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How much RAM is free on your galaxy s? No himem kernal support

My friend just got his phone from unlocked mobiles, i am still waiting for mine from Handtec... argh... but i just got him to check how much free memory he had from looking at advanced task killer and he only had 37MB free!!? Got him to kill everything and he only got about 130MB free in total.
Can other people check theirs to see, because its looking like the same problem that happened with the nexus one where only 256MB of the 512MB RAM was available to use, until they upgrade it to Froyo 2.2 or change the kernal to allow for Hi Mem support.
rubbish if they havent sorted this!

anyone?

ya.. its the same because of the limitation in 2.6.29 kernel not the phone. More reason to bug Samsung to upgrade to froyo or root the device

Yeah i don't think they've fixed it, ,my phone only reports about over 100 meg free.
where do you go to see memory available?

122m Avail. memory using adv task killer.

bugger, i thought they would have at least sorted out the kernal to support himem. if XDA developers can do it for android 2.1 then why cant samsung! very lame and annoying as I have seen my friends phone slow down quite a few times now.

I flashed froyo JPD + voodoo lagfix and my RAM manger shows
191 / 304 MB.
I choosed level 1 and 2 and clean memory, now it is using 144 MB.
I guess it is supposed to show 512 MB.

If I kill everything, 142M free (stock JVK). I used to be able to get ~170M free with JPY...
I'm of the, sometimes controversial, opinion that unused RAM is wasted RAM though and don't really care how much is free - as long there's no lag!

Valeo said:
I'm of the, sometimes controversial, opinion that unused RAM is wasted RAM though and don't really care how much is free - as long there's no lag!
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I have same opinion. We will never see 512mb ram available, as someones may think..we HAVE 512mb ram, but due technical issues, it won't be all usable for us..and as a linux based system, it's good to have mem full as possible. Generally speaking...
There is many topics about ram in xda..with lots of information..
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As far as i can remember, we don't see the whole 512 mb RAM (or at least 400+) because of PowerVR GPU, which reserves a lot of ram for itself.

Full 512 mb available?

Does the froyo update make the full 512 mb ram available? I had heard earlier that only a part of it was available due to 2.1 limitations.
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They were always available, ~300Mb for Programs and the rest for the system files... Why should that change?

I think what the OP meant was whether one had more memory for apps as ht tp:// developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.2-highlights.html claims that the 2.6.32 kernel upgrade would bring "HIGHMEM support for RAM >256MB".
At the moment, we do not have the full memory available in the Linux system:
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$ adb shell
* daemon not running. starting it now *
* daemon started successfully *
$ free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 333420 329988 3432 0 34724
Swap: 0 0 0
Total: 333420 329988 3432
I do not know whether that is related to the graphics hardware taking some of the memory, or to the kernel version:
Code:
$ uname -r
2.6.29
Edit: What do you mean by 'system files'? The OS is stored on mass storage, right? And Dalvik and friends should appear as userspace processes taking up regular memory.

satta said:
I think what the OP meant was whether one had more memory for apps as developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.2-highlights.html claims that the 2.6.32 kernel upgrade would bring "HIGHMEM support for RAM >256MB".
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You do understand that this does not compute, since there has always been more than 256MB available
Or has there?

I was wondering about the same thing, kernel 2.6.32.9 (JP3) also shows a little more than 300mb...

buddy01 said:
You do understand that this does not compute, since there has always been more than 256MB available
Or has there?
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Hey, I'm just quoting from an official AOSP site

Mine shows 30 mb available under advanced task killer. What am I missing?
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@satta yeah that's what I meant and that's what I had read. Cheers
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I've seen Desire have over 400MB of memory available for applications in a video with a some sort of task manager on..

Are you sure, max i got on my nexus one was 312MB in some rare cases, using it without closing apps at all, never got below 100MB... But my Galaxy's max is 170MB, is almost half what my nexus gave me, that kinda suck (don't know if it matter bu tit feels bad in my head )

Desire has 576MB memory.. N1 has 512MB
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Maximum free RAM i got from my sgs is 210mb, easily achieved by using Astro's process manager and killing all non-essential services.

why t.f. do you guys always want to have lots of fre ram? please read a little about android memory management... free ram is wasted ram!

FadeFx said:
why t.f. do you guys always want to have lots of fre ram? please read a little about android memory management... free ram is wasted ram!
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So? We all still want our phones to be as future proof as we hoped they would be when we bought them. And we want the extra RAM simply because it's supposed to be there.
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why t.f. do you guys always want to have lots of fre ram? please read a little about android memory management... free ram is wasted ram!
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As long as it doesn't go below that ~70mb when the phones actually start lagging
Might also want to take into consideration that the counterpart Desire used in this thread is also an android phone, sure too much free memory is wasted memory but too little usable memory = lag and if there isn't a lot to use in the first place then it won't take much for the phone to start lagging.
Some help in JG and onward firmwares but it's still quite funny that a simple user can make a fix to create a solution for the entire problem and Samsung hasn't either thought about this or taken it into consideration. (Mimocan is my hero <3)
edit: WOO my first post after actually following these forums for almost half a year, just registered recently

Hey,
Actually you do not need that much RAM. Im running on JG5, which IMO is the most stable and usable firmware out there. Has been running the phone for 3 days straight without any ATK like apps, and has not experience any lags.
Another thing is that, IMHO ATKs slow down the system.
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The current Samsung froyo builds do not support highmem. It is a kernel compile time config option. Samsung will hopefully enable it in later builds.
Highmem made a noticeable difference in performance on my nexus one.

ed10000 said:
So? We all still want our phones to be as future proof as we hoped they would be when we bought them. And we want the extra RAM simply because it's supposed to be there.
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Nonsense. You are not entitled to more free ram in any way.
Every os uses a part of the ram for the kernel code and its buffers.
In addition the advanced graphics will need memory for its texture storage and graphic representation.
A froyo kernel will not make a major difference.
The sg has 512 memory today and it is using it as it should...

akselic said:
As long as it doesn't go below that ~70mb when the phones actually start lagging
Might also want to take into consideration that the counterpart Desire used in this thread is also an android phone, sure too much free memory is wasted memory but too little usable memory = lag and if there isn't a lot to use in the first place then it won't take much for the phone to start lagging.
Some help in JG and onward firmwares but it's still quite funny that a simple user can make a fix to create a solution for the entire problem and Samsung hasn't either thought about this or taken it into consideration. (Mimocan is my hero <3)
edit: WOO my first post after actually following these forums for almost half a year, just registered recently
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lagging is actually not caused by to less free ram, in android there is no such. the used ram is caused by apps that you opened and then exited again. if you open a new app that needs more ram than aviailable (actually with a little gap of some mb) the system will close apps that are not used anymore and only kept in ram for faster opening. the lag comes from bad i/o speeds of the nand (internal memory) where apps data is stored. on i7500 there is 192mb of ram and it works ok with froyo (thanx to drakaz and gaosp team!) only thing is that every app you open forces the app you opened before to be kicked out of ram what makes switching between apps makes somewhat a pain.
also free memory and usable memory is apples and pears, useable is all memory that contains no actually running in foreground app or service. and free memory is the rest that contains absolutely no information and thus WASTED
edit: btw i7500 is running well with 20mb free ram.

I often have no more than 30 MBs free, and not running THAT many apps. What is strange is that sometimes there is 70-80 MB free, and I have not done anyting. What happens in the background is a mystery... Any suggestions?

Milestone available memory :(

My milestone run MIUI rom 1.7.8. Available memory is about 20-30 MB , so when I opened camera and taked a picture, It stucked there for a couple minutes. Then I rebooted my phone and Available memory is 40-50 MB, and nothing wrong with the camera ?? How can I fix the memory problem?? please help
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I do believe that's because when you had 20~30 mb free, there were many others apps running in memory.
The camera app froze the phone 'cause it had no free memory.
When you restarted your phone you had more free memory because you were not running all those app you probably were before.
Sucks, but Milestone's memory is really low

felipefill said:
I do believe that's because when you had 20~30 mb free, there were many others apps running in memory.
The camera app froze the phone 'cause it had no free memory.
When you restarted your phone you had more free memory because you were not running all those app you probably were before.
Sucks, but Milestone's memory is really low
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No man, I open task killer and kill everything. When I bought it , It had about 150 MB free memory man . So confuse ??

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mtnhan1996 said:
No man, I open task killer and kill everything. When I bought it , It had about 150 MB free memory man . So confuse ??
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Ok clearly you are new to milestone. The thing is when you bought the phone it was probably running 2.1 eclair or 2.0 which uses very little ram: it had the least features (no jit or a2sd) hence it's the lightest on ram. However you have to understand that since froyo google has been trying to add more features to android and use exisitng resources to boost performance and since Google's flagship phone at the time of froyo was the nexus one (which had 512mb of ram whereas the milestoen only has 256mb of ram) and so they used ram to boost performance which is essentiall what JIT is. So there's an issue. The milestone is already short on ram and 2.2/2.3 uses more ram which is why they are sometimes slower (not all, something like froyo mod or cronos ginger/ho!no! is bloody fast) which is why you have less free ram.
but over to MIUI which has even MORE features than stock gb which means it uses up even MORE ram which is why you have so little free ram. use this script, it should help the ram issue http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991276

thre3aces said:
Ok clearly you are new to milestone. The thing is when you bought the phone it was probably running 2.1 eclair or 2.0 which uses very little ram: it had the least features (no jit or a2sd) hence it's the lightest on ram. However you have to understand that since froyo google has been trying to add more features to android and use exisitng resources to boost performance and since Google's flagship phone at the time of froyo was the nexus one (which had 512mb of ram whereas the milestoen only has 256mb of ram) and so they used ram to boost performance which is essentiall what JIT is. So there's an issue. The milestone is already short on ram and 2.2/2.3 uses more ram which is why they are sometimes slower (not all, something like froyo mod or cronos ginger/ho!no! is bloody fast) which is why you have less free ram.
but over to MIUI which has even MORE features than stock gb which means it uses up even MORE ram which is why you have so little free ram. use this script, it should help the ram issue http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991276
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Thank you very much, so now I got 2 options ,right? I can flash froyo mod instead of MIUI or I can use the script to icrease ram a little bit huh?

mtnhan1996 said:
Thank you very much, so now I got 2 options ,right? I can flash froyo mod instead of MIUI or I can use the script to icrease ram a little bit huh?
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well yes and no. in my experience you can have miui with zepplinrox's script but still only have around 30-45mb of free ram whereas on froyomod you can get far more.
I liked using cronos ginger but the thing is feeyo's roms have a lot of bugs and arent updated to the latest sources which is why they are usually a little bit behind.

Cronos GB 1.5.0 is really fast. And yes, it has bugs, but nothing impossible to live with.
This is the fastest GB rom I've tried ..

thre3aces said:
well yes and no. in my experience you can have miui with zepplinrox's script but still only have around 30-45mb of free ram whereas on froyomod you can get far more.
I liked using cronos ginger but the thing is feeyo's roms have a lot of bugs and arent updated to the latest sources which is why they are usually a little bit behind.
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With the script, you can use slot 3 to choose how much free ram you want.
Performance levels out beyond 30mb free tho.
And android will make more ram available if needed anyway.

I use Froyomod and I have around 37 MB free after startup. I tried to play Cut the rope but it keeps killing it. Also happens with Google Maps. Could this be a problem of low memory?

ruisan said:
I use Froyomod and I have around 37 MB free after startup. I tried to play Cut the rope but it keeps killing it. Also happens with Google Maps. Could this be a problem of low memory?
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yea it is. but if your on froyomod why not try to use advanced task killer and zepplinrox's supercharger

Less free RAM after v20 GB upgrade

Anyone encounter the same issue? Used to have around 180mb before upgrade. Now most times less than
100Mb
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Not less than 100MB but also less than with Froyo.

cheeese said:
Anyone encounter the same issue? Used to have around 180mb before upgrade. Now most times less than
100Mb
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Get a task manager and kill some tasks then, after killing tasks and only excluding stuff i need, eg. messenger app, music ect i get 205mb free ram and never go below 100mb.

I did still?at most 120 only.
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OMG guys, why don't people get this:
Free RAM is wasted RAM.
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kiljacken said:
OMG guys, why don't people get this:
Free RAM is wasted RAM.
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Because your phone slows down when it gets below 100mb, don't bother arguing that because i know from experience that my o2x slows down and becomes choppy when the free ram goes below 100mb, because there is so much crap stored in memory.
If i need something to run ill run it and leave it there and exclude it from task manager but other wise its no use.
Its also a huge battery drain to have so many apps running that you are not using so that's a pretty stupid statement...."free ram is waste ram" lol wtf...., your battery life must be really long.
As for OP, i suggest you install a better rom, i use topigigis 1.7 rom and after killing a bunch of tasks i get up to 205mb free, altho this gets less the longer it goes without a reboot, so try rebooting and hen killing some useless tasks and see what your ram level is at.

eraldo said:
Because your phone slows down when it gets below 100mb, don't bother arguing that because i know from experience that my o2x slows down and becomes choppy when the free ram goes below 100mb, because there is so much crap stored in memory.
If i need something to run ill run it and leave it there and exclude it from task manager but other wise its no use.
Its also a huge battery drain to have so many apps running that you are not using so that's a pretty stupid statement...."free ram is waste ram" lol wtf...., your battery life must be really long.
As for OP, i suggest you install a better rom, i use topigigis 1.7 rom and after killing a bunch of tasks i get up to 205mb free, altho this gets less the longer it goes without a reboot, so try rebooting and hen killing some useless tasks and see what your ram level is at.
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Free ram is wasted ram. And taskkillers will only make you battery life worse if not some app is using all the cpu. The reason RAM is used by android is to keep apps preloaded, for better launch times. The built in task handler is all what is needed. My phone runs blazingly fast at all times, and I don't use a taskkiller.

yupe.. Mine is mostly below 100mb.. 70mb on average. but it's smoother than froyo with 140mb.. list of applications and files are faster to load and smoother.. so i have no complain at all.

I'm also experiencing the lower free memory in the default configuration with GB compared to Froyo. Although I'm not trying to get as much free RAM as possible (because I support the reasons given above for usage of the RAM, having apps in there doesn't mean that they're running) I'm still curious where the missing amount of memory went... Does anybody have any clue what was introduced or changed with GB that could use up about 70MB?

kiljacken said:
Free ram is wasted ram. And taskkillers will only make you battery life worse if not some app is using all the cpu. The reason RAM is used by android is to keep apps preloaded, for better launch times. The built in task handler is all what is needed. My phone runs blazingly fast at all times, and I don't use a taskkiller.
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Oh really and what is your logic for thinking having no unused apps running will use more battery than having lads running.....you make no sense an have no logic or fact to back up such a ridiculas assumption.
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kiljacken said:
Free ram is wasted ram. And taskkillers will only make you battery life worse if not some app is using all the cpu. The reason RAM is used by android is to keep apps preloaded, for better launch times. The built in task handler is all what is needed. My phone runs blazingly fast at all times, and I don't use a taskkiller.
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Clearly you've been on cm7 so long you forgot how bad stock is..
Stock firmware for my phone was horrible and backgrounding was working for only seconds due to lack of ram, Opera would never background, always a new boot.
Cm7 > stock
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I m on stock v20 ROM. Sometime my fone will b sluggish and it seems like e low RAM is causing it. Also wondering where e RAM went After upgrading.

use supercharger
Code:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991276

And there's a bug in original stock kernel about memory management, horse power kernels are better for that.

Its not just about the rom your choosing its about the kernel, flash a good kernel and it will improve memory usage.

So does flashing custom kernel void e warranty and does it need rooting? Which is e best kernel for stock ROM v20?
Thanks
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cheeese said:
So does flashing custom kernel void e warranty and does it need rooting? Which is e best kernel for stock ROM v20?
Thanks
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Yes most of the time and Yes. Some providers accept phone customization in warranty, ask yours.
If you have v20L you only have Horse Power kernel (Neoblaze seems bootloop) + Power pack 7 (mandatory, orbootloop, see dedicated threads).

If I reflash my phone using one of the original images availabe and reset it, is there any chance for the provider to detect previous flash operations?
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Yes most of the time and Yes. Some providers accept phone customization in warranty, ask yours.
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So does flashing custom kernel void e warranty and does it need rooting? Which is e best kernel for stock ROM v20?
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Befor i flashed hp sr2 i had 70 to 90 mb free ram now i had 130 to 150 free ram and my baterry seems better.
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I'd tend to relate the better battery life to the new kernel than the increased free ram. I'm on RC9 (w. PP7, no init.d-scripts) and my LGOS reaches almost two days of battery standby with ~50-60MB free RAM.
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Befor i flashed hp sr2 i had 70 to 90 mb free ram now i had 130 to 150 free ram and my baterry seems better.
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Jelly Bean eats all of ram!!! Severe Ram problem

Oh, after using jelly bean for 3 days, i noticed that it eats all of Ram, only 60-110 MB free!!!!
And this cause very slow downs and FC alot,
While on ics there is about 200-250 MB Free!!! With the same apps
Is this bec. Of beta, running, and freezing all bloatware and the same aetup in every aspect
, is 1GB of ram isn't enough now days!!!
Again, i tried to use swap file using various methods with no success due to kernel support, is there any kernel or method to have working swap, or is there any workaround to have some thing similar to swap.
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The note actually only has 800mb, so it's not even a gig.

well ram works differently on android then on windows pc, if its full it doesnt necessary mean that's why device is slowed down. Memory works differently.
Secondly jb, you are using now is not for everyday use. So you are bound to run into issues like this one. Also there is a memory leak in current builds. Which means that JB doesnt do that, but the current build does that because of a bug.
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baz77 said:
well ram works differently on android then on windows pc, if its full it doesnt necessary mean that's why device is slowed down. Memory works differently.
Secondly jb, you are using now is not for everyday use. So you are bound to run into issues like this one. Also there is a memory leak in current builds. Which means that JB doesnt do that, but the current build does that because of a bug.
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Yes i know that full ram may not cause slow downs, well it will slow down only when riched critical value and cause FCs , but you say that this problem in JB is due to beta stage, so this is good, so we have to wait for fully working build or at least stable enough to run system without FCs or slowdowna
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Yep definately.
I guess it takes extra clean installs with prenightly roms.
Maybe, because you got this far you can get comfortable with logfiles and troubleshooting. Try to get to the root cause of the issue. You might be able to contribute there.At this point if I knew how, I'd help you.
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little-vince said:
The note actually only has 800mb, so it's not even a gig.
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Is that true? I don't think so. I think it's how it's allocated and counted. Like when you go buy a 1TB drive, you only have access to 931GB. It's how it's formatted and allocated.
Probably the same with Android with memory allocation or something like that. It's false advertising to say "It has 1024MB of RAM" when they actually only include 800. 800 is accessible, but there's probably 1GB in there.

zkyevolved said:
Is that true? I don't think so. I think it's how it's allocated and counted. Like when you go buy a 1TB drive, you only have access to 931GB. It's how it's formatted and allocated.
Probably the same with Android with memory allocation or something like that. It's false advertising to say "It has 1024MB of RAM" when they actually only include 800. 800 is accessible, but there's probably 1GB in there.
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There almost certainly is 1GB of RAM in there, but the graphics processor needs some of it to do it's job, say probably 128MB. Then just like the PC there are other other parts of the device that need to have blocks of memory to do their jobs, and the kernel and other core OS will probably snarf some memory to do what they need to do.
Voila, 1GB of RAM immediately reduced to 500-800MB of actual "usable" RAM.

Yup, the 1gb is a lie.. galaxy note has the same amount of ram of desire hd
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LoVeRice said:
Yup, the 1gb is a lie.. galaxy note has the same amount of ram of desire hd
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No dear, desireHD has 786 MB BUT ONLY about 600 MB usable, the same story as note and every android device
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evaworld said:
No dear, desireHD has 786 MB BUT ONLY about 600 MB usable, the same story as note and every android device
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Based on every nand device out there, ssd, emmc, all of them allocate sectors to general use.
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Can part of internal sd or ext sd become an extended ram or something?
Would that make the device any faster?
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fr3ker said:
Can part of internal sd or ext sd become an extended ram or something?
Would that make the device any faster?
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Yes it can.
No that won't make it any faster. In fact, it will make it slower.
The way Android works is, it says "the kernel says I need X amount for gpu, X amount for sound, X amount for the OS".
And then it allocates a certain threashold and says "okay this much I'm keeping free".
Then it says "these functions of the OS aren't used often, I'll leave them out".
Then it says "okay so I've got extra ram room, I'm going to fill them up with Apps".
Why does it work this way?
It based on Linux, RAM is shared dynamically.
What does this mean?
A bloated kernel and OS will use more RAM for itself.
Why does it leave free ram?
In case it needs to execute a function that's not used often or is memory intensive (eg Browser).
Why does it store Apps?
So that its readily available. They just pop open. Or resume from last state.
...okay, so what does this mean about my Free RAM "issues" with Jelly Bean?
It means that you are uneducated. It means Jelly Bean, or the specific setup you have either is more bloated than your previous setup OR it has a low "free ram allocation" setting. Solution? There is no problem, though you can trim down the ram allocation and kill off some memory things (apps, hidden background tasks) you can increase the amount of Free RAM, but its more likely to slow down the system. Remember, Jelly Bean builds are still Alpha/Beta stage, so they can/do have memory leaks.
Another point I should mention:
OS RAM use increased a lot from 1.6 -> 2.1
OS RAM use increased from 2.1 -> 2.2
OS RAM use increased a lot from 2.2 -> 2.3
OS RAM use increased a lot from 2.3 -> 4.0
< I haven't checked JB, but I'm willing to bet its increased from ICS, even if slightly >
This is Android, not Windows. Its behaves differently and has different symptoms. A quick Google search could've answered your questions.

Kangal said:
Yes it can.
No that won't make it any faster. In fact, it will make it slower.
The way Android works is, it says "the kernel says I need X amount for gpu, X amount for sound, X amount for the OS".
And then it allocates a certain threashold and says "okay this much I'm keeping free".
Then it says "these functions of the OS aren't used often, I'll leave them out".
Then it says "okay so I've got extra ram room, I'm going to fill them up with Apps".
Why does it work this way?
It based on Linux, RAM is shared dynamically.
What does this mean?
A bloated kernel and OS will use more RAM for itself.
Why does it leave free ram?
In case it needs to execute a function that's not used often or is memory intensive (eg Browser).
Why does it store Apps?
So that its readily available. They just pop open. Or resume from last state.
...okay, so what does this mean about my Free RAM "issues" with Jelly Bean?
It means that you are uneducated. It means Jelly Bean, or the specific setup you have either is more bloated than your previous setup OR it has a low "free ram allocation" setting. Solution? There is no problem, though you can trim down the ram allocation and kill off some memory things (apps, hidden background tasks) you can increase the amount of Free RAM, but its more likely to slow down the system. Remember, Jelly Bean builds are still Alpha/Beta stage, so they can/do have memory leaks.
Another point I should mention:
OS RAM use increased a lot from 1.6 -> 2.1
OS RAM use increased from 2.1 -> 2.2
OS RAM use increased a lot from 2.2 -> 2.3
OS RAM use increased a lot from 2.3 -> 4.0
< I haven't checked JB, but I'm willing to bet its increased from ICS, even if slightly >
This is Android, not Windows. Its behaves differently and has different symptoms. A quick Google search could've answered your questions.
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Thanks for the lecture here :thumbup: I see now, I never get to know linux base very well. Just starting to get myself familiar with it.
I've used a few types of JB rom before and I discovered that its using double the ram from ICS making my phone lags and does funny things ut shouldn't. Ahaks
Than I noticed that JB was released to phones such as S3 and such, phones that has double the ram size to compare with note. Its when I started to wonder...
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