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How To Increase RAM In Android Mobile Phone
May 11, 2025
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! #ram #extendedram #virtualram
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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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