i feel that 1gb on the sgs3 is really not enough. other than the much lower free mem compared to sgs2 (which a lot of "experts" say dont worry becoz unused ram is wasted ram, android knows best etc), there are quite a feel other worrying signs.

- frequent launcher redraws (can be partly solved by edit built.prop or use alt launchers and set them persistent, but android will then look for other app to kill, which bring us to below)

- certain background apps get killed real quick when the phone runs out of mem and tries to reclaim. eg, i have both whatsapp and line installed and several times ppl send me message and i didnt receive. turns out one or both the apps got killed. only when i restart them that the message comes in. btw, on sgs2, these 2 apps were almost always in the background, meaning there were enough memory to go around.

will be interesting to see how the korean-only quadcore/2gb hybrid will perform.

hmm not really. i do agree that line sometimes delay in sending message. whatsapp is generally better. but its 2 different issues. in my example, the app really is killed and disappears from the process list (i've check using apps like elixir, gemini app etc. not just looking at samsung's quite useless task manager), hence it can't even monitor and receive messages until it gets restarted.

btw, i've freeze and disabled quite a few of samsung bloats already..s voice, chat on, all play etc. but there is only minor improvement in free mem. haven't try runnin really serious resource hungry games yet though.

sgs3 comes with 1.5gb would be just about perfect...

bah...looks like if want to play with custom roms/kernels, will have to reformat my 64gb sd card to fat32. no support for exfat for now...

booo...

flashed hypergalaxy 0.3. finally gets back some decent ram, now usually around 150mb free compared to previously <100mb.

also flashed LF2 modem, some comments says improved cell standby time compared to our XE8. yet to really notice.

btw, latest siyah kernel supports exFat...so no need to reformat sdxc.. yeah!

ya Siyah has good rep. and very active developer. been using his kernels since sgs2 days.
abyss kernel is also quite good but no support for exfat yet. but i think most kernel will soon support because siyah has already cracked it.

uncle, u really geng. what apps you disable? what launcher you using? not many widgets?
i think launchers and widgets are probably the biggest ram suckers around...

i use a lot widgets la, so my free ram about 150mb only...haiz.

already at version 0.3. good for those looking for small footprint and don't mind missing most of the samsung apps.


already have, you can check the xda forums. you might miss out some functionalities if you disable samsungapp, samsung update, clouds etc.


i find that nova ram usage not really that low despite some people saying its very light. not much difference with go launcher. the only real lightweight launcher i tried is Zeam, but that one really lacking a lot of features.

besides nova seems to have a bit of lag. when exiting another app and go back to homescreen...try to scroll immediately and the screen lags a bit. annoys me..lol. apex has bug on folders, if a lot of apps inside the folder, the scrolling stutters badly.

so finally went back to go launcher ex which everyone says is just good for gingerbread...haha.

you can freeze apps using titanium, once frozen it will stay between boots.

i think there are free apps in play market that can also freeze but i only used titanium so far, so cant comment on their effectiveness.

yeah i also have cerberus, very nice. got it for free during one of its promotions few months ago.

hi for a start, check this thread


Applications Safe To Remove

but if you are uncertain can ask there or here