S8 plus RAM damaged?

[tobob]

I just got the S8+ last week. Didn't install anything yet except the preinstalled samsung note. And whatever i do, even right after reset, it shows me i have only 3.5GB ram of the supposed 8GB.

So... do i have to assume it only has 4gb and it only says it has 8? could the ram be broken? 

I am very close to just return the tablet and get the money refunded or at least demand a replacement with working ram.

no way the clean system takes up way more than 50% of the ram. in comparison, my old Tab A and my S21 fe smartphone show realistic ram and ram usage.

[BaronDigo]

Yu mean it displays:" 3.5GB Available of 8GB"??

[Slothtamerv2]

That's what it is you never get full amount of ram

[tobob]

Yes.

[tobob]

Ok. I was just expecting.. more ram? With 8GB and not apps running, i didn't expect the system to take up 4,5GB/ more than half of ram. What ram does a s7 fe have left, rhose have GB ram AFAIK. Anyway, if that's normal, then I will see if I can compare with someone who also has the s8+. 

Thank you for replying

[Slothtamerv2]

It's like a computer it gets reserved you can add a widget to optimize the performance eg free up ram

[Slothtamerv2]

Get a samsung with ram plus feature best thing samsung have done

[BaronDigo]

Haha nothing to worry brother. OSs are advanced now 4GB Ram is nothing to them. They need it all. Android cannot use 500MB thats way too tiny. So what that means is yu got 8GB. 4.5 is being used by the system and everything else. 3.5 is doing nothing. For most apps that's pretty good enough.

[Mouse7]

This is normal my S8 show 9.4gb available out of 16gb and my phone shows a similar result.