Xiaomi working on virtual RAM expansion might debut with MIUI 13
Xiaomi MIUI remains one of the most sophisticated Android skin out there. The company is currently pushing the latest iteration (MIUI 12.5) to eligible users. It presents some fascinating features, which is, perhaps, an improvement over MIUI 12. The latest MIUI Android skin promises to fix the bugs affecting MIUI, which gained momentum after the release of MIUI 12. And with the adoption of Android 11, the build has become more buggy. However, Xiaomi has promised to fix these bugs with MIUI 12.5, and they’re currently working on a virtual RAM expansion. That’ll improve the performance of Xiaomi phones, more especially, stop the random crashes when using resources intensive apps.
For months, Mi fans have been complaining of some bugs. That increased after the release of MIUI 12, coupled with Android 11, which Xiaomi claims required many resources for adoption. Some of the bugs are system crashes and are down to the amount of RAM available for the system when processing data and running background applications. MIUI has poor RAM management, but it’s part of what the company has fixed with MIUI 12.5. It looks like they wants to further improve RAM management by allocating extra RAM when using resources intensive apps.
According to a developer, Kacper Skrzypek, Xiaomi is working on a virtual RAM expansion. It is buried inside MIUI 12.5 firmware, and he was able to decode it after careful examination. However, the company calls it “Memory Extension.” It’s a function that’ll allocate part of the internal storage to RAM when handling demanding applications. Of course, it’s a proactive action, and only active when an apps start pushing the device to its limits. Meanwhile, there should enough storage available on your phone for it to work. For now, it’s unclear when and if Xiaomi plans to push the virtual RAM expansion feature to its phone and the phones that’ll receive it.
Nevertheless, we expect to learn more in the coming weeks. We expect the closed beta group to receive the feature for testing first. If successful, that’s when the stable ROM users will probably receive it. However, since it has been rumoured that MIUI 13 will be launching next month, the virtual RAM expansion might be a feature of the next iteration of MIUI.
