Questions tagged [swap]
a partiton or file used in operating systems to store "temporarily unused" processes, so it is basically 'extra' RAM.
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How can I restore my phone storage to full after deleting swap file manually?
I’m using Android. My phone had 120 GB storage. After deleting my swap file manually, it lessened my storage completely. Now I’m only 107 GB in total after consecutive swap and delete consecutively.
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Disabling Android swap with ADB `swapoff`
I'm using non-rooted phone, how do I disable swap with ADB using swapoff?
It says
swapoff: Needs 1 argument (see "swapoff --help")
Here is swapoff --help
usage: swapoff swapregion
Disable ...
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Why does Dalvik not support swap space?
I was asked this question and also explain why it is detrimental to the android system as a whole.
I have not found a web page which refers to this specific question about Dalvik and swap space. Any ...
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How do I save my Redmi Note 8/4GB from app discards?
I am a power user and I mostly switch a lot between apps, so I don't like discarding.
I use a custom ROM which is less heavy than MIUI ROM yet Still my background apps take a lot of memory that ...
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How do I enable zRAM with the highest priority in Android persistently?
I want to know how to use the /dev/block/zram0 in full power, but I can't apply the command swapon -p 32767 /dev/block/zram0 as it returns this:
swapon: Couldn't swapon '/dev/block/zram0': Device or ...
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How do I make my android ROM auto-mounts and activate a swap partition in my sd card?
I have created a swap partition via GNOME Disks in my SD Card and I found that my Android system doesn't detect it until I used Aparted to activate it but still It is not persistent after a reboot and ...
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How to investigate/solve Google Play Store high memory usage (-> high CPU -> battery drain)?
Ever since my (not-rooted stock Android) Nokia 6.1 phone was upgraded to Android 10, last January, I have a performance issue with it: A couple of times per day it becomes near or completely unusable, ...
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Add swap support to Android
I own Samsung Galaxy GT-i9082, Trust me, its really very slow due to its low RAM i.e 1GB only. I have Installed Custom ROM of Lineage OS From XDA but it still doesn't supports swapping which is the ...
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Increase swap space for RAM
I have Micromax canvas 2.2 with android 4.2.2 & kernel version 3.4.5. I have already rooted my phone. Now, to increase swap space I partitioned sd card using mini partition. Then tried to link it ...
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Does Android swap out memory used by foreground services?
Looking at an Android KitKat device made by LG, I see that an app called Software Update is always running as a foreground service (100). That service occupies a significant amount of memory.
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Firefox in cache slowing down phone
I am running Cyanogenmod on my rather old Motorola Droid 4, and it is pretty slow by now. I something quite strange lately. From what I read on the internet Android seems to handle memory quite ...
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htc 516 dual sim doesnt boot. black screen. HELP!
Yesterday i was able to root my HTC 516 dual sim. i decided to use my swap partition that i created on my sd card. installed app "Memory Swap" .
it asked me to use the partition mmcblck1p2 or ...
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Swap to Increase RAM but kernel issue
I have Micromax Canvas Doodle A111 phone with Android v4.1.2.
My phone has 512 MB RAM by default.
So whenever I try installing some new apps my phone becomes really slow so I decided to increase RAM ...
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"kswapd0" is taking up some of my device's CPU time even though I don't have any swap. What's going on?
Using Ozcan ROM 6.3 on my Samsung Galaxy S4, I'm observing kswapd0 process making CPU laggy. The same thing happened on another TW KK ROM - Omega. After researching on it for weeks, I realized that it'...
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LowMemoryKiller is killing loads of system apps and forcing user space death, but "free" says there's plenty of memory
For some time I've had a problem, where crucial system processes were being force killed by LowmemoryKiller/OOM.
Following help, I added a 500 MB swap file working natively a couple of days ago to ...
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Creating and enabling an internal storage swap partition on rooted Android Kitkat
System: Rooted Android 4.4 phone (actual rom: CM 11 Milestone 6) with 1GB ram, plenty of internal storage, but no sdcard slot. My phone's partition scheme is unmodified CyanogenMod 11.
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Is It Possible To Completely Swap Storages On Kitkat 4.4.2?
I'm using a rooted Samsung SM-G313HZ Galaxy V device with Android Kitkat 4.4.2 OS. Is it possible to completely swap storages on my device so that every single application and game will read their ...
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How to increase RAM by swapping memory from Internal Phone Storage..? [closed]
I have Micromax Canvas Music A88. I just want to allocate memory from internal phone storage to RAM.
Memory Detail :
RAM: 512 MB
Internal Memory: 2 GB
I want to transfer 500 Mb from internal ...
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editing vold.fstab
I believe that I can swap memory SDcard <---> extSdCard if I know how to edit the vold.fstab. Can someone here please help me? I know it'll be a piece of cake for the geniuses here at stackexchange....
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Swap partitions on android?
I just installed AParted on CyanogenMod 9 (Android 4.0.4,Kernel version 2.6.32.9-FXP) and was trying to partition my SD Card to extend internal memory.
Anyway, I found that it can make swap partitions,...
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How to find the pathname of the swap partition on SD card?
As this warns, you should not enable swap on the wrong partition or you can destroy your phone:
OK before we go any further! previous phones had a partition layout where mmcblck0 was the SDcard (...
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Does Android 2 support swap space?
With Android 2.3 being Linux-based, can Android 2.3 use a swap partition without being rooted?
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Creating App and Swap partition for Android
I have got Karbonn A5+. I dont know how much ROM, RAM it exactly have.
When I go to Settings > Applications > Manage Application it shows 191MB used, 11MB free.
But, when I open Advanced Task Killer, ...
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Creating Swap memory without rooting
I want to set up swap memory for my Android phone.
How to set up swap memory without rooting the device?
Is there an app for doing so?
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Use of swap size while partitioning?
I just rooted my phone (Android 2.3.6) and partitioned the sd card using CWM recovery. While partitioning, I noticed about swap size and while searching about it, different blogs (xda developers) ...
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How to know if a custom ROM uses existing swap partition
Recently I switched my custom ROM installed on my HTC Desire to a 4.1.2 based ROM (PARANOIDANDROID based).
The ROM works fine but sometimes the device has serious lag of several seconds. I assume ...
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Swap partition not working on Huawei U8160 running CyanogenMod 7.2
I have a Huawei U8160 (also known as : Vodafone 858 Smart) which is running CyanogenMod 7.2 (which was released by MADTeam in 2/7/2012).
After updating to the 2/7/2012 update, I found an option to ...
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Does CyanogenMod 7.2 kernel support swap memory?
My current kernel (whatever is built into stock Froyo 2.2 ROM for Verizon Motorola Droid X) does NOT support swap memory.
Does CyanogenMod 7.2 kernel support swap memory? Does that depend on device-...
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Activating swap at boot with an init.d script?
I have a rom that supports swap, but the swap script is missing.
How would i make that swap script manually?
I.E: What code would be in the file /etc/init.d/07swapon?
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