Historically all 1GB android devices show 750mb total RAM, the explanation being that the missing 250mb is for video RAM. I'm curious what the Prime shows as total RAM, since the TF300 actually shows 1GB of total RAM.
I'm wondering if the TF300 actually has more RAM, like 1.2GB, or if it has dedicated video RAM. Also wondering if this is a part of Tegra3 which is why I am asking here.
Thanks.
My TFP201 currently shows...
... 515 MB used, 468 MB free in Settings, a total of 1,013 MB. Not sure I trust that.
The free command run at the same time reports Mem: 1006832 total, 839744 used, 167088 free
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Hi Everybody,
I have a question about the memory on the vibrant.
In the task manager, it says that I only have 304mb of total memory.
Why?
I've read some posts saying that the vibrant runs on 2.6.29 which does not support himem, therefore limiting the ram to only 304mb. But my vibrant is on 2.6.32, which is said to support himem, and still I only get 304mb. What is up with this?
Also at most I get 160mb of free memory, does anyone have more free memory? I know that android has great memory management, but I just want to check if I have the normal amount of free memory.
Thanks to all replies, bad or good ;-)
No one has more free RAM unless they have a loltaskkiller running in the background aggressively killing tasks.
The phone reserves 128 MB RAM for the GPU out of the 512. None of the Galaxy S phones have (or had) 512 App-Accessible RAM.
Verizon advertises the Fascinate as having 384 MB RAM which seems more accurate because phone reserves 128 for the graphics (512-128=384) and then reserves ~64 MB for the system (384-326 we see = 58).
It has 384 MB RAM, and 128 dedicated the GPU outside of the App RAM. Samsung just advertised it as 512 because they added them together and didn't make any distinction (which makes the advertisement legally legit) and they didn't feel like adding a bit more RAM to the device the way HTC typically does with their phones (extra 64MB in the HD2/HD7 and they put 768 in the MyTouch to compensate for pretty much everything).
HTH.
Oh, now it makes sense. So if 64mb is reserved to the system and I get 140mb of used memory with no apps running, does.that mean android uses about 200mb out of the available 384mb?
tincanman said:
Oh, now it makes sense. So if 64mb is reserved to the system and I get 140mb of used memory with no apps running, does.that mean android uses about 200mb out of the available 384mb?
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Android uses about 120-150 MB as a base, the rest are cached applications, which allows them to starts up faster next time you run them, but the cached RAM will be freed up if the current running application needs it. You can try disabling free services to reduce the amount Android uses, although it doesn't free up too much.
It makes me wonder does the GPU really need 128 MB of RAM?!
It probably doesn't need 128 MB. They probably could have done well by just giving it 96 and letting the rest of the 32 go for the System (Apps), and then adding another 64 MB to the system on top of that to give the user more time ot multi-task non-game applications.
Not to mention most games load a lot of data in RAM and the lack of Application RAM can/does bottleneck the phone in some of them - making the "incredible" GPU not much of an improvement over phones with more RAM in them and comparable CPU performance (and a faster file system, as well).
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I was just looking at the services section on the photon and it has, 339 ram used and around 300 free which equals around 700 also on the app Devicemark, it says i have total ram of 816.64MB, does android allocate some hidden ram to core processes that it does not show?
And Instead of opening another thread, what are your guys benchmark scores, just to verify to my paranoid ass that my phone is cool lol, I get Around 2200-2400 on Quadrant and on Smartbench, 2700-3300 for Productivity and 2700s for Game
Basically it is said we have 1gig of ram and in Quadrant system info total Ram is listed as 836244KB, what happened to the remaining 200 or so MB? on the info is states inactive ram as 241676 is that where it is?
been wondering that myself. I don't know.
/proc/meminfo shows:
MemTotal: 836244 kB
MemTotal = Total usable ram (i.e. physical ram minus a few reserved bits and the kernel binary code)
How much ram are you getting in the android app manager in settings > applications >running?
I am getting well under 1gb, 360mb free 180 in use, so only 540?!?
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How much ram are you getting in the android app manager in settings > applications >running?
I am getting well under 1gb, 360mb free 180 in use, so only 540?!?
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hmm... mine says the same thing???
Ram gets used up by the OS, background services, the launcher etc, caches etc and gets freed up when necessary like most modern OSes. S tablet has 1 gig of ram to put it in perspective I usually have around 400 or so free according to task manager when not running *anything* but only had like 200-250 free on 512meg Viewsonic Gtablet.
the sony tablet has 1GB ram, the system itself takes up around 400-500MB RAM so that it can make sure the OS can run smoothly, the remaining 400-500MB RAM is available to you for additional apps and stuff
So are you saying that the RAM the system uses won't show up in "in use"?
I think that's why he says. It is the same as the internal storage. If you add up (mine 16gb ver) the 9gb + 4gb, you get only 13gb instead of 16gb.
I was confusing about it before. But I went to BB and tried other HoneyCome tablets. They all give the same thing.
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So are you saying that the RAM the system uses won't show up in "in use"?
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is the ram upgradble? the label says ddr2 and i have ddr2 laptop ram...
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I think that's why he says. It is the same as the internal storage. If you add up (mine 16gb ver) the 9gb + 4gb, you get only 13gb instead of 16gb.
I was confusing about it before. But I went to BB and tried other HoneyCome tablets. They all give the same thing.
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Yeah... what's with the 13gb. Noticed the same.
I'm already down to 6gb of the 9gb reported. Zinio ispretty heavy on its content.
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is the ram upgradble? the label says ddr2 and i have ddr2 laptop ram...
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Yeah. Crack it open and go to town.
Hello;
I recently purchased a 512mb version of the G9 on sale thinking it would be 1gb; turns out after installing ICS that it's still 512mb. Now I'm trying to decide whether I should keep it or return it and spend $60 more on a 1gb version.
Has anyone used both the 512mb and 1gb and noticed a difference? Should I keep the 512mb or spend more money to upgrade?
If you have any recommendations please let me know; thanks!
I had bought the 80 Hdd before with 512 mb. After a fault Archos replaced it and to my surprise it had 1.5 ghz but still with 512 mb. So I got a bump in cpu modele. When the 1gig ram came out I ordered and returned a 101 hdd with 1 gig ram for the same prices I had paid my G9 80 before.... I had to decid which one I keep...I liked the G9 80 better even with the 512 mb.
Personally I did not see anything better on the 1gig of ram. May it's the way I use the tablet. But for me I think 512 Ram is fine. (it's not the 250 from gen8)...
no big difference...
i have the twice
I find that applications persist in the background better, for example, the web browser doesn't have to reload tabs when returning to it so often. The launcher never has to reload when doing something memory intensive.
Other than this there is no real difference (speed etc.)
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I find that applications persist in the background better, for example, the web browser doesn't have to reload tabs when returning to it so often. The launcher never has to reload when doing something memory intensive.
Other than this there is no real difference (speed etc.)
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This
I only have a 1.2Ghz model but if as a example were to compare a Galaxy Nexus to a Nexus S the background performance is huge!
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I have a memory manager (for manually freeing up old apps) on my home page displaying how much free ram is available and on average it shows about 350MB free. That tells me that the quite a large portion of the 1GB ram is indeed being used and also that the 512MB would most definitely need to swap more often. How that translates to performance however is another question as depending on the apps used, swapping might not be noticeable at all. Only having the two side by side with duplicate setups and performing the exact same actions would be definitive, but hazarding a guess I would say the 1GB should outperform the 512MB in most cases where many apps are opened. Again, that might or might not be a negligible difference..
Why my XPS total of available ram just 63X mb?
where is the another 300 mb ram?
This is allocated by the system and will be released dynamically as needed. Don't mess with RAM management, you'll only make it worse.
Even the latest mobiles now use only 1GB RAM in spite of quadcore CPU's... and all of them somehow allocating certain RAM for internal mobile system... what I'm trying to say is, it is normal...
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Why my XPS total of available ram just 63X mb?
where is the another 300 mb ram?
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Read this sony developer blog
http://developer.sonymobile.com/wp/...ical-differences-between-gingerbread-and-ics/