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Enable virtual RAM on your device to make it run faster and more efficiently
Virtual RAM is one of the latest features Android phone manufacturers have come up with. RAM being an integral part of any device, its capacity may fall short when heavy or high processing tasks are concerned. This is where Virtual RAM comes into play which boosts the RAM and adds more resources for such tasks and ultimately improves the performance of a phone. Brands such as Xiaomi, Realme, OnePlus, Samsung etc. all have brought the virtual RAM feature into their custom UI skins. That said, in this article, we'll guide you through how you can create Virtual RAM for your Android phone in a few simple steps.
Virtual RAM is a technique in which a small portion of the internal storage (ROM) is set aside and added to the RAM of the device, thus effectively increasing the number of tasks and processes that can be run in the background. With virtual RAM enabled, the device may perform faster and more efficiently as it no longer would require to aggressively kill apps in the memory because of the added RAM, once it starts filling up. Furthermore, apps will remain in the same state from where you left off providing a better user experience.
Many OEMs have been rolling out the virtual RAM feature with their own twist through software updates. Below you can find step-by-step procedures to create virtual RAM on Android smartphones from different brands.
Xiaomi has recently announced the virtual memory extension feature for its phones running MIUI 12.5 and above. Here's how you can expand the RAM on your Xiaomi phone:
Realme's take on virtual RAM is known as Dynamic RAM Expansion (DRE) which was first introduced on many phones running on Realme UI 2.0 on top of Android 11. Here's how you can gain additional RAM on Realme phones:
The steps to enable virtual RAM, which OnePlus calls ‘RAM expansion' is similar to that of Realme and Oppo phones. Here's how to do it.
Samsung has been baking in its own version of virtual RAM in OneUI 4, known as RAM Plus. Rolled out first to the Galaxy A52s last year, RAM Plus has been present on almost all Samsung phones launched recently. Here's how to enable it on your Galaxy smartphone.
Selected phones from Oppo running ColorOS 11 and above can convert a portion of the internal storage of their phones into RAM for additional performance and efficiency. Here's how you can go about it.
Vivo and iQoo phones running FuntouchOS come with an option that allows users to boost their RAM for enhanced performance. The steps to enable the option are as follows.
Virtual RAM on an Android phone may not perform as good as the actual hardware RAM present on a device. This is because the actual RAM has much superior memory transfer speeds as opposed to virtual RAM, which simply uses slower internal storage to expand the RAM. In simple terms, with virtual RAM enabled on an Android smartphone, the performance won't be significantly better even more so for day-to-day tasks. However, different manufacturers may optimise virtual RAM differently and one may start noticing varied results when comparing two phones side by side.
Some of the most common use cases of Virtual RAM are as follows.