Is Virtual RAM on Android Worth It? | Deep Dive | GTR
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- čas přidán 24. 07. 2024
- Some call it Virtual RAM, some call it Dynamic RAM Expansion, some call it Extended RAM, and the story goes on and on. But, does it really matter? Like seriously, does it even make a difference? Well, that's what this video is all about.
This is Varun from GTR, and in today's video of our Deep Dive series, we will be taking a closer look at how this Virtual RAM feature works, and why you, as a consumer, shouldn't really be concerned about it. Or should you be? Hmm. Let's find out!
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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.
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?
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.
This is called a quality content
Thanks
Yeah
@@GuidingTechReviews is 3 GB plus 2 GB RAM (virtual) can be equal to 4GB RAM
@@theguru3590 5
I agree
Super helpful, stopped me from getting a device boasting about the additional virtual ram
Woow thank you so much for this video bro.. Everyone needs to know about this 🔥
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 CZcams 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.
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!
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
Same 😂
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
What do you mean should I turn extra ram on my phone
@@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
@@Umur23 do you mean like your phone will explode from overheating?
My phone has about 2.2gb available ram out of 6gb should i use virtual ram?
Realme 9 5g speed edition
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 its for when we open more then one apps at time in our phone , is that it?
Nice work bro.. please make latest tws video.. i am confused b/w samsung buds pro or OnePlus buds pro... I own OnePlus 9R..
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.
I have galaxy a54, 4 gb default ram plus
@@champasama6839how was it?
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?
Very good content here. Just subscribed.
Thanks for the video. Super informational.
Thanks for the tip but how do you turn off
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?
Thanks very much bro very helpful video also informative
Great video mate 👍🏿
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.
so sad I came across this video now, you are gold!
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.
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
the feature is really good for phone with like 2gb of ram, not as much for high end phones
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)
Yes
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
Such a great video. Thank you.
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.
Does every device allow extending ram through micro SD cards?
@@Sundar... no
Does it use my SD card Ram? A15 5g
how it takes to cause damge ?
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.
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.
Thanks for the vital information and clear explanation.
You are welcome!
thanks for the video. helped me a lot
Glad it helped
Thanks for the info 👍🏼
Keep growing Guiding tech, such quality content needs to reach more people
Your video is soo helpful 👍🏻
Thanks for the info
Very Well Explained.
Bhai mairay phone galti say on ho gya ab esko off k say kray gay
great video !
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
What happens with battery life
hello, i think in some phone there will have a feature like turning off the usage of virtual ram, if turnig off the virtual ram, does it still harm and shorten the storage lifespan?
If your phone has Ram Expansion feature, you might want to turn it off because it consumes storage and puts it into your RAM
Lol 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
So should I turn off vram and I already have 12 and how did I turn it off?
You can't.
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.
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.
How about now ?? I ol
yeah but your phone probably runs like an oven
I added 6gb with Swap and got a worse geekbench score afterwards. 👎
Super educational
This is good informative content
CZcams needs to recommend this
Thank You so so much buddy ✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻
I have A15 4gig , should I turn on 4 more? Or choose 2?. I have 128 SD card ..
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.
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...
Thank you my man
I would use 16gb for Dex and emulation/virtualization.
Guess I'm not normal.
This is a very interesting topic.
Many smartphones come with this feature, but does it actually work.
Thanks for covering this topic!
Stay tuned for more!
Well delivered 💯
Appreciate that
nice vid u get a sub
Good information
turning off can fix stutters
accurate explanation 👍👍
You deserve more views
I wonder why this video do not have million views, this is a very informative and quality video.
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
So you were saying it's not safe to use ram expansion on one plus 7T? Currently owned one. And already turned on the feature.
Awesome video
Ok..now that the damage is done is there any way i can disable the feature ?
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
So its better not to have alot of unnecessary apps in your phone?
Thank you
Thanks❤
After watching this video, I immediately turned off my VRam. Tnx. New sub here =)
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
When you say "Actual RAM" it answers the question. I will stick to ACTUAL RAM, thanks 👍
Uppp🔥🔥
Thankyou indian tech support
so it's just a glorified permanent cache alocation on your flash storage
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 CZcams on flash a lot. This should just be a standart Android feature and not be advertised anywhere near the hardware RAM specs.
🙂... turning off now... respect for u bro
My phone heats up when vram is on
Today a new name given from poco "TURBO RAM" and idiots will fell for it as a feature
So better trun it off right ??? Since it won't do anything for gaming
yes turn it off. virtual ram degrades the phone flash storage
If you got 4gb or less I think you might need it
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
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
more apps can be used
very handsome, thanks for the video!
Basically? Is memory extension helpful or not?
This video is misleading.
Well it's helpful a little not so much so yeah use it this guy just say virtual ram dangerous and make it complicated lmao
Can we turn this off in the phones?
I hve a 12gb ram phone and 7gb virtual ram so what do u say
As far as I know that will deteriorate your memory faster, so at some point it may start "forgetting" data.
At present 6gb actual ram with decent cpu is good deal
great
how i turned it off?
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
This channel will explode 6 months from now. You heard it here first.
It doesnt
Cringe comment right there
Luckily my virtual ram is place on my sd card so i have no problem in the storage lifespan 😅😂
"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
keep your phone off will make it last forever 😁
just don't use your phone
Its the "are you stupid" for me
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.
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. 😴
🤞🏻😍
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...
🔥👍👍❤️
What should i do use it or not 😭
I turned off
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