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[Free] RAM Truth [Tool]

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Mar 5, 2010
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As one of the topics heartily discussed in this informative thread and specifically starting in this post, real, clear, and useful information about your device's RAM is hard to come by.

@EarlyMon and I have tried to address this need by creating a simple app, RAM Truth.

It will display the following breakdown of your RAM's layout:

RAM Size (on the title bar)

Reserved: A reserved/hidden area that includes the below-kernel fixed allocations like DMA buffers, RAM for the baseband radios, CPU(s), GPU, etc. Due to the diverse nature of small-RAM devices, we can only claim better than 99% accuracy here and in the total.

User: The visible (non-hidden) portion of physical RAM available for use by the system.

Active: The amount of physical RAM currently in use by the system.

Available: The amount of physical RAM left unused or used as cache memory.

Hibernating: The amount of physical RAM used as cache memory and using no CPU or power resources. Other apps may be hibernating and written to storage rather than remaining in RAM.

Idle: The amount of physical RAM left unused by the system.​

We hope you find this app informative and useful.

:)

Play Store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sa.ramtruth
 

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