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[Q] Is my RAM usage 387/784MB normal?

I'm assuming some is being used by the OS

Part of the ram is reserved for the gpu in every android phone
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How much RAM are you showing?
my phone says I have 784mb of ram, I thought we were supposed to have 1GB. Can you guys check your phone please?
I checked in manage applications and using Elixir.
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Same here
Samsung hercules! !

You're always using ram,so you'll never see 1gb free because processes and apps are using it.
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jburnette87 said:
You're always using ram,so you'll never see 1gb free because processes and apps are using
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On another bubble bursting note, the International & AT&T Galaxy S IIs, both show 837MB of RAM.

ronj1986 said:
On another bubble bursting note, the International & AT&T Galaxy S IIs, both show 837MB of RAM.
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Isn't some of the RAM allocated to the GPU? The Adreno 220 might require more RAM relative to the Mali as doesn't the Mali have its own dedicated RAM?
Just wondering.

Here's my info
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Mine also shows 784mb. I think its all that Tmobile bloatware. I hear most of them are installed as part of the system so they are all taking up that RAM. It should be around 830 shouldn't it? if root is available this should be fixed right?

Painguy said:
Mine also shows 784mb. I think its all that Tmobile bloatware. I hear most of them are installed as part of the system so they are all taking up that RAM. It should be around 830 shouldn't it? if root is available this should be fixed right?
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Yes with root it will help bump up ram, but we will not get full access to the advertised 1gb of ram.
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OuncE718 said:
Yes with root it will help bump up ram, but we will not get full access to the advertised 1gb of ram.
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of course thats a given. that unavailable amount is used by the GPU & system correct?

784 here too. On a side note, I found something running called "tethering manager" & "wi-fi sharing manager", so maybe they're whats stopping people from tethering freely.

Painguy said:
of course thats a given. that unavailable amount is used by the GPU & system correct?
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Yes, your correct. Android OS is built to multitask so the system has many different apps running in the background at all times to help certain system apps to loud up immediately etc.
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The international and AT&T's Galaxy SII don't have all that crap on their phone. Ours has so much bloatware that's using the RAM that's why we're at 784. If you remove all the crapware that T-mobile put you'll get 837 too.

Mine shows 1.932GB of system storage.
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RAM amount
Can someone with Terminal installed or adb shell access on their GSII tell me the amount of total RAM reported by the "free" command?
Thanks!
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Wow. I love it!
Thank you!
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Greetings:
I wonder if my ram usage is normal. I currently have 387 / 784MB. It occupies more than 50% even though I don't have any active application running. Why is that? What do you have?
Thanks.

Yep, that's what I'm seeing as well.

Anyway to increase the 1g of RAM on this phone, or any similar phone for that matter?

Just wondering. Don't really need it.
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Well, I suppose you can always use a swap file. But honestly, with 1gb of ram on an android phone, (and no memory hogging htc sense or similar), why would you want to?

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Adding more ram doesn't effect performance, unless there isn't enough ram in the system to begin with and it's fighting to keep up. With this phone, 1gb is way more than enough. Ram that never gets used is wasted ram. Now, if we only had 512mb of ram in this phone, I could see that getting used up.

i used to have RAM problem on the Nexus S (i always ended up with only 60 MB free) and other devices with less than 512 MB
but not with this T989, i've got lots of free RAM, which is perfect
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There isn't a need for more ram on the s2... I multitask like crazy and there is still no lag. 1GB is more than enough for phones. But if you wanted more, you would have to find a manufacturer to build a ram card bigger than 1GB and find a way to swap it out for this current one because i'm 100% sure there isn't an extra ram slot
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I have no had a problem with insufficient ram.
I have gotten it to 200mb of free space before but thats it.

I'll go ahead and answer your question straight.
No. The Snapdragon (and SoC's in most smartphones) are usually Package-on-Package, which means the RAM chip is soldered directly onto the CPU. It's highly unlikely you would be able to remove and replace the RAM without being destructive to the CPU, or accidentally removing the CPU. Since the CPU is BGA, if the CPU came off, you would have to reball the pads to resolder it to the mainboard.

There is plenty of free ram **** i almost have 512mb free. Also using faux123 kernel
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I'll go ahead and answer your question straight.
No. The Snapdragon (and SoC's in most smartphones) are usually Package-on-Package, which means the RAM chip is soldered directly onto the CPU. It's highly unlikely you would be able to remove and replace the RAM without being destructive to the CPU, or accidentally removing the CPU. Since the CPU is BGA, if the CPU came off, you would have to reball the pads to resolder it to the mainboard.
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In otherwords no lol

1.6GB free.
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There is plenty of free ram **** i almost have 512mb free. Also using faux123 kernel
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chib1panda said:
1.6GB free.
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Haha it looks good but we mean ram not sd storage lol hit the running tab then see

Oh haha.
sarni84 said:
Haha it looks good but we mean ram not sd storage lol hit the ram tab then see
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mstrk242 said:
Well, I suppose you can always use a swap file. But honestly, with 1gb of ram on an android phone, (and no memory hogging htc sense or similar), why would you want to?
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How to set that up?
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How to set that up?
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The kernel needs to support it. Honestly I don't see any kernel devs adding swap support with us having 1gb of ram. That is WAY more than enough. Anyone who thinks they need more is still thinking in terms of windows memory management not linux.

Just curious why you feel you need free RAM. That is just wasted.
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jsapp said:
Just curious why you feel you need free RAM. That is just wasted.
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The OP doesn't need it. He just wanted to know if it was possible. Someone mentioned swap files which is something I haven't heard of since the days of the G1. I'm glad these phone manufacturers are building more than enough RAM into these phones these days. More RAM paired with better memory management makes it difficult, if not impossible, to run into low RAM issues.

Internal storage read speed started to decrease a lot?

[Solved!]
When I first got my N7105. The internal SD card read speed was great
over 50MB/s read speed, Then it dropped to 48MB/s after few days.
Today I ran Antutu benchmark and other SD card tester.
It decreased to 28MB/s read.
The write speed is intact though,around 19-22MB/s from day one till now.
Anyone knows why and how to restore the read speed back to where it should be?
little info
Rom: Wanamite 1.1
Kernel: Perseus alpha 32
capacity: 6.6GB free space(out of 10.12GB)
Thanks!

Change the kernel

nabilsweet007 said:
Change the kernel
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So it's kernel related? Thanks for the answer

Update the firmware
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Firmware? You mean like other roma, kernela, modem ?
By the way I tried different kernel(NEAK) just now, didn't make any difference.
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No you can just update to wanam 3 (I see you currently use it. )
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UtkarshGupta said:
No you can just update to wanam 3 (I see you currently use it. )
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I am using N7105, I see v3 only support N7100?
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anyone has more opinion on how to solve this? Thanks

Oh sorry I thought you are on old rom.
Wanam 1.1 for n7105 is equivalent to wanam 3 for n7100
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How much free space do you have?

EarlZ said:
How much free space do you have?
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The total space of Internal Storage is 10.12GB
Now I have 6.6GB free space.
So I only used up roughly 35% of the total space.

darkinners said:
The total space of Internal Storage is 10.12GB
Now I have 6.6GB free space.
So I only used up roughly 35% of the total space.
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Default is 10.46 gb
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darkinners said:
The total space of Internal Storage is 10.12GB
Now I have 6.6GB free space.
So I only used up roughly 35% of the total space.
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Its more than enough free space, what app are you using to benchmark again ?

Bro do two things.
Install sd speed increase and set cache to 2048 or 4096...and install sd cared test..u will se thw difference

UtkarshGupta said:
Default is 10.46 gb
it's weird, mine says 10.12GB. I am using Wanamite V1.1 rom and Perseus kernel, could it be them?
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EarlZ said:
Its more than enough free space, what app are you using to benchmark again ?
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I was using SDcard Tester and Antutu benchmark. Both report same speed.
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Bro do two things.
Install sd speed increase and set cache to 2048 or 4096...and install sd cared test..u will se thw difference
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Yeah I will try to edit the build.prop and increase the read ahead if I can't find the cause. This is my last resort.
Because in my experience increase read ahead that much will have negative effect as well. IE read really small files speed will decrease.
read larger files will have speed boost though.

Solved!!!
For god knows why, I uninstalled GTA III and delete it's game package/data.
The internal storage read speed back to over 50MB/s ..
I thought it's really weird :/
Thanks for all of you tried to help

Super freaking dicking low ram

I don't know why this just little apps consume a WTF number of ram of my phone...is there any hidden apps eating up my ram?The cache background apps don't have anything to be cache...and my browsers (ALL browser including Dolphin,stock,and Opera) keep crashing....
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I have done uninstalling all of the bloatware but this $£€¥|| keep happening...is there any apps that can see what thing is consuming my ram?
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Wow, that's some seriously low RAM. And I get pissed when my RAM goes below 200MB. LOL.
BTW, do you need like 5 browsers installed?

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I don't know why this just little apps consume a WTF number of ram of my phone...is there any hidden apps eating up my ram?The cache background apps don't have anything to be cache...and my browsers (ALL browser including Dolphin,stock,and Opera) keep crashing....View attachment 1857127
I have done uninstalling all of the bloatware but this $£€¥|| keep happening...is there any apps that can see what thing is consuming my ram?
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Unisntall all the apps that you don't use.. And try one app Google it, for check the status apps in hope this could help, or use a custom rom, that's a great opción too
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revan17 said:
Wow, that's some seriously low RAM. And I get pissed when my RAM goes below 200MB. LOL.
BTW, do you need like 5 browsers installed?
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Well,stock browser if I wanna download YouTube video (it can prompt me),Opera for fast web surfing but low and not so great design but Dolphin for everyday use
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segads said:
Unisntall all the apps that you don't use.. And try one app Google it, for check the status apps in hope this could help, or use a custom rom, that's a great opción too
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How does the uninstall apps that I don't use will help me gain my ram?
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UchihaDareNial said:
How does the uninstall apps that I don't use will help me gain my ram?
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Because Android caches apps in the background. More apps installed, more apps cached = lower RAM. Less installed apps, less cached apps = more RAM. Preloading apps in cache equals faster load times for apps, but Android can't know which apps you use mostly so all apps get cached(my opinion is Google apps have higher priority), thus you get lower RAM. Logic would say, uninstall all apps you don't use so only apps you need get preloaded.

revan17 said:
Because Android caches apps in the background. More apps installed, more apps cached = lower RAM. Less installed apps, less cached apps = more RAM. Preloading apps in cache equals faster load times for apps, but Android can't know which apps you use mostly so all apps get cached(my opinion is Google apps have higher priority), thus you get lower RAM. Logic would say, uninstall all apps you don't use so only apps you need get preloaded.
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I see....well,I fixed it by just rebooting my phone...thanks for helps anyway,all of you guys
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Low ram

Please help! I don't know why my phone is running low on ram. I'm using greenify donate and fast reboot pro but still running low on ram. Apps like browser, gangstar Vegas and rr3 always crashes! I'm so frustrated with this phone!
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Try removing the bloatware if you run too many apps, will help you free some ram
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also setting your oom values to agresive should start killing apps more
i found that ram cleaners were the cause of my lack of ram
so i stopped using them, i have also learned to delete apps i dont use
these few things should help
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I've removed Google+ and I'll try to remove other apps like Google search. I hope it will work
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You can root ur device and can use link2sd to link all your apps yo sdcard .Hope this will help
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0,o That's Weird!
luigi0824 said:
Please help! I don't know why my phone is running low on ram. I'm using greenify donate and fast reboot pro but still running low on ram. Apps like browser, gangstar Vegas and rr3 always crashes! I'm so frustrated with this phone!View attachment 2525583
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Check my attachment, I too have an Xperia S, and at the moment I'm running over 17 apps, you see the scroll bar on the screenshot right?? and I still have around 150mb of RAM free.. If you don't mind, can you upload a screenshot of the cached processes? It's most probably bloatware.. If you can upload the screenshot.. We can figure out what eats up your RAM so much.. and remove those bloatware.. :good:

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Do you use tapatalk very often? it seems to be consuming a lot of ram.. If your phone has any apps that you don't really use, remove them.. saves up ram and space..

Do you use Tasker by any chance.. If no then you should give it a try.. It really helps you to manage majority of things all together.. Like for example: you using SetCPU for profile triggers, same thing can me done with Tasker plus it consumes less ram.. And can use greenify through it.. As it is a plugin of Tasker..
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Envious_Data said:
also setting your oom values to agresive should start killing apps more
i found that ram cleaners were the cause of my lack of ram
so i stopped using them, i have also learned to delete apps i dont use
these few things should help
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How do you set your oom to agresive?
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You can use apps like android tuner to change your values to agressive
(see attatchment)
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Download GREENIFY App from play store
Its an awesome app, you can hibernate downloaded apps which you dont use it oftenly
like games browser etc
Disclaimer dont hibernate messaging apps like Whatsapp, Viber wechat link etc
I am sure this will help u alot

Use Tasker to integrate other apps like SetCPU, Task killer, battery saver, etc..
It will help you a lot to increase your ram usage..
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