Google's first maintenance release (MR1) for Android Lollipop has been published to solve a lot of issues in Android 5.0, but memory leak has been persistent as it still occur in the latest Android mobile operating system.
Android Team has currently been working to fix the issue internally following complaints from various users whose devices already ran the Android 5.1 Lollipop OS. However, Google remains silent for now as to when the patch will come out in public. As for now, experts recommend a band aid remedy by rebooting the device from time to time.
Users whose devices have Android 5.1 Lollipop running reported irritating experiences of app crashes, launcher issues and overall poor performance. The search giant's Android Open Source Project (AOSP) issue tracker first received the complaints of memory leaks taking place in the background from early Lollipop updates. The trackers has reported issue number 159738 entitled "Memory leak still present on Android 5.1."
With Google's statement, this might mean that Android 5.1.1 update as an over-the-air (OTA) package or a factory image is coming up.
Particularly, Nexus 5 owners have noticed significant memory sources draining, which was first found in Android 5.0 and in its updates in 5.0.1 and 5.0.2.
To see if device has the same problem, diagnose the problem by going to Settings > Apps > Running. If the system memory is using up too much of space might mean the device is affected by the bug. This bug slows down device which leads to apps crashing, especially Google+ all by itself. Some other apps disappear on their own, and a free RAM narrows down to about 750MB-800MB from 1.1 GB to 1.3 GB. Some moans said that launching apps would surge the amount of RAM in use, but terminating apps would not decrease that figure.
According to reports, this is primarily the reason why hardware partners and mobile carriers are releasing updates gradually.
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