Increase RAM?

RedViking said:
An app cannot not increase hardware. That is just silly. That is like asking if there is an app that can fix your cracked screen. It maybe can free up Ram, but that is also silly as Android will automatically manage the memory. There is also a difference between RAM and Storage. You can add storage to the device if it can take an SD card. Installing more crapware will take more storage.
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An app can more effectively utilize RAM though. :p
(as demonstrated by using the in-built browser and email app, though that's probably due to them running in the background anyways).

@Denno yours is also slow probably due to Tizen OS, sadly it doesn't seem like any dev ported LineageOS to your device to flash that on. https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
Once Trebble moves to low-end hardware, it's going to be quite interesting in the custom ROM field.

My personal experience has always been that Samsung devices lag, with the exception of about the S8 onwards as they finally got so much hardware performance that it can actually run that bloatware skin. I'm definitely making sure my next phone is one from the Android One program (stock Android).
 
You're confusing 2 issues.

a) Samsung devices that lag (they don't)
b) Android devices that run bloatware. (they all do)

The moment you flash a stock ROM (that's not network dependent) and de-bloat even more, your Android phone (any brand) will run faster.

Some network operators are worse than others (bloatware wise)
 
Johnatan56 said:
My personal experience has always been that Samsung devices lag, with the exception of about the S8 onwards
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That was one of the things that was annoying with Samsungs, and while not as bad I still noticed it on the S8+, almost like it had a microsecond of hanging before launching the app or changing screen.
 
Dave said:
That was one of the things that was annoying with Samsungs, and while not as bad I still noticed it on the S8+, almost like it had a microsecond of hanging before launching the app or changing screen.
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This is mostly due to transition animations, turn them off in developer options on any android, makes a world of difference.
 
ThatOtherDude said:
You're confusing 2 issues.

a) Samsung devices that lag (they don't)
b) Android devices that run bloatware. (they all do)

The moment you flash a stock ROM (that's not network dependent) and de-bloat even more, your Android phone (any brand) will run faster.

Some network operators are worse than others (bloatware wise)
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Erm, no they don't. Google Pixel 2, OnePlus and some other ones. Android One program. Then there are others that have very minimal bloatware (most LG phones, at least in my experience, unless e.g. Vodacom got a hand on it.).

And Samsung devices definitely lag, not sure what Samsungs you have used or if you've never used a non-OS bloated device.
Dave said:
That was one of the things that was annoying with Samsungs, and while not as bad I still noticed it on the S8+, almost like it had a microsecond of hanging before launching the app or changing screen.
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I think that has to do with animation as well, you can set it to be faster, which makes the phone itself feel faster. On my old G3S I upped it slightly as I found it a little bit slow, made the phone itself feel faster. How you handle the UI/transitions etc. is quite important in the feel of how fast the device is.

Jack Marlow said:
Yet you can increase available RAM by removing stuff that consume it.
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System should automatically close, not using all your RAM is bad. If it's kept in RAM, your system doesn't have to fetch from the sd card/internal storage and pull into memory, thereby being faster and probably saving you battery, depending again how long between access times.
 
Jack Marlow said:
I think we can safely assume i was referring to apps with background processes.
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Yes, the system should automatically end background processes, but usually only after closing apps kept in memory.
Now you're contradicting your first statement. How can it use RAM if it's closed.
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Because closed does not mean that's it's not in the memory cache anymore. Once the memory is needed, it will clear out old stuff in/claim from the memory cache.

Not sure how I am contradicting myself?
 
Jack Marlow said:
That's your misunderstanding then.
By available RAM I'm referring to RAM available to the system - i.e. not in use. Yes you can increase it.
Piet has R10. Piet lends R2 to Sannie and R3 to Jan. Piet has R5 available. Piet can increase his available Ronts by recalling Sannie or Jan's loan (or both).
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That's not a very good analogy tbh.
 
Back in the day i had a Motorola defy mb525. Had very limited ram. I successfully used ROEHSOFT RAM Expander with the swap file on it's SD card.

It did however take a few minutes after phone startup to run smoothly.


Easiest and simplest way to improve performance is to root the device, mount the system partition as r/w and get your hands on the build.prop file.

Change the


dalvik.vm.heapgrowthlimit and
dalvik.vm.heapsize

heapgrowthlimit = not equal to and only less than the heapsize

Eg

dalvik.vm.heapgrowthlimit=256m
dalvik.vm.heapsize=512m

Helps a bit, search xda for more details if needed
 
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