Friday, September 14, 2012

Enable Swap to get more free ram and better multitasking


One of the main problems for Idea Blade is its low ram which gets filled up easily with just one app. The problem arises when you try to multitask( use more than one app at a time), the os kills the background(minimised) app.
Swap is a great solution for devices by using your SD Card to extend the size of your RAM.

Please Note: Use of Swap can decrease the life of your SD Card 
You must root your phone(How To Root Idea Blade) If you have swap enabled the OS will try to move the inactive apps to Swap partition instead of killing it. This can almost double your free memory and multitasking experience becomes far better.
To enable swap there are two ways

  • Create a Swap partition if your Custom Rom supports it or
  • Use Swapper 2
Their is also another case, some custom roms has the option to create Swap partition like Joy os. For the first method we will use Clockworkmod recovery(How to: Install ClockworkMod recovery) which works for Swedish Snow.
Warning this method wipes your memory card clean, please remember to backup
  • Go to clockworkmod recovery, 
  • select advanced partiton sdcard
  • next select ext3 size as 0(this option is to allow apps to be directly installed into memory card using App2sd.)
  • next swap size set it at 128MB.
  • You are all set
Using Swapper 2,this method is for Cyanogenmod and other roms. 
  • Install Swapper 2
  • create swap file 
  • enable swap
To check if Swap is enable go to terminal app and type free. If you see your set value against swap then it is enabled.

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