Galaxy S6 exhibiting overzealous RAM management, report users

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?

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

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

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.

thats because more the ram more the os will cache apps

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

#lagSamsung. Real Android doesn't lag.

no, it does. All OS lag

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

samsung galaxy L series pls (lag)

Nice troll but droid dont lag :P

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.

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

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)\

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).

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