Apple: no more 'free memory' apps?!

[rdstoll]

I know I'm late to the party on this topic but just have to say that this is classic Apple bait-and-switch. I loved the 'free memory' feature on iStat as I've grown frustrated waiting 2 minutes for my 3GS to close and then another minute and a half to boot up again. It's a joke. And now the best way I had to "clear the decks" in just a few seconds gets taken away for no reason.

So Apple takes a cut of the sales on this app, where probably 90% of the people who bought it did so for the free memory feature, only to tell them to take this feature out?? But now I can see better how much memory is being hogged up with no way to fix the problem without shutting the device off? Thanks, Apple.

 

[cyclone84]

It seems to me that the 3.1 software has different (better?) memory management.

For example, iStat used to display 1 or 2 MB "free" memory every time I launched the app. Now, it is normally between 10 and 15 MB "free". This is welcomed and makes up for the elimination of "free memory" apps, in my opinion.

 

[FearlessFreep]

It seems to me that the 3.1 software has different (better?) memory management.

For example, iStat used to display 1 or 2 MB "free" memory every time I launched the app. Now, it is normally between 10 and 15 MB "free". This is welcomed and makes up for the elimination of "free memory" apps, in my opinion.

But iStat still frees more memory for me. Mobile Safari is the biggest hog. And it does not free up unless you force close it.

 

[Highland]

But iStat still frees more memory for me.

Just free 46MB (from 79MB to 125MB) here using a beta of iStat 1.1 and an updated free memory function that was going to be in version 1.1. Shame we couldn't give it to all our users.

 

[Battlefield Fan]

Just free 46MB (from 79MB to 125MB) here using a beta of iStat 1.1 and an updated free memory function that was going to be in version 1.1. Shame we couldn't give it to all our users.

this is sad

 

[astro2]

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We can always hope against hope that this issue will actually be resolved in the next firmware? Erm...

You wish buddy, apple likes to keep their users on a leesh

i just updated to 4.2.1 and my ram has gone down the toilet

AND found out that if you exit out of an app it STAYS in residual memory.

How do i know? well I have a jailbroken iphone and I can use sbsettings

allows me to see whats running and what I exit out of (i.e i press home button) an app (game) it still says there when it should be gone.

I have to forcefully KILL all apps running in the background. God i hate apple now more then usual