gener1c

According to the free RAM widget from the market the eris only has 186 megs of ram. That is 102 less than HTC states under the hardware specifications for the Eris. Any ideas why this is or has anybody else notice this?

OfTheDamned

Is it actually showing RAM or ROM?

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arock

That might be the available ram? Not 100% sure though. Havent used that widget before.

gener1c

My available free ram is usually between 40 and 70 MBs of the 186MBs depending on what programs I have opened up. I'm just not sure how HTC handles the ram and taking into account the HD2 was said to only have 448 MB of ram but actually has 576MB. So HTC may be only allocating 186 to the eris and possibly more with the upcoming 2.x update. Its all a mystery to me. I'm hoping someone can solve this mystery.

***edit*** Its definitely not the rom since I still have about 90 MBs left for application storage.

Last edited by gener1c; 01-29-2010 at 06:08 PM.

Solitary

Sense takes up some ram. Probably exactly those 102..Well, not all of them, but some is saved for future updates and such.

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mattjphoto

I have never seen my phone above 99mb.

Ryobi

without sense running its more like 125-130.

gener1c

is that just the available ram you have left?

Ryobi

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gener1c

They are mostly talking about the 512MB of Rom and how it is partitioned which I understand I am more focused on how 102MB of RAM is not accounted for. I am coming from the omnia which I could see all the RAM. See more RAM available usually helped me run apps smoother when running a couple of them for winmo. I might be missing something.

ms262c

You are having the SAME problem I am. I have disabled Sense UI and restarted the phone, as it wouldn't close until I did. I was then using just the basic Android Home and it showed about 125 free mb. BUT Linux is telling me I only have access to 186 MB of ram total. It's like the system can't access the rest of the ram. Sort of like the issue with the N1. I've posted a topic at howard forums. Lets see if we can get this resolved between the two websites.

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