

Honestly my phone may only have 20MB of ram free, but it runs as fast as the day I first got it so I don't even look..

I really am enjoying this new phone! ha :D
 
Some people take their clothes to charity when they think they will never wear them again, when they go out of style, or at the end of the season.

Others take their clothes to charity when there is no more room in the closet for new ones.

Windows is the former. iOS is the latter.

Windows is anal and paranoid. iOS is lazy, and does the least work possible.
 
mrjayd said:
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.
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As I said before, there is a difference between free and available memory. When an app closes, the memory is available for use (aka inactive), but not free. Free memory is used first, then the inactive memory is used if needed.

I'm simplifying a lot here, but hopefully you get the idea.
 
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Memory usage is reported differently in iOS4, Apple confirmed this in the beta dev forums. No current apps correctly read or manage memory on any phone running iOS4.
 
RealSkyDiver said:
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???
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You can bite me too.....Dude! If you read my thread I told you by the end of the day I do notice apps taking longer to open and lag a little when I am doing things with the apps. Then I reboot and everything is fine. So wtf.....Dude.
Just trying to point out what I am experiencing.
 
hey man you have to open multitasking and click and hold on the apps and delete them all this will free up all your memory i have the system app an it gives me up 350 mb of free memory after i do that.
 
It works like Windows ram management works, especially the "multitasking", apps "running" in the background are just using RAM, ready to use, for faster loader, and reduced battery usage due to already being ready.

Even if you have 99% RAM "used" like Windows often has (you have Total/Cached/Available and Free) it isn't really used, just filled up ready, the iPhone will free up RAM as it is needed from apps loaded into memory that aren't used as often.

Just stop worrying
 
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