Re: [android-developers] Strange out of memory issue on Nexus One

The amount of RAM your phone has doesn't matter. One a WVGA device,
the maximum amount of memory you can use in your app is 24 MB. You are
using too much memory (or leaking memory) in yoru app.

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Alex Xin <xinxiaoc@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, All
> I'm now facing a very strange out of memory issue on Nexus One.
> I have a user leaves a comment in market said that my app always got force
> closed on his Nexus One, then I try to contact that user and ask for the
> logcat. Here's the logcat:
>
> E/AndroidRuntime( 4016): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
> E/AndroidRuntime( 4016): java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM
> budget
> E/AndroidRuntime( 4016): at android.graphics.Bitmap.nativeCreate(Native
> Method)
> E/AndroidRuntime( 4016): at
> android.graphics.Bitmap.createBitmap(Bitmap.java:468)
> E/AndroidRuntime( 4016): at
> android.graphics.Bitmap.createBitmap(Bitmap.java:435)
> E/AndroidRuntime( 4016): at
> android.graphics.Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(Bitmap.java:340)
> E/AndroidRuntime( 4016): at
> android.graphics.BitmapFactory.finishDecode(BitmapFactory.java:488)
> E/AndroidRuntime( 4016): at
> android.graphics.BitmapFactory.decodeStream(BitmapFactory.java:462)
> E/AndroidRuntime( 4016): at
> android.graphics.BitmapFactory.decodeResourceStream(BitmapFactory.java:323)
> E/AndroidRuntime( 4016): at
> android.graphics.drawable.Drawable.createFromResourceStream(Drawable.java:697)
> E/AndroidRuntime( 4016): at
> android.content.res.Resources.loadDrawable(Resources.java:1767)
> E/AndroidRuntime( 4016): at
> android.content.res.Resources.getDrawable(Resources.java:588)
> E/AndroidRuntime( 4016): at
> android.widget.ImageView.resolveUri(ImageView.java:489)
> E/AndroidRuntime( 4016): at
> android.widget.ImageView.setImageResource(ImageView.java:274)
> E/AndroidRuntime( 4016): at
> xcxin.filexpert.FileAdapter.getView(FileAdapter.java:273)
> E/AndroidRuntime( 4016): at
> android.widget.AbsListView.obtainView(AbsListView.java:1294)
> E/AndroidRuntime( 4016): at
> android.widget.GridView.makeAndAddView(GridView.java:1219)
> E/AndroidRuntime( 4016): at
> android.widget.GridView.makeRow(GridView.java:265)
> E/AndroidRuntime( 4016): at
> android.widget.GridView.fillDown(GridView.java:218)
> E/AndroidRuntime( 4016): at
> android.widget.GridView.fillGap(GridView.java:185)
> E/AndroidRuntime( 4016): at
> android.widget.AbsListView.trackMotionScroll(AbsListView.java:2944)
> E/AndroidRuntime( 4016): at
> android.widget.AbsListView$FlingRunnable.run(AbsListView.java:2485)
> E/AndroidRuntime( 4016): at
> android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:587)
> E/AndroidRuntime( 4016): at
> android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
> E/AndroidRuntime( 4016): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
> E/AndroidRuntime( 4016): at
> android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4627)
> E/AndroidRuntime( 4016): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native
> Method)
> E/AndroidRuntime( 4016): at
> java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
> E/AndroidRuntime( 4016): at
> com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:868)
> E/AndroidRuntime( 4016): at
> com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:626)
> E/AndroidRuntime( 4016): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
>
> As we all could see, we have an out of memory issue here, here's the code
> that cause this exception:
>
> vh.iv.setImageResource(R.drawable.zip);
>
> I try to render a item with image.
>
> The problem is that this app works great on other phones, include HTC Dream,
> which only has 192MB of RAM, but Nexus One has 512MB of RAM. So if it's
> really the memory leak issue, why it's not in Dream?
>
> Does anyone has the same issue? How do you solve that?
>
> Thank you & BRs,
>
> Alex
>
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