How to Increase the RAM Of Your Android Smartphone (2022 Full Guide)

This Article from Lukastech Blog will give us the full guide on how to increase the RAM of our Smartphones (Manually, Rooted, Unrooted, With SD card e.t.c).

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When you’ve had a smartphone for a while it can start to feel slow, and RAM — random access memory, which is where your phone stores its stuff as it’s using it — can be part of the problem. If your phone doesn’t have enough RAM it can struggle, but there are ways to address that. You can even create extra RAM without cracking the case or reaching for a soldering iron.

What is a RAM (Random Access Memory)?

We all learnt about this in school and it was discussed in a layman language as what your device uses when it’s doing something. For example, when you’re editing a photo both the photo and the app you’re using to edit it are in the device’s RAM; when you finish editing the photo is then saved to your device’s storage so it can’t get lost.

 The more RAM you have the more you can do, so, for example, you can have more browser tabs open, more apps running or more system features doing their stuff.

The problem with RAM is that it isn’t always empty properly, and apps don’t always behave. Some apps and system processes run when you don’t need them to, and others don’t clean up after themselves when they quit. After a while, those issues can produce noticeable results such as slow performance, lagging and stuttering, and the odd crash.

Like internal storage, RAM is a physical component of your device so you can’t just stick more in. What you can do, though, is use it more efficiently — or use some clever tricks to create RAM from other kinds of storage.

RAM — shown here in desktop form — is physically limited in every device. Unlike PCs, you can’t just stick more memory into your phone or tablet.

How to increase your RAM without root access

Now that you know what RAM is, we’ll show you how to preserve it. In this first part, we focus on tips for non-rooted devices.

For those devices, you can’t magically add more memory, but you can make better use of what you’ve got. As a rule of thumb, the more your phone is doing the more RAM is being used, so if you can reduce what’s running you can free up more memory for the tasks that really matter.

1. Limit widgets and live wallpapers

Widgets and live wallpapers are both pretty greedy when it comes to RAM usage. Many refresh often and occupy bandwidth, while some are continuously active. This can also cause your battery to drain faster. So remember to limit the number of them in effect to optimize your current available memory.

Animated wallpapers can take up a lot of RAM.

2. Disable applications

Some applications take up RAM even if they aren’t currently being used, so you’re getting all the downsides of unnecessary RAM use without anything to show for it. Organizing which apps should and should not be running in the background can take time, but it’s worth it to improve your smartphone performance.

To disable an application, go to Settings and then Apps or Application Manager. Next, go to the All tab to get the list of all the applications currently on your device.

To disable an application, tap on it, then tap Disable and confirm. Be careful not to disable everything and anything, unless you want to end up with an unstable system, but most apps that don’t come pre-installed on your handset are pretty safe to disable (or delete entirely if you never use them).

Head to your device settings menu, then the apps page.

Next, tap on the app you wish to disable and tap Disable.

3. Disable animations

Animations often steal RAM and are quite inessential; you can manage these in the developer options. To enable Developer Options on your device, go to your Settings, then About Phone and then tap on the build number about seven times until it notifies you that you have become a developer. (Please note that this has no negative effect on your device, it just adds the developer options menu in your settings. You just need to be cautious when poking around in there.)

In the ‘About phone’ menu, tap on the build number a few times until it enables the developer options. You can then access that page from your settings menu.

Once you have done this, go back into your phone settings and scroll down to Developer Options. Next, go into the Drawing section and turn off the following options. Your RAM will thank you for it:

1. window animation scale
2. Transmission Animation scale
3. Animator duration scale

Go to the drawing section and turn off the animations options.

How to Increase Your RAM When You Have Root Access.

In this section, we are going to see how to increase your RAM on a rooted device. This can be achieved through an app called ROEHSOFT RAM Expander (SWAP).