Google maps shuts down by itself I noticed that the last couple of months Google Maps shuts down while I am using it for directions in my car. When I re-open the app I have to set the route from scratch unlike when the app is working and somebody presses the home button.It used to work perfectly in the past.

I have  2 samsung galaxy pocket plus s5301 devices and they have the same problem with this application. Did google make the app too heavy, for this device to handle(with only 512MB RAM), in the last updates?

Thanks in advance
If the device is unusually slow, or other apps get closed too, I would expect it's a memory shortage problem.

Some other service/app/proces (possibly part of the system), unrelated to Maps, uses so much main memory that that there is not enough memory available at the time you run Maps, and the system needs to kill an app to free memory, and decides to kill Maps.  

It this is the case, the problem would be somewhere else, and Maps in itself could run fine.