Turning off Samsung RAM Plus improves performance? Let`s check!

I have a Samsung Galaxy A03s with 3 GB of RAM, a very basic phone. It definitely is faster with Ram+ turned on. If I had a more expensive Galaxy with at least 6 GB RAM I would probably turn it off. So, it helps with low-end phones but not necessarily on the high-end ones. just my opinion.

It's interesting, but my S23 Ultra with 8GB of RAM and 8Gb RAM+ shows much better results in CPDP:

Sequential write - 690.56 Mb/s
Sequential read - 1.51 Gb/s
Random write - 30.49 Mb/s
Random read - 20.64 Mb/s
Memory copy - 12.79 Gb/s

Does this work on A13 4g LTE?

When i turn off that features my phone now has no display😢... but has power what can i do now???

Finally in your video much better explanation about this feature RAM plus. Thanks mate!

This was a very confusing way of conveying information.

if you activate ram+ then the storage space will be slower, so it is equal to zero, I tested it on my s23 ultra!

I think this test will be more relevant with phones with lower ram

Virtual ram is just another marketing strategy to make people think is actually useful without them knowing how it works, or what it does lol. On regular brain dead people more + better lmao

Yeah, I have this option on my note 20 ultra and I have it turned off.

I think its make no sens u rurn on and of the ram plus and testing the cpu performance instead of ram volume.... more ram more apps keep open i think this is the point of haveing nore ram

There is no option to disable ram plus on my S20 5G

You forgot to let the phone cool down after you did it with virtual Ram it runs slower at a higher temperature

I managed to put virtual ram on my samsung s9 from 4gb to 12gb through memory swapper, for me in use editing and games much better. I think that as in cell phones that already have a lot of memory, this option is not as efficient yet.

You never turned it off

I doubt virtual ram would run at the same frequency as the actual physical ram the CPU is probably having a bottle neck anf the virtual ram can't run at the same frequency ( you could compair this to having one stick 16gb 3600mhz ram in your computer and adding an 8gb 2666 mhz ram stick in your computer yes you have more ram but now it runs slower this most likely is not the case just the best example I could think of on why the "performance" is not better with virtual ram)

You have a phone with 12GB ram, your test is meaningless because even with the option on, you'll never use virtual ram until you fill the 12 gb RAM up first.

I turned mine off haven't really paid attention to it

I thought the wear and tear issue for SSDs was already fixed if not improved?Plus its not very often your phone will be forced to use virtual ram unless you're lazy and find closing apps too much of a burden or you run applications that require more memory and CPU power than your phone is capable of sustaining for long periods. As per my own experience, I've only noticed reduced performance in memory intensive sessions like gaming when internal storage is above 100gb/128gb. Note that I have 6GB physical RAM and a RAM PLUS of 6GB. On or off I can't tell the difference in performance and battery life unless the storage is above 100gb/128gb

any personal thoughts for an a21s 6gb phone

You could test with 8Gb RAM Virtual like in dualchannel

I don't think it should make a difference. Imo RAM Plus is supposed to use a part of your storage as RAM if the installed RAM in your phone is full.

How can I turn it off on sansung note 10

Can I have your wallpaper?

Ram plus will only kick in if you multi task and your physical memory is lesser than 6gig. And so there's nothing wrong if you keep it turned on or else Samsung will not turn it on by default if it always kicks in to cause wear and tear as thought by others.

Duh. I used to have that function on old devices but it destroyed the sd card class 10 so I disabled the function.

in theory, ram plus will make the SSD run out of writes faster, killing the phone faster...

RAM plus will not damage the device people. It would take over 10 years for it to show damaged on the SSD. At that point you're three phones out.

!! IT IS TRUE !!!! i have OnePlus 7TPro AND this RAM boost only SLOWED DOWN my deviceeeee !!!!

Been testing this on the s23u, 12GB variant. Only difference I can feel with it off, it's slower in loading my modes and routines after a restart. Overall performance and feel, navigation, multitasking, video editing, no difference at all, same exact results. Battery, no difference. Ram benchmark is inconsistent but had multipe runs over the day. On average, the sequencial read speed is higher with ram plus off, but random read speed is lower, the rest are more or less equal, no matter if it's on or off. Personally I just keep it on at 8GB, as it came by default.

awesome

That means with ran plus much better 👍

😢 no option for turn it off

I'm just gonna drop my comment here, someone might benefit from it. So, I have a Galaxy A52s with 6GB of RAM and in general, the user experience is very good. The phone is normally very smooth, but from time to time you get some stutters. The thing that impacts user experience in basically anything is consistency. If your device offers a consistent experience, you get used to it, and you know what to expect from your device always. People love predictability, so even a device that's slower than a flagship can feel perfect if its performance is consistent. The occasional stutters just break that consistency, and makes you wonder "what if after a major update, that stutter becomes permanent?". It's just the way the human mind works. For a couple of days now, I've tried some tricks that I've found here and there on the internet, and I have to say that I've managed to turn my experience with the Galaxy A52s into a more consistent one. I will have to test this for longer than a couple of days in order to say "this is a definite fix", but so far I'm having a better experience than I had a couple of weeks ago. Here's what I did. I turned off RAM Plus, because I've noticed that when I was having 6-7 apps opened, when I was trying to switch to one of them, I got this half second freeze. I'm guessing that was the phone pulling the app from the RAM Plus storage and restoring its state. I'd rather have an app fluently opening from scratch than having it resume with a stutter (that's a personal preference). I've also noticed some other things like the keyboard that sometimes was popping up instantly, other times took about half second to a full second. At that point I went to the Samsung keyboard app settings, and set the battery mode to "Unrestricted" since it was on "Optimized". I've noticed that the keyboard started working very consistently since. Then I thought I would do the same thing with my most used apps, and so I did. I turned the same battery setting to unrestricted to the Samsung OneUI Home, Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, Google app, and a couple more apps. They were working much better, but still I had some stuttering here and there, but not nearly as bad as before. Then I saw a video of someone saying that disabling Adaptive battery could affect the performance, and I disabled that as well. That had the biggest impact on the performance of all apps, not just the ones I've set to "Unrestricted". The last step was to enable the "Reduce transparency and blur" option in Accessibility, and now I have my device in a state where I can no longer complain of a bad experience. I hope this helps someone :) P.S. Disabling Play store automatic updates also helps. I just do them manually every morning.

Now they really allow you to turn it off completely? I was so pissed off when they brought this feature and did not let you disable it which is why i avoided buying a samsung phone.

Actually, the phone still has a swap file. At least on the Z Fold 4, It has 3GB of swap. I found out when I disabled it and it still showed 3GB in Diskinfo. This swap is nor directly managed by One UI but by Android itself. You would have less swap if you chose 2GB instead of turning it off.

Thank

This works for 6gb ram below till 8gb, it makes your phone faster helping the actual ram with the virtual ram... theres no need to argue with, samsungs manufacturers and techs did not just put that in there if that will harm the phone.. a decades of improvements

You just enabled Ram plus, but didn’t expanded to 6

I got better battery life with it off.
Also I think the better test is how many apps your phone can keep running without restarting the app state instead of video rendering which will depend more on the cpu/gpu than the ram.

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what it is is just heat! on the first tests phone was cooler, thats it, always disable virtual ram if more than 8gb and just close the apps

Dont forget also we have ufs 4.0 helps The virtual look The speeds and The ram The ufs

When inturned off my ram plus. My phone is much faster and less heat it generates...
When my ram plus of 6gb is on.. me phone heats up more and theres a few seconds lag inoticed.

When switching off ram plus, the phone restarted.
What if the restart killed some background processes and cleared cache so improved the performance of the device before the second test?

Did you test the battery on s22 and s23?

This is really only going to affect the tiny little micro stutters that bother Apple people.

(personal experience)For 6GB Ram phone users, disable it would be a good options, when restarting your phone, disabling it will be faster. And no changes on the battery life.