It puzzles me that my TG01 boasts a healthy sounding 256MB of RAM, but often all that is available when all apps are terminated is no more than 80MB free. Having a look at the background processes, these seem to account for about 40MB which would suggest there should be about 200MB free at worst! What is all the "spare" memory preoccupied with? Is there a utility that will give a breakdown of how the RAM is allocated?
Why is this a problem? Because, more often than not, I get an error using Internet Explorer that there isn't quite enough memory to run Adobe Flash.
dont use IE lol ... IE memory managment is one of the things they fixed in 6.5.3 ... when i had 4 tabs open in opera and had 35mb free , i started to panic too , but then i opened 14 tabs and i still had 20mb+ free , so its all good , its quite dynamic
A program call CleanRam will help you get more Ram spaces.
Go here for more info
http://www.htcaddicts.com/?id=110
Ram Problem
yeah i agree with you! on the htc touch hd, it had 288 mb of ram, and after a clean soft reset and touchflo 3d running, it had 199mb of ram left.
on our TG01 it has 256mb ram, an after i installed touchflo 3d 2.5, i have 58mb of ram after soft reset. there Is so little to use.
This makes no sense
There has to be something we are missing. how do we free up more of this memory? What is it being saved for that we cannot even seeit?
Guys wait for clean roms.
I am sure our chefts will cook us some awesome roms soon.
BTW I am anew proud owner of TG01 (no voice calling quality problem.)
Currently with rogers canada
even with the ability of flashing clean roms, there still seems to be big problemss with ram. perhaps toshiba sold their devices with false specs?
its fine aslong as u avoid the sense roms
and be sure to softreset every few days
souljaboy said:
its fine aslong as u avoid the sense roms
and be sure to softreset every few days
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good point but sense has good eye-candy
what is the ram on a clean 6.5 rom with titanium?
olyloh6696 said:
good point but sense has good eye-candy
what is the ram on a clean 6.5 rom with titanium?
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Memory:
Storage: In Use – 38 MB Free – 224 MB
Programe: In Use – 118 MB Free – 87 MB
Per my 6.5 'clean' ROM - link in signature below....
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Can anyone tell me how the size of the page pool affects
1. Stability
2. Speed
3. Available memory after a soft reset.
With my limited info, I believe it to be the case that with a *higher* page pool, you get more OS stability, more speed, but less available memory for other apps to run. Would that be correct?
it depends
some ppl like Big PP
some ppl do not
Huh? I'm not asking what people like. I just want to know what effect a larger or a smaller page pool has on those 3 things. So, no one knows?
Well i am back at WM5 now. Made a 2MB pagepool rom.
Stable
Fast
Free memory after boot : 36MB
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Well i am back at WM5 now. Made a 2MB pagepool rom.
Stable
Fast
Free memory after boot : 36MB
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WOoowwWw thats what i call free ram!
cand you do that on touchv3?
Or you can give us a guide how to do it??
imparator said:
Well i am back at WM5 now. Made a 2MB pagepool rom.
Stable
Fast
Free memory after boot : 36MB
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So, you claim that a very low p.p. will increase both stability and speed? Why do we have larger p.p.'s then?
no,large page pool,more speed,small page pool ... guess what ) and dude,wm5 sux...
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no,large page pool,more speed,small page pool ... guess what ) and dude,wm5 sux...
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Please explain why WM5 sux
in my opinion a big page pool is not really faster.
ok, some apps start faster but the free ram is too low.
with lots of free program memory you can keep running all your important apps and you don't have to close and start them every time.
so with always opened apps your daily usage of your ppc should be much more fluider than with a big page pool and only 1x mb free program memory.
i hope i could explain it with my sucking english
You do make a point, but most people prefer to close their apps all the time.
Its like with windows desktops, some people have 50 windows open in their taskbar and some only 2 or 3.
If you are one of the people that like opened apps your right, I like fresh app starts so I prefer a nice 8mb pool size
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You do make a point, but most people prefer to close their apps all the time.
Its like with windows desktops, some people have 50 windows open in their taskbar and some only 2 or 3.
If you are one of the people that like opened apps your right, I like fresh app starts so I prefer a nice 8mb pool size
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hehe, i have two LCDs connected to my pc, so that everything fits onto the screen. so i am a 50 windows guy
for more details i refer all of u to this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=321912
Hi all. Today i have disassemled my Diamond2 (I have looking for reason why it have 288mb of RAM)
And found interesting thing:
Diamond2 have only 1module of memory, it's Samsung (I have recorded markers on the chip but have lost the papper.. ****)
i have COMPLETELY disassemled the phone, i found only ONE module of ram (For example my previous phone had two pieces)
So i think HTC did this:
They merged nonvolatile slow 1024mb module for:
1)512mb for internal storage
2)288mb for RAM
3)Anoter 224mb has been hidden
Its explains how HTC got 288mb for RAM, also explains why Diamond2 3(!)times slower than SE X1 in memory bandwith benchmark (nonvolatile memory not so fast as traditional RAM module).
So i think its possible to get more RAM by editing rom's memory mapping. Actually i can't do it by myself, but is there someone who can do it? I can test "New gen roms" in my spare time
P.S. Eventually we can just pump some MB from Storage (Are you need so much?) to RAM (You definitely need it, especially when use rom with Manila2.5)
P.P.S. Why i think its 1024mb module? Because i never ever seen memory chips like 768mb
good idea.
sadly that I don't know any thing about technics.
looking forward that some guys will make it.
BUMP.
I would love to see this come about!
The module is:
SAMSUNG 967 KBY00N00HM-A448 GML215A7.
Checked with google, didnt find how large it are, but its really nonvolatile memory, also very cheap
Interesting
+1
I always wondered about this. Would be nice if someone could pull this off. Mine starts up with only about 70mb free (uggggh) and slowly but surely goes down to around 58 where it finally seems to stable out at.
Interressed too !
that's quite some smarts digging this up!
will keep checking here for the holy grail of more memory...
I only wish that its possible to do it.
we all are much interessted , but search the developer... i dont know it if works, I mean the topaz is already 1year old , i can't believe that nobody have try this already...
but i hope =D
maybe a radio update will do the trick, like it did on the HD2
Possible beginning of a solution
If it is a 1024MB chip then maybe they simply laser cut a connection somewhere giving access to the rest of the available memory.... Like AMD did on the old Athlon chips to lock the multiplier.
If this is the case then all that's needed is a graphite pencil and the location of the cut connection and we're in business!
except that AMD CPU was on a large peace of PCB, and the connection was easily in sight, while here we're talking about a possible 65 nm technology memory chip completely encapsulated. good luck using a pencil on that. sorry I'm such a show stopper, but it's gotta be somewhere else.
This is a memory module, not an old athlon CPU
Have found a little guide from Loox device:
1) Patch nk.exe ("ulRAMEnd" must read value from ROMHDR, not an constant)
2) Patch nk.exe (Dont let "IPM-functions" in nk.exe rewrite registers in memory controller and activte additional RAM partitions.
3) Change "ulRAMEnd" in ROMHDR, XIP partitions.
4) Edit "OEMAddressTable" in nk.exe.
Just realized, we can try to change "MainMemoryEndAddress" in nk.exe (S000 file). It works for Kaiser/Polaris/Niki, gains 16mb of RAM
This is Great!!! If there is a possible way to do this then our TD2's will run much better and faster
and then if only we can overclock damn processor...
Have checked situation about HD2 hidden ram and found that it actually same with D2 - HD2 also have only one memory module, it doesnt have real RAM memory too.
So it was possible to resize RAM partition by flashing new rom and radio(?).
So i 100% sure it can be done on topaz.
(By the way i think Diamond, TP and Rhodium affected too cause they all got very slow RAM with strange size)
I dont have PC so i cant do it by myself
So our hope is cookers only, or someone like Olinex
P.S. Can someone send me nk.exe from HD2 original and new (With unlocked RAM) roms?
Interesting find! I'm following this with excitement hopefully someone can do something about this... but then thinking about it isn't some of this extra RAM saved for hard resetting by the bootloader?? Getting rid of this will stop that or am I confusing this with the ROM space?
Tim4 said:
Have checked situation about HD2 hidden ram and found that it actually same with D2 - HD2 also have only one memory module, it doesnt have real RAM memory too.
So it was possible to resize RAM partition by flashing new rom and radio(?).
So i 100% sure it can be done on topaz.
(By the way i think Diamond, TP and Rhodium affected too cause they all got very slow RAM with strange size)
I dont have PC so i cant do it by myself
So our hope is cookers only, or someone like Olinex
P.S. Can someone send me nk.exe from HD2 original and new (With unlocked RAM) roms?
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You should also post this in the HD2 ROM Development thread, hopefully someone will send you the files.
Also, this thread is getting more and more interesting! I hope you can come up with something!
Best regards
it isn't some of this extra RAM saved for hard resetting by the bootloader?? Getting rid of this will stop that or am I confusing this with the ROM space?
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Nope, hard-reset will just delete all files on main storage that doesnt have "ROM" marker. Its the only thing it does and doesnt requires extra ram. (I think so, may be i wrong )
I don't seem to understand that why do the sIII has too less free ram, it doesn't have HTC sense either, but so what's the problem
Comparison on normal basis:
Free Ram on:
-HTC explorer = 240
-SIII = 340
-Optimus one = 330
Q1
Can someone tell me what app or the list of useless apps that are ram hungry?
Q2
Why do all devices have less ram example, Optimus one has 512 mb ram and available 421 with cm9
S3 has 1Gb and available around 760
Why, and if it is system reserved then why do we see system apps in taskillers
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Free RAM is wasted RAM in Android.
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S3 has 1Gb and available around 760
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'free' shows 778MB after conversion from KB to MB (1MB = 1024KB)
That 1GB includes hardware-reserved locations suche as for the GPU which, unlike mid- to high-end desktop computers has no real dedicated memory. Additionally there are the camera app (especially video encoding is notoriously high on RAM due to the codec specifications), the modem, ...
I'm also not sure if that 1GB is, as hardware manufacturers often tend to do, 1'000'000'000 Byte (1 GB according to hardware manufacturer'sIEC definition) or 1073741824 Byte (as defined by SI and adopted by software manufacturers)
That would reduce the capacity by a further 7.37% on RAW storage.
why do we see system apps in taskillers
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You shouldn't be using Task Killers. I still remember them being a de-facto requirement in Eclair, but since Froyo they are obsolete and cause more harm than they can do good.
(At least in theory, memory management only recently with ICS got reliable and performant enough to completely get rid of them)
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Free RAM is wasted RAM in Android.
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If you have very less free ram your phone will start lagging and your phone will become a waste phone. Is that alright for you?
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d4fseeker said:
'free' shows 778MB after conversion from KB to MB (1MB = 1024KB)
That 1GB includes hardware-reserved locations suche as for the GPU which, unlike mid- to high-end desktop computers has no real dedicated memory. Additionally there are the camera app (especially video encoding is notoriously high on RAM due to the codec specifications), the modem, ...
I'm also not sure if that 1GB is, as hardware manufacturers often tend to do, 1'000'000'000 Byte (1 GB according to hardware manufacturer'sIEC definition) or 1073741824 Byte (as defined by SI and adopted by software manufacturers)
That would reduce the capacity by a further 7.37% on RAW storage.
You shouldn't be using Task Killers. I still remember them being a de-facto requirement in Eclair, but since Froyo they are obsolete and cause more harm than they can do good.
(At least in theory, memory management only recently with ICS got reliable and performant enough to completely get rid of them)
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By the way what thing takes up so much ram
HTC phones has memory hungry sense so it's understood but what's the problem here?
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rishabho1 said:
By the way what thing takes up so much ram
HTC phones has memory hungry sense so it's understood but what's the problem here?
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Touchwiz is by far more memory hungry than sense.
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Touchwiz is by far more memory hungry than sense.
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I see
But touchwiz has nothing special, and no flipping clock no cool widgets and no sense like cool launcher
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haha there is far more to Sense and Touchwiz than just a few widgets dude!
By the way what thing takes up so much ra
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Get houmiak Task Manager from Market and look for yourself. Many useful features are completely unnecessary for most of us, so you can freeze them to gain memory. (Don't uninstall since you can defrost frozen apps instantly if you ever needed it)
Those included for me the Exchange service, Allshare, ... . There's a whole list of apps which are safe to remove.
(Note that 'safe to remove' does not mean you won't need it: that depends on what you actually use)
But touchwiz has nothing special, and no flipping clock no cool widgets and no sense like cool launcher
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Both Touchwiz and Sense are horrors in terms of coding standards and resource consumption. If all you care about in Touchwiz is the launcher and widgets then by all means get rid of Touchwiz (I recommend CM9) and install a customizable Launcher such as Go Launcher, Apex, ...
If you have very less free ram your phone will start lagging and your phone will become a waste phone.
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"Free" memory is a very interesting defition. What do you call 'free' memory?
If an app is closed, should Android immediatly remove it from Cache? You'll probably say yes to increase free memory.
However there are multiple reasons why it's not done
- free memory is wasted memory. If the phone doesn't use it, what's the point of having it?
- it doesn't cost anything in terms of CPU-cycles to "remove" cached apps from RAM whenever the space is needed [*]
- Should you multitask back in the app, it's immediatly available. Depending on the app, even with everything exactly as you left it
[*] Well it does, but not more than immediatly removing it when the app is closed.
If you work a lot within the same app, chances are that your free memory is far below 1MB since it keeps everything in Cache if it should ever be needed. By exiting or killing an app that value increases since some data is always freed. But that does not mean the phone will magically get faster. If you still don't believe me; what if I told you that there is NO major operating system (Mac OsX, Windows NT, iOS, Linux, BSD, ...) that does not cache. You just don't see the raw values Linux shows on most of them, but faked values where the cache is substracted.
If you want details, I recommend reading about Paging ("Swap") and In-Memory Caching on Wikipedia. They have some excellent articles.
Here's a shortened easy versioN: http://www.linuxatemyram.com/
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If you have very less free ram your phone will start lagging and your phone will become a waste phone. Is that alright for you?
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My phone never lags. Sometimes there is a brief delay when a screen redraws upon app change. I hardly think the phone becomes a "waste" at this point. If you want to see what lag really feels like go get a second hand HTC desire.
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It is sad that the available ram is less than on the S2 to be honest.
I'm running with 80-200mb free all the time, even been down to around 50mb when using the phone, the S2 I was never under 150mb.
But then again, the S3 is faster than the S2
extreme unstable ram usage
hawkn said:
It is sad that the available ram is less than on the S2 to be honest.
I'm running with 80-200mb free all the time, even been down to around 50mb when using the phone, the S2 I was never under 150mb.
But then again, the S3 is faster than the S2
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wow, you lucky s3 fellow, i have been experiencing ram issues, when I say that, know that I have considered the fact that more RAM used the better - more apps in memory, improves app switching/launching speed(all that philosophical BS which people give with pride, when someone posts a query on RAM. My RAM exceeds 700 MB and goes up to 796 MB with less than 50 MB at times; and this is with 10-15 trusted lightweight apps installed, This was prevalent since the stock firmware ICS and even is present after the JB update. More RAM used is good only when it doesn't affect performance, and doesn't force apps to struggling to stay in memory, causing them to frequently restart.
though i found a partial fix, which gave a lil speed boost -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1787263&highlight=ram+problem
This helped me a lil(Disabling ripple effect in lockscreen), though to totally resolve the issue, i might have to go for a custom rom/kernel or hope for sammy boys to release an update soon -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1926380&page=3
Loving my device so far figuring it all out for a first time Android user, very happy. Just one main concern besides little petty ones is the available ram? Even when i first booted this thing up out of the box with nothing installed by me the Available Ram was only like 300mb out of 1gb! Telling me a couple apps running stock (which is only like 20-30mb total anyways) and the Operating System and Sense eats up about 700mb of Ram upon a fresh Boot? Damn that's pretty sad, no wonder why the industry standard for these devices should be 2gb! My iphone 4 which i came from only had 256mb of total ram installed. With all my apps installed, using up about 15gb of hard drive space out of the 16gb model i had, i still had a solid 210-220mb of FREE Ram upon Boot Up! Apple is still very behind in this cell industry but at least they know how to create an operating system that doesn't kill your Ram.
Anyway to have more available Ram on this thing? Figured 1gb would be more then plenty when purchasing this device, after using it now i guessed wrong. Now with most of the basic apps installed i average about 250-270mb of Free Ram upon Boot Up. Still think that's pretty sad when it comes with 1gb of ram built in :fingers-crossed:
deeznuts said:
Loving my device so far figuring it all out for a first time Android user, very happy. Just one main concern besides little petty ones is the available ram? Even when i first booted this thing up out of the box with nothing installed by me the Available Ram was only like 300mb out of 1gb! Telling me a couple apps running stock (which is only like 20-30mb total anyways) and the Operating System and Sense eats up about 700mb of Ram upon a fresh Boot? Damn that's pretty sad, no wonder why the industry standard for these devices should be 2gb! My iphone 4 which i came from only had 256mb of total ram installed. With all my apps installed, using up about 15gb of hard drive space out of the 16gb model i had, i still had a solid 210-220mb of FREE Ram upon Boot Up! Apple is still very behind in this cell industry but at least they know how to create an operating system that doesn't kill your Ram.
Anyway to have more available Ram on this thing? Figured 1gb would be more then plenty when purchasing this device, after using it now i guessed wrong. Now with most of the basic apps installed i average about 250-270mb of Free Ram upon Boot Up. Still think that's pretty sad when it comes with 1gb of ram built in :fingers-crossed:
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Android takes apps out of memory when another app needs more ram
Trust me... 1gb is fine.. no need for another 1gb of ram
If you really want more ram either make an AOSP rom or desense your phone
bilibox said:
Android takes apps out of memory when another app needs more ram
Trust me... 1gb is fine.. no need for another 1gb of ram
If you really want more ram either make an AOSP rom or desense your phone
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So basically don't even worry about what the task manager shows as free Ram because the OS will make it work basically? Makes sense but still seems pretty hungry to eat up so much. Really love the Stock JB 4.1 and Sense 4+ so really wouldn't want to get rid of any of that just to free up some Ram. Would just think factory though it wouldn't eat so much. I'm sure once i can get this device rooted though and flashing a custom rom should help?
deeznuts said:
Loving my device so far figuring it all out for a first time Android user, very happy. Just one main concern besides little petty ones is the available ram? Even when i first booted this thing up out of the box with nothing installed by me the Available Ram was only like 300mb out of 1gb! Telling me a couple apps running stock (which is only like 20-30mb total anyways) and the Operating System and Sense eats up about 700mb of Ram upon a fresh Boot? Damn that's pretty sad, no wonder why the industry standard for these devices should be 2gb! My iphone 4 which i came from only had 256mb of total ram installed. With all my apps installed, using up about 15gb of hard drive space out of the 16gb model i had, i still had a solid 210-220mb of FREE Ram upon Boot Up! Apple is still very behind in this cell industry but at least they know how to create an operating system that doesn't kill your Ram.
Anyway to have more available Ram on this thing? Figured 1gb would be more then plenty when purchasing this device, after using it now i guessed wrong. Now with most of the basic apps installed i average about 250-270mb of Free Ram upon Boot Up. Still think that's pretty sad when it comes with 1gb of ram built in :fingers-crossed:
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i think that´s because of android´s ram management.
Android doesn´t allow that there is too much "unused" RAM because "unused" RAM is useless RAM... (hope i understood that right as i read something about it some weeks ago)
but wait for a detailled explanation of someone who is fitter at this topic than me
deeznuts said:
Loving my device so far figuring it all out for a first time Android user, very happy. Just one main concern besides little petty ones is the available ram? Even when i first booted this thing up out of the box with nothing installed by me the Available Ram was only like 300mb out of 1gb! Telling me a couple apps running stock (which is only like 20-30mb total anyways) and the Operating System and Sense eats up about 700mb of Ram upon a fresh Boot? Damn that's pretty sad, no wonder why the industry standard for these devices should be 2gb! My iphone 4 which i came from only had 256mb of total ram installed. With all my apps installed, using up about 15gb of hard drive space out of the 16gb model i had, i still had a solid 210-220mb of FREE Ram upon Boot Up! Apple is still very behind in this cell industry but at least they know how to create an operating system that doesn't kill your Ram.
Anyway to have more available Ram on this thing? Figured 1gb would be more then plenty when purchasing this device, after using it now i guessed wrong. Now with most of the basic apps installed i average about 250-270mb of Free Ram upon Boot Up. Still think that's pretty sad when it comes with 1gb of ram built in :fingers-crossed:
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Android does not use ram like windows. In android, having low free ram is a good sign that android is working properly. Does your device lock up or feel laggy? Exactly so don't worry
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deeznuts said:
So basically don't even worry about what the task manager shows as free Ram because the OS will make it work basically? Makes sense but still seems pretty hungry to eat up so much. Really love the Stock JB 4.1 and Sense 4+ so really wouldn't want to get rid of any of that just to free up some Ram. Would just think factory though it wouldn't eat so much. I'm sure once i can get this device rooted though and flashing a custom rom should help?
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It's not eating the ram, the ram has been set aside for rapid access by apps. read this webpage, Its about task manager but explains how android utilizes ram. http://lifehacker.com/5650894/andro...ed-what-they-do-and-why-you-shouldnt-use-them
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Android does not use ram like windows. In android, having low free ram is a good sign that android is working properly. Does your device lock up or feel laggy? Exactly so don't worry
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It's not eating the ram, the ram has been set aside for rapid access by apps. read this webpage, Its about task manager but explains how android utilizes ram. http://lifehacker.com/5650894/andro...ed-what-they-do-and-why-you-shouldnt-use-them
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Oh ok, thank you. Learned something new today, really had no idea and makes perfect sense now. You're right though, no lag at all. I mean i don't know how to compare this device but running the game Bard's Tale with the HD download version on all High performance and having a few apps also on in the background, zero lag while playing the game! Really am impressed with this device thus far, just was worried about the Ram appearance as I wasn't aware of how Android utilizes it, thank you.
Is your phone lagging? Android does an amazing job at providing the RAM required to function properly.
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Bump.
I'd like to know how much ram is available to the user. Can someone with an AT&T One X+ download Android System Info and share what the "max" is for ram? For example, on my 1GB GS2, it shows 836mb (user available).
It says I have 950 mb Ram on the android app management screen.
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I planned to buy a new Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3, but then I noticed the free RAM is around 600 MB .
Would this RAM be sufficient enough for a smooth multi-tasking experience and with many widgets. ? ?
Initially, I thought of Samsung Note-2 which has around 0.91GB of free RAM which ofcourse ifs more than enough for any kind of multi-tasking.(but its too costky )
Is there anyway through which I can get more RAM on "Samsing Mega 6.3" ?? ?? ?? .. ....
What I thought was, the device has a total RAM of 1.5GB , so if I root the device & remove various redundant applications which I dont need & replace the launcher with a light one,
then will there be a chance to get around 800-900MB of RAM ?? ?? ??
rohitdhavade said:
I planned to buy a new Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3, but then I noticed the free RAM is around 600 MB .
Would this RAM be sufficient enough for a smooth multi-tasking experience and with many widgets. ? ?
Initially, I thought of Samsung Note-2 which has around 0.91GB of free RAM which ofcourse ifs more than enough for any kind of multi-tasking.(but its too costky )
Is there anyway through which I can get more RAM on "Samsing Mega 6.3" ?? ?? ?? .. ....
What I thought was, the device has a total RAM of 1.5GB , so if I root the device & remove various redundant applications which I dont need & replace the launcher with a light one,
then will there be a chance to get around 800-900MB of RAM ?? ?? ??
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Like they say, unused RAM is wasted RAM. In my experience the RAM is more than enough to do multitasking. I have not yet experienced any slow down because of RAM even under heavy load and I have tried having multiwindow with popup play running on top.
gx3k said:
Like they say, unused RAM is wasted RAM. In my experience the RAM is more than enough to do multitasking. I have not yet experienced any slow down because of RAM even under heavy load and I have tried having multiwindow with popup play running on top.
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I echo that JB handles rame really well as mentioned above unused ram is pointless and android will kill apps or processes in memory as and wehn required that way you have a smoother experience throughout as apps are able to refresh quicker, yet when needed will be killed off by the oom memory managment
thering1975 said:
I echo that JB handles rame really well as mentioned above unused ram is pointless and android will kill apps or processes in memory as and wehn required that way you have a smoother experience throughout as apps are able to refresh quicker, yet when needed will be killed off by the oom memory managment
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Ohh..
Thanks For that info, I didnt knew that apps are automatically killed as & when the need arises .
Then, its a good deal to buy mega 6.3.
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rohitdhavade said:
Ohh..
Thanks For that info, I didnt knew that apps are automatically killed as & when the need arises .
Then, its a good deal to buy mega 6.3.
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indeed it is, great phone indeed
My i9205 had around 1.1G ram of 1.32G used when new (just after boot). I uninstalled several samsung applications and it decreased to 0.9G used. If I "clear ram" I get around 600mb used. It seems to help, Chrome is seldom killed now, I can have many pages open and it does not need to reload them when coming back after doing other stuff.
You also seem to have a bit of a misunderstanding with how Linux memory management works.
It is easier to pull the RAM out of cache, and cache RAM isn't reported as "free" even though it essentially is, because it can be pressed into service as soon as it's needed and is a lot faster than taking it from the hard disk.
Linux also doesn't need "free RAM" to just be there to operate, a phone with 1.2GB "Free RAM" won't run any faster than one with 400MB free unless the processor is doing something in the background extra.
If anything, the one with 400MB will seem faster because it probably has the apps you use loaded in RAM without using any CPU so as soon as you try to open, let's say Facebook, it was already cached in RAM so it just boots right up.
Long story short, if you have 600MB free RAM, you have nothing to worry about in terms of performance on the phone.