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[Galaxy S I9000 General] kaynpayn:
Yea ios is optimized better. But it also doesn't have many basic features like android. Like a proper customizable homescreen with the ability to chose your launcher (no, lockscreen and an app tray are NOT an homescreen like apple has been trying to sell it), widgets, proper multitask, proper application integration, live wallpapers, lack of an external SD, etc. That makes for a lightweight system. You gain speed but lose features.

That said, granted, android needs to be generic. But as soon as a big company like samsung picks up android and starts developing to one device of their own making, this "1 OS for all devices" gap ceases to exist. Its 1 OS being optimized to a single piece hardware, and they have all they need for proper optimization.

This isn't the same as windows -> 1000 kinds of hardware. Windows comes prepared from Microsoft to run everywhere so that applies. Android doesn't come prepared to run everywhere from google. You can't simply just download and put it on your phone regardless of brand. Has an extra step of preparation from hardware developing companies like HTC or Samsung.

What i'm trying to say is, there is room for optimization. But companies don't care much because they are on a tight schedule on market competition to put out the next big thing, have hardware specs to compensate for poorly optimized coding and in the end stuff works just the same, since most people, sadly, won't notice or care that much for those extra delays/lags.

Can't speak for other brands, but Samsung proved with SGS they don't care much for good coding. The community has been, since its release, improving this phone leaps and bounds and continue to do so even though a successor has shown up.

At the end, companies don't care enough, imo.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lascoul:
i am aggre with u. The compagny must provide us much optimise Room before growing the specs of the phones.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] disclaimernotice:
Iphones are smooth because iOS was designed to work on one device (technically, 9 devices if you count all the variants of iphones, ipads and ipods) only whereas Android has to work on hundreds of devices with different processors and hardware.

Also, iOS removes so many functionalities from the user, hence has more free ram.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lascoul:
The job of compagnies like SAMSUNG, HTC ... isn't to optimise the OS for they devices? To say that there are more devices is not an apologizes
[Galaxy S I9000 General] spamtrash:
First step then should be: CLOSE the system. Lock it all, and after that, you can optimize system individually for each phone, completely separately. Another option is to push Samsung, HTC, LG, SE or whoever else to have SAME hardware configuration.

Then: you will loose:

- all custom ROMs, bootloaders, CWM, root, kernels;

- all customized versions of stock apk's, like phone, start screens, themes, Market etc.

- ANY ROM update will be available only after OFFICIAL release, through Kies.

Well, xda does pretty good work with optimization, while Android is kept OPEN, not locked, like iOS.

I personally prefer that it will continue this way.

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??? Why are you stating that they are not doing this? But, one thing: DO NOT flash everything available here, but just stay with OFFICIALLY released ROM's, via Kies (in case of SGS).

For example: JVR, JVS, JVT ROM's are not officially released, and then any claim that the sys is not optimized is pointless.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] riso123:
Whilst the first post is correct regardin:Dg speed and optimisations they fail to realise that Apple have only their own hardware to work on, so they can really work it until its perfectly optimised.

Google have one device to work on, but multiple manufactures use their open source platform using different hardware, so its up to them to optimise the software for their hardware, not google.

You also failed to quote correct hardware specs for the iphone, which has dual core and I believe as much memory as the galaxy s2... So it does sound like your trying to bash android with incorrectly informed arguments.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] spamtrash:
Just to close the item, and to proof how optimised the IOS is, the recent update, iOS 5, caused vanishing of the music, files, messages, contacts, customised folders and applications for not very small group of users:

Brilliant iOS5 update, example 1

Error 3200 and 3004

3002, 3200, 3194

So, I think that the conclusion may be:

Apple has much more simple way to optimise their sys, because they have much less kind of hardware than Google.

But, Apple is not able to manage even so small amount of the hardware variations, and iPhone CAN go smoothly on its 2 cores CPU (yes, dear OP, read the specs more closely) if Apple will not mess the sys or its update... what just happened.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] GreenSGS:
It's only multitasking problem.suspend and resume of iOS paid off better although you miss some features because of that but on all basic features it way better.

I always wonder why dialer and messaging apps sent out of memory,they should have been kept in memory like browser.

We shouldn't be nagging much about it as things can be done by Android are much more.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Chainfire:
I can't predict the future of course, but it is not unlikely we will see some performance increase with ICS.

I would deem it likely that ICS will use HC's memory manager which is definitely faster than GBs, especially when used with programs that are massive memory hogs. HC's still constantly frees memory it doesn't need to free though ( == waste of cycles), so there is still room for improvement there, let's hope ICS brings it.

Likewise, UI hardware acceleration is already better in HC than it was in GB, and it is rumored to be further improved in ICS. If that is true, ICS devices will likely seem much more fluent. It doesn't actually make them faster, but it will look that way.

In the end, iOS is much more optimized than Android, but ICS should be a good step in the right direction. It will probably not bring the optimization to an iOS level, though.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MaoJie:
Disable to slight extent. I felt that Samsung have done something to the ROMs they provide for SGS. Example the old RFS filesystem, lags like hell in the past but feels good now. Im using RFS instead of EXT4. Still, I have to agree, they don't care much on good coding, new phones are coming up, why bother? :) The community makes it happen
[Galaxy S I9000 General] omnikai:
Apple hires a ton of CPU architects solely for this purpose. Apple prioritizes fluency and optimization above features and openness.

Just a different strategy, no better, no worse.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gsw5700:
My mate has the latest iPhone his wife had the SGSII, I had the chance to compare them both side by side last night. What can I say except the SGS is larger, faster, smoother, has more apps, more customisable, the difference is amazing. The iPhone is like

a kiddies toy compared to the SGS.

Remember that the iPhone has been going a lot longer than Android, yet Android had had voice recognition for over a year. Enough said

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[Galaxy S I9000 General] lascoul:
I wish that your hopes come true
[T-Mobile LG G2x] goldeman:
Im on cm7 with dragon kernel. If I wanted to flash faux kernel, do I need to reflash cm7? My guess is I would probably would need to reflash the entire ROM over.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] noodles2224:
No, just wipe cache and dalvik cache in recovery then flash any kernel. And i believe if you want to go back with cm kernel, same wipe then reflash rom..
[T-Mobile LG G2x] fcisco13:
+1

I also started doing a fix permissions after flashing new kernel.!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mojorisin7178:
I+1 for the fix permissions and I ndont see a stock cm kernel so I think he is right if you want stock cm kernel you have to reflash or restore a nandroid backup.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] wgrant:
Couldn't you technically go thru advanced restore and just flash the kernel? I've only gone into there once but can't remember the options available. (This would be to restore cm7 kernel only, follow previous instructions for new kernels)
[T-Mobile LG G2x] fcisco13:
I think advanced would only let you restore system, data, cache, dalvik cache, boot.img, individually
[T-Mobile LG G2x] wgrant:
Just checked it and was about to edit my post. You are correct, no kernel option, would be cool if backups created included the currently installed kernel and you could restore thru that too.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whitewire:
I'm flashing the radio/PRI/WiMax combo to fix my wakelock issues (this one) and I wasn't sure if the battery will continue to charge while the update is flashing. I know that stopping a radio update in the middle can (and most likely will) brick your phone, so I was unsure.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sitlet:
No, your battery doesn't charge while flashing or in recovery. This is why you need to be sure you have at least 60% battery or so before doing anything like that.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kristianity77:
Bear with me people as im pretty new to this

Ive got all the decent emualtors onto my Xperia play. SNES / Genesis / GBA / Gameboy etc and they all play fine.

I do notice however that on all the emulators if i set the frame skip to auto, then the sound if perfect, but the frame rate skips sometimes which is more annoyance than anything but still noticeable

If i change the frame skip to zero then the frame rate is buttery smooth but then i get cracks and pops in the sound (all emulators)

Now my question is, is that is this an issue with the emulators or an issue with the play being just not quite quick enough to play these perfectly.

And also, im planning on rooting my phone so obviously if i was to have a slight overclock on my phone, say from 1GHZ to 1.2 or 1.3, would this actually make a difference to them in terms of playing absolutely full speed, or would it make no difference at all?
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crispyduckling:
well thats a tough question,

you can get sound issues when a device is struggling to play a game

and when the device can play the game full speed but the emulator has issues

i too have alot of emulators

marvin - spectrum

gensoid - mega drive

fpse - ps1

gearoid - game gear

tiger arcade

pce - pc engine

snezoid -super nintendo

jarcade - arcade/ mame roms

n64oid - n64

mame4droid

now the only two that gave me sound issues were n64oid and fpse

but since i have rooted my phone and removed bloatware and overclocked

to 1.4

those issues are more or less gone

apart from n64oid do get jittering now and then

but i think that running a n64 on a phone is a feat in itself

yes overclocking does make a difference to running games/emus

more horsepower = smoother gaming

i do recommend rooting

remove bloatware

and overclocking
[Xperia Arc General] adiktz:
Default SE Launcher does support landscape mode...!!! Here are the screen shots from my Xperia Arc showing the home launcher in landscape mode...!!! The phone wasn't connected to dock or HDMI...!!!
[Xperia Arc General] realfelix:
:O?

how?!
[Xperia Arc General] soldiers33:
can you post your home.apk?
[Xperia Arc General] zangetsu2188:
How? @_@

Off topic: Where did you get your flashlight icon widget? The third image from your attachments. It looks sony ericsson style, resembling the other widgets layout.
[Xperia Arc General] adiktz:
I m digging it...!!!

No use, Its highly unstable...!!! Doesn't go to landscape mode all the times...!!! M digging on it...!!!

Here you go...!!! http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1299749
[Xperia Arc General] joecool1029:
Any update on this? Very interested to use. Can I dig it? :D
[Xperia Arc General] peacekeeper38:
where to find it i want to try?
[Xperia Arc General] adiktz:
No...!!! I lost my work due to formatting of ma laptop...!!! Will have to start again...!!! Quite busy now but soon will start working on it again...!!!
[Xperia Arc General] Ztrindberg:
Maybe its not possible to take the launcher from Xperia pro?

Just a thought.
[Xperia Arc General] joecool1029:
The Launcher should be the same. the difference is the pro has a hardware keyboard that when slid out acts as the trigger to flip landscape. The launcher has the functionality to show landscape, we've seen it with HDMI or on models with hardware keyboard and I've heard reports of people with livedock working (for me doing OTG keyboard/mouse it stays portrait).

I had just hoped he managed to hack it or something, but I'm skeptical until we get at least some proof of concept, even if it's buggy.

Show us a youtube video of phone going landscape without hdmi or post a buggy hack.
[Xperia Arc General] soldiers33:
this guy is an idiot? Whats hios problem with letting us try?
[Xperia Arc General] Poker gypsy:
Why was the usb on?
[Xperia Arc General] jtc42:
My money is on it being docked ;)
[Xperia Arc General] Poker gypsy:
I'll put 5 on it. Lol
[Xperia Arc General] adiktz:
The problem is i no longer have it...!!! And so i can't give you nothing ...!!!

These pics are to show that the launcher does support the landscape m mode and all we need to do is work on it...!!!

Currently i am not able to work on it.. !!! If you can, try making one for all if us...!!!

And please stop posting nonsense...!!! Post something that would benefit us in any way..!!!
[Xperia Arc General] adiktz:
Not docked, I don't have it...!!! USB was on because I had pushed the apk file...!!!

And yes USB was used to take screenshots using my phone explorer...!!!
[Xperia Arc General] Poker gypsy:
Why do you need explorer? Can you post without USB? Thank you
[Xperia Arc General] xperiax10.awesome:
guys, just try for LANDSCAPE mode, if you succeed then only continue any discussions here, please !!!
[Xperia Arc General] benjymous:
<Minor thread necromancy>

I found this thread whilst looking if anyone had hacked the stock Xperia ray launcher to support landscape mode and thought I'd report this

All you need is an app to force landscape, and the SE launcher will happily switch orientation. There are two on the market that both seem to work fine:

Orientation Control (Paid)

Ultimate Rotation Control (Free 7 day trial, then paid)

Not sure if there are any free apps that do the same, but I was happy to pay for the first one as it does the job.

I'll post some screengrabs in a minute
[Xperia Arc General] benjymous:
Screengrabs
[Xperia Arc General] lifty95:
Yes launcher definitely works in landscape, everyone with hdmi-TV can test and see it.
[Xperia Arc General] vizion80:
Hey mate, please share your experience
[Xperia Arc General] ronaldbraaf:
Free Rotation Locker

Search the Market/Play for Rotation Locker it's free. And it works! Thanx:)
[Xperia Arc General] j sta:
Is it just me, or is Rotation Locker only locking the launcher and all display to landscape or portrait? -I mean, if i select auto, then phone stays auto all except launcher, which by is always portrait, regardless how i hold the phone :confused:
[Xperia Arc General] j sta:
K, found the info in the original thread. Have to press hold the auto option to force landscape on apps that dont lay down by default
[Xperia Arc General] j sta:
is there a way to have the widgets stay pinned to the same spot on the screen in landscape as they are in portrait?

As in, in portrait, my dolphin browser is in the top left corner -closest to front camera. If i rotate rhe phone left, the widget goes top left again, closest to the proximity sensor (which is top right of the phone realy). i would like the widgets to stay in the same spot, and just to rotate.
[Xperia Arc General] Pandemic:
Please peeps come on, use the Home customizer from adrian Dc, it stands in my signature under my projects, you can make Sony home.apk however you want;)

Best Regards,

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[Xperia Arc General] wazMe:
confirm it's supported.. once i was trying a rom (don't remember which one) and it happened a couple of times that the launcher was fully working in landscape!
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lokto69:
Hi,

Today i see that french carrier SFR release mango for their Omnia 7 users.

After updating, users get the 2424.11.9.3 firmware.

It's the first time I see this number, does anyone know if there is a difference with the 2424.11.8.5 ?

Regards,
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ericfine:
Have you tried I8700XXKH5?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lokto69:
No i don't because i don't want to use an engineering rom on my phone.
[Acer Iconia A500] z-control:
Hello

please, how to have the 3 home icones like that ?
[Acer Iconia A500] kjy2010:
Install the custom ROM that has those buttons. ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] z-control:
no thanks, i found an other way
[Acer Iconia A500] Timelord83:
then why not share that with us
[Acer Iconia A500] z-control:
because i briqued my tablet 3 time

you must edit systemui.apk wich is in system/app folder. Inside there is "\systemui apk\res\drawable-mdpi" and look for

6 files :

ic_sysbar_back_default.png

ic_sysbar_back_pressed.png

ic_sysbar_home_default.png

ic_sysbar_home_pressed.png

ic_sysbar_recent_default.png

ic_sysbar_recent_pressed.png

you must edit them and replace it

but when you remplace it, the system crash, you must reboot and that's all
[Acer Iconia A500] erica_renee:
Can you post a link to where you found your icones you used looks kewl.
[Acer Iconia A500] z-control:
i found them on google image
[Acer Iconia A500] jrichardsMav:
My god those icons are horrendous.
[Acer Iconia A500] z-control:
yes, i made a better home button
[Acer Iconia A500] kjy2010:
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and to each his own. Enough cliches!

The easiest way to do this is to copy the SystemUI.apk to your PC. Open the file with WinRar, navigate to the correct folder within the file /Res/drawabke-mdpi, then delete the desired files, then add the news ones to the same directory. Make sure you make a backup copy of the file first. Then, using root explorer copy the file back to system/app. You'll get fc after fc. Just reboot the tab and you'll have your new buttons. Just did it, so I know it works. Not sure I like the way they look. I'll leave them for a few days to see if they grow on me lol

;)
[Acer Iconia A500] kjy2010:
Just finished mine :D
[Acer Iconia A500] erica_renee:
ninja morph does this from within your device.gonna make my own nice pink icons. I will share them with you guys.

We know you will love that
[Acer Iconia A500] kjy2010:
Best ones so far! ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] erica_renee:
OK I had to play with this as well.
[Acer Iconia A500] kjy2010:
He he now those are "girly girl" buttons! ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] erica_renee:
I can send them to you. Ya know you want them.

Giggles.
[Acer Iconia A500] kjy2010:
lol umm ty but no ty. I've got 6 sets here of my own.

While pink is one of my favorite colors, I think I'll make my own set.

I'll let you know when they're finished and see if they meet your approval OK? ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] z-control:
with this color, we can say only a word : love

;)

glad to see this post is interresting someone
[Acer Iconia A500] z-control:
simpson theme
[Acer Iconia A500] Le_Matriciel:
I like this one with Simpson :p:p
[Acer Iconia A500] erica_renee:
Thank you let me know ill check them out.maybe even try your rom.but don't want to make your head swell

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Kinda cute if you like Simpsons
[Acer Iconia A500] :
No chance of swelling, that's why it's not posted in the DEV section ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] z-control:
an other one, luxus theme
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Pink Buttons made from scratch in PhotoShop for Erica Renee lol

Let me know if you want them ER!

;)
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Sorry upload failed first time :(
[Acer Iconia A500] erica_renee:
Those are cute seen them on Google images.unwashed looking for rainbow themed.or upside down rainbow triangle..its a secret for reason

Any.png image sized to 80x48 will work thou may not really indicated a meaning.

Hehe.

I like photo impact more then photo shop or paint shop pro.
[Acer Iconia A500] :
You didn't see these exact icons, because I created them lol

There's a reason PhotoShop in the industry standard for creating graphics ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Complete set it green!

I'm done! Time to eat! ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Couldn't leave well enough alone! ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Ok I really need to stop now lol

Purple done!

;)
[Acer Iconia A500] chasmanian:
I could use some help. Did a trial run using Ninja Morph and only changed the Home icon. Went great. Then I tried to change the remaining icons and it won't work. After Ninja Morph zip aligns, I get the expected force closures, but after reboot, the original icons return, with the exception of the first change of the Home icon. Any ideas?
[Acer Iconia A500] erica_renee:
Hummer check the format and size of the icons. Maybe thee is a issue with them.

I created 3 icons with words Erica Loves Bonnie.

My spouse loves it.but it got old and changed them again.
[Acer Iconia A500] cfrock:
Just in case it helps anyone, here is a post with detailed instructions I made a few months back-

its post #9 in this thread

: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1139075
[Acer Iconia A500] chasmanian:
Not sure why Ninja Morph did this, but it was not over writing the files in the working directory. So, I opened the project in NM. Then I used Root Explorer to copy the files to the SD/ANDROID THEMES/WORKING/ directory and used NM to finish the project. Worked great.
[Acer Iconia A500] chasmanian:
Here's a cool tip: if you see a rom in the development section with cool icons, you can extract the SystemUI.apk and use its icons.
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Yes, for me it's so much easier just copying the SystemUI.apk to my laptop, creating new .png files and injecting them in. Then just copy the apk back, get a FC, reboot, and you're good to go.

;)
[Acer Iconia A500] Rusikxxx:
Му bar

Мой нижний бар...
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Very nice battery meter ;)
[Acer Iconia A500] DRTMI:
Any chance you would post your icons?

????
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Oooooooops