The storage of a Sony Xperia 8 has often been a problem, for many years smartphones have not systematically been equipped with a large enough internal storage or an SD slot to increase the capacity of the latter. . However, in recent years the volume problem has been fixed, now people are starting to look into the subject of RAM, this other kind of memory is almost as important as the internal memory of your phone. We are going to help you in this guide if you ever have any questions on this topic.
Today you will learn how to check the RAM memory of your Sony Xperia 8? To do this, we will first show you what your phone's RAM is used for, then, how to know the RAM of your Sony Xperia 8 , and, to conclude, whether it is possible to increase the volume of RAM memory on your phone.
What is RAM on a Sony Xperia 8 for?
We begin this guide by briefly explaining to you what is and what is the function of the RAM on a Sony Xperia 8. This acronym actually comes from the English "Random Access Memory", it will allow you to store the data that the processor needs over a short period of time. In particular, it will allow you to run several applications at the same time, it is this which will therefore keep in memory all the essential data to keep applications in the background. If you ever 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 files at hand.
A significant amount of RAM memory will therefore be essential to have decent performance on your Sony Xperia 8. However, it's a bit like everything, after a certain volume your processor will not be powerful enough to use it and you will therefore have unused memory. It is therefore necessary to find the right ratio of processor power / amount of RAM. At the moment, high-end cell phones are equipped with 8-10 GB of RAM which is more than a lot of PCs!
How to know the RAM of your Sony Xperia 8?
We now move on to the control part, which probably interests you the most, and to do this, we will now introduce you how to find out everything about the RAM of your Sony Xperia 8. To do this, first, we will show 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 Sony Xperia 8?
We therefore begin with the procedure to find out the amount of RAM equipped on your Sony Xperia 8. You will have realized it, the higher the RAM volume, the more the processor will be able to perform tasks, let others run in background without feeling any latency or slowing down. There are two methods to access this data:
- Directly from the “Settings” of your Sony Xperia 8
- Go to the "Settings" of your phone
- Locate the menu "Device maintenance" or “Device optimization”, depending on the Android version installed on your Sony Xperia 8, this may be significantly different, but this is the menu in which you can monitor 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 Sony Xperia 8
- Passing by CPU-Z
- Download and install CPU-Z , a small application that offers the possibility of retrieving a large amount of information on your device
- Launch the application
- Go to the section "Device"
- You will find the amount of RAM installed on your Sony Xperia 8 in the section "Total RAM"
How to check the RAM usage of your Sony Xperia 8?
For find out the RAM usage of your Sony Xperia 8 and to know if it ever saturates or if you ever still have room, there are also two alternatives which are almost the same as those we just explained to you just before. It is a test which can be enriching to understand the reason why your Sony Xperia 8 makes you feel latencies. Let's go:
- By going through the configurations of your phone
- Go to the "Settings" of your phone
- In the "Device maintenance" menu, locate the "Memory" indicator
- You will have a ratio as well as a progress bar that gives you the amount of memory used
- Using CPU-Z
- Open CPU-Z
- Go to the tab "Device"
- In "Available RAM" you will see the amount of RAM available on your Sony Xperia 8, as well as a percentage to facilitate interpretation
If you ever realize that you have very little RAM available without necessarily having a lot of active applications, you probably need close background applications that saturate it. You can also clear the cache of your Sony Xperia 8 to free up space and improve your performance.
Is it possible to increase the amount of RAM memory on a Sony Xperia 8?
If you ever notice that your RAM is often full, it makes perfect sense to ask yourself if you can increase the amount of RAM on your Sony Xperia 8 ? However on Smartphone this opportunity 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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