If you are in a hurry and you want to move on immediately to know all the tricks to free RAM on Android and have the smartphone faster and more snappy than ever, I will stop you immediately, because after all the tests done, the final solution is to not do it right. nothing, except some basic maintenance.
Certainly it is true that on some smartphones, especially if they have less than 4 GB of RAM, slowdowns in the use of the phone, in the opening of applications and in games due to the short memory may occur, but it is also true that the Android system is perfectly able to automatically manage the use of this memory, freeing it from apps not in use in order to exploit it on active ones.
What is RAM "> how to optimize Android and how to speed up Android we see that you can" free "RAM on an Android phone in some specific cases.
How to free up RAM on Android
1) To free RAM on the smartphone you can perform a forced closure of an app, sometimes simply scrolling the app in the multitasking view, pressing the button that is usually on the right side of the Home button (sometimes left side) .
As explained in another article, closing apps in the background is not necessary and only leads to removing the app from the list of recently used ones, without however terminating it.
A more decisive way to close the app is to go to Settings> Memory to see which apps are using too much RAM, in mod or that you can remove them from your mobile phone.
Uninstall apps on Android that take up memory and unused ones (because they can often be activated in the background), especially chats and messenger services.
For those that cannot be uninstalled because they are integrated into the system, it is also ok to deactivate the apps pre-installed by Samsung, LG, Huawei etc.
2) Disable unused features from Android settings and apps
In particular, it occurs to me to deactivate Ok Google and Google Now if you never use them, deactivate Google Hangouts, deactivate the location services of the various applications which it does not serve as Twitter.
3) Uninstalling the Facebook app and using Facebook from the site has been a revolution for me since Facebook is the heaviest app you can find.
In addition to Facebook, other apps such as Facebook Messenger, Google Maps, Twitter can also be installed as a Lite version app on Android.
4) Do not use extended widgets or moving backgrounds
Widgets and live wallpapers are both rather greedy for RAM, especially those that remain continuously active.
This can also drain the battery faster and keep memory occupied all the time without being able to free it.
5) Turn off Android animations (this is perhaps the only real trick)
Animations often steal RAM and don't add much if not a little aesthetic.
Android animations can be disabled by going to the developer options .
Open the Settings, then Info on the Phone and touch the build number about seven times until the warning appears that we have become developers.
Then go back to the settings, scroll down to find the new developer options menu (or go to System> Developer options) where you can disable the animations.
Under the section called Drawing, you will find three options, which can be turned off:
- Window animation scale
- Transition animation scale
- Scale animation duration
6) Install a lighter launcher than the one present.
We saw in another article the fastest and lightest Android launchers for slow smartphones, including Lawnchair Launcher and Nova Launcher.
7) Increase RAM with root permissions
If we have a Rooted and unlocked smartphone with root permissions, it is possible to increase the maximum amount of RAM used by the Android system with a really effective trick that makes the system believe that it has much more available.
This technique exploits the creation of the swap file which in Windows computers is called Paging File and which on Android would not exist.
Its operation is very simple: when the RAM is about to run out and a new process needs it, the portion of RAM occupied by background services or which are not needed immediately is downloaded to the internal memory or the SD card (the hard -disk in the case of PCs).
The swap technique is not implemented in Android, but thanks to root permissions it can still be activated through an app called RAM Manager, with which you can create a swap file on the SD card.
In Ram Manager, go to the Extras section and select the Swap file, select the size in MB of the swap file with a minimum of 128 MB to a maximum of 512 MB.
This procedure is recommended only if on devices with 1GB of RAM or less and in case of problems I do not take responsibility.
Furthermore, since the CPU will read and write on the SD card thinking it is RAM, it is strongly recommended to use the fastest SD card possible, otherwise the phone will become very slow.
Finally, if you still want to try to free up RAM on Android manually, we saw in another article the best Booster apps to optimize memory and terminate Android processes.
Certainly it is true that on some smartphones, especially if they have less than 4 GB of RAM, slowdowns in the use of the phone, in the opening of applications and in games due to the short memory may occur, but it is also true that the Android system is perfectly able to automatically manage the use of this memory, freeing it from apps not in use in order to exploit it on active ones.
What is RAM "> how to optimize Android and how to speed up Android we see that you can" free "RAM on an Android phone in some specific cases.
How to free up RAM on Android
1) To free RAM on the smartphone you can perform a forced closure of an app, sometimes simply scrolling the app in the multitasking view, pressing the button that is usually on the right side of the Home button (sometimes left side) .
As explained in another article, closing apps in the background is not necessary and only leads to removing the app from the list of recently used ones, without however terminating it.
A more decisive way to close the app is to go to Settings> Memory to see which apps are using too much RAM, in mod or that you can remove them from your mobile phone.
Uninstall apps on Android that take up memory and unused ones (because they can often be activated in the background), especially chats and messenger services.
For those that cannot be uninstalled because they are integrated into the system, it is also ok to deactivate the apps pre-installed by Samsung, LG, Huawei etc.
2) Disable unused features from Android settings and apps
In particular, it occurs to me to deactivate Ok Google and Google Now if you never use them, deactivate Google Hangouts, deactivate the location services of the various applications which it does not serve as Twitter.
3) Uninstalling the Facebook app and using Facebook from the site has been a revolution for me since Facebook is the heaviest app you can find.
In addition to Facebook, other apps such as Facebook Messenger, Google Maps, Twitter can also be installed as a Lite version app on Android.
4) Do not use extended widgets or moving backgrounds
Widgets and live wallpapers are both rather greedy for RAM, especially those that remain continuously active.
This can also drain the battery faster and keep memory occupied all the time without being able to free it.
5) Turn off Android animations (this is perhaps the only real trick)
Animations often steal RAM and don't add much if not a little aesthetic.
Android animations can be disabled by going to the developer options .
Open the Settings, then Info on the Phone and touch the build number about seven times until the warning appears that we have become developers.
Then go back to the settings, scroll down to find the new developer options menu (or go to System> Developer options) where you can disable the animations.
Under the section called Drawing, you will find three options, which can be turned off:
- Window animation scale
- Transition animation scale
- Scale animation duration
6) Install a lighter launcher than the one present.
We saw in another article the fastest and lightest Android launchers for slow smartphones, including Lawnchair Launcher and Nova Launcher.
7) Increase RAM with root permissions
If we have a Rooted and unlocked smartphone with root permissions, it is possible to increase the maximum amount of RAM used by the Android system with a really effective trick that makes the system believe that it has much more available.
This technique exploits the creation of the swap file which in Windows computers is called Paging File and which on Android would not exist.
Its operation is very simple: when the RAM is about to run out and a new process needs it, the portion of RAM occupied by background services or which are not needed immediately is downloaded to the internal memory or the SD card (the hard -disk in the case of PCs).
The swap technique is not implemented in Android, but thanks to root permissions it can still be activated through an app called RAM Manager, with which you can create a swap file on the SD card.
In Ram Manager, go to the Extras section and select the Swap file, select the size in MB of the swap file with a minimum of 128 MB to a maximum of 512 MB.
This procedure is recommended only if on devices with 1GB of RAM or less and in case of problems I do not take responsibility.
Furthermore, since the CPU will read and write on the SD card thinking it is RAM, it is strongly recommended to use the fastest SD card possible, otherwise the phone will become very slow.
Finally, if you still want to try to free up RAM on Android manually, we saw in another article the best Booster apps to optimize memory and terminate Android processes.
