Samsung RAM Plus - Why I Turned Mine Off & Why You Should Too!

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Here at Samsung In A Minute, We get to the point in around 2 minutes. In Today's Video, we take a closer look at RAM Plus and why you should turn yours off too. It's more commonly used in Laptops and Computers as RAM can be expensive to purchase. But not really needed in phones.

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[AloneInTheYard]

RAMplus is actually the swap space. Regardless of whether you turn on the RAMplus function or not, the OneUI system has already preset 3GB of swap space. When you turn on RAMplus and set the size, the size of the swap space will follow your setting, but when you turn off RAMplus, the size of the swap space will return to 3GB. So regardless of whether you turn on RAMplus or not, it is actually always on, and you only have the privilege to set the size.

[anthonygynous]

I tried turning it off for a day, yes it does save battery but it slows down loading pages and opening certain apps.. it's saves battery but consumes time lol. I turn it on and set to 6 and it's back to being able to load pages fast and open certain apps fast. 😅

[NathanElcoate]

Had it off for two days now. Can't say I notice any difference. If anything it's slightly slower. Battery no difference at all. 256/12GB RAM 22 Ultra.

[Tripdoxx]

I think a better term for RAM Plus is swap, which is what has been in Windows for the longest time, although it's definitely not as good on most consumer PCs as smartphones since they do not have fast storage speeds to provide a good swap performance.

[JiluDKumar]

I was suspicious of this feature slowing down my phone. So I tried turning it off. Now I can see some performance improvements. Glad to see your video, it just confirmed that. Thanks for the info.❤️

[Ale-dnke]

I was actually skeptical if turning it off would be helpful for my device. I have the Samsung tab S9 FE, and I'm really surprised to see that it really helped the performance in my tablet. I noticed that It's so much better and smoother.

[navixaxa]

Have the S22 Ultra.

I don't necessarily agree with your reasonings. Only the space allotted and reserved by RAM Plus bears the grunt of more frequent Read and Writes, not the rest of the Storage.

Secondly, RAM Plus aka Swap, is not a performance booster. It's just more RAM. And you'll see its benefit when you see a lot of your Apps not reloading when you open them back again.

Tho tbh everybody has different experiences. Some say that their performance increases after turning it off. I turned it off, everything remained same, except for the constant app reloads. Heck, even my webpages open in Samsung Internet began reloading.

After a week, turned RAM Plus back on.

[mcmilliftw]

Turning it off emulation runs way better and alot more stable. Especially on aethersx2 it makes a pretty noticeable difference more so if you have limited ram, I have a 8gb ram phone and makes a night and day difference

[GoldRaven-oeby]

Is it useful for phones with not alot of ram like 6 or less? I thought it only dipped into vram when your regular ram was maxed out

[NegyedMisi]

It makes sense but is it proven? If you take a photo or pretty much do anything will contribute to the lifecycle of the flash memory. And this lifecycle is should be 4-5+ years anyway. I mean, I'm guessing too. And doesn't RAM plus come into place when physical RAM is full?

[thaibinh]

It makes my apps reload constantly when switching between them. So, 4GB is a balanced one. Good performance without reload apps.

[tarda]

Yes you have the Ultra with a lot of ram already. But many people have lower A series with 4 or 6 gigs of ram. What will they do?

[ksaworld]

Thanks bro
My phone's speed has increased 25 % after turning off Ram plus mode
Smothness has also increased

Galaxy s21 fe 5g

[gwine]

If I had 12 Gig, I would do the same thing but most of us do not.

[fahdsaad]

I have s21 ultra 16 ram .. i was using the 8 gig ram plus almost broke the system always lagging and apps some time closing .. i see this video now .. i feel it wakes up the giant inside this monster .. really thanks a lot almost buy new phone .. apple update system was thinking ..

[JasonGage]

This is a very conflicting topic and very confusing. I have heard arguments both ways for why it's better on and off. I'm just going to leave it on the way I got it. My phone runs fine and I don't think it is going to hurt anything

[MisterWhatWhat]

Turned mine off after reading reviews on Reddit that the constant R/W was causing battery drain. TY for making this!

[Scott-M]

On my xcover pro, it would crash and restart on samsung internet, amazon, ebay, etc. Thinking it was a webview problem, installed webview canary instead... still happening. After some research, discovered that my RAM plus was set to 4gb. (Xcover pro has 4gb physical RAM). So I was using 4gb physical and 4gb virtual RAM... Not good. Switched off RAM Plus and haven't had any crashes since.

[sleepy_szn]

Just got a S10e coming from a A20 and the performance upgrade is amazing. My model has 6gb ram I guess is good considering that I had half that a few weeks ago. I remember seeing your video and videos like this a couple months back so as soon I got this I tried turning it off but I can't there's no off switch only a 2gb, 4gb, and 6gb option. 4gb was enabled by default so should I just let it be or are there other ways to turn it off

[vaporjoes]

There has been extensive testing about this. Keeping up on or off seems to have no affect what so ever.