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How about making swap on cappy ?

I don't know if anyone ever thought about making swap on cappy . I just feel a bit of shortage in ram, even I use talon big mem version still feel inadequate. What I am thinking is to make swap on external sdcard because it's faster, anyone can help me with it? Thanks in advance.
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are you talking about a memory swap file?
"make swap" isnt too descriptive.
SD cards under class 6 are slower than our "ram"
if you feel inadequate with a big mem version of talon, you have something wrong.
adding another process to constantly read/write and swap files would be THE LAST THING you would want to do with your phone....

Android is pretty efficient at managing memory .... and swap files are well, terrible when you have high speed storage (ssd's, nand,) and for the class on the sd cards it is misleading. A lot of cards have algorithms that help improve their read speeds, with SSD (or NAND) you want to see the random IO speeds for reads and writes (class speeds are for reads)
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I mean memory swap.
And I have a class 10 card(tested read 20M/s and write 18M/s).
Thanks for your answersI'll think about it either way.

Does the captivate even have quick enough i/o to support class 10? And either way, like mentioned before Android IS very efficient at managing memory, which shows in their design of activities (read: onResume(), onPause(), onCreate(), onDestroy()). If your foreground app requires more memory than the system can provide, lower activities on the stack will be told to pause or destroy until a later time to free up memory.
If your phone's performance is suffering, it's most likely a processing issue. Perhaps you have some nasty services running (this could also be reflected in poor battery life).

[Q] Ram,rom and micro sd question

I'm getting this phone soon but just a couple questions.
Ive heard that the sensation has low available ram issues (probably sense?) but when/if a stock rom comes that should be fixed right?
Also since the avalible rom is pretty low. Would a class 10 micro sd be good for running data2sd (once we have root) were the whole data partion is on the sd.
is class 10 faster then the built in rom?

Having class10 won't make such a big difference (I purchased a class10 16Gb card and did not see any improvement compared to my class4) except that it will be faster to place big files (movies, etc) on the card
Concerning RAM, it's true that stock ROMs don't really manage it well, mainly because they start many apps in the background. Some can be killed, some will always come back after killed.
So once I've killed the useless apps after a fresh reboot, I can get a maximum of 350Mo free RAM, that tend to go to an average 250Mo after some hours of use.
Android 2.3 is not that bad in managing RAM (despite stock ROMs are) so I had low ram having a visible impact on something only once, when wanting to play Tekken 3 with Fpse and realized it was lagging because of low ram. My sensation was not laggy, only Fpse was, it demands much ressoruces! (I hadn't rebooted my Sensation for 3 days, that was the reason for low ram....now, I reboot it every 2 days, and no more problem)
So RAM is ok, if it gets kinda low, you won't notice it, and Android will tend to release ram afterwards, and once we'll have custom roms, it will be huge!

1 GB or 2 GB?

I'm gonna use this phone for browsing the web, whatsapp, facebook, and casual gaming. Is 1 GB ram gonna be absolutely enough?

I required a phone quickly for my holiday and was unable to wait for stock of 2gb version. Yes I would have liked to have the extra but everything I have tried on the handset has worked fine.
All okay the phone is very nippy.
web, whatsapp, facebook,
As for casual gaming any games you want me to test?

2gb

what is the idle ram usage?

2GB - but in EU the start price is horrify and some weeks later started to sell the 2GB dual-sim variants.

Hello,
Some time between Android 4.4.x and 5.x, Google added extra fat to its app.
I suggest the minimum specs: 2 GB RAM and 16 GB internal memory.

2gb is def worth the money. in the states it's only a $40 difference to double the storage and the RAM. if you're jumping between apps, you'll appreciate the extra RAM

If you only use the phone for email, browsing, navigation, texting, etc. Then 1GB is fine. But if you do a lot of multitasking then 2GB will be a lot better.

thank you all...i'm now getting the 16 gb model....

Off course 2Gb for best performance

2GB.
You won't be pressed for internal storage space and multi-tasking.

Ram usage high

I have stock T-Mobile 7 pro running on 9.5.5.gm31cb my os Ron's 6.7gb of ram to 7gb crazy anyone else having issue

This isn't an issue. Unused RAM is wasted RAM.

Also, it occurs to me, If you have the RAM optimizer turned on, then the phone is doing its job.

don't have that on think there's issue with mine I never keep that on

Same here. I was really confused when seeing it but I think it's because of the RAM boost and, as a user said here: Unused RAM is a waste.
I didn't see any lags or something to worry, so these values have to be because of some features ?

RAM Boost enabled. Let's put those 8 gigs of RAM to good use.

ecompton59 said:
I have stock T-Mobile 7 pro running on 9.5.5.gm31cb my os Ron's 6.7gb of ram to 7gb crazy anyone else having issue
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That's not normal. Even with Samsungs bloat on my note 9 it's never more than 4gb.

All depends on personal use.. maybe fella using some ram intensive apps, games etc, mine sits at 4.4 which is the same as coming from 6t

My 6t I still have it's way faster then 7 pro it scores way higher on benchmark test but it is rooted and Smurf kernel

Question about ram plus option plz ?

hey guys ! so we all have the ram plus so we can increase it up to 8 gb
my question is if i increase it to 8 ram more will it bee better ? (smoother stronger more stable) im not playing games just for daily use
what do you say?

all the ram plus does is reserve a part of your storage to put the less used apps when using some ram intensive apps. so app switching should be faster if you use the 12gb of ram your phone comes with. but other than that i find no point to even having it enabled so i turned it off for myself via adb because i have yet to come across a reason to need more ram than that in my daily use. i did test my limits with just the 12gb by having two games running in floating window, discord in floating window and a twitch stream all at once. i did notice some lag at that point but i just wanted to see if i could.

To turn it off, have to be rooted?

goldt said:
To turn it off, have to be rooted?
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