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Poor RAM management from Lollipop affecting the Galaxy S6 and S6 edge - Other devices as well?

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This is with 4 apps open, Clock, a Chrome Tab, WhatsApp and Multimonitor (the app which I monitored it with in the screenshot)

It could be lower but it isn't so bad.

On my ASUS A3H- 168MB idle (Xubuntu). On my legacy rig with Lubuntu, just over 100MB RAM usage (Lubuntu).

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On my ASUS A3H- 168MB idle (Xubuntu). On my legacy rig with Lubuntu, just over 100MB RAM usage (Lubuntu).

idle huh.... Let me try idle. I hope you mean with no apps open. :P
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idle huh.... Let me try idle. I hope you mean with no apps open. :P

Yep, and its still sub 500MB with several tabs open on firefox (I just killed the wireless drivers however, so I can't post a SS just yet-the pain of old hardware)

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Y u do this to me Android :(

It is using more with less apps open and 36% with more apps open? Ehh

Could be Android, could be the monitor. Anyway, I myself haven't experienced problems. Nor have my friends who all run it.

Not sure If it matters when it isn't inhibiting performance but oh well.

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Suck on this Google (tethered over my tablet-screw wifi adapters):

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Yeah that's certainly good. :P

On that note, my tablet with 4.4-on idle and runing the tether-uses 738MB with 236MB free. (and certain games such as angrybirds transformers crash randomly)

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Lollipop is full of massive memory leaks. We've had to plug them ourselves before building AOSP ROMs.

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On that note, my tablet with 4.4-on idle and runing the tether-uses 738MB with 236MB free. (and certain games such as angrybirds transformers crash randomly)

So it is not isolated to Lollipop. Interesting.

(or perhaps It is an isolated incident with your tablet, I can't tell of course)

But I need to go now, sleep and all that + Victorious doesn't like me. :P

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Lollipop is full of massive memory leaks. We've had to plug them ourselves before building AOSP ROMs.

So I'd need to fix it if I updated my tablet?

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So I'd need to fix it if I updated my tablet?

If you experience the issue then you would need to find a fix. There are a few around that are actually open source from the XDA forum such as this Xposed module. Android 5.1.1 is suppose to fix this issue once it rolls out to devices.

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If you experience the issue then you would need to find a fix. There are a few around that are actually open source from the XDA forum such as this Xposed module. Android 5.1.0 is suppose to fix this issue once it rolls out to devices.

I'll just wait and see then-though it would never hurt me to learn a bit more about Android while fixing 5.0

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Did the samsung galaxy S5 had the same problem?

Or is it just a recend android OS issue?

Unless it did the OT is just sensationalizing the issue to make android phones look bad.

I own a Nexus 5, can confirm memory issues with Android Lollipop. This isn't a Galaxy S6 exclusive, the Nexus devices were having problems before the release of the S6.

if you have to insist you think for yourself, i'm not going to believe you.

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I own a Nexus 5, can confirm memory issues with Android Lollipop. This isn't a Galaxy S6 exclusive, the Nexus devices were having problems before the release of the S6.

 

Well, as a Nexus owner, you're pretty much the free beta testers for Google. So, you and every Nexus owner should report issues to Google so that your own people won't experience it once it rolls out to all the other devices. Google isn't going to read up the issue on LTT.

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People still will refuse to believe that iPhones are using their 1GB very good ^^

Hey i only got 128MB RAM on my iPhone 3G......it lags all the time(somewhat), probably my fault for Jailbreaking it and adding some features that take up RAM. 

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And here I am with my old WP with its lowly 1GB ram still rocking fine. Even my fairly new Lenovo android tablet (4.4.2) with 2GB ram can't operate smooth enough without the intermittent sluggishness/lag feeling. It uses close to 1GB ram at idle with no apps open. Need to clear the memory every now and then or some apps will just crash while running it. By the look of it its going to take a while before I'll be getting Lollipop upgrade from the manufacturer.

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Android 5.1.0 is suppose to fix this issue once it rolls out to devices.

The bugtracker says it's fixed in 5.1.1

But 5.1 seems to work better too. My tablet uses now up to 95% of its ram while the ram usage of android itself increases very slowly.

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Linus's review of the Galaxy S6 Edge (on Vessel) makes me interested in upgrading from my S4. But if Lollipop has this much problems with memory leaks I don't know....

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Hey i only got 128MB RAM on my iPhone 3G......it lags all the time(somewhat), probably my fault for Jailbreaking it and adding some features that take up RAM. 

Or because the iPhone 3G is so old that those new kids don't even know it

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Or because the iPhone 3G is so old that those new kids don't even know it

Yep, funny this. I prefer iOS 5 and below. iOS 6 is trash, don't like the new interface on iOS 7 and up.

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Yep, funny this. I prefer iOS 5 and below. iOS 6 is trash, don't like the new interface on iOS 7 and up.

Yeah, before I got the iPhone 6 I made the mistake to upgrade to iOS 7 with my iPhone 4, damn it was slow as hell, but for the form factor I still prefer the 4. It is just so easy to hold and use.

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Yeah, before I got the iPhone 6 I made the mistake to upgrade to iOS 7 with my iPhone 4, damn it was slow as hell, but for the form factor I still prefer the 4. It is just so easy to hold and use.

Yeah, and I was used to using iOS 5 on a iPod Touch 4G.

And I can't use WiFi on my 4S because of software problems, it worked on iOS 5 but not on 6 and up :/

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Not occurring on my M7... Just messages app crashing very frequently.

 

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Isn't this like really old news?

 

Actually yes
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