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Is it possible to increase ram of android phone by making swapon the sd card in ubuntu using fdisk utility then inserting in adroid phone???
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Just having a swap partition on the card won't make the phone use it. You'd need to make some other system alterations, which would require root, before it would work.
Even then, I'm really not convinced it would be a good idea. Remember that swap doesn't actually give you any extra working memory. From my understanding of Android memory management I'd think that at best it would mean you could restart apps that had been killed by the android memory manager without them losing their last state, which seems a small benefit for the work involved and possible degradation of the SD card. But if you want to look further into this the top result I could find with a web search was this XDA thread. Do make sure you read the first few posts thoroughly, and also look at the last few pages to find the current state of play, since it's quite an old thread.
Even then, I'm really not convinced it would be a good idea. Remember that swap doesn't actually give you any extra working memory. From my understanding of Android memory management I'd think that at best it would mean you could restart apps that had been killed by the android memory manager without them losing their last state, which seems a small benefit for the work involved and possible degradation of the SD card. But if you want to look further into this the top result I could find with a web search was this XDA thread. Do make sure you read the first few posts thoroughly, and also look at the last few pages to find the current state of play, since it's quite an old thread.