Dear all,
I am curious if I can purchase a larger RAM module and replace the one in my SGS resulting in more RAM space available to applications?
My SGS is running fast but I have a lot of applications installed which utilize RAM in background. As everyone know although SGS claim to have 512MB memory, the actual memory available for user application is around 3xx MB only. I am woundering if upgrade of physical RAM is feasible.
Thanks!
HKcow said:
Dear all,
I am curious if I can purchase a larger RAM module and replace the one in my SGS resulting in more RAM space available to applications?
My SGS is running fast but I have a lot of applications installed which utilize RAM in background. As everyone know although SGS claim to have 512MB memory, the actual memory available for user application is around 3xx MB only. I am woundering if upgrade of physical RAM is feasible.
Thanks!
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I'd highly doubt that it would be possible. Maybe some high skilled person could make the swap (it probably wouldn't be easy to find one..), but no-one knows if it would have even theoretical chances to work. And yes SGS has 512mb of ram..but os and apps just take their part of it in any situation.
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Hi,
how much MB RAM has Xperia T ? Sony say 1GB, but phone 642MB (390USED, 252FREE).
On my other phones with 1GB it's value correctly (for example 400USED, 624FREE).
Petr
As far as I can figure out Sony hides the value used by system whereas other phones don't.
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I think, the rest of 1GB memory is dedicated to GPU (384MB).
JB Roms consumes lot of RAM ,phone becomes laggy, is it possible ot increase RAM of our beloved note ?
Yes you buy additional 1gb ram for the note .
mukeshg121 said:
JB Roms consumes lot of RAM ,phone becomes laggy, is it possible ot increase RAM of our beloved note ?
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AFAIK, it is not possible.. or even if it does, it will be very complicated since the phones are not like our PCs, where you will have the option to extend the RAM, HDD etc etc..
in his rom thread eybee seems to suggest using supercharger scripts for ram problems.
i have tried supercharger in my HTC but not my note yet
Hello, i bought the phone (used) a few days ago. it's great.
just wondering, there's a pretty low amount of available ram (~300-350 somtimes 400 after cleaning memory).
currently im running stock 4.1.2
so, if i will flash any cm rom or any other rom, will there be more ram available?
or that's it?
thanks in advance.
yoeleli said:
Hello, i bought the phone (used) a few days ago. it's great.
just wondering, there's a pretty low amount of available ram (~300-350 somtimes 400 after cleaning memory).
currently im running stock 4.1.2
so, if i will flash any cm rom or any other rom, will there be more ram available?
or that's it?
thanks in advance.
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why do you need more free ram? more free ram is useless, system uses ram to cache programes to start faster.
moneyvirus said:
why do you need more free ram? more free ram is useless, system uses ram to cache programes to start faster.
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Because it's frustrating to close apps\clean ram all the time. it would be nice to have about 50-100mb for extra free ram.
yoeleli said:
Hello, i bought the phone (used) a few days ago. it's great.
just wondering, there's a pretty low amount of available ram (~300-350 somtimes 400 after cleaning memory).
currently im running stock 4.1.2
so, if i will flash any cm rom or any other rom, will there be more ram available?
or that's it?
thanks in advance.
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that's it
moneyvirus told you right...
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Free RAM is wasted RAM... RAM is way faster that the usual storage. That's why the system preloads as many apps as possible, to start up directly, without loading too long. So, the more used RAM you have, the better. Linux is not Windows. Windows is known for its bad RAM management.
Also, 300Mb is quite a lot BTW regarding 1GB total RAM. Killing apps to "safe" memory is the worst thing you can do. Let the system decide what's needed and what's not.
Also, Questions belong into the Q&A section. Thread moved.
my friend , android works that way. it caches everything to ram so that is faster. you dont need more ram and of course u dont need any task manager to close the background apps. the system on its own knows when to free ram and use it somewhere else. if the case is u need to play a game which need more available ram than the phone can have ( for example lets say the phone needs at least 200 ram for the basic system functions so u have available 800 ram and the game needs 1gb ram then thats another case.) u can install swapper to use some disk space to do what ram does. thats all. but if u dont need or play such game then no need for swapper , no need to clear cache and no need to close background apps. if u think u will get more battery life like that , its also wrong. there is another way to get battery life. thats all. hope i covered u.
kessaras said:
my friend , android works that way. it caches everything to ram so that is faster. you dont need more ram and of course u dont need any task manager to close the background apps. the system on its own knows when to free ram and use it somewhere else. if the case is u need to play a game which need more available ram than the phone can have ( for example lets say the phone needs at least 200 ram for the basic system functions so u have available 800 ram and the game needs 1gb ram then thats another case.) u can install swapper to use some disk space to do what ram does. thats all. but if u dont need or play such game then no need for swapper , no need to clear cache and no need to close background apps. if u think u will get more battery life like that , its also wrong. there is another way to get battery life. thats all. hope i covered u.
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You told that there is no need for task manager , so what's the use of these many task manager apps ??
I'm really confused , because as I clean my ram the speed boosts .
So we should not use task manger apps ?!!
And sth else is that , why our ram capacity is 977 instead of 1024 ?
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jasin91 said:
You told that there is no need for task manager , so what's the use of these many task manager apps ??
I'm really confused , because as I clean my ram the speed boosts .
So we should not use task manger apps ?!!
And sth else is that , why our ram capacity is 977 instead of 1024 ?
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where do u see speedboost when you clean ram in android ? Really ?
the only case this can happen is only if u play for example one of my favorites : dungeon hunter 4 and forget to close the app. At least for some time until the os decides that ok u just forgot it there and close it , u have a decrease of fps at your phone ... eh ok if u forget to push the little button to close an app that needs a big amount of resources, then the task manager is usefull. The apps are apps. There are also 10 different apps to sync google contacs but why use them if google contacts are syncing by default if u dont close the sync ?
lol thanks now i understand
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this is normal with 4.1.2, I checked a Iconia tab with 4.1.1 and used less ram, V4.1.2 doesnt manage right the ram... try to rollback to 4.0.3 v10f or search a CM10.1 or custom rom which uses less ram :laugh:
no need more ram if you want more use swapp
Why the roms of the phones with lower specification are small in size, while the roms of the high end phones are large in size.
I do have a Sony Ericsson W8 whose roms goes around 120 MBs including Gapps.
While Roms of Mi3 starts from 300MBs without Gapps.
Here my common sense is working and requesting dev to make a rom under 150MBs with/without Gapps. And I'm damn sure it will then free up some more Ram.
My Sony Ericsson W8 has 180 MB ram and it can handle Jelly Bean.
While MI3 has 2 GB Ram and never shows more than 1GB free ram.
So there's my request to DEVS, to make light-weight rom.
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My Sony Ericsson W8 has 180 MB ram and it can handle Jelly Bean.
While MI3 has 2 GB Ram and never shows more than 1GB free ram.
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More RAM you have, more RAM apps will use.
vinmac said:
Why the roms of the phones with lower specification are small in size, while the roms of the high end phones are large in size.
I do have a Sony Ericsson W8 whose roms goes around 120 MBs including Gapps.
While Roms of Mi3 starts from 300MBs without Gapps.
Here my common sense is working and requesting dev to make a rom under 150MBs with/without Gapps. And I'm damn sure it will then free up some more Ram.
My Sony Ericsson W8 has 180 MB ram and it can handle Jelly Bean.
While MI3 has 2 GB Ram and never shows more than 1GB free ram.
So there's my request to DEVS, to make light-weight rom.
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Rom size doesnt decide how much ram is going to remain free while usage. It depend how a user optimize and use rom as per his need.
Free ram is wasted ram.