[Tfug] OT: Phones..... Argh!

[John Gruenenfelder]

>  Your adventures have reminded me that there's a Jelly Bean build for my
> old & tiny phone I wanted to try. My old Aria has even less ram than your
> Droid 3, it should be "interesting" :)
>
>
> Yes, "interesting" is one way of putting it...  :)
>
>   It actually seems to run OK. I haven't really tried any apps, but basic
> animations are smooth, and 137M free according to the Running Apps screen.

Very strange.  My Droid 3, before putting apps on like Google Voice
and imo, was never close to having 137M free memory.  My parents have
a much less powerful Android device and having looked it at, I know
that it typically has approximately the amount of free RAM your Aria
has.

I wonder what makes my Droid 3 so wonderfully special in this regard?
Where is all this RAM going?

Having used it a bit more now, I still have no plans to go back to the
stock ROM, but with CM 10.1 the Droid 3 is definitely much slower at
some tasks.  GMail takes forever to start now, my launcher app needs
to reload nearly every time I return to it from another app, and, as
mentioned before, I can see my IM app, imo, restarting far more often
that it ever used to.

On the bright side, despite all of this new/extra low memory pressure,
it has yet to spontaneously reboot on me.  That is a marked
improvement over its old behavior.

I don't know if you know the answer one way or the other, but is there
any *RAM* penalty/cost associated with having many apps installed?
Obviously, each new app requires more storage space, but storage space
is one thing the Droid 3 has in spades.  I don't *believe* I have an
enormous number of apps installed, but if it would actually benefit
performance I could easily pare it down.

These things can be so opaque sometimes...


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