Revealed: The memory of the mobile phone is gone while it is in use? A deep dive into the shady operations of domestic software manufacturers

First, let me ask a question: How much memory do you choose when buying a mobile phone? Is it enough now?

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I once bought a mobile phone with 128G memory. After using it for about a year, the memory ran out. Is it the same for you? I didn’t download many apps.

Compared to Android phones, which are always complained about for insufficient memory and slow operation, Apple phones have small memory but can be used for a long time. This is a contradiction! Why is this the case?

Next, let’s first understand why Android phone APP consumes memory and see how domestic software manufacturers operate in secret.

The difference between internal storage and RAM. When buying a mobile phone, people always mention 8G+128G, where 8G is the RAM and 128G is the internal storage. If the RAM is insufficient, you may not be able to play games or even open an app without a good memory. If the internal storage is insufficient, we cannot download and save pictures, videos and other files.

The following will reveal why Android phones consume so much memory from the perspectives of RAM and storage!

RAM: Android's background mechanism

Have you noticed? When we close an app, we can quickly enter the interface the next time we open it. This is because the app you closed is actually still hidden in the background. It is closed but not completely closed. What is annoying is that many apps have self-starting programs that wake up or even activate other software, which collude with each other to occupy the running memory of the phone.

Why do this? There is only so much RAM. If a company's software can occupy all the memory and make you so stuck that you don't want to download other software, then it has successfully occupied your market, right?

storage

Android independent link library: Every time we download an APK installation package, it is actually a compressed package in ZIP format. After decompression, you can see the real size and files. The package contains folders, codes, and SO files of each component, etc. Due to the special customized open source environment in China, SO files of the same purpose of different software will repeatedly occupy space.

Dynamic download: When you download software, it may not look big, but after downloading, it will occupy more and more memory during use. This is because some files of the software are uploaded to the server, and some additional resources need to be loaded after downloading. This is most evident in game software, where it is not impossible to transform from 1.8G to 18G!

Diverse components: Domestic apps like to cram in a lot of stuff, hoping that one software can meet all your needs. The main representative is the mini-programs in WeChat, but to put it bluntly, it is bloated!

Hot update mechanism: Even though the software is not updated, the APP icon on the phone changes. For example, during the Double 12 shopping festival not long ago, the Taobao icon changed without you noticing, wearing the Double 12 "crown", tempting you to click in and shop. In fact, this is because the APP directly saves the downloaded program in the storage space, and then gives you a hot update without anyone noticing.

With all this and that, the phone's memory is used up.