How to Manage Your Android Smartphone RAM in Order to Optimise Performance

RAM stands for Random Access Memory, and it is simply known as working or multi-tasking memory for your android phone; and RAM management can do you whole lot of good in keeping your android apps and phone performance high at all time without unnecessary hanging and forced application closure.

I have heard lots of people complain how their phones constantly hang or how some of their in used apps sometimes force closed and some other glitches that affect the smooth running of their android devices.

Most times, unknowing to them are that most of those errors are as result of their devices running low in RAM.

At this point, we are going to be taking a 1GB RAM size for android device as standard and we will be showing you how you can be managing it very well in order to be rocking your devices like rock star with 4GB RAM and with lesser glitches.

If you are still using devices with 512mb RAM, it is time to upgrade to at least 1GB RAM device before technology will leave you crawling behind, as this is the era of 1GB RAM and above for all new devices.

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= => Now are you the type that opens up to 10 different apps all the time without closing them and expect your 1GB RAM device to perform optimally? Then you are have to retrace back your skills in android device RAM management and start closing those apps you always open and stick to 1 or 2 that you are currently using at that moment.

Then if you must open more apps, make sure you close the ones not in use to help your devices perform well at every point in time.

Now, how do you even know that your RAM is being used up before we mentioned earlier those funny signs that make your devices seem as if they are faulty?

Well android OS is well designed to handle virtually all your activities and present them to you in simple manner as you use.

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If you are running android 4.4 and above, you can easily see the amount of RAM your phone is consuming at every point in time by long key pressing your home soft button; then for those running lower version of android, you can easily navigate your way to the settings>>App>>running and scroll down to the bottom to see the bar telling you then amount of RAM you are consuming.

At this point you should know that with your 1GB RAM, if usage gets to 800mb to 900mb, then are have almost used up your RAM and your phone might start acting weird.

Since RAM is working memory, it constantly changes depending on your activities, and virtually everything you do consumes certain amount of RAM, even when your phone is on standby mode, RAM is being used though maybe minimal because there are some apps designed to run invisibly on the background.

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= => I was going through somebody’s phones the other time, can you imagine I saw about 3 different Flash Torchlight apps installed on the device.

I now asked the person in question, what he is doing with those 3 different but similar function performing apps all installed on his devices, and he couldn’t explain. I then told him to uninstall 2 and leave just one since they all perform similar functions.

In other words, some of you just keep on taking and installing both the apps that you make use of and the once that since you installed them, you have never made use of them.

Now ask yourself, of what use are those apps that you installed 6 months ago but have never opened them.

So it is a good practice to scan through your phones from time to time and do away with those types of apps that you never use, as they are just there occupying both your phone memory and consuming fractions of your RAM.

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= => Now, you browse all the time and use other apps that requires internet; most times after making use of such apps, junk files or cached memories are built up and they adds up from time to time consuming your RAM and even slowing down your processor; why not do your phones some favour by clearing those junk files from time to time in order to free up RAM.

Good a thing is that there are even apps out there that can even assist you in doing them from time to time almost in an automated way without you having to take each of them manually.

We have apps like Clean Masters and the rest that do clean jobs and boost up your RAM usage.

= => Your Phone memory uses RAM more as compared with SD cards, so you can also think of moving some of your raw and installed files/apps to SD cards in other to allow the phone memory and RAM to perform optimally without much glitch.

When you start imbibing all those habit of managing RAM as highlighted above, you will get to see that you can even play your HD games and do other heavy things with your phone without encountering much issue.

Starting from now on, make it a habit to manage your phone RAMs especially if your device is running on only 1GB RAM, hence other ways is for you to start looking for avenue to get devices with higher RAMs.