1GB is enough? - HTC One X+

Is it me or the difference of 1GB and 2GB of RAM isn't that big? besides being able to run a few more apps it really dosent make a difference to me... anyone else feel the same way?

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The diffrence is none existant. In the last 6 months i have owned a Note II and a Note 10.1, both had 2GB of ram, and both were slower than my HOX+.
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i find 1GB ram good enough. but ofcourse i wouldn't mind if it had 2GB

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No, 1GB is not enough. This is one reason i'll return this phone as long as i'm in my return period.
Please don't come with "free ram is wasted" ram ... I encountered already that HTC closed apps because of too less RAM left. 1GB is a joke for the phone. But that's a thing you'll notice only after buying it.

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xpla said:
No, 1GB is not enough. This is one reason i'll return this phone as long as i'm in my return period.
Please don't come with "free ram is wasted" ram ... I encountered already that HTC closed apps because of too less RAM left. 1GB is a joke for the phone. But that's a thing you'll notice only after buying it.
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Hm nexus 7 has 1gb of ram and everyone bought one and doesn't complain about performance 1gb is just fine you just loose some multitasking no big deal
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Everyone buys a Nexus 4 although hardware is crap:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=39936

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xpla said:
No, 1GB is not enough. This is one reason i'll return this phone as long as i'm in my return period.
Please don't come with "free ram is wasted" ram ... I encountered already that HTC closed apps because of too less RAM left. 1GB is a joke for the phone. But that's a thing you'll notice only after buying it.
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FYI. Number one learn how androids resource management system works.
Number two. As far as multitasking goes, your going to reach a CPU bottleneck long before you use all your ram.
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Number one - LEARN TO READ! I know exactly how *NIX systems are handling free memory. Now it's your turn to learn to read and understand. I mentioned that i already ran into the issue where the great RAM management of HTC closed apps for me.
Now what? With all the knowledge about how RAM is handled on *NIX systems i still state that 1GB is not enough for a phone with a nice but ram intensive launcher like SENSE UI.
Number two - Oh yeah ah ... Read number one ...

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xpla said:
Number one - LEARN TO READ! I know exactly how *NIX systems are handling free memory. Now it's your turn to learn to read and understand. I mentioned that i already ran into the issue where the great RAM management of HTC closed apps for me.
Now what? With all the knowledge about how RAM is handled on *NIX systems i still state that 1GB is not enough for a phone with a nice but ram intensive launcher like SENSE UI.
Number two - Oh yeah ah ... Read number one ...
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That's your opinion that you need more ram, for most of use 7 recent things in the recent windows for multitasking is just fine as for you 15 or w.e stock android is. Is fine for you. Most of us won't need to go back to 10 recent apps we can just reopen the app and be where we left off.
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it think it's the user who doesn't know how t use the phone is the problem here.... huum huumm

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Let me add that no "single" android app will ever need more then 512mb of ram let alone 1gb or 2gb for YEARS to come, years, the ecosystem is designed for "small" apps, you won't multitask between more then 2 or 3 small apps at once, and starting up any app or game on this phone is as fast as all top tier phones out now, so trading for another phone is mute.
This is not a PC with photoshop or games that can take up 6gb+ of RAM and shouldn't be thought of as such.
So given the above + quoting and adding to your statement unused or free ram is infact very much wasted ram on the current generation of mobile phones, you want to see a proper difference, wait 5 yrs when Google and Apple might finally let go of legacy device restrictions.
Also i'm happily running 15+ apps on my aokp rom with only "1gb" of ram and no multitasking issues and the phone (white) is sexy as ****, main reason why i bought it
Is it me or does everything else out there now just looks like a rectangular brick and a copy of each other.
-smc

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I see people have to talk there phone pretty ... Well there is a famous quote:
No one will need more than 637kb of memory.
Oh wait there's a new OS coming Ubuntu for phone and it says ... low-end minimum 1GB of RAM ... LOW END
So wait again there's a HTC M7 coming ... Guess what? It's an One X++ with 2GB of RAM and LTE ... Why on earth they put 2GB in there if 1GB is enough for years?!

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1st. Propably of marketing. 2Gb looks great in specs.. Same as full HD - marketing... I know, evolution is great, but some things are about selling product better, than older product...
Phones can run with 512mb ram great, i think what i saw... 1Gb is pretty for everything today..

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xpla said:
I see people have to talk there phone pretty ... Well there is a famous quote:
No one will need more than 637kb of memory.
Oh wait there's a new OS coming Ubuntu for phone and it says ... low-end minimum 1GB of RAM ... LOW END
So wait again there's a HTC M7 coming ... Guess what? It's an One X++ with 2GB of RAM and LTE ... Why on earth they put 2GB in there if 1GB is enough for years?!
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Android and ubuntu are totally different beasts, the only thing they have in common is they use linux for the kernel. Android runs it's apps through a java VM (Dalvik). Ubuntu uses native code and html5.

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AW: 1GB is enough?
That's right android uses ram totally different to common Unix systems but the amount of ram isn't the cause for the device to kill apps. It's more the way ressources art handled in sense ROMs. sense 4 does indeed kill every app except the 8 recent apps. I use aosp based rooms and there is a huge difference in memory management. ATM there are 14 apps opened on my device and I still have about 220 mb of free ram left. And yes I can switch back and fourth between them
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BTW if you root your device and supercharge it you can drastically improve multitasking abilities but you will lose a bit of overall performance

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You gotta be honest with yourself how many apps are you trying to have open at once? MOST people use the same apps..Facebook, instagram, Youtube, and lets see uhh Temple run. Do you really need 2GB for that? no you dont. I feel like they just slap on 2GB of ram for marketing reasons...

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My take on this is that phones with more than 1Gb of ram didn't even exist until the second half of 2012 (Nexus 4 was the first one I heard about, though I'm sure it wasn't the first.) We aren't talking about some outdated specs like a single core processor, we're talking about something that has JUST been introduced into the market. There's no way that you're missing out on an experience because you don't have 2Gb of RAM. You're phone doesn't get outdated just because newer phones with better specs come around. For now, 1Gb is "good enough" for anything you can set your mind to. Is it ideal? No. I would love 2Gb of RAM, but not having it doesn't make my phone unusable. I personally don't have any issues with resource management.

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somemadcaaant said:
Let me add that no "single" android app will ever need more then 512mb of ram let alone 1gb or 2gb for YEARS to come, years, the ecosystem is designed for "small" apps, you won't multitask between more then 2 or 3 small apps at once, and starting up any app or game on this phone is as fast as all top tier phones out now, so trading for another phone is mute.
This is not a PC with photoshop or games that can take up 6gb+ of RAM and shouldn't be thought of as such.
So given the above + quoting and adding to your statement unused or free ram is infact very much wasted ram on the current generation of mobile phones, you want to see a proper difference, wait 5 yrs when Google and Apple might finally let go of legacy device restrictions.
Also i'm happily running 15+ apps on my aokp rom with only "1gb" of ram and no multitasking issues and the phone (white) is sexy as ****, main reason why i bought it
Is it me or does everything else out there now just looks like a rectangular brick and a copy of each other.
-smc
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Yeah, no multitasking on my phone with 512 MB of RAM. Cmon, 1 GB is the minimum.
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nchantmnt said:
That's right android uses ram totally different to common Unix systems but the amount of ram isn't the cause for the device to kill apps. It's more the way ressources art handled in sense ROMs. sense 4 does indeed kill every app except the 8 recent apps. I use aosp based rooms and there is a huge difference in memory management. ATM there are 14 apps opened on my device and I still have about 220 mb of free ram left. And yes I can switch back and fourth between them
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BTW if you root your device and supercharge it you can drastically improve multitasking abilities but you will lose a bit of overall performance
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How do you get the kill all option in task manager?

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deeznuts said:
How do you get the kill all option in task manager?
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use cm or aokp
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