How good is Marshmallow?

[Phoenixmgs_v1legacy]

I sorta recently got a new LG Tribute 2 (Leon), which there are no ROMs for, and I just HATE Lollipop with all the memory leaks. After a few days of being on, apps will just randomly close like my music player when I'm on Firefox or the Facebook messenger bubble just closes as I'm typing or reading a message. Whereas on KitKat, I never restarted my phone outside of when my battery died. Right now Metro PCS has a great deal to get a free Samsung on5 (quite a bit better than my phone) and it comes with Marshmallow installed. So is Marshmallow as stable and memory leak free as KitKat?

 

[SnowyGamester]

Personally I never had any problems with Lollipop and that has continued onto Marshmallow.

When you say "free" I assume it's not actually free otherwise it would be a no brainer. If it's a good deal then maybe but the On5 isn't that big of an upgrade. If you want a good phone then you're probably better off to save for a flagship device, even if it's not the current model. The S5 is getting progressively cheaper and even being more than two years old I haven't felt any pressure to upgrade (and it still totally smashes both of those phones). Heck even the S3 is better than those.

 

[Phoenixmgs_v1legacy]

Personally I never had any problems with Lollipop and that has continued onto Marshmallow.

When you say "free" I assume it's not actually free otherwise it would be a no brainer. If it's a good deal then maybe but the On5 isn't that big of an upgrade. If you want a good phone then you're probably better off to save for a flagship device, even if it's not the current model. The S5 is getting progressively cheaper and even being more than two years old I haven't felt any pressure to upgrade (and it still totally smashes both of those phones). Heck even the S3 is better than those.

It is free if you switch to Metro PCS. I was asking if Marshmallow is solid in the memory leak department like KitKat because I don't really care to go through the hassle of switching and then getting all my settings (tasker, apex launcher, jetaudio, etc.) straight on a new phone if Marshmallow performs about the same as Lollipop. For me and probably 99% of people, a $100-$150 phone is more than enough and will do everything they need. I remember about maybe just 10 years back buying a Cowon portable media player to watch TV episodes on the train to work, which could only play SD xvid videos and now a $100 phone can play whatever video file (HD included) you throw on it. There's not many apps or games you need a high end phone as apps/games are made so the vast majority of phones can play them. The Samsung on5 has a better processor, more RAM, better screen, and better battery than my phone. But the main selling point is that it's not Lollipop, I'd downgrade my phone to KitKat if I could. The only high-end phone I would buy is OnePlus phone.

 

[SnowyGamester]

Well as far as performance goes I didn't find Marshmallow to be all that different from Lollipop but like I said I didn't have any issues with it. Sounds like the Tribute 2 is just a dud phone. Budget phones like them tend to try to do too much with too little and suffer as a result. And like I said, since you're happy to go back to KitKat, even the S3 is a better choice and pretty damn cheap now [http://www.ebay.com/sch/Cell-Phones-Smartphones/9355/i.html?_from=R40&LH_ItemCondition=1000%7C1500&_sop=15&_nkw=galaxy+s3+4g&rt=nc&LH_BIN=1].

It is free if you switch to Metro PCS.

Here in Aus you can get an S7 or just about any phone for "free" but you also get a lock-in contract that costs more than an unbundled contract and the extra you pay often ends being more than buying the phone anyway which is why I always buy outright. Nothing free about it.

I remember about maybe just 10 years back buying a Cowon portable media player to watch TV episodes on the train to work, which could only play SD xvid videos and now a $100 phone can play whatever video file (HD included) you throw on it.

I remember my video player back in 2005, the iRiver H320 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iriver_H300_series]. Sub SD at 10fps like a boss. Was still going strong when I sold it in 2011.

 

[Phoenixmgs_v1legacy]

Well as far as performance goes I didn't find Marshmallow to be all that different from Lollipop but like I said I didn't have any issues with it. Sounds like the Tribute 2 is just a dud phone. Budget phones like them tend to try to do too much with too little and suffer as a result. And like I said, since you're happy to go back to KitKat, even the S3 is a better choice and pretty damn cheap now [http://www.ebay.com/sch/Cell-Phones-Smartphones/9355/i.html?_from=R40&LH_ItemCondition=1000%7C1500&_sop=15&_nkw=galaxy+s3+4g&rt=nc&LH_BIN=1].

It is free if you switch to Metro PCS.

Here in Aus you can get an S7 or just about any phone for "free" but you also get a lock-in contract that costs more than an unbundled contract and the extra you pay often ends being more than buying the phone anyway which is why I always buy outright. Nothing free about it.

It's not the phone as why would it just work then sorta not work, hardware either works or it doesn't. I Googled around and did find Android itself has a memory leak so it's not an app(s). I used the HTC Desire before this with the same processor and RAM, and left the thing on for months at a time, I just couldn't take the 4GB of internal storage anymore.

Metro PCS has no contracts, it's just $30/month for 1GB of LTE data.

 

[Hazy992]

Marshmallow seemed to fix a lot of the RAM management issues on my Note 5, plus App Permissions and Doze are really nice features. It's a good version of Android.

 

[Barrios]

Agree with Hazy, Marshmallow is def one of the Android version, although I also remember some RAM issues in the early phase. Never experienced any problems since