Im totally suprised because I though that the HTC Jade (touch 3G) has 192MB of RAM but the system does only use 123mb of it :S Is this normal and if, why?
I made some screenshots of my system one showing from the settings and the other from mobile taskmanager...
Thanks for the answers!
If you didn't bring this up, I would have never known about that. lol
I'm assuming the rest of the RAM is for the video, but someone please confirm. Thanks!
On all devices(depending on the ROM you use) your actual available program RAM at startup is decreased from the actual hardwares amount.
For instance, the fuze/touch pro has 288 MB RAM, but when you start the device up you get about 200MB free RAM. With the custom ROM i'm using i actually only get 189.00 MB free Program RAM.
As to what occupies the seemingly unused space, i'm unaware of. All i know is it seems to be taken up by the ROM image.
Hope this helps.
so.. ist there any possibility to hack those unused space of ram with an custom rom or something? I mean 60MB makes about 50% of the ram which is currently used :S
Am I the only one? Is there anyone else noting less RAM then 192mb with his Touch3G?
You can't "hack" it. some ROMs use less RAM and you get a nicer bigger amount of it since your OS takes less space.. you can find a ROM for your device with more RAM space... that's the best you can do.
Everything I have seen on the internet (including HTC's own specs page) shows the EVO SHift having 512 MB of RAM. However, it seems as if my system only has 368 MB (as detected by V6 Supercharger and a couple hardware info apps I downloaded from the market). Does anybody know why this would be the case? My phone is newer (just got it a little over a month ago). Could HTC have lessened the amount of RAM in the new Shifts?
Also, I am running MikShifted-G v1.6 if that makes any difference.
Mine says I have 367,haha, i believe it might only show total available after all the system android stuff... I am probally wrong because I have AOSP which is so much smaller and less bloated that your sense and i have less.. Haha.. But idk... Just speculation
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mine shows,
internal 452/321 free
rom 410/91.9 free
This might help explain things better
]http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=904023[/URL]
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Thanks for the link, but I'm just talking about total RAM, not amount free. Everything indicates I have 368 MB of RAM (not internal storage or ROM or anything, but actual RAM). The Evo Shift supposedly has 512 MB, but I know the HTC Merge has 368 MB, so I was wondering if they lowered the RAM on the newer Shifts.
To check the RAM, download the app Android System Info. It is not Internal Memory, but RAM. Mine says Max 368 MB.
My mistake
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Has anyone added more ram? Ive seen 1 gig sticks for$38. I might have to try if noone else has. Curious if it might speed the shift up.?
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They're talking about internal memory on the phone. Are you talking about an sdcard?
Its possible the gpu has an amount dedicated to it that will not be shown. Sort of like checking the ram on a laptop will show less than the stated specs
probably there is other thread about this but I don't find it...why on my nexus S I have usually only 80/100mb of free ram whilethe phone has 512mb?
edit: probably I post on the wrong section (excuse me, if you need move the thread)
thank you
kikko088
Because the system only can use 340 aprox
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kikko088 said:
probably there is other thread about this but I don't find it...why on my nexus S I have usually only 80/100mb of free ram whilethe phone has 512mb?
edit: probably I post on the wrong section (excuse me, if you need move the thread)
thank you
kikko088
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Because you let a lot of apps to run in the background. Anyway, relax. Android is smarter than you think. If memory reaches 0 it does its thing to free some more
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Because the system only can use 340 aprox
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^He speakest the truth
after reboot: sms, music open, (I use notifierpro for sms notific) 4 widget (5 day weather, gmail, extdatewidget and puremusic widget)...66mb free... my brother with hd2 have alway 120/150mb with more open app than me.
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after reboot: sms, music open, (I use notifierpro for sms notific) 4 widget (5 day weather, gmail, extdatewidget and puremusic widget)...66mb free... my brother with hd2 have alway 120/150mb with more open app than me.
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First of all, ns has 512 mb memory, and there is aprox. 160 doesn't displaies in system but system uses , so actually it's 160 plus 66, totally 226 mb free
Second, android has very different memory management besides Microsoft windows
For android, it's less free memory available, phone runs faster (ordinary, not all cases ) because you apps have been pre-loaded into momery instead of load it from disk (like background ) when some app requires more memory system will kill older or no used application to free memory
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I always have 155-165mb free on stock ics / stock kernel, with 122 apps installed.
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I always have 155-165mb free on stock ics / stock kernel, with 122 apps installed.
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Maybe in settings, if you use a real monitoring app (like quick system info) you'll see much less.
hd2 with ICS , however thank for the info!
Windows does the same. Like android, it will show how much is actively used up-front, and say that ram that is cached for later use is 'free'. Generally, you'll be using over 90% of ram, as free ram is wasted ram. However, what android tells you is free is just the first part of ram which will be cleared and replaced with the task at hand.
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Windows does the same. Like android, it will show how much is actively used up-front, and say that ram that is cached for later use is 'free'. Generally, you'll be using over 90% of ram, as free ram is wasted ram. However, what android tells you is free is just the first part of ram which will be cleared and replaced with the task at hand.
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windows ? only lateres version have that function , look back at win98 , win ME, win 2000 , win XP ... you will know ...
win 7 is good , i didn't use win Vista , directly jump from XP to 7 ...
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my first computer was Celeron 433 MHz + 32 MB RAM with windows 98se ... and first laptop is 1.5 GHz + 256 MB RAM with win XP, i have to reboot it every few hours in order to get more memory , and it finally got better when i pulg-in an additional 512 MB RAM ...
and now , i5 M480 2.67 GHz with 8 GB RAM ... never worry about memory anymore
I'm fairly certain this has been happening for many generations of windows so far, it is just not obvious to the user as much as Linux. Check out task managers performance tab.
All true about linux mem-management being a bit different than windows'. Just one more thing:
Spec sheet says the nexus s has 512 mb of ram. What it doesn't say is that 128 mb are always reserved for the gpu, leaving 384 available to the system.
GPU needs that kinda much mem ? well, kinda doubt it
what i heard is that some part of these 512 MB is special format of Samsung its own , so system doesn't recognize it
You doubt a huge chunk of ram being reserved for gpu (ever heard of "shared memory"?!), but at the same time it makes perfect sense for you that Samsung uses some special mem-format only their phones can access...
Makes me rather doubt you instead. ^^
Caliban2 speaks the truth. 128mb of the 512mb is being used for the GPU cache.
After my lollipop update in my nexus 5 it was do smooth for the first few days.. But suddenly now it showing some lagging in my phone. When I am using an app and suddenly comes to home-screen the it shows a little lag. When i checked the ram usage... System itself using .98 GB of ram... And other 500 MB ram by my apps.. And only 400 MB is free. In kitkat I had got more than 900 MB free ram.. What should I do.. Now its lagging device... Please help me... Thanks in advance...: :crying: confused:
Reboot the phone while standing on one leg, that should fix it.
Repeat ad libitum
Hi People!!
I have a silly question. I have seen in the Clean Master app, that the mini has 780 mb Ram . According to the specifications the mini has 1 GB.. Can anyone explain to me why I can see only 780 Mb instead of 1 GB? Take the Rom the rest of the ram until 1 Gb? Is there a problem in my mini? or is it normal?
Thanks in advance for your answers!!
rest is for system processes or some bull****, but in all honesty, i don't think the One Mini has 1GB either.. since the amount of ram left after a clean install is bare minimum..
Hi @sausje85, thanks for your answer. It's a pity to know that the phone doesn't have 1 GB ram. [emoji22]