yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] zeppelinrox:
I've only just thought of "Winterizing" apps...

When I get to making apps, I'd like to cover eveything that my scripts do :)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] fortunz:
microsd performance: random 4k write speed

I recently came across this thread in the nook section, which basically says that random 4k write speed is far more important to an sd install's speed than class. The OP went from a class 10 patriot and class 4 kingston, with horrible performance, to a class 2 sandisk that provided a very smooth experience. Tons of other users have benched their cards and there is a table of info, probably incomplete, in the OP. I notice most of the top cards are class 2 and 4, which seems to jive with what folks here have recommended, but not all class 2 and 4's posted there perform well.

I've seen class discussed at length in these forums, and I seem to recall some references to small block writes I didn't entirely follow at the time, but I haven't noticed a prominant suggestion that people bench their random 4k writes to find the best card to use for XDAndroid. So, I thought I'd mention it. If I missed the discussion, mea culpa, otherwise, I hope this helps someone.

I've benched most of my cards now. I've got one generic class 4 that has significantly faster random 4k writes than most of the rest of mine, but it's only 4gb, not large enough for my podcasts. I've still got one 16gb card to test. Then I'll move my install to the best card. Up to now, I've been using a class 6 Samsung 8GB card that has .03MB/s write, and the 4GB I'm considering moving to has 1.58MB/s write.

I'm not sure how to (most) objectively test whether I get a performance boost from the change though. My performance was suffering recently, but then I rebuilt my data.img and it's been smooth sailing since. Maybe the best measure would be to switch to the fastest card, and then switch to the slowest after a week or so. Slow downs are sometimes easier to notice than mild speed ups.

Alternative to crystaldiskmark, in win7 command prompt, copy/paste:

winsat disk -ran -iocount 20 -drive Z -ransize 4096 -read
winsat disk -ran -iocount 20 -drive Z -ransize 4096 -write

Where Z is the drive letter of your microsd.

EDIT: I switched to 4GB card w/ 1.58MB/s 4k random writes and saw a lot fewer hangups. I don't know what to do with my podcast collection, but I'm sold on the tweak.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] fortunz:
adw launcher ex, the premium version, is ten cents in the market today only. FYI.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] bryanwieg:
How did you guys get supercharger to work? On the GBX0B I try to run the script and it directs me to the market because busybox is the wrong version (1.15.2 not 1.16.2). When I try to upgrade BuyBox nothing happens the installer runs, complete with no error, but 1.15.2 remains... I ven tried another BusyBox installer with same results.

Thanks,

Bryan
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
Just hit the back button. It still works fine. I'll see about trying to get 1.16.2 or something newer, but not making any promises.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] Raul^:
Is it only a problem of /bin vs. /system/bin or /system/xbin?

I hope you will manage it somehow :)

Thank in advance.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] rickyreyne:
very difficult
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] mazak23:
Hi.

How did you know that your Rhodium is overclocked. I know we can check it in beginning on dmesg.

When I am trying with SetCPU it shows me max 528 Mghz even if I change to Tegra for example and then to 720 or so.

I add in cmd line also "acpuclock.oc_freq_khz=750000"

But it seems not work either.

My hardware is Rhod100, running GBX0C, kernel version 3.0.18. My card is SanDisk 16GB Class 6.

Thanks everyone.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] Caldair:
mazak23, you need to use this OC statement with kernel 3.0.18:

acpuclock-arm11.oc_freq_khz=xxxxxx

edit: and whatever you are doing in setCPU doesn't sound very good.

The only thing setCPU can do for you with that kernel is Under Clock your processor. (I haven't ever actually used setCPU, but I know that there iis no userland overclocking on that kernel)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] mazak23:
I thanked you.

Now is working fine!

And I remove SetCPU completly - seems to not work for Rhodium.

Anyway, when I do:

more /proc/cpuinfo

I can see desire speed.

I am testing your improovements (0 kb size of cache).

Thanks
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] Caldair:
I am sure that I have seen posts from other people that say they have used SetCPU on their Rhods, but they are all using a kernel which is version 3.3.4 3.3.6 or newer. If you were to install a more recent kernel (e.g. 3.3.8 or 3.4.3 from autobuilt site) I think that SetCPU would then work for you. (or many other OC apps from market like No Frills CPU Control, or System Tuner)

I prefer these userland solutions because you can over- or underclock all you want, while booted, allowing easier experimentation.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
It doesn't work on HaRET at all (AFAIK). It does, however, work on builds like OMGB.

I think on HaRET the only option is the overclock line in the startup.txt.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] Caldair:
It works for me on HaRET build. But, I was Wrong above. You need a kernel newer than 3.3.6. see here from [TESTING] 3.3/3.4 kernels:

... took forever to find that with the search function not working today.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
Ah forgot about that patch. Thanks.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] CodaHighland:
You mean to tell me that Angry Birds runs on your phone without crashing? Mine bombs out.

Be careful enabling JIT. It uses up more RAM, and RAM is a precious resource on these dinky little devices. I've heard people recommend turning it OFF to improve overall responsiveness, presumedly because it means apps are less likely to get ejected from RAM and need reloaded.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
Why is Angry Birds always the benchmark? lol.

It utilizes a version of OpenGL that our hardware does not support.

Regardless, it "runs" on my TP2. I can't really play it, the game is painfully slow. Doubtful there's anything we can do about that...
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] Caldair:
Yeah, Angry Birds...LOL. It is just the one graphically demanding game that I can almost guarantee that all of you Rhod users have tried, that's why its a good benchmark. Just for the laughs I have up'd a video showing angry birds on my rhod... it's still slow, but considering as arrrghhh says our devices do not support OpenGL ES 2.0 I think it's not half bad. I think this is pretty much as good as it's gonna get. I'm not overclocked (as you can see at the end of the video) and it does run/load a little faster with clock set to 748Mhz.

I cut off the loading splash. It was almost exactly 1 minute from the time I tapped the icon to the menu coming up.

I just play through 3 levels then at the very end I go into System Tuner to show that I'm running stock clock.

Enjoy! (and try not to get seasick! I'm a few coffee's in at this point!)

[YOUTUBE]SZZ_2j8hBVs[/YOUTUBE]
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] CodaHighland:
By contrast, Fruit Ninja is pretty playable on mine, and I've got the default settings there. :P
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] Caldair:
Yeah, fruit ninja is pretty cool too, and it does run perfect. I guess I should have used some other examples. Just imagine the performance in the angry birds but in any application; graphical rendering is fast, scrollable menus are so smooth its like the list is glued to my fingertip when scrolling, animations are seemless and smooth(when turned on), icons in the market lists load fast, 10 at a time, and can almost keep up with the fastest scrolling. Programs load fast all the while with literally nothing cached in ram, my launcher loads up really fast when its kicked out of ram too. For me the most important improvement was in my favourite browser Puffin (full version), where page loading is very close to my desktop, scrolling used to be an issue while flash objects were loading and on very complicated websites like nhl.com (yeah I'm Canadian!) but not anymore. Maybe the video I should have posted was of my rhod browsing these forums using Puffin and playing that embedded youtube video I posted above. The video quality is not great, but it works, and well enough in a pinch.

The settings I posted probably aren't for people that are using an android rom for their daily use, but for me android is something to play around with on my rhod. I remember when I loaded up my first android rom on this baby and of course I was like "WOW! I am running android!!" But that feeling has worn off long ago now and I want to see just what this old girl can do while running android! :laugh:

I got some speed improvement from the tweaks I posted previously and I just wanted to share for anyone interested.;)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] fortunz:
I went on a bit of an uninstall rampage against system apps now that I have titanium pro. I know there are other ways to get rid of system apps, but titanium is more my speed. And if I go too far, titanium is pretty easy to restore from, though with an sd install, anything is easy to undo with data.img backup.

Today I uninstalled:

Voice dialer

messaging

launcher (yes, the stock one, obviously if you don't have another installed when ridding this one, you'll be in for a hassle)

home screen tips

email

car home

calculator

books

sound recorder

and

contacts

contacts storage

dialer

dialer storage

Uninstalling dialer sent me into a force close loop. Initially I chickened out and restored it from my titanium backup, but after googling around I read the FC loop stopped after a reboot, so I did it again, and sure enough it was fine after a reboot.

I use my Rhod as a PDA, have for months. One big reason I got another phone was how insanely unstable the phone.apk app was for me in gbx, even while everything else was so much better than the froyo days. I've wanted to uninstall it ever since, thinking it might still be causing some background trouble even in airplane mode. My little rampage is less about saving space and more about preventing anything I don't need anyway from causing me problems. So far, I'm pleased. Can't say which uninstall(s) have made things smoother, but it does feel smoother than just a reboot. We'll see.

Thanks to wizardknight, I'm also using lightning launcher (PS, might be a great name to add to topic 1 if you're willing arrrghhh...), it's by far my favorite. Lots of options and lighter than anything I've ever seen. If you pare it to least demanding settings, it's super snappy. It also has an option to resist getting background closed for less redrawing. And finally, I have no wallpaper. I've always wanted to lose my wallpaper on Rhod. It may be a small waste, but it still felt unnecessary.

EDIT: I'm a couple of days in and it is so snappy I'm in love. Way fewer app reloads when going back and forth, rare launcher redraws, and everything is more responsive. Can't say for sure which item above is responsible for the change in my own setup and YMMV, but this is fantastic for me.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] alispeedsport:
good.
[LG Revolution] crax0r:
What is the command to remount the phone? I might have something everyone might like. :3
[LG Revolution] mtmichaelson:
Adb shell mount is "mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock12 /system" no quotes of course
[LG Revolution] crax0r:
Well thank you! We might have a new root method. PM me and you can test it. :p
[LG Revolution] Haro912:
Well considering this post is a day or so old now I would love to know if you found a new rooting method? And is this for post patch or before it?
[LG Revolution] thecubed:
Nope-- we don't use yaffs2 on this phone, change that to "ext3".

Also, a shorter version is just "adb shell mount -o remount,rw /system". No need to specify the filesystem type if it's in fstab. :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] Shadow-Nexus:
Hey I made this thread for people who	achieved root on the official 2.3.4 update for the g2

Share your thoughts and if you want share how you did it

I hope you enjoy this thread!
[G2 and Desire Z General] papeshfoo:
Id like to know how to do it with out down grading.
[G2 and Desire Z General] martonikaj:
Not gonna happen right now. You'll just have to wait. The G2 isn't the easiest thing in the world to root in the first place, so its going to take a little time.

If you're ancy, just downgrade, and flash a pre-rooted stock OTA build.
[G2 and Desire Z General] noble69:
Theres a way to root it already out for a while. Search cause that's what I used
[G2 and Desire Z General] 21productionz:
I downloaded the rooted zip, did a backup, wiped and flashed. Couldn't have been easier.
[G2 and Desire Z General] dynasty123:
I'm running 2.3.5 using cyanogen's nightly and xboarder56's converter.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Spastic909:
Temp root dude
[Motorola Droid X2] Jazz559:
Hello, relative n00b here but I'm trying to absorb as much as I possibly can...I do have a few questions that I haven't been able to quite find the answer to.

1.) Is there a way to backup my phone the way I could with my DIncredible? (full system image...if not, something that I could easily recover to if I don't like a ROM)?

2.) What is the process for installing new ROMs? I have tried P3's pre-rooted GB build but found my battery life to be horrendous (coupled with the fact that I tried installing an incorrect version of an Atrix recovery and had to SBF back to Froyo)

Do I just load up the bootstrap and rename the ROM as update.zip, or is there an easier way to do this?

ANY help is appreciated guys, thanks!
[Motorola Droid X2] garywojdan81:
If you're rooted already, load the bootstrap and you can flash through the modified recovery. There's no need to rename anything in that you can navigate to your zip file once in recovery & flash away just like in regular clockworkmod or amonra's recovery.
[Motorola Droid X2] esoxx:
I'm also a relative noob. I'm pretty sure that P3's pre-rooted GB is the OTA update with no changes other than the fact that it's rooted. I recommend going through the update process and taking the time to reset the phone at each step. Run GB for a while without restoring your old apps and data from a back up and see if your battery life changes. (Assuming of course, that you didn't already try this).

I had really bad battery life after upgrading too. I got excited and did it without resetting the phone properly. I charged my phone to 100%. Then I SBF'd back to Froyo again, made sure to wipe the data and cache, went through set up, flashed P3's GB and wiped again and went through set up again.

Then, I did not recover my apps from a backup. I re-installed them manually from the market and set up my accounts manually. Then I calibrated my battery. After freezing quite a bit of the bloat, my phone is now getting much better battery life and is MUCH faster and smoother.
[XPERIA X10 General] ericvonmotor:
:cool:This post is me just posting my thoughts about this phone mostly. nothing really important.:cool:

So after having the stock 2.3.3 ROM on my phone i finally decided on getting Wolbreak's WB-XPERIA TW Gingerbread V3.9.0 ROM. I was sick of the way the stock rom was running or not running i should say.

I got this phone from AT&T as a x10a - suffered with the 1.6 then made it the x10i and went to 2.1, then went to a few custom ROM's and did various things with it. Now being updated to 2.3.3 was really good and an improvement but the OS still had some bugs and i was waiting for the community to come up with some custom ROMs. Now running on the ROM mentioned above i feel like i can really enjoy my phone.

I'm looking forward to messing around with this, hopefully things will be working good and i can flash my dad's x10i as well :D (as i have been doing constantly).

Many thanks to the guys that make this possible for us! You guys rock!
[XPERIA X10 General] Dark Nightmare:
Mis-read, my bad, cool, currently running on ZMOD.
[XPERIA X10 General] ericvonmotor:
How is that working for you?
[XPERIA X10 General] ToonXW:
I'm still running on stock SE ROM but with all available add-ons. :)

I don't find it really that buggy, in fact imo it's less buggier than tweaked ones. i've tried 5 then went back to stock.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Polar67:
Hi Folks!

My girlfriend dropped my DHD on asphalt, thus cracking the camera cover "glass" (feels like plastic).

Having commented on the incident in a "very stern vocabulary":mad: i still need a new back cover.

I searched reviews for these guys but came up fairly dry:

http://www.htcrepairparts.com/back-cover-full-for-htc-desire-hd-a9191-htc-ace-p-3564.html

My question: Do you have any experience with that shop or perhaps a better place to purchase (need international shipping)

As for the new girlfriend. Weell -- :o Perhaps this isn´t the right forum LOL.

Kidding - but i did wear a frown for a couple of minutes.

Regards

ELO

Perhaps this should have been in "accessories" If so. perhaps i could trouble the Mod.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raze599:
I havent used them but I have heard of them before and I think some people here used them. They are a legit company.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Grant Barker:
Looks good to me. I'd just go for it.

As for the girlfriend. Well, if she needs a spanking..
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pwraggcan:
Don't do it. WAY to pricey. I bought one from these guys for £10 and it's perfect.

http://item.mobileweb.ebay.co.uk/viewitem?itemId=130498980262&index=3&nav=SEARCH&nid=98501772781

Sent from my Motorola Startac running Atari 2600 software!
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raze599:
^^Here it is on regular eBay. Not the mobile site.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/130498980...t=0&_trksid=p3286.c0.m270.l1313&_fvi=1&_rdc=1
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Grant Barker:
Hmm. Yeah that's much cheaper although slightly scratched possibly and the condition says refurbished.

I'd go with the cheaper one I suppose. If the new one is dropped, it could look refurbished very quickly.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pwraggcan:
I bought one there and it was in perfect condition. I think they're just covering their backs.

Sent from my Motorola Startac running Atari 2600 software!
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Smirge:
I have no solutin to your problem - but from now on - whenever your gf says stupid things like "We need to talk" - or "Why don't you like my mom" you can always say - "Hey i dont need to explain anythinig - you broke my DHD!!"

Maybe i should have my gf break my DHD - then i can have anything i want from her :D
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Polar67:
Been a while since my last visit so it seems a bit silly to keep this thread living, but just for the record. Thanks for the input guys. Yes the items on the Bay are a lot cheaper but i'll go for the new items instead. Am acquiring a cover as well to prevent this from happening again. Thanks for taking the time.

Regards

ELO.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] G-Man.:
I am looking for this file, can anyone please link me to it, doesnt matter if its in a pm or a link here... I need to find some info from it regarding the 'reboot to recovery' option. I'm working on some custom tweaks and have succeeded in screwing up one of the GlobalAction.smali files.......
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] freejack347:
Ok Fellow EVO owners, for those of you still around, I know you are busy applying the S-Off and Root to your phones, but have any of you tried the next steps of loading another ROM? I am currently trying to load on CM7, however after it finishes flashing the ROM, it boots into the flash animation and just stays there. Tried clearing cache to no avail. Looking for possible solution...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] github:
Need more information.

Most likely you aren't wiping SYSTEM, however.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] decayer177:
Flash Dalvik?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] freejack347:
What information do you need?

I have to admit I am new to the Android scene. Phone was updated to the OTA when I purchased so I have been lurking till now.

Here is what details I have:

S-Off via the Revolutionary method just released

Replaced Clockworks with Amon-RA

Successfully performed backup and restore of device to test

Downloaded CM7 latest Stable version and placed on SD-Card

Booted into recovery and wiped Cache and Dalvik-cache

Flashed .zip from SD-Card

Got the message that it was successful

Within Amon-Ra selected reboot device

Device booted into the flash screen for CM7 and it just keeps cycling that screen over and over, it never actually proceeds into the OS

If you need more let me know.

Thanks
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SoraX64:
You need to wipe everything.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spyd312:
First let me say, Welcome to the flashing scene. You will be an addict and we're here to help you out :)

I would recommend flashing this first:

http://dc370.4shared.com/download/KV-YsWJ7/VR_SUPERWIPE.zip?tsid=20110815-030517-d546271d

This will wipe your phone's memory.

Then flash the CM7.zip. Let me know how this goes for you dude.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tropicalbrit:
Wipe Data, System, Cache, Dalvik, android.secure, SDext, boot, and everything I might've forgotten (except SD card). Flash VR Superwipe (http://www.virusrom.com/Tools/VR_SUPERWIPE.zip). Flash Cyanogenmod, flash GAPPS (Google Apps: you want this if you want Market and such - packaged separately due to legal issues). Reboot, enjoy
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spyd312:
+1...Here's the GAPPS so you won't have to google it:

http://cmw.22aaf3.com/gapps/gapps-gb-20110613-signed.zip
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] infallibleapex:
I looked around for like an HOUR trying to figure out the gapps issue, couldn't find the package. (day 3 of S-off/root)

I do have a question tho, is the SPRINT Visual Voicemail available in the market or do you need a special package to get it to work? I have seen a little about it on the forums but have yet to find much info..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] {ParanoiA}:
I know there is a gapps zip in the evo deck thread that has sprint vvm included. That rom is very similar to cm so you could try flashing that gapps instead.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] infallibleapex:
Anyone know if cm7 and that gapps package has been tried... going to bed now but could try tmrw.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Papa Smurf151:
If u search on here there is a fix for the sprint vvm. If when on a sense rom use titanium backup to back up sprint vvm including data. Then once u flash cm7 and its up and running use titanium backup to restore sprint vvm + data. There is a flashable zip also somewhere around here. Id link u to the thread but I'm on my phone right now
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Papa Smurf151:
To op if all the wiping doesn't seem to work it could be ur SD card. Sometimes it goes bad. Transfer everything off and then format SD card after that transfer things back and try again
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] infallibleapex:
I appreciate it. I tossed the one from the DECK EVO thread on the card, did a backup and will try flashing it tomorrow... i gotta got to work in a few hours and this website is like crack, I can't stop trolling... :D
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] infallibleapex:
confirmed, the gapps+vm from the deck evo thread worked like a charm..
[HD7 Windows Phone 7 Development] herlek:
Does this also change the display language? Because in the availlable 7720 update files only 5 languages are available??? I find it hard to believe that only changing the language code without having the correct languagefiles in the update results in changing the display language.