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Use Sd Card As Ram In Android (Increase Your Phone's RAM) - DON111 - 01-13-2014 11:23 AM
[How To Use Sd Card As Ram In Android (Increase Your Phones RAM)]
Requirements:
>A rooted android phone.
>Minimum 256mb of free space on the sdcard.
>Swapit Ram Expander app Download
*Swapit Ram Expander will give you more free RAM which will
result in less lag and a better gaming experience. Also it gives a better multitasking experience.
>STEPS
1. Download the SwapIt Ram Expander apk file and place
the file on the root of the sdcard.
2. Install the apk using any file manager.
3. Open the app .You can select upto 2.5 GB for expansion and set the swapiness value to 100.The app can also suggest
the optimal value for your phone.
4. You can select the autorun option if you want to run the app on reboot.
5. Close the app. Now you can notice the considerable increase in the speed of
your android
*just remember-not all kernel support swap.
*It’s safe for the files on the SD card. The swapped RAM is stored separately.
RE: Use Sd Card As Ram In Android (Increase Your Phone's RAM) - FalleN - 01-13-2014 07:14 PM
Don't you use this!!! This will kill your sd card or may demage it. That is bad for your phone and sdcard. Buy new phone with better ram, but please dont use this. It is confirmed, can demage, or decrease sdcard life! Read on forums, xda first!
RE: Use Sd Card As Ram In Android (Increase Your Phone's RAM) - Ora_Iso - 01-15-2014 12:32 PM
dangerous way,,, better buy new phone with high ram,,,
RE: Use Sd Card As Ram In Android (Increase Your Phone's RAM) - Only4GaMerZ - 03-23-2014 07:18 AM
Danger 4 SD card!
RE: Use Sd Card As Ram In Android (Increase Your Phone's RAM) - Mr Jay - 06-13-2019 06:06 PM
Sd cards have a limited number of writes to each section. That's why you should never defrag an Sd card.
RE: Use Sd Card As Ram In Android (Increase Your Phone's RAM) - star cash - 06-10-2021 08:51 PM
So this is fake !!!(again)
RE: Use Sd Card As Ram In Android (Increase Your Phone's RAM) - play3r.sd - 06-10-2021 08:59 PM
Lotta' app on gplay will tell (better say lust) u that they can expand/boost ur hardware's power. In this case ignore such apps at all costs to protect ur hardware. Such apps are made to damage ur hardware silently. Thay have no good usage.
#ignore_hardware_booster_apps
RE: Use Sd Card As Ram In Android (Increase Your Phone's RAM) - JoseskVolpe - 06-10-2021 09:29 PM
Just to clarify.. This will not exacly use your SD Card as a RAM channel. SD Cards has much less I/O Speed than RAM memories, and it's a non-volatile memory. Your SD Card will instead serve as a Swap device, wich means, applications running in second plan will be moved to the swap when the first plan application needs more memory, as second plan applications need much less performance to be running. That's why games have better performance when you do this.
Android itself makes a Swap partition already in the internal memory, but the system makes a very small partition as phones usually have less internal space. Using SD Card as a swap partition is a great deal to increase the swap partition size. It's recommended to give the size of your partition the double size of your RAM, for example, you have 2GB RAM, you can make a swap partition with 4GB space.
¿Does it harm your SD Card?
Yes and no.
In truth, any non-volatile memory has a write limit, because their memory blocks wear out each write section. But the limit is very big, so if you, for example, are writing 3GB each day, it will take years and years, like decades, for the memory device be damaged.
The other factor that can damage your SD Card is heat, but most SD Cards heat much few and most phones itself has a metal that can serve as a heat-sink in the SD Card slot
What you truly need to be sure is if your SD-Card is good quality, preferably original. The writing limit of bad-quality SD Cards are much smaller and they can even corrupt data easily. Bad quality memory devices are easily damaged, and using them as a Swap partition may be not healthy for them
Just in case, i recommend to backup your SD Card data if you'll use it a a swap device. Or use a separated, good-quality (not just because of the damage factor, but because of the I/O speed aswell), SD-Card only for this.