Re: Why
Mind telling us all why our phones sit at 7GB RAM after a "cleaning" when most phones don't even have 2GB RAM? I would LOVE to know what's taking up 7 Gigabytes of RAM doing nothing. That is absolutely absurd and for a year before the s22s started rolling out and the updates, it would sit at 2-4GB and I couldn't even get it to 7GB if I ran multiple games at the same time. Nothing changed except your updates LITERALLY slowed down the best phone on the market and changed the camera so it sucks at focusing now. This all ensures I won't be buying the s22 or any future phones for that matter. The s21 ultra I had to fight tooth and nail to get the 16GB all for nothing because Samsung slowed it down. I'm getting a Nokia next, they don't slow down at all, I have one from the early 2000s still runs beautiful. How let down I am by Samsung: Before this I was recommending galaxy's to everyone I knew. Now I'm turning people away. Hawkswoopa is not just some name I made up, it's a life helper and over 60 thousand people follow me. I am absolutely horrified that I can spend two thousand dollars on a phone just to turn around and have Samsung ruin it because a newer phone was coming out. In the news it shows your lawsuits and apples lawsuits about slowing the phones down at which you particularly tried to hide it and apple did not. You lost my trust for ever and I can't wait to sell this pile of 7GB running on standby... What in the h e double hockey sticks is using 7 GIGABYTES OF RAM THATS NOT EVEN RUNNING? NOTHING, YOU JACKED UP OUR S21s. That is all.
Welcome to Android Central! It may be helpful for you to learn a bit more about how RAM works on Android, which is different than how it works on other platforms like Windows. This classic article from Jerry Hildenbrand (and updated this year) is an excellent resource:
https://www.androidcentral.com/ram-what-it-how-its-used-and-why-you-shouldnt-care
Basically, the system will take advantage of how much RAM it has. If it's only 2 GB of RAM, then it might keep about 1.5 GB of RAM occupied by apps. If it has 8 GB of RAM, then it might keep about 7 GB of RAM occupied. Remember that these apps aren't all actively using CPU cycles -- they're mostly being kept cached in the background, so that they can be quickly accessed when the user decides to switch to it. If the user wants to open a different app that isn't kept cached in the background, then the system will intelligently close one or more apps out of RAM to make room for the new one.
Be aware that apps or services that claim to "clean RAM" by killing background tasks are actually working at odds with how Android is designed. Although this is intended to save battery, it can paradoxically use more battery, since the act of opening an app into RAM afresh (rather than just switching to the already open app that was cached in the background) can use more battery. It can also impact performance, since opening an app afresh will take a little longer than switching to an app already cached in RAM. In addition, apps that
need to remain available in the background (like music apps) can be affected by poorly designed RAM cleaners -- a prominent example I experienced was on a TCL Tab 8, which wouldn't let me continue listening to Spotify after switching to another app. The music stream would immediately stop, which makes a streaming app mostly useless.