Internal Device Memory

ulnek

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the "used" portion of my device memory keeps going up and up. i've deleted emails, texts, cleared browser cache and deleted apps and yet it keeps going up more. i noticed it when one day i noticed i lost about 20 mb and i don't know where it went. deleting what i mentioned didn't help bring down the "used" portion. it stayed the same. what could be taking up this much memory that i'd lose so much mb so quickly? thanks.

edit: not having installed anything new and deleting texts and emails i lost about 5 mb these past few days.
 
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You must be coming from the wonderful world of blackberry. Don't obsess over available memory. If it ain't broke - don't fix it. losing memory, memory leaks, rebooting, battery pulls, etc. - those are blackberry things.

Now if your issue is system slowness, that's another story. Address the problem, not what you think the problem might be. What is the "memory leak" problem causing?

I'm not trying to be a smart ass. I just know that ex- blackberry folks, myself included, were constantly concerned about memory. Whenever there was an issue we automatically assumed it was because of low memory and did a battery pull. So, what is the problem? And don't say "memory loss IS the problem" . As long as it's not affecting performance, it can leak and leak and leak all day for all I care.

It's so refreshing and liberating to NOT worry about available memory. Just quit checking it every day. Again, if it ain't broke - don't fix it.
 

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Just quit checking the available memory. I have about a million apps installed, I've never cleared cache or deleted one message and I just uninstalled my task killer app. This device is amazing and rather self- regulating. The less interference I have, the better it seems to run
 
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Chris Kerrigan

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I was guilty of the same exact thing when I first came over to Android. I had been a BlackBerry user for quite a long time, and was so paranoid about my memory usage that I was constantly checking it with TasKiller. I've quickly discovered that I have never once seen a slowdown in performance no matter how much or how little memory I had remaining. All is good :D
 

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like others have said, don't worry about it unless you are noticing performance issues.

the OS will close applications that you aren't using when it needs more memory, it's quite efficient at managing that stuff on its own.

i think users of older devices had much less memory to play with and pre 1.6 the OS wasn't as good at managing it either.
 

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the only reason to have a task killer on an Android phone is to conserve battery. Yes Android self regulates CPU power very well, but having a bunch of apps open in the background will inevitably use up more power than an app or two.
 

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