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[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] olu.danNY:
I used ADW... And it was OK then... Check your Over/Underclocking settings (This could make your phone smoother to run... You can use RAM Manager (from PlayStore) also to manage RAM. Cheers.
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Slymobi:
Buy ADWex or holo launcher is similar.if you search around there is a thread of all launchers.

MokeeOS
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toycar69:
ok, as for my overclock / underclock settings, I'm running stock speeds, and using the SmartAssV2 governor. My aim is to make the phone smooth, and get a good battery life from it.

Is ADWex faster than ADW standard?
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MacGyver Jack:
Try Nova Launcher or Trebuchet, I prefer Trebuchet.

Sweeterhome is also another!
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toycar69:
I thought Nova and Trebuchet were for ICS+?
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lo2ay:
You are right, they're for ICS and up

I prefer launcherpro, It's the fastest with the best customization ;)

It's not FC on my wildfire, I'm using LeWaOS ROM.

It wasn't FC also when i was using CM7.2

Did you try fixing permissions from recovery ??
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wasimk32:
Nemus launcher serves good as well.
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Slymobi:
This is an age old debate lol launcherpro vs ADWex

Ive tried about 40 launchers and with the right settings i always go back to adw ;)

MokeeOS
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toycar69:
I totally forgot about that, I'll give it a try!

Thanks for all your suggestions.

I'm also going to give all these other launchers a try.

Also, I made a mistake earlier. FTL Launcher was the one that I couldn't get to work at all, not Lightning.

Any others worth a go? I found an english translation of 360 Launcher that I'm going to give a try also.
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lesicnik1:
Get ready for the Apex vs Nova debate :p
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toycar69:
Lol, so what are the right settings? :D
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Slymobi:
The right settings are the settings that work best for you/ the rom your using/your rom setup and your screen set up! So as you can see......it would be stupid of me to say "these are the right settings " because we all have our own preferences. Just play around until you find your best setup with any launcher you use. :)

MokeeOS
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wasimk32:
+1 for ADW EX launcher,used to think launcher pro was smoothest but with ADW EX I can get that smoothness with right setting and loads of customization options,where launcher pro falls short.ADW EX is the best launcher IMO! :D
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipHopBlond:
I only tried preinstalled launchers on roms (aka integrated) and I can say that ADW's the best :good:
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lo2ay:
LOL now you made me think of readding ADW launcher to LeWaOS ROM :D :P
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] .xxx.:
@op: you can find a list in my signature..
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcComBat:
I'd say use either Trebuchet or LauncherPro for ICS

I use Trebuchet and it works relly nice and smooth :)
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dmagee:
Adw ex by far the smoothest for me!

Sent from Xperia Mini Pro ~ Android 4.0.4 ICS
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Slymobi:
Live home not too bad either.

life is just a bollock kicker
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] revankar:
Launcher 7 is good may be b'coz I got bored of default android UI's.:)

For a android feel i guess ADW is good, launcher pro development has stopped I guess.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] davibs:
Ehi guys, i've found just one link but it's from 4shared wich i can't use, and i don't know if it's good for Galaxy sl.

Can anyone give me the correct link please?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] ynshetty:
Dude did u hear a website called Google.com????

Try samfirmware.com and do some searching before starting threads like this
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] TopDroid:
Download Odin: http: //iggo.net/en/download/b254cfcea5cbb5ef982013bbfc637268

Sent From My Galaxy SL
[Galaxy S III General] emahmood87:
I am seriously fed up with ram being too low on this mobile....for example playing nova and then just coming back to check text message and the game crashes not to mention touch wiz crashes too.... I miss gs2 where there were no such problems... I just hope that gs4 will have atleast 2gb ram...i always have just 100 mb free... I have got about 90 games and apps on my mobile ...its also silly when people say free ram is wasted ram that's so wrong... I have an iPad 3 and I Always have 720 mb free memory as per sbsettings menu...I wish we had this much in sgs3....

Update :

this is what i mean by less ram c how the game crashed when one goes to the browser and then back to game on SGS3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm77JNMJTvk

Update 2 :

Comparison of Multitasking on ipad 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLq0wdacr1Q
[Galaxy S III General] Elgordo2:
I'm not getting any crashes at all
[Galaxy S III General] knights.JayTana:
though im not a hardcore gamer like you but i do play Nova/Shadowgun/Asphalt once in awhile with many backround apps running/downloading. No crashes for me so far... are you rooted?
[Galaxy S III General] SlimJ87D:
Poop?
[Galaxy S III General] emahmood87:
after playing nova 3 for half an hour, go back to home screen open browser go to xda page browse for 5 mins then again go to the game and let me know if it crashes or not...don't get me wrong I absolutely adore gs3 but less ram does have an impact .. M on stock rom no root...
[Galaxy S III General] adz63:
u should seriously learn about/what RAM is all about. RAM FUNCTIONS BETTER AT FULL CAPACITY
[Galaxy S III General] dr.m0x:
Free ram is wasted ram. Repeating what you are sick of hearing because it's true. Ios and Android use different memory management so you aren't really comparing apples for apples (excuse the pun). Ios has horrible memory management, if you don't close your apps before opening new ones the memory fills up and the phone slows down. Maybe I'm wrong and they fixed it in the 4s but it was a problem for some time.

I play angry birds, temple run, and gun brothers. I have 102 apps, TouchWiz hasn't crashed once and the phone only lags if I'm doing very intensive stuff like restoring 102 apps with titanium backup.

I've said it in other threads and I'm sticking by my opinion that your problems are almost certainly caused by something other than lack of ram.

This is Samsung's flagship phone, it's currently the most desirable phone on the market, would Samsung really be dumb enough to engineer an iPhone killer that lags like poop because it hasn't got enough ram? No, they put 1gb in it because it's all the phone needs.
[Galaxy S III General] speedyjay:
Deal with it....it is what it is, you knew it had 1gb of ram when you bought the damn phone! So you have no valid reason to complain!!
[Galaxy S III General] snowwhite007:
Im experiencing no crashes i played nova fir about 30 mins browsed checked xda then played all is still good?
[Galaxy S III General] Tatsuya79:
Free RAM is not wasted RAM.

At a certain point of used ram your system will lag.

Check this post, linked from this thread which gives a nice solution to experiment the best RAM management you can decide for yourself.
[Galaxy S III General] emahmood87:
Guys u r missing the point ... the phone does not lag .. its the multitasking which is the problem with having less ram...i will post a video to show what i mean
[Galaxy S III General] speedyjay:
Of course it's wasted.....would you pay for 1gb of ram for your pc and not use it??
[Galaxy S III General] emahmood87:
Here is the video of the problem of having less ram ... once u playing the game and decide to go to browser and then go back to find the game has crashed...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm77JNMJTvk
[Galaxy S III General] psp888:
maybe thats a issue with the game not resuming not the phone.
[Galaxy S III General] done12many2:
To be honest, that video seemed to demonstrate a very nice transition from the game to the browser and from the browser back to the game. Looks like the game itself doesn't respond well to the switch.
[Galaxy S III General] emahmood87:
Thats my point too the sgs3 is blazingly fast but the multitasking is not upto par with sgs2 nor ipad3 ... i will post a vid of multitask on ipad 3 just for the sake of comparison...

Light multitasking is very much possible with sgs3 but m only concerned with heavy multitasking....
[Galaxy S III General] biffsmash:
Fanboys will always spout technical rubbish to defend their products and ignore the fact that tech facts or no, the phone is not working as intended.

If you want to run 2 3 4 or 5 apps in memory and multitask between them, you need enough RAM to do it. If your ram is full, and you try and run another app, the one before it will be closed, hence no multitasking. IF the operating system was smaller, so the useful apps filled the memory, the full ram thing would be fine, but it uses most the ram leaving nothing for anything else.

People come on and admit it, SGS3 needs more RAM, in fact the SGS2 reloaded the home screen from time to time too and so does the One X, but the SGS3 uses almost all it's RAM just for core apps leaving nothing for the juicy ones.

Custom Roms, Checkrom and Foxhound both eliminate (to my testing so far), the Nova home screen reloading, but apps still have to reload after you've gone to another app due to low memory.

As it stands, the only way to use this phone almost the way it should be used, especially if you demand the very best from your phones, is via a custom rom.
[Galaxy S III General] emahmood87:
I have also posted a comparison of how iPad 3 multitasks better... Oh and on ipad1 multitasking sucked coz of RAM because it had only 120 mb user available ram.... So I seriously hope galaxy s4 atleast has 2 gb ram or atleast better memory management ....
[Galaxy S III General] nodstuff:
I think what it comes down to is that the phone doesn't need more ram, touchwiz needs to go on a diet.

It is horribly bloated and Samsung need to trim it a lot.

I get they want it to be unique when compared to other phones but it would save them money, and deliver a better end user experience if they went with vanilla android, ESPECIALLY with how jellybean looks. Wishful thinking I suspect.

I flashed cm9 to it two days ago after finally getting sick of tw, it's pretty, has a good personality and is smart, but its a fat pig and there's no getting past that.

Free ram is wasted ram but also it is important that the ram that is used isn't filled with crap tw services.

Running cm9 and I have 300mb free ram right now, swapping between this and chrome and poweramp. Win!
[Galaxy S III General] ct123123:
I'm having no problems actually, but then again I like closing open apps and have always used my phone that way.
[Galaxy S III General] dr.m0x:
So I just reopened an app I was using two hours ago, the screen definitely got redrawn which means the app was no longer in memory, but it opened right where I was and very quickly. I'll concede this probably means the kernel felt it was low on memory at some stage and dropped the task out of memory. I still don't see the issue though since the task still resumed with good speed and was still where I left it. I'm not really sure how much multitasking you expect to achieve on a device with such a small screen anyway.

I'll concede more ram would have saved me two seconds of my life but somewhere along the line the engineers have to find a balance between hardware specs and what people are willing to pay for a phone. There are also other restraints such as the physical size of the phone and layout of the pcb. I still maintain Samsung would have upped the ram if they felt the phone would not perform acceptably without it.

If op is really seriously fed up with the perceived lack of ram in this phone, he could always sell it and get something else I guess. This thread won't achieve anything and is quite pointless since the phone has 1gb of ram.
[Galaxy S III General] Runadumb:
The problem is Samsung did realise this and added more memory to the American versions.
[Galaxy S III General] done12many2:
That's not exactly how this happened.
[Galaxy S III General] d4fseeker:
Nope. The problem is that it's not possible to add 2GB to the Exynos 4core.

Samsung is working on making it possible which results in the South Korean version.

US-version only got a dualcore CPU which they already were capable of bundling 2GB of RAM with.
[Galaxy S III General] nodstuff:
No. Stop getting your info from the verge, they are idiots.

Samsung had the specs for both variants decided long before they were released, the reason for the 2gb ram in the us variant is because quad core sounds better than dual core to customers so they needed an extra selling point and because the S4 + adreno needs more ram than the exynos +mali.

A huge company like Samsung that pay engineers lots of money to design phones don't suddenly realise anything at the last minute.
[Galaxy S III General] done12many2:
This.
[Galaxy S III General] hefonthefjords:
This is idiotic. You are trying to switch between one of the most intense games available for a mobile device and a bunch of other apps. Of course this isnt gonna work well.

Multitasking is not about gaming. Its about firing off emails and texts while on a call and downloading seven rar files.
[Galaxy S III General] emahmood87:
Mate calm down u r not getting paid by samsung to defend sgs3....secondly multitasking was a breeze on sgs2 ask anyone...why does everyone take it so personally...
[Galaxy S III General] georaldc:
I really have no idea why people are replying about how RAM functions in Android when the OP clearly is stating that the problem is with apps (especially heavy games) not resuming their state properly. I have seen this problem as well but thankfully, when I play a game I don't exit out until I'm done.

Still, I'm interested to know if the US s3 suffers from the same issue with 2gigs of ram available.
[Galaxy S III General] done12many2:
I believe that people are replying this way due to the OP title for this thread. It leads you to believe that he has a problem with the amount of RAM.
[Galaxy S III General] xaxs69:
im tired of people complaining about the ram capacity, ive used my galaxy playing asphalt and later on nova while listening some music and nothing, exit the app went to the web and jumped right back in and nothing so maybe its just your phone
[Galaxy S III General] Chillz88:
@all those complaining about ram, try an app called ram manager pro and set it to hard multitasking or any other set u wana test..find which suits for you.. it worked for me.. no redraws..
[Galaxy S III General] nativestranger:
It isn't crashing. The OS force closed the app to free up memory for other tasks. Its a common behaviour with MOST ICS phones with 1GB. The sensation, galaxy note and htc one X does the same thing. Though its worse on the one x. And those of you who said it doesn't happen on your phone probably only used very light apps. I can multitask fine between video player and whatsapp or gmail but not between browser with a few desktop webpages open and plant wars/ riptide. So unless you can show the exact same apps being run as the OP without any quits/reloads, don't say there is no such problem on the GS3. I love this phone but not to the point of denying the issues with it.

Of course those people who said that 1GB is absolutely enough are right as well. That is IF the software can make efficient use of it. Right now the problem is this: The phone has lots of free memory right after booting or clearing memory of cached/ inactive apps. Like 400mb or more free ram. but after using it for a short while it will preload or auto cache apps and services until the memory reaches a set limit. So in actual use we have closer to 130 - 200mb free ram at any given time. This is absolutely not a problem because the OS is supposed to quit those cached apps as the user runs his apps and the memory drops below a certain limit which i guess is somewhere between 100 - 130mb. But that is not the case I observed. The priorities for auto task killing are a mess right now. So in case of nearing it min memory free limit, it doesn't always quit that google plus or drop box in the background (that you never even used) but that app that you been using just 1 minute ago.
[Galaxy S III General] Mkvarner:
I am unrooted and if I switch from Skype to Chrome Skype crash.
[Galaxy S III General] done12many2:
Is there a phone that doesn't do not exhibit this behavior?

I don't think that the SGS III is perfect either, but if an issue occurs with just about every phone, are we really denying an issue?

This might require someone actually conducting a side by side between the 2 gig US variant and the 1 gig International, with specific regards to multi-tasking. I have another upgrade and would be willing to test this provided that there is that much concern in the SGS III community. I just don't feel like RAM, or lack thereof, is the problem.
[Galaxy S III General] disclaimernotice:
First of all guys, let's get our terminologies straight. I noticed that many of you are using the term 'crash' when you are actually referring to 'redraw'.

And I do agree that 1Gb of ram is insufficient for proper multitasking, if games or a browser is involved.

People who say that free ram is wasted ram aren't getting it. The speed of a phone depends on both ram and CPU. When ram is full, the CPU has to close some apps or background processes so that the current app that you're running can continue to function. Then, what there is ram available again, the CPU will reopen or restart those closed processes. The constant opening and closing of apps will cause the phone to slow down or lag, unless the CPU is fast enough to make the lag unnoticeable. In the case of the galaxy s3, the quad core exynos is indeed fast enough to make the lag unnoticeable, but sadly, closing and reopening games and browsers is not as straight forward because the phone obviously can't just reopen to the point where you left it, unlike other simple apps.

So that's why multitasking is fine for simple apps but not for the browser and games. Hence, of course more free ram would help. This can easily be confirmed if we could get a US variant owner to tell his/her multitasking experience.

On that note, I'd like to rant about how so many people are talking about how the S3 got a last minute ram upgrade for jellybean. This is utter crap. If anything, this proves two things:

1) People would believe anything they read without thinking. I mean, it was announced from the very START that the US S3 would have 2Gb of ram

2) all those so-called tech websites just copy articles off of each other without researching them. Clearly, xda is one of the few reliable sources for android news.
[Galaxy S III General] b-eock:
First off, iOS doesn't have true multitasking, Android does. The Game isn't responding, there is plenty of RAM to go between the browser and Nova3.
[Galaxy S III General] sebarkh:
It is important to realize this:

FREE RAM IS WASTED RAM

AS LONG AS THERE IS ENOUGH RAM.

PERIOD.
[Galaxy S III General] emahmood87:
Just wondering multasking is fine on ios...its just the media which emphasise on true multitasking which i still dont understand...for example if u press home button during a game....both os will respond the same way...android multitasking also works fine coming from sgs2 and galaxy nexus...i really dont c the difference as a general user...
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Please read my signature to understand RAM.

This post is pointless. You do realise that the HTC Hero was Android 1.6 (Later upgraded to 2.1) - Both versions were notoriously bad at managing RAM properly.

Please do not post links to anything pre- Android 2.2 to make any sort of point about RAM.

As said before - Unused RAM is Empty RAM. This is not a fanboy statement. Its a technical fact. Me being a technician, it is my place to inform those who argue that point. I am so fed up of arguing this point with people who don't understand I had to put a link in my signature.
[Galaxy S III General] ozzyita:
Galaxy s2 did not have this problem at all!! Same ram and less cpu power!

Inviato dal mio GT-I9300 con Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] burner07:
remember , samsung only released 1 minor update ... galaxy s2 had its probleme too , its a software problem not hardware
[Galaxy S III General] vinuneuro:
My guess is that the first order motivation in Japanese and US models is that the S4 uses video memory differently.

If Jelly Bean devices across the board come with 2gb that will be a definitive indicator of future requirements.
[Galaxy S III General] henrybravo:
+1 million. This proves the problem is not RAM related. Op says it himself:

"I miss gs2 where there were no such problems."

GS2 with the same amount of RAM running ICS has no such problems. I know because I own GS2.

Problem is with immature base software running on a new phone. The issue will get worked out in future firmware updates.
[Galaxy S III General] sohebq:
guys plz stop saying free ram is a waste ram, i am so sick of low ram problem now, my average free ram is around 120mb, when i launch the browser and browse through detailed pages like facebook, after a minute or 3, the browser will start to lag and will eventually force class, this is ****, i tried changing browsers, nothing working. i loved sgs3 and was very excited to get it, but i am very disappointed with ram issue, honestly, my sgs3 has become sgs1 now,, annoying
[Galaxy S III General] henrybravo:
Dammit I clicked thanks that you don't deserve, so have a free one on me.

Unless your free RAM is dropping to near zero when your browser crashes, you can't blame this on a free RAM problem.
[Galaxy S III General] dr.m0x:
Everyone is saying free ram is wasted ram ... because it's TRUE. If it's that ****, sell it and get something else. Perhaps an iPhone?
[Galaxy S III General] adz63:
+1

Giving it some beans on my blue s3 Powered by CheckROM EvoHD™ V2
[Galaxy S III General] emahmood87:
Sgs1 had this problem too...sgs2 resolved it...sgs3 has the same problem that is less ram even if its 1 gb ...touchwiz uses most of it...why do people bring iphone in every conversation its a completely unrelated issue...
[Galaxy S III General] sohebq:
man don,t give such cheap suggestion, i am not using android from yesterday, i used s1, s2 and s3. I am with android for last year, there is not a single rom or kernal which i didn,t try. Just tell me why people never had any issue in s2 with lag??? bcz the dam ram was always free, such a shame that a quad core phone can,t handle basic apps
[Galaxy S III General] sohebq:
i have given one thanks back, now f**k off
[Galaxy S III General] smokeweedevery:
lol i think your phone is the problem here, i don't have any problems at all, and everything is running 100% smooth here all the time.

try rgui and delete everything you don't use
[Galaxy S III General] kachrukamble:
I think this is first quad core device from Samsung. They will learn soon.

for now Better Ram management is the only solution.

Samsung should have redesign the OS considering Ram management.

hope for this kind of update!