i have a S4 now and i want to upgrade to s5 but i am afraid of RAM capacity.
even if they both have 2GB S5 has much less free ram on a fresh start (arround 400mb)(while s4 has arround 1100mb).
I had the same problem when upgrading from s2 to s3. Multitasking was horrible, everytime i wanted to reopen an app it would reload everything and not take me back where i left. even Facebook messenger heads would close because of low ram.
My question: is 2GB or RAM enough for you? do you use a lot of apps at the same time?
Does any s4 user feel a different when upgrading to s5?
thank you in advance
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We know the Adreno 330 takes a lot of RAM, it says in this video only 2440mb of ram is available.
That doesn't shock me. What shocks me is after the guys is running the video and in the screen shot it says available ram.
Note 2 610mb available :good:
Note 3 270mb available!!!
Link to video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9vVjzmk-mw
What do you guys think? Will this be an issue?
My htc one X has more available RAM than that! and its horrible at multitasking :crying:
That's shocking where is all the ram gone looks like little pacman inside the phone has been busy crunching all those megs of ram ouch.
Yep !
Same problem here. I think that we'll need to wait the root for the N3 to clean up trash apps.
No need to worry.
I made a thread about it since I saw a screenshot of CPU-Z stating that were only 14% of free memory.
But I was reassured in the thread I created since I got some details regarding the overall free RAM you can get on boot : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=45750359&postcount=19
So you can expect, straight out of the box, an average of 1Gb of Free RAM to play with at your leisure !
There's already a thread on it and all things related to ram was covered so no need to continue this again.
No need to worried. I am the user of Note 3, didn't face any RAM not enough yet since purchase start use yesterday.
I myself just tried out a note 3 in a Samsung Mobile Store and it has about 1Gb of free RAM after clearing the memory. If you let the phone run without doing anything you just loose 200Mb.
Plus Android's VM ans the launcher take 400mb!
I love my galaxy 5 switched for a galaxy 4 lol...... My question is does anybody notice how much more ram this uses over the galaxy 4 My galaxy 4 with everything closed it would be down to 600mb being used the galaxy 5 no matter what you do you can't get it to use less than 1gb is everybody experiencing this ?? Any ideas why this is happening or how to improve it ???
gdmlaz said:
I love my galaxy 5 switched for a galaxy 4 lol...... My question is does anybody notice how much more ram this uses over the galaxy 4 My galaxy 4 with everything closed it would be down to 600mb being used the galaxy 5 no matter what you do you can't get it to use less than 1gb is everybody experiencing this ?? Any ideas why this is happening or how to improve it ???
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the big reason is galaxy s5 has tons of crap running in the background that eat your memory (s health, s voice, google services, knox, bloatwares and many more), you could simply disable them to save your memory.
having all said that, kitkat now has reputation for advanced memory management, you should not worry about that much, it will automatically clean up your memory when it needs
link for your reference: http://bit.ly/1kHiMI5
This is how Linux/Android works, it uses RAM and clears RAM when needed. Because you have 2GB of RAM it can use more to improve multitasking. People really seem confused about such an easy function, this is how it is supposed to be.
babygau said:
the big reason is galaxy s5 has tons of crap running in the background that eat your memory (s health, s voice, google services, knox, bloatwares and many more), you could simply disable them to save your memory.
having all said that, kitkat now has reputation for advanced memory management, you should not worry about that much, it will automatically clean up your memory when it needs
link for your reference: http://bit.ly/1kHiMI5
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johan81 said:
This is how Linux/Android works, it uses RAM and clears RAM when needed. Because you have 2GB of RAM it can use more to improve multitasking. People really seem confused about such an easy function, this is how it is supposed to be.
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Thanks for the information good to know :good::good::good:
Hello! I am thinking about changing my poor old Oneplus One for this beast. But I am worried about the RAM quantity. At this moment I have 3GB RAM and I don't know if 4 will be enough.
Isn't TouchWiz 4GB = 3GB AOSP debloated?
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Hello! I am thinking about changing my poor old Oneplus One for this beast. But I am worried about the RAM quantity. At this moment I have 3GB RAM and I don't know if 4 will be enough.
Isn't TouchWiz 4GB = 3GB AOSP debloated?
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Of course it is enough + you won't keep your phone for more than 2-3 years. TouchWiz got better, but not perfect. My phone still has ~1.5 GB of Ram left. My notebook has 4 GB Ram with fast SSD, don't see any slowdowns on Win 10 Pro.
With the poor ram management 2.5 GB is enough because at no point it uses more than that on our phones. I have apps refreshing when I come back but only half of ram is being used.
in my opinion, 4gb is not enough..... For that kind of high-end phone, samsung should have put 6Go at least into it. I'm talking about ram managment which is pretty bad in android and when you take a look at speedtests (even if this is not reflecting real daily uses) you can see than phone with 6go of ram are able to keep many apps in memory way better than the s8. When you start to run heavy apps or games, the built-in memory killer kills a lots of background app and then when you need to switch back into an other recent app, the phone almost reload it :'( That's frustrating
4GB Ram is enough. More RAM means more apps running in background which means more battery consumption. So 4GB looks a good balance here atleast for S8 which has only 3000 mah battery.
i don't think so excuse me. Of course, more ram maybe means more battery consumption but i prefer that and kill apps runing in background manually to keep battery life rather than the os kills things that i still need :/
When you have 4gb then 4gb isnt enough, when you have 6gb then 6gb isn't enough... its never enough.
4GB is enough for most any smartphone. I also have a OnePlus 3 with 6GB ram and while it can keep more programs running in the background, it never totally accesses the entire 6GB ram. Read this XDA article on RAM: https://www.xda-developers.com/the-ram-conundrum-do-we-really-need-6gb-ram-on-android/
4 is enough, and please after buying it do not ask about why just a little of it is free! The ram is for holding services and apps in background so cpu should not work again to bring them up, if it's filled do not be sad, it's natural.
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in my opinion, 4gb is not enough..... For that kind of high-end phone, samsung should have put 6Go at least into it. I'm talking about ram managment which is pretty bad in android and when you take a look at speedtests (even if this is not reflecting real daily uses) you can see than phone with 6go of ram are able to keep many apps in memory way better than the s8. When you start to run heavy apps or games, the built-in memory killer kills a lots of background app and then when you need to switch back into an other recent app, the phone almost reload it :'( That's frustrating
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Why should you want to keep many apps in memory? The S8 loads them so quick anyway.
Who needs in real day use to keep in memory 5-6 games plus 6-7 apps ? That's what they are doing in speed test , but in every day use it's not need for 6-8 GB ram in this moment. In my opinion for the manufacturer it's simpler to put more ram in a phone instead a better over all optimization.
hey I am considering buying s8 plus
and I would like to know about the ram the free ram after you clean the ram from device assisstant ?
Is this question really the deciding factor in purchasing this phone? Will you not buy it if it has 100mb less free memory than you'd want?
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Is this question really the deciding factor in purchasing this phone? Will you not buy it if it has 100mb less free memory than you'd want?
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well I just want to study everything
the only thing that keeps me off the s8 plus is the ram as it is very important for future updates and phone's performance over all
if it is for example less tahn 1 gb after freeing ram with almost no junk apps in the background then I won't be getting it however some tests on youtube showed that it is a good multitasker so I guess I am fine now
but it won't harm if you posted that screenshot XD
I had note5 but the screen is broke so I am deciding for the next two years a very tough decision xD no going back
After cleaning :
Available RAM : 1.8GB
System and Apps : 1.6GB
Reserverd : 636MB
Of course, remaining RAM depends of the number of programs installed nd running in background, even if you try to kill them from the assistant. Don't know if these information are relevant or not
I had 1.3g of memory available after clearing everything, but i have 200 apps in my app drawer, maybe a fully wiped phone would show better results.
I have 1 ram
Hello!
Lately I am very unhappy with the performance of my S8 and today I was bored and did a bit of a speed test between the S8 exynos and my backup device, the good old HTC M8.
When opening apps,the S8 was a bit faster,but when it came to ram management the M8 with 2gb less RAM managed to keep all the apps in the background and remain smooth while the s8 had to reload 6 of the 9 apps and the phone was clearly stuttering.
Someone else experiencing this issue?