Any Tips to Correct LAG? -apps? Free RAM

[mricchio]

It's been a few months now since i got my XOOM-WIFI, only complaint is that i noticed the system LAGS ALOT more. ive cleared out unused apps.

Any Apps-that work great for Cleanups?

Also noticed that after surfing the internet, playing games, etc and hit the window button it shows a list of 15+ apps. is there anyway to close all these to free up RAM?
I've been rebooting it but, when i try and show my tablet of i have to wait for the Xoom to reboot, aka long waiting game.

I've heard mixed opinions on task killers but not too sure.

-XOOM Dork

 

[Castorshells]

Android does a good job of handling itself. You can try watchdog if you want a task killer or try fast reboot for a quick restart of everything running.


Sent from my Xoom

 

[ethion]

I use system panel. I have the same issue after a couple days something just starts to lag everything out. I can't find what but I have found that putting a system panel kill all widget on the desktop will work at bringing my tablet back when it is so lagged that I can't even open settings.

I love my tablet except for this one issue. Oh one thing about killing all you will want to exclude some tasks. You can do this from the main app.

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[kennycrudup]

If you're rooted, try my latest kernel: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12011163/latest-xoom-kernel.zip (it's also overclocked to 1.5GHz and rooted. Be sure to read the README file.)

I HATED that lag- it really took away from my Xoom when after using the tablet for a while, launching some apps would take literally minutes. So I tracked it down, and found out the issue wasn't that Android wasn't killing things off soon enough, it was that it was killing them off too soon; the net effect was we were thrashing in the VM as too many apps were restarting and/or hitting the disk.

So, after a lot of examination and testing, I've changed several VM parameters, tuned the Android process-memory limits and rewrote the algorithm for the kernel's Low-Memory Killer. I've been running this kernel for nearly two weeks now and it works great for me.