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Quick question about Android RAM...

I saw that the Nexus has 512 megs of ram which on plenty to run apps. I like the X10 overall better for the 8mpx camera, but it has only 256 for ram. Is this gonna be an issues for the x10? My friend who has a Magic said that there is a way to increase the ram by doing virtua memory on the SD card...You think it will work well on the X10 1gb internal storage? How well does the apps run on SD card?

SW Swap is realllllllllllly slow compared to realy memory. I think 256mb will be plenty for running apps.

kam187 said:
SW Swap is realllllllllllly slow compared to realy memory. I think 256mb will be plenty for running apps.
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But the Hero has 288 and its older than the sony phone.
Legends say the andro OS itself uses up 150~ MB of ram for the Phone in question(Dream,Magic,Hero,Behold,etc)

There is a suggestion that the final hardware revision will actually have increased RAM and it's the prototypes which are still on 256MB. We can only wait and see how accurate this is though

Ram: 256MB
The Acer Liquid only has 256MB Ram and it is very fast - no issues at all.

It all depends on how many services you wanna run at the same time...
I run 25/30 services all the time and have no complains in my hero....though mem avayable is only 30mg....you can always keep killing services with advance task killer.Only 2 clicks in 3 seconds....as easy as that

Android automatically kills idle processes when ram usage shoots up anyway

Can someone confirm the amount of RAM available?? (Only takes a few seconds)

Can someone confirm the amount of RAM that is available to the user? There were rumors that only 512mb was available (leaving the other 512 for the laptop dock). However, I've also heard that around 800mb was available to the user (meaning the full gig, essentially). To easily see this, download Android System Info from the market, open it, and on the first page/tab you can see RAM (total available, etc.)....
Thanks in advance!

I, too, would like to know the answer to this. It would be pretty weak of Motorola if it only allowed 512 of it to be used.

+1.
I would like to know this as well.

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It says 425M available + 172 if I'm not mistaken.

From android system info there is 818MB RAM available, but after killing all threads the free RAM is no more than 510MB

motoblur/android cant be gobbling up 512mb worth of RAM. perhaps some is allocated to webtop? i would be very dissapointed if that were the case.

Thanks guys

Mine says 818MB with 432 available.
Sent from my MB860 using XDA App

Bit advanced task killer only shows 394 + 111
Sent from my MB860 using XDA App

Mine says..
Max: 818MB
Free: 280MB

Maybe it allocates 512mb for webtop and when the other 512mb (or whatever size after format) runs out it starts using the 512mb from the webtop

Jesus i hope that's not true, there has to be a way to disable that.

Hey guys, those of you with the device, go into the "tasks" tab of Android System Info.....here you should be able to see EVERYTHING that is consuming memory.....in a task killer, you likely won't be able to kill everything (and you shouldn't). For example, on my inspire, there are a lot of core processes and things that wouldnt show up in a task killer (like phone, etc.). A close look in this tab should give us a clearer picture. It does, however, appear that the full gig (essentially) is available. My inspire's ram is 768 and my max ram is 623, so the atrix seems somewhat comparable in the proportion of available ram.

[Q] Locked RAM - is it possible to unlock?

Hey there!
I've read, that the gt540 comes with 256mb ram, but you can only access ~160mb on stock roms. Is there any way I can unlock the remaining ram without installing a custom rom? (I have the 2.1 stock rom) Thanks for any replies

Sorry, It only has 128MB of RAM.
Jack

JackG256 said:
Sorry, It only has 128MB of RAM.
Jack
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That's wrong. It has 256mb. You can only access 160mb, because the rest is used by system I think.

EazyLuke said:
That's wrong. It has 256mb. You can only access 160mb, because the rest is used by system I think.
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Actually, I was wrong, it has 158 MB of RAM. and 139 is available to user.
Proof: http://www.gsmarena.com/lg_gt540_optimus-3081.php
Jack

If it had 256mb ram
LG Would of Released Android 2.2 if the GT540 had 256mb of ram. Proof, LG Optimus One

Our phone has 256mb of ram, but we are able to use only 160 beacose the rest of it goes to video chip for rendering. In lg optimus one video chip have his own ram.

abrams89 said:
Our phone has 256mb of ram, but we are able to use only 160 beacose the rest of it goes to video chip for rendering. In lg optimus one video chip have his own ram.
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It does not have 256MB of RAM, otherwise we would have well over 100MB of free memory w/o odexing 2.2.

JackG256 said:
It does not have 256MB of RAM, otherwise we would have well over 100MB of free memory w/o odexing 2.2.
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Lear to read system can use only 160 beacose rest is reserved for graphic and other components. You will never see this ram. In our phone memory chip is 256MB and that is a fact.

its possible to hack into the system and change the amount of MB's. but it can only add like 5 mb, and i am not gonna spend my time hacking my hardware to add 5 mb

LinxAndroid said:
its possible to hack into the system and change the amount of MB's. but it can only add like 5 mb, and i am not gonna spend my time hacking my hardware to add 5 mb
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Actually, there is no way to physically hack the RAM to give you more, it's just not possible. Although it is possible to add virtual memory, but this will kill your phones Internal NAND Memory or SDCard quicker as the read/write cycles will increase dramatically.
Jack

RAM

Wat is the Ram memory in ideos?????
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I have the bestbuy version 104 I think, two cameras but with resistive touch screen and I see through quadrant it has 416mb of RAM and some other system info program
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does 416mb include swap and cache? i thought it was more like 256meg ram, 128 swap, 32 meg cache = 416

It doesn't have swap; it doesn't need it. It has 512mb ram with some of it allocated by the system for low-level functions like the radio, GPU framebuffer, camera firmware and such.

increase ram memory

Good night everyone :good:
I have an idea who you want to use in conjunction with the (MALIVE BOOSTER)
the application (RAM EXPANDER) that works in our (i8200n).
I increased my ram to 2281MB..
What amazed me was knowing that our device has a partition of 300 MB to the memory ram.. (virtual memory)
the application can be found at 4shared and so search for (ROEHSOFT).
experience for you.
link to tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh-KAUwm-xA
Samsung Galaxy SIII mini GT-i8200N :laugh:

It may be posible,but to make any difference you need to have a sdcard class 10 or higher. Oderwise it is for no use .
It's just an swap memory it dosen't incress you ram. It like on os xp,7,8 when you can use the flash memory as a swap memory.
All you are doing is increasing the paging files which only gets used when your device run low on ram!

Hardware RAM is not a same like a swipe but the virtual paging give more capabilities.
It's true that you have to have a SD class min 10 and swap partition - in our phone 512 Mb for example.
by the way ...... RAM Expander works good.

Yes and true that does not change the RAM but my s3 mini gt-i8200n was a lot faster and no longer hangs in applications and don't need to clean the memory ram..
my memory card has 8 GB and I use 2 GB for swap..
How do I see the class of my memory card?
(don't forget to use the pirated version JUST TO TEST if it works then buy the original version).
Samsung Galaxy S3 mini GT-I8200n

Does it work with GT-i8190 too?

Maltonator said:
Does it work with GT-i8190 too?
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yess bro

OK thx!