Ram Management

[DarthMaul14]

My g5 plus can't even hold 4 apps in memory. Will this be fixed in Oreo or is there something which I can do to fix it. I had the stock messages, Gmail, chrome and hangouts open in the background. I only have Snapchat and a few games installed. I'm using Nova launcher and I have the 2gb model. This is frustrating as apps keep on refreshing.

 

[acejavelin]

My g5 plus can't even hold 4 apps in memory. Will this be fixed in Oreo or is there something which I can do to fix it. I had the stock messages, Gmail, chrome and hangouts open in the background. I only have Snapchat and a few games installed. I'm using Nova launcher and I have the 2gb model. This is frustrating as apps keep on refreshing.

Chrome is likely the big culprit here... Try a more RAM friendly browser and/or keep your number of Chrome tabs open to a minimum.

Not to be the bearer of bad news, but Nougat's memory management is quite good, and I don't think Oreo is much better from what I have heard... If anything Oreo uses a little bit more RAM. Leaps and bounds improvements have been made in Android's RAM management especially since the JellyBean era, I don't think there is much room for significant improvement especially since the base OS just keeps slowly getting bigger and bigger.

Try going into Developer Options and open Running Processes and see what is really using the RAM. To be honest, I just looked my biggest RAM users are Walmart and Sam's Club (which surprised me a bit, over 400MB between the two apps), Google, Facebook Lite, eBay, and Nova Launcher. Chrome wasn't even over 100MB on my device but I make sure to keep tabs closed (base Chrome is about 70-90MB, each tab is an additional 5-50MB per tab)

 

[DarthMaul14]

Weird. 600mb is plenty but it still can't hold 4 apps in memory.

 

[manos78]

Weird. 600mb is plenty but it still can't hold 4 apps in memory.

Hi,

I repeat, 2GB of RAM in the Moto G5+ it's a joke from Lenovo. The minimum is the 3GB variant (for example, this is the model for Europe) and the best is the 4GB variant (for USA). Be far from the 2GB version!

 

[DarthMaul14]

Hi,

I repeat, 2GB of RAM in the Moto G5+ it's a joke from Lenovo. The minimum is the 3GB variant (for example, this is the model for Europe) and the best is the 4GB variant (for USA). Be far from the 2GB version!

Yes I agree. Major regrets getting the 2gb variant. Why do they have the 3gb variant for the European variant but only 2gb for the US variant and why does the European variant get NFC while the US variant doesn't? This puzzles me.

 

[acejavelin]

Yes I agree. Major regrets getting the 2gb variant. Why do they have the 3gb variant for the European variant but only 2gb for the US variant and why does the European variant get NFC while the US variant doesn't? This puzzles me.

The US version has a compass, the European version does not. Odd trade off...

 

[DarthMaul14]

True. Weird they did that. Also why doesn't it have USB c.

 

[DarthMaul14]

How can I make sure that my multi tasking is as efficient as possible on my 2gb variant .

 

[acejavelin]

How can I make sure that my multi tasking is as efficient as possible on my 2gb variant .

Are you stock and/or using stock kernel? Trust... There is nothing you can do to change it's behavior.

If on custom ROM or kernel, same answer unless you want to go poking in the advanced kernel settings... And it all depends on your usage, what is perfect for one might cause tons of issues for someone else. This is out of my realm of knowledge.

 

[DarthMaul14]

I'm on the stock rom and kernel. I have TWRP installed but I had no luck rooting (I tried flashing TWRP and magisk). I also noticed something funky about the ram management. If you have multiple apps in memory and you are switching back and forth, most phones would kill the app(s) they can't hold but hold the apps in memory that they can but, on the 2gb variant of the g5 plus it kills the app which it can't hold and all the apps before that opened app. Also if you launch a game and you have multiple apps in the background and you open one more app and switch back to the game it should keep the game and maybe a few apps or no other app but instead it kills all the apps. Is there any way to change this behavior.