Flashback: Android 4.4 KitKat optimized the OS for phones with just 512MB of RAM
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- 23 Jan 2022
YUKI93, 23 Jan 2022I remembered how laggy it was when running multiple apps. A... moreUnless it was a crappy phone it was not that laggy. And ios as well as wp were not free of lag either.
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- 23 Jan 2022
bazsy, 23 Jan 2022> "ZRAM ... This is different from the virtual RAM ... moreAs far as I know, Pixels are still using it
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- 23 Jan 2022
I remembered how laggy it was when running multiple apps. Also, during those times, I switched to Windows Phone and I frankly didn't miss Android at all. Windows Phone with 512MB RAM performs much smoother and more fluid than Android with 512MB RAM, even with the former's factory default 256MB virtual memory.
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- 23 Jan 2022
KitKat was my favorite android version it was light, fast and smooth.
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- bazsy
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- 23 Jan 2022
> "ZRAM ... This is different from the virtual RAM feature you see on current phones, that one leverages the fast internal storage to move data out of RAM."
This is incorrect, many modern phones still use zram. Just use adb to check: run "adb shell 'ls -la /dev/block | grep zram' ". Even on a Samsung phone with "RAM Plus" there is zram being used.
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- Cyberchum
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- 23 Jan 2022
On the surface, KK barely brought something new to 4.4.3 JB (yeah, JB was long, ran from 4.1 - 4.4.3), but it surely was smoother. Reminds me of my Galaxy S2. Enjoyed that champ until it was stolen in 2015, running 5.0 Lollipop. Still feel bad sometimes, when I remember the files I lost (16GB internal + 32GB micro SD).
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- Cyberchum
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- 23 Jan 2022
gringo, 23 Jan 2022LOL
dalvik-cache has never been replaced ... ART is just... moreWhere in this article did you see a mention of "dalvik-cache?"
Just asking. Don't get mad, please.
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- 23 Jan 2022
that only shows how android is degrading right now,current flagships have 8 gb ram and still somehow around 4gb ram is used just from system startup,as for low end devices they are inopereateble with the current state of android,slow and terrible,either google should set some requirements for the bare hardware and cut off some run of the mill brands,or optimise android so users can get passable experience on cheap phones
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- 23 Jan 2022
Back when anticipation for new Android releases was festive and feverish.
I would have loved to see Android evolve alongside Windows Mobile, BB10, and Maemo. I firmly believe those OSes would have dunked hard on Android and iOS if they had received more love.
Alas, developers start tapping out when they have to support more than 2/3 OSes at a time, regardless of device type. Make no mistake, I get the economics, but I think the worst OSes of the bunch won out because a number of out-of-touch suits couldn't see beyond their noses.
Nokia, BlackBerry, and Microsoft had it in them to build exceptional operating systems. We know that because the versions they had to put the lid on were memorable. I mean it's 2022, but the fluidity of Windows 10 Mobile and BB10 are still canon. Truly maddening, they pissed it all away. Especially, since the victors who shared the spoils of their demise are Google, who can't commit to making a reliable Wear or Tablet OS, and Apple, that deliberately cleaves software on $2K+ machines.
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- 23 Jan 2022
Yeah in Nexus days, optimisation was a thing. Now, in Pixel days, and Samsung days, amount of RAM is the thing.
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- 23 Jan 2022
I still have a Kit kat 4.4.2 phone and works amazing. Android KitKat was the best for customisation
- NeonHD
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- 23 Jan 2022
ThunderCrackR, 23 Jan 2022Back in the days when even phone OS commercials were fun..Yeah.... those were the good old days. I still remember the flappy bird easter egg from lollipop and marshmallow, probably the best easter egg of all Android versions.
- NeonHD
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- 23 Jan 2022
Anonymous, 23 Jan 2022Excellent Recent Apps View for Android 4.x, unlike the curr... moreExactly! I have no idea what is wrong with UI developers of today. Why would they wanna go back to iOS 7-style recents.
The app switcher on kitkat, and the cascade-style recents from lollipop to oreo (which is still my favorite), was objectively soooo much better. I wish they could bring back cascade-style recents.
- NeonHD
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- 23 Jan 2022
Kitkat was where it was at!
This was the version that initially got me into Android (I was an iPod Touch user before 2014). As much as I loved my iPod, the Nexus 5 was the first Android phone I really paid attention to. I was absolutely in love with the phone's design, and Android kitkat looked really clean. And then late-2014 I got my first Android device, the Galaxy Tab 3 8.0, which ran Kitkat, and that's when I completely converted to Android.
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- 23 Jan 2022
How Convert To Android 12 Can?
TO stay old history!
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- Anonymous
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- 23 Jan 2022
Android is getting RISCV port soon.
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- 23 Jan 2022
From my own personal view, i consider Android OS Mashmalow v.6.01 was the best of them all, wasn't it.
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- 23 Jan 2022
right always, 23 Jan 2022Imagine the Money Nestle Paid google for naming its OS Kit KatOtherwise...