The storage of a Xiaomi Redmi 5 has been a problem forever, for many years the phones did not necessarily have a large enough internal storage volume or an SD slot to improve the capacity of the latter. However, for some time now the volume problem has been solved, 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 smartphone. We will precisely in this article help you if you ever have any questions on this topic.
In this article you will see how to check the RAM memory of your Xiaomi Redmi 5? In this context, we will first show you what the RAM of your smartphone is used for, then, how to know the RAM of your Xiaomi Redmi 5 , and, finally, whether it is possible to increase the volume of RAM memory on your smartphone.
How useful is the RAM on a Xiaomi Redmi 5?
We start this tutorial by teaching you quickly what is and what is the use of the RAM on a Xiaomi Redmi 5. This acronym actually comes from the English "Random Access Memory", it allows store data that the processor needs in the short term. In particular, it will allow you to run different applications at the same time, it is this which will therefore keep in memory all the data necessary to keep applications in the background. If 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 at hand.
A significant amount of RAM memory will therefore be essential to have high performance on your Xiaomi Redmi 5. 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. You have to find the right pair of processor power / amount of RAM. This year, the most powerful phones have 8 to 10 GB of RAM which is huge!
How to know the RAM of your Xiaomi Redmi 5?
We now move on to the control part, which surely interests you the most, and, in this context, we will now show you how to know everything about the RAM of your Xiaomi Redmi 5. In this context, first, we will show you how to know the amount of RAM present on your smartphone, then, how to know where you are with its use.
How to check the amount of RAM installed on your Xiaomi Redmi 5?
We start suddenly by the process to know the amount of RAM integrated in your Xiaomi Redmi 5. You will have understood it, the higher the RAM volume, the more the processor will be able to perform tasks, let some run. others in the background without feeling any latency or slowdown. There are two methods to access this data:
- Directly from the “Settings” of your Xiaomi Redmi 5
- Go to the "Settings" of your smartphone
- Locate the menu "Device maintenance" or “Device optimization”, depending on the Android version installed on your Xiaomi Redmi 5, this may vary, however this is the menu in which you will be able to analyze the consumption of the various critical points of your smartphone (battery, RAM, storage… )
- Once in this menu, you will need to identify the “Memory” indicator and see the maximum volume displayed, this is the amount of RAM with which your Xiaomi Redmi 5 is equipped.
- Thanks to CPU-Z
- Download and install CPU-Z , a small application that will allow you to obtain a large amount of data on your smartphone
- Open the application
- Go to the section "Device"
- You will find the amount of RAM installed on your Xiaomi Redmi 5 in the section "Total RAM"
How to check the RAM usage of your Xiaomi Redmi 5?
To know the RAM usage of your Xiaomi Redmi 5 and to know if it ever saturates or if you ever have the margin, there are also two alternatives which are almost the same as those we just discovered just before. It is a test which can be enriching to understand why your Xiaomi Redmi 5 causes you to experience latencies. Let's go:
- Going through your smartphone settings
- Go to the "Settings" of your smartphone
- 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
- With CPU-Z
- Open CPU-Z
- Go to the tab "Device"
- In "Available RAM" you will see the amount of RAM available on your Xiaomi Redmi 5, as well as a percentage to simplify its interpretation
If you notice that you have very little RAM available without necessarily having a lot of running applications, it is surely necessary close background applications that saturate it. You can also clear the cache of your Xiaomi Redmi 5 to free up space and improve your performance.
Is it possible to increase the amount of RAM memory on a Xiaomi Redmi 5?
If you find that your RAM is often full, it makes absolute sense to ask yourself if it is possible to increase the amount of RAM on your Xiaomi Redmi 5 ? Unfortunately on Phone 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 smartphone.
In the event that you want a maximum of tutorials to become the king of the Xiaomi Redmi 5, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Xiaomi Redmire 5.
