RAM Decreasing

[Mophandleman]

Hi guy's. Looking for a little help.

I have a 3G 16GB running 3.0.1 Jailbroken Running Whitesnow with Glasklart, Categories, SBSettings, sms counter and Backgrounder.

I generally don't use backgrounder much so nothing is kept running in the background. Have some other cydia installs like Cycorder and PPVideoenabler but nothing running constantly.

Basically if I turn on my iPhone I get about 42MB RAM ish.

As the minutes/hour tick by it gradually gets lower and eventually settled as low as 9 - 12 megs. And if I try and genius it crashes. If I respring it pops back up to 40 odd megs.

I have deleted all apps that I no longer use so it's as clean as I can make it without losing my look.

Anyone any ideas what may be causing this?

I'm getting to the point where I may have to upgrade but I really I love my set up now and I don't wanna lose it.

Any help, as always is much appreciated.

Thanks.

[Poseidon79]

This is typical of 2G and 3G iphones as they only have 128MB or RAM. The only way to free up space is to uninstall apps that use mobile substrate. The iPhone 3GS has 256MB of RAM and so this is never an issue and the top reason for jailbreakers to upgrade.

[Mophandleman]

This is typical of 2G and 3G iphones as they only have 128MB or RAM. The only way to free up space is to uninstall apps that use mobile substrate. The iPhone 3GS has 256MB of RAM and so this is never an issue and the top reason for jailbreakers to upgrade.

Not entitled to an upgrade yet. Stupid 18 month contract but I will be once I am entitled to. Hopefully will be able to rebuild my set up once I do.

[DanTheManMS]

For me (with a 3GS mind you, so your results may vary), I find that Safari is usually a fairly big RAM-hog, and if you have any pages open, it will continue to run in the background. Try closing all open pages/tabs in Safari, exit out, and check your RAM usage. Alternatively, you could probably just use the Processes button of SBSettings to force-quit the browser.

[Mophandleman]

For me (with a 3GS mind you, so your results may vary), I find that Safari is usually a fairly big RAM-hog, and if you have any pages open, it will continue to run in the background. Try closing all open pages/tabs in Safari, exit out, and check your RAM usage. Alternatively, you could probably just use the Processes button of SBSettings to force-quit the browser.

That seems to be it alright. I resprang and had 40mb RAM. Stayed constant for a while. I opened up a couple of Safari pages and it dropped almost immediately to 24mb and I know this is a slippery slope down to 9.

I closed out of safari but the process was still running and RAM was decreasing. I then killed the Safari process and boom, 40mb RAM again.

I use the Facebook App a lot and thought because this was a web app it might run the safari process or similar but it seems to kill it's own facebook process on exit.

How come Safari doesn't end it's process on exit? Is there any way for this to be done automatically? I could just use backgrounder if I need to keep it running, which would be very rarely.

[se23]

There is a safari kill mobile substrate on cydia, it kills safari on exit. U have to google tho as I can't remember repo

[DanTheManMS]

Certain 1st-party applications automatically remain in memory when you exit. Namely, iPod, Safari, Mail, and Phone will try to always stay in memory, whether you want them to or not, probably others as well but those are the only ones I use. 3rd-party apps of course must exit when you go back to the Springboard (unless you're using Backgrounder to prevent that from happening). I didn't know that a "Safari kill" thing existed, but that may be worth looking into.