Samsung Left This Setting Enabled, But You Should Disable It! (RAM Plus)

Was RAM Plus enabled for you too? Hope this video was helpful!

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My samsung tab A7 has 3 gig of RAM, should i use the virtual RAM 4 GB) or 2GB icant turn off there are these 2 options? Can some help pls!?

I think a 1200+ $ phone should be fast right out the box, right?

Should i have it on if my phone only has 2gb ram?

Why would anyone turn off virtual memory on a phone when its always told to NOT turn it off on a PC

I have to give you a huge thanks. I have an s21 ultra. I love this phone. But after the new software download. I had enabled the ram plus. Well, soon after, it started wreaking havoc on my phone. It would freeze and restart. It started having hour long sessions of freezing and restarting. The phone became unusable. I found your video and removed the ram plus option. I also set up the developer options and limited background apps running. It's now working like new again with no issues at all. I thought I was going to have to get a new phone. And the s21 ultra's are very expensive. But this solved all issues. Again thank you!!

Thank you. This video really helped me. U took us step by step😊

so.... you can no longer turn this off ? there is no off option on mine?

This feature is also on Samsung tablets.

Thank you for this important information. I just bought my S23 ultra and didn't know about this issue. You got yourself a new subscriber 😊😊

This a helpful video, made better as usual by techspert comments

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"What's the wecommended amount of dededitated WAM i should have for serverrrrrrrr"

How about you educate yourself before making such videos!!! Have you never heard of Page File in Windows or swap in Linux??? LEAVE THIS ON people!!!

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I've seen some opinions regarding ram plus online but no one seems to show any graphs indicating that ram plus is bad for your phone, only words and some reasons that don't make that much sense. I have my ram plus at 4gb at there's absolutely no difference in performance or battery life and it shouldn't be, you should feel a difference if you have a lot of apps open in the background or have a process open that uses a lot of memory, and yes if anything ram plus should help. I suggest you try this feature yourself with your normal usage and see if you spot any real difference

I think the biggest concern is the flash memory lifespan. Even any extra chance to cause the loss of my data would be extremely frustrating.

Good info, mine was on. Thanks for the tip!

Ramble on and on, get to the point & no it's not a killer.

Should i disable Ram Plus or lower it to 2gb on the (galaxy a34 6gb model)

I'm down with minimizing read write cycles on my non replaceable SSD!

I turned mine off last year. The phone just runs great & no need for it. I never have apps open in the background anyway

I always deactivate that option on devices that come with it.

This is actually not true. The whole point of enabling this is to be prevent slow-down. That's like saying you shouldn't fill up your fuel tank because your car will weigh more & you'll get lower mileage. Except, you'll get get lower mileage by NOT filing it up.

I don't have that setting, is that from newer phones?

I have a budget Samsung Galaxy, so I decided to experiment. I used it for a while using 2GB of Ram Plus, then turned it off and tried doing the same chores on it. It's definitely slower with Ram Plus (virtual memory) off. I wasn't trying to play games on it, just common everday cell use. I am convinced that, at least for budget phones with limited RAM, you should use Ram Plus. Just my two cents worth. Thanks for the video.

I'm curious on how much you know about how modern operating systems work.
Are you aware of the importance of virtual memory in how an OS handles applications, and how not having it at all can cripple the OS? Or are you just saying "virtual memory = bad" because it's slower than RAM?

It's also a feature on the s7 tablet.

I have the s23 ultra it only has 8gb ram

Adding to a detailed comment left 5moths before me by ( @BamBaruDerEchte )

This video is a guy who took some limited info mixed with having a little knowledge in a area, as they say "just enough to be dangerous " an this comment helps open up more into an Gave more truth. The video is running on assumptions.
Because like stated above the ram plus virtual ram is only used when the real ram is full or say you keep somthing open in the background running its own process but not the front app that needs the faster high capability of the physical ram so the background processes get bumped to the ram plus or virtual ram as it is.

This allows people to keep games running in the background while needing to google something or make a can or whatever life brings, maybe using maps to get to a hotel an don't wana close the awsome game you made alot of progress on while on the airplane so the game is able to stay open not having to be reopened starting over by use of the ramplus (virtual ram) So that fron screen apps like maps can jse the physical faster ram without lagging the phone down or in most cases slowing the phone till the phone decides the game is not been used an needs the ram so it dumps the game to run the phone an maps then you get to the hotel to realize ... bugger "my game closed an Lost that spot I looked for in the game an took 4 hours to find" where if it had ram plus on it could of bumped the game to the virtual ram an used the physical ram for the apps on screen been used then when you go back to the game an pull it to the front it once again shuffles the game but this time it's shuffled from virtual ram to the physical ram.

So the virtual ram is used for those who jump around an use there fones for many things an it allows you to not have to reopen an restart apps when you only needed a min to check or do somthing on a different app
It's uses the virtual ram for background stuff or low demand running services that always run on phones but instead of it all been on physical ram which leads to slowing down when it get over loaded your phone now has a extra ram bank to offload running processes so that the fast physical ram bank can be used fully to do what ever is needed then once the physical ram is no long under heavy load the small normal processes that run the phone are allowed to pop back over to the physical ram along with any apps that was placed in the background until used again.

It's doesn't use the virtual ram except to take up small load an background loads so that the physical ram can run free an get stuff done at maximum speed then once it's free it takes over the small load again allowing the virtual ram to be free an clear not writing any data or doing any harm, and to be honest if your buying this more expensive phones with high capacity an ram plus then the ram plus will rarely be used unless you phone runs your buisness or your a influencer an even then the main ram runs most everything an virtual is only used when needed to maintain speed. Not to mention if your buying high end phones then you will most likely break or upgrade before your virtual ram does enough re/write processes to show any wear on the soild state memory that phones use.

It would take alot of data loaded apps running all the time to even think about compromising the memory write capability within a year let along over 4-5 years which by then the phones probably dead broken or not been used for some amount of time during that period an just kept as a backup after a upgrade 12 months after buying it

People forget 80% of people chagr or upgrade phones within a year of ownership an even after tha within the next 6 months ,so 18 months since bought over half of the remaining 20% will sale break or upgrade there device, leaving less than 10% to keep them over 18 months an still then they don't keep them the 5-8 years of average use to hurt the write speed capability of the virtual ram that only occupies 4-8gb of the 60-128gb memory a device has now days

So to put in simple. Any effects ram plus may cause on memory will never been seen or noticed because 90% of us don't use the device long enough or hard enough to get to that point an even those that do are using a 5-8 year old phones means they probably don't use there devices very hard or for more than communication an some light googling or directions , for them to use need or notice the virtual ram

will 8gb ram + 4gb of ram plus have the same speed as a phone with 12gb ram?

RAM Plus is a fancy name for the pagefile. It does NOT kill your storage. It actually saves you battery, because an app that hasn't been used for a long time isn't sitting in RAM consuming power for no reason.

Thank you very much

Useful advice for me. Thank you!

Practically this entire video is FUD. You should probably learn about page and swap files along with how many write cycles SSDs have before spreading this misinformation.

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Thank you for sharing this. There was an immediate increase in speed of operations after making this change in S20 FE 5g phone. Thanks again.

You crazy kids and your phones 🤕 i grew up without any of this stuff , maybe that's why i can see right through all the BS

Oh well ... Conceptually this is anything but new - mainframe computers introduced it in the 1970 (e.g IBM S/370) - basically it tries to temporarily free up some less used memory by storing it on "disk," so that the apps that need memory urgently now can run. But the problem starts whe the apps whose memory was "stored away" also needs to run. Then a fight for memory starts between apps and the processor(s) spend more time swapping memory contents in and out rather than getting work done. We used to say that our computer was now "thrashing."

Mainframes today can still do that but they usually come with so much memory that they don't really need to get into "thrashing mode." Windows and Linux also have the capability (I don't know about Macs, actually, but I would expect they do, too.) And now Android, too. Of course with the advent of solid state storage devices ("SSD drives" in computer terminology, "storage" on the phones) with their originally very limited number of write cycles there is an additional worry about this ability to "thrash" around memory contents.

The basic fact about it really is that a happy computing device (including phones) is one that has enough memory for what it is doing. If there are a few apps idling around in the background not reallys accessing their memory most of the time, their data being saved to storage won't hurt performance much. But once your usage is seriously trying to exceed the memory your device came with - that's when "thrashing" sets in - nobody is getting happy and letting the device try to deal with the shortage is seriously counterproductive.

And let's remember: If I am looking at an industry standard computing device (such as servers or personal computers) I can usually just open the box and install some more memory modules - unless I've already maxed out that specific device. I haven't heard of a phone where you can do that- more storage (SD-card) yes, bur processor memory NO!

On the other hand, only serious gamers should be running short of memory under normal circumstances (I know that I am now talking like Bill Gates about the famous 640kb on the original IBM PC ...) Android also has a feature that terminates apps that are occupying memory but not doing any work - that sounds liek a better option to me.

Question: Which Samsungs do this apply?

Wear and tear on your SSD??????? You're kidding, right?

Ive done that few years ago. It may seem like a refresh state for a phone but it's not. Leaving a 4 only background processes makes your phone into trouble. Apps are having a hard time to load and work properly like something is always disrupting it to do its task. It's a headache right at the start. I will not recommend it. Dont mess the background processes. Smartphones need it's standard limit to work properly and efficiently.

On my Galaxy Z Fold 4 the Ram Plus was enabled, never had any issues or exceeded the 12GB of memory the phone has so I thought I'd see what happened when shutting off the Ram Plus. It was set to use 4GB and I've got the 512GB model so space isn't an issue. Turned it off and restarted my phone. Kept getting SystemUI keeps crashing, wait, close app. Tried restarting again, same problem. Turned Ram Plus back on with the 2GB option and no crashing. Not sure what the issue is but if it keeps crashing, then have to keep it Turned on.

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Very informative video. Thank you 👍

Thank You so much!

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