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More ram?

Is there a app or a way to partition the internal memory to use as system ram? I use Swapper for root but it just doesn't work as well as I'd like. I know they loomed into a while back and concluded that the speed of the memory wouldn't work for processing ram. Anyone know?
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Scientifically impossible. However, there are apps which use memory "like" ram, to enhance performance(they are not really that much of improvement) but I believe 1GB is enough for doing anything possible on a phone.

Try this :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2145133

How to increase your internal Ram By Swaping

HEY XDA DEVELOPERS
today my thread is about increasing ram
Your phone’s RAM is a very essential component which plays a vital role in the speed and the performance. if you have more RAM, it means the processor have more storage capacity to process more and more temporary functioning files, and hence it can freely work which ensures the device is fast enough. But if your RAM is low, the processing power of the device is affected. Like if you have a low RAM< you won’t be able to play high end games on your Android Smartphone, or even ti might lag while doing simple tasks such as seeing a video, typing a text etc. So if you are suffering from low RAM, and want to get rid, you are at the right place. By reading this post you will be able to know how could I increase the RAM
Things before increasing RAM ::laugh:
Before you actually start out to increase the RAM of your smartphone there are a couple of things you need to know. In this post we will use a app to increase the RAM and this app requires root access to your phone. So make sure you root your phone before starting out. Also note that there are some issues with this app as roof uses a swap file that will be made on your SD card and hence used as ram but as some of the Android smartphones so not support swap file so this app won’t be functional in that case, so before starting out make sure your device supports swap file. You can check the device compatibility with swap file using this app. If it says it fits support follow the steps in the post to increase the RAM of your Android smartphone otherwise you can also increase the RAM of your smartphone using the link below and the link below will also work for unrooted users so in case you are unwilling to root your device to increase RAM you can also follow the below tutorial.
ROEHSOFT RAM EXPANDER :
This RAM expander app is one of the best app available in the play store which allows you to easily increase the RAM of your Android smartphone. So let’s begin with the process to increase RAM using ROEHSOFT RAM EXPANDER. Have a look at some of the features of this app to increase RAM of your device.
1 Swap memory file upto 4 GB ( In simple words it can increase ram by 4 GB depending on your device and memory card too)
2 Widget for PNP swap
3 Detailed analysis of your memory and details about it
4 Swappiness kernel parameter already set.
5 Very easy to use and create swap file and really simple interface
6 It will work with most of the Android devices.
Download from attached files
Pre-requisites :
Here is a list of things we will need before starting the process to increase RAM.
A rooted android phone, so if you haven’t yet rooted your phone first root your device as this method only works with root access to your device.
ROEHSOFT RAM EXPANDER app, you can get this app from play store but you need to know that this is not a free app. (though you can number of apk files for this app but most of them won’t work due to license issues but you can try them, if they worked it will be your luck ).
An external memory SD card installed on your phone.
How to Use ROEHSOFT RAM Expander :
So file the steps below to increase the RAM of your Android smartphone now.
Install the app on your device on which you wish to increase RAM
Now after installing the app choose your default language.
Now to increase RAM create a SWAP file by clicking on the SWAP Active and enabling it
After the process is finished just click on the grey colored box and activate the swap file created.
Congratulations you have successfully increased the RAM of your Android smartphone.
This increased ram will not show in the task manager but you can feel the change with the overall performance of the device which seems to be boost up. If you already have a decent ram them got might need to run some very heavy game to know the difference in performance. So I hope this post helped you in increasing the RAM of your Android smartphone.

zram or swapfile?

hi all, I have a little question on s4 mini duos I9192.
using "free" or "meminfo" commands displays memory informations, the phisical ram displayed is 1,3 gb but the phone is declared 1,5 gb confused , so I thought it will be some zram but analising the memory its not zram.
by the way there is a swapfile of 1gb.
please can someone confirm this? I am playing with swappiness value and I must be sure if I touch zram or swapfile
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I'm guessing your using stock os as that uses a 1gb swap file. Zram is kernel dependant and I don't think stock makes use of this. Although our phones have 1.5gb RAM some of this is stolen by Android OS. The same with our 8gb storage which part of is stolen by Android again leaving us with around 5.5gb.
Would like to know how you get on with different swapiness values, and which you decided to settle on.

RuffBuster said:
I'm guessing your using stock os as that uses a 1gb swap file. Zram is kernel dependant and I don't think stock makes use of this. Although our phones have 1.5gb RAM some of this is stolen by Android OS. The same with our 8gb storage which part of is stolen by Android again leaving us with around 5.5gb.
Would like to know how you get on with different swapiness values, and which you decided to settle on.
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Thanks, yes I'm on stock.
I noticed that the 1gb swapfile is little used; with swappiness 100 swapfile is used about 200mb and with swpss 20 about 40mb both after 1 day of use;
Also the used part tends to accumulate and grow from boot but I shutoff phone at night so swapfile resets at boot.
My idea was to delete swapfile to recovery space bit I can't, swapoff doesn't work.
Anyway I think phone is smoother with low swappiness and with medium usage I never suffered lack of ram problems.

hi !
swap & Zram are completely useless for a device like ours .....because we have enought RAM and enought power .
thes two are develloped and used before for old low and middle devices
the best is to grenify or freeze unused apps and services for a more lighten rom....

Loulou-13 said:
hi !
swap & Zram are completely useless for a device like ours .....because we have enought RAM and enought power .
thes two are develloped and used before for old low and middle devices
the best is to grenify or freeze unused apps and services for a more lighten rom....
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Yes, already greenyfied all and removed all bloat and useless apks.
My doubt is why stock rom has a so large swapfile, a waste of space

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may be some one can help you right here dearly .

Increasing the amount of RAM

Hello. How to increase RAM to 4-6 GB? Who can become a donor?
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You can't magically "increase" your hardware RAM to 4 or 6GB, but instead you can set a virtual ram environment using internal storage, which helps the hardware RAM to not force close any background apps due to no ram available, install this app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.allakore.swapnoroot&hl=pt_BR&gl=US) and set the space that you want to reserve for RAM swapping, you can even do it without root.

Thnx)
Unfortunately, software magnification does not solve the problem. I wonder if I can raise my memory mechanically

I know it's possible. On other devices
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There is some ways to upgrade the EMMC, but i dont think its possible with RAM...

Tsumetaay said:
You can't magically "increase" your hardware RAM to 4 or 6GB, but instead you can set a virtual ram environment using internal storage, which helps the hardware RAM to not force close any background apps due to no ram available, install this app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.allakore.swapnoroot&hl=pt_BR&gl=US) and set the space that you want to reserve for RAM swapping, you can even do it without root.
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Hello, I installed the application in the link you gave. But I couldn't create partition for swap space. It gives an error. Is there any other method to improve the ram of my device

Question Has anyone added zram?

Hi all,
The main issue with this device for me is very clear, lack of memory and the memory management. The 2gb swap doesn't make any difference in my testing.
I think this device would benefit massively from zram or compressed ram as it has quite a strong CPU compared to the ram issues.
I guess we'd just need to unlock the bootloader, root the stock ROM and then turn on zram.
Has anyone tried it?
Many thanks