Samsung Omnia II GT-i8000 automatically kills applications in background

Hello everybody,

I'm experiencing a problem with my Omnia II that I really don't know if it's a real problem or just a particular setting on my phone.
Basically whenever I leave an application running in background, opening another one for example, I would expect then to be able to access to the first one using the Task Manager in such a way to run more than one application at the time.
This doesn't happen and when I launch the Task Manager I often find only the last one appl. running. This is weird because I would be able to leave my web browser open (i.e. Opera) while exploring my phonebook or whatever.

Please can anybody help me?

Gianluca

The problem you describe was part of my earlier question about memory leakage...

http://www.samsung-omnia.org/general-samsung-omnia-ii-discussions/ram-memory-leak/

I checked the free memory often during use, via "Settings, Memory, Program-RAM" and got the impression that Windows was closing the backgound applications when free memory was running low and it needed to free up some RAM to run new applications. With the free memory leaking away this effect becomes gradually more noticable as time passes.

I've been trying to keep Skype running in the background and at first I found it was being closed after a short time with no warning.

One thing which helped me was as follows...

There seem to be 2 programs available to check background activity.
The deafult set up led me to use "task-switcher" (not sure of the actual name in English) and whenever I found unwanted applications still running I would use the option to close them from "task-switcher". When I noticed the memory leak I wondered if this method of closing programs was a possible culprit.

So I changed to using the other program, "task-manager", and made a point of closing applications from their own screens and not from the task monitor programs.

This seemed to help a lot and the memory leak is much slower now, (although not gone completely).

At least I can keep Skype running for several hours and still run other applications in the foregound.

Interested to hear other's experiences with this.

/davblo2

Could you please tell us where to download the applications you mentioned clean ram  and clear temp.
Cheers

My Omnia II is a 2 GB model. Looking in Settings, there's 256 MB allocated for Program RAM. About half of this is "Reserved" and a third "In Use" just now, leaving 35.82 MB free. Settings and Task Manager are the only things showing in Task Manager, though the Samsung interface is active (TouchWiz UI is off).

Do people with the 8 GB Omnia II (I8000) have more space allocated to Program RAM? My Treo Pro in a similarly idle state has 66.95 MB of 100 MB free, though of course it shipped from Palm with next to nothing installed over Windows 6.1.

Thanks for the reply. I expected as much, but thought it'd be no harm to ask in case the more expensive model might have a different spec and more than just extra storage.

Main storage is listed as 512 MB on mine, with about 70% Reserved, another 20% or so In Use and 45.8 MB Free. Do models with more My Storage get more Main Storage, or just the same 512 MB? My 1956.00 MB of My Storage space shows about a quarter as Reserved and a tenth as In Use, with 1265.53 MB Free.

(I have a 16 GB micro-SD card in the device for storage, so wish the Omnia had more in the way of RAM.)

hello people, the fist post in regards to clean ramhelps a lot, I think you people must try using custom rom of Khunachai 6.1, my program memory is 85mb freeand storage 146.xx free, so u must check out this, link below hope this helps,u can check out the things removed and install the one u need on the storage card.

http://www.modaco.com/content/i8000-omnia-ii-gsm-rom-discussion/297805/rom-wm-6-1-i8000kc21006-lite-rom-with-bt-voice-dialing-thai-eng-version/

Having tried the cab from Delvius I can't say I've noticed much difference. I've been using a HTC HD mini for much of the past eight months as well. It seems to cope way better with having loads of things running in the background. It does sometimes hang when attaching a picture to a tweet in Panoramic's moTweets Twitter client, but that's about the only problem I've had with the HD mini. I wish the Omnia II was as reliable. I did find that using it for uploading photos to TwitPic using moTweets on a holiday last year worked pretty well, as long as I had no other programmes running. The hardware "shutter-release" button and camera software make the Omnia II the better choice for photos.