After some extensive research I can tell you there's no downside to this as explained to this video, because the thing they call "extended" ram already exists in android by default. These companies just give you some "extra control". This I why Samsung doesn't let you disable it completely, Xiaomi has it on by default It's not a gimmick, it's a lie. It's part of android.
Yeah i nlinux it called SWAP memory, in Windows it called Paging File. both is useless because storage in android is so slow, meanwhile iphone they use NVME
@@glodusmuspell9069 Dude just use it virtual ram will boost your phone performance a little not so much so yeah is good this guy just think virtual ram dangerous and make it complicated afterall nothing will happen if you on virtual ram lmao
AAAGGG!!! those 2 black spots on the wall to your left made me think my screen was dirty, or that i had a problem with my screen, so i have basically no clue what you said in the video hahaha but you still got a like from me for the unintentional troll lol
i genuinely love this video. it made me understand about how vram works. i have a new phone that has 8gb ram and i enabled the expansion of additional 8gb virtual ram. now that i think about it, my phone never even consumes up to 5gb ram, so there was really no reason to enable the additional virtual ram. made me realize that i was slowly deteriorating my phone's health while being brand new. thank you so much for the information!
Ive bought Xiaomi Redmi Note 13 258 GB with 8gb RAM version about a month ago and I ve tried the +8 virtual RAM boost for about 3 weeks. I turned it off today and I HAVE TO ADMIT that the overall speed of my phone is now better (faster responce to typing, less lag on RU-vid Revanced), glad to hear that even the long term health of the phone is better with the feature turned off. Anyway thank you for this video. I am not usually a big fan of Indian youtubers whose (even tho I have a English degree in pedagogy) accent is so bad I cant even understand them. This was not that case plus the video was really informative. Thank you.
Super Informational💯. Wish there were few brands that actually understood what makes a good smartphone and cut out all the gimmicky features , but i guess such brands would'nt survive in the market because of consumers who are easily fooled by such gimmicks.
Even if you turn it off, swap is still at 3GB on my A54 basically the same when I have 2GB ram plus, it still has 3GB swap while higher options will actually make it bigger. So turning it off doesn't really do much just lowers the swap space to a minimum.
Fantastic explanation. I don't mind buying and wearing down a few class 10 SD cards if it means extending the lifecycle and speed of the device's onboard memory components
ram has already an extended expectancy. usually the battery and other components will wear before the ram. for example: my phone is from 2018, I swapped the battery one time, now the problem is the antenna, which can't be swapped so I have a poor signal and an even faster battery drain.
When I'm still using realme 3 pro having 4gb ram, virtual ram is very helpful especially when I play genshin impact. But now that I'm using poco f4 and samsung s21+ 5g with 8gb ram each, I don't think memory expansion and ram plus are helpful unless in 2025, when updated apps will use more ram, virtual ram will be helpful...
the problem is that, to access Vram or Zram is that the phone has to be rooted and EX kernel manager or some other similar a[[ is required to configure Vram or Zram. whwile the oneplus expansion ram can be configured manually without the need to root the device.
Will the benefit of virtual ram arise say on getting a phone with 8gb of RAM today, and in three years it getting slower due to apps requiring more RAM usage? In that case, will doubling (manner of speaking) my RAM with virtual RAM make the phone more usable in three-four years?
Calling it "virtual ram" and mentioning it on product specs is absolutely a scam. Vanlla Android just straight out killing aps and not suspending their state in swap like desktop OS do (and you are not gonna kill your SSD by putting your swap disk on there if your drive and OS properly support TRIM). Swapping is not gonna rewire the entire disk dozen of times per day (which is the level modern flash memory needs to die within a few years) by just suspending RU-vid on flash a lot. This should just be a standart Android feature and not be advertised anywhere near the hardware RAM specs.
Thank you so much for the information and confirming what was that expanded memory. Windows can also do this but is the same problem than linux, mac is going to start damaging the hard drive.
Thanks for the information, I found the reason why my new phone heats up pretty quickly and why it has lower performace compare to the first time I used it. And thank you for speaking in english, it's just that I can't understand other languages other youtuber speak in their tutorials. Really tho, thank you so much
Had it on 8gb of Virtua ram and I didn't notice a difference it even skipped and glitched like it usually does now and then, I already have 12gb of ram , so it's really useless, but idk , I just switched it to 4gb of ram plus
Ive got a Redmi A2 which only has 2GB of real ram but has the option to use 2 GB of Virtual ram. Considering 2GB is very low for Android 13 even for the GO Version does this make any sense ?
Very informative thank you, I brought new smartphone xiaomi poco x5 5g since my asus zenfone max pro m1 already 6 years old, i think? So i don't have a clue about newest phone. When i stumble this expandable or virtual ram in my phone setting. I was skeptical, like, what's this? Is this the same concept of installing apps to your sd card which is deteriorate its life span? It isn't 8gb ram already enough? This video made me clear that it better turning virtual ram off. I also searched an article on internet that did benchmark on 2 different phone. A 4GB real ram + 4GB virtual ram perfomance's is still inferior to 8GB real ram when playing games.
Why would they educate the cp user??? its their tactics for the user to use the ram plus so the phone will shorten its life and people will buy a new one =) easy money . its a win win for the cp manufacturers
What about keeping it at the minimum 2gb option? Bc I had ram plus turned on by default, with 4 gb, I wasn't really aware of this until recently. So I turned it off but I realized there's a lot more refreshing apps now, which is annoying so is 2gb of vram really that bad in the long run?
Not really. It's quite unlikely to fry your device storage in the lifespan of the device if you're using internal storage. This is mostly a concern on SD cards, which aren't really designed for this and have much more primitive wear leveling than the internal storage does.
Higher megapixel is NOT the best way to measure a camera these days. All phones have enough megapixels, ignore it all together and look at pixel size. People should realize that even TWO megapixels is full HD and theoretically, you should see NO "jaggies" on an hd screen with just 2MP. But we do? Why ? ... And in that question, is the answer...
check by youself what is better. on my phone a22 4g i have +2. with +4 its noticeable slower. probably because of the emmc memory. but you should have ufc memory so maybe it will work just fine with +4.
Dude just use it virtual ram will boost your phone performance a little not so much so yeah is good this guy just think virtual ram dangerous and make it complicated afterall nothing will happen if you on virtual ram lmao
Dude I suggest you just use it virtual ram will boost your phone performance a little not so much so yeah is good this guy just think virtual ram dangerous and make it complicated afterall nothing will happen if you on virtual ram lmao
i think i might need the extra ram just in case if i need to swap to other open world games >_< yeah i don't plan to use virtual ram. i want to use my phone 6-8 years and swap batteries after 4 years
Dude just use it virtual ram will boost your phone performance a little not so much so yeah is good this guy just think virtual ram dangerous and make it complicated afterall nothing will happen if you on virtual ram lmao
Lol Dude just use it virtual ram will boost your phone performance a little not so much so yeah is good this guy just think virtual ram dangerous and make it complicated afterall nothing will happen if you on virtual ram lmao
Dude just use it virtual ram will boost your phone performance a little not so much so yeah is good this guy just think virtual ram dangerous and make it complicated afterall nothing will happen if you on virtual ram lmao