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So many low memory crashes on my 6+

I feel your pain. I'm having buyers remorse as my phone can't keep up with my needs as well. Several times I've had random restarts and it takes a good minute for my pictures to load before I can even scroll through them...
 
I'd take faster RAM than more RAM on a mobile device any day. I multitask on my desktop with 16gb of RAM. I barely multitask with really small apps on my phone. The only reason people care is because Android is stepping up their RAM in order to compete against each other and with Apple.
 
Zebesbrain said:
I'd take faster RAM than more RAM on a mobile device any day. I multitask on my desktop with 16gb of RAM. I barely multitask with really small apps on my phone. The only reason people care is because Android is stepping up their RAM in order to compete against each other and with Apple.
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No reason they can't have RAM that is both fast and high capacity.
 
gardiboy said:
No other apps running? U closed all apps in multitasking and you got only safari 2x tabs open and it keeps reloading?
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Yessir. I think it says something like a problem occurred with this web page and it'll be reloaded. I'll take a screenshot if I remember next time it happens
 
sonicrobby said:
I feel your pain. I'm having buyers remorse as my phone can't keep up with my needs as well. Several times I've had random restarts and it takes a good minute for my pictures to load before I can even scroll through them...
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I think you might have a more serious issue. I have never had my 6+ restart (knock on wood) and I've had it for 3 weeks now. There might be something corrupt in your backup. Maybe try a restore and set up as new and manually add things back in. That could help...
 
gdeputy said:
and apple is far more memory efficient than android..
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I'm not so sure about that. This is my first time using iOS after like 6 years of Android, or whenever it first came out. Most of the early phones sucked, but my last phone of 2 years (HTC One S) with 1GB of RAM handled multi-tasking better than my 6+. Chrome was rock solid with multiple tabs open at once and I hardly ever experienced re-loading when switching between apps.

Not sure if the high PPI/scaling consumes more RAM? My previous phone was much lower res.

I'm crossing my fingers that future 8.x increments will improve performance on the 6+.

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cababah said:
I think you might have a more serious issue. I have never had my 6+ restart (knock on wood) and I've had it for 3 weeks now. There might be something corrupt in your backup. Maybe try a restore and set up as new and manually add things back in. That could help...
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I can echo the reboots on my 6+. It doesn't happen often, but it's happened at least a few times since I've owned it (it was set up as a new phone, not a backup).
 
poorcody said:
Yeah as a developer I have to echo blaming reloading on the RAM usage is a little suspect. It more likely has to do with the app design. I think everyone (including Apple) is going to need a few months to optimize their applications around iOS 8. There were a lot more changes "under-the-hood" with this upgrade compared to the last iOS 7.
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Sometimes (or often), it's sloppy coding. It's also because iOS 8 eats way more memory than iOS 7. So that means you have to go back and rewrite parts of your app to cache to disk instead of RAM. I do think if Apple is going to be stingy on the RAM, they should probably provide a proper caching API (NSCache does *not* count), since this is a shortcoming on their behalf, hardware-wise. But... the problem is that now you have to provide images that are 3x. A lot of those *have* to reside in memory.
 
bizack said:
Sometimes (or often), it's sloppy coding. It's also because iOS 8 eats way more memory than iOS 7. So that means you have to go back and rewrite parts of your app to cache to disk instead of RAM. I do think if Apple is going to be stingy on the RAM, they should probably provide a proper caching API (NSCache does *not* count), since this is a shortcoming on their behalf, hardware-wise. But... the problem is that now you have to provide images that are 3x. A lot of those *have* to reside in memory.
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You know, Apple wouldn't have to do all that clever-coding "hoolpah" if they just put the god damned 2GB RAM in. Much easier.

Uh oh, I just realized that would make them Android lol
 
I had the 6+ on iOS 8.0.2 and everything will have to refresh. Even with 2 apps open in the background. Safari couldn't even handle 3 tabs open. I've never had this issue with past iPhones. Then I exchanged my 6+ for the 6 that came with iOS 8.0. It did not do any aggressive reload at all. It was just as normal as my 5 and 5s. Then I upgraded to iOS 8.1 on the 6, and now the problem I had on the 6+ came back. I would say not as aggressive but its annoying at the sametime. Now when I'm typing, I have to copy n paste what ever i jotted down just in case I want to switch to another tab or app because i'm scared when I return it'll have to reload.. smh!
 
cababah said:
I think you might have a more serious issue. I have never had my 6+ restart (knock on wood) and I've had it for 3 weeks now. There might be something corrupt in your backup. Maybe try a restore and set up as new and manually add things back in. That could help...
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I cant remember but I think I did do a fresh install with my 6+. I will try to do a fresh restore with 8.1 and not restore it from backup to see if it improves.

Thanks
 
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