my HTC Magic 32A have only 196 mb ram..... Why? i thing 32A: 288mb and 32B: 196mb
wrong section. post in general next time. How do you know that you only have 196MB of ram? A little more information next time would be more helpful. Power off your phone and press back and power at the same time when you try to turn it on. It will put you into fastboot. See if it says 32A or 32B. Are you sure that you were not referring to phone memory for your apps and such? The HTC Magic has 288MB of Ram. I do not know how you got this assumption that you have a 32B. If you post more information, more people would probably be more willing to help you out next time, as well as you posting in the right section of the forum, not development.
I used the system info and the swap itself showed that I have 196 mb ram. I have htc magic 32a but I do not know why it shows that I have so much ram
Everything is good. The 192 is how much is available to system, the rest is eaten by the baseband and other shared memory. 32B devices only show 98 free available to the system
Thanks my friend thank you very very match
i hope everyone with htc magic waits for a really good android phone to come out, sporting the new qualcom 1ghz processor and higher display resolution, but I'm not aware of any other phone with more ram than the 32A yet.
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I have posted this on 3 other forums and haven't gotten any responses so I'm hoping someone can help me.
On Verizon's website, the Samsung Saga is listed as having 256mb RAM and 128mb ROM. When I go into the memory setting on my phone, it says the storage is 112.05 which is fine since it's never supposed to be exact, but the program says the total is 83.53, in use is 37.02, and free is 46.51. 83mb of RAM is waaaaay off from the supposed 256. Am I missing something?
its a typo on the VZW site. its RAM is 128
As a 101% of you guys already know the HTC Magic/Sapphire is available in (at least) two versions with different amounts of RAM (192 MB and 288 MB, respectivly). I have a Vodafone-branded Magic, supposedly equipped with the lesser amount of RAM.
How do I verify this using just the phone? I have installed a term-application allowing me to get a shell prompt. Using this, I've copied the /proc/meminfo file to my memorycard and retrieved it to my computer using FTP. These are the first two rows from the file:
MemTotal: 98920 kB
MemFree: 3300 kB
The first figure seems unreliable, though - I have a hard time imagining that there's just 98920 / 1024 = 96.6 MB RAM installed in my phone.
Can someone please tell me how to really check how much RAM is installed in an un-rooted Android-phone?
If you read the wiki, as well as every second thread around here.. the answer is:
32a - 288Mb
32b - 192Mb
.. it's as simple as that.
Focusyn said:
As a 101% of you guys already know the HTC Magic/Sapphire is available in (at least) two versions with different amounts of RAM (192 MB and 288 MB, respectivly). I have a Vodafone-branded Magic, supposedly equipped with the lesser amount of RAM.
How do I verify this using just the phone? I have installed a term-application allowing me to get a shell prompt. Using this, I've copied the /proc/meminfo file to my memorycard and retrieved it to my computer using FTP. These are the first two rows from the file:
MemTotal: 98920 kB
MemFree: 3300 kB
The first figure seems unreliable, though - I have a hard time imagining that there's just 98920 / 1024 = 96.6 MB RAM installed in my phone.
Can someone please tell me how to really check how much RAM is installed in an un-rooted Android-phone?
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You checked it right, almost all the missing memory (from the 192 mb) is occupied by:
The kernel itself
The shared memory (gpu, camera, mdp, adsp)
The radio firmware
Maybe some things more.
What you see in /proc/memory is the free memory for the userspace after the kernel has loaded and the init has freed some ram.
Why is android such a memory hog... People can run linux derivatives on routers that are equipped with WAY less ROM and RAM.... WRT54G => DD-WRT project.. There has to be a way to optimize the memory usage.
Easyest method is to go in the FastbootMode (1. PowerOff Device, 2. press CallEnd and Back Button together, then u are changin in the FastBoot Mode),
U can read than in the first strings xxxx-xx PVT 32A or PVT 32B...
32A is 288MB Ram (original HTC, Three Austria, etc.) black Magic´s
32B is 192MB Ram (Vodafone, Vodacom, etc.) ---> white Magic´s
But only the colour is not enough to decide, there are also white 31A out there
Hope this helps..
Regards, Andi
PS: Now i will jump into my pool , without my magic... for sure
zambezy said:
Why is android such a memory hog... People can run linux derivatives on routers that are equipped with WAY less ROM and RAM.... WRT54G => DD-WRT project.. There has to be a way to optimize the memory usage.
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I think the real question is, why does HTC continue to make a 192mb version of the phone, when the Android OS isn't exactly tiny to begin with?
I'm not happy that T-Mobile-US (cheap weenies) went with the 32b version for the myTouch. And now rumors are afoot that the Donut & Eclair releases will be even fatter and are struggling to fit reasonably in 256mb ROM's. Just means the running footprint will likely be bigger too.
Hello,
Been looking for proper comparement of these phones for long time, but got, well, pretty unprofessional.
So I would like to ask differences of these phones:
1) RAM - G1 has 192mb, Magic - 288mb.
Does this difference really feels when using phone, I mean, interface response, video playback, programs running speed, etc.?
2)Internal memory - Magic has twice the G1. Im asking specific question about this - will this pay off in long run of rom development? I mean, both g1 and magic got 2.1 android running, and its fine, but g1 may suffer as the new version come in,in the long run for not having enough internal memory (newier versions of android OS requires more storage, so my question: will magic be more developable over g1 because of internal storage capabilities?)
3) Camera - well, on paper these phones cameras are same, but I read, that Magic produces a bit better images ( speaking of quality ).
Thanks for the answers.
Isn't the 32A magic has 288 mb of ram? Do you know the amount of ram on the 32B magic?
Tautvydas said:
Hello,
Been looking for proper comparement of these phones for long time, but got, well, pretty unprofessional.
So I would like to ask differences of these phones:
1) RAM - G1 has 192mb, Magic - 288mb.
Does this difference really feels when using phone, I mean, interface response, video playback, programs running speed, etc.?
2)Internal memory - Magic has twice the G1. Im asking specific question about this - will this pay off in long run of rom development? I mean, both g1 and magic got 2.1 android running, and its fine, but g1 may suffer as the new version come in,in the long run for not having enough internal memory (newier versions of android OS requires more storage, so my question: will magic be more developable over g1 because of internal storage capabilities?)
3) Camera - well, on paper these phones cameras are same, but I read, that Magic produces a bit better images ( speaking of quality ).
Thanks for the answers.
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No need to go out from XDA to get a good comparison:
http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=pdacomparer&id1=1908&id2=1708
ok, about android phones is there a way to avoid slow/lag times after prolong usage? because it seems like my mt3g does NOT know how to "cycle" its own memory and then a week later, just like most rom's, it just suddenly SLOWS down. it pisses me off so much! when i began a new rom i could text and call quickly as the phone would normally and then eventually later on the week the most important part of my life my phone just feels like slowin down as if its under depression over something it REFUSES to forget! WTF is there to do to solve this???
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ok, about android phones is there a way to avoid slow/lag times after prolong usage? because it seems like my mt3g does NOT know how to "cycle" its own memory and then a week later, just like most rom's, it just suddenly SLOWS down. it pisses me off so much! when i began a new rom i could text and call quickly as the phone would normally and then eventually later on the week the most important part of my life my phone just feels like slowin down as if its under depression over something it REFUSES to forget! WTF is there to do to solve this???
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Just reboot then, either that or use a different rom...There's also the choice of getting a new phone too, you have to remember the MT3G is kind of like an upgraded G1, but with only more int memory....Same cheap 528 CPU and low 192MB RAM. Phones with these kind of specs cant help it if they slow down.
Ace42 said:
Just reboot then, either that or use a different rom...There's also the choice of getting a new phone too, you have to remember the MT3G is kind of like an upgraded G1, but with only more int memory....Same cheap 528 CPU and low 192MB RAM. Phones with these kind of specs cant help it if they slow down.
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Hi getting a MT3G 1.2 32A the new one with the same CPU MSM7200A ARM11 processor, and 288MB RAM as the HTC Hero my question is
Can it run hero roms or not ?
Thanks
zerodi said:
Hi getting a MT3G 1.2 32A the new one with the same CPU MSM7200A ARM11 processor, and 288MB RAM as the HTC Hero my question is
Can it run hero roms or not ?
Thanks
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any rom you can imagine, and it works just as well as the hero too.
jcarrz1 said:
any rom you can imagine, and it works just as well as the hero too.
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I wonder... could it be? Is it because they are exactly the same phone in a different shaped plastic container?
wow awsome news !!
Froyd on the 32A here we come yeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaa
zerodi said:
Hi getting a MT3G 1.2 32A the new one with the same CPU MSM7200A ARM11 processor, and 288MB RAM as the HTC Hero my question is
Can it run hero roms or not ?
Thanks
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It can but you still don't have working bluetooth (unless you use a different radio version which I haven't tried).
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It can but you still don't have working bluetooth (unless you use a different radio version which I haven't tried).
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Thats ok i never use bluetooth - maybe a few years ago on a nokia i did so i can live without that
Have you tried the latest froydvillian 1.4.3
on it ? Does it all work great ?
I love the form factor of the magic better than the Hero so when i saw there was a hero in a magic body i was chuffed
Ok so i was just curious to see what the hardware specs on my phone were so i went to google and searched. Found a bunch of sites saying that the phones specs are 3 gigs memory internal and 768 of ram.
Now when i look at my phone in the settings it say that i only got 1.13 gigs or internal memory and 614 of ram???? Im just confused as to why it would say that and not what every one else listed online.??
Thanks in advance for any help.
See:
http://tjworld.net/wiki/Android/HTC/EMMC/UnderstandingUserCapacity
The phone has to take up something, doesn't that make sense?
Sent from my super sweet Galaxy SII