Hello,
the reported memory usage is without framebuffer as explicitly mentioned in the printed log text. Since I don't know your system configuration and color format, let's assume following:
Framebuffer double 800x480 pixel RGBA8888: 3.072.000 Bytes
Memory usage reported by application: 7.929.796 Bytes
Memory for the (failed) background bitmap 802*482 pixel RGBA8888: 1.546.256 Bytes
Total: 12.548.052 Bytes
According to this assumtion, the 16 MB should be sufficient. However, I don't know how much memory is occupied by other application parts, your middleware, operating system, etc.
Please try following:
1. In your aplication remove the image view displaying the large background image. Use instead a filled rectange view.
2. Test the application. Does the problem still occur?
3. If the problem is not present anymore, then it is related to the memory limitation. In this case, please follow the indication to use ALPHA8 bitmap as explained in my first comment. This saves more than 1 MB RAM.
4. If the problem still persists, we have to investigate other causes.
Best regards
Paul Banach