If you don't understand much about new technologies or PCs, RAM may not mean much to you. Despite everything, it is one of the essential elements for the performance of your Fairphone 4. It is therefore important to carefully control the use of this component, also called RAM.
For that, we will precisely, through this guide, explain to you, how to empty the RAM of your Fairphone 4? First, we will quickly explain to you what exactly this kind of memory is for, then, how to clean the RAM of your Fairphone 4, first, by emptying the RAM, then, by optimizing your use of the latter.
What is the purpose of RAM on a Fairphone 4?
We go through this page to briefly teach you what is and what is the RAM for on a Fairphone 4. This word actually comes from the English "Random Access Memory", it offers the possibility of store data that the processor needs in the short term. For example, it will give you the possibility of running different applications at the same time, it is therefore the one that will store all the data necessary to keep applications in the background. Assuming that you use greedy games that require a lot of resources and calculations on the processor side, it is the RAM that will take over and give the processor the possibility of having all the data available.
A large amount of RAM memory will therefore be essential for high performance on your Fairphone 4. That said, it's a bit like everything, if you exceed a certain amount your processor will not be powerful enough to exploit it and you will therefore have unused memory. We therefore advise you to find the right processor power / amount of RAM. At the moment, high-end smartphones have 8 to 10 GB of RAM, which is huge!
How to clean the RAM of your Fairphone 4?
We now start the tutorial part of our article, you will learn everything about cleaning the RAM of your Fairphone 4. First to empty it completely, and then some tips to optimize your use of it and prevent it from being constantly saturated.
How to empty the RAM of your Fairphone 4?
This is certainly the answer you have come to look for in this guide, we will finally explain to you how to free the RAM of your Fairphone 4? This operation has been quite simple for some time. In reality, Android has integrated powerful task managers into its phones, similar to what can be found on a PC. You can therefore empty it without any problem, in this context, apply the following instructions:
- Open the “Settings” of your Fairphone 4
- Press "Device maintenance"
- Go to the tab " Memory "
- Check that all the applications are checked and empty the RAM of your Fairphone 4 by clicking on " To clean "
Be careful despite everything, this procedure will have an immediate effect, however, a lot of applications will have the bad habit of relaunching themselves in the background and suddenly occupying the capacity of your RAM even if you do not do the process of turn them on yourself, go to the next section of this guide to avoid this type of problem and do not hesitate to read our page on the checking the RAM of a Fairphone 4 to control it all.
How to optimize the RAM of your Fairphone 4?
Finally, last section of our article, we will give you some suggestions to avoid ending up with the RAM of your Fairphone 4 saturated, and consequently keep your smartphone's performance optimal:
- Delete unnecessary applications: As we explained to you, whether you turn on the applications or not, some will turn on without your approval and requisition storage space on your RAM, a regular sorting of the applications on your Fairphone 4 could be a good solution
- Disable animations: They are not often activated but all animations and transitions between the different apps represent relatively bulky and energy-consuming visual effects for your RAM, we therefore recommend that you limit or eliminate them
- Avoid animated wallpapers: Same logic as what we have just seen, anything that is animated represents a heavy workload for your Fairphone 4, avoid it.
- Do not use too many Widgets, or not too large: We always stay in the same logic, reduce permanent operations as much as possible, and widgets constantly take up space on the RAM of your Fairphone 4
In case you want a lot of tutorials to become a master of the Fairphone 4, we invite you to explore the other tutorials in the category: 4 Fairphone.
