Hey guys,
I just got my asus transformer 32 GB. I thought it had 1GB RAM available but under settings -> applications, it indicated 176 MB used and 378 MB free.
Am I missing something or is only around 550 MB ram available to use? Android Assistant app says it has 746,100 KB of mem to use though...
Thanks
hope your transformer has been good to you so far
My 16gb also shows only 550 roughly. Maybeits a honeycomb bug?
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[ 0.000000] Memory: 744MB = 744MB total
[ 0.000000] Memory: 745244k/745244k available, 303332k reserved, 106496K highmem
745244k+303332k=1024MB
If you had less than 1GB, the device would probably not boot, as the kernel command line would probably not work with that configuration.
256MB reserved for the GPU?
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How come my transformer onlyy show less than 400m memory available in the task killer?. I removed all the Widgets and haven't install any extra apps besides angry bird games. The available memory still showing less than 500M. Hows your transformer available memory show?
With 512 MB RAM you get 100-250 MB of free RAM, so >400MB is more than enough for everything !
And you have 1GB for USE not for FREE/USELESS ...
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But I thought it has 1gb of ram?
sic_lic1o1 said:
But I thought it has 1gb of ram?
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It is.. but the graphics and the OS take up a chunk of it don't forget.
I've seen this question pop up on ever forum for every 1GB device I've looked at so far. There's 1GB of RAM minus what the GPU uses minus what the OS uses. Should be an automatic sticky.
This question may sound silly, or stupid (or both, in fact ).
TF should have 1024 MB of RAM onboard. Or maybe 1000, if it's not square Gigabyte. However, application info shows that active services currently own 215 MB, cached processes 322 MB, and free memory (from Elixir) is 277 MB. So the grand total is 814. Also, Elixir shows that I have only 728 MB total...
Where the hell is rest of my (okay, not mine but TF's) memory? Is it some 'restricted' or 'core process dedicated' memory? Or maybe I'm just fooled by software or manufacturer's claims.
Just curious of this little quirk.
Pretty sure its dedicated to/for the GPU.
And the Android core system (The Dalvik VM) uses memory too, and it just doesnt show it to everything else when booted.
A lot of the ram is partitioned for the system use so that's where it is
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Thanks! Was expecting something like that, just need to be sure.
its being used to run the os
the Dalvik VM, OS and all of that comes out of the 768MB that is allocated, (I think it is actually a little less that 768 cause of the nvmap memory too) 256MB of ram is dedicated to the ULP GeForce, that is where all the ram is
Hello, I'm maintaining a thread with values of reserved RAM for many devices. Could someone tell me how many MB of total RAM is reported in the system? Just type free in terminal emulator or use one of the many utilities. I'm looking for total RAM, not just the available one. Thanks
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total usable RAM: 512 MB
system regonizeble: 345 MB aprox.
current free usable RAM: depends on your process, usually after reboot and all clear is about 100 - 200 MB aprox.
Thanks, I really hoped around 400 even the N1 had a bit more..
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Thats because part of the 512mb is used for the gpu. So if 345 is used by system then 167mb is used for the gpu. Thus it looks like its little. But trust me it boosts your graphics intensive stuff.
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Thanks, I really hoped around 400 even the N1 had a bit more..
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you must first understand ANDROID's memory management
unused memory is wasted memory
I recently bought a 16gb SD card and its only showing 14 gigs. I know when you buy an sd card you won't get all of the space, but I've never bought one with 2 gigs missing. I was wondering if there was any way to get the full capacity?
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If your phone is reporting 14.8 gb, then you have your "16gb" because that is about 16 billion bytes.
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If your phone is reporting 14.8 gb, then you have your "16gb" because that is about 16 billion bytes.
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I don't follow, it says total capacity for the SD card is 14.8 gb. Shouldn't it be 16 or at least high 15's?
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my 32 gig card shows as 27.1 gig...
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Take it easy, man !
1024KB = 1MB, and 1024MB = 1Gb.
Thinking again, 16Gb = 1024MB x 16 = 16384MB, but it's very odd, and the manufacturer don't want odd, so the manufacturer decided like this: 1000MB = 1Gb ( 16Gb = 16000MB ) and thus will lead to a lack of numbers ( when the true is "16gb = 16384MB" )
If your phone is reporting 14.8GB, just because your phone ( and every smartphone, HDD, USB, etc. ) memory is calculated by the Manufacturer ( Kingston, SeaGate, etc. ), and by Byte units. Don't worry man.
standards were set back in the day (when the loss was negligible). When working with kilobyte size hard drives. for instance, a 5 KB drive back then was actually just 5000 bytes. which, in reality is 4.88 KB (only a loss of 122 bytes, no biggie, right?)
in today's standard, its still measured the same way. a gigabyte is measured as 1,000,000,000 bytes (equaling 0.93 GB). literally, a gigabyte drive SHOULD be 1,073,741,824 bytes.
So, lets look at you 16 GB sd card... by industry standards, its actually 16,000,000,000 bytes. which is 15,625,000 KB, which is 15,258.79 MB, which is 14.9 GB (take 16,000,000,000, divide by 1024, divide that by 1024, and divide that by 1024).
Long story short, literal KB is 1024 bytes and they're being meausred as 1000 bytes. you're losing 24 bytes for every kilobyte
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Take it easy, man !
1024KB = 1MB, and 1024MB = 1Gb.
Thinking again, 16Gb = 1024MB x 16 = 16384MB, but it's very odd, and the manufacturer don't want odd, so the manufacturer decided like this: 1000MB = 1Gb ( 16Gb = 16000MB ) and thus will lead to a lack of numbers ( when the true is "16gb = 16384MB" )
If your phone is reporting 14.8GB, just because your phone ( and every smartphone, HDD, USB, etc. ) memory is calculated by the Manufacturer ( Kingston, SeaGate, etc. ), and by Byte units. Don't worry man.
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I get it it now. Thanks! I was pretty confused lol
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as everywhere ram is Noticed 512Mb but why we have only 390~ MB ??
is rest of mb ram use for system hack ? or 512Mb ram is just fake rumor ?
Use AOSP roms like CM10 and you will get you 512 MB RAM back. Stock ROM reserves RAM for itself.
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Cm10 also have only 380~ MB Ram :'(
Remaining is used as video memory.
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Remaining RAM is allocated for various system tasks which cannot be accessed by your applications and hence it doesn't even show as part of the available free RAM.
Think of your 100 GB HDD. Now partition it into 80 GB for yourself and 20 GB for someone else. You cant use the 20 GB. It's in use for something else already.
thanks to everyone Now i Understand