Nokia G22 with eco design and repairability

Re:Nokia G22 with eco design and repairability by ragingrobot on Friday May 05, 2023 @08:07PM (#35836641)

"Memory extension tool Turn unused storage space into additional virtual RAM⁴ for an even smoother smartphone experience."

If I'm not mistaken, this is something Windows for PocketPCs did way back.

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Re:Nokia G22 with eco design and repairability by reocha on Friday May 05, 2023 @10:28PM (#35837383)

Memory paging, windows calls it a pagefile and Linux calls it a swap partition/file. Considering phones use nand flash (which has limited numbers of writes) this seems like a good way to kill the nand faster.

More info here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_paging

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Re:Nokia G22 with eco design and repairability by ragingrobot on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @04:35PM (#35893125)

Sorry I was away for a few days.

I wasn't speaking of a pagefile (I know what that is). WinPPC had a setting where you could sacrifice adjust how the onboard RAM was used, as both storage and program memory were RAM in these devices. One could adjust how much to use for each. It was limited in how much, but it was possible.

https://www.hpcfactor.com/support/cesd/200191/how_to_adjust_...

This is the only source I could find, as these devices are so old, info is hard to find. This refers to CE, but includes the later rebranded Windows for PocketPCs.

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