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"WidgetUI" is eating up all my RAM space. Please help.
« on: January 07, 2014, 02:14:17 pm »
Hi,
Recently I noticed in my Nokia 500, running on official but hacked belle refresh, an app/process named "WidgetUI" is taking up huge RAM space, resulting in a very few free space available for other apps. Some times the free memory gets as low as 10MB!! And the rest of all is then taken by widgetui. The interesting thing is, only RAMblow app reports it as a task that can be closed by user and simply terminating the process releases all the memory back! Though RAMblow reports the app has taken only 117KB, which is somewhat contradictory. Here I've attached a couple of screenshots I captured when I had only 44.5 MB of free RAM and that too when only 6 apps/processes are running. After terminating the widgetui, I regained about 35MB more RAM!

Does anyone else experiences similar behaviour on your device? What exactly is this widgetui? Also sometimes after closing it, I'm unable to use anything that is placed on my homescreen but switching between the homescreens, until reboot. Can somebody please explain me what is actually happening here?
« Last Edit: January 07, 2014, 02:28:18 pm by Sangeeth »

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Re: "WidgetUI" is eating up all my RAM space. Please help.
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2014, 03:44:02 pm »
Check with another App, that is the WRT proccess, it doesn't have that much allocated memory.

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Re: "WidgetUI" is eating up all my RAM space. Please help.
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2014, 07:29:47 pm »
Check with another App, that is the WRT proccess, it doesn't have that much allocated memory.

Bro, then why terminating the task releases so much of RAM? Doesn't it mean that widgetui is the culprit? And this is the new screenshots that shows some more details about the task as shown in ActiveBrowser. Any hope from these pics?
 
« Last Edit: January 07, 2014, 07:31:18 pm by Sangeeth »

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Re: "WidgetUI" is eating up all my RAM space. Please help.
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2014, 08:50:03 pm »
Since it could be widget related then try delete all your homescreen,reboot your phone.

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Re: "WidgetUI" is eating up all my RAM space. Please help.
« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2014, 10:43:34 pm »
Widget Ui is WRT, only Nokia social could cause something like this

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Re: "WidgetUI" is eating up all my RAM space. Please help.
« Reply #5 on: January 09, 2014, 02:13:07 pm »
Since it could be widget related then try delete all your homescreen,reboot your phone.

Sorry but why should I delete all my homescreens bro?  ???

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Re: "WidgetUI" is eating up all my RAM space. Please help.
« Reply #6 on: January 09, 2014, 03:31:40 pm »
Sorry but why should I delete all my homescreens bro?  ???
You say WidgetUi process is a root of problem and homescreen contain many widget so i assume delete all homescreen and reboot could solve the problem

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Re: "WidgetUI" is eating up all my RAM space. Please help.
« Reply #7 on: January 09, 2014, 08:46:40 pm »
Widget Ui is WRT, only Nokia social could cause something like this

Bro, as you've mentioned, i've tried terminating the social background process using netqin. But it just released 1MB of RAM. I've even tried closing the wrtprocess and yes it just gave me a few KB's back as you can see in the screenshot below after closing these two processes. But closing it again using RAMBlow gave me a bulk load of RAM back!
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« Reply #8 on: January 09, 2014, 09:20:46 pm »
I even have widgetui running yet with still 120+ ram free on n8.Very hard to to tell you what is wrong without playing with your phone.

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Re: "WidgetUI" is eating up all my RAM space. Please help.
« Reply #9 on: January 09, 2014, 09:26:24 pm »
How many homescreens do you have and how many widgets total on those homescreens?
Every homescreen and every widget is costing the system RAM. The fewer of each, the more available RAM.

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« Reply #10 on: January 09, 2014, 09:27:29 pm »
Like you say closing widgetui cause your homescreen not working maybe you can try my idea,nothing to lose.This random fix have countless of time help me fix some crazy issue with my n8.  :D :D :D