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[Verizon] Excessive RAM usage by "System"

You saw my response in the ROM thread rapt.

I loved the LS ROM for sure but your memory issue is identical to my battery issue on it. I went back to BAMF and like iowa said, knowing Adryn had something to do with this kernel will keep me here on this ROM for a long time. I can tell you that not having to have a 3rd launcher also really frees up memory and helps the battery life. I also find a big difference in log errors in logcat between the two with BAMF having close to none.

I have signal issues too until I move end of the month as I'm not more than maybe 50 ft from a soon to be active AT&T tower and it absolutely ruins my signal at times, (I mean from -97 to no signal for moments on end at any part of the day) but the battery life on BAMF is still better than what I had on LS. I would like a quick charge for sure, and nav bar customization was kinda cool to have to play with too but weighing the options having run both ROMS, I'd rather have a very stable ROM and kernel, battery life and not have to monitor my memory/battery levels frequently than some extras, IMO.
 
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Well I registered on RootzWiki and posted in the Liquid thread about this issue and one of the Devs just blew the hell up. He posted a comments (then removed them) on my Youtube video saying (quoting from my e-mail notification) "You honestly dont know what the F*** (all CAPS) your talking about and you can go F*** (again ALL CAPS) yourself. Goodday."

So, I guess there goes them considering fixing it or even acknowledging it, lol. I know it was him because his other comments were identical to what he posted in that thread. I'm not sure how many devs are on the Liquid team, but that one sure doesn't take any sort of criticism (whether constructive or not) well.

I've been trying to stay as civil as I can about it there, but he's extremely dismissive of it. His first reply to me posting this there was pretty much "It's not our issue, it's an Android issue. You should have Googled it". :rolleyes: Dude is a total *****er.
 
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Well I registered on RootzWiki and posted in the Liquid thread about this issue and one of the Devs just blew the hell up. He posted a comments (then removed them) on my Youtube video saying (quoting from my e-mail notification) "You honestly dont know what the F*** (all CAPS) your talking about and you can go F*** (again ALL CAPS) yourself. Goodday."

So, I guess there goes them considering fixing it or even acknowledging it, lol. I know it was him because his other comments were identical to what he posted in that thread. I'm not sure how many devs are on the Liquid team, but that one sure doesn't take any sort of criticism (whether constructive or not) well.

I've been trying to stay as civil as I can about it there, but he's extremely dismissive of it. His first reply to me posting this there was pretty much "It's not our issue, it's an Android issue. You should have Googled it". :rolleyes: Dude is a total *****er.

Try AOKP. :D :rock:
 
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Lol, as soon as I get some time, I'm switching to something.

Does AOKP have these features though?

-Fast charge
-Lock screen mods
-Toggles/widgets in status bar

Yes to fast charge. It has configurable lock screen shortcuts and all, but I don't use them so someone else may be able to comment. Also yes on the toggles in the status bar. :)
 
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Well I registered on RootzWiki and posted in the Liquid thread about this issue and one of the Devs just blew the hell up. He posted a comments (then removed them) on my Youtube video saying (quoting from my e-mail notification) "You honestly dont know what the F*** (all CAPS) your talking about and you can go F*** (again ALL CAPS) yourself. Goodday."

So, I guess there goes them considering fixing it or even acknowledging it, lol. I know it was him because his other comments were identical to what he posted in that thread. I'm not sure how many devs are on the Liquid team, but that one sure doesn't take any sort of criticism (whether constructive or not) well.

I've been trying to stay as civil as I can about it there, but he's extremely dismissive of it. His first reply to me posting this there was pretty much "It's not our issue, it's an Android issue. You should have Googled it". :rolleyes: Dude is a total *****er.

That's too bad. Well there are plenty o' fish in the sea grab some bait and go test the waters! :vroam:
 
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Try AOKP. :D :rock:

Well it seems that AOKP is running the exact same lock screen mod as Liquid, because I can replicate the same bug on their ROM. At least I can on their newest nightly (build 33). I'm uploading a follow up video to demonstrate me crashing the phone after a fresh install of the ROM and modifying nothing outside of lock screen (selecting the Octo launcher), then installing Titanium and System Panel on it.

So now I'm pretty confident that the reason why this bug isn't affecting everyone is because they're not using that specific lock screen feature.

Video will be posted shortly. Thanks.

Edit: Here's me crashing it. I updated the OP too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9a91heHVNI
 
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This may sound a bit silly, but have you thought about when installing TiB, to not restore anything and delete the previous backups after a fresh flash to see if the bug is in fact hitched to TiB and piggybacking somewhere?

It seems the bug you have is coming from every fresh flash and over different ROMS, giving me the impression it isn't the roms but something hiding somewhere else.

The reason I say this, and you probably already did this, is when on Rubix on my DX I had a sneaky but healthy battery drain I couldn't find and it drove me bananas. I finally did a fresh wipe reinstall and I stopped TiB from reinstalling anything and wiped all my backups and then put my apps back one at a time and the leak was gone. And to test my theory, I wiped again and restored from the restore I did and the leak was still gone.

Just trying to help.
 
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This may sound a bit silly, but have you thought about when installing TiB, to not restore anything and delete the previous backups after a fresh flash to see if the bug is in fact hitched to TiB and piggybacking somewhere?

It seems the bug you have is coming from every fresh flash and over different ROMS, giving me the impression it isn't the roms but something hiding somewhere else.

The reason I say this, and you probably already did this, is when on Rubix on my DX I had a sneaky but healthy battery drain I couldn't find and it drove me bananas. I finally did a fresh wipe reinstall and I stopped TiB from reinstalling anything and wiped all my backups and then put my apps back one at a time and the leak was gone. And to test my theory, I wiped again and restored from the restore I did and the leak was still gone.

Just trying to help.

I'm not sure how that would help since I'm never restoring data of any type before I ran those tests in the videos. The only thing I used Titanium for was to restore System Panel (app only, no data). I didn't restore anything besides System Panel (again, without data). I don't see how any other backups could affect the OS if they're not installed (if that's was you were insinuating).

On top of that, I've since installed Liquid's new 1.3 ROM, replicated the lockscreen bug on it twice (with a full wipe in between both instances), then did another factory reset in recovery, restored everything on my phone and configured it to my preferences with the exclusion of the lock screen (I haven't even opened the lockscreen options in liquid controls yet) and now I don't see the System memory increasing after every unlock. It's staying right around 50 MBs.

So I'm pretty confident that this is not exclusive to me, my phone or my setup. Esp. if I can replicate this after a fresh wipe and ROM install and without installing anything besides System Panel (not even signing into Google so it's not restoring any settings or data).

Thanks for the input though :).
 
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