>   Those errors are caught bei the default exception handler where I then
> ask
> how much memory is left (see below). Very often, like in the case from
> below, there is plenty of memory left though.
>
>   I am wondering why this is?

AFAIK, Android's garbage collector is non-compacting. Hence, the issue is
not whether there is total free memory sufficient to allocate your bitmap,
but whether there is a single contiguous block sufficient to allocate your
bitmap.

-- 
Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)
http://commonsware.com
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