Thank you for your answer! Yes, the app will always be very slow before Amethyst closes automatically. If it is a memory error, how can I fix it? My smartphone is a Samsung Galaxy A3 (SM-A320FL).
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Ouch, 2GB? I recommend buying a new phone :(
Yes, I know it's a bad phone. And yes, it only has 2GB of RAM. I just checked it now. And even without opening Amethyst, 1.5 GB of the 2 GB are already occupied. So yes, it's probably the RAM that's too small that's the problem. Approximately how much RAM does Amethyst need?
Usually 1GB. But with the way many profile images go for 10-50MB, it can easily go up.
I have now found out that Amethyst always crashes when I connect it via Orbot. It always works for a few minutes and then crashes. Without Orbot it works much longer without crashing. But I also suspect that it is due to too little RAM memory. That's a shame, because I really like Amtehyst! But unfortunately I don't have the money to buy a better smartphone. That makes me sad.
You can run Amethyst clearnet through Tor if you use an app like Invizible Pro. I find that more relays work than using the proxy. You would need to figure out the settings to reduce memory use though as it does much more than Orbot currently.
Can Amethyst optimize the images before caching for use?
i think the image optimization is something many clients have to work on...amethyst holds like a GB of cache in memory for me
I've cleaned it at 1.4gb. I am wondering about what other data is stored too since 16gb is quite large for any app.
somehow i never got that much data, this is usual data it stores. I have noticed downloading something like "en dv. zip" file at many times...curious to know what is that
Ngl many great mobile games dont take that much space 😂
It's 25-50MB for each translation model (each language pair that you see in the feed) + raw images and videos (which are big because we don't have a central server to scale them down, etc).
May profile pictures for instance are 10-20MB in size. Some GIFs are 50MB each.
So... It fills up quickly.
ahh it makes sense, lets see what amethyst holds for the future 🧡
Amethyst is already too good by devs, good luck!