using memory card as ram in wp.

[Arkadeep Haldar]

Is it not possible to create a partition in sd card and use it as ram in windows phone ?

 

[colinkiama]

Is it not possible to create a partition in sd card and use it as ram in windows phone ?

Nope

 

[Arkadeep Haldar]

Can you tell me why it is not possible ?

 

[nicfromwales]

Can you tell me why it is not possible ?

It would create a mini black hole and destroy half the universe.

 

[xandros9]

Can you tell me why it is not possible ?

but more seriously, even the fastest of SSDs cannot stand up to the performance requirements of Random Access Memory. Everything in RAM needs to be available at any time.
But wait! PCs use such a thing all the time!
The use of Virtual Memory/swap (what you're proposing) can potentially be a plus, having done stuff like that before on my iPod touch, but will all but certainly result in varying degrees of degraded performance, lag, and wear on the memory card it was used on. (Really depends though)

I guess from a cost-benefit analysis, such a feature would add complexity, risk wrecking the performance WP is known for if not done carefully, take already limited resources from other more pressing projects, add another point of failure, and will likely shorten the end-user's SD card's life down the road.
And for what benefit? Multitasking could improve, I guess if some lower priority stuff can be moved to the card, heavier games might be possible.

I don't think my writing here is exhaustive, so feel free to correct and add. Just my thoughts.

 

[colinkiama]

If you want to play 1gb ram games then get a 1gb ram Phone. I know its harsh but its true.

 

[David P2]

Generally memory cards (and flash memory in general) are good for 100,000-1,000,000 write operations before they fall over. Using them as swap space would drastically reduce the life expectancy.

 

[trwrt]

My webOS phones use the flash for swap space and it's fine for offloading rarely-used parts of the executables, but once the working set starts to exceed the actual amount of RAM it pretty much goes to pieces. It's just too slow as was mentioned above.

 

[Jangir Amit]

A bigggg noooo. wp are not like androjunk. Wp have better memory managment..Need more ram buy 1520/icon.

 

[colinkiama]

Your choices are lumia 525, 820, 920, 925, 930, 1020, 1320 and 1520 if you want 1gb ram.

 

[Aakash Agrawal]

820 is probably not available now. I bought it in its last days.

 

[Ebuka Allison]

your choices are lumia 525, 820, 920, 925, 930, 1020, 1320 and 1520 if you want 1gb ram.

525 92x 1xxx
ftfy

 

[Karthik Naik]

Your choices are lumia 525, 820, 920, 925, 930, 1020, 1320 and 1520 if you want 1gb ram.

dont 1520 and 930 have 2gb of ram?

 

[neo158]

Can you tell me why it is not possible ?

I would say it has something to do with write speeds of SD Cards as well as random access speeds. SD Card write speeds are noticeably slower than RAM, try installing an app to SD Card and you'll see what I mean.

 

[xandros9]

dont 1520 and 930 have 2gb of ram?

you are correct.

the app gap is only between 512 MB and 1 GB+ devices, so it isn't unreasonable to lump those in with the rest of the 1 GB'ers.

 

[Karthik Naik]

you are correct.

the app gap is only between 512 MB and 1 GB+ devices, so it isn't unreasonable to lump those in with the rest of the 1 GB'ers.

yeah , was just confirming
i personally have a 720 and an 820
love both , games and apps run faster on 820 but on the 720 its playable with more loadtimes etc not as bad as 512mb ram phones on android
even on ios,512mb ram isnt a limitation as such,very rare
i guess some of the future games and apps will need 1gb ram even more

 

[sisqo88]

Oooh gosh this would be a disaster. I remember the old good times where I have an Nokia N900 it got 256 Mb ram and 700 Mb virtual ram what do you think what happened with my phone when I reached the 25 Mb ram limit. My phone started to lag extremely so I can say you this wouldn't be a great idea to use the SD card as a virtual ram slot.

 

[a5cent]

i personally have a 720 and an 820
love both , games and apps run faster on 820

Which has absolutely nothing to do with RAM, but with the faster CPU and GPU in the 820.

 

[Karthik Naik]

Which has absolutely nothing to do with RAM, but with the faster CPU and GPU in the 820.

ohh i always assumed it was the ram though whatsapp is terribly laggy on both for me even with the new update but atleast its better than before i guess

 

[WinSammie]

Is it not possible to create a partition in sd card and use it as ram in windows phone ?

I think you are confusing RAM and Flashrom. In Android you can use an SD card as an extension to your flashrom (after rooting your device). In an unrooted device you can save some apps on your SDcard, to save flashrom. Now, in WP8.1, you can also save apps to your SDcard so you have more flashrom left. But you can never use an SDcard as RAM.