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[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] dsEVOlve:
Thank you, I needed the laugh.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] bootsie99:
Happy here! Just waiting on custom ROMS
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] rainby:
"it had no personality" lol.

i am happy with my 10.1....my wife uses ipad2 and honestly speaking... it will take one some time to get the hang of 10.1 due to its 'personality' after some time with ipad2.

the very first thing i was looking for when got 10.1... the counterpart of that physical home button on ipad2... :confused:

I carefully avoid using you your you'r...;)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] jlbusch:
home=little button that looks like a house on lower left...no matter how you hold it!

;)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] madsquabbles:
didn't vote. i do like it a lot and find it the best of the current hc tablets for my needs, but definitely not the "best thing ever" and nothing really to deal with except the limitations of tegra2.

so i'm satisfied.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] v3rn:
Traded my iPad 2 for one and wouldn't look back. Awesome device.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] khanable:
Considering a return :(

Honeycomb simply isn't ready yet.. still lots of crashes and hang ups. The browser on the GT10.1 is essentially useless between the bookmark bugs and the constant crashing.

Unless samsung or someone can get it fixed within 8 days I'll be returning. :(

Some performance things:

ADW or Launcher Pro -- I prefer ADW, seems more optimized for tablet use. Runs great.

Set plugins on the browser to on-demand
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] galaxytabevo:
Perfectly happy with it. Honeycomb is still buggy, but it's not a dealbreaker for me.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] Drakknar:
Best tablet ever :)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] cds0699:
I havent had mine for long, but so far i am loving it!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] kponti:
Great tablet but will need some more software optimization to catch up to the iPad (1 or 2).

Please don't quote me hardware configs, that's like saying the 415hp mustang is the same or better than the 400hp Aston Martin. I have used them side by side and frankly honeycomb looks better, but needs work quite a bit

I still picked the Tab over the iPad cos I need m. office to work on the tablet even if it is just to read documents, spreadsheets, pdfs etc etc
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] Ravynmagi:
Voted "I'll deal with it". I purchased a 32GB metallic gray.

So far it's the best Android tablet I've had. But there is still room for improvement.

No micro SD, Honeycomb being slow, no Netflix, and a lot of incompatible apps, keep me from being able to vote "Best thing ever". It's unfortunate because most of the issues aren't the tablet's fault.

I'm hopefully Ice Cream Sandwich comes to this tablet as soon as possible. I don't think Google will ever get Honeycomb fixed.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] rjohmit:
Got my replacement tab tonight and its flawless...love it!

Apps have a long way to go but i dont care about the lack of sd or usb.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] AndroidCR:
I just got mine and I'm getting used to it (comming from using a Xoom), I think there's still a lot of room for improvements in Honeycomb to make it a more pleasant experience...I'll be waiting for the custom roms/kernels as with the Xoom they made a real difference...lets wait for them to come... :)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] xManMythLegend:
The good browser options being hidden in debug.

Choppy ui/typing.

No official USB/HDMI yet

Tegra 2 total suckage in video playback and gpu power.

Market annoyances.

Outside of that I love it thus far. HC needs work and accessories need to be released.

I'd stab myself in the foot if I had to trade this for an ipad.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Bull Shot:
Can anyone explain the amount of RAM that this phone is suppose to have?

The specs for the phone lists 768 MB. However, the total memory that comes up is 617940 kB.

Thanks.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] bik2101:
where are you finding this number? i am at 758 MB. since i have a bunch of apps installed, that would seem about right.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] pinakaeus:
How are you guys getting so much free ram? When I check on Task Killer, whenever I kill all the apps I'm not using it usually shows 358 mb ... and programs I'm not using automatically keep running (i.e Maps).
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] bik2101:
hmm maybe im not checking the right place? i'm getting my 758 mb number from settings--SD and phone storage. the internal phone storage tells me 758mb.

on an unrelated note though, you shouldn't use task killers. they are considered by most to be more of a drain on your battery life as android is already setup to manage closing unused apps on its own.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] nimdae:
Many people use the term "memory" to mean system memory as well as storage. I try to avoid calling system storage as "memory" and tend to use "storage" instead, or refer to the type of storage.

Total ram is around 768mb. Part of it is reserved (not sure why, possibly for filesystem caching) so around 603mb is available. For this platform that is a healthy chunk of RAM to work with. Even with my hefty usage I have ~126mb free.

Internal storage is something like 2gb, with it partially consumed by the Android install as well as NAND configuration adjustments for reliability which cause some of the storage space to be consumed through hardware (there's an excellent explanation of this somewhere, don't have a link handy), resulting in about 1.1gb being available. I have 103 apps installed, 523.5mb of the internal storage used, with 638.8mb available.

There was an excellent tool posted on xda (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1066060) called Android Optimizer that gives a lot of good information about memory, storage, cpu usage, etc. I'd recommend checking it out. It's not available on the market and it is a little buggy so use it with a bit of caution if you choose to use any of the optimization functions.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] bik2101:
cool. thanks for the explanation nimdae!
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] devator22:
There have been so, so, so many posts on this topic that I will not rehash them all here. Instead, I will ask a simple question: For what do you use all that free RAM?

Ask yourself that question, and be serious about it. I think you will find yourself uninstalling your task managers and memory optimizers before long.

Edit: to avoid unnecessary discussion, Watchdog is in fact neither of those, and I would highly recommend it as the only memory app you will ever need.

Edit 2: the total RAM displayed is the RAM that is actually available to be used by anything the user may want to run. As a poster earlier said, the system reserves a certain amount of RAM for its own use to keep important processes moving along. The reserved RAM is not available, and so doesn't appear in total RAM. Unless you want to uninstall the OS. Then you could have access to all 768 MBs.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] nimdae:
I would like to reiterate why you should not use automatic task killers.

As of, I believe, Android 2.0, the garbage collection and memory management was significantly improved. However, this was not a new system in Android, it always existed.

How it works:

If you haven't noticed with Android, when you leave an app, it doesn't close it unless the app specifically does something to end the process. This is by design. Android allows the app to remain in memory. Frequently used apps will load faster with this design. A "task" that is not killed and is in the background ONLY consumes memory, it does not "run" (in Linux terms, the process is actually in a "stopped" state so the task can't do anything anyway). Only a "service" can run in the background. Most apps that have long running services have lightweight services.

If an application loads that requires more memory than is available, Android will examine backgrounded tasks for candidates to be killed to free up memory. This makes it so as many tasks as possible can remain in memory for better performance. In understanding this, you should know that if you have a large amount of memory, and memory usage is high, this is a GOOD THING. With the amount of memory in the I2, there is a lot of breathing space for this.

There is one other case where a backgrounded task will be killed: if it has been in the background for a certain period of time without being brought forward. Killing a task to free up memory to load another task can actually be a little cpu expensive (but not THAT much) so this can make it slightly easier.

Please note that backgrounded tasks WILL NOT contribute to battery drain. Only tasks at the front and services will. Killing your backgrounded calculator will do nothing for you other than free that small amount of memory it uses. Used memory does not contribute to extra battery drain as DRAM refreshes happen on ALL cells anyway.

Background services can also be made candidates for being killed. If an app needs more memory than can be made available by killing backgrounded tasks, then services become targets to be killed as well.

Automatic task killers cause a couple of problems. A less major problem is you lose that one benefit you get by keeping tasks in the background: performance. I don't just mean how fast it loads. If it can bring a backgrounded task to the front from memory rather than load from storage, you remove extra processing to load the app, including storage access, that contribute to higher battery drain. The other problem is a poorly configured task killer can break things like notifications.

Managing your services is always a good idea. Having a lot of services running means background processes that are capable of contributing to battery drain. Additionally, there are apps with misbehaving services (services that consume resources or use features they shouldn't). While I'm against automatic task killers, using something to monitor and manage services is a good idea. Just always keep in mind the implications for killing a service: it may affect a feature to an app that you would rather not impact.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] xgunther:
Excellent explanation nimdae! Task killers are the devil.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] nimdae:
On another note, my posts are getting too long...
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] xgunther:
Everything is longer in Texas.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] nimdae:
That's what s...no, that's too easy.

Move along, nothing to see.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] TB13:
Before I read this I was like a task Nazi. I killed my tasks often, but now I think I will just let them be. Nice write up BTW. Very informative.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] nimdae:
Remember: I'm not saying don't manage things. Poorly behaving services are the #1 cause of high battery drain (at least on non-LTE devices), and this will be even more problematic when you overclock.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] knipp21:
I tried not using them and I get better battery life with them...I use it maybe 3 times a day after heavy multi tasking. It's to each their own..but I see results for it..like 5 extra hours.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] nimdae:
If you get that much extra, you have a misbehaving app. Better to get the app developer to fix it or find an alternative.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] knipp21:
True, I don't need to use it often though lol
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Boogersugar83:
I'm in Texas as well.

sent from a phone without root.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] AngelsPunishment:
I use a task killer only to manually kill an app that freezes or something. Its easier than going to manage applications. I have the autokill disabled.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] nimdae:
CyanogenMod (maybe other ROMs) have a feature to kill a frozen app by holding the back button (long press, whatever). However, this can also be an annoyance on systems where for unknown reasons it registers a long press on a tap (my eris did this a lot).
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] SoCalSpecialist:
Im at 801.6mb free w/ 27 extra installed apps.

BUT i use cache cleaner pro / advanced task killer pro / history cleaner pro, to make sure i keep my levels high and device running smooth.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] nimdae:
Constantly attempting to maintain high levels of free memory totally negates the purpose of having so much memory at your disposal and prevents Android from doing its performance maintaining duties properly.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] nrfitchett4:
I only use a simple "kill all" widget when the phone bogs down. It's either that or a soft reset and that was is faster. I don't use any automated auto-kill programs. But if Android was so good at memory and cpu mgmt, I wouldn't have to do this 1-2x a day.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] nimdae:
Android is not to blame for misbehaving apps. I always recommend to people that if you have performance problems that you should figure out which app is causing it and either communicate the problem with the developer so it gets fixed, or find an alternative. Even in cases where a third party app wasn't to blame, it was always something relating to the modifications made by the device maker (look up the problems associated with HTC's mail app) and not Android's management.

It's just like on Windows. You can't blame Windows because your antivirus decides to bog down your system. Or on Linux, you can't blame Linux because Firefox is eating your CPU.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mygti02:
Hi guys.

I need to give a presentation on some functionality on android phones, specifically the mytouch 4G. Is there software out there that will allow me to show whats on my phone screen onto my computer that will be connected to a projector? I really appreciate the time. I searched but all i get is stuff unrelated to what im looking for. to be honest im not even sure what to call this so im probably search with the wrong keywords. Any help is appreciated. cheers!
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neidlinger:
Twonky. They have an Android Application and a Desktop Server Client.

You'll need Wi-Fi to make it work though.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mygti02:
perfect thanks ill check it out.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mygti02:
ohm that seems to just be used for streaming music,video, and pictures....what i need to do is show my android screen up on to a projected screen and show people how to do things on the phone. Kind of like what they do at Google IO when they give live demo's from the phone and the phones screen is projected up onto the large screen so everyone can see it.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VibrantOwnr:
check this out...

never tried it.. but it might be what you are looking for

http://www.androidguys.com/2009/01/30/projecting-android-on-the-big-screen/

you might have to recruit google's help to find the jar file as it is no longer available in the link provided
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] androph:
Install eclipse and android sdk then use the emulator in developer tools.....basically turn the computer into android device
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dementor123:
+1

you can also easily install the app on the emulator.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dave5777:
Use Droid VNC Server

Have full control of your Android.

http://market.android.com/details?id=org.onaips.vnc
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Theshawty:
What's the status?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tomy285:
(Sry I'm new here) If I root my Arc now, will I be able to update Arc to 2.3.4. (maybe in October) ?? I'm planning to root my Arc because of WHOLE GAMES AND APPS TO SD thing, and because of chainfire3d for TEGRA ..I know that jailbroken iPhone cannot be updated so I'm asking about Android :) PLEASE SOMEONE WHO HAS XPERIENCE. And if I can update (yeee!), will I have to use some other program to update or just update from SE site? TNX :) And sry for my EnGLisH :D
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SXUsr:
Yes...............
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] im_iceman:
Definitely yes...
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxsteel_mx:
Hi, continued with this question, when the arc are rooted is necesary unroot (if is posible) to update the sotware normally.

Thanks.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abhisheak.bansal:
i dont think so
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtc42:
No, but it may unroot itself when it updates.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cholerabob:
No if you use OA update it will retain it's rooting, if you update thru SEUS then you will need to re-root and i don't think it is available yet. Don't aske me why OA keeps the rooting, it's a mystery of life.... ;)
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Hare4:
It seems as if things have died down a lot... Whats the deal?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Entropy512:
Probably have reached or are approaching the limits of what can be done by tweaking existing ROMs.

I'm not sure if we have anyone in the community that has the time and skills for an AOSP bringup and owns an Infuse. Once an AOSP bringup is complete, there are a LOT more options as far as places to take our device.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] MikeyMike01:
Hardly.

Sent from my Infuse 4G
[Samsung Infuse 4G] holland6045:
After coming from the x10 forum....i can wholeheartedly agree. Those crazy bastards did some outrageous stuff with stock. Heck they somehow shoved gingerbread on that thing before it even got 2.1 and thats with a locked bootloader.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] CHUDLINGS:
Don't hate lol. As people have already said we already have some nice changes to the stock rom and more to come. I came from the Evo and had cm7...oh how that will be amazing.

From what I've read devs are working on cm but I don't know how that is going but at least its going. Devs have phones all they need it time :) I too hope its sooner rather than later.

Sent from Samy Infused
[Samsung Infuse 4G] bignate78:
Gingerbread is saposedly to be released soon(looks like canada first) so itll be put out there quicker than well get it so everyones waiting instead of having to Redo it all again
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Hare4:
I'm reading like 4 different expansions, can a dev explain something?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] begadkepat:
Entropy512 wrote that at this point, the developers have done as much as they can by tweaking the stock ROM. In other words, not much can be done until another ROM is pushed from Samsung and the carriers. MikeyMike01 countered and said that this is not true at all. holland6045 agreed, and said that his experience with a certain phone is that a *lot* can be done by tweaking the stock ROM of a phone. CHUDLINGS said that developers are working on porting CM7, and that more time is needed. bignate78 mentions that (possibly) a Samsung-delivered Gingerbread ROM is likely to be released in Candada soon, and that this would speed up development.

Not being very familiar with the development status, I would summarize as follows: At this point, we are limited to tweaking the stock ROM. Although developers are working on porting CM7, many are waiting for a Gingerbread ROM to be pushed to the phone (likely in Canada first) so that they do not have to start from scratch.

[@Anyone: If I've misinterpreted anything, do correct me.]
[Samsung Infuse 4G] hydrogenman:
I think the part about waiting for gingerbread to drop on the canadian carrier is the most accurate

who the hell wants to waste so much time getting it over from another gs device when it's nearly ready to drop in some form ?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Entropy512:
Yeah. I believe gtg made a comment that there are a number of tweaks to Infused that he's not bothering with because he'd have to redo them when the Canadian Gingerbread release drops.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Hare4:
Alright, thanks for the info men. :)
[Samsung Infuse 4G] holland6045:
No problem. Also thanks to the guy who pretty much translated that all for him.

Oh and just for the record, as an example of what you can do when you really want to with a stock fw: the devs over on the x10 forum (while not infighting ) effectively gutted the stock to the bare necessities and transplanted gingerbread onto that...because even though Sony got hacked, they do a darn good job at locking down a bootloader. But in the end they bypassed that too.

Also i must say i like the community here much better, a lot more friendly and helpful.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TLogsdon:
Ok, I have a Captivate currently running Fasty 1.5

I flashed from a stock ROM after doing a master clear as I always do, and haven't made any customizations to any of the ROMs I've run.

I've tried every Netflix app and pretty much every ROM that promises working Netflix, but nothing seems to work.

Am I missing something?

Thanks in advance.

-T
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lownox:
Didn't think Netflix worked on 2.2 roms.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TLogsdon:
Neither did I, but according to the Fasty post, it works on this one. But it really doesn't as far as I can tell.

I've tried several GB ROMs too, but it didn't work on them either.

Am I going to have to wait 42 years for Netflix and Samsung or ATT to work out some sort of deal?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bames:
Couldn't get it to work on Fatsy either (tried every variation of the netflix APK out there).

Had previously had it working on a GB rom (Mosaic). Just flashed to DG's Cognition GB and it works like a charm.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kurrptsenate:
It's worked on CM7 and Continuum for me with no problems. Big fan of the app when you get it working
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Reamer09:
It works on every GB ROM I have flashed. Be sure to use the "netflix-new-mod2.apk" in this post http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1076150
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TLogsdon:
Just re-flashed Continuum, going to give it another try.

EDIT:

IT WORKS!

I don't know what I did different this time, but I'm so super stoked that I'm probably going to die.

Thanks to you all for your help!!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moore808:
Netflix works perfectly on the Speed and Looks 2.3.3 rom I'm using. Just make sure you are on wifi, or else your phone bill with hate you.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noma_pride:
Has anyone gotten Netflix to work on a 2.2 based ROM?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] panda703:
Confirmed working: Seredipity 7 build 2 GB 2.3.3
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Miami_Son:
Next time, do a search before starting a new thread. There must be a half dozen or more existing Netflix threads in here. Also, this should have been in Themes & Apps, not Q&A.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr. Clown:
What he says ;).

Thread closed.
[Wildfire General] Markoleti:
i have new problem. this time,i try to change clockwork mode. unsuccessfully. :( things go like this ...try to flash some but no luck. than i try fastboot commander and problem is there appeared.whenever I try to get in rocovery,transferred me to fastboot. :confused: cant geat clockworkmode. rom manager shows that i use clockworkmode 3.0.0.6 but i just cant get to it ... some advice what to do?
[Wildfire General] ErwinP:
The recovery from ROM manager is a temporary one, just stored on your sdcard. But you cannoy access it without rom manager.

I think you have corrupt or missing recovery. You can try to flash a new one with fastboot:

1. Go to the developpers subforum, there is a sticky that gives you the possible recovery's for our wildfire. Pick one and download it. If it is a zip file, extract is so that you have the .img

2. Put that .img in the same folder on your computer where adb.exe and fastboot.exe are. Rename that .img to 'recovery.img' (without ' ofcourse)

3. Reboot your phone in bootloader. Change to fastboot and connect it with your pc

4. Open the command prompt on your computer and browse to the location of fastboot.exe

5. Type "fastboot devices". Your device should be listed now

6. Type "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" and hit enter. You should now see the process continuing.

7. When done, type "fastboot reboot recovery". Your phone should reboot know, and you should be in recovery!

Good luck,

Erwin.