mine was too

Yes , I just checked it , enabled by default.

This is a non issue imo. We’re well past the days where we have to worry about read/write wear on flash storage. Unless youre keeping your phone for 10+ years youre never going to have to worry about it. Desktop systems have had this for decades(?) and its never been an issue.

Yep Alex is was enabled just received the S23 plus last week definitely factory enabled, Thx Alex for the great tips.

Mine was enabled from the factory. I called Samsung customer service direct and they said to turn it off cause it will slow down the phone somehow. What's the point of having it on the from the factory then lol?

Funny that you make the comparison to SD flash memory... Do you know the actual specs of the used UFS NAND? The S23 series is known to have some inferior design mistakes (or decisions) related to the optics and such, which Samsung likes to put off as "characteristics of the hardware". Who knows Samsung skimped out on the used NAND flash storage. I've heard enough stories about problems with their SSD lineup and their Exynos SoC's. It wouldn't surprise me if RAM Plus causes problems sooner or later...

​@@LockedOutBy2FAso basically you're just using your hypotheticals. As if they are true

RAM-cache amortizes (or even obliterates) such problems. I have 4GB and I usually have enough free-mem to allow cache to exist. RAM+ would give too much freedom to background apps

​@jalanidamu5774 NAND storage is NAND, and it has a limited amount of writes. Using Ram plus, will reduce the lifespan of the storage on the device. Will it be enough to matter is hard to say as it's use case specific. But it's important to factor if you tend to keep phones for an extended time.

​@@Brainy1422so should I turn mine off or to a certain setting?

Have they? manufacturer's seemed to have halted their write endurance by cheaping out and going with TLC and qlc drives. My old ass sata ssd has the exact endurance per gigabyte as samsungs current flagship drive and samsung the old pro line actually had double the endurance of their current best.

exactly this video is straight up paranoia

​@@ethearnos6397 nope

@@Frozoken That's incorrect. Today's gen4 and gen5 ssd's have vastly superior write endurance compared to older generations. In fact, the gap is often so big that even low end dodgy gen4 ssd's tend to have a guaranteed endurance rating that is almost double that of even the most premium gen3 ssd's. The only type of drives that "technically" get close to this are very old slc's, but in reality that is not old slc or tlc ever produced that can match the longevity of modern ssd's. The first reason for this is because of capacity. The more capacity you have in an ssd, the less kilobytes are written to a drive which means it lasts longer. This means that writing 50GB of data to a 120GB SSD will have exponentially more wear than writing the same 50GB to a 4TB ssd. This remains true even if the 120GB ssd is an slc drive while the 4TB is a QLC drive. The second reason is that old slc only have slc nand, while the modern drives are qlc but they have a small part that is an slc that is made specifically for abusive situations (constant copying and modification made by operating systems or by professional users at work. All of these tricks combine to make modern ssd's vastly superior to old drives. Even if you want to compare speed, the modern QLC drives are still faster. Even though QLC is technically a slower nand, modern drives now come with there own high speed ram (gen4 comes with ddr4 ram) that blow away any tlc and slc drive in raw performance. and in rare cases where you are transferring a single file that exceeds that capacity of the ssd ram, it will combine the ram with the drives slc chip to accommodate the file size and still maintain performance that is faster than old drives.

Used paging and increased virt mem to 4GB on my Steam Deck to increase bandwidth of memory for my games. Valve had virt mem set to 1GB with no paging setup at all.

On Windows you can customize the amount of storage dedicated to virtual memory. If you have enough storage space you could technically dedicated a terabyte or more. 😅

But why kill ANY of your storage if you don't need to? Also, if your storage is fairly full the wear occurs at a faster pace due to the same cells being written to over and over again. What if you run into financial hardship in the future and need to keep the phone longer? Why not take care of it ehh?

@@mrdumbfellow927 Even if you run into financial hardship you will still be using a different phone. I don't think you fully understand how long 5 years actually is. The number "5" seems small when typed on a peace of paper, but 5 years is enough for a teenager to go from last year of highschool and into a big time company CEO. 5 years is long enough for that kid little kid in your nighborhood to become as tall as you with a beard and a deep voice. 5 years is long enough for your brand new car to become old and constantly braking down. 5 years is long enough to have your whole family and friends with you and then only half are left in the world. Brother, I can assure you... as long as you are still alive after 5 years, you will not have the same phone. You will have most likely given it to other family members or you will have destroyed the phone by letting it fall into water or fall on the ground and crack the screen, or it will have gotten stolen or lost.

​@angrysocialjusticewarrior to be fare, I had my last phone from the time it came out in 2017 until 2023. 6 years lol. Sometimes the thing just lasts that long.

Fair**

I did that on my Note 9 and used it for almost 2 years without any issue.

On my Samsung a 13 I I switched the Ram from 4 to 2 and now my KZfaq videos keep stuttering anything to do with music pretty-much

​@Tu.Mama.Perro. That has to do with all the bloatware and the crap processor that the a13 have. That is a budget phone. Don't expect too much. Not hating on budget phones or ppl who by them. I'm running a galaxy a51 5g. So yeah we all like what we like.

Only if you're running out of space

He said that.

this is absolutely impossible man lol

This is why i have my stuff on pc an older phone and i will buy external ssd. Lost my data once. 5 TERABYTE. 5. Yeah it's a lot of data.

@@iAmNothingness I just use one of those Samsung T7 shields for backing up my phone. Hopefully it lasts, I guess one backup is better than none though.

it would go in to read only mode if it is worn-out it's extremely rare that it fails in a way that loses all of your data and if it happens that's what a backup is for

I don't know about you but when it is enabled or not it's the same experience

Nope disable it

If you're battery is draining more quickly, will turning it off, or even lowering it from 4 to 2, make a difference? I have a Samsung S21 FE.

Yeah, that would be helpful to determine the facts.

Nope not needed

For those not familiar with Dex mode at all, I found this video that might peek your interest in using it. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZqyWe5hi3c21dIk.html

Imo nah, bcs galaxy phones w.o a dex mode still got the ram plus 😊

@@087_anggerpribadiwibowo5 I'm pretty sure every galaxy phone since the s8, including the fold series, and the galaxy tabs, all have dex mode (Edit. After doing some digging. Not every galaxy phone has Dex. The main phones and flag ship phones and tablets have it, but the more affordable phones like the A13 and A51 didn't start with it, although they've been rolling it out with their 4.1 UI on some phones that previously didn't have dex, such as the A51, and may roll it out on other phones also strong enough to support it in future updates.) The operating system is designed for phones having dex mode (since it's the standard for the primary featured Samsung phones and tablets now) so if you have an older phone than that, if it gets system updates the ram plus feature probably got added (Ram Plus was first added in 2021, and has been getting added during system updates to phones that have the 4.1 ui as part of their OS update) as a samsung standard. I keep all my of phones, and I know my old s10 got ram plus on it after updating it as well. If you have a phone older than the s8, I'm surprised it's battery hasn't started to swell yet, cause wow that would put you at an s7 from 2015 or older, that's a long time to have the same phone and most apps probably aren't compatible anymore on the play store. If you have a featured samsung phone after the s8, you probably have dex on your phone, never used it if it wasn't an original feature, and haven't added the dex mode notification tab to your notification bar tab list.

​@@Shenvalleyboi Also the most budget phones from Samsung( M line ) doesn't have DEX mode. I have m21

@@Bartekwis True. They disable features of the One UI on phones that aren't strong enough to rub those features. The one ui is the sane but singer phones just get featured blocked out, but the ui itself is designed to run with all it's features, so unless you have a phone incapable of using Ram plus, it won't be blocked out along with dex mode.

Thats the phone I have 😮

Do you have a link about this?

Phone will be slower as virtual memory fill up as phone have to search the particular app to load from that storage. It will be slower than physical ram and it may get even slower as continuous swapping of data is done when used as ram.

​@@eldhosepeter6894 you've not understood my point.. Loading from storage directly or from virtual Ram which is faster? Clearly virtual.. That's my whole point.

@roger22fed I understand your point. Virtual is the storage man and constant swapping is done it becomes slower. Virtual is not real as it make you to feel that. I know this because I do heavy compilation in my 64 gb ddr5 computer. And after it fills I experience slow down when the tasks runs. I experienced it and that's why I commented.

@@eldhosepeter6894 well tell that to your PC because it relies highly on the same system. You will never fill up the full virtual memory, so will never have a hugh impact. For gaming and mutitasking without virual memory your phone will not only run slower but run hotter and could even lead to shorter battery life. Heat is what wreaks these batteries. The normal person's phone will never have that many apps running so will never need to touch the virtual ram setting so wont effect your phones preformance or battery as its never used unless it has to. Your PC has since its invention used physical ram as virtual memory, no big deal for android users either. Apps are increasing in size, especially gaming and needs the virual ram for maxium preformance

@denodan first of all virtual ram is not physical ram memory. It is a part of storage. And yes I fill up my ram easily. And yes virtual memory access is slower than physical ram memory. And if you are using virtual ram constant swapping makes it slower . I don't know what you are talking about?. I use physical ram as virtual memory? 😂Lol I don't understand 🙃 you.

You have to search more about how RAM (DDR) and flash storage works, and how they differ.

@@jhe-p0t No, I totally have not to, cause the video talks about some kinda assumptions. Here we're speaking about THE video, man. So, you have to go.

@@artybe doesn't change the fact it's true 🤣 other phones have the same problem 🤣

@@artybe did you turn it off?

@@sokol7215 if i had 100 windows open id like for it to slow down so i can close them because i forgot. it could save battery like that also.

Take no notice of what he is saying he doesn't know what he is talking about. I have had it on my 5 year old note 10 plus with no problems so take no notice of what he is saying.

​@@lizvickers7156It's been on my Samsung S21 FE for 4 years. My battery life is becoming a problem. It drains more quickly now. I have had it charging to 85% since getting the phone to save the battery. A person on Reddit said to turn off the virtual RAM, too, because it was a battery eater. Any thoughts about whether or not this will work? I'm not a phone tech and don't understand the processes behind how it runs or whatever. I'm just looking for another opinion. 😊

Glad to help!

Cache*

The hell is Chace memory

Also to correct a bit: The "Virtual RAM" is called SWAP on Linux-oide systems, and used to move unused or not frequently used memory from the physical RAM in the "virtual RAM" (swap), to get more physical RAM back in return. So it's wrong that it puts smaller apps in the swap. Also, it is not cached in the CPU as the CPU cache is just 8 MB of size and needs to be used for more important stuff to remain efficient - it doesn't cache entire apps. The VRAM/SWAP lives on the storage chip of the phone. And I think you're referring to closing apps being bad? This is true. It's not recommended to force-close apps if you don't need to. When you again open the app, the entire app needs to be re-initialized, requiring CPU resources and moved into RAM. This effectively takes more energy than leaving the app "running" and let the Linux kernel on the phone do its job.

bruh wtf is "chace" you mean cache?? and btw all CPUs have onboard Cache

​@@Razzbowso you are aware it is actually Cache Data(also known as temporary files)

These devices have UFS 3.x type of storages which takes way much longer to degrade over time even with so much random writes (the same with Windows pagefile virtual ram)

You will phone will be discarded before your storage completely degrades. Stop the paranoia.

It is a way to disable it after the update

You can disable RAM Plus completely, but you need to do so with ADB commands via USB.

​@@Disdaine82 how? Pls tell me

Correct, I do not use it, I just showed that it exists to those that may want to consider it.. To properly test it, you would need someone to keep it enabled for years, and compare it to someone else who didn't use it.. so unfortunately I cannot just give you a definitive answer without speculation as I do not have the years and years of data at my disposal. I am sure Samsung or some other big corporations can garner this information.

@@TechnicallyAlex its a myth not to charge to 100%, as it wont stay long enough at 100% to hurt your battery. Its bad for a battery to be stored and not used at 100% as the phone is used does not matter. Its only if you intend say keeping it at 100% when you get your phone its never charged to 100% but maybe around 50 to 60% as its sitting there doing nothing and 100% then would be bad. Howevery, what is not a myth is charging over night and remains for the night at 100%, in this case as its hours being at this, then it's not good for your battery

@@TechnicallyAlex am sure technically there is a reason why the function is there... well thanks for the advice and great job you are doing here... keep up the good work.

​@The KZfaqr It's known to make the battery have a longer life, goes for any lipo battery. They have this option on many laptops today. I use it, but one thing is, don't store lipo batteries at 100% if fully charging, be sure to use that charge asap.

hahaha saving 20-25% battary & garner modest data lol you won't be using the damn device that long

Reduced cpu usage, it's using your storage as ram and constantly switching between them which tanks cpu performance

Not needed for 12 gb ram

Virtual ram has been about for decades! I remember having 32mb virtual ram or something silly. I needed it to run the original Photoshop software back in the 90s or it would graphic glitch (onboard gpu) that had about 64mb if that 😂

If you phone is constantly running the OS, apps, and having to switch from its on board and virtual ram it's using more battery, cpu is working harder, and having to switch between both ram types is actually using more ram. So if you turn it off your phone does actually run better, and way less battery consumption.

Came looking for this. Haha. Good ol' days.

I really can't understand, for the life of me, why closing all apps can be "bad for the battery", at least for my usage...

@@conan5885 Because it takes less energy the next time you want to use the app.

@@Xenon0000000000001 I understand that concept, but that's why i said "for my use". I don't have 30 apps open on my phone at once, don't need to multitask on a regular basis, and if so i'll have 2 or 3 apps open, max. Don't stream or do social networking or gaming either. I'll probably have my music app on, and browse something on line. I also doesn't need to be opening and closing (or alternating between) dozens of apps every 5 min. I have 4GB, and for the most part it can be enough. Virtual ram may be beneficiary however if i use my virtual instruments apps that rely on samples to play, as it has to load on ram. I think i'll just test both options for a few days and see what suits me best

@@laxmanndhotre Well.... it kind of does... at least in my case, as i restrict about 90% of my apps from running in the background in settings. apart from some system apps i only have 1 app running permanently in background and my local music player app with no restrictions to run in the background. Pretty much everything else is severely limited. I also have every data connections turned off at all times, only turn it on when i need a data connection.

On PC you can swap storage if it fails.

It requires cpu resources to do so there absolutely is. Unless you consider higher battery drain, higher temperatures, and worse performance, "no harm"

Glad to help!

@@TechnicallyAlex what about the battery? Does this feature consume battery power when it's on?

​@@amirpaha8561 yes just disable if you want more battery

Correct, you phone will not use virtual ram unless physical ram is maxed out, it's kind of like "swap memory" on windows.

Personally I've found it slower when enabled and more prone to system UI hiccups. I disabled it first thing when Samsung introduced it many months ago.

@@Joeeye123 I haven't had any performance issues and I just left it enabled. On my OnePlus 8T, Android 13 has the same option and I couldn't see any different in performance wether I leave it on or off and it also has 12gb of RAM.

@@jeffmenace91 yes, so other than wasted reserved space, it offers no benefits one can actually identify. The reason I disable it.

@@TechnicallyAlex you're so wrong. Android has a thing called "swapiness" which is the % of ram used that has to be used to move newer app data to the swap partition. If the swapiness is set to 100%, swap wo start when 50% of ram is used. If swapiness is set to 70, when 80% of physical ram is used, the system will automatically use swap. In my experience Samsung uses 80% swapiness and xiaomi uses 90%, therefore, the limits of both are when 50-70% of ram is used, they'll swap no matter what. Do better research next time.

Unless you're on an old phone (before 2012ish), the transfer will happen under a seperate thread. Slowdown won't be an issue. however, you're correct about the battery usage.

@@ArcaneTurbulence what? Newer phones can't use multithreading?

@@shadmansudipto7287 Yes they can. That's why I said "Unless you're on an older phone" It will use a separate thread. Older phones don't have multi-threading capabilities.

That's amazing, I'm glad the process limit works!!

Dd you let your VRAM at 2 Gb or 4 GB?

​@TechnicallyAlex there's also something I wanted to say about virtual RAM, it cannot be deactivated on Android 12/one UI 4 and since my galaxy a12 doesn't get software updates, I'm stuck with one UI 4 but here's the thing, I don't run many apps on it, so there's something like 1.8 gb of physical ram left, so I think RAM plus won't impact my device at all.

i should put a limit on my Tab 2 (i put LineAgeOS on it)

​@@TechnicallyAlex And for the person with Galaxy 7 perx And no RAM PLUS option is there... What then?

Enabling vram on Samsung S21+ destroyed lagless experience for me. I had lags almost everywhere, thought about selling device but then i found one thread about vram. One guy advised that vram can be problematic. I disabled it and for last 2 months NO LAGS whatsoever. Since then i advise everyone to DISABLE it forever. Peace.

Exactly I have s23 ultra 512GB

@@RANDOM-Moments200 same. I have question. Does your fingerprint sensor suddenly disappear from the lockscreen. Mine did that one time not sure what that is.

​@pasindunimshan3708 mine disappears after. It's supposed to. If not then you would have a print that remains on your screen.

So the 1tb wasn't worth the extra $240 😬

@deputydan2226 1 tb for a phone right now isn't needed unless you use that kind of space.

You mean Megabytes

@@stephensnell5707 Nope. The overhead used to be 8:1 and thus it needed 1.0 GiB/1024 MiB of storage space to get 128 MiB of virtual memory.

Ram is way faster. Its not even close.

True Fact-I myself I ONLY change my Smartphone once every 6 years

Where am I 👶

I love your theory. Based on how youve said the extra virtual ram is managing for one ui os is pretty legit. Because im using a slower tab galaxy a7 lite. So when i turn ram plus off , it becomes so sluggish to even navigate. To be honest it should be left untouched

Yeah i noticed some lags / choppy performance after i turned it off but battery life improved by a lot after turning it off

@@revanchdg I admit that sounds strange. With everything I know about mobile operating systems, I don't know of any reason making more RAM available would impact the battery. 8 months in with the Fold 4. The battery life has been incrementally improved because of Android power management and optimization. Screen On Time has reached 8-9 hours and 18-22 hours total. I'm a power user. So I don't dial back performance or do any battery saving tricks. Pretty happy with it so far.

You have no idea what you are talking about 🤣

Yes, your cpu needs to be used a good amount every time it's switched from real ram to virtual, obv requiring more power to do so in the process.

Don't touch it I got 4gb on my S22ultra keep it that way

Nothing hes just speaking nonesense

It slows down ur phone

@@harshithsuvarna2004 I use 6gb Vram and my phone is Still as fast as when I first bought it. Vram will only be used if the physical ram is depleted which is unlikely unless you're on a 4gb physical ram or lower

AAA phone games ?

@@bakaneko6639 yes, they have triple A (AAA) games for mobile devices. Seeing how mobile gaming is actually a thing.

Sorry bro but I disagree with this. As a pro player, selecting 8ramplus is the WORSE THING you ever have in terms of gaming. You gain a lot of latency out there. Playing Fortnite? Bro you kidding me? RamPlus would cause your game to run faster I know it is smooth but you didn't even notice that your game fast-forwarded? You can't even keep up your aim by tracking players who have movement because they are so fast to move. Most of the time ramplus triggers lag spikes. Doesnt give you a precise and consistent framerate. Also, it makes your phone hot faster. The framerate you gain in Ramplus is not normal bro. The effect of Ramplus was like overclocking your device same as in a PC if you use an afterburner. Do this for you to understand. Install cod and play with it. Notice the movement of the enemy to your device and compare their speed here you'll see here on youtube(search codm big streamers) you'll notice the difference. If you search Paging file cause on youtube you'll see how much worse it would do to your device. Tweaking in pc could decrease the lifespan of your hard drive. The same effect on the phone because the process is not normal and other system components of the device would not match to speed that had been set already to them kind of miss matching that's why high latency existed. Using afterburner also you need to match the framerate to your monitor right? What if your monitor only renders 60hz but you overclocking it to your desired 120hz? Yeah, you notice that smooth but the working process from memory swapping to acting as a ram is unusual that causes errors and crashes to some systems because of the unstable process and workload it occurs errors and corrupts files. So the hard drive would be slower until it broke. It took me 2 hard drives to stop tweaking the paging file and refuse to use afterburner. There's no point in swapping memory to ram. It's a disaster! The same effect on Your phone memory would damage also if you use Vram. if you don't want to kill your please turn off the ram plus. N

Have you noticed any difference?

No not much I would say. This setting I disabled earlier when I first started using the phone.

@@sri24191 cool, thanks for replying

Idk. For the past few weeks the lag has been unbearable on my phone. Not sure it's bc I maxed out RAM plus when I first had it

@@the_garniiics I'm on a budget phone with vram maxed out at 6gb. My phone still operates just as fast as when I bought it. Plus gameplay is Much smoother

Did battery life get better with it off? I have an exynos version so its even worse 😭

@@oremarinkovic7925 I have the Snapdragon version and the battery life it's pretty much the same. Even with RamPlus off.

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@Hewhoremains doesn't matter either way.

I need to test that but i have only midrange phones

agree. i also use a budget phone (galaxy ao2) and i cant imagine not using ram plus 😅

Not budget cheap garbage pretend phones are what they are