On Desire Z using latest virtous G-LITE I have about 200MB free at boot.
Galaxy TAB 7 uses default samsung 2.2 firmware and has almost 300MB at boot.
All this measured with SystemPanel Lite.
So does android 2.3 use more RAM than 2.2? Because I do not see any other reason for almost 100MB of difference between RAM usage.
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The specs says that this phone has 1gb of ram. Why do I only see only about 600mb in total ( used +free) in Settings/application?
Do search the forums before you post. Your question has already been asked and answered:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1548397
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1558561
Apologies for that and thanks for the links. I wonder how my Galaxy S with 512mb ram with ics rom ported from Nexus S can run so smoothly. Does android allocate memory depending how much maximum ram is available?
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Apologies for that and thanks for the links. I wonder how my Galaxy S with 512mb ram with ics rom ported from Nexus S can run so smoothly. Does android allocate memory depending how much maximum ram is available?
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512MB ram is a decent amount, and the Xperia S runs smoothly. I think you should be asking in the Nexus S forum section.
The Nexus S is almost identical hardware to the Galaxy S in terms of soc / ram etc. The reason why the galaxy s is not getting ics is because the addition of touchwhiz on top of ics is to much for it to cope and samsung are not going to release a vanilla rom.
I had Galaxy s2 with 821MB of RAM and i know that every app (not game) was eats about 20-50MB of RAM
I was sure that xperia z2 with 3GB of RAM it's more than enough but the reality is different
I see that any app in my Z2 is eats about 80-120MB! But why?
OK, maybe i know, because of tha resolution difference (in s2 800X480)
Anyone have any additional ideas for the increased RAM eating?
It uses more RAM because it can. In your S2, the OS had to ration what ram the device had between what the OS needed and what each app wanted, plus saved a bit for cached processes so overall everything would feel snappy. With 3GB of RAM, the OS has a lot more room to spread out, so it does.
Think of it like this, if your family lived in a 2 bedroom apartment, then moved into a 4 bedroom house, you wouldn't leave 2 rooms empty. Either people that didn't have a room to themselves would use them, or you would find other uses for them. Android is doing the same thing with the RAM.
You have 3GB, don't worry about how much RAM is being used, ignore it and enjoy your phone
Dont worry about ram at all, when ram is needed the kernel will free some ram up
Usualy you only actualy have 14mb free, your ram in your settings or most apps show freeable ram
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I'm looking for a more accurate explanation for this fact
I'm from these users them uninstalling system apps and care to run with minimal battery drainage.
So, not received exact reason for eating the amount of memory unlike in galaxy s2
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Dont worry about ram at all, when ram is needed the kernel will free some ram up
Usualy you only actualy have 14mb free, your ram in your settings or most apps show freeable ram
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I was run with galaxy s2 on 400MB of free RAM and maybe 250 when running browser+gps+poweramp
This is not windows xp, its android and its healthy to have ram used rather than being free.
My last phone before v10 was Nexus 4 which was amazing on the ram side because of the stock firmware(400-600mb) , now on my v10 its 2.5 GB , now i can stand a non fastbootmode phone but this i can't stand , can you tell me how to reduce my ram usage into a reasonable amount ?
Android uses ram efficiently. Unused ram is wasted ram basically. Just because you have higher ram usage..it has nothing to do with your phone being slower
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With 4 gb of ram, there is nothing to worry about.
I've recently purchased Redmi Note 4 [SD] (Indian Version) 4/64 RAM/ROM version. After updating it to latest, I was getting around 2.1 gigs of free RAM, now after using it for around a week, I'm getting around 1.6 gigs of free RAM. Is this normal for a phone having 4 GB of RAM and getting only 1.6 gigs of free space without opening any app. Am I the only one with this issue or this is the normal thing.
Hey friend ,
Phone performance does not depend upon how much ram is free but if it utilizes your ram then its for caching data which makes performance better.
MiUi roms use more ram than stock Android for more performance. I also has this phone and its performance is very good :good:
I own the 3gig variant and I get 1.8 GB after booting up and approx 1.4-1.6 GB on average...
Hey I have reshmi note 4 2GB variant .. I have upgraded miui 8 to 8.5 as I think if RAM management will be good ...But now condition is worst I have only 300 mb free RAM even when I have not installed any heavy app .. any suggestion what should I do now or which ROM should i use
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Hey I have reshmi note 4 2GB variant .. I have upgraded miui 8 to 8.5 as I think if RAM management will be good ...But now condition is worst I have only 300 mb free RAM even when I have not installed any heavy app .. any suggestion what should I do now or which ROM should i use
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factory reset it will clean your ROM. which in turn free's up the ram
u3110 said:
Hey I have reshmi note 4 2GB variant .. I have upgraded miui 8 to 8.5 as I think if RAM management will be good ...But now condition is worst I have only 300 mb free RAM even when I have not installed any heavy app .. any suggestion what should I do now or which ROM should i use
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Why do you want more free RAM? It has been repeated ad nauseum on this and other forums, but I will say it again - FREE RAM IS WASTED RAM!
>2 GB ram on miui