Everywhere I've read this thing has 1gb of ram, but the running services tab in settings says only 520.
juancferrer said:
Everywhere I've read this thing has 1gb of ram, but the running services tab in settings says only 520.
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It could be that android is hiding what it is taking up itself, but I've yet to see my unused RAM higher than about 450 MB (after reboot.)
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just a quick question. after reading about the specs the iconia a500 should have 1gb of ram. in application settings it looks like it adds up to 512mb? is this correct?
This is not correct. Go to Settings> About Tablet>Device Information and scroll down to RAM size.
okay thanks. I'm actually at staples now and. Checked the xoom and the iconia displays and they have the same issue
I believe the 1 GB advertisement (on Xoom and actually all other Honeycomb models), is 512 MB of onboard ram, and 512 MB for the video card.
Thus adding to 1 GB.
I believe this is a "standard" (yeah, frustrating, but true). All Honeycomb tablets advertising 1 GB of ram actually mean 512 MB onboard, and 512 MB on video.
thank you so much for clearing that up!
I believe it is 1gb of system ram (possibly shared on demand with the video hardware)... Using Advanced Task Killer when I clear the running tasks I see 445MB free. There is no way the system is running on just 55MB. I'm guessing Honeycomb just uses a lot of ram in background system processes.
The running applications on mine are using 149MB with 455MB free right now but I don't think that number accounts for all of the background services. Anyway it's not a dedicated 512/512 ram split.
I want to know that the total ram showed in settings=>applications=>manage applications=>running applications. My retail version showing 420mb free plus 173mb used ram total 593mb ram on the system instead of 1gb. Can someone plz check in their tabs either retail or io version plz. Thanks
I would guess a significant portion of your "missing" RAM is set aside for the GPU. The ended up being the case for the Galaxy S phones - 512mb RAM, but only 330 available for the OS and apps.
Still, 600mb is a pretty respectable amount for these devices.
My Xoom shows 120MB used and 379MB free. So the total amount shown seems normal. I would like to know why there is so little free memory on GT10.1 if it's a stock Honeycomb?
It's currently 169 / 412 MB on my GT, so I guess about 400 MB is set aside for Graphic processing.
Reboot your GT 10.1 and then report here the RAM statistic ... *please*.
After boot my 10.1 I/O shows 143MB used and 476MB free.
mesasone said:
I would guess a significant portion of your "missing" RAM is set aside for the GPU. The ended up being the case for the Galaxy S phones - 512mb RAM, but only 330 available for the OS and apps.
Still, 600mb is a pretty respectable amount for these devices.
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true, considering the ipad manages to run smoothly with just 500mb
after reboot tab showing 169 used and 449 free. Running stock honeycomb 3.1 retail version tab.
I've got 148 used and 412 free
I second all of the above. Mine is usually around 600 MB or less in total. So I guess that's normal? It wouldn't have anything to do with the tab showing hiccups and lags after using it a little bit? Everything was very fast when I used it for the first day and then it started slowing down, especially when I run live wallpapers. Did any of you experience that? It breaks my heart to admit that iPad2 (even iPad) runs so much more smoothly than my Galaxy.
I have T-Mobile HD2 with T-mobile logo and colored buttons. But ram size and device memory size shown low in hardware info. I have 2.0.8 HSPL.
Is this a fake T-Mobile..
Hardware info:
RAM: 403 MB
Device Memory:663MB
SD:14,2 GB
running android? all hd2's show around 400 - 411 meg ram when running android.
Also, the first 128 meg is taken by the graphics hardware, so it is only showing 40meg lower than expected, not 160+
Yes andoroid is running on it, I read about 128MB ram but still 40 MB is lost. and why device memory is 663MB . mgldr and clockwordmod is also installed , is it related with them. Is there a way to see the physicall memory from android .
thanks for the replies
beppotr said:
Yes andoroid is running on it, I read about 128MB ram but still 40 MB is lost.
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yep, same for us all.
and why device memory is 663MB
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only the data partition gets counted towards internal storage memory
I am using some RAM boosters and they all report that I have only 1GB of RAM. I thought this device was supposed to come with 2GB. Is there a problem with how this reports it, or is there some problem with the tablet. Does anyone know how to get the system to report the right amount of RAM, or is there a RAM tester I can use to test the RAM?
ssedlmayr said:
I am using some RAM boosters and they all report that I have only 1GB of RAM. I thought this device was supposed to come with 2GB. Is there a problem with how this reports it, or is there some problem with the tablet. Does anyone know how to get the system to report the right amount of RAM, or is there a RAM tester I can use to test the RAM?
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Hello mate, 1gb is not shown as it is actually dedicated to gpu
Not a nice way for Google to sell stuff without being clear, but that's the way it is unfortunately
I have the exact same question
ssedlmayr said:
I am using some RAM boosters and they all report that I have only 1GB of RAM. I thought this device was supposed to come with 2GB. Is there a problem with how this reports it, or is there some problem with the tablet. Does anyone know how to get the system to report the right amount of RAM, or is there a RAM tester I can use to test the RAM?
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I see in the runnings apps section in settings that the total ram being shown is just 1 gb
Hi! So i have a laptop which has 4GB of RAM in it. I mostly use my laptop for gaming and i don't have a lot of RAM, though i am not getting the full 4GB RAM i am just getting 3.6GB Usable so that's 400MB not usable. I have already tried using "msconfig" to put in the value "4096" at the RAM place, but then i get even worse RAM of 2.4GB... I went to the BIOS menu to select PCI Express like a lot of people say on YouTube and Google that shoud work, but i don't have an option for that... Please any help
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Hi! So i have a laptop which has 4GB of RAM in it. I mostly use my laptop for gaming and i don't have a lot of RAM, though i am not getting the full 4GB RAM i am just getting 3.6GB Usable so that's 400MB not usable. I have already tried using "msconfig" to put in the value "4096" at the RAM place, but then i get even worse RAM of 2.4GB... I went to the BIOS menu to select PCI Express like a lot of people say on YouTube and Google that shoud work, but i don't have an option for that... Please any help
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Given that this is a laptop, I assume you have an integrated video adapter, so it's most likely due to the system reserving a portion of RAM for video memory.
So...
Laptop, probably that missing ram can be occupied by video card!
Check video card properties and see how much ram it needs.