In mobile phones, a significant amount of memory is reserved which corresponds to the cache of the application, information that the operating system saves so that, after reactivating the application, it directly loads your cache saving time and energy during startup. This concerns both the RAM of the device and its storage. And it doesn’t hurt to know about both types of cache.
There is usually a controversy with the cache memory on mobiles: there are those who defend eliminating it, especially if the storage and/or the RAM memory are very tight; then there are those who argue that since caching improves software efficiency, By eliminating it, the mobile ends up consuming a greater amount of energy. In practice, both positions may be equally valid. Although, in order to act, you must first know the scope of the cache.
How much cache have your mobile processes reserved?
Your Android works all the time: besides the operating system itself, different internal processes help you to have push notifications, to access the Internet for applications or to facilitate the reaction of the interface to the touch of your fingers. All these software reserve a part of the cacheboth in the phone’s internal memory and in RAM.
Android lets you know how much cache storage is reserved for each application, also offers information about the cache occupied in RAM, this cache that the system uses to make multitasking as fast and efficient as possible. Knowing this second type, you can know which applications continue to work even if you haven’t started them: it’s a great way to monitor your phone. And to speed it up: although your own Android takes care of adapting the running processes to the RAM memory that your device has, you can always help a little in case you notice a slowdown.
To find out which processes on your Android mobile have a cache reserve, follow these steps:
- Go to your smartphone settings, go down to “Phone information” and enter “Android version”. The specific name may vary.
- Press “Build number” ten times. You will have activated the developer options.
- Go back to settings, go to “System” and enter the “Developer options” you enabled with the previous process.
- Look for “Running Services”: your android will show you everything active on your phone. If you see that an app is giving you trouble, you can stop it directly from there.
- Now find the first three menu items and select “Cached Processes”. everything will appear to you has reserved a space in the RAM memory and which is not used in the foreground.
- If you want to empty the cache of one of these processes, click on it and then click on “Stop”: you will close the application and delete its cache; which will free up space in your RAM memory.
Do not confuse the RAM cache with the cache occupied by applications in the phone memory: The first aims to speed up multitasking when switching between apps., the second accumulates information downloaded by applications during their operation. Our recommendation is not to delete the cache unless your mobile is causing you problems, but we recommend that you keep an eye on these processes in case an application reserves too much space for itself. It will also be useful if you notice that your mobile is slow: clearing the RAM cache will speed up your phone.
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