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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrdo:
i've had my SGS2 for less than a week and all of a sudden, my apps take 4-5 seconds to close.

the rest of the phone is still as speedy as ever - apps open instantly but every app takes 4-5 seconds to close.

other than that the phone is working as normal.

any ideas ?

thanks in advance ...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] otester:
You mean like when you press the home button?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrdo:
it happens when i press either the home button or the back button ...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sleeco:
Try aa soft reset?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrdo:
thanks - am also working my way through the last half a dozen apps that i've installed to see if that helps ... :-(
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] EP2008:
So we should be seeing Honeycomb 3.1 for our transformers in the near future.

Google only showed a new task switcher and adjustable widgets as two new features. Shouldn't this be called Honeycomb 3.0.1? I'm not terribly impressed... I hope they fix some major force close issues and general bugs in the next release....

As for task/memory management, I wish they added a feature that allows us to exclude apps from ever being closed. Going back to a browser and having it reload 5 tabs EVERYTIME consumes a fair amount of bandwidth and time.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] mug2k:
I feel the same about the update, seems very underwhelming. I wanted to see new games etc but that was non existent.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] jratzo:
We are already at 3.0.1, but I agree with you doesn't seem like too much though I do like the new features.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] EP2008:
I don't know what the heck google is thinking, but they need to focus on building a STABLE Android OS and really dumping resources into getting apps up to par with apple.

Instead they focus on remote light switches and facial recognition gimmicks... if quality apps don't start coming soon, it won't matter what flavor of desert they put out as it will be weak.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] v0kal:
I am sure they appreciate your input.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] EP2008:
I'm sure they don't... I'm not sure who's giving them ideas like this, but when I upgrade my browser on my PC, it's not a Windows 7.1 update... with google, something as trivial as resizing widgets (which has been possible via 3rd party apps for a while) seems to qualify as a substantial upgrade.

Oh well, whatever keeps people excited.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] msw1382:
Stop and think for a moment. They are releasing a new build of an OS. I'm sure that the resizing of Widgets is not the only thing they are doing. I would be willing to bet there will be plenty of fixes in the update.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] 513:
Of course there are a lot of little things making 3.1 a great release.

http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-3.1-highlights.html

http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-3.1.html

For consumers and for developers.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] EP2008:
Yes, little things. This should be a 3.0.1 release. The USB host thing... my Archos was using USB devices and it was running froyo! LOL

I'm looking forward to 3.1 anyways. I hope it's more stable than 3.0.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] atxer:
Some notable updates

- An updated home button, while still appearing the same, will now take the user to the most recently used home screen panel when pressed in an app instead of always taking the user to the center panel. (my pet peeve so far).

- PTP will allow users to connect a digital camera directly to a tablet so that the tablet can import all of the camera's photos.

- Web pages can now be saved for offline viewing, and the browser also offers faster zooming and support for hardware accelerated plug-ins.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Billus:
A simple feature request. Allow us to choose which folders we wish to display in the Gallery. I'm unable to use it as all the album art from my music as well as bitmaps from apps really clog it up.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] bedoig:
.nomedia

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[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] case0:
I think it's fairly good. USB host thing is cool, and resizable Widgets and a better browser good too. Also "UI transitions are improved throughout the system and across the standard apps. The Launcher animation is optimized for faster, smoother transition to and from the Apps list." So should overall feel smoother and no ui lag.

Honeycomb's pretty solid as it is and with these changes even better. Not sure why people are so disappointed really, what did you expect to be added?
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Billus:
This blocks music appearing in the official app. PowerAMP and other 3rd party apps can't find music on the microsd in Honeycomb.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] spinkick:
I'm pretty sure there are bugfixes that arent in the feature list.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] FrayAdjacent:
Yes, what we have seen in the links is more than likely not an exhaustive list of improvements, tweaks and bug-fixes.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] brunes:
I really hope they fixed the market app. That is my biggest pet peeve. You scroll down for 30 seconds, click on an app to check it out, click "back", and now you are back at the top, have to scroll way down again. When trying to find apps to install it is a huge pain.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] EP2008:
LOL, yeah, it's a major pain!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] yohanpra:
Hahahah agreed that changes arent much BUT we arent even sure when we are getting THAT update ...........
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] rcm_rx7:
I'm pretty sure 3.1 will support hardware acceleration, that to me is a HUGE improvement. Flash rendering should be a whole lot better. I already think Honeycomb is a very solid OS and the new features are exciting. As long as they keep rolling out updates I'll be happy.

I must admit what was announced at IO was underwhelming, but who cares? Are you used to Apple esque keynotes that praise "new" features that have been available on other OS's for years?
[Atrix 4G General] KefkaticFanatic:
http://briefmobile.com/guaranteed-android-updates-for-18-months

Google announced at I/O that a bunch of partners have agreed to update all devices that are capable to the latest Android version within 18 months! And also ICS is going to be released Q4 this year...

My thought is that Motorola has been waiting on ICS hopefully rather than GB, though either way we'll have ICS before the pseudo-apocalypse!

EDIT: Article has a typo, actual statement was that updates will be guaranteed for all new and capable devices for 18 months.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/android-momentum-mobile-and-more-at.html
[Atrix 4G General] darkamikaze:
18 months.. that's more than a year and a half.. lol by that time i'd have a phone that has the latest version :|. possibly an unlocked bootloader as well lol
[Atrix 4G General] KefkaticFanatic:
We've at least been told by Moto that we'll get Gingerbread and an unlocked bootloader this year, and I believe that is still a reasonable claim :)
[Atrix 4G General] henrys01:
Yeah, 18 months to upgrade this thing to 2.3? If they would unlock the phone and release the code it would be done in a few days by the dev community. :D
[Atrix 4G General] CaelanT:
The key here is "within 18 months"! I believe this offers nothing, as most of us will have moved on to new devices before we have had them for 18 months after release. Now, if they said within 6 months, then we would know that whenever we bought a new device the most we would have to wait for the latest update would be 6 months.

"Good news for Android users waiting for updates: this kind of long wait and anticipation game may finally be over. Google’s announced at I/O 2011 that a plethora of partners (seen above) will be giving the latest Android updates to all devices in the future within eighteen months. The only catch is that updates will be received only “if the device can handle it.”

Sounds like good news for developers worrying about fragmentation. But, users will also be able to reap the benefits as carriers and manufacturers are more forcefully pushed towards updates."
[Atrix 4G General] darkamikaze:
not really..
[Atrix 4G General] bwshockley:
The article is wrong and misquoted the announcement. If you watched the keynote you'd have seen what they really said.

"So today we’re announcing that a founding team of industry leaders, including many from the Open Handset Alliance, are working together to adopt guidelines for how quickly devices are updated after a new platform release, and also for how long they will continue to be updated. The founding partners are Verizon, HTC, Samsung, Sprint, Sony Ericsson, LG, T-Mobile, Vodafone, Motorola and AT&T, and we welcome others to join us. To start, we're jointly announcing that new devices from participating partners will receive the latest Android platform upgrades for 18 months after the device is first released, as long as the hardware allows...and that's just the beginning. Stay tuned for more details."

Updates provided for 18 months, not within 18 months.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/android-momentum-mobile-and-more-at.html
[Atrix 4G General] shriva:
It's not updating to latest within 18 months...

Its updating to lastest version quickly.. FOR the first 18 months.. so you might get multi updatas in that 18 months.. but arnt promised anything after the phone has been out for 18 months... all in all pretty good news for us though... att and Motorola are partners with google on it.
[Atrix 4G General] ccrows:
I'll be happy when I finally get at least ONE "Official update" from Bell. (and more importantly a stock SBF to fall back on already!)

Hopefully Bell can figure out how to do that in 18 months... :(
[Atrix 4G General] bearsfan172:
It makes a lot of sense. 18 months is getting close to the life of a phone. So they keep you updated, then make you buy a new one when you can renew your contract.

I guess it works out well for both parties? We get updates frequently for most of the life of our phones, but they still get their upgrades.
[Atrix 4G General] BrandonBlight:
Thanks bwshockley for clearing that up!
[Atrix 4G General] shriva:
Heck, they announced. "Ice cream" for Q4 2011.. Atrix may even get that!

Can't wait till they let us know what timely/quickly means though.. but its going in the right direction.. google doing something at least to get them to update quicker.
[Atrix 4G General] Jiggah:
It also say NEW devices will be supported, that would mean the Atrix would not actually fall under the new guidelines i.e. there would be no guarantee that it'll get Ice Cream Sandwich. Gingerbread is guaranteed only because they specifically stated it a while back, but when is completely up to Moto.
[Atrix 4G General] KefkaticFanatic:
Yea I see. Silly misinterpretation. That's what I get for taking a bagel break away from the live stream!

However, I still believe that we'll get GB and perhaps even ICS by the end of this year. And if not, the bootloader will hopefully be unlocked so we won't have to worry about it.
[Atrix 4G General] y2whisper:
Yeah I don't see them waiting for ICS to do a version upgrade, by then, a fair amount of people will have looked at other devices.
[Atrix 4G General] WiredPirate:
1/5 stars for misinformation. Please update op to say this is speculation.
[Atrix 4G General] CaelanT:
I stand corrected! Muchos gracias!

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[Atrix 4G General] Deleted member 2488575:
Someone ask this on the official support forums for the atrix.
[Atrix 4G General] JayRolla:
Actually upgrades work in our favor since they dont make crap on the phone. They only make money on the data service which is outrageously priced.
[Atrix 4G General] donniesd:
Rule of thumb.

Buy Google Flagship or htc to get all the upgrade love.

I hope moto dies.
[Atrix 4G General] Ririal:
Moto will be around long after your HTC falls apart due to shoddy manufacturing :)
[Atrix 4G General] :
This is the truth. although the atrix doesn't hold motorolas standards.
[Atrix 4G General] ccrows:
HTC needs a phone with an actual "battery" before I entertain ever buying one ever again.

Funny because HTC comes out with a ton of "Cookie Cutter" phones each year with the same low battery capacity issue. IMO that really doesn't make much "Sense" :p
[Atrix 4G General] CaelanT:
BYE!

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[Atrix 4G General] noxlord:
People are quick to misinterpretation and overly hopeful for uncertain and vague announcements. Ice Cream Sandwich will be released, along with a new Nexus device, in Q4 2011. This can be december at the latest. Since non-Nexus devices always get the latest update about 2-3 months (at the earliest) after the latest release by google, ICS will not be on the Atrix before march next year.

Now since Motorola is slow at updating, we could get the ICS update in June next year, maybe. Who knows ... Until it's officially announced, there is no way to tell and speculation is pointless.

That being said, I will be eating ice cream sandwiches all week :D hum nom nom nom nom nom
[Atrix 4G General] ccrows:
@noxlord

We'll see ICS in some form easily before June 2012.

The Milestone had a good working version of Froyo on a locked BL (as well) long before it was released in March this year. Some people even liked the leaked mod just as much as the "official version" that eventually came out...
[Atrix 4G General] KefkaticFanatic:
Please re-read the op, at the time of your post I had already updated :)
[Atrix 4G General] BravoMotorola:
Yea, I think you're wrong. If they wait over a year for ICS then the Atrix will turn into a backflip. I actually think we will get it long before next June...
[Atrix 4G General] banes:
Do u feel this way bout Samsung? I agree bout HTC...
[Atrix 4G General] ccrows:
Motor needs to get on the horse with Gingerbread already, just to slow down users looking at the SG2.

If they drag ass on Gingerbread, not too many around here will be waiting for ICS...
[Atrix 4G General] TareX:
Screw this. By Q4 I would have sold my crappy Atrix to the first buyer, in exchange for a unibody HTC dual core, or the LG Nexus 3 with Tegra 3.
[Atrix 4G General] Made2Last:
Man that last phone sounds terrible. Lol
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Pureblood:
So I sent my invite at 12 exactly. I really want an invitation. Has anyone been successful? It would be great for my transformer and my droid x.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] akarol:
Still waiting. Sent around the same time as you.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Putzy:
I'm in the UK, so no.

We don't even have the Tablet-specific Market, Google Books, nor this new Google Movies. I'm used to it.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Elganja:
i slept on it... sent mine in at 12:10 :(
[Eee Pad Transformer General] grenademasta:
I sent mine in as well.

I think once you get it you will have invites to give out to others. I had several Google beta invites in the past. Gmail came with 100 invites, Wave had 5 invites, and Voice had 5 invites before they all opened up to the public.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] grenademasta:
I don't think time is a factor for their invites. I knew other people that never got Google Wave or Google Voice invites despite them sending in their requests before I did. They have a selection process that somewhat monitors what Google products you use. One exception was Google Wave beta testing. It was more like a mini application you had to send in for a request.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Pureblood:
Yeah I got my google wave invite off someone from twitter. I hope they do it like that again but I think they, right actually limit since it isn't always going to be free unless they do that to sucker you in

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[Eee Pad Transformer General] Pureblood:
Any invites!

Does anyone have an invite they can send me?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] akarol:
I believe no invites have been given yet. Probably still going over it with developers at I/O. Some articles are only popping up now about it.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] skunkape:
also requested an invite ...forgot what time though.

hoping for the best.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Pureblood:
did anyone receive one yet?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] skunkape:
nothing here yet.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] akarol:
Nada... :(
[Eee Pad Transformer General] grenademasta:
Wouldn't be surprised to see invites on Ebay lol. Just a thought. It would be funny to see how much people would bid for an invite to Google Music.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] bazzawhite:
Not to forget Google Voice.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] case0:
Still waiting on mine. Signed up through a proxy as I'm in the UK.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Pureblood:
Has anyone got one yet? I am waiting patiently but am anxiuous to get it?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] mnbgibbs:
I've gotten nothing yet. Still patiently waiting.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Pureblood:
still waiting
[Eee Pad Transformer General] *Daedalus:
I wouldn't mind being a US citizen right about now...

The UK and Ireland really get shafted with this sort of thing Google Music, Voice, Hulu, Netflix...
[Eee Pad Transformer General] sackofnoise:
hidemyass.com

im from canada and successfully registered for an invite with it :)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] kingwp1:
What exactly is google music? I've got the app on my transformer. Does that mean I've already got an account?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] bleclair:
Google Music is a new beta service that supposedly will allow you to upload up to 20,000 songs to Google.

You will then be able to stream them to your computer and Android devices.

Currently the service is invitation only, and you have to request an invite. Many people have requested an invite, but apparently no one has received one yet.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] birdtales:
Verizon Xoom owners are getting invites first (read now) according to Android Police.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] neok44:
from what i've been seeing on twitter the service is VERY beta and has lots of bugs. few people have even stopped using it and gone back to amazon, or no cloud at all.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Pureblood:
just got my invite
[Eee Pad Transformer General] akarol:
I hate you!
[Eee Pad Transformer General] bedoig:
Got mine too! Woot!
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Pureblood:
So how do I access on my tablet. On my droid x I received a pop up asking me if I would like to connect to my google music account while using the music player but that didnt happen on my tablet.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] jfunkmaster123:
I got my invite a few days ago, and it still is not synching with my transformer. On my invite it stated that I had a xoom which is not the case. My only guess is it needs honeycomb 3.1 and won't run on 3.0.1 even though it states anything above 2.2. It runs fine on my lg optimus which runs 2.2.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Heathsrow:
I had the same issue...after i got the invite, I had to uninstall the updates and reinstall then it synced with my music in the cloud. Recommend trying that.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] A Naked Emo:
Do they give out invites when you get invited like they have with a few of the other services? If so, can someone PM me. I would greatly appriciate it.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] jfunkmaster123:
Thanks for the help. I tried that, but it didn't work. But knowing you had it working, I looked around a little more, and noticed under settings, accounts and sync, I didn't have sync enabled under google music. Turned that on, and all is working well! So thank you!
[Eee Pad Transformer General] tonyz3:
if anyone has an extra invite. It would be appreciated. I will just pay mine forward when it comes thru..

Please pm me of you have one. Thx:D
[Eee Pad Transformer General] skunkape:
just got my invite 2 days ago.

was out of the country, so currently syncing my music now
[Eee Pad Transformer General] case0:
Wooo just got mine yesterday. Registered in uk through a proxy when it came out. Seems to be working well. Haven't uploaded any music yet but the free music is streaming fine through browser and app on my tablet and phone :)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] ryan stewart:
Fyi to those asking for invites, we don't get them to hand out. They are only coming from Google.

Music rocks my face off, I keep my favorites on the phone and gigs in the cloud, more room for HD rips of top gear.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] xxemoeskimoxx:
i have gotten the invite and accepted it but i can not run it on my nexus one because it doesnt have OpenGL2.0 :(
[Eee Pad Transformer General] aquenne:
I submitted an request during the announcement of the service.. oddly im from canada, and SHOULDNT be eligble, but some how got an invite a week or so ago.

Im still uploading my music (90 gigs worth =)..) but ive got it working nicely on the TF and on my samsung i9000.

If anyone needs the apk let me know, the default one with the TF did not have the ability to connect with the google servers, ie just standalone
[Eee Pad Transformer General] wackadroid:
FyI Google music s not all its cracked up to be. The uploads take forever and its crashed both music apps on my TF and my nexus s $g. Plus right now its almost impossible to type in this forum from the browser there is so much lag on this tab. Some things android are really annoying....
[Eee Pad Transformer General] CrunchyDoodle:
I had sent out four requests to google for an invitation to Music Beta using four different google IDs. I have one unique google ID for each of my Android tablets. I received exactly one invitation this morning, ironically with the google ID of the one tablet I'm about to sell, but that's another story. The invitation came with the admonishment that I should only use the google ID the invitation was addressed to. So I installed the Windows 7 client on my desktop machine and assigned three folders with about 600 songs - mostly albums, some with artwork. It then got really busy sending my music up to the cloud. At the invitation of the Windows client, I also requested some free music genres.

My ASUS Transformer already had the Android Music Beta client on it, as well as some of that same music now headed up to the cloud, as resident. I fired up Music Beta and picked something I knew was not resident or in my cloud. It started playing nearly instantly showing me that it was downloading and buffering up the song. It was quick doing it.

While it appeared to have organized my music into albums, some with artwork, it turned out to be pretty goofy. In a Billy Joel album free from the cloud, I found some resident Los Lobos, cloud based free Barbra Streisand and resident Bonny Raite. Who knew? ;)

Anyway, it's quite fast and plays well. The way it organizes the music is kind of weird, but I've seen that before in other music applications. In the past I tried to fix this with an MP3 ID application with some success. Not really worth the effort for all the time it took me.

Bye. :cool:

UPDATE: Got a second invitation on one of my other google IDs.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] brandonpaz:
Got mine a week ago :-)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] case0:
I forgot to mention.. the Music app was updated here (UK) the day after I got my invite which was useful because then I didn't have to go looking for the apk. It might signify that Google are going to expand the service to the UK soon.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] ryan stewart:
Mine uploaded fine and works great on tablet and phone.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] dfin13:
I've got my music collection uploading now. Been putting it off for weeks, and now I know why -- it takes a loooong time! Not Google's fault that my upload speed is ****e. But I can get my entire collection on there with lots of songs to spare (I think the limit is 20,000). For some reason the syncing is a bit off on my phone, but the TF updates quickly and accurately.

So far, very cool. I suppose the iCloud song matching is more convenient, but streaming 256k songs on a tiered data plan? No thanks. I do use a Mac though, so I may find a few iCloud bits useful.