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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vasp3690:
I don't have any experience in rooting at all so instead of trying to find ways to remove the bloatware i have disabled from the application manager the software that i do not use. So chat on, Facebook, Samsung all share and a few others went to the disabled pile. With that my used memory is around 450 out of 750mb while previously it hang around 580mb. So a simple improvement i would say for those that don't fiddle with the phone that much

sent with SGS3
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nicolopolus:
Just to add my voice to this - I'm also very frustrated by this issue. After changing the dalvik heapsize to 192m there has been an improvement, but the problem is still happening.

Sometimes I'll just get a quick redraw of Apex, but sometimes I'm getting a black screen for 5-10 secs and a complete refresh. I'm also finding that occasionally services like Equalizer, Juicedefender, and other services that have permanent notification bar icons are closed and restart.

I've tried letting Apex's oom value, but it didn't seem to stick. My S2 on 4.04 (Paranoid Android) never had problems like this, so it's disappointing that the S3 out of the box has this.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skibadee:
Just installed new lf2 firmware via kies. I think the redraw **may** be fixed. Haven't made it do it so far. my dalvik is back to 256m now after installing and appears to run the same as 192m (maybe even better).

Edit: arse it still redraws occasionally :-( really hope this not down to ram
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vasp3690:
How come you have a new firmware ? My phone doesn't have any reference of an update. Is that through stock kernel etc?

sent with SGS3
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SkillfulMmd:
Yeah I got a firmware update but it didn't say what it was for.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IIIIkoolaidIIII:
Awesome, disabled S Voice and no lag at all now. It's only a gimic really thanks for the advice :-)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JimiJam:
Mine's still not behaving properly.

- Using Apex launcher

- Changed dalvik heap size (tried 192mb and 128mb)

- Disabled S-voice stuff

- force GPU rendering

If I keep starting an app, then hit home button, then start something else, home, etc., eventually it will definitely hit this issue. The phone seizes up, black screen for 5-10sec, then launcher is back.

I can't even get my SGS1 to behave this badly..!

Edit: Holdup, just noticed the 'debuggerd' (followed by gzip) process spikes up when the freezing is taking place - not sure what's going on..

Edit2: Yep, definitely some crashes with Apex Launcher at the time the 5-10sec freeze occurs. I haven't managed to break touchwiz yet (sad). At least I'll try file a bug report with Apex.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vasp3690:
Never mind. I connected to kies and it did prompt me to upgrade. Now need to backup again...

Edit: thankfully it didn't need a restore!

sent with SGS3
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SidharthaXx:
I just upgraded the firmware... still got a lag on home screen render... no solution here.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tectas:
For me all works well since the update, but I'm also using siyah kernel instead of the default and froze pretty much bloat with titanium.

Gesendet von meinem GT-I9300 mit Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gavinfabl:
Firmware update seems to make a massive improvement. I have stock rom with everything running including s voice which I use a lot. I do have go task manager widget installed (not go launcher) so have a small round icon on front home screen. One press and memory cleared down. However, not needed to use it yet since updating.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yuhaohuang:
Hmm. I cant see any updates actually. Tried OTA 3G. Will try kie tonight.

Mine is Australian Model on LE8.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teatime0315:
Dilemma guys.

Which version should I get.

International version:

- Wolfson DAC

- Exynos which I don't really care for.

US Version:

- 2gb of ram (More future proofing)

- S4 Dual Core which supposedly is fast enough

- NOT USING THE WOLFSON DAC.

I would get the international version but the 1gb is deterring me from doing so. How often do you guys run into RAM issues?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lorimere:
Where did you find that the US version will not have the Wolfson dac?

I haven't seen anything stating a definitive yes or no. I know someone ask at the sprint event and they said it did have the Wolfson chip.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teatime0315:
If this is true then this is good news. I just assumed that it wouldn't :/
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] freddee:
for returning to homescreen reload found a solution

here is the solution,it was posted before but it seems it was in wrong format.this will keep the home in ram!.

apart from dalvik change to 128 also add this to the build prop at the end and save.

ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=1

then reboot make sure its in capitals just like above,as the one posted before was not and did not work properly ...

at your own risk it worked for me !.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UpInTheAir:
sorry about that, will amend it.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=27203065&postcount=12
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oSIRus0815:
Does this also work when NOT using the Touchwiz launcher? E.g. Apex launcher? Because I'm having the same redraws with Apex even though I had "keep in memory" checked in Apex settings.

I'll give it one last try, had it written in lower case before, but thanks anyway. I'm already running LF2 firmware BTW.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UpInTheAir:
It should work (not sure how well though). Make sure your Apex Launcher set to default.

I've cooked it into all my personal ROMs for my Tab, and added to most custom ROMs if not already there.

I've used TW as preferred for a long time now, so maybe you'd like to try and see if you find placebo or real change for your case.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oSIRus0815:
Doesn't work for me. :(

I get black screens for about 5 seconds when unlocking the phone via Widgetlocker (simple standard ics style widgetlocker) sometimes before Apex redraws.

Maybe Wigetlocker related? I don't know. Sending the phone back if no solution is found.

Switching back to my GSM GNEX for now. Doesn't feel any slower in real life tasks to me, but the SGS3 appeals a lot more to me hardware wise. Especially the clicking noises of the GNEX speaker are driving me nuts.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guna-India:
How to open build.prop

How to Open the build.prop? Could you guide me in changing the size..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UpInTheAir:
Being discussed here on a possible fix for Omega ROM users.

I'm just trying the 64m right now, but need to charge to see if anything is improved.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1694291

Before messing with build.prop , best to have a Nandroid backup made in CWM recovery.

Use a root explorer app and navigate to system/build.prop and mount r/w. Long tap and open with text editor, change value, save and exit. A backup will be created. Reboot
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sohebq:
i wish i had known that 1gb ram won,t be enough, then i would have never bought it. On my S2, the free ram never went below 300 mb, but on s3, it can go below 100mb. It seems like i am using s1. i have removed a lot of bloatwares, still no use
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LJE:
Hahaha come on..... you REALLY want 300mbs of RAM just sitting there? What for?

Free RAM is wasted RAM
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UpInTheAir:
Free ram is not wasted!

Totally disagree after reading this and other comments posted by respected Devs

Sources:

Memory and SuperCharging Overview or... "Why 'Free RAM' Is NOT Wasted RAM!"

Linux Memory Consumption

zeppelinrox
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LJE:
I think if you have a few hundred mbs of free RAM and are having problems with lag, then you need to start looking somewhere else to point the finger.

Android is good at keeping open programs that are needed and when RAM runs low android closes programs that are not "needed"

To pair that with a MONSTER of a device, there is NO WAY being low on free memory will cause lag. The sgs3 in my opinion does not lack RAM using android with a quad core processor.

Maybe in old devices that had just over 200mb (all up) and old chips, having no free RAM would cause issues putting strain on the processor, but like I said imho android running on the most powerful phone to date doesn't lack in RAM.

I've read a lot of posts from people using the best custom ROMS (having 400+ mbs free RAM) complaining about lag.

That's stock with bloatware and a few system apps frozen and I've had lag. (Nothing I'd complain about though) but that proves there's a chance the lags not coming from a lack of RAM, instead people are getting low on RAM, feeling lag, and blaming a lack of RAM
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UpInTheAir:
Agree with most.

But maybe I should have made myself a little clearer in my previous post (although my post title says it) "Free RAM is not wasted".

Source
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LJE:
How much free RAM is needed in your opinion?

With the SGS3

*I agree it's not "wasted" as it's good to have it there, but don't you think our processor could kill a bunch of unneeded apps in a split second as soon as the phone even thought about needing it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UpInTheAir:
Would love to answer and give you a figure, but it would be "out of my *ss". :p

Thanks for asking, but the opinions from some of the Elite Devs would be more worthwhile than mine ;) I can read all I like, but still not understand everything, just the basic concept.

Anyway, this thread does provide some good Q&A, I've learnt a bit.

Cheers :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Doughnut:
But I do wonder, which is more beneficial?

Do Android apps even use multiple cores? Does the OS even utilise multiple cores?

Any one able to answer?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knights.JayTana:
i think the main concern of the OP is the issue with launcher redraw, and it is fixed by build.prop tweak... regarding the 1gb RAM argument, we can have thousands of arguments here but this will not change anything about our current S3, and its obvious and inevitable that tech/specs will move forward, 2gb or higher is expected for the next flagship.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UpInTheAir:
Confirmed TW Launcher redraw is minimised by the modified services.jar

The Keep Launcher in Memory build.prop tweak ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=1 doesn't work for ICS

The TW Launcher solution is in my post here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=27476986&postcount=39 ;)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Notor1ouS-:
i dont get why this topic is still opened.

discussion is senseless

having much free ram = useless

get over it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knights.JayTana:
Thanks for the heads-up... guess its better to close the thread...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sohebq:
i suffered huge lag, freezing of apps while i was on s1. i had to restart phone after every few hours. Now with low ram left in s3, i am facing lag again...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SlimJ87D:
I posted this in another thread, it's a theory of mine. I would like to have someone critique it.

I guess we won't know till the American versions come out. But my theory is that the way the roms are programmed right now are for battery efficiency as well.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hennymugge:
Now that we have CM9: more than enough RAM!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gaui:
I have 240M RAM available but when swiping through homescreens, it produces lag. The problem is not RAM so it must be this OOM priority with TouchWiz.

I hope Samsung will fix this.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EdgaBimbam:
i would say, 1gb for s3 is enough because of well optimized software. Note also has 1gb ram, but it always reached the limit and started to lag, needed always to close appz, within s3 i never close apps, never felt lagg, never felt lack of rams. ;D
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shinichi_c00l:
About Launcher that keeps redrawing, is fixed in Stock XXALF2 from UK.

In XXALF2, this problem is somehow fixed. when i try to clear mem, that usually causes my launcher to closed and redraw when back to home, it isn't happening anymore.

And in that stock firmware, the S3 is smoother, and have better stability. Definitely a recommended update from any other firmwares / kernel.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sudsi:
I think that 1gb is fine when you have a well-optimised machine. Arbitrarily increasing the ram may just lead to lazy developers making memory-munching apps without a care. I agree <1gb is going to become necessary soon, but it doesn't keep me up at night.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redplate:
Top. works.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jaisah:
What does it do? I only just got my galaxy s3 and i dont want to root it yet just in case i have to return it because of the ram issues :(
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nodstuff:
What ram issues?

What are you even on about?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beatsleigher:
It depends on what ROM you are using, which/how many apps are running in the background and how many apps you have installed on your phone.. The RAM is always being used and only get completely "flushed" when the phone is rebooted, so basically, if you don't go into the task manager every now and then, the RAM just gets clogged up and that's why the phone starts to lagg and why apps tend to even refuse to start and crash..

Try and find a ROM with an extra RAMdisk inside the System Partition, that used to help on my Galaxy Nexus, I'm not too sure about the Galaxy S III, though. Mine has been laggy ever since I flashed a custom ROM :3 But to be honest, I barely use my phone anymore, I mostly use it for phoning people and watching stuff on YouTube.

Again, go into your Task manager every now and again, close all apps, that are running, and clear the RAM, that should keep your phone pretty much lagg-free (Like on the GS 2)

Hope I could help!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nodstuff:
Firstly you are replying to a comment from June.

Secondly a ramdisk has nothing to do with it, I mean seriously, what the f*ck are you even talking about, do you honestly think a ramdisk gives you ram?

Is that why you say get a ROM with "an extra ramdisk"? That's so wrong it's not even funny.

thirdly clearing ram should not be done every now and again.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Hi,

OMG, what are you saying?????

It's like some of your comment in the Gnex section, I remember now... nothing right or helpfull, seriously check what is the ramdisk in Google... and check all the rest!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jaisah:
What ram issues?!? My phone is constantly having to reload webpages, homescreen, apps, etc when i try to multi task. For instance i was just reading an article on the mobile extremetech website and got a txt so i replied to the text and when i went back to the browser it had to reload the page. Why? My gs2 could keep multiple pages open and games at the same time with no worries even for extended periods of time. Why doesnt my s3? Are you just ignoring that there is an issue or am i just missing something? like an update or something. If i am missing an update how would i know?

Here are my details:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meppereira:
I have the same problem. I'm starting to hate this phone!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tntgdh:
Jesus man...install nova launcher, freeze the bloatware and be happy.

Never over 650 mb.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unholygid:
Same for me. Using ronne's ultra lite rom and using apex. Tw seem to be a batt and memory hog.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swapniltiwari:
Risks involved? If any?

Edit: forgot to quote that ..root explorer thing
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tntgdh:
Using nova launcher, there is no risk. For the custom rom, the regular risk involved in flashing your pone
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jaisah:
Well I froze a few apps that I wasn't using such as,

Allshare play

Chat on

Flip board

Game hub

S suggest

Talk

Talk back

That made a bit of a difference and I get the home screen issue much less often now. Any suggestions of what else I could freeze? There are a bunch of things that I don't know what they do.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] komazec:
500 € for a phone and i must to freez apps. It's a shame for Samsung :(
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ravi116:
Hi how do you freeze these applications..I m on stock rom.

Thanks
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unholygid:
Well the phone is for the general population. Some people use them some people dont.

Basically samsung put in these so call bloatware to let people enjoy its features. Although i really wish they could give us an option to uninstall them
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmatej000:
I use FoxHound essential .2 and am very impressed with free rom. i have ~300mb free:D try it out, very smooth:)

But i still thing that for a comfortable use the phone with such power should have more RAM! For JB I would like to have 2GB, but than again, that is just my desire:)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jmg1andonly:
You have to root your phone and get an app that will freeze them. E.G. Titanium backup, Mybackup Pro, etc..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] i.razvan:
Try this:

1. Restart phone

2. Close all the apps you open ONLY with back button and NOT home.

3. Dont`t close the apps from Ram.

Since i restarted the phone I closed apps only with back button and left them in the memory, but i can surely say i had only one redraw all day long.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] btemtd:
Gt-i9305 enough said
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whodisname:
One gig is most certainly enough. If its not then you should know now to use soldier tape ;)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hayabusa_XDA:
2GB RAM

I'm new to S3 and couldn't get a satisfying answer searching the forum, so I wan't to ask spcifically about 2 GB of RAM models:

Is the i9305 (LTE dual-core) the only version that comes with 2 GB RAM, or are there international i9300 versions (quad-core, maybe the one with 32GB / 64GB ROM) that also have 2 GB RAM?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mputtr:
I9300 has 1gb of ram. i9305 has 2gb

the us variants all have 2gb of ram but uses a dual core processor
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Angelus1984:
1Gb should be enough. Why? Because I have HTC HD2, with 410 MB RAM, running ICS without much lag. This phone has double that RAM, and I guess it should run smoothly. I hope so, just pick up one today.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] winol:
thanks Tectas, I am testing the mod
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZianChoy:
Context:

- T-mobile G1

- CyanogenMod 6.1.0-DS

Whenever I try to launch GTalk, the application starts and then instantly closes itself. I tried looking at the phone using LogCat in Eclipse and got the following line:

06-05 17:00:55.967: E/talk(710): signInAccount: failed to get GTalk connection!

What can I do to make GTalk work?

I've already tried:

- Rebooting the phone

- Reinstalling the Google Apps ZIP
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndDiSa:
... logging in with your Google account?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZianChoy:
How would I log in? The phone already has a Google login for my account; that's why it can get my e-mail and contact information.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Athan:
I'm seeing this same issue with CM 7.2.0.1 on an HTC Desire (GSM). I'd only recently (about a week ago), upgraded from a CM 7.1, but gtalk had been working for a while since that upgrade, it stopped working yesterday with the "closes very quickly after starting" behaviour.

Full logcat excerpt for an attempt (fresh after a reboot to install the latest gpapps as I'd not done that before, assuming Google Play would have updated all necessary):

I/ActivityManager( 173): Starting: Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.LAUNCHER] flg=0x10200000 cmp=com.google.android.talk/.SigningInActivity bnds=[0,732][96,800] } from pid 277
I/ActivityManager( 173): Start proc com.google.android.talk for activity com.google.android.talk/.SigningInActivity: pid=937 uid=10058 gids={3003, 1015}
D/szipinf ( 937): Initializing inflate state
I/ActivityThread( 937): Pub com.google.android.talk.SuggestionProvider: com.google.android.talk.SuggestionsProvider
D/dalvikvm( 937): GC_CONCURRENT freed 412K, 51% free 2765K/5639K, external 0K/0K, paused 3ms+6ms
D/ViewConsistency( 937): AbsListView android.widget.ListView@4076a628 enabled= true
D/ViewConsistency( 937): AbsListView android.widget.ListView@4076a628 enabled= true
D/GTalkService( 261): AcctMonitor.auditGTalkConnections: not starting any connections since shouldTryToConnect is false
I/ActivityManager( 173): Starting: Intent { dat=content://com.google.android.providers.talk/accounts/1 cmp=com.google.android.talk/.SigninActivity } from pid 937
W/GTalkService( 261): blockingCreateGTalkConnection failed due to low storage!
D/dalvikvm( 261): GC_CONCURRENT freed 490K, 49% free 3290K/6407K, external 0K/0K, paused 3ms+14ms
E/talk ( 937): signInAccount: failed to get GTalk connection!
W/InputManagerService( 173): Window already focused, ignoring focus gain of: com.android.internal.view.IInputMethodClient$Stub$Proxy@407e10d0
I/ActivityManager( 173): No longer want com.android.providers.calendar (pid 503): hidden #16
W/ActivityManager( 173): Duplicate finish request for HistoryRecord{40b9e8e8 com.google.android.talk/.SigninActivity}

Note that was an in-place upgrade from 7.1.? and I'm constantly fighting with low phone internal storage on this device, although right now it shows 11MB free.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Athan:
[SOLVED] Bad default partition sizes ?

It seems likely now that this was just one symptom (also had Twitter app Force Closing, Google Reader unable to auth/connect, Browser Force Closing etc) of the bad default partition setup on an HTC Desire.

I managed to get S-OFF and then use the 'CM7r2' partition setup from alpharev.nl (I've too few posts to be able to post actual links) and so far everything's working without issues. Basically the default setup has a /system way too large for CM7's needs, and using that space in /data instead gives a lot of breathing room whereas with the default /data kept on filling and causing apps problems (and, yes, this was with as much as possible APP2SD'd).

It's possible I could have solved this using SD-EXT (partition your SD card to have 2 partitions, one of ~1GB for SD-EXT, the rest for SDCARD as usual), but I didn't try that.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZianChoy:
Since I have no idea what you mean by "S-OFF" or "CM7r2", could you post the search engine keywords you used to find the instructions to use the 2 things?