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I need to fix a friend's phone this evening that has suddenly produced loads of android.process.media and com.google.process.gapps errors. I am going to reinstall the OS as it's an older ROM but it got me wondering: there is memtest for x86 based devices that will test the RAM of a PC, is there a similar app that can be loaded in place of an OS on Android that will do the same thing?

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Not that I know of, for starters MemTest x86 is specifically orientated obviously to x86 architecture. None such thing exists for ARMv6 or ARMv7 architecture! The reason you're getting force closes there - has nothing to do with RAM chips, rather, a app that was installed somewhat crashed the dalvikvm's cache which produces the neglible effect, or possibly modified a framework portion to add extra icons and whatnots and re-flashed it back in or pushed it into the handset... – t0mm13b Feb 19 at 0:27
I loaded a fresh ROM to the device and have not had a recurrence of the issue. I still feel this question has merit in that it might someday be answered -- I know of no hardware diagnostics, be it for ARMv6, ARMv7, or any other potential architecture. It would be useful. – Peter Grace Feb 20 at 4:14
In all fairness, the controls and regulations involved in producing RAM chips is quite high and there would be no room for errors that would be tolerated either (think of equivalent Intel's pre-fabrication factory...) Devices like smartphones with their RAM chips tightly integrated, are not going to fail. SO I think your question is not a real question and not constructive either. As you have found out, a simple wipe/flash of the ROM cured the hiccup and has zero to do with RAM chips!!! – t0mm13b Feb 20 at 12:38
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I don't know why there are close votes on this question. Seems perfectly on-topic to me (even if there aren't any such tests). – Al Everett Feb 20 at 13:36

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