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Can i increase the RAM of my phone?

why is that so funny? my netbook has a swap partition to extend memory (also called virtual memory), so why shouldn't my phone be able to do that?

I already googled that before. You could install something on your rooted phone which will allow you to set some memory of your SD-card aside as 'virtual memory'.

Then again, there are people who say you don't really notice a difference and it gets your SD-card worn out faster.
 
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why is that so funny? my netbook has a swap partition to extend memory (also called virtual memory), so why shouldn't my phone be able to do that?

there are different kinds of memory for different purposes

1. Cache Memory (inside processor)
2. RAM
3. other storage purpose memories like hard disk, SD card, DVDs etc

Cache memory:- works MIGHTY MIGHTY MIGHTY fast, so as to fetch instructions to the processor from RAM

RAM:- little less fast(than cache) but still MIGHTY fast, purpose is to act as buffer between "storage memory" and Cache memory.

Hence purpose of ram is to quickly fetch data both ways IN n OUT of processor which cannot be substituted by virtual memory. Anyways virtual memory will be your SD card which is not even 1/100th the speed at which RAM operates.

Cheers :cool:
 
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there are different kinds of memory for different purposes

1. Cache Memory (inside processor)
2. RAM
3. other storage purpose memories like hard disk, SD card, DVDs etc

Cache memory:- works MIGHTY MIGHTY MIGHTY fast, so as to fetch instructions to the processor from RAM

RAM:- little less fast(than cache) but still MIGHTY fast, purpose is to act as buffer between "storage memory" and Cache memory.

Hence purpose of ram is to quickly fetch data both ways IN n OUT of processor which cannot be substituted by virtual memory. Anyways virtual memory will be your SD card which is not even 1/100th the speed at which RAM operates.

Cheers :cool:

why do i think you didn't answer the question?

i know how a computer works in general, so explaining cache, ram and hard disks doesn't really solve anything.

so does my processor use all of the allocated RAM? correct me if i'm wrong, but i don't think so because afaik android only kills apps if you back out, not if you exit by pressing the menu button. so i wouldn't really care if that were stored on a swap partition.

just so you know, i don't think swap partitions make sense (because those 280mb of RAM seem sufficient for me, so i just wouldn't bother), but either say you don't know the answer or give a good one (not lol omfg so stoopid srsly doode never bin to school, ay?), there are already enough fake facts flying around in the interwebs and everywhere else.

here you get a proper discussion about it Why Android Swap Doesn’t Make Sense Zero Credibility
 
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I wanna increase my RAM size as well, my RAM size is 180mb and it is SLOW. I have rooted my phone and want to increase the size, also having rooted my phone, it should give me privileges to access the "read-only files" and edit them. There should be a way to edit the RAM size to increase it.

Its slow because of a number of factors. The main reason is when the phone came out (beginning of last year) the hardware was out of date then. 800mhz processor (armv6) etc. The RAM is not something you can edit. It is a physical amount installed in the phone. Increasing it would not nesiccarily increase speed either. In normal use your phone has free ram anyway so adding more would only just add to the free (available) amount.
 
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