Justin Hi Justin, nice to meet you and thank you so much for taking the time to write up this great explanation. I didn’t really understand it fully, but feel a lot more educated 🤝 I have RAM Booster on my Phone (2a) and like you, have it on for those ‘need’ situations. I’m not a heavy gamer, but use a lot of multimedia/social media apps.

Would also be very happy to see more of these “explained” topics when you get the chance to get your head down again.

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    How does this technology differ from say a samsung phone with ram expansion or oneplus withthe same tech? Is there a difference based on hardware? I seem to experience slowness with max ram expansion enabled. Disabling it seemed to speed up the phone. Thank you for the time for writing this educational piece.

      Nice to meet you Justin.

      Thanks for taking the time to create this write up and explain RAM booster in incredible detail, it was an excellent read.

      While I do have some previous knowledge about RAM booster and it’s functionality, you’ve filled in some gaps in my knowledge and explained it in a really easy to understand way.

      I don’t use RAM Booster myself, but it’s great to know it’s got my back if I ever need it.

      So that’s how nothing developers waste time on building useless things, better optimise OS, RAM, Camera and Battery Management. Users are ready to teach you all a lesson when “Nothing Phone 3” will launch.

      I’ve noticed a difference when I’ve turned the ram booster on on my Phone 2, but it was a rather negative one:

      Device started stuttering, after clicking the volume button I had to wait for 3-5 seconds for the slider to pop-up on the screen, lock screen would become transparent and I was able to see my home screen icons before unlocking the phone and many other issues in the same manner…

      Sorry, but in it’s current state this feature makes your phone worse, there should be a better governor of which apps can go to the (much slower) phone memory instead of ram, and default system apps shouldn’t be on that list!

      Thanks for the write up, Justin.

      I utilise the RAM Booster on my Phone (1), as I only have the 8GB RAM option, so having the extra headroom is a comfort.

      Loved the explanation of the backend management of tasks too, the extra knowledge is super useful. So thank you again for breaking down the barriers.

      Ps, loved the “join the Dots” phrase 😉

      Suggestion, in the RAM Boost setting page, when it’s enabled show some info bout what app is using how much of the Boosted RAM, it will help people in selecting the amount of RAM Boost based on their usage/consumption.

      Instead of focusing on these unnecessary gimmicky features usually marketed with cheap low-end phones, focus on the actual issues like RAM management and camera quality. The current RAM management and camera quality are the worst in Nothing Phone 2.

      Coming to current state of RAM management, if I have opened say checkout page of ecommerce app/website and switch to a payment app or messages app for OTP and come back again to checkout page, most of the times it’ll reload the ecommerce app/website closing the active payment session. I have to again go through the checkout flow from scratch. I have faced this kind of issue so many times with most of the apps and is happening on 8/128 GB of Nothing Phone 2. I have not faced similar issues in the past with upper mid-range or high-end phones with >6GB of RAM. I don’t think 8 GB of RAM is too less to have at present times which can’t hold 2 basic apps in memory.

      Hi Justin,

      Thanks for putting it out in very easy to understand. I myself have gotten confused these terms at often times but I am sure I’ll remember it for longer after this.

      I am not a heavy user of the phone, I purely have 4-5 apps that I use often, otherwise WhatsApp, Spotify and YouTube are the primary contenders for that RAM space.

      I am still going to see and enable RAM booster and let’s see what value it adds.

      Cheers!

      I was trying the ram booster on my phone 2 and it made some of my less used apps stutter while opening. Without it on, the apps open perfectly.

      I can’t imagine how much it would lag on Phone 2a. If people see actual degradation in performance with it enabled, it’s functionality doesn’t matter. Sure, with it on there will be more ram free, but if the device itself feels sluggish I don’t think the overall user experience is gonna get better.

      Thanks for sharing the information.

      But I guess 12 gb RAM is enough for day to day usage. It’s better to focus on better RAM management. Coz within a few minutes, the Apps are restarting.

      After trying to use the RAM booster on my Nothing Phone 2a, I found it better to turn it off. The apps and device settings were stuttering, but after turning it off, my phone felt smoother.