[Q] Android default RAM percentage. - Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion

Hi,
My old phone was Sony Xperia Neo V and it had 512MB of RAM, in that I used to run MIUI and I, user was able to use ~320 MB of RAM out of 512MB rest was hidden by OS for it's own use. My current phone is Sony Xperia S which has 1GB of RAM and I can see 636MB for my use. This indicates that Android keep for itlself ~40% of total RAM. I feel reserving 40% of RAM is wastage as I was running the same ICS based MIUI on my previous Xperia Neo V in which Android reserved ~200MB of RAM and it used to work pretty smooth. So, my question is how can I change the % of default RAM reserved by Android so that I can save my 200MB of RAM in my current Xperia S, as I believe 200MB of RAM would be sufficient for smooth running of my Xperia S as it was running in Neo V.
Thanks

Are you running an official/unofficial version of CM?
Settings>Performance>Memory management>Check Allow purging of assets, Kernel same page merging and set zRam to the max percentage. That should free quite a bit of RAM.
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sashank said:
Are you running an official/unofficial version of CM?
Settings>Performance>Memory management>Check Allow purging of assets, Kernel same page merging and set zRam to the max percentage. That should free quite a bit of RAM.
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I'm running MIUI 2.11.5, I've nowhere seen such an option in it....
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If it's based on MIUIAndroid Xperia S ROM (which is stock Sony ICS patched) then chances are that the only way you will get more RAM is using a init.d tweak or RAM manager app to change the RAM management/allocation...
I would suggest supercharging the ROM, search for it
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waynekirby said:
If it's based on MIUIAndroid Xperia S ROM (which is stock Sony ICS patched) then chances are that the only way you will get more RAM is using a init.d tweak or RAM manager app to change the RAM management/allocation...
I would suggest supercharging the ROM, search for it
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thanks for the hint, I'm slowly slowly getting my answer..will post here when I'm completely satisfied!

did you manage to get an answer?
i think sony always reserve some of the ram, i can see other manufacturers don't and they are better with multitasking, is there a solution to make use of all the ram that we buy???

hi guys why xperia s shows 685mb ram only:crying:
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Any one please tell me ya,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.

ahumayun83 said:
hi guys why xperia s shows 685mb ram only:crying:
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Any one please tell me ya,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.
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Weird, my shows 1024mb RAM

yUlekk said:
Weird, my shows 1024mb RAM
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Sorry, that was stupid joke. It is normal that your wifes XS shows only 685 RAM, system takes the rest of 1GB.

GPU - 200mb
hardware - 139mb
user/system -685
There are ways to increase but its realy complicated (pro dev level)
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tegr96 said:
did you manage to get an answer?
i think sony always reserve some of the ram, i can see other manufacturers don't and they are better with multitasking, is there a solution to make use of all the ram that we buy???
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Not yet still searching with no success..
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RAM in the roms is not so important. It's multitasking what does the job. Currently im using letema's 4.3 and multitasking is incredible. No lags at all despite (more or less) 670mb of user-availible ram and, belive me, i have many apps installed on my phone. But still im waiting for another version of KitKat from Rayman. People say that (even though there is 620mb user availible ram) it's smooth as hell. So yeah, RAM is not so important. And it's not only me who says that. The devs think the same
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mpiwosal said:
RAM in the roms is not so important. It's multitasking what does the job. Currently im using letema's 4.3 and multitasking is incredible. No lags at all despite (more or less) 670mb of user-availible ram and, belive me, i have many apps installed on my phone. But still im waiting for another version of KitKat from Rayman. People say that (even though there is 620mb user availible ram) it's smooth as hell. So yeah, RAM is not so important. And it's not only me who says that. The devs think the same
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there is nothing to hog ram with AOSP and CM
AOSP will allways be more ram - multitask freindly then CM10+
and finaly official GB will allways be the best for multitasking then anything else ever made for our XS
(with a non modded system and no root)
Gingerbread 80mb used/605 free. after heavy use for 3 days)
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Envious_Data said:
there is nothing to hog ram with AOSP and CM
AOSP will allways be more ram - multitask freindly then CM10+
and finaly official GB will allways be the best for multitasking then anything else ever made for our XS
(with a non modded system and no root)
Gingerbread 80mb used/605 free. after heavy use for 3 days)
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i agree 100%, what i ment is that ram usage may be more efficient even if there is actually less user-availible RAM
BTW: you were supposed to built your own 4.4 rom, isn't that right? how do the things look like right now?

mpiwosal said:
i agree 100%, what i ment is that ram usage may be more efficient even if there is actually less user-availible RAM
BTW: you were supposed to built your own 4.4 rom, isn't that right? how do the things look like right now?
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good/bad
working generaly
has some similar issues with letamas 4.3 (FPS cap breaks and then it starts lagging ( turning on - off screen fixes it)
not working
WiFi
Mobile data
Display driver (kinda works but is mostly broke)
HDMI
Led Light bar
Google apps (may have to make my own Gapps package (cant find a working 4.4 gapps)
Camera (just laggs up right after opening) (and if not it says camera unavailable)
kernel -
recovery (sometimes- moody :/)
info: i googled alot and is currently using a cyannogenmod guide to build this
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Envious_Data said:
good/bad
working generaly
has some similar issues with letamas 4.3 (FPS cap breaks and then it starts lagging ( turning on - off screen fixes it)
not working
WiFi
Mobile data
Display driver (kinda works but is mostly broke)
HDMI
Led Light bar
Google apps (may have to make my own Gapps package (cant find a working 4.4 gapps)
Camera (just laggs up right after opening) (and if not it says camera unavailable)
kernel -
recovery (sometimes- moody :/)
info: i googled alot and is currently using a cyannogenmod guide to build this
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Well that's a lot to improve yet, but keep it up, thanks for the status update fingers crossed for you!

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(Q) v6 supercharger update 9 rc8.2

I had installed v6 supercharger on rooted stock rom .
But am 75% supercharged, and if i used build rather than local will be 100% and is it safe or i will get bootloops
Also after installation temple run lags more than before?
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mohza said:
I had installed v6 supercharger on rooted stock rom .
But am 75% supercharged, and if i used build rather than local will be 100% and is it safe or i will get bootloops
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Go ahead....It will be fast n automatically done
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So its safe to use build and i will get 100 % .. Right
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Yeap...
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Thanks am 100% supercharged now
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Gaming on stock ROM is not that good unless you use ICS CM9
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Ok . But Am waiting for stable cm9 as i need camera
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OK FYI my younger son does not allow GB on my W due to his Gaming Experience
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So i think cm9 is great maybe i will give it a try
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mohza said:
So i think cm9 is great maybe i will give it a try
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Check this running on GB
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PlqEHDcMLU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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why everytime i want to use the script supercharged RC8 at Rebel ROM and I've installed busybox version 1.19 when I run it through a script manager always fails and "busybox not found" Can anyone help me?
Use busybox not busybox installer and use v 1.19.4
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mohza said:
Use busybox not busybox installer and use v 1.19.4
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Srericson BusyBox
This will allow you to uninstall existing busybox install, and then install latest bb version.....I think now V 1.20.1
It is an Installer, as Busybox is GNU Public License s/w maintained by Denys Vlasenko....
For BusyBox info see http://busybox.net
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Ok . But Am waiting for stable cm9 as i need camera
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I'm using the rebel rom 3.0.6 and temple run goes really well!
Can i install ram manager with v6 supercharger?
Also which is better to use alone?
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can someone tell me what really v6 supercharge does to our Wonder? and what is needed to install and how. thanks.
kemaro30 said:
can someone tell me what really v6 supercharge does to our Wonder? and what is needed to install and how. thanks.
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It makes the phone run faster and smoother by adjusting the Low Memory Killer values. So it keeps a minimum amount of free memory so that the current activity will be smooth and lag free. In my case I've also removed a lot of bloatware(all Samsung hubs,etc) to free up the memory and together with the V6 script my stock ROM runs very smooth. This is the main thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991276
PS: I advise you choose the suggested minfree values using the built in super minfree calculator. These are working nicely for me.
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Can i install ram manager with v6 supercharger?
Also which is better to use alone?
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Will be any conflicts ?
Any replies
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2g11 said:
It makes the phone run faster and smoother by adjusting the Low Memory Killer values. So it keeps a minimum amount of free memory so that the current activity will be smooth and lag free. In my case I've also removed a lot of bloatware(all Samsung hubs,etc) to free up the memory and together with the V6 script my stock ROM runs very smooth. This is the main thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991276
PS: I advise you choose the suggested minfree values using the built in super minfree calculator. These are working nicely for me.
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is it like the RAM Manger PRO? can switch to balance to gaming to multitasking by adjusting the free memory? so you aren't experiencing any lag even once?
kemaro30 said:
is it like the RAM Manger PRO? can switch to balance to gaming to multitasking by adjusting the free memory? so you aren't experiencing any lag even once?
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Never used RAM Manager so can't say much about it. The lag will never be 100% gone purely because this is android and it's memory management is designed to work in a way that results in some amount of lag. But I must say it is almost lag free. Very good.
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how much RAM free in your Arc/S have?

1. How much RAM free you got in your phone?
2.Which RAM you guys using?
Thank you, it is for reference only
tonylcc said:
2.Which RAM you guys using?
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What do you mean by that?
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with cm7 using my pro i have 200mb free
with miui v4 my pro has 120mb free
i dont use stock roms
tonylcc said:
1. How much RAM free you got in your phone?
2.Which RAM you guys using?
Thank you, it is for reference only
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about 150 Mb free and I don't used virtual ram.
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lzzar said:
What do you mean by that?
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physical ram or vitual ram (on Swap Partition).
I use GB 2.3.4 with Arconium 8.2 and Doom kernel and when i force stop apps that i dont use i get 240-250 mb free ram after fresh restart without restart i get 200 mb.
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Arconium gb with 160 mb ram free
stock ics with 95MB free
Sorry , my typo
It should be which ROM
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stock ics .587, cleaned by me, +70 apps,
With working Nova launcher, Swype keyboard, fancy widgets, fb + messenger and mail synchro -> 100MB free
Without fb and messenger - about 150MB.
So I don't need more, and I don't get that pointless fight for "free RAM"
tonylcc said:
Sorry , my typo
It should be which ROM
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Sax. I think JELLY SANDWICH is good.
I use Rom Acorium 8.2, When I reboot phone, It have 220mb ram free.

[Q]good ics

I search a ICS rom with good battery good performance and no bugs can someone help me?
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there is currently no free bugs ics rom....
EDIT: i search an ICS rom with Touch wiz 4or 3 and minimal - no bugs
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AOKP M6 is quite good, it's the most stable 4.x out for Gio.
-Fast, lightweight (120MB free on internal after install)
-Every major function working stable
-Camera working including autofocus and camcorder (with 3rd party camcorder app)
-ROM is crash free with minfree set at least 50MB
-Battery lasts 1 day on heavy usage, 2 day on normal usage
I'm using it almost for a month, after trying at least 20 different GB and 3 other ICS/JB roms since July which all had serious bugs except Enhanced236.
The only problem is GTalk FC, but there are a lot other working 3rd party clients.
I'm using Erickas' CM9 for a week and I didn't change it yet, so it's kinda good rom.
Just once, my status bar disappeared but it came back in a minute.
I deleted some system apps that I don't use, so I freed up some space.
Ram usage is quite high, but hey, it's CM9 on our Gio.
larsstone said:
I search a ICS rom with good battery good performance and no bugs can someone help me?
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I'm using AOKP M6, its the best responsive ICS rom at the moment.
I'm using it with s2e and i have about 140mb of free ram.
Its a real nice rom.
movfan said:
I'm using AOKP M6, its the best responsive ICS rom at the moment.
I'm using it with s2e and i have about 140mb of free ram.
Its a real nice rom.
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I am using the latest Jellaxy build available. Very great work, almost free of bugs on most phones. Depending on how many apps used at the same time, sometimes a bit laggy but ready for everyday use, I think. Using it since a few months
Aokp m6 is really good but i search ics rom with touch wiz 4
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Touchwiz4 cannot run on gio, can use touchwis5 theme on my aokp
Really how?
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I'm using aurora. No bugs but when you choose holo launcher as launcher it looks like ics. Good performance. Overclocking possible.
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[Q] Suggestion for a custom kernel/rom

Hi guys:
I bough a Xperia PLAY and got it yesterday. Previously I had a Motorola Milestone CM 7.2.
I really hate all the bloatware sony put on the phone. I have 190 MB RAM (that's a waste of more than half RAM) and 220 MB (almost half internal storage available), so it's a waste of resources.
I need a custom kernel/rom wich gives me
- Speed
- Full control support (touchpads too)
- Max memory
- Max internal space
- Overclocking
- Undervolt
- Camera
- Flash
- Video
- GPS
- Sensors
I try FreeXperia 149 CM9 and I HATE IT, slow, no tethering, no touchpads, circle button problem.
I'm open to suggestions.
Nxt LE with lupus gb kernel and enhanced .58 firmware
Best speed gaming performance ect and everything works camera GPS ect
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This ROM with DooMLord kernel v14 will satisfy you
[ROM] DiXperia 2 'Everlasting' | Performance. Stability. Experience. | 04.09.2012
ILikeTheWayYouMove2 said:
Nxt LE with lupus gb kernel and enhanced .58 firmware
Best speed gaming performance ect and everything works camera GPS ect
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I would like to try this, but I have to flash firmware and there is no 58 for R800a...
skyx26 said:
I would like to try this, but I have to flash firmware and there is no 58 for R800a...
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You don't have to its just suggested
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ILikeTheWayYouMove2 said:
You don't have to its just suggested
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True but it can cause problems with data/gsm signal. Your always better off using the recommended baseband as stated in the threads OP
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Signature tells all.
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Thanks for answering.
I bough R800a because of bands used by 3G in my country, so if I mess with radios probably I will get stuck without 3G.
Right now I'm trying Dixperia 2 with my stock radio (42), no problems so far.
I'm really enjoying Gamer 4 Rom ICS with doomlord kernel. Plays games great, full touchpad support, video and photo, plus all the ICS goodness. Slight lag. I recommend.

Ram issues - P.A.C ROM 4.2.2

Hey guys i have some problems with games on my current rom (such as clash of clans which is vital for me). I think they are related to ram (always under 100mb free ).
Which rom can you recommend me with low ram usage ??
Thanks you in advance
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This is old now forget (meanwhile thanks for the support ?), i got a N5 and it's one hell of a beast with absolutely no ram issue...
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