does the Ace have enough Ram? - Galaxy Ace S5830 General

Looking to get my friend a phone and the i can get the ace for a great peice but im worried about the little ram. Is it really enough to not lag while playing games and such? And i dont mean heavy graphic games like nova or even gta 3
I would want to install the most stable rom and speed up the processor a bit

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The ace, hurts me to type, IS NOT A GAMING PHONE.
Depends a lot on the game and rom ur on. In general, for a lag free gaming experience you will sacrifice a huge chunk of your battery.
If battery is not an issue, there's a decent collection of casual games that run pretty smooth, just don't expect iPhone4 performance.
It will run angry birds space OK (very little lag) other angry birds not so much. Won't run Zenonia 4, but runs Zenonia 3. U get the picture

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dxppxd said:
The ace, hurts me to type, IS NOT A GAMING PHONE.
Depends a lot on the game and rom ur on. In general, for a lag free gaming experience you will sacrifice a huge chunk of your battery.
If battery is not an issue, there's a decent collection of casual games that run pretty smooth, just don't expect iPhone4 performance.
It will run angry birds space OK (very little lag) other angry birds not so much. Won't run Zenonia 4, but runs Zenonia 3. U get the picture
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Why i am the only one who runs zennonia 4 succesfully -_-
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I havent really been playing games on my phone but I remember that angry birds was lagging on KPH (GB) and a bit on the unofficial CM7, havent tried it yet on the official CM7. But in general the RAM on the ace is quite bad. I would suggest you to get a phone that will last in long term, that way youd probably save money as well.

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offtopic: is there an official CM 7 for SG ACE ?
intopic: not a gamer but i can play most of the casual games (cut the rope and such) really smoothly even in stock rom. battery does suffer a bit

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spacecaker said:
Why i am the only one who runs zennonia 4 succesfully -_-
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Common symptom of flashing addiction. Things that aren't supposed to work suddenly do.

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spacecaker said:
Why i am the only one who runs zennonia 4 succesfully -_-
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i can play it too using cm9 by maclaw

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imho a 1gb is ok, minimum 512mb, also is arm6 and flash isn't supported.

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Very hurting and a sad feeling to write this but Ace is gettin old with age, Get your Friend an Ace Plus or sme other phone like the SE Neo V or RAy.

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Do not consider the ace, this is the best advice you can get.

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Get him a Sony Xperia U or P
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Well don't even try to buy it. Go for neo v or ace2.

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Jeez ram isn't the main thing, I can play gta3 with 512 mb well but its more the gpu+cpu. Hummingbird SOC is really quite quick for a cheap price these days
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aditya_7298 said:
Very hurting and a sad feeling to write this but Ace is gettin old with age, Get your Friend an Ace Plus or sme other phone like the SE Neo V or RAy.
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whats even sadder is I only brought mine in january and the place I got it from is still selling it new. They havent replaced it with either ace plus or ace 2.
The phone isnt exactly old but more the problem smartphones are very fast paced in evolving technology so even a year old phone is considered obselete, something I didnt know when buying my ace.

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Yeah. I'd say get an Xperia Ray for the same price range. Or If you're willing to go a bit higher the Xperia Arc S isn't bad either. Of course, if your friend has the money he get can the high end ones haha

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U want ram? Get an s3...
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syed.sayeed96 said:
U want ram? Get an s3...
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Meh, only a gig
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scoffyburito said:
Meh, only a gig
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I'm still bent on getting it and not the One S because of Micro Arc Oxidation
This was sent from a Galaxy Ace. Problem?

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ok guys I will explain lag issues and tell me if you can if you think its a lack of ram causing them.
eg. if I open gosms, usually the first time its slow to load contacts and then slow again to load sms messages, if I then exit out the app and go back in again its noticebly faster, which seems to suggest the 2nd time its cached in ram for faster loading. But then if something else happens such as a phone call it can be laggy again as if the OS has had to flush the cache due to low ram.
Sometimes I can get lag on phone calls, so the phone rings, but the ringign screen is slow to appear due to phone lag, I assume as its loading instead of been cached in ram because if I get another phone call after as long as I havent used the phone for other stuff it doesnt lag the call screen (this lag can be excessive like 5+ seconds at times).
My free ram is usually around 70-80meg mark. When I have in the past enabled ram tweaks it would end up force closing apps I am using which isnt good so I have had to disable them again.