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RAM (Random Access Memory) is one of the components vital to the smooth running of apps in your smartphone. Is there a way to increase the RAM of your device?
In this video, I also discuss Extended RAM (also called Virtual RAM). Dive in!
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a number of people have asked me how
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they can increase RAM on their Android
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device unfortunately smartphones are not
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built the same way that PCs are built
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pcs are built such that you can swap out
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components and replace them with
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upgrades so in pieces for example you
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can increase your RAM by buying the
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compatible unit removing the RAM model
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and plugging in the upgraded RAM model
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in so if your PC has 4 GB RAM and you
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want 8 gigs you can buy an 8 gig model
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and swap out the 4 gig unit replace it
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with the 8 gig unit as long as it's
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compatible it can be done but in
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smartphones that swapability does not
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exist the ability to take out the camera
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lens and replace it with a superior lens
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does not exist the ability to take out
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the processor and replace it with
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another one does not exist the same
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thing with RAM simply put you cannot
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increase RAM in your phone if your phone
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comes with 4 GB RAM that's what you get
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if it comes with 8 GB RAM that's what
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you get now in recent times
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manufacturers have come up with
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something called virtual RAM or extended
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RAM and in simple terms the idea is that
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they take a portion of your phone's
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internal storage and allocate it for
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virtual RAM now virtual RAM is not as
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capable and as effective as actual RAM
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that's why it's virtual or extended it
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does not produce the same performance
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results but it can help with
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multitasking it can help with improving
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the smoothness of running apps in the
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background on your phone almost every
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Android smartphone manufacturer now
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offers extended or virtual RAM they give
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you different names samsung has a name
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for theirs oppo has a name for theirs
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xiaomi has a name for theirs on and on
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and on but pretty much if you want to
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use that feature go into the settings of
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your phone and type virtual RAM or
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extended RAM in the search bar at the
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top of the settings or you just scroll
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to the settings till you find the memory
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menu and then you go in there you should
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find it somewhere now here is what it
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looks like on my phone the phone was
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manufactured with 8 GB of RAM and it
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says here inbuilt 8 GB of RAM additional
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virtual RAM added from internal storage
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to improve performance i need to enable
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it for it to work all I have to do is
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toggle this and then I have to decide do
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I want to allocate only 2 gig 3 gig or 5
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gig of course it's just better to take
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the maximum amount you can take
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especially if the storage of the phone
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is large if you have 128 gig internal
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storage and above just take the highest
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amount possible and then you tap
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activate and restart it restarts the
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phone and you're good to go that's how
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virtual extended RAM works that's the
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only kind of increase you can do to RAM
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on your phone and once the phone
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restarts you can see that it's active
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and then the amount of virtual RAM is
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stated maybe in the future Android will
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develop and manufacturers will develop
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to the point where we can swap in RAM
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modules the way it is done on PCs if
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that time comes then you can increase
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the RAM on your phone but for now you
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cannot increase the actual RAM that your
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phone has you can enable virtual or
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extended RAM to assist the actual RAM
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that comes on your phone that's that's
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all you get thank you for liking this
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