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How much RAM ?!

Hi , how much ram you max get free ?
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* what rom
* tweaks used
* swap or not
* what kernel
For me it's Reavaluton v3 rom and nAa 11 , NO swap... , I get around 105-110 free ram .. And tweaks I use
* Supercharger V8
* X8 Hotfix
* Odexed

I don't have screenshot, but I remember that was around 95Mb
-MiniCM 2.1.8
-nAa kernel v10
-No SWAP
-Autokiller on Strict mode installed.

I have 3gb ram free... added more ram to my x8
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Lloir said:
I have 3gb ram free... added more ram to my x8
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Lol? 3gb ram free? what did you do? use swap? changed its ram?
3gb ram is too much...Seriously...1gb is enough...Or you planning to run win7?

<.<
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i think he meant sd card lol

Got max 115mb free on SDE with only 256mb swap.
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I got about 95~100 free ram..
About what rom I've used?
I forget it ..
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How do you guys can get so much free RAM?
I suppose it is possible only with swap? Or with absolutely fresh installation of ROM with almost no applications?
Most of the time I have between 30-45 MB free RAM and I do not use swap and have a lot of applications, few widgets...

tw9 said:
How do you guys can get so much free RAM?
I suppose it is possible only with swap? Or with absolutely fresh installation of ROM with almost no applications?
Most of the time I have between 30-45 MB free RAM and I do not use swap and have a lot of applications, few widgets...
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Did you clean ram ? or its normal use free RAM ? ;D
Btw try Fast Reboot Pro app , its great
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No i really got 3gb inside my X8 only got a 8gb sdcard lol

tw9 said:
How do you guys can get so much free RAM?
I suppose it is possible only with swap? Or with absolutely fresh installation of ROM with almost no applications?
Most of the time I have between 30-45 MB free RAM and I do not use swap and have a lot of applications, few widgets...
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Ram manager pro
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I am using advanced task killer, have a widget on home screen, which kills apps and displays the information about free RAM, and it shows what I mentioned.
I will take a look at the app Fast Reboot, thanks.
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Did you clean ram ? or its normal use free RAM ? ;D
Btw try Fast Reboot Pro app , its great
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Maximum i ever get was 117 on stock 2.1 by killing every single app
I never used swap and never will
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have you all tried app called "Swapper for root"
i tried it,, first it ask how much swap do you want,, its 200MB by defalut, and check "apply on boot"option
after save, this app create one file in your sdcard "swap.swp" its 200MB size
i am feeling a bit different from my x8,, its quite fast..
but i still dont understand how it works

pancon said:
have you all tried app called "Swapper for root"
i tried it,, first it ask how much swap do you want,, its 200MB by defalut, and check "apply on boot"option
after save, this app create one file in your sdcard "swap.swp" its 200MB size
i am feeling a bit different from my x8,, its quite fast..
but i still dont understand how it works
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That 200mb is "virtual ram"...it means your phone uses that allocated 200mb to increase the amount of ram your phone can have...but be warned, increasing the SWAP size will shorten your SD Card's lifespan...200mb should be ok...don't go overboard like I did and put 1000mb(1GB) ....but if you already enabled compache in CyanogemMod Settings/Performance, then using SWAP is pointless

RohinZaraki said:
That 200mb is "virtual ram"...it means your phone uses that allocated 200mb to increase the amount of ram your phone can have...but be warned, increasing the SWAP size will shorten your SD Card's lifespan...200mb should be ok...don't go overboard like I did and put 1000mb(1GB) ....but if you already enabled compache in CyanogemMod Settings/Performance, then using SWAP is pointless
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is it really that pointless??
if that so, i wiil just remove it..,,
how about Ram Manager app?

pancon said:
is it really that pointless??
if that so, i wiil just remove it..,,
how about Ram Manager app?
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Ohhhhh Ram Manager = me gusta ...really recommend it !

Jelly Bean RAM Hog

OK guys after spending two days with the new Samsung official software I was wondering if anyone else thinks that its a RAM hog. I have to keep killing the apps in the task manager otherwise I see lag while opening apps and things. Anyone else think this? Or could this possibly be because I quickly loaded about 40 apps onto the device? Any thoughts? Personally I hope Samsung will just improve and mature the software and it will get smoother. If not I might grab one of those deodexed ROMs.
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Official software, stock kernel?
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Yes, I'll edit that in. Thanks for pointing it out.
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mdemons12 said:
OK guys after spending two days with the new Samsung official software I was wondering if anyone else thinks that its a RAM hog. I have to keep killing the apps in the task manager otherwise I see lag while opening apps and things. Anyone else think this? Or could this possibly be because I quickly loaded about 40 apps onto the device? Any thoughts? Personally I hope Samsung will just improve and mature the software and it will get smoother. If not I might grab one of those deodexed ROMs.
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I heard that Android loads apps in RAM for faster use unlike Windows. So if you close them, it loads them again, and that causes more bettery use. So why don't you try the phone without closing apps and compare which works better. Some poorly written apps cause lag and consume alot of system resourses. They should be closed and better be uninstalled.
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im having major laggs here and there and then i gotta reboot sometimes regardless of rom jb that is wierd
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mdemons12 said:
OK guys after spending two days with the new Samsung official software I was wondering if anyone else thinks that its a RAM hog. I have to keep killing the apps in the task manager otherwise I see lag while opening apps and things. Anyone else think this? Or could this possibly be because I quickly loaded about 40 apps onto the device? Any thoughts? Personally I hope Samsung will just improve and mature the software and it will get smoother. If not I might grab one of those deodexed ROMs.
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Get OMEGA 27. It is very snappy. Make sure you do a complete wipe meaning formatting system and reinstalling all your apps.
It is very snappy. Do a custom install and choose to install or not install V6 SUper Charger which always leaves 200 mb of free ram. Your phone won't multitask as well but it will keep everything fluid.
Although I optioned not to install V6, and everything has been perfectly fine.
YOu can always install or uninstall mods thanks to OMEGA FILES that comes with the phone. Highly recommended.

SlimJ87D said:
Get OMEGA 27. It is very snappy. Make sure you do a complete wipe meaning formatting system and reinstalling all your apps.
It is very snappy. Do a custom install and choose to install or not install V6 SUper Charger which always leaves 200 mb of free ram. Your phone won't multitask as well but it will keep everything fluid.
Although I optioned not to install V6, and everything has been perfectly fine.
YOu can always install or uninstall mods thanks to OMEGA FILES that comes with the phone. Highly recommended.
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I'm on CheckRom 5.5 because 3.5 was so good for me on ICS.. But 5.5 is leaving much to be desired, maybe I'll try Omega

tawheed12 said:
I'm on CheckRom 5.5 because 3.5 was so good for me on ICS.. But 5.5 is leaving much to be desired, maybe I'll try Omega
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Free RAM is wasted RAM
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sean.geary said:
Free RAM is wasted RAM
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True...
Your optimal ram ram should be 100~110<ram<150~200

SlimJ87D said:
Get OMEGA 27. It is very snappy. Make sure you do a complete wipe meaning formatting system and reinstalling all your apps.
It is very snappy. Do a custom install and choose to install or not install V6 SUper Charger which always leaves 200 mb of free ram. Your phone won't multitask as well but it will keep everything fluid.
Although I optioned not to install V6, and everything has been perfectly fine.
YOu can always install or uninstall mods thanks to OMEGA FILES that comes with the phone. Highly recommended.
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I just did a Google search of it and it seems that the quadrant score is fairly low and about the same as stock? Is that true and reflective on the ROMs performance?
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So I had a quick look around and I think it would be between the RonenROM and Omega v27. Thing I can' stand about custom ROMs is the frequent updates and having to reinstall ROMs and that. Anyway, I might chuck one if them on. Any thoughts?
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Root and remove kies.exe and disable ripple effect for me always 400 mb free
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mdemons12 said:
So I had a quick look around and I think it would be between the RonenROM and Omega v27. Thing I can' stand about custom ROMs is the frequent updates and having to reinstall ROMs and that. Anyway, I might chuck one if them on. Any thoughts?
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Why are you worried? I stuck with Omega 13 for months. You should only force an update if you were:
1. Trying a test rom and then official came out.
2. Or if it has problems and a X.1 version came out.
Omega only updates every time a leak rom appears but that doesn't mean you have to update.
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mdemons12 said:
I just did a Google search of it and it seems that the quadrant score is fairly low and about the same as stock? Is that true and reflective on the ROMs performance?
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I haven't checked quadrant but the point of Jelly Bean is that it implements a better use of a GUI than ICS. So quadrant isn't going to take those kind of things into account.
Omega 27 is working better than Indies last ICS for me which was 13.1
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mdemons12 said:
I just did a Google search of it and it seems that the quadrant score is fairly low and about the same as stock? Is that true and reflective on the ROMs performance?
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quadrant doesn't mean a thing about how snappy the rom is.
Uninstall quadrant as it serves no REAL purpose.

stock odexed here, just cleaned up 300mb of bloatware. RAM at the end of 2 days is 600MB used, didn't cleaned up RAM. You better don't cleanup, it will just piss off the apps and will consume more juice.

V6 supercharger for i9505?

Is it possible to have some kind of V6 supercharger mod for i9505 too?
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Why would u need this ?
The phone is damn near light speed already.
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You don't need that...
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Okay.. but i see ram usage is high from time to time..
So why not ??
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joeherlev said:
Okay.. but i see ram usage is high from time to time..
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High Ram usage is great. It means a lot of stuff is being cached and ready to execute in an instant when you want to.
What's the point of having a 2GB phone while only using a fraction of it...
So why not ??
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Because those apps/scripts usually do more harm than good...

I have a S4 and I have it set on max 500
CPU DONT ASK HOW LOL... And my phone is hyper fast.......
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joeherlev said:
Okay.. but i see ram usage is high from time to time..
So why not ??
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Please unlearn those misconceptions about Android RAM usage.
Unused RAM is wasted RAM.
Android, like Mac OS and Ubuntu, wants to use all the RAM it can, because that's how it was designed to work. There are settings (in Android we call them "minfree" settings) to tell the system how much RAM to leave free and available, but the rest is designed to fill up as fast as possible and stay that way.
You're probably thinking "What's it filling up with?" That's a great question. After the system, graphics, radios, and any other tweaks to RAM are done loading, the rest is there to load apps into memory, right up to the point where the OS says to stop. Load the app as it's being used, and keep it there for the next time until it needs flushed to free space for something else. The more you use the system, the better it gets at keeping the right things loaded and ready to go. Think about how you use your phone -- you might have 100 apps installed, but there are a few you always are opening and using. Eventually, most of those apps will be stored in your RAM, simply because you're always opening them and loading them into the RAM if they weren't already there -- and "erasing" other apps that were there first. Loading an app from your storage takes longer, is harder on the battery, and overall worse than loading it from it's cached position in RAM.
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SOURCE...
Not the best explanation but should help turn the tide...

Gillion said:
Please unlearn those misconceptions about Android RAM usage.
SOURCE...
Not the best explanation but should help turn the tide...
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free ram is not wasted. you are the one who has misconceptions
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hisname said:
free ram is not wasted. you are the one who has misconceptions
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OK... within a specific context we are both correct.
So let me make my context more clear.
Unused ram is wasted RAM... if that is the wording most accurate.
If the RAM of your device has most of your favorite apps in background running or cached... its better for the system... rather than constantly loading it fresh from NAND and pulling last computed data from cache.
Lag can kick in when an app that is currently running (such as top line games) needs more space and it has to wait on the os memory manager to clear out background apps that haven't been used for a while... ugghh
Recently for early GS4 ROMS with the camera crash issue, when RAM falls below 200-Megs... the memory manager is too slow to free up enough "used" RAM for the Camera app causing a very slow and laggy camera or worse reboot of the device.
One work around is to use developer mode and limit the number of processes to 4... thus a minimum amount of "free and unused" ram was assured and the camera would not load slowly or reboot the device when loading,
It seems like this whole unused ram issue will always be with android until we get phones with 4Gigs of RAM... yeah righ;pt

[Q] S4 RAM Question

Just have a quick question iv'e heard that on the s4 that touchwiz takes up a lot of ram from the 2gb available does that mean if i install another ROM will give me more ram to work with ?

Yes ,but Android is not Windows. Free RAM is wasted RAM. Without touchwiz and the Samsung bloat give you more space on infernal SD. If Android need RAM so the low mem killer kicks in and clean unused apps.
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H0[)iNi said:
Yes ,but Android is not Windows. Free RAM is wasted RAM. Without touchwiz and the Samsung bloat give you more space on infernal SD. If Android need RAM so the low mem killer kicks in and clean unused apps.
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ok thanks for the reply csn you have multiple apps open and still be lag free and smooth?

Youngpuzzlez said:
ok thanks for the reply csn you have multiple apps open and still be lag free and smooth?
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Depends on how many apps are open and what rom because if have a custom boalt free rom you will not have any laggs but if you have a device filled with apps like sammy rom you sometimes might have some laggs
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medoooooo said:
Depends on how many apps are open and what rom because if have a custom boalt free rom you will not have any laggs but if you have a device filled with apps like sammy rom you sometimes might have some laggs
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ok thanks for helping

[Q] htc hd2 low Ram

hi
i have htc hd2 running jeally bean 4.2.2 on native SD, i have only 420 MB RAM, when i go to apps >>> running apps
i found a lot of apps using RAM such as Google search, Google services, Google play, settings, keyboard and some off my running apps such as Facebook, twitter
so my phone running slow
if there any way to increase RAM?
or stop this apps from running in background ?:crying:

e_m_e2000 said:
hi
i have htc hd2 running jeally bean 4.2.2 on native SD, i have only 420 MB RAM, when i go to apps >>> running apps
i found a lot of apps using RAM such as Google search, Google services, Google play, settings, keyboard and some off my running apps such as Facebook, twitter
so my phone running slow
if there any way to increase RAM?
or stop this apps from running in background ?:crying:
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Hd2 actually has 576mb of ram. Some of it is reserved for kernel and gpu, but we still havent allocated all of it. I suggest for freeing ram is to make lmk values higher and to use the task killer
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lolerpro8 said:
Hd2 actually has 576mb of ram. Some of it is reserved for kernel and gpu, but we still havent allocated all of it. I suggest for freeing ram is to make lmk values higher and to use the task killer
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thanks MR.lolerpro8
but please how i can make lmk values higher?
is Smart RAM Booster good task manger app and will help my case ?

e_m_e2000 said:
thanks MR.lolerpro8
but please how i can make lmk values higher?
is Smart RAM Booster good task manger app and will help my case ?
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For lmk values use some kernel twraker
And i preffer clean master for task killer

lolerpro8 said:
For lmk values use some kernel twraker
And i preffer clean master for task killer
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sorry
i listen about lmk values for my first time, what did you mean with kernel twraker ?
if there is an app to do it please tell me its name

e_m_e2000 said:
sorry
i listen about lmk values for my first time, what did you mean with kernel twraker ?
if there is an app to do it please tell me its name
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Lmk - low memory killer
Its used by Android system to kill the apps when its running out of ram. And yes kernel tweaker will do just fine
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lolerpro8 said:
Lmk - low memory killer
Its used by Android system to kill the apps when its running out of ram. And yes kernel tweaker will do just fine
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thanks MR.lolerpro8 i will try