Is Virtual RAM on Android Worth It? | Deep Dive | GTR 

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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.

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.

Love the callout to "are you stupid?" It might not be used to intentionally fool the consumer, but it sure causes a lot of confusion.

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.

Super helpful, stopped me from getting a device boasting about the additional virtual ram

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.

Does anyone alse fell for that two dots on his upper left shoulder and tried to remove it thinking it was a speck of dust on your phone?

Woow thank you so much for this video bro.. Everyone needs to know about this 🔥

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

Hello, can a 6- or higher ram capacity support a low-grade chipset like the Unisoc T606, or does it have a limit, like it only needs 6- to lower ram?

I have a Galaxy S9 Honestly, I do casual gaming like minecraft at 20 chucks, Terraria etc. With 4gb of ram in 2022 I have had no problems.

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?

Very good content here. Just subscribed.

When you say "Actual RAM" it answers the question. I will stick to ACTUAL RAM, thanks 👍

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.

A recent update to my 12 GB of RAM phone enabled virtual ram. What the heck I don't need that, so I turned it off.

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

Thanks very much bro very helpful video also informative

Thanks for the vital information and clear explanation.

My phone has about 2.2gb available ram out of 6gb should i use virtual ram? Realme 9 5g speed edition

Great video mate 👍🏿

Nice work bro.. please make latest tws video.. i am confused b/w samsung buds pro or OnePlus buds pro... I own OnePlus 9R..

Thanks for the video. Super informational.

thanks for the video. helped me a lot

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

This is a very interesting topic. Many smartphones come with this feature, but does it actually work. Thanks for covering this topic!

Thanks for the tip but how do you turn off

So its better not to have alot of unnecessary apps in your phone?

Thanks man very helpful

so sad I came across this video now, you are gold!

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 ?

So vram won't help me if I was running only one app (as example one game when I don't have any background apps running)

So should I turn off vram and I already have 12 and how did I turn it off?

Thankyou indian tech support

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.

Such a great video. Thank you.

Your video is soo helpful 👍🏻

Thanks for the info

so its for when we open more then one apps at time in our phone , is that it?

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

Super educational

I thought it works like the paging file in the Windows and will benefit us when we move around the maps in the games. But I was wrong. Thanks.

Well delivered 💯

Keep growing Guiding tech, such quality content needs to reach more people

Very Well Explained.

great video !

Thanks for the info 👍🏼

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?

"If you are looking to use your phone for years, I recommend turning off the Virtual ram" Was all I needed to turn it off

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...

I have A15 4gig , should I turn on 4 more? Or choose 2?. I have 128 SD card ..

RU-vid needs to recommend this

turning off can fix stutters

What happens with battery life

What should i do use it or not 😭

So better trun it off right ??? Since it won't do anything for gaming

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

so it's just a glorified permanent cache alocation on your flash storage

This is good informative content

This channel will explode 6 months from now. You heard it here first.

I wonder why this video do not have million views, this is a very informative and quality video.

Thank You so so much buddy ✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻

After watching this video, I immediately turned off my VRam. Tnx. New sub here =)

Basically? Is memory extension helpful or not?

I added 6gb with Swap and got a worse geekbench score afterwards. 👎

At present 6gb actual ram with decent cpu is good deal

Thank you

Omg, this guy has too many bananas in his mouth I can't comprehend him

how it takes to cause damge ?

accurate explanation 👍👍

You deserve more views

I just got the virtual ram on the new update oxygen os 12 for the OnePlus 7 t pro. Thanks for this video I went in and turned off that feature

🙂... turning off now... respect for u bro

Ok..now that the damage is done is there any way i can disable the feature ?

Why old 6 year old that have 4gb ram . Still have smoothness like new one. Cause their free of bloatware. No altering on software level. 😴

Awesome video

Thank you my man

Good information

Today a new name given from poco "TURBO RAM" and idiots will fell for it as a feature

nice vid u get a sub

Thanks a lot, it is pretty much a scam, because after all you're hurting your device and nobody tell that on the first place.

very handsome, thanks for the video!

Thanks❤

Luckily my virtual ram is place on my sd card so i have no problem in the storage lifespan 😅😂

Bhai mairay phone galti say on ho gya ab esko off k say kray gay

Its the "are you stupid" for me

Can we turn this off in the phones?

I hve a 12gb ram phone and 7gb virtual ram so what do u say

You can burn out your SSD and just go buy a new SSD for your phone.

Uppp🔥🔥

in short, vram is writing and rewriting your harddrive and you should stop using it

how i turned it off?

My phone heats up when vram is on

more apps can be used