The Official Xiaomi Thread

[soulie]

no, it most certainly is not. You are using the wrong words, you just don't know it.

shame

 

[cueball]

MSDos Ramdisk

oh dear. if anything that's going to make performance worse. 8GB is more than plenty. My phone only has 4 and its runs just fine. There may be something physically wrong with the phone, but it sure isn't a memory shortage.

 

[riscbroker]

yes its a thing on certain phones.maybe called memory extention i think

Yes, on my povo spec Redmi 9 it's called Memory Extension, purportedly adds 1GB that it 'borrows' from storage

 

[soulie]

oh dear. if anything that's going to make performance worse. 8GB is more than plenty. My phone only has 4 and its runs just fine. There may be something physically wrong with the phone, but it sure isn't a memory shortage.

great to hear .4 gig is sad

 

[cueball]

shame

oh its even worse..... THEY are using the wrong words. R.I.P.

 

[soulie]

oh dear. if anything that's going to make performance worse. 8GB is more than plenty. My phone only has 4 and its runs just fine. There may be something physically wrong with the phone, but it sure isn't a memory shortage.

 

[cueball]

great to hear .4 gig is sad

how is a quantity of memory sad?

 

[cueball]

Oooooooh Mediatek CPU...... yeah should've left that one on the shelf, oof.

 

[cueball]

Yes, on my povo spec Redmi 9 it's called Memory Extension, purportedly adds 1GB that it 'borrows' from storage

Yes I see the wording they have chosen to describe that feature actually claims that. Whoops.

 

[backstreetboy]

Oooooooh Mediatek CPU...... yeah should've left that one on the shelf, oof.

Nothing wrong with Mediatek at all.

 

[soulie]

Oooooooh Mediatek CPU...... yeah should've left that one on the shelf, oof.

yawn

 

[cueball]

Yup, nothing at all wrong with it. Except for the part where the 18 month old phone is completely failing to do the most basic things required of a smartphone. Nope, nothing at all to see here.

 

[backstreetboy]

Yup, nothing at all wrong with it. Except for the part where the 18 month old phone is completely failing to do the most basic things required of a smartphone. Nope, nothing at all to see here.

That's due to Xiaomi not Mediatek.

 

[soulie]

Yup, nothing at all wrong with it. Except for the part where the 18 month old phone is completely failing to do the most basic things required of a smartphone. Nope, nothing at all to see here.

so how many processors have you designed ,manufactured and sold ?to make the assumption that they are bad .
i think MT knows what they doing .

 

[cueball]

That's due to Xiaomi not Mediatek.

yup, totally sounds like a software issue

 

[cueball]

so how many processors have you designed ,manufactured and sold ?to make the assumption that they are bad .
i think MT knows what they doing .

oh sorry I didn't realise you had to design, manufacture and sell something to have an opinion on its quality. silly me. I have had 2 MT-based smartphones that died in under 2 years. Poor performance, erratic behaviour, miserable battery life. And not a single Snapdragon-based phone that did the same. All running some version of Xiaomi's software.

 

[backstreetboy]

yup, totally sounds like a software issue

I've owned a Redmi Note 2 MTK. Never received any android updates. Meanwhile my Oppo also with a MTK got like 2. Xiaomi sucks.

 

[soulie]

I've owned a Redmi Note 2 MTK. Never received any android updates. Meanwhile my Oppo also with a MTK got like 2. Xiaomi sucks.

yip the software is buggy on the Redmi .ill see later about the run out of resources thing while watching a movie ,im hoping the ram extension will help that .

 

[kota]

yip the software is buggy on the Redmi .ill see later about the run out of resources thing while watching a movie ,im hoping the ram extension will help that .

I have a slight suspicion that the memory extension might be more of a gimmick, when I did a quick comparison of how much available ram I have with a 7gb ram extension vs no extension at all under the same conditions (with and without apps opened). And I found that when I have no ram extension opened, the phone actually shows more ram available. For what reason I have absolutely no idea lol.

 

[LandyMan]

My default setting is big... can't look at a beer without putting on ½kg.

I have the same F@$S#@$^ problem