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Root [International] ZRAM??

funkylogik

funkylogik

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Can anyone explain in a simple funkylogikal way what it is/does? :beer:

(I did read the Wikipedia description btw) *whoosh, over my head* :confused:
 
Thanks bro. I had read that but im like TERRIBLE with windows and PCs in genaral. I just dont feel the same geekish way about them as i do for mobile devices.
Any idea how it applies to phones mate? Like from that screenshot, can u see how it could improve performance in any way? Thanx man :beer::beer:
 
From what I've gathered it uses some of your phone's internal memory as RAM, how it does it I've no idea but from what I've seen it allows far less redraws/restarts on apps so multitasking is superior.

But, there's always a but, since you're using some of your phone's internal memory for RAM and since it wasn't designed that way it will slowly start killing your phone. The memory that has been used as RAM will get corrupted, eventually.
 
These phones really shouldn't need zram at all. (Especially the US versions with 2gb.) Its much more popular on old phones with 512mb (or less) RAM.

I would only use of if you're having a lot of redraw issues (and in that case there's likely better solutions)
 
Understood. Thanks guys. RAM isnt really a problem for me yet so ill leave it alone until apps start requiring more ram :)
 
The way I understood it from the Wikipedia article is that it's not using storage as RAM, it's using compressed RAM as storage, so that a pagefile can be swapped to a compressed area of RAM, avoiding the necessity of accessing a slower harddrive, or more importantly, repeatedly writing to flash memory - which will eventually kill it.
 
Android is not capable of that Linux zRam Wikipedia talks about. Many custom kernels such as Boeffla, Perseus, Googy allow a different implementation. It's not swapping anything, it compresses data inside your RAM and improves multi tasking, particularly for the I9300, which has issues. It's completely innocuous and does not corrupt the memory.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34877656

The S3 has a broken multi-tasking, wonderful job of Samsung lol To me, it's essential to use it.

My particular settings is a compression size of 600MB with 90% swappiness.
 
Thanks mate. Wow im not sure if that xda post was too complex, bad english or both lol. Ill probs give it a wee try to see if i actually notice any difference in performance and battery impact :beer:
 
If you want to try, use Googy Max Kernel, if you're on AOSP, get the appropriate version. Then you can set everything via STweaks.
 
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