soi curreltny made a 256 mb swap file and using v6 supercharger and everything but i didn'treally notice a difference in game performance , i can open like 5 apps but games nbot really?is it normal?
The smoothness of games depends also on the power of the cpu and gpu, which isn't the ace's strenght.
Swap helps for multitasking and keeping apps in memory longer (which reduces app loading time) but it won't make games run better or faster.
I guess little bit it help in performance of game as its usefull in load game data faster !
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If your sd card is class 6 or lower, it can even slow down your games
After installing some heavy games, there's really no gaming difference. Only multi tasking has drastically improved.
I even tried out JB this afternoon using this same method and it still didn't make a gaming difference. The multi tasking is awesome though so I have no complaints.
How hard on a SD card is this?
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alex_is_the_1 said:
How hard on a SD card is this?
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I bought an extra one just for swap. Bought a 4GB class 4. Not risking my 8GB. It's hard on a SD with INT2EXT+ also installed. I don't know how long it'll last but once you got swap, you'll never go back.
I can play Tank Hero, switch to facebook on Opera Mini while answering to chats on WhatsApp and IMO instant messenger. Without having my game interrupted. AND run a bunch of widgets that would slow down my phone. Multi-tasking is incredible.
And the best part is, since I'm using a swap file and not partition, I can shrink or increase the swap size at will
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I bought an extra one just for swap. Bought a 4GB class 4. Not risking my 8GB. It's hard on a SD with INT2EXT+ also installed. I don't know how long it'll last but once you got swap, you'll never go back.
I can play Tank Hero, switch to facebook on Opera Mini while answering to chats on WhatsApp and IMO instant messenger. Without having my game interrupted. AND run a bunch of widgets that would slow down my phone. Multi-tasking is incredible.
And the best part is, since I'm using a swap file and not partition, I can shrink or increase the swap size at will
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So I should try it? I have an.extra SD to use for whatever. Its 4 g but has all my stuff on it.
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alex_is_the_1 said:
So I should try it? I have an.extra SD to use for whatever. Its 4 g but has all my stuff on it.
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Yeah dude. Try it out. Just make a backup before you do.
Swap is pretty useless on mobile
And you get a dead SD card with it too, like those buy one get one free in shops
"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do" -Aristotle
Prawesome said:
Swap is pretty useless on mobile
And you get a dead SD card with it too, like those buy one get one free in shops
"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do" -Aristotle
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Don't generalize. It's useless to you. I bet you haven't even used it before.
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Hello guys all of you know that we have 512MB ram I want to know if i can add some to ram form sd card or by overclock it such as the computer's ram so how?? or it's possible (I am not believe any thing is impossible )
is this work? https://play.google.com/store/apps/...t#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImx2Lm4zby5zd2FwcGVyMiJd
It might be possible to use sd card memory as ram but it wouldnt be as fast as a real ram
Ram chips are aweful fast
I think though that for this processor it wouldn't be an inconvenience
Try it
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And it will Shorten your sd cards life
Believe me i know
RomWiz said:
And it will Shorten your sd cards life
Believe me i know
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which one change sd card to ram or swapper app??!!
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which one change sd card to ram or swapper app??!!
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Swapper
okay in face I used it before you tell me so can I stop it??!! and delete swap space (especially it will not get my phone faster)
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okay in face I used it before you tell me so can I stop it??!! and delete swap space (especially it will not get my phone faster)
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You can remove the swap file from your sd card using a file browser like astro or something :thumbup:
I'm using swap in my old gt540 for about 1,5 year and card works fine. I don't feel like I need swap in OB for now
My problem is in games if ihave 180 free ram or less the games lags so i want to get more ram so No ideas????
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Quick and dirty tip: Kill apps that u dont use before gaming.
dflt said:
Quick and dirty tip: Kill apps that u dont use before gaming.
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That's what I'm doing now
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did anyone tried swapper? it's a good idea, i think. i'm gonna try it but i dont want my sd card to brake :s
Hi guys,
i flashed zeus rom 6.39n two days ago
and tried to make swape file using swapper2
but always says fail...so it is supposed to be a custom rom
where every thing is possible
ao any help here ,,,
Swap is slow and your performance will suffer badly. Much better idea is to use memory compression from CM.
hatem 5000 said:
Hi guys,
i flashed zeus rom 6.39n two days ago
and tried to make swape file using swapper2
but always says fail...so it is supposed to be a custom rom
where every thing is possible
ao any help here ,,,
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Use an app called swapper 2 in Play Store. Its free. Note that this worsens the SDCard Life.
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SoulExertz said:
Use an app called swapper 2 in Play Store. Its free. Note that this worsens the SDCard Life.
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Did you read all?
He said that he couldn't use swapper2.
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Did you read all?
He said that he couldn't use swapper2.
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Oops.. i meant swapper. Without "2"
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As far as i know "swap" has to be supported by the Kernel.
And i think you dont need it cause there is enough RAM.
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As far as i know "swap" has to be supported by the Kernel.
And i think you dont need it cause there is enough RAM.
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OB has a very weak RAM. Its 512mb is mainly eaten by Android. Leaving 200Mb+MAX left.
In average performance ROMs, it made OB leave with 160+ Mb
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Using the SD Card as a swap file is not a good idea. It's slow and will very possible make performance worse. In the KU5900 there is a partition for swapping on the phone itself and of course that kernel is built to handle it. The P970 can't be repartitioned to have a swap file on the phone itself, because it will make us lose space from userdata and we can't make the relevant changes to u-boot (We can make the changes to the partition header but then it won't boot ).
If RAM is a problem rather reduce RAM Usage by not having Widgets and not having millions of programs running in the background and use SuperChargerV6 that help a lot!
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OB has a very weak RAM. Its 512mb is mainly eaten by Android. Leaving 200Mb+MAX left.
In average performance ROMs, it made OB leave with 160+ Mb
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And that's not enough? I Think swap would'nt have a positive effect.
If that were so, there would have been someone implemented in its kernel.
Be careful with swapper, I used it and got perma-brick (the phone just didn't start, I could not enter s/w upgrade neither. I ended up paying 100 bucks for motherboard change.
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i already gave away using swap because what i heard about its harm
and i use original mem parametars of zeus 6.39 and its sooo good
and play any apps in parallel so easly
I used roehsoft ram expander on my old wildfire buzz to create a swap file on my sd card to increase the ram memory and it worked pretty well.
Is it possible to use this with the same mini? I ran a test using an app from play store, screen shot below. It may not be accurate. It says the kernel isn't compatible.
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The reason for this may be because willy had a custom kernel and our device hasn't got a custom kernel, I came from wildfire aswell.
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Well maybe you're right although I tried to run ram expander and it says error no sd card. I set the correct location and it refuses to detect it.
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Do you realy need more ram?? 1gb is not enough?
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While the system + running apps is using around 400 - 600 mb sometimes more, I don't want to have to clean up every time I watch a high quality video via my tv or play a heavy game. Some games optimally uses about 500mb, etc. No 1gb isn't enough xd.
Yes I can use su boost via console and it isn't hard, but if I could have more ram wouldn't that be optimal? Who doesn't want more? Why not just stick with a old handset if 1gb is all you'll ever need. I bet a year from now you'll want more when 1gb is relatively small
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Yes you are right.
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So I guess the question is, what would need to be modified in the kernel to allow creation of the swap file in the SD? Things like this is making me interested in learning android development
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Have you look this all ready: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2087497
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While the system + running apps is using around 400 - 600 mb sometimes more, I don't want to have to clean up every time I watch a high quality video via my tv or play a heavy game. Some games optimally uses about 500mb, etc. No 1gb isn't enough xd.
Yes I can use su boost via console and it isn't hard, but if I could have more ram wouldn't that be optimal? Who doesn't want more? Why not just stick with a old handset if 1gb is all you'll ever need. I bet a year from now you'll want more when 1gb is relatively small
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Then maybe you should've gone with Note II or a new PC. S3 Mini is not for gaming.
Don't like giant phones :-[
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I've noticed that my browser gets dumped from ram quite often, even if I don't use a different app. It seems to be time constrained.
The reason this is so annoying is I really hate when the browser has to refresh the page.
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Can't corroborate. I've had Chrome sitting in the background for over a couple hours now without it requiring a refresh.
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I've noticed that my browser gets dumped from ram quite often, even if I don't use a different app. It seems to be time constrained.
The reason this is so annoying is I really hate when the browser has to refresh the page.
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Is this the one X forum, or just deja vu?
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****. I'm concerned about this because my old nexus 10 would do the same thing. I wonder if 2GB is just not enough memory for these high resolution displays. A good chunk of it goes towards video memory, leaving less for the OS to work with.
My stupid n10 would constantly dump tabs on chrome, no matter the type of rom I used (stock, aosp-based CM and AOKP, or just random aosp builds)
Thing is, it's retarded because there's always plenty memory available
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****. I'm concerned about this because my old nexus 10 would do the same thing. I wonder if 2GB is just not enough memory for these high resolution displays. A good chunk of it goes towards video memory, leaving less for the OS to work with.
My stupid n10 would constantly dump tabs on chrome, no matter the type of rom I used (stock, aosp-based CM and AOKP, or just random aosp builds)
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This is not all about the overall free memory... This is about the threshold of the OOM of android. If I had the HTC One right now I could explain it to you easily but sory my answer right now is too generic so just search what those are...
@greengoldmello
There's no such thing as "dumped on RAM" as all active apps are running on RAM. Once they are flushed/removed from RAM that's the time your apps refresh when opened again.
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Thing is, it's retarded because there's always plenty memory available
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My mobile is getting slow and when I checked the RAM, it is showing that it has 342MB RAM and usually it is 50MB free and by using RAM Booster, I was able to increase the free RAM. But, is there any way I can increase RAM of the mobile, as my mobile is getting very slow and sometime, I have to restart my system, and even power button doesn't work and i have to take out the battery and put it back...
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My mobile is getting slow and when I checked the RAM, it is showing that it has 342MB RAM and usually it is 50MB free and by using RAM Booster, I was able to increase the free RAM. But, is there any way I can increase RAM of the mobile, as my mobile is getting very slow and sometime, I have to restart my system, and even power button doesn't work and i have to take out the battery and put it back...
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In android free ram is wasted ram theory....so if things work normal...it's ok
But if the problem is getting slower and no response...then best is use greenify app and make the apps to hibernate....
It works to some extent....But then it is better to use min free manager too
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it also depends on what rom are you using, it has effect on ram usage. for example I'm using tonyp's cm10.1 and everything works well. I never check free ram as I don't have to, every app starts quickly and work smooth, even though a reboot a day is needed, but it worth it as I'm using this for more than a month now, without any flashings.
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SREEPRAJAY said:
In android free ram is wasted ram theory....so if things work normal...it's ok
But if the problem is getting slower and no response...then best is use greenify app and make the apps to hibernate....
It works to some extent....But then it is better to use min free manager too
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Thank You Sir, big help i will try greenify. Im having trouble with my ram too. This would be a very great help. Thank you!:highfive:
araltea1 said:
Thank You Sir, big help i will try greenify. Im having trouble with my ram too. This would be a very great help. Thank you!:highfive:
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i am use greenify app and no have ram problem between 117-80 ram free..
sorry for my english
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I have to restart my system, and even power button doesn't work and i have to take out the battery and put it back...
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A little tip that works for me on v20l is to go to Settings, Display, Display Font & choose any Font as it will ask you to restart your fone. This way, you don't have to keep doing a battery pull lol. Not to sure what rom your using but on stock 2.3.4 - you don't get the option of a reset.
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A little tip that works for me on v20l is to go to Settings, Display, Display Font & choose any Font as it will ask you to restart your fone. This way, you don't have to keep doing a battery pull lol. Not to sure what rom your using but on stock 2.3.4 - you don't get the option of a reset.
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On the ICS/JB selection of the fonts from the settings does not requires the restart...it takes 2seconds after selection.
So, this is not true for ICS. Applicable for GB only(maybe Froyo too)
There is a way "to increase ram". It's called swap. A program could create a swap file on your android system. Not needed files which are "on" the ram will be copied to the swap file and deleted from the ram.
Maybe this app works for you: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=lv.n3o.swapper2
You should notice that a higher "swappiness" means, that the chance is higher for the data to be copied to the swap file. As you can see, it is something like a virtual ram expansion.