yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[LG Optimus 2x] Mafs:
According to the Free Memory app:

Free memory: 153 MB (157448KB)

Maximum memory for users applications: 372 MB (381380 KB)

Stock/rooted V10B

Hope it helps :)
[LG Optimus 2x] Zanr Zij:
SU660' max free: 26x MB after I try to remove all unused apps + installed all apps need. With almost ones, I think 512MB Ram on O2X will be okay.
[HTC Desire S] poochie2:
Hello,

I'm trying to fill a table useful to understand how much RAM is really available to the user in Android Phones.

Please try "Free Memory" by coconuts on the market or the "free" command in Terminal to let me know the total RAM of your device so that I can understand how much is reserved for hardware operations.

Please also say which ROM are you using.

Thanks
[HTC Desire S] olyloh6696:
bit confusing how devices with 768mb ram have only 300mb free ram on boot.... 400mb+ ram already used by android (+sense)

then imagine a few years back devices had/still have 256mb ram..
[HTC Desire S] poochie2:
Some is for caching and used ram also means that it is used for a good cause but I think that android uses too much RAM, maybe it's a bit related to using Java... I cannot believe that very simple widgets eat 10-12 MB of RAM so easily.
[HTC Desire S] linuxmotion:
The ram is supposed to be taken up. It allows programs to start really fast(normally). This is normal. The programs in memory are based upon what you use. Available ram is wasted space. I generrally only have ~100mb free and have 512mb total. My phone never slows except when a dev does not implenent a listview correctly. As for Widgets with big ram req that is also a developer thing.
[HTC Desire S] olyloh6696:
wow! 12mb for a widget?!

yeh i understand it runs in the background, but if you use task killers you gain more ram back... the free ram ensures better performance though? it isnt 'wasted' is it?

do htc widgets generally use alot of RAM?
[HTC Desire S] deadwilder:
it's not :)

android have it's own internal task killer and there is no need to install additional apps to manage RAM and keep free memory for... for what? :) system knows how much free mem is needed to run and will kill processes when needed.

and if you close app with task killer and then would want to run it again, it will actually take more time than if it would be kept in RAM.
[HTC Desire S] poochie2:
I generally agree with you, but my heavy usage of android shows me that things can get really slow even on my oced G2, when the available ram gets under 40 things get messy, increasing the lowmem limit saved me a bit but I aim for a 768 MB minimum for my next phone.
[HTC Desire S] RogerPodacter:
a widget takes 12mb of RAM because of the heap size of the way android OS is setup. it assigns 12mb of RAM regardless of whether that widget needs it or not. check each process, every one shown in system panel will be a minimum of around 12mb or so, even something that is only 75k. just the way android works.
[HTC Desire S] poochie2:
That seems a bit uncomfortable to me :(
[HTC Desire S] muyongyin:
i personally think that it could be changed better by removing some apks or in other ways to reduce something
[HTC Desire S] poochie2:
In my opinion it is nonsense that 1-4 MB stuff must reserve a minimum of ~12 MB of precious RAM. In this way we just lose resources that would be better used for actual data.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrant:
So I recently decided to try out different radios to see what they have to offer. I will post my observations here. For reference I have a G2 on T-Mobile in upstate NY area.

I started with the stock T-Mobile OTA radio, 26.03.02.26 on stock froyo rooted. I had no particular complaints about this combo, though I thought idle power consumption was way too high. I would lose over 35% idling over night on wifi calling.

I flashed CM7 stable and heard that the latest radio was required for full functionality. I tried flashing without updating the radio first, and GPS was non-functional. So I flashed the latest gingerbread test radio, 26.08.04.16 and GPS was working again. Now I am extremely pleased with battery life. Max idle power consumption I have seen so far was 8% overnight on wifi calling. If I charge to full right before going to bed, it still say 100% when I wake up in the morning.

In addition to the increase in battery life, data speeds were much improved. At home, with only two bars of H, I used to get just above 1Mbps down. The new radio easily and consistently hits over 2Mbps in the same location with the same reception.

I do think there are some trade offs with this radio though. I noticed a higher rate of wifi disconnects. Every now and then when I look at my phone, wifi calling has dropped and I have no data. Takes a few seconds to come back. I'm still not entirely sure if this is radio related or if it is my specific wifi environment.

I also noticed my phone bouncing between 3G and H a lot more frequently with the newer radio. In areas where I used to get very solid H, it will now bounce between 3G and H. Connectivity is not affected and I hope this is not bad for battery life. I suspect reception is slightly worse with this radio, maybe the tradeoff for better speeds.

I recently flashed back to the T-Mobile OTA radio to test it with CM7 and I was horrified at the battery drain. I lost 25% in less than 2 hours. Granted, the phone was active for half that time, but even still, that is terrible battery life. Needless to say, I am back to the 26.08.04.16 radio.

What have you noticed about the various radios you have tried so far? Any preferences? Post your experiences.

--MrAnt--
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackknightavalon:
Just got off the phone using 26.08.04.16 and my call quality is extremely clear.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raitchison:
With the stock radio and the stock ROM I had terrible cell coverage in general, I would routinely not have usable cell signal let along data in my house even when my old G1 or two MyTouch 4G devices would work fine.

Specific symptoms would be the phone randomly cycling between 2-3 bars of 3G/HSPA+ and 2-3 bars of EDGE and then no bars of anything, even if it reported 2-3 bars when you went to use it almost invariably you would lose all bars and would be unable to make a call or use data. Could not identify any sort of pattern, it looked like the phone was having a hard time negotiating with one or more cell sites, I'd guess that there are two that have OK but not great coverage in range of my house and the phone could not figure out which one it wanted to connect to.

While still on the stock ROM I loaded radio 26.04.02.17, it did seem to help some but not significantly.'

After I switched to CM7 final there wasn't much if any change to my cell coverage (still sucks) but my GPS was ridiculously unreliable/unstable. I am a Foursquare users and use GPS every day several times a day and my phone would not turn on GPS consistently and would not turn it off consistently when I exited the application. A couple times I could not turn off GPS even if I disabled it in settings and would need to reboot to get GPS to turn off. Sometimes I would have to try several times (by exiting/restarting my GPS enabled application) to get it to turn on and sometimes it would just randomly turn off while in use (had this happen twice while using navigation). I would need to exit the GPS enabled app (exit navigation if I was using it) and then relaunch (sometimes more than once) to get GPS back up and running again)

I tried using the wipe the EFS data fix but that didn't fix my GPS problems

I have since upgraded my radio to 26.08.04.16 which has made my GPS better (but not as reliable as it was before CM7), I think my cell coverage/data is better but honestly the GPS is a much higher visibility problem for me so I haven't been paying as much attention to that.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrant:
Interesting, my GPS reception seemed to improve a lot with the new radio and CM7. Used to take well over a minute for a GPS lock, now its around 10-20 seconds.

I also have no cell reception problems, just power consumption complaints.

I just flashed the new test radio that was leaked, 26.8.04.30. I'm hoping this will solve my flaky wifi issues and, if I'm lucky, reduce cell radio power consumption to something more reasonable/manageable. I will update once I have a chance to try it out and see how battery performance is.

So far the wifi appears more stable, and cell bandwidth is about the same as the 26.8.04.16 radio, maybe even a little better.

--MrAnt--
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raitchison:
I have noticed when GPS works it is much faster than stock, GPS locks, when I can get them are lightning fast (usually less than 5 seconds if I'm outdoors in a remotely clear area).

Interesting problem I had yesterday, I would fire up my GPS app (tried both Foursquare and Google Maps) and the GPS icon would activate then turn off after 1 second, usually if I exit my app and relaunch it a few times I'm able to get it working again but yesterday I needed to disable and re-enable GPS to fix the problem. These problems are very strange.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrant:
Just tested GPS lock in a location where it used to take forever, so long I never waited for a lock before moving to a window. Sitting on my couch, a good 15 feet from the nearest window, I got a lock in 10s flat. Impressive.

Battery life does not seem to have changed in the latest radio, .30, and things seem more stable and faster. Battery consumption is about 2%/hr on wifi calling, and a little under 4%/hr for cell radio. These are idle consumption rates.

Additionally, my HSPA+ speeds have reached rates I have never seen with my phone before. I just clocked in a hair under 5Mbps down and almost 2Mbps up. I used to see only 1-1.5 down and .25-.5 up.

I am very pleased with the performance and power consumption improvements this radio brings.

--MrAnt--
[Xperia Arc General] poochie2:
Hello,

I'm trying to fill a table useful to understand how much RAM is really available to the user in Android Phones.

Please try "Free Memory" by coconuts on the market or the "free" command in Terminal to let me know the total RAM of your device so that I can understand how much is reserved for hardware operations.

Please also say which ROM are you using.

Thanks
[Xperia Arc General] mizmo.lu:
max. 335mb available

stock rom 3.0.A.2.181
[Xperia Arc General] im_iceman:
max. 335mb available

stock rom 3.0.A.2.184
[Xperia Arc General] poochie2:
Available meaning total detected? That's a bit low :eek:
[Xperia Arc General] CarbonX13:
The Xperia Arc only has 512MB of RAM to begin with, so 335MB shouldn't be too much of a shocker.
[Xperia Arc General] poochie2:
As you can see in the chart is the 512 MiB phone with most reserved RAM apart from the 2.1 Android Samsung Galaxy S.
[Xperia Arc General] im_iceman:
@poochie - the Arc is running on 2.3.. not 2.2..
[Xperia Arc General] poochie2:
Sorry, didn't know that, that's why I ask :p Fixing right now. 2.3.0?
[Xperia Arc General] im_iceman:
2.3.2....................
[Xperia Arc General] poochie2:
Missed your sig ^_^
[Xperia Arc General] rejanmanis:
Now on my nexus s only has total 345mb free avail only 180mb. Previously was better on my dell streak total 470mb, avail 320 mb.

I prefer saying nexus S only has 384MB = 512 - 128 MB
[Xperia Arc General] poochie2:
Sorry but I didn't understand exactly, does your Nexus S report 345 total MB or 384?
[Xperia Arc General] spark2331995:
Got 336mb and overall free 100 mb cant even multitask properly in xperia neo v
[Xperia Arc General] CrazyPeter:
ArcS, Gingerbread 150MB free, not using Timescape but GoLauncher instead, dunno if that makes a difference.
[Xperia Arc General] np99:
Arc S 420Mb total. 319Mb free (JJ rom v4)

Also using LINK2SD, using second FAT16 partition of 750MB

All user apps linked to sd-ext

All rom base apps + Adobe Flash 11 on Phone Memory
[Xperia Arc General] Flo95:
We're talking about RAM, not phone memory, here ;)
[Xperia Arc General] hootnath:
got an arcS too, 335 total and around 150 available initially. saying that it has 512mb is super deceptive on the part of the manufacturer. like the neo guy its hard to do real multitasking. the android system n kernel itself takes about 170mb apart from the humungous portion of the 512mb ram reserved for some unknown purposes. i am going on a strike!

good idea, i'll try that. btw a fat32 second partition shoudl work too, yeah?
[Xperia Arc General] Juztapose:
~150MB, using KA13 now :D:D
[HTC Wildfire S] poochie2:
Hello,

I'm trying to fill a table useful to understand how much RAM is really available to the user in Android Phones.

Please try "Free Memory" by coconuts on the market or the "free" command in Terminal to let me know the total RAM of your device so that I can understand how much is reserved for hardware operations.

Please also say which ROM are you using.

Thanks
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ragiut1:
Hi everyone

Those who have GS2, could you check if Arabic is available in keyboard languages.

Many thnx
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MAJED.y:
Quick answer, it will be no Arabic in the UK version.

I believe i saw a pic in some threads "don't remember" which show non-connected letters.

like GS1, you have to wait for the Middle EastROM or..use some script that's push RTL support in the system which give you an acceptable result until that time.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spida_singh:
Guys

Just come across some issues. When trying to flash the generic UK .184 firmware to my arc.

I got to the flashing stage and received this...

27/041/2011 13:41:52 - INFO - Flashing adsp.sin

27/041/2011 13:41:55 - INFO - Flashing kernel.sin

27/041/2011 13:41:57 - INFO - Flashing amss_fs.sin

27/041/2011 13:41:57 - INFO - Flashing fota1.sin

27/041/2011 13:41:58 - INFO - Flashing fota0.sin

27/041/2011 13:41:59 - INFO - Flashing apps_log.sin

27/041/2011 13:41:59 - INFO - Flashing amss.sin

27/042/2011 13:42:13 - ERROR - Error flashing. Aborted

27/042/2011 13:42:13 - INFO - Now unplug the device and power it on

27/042/2011 13:42:13 - INFO - Then go to application settings

27/042/2011 13:42:13 - INFO - turn on Unknown Sources and Debugging

Now my Arc won't turn on, any ideas how to get it back? Or is my phone gone?

Any help would be appreciated. Its a day old..

Regards:(
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spida_singh:
Looks like its the same as this thread... is taking it back my only option?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1033541

cheers
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hush66:
Have you tried SEUS?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spida_singh:
Will give it a shot and report back, installing it now... thanks

EDIT

Progress bar on install software has not moved, stuck in the beginning stages.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spida_singh:
Is it possible to reflash the t-mobile ftf so it overwrites the files the generic ones put on to get it back?

Im guessing will need someone who as a t-mobile specific package (.181)?

SEUS also failed
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] forzanerazzurri:
Some people just cant leave things alone.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] borkedarc:
Yeah me neither.

So did you get anywhere with this?... I ask as I have the same problem. It gave the same error (even though I had set the debugging mode correctly) and now it won't do anything, SEUS won't work, etc.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] borkedarc:
Do you guys thing Omnius might be able to help?

I bought a licence from a reseller here in the UK - but not the first dumb thing I've done today, I should have bought one from somewhere on the West Coast of the States were people are still working! I don't know when that will arrive in my email but I guess not until tomorrow now.

Anyways, I tried flashing with 0.2.8 and 0.2.91 and with the 181 and 184 firmwares and I get different degrees of success but it's entirely unpredictable. Sometimes it just kicks me out, sometimes it gets 3/4s the way through, usually somewhere in the middle.

This makes me think there might be something up with the hardware. If it was stopping at the same place I'd imagine it was a software or firmware issue... But I'm no expert... obviously.

I get the triangle and the exclamation mark so I hope that somehow I can get the thing going again. Otherwise that was a damn fine waste of dosh.

Thanks in advance for any advice. Feel free to point and laugh.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spida_singh:
No luck with me, still the same, tries to boot, but nothing on screen shows up.

Do you have a .181 ftf file? I can still get the device into flash mode, so im hoping if we can get hold of a t-mobile specific ftf, I can just flash it back and see if it boots.

Or can it be a generic .181?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] borkedarc:
Here's the 181 thingy It wont let me post a link but it's megaupload and the ending is this: LWBRPZFL - Or search for xperiablog and debrand in google and follow the link for firmware down the page.

Anyways... What do you mean flashmode? I'm either off or I got a triangle and exclamation mark. Is there a way of activating another message?

I've been reading other X10 threads and some have got the thing going but just keeping trying multiple times - which kinda ties into the length of time before it crashes thing I was thinking about.

The problem with this is that if it got to 98% and stopped, there's a fair chance that between this and the PSN thing, I might flash myself and go rogue hunting down Sony execs and killing them - and no-one wants that.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] borkedarc:
Lordy dordy it worked. Just keeping tryin dude. That was like my zillionth go.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] borkedarc:
Unfortunately, it still wants a code for my sim card. Thus 4 hours of titting about and thinking I'd killed the thing haven't really amounted to much.

Still, there's always tomorrow - and the MP3 player is effing boss.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spida_singh:
Ok ill keep trying to flash the original .181 and .184. But i don't get anything, no triangle, I just get the green LED and vibrate during power on, nothing else.

Ill give it another shot. I did only try once. Just to confirm.

Have you now flashed a generic firmware on your carrier locked handset right? What i meant by flash mode was that I am able to put the device into the mdoe so it allows flashing, when using SEUS, it recognised my phone in the correct mode, tried to start flashing, but then failed.

Can you post the model of arc you have, etc, and what you flashed etc...cheers
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] borkedarc:
When I successfully flashed it, I was using the latest version of the flash tool and the 181 firmware.

Honestly, I don't think that was it. I think you just have to keep dicking with it. I had just unsuccessfully tried SEUS for the second time. Again, I doubt that there's a logical plan. I think sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

I still got to unlock the thing... And my code still didn't arrive.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spida_singh:
Guys

All ok now, just ran it all through again on a laptop, using the generic 184 firmware. Used lates flash tool

All ok.

Thanks

Guess i should of done the obvious first...:-D
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nolimit966:
i have this exact same issue man! I tried SEUS and it says Cannot update becuase you have modified software installed. I Tried flashing with the 145 firmware and my arc is totally bricked in the exact way as yours. Just had a green LED flashing on the side when the charger is plugged in only.

Can anyone else help me with this issue pleasE?

Thanks
[Galaxy S II General] Arron123:
I purchased from phones 4 u perry barr branch as an upgrade from orange. Traded my sgs in for 140 pounds and had to, pay 50 for the s2. Staying on the exact same tarriff I know pay 17.50 + vat lol which is amazing with unltd internet and texts 600 mins. s2 is a beast of a phone :P
[Galaxy S II General] zxz0O0:
Congrats. I hope it will soon be available in switzerland
[Galaxy S II General] badasschris:
pretty amazing price, how long is your contract?
[Galaxy S II General] rimvydukas:
Congratulations with purchase!

How about loudspeaker and speakerphone quality of this phone? I had few HTC devices and the sound was like ****:( Were you able to compare it with latest HTC devices?
[Galaxy S II General] Mackzen:
Is downloadmod & recoverymod enable?
[Galaxy S II General] bbm21:
You should try rooting it with gingerbreak
[Galaxy S II General] ziggazee:
Got mine too. Loving it, M

my first android device
[Galaxy S II General] Pako7:
Guys who got SGS2.. What firmware from your's devices? Not I9100XWKD7?

Please create dump and upload here.. thanks :)
[Galaxy S II General] netnerd:
can someone post a pic comparing with htc desire hd?

i want to see which phone is bigger.
[Galaxy S II General] ryude:
I got a question for you guys who have the S2.

Can you list some of the ringtones/notification tones?
[Galaxy S II General] xsaintzx:
You guys are sooo lucky to get it that.

My country don't even have any pre-order on, or any release date.

Could you give some reviews on it?

The best if you can find any problems/issues with the phone, hopefully there aren't any.
[Galaxy S II General] lynxboy:
I'm eagerly awaiting this. I'll try and pop into P4U and see if I can compare and photograph the differences myself. If I've got time and they have stock, I'll try and get it done tomorrow.

Regards.
[Galaxy S II General] lynxboy:
Seems Leeds is out of stock til Saturday at the earliest. All stock sold out yesterday! Gonna have to wait for the comparison.

Regards.
[Galaxy S II General] bigshape:
popped into the leicester store today but they told me they weren't selling them until tomorrow and didn't have any demo units either...
[Galaxy S II General] Pako7:
it's standart from i9000
[Galaxy S II General] faddys123:
what contract is that on? because thats a hell of contract :P
[Galaxy S II General] AvRS:
I went into p4u and put my HD2 side by side with the SII and its actually bigger then the HD2, not by much but bigger none the less and not as comfortable to hold but I'm sure I'll be able to get used to it once a decent case comes out like my capdase silicone case I have.
[Galaxy S II General] nikzDHD:
Another Capdase fan here love their cases. Hard finding them though!
[Galaxy S II General] vimto25:
I orderd this gel case the other day http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150585724205&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

it came today (next day del)and looks very nice! they do all diff colours, its very thin too.

I just need a phone to go in it now lol
[Galaxy S II General] nikzDHD:
Like wise got mine today it's feeling a bit lonely! Got one of these on my DHD they are lovely cases for the price and the case itself hasn't got a scratch yet!
[Galaxy S II General] vimto25:
Ha nice :) which colour? i went for blue
[Galaxy S II General] nikzDHD:
I went for the black one to stay inline with the phone I like the all black look. Post some pics up when your phone is in the case I need to colourise myself!
[Galaxy S II General] b33p_:
You can see the GS2 beside a Desire HD in this video: youtube.com/watch?v=Ko6httu38UQ skip to 2:09

Vodafone will call me within the next 48hrs and I'll find out how good a contract I can get for this upgrade...
[Galaxy S II General] owz206:
That's the exact case I got for my sgs2, which I picked up today, trust me it looks fantastic on the phone, with plenty of protection but not much extra bulk to the phone
[Galaxy S II General] nikzDHD:
Pics :D.....
[Galaxy S II General] sckc23:
you meant the names of ringtones?

e.g. andromeda, basic bells, cassiopeia, chime, a criket chirps, crossing walk, cuisine, down hill, easter island etc.

EDIT: juz realised it was already answered.

btw i got a phone sock for it but would love to know how you guys find the cases=)
[Galaxy S II General] owz206:
Here are a couple of pics of the phone with the blue plastic s line case on. Not the best quality pics, 4th gen ipod touch camera.
[Galaxy S II General] johnsonc:
Is screen also covered with this case?