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Swap on Android with termux.md

Requirements: Termux, Root (preferably Magisk).

Open termux and give it root permissions

Type su to escalate the permissions

Now enter the command dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=6144k replacing 6144k with as much swap as you need, in this case 6GB

Once its done, enter mkswap swapfile to create the sawp file and swapon swapfile to enable the swap file

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what about non-rooted phones ??

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