yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC EVO 3D] whineosaurus:
I've read a number of general complaints about sense being bloated and unremovable but would like to understand what device resources are unavoidably consumed by it.

If it's just storage space I'm not too concered about that. But taking up RAM with programs/features I don't want is another matter, as is any wasted CPU-cycles it might spend automatically running programs in the background, or intercepting UI events.

I ask this without knowing specifically what in sense is believed to be bloated. Is there a way to see a list of things it runs or could run, and to disable each feature I don't want? Again, I don't mind if the unwanted programs remain in storage, as long as they are never run and thus don't consume RAM/CPU.

When I watch videos of the G2X, it's mind-boggling how fast every aspect of the UI is. What is sense doing that keeps the evo 3d / sensation from achieving the same level of snappiness? I have a hard time believing excessive RAM-usage or CPU even is playing any role in simply scrolling through the tray of apps. So what is it that affects things like simple scrolling speed there?

I'm guessing android has some kind of event handling, where every event is delivered to a list of programs that each decide if they want to do anything with the event or not, and maybe sense has programs registered all over the place to receive all kinds of events. This is wild speculation on my part as I'm not that familiar with how things really work, but when scrolling through apps in the app tray is slow, something besides simple resource consumption must be going on.

Anyway my general questions are: what makes it slow, and can 'it' be removed, whatever 'it' is.
[HTC EVO 3D] firmbiz94:
I don't know where u got the idea that the evo 3d us slow..must of been in a gs2 forum..I happen to enjoy sense..and once you root you can

remove any bs..I have an evo 4g and have no lag whatsoever..don't listen to the evo 3d haters..everyone takes shots at the best
[HTC EVO 3D] novanosis85:
Sense is a skin.
[HTC EVO 3D] donatom3:
It's more than a skin. If it was just a skin many things that only work on ASOP would work on Sense too.
[HTC EVO 3D] firmbiz94:
sense has skins...
[HTC EVO 3D] novanosis85:
Oh right. Sense is a launcher that is stunning.

CM7 comes with ADW WHICH is a launcher that is not sexy.

So pick one.

1.Sexy Sense

2. Ugly betty.
[HTC EVO 3D] antianalog:
Adw is highly customizable. How can you say it's ugly? SMH
[HTC EVO 3D] firmbiz94:
Ugly betty lol..I've always use sense Roms but after hearing about cm7 being so great o gave it a shot..I didn't like it at all and I didn't notice a.speed increase comings from kings unleashed..I thought it was plain..maybe I just didn't put enough time.into figuring it out...but I do enjoy sense UI..even if it is a large file
[HTC EVO 3D] donatom3:
You do know the bluetooth stack in sense doesn't let you use things like wiimote, or bluetooth mouse? Those are some of the things I was referring to. Sense is more than a launcher and skin. It is a UI framework that does affect some core Android functions.

EDIT: BTW I never meant to start a war of Sense vs ASOP, I was just pointing out the misinformation that Sense is a skin, when it's more than skin deep.
[HTC EVO 3D] Zorachus:
Me too, always thought CM was over rated, I mean no disrespect, but Sense UI is hands down the best for Android.

Vanilla / stock Android feels like its still on 1.5 release. The dialer and contacts and e-mail all feel lacking something.

Sent from my EVO 4G "Myn's RS 5"
[HTC EVO 3D] nosfanatic2006:
Maybe I've been Sense-less for too long, but I definitely prefer CM. At first I felt it wasn't as good either, but once you play with it more its sooo much better imo
[HTC EVO 3D] Mr.Shroom:
+1 totally agree, once I got into really core customization of my EVO, I saw what Sense was lacking. Don't get me wrong Sense is nice for eye candy, but CM is easier to work with for deeper customization. Once again it all comes down to personal preference. Although I'm looking forward to playing with the new Sense 3.0 lockscreen.
[HTC EVO 3D] novanosis85:
Stability>customization
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] Froschfinger:
I did a phonecall a few minutes ago in which I used the Flyer for taking notes. Just right after the call I wanted to change the color of the pen in order to highlight some notes - and clicked on the trash bin button, so the note was pure and blank again, and no way of getting it back. Please, if you like your notes, avoid the button :).
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] kaze00:
I did this too. Undo does not work :(
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] upperkingjr:
Dont be dumb.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] Froschfinger:
Meaning what?
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] adamsende:
It is a really bad design decision. The first rule in UI/UX design: protect user data, make it hard to delete accidentally. HTC should fix this as soon as possible.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] ovigt71:
happened to me several times.... it should be fixed...
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] Froschfinger:
Thanks for consolidating.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] kkinder:
Similarly, if you use the screenshot app to mark up a map, one accidental tap on the back button blows away your work. Ugh.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] helikido:
So far while owning my vibrant I've had 7 bricks, how about you :P
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djluis48:
You mean soft bricks right? If thats the case, only 1. :D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iynfynity:
2 :D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] helikido:
Lol haha that's it. 2 the most so far (besides me).. on holding a recited lol :))))
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Whitehawkx:
I lost count months ago...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] movieaddict:
1 or 2 or something like that
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xriderx66:
Like 10 hard bricks and 3 soft lol
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] helikido:
U know what, I'm thankful that I chose a Samsung phone because it is unbtock!!le lol"!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheSneakerWhore:
0.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VICosPhi:
Not one hard brick, many softbricks though due to user error 90% of the times
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MailenJokerbell:
Haha, just 2 :P
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cpittman:
1 hard brick due to an sbl catastrophe and about 10 or 15 soft bricks mostly due to to voodoo during it's early days.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blown 89:
2.

I love how hard it is to permanently kill this phone.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jesus752:
About 5 or 6 soft bricks. 0 hard.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ld006:
1 soft brick and about 25-30 bootloops due to me learning how to theme lol
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZachLL88:
None, only one boot loop though.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dcaples002:
1 hard brick and millions of soft bricks because I was to anxious to disable voodoo before flashing roms!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jfdebo779:
1. I did it switching back from gingerbread. Easy to fix though.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] echelonMCRhartgrenade:
1 clay and 1 hard bricked.

The clay was that I had no clue what the "3 button fix" was and apparently I didn't have it because I couldn't boot into recovery or download mode. The next day I decided that I wanted to flash a new rom (adb into download mode) and Odin3 hanged on FactoryFS (idk why lol), and I pulled the plug and totally got stuck on the Phone+!+PC screen. I ordered a Jig and bingo up and running again :).

The hard brick was when Continuum 5 first came out. As soon as I saw Gingerbread 2.3 my mind went nuts lol. After flashing there was lots of FCs and I decided to start all over again from stock. Of course I used stock with three button fix and my phone never turned on! :(. (btw this was within 2-3 hrs after Continuum 5 came out)

Now I am absolutely carefully with everything! Triple reading directions, reading some of the posts in the thread, etc. :D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] motodroidfreak:
Hundreds of bootloops maybe 20 soft bricks and no hard bricks :D all on 1 phone
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcord11758:
If you know how many, you are not really flashing.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studacris:
This thread needs definitions.

There is only one brick. when your phone does absolutely nothing but sits there. Just like the building materiel it's name comes from. What you are referring to as a "hard brick".

All bricks are hard.

Anything other than that is not a brick. Take a look out in the world, how many of the bricks out there are soft? NONE OF THEM. same thing applies in the phone world, there is no such thing as a soft brick.

I've come up with a term (it's already been used in this thread) that better describes the situation: Clay.

Think about it...a brick is hard, you can't change anyting.

Clay is soft, easily moldable, but can become a brick if put in a kiln.

And if you can remember how many times you've clayed you are just getting started. They are no big deal at all!

They are even part of the dev process...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 41LY45:
None. *touchwood*
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slow_DC4:
I've only had one boot loop and hope to keep it that way.

Sent from 234 Elm Street
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cappysw10:
Zero because I can read and follow directions ;)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whiteguypl:
So what your saying is a new phrase to describe our phones in the state just before a brick is only acceptable if you yourself coined it lol.... Soft brick is a perfectly acceptable term to describe a non functional non bricked phone.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studacris:
No its to avoid confusing panicked boobs who think they have bricked there phone. And avoid confusion in general. Look at this thread for example...noone is quite sure wtf anyone means when they say brick. And people are also making a point of making a distinction between a "soft brick" and a bootloop...which are the exact same states of being. Broken firmware or kernel. The phone.....!....pc screen most commonly referred to as a soft brick is just a flash that's been marked incomplete. That's it. It will go away once ANY flash is successful

Try this: flash a kernel with odin halfway through yank the chord. Your screen might turn a pretty color followed by that infamous phone...!...pc screen.

Now load up just a modem in odin and flash that. That screen will not be there anymore...it will get stuck at the either the param.lfs boot image or the kernel screen or maybe even loop depending on how corrupted the kernel is.

now just flash the kernel and you will be up and ruining again no problems.

The point is that screen is gone but the phone still doesn't work. But like I said some people would call those situations two different things.

brick only needs to be used to describe one state. A brick. ever.

anything else should not even contain the word brick because it isn't clear, and a clay and a brick aren't really even in the same ballpark A clay is not anything to be concerned about whatsoever and is easily recoverable, and a brick is gone except for jtagging it.

If everyone KNEW that a brick is a pretty cut and dry diagnosis: dead. Then maybe we won't have 6 threads a day from someone who is very far from being bricked makes one of those "rom flash failed, I'm bricked!!" Threads

or threads like this...if you've had more than that one rare occasion of bad luck and bricked multiple times, put your damn phone down it's user error.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whiteguypl:
I understand your point. But people will still think there phone is bricked when it's not irregardless of the terms soft brick or clay. You would see the exact same number of posts only they would be more along the lines of "is this a brick or a clay". And the exact same responses. "read more your phone isn't bricked it's clayed".
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcord11758:
If you have not soft bricked atleast half a dozen times, your not having any fun
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Born2BeMild:
1 hard brick, my only brick. Let's keep it that way.

Sent from my SGH-I897
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fate-Silver:
Hardbricked once with 1008 Batch. RMAed.

Boot loop or hang in boot screen a few times. These are considered as Softbrick, right?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kschumake83:
Yeah softbrick cause clayed sounds retarded and we're way to far into the game to start changing things up now all another name for an unusable phone is going to do is confuse the noobs. What's the difference between softbrick clayed bootlooped f@#$ed and hardbricked
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] woowpsico:
two soft bricks :D, i was so worried LOL
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrevankyle:
never had a problem with the cappy other than a couple bootloops in the early days of cyanogen mod 7. but soooo many problems while trying to help out my friends with x10's, galaxy spicia's, and a nexus S. You find its really stressfull when you think youve bricked a friends phone.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WickedNite:
Zero, so far. :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4n6science:
Luckily I have 0 bricks. I read and watch videos many times before I actually do anything with the phone. I guess following instructions and asking before you do anything really helps.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaNaRkI:
My 2¢

0, 0, and 0?.

I've read so much about the process and the different means of accomplishing the same thing that I'ed not even count a softbrick/clay/bootloop as anything. {flash and try to boot>pull battery and try to boot> pick a different method to flash, repeat from beginning} Unlike "normal" humans I don't really focus on bad events, so I wouldn't be able to tell you more then 'I've (hard)bricked a phone before'

The problem with trying to get clay to catch on is that clay really only used here in one forum for one phone. Bricked is used everywhere even in places where ppl might not even know about ROMs and flashing (ex. newspaper reports "Offical AT&T OTA update bricks phones, has been pulled"). Those ppl will never see "clay" but will know full and well 'phone that is not usable = brick' regardless of how easy it might be to fix.

Tho I fully agree that in the world of phones the word "brick" should be reserved for only the truly and completely dead. Any life at all deserves a different term. If I had to use "softbrick" it would be to explain situations like my older bro's moto driod(aka milestone), it started one day during a call (stock, non rooted). It powers on but shows nothing on screen and runs slower and slower every time (last try booting was around 20 min, and it gets super hot during this). We tried changing the screen but got no results, also found very little in terms of PC support. It is unusable, but yet not dead, but also not really recoverable. I still poke around at it from time to time.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] lie_ui:
Citrix has a client for Honeycomb. It works well, except it takes very long time to establish the connection (3-5 minutes). Once the connection is established, it works really well. The same client running in my HTC Evo takes much quicker to establish the connection. They are the same core but they seem to behave differently. I emailed Citrix support about it.

If anybody here has any advice/tips, I would like to hear from you. Thanks.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gareth7o9:
Hi, I was at my grans today which is in a more urban area than where I live and noticed my Galaxy S II had a full signal and was showing the 'H' where it mostly says 3G.

I did a speed test and was very surprised at the speed. It was actually faster than my broadband at home.

Is this HSDPA or is it HSPA+? I'm not sure how you tell and what speeds you should be able to get.

I'm in Three UK by the way.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sidenine:
I believe the icon will show as "H+" when you're using HSPA+. So just showing "H" means HSPA.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DoPower:
Here you can see my HSPA+ coverage.

But does not always mean faster than HSPA :cool:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gareth7o9:
Surely at around 6Mbps, that would be HSPA+?

I've never seen the + icon on my screen.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reyza:
I'm in canada with Rogers. We have HSPA+.

My speed is like yours.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrej.marinic:
as far as I know, and I could be wrong, 3 supports hspa+ only for their dongles. I have yet to see the h+ icon on my phone while on 3 in UK. but the speed you're seeing is pretty high.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Manafa:
This in Sofia, Bulgaria:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gareth7o9:
Yes I think your right. I got an email from them about their new premium dongle and it said something about 40% faster speeds. But like u said, it does not show on the phones.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blue1k:
Wow. Nice dl speed
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qasdfdsaq:
Not really. If it says "H" its HSPA, "H+" is HSPA+. The speedtest result doesn't really tell you anything. For one, during the short time I had H+ I saw lower speeds on H+ than H, either because of immature radio firmware or because the areas most likely to get H+ first are probably the most heavily loaded/congested areas.

I frequently get 6-9mbps in speedtests on H-only, and once hit 11mbps without H+. In theory H goes up to 14.4mbps and in practice it's easy enough to get 80% of max rated speeds at off-peak times in a lot of UK cities. Just did a random test on H only, 5:43pm so not exactly off-peak. Server's in London, I'm in Edinburgh:

H+ would probably give you 12-18mbps at off-peak times but the speedtest.net app has problems going above 10mbps anyway so I doubt you'll see it without a better test.

HSPA+ is available on dongles and handsets, some other people have seen it in key areas. It's not nationwide yet and not everywhere has it. Again, you'll probably see it in the busiest areas first, and it's only a 50% increase in max speed under good conditions so won't be a huge capacity increase, and so you won't notice a big difference. You'll only see a difference on H+ if you were already able to get the top 14.4mbps speed of HSPA beforehand.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reyza:
I'm on Rogers Canada with HSPA+ and I get those same speeds
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bruflot:
You know its bad when your mobile network is faster than your home broadband..

Mobile network:
[General Questions and Answers] Bluegrassman:
I have searched and searched this forum as well as others and google the last 24 hours with no resolution.

As the title states, I am unable to download or update apps from Market. Every time it just pauses. I have tried clearing cache, uninstalling Market update, unmount/remount sd card, reboot after reboot, sign in to Google Talk, back up sd card, wipe card, then restore card, delete Android Secure folder during the previous process, clear google service framework cache, etc, etc, all to no avail

Any other suggestions please, I am at wits end with my one week old phone

HTC Ispire (Completely stock other than apps that have been downloaded)

Thanks in advance.
[General Questions and Answers] Bluegrassman:
Gave up and did a factory reset. Problem now gone. Would be nice to know what causes this issue since so many seem to experience it. Google's relative silence is rather infuriated.
[General Questions and Answers] Mickets73:
[A] Android Market Download Paused

It could be because your phone is set to only make downloads when connected to WiFi. Check that.

I have a friend whose phone had exactly this symptom and this was the cause. Once he disabled that option in the phone settings, it worked.

I think he had a Motorola Defy.
[General Questions and Answers] tashish11:
Solution for "Stuck download" !

Previously i tried all basic steps and followed all forums,it seems to be worthless !

Lastly after resetting the device to factory setting,download get start.

Try this one but after following all basic steps.

:victory:
[Eee Pad Transformer General] proplayer44:
I'm updated to 3.1. Noticed it was a little snappier but not much. I don't really use youtube much but I do use other tube sites :) and for the most part watching those videos still suck. I was hoping to use it as my primary internet browsing experience but I find the laptop just works with so much more ease.

I'm wondering if I downgraded, rooted, upgraded to the rooted 3.1 and over clocked if my experience would get better while browsing. Any point in doing the work reading all the steps, backing up, downgrading, reinstalling and such or is it going to be similar when watching flash content in the browser?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] JosepiOT:
For me, flash content in browser really was the same.

Went to 3.1 primordial/stock kernel, then a few of the OC kernels that yielded a tiny visual speed increase in interaction, but was offset by too many FCs/restarts.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] combat goofwing:
read my thread here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=14543727#post14543727

im now running stock 3.1 ww rooted rom ill post feedback on speed etc once i have had a play
[Eee Pad Transformer General] NeoStuey:
I applied the Prime V1.4 Rom late last night which meant that I had very little test time with it. Even so it felt immediately zippier than both the rooted stock 3.1 Rom and primordial 3.1 which I had been tuning since rooting my TF last after a day of owning it.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] QMaverick:
I can't find Qik in the market, but have it boy mine and my wife's phones and would like to be able to call them from my tablet. (crazy world, huh?) Until Google Talk works on my Epic 4G, this is the best video chat app I've found, hands down.

I could use Market Enabler to find it...but I'm not sure what to set Market Enabler to, or if that would work. Does Qik even function in Honeycomb?

Right now, my TF Tablet is stock everything (I haven't gotten to tinkering that far with it yet).

Thanks in advance!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] JLG1985:
This isn't Qik but it's awful close...

I don't know if this will work but you can certainly try, it works on my Transformer!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] QMaverick:
thanks for the apk, but after I try to sign in it tells me there is a new version available from the market and won't let me do anything else. :-(

If you have anything more up to date, that'd be awesome!
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Backwardsblade:
I second this observation, I would love to know if theres a remedy.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] JLG1985:
The answer to your prayers!

I'll have to send it you in a PM then. Check your box soon and it will be there. :eek:

I've tried posting another link all through the night and there must be a BUG in the quick reply cuz it doesn't matter what I try I can't attach a file.
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] Backwardsblade:
I'd also like the link! Tytyty
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] JLG1985:
it appears that the original post has been removed and it also appears that my posting attachments in the future has been removed from my privies! Yikes, what did I do to deserve that please?

The apk I posted was/IS FREE - any thoughts as to why? Anyone, Anyone...
[Eee Pad Transformer Themes and Apps] QMaverick:
I don't know, but I would really like that apk! :-(
[Off-topic] NeatBee:
Hey guys come check out this 'room' and listen to some tracks with me and my friends, its pretty cool tbf http://wavelength.fm/test :D (it now won't work because i left it)

i hope this doesn't violate rules or anything, if so sorry, just delete this post :D