ok so i was thinking our mini has 384mb ram of which only 280 are available...is there some way to use the whole RAM not only 280mb??
on froyo i had: 279mb ram
on ginger: 280
on ics: 276mb
so why not 384?? whats holding the other 104 mb?
think i found what i was looking for: "MemTotal" = physical memory minus whatever is being shared with devices (such as the radio, DMA buffers, etc), so it will always be less than the advertised RAM for your phone.
am i right??
Use swap it will increase your ram but you must have a good sd card.
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Use swap it will increase your ram but you must have a good sd card.
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you mean a class 10 card? If so, how do I create a swap partition for my rooted device?
It's because some memory is also used for graphics and other stuff. In ICS it is 279MB, but on JB it's 276 because I have increased framebuffer size for triple buffering etc.. Theoretically, by experimenting, it's possible to get at least 285-290MB.
Me, too..
I have experimenting and the result :
Froyo : 281 MB
Ginger : 279 MB
IceCream : 278 MB
JellyBean : 276 MB
as far as i know, RAM used by :
1. GPU
2. Graphics thing
3. And Other stuff..
Then the rest of them goes to RAM values, so your Mini RAM was around 300 Megabytes, but since GPU, and other things take it RAM just decreased.
I also have a Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 Inc, wich have a 1 Gigabytes RAM, but since other things take it, it decreased into 679 MB (wow, really huge decreased isn't it ? :silly: )
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you mean a class 10 card? If so, how do I create a swap partition for my rooted device?
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You can create a swap partition from cwm from advanced option then while partitioning SD card select a value for swap. This will completely erase your SD card so make a backup
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Good to know! Thanks @hsay
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When I was buying my i9001, it clearly said it has 512mb RAM but in setting > about phone it said total RAM 352/358 mb (varies on rom). This is not problem in performance, but I dont like the fact that it says I got 358mb and 20mb-120mb free even when only basic processes are running.
I just wanna know what are the rest 150mb used for and why I cannot see them. I think it might be used for strictly for OS, but again when I consider my friend's phone LG optimus with 158mb RAM, in his settings it still says he got 158mb ram total and about 130 mb ram free. I dont understand why my i9001 uses at least 220mb ram (or about 400mb ram if we consider the phone has 512 like it says in specs) when only basic processes are running and optimus uses 40mb ram (According to the previous sentence).
Android is an Linux based system. Android is think *unused ram is lost ram*, so it will fill your ram with the time and use it all. If the ram is full, and you need more, it will free some for you, so just let android be android and don't worry about this there are 2 options why your friend has *more* free / lost ram. One option is he has 768/1024mb, or he as more aggressive settings
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Hi All,
Bought a new Xperia SP! Love it but have 2 issues:\
1) The LED notification for missed calls not working (rest is working)
2) The ram is showing as 786 MB only!
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Hi All,
Bought a new Xperia SP! Love it but have 2 issues:\
1) The LED notification for missed calls not working (rest is working)
2) The ram is showing as 786 MB only!
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1) +1 (a bug. I believe if you disable STAMINA power mode it works, but haven't tried it)
2) +1 (the rest probably consumed by Android system)
Pete_S said:
1) 2) +1 (the rest probably consumed by Android system)
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So any app that can show the total RAM?
ankushkool said:
Hi All,
Bought a new Xperia SP! Love it but have 2 issues:\
1) The LED notification for missed calls not working (rest is working)
2) The ram is showing as 786 MB only!
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CPU-Z for android will show ur full hardware specs..
Here is a screenshot form CPU-Z it shows only 766MB Can others having SP check!
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ankushkool said:
Here is a screenshot form CPU-Z it shows only 766MB Can others having SP check!
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Same here CPU-Z does indeed only show 756MB RAM.
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Any one know how to free up more RAM without root. My free RAM is very low and I think thats the reason why Firefox crashes randomly.
And where is the rest of my 1GB RAM?
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Any one know how to free up more RAM without root. My free RAM is very low and I think thats the reason why Firefox crashes randomly.
And where is the rest of my 1GB RAM?
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Actually, I'd also like to know what's using the remaining 200MB or so of the 1GB RAM. Is it the system? Surely the system is already included in the used RAM indicator? Or maybe it's for the graphics?
I do find it annoying that with its advertised 1GB RAM the SP all too easily appears to run out of memory. Loading up complex pages in Opera set for "desktop" user agent frequently causes background apps to be kicked out. Sometimes even Opera appears to be booted out for using too much RAM! This shouldn't happen on a modern 1GB RAM device, when there's still around 200MB RAM free, and a further 200+MB "missing". It's a bit of a joke really... Now I can begin to understand why the latest hardware has 2GB.
Seems 200MB is reserved for the system. And also XBMC seems to use alot of cache memory. Removed XBMC and turned of alot of Sony apps and now I have a decent amount of RAM left.
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So, I think everyone still dunno what the "1GB" RAM mean...
usually in android phone, the 1GB RAM was not exactly 1GB, normal scaling is 7XXMB user and system access RAM + 2XX MB system hardware reserve RAM (usually ur GPU - it's like the old Intel GMA)
Then 7XXMB user and system access RAM is further separate to user access RAM and system process reserve RAM (just see how's they scaling)
And it same as other market advertise 2GB, 512MB, etc Android Phone, even S4's user and system access RAM also approx 1.8GB instead of "2GB"
U all are still haven see how's Samsung stock ROM make their RAM usage always in busy usage (If someone got use S Advance with updated JB Stock ROM then u should know)
If got time u all should read this:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...2-you-happy-about-amount-ram-galaxy-s4-2.html
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Seems 200MB is reserved for the system. And also XBMC seems to use alot of cache memory. Removed XBMC and turned of alot of Sony apps and now I have a decent amount of RAM left.
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What's xbmc?
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XBMC is Xbox Media Center. It was first developed for the original Xbox.
Now its available for all platforms like Android, , Windows, Linux even Rasperry Pi. Its a complete media center solution with any function you can think of.
Google it, its really interesting. It has full media functionality with its own UI. You can watch movies, stream tv shows through internet, listen to music, run software, its almost a stand alone operating system.
Under Android you can even use your phone as a remote/ keyboard to navigate through XBMC while having it installed on an Android tv stick.
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unbeleivable!
i got the xpeia sp recently and im a bit sad about the multitasking of a mid range android phone and i want to find a solution, i have another really cheap chinese quad core phone and the ram is 1gb too, in the info at antutu benchmark it says 971 mb whereas the sp says 766! im sure there is a solution out there to make the most of the ram and get better multitasking, can anyone with cyanogenmod rom tell us their ram value please?
melek-taus said:
Seems 200MB is reserved for the system. And also XBMC seems to use alot of cache memory. Removed XBMC and turned of alot of Sony apps and now I have a decent amount of RAM left.
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also some of it s used by the Adreno 320 GPU.
both phones when empty from bloatware, the xperia sp free ram is 260mb and the chinese phone is 422 mb, why?!!!! i want the value to change at antutu benchmark device info to 971 mb instead of 766 mb is there a way??
We have 1 GB of RAM. Aprox 200/250 mb is for system. For:
- Camera; filming does not work without enough RAM
- GPU; If you have a PC and you game a lot you know what i mean
Also for being able to connect, and have the system running smooth there is RAM needed.
About your LED issue:
Stamina mode enabled? If yes disable it or download illumination bar pro
It has been stated many times by sony that stanima mode disables the LED to save battery
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both phones when empty from bloatware, the xperia sp free ram is 260mb and the chinese phone is 422 mb, why?!!!! i want the value to change at antutu benchmark device info to 971 mb instead of 766 mb is there a way??
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The Chinese "Super" phone you refer to more than likely has no manufacturer skin like Touchwiz etc, and zero bloatware thats why it has more free ram.
with a MTK Cortex A7 processor, as for performance goes it cannot compare to the Xperia SP.
you've already been told some of the Ram is reserved for the GPU/Imaging camera system etc.
tweaking androids internal Minfree values can with multi-tasking.
regards
Alright, so I was wondering since my Xperia Z2 tablet (3 GB of RAM) usually has about 1 ~ 1.2 GB of free RAM with relatively few extra apps installed, how much free RAM does Xperia Z3 Compact have, with it's total of 2 GB , when there are not too many apps installed aside from the pre-loaded ones?
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Alright, so I was wondering since my Xperia Z2 tablet (3 GB of RAM) usually has about 1 ~ 1.2 GB of free RAM with relatively few extra apps installed, how much free RAM does Xperia Z3 Compact have, with it's total of 2 GB , when there are not too many apps installed aside from the pre-loaded ones?
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I am interested about this too
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I am interested about this too
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Well since I now have a z3c of my own, I can tell it was (and sometimes still is) about 800 MB. More than enough so far.
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.