this battery thingy is very subjective.

but basically, if the battery is charged at fast rate, it will make the battery become warmer than normal (i'm trying to avoid the word 'hot'). and its not good that the battery stays 'warm'. it reduces the battery life.

so, slow charging is supposed to be better. but fact is, no one wants to wait 8 hours for the battery to be charged (big battery plus low A charger can do this). so, its a balance.

if i'm not mistaken, our resident guru benny888 have been using the 2A ipad charger for all his devices.

there's an apps that is being used by the S3 and note2 users to gauge the charging current. you can try to check out the page 1 of those phone threadsand see if there's a link. it's called GCC -- Galaxy Charge Current. or something like that. might work on your phone. <-- if it works, maybe TS can also then put a link on s3 mini's page 1.

when i restart the phone itself, the date and time widget load so slow on my home screen? i mean the clock widgets? weird? all apps and other load instantly, only time and date widgets load slow why??

Bro , s3 mini's processor is dual core , 1.0ghz , not quad core , if it is slow , it's normal la.

Another reason it's slow I think is....the widget needs very long time to load. ( it's normal I think )

hey , u guys using wat class memory card for ur mini ? is it must root only can install app at the memory card there ?

all the apps load very fast, only widgets load slow. same applies to ur phone?

TS, you should have added girl83 as well right, since he/she's obviously an owner.....

hmm.. i think s3 mini only have 1gb RAM? now only free 340mb...

any idea how to free more RAM? i got history eraser and app cache cleaner but cant clear much RAM? can add RAM like my laptop?

If you read my writeup, I did say RAM is like your work desk. The logic is that a cluttered desk makes you less productive

However, in Android, especially 4.x, it's supposed to handle clutter/garbage collection very well, so you can just use your phone without worrying about free RAM. 1gb RAM is considered adequate for low to mid usage scenarios, since you won't be opening 2 apps like the Note 2/S3 Multiwindow.

Slowness in games is due to the GPU not being powerful enough, and not entirely due to insufficient RAM.

i did read up all your posts sifu.

thats mean when the RAM is almost full, it will auto close other application so it won't lag right?

when i first bought the phone, the startup not much lag, but when i install many apps, then the startup loading will be slow a bit because of the much RAM consume by apps ?

May i know what is ur free RAM?

Installing of apps do not automatically mean it will mess with your available RAM. Installed apps only consume storage (your drawers). However if the installed app needs to stay alive in RAM to function (eg Viber, Skype, Whatsapp, FB, Gmail etc) then every such installed app will consume a bit of RAM.

If you have plenty such apps, then your available RAM will go down and whenever you startup your phone it will take time since each of these apps have to take time to start.

There is no comparison with Note 2 because it has 2gb of RAM

My free RAM is 600mb.

BTW due to some reserved RAM use by the core system, you will never see all of your 1gb as "total RAM". It will be usually 750mb-800mb.

true..

i try to "stop" the apps like wechat viber whatapps those consume lot of ram especially wechat but i cannot off. when i try to off wechat, it will automatically goes back and consume ram again. why we cannot turn it off and it will restart itself back?

Wechat is an app from a Chinese company. They had (still have?) some privacy issues a few months ago. IMHO, I think Chinese programmers do not code very well for commercial apps but they seem to code very well for malware and hacker type programs They did get 1st or 2nd place in the recent global supercomputing programming competition.

I'm told that wechat has lots of females available for chat-ups. Perhaps you too are a participant?

Wechat is an app from a Chinese company. They had (still have?) some privacy issues a few months ago. IMHO, I think Chinese programmers do not code very well for commercial apps but they seem to code very well for malware and hacker type programs They did get 1st or 2nd place in the recent global supercomputing programming competition.

I'm told that wechat has lots of females available for chat-ups. Perhaps you too are a participant?

the thing is we still do not know whether he/she is a female or a male with a wrong tag
oops, I've exposed myself as a lurker in this thread

btw, my ram usage right now is 1.51/1.75, but with three apps running in the background.....just checked since you guys are talking about it.

meaning 4.1.2 jelly bean version will clear the RAM automatically so device will be smoother?