Galaxy S6 exhibiting overzealous RAM management, report users

29. Nine1Sickness (Posts: 882; Member since: 30 Jan 2011)

#lagdroid

39. Tanujtiwari (Posts: 84; Member since: 18 Mar 2015)

Can anyone please explain to me what in the universe is memory leak, is it fixed in android 5.1? Also, what is the real improvement in android from KitKat to lollipop other than material design?

59. Cicero (Posts: 1082; Member since: 22 Jan 2014)

On KK GSA4 had started from 600MB (toping 1GB) and with Lollipop begin with 1GB of RAM (toping 1.4GB) from 2GB installed. I remember Google telling us how Lollipop will smooth run on 512KB. Lollol

71. vincelongman (Posts: 5535; Member since: 10 Feb 2013)

That's Samsung's fault (unless you are talking about the memory leak in some builds of Lollipop, which is Google's fault, but also Samsung's for not noticing/fixing it)

On my Nexus 5 (2GB ram)
Lollipop uses about 300MB
KitKat also used 300MB

On my brother's 2013 Moto G (1GB ram)
Lollipop uses about 200MB
KitKat used 250MB
Motorola's 5.0.2 build also didn't have any memory leaks

76. JohnK (Posts: 117; Member since: 03 Mar 2015)

On my Moto X 2013 - 2GB ram, KitKat uses 420MB ram on cold boot. And device is freshly formatted since i intend to sell it.

81. Shubham412302 (Posts: 540; Member since: 09 Nov 2011)

thats because more the ram more the os will cache apps

63. rubyonrails3 (Posts: 361; Member since: 01 Oct 2014)

if you saying that S6 using a lot cuz of lollipop memory leakage than you wrong. I had Note 4 and it was running Kitkat and every app use a lot more RAM than any other smartphone. so its basically Samsung TW or its own RAM management. I think its happens cuz of multi window feature and other multi tasking features on Samsung devices.

90. wrm2013 (Posts: 229; Member since: 28 Mar 2013)

My note 4 usually has about 1.3 gigs of ram free at any given time. When I took back my s6 it usually only had 400 free. In all aspects note 4 is a better phone than the s6.

92. marorun (Posts: 5029; Member since: 30 Mar 2015)

My HTC M9 can have easily 5 to 10 apps open at the same time and i switch between them with no loading at all everything is smooth as butter.

Samcrap Touchwiz is the problem here.

69. vincelongman (Posts: 5535; Member since: 10 Feb 2013)

A memory leak is when the memory is allocated somewhere and not eventually released afterwards
So you have lots of memory being wasted

Most the OEMs fixed the 5.0 memory leaks in their builds of 5.0

5.1 from Google also fixed the 5.0 memory leaks as well

But Google introduced a new memory leak in 5.1
Some specific games cause system memory usage to increase by 100mb with each launch

No word on 5.1.1 yet
Will probably have 5.1's memory leak fix, since Google have found a fix for it according to their bug tracker
But we don't know if there's any new memory leaks in 5.1.1

70. bondosho (Posts: 14; Member since: 07 Nov 2011)

Unfortunately, the memory leak didn't get fixed until 5.1.1. I'm running CyanogenMod 12.1 on my Nexus 5, and it's wonderful.

73. TylerGrunter (Posts: 1544; Member since: 16 Feb 2012)

Memory leak: when a program keeps on using more and more memory and nevers frees it up. The memory usage keeps on growing for that program and finally you have to restart the device/program because it is hogging all the memory. The memory leak on 5.0.1 is in the stock launcher and should be solved in 5.1 (hopefully(
There are several improvments in Lollipop, but as I don't know which ones interest you I let you the source:
http://developer.android.com/about/versions/lollipop.html

42. BobbyBuster (banned) (Posts: 854; Member since: 13 Jan 2015)

That's what happens when vendors care more about benchmark scores than real UX. And Sammy is the king in that.

43. BobbyBuster (banned) (Posts: 854; Member since: 13 Jan 2015)

Sammy will fix this sooner or later.

But what bothers me is that the review sites don't bother running benchmarks again after such a major patching is done.

And I'm absolutely sure that ALL Sammy's phones perform much worse once such bugs(ehhh..... features) are gone.

93. marorun (Posts: 5029; Member since: 30 Mar 2015)

But they are quite fast to run benchmark again on the M9.

Well M9 benchmark may be bad compared to S6 but at least on mine i can open many apps at the same time and switch between them with no loading or app been closed..

So as usual in real life performance the HTC is better but thanks to a much much better marketing Samsung will sell more.

45. ArtSim98 (Posts: 3535; Member since: 21 Dec 2012)

#lagSamsung. Real Android doesn't lag.

64. xperian (Posts: 408; Member since: 10 Apr 2014)

no, it does. All OS lag

75. shuaibhere (Posts: 1986; Member since: 07 Jul 2012)

Really??? Stock Android lags... This from my own experience...

83. Super3310 (Posts: 91; Member since: 06 May 2014)

samsung galaxy L series pls (lag)

55. BLUEBLASTER (Posts: 856; Member since: 23 Feb 2014)

Nice troll but droid dont lag :P

79. jove39 (Posts: 2134; Member since: 18 Oct 2011)

Android based OS are distributed by over 100 oem each bloated with custom implementations.

I have Oneplus One with Cyanogen OS 12 (5.0.2)...and it has no lag or memory leak issue. And then there is Oxygen OS (5.0.2) from Oneplus...even fast and smooth than Cyanogen OS 12.

Common thing between these two OS is they don't have custom UI like touchwiz or sense. Samsung slows down android with their touchwiz for no reason...it's now time, people should ask samsung to ditch touchwiz and embrace stock android ui.

94. marorun (Posts: 5029; Member since: 30 Mar 2015)

Or use a better optimised UI like the one on HTC M9 lol

85. rd_nest (Posts: 1656; Member since: 06 Jun 2010)

Did you read the source links? or are you a uneducated retard who just comment without even reading anything?

88. muser793 (Posts: 60; Member since: 15 Aug 2013)

so ur telling me you've paid 1000$ for a duckin "smart" phone and u have 200mb of free ram and ur apps keep crashing? looks like it's a "smart" phone for "smart" people.
i think it's time for some blind android fans to try other things like windowsphone. i'm using a 200$ lumia 920 for almost 2 years now n never experienced an app crash, bug, lag, random restart or these kind of sh!t. now talk to me about app gap, wow wp doesn't have 100000fart machine apps such a shame, but at least it can manage its resourses n runs smooth on a 200$ device....

7. galanoth (Posts: 428; Member since: 26 Nov 2011)

If you read the android police comments on lollipop articles, every one is asking for a memory fix.

12. vincelongman (Posts: 5535; Member since: 10 Feb 2013)

Its basically fixed in 5.1
Most people on Android Police are complaining that 5.1 is being released too slowly (e.g. not released for the Nexus 4)\

14. rd_nest (Posts: 1656; Member since: 06 Jun 2010)

It's there for Nexus 4, i have it.
But it's worthless. If anyone is on KK, no need to install 5.1
Apart from few cosmetic changes, nothing in there in 5.1
Camera is still worthless, batterylife is useless. It sucks 7% while I sleep at night with 2G (not even 3G).

24. vincelongman (Posts: 5535; Member since: 10 Feb 2013)

Your camera and battery issues are hardware related

On my Nexus 5
Stock Lollipop battery life is the better than stock KitKat
Stock Lollipop battery life is about on par with rooted/modded KitKat
Stock Camera is the same since Google hasn't changed anything but aesthetics
But third parties camera apps are much better because of Lollipop's Camera2 API

I've heard most people with other phones, e.g. S5, M8, Nexus 6, have improved battery