Has 2.0.1 fixed the memory "leak" problems for you?

**peter9477** · 04-17-2012, 05:28 PM

With 2.0.0 there did appear to be "memory leaking" where under some circumstances not all the memory would be released after exiting apps. Depending on your usage, sometimes you may have had to reboot every few days or even more than once a day.

What have you observed so far with 2.0.1 with respect to memory leaking? (Note: I am talking about RAM, not Flash storage space, so this isn't the place to point out you've lost 0.5GB of "memory". Thanks.

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For my own part, I just went through a few hours of fairly intensive use of the Browser, Messages, Calendar, BlackBerry News, Video Chat, and several small apps including -- running the whole time -- my Battery Guru app. (Note: no use of Android there.)

Upon exiting all of them, and after a 5-10s delay, Free Memory reads as 560MB.

This never happened with 2.0.0! How do you compare?

**sf49ers** · 04-17-2012, 05:36 PM

good to know that, I will check when I get home

**biggulpseh** · 04-17-2012, 05:39 PM

Originally Posted by peter9477

With 2.0.0 there did appear to be "memory leaking" where under some circumstances not all the memory would be released after exiting apps. Depending on your usage, sometimes you may have had to reboot every few days or even more than once a day.

What have you observed so far with 2.0.1 with respect to memory leaking? (Note: I am talking about RAM, not Flash storage space, so this isn't the place to point out you've lost 0.5GB of "memory". Thanks.

)

For my own part, I just went through a few hours of fairly intensive use of the Browser, Messages, Calendar, BlackBerry News, Video Chat, and several small apps including -- running the whole time -- my Battery Guru app. (Note: no use of Android there.)

Upon exiting all of them, and after a 5-10s delay, Free Memory reads as 560MB.

This never happened with 2.0.0! How do you compare?

Innnnnnteresting. I have a feeling they're done a lot of work on the Android player. Some Android apps that simply wouldn't open for my previously are now working, and I'm not getting as many random closures of the Android player. I assume it was causing a lot of the memory problems we were all experiencing.

**Chrisjohn1990** · 04-17-2012, 05:57 PM

I noticed that too! Before with 2.0 after using my playbook for a while even after closing everything my free memory would decrease over time and hover around 100 mb or less which I believe contributed to browser crashes due to insufficient memory.

So far after using various apps including android player ones it sits around ~550mb free memory when everything is closed.

Will have to test this further over the coming weeks of course, but these are my initial observations

**rkennedy01** · 04-17-2012, 06:03 PM

Reporting 546MB free here after multiple apps opened/closed, including some android apps, so...looks good.

RCK

**howarmat** · 04-17-2012, 06:05 PM

496 after use today since update, no android apps used and i have not reclaimed about 150 MBS somewhere

**peter9477** · 04-17-2012, 06:55 PM

howarmat, 150MB? You mean you manage to see 650MB immediately after powerup? I thought nobody had seen that since 1.0.8...

**the-elf** · 04-17-2012, 07:19 PM

Ran a stress test my-self today including several android apps plus loads of tabs open in the browser and several other apps running including email. After closing them all an hour or so later free memory was around 600MB. Seems like the memory leak problem has been fixed.

**howarmat** · 04-17-2012, 08:07 PM

my bad 50 MB lol...was in a hurry and mistyped

**kbz1960** · 04-17-2012, 08:30 PM

Fresh boot - 584

Browser - 424

Browser and Email - 343

All closed - 573

**DurdenLunarius** · 04-17-2012, 08:49 PM

After testing Cityville in the browser my RAM moved from 600 down to 75-84. Once closed it spiked back to 680 then stabilized around 560's. Scramble w/Friends locks up on me every few matches... So I'm currently stuck at 360.

**goku_vegeta** · 04-17-2012, 08:53 PM

Originally Posted by peter9477

howarmat, 150MB? You mean you manage to see 650MB immediately after powerup? I thought nobody had seen that since 1.0.8...

I noticed if you happened to "kill" the android runtime process that your free memory shoots up to 670 or so, then when you try to start an Android app it takes quite a while to load (another indication that the runtime process was closed) I believe in OS 2.0 on average you'd be in and around 520-550 without any apps open.

**peter9477** · 04-17-2012, 10:22 PM

goku_vegeta, I'd love to know how to force that (killing android) easily and consistently. Anyone have the magic recipe?

I'd be perfectly happy with Android taking, say, one minute to launch if it meant I started with 670MB free at any given time. As it is, I'm constantly struggling to keep the apps I need all open at the same time to let me get serious work done.

**lotuslanderz** · 04-17-2012, 11:35 PM

Originally Posted by peter9477

goku_vegeta, I'd love to know how to force that (killing android) easily and consistently. Anyone have the magic recipe?

I'd be perfectly happy with Android taking, say, one minute to launch if it meant I started with 670MB free at any given time. As it is, I'm constantly struggling to keep the apps I need all open at the same time to let me get serious work done.

I do that by opening about 12-16 browser tabs (CB, ESPN, YouTube, etc etc) and then I close the browser. I usually then end up with 630 MB.

**goku_vegeta** · 04-17-2012, 11:49 PM

Originally Posted by peter9477

goku_vegeta, I'd love to know how to force that (killing android) easily and consistently. Anyone have the magic recipe?

I'd be perfectly happy with Android taking, say, one minute to launch if it meant I started with 670MB free at any given time. As it is, I'm constantly struggling to keep the apps I need all open at the same time to let me get serious work done.

Well it's a long winded process and there's no real "confirmation" to as when you've killed the process, basically I just start off by launching all the native PIM apps (Messages, Contacts, Calendar), fire up the browser, then from there I open up my app tray and launch all the native apps in order, mine is still in the stock order so for example I would then launch Pictures, Music, Camera, Videos, Music Store, Video Chat, etc, typically I would launch about 15 native applications, check my device memory, if its at 100 MB or so, I would launch one more, or just open a tab in the browser and go to a heavy site, then I notice a little blip in the amount of RAM free, I close out all apps, and viola over 600 MB of free RAM (Exactly 671 MB in my observations). Now I haven't done this extensively since typically I use quite a few android apps such as Wordpress, so I can't say if the OS will automatically restart the Android runtime but for the little while the Android runtime is killed, it does NOT seem to restart itself, or rather the OS does not seem to restart itself.

I'm sure perhaps if some developer figured out how to kill the android runtime that would be a great app for people needing to free up RAM quickly, not sure if RIM would ever allow it in App World, or even if the QNX OS would kill that type of app before it kills the android runtime process.