Nexus 5 available Ram

[Malerin11]

I have noticed that I have a lot less available ram on my Nexus 5 than I had available with my Nexus 4, since I updated the nexus 4 to kit kat 4.4 it is has even more now, I always had over 1gb of ram free sometimes as much as 1.5gb but on my Nexus 5 it's always around 800mb, does anyone know the reason for this ?

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[ncguy]

I have noticed that I have a lot less available ram on my Nexus 5 than I had available with my Nexus 4, since I updated the nexus 4 to kit kat 4.4 it is has even more now, I always had over 1gb of ram free sometimes as much as 1.5gb but on my Nexus 5 it's always around 800mb, does anyone know the reason for this ?

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Install an app like systempanel from the play store. Compare the apps in memory and their sizes and you will likely find where it's going. I guess its also possible that the OS itself could be using more.

I would think with 800 free you will have no performance issues. I've read with Android it doesn't matter until it actually has to start swapping. That's why they tell you to avoid app killing programs.

 

[turbodmac]

My N5 typically has 1.1g free, running Google Now, location services and BBM.

 

[ncguy]

mine between 5 and 700. I think the next round of chips will have 3GB of ram. The timing for me will be just about right.

 

[Malerin11]

I'm having no performance issues, I just found it strange that it used so much ram as I thought kit kat was supposed to use less ram so that it can be used on older phones, I might factory reset to see if makes a difference as I don't want to root yet, love the stock launcher so far

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[ncguy]

I'm having no performance issues, I just found it strange that it used so much ram as I thought kit kat was supposed to use less ram so that it can be used on older phones, I might factory reset to see if makes a difference as I don't want to root yet, love the stock launcher so far

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I think the programmer can check at the app level now and actually send different code depending on the phones capabilities. The N5 won't be considered a low-end device for some time to come.

 

[patruns]

I have noticed that I have a lot less available ram on my Nexus 5 than I had available with my Nexus 4, since I updated the nexus 4 to kit kat 4.4 it is has even more now, I always had over 1gb of ram free sometimes as much as 1.5gb but on my Nexus 5 it's always around 800mb, does anyone know the reason for this ?

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How are you checking this?

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I'm having no performance issues, I just found it strange that it used so much ram as I thought kit kat was supposed to use less ram so that it can be used on older phones, I might factory reset to see if makes a difference as I don't want to root yet, love the stock launcher so far

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It doesn't mean it will always use less, it means it will use less if there is less to work with.

 

[Malerin11]

You can check ram by going to settings, then into apps then over to running apps, at the bottom it will show you ram used and available ram left

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[Jonneh]

The more RAM your device has, the more it should use. This is supposed to happen. Unused RAM is wasted RAM. The OS uses the amount of RAM as efficiently as possible; this often equates to phones with more RAM using more RAM.