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Where is the lost RAM on Pulse?


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Guest gusthy
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All the hw specs say that Pulse has 192 MB of RAM.

We see only 100 MB.

Where is the rest????

Guest DanWilson
Posted
All the hw specs say that Pulse has 192 MB of RAM.

We see only 100 MB.

Where is the rest????

Used for system stuff like the ROM, and, the / directory in root explorer or astro or whatever...

I think.

Guest gusthy
Posted
Used for system stuff like the ROM, and, the / directory in root explorer or astro or whatever...

I think.

Hmmmm, ROM is a separate one according to the specs... I am talking about the DRAM.

Guest zerosignull
Posted
Hmmmm, ROM is a separate one according to the specs... I am talking about the DRAM.

I was wondering about this too. I tried a cheeky mem=138 on the kernel init to see what would happen (nothing did). Its annoying that its advertised with 192 mb ram but only 110 is available for the system.

Guest jmmL
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I was wondering about this too. I tried a cheeky mem=138 on the kernel init to see what would happen (nothing did). Its annoying that its advertised with 192 mb ram but only 110 is available for the system.

Might be talking rubbish, but I seem to remember that ~60MB is reserved for the radio baseband..

Can't remember where I saw this. Has anyone dismantled the phone to check whether we do actually have 192MB DRAM?

Guest Stevos
Posted

So does anyone have a breakdown of RAM and ROM sizes and the amount we actually have to play with?

Guest Tspike
Posted

What does Android System Info show for the Pulse?

Guest Stevos
Posted (edited)

Well the linux free command reports 108008Kb total for me

Edited by Stevos
Guest gusthy
Posted
Might be talking rubbish, but I seem to remember that ~60MB is reserved for the radio baseband..

Can't remember where I saw this. Has anyone dismantled the phone to check whether we do actually have 192MB DRAM?

That would explain most of the things. Isnt it horrible?

Guest Speckles
Posted

It is 192MB, but as far as I'm aware it is in two segments of 128MB and 64MB. Without the datasheet for the SOC I can't determine why. Maybe the memory map requires a hole at 128MB, or maybe the two segments are at different addresses. Linux requires the memory to be in one chunk as far as I'm aware.

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