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[Milestone XT720 General] androidlover123:
Im not sure why but in the past week, my phone ram was was quite low. (30m - 45m) Before that, even after playing games and stuff, the ram was always above 55m. I have the go sms app, i have lookout running always and battery notifier (big text) to tell me my battery level. these were the apps that i downloaded just before the raam went low. oh and i only have 4 widgets running on my screen. (google search widget, power control widget (the one with options to toggle wifi, bluetooth etc etc on and off), a go taskmanager widget to show me how much ram i have and a music app widget) BTW im rooted running stock 2.1. Hope someone can help me!
[Milestone XT720 General] DarkMD:
If you want more free ram try to upgrade your phone into 2.2 custom rom...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=943368
[Milestone XT720 General] androidlover123:
oh lol i was already planning to go for the xda special but i just wanted to find out why suddenly the ram went down on my stock 2.1. any idea?
[Milestone XT720 General] eejin2:
must've been the services or processes running hidden in the background. there are some apps you can use to kill or stop them. but mainly i just use autokiller memory optimizer to modify android's default app killer to kill apps even when the ram is not very low(it kills apps when ram reaches a certain level). theres also a function in autokiller memory optimizer which allows you to kill processes. if you want more ram, you could use swap too, but it eats more battery, so i dont.

its a good app, and you dont have to use any task killers anymore. you can use the strict preset in the app if you want higher free ram. swap if you activate swap, you could go up to more than 100m free.
[Milestone XT720 General] androidlover123:
oh ya i forgot to mention i have already been using autokiller memory optimizer at strict level for a month already. yesterday i changed it to aggressive hoping that my ram would increase but to no avail.
[Milestone XT720 General] eejin2:
then it'd be that you have to many processes running it in the background. see from autokiller memory optimizer. just tap to close. swap gives you a LOT of free ram also. but you have to be using a swap compatible rom of course, so stock but rooted, no. unless u are using the eclair strikes back rom. im also on stock singapore but rooted. average free ram now is around 50 and im underclocked running at 500mhz cos i wanna save battery. its still running smoothly. actually, i dont really care about how much free ram there is, if its smooth then its all right for me. is your phone running smoothly?
[Milestone XT720 General] androidlover123:
huh no sadly D: every time i launch app then i exit that app, it will take about 3-5 sec for home page to load. It wasnt like that a week ago. (then it was very fast to return to screen-no lag at all.) btw im using go launcher.(it was there a month ago and had no lag at all until last week)
[Milestone XT720 General] DarkMD:
Try to clean cache frequently, that help to
[Milestone XT720 General] sohrab.naushad:
My suggestion would be to flash the stock Cincinnati bell sbf. I did that recently it is the most updated one from Motorola and is set at 720 MHz by default. I don't use anything and my ram is around 55-60. Smooth as hell. I use launcherpro. Its prettier, you can choose the keep in memory option which stops it from redrawing the screen. Mine is rooted. I get a day and half of battery life with wifi and autosync in 100% of the time, an hour of GPS, 1 hour gaming, one hour music and the odd texts or calls. Hope that helps. Nothing in my opinion beats stock 2.1
[Milestone XT720 General] DarkMD:
I use CyanogenMod 6 and its pretty nice... i have around 70-80 mb of ram free... btw i have about 25 apps instaled...

Overclock at: 1.1ghz @ 70vsel

Sorry for my bad english jaja
[Milestone XT720 General] abet1017:
If you have 30m-45m ram and it didn't affect the performance of the phone, then nothing to worry....now if your rom is in the 2.1 stock, you have a problem especially in using camcorder due to low memory... my suggestion is to flash the 2.2 rom like wahhu rom, xda special or the cm6...My ram is in the range of 30m-60m and I'm using the wanhu rom and even the cm6 rom still the performance of the phone is great..... Actually there is something in the phone that eats the ram..... It is one of the reasons why there is a problem in porting the cm7.

P.S. Try to flash the original wanhu rom then apply the latest update of Mioze-update-SC_2.2_XT720_Beta3a-Mz05 and the dark froyo theme.....
[Milestone XT720 General] spectacle:
Go to cm6. Can't stop saying how smooth and snappy it is :)
[Milestone XT720 General] abet1017:
I agree..... but there are still several issues to fix.... I'm waiting for the final product..... Great work by Mioze.
[Milestone XT720 General] androidlover123:
Ya i remember last time i use camcorder my phone had frozen. (nothing was responding. after 5 min i decided to battery pull then after that all apps started to force close, including launcherpro, so i could not do anything with my phone and had to uninstall launcherpro to solve problem. I really want to stay on stock 2.1 cos it has no issues at all until recently the ram problem which was slowing the phone down a lot. even at 1ghz 66vsel and autokill memory optimizer at strict level its quite low ram.
[Milestone XT720 General] eejin2:
if the ram is still low after all these trying out all these suggestions, why dont you try wiping everything and starting again?
[Milestone XT720 General] androidlover123:
ya that was kind of my last resort.... but since no one can find a solution for this, i just do that. Thanks to all for their help!
[Milestone XT720 General] sohrab.naushad:
If you are going to do it from scratch, I suggest you use the cincinnati bell sbf. I have had a very good experience with that. Root with universal androot 1.6.2 beta. After that install open recovery and youre set.
[Milestone XT720 General] mchlbenner:
i have about 60 applications installed and here a screen shot of a very comon amount of ram i have in mafia wars when done any were from 95 to 110 i have availble for use.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] genisis7:
can anyone teach me how to change the overscroll glow color in darky 10.1?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] whaave:
Try using http://uot.dakra.lt
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] genisis7:
the kitchen says its under mantainance and will be back shortly...

thats y i need a manual method
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Goldie:
Just change the 2 overscroll images in drawable-hdpi in framework-res.apk to the colour you want.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] LucianMarginean:
so....if i want to disable the overscroll should i change the 2 images into completely transparent ones? could work this way? or simply delete them?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] S39:
it is more simple to make them transparent you can't just delete them.
[Nexus S General] isdfoa:
nvmvnvmnvmvnvmvnvm
[Nexus S General] kevinngck1:
Whats wrong?
[Nexus S General] darkdefndr:
Well that made no sense. As op asked What is wrong??
[Acer Iconia A500] gigiduru:
Hi!

i've played so far with three custom roms: PRIMEE_p9_davids_mod, Virtuous_Thrive_v.1.0.1 and Lightspeed_1.0.1. each has its merits, but my biggest problem (so far) is that the camera app does not work properly with any of the non-acer based roms: i get a black screen with the back facing camera. the front camera works (so i can only take pictures of myself!). Lightspeed (based on stock acer) doesn't have this problem.

anybody else seen this? any suggestions?

thanks a lot
[Acer Iconia A500] JLow0214:
Same on HoneyVillian

i just put this ROM on my acer and now cannot take videos with the back camera. Front works fine like you said. Also it keeps saving video files to my SD when i am clearly not taking any if i try to open them nothing happens. Any help would be greatly appreciated
[Acer Iconia A500] crip:
I have black camera screen too ,, on rooted stock 3.2, it takes pics but i get no preview,, and cant focus..
[Acer Iconia A500] kjy2010:
It's all fun and games until someone loses a camera!

;)
[Android Themes] AceDroidX:
Hey guys.

I was searching the web recently for some wallpappers and i felt into the one that i have in the attachments... I thought it is quite cool, but it could be cooler if it was a boot animation...

i didn't find any related video to that image and I know that it is too much to ask to make an animation out of a picture but i think that it will be an impresive one. :)

Just an idea... hope someone can make it. :)
[Android Themes] XXCoder:
Awesome! :)
[HTC Sensation] DANOFDANGER:
Im fairly certain that the default rom files for Sense 3.0 are stored on the phones internal storage but where do external and aftermarket roms get installed, it would seem to be that its installing on the sd cards am i wrong ?? if so what kind of performance differences would there be compared to it being on the onboard memory and is there anyway to install it directly to the onboard itself.
[HTC Sensation] GideonX:
Aftermarket is stored on internal. Where did you get idea it was stored somewhere else?

Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e
[HTC Sensation] DANOFDANGER:
Yea i just removed sd card and clicked haha, just was interested as my internal stated it wasn't being used.. Is the 1gb not allocated to the OS files is the OS storage seperate etc ??
[HTC Sensation] EddyOS:
OS has its own partition, apps have their own 1.1GB partition
[EVO Shift 4G General] Xx12thANG3LxX:
Whats up with sprints 4g on this phone? My work just bought this phone for me. The 4g never is found and doesnt have bars? Wtf? You guys changing your radios to make up for this? Bring me up to par everyone. Thanks! What am i supposed to have checked on sprint service? Wcdma preferred?

Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G
[EVO Shift 4G General] minlo:
Does your city have Sprint wimax, I know its a dumb question but i had to ask....I know chicago has 4g but you'd have to check the sprint map on for your specific locations....

My city has wimax but the coverage is spotty at best, it seems like I have to be within a mile of the tower outside and not indoors or I cant get a decent signal....

The reason it sucks so bad is that sprint wimax is on a bad penetrating band, i believe 2500mhz....

There is a hack around here for making your 4g phone to pickup -110dbm but ur better off sticking with 3g because u will have frequent disconnects with the hack in my exp...
[EVO Shift 4G General] Xx12thANG3LxX:
I live on chicago. Im thinking they have it. What do you run your settings for *#*#4636#*#* wdcma preferred? Whats the best setting for sprint network gsm? Im thinking i might root this thing and change radios. Bet that might help a bit.

Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G
[EVO Shift 4G General] prboy1969:
So hold on a sec, your sig says HTC Sensation. Is that the phone you have? Or an EVO Shift? Have to ask and make sure. I believe what your talking about is ##3282# . That will get you into ESPT settings. But you need your MSL for that. Just call Sprint and ask. It's what I always do, and they just tell me the code. As for Rooting your phone, IMO never a bad idea.

TEAM MiK

Mik ROMs Since 3/13/11
[EVO Shift 4G General] Ron Overdrive:
Sigh. This is a completely untrue statement. 2500mhz is a better penetrating band then Sprint's 1900mhz band and their 800mhz band they're re-purposing from their Nextel hardware. The higher up in frequency you go the better building penetration you have, but at the cost of range which is also affected by the cell site location and setup. All 3 bands are UHF which is known for good building penetration, but if you had a tower with antennas at the same height for each band the lowest band (800mhz) will have the strongest signal with the highest band (2500mhz) having the weakest signal regardless if you're indoors or outdoors. The problem is not all bands are created equal when it comes to energy retention. The higher in frequency you go the more energy is needed to reach the same distances as the lower frequencies. That's why it may seem like 2500mhz doesn't penetrate as well, but the reality is there may not be enough power output at that cell site for any number of reasons.

Sorry for the rant, but I'm tired of seeing misinformation floating around and everyone just blindly accepting it as fact because it came from someone giving advice on the internet. A simple google search on radio propagation or a quick read through any of the entry level exam study guides for Amateur Radio points out how radio waves actually work.
[EVO Shift 4G General] FdxRider:
Great explanation! Thx I learned something new today.

Sent from my Whacked & Strapped Shift in the GingerBread Kingdom
[EVO Shift 4G General] Xx12thANG3LxX:
My tag says htc sensation because i have a sensation also. The evo shift is a phone my work bought for me

Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G
[EVO Shift 4G General] abanh:
This is an informative, well thought out post. The only problem is Sprint's (and Clear's) 4g still sucks indoors.
[EVO Shift 4G General] prboy1969:
Glad to hear you have a Shift. Welcome to the community :) . If you are thinking about Rooting it. Just make sure you do plenty of reading before hand. So that your at least somewhat comfortable with the process. Also, if you run into an issue post up. We're' all really good about helping each other out. Anyway here's a good place to start :

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=932153

Well assuming that it was placed in your posention on Froyo and not Gingerbread. If it's on GB only temp root is available for now.

Check here :

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1185243
[EVO Shift 4G General] Xx12thANG3LxX:
Thanks!!!! So you guys only have temp root then huh. So revolutionary doesnt give you s-off like it did for sensation? I am having trouble getting adb to work on my computer again. I had it working to s-off the sensation. But i had to uninstall and reinstall. Now im having big problems that are driving me insane!!!! Should be so easy but i cant figure out why i cant even run and install sdkmanagerexe. Keeps giving me a cmd screen blink and doesnt open. Im running windows xp 2002 32 bit. I am now working on trying to install adb and driver without sdk. But adb isnt seeing my device. I have no clue how to install this driver for windows 32 bit considering everytime i click on install it trys to find some other program to open it. Lost arghhhh ill find a way eventually.

Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G
[EVO Shift 4G General] Ron Overdrive:
Well like I said its a problem with their setup not the band. The key problem is power/gain and/or antenna location of their setup. Typically I have no problems with WiMAX indoors just coverage is a pain since I only get 4G in half the places I goto.

This is what I normally get for a connection indoors with wimax. Mind you this is on the latest cyanogenmod nightlies in which the signal strength meter is borked, but I do have full bars in this building. Also the cell sites in that area aren't towers but on top of office buildings in the nearby city.
[EVO Shift 4G General] minlo:
very informative, sorry for the misinformation.....

I wish Sprint would crank up the juice because i literally live 4 blks away from outdoor coverage!!!
[EVO Shift 4G General] Xx12thANG3LxX:
I mean this is bad. I get no 4G bars at all. 3g works I guess. My signal I get 2 bars if I'm lucky. The thing I was asking about earlier press *#*#4636#*#* in your dialer and go to phone and scroll down and tell me what you have it set on wcdma preferred?

Sent from my PG06100
[EVO Shift 4G General] prboy1969:
If your on Froyo you can full root. If your on Gingerbread then it's only temp root for now. But here are a couple of more links that should be able to help you out if your on Froyo.

Beginner's Guide to Installing the SDK and Getting Started with ADB

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=932749

More Detailed Perm Root Instructions

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=934165

{GUIDE} Rooting an HTC EVO Shift for Dummies!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1005133
[EVO Shift 4G General] Ron Overdrive:
Like I said it could be any number of reasons causing a weak signal. For UHF bands its very much Line-of-Sight propagation meaning the antennas need to be somewhat visible to one another. Higher up the antenna for the cell site the better and best places for this are towers or buildings on top of high ground such as hills or mountains. Then there is also the Effective Radiated Power (ERP) which combines both antenna gain and radio power output. This may be affected by local ordinances put in place by either the town, city, county, or state that may restrict cell site location, antenna height, and/or ERP.

I'm not a Sprint engineer so I can only speculate on their setup, but I'm pretty sure local ordinances are the biggest problem they face with the effectiveness of their cell sites.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] W.Feather:
been a while since i relaly played with my HD2(cLK wasnt even out when i did the NAND stuff), is there any point to swapping to cLK over MAGDLR ? lso, i have whatever ClockWork Manager that was released (2. something), is it a good idea to update it, or should it be fine how it is?

I'm not a tech noob/linux noob, so if cLK has good advantages, fast boot seems like a good one, could you guys point me to a guide to go from MAGDLR to cLK?

probably goign to try it with this rom, http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1166948 , or the Hyper Droid CM7 from Pongster.......

sorry fi this has been asked, a quick scan of the first page of threads didnt give me anything and its 2AM here
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] j4n87:
Clk:

-Fastboot

-Fully working rommanager(install roms, make/restore backups while in android)

-no go go go screen on boot

-charging while phone is off

-open soure

-there is still development on it...with very nice features: also sd boot as magldr, change partition size via bootmenu:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=15975510&postcount=172

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=16334240&postcount=249

...clk uses ppp and magldr rmnet.

At the very beginning the data connection of clk was very very unstable...but with the ril wrappers developed by cedesmith I never got a drop since april.

most people including me use the beta 4 wrapper.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] W.Feather:
Just checked the Clock work install, its 3.0.0.5, any need to update to 4.0.0.* ?

so is it a good idea to swap to cLK ? Any good guide from going from MAGDLR to cLK?

Anyone else have an oppinion?
[Optimus One, P500, V Themes and Apps] PokMahPok:
When you view pictures and zoom in on stock gallery, and it doesn't auto focus. Is yere any way to make it auto focus? Like on the iPhone?

Using cm7
[Acer Iconia A500] kylec:
This is fantastic. Thank you. I have had my iconia for a month now and been looking at flashing a custom rom but kept backing out. Just a couple of questions for clarification:

(1). Does wiping data erase the internal sd?

(2). If by some stroke of bad luck a flash is unsuccessful and a boot loop or similar occurs, am I right in my understanding that you can just go straight back into recovery and re-flash?

(3). What are the chances of bricking the tablet?

Sorry for noon questions, please just wanna certain because my gf bought me this tablet under the condition I don't do anything risky like on my x10 that I flash almost daily haha

Thanks for replies
[Acer Iconia A500] drkalo:
1. No, it doesn't.

2. Yes. You can do that. There's another option in mounts and storage -> format system - that will format even your system partition and leave your device bare with no ROM files on it. That would be a really clean install I guess:)

EDIT: I just saw that system is formatted during ROM installation. So no need to do that :)

3. Always read first what option you've selected and be sure you understand what it does. If you have CWM successfully installed, you have a powerfull tool to restore reflash, wipe, format etc. I've flashed my HD2 hundreds of times and now my Iconia is on the run :) Never ever had a boot failiure.
[Acer Iconia A500] kylec:
Thank you very much. :-) I will click thanks when I'm on my computer :-D
[Acer Iconia A500] strider_mt2k:
VERY good information here. Thank you very much for taking the time.

I've flashed ROMS on my last two "chinatabs" but haven't gotten into it with my A500 yet. (To be frank, I'm still thrilled with the prospect of OTA updates from a manufacturer after my last experiences.)

It looks like the process is very similar to my Rena3 tablet.
[Acer Iconia A500] karlkarloff:
Thank you, that lays it out all nice and precise for us all. Like strider_mt2k, I have been holdng off on the custom ROMs, because my first tablet was a Gtab, and while it became a pretty awesome tablet, it had to be flashed with a custom ROM to be really usable. The OTA thing was holding me back. But I think that I may try to flash the thing this weekend if I get the chance.
[Acer Iconia A500] drkalo:
Thanks. Glad it could be of use.
[Acer Iconia A500] nitodu:
nice tutorial dude! thanks!!

could you please make another tutorial to return back to stock?

specially to return back to stock te kernel.

thanks!!!
[Acer Iconia A500] drkalo:
As mentioned, best case is if you've backed up your device before flashing any ROM or Kernel. Thus you can restore to your country specific version.

Otherwise its pretty simple - its just like flashing any other ROM following the steps described.

Download the stock one that dr1337 shared from here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1154492

or choose the right full package - shared by vache:

decript it with Acer update decripter by thor2002ro

Of course they come with stock kernel :D
[Acer Iconia A500] distructor:
I am new in this with flashing and that kind of stuff.

Now is my question, how is it with updates from acer?

Greetz
[Acer Iconia A500] drkalo:
I'm not sure I understand your question. Could you be more specific?
[Acer Iconia A500] distructor:
if i put a custom rom on the device could i still use the build in update program of acer?
[Acer Iconia A500] drkalo:
Unfortunately I can not tell you for sure. I haven't tried all of the custom ROMs but in most cases - no you won't be able. I've tried Tabooney, Honeyvillain, Virtuous Picasso, Virtuous Galaxy. ROM developers usually update their ROMs to the latest base available. I think it depends on many things - base, kernel, stock apps removed etc.

Maybe someone who have succeeded with custom ROM updating would share his experience.
[Acer Iconia A500] synapses11:
Can anyone tell me if there is a version of ROM manager that supports the version of CWM that there is for the Iconia. I would love to be able to simplify my ability to backup my ROM's before flashing.
[Acer Iconia A500] drkalo:
You can install a clockworkmod for Iconia no matter of the version of ROM manager. But it is much much easier to use Acer Recovery Installer. I recommend you using it instead of playing with recovery img files. It is a one time procedure after all :)

Anyway - here's what you need to do if you don't want to use Acer recovery installer, or you don't want to use ADB:

http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-install-clockworkmod-recovery-3-using-rom-manager/

instead of CWM 3.x you will need to get CWM from thor2002ro In this guide you substitute the recovery that ROM Manager is about to flash with thor's CWM. I haven't tried this method myself but it should work.

With Acer Recovery Installer you can flash custom recovery as well. As long as you have it in IMG format you can be flashed from within the app - "install custom or stock recovery image from sd card".
[Acer Iconia A500] roblav96:
great thread.

thanks!!!