OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei has taken to Twitter to respond to the memory management issues that people have been discovering on the new OnePlus 3. The new flagship, quite like what was seen on the Samsung Galaxy S6 last year, is seemingly very aggressive in killing off apps that run simultaneously to manage the usage of RAM. But developers and tech pundits say it shouldn’t be this aggressive due to the fact that it has a lot of RAM, 6GBs of it.
The folks over at XDA forums, home of Android’s most dedicated developers and aftermarket guys, say that the RAM management code on the OnePlus 3 allows only 12 apps to be run at the same time before the operating system starts “reclaiming” memory by killing off background apps. In an earlier article, a YouTube user had tested the OnePlus 3 versus the Samsung Galaxy S7 – both running with Snapdragon 820 chipsets, but the OnePlus 3 with more RAM. The results might surprise you.
Carl Pei replied to these allegations of bad memory management by saying that OnePlus has a “different strategy for RAM management that benefits the battery.” This is saying in simpler terms that OnePlus coded the OnePlus 3 this way so it can have better battery usage. Of course, the Oxygen OS software running the OnePlus 3 is one of the more open Android forks out there, and XDA has already given some tips on how to tweak the memory management issue.
But for customers, the bottom line is this – the OnePlus 3 has more RAM, so this gadget shouldn’t be lagging all that much from the phones with 4GB RAM. Also, 6GB RAM should mean better multitasking capabilities, right? If we’re not going to get that with the OnePlus 3, then it negates the whole “we got more RAM” argument.
SOURCE: @getPeid
