Anyone else's ram keeps decreasing?

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Ok not quite sure if you are serious or trolling but I'll bite.

The more applications or services you have running the more ram they are going to use. Some apps can be more memory intensive than others games for example. You are utilizing less than half of your ram capacity that is not bad at all. The amount you use will fluctuate depending on what is running. If you notice unusually high memory usage you can stop your apps one by one untill you find the culprit. Android handles multitasking pretty well so no need to bother with a task killer they tend to cause more problems than they fix. Your usage shown in your picture looks just fine to me. My suggestion is don't stress unless you are experiencing a problem and enjoy your phone.

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I have a feeling the original poster is confusing the RAM memory used by the phone to operate with the "storage space" the device has.
 
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I have a feeling the original poster is confusing the RAM memory used by the phone to operate with the "storage space" the device has.

I have no idea, im no tech wiz but I know they said the phone comes with like 2gb of ram but mine never says 2 gb, even after I clear the memory

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The Android OS is always running (that is what is telling you how much memory you have left) and that takes up some room in memory. .4GB of space taken up by the OS is not really THAT bad.

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The Android OS is always running (that is what is telling you how much memory you have left) and that takes up some room in memory. .4GB of space taken up by the OS is not really THAT bad.

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Mike

Oh ok, thanks, I didn't know that,well atleast I know everythings fine now, thx

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I know that my ram usage even after 20 min of use usually shows up as ive used like 1.32g of 1.59 it doesn't even show that I have 2g which I know that is normal but it shouldnt use 1.xgb of ram in twenty min after clearing it. Is yours doing the same

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Ive got an international version too and it shows it has less than a half gb after clearing ram
 

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Ok not quite sure if you are serious or trolling but I'll bite.

The more applications or services you have running the more ram they are going to use. Some apps can be more memory intensive than others games for example. You are utilizing less than half of your ram capacity that is not bad at all. The amount you use will fluctuate depending on what is running. If you notice unusually high memory usage you can stop your apps one by one untill you find the culprit. Android handles multitasking pretty well so no need to bother with a task killer they tend to cause more problems than they fix. Your usage shown in your picture looks just fine to me. My suggestion is don't stress unless you are experiencing a problem and enjoy your phone.

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trust me he's not trolling and he's talking about the TOTAL ram, not used RAM

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I'm having the same issue. My TOTAL RAM started at 1.79. Now it's down to 1.59. Any ideas on why it keeps decreasing? Any help to increase the RAM is appreciated.
 

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maybe background apps which cant be stoped by task manager are counted into the unavalable ram making total available ram less?
just a theory.. things like Light Flow etc that run in background....

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I know that my ram usage even after 20 min of use usually shows up as ive used like 1.32g of 1.59 it doesn't even show that I have 2g which I know that is normal but it shouldnt use 1.xgb of ram in twenty min after clearing it. Is yours doing the same

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Ive got an international version too and it shows it has less than a half gb after clearing ram

international s3 only has 1gb ram to start with, the N American ones have 2 :thumbup:

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used ram or available total mate? ive got 833 available total uploadfromtaptalk1352629941104.jpg

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I have no idea, im no tech wiz but I know they said the phone comes with like 2gb of ram but mine never says 2 gb, even after I clear the memory

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It is 2GB, but it will never actually say 2GB because some of the memeory is used for other things on the phone....they round it off I think

How did you get to that screen though? I don't see how to get to "Ram Manager"
 
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It is 2GB, but it will never actually say 2GB because some of the memeory is used for other things on the phone....they round it off I think

How did you get to that screen though? I don't see how to get to "Ram Manager"

Oh ok, thanks

I'm not on stock anymore but I think you hold down the home button and then press task manager at the bottom and u shld get there

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