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Samsung Confirms Galaxy S6 Has Serious Memory Problem

 

 

The Galaxy S6 may be a bad Galaxy S5 successor, but it is a brilliant phone in its own right. For my money it is Samsung playing Apple at its own game and coming out on top. Yet not all is well and, following a barrage of complaints from users, Samsung has now admitted the Galaxy S6 has a serious memory problem…

Perhaps unsurprisingly Samsung chose to make the admission in as low profile a manner as possible. The company took to its Samsung UK Facebook page to confirm that both the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge have memory mismanagement problems which cause them to slow and apps to forcefully close.

The root of the problem: how RAM is consumed and freed up.

Galaxy S6 (left) and Galaxy S6 Edge (right) – image credit Samsung

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What should happen is RAM used by apps and services is released when those apps and services are not in use. Instead it is not being released which means each new app or service has to eat into additional memory until there is no more available, at which point the slowdowns and crashes begin.

The only half solutions at present are a) to hit the ‘Close All’ button in the multitasking card menu to dismiss all apps to try and claw some memory back, or b) to reboot the device. Interestingly the latter is expected to have helped keep the issue under the radar in reviews as performance testing is always done from a fresh boot.

 

All Google’s Fault?

While fingers are being waved at Samsung, the root of the problem is likely to be Google. The company admitted to a severe memory leak problem in Android 5.0 Lollipop which it has so far failed to stamp out in 5.0.1, 5.0.2 and 5.1. The Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge currently run Android 5.0.2.

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The latest hope is the impending Android 5.1.1 which lists “RAM management improved” in its official changelog. As such it is no surprise that Samsung has already leapt on the 5.1.1 update and released it to some users even faster than Google has managed to get it to Nexus owners.