So we got 512 rom & 512 ram. Does the OS take up 400 some odd megs? Dang I thought we'd have a ton of space left! What's eating all the mem?
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Whats the sweet spot for the amount of free ram and free phone storage meomry needed for smooth operations??
my phone has like phone storage memo 52 mb free and free ram in phone is like 70 mb on startup and 45 - 50 mb after few hrs usage..
I really want to install another app which ll take like 5-8 mb ram while it's running, which leaves like 40 mb free ram for other apps!!!
Is 40 mb free ram enougfh for smooth rumming of fone?? (music, videos, opera, and ebooks )
oh, I wish to have so much free RAM
I think 40MB is enough, under the condition, that You will not turn on all these apps simultaneously.
Ah thanks
I ll run only one of em at a time
I recently got my Eris, and downloaded a free ram widget. It tells me that I only have 186 MB of total system ram, and I run at about 40 mb free.. usually. So I'm wondering where the other, about 120 mb is at?
Edit: Can a mod please move to the correct forum? Sorry.
ms262c said:
I recently got my Eris, and downloaded a free ram widget. It tells me that I only have 186 MB of total system ram, and I run at about 40 mb free.. usually. So I'm wondering where the other, about 120 mb is at?
Edit: Can a mod please move to the correct forum? Sorry.
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288MB is total. We already went thru all this on the G1. First off, part of that is shared memory. The baseband requires something like 40-50MB, then there is another 10MB or something for kernel, then another 30-40MB that is shared for camera, audio, gpu, framebuffer, command line buffer, and all kinds of neato things. We also realized that about 2MB just disappear into the ether. The G1 has 192MB total RAM, but only 96MB is available to the kernel, and with the RAM hack we get 107MB total.
I am wondering what is the deal with our HD2 (TMOUS version I have), supposedly our phones have 576mb of ram internally, but on every rom I have tried I am limiting to something much lower according to running services or quaddrant system info, I have flashed 2.15.50.14 radio which is supposed to have the 576mb of ram, from my understanding the phone shares 128mb of ram for video which leaves 448mb to use but I don't even have that according to running services. According to my phone I am using 90mb of ram and 292mb are free which is a grand total of 382mb of ram my phone has access to, where is the other ram?? I am getting really frustrated searching google and stuff trying to find answers, I know its a difference of about 64mb that I think im missing here but its the principle that our phones should have 576mb of ram and im over here getting 382 on every rom I try. Anyone have some ideas on this??
I would like to add that I just checked quadrant system information and this is what it says.
Memory:
Total: 421004 KB
Free: 172356 KB
Inactive: 46692 KB
Doesn't this mean about 50mb of ram is inactive? I don't understand the deal with that.
The missing ram is taken by the GPU.
Please reread my post completely, I think you missed something, I covered the gpu using some of the ram in my original post.
i would say those figures are 421MB total ram, 172MB out of 421MB is genuinely free, and 46MB is loaded with apps that have stopped but not been unloaded from memory.
Example, mine says
421004
80228
85188
i start a few programs and go back to quadrant, and it changes to
421004
85140
88916
As mentioned, the graphics chipset takes up 128 meg, and it grabs it before the OS has even loaded, so it never sees it, so you start with 448MB total. For some reason Android loses 25 or so MB, and so we all (tmous and regular) show total RAM as 422 or so.
As said the system and the GPU takes it. Come on do you think the guys who made linux would really be as stupid as to just leave out some ram for no one to use or for it not be used? Or any person who makes an operating system?
Hi, I've just noticed that if I go under Settings>Applications, I see 144MB used and 386MB Free, resulting in a total of 528MB of RAM, so I am wondering what is going on with the almost half gigabyte of RAM missing, is this allocated for the OS?
Buddy, what you're seeing is free ram and ram used by your apps. The ram you are NOT seeing is being used by the actual OS.
thanks buddy, that is what I was actually thinking.
So where is the rest? U8800 has 512 mb. With barely nothing running... most tasks killed I have only 140 mb free to use so most games just crash. Running aurora rom.
I remember.
The system uses a lot of ram but 140mb sounds kind of low.
The rest is reserved for the GPU.