The storage of an Oppo K5 has constantly been a worry, for many years mobile phones have not necessarily been equipped with a sufficient amount of internal storage or an SD slot to increase the capacity of the latter. However, in recent years the volume issue has been resolved, now people are starting to take an interest in the subject of RAM, this other type of memory is almost as important as the internal memory of your phone. We will precisely in this guide help you if you have any questions on this topic.
In this article you will learn how to check the RAM memory of Oppo K5? To do this, we will first teach you what is the use of your phone's RAM, then, how to know the RAM of your Oppo K5 , and, to conclude, whether it is possible to increase the volume of RAM memory on your phone.
What is the interest of RAM on an Oppo K5?
We start this tutorial by showing you briefly what is and what is the RAM on an Oppo K5. This term actually comes from the English "Random Access Memory", it offers the possibility of store the data that the processor needs in the short term. It will, for example, allow you to run different applications at the same time, it is this which will therefore keep in memory all the essential data to keep applications in the background. In the event that you play greedy games which require a lot of resources and computation on the side of the processor, it is the RAM that will take over and allow the processor to have all the data available.
A high amount of RAM memory will be necessary to have high performance on your Oppo K5. However, it's a bit like everything, after a certain volume your processor will not be powerful enough to use it and you will suddenly have unused memory. It will therefore be necessary to find the right pair of processor power / amount of RAM. At the moment, high-end phones are equipped with 8 to 10 GB of RAM which is huge!
How to know the RAM of your Oppo K5?
We now move on to the control part, which undoubtedly interests you the most, and, in this context, we will now present to you how to find out everything about the RAM of your Oppo K5. To do this, to begin with, we will teach you how to know the amount of RAM installed on your phone, then, how to know where you are with its use.
How to check the amount of RAM installed on your Oppo K5?
We start with the procedure to find out the amount of RAM built into your Oppo K5. As you will have understood, the more RAM volume, the more the processor will be able to perform tasks, letting others run in the background without noticing any latency or slowing down. There are two methods to access this data:
- Directly from the “Settings” of your Oppo K5
- Go to the "Settings" of your phone
- Find the menu "Device maintenance" or “Device optimization”, depending on the Android version installed on your Oppo K5, this may vary, but this is the menu in which you will be able to observe the consumption of the various critical points of your phone (battery, RAM , storage… )
- Now that you are in this menu, you will need to identify the “Memory” indicator and see the maximum volume displayed, this is the amount of RAM equipped on your Oppo K5.
- Passing by CPU-Z
- Download and install CPU-Z , small application that allows you to retrieve a lot of data on your mobile phone
- Launch the application
- Go to the section "Device"
- You will get the amount of RAM installed on your Oppo K5 in the section "Total RAM"
How to control the RAM usage of Oppo K5?
For find out the RAM usage of your Oppo K5 and to know if it saturates or if you still have the margin, there are also two methods which are almost the same as those which we have just discovered just before. This is a test which can be interesting to understand the reason why your Oppo K5 causes you to experience latencies. Let's go:
- Going through your phone settings
- Go to the "Settings" of your phone
- In the "Device maintenance" menu, identify the "Memory" indicator
- You will have a ratio as well as a progress bar that gives you the amount of memory used
- Thanks to CPU-Z
- Open CPU-Z
- Go to the tab "Device"
- In "Available RAM" you will see the amount of RAM available on your Oppo K5, as well as a percentage to simplify its interpretation
In the event that you realize that you have very little RAM available without necessarily having many applications that work, it is probably necessary close background applications that saturate it. You can also clear the cache of your Oppo K5 to free up space and improve your performance.
Is it possible to increase the amount of RAM memory on an Oppo K5?
In the event that you identify that your RAM is regularly full, it is absolutely legitimate to ask yourself if it is possible to increase the amount of RAM on your Oppo K5 ? Unfortunately on Smartphone this operation is impossible… You will therefore have to better manage your uses, close the applications that you do not use, or switch to a more powerful phone.
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