Missing Ram?

[robert26101]

I got my Galaxy S5 AT&T version and it says I only have 1.81 gigs of ram. I thought it was supposed to be 2 gigs of ram? Is anyone else seeing this as well?

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[atg284]

I got my Galaxy S5 AT&T version and it says I only have 1.81 gigs of ram. I thought it was supposed to be 2 gigs of ram? Is anyone else seeing this as well?

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Mine is the same. I am assuming it is being taken up by the system but I could be wrong. Anyone know for sure?

 

[Netherscourge]

"2GB" ram is actually 1.81GB of physical RAM.

Same reason 1TB HDDs show up as only 858GB physical space.

 

[Aquila]

Some RAM isn't available for the user/ui/apps, etc and 1.8 is what almost all Android devices with 2GB RAM have.

Gigabytes can refer two two numbers both accurately called gigabytes, but one is also called a gibibyte. 2 gigabytes as 2*1024^3 is 2,147,483,648 bytes and is also called a gibibyte, and is also named as 2*1000^3 is 2,000,000 bytes is 1.86 (rounded) gigabytes. A terabyte is always 1000^4 or 1000 gigabytes, but that would only equate to .91 TiB or 931 gibibytes.