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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kjaved373:
Bump...

Sent from my Nexus S 4G
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hybrider:
I'm looking for something like this for days now.

i now where i can change the function the search button is doing, but i have no idea to what i have to change that..

For someone with knowledge it shouldnt be hard to find out what a long home press is doing (script wise) and then we could just change the function of the search button..

I hope somebody with know how reads this, because its a great idea for, example the nexus s
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Falkner09:
So every spec sheet I've seen for this shows it has 768mb of ram. however, I was just looking through the ram use of an in store model through the "running apps" tab in the applications menu, and noticed that the amount of ram listed under "used" plus the amount under "free" added up to far less than 768, more like 500 or so. at first I thought maybe Sense/Tmo modded the menu to hide the RAM that Sense and some of the bloat apps eat up, but then I noticed many of the bloat apps were listed.

I also notice that my phone at this moment lists 149 used, 172 free. 149+172=322, yet my phone's spec sheets all say it has 512 RAM. so where is the rest? does Android itself hide its own use or something? or is it another reason I'm totally missing?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] cedde:
I believe some memories are shared with the graphic card and some reserved for the camera.

And memory is partitioned too.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
Cedde is right, some memory is dedicated video memory and not available to the rest of the system.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] BRICK0044:
what is your favorite live wallpaper
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] vgcraze:
Nexus Revamped of course :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mobilehavoc:
Love the phone but a few times the launcher has redrawn after exiting an app because of most likely memory issues. Anybody using this option? Assuming over time this would keep more memory free and reduce this issue. Any thoughts?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kwazi:
This is one of the reasons why I don't like that Google included these developer options pre-installed on this phone. They're developer options for a reason, we can install them if we need to.

This feature is designed so that developers can test their app to be sure that data is properly saved when is no longer in the foreground. For example, if a user receives a phone call or jumps to another app, the app needs to do what is necessary to save it's data. At times, Android can kill a process in the background. If the user plans to go back (perhaps they finished the phone call), they want to see what it is they were working on last. The developer is supposed to handle this case by rebuilding everything as it was before (to provide that seamless experience for the user when switching between apps).

This debug feature helps us test that it works.

For the average user, all you're really more likely to do is slow down your apps. As they will have to rebuild themselves when you resume them, and you may even open yourself to more quirky bugs (for those apps that didn't properly test the above scenario).

So please don't enable it unless you're doing it for development purposes. My 2 cents.

*EDIT* Here's a page from the Android Dev Guide justifying my explanation:

http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/debugging/debugging-devtools.html

(and yes, they used to call it "Immediately destroy activities")
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mobilehavoc:
Thanks. I turned it off. Did notice some bugs while on. I just wish with 1GB of RAM the launcher wouldnt have to reload. Hopefully things get better. Might just be my apps but it happens quite often when leaving the browser.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kwazi:
weird.. how many widgets do you have on your launcher? the more widgets you have, the slower the launcher is.

Have you tried another launcher? The stock launcher has never been known for being fast and efficient, although I haven't had any issues with it (whereas I'm a LauncherPro fan on my other devices).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mobilehavoc:
I have quite a few Widgets but nothing too crazy I don't think. I use LauncherPro on my other devices as well but I love this new launcher so I'm going to stick it out. Like I said the most common task that causes the issue is when I'm using the web browser and then come out of it. Otherwise its been stable. I've noticed the same thing with Honeycomb on my Xoom so it might just be one of those things I have to put up with.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tehsam:
i'm also noticing some redraw and occasional lag when hitting the home button.

I'm hoping that CM9's custom launcher will have an option to lock it in memory- that may increase the performance by a lot.

also when replacement launchers like go launcher start optimizing more for ICS those might be good options.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] shawnshine:
Have you tried converting your launcher into a system app? You'll need to use Titanium Backup Pro or something similar to do it for you, or simple copy the APK into your system/app folder... Really sped up my launcher!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] 95Z28:
Did you see the date on this thread, almost 8 months old ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ManWithCamera:
... and yet people still continue to discover the thread and benefit from it. :D

Thanks for clarifying the meaning of "Don't keep activities"
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] shawncastral:
my razr xt910 cannot be counted upon to run smoothly with all the apps simultaneously running and forcing itself to go into reboot. i then fancied an iPhone single styled system (as compared to Android multi-talks) cuz iPhone looks robust and responsive. all the killer that claimed to do the job looked more of a farce and then when i stumbled upon the destroy activity i was like OMG. srsly b4 using it I've only got just inner 100mb of ram, after using it i have a whooping 400mb ram. UI appears faster and all. regarding the relaunching of apps and battery life being used up. i think I'll start to worry about it on a later date. what say any body. ooh yes to add on, even after i deleted 40 apps on my phone it still hanged like fcuked. i guess i can reinstall them back again and not have to worry about it. btw i can't seem to root my xt910 for nuts so i can't custom ROM it along with all other fanciful mods that i hear about what others did to their phones. :(
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stumpyz9:
ok i just got an atrix and im aa bit uncertain about booting into CWM. i know on other phones ive had, i had to boot up with volume down and power. i tried that and nothing works, boots up like normal. tried volume up and power to. my bootloader should be unlocked, the boot screen that says motorola dual core says unlocked in the corner. CWM is installed, i flashed gapps, cuz the person i got it from forgot to put them on. any idea on how i can fix this?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vangelis13:
(Download Rom Manager & install the cwm from itif your cwm is not working?)

Power + volume down takes you to the options, there you need to scroll down (with volume down) and use volume up for choosing android recovery.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stumpyz9:
tmy CWM is working, i just flashed a new kernel through it. but the volume and power isnt working. i power off. then press volume down and power and it just oges to the moto screen and boots up, i never get to an options menu
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vangelis13:
Strange.. Are you keeping volume down pressed until you would have seen the options, you're not letting go before that or so? Is the volume rocker still functioning ok?

Otherwise just try quick boot from the market.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stumpyz9:
im holding it in until i see the logo, and yes the rocker is working properly. and i know i can boot into recovery by other means while the phone is on but what if i get a bootloop. i wouldnt be able to fix it, unless i had a computer with me so i could use adb to enter recovery
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vangelis13:
:confused:
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 95rr900:
Hold power and volume down, keep holding volume down until you see the word fastboot appear. Then press the volume down button (7 times I think), until you see android recovery, then press the volume up button.

That should do it!
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stumpyz9:
I never see it say fastboot, it just says unlocked up in the corner. All the time, when I'm not even trying to boot to recovery. I'm assuming that means the bootloader iis unlocked. But I do exactly what you guys are saying and I never see fastboot or anything like that
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stumpyz9:
Anyone know what the problem would be?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 95rr900:
Are you on Romracers latest recovery?

From here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=16365625
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stumpyz9:
yes, flashed that yesterday, didnt help
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stumpyz9:
i cant get into fastboot is the problem, not even through adb. i can get there but no options pop up. just stays at the moto dual core screen. hope that helps if anyone can help solve this problem
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vangelis13:
Something must have gotten messed up when you flashed a rom.. I'd say try flashing a fruitcake and start from there.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stumpyz9:
i dont know what happened but it just started working. i flashed darkside and wanted to try aura.but to download a rom via rom manager it makes you reflash reg. cwm, so i reboot into recovery after its flashed and reflash romracer cwm, and then reboot and flash aura. then i think hey ill try 1 more time and it works now. thanks for all of your help
[Motorola Droid Android Development] nathanpc:
I'm trying to build the AOSP Gingerbread for my Droid using this tutorial to patch the source, but I'm getting this error:

Nathan-Camposs-MacBook-Pro:AOSP Nathan$ lunch generic_sholes-userdebug
sed: illegal option -- r
usage: sed script [-Ealn] [-i extension] [file ...]
sed [-Ealn] [-i extension] [-e script] ... [-f script_file] ... [file ...]
build/core/product_config.mk:194: *** _nic.PRODUCTS.[[device/motorola/sholes/sholes.mk]]: "build/target/product/small_base.mk" does not exist. Stop.

** Don't have a product spec for: 'generic_sholes'
** Do you have the right repo manifest?

Nathan-Camposs-MacBook-Pro:AOSP Nathan$

What am I doing wrong? What should I do?
[Motorola Droid Android Development] bill.allrobots.org:
Sorry this is so late.

You're on a mac. The built-in 'sed' doesn't have the options needed. I'll assume you installed gsed from ports (if not, do so). Then:

sudo mv /usr/bin/sed /usr/bin/sed.old
sudo ln -s `which gsed` /usr/bin/sed

Note that this mark is a back-tick, not a single quote:

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[Streak 5 General] krazman325:
I may be the last Streak owner on the planet to discover this, but if I'm not, I hope it helps someone else!

I have had my Streak for over a year now and have used many of the great ROMs from DJ Steve and others. I am currently on Simple Streak 1.2 with PerfUpdate. It serves my purposes well.

To the point, for the past 4-6 months my streak is hard to wake. The screen turns on but is unresponsive for about 10 seconds and then the FC window pops up with the choice to wait or FC. It happens on every app that is open when the screen turns off, most usually in ADW. I have tried several of the newer ROMs and different launchers thinking this would correct the problem, but it hasn't.

It occurred to me that the one thing in common with all of the ROMs I have tried/used were my SetCPU settings. Since I have my Streak plugged in most of the time at home or in my office, battery life isn't an issue for me. I have been running SetCPU on the PERFORMANCE setting. Several days ago, I changed it to the ON DEMAND setting and the hesitation problem vanished completely! I have tested to be certain this was the cause and I am 100% certain. If I go back to PERFORMANCE, hesitation starts immediately. ON DEMAND, zero hesitation. I have noticed no slow down in performance otherwise. The numerical values and the various profiles have not been changed except for setting to ON DEMAND.

Again, I hope this is useful to someone. Please don't flame me if this is old news. Thanks.

kraz
[Streak 5 General] tenorntex:
Yeah, I tried other governors, but I prefer Ondemand. It is the most reliable in my opinion.
[Streak 5 General] TheManii:
ondemand is the default governer for the stock rom/kernels,

the only time it's not ondemand is if it's changed by the rom (at startup) or by the kernel itself (as a default option)

Regardless you should NEVER use performence as a normal use governer as it keeps it at max speed the whole time, even while it sleeps.
[Streak 5 General] ivantastic:
i agree, ON DEMAND is what i always used for gov :)

most reliable for me :)

but, sometime i changed it to CONSERVATIVE too... :)
[Streak 5 General] slaydog:
I've all ways used the above 2 except with StreakDroid roms I would frequently use 'smartass'. Not sure how it works but I seem to remember reading that it was optimized for those roms. Seemed to work well, anyway...
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asafba:
Hi

I'm wondering which rom is smoother and faster:

CM7 @ Clemsyn's 1.4Ghz OR Custom Rom with EXT4 FS (like aura or the dark side) with Clemsyn's 1.4Ghz

TY
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Javi97100:
Try it yourself.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asafba:
Great answer ><

I'm already tried it, and its seems that aura faster than cm7, that's weird because most of the people prefer CM7.

Did i missed something?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] littleemp:
I'm curious too... Which one does the community feel it's better and why?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DroidRunner:
No one will agree on what the best ROM is
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] littleemp:
Alright let me rephrase then, from an objective standpoint (or as objective as anyone can be on matters like this) what are the pros and cons of each ROM (Say DarkSide and CM7), I know this would help a ton for me to decide which to choose personally.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bruce Lee:
The smoothest ROM I ever used, is CM7 the the 1.45 ghz kernel hands down. The blur ROMs can be smooth depending on the kernel or other modifications you use.

Sent from my Atrix XDA Premium App
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] treehumper:
I have been happier with TheDarkSide than CM7. CM7 gives some excellent benches but TDS seems snappier, I don't know. It takes longer to boot but I am quite all right with that.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] littleemp:
Alright that sounds really good... it might come down to the flip of a coin for me then!

One last question that I didn't find featured in any of the instructions. For the Xperia X10, it was a bit of a nightmare having to mix and match kernels with the ROMs to make sure things worked properly (especially since the devs assumed you had the correct one or knew where to get it). I guess what I'm asking is, do the necessary kernel comes included with the ROMs as long as I have 4.5.91 (CM7 Ba2tF and TDS) or do I have to hunt down and flash different versions?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alcapone263:
Faux's kernel is pretty standard, he has a Gingerbread version for any Blur based ROM out there, and a CM7 version for, well, CM7.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] schwarzlichtkind:
To decide wich Rom is best for you, you first have look at your usage of the phone!

If you use Webtop than CM7 is a no-go for you since it has none. If you don´t need or use all the blur-bloat and want a functional, highly customizeable Rom, then CM7 is the right choice.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asafba:
You're right, but i didnt ask for the BEST rom becasue i know that every rom have his own pros and cons. i asked who is the smoothest and fastest rom :)

On CM7 i have lags when i move between home screens and its didnt happen in Aura.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alcapone263:
i use CM7 with the 1.0 ghz enhanced kernel, and i get no lag between home screens. heavy widget user, almost all animations disabled though. i'm not a big fan of them, i don't need my phone to look fancy, i just want it to be a hub for all of my information.

honestly, i can't tell any difference between performance in a ROM like Aura or Darkside and CM7. at this point, it's just pure prefence. do you like Blur? go with Aura or Darkside. do you like AOSP and lots of ways to customize your phone? go with CM7
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asafba:
Thank you for your answer!

You use Scrollable Widgets like pure news widget or FB widget? the lags appear only when i use them.

and which launcher do you use?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alcapone263:
ADW Ex, and a heavy mixture of Android pro widgets and beautiful widgets.
[HTC Desire S] hop_Thu_vn:
Can Desire S support USB OTG?

In desire case, I see they adjust the usb cable.

But in xperia case, they don't need to adjust usb cable. Why can they do this without an external power?

youtube.com/watch?v=sQGxckZkH2g

youtube.com/watch?v=Aw3H3EzdsrE
[HTC Desire S] hxcomchina:
sure sir, we confirm dell mini 5 OTG cable works, it's support your U disk ， mouse， keyboard, and movable-harddisk, beleive me, i sure will upload a post here, can contact me my email: hxcomchina@qq.com
[HTC Desire S] nmdang:
I can't use USB OTG without an external power on desire S. Almost HTC devices do not provide power out for micro usb port.
[LG Optimus 2x] cmscritic:
I'm running v20l stock (rooted) and am experiencing a ton of noise (almost like the phone is on speaker when I make a call. The other person can hear almost everything in the room (every little noise) almost like the speaker on the LG is too sensitive. I'm not sure if I did something wrong or missed a step or what I can do to resolve.

I bought this phone and it had Cyanogen nightly on it and I had some issues and wanted to go back to retail stock but this can't be the norm?

I'd value any advice as to what I can install / do to fix it or alternatively, if there are good rom/kernel bundles that seem to do a better job, I'd appreciate the advice.

Thanks!
[LG Optimus 2x] SoliCall:
Isn't there a simply toggle to lower the volume of your mic ?
[LG Optimus 2x] cmscritic:
Not that I've been able to find. I'm running Cyanogenmod now as well but there dont' seem to be options anywhere for that.
[LG Optimus 2x] SoliCall:
Maybe this can help you:

<Mod Edit> No External Links
[HTC EVO 3D] noname81:
Hi all,

does anyone know, why our stereo displays are not working properly on ported builds? I tried to debug the problem a little bit with the OpenSense SDK Example, where the camera and video playback demos are working fine and the image viewer and OpenGL demo don't work. These are my initial findings:

- The stereo display is activated/deactivated on client side (Android application) via OpenSense SDK method DisplaySetting.setStereoscopic3DFormat()

- Snipped from the OpenSense SDK demo application:

try {

result = DisplaySetting.setStereoscopic3DFormat(surface, mode);

} catch (NoClassDefFoundError e) {

android.util.Log.i(TAG, "class not found - S3D display not available");

} catch (UnsatisfiedLinkError usle) {

android.util.Log.i(TAG, "unsatisfied link - S3D display not available");

}

- On builds with base != shooter (e.g. Sense 3.5 builds) this leads to an UnsatisfiedLinkError for the image/OpenGL example (tested with Virtuous Shooter v.2.0.0)

- Video playback and camera recording examples also get a "result = false" but are somehow functional (perhaps due to a lower level stereo activation!?)

Why UnsatisfiedLinkError?

- The method internally tries to call setExternalDisplay() from android.view.surface which leads to the native call setExternalDisplayNative() in libandroid_runtime.so

- This native call should be located in libandroid_runtime.so and just calls setExternalDisplay() in libsurfaceflinger_client.so (checked with IDA).

- The proper android_runtime shared object with these extensions seems not to be available for an Android 2.3.5 base!? Could this be the problem?

Does anyone of the chefs have a more detailed view? It would be nice to understand the whole chain for this feature from client app to kernel call…
[HTC EVO 3D] noname81:
Atm I don't have enough time for this topic but my goal was to add full stereo support to AOSP builds. Perhaps other people/devs can help:

What needs to be done to achieve stereo rendering?

- Activate the parallax barrier

- Transform the side by side rendered image to an interleaved one

Activating the barrier is straight forward via sysfs entry. Just issue the following commands to activate/deactivate the barrier:

- echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/panel_3d/3D_mode (LANDSCAPE_3D)

- echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/panel_3d/3D_mode (PORTRAIT_3D)

- echo 2 > /sys/devices/platform/panel_3d/3D_mode (OFF_3D)

Transforming the side by side image (from e.g. an OpenGL stereo game) to an interleaved representation is much harder. In the kernel (msm_fb) they added support for a special 3D overlay. You can activate it via the following ioctrl:

#define MSMFB_OVERLAY_3D _IOWR(MSMFB_IOCTL_MAGIC, 147, struct msmfb_overlay_3d)

When the setup from userspace is done correctly, the 2 overlays are used as a virtual framebuffer for both side by side images and they are afterwards merged to the interleaved representation in the driver. A full ioctl trace with an instrumented kernel is attached (ioctls.txt). Also a logcat from the overlayLib is attached (overlayLib.txt). Basically the following ioctl sequence is needed to activate and deactivate stereo rendering:

- msm_fb_ioctl: msmfb_overlay_3d 3d:1

- msm_fb_ioctl: msmfb_overlay_set (for both used overlays)

- msm_fb_ioctl: msmfb_overlay_play (for both used overlays)

- msm_fb_ioctl: msmfb_overlay_unset (for both used overlays)

- msm_fb_ioctl: msmfb_overlay_3d 3d:0

All these ioctls are issued from a modified overlayLib. So the stereo feature isn't implemented in the Sense framework but in a modified Android framework (Surface, Surfaceflinger, Overlaylib). To reimplement the feature one would have to create a new DisplaySettings class implementation and one would have to adapt the whole described chain in the Android framework.

Perhaps my infos will be useful for other devs...

Btw: Please correct me if I got something wrong!
[HTC EVO 3D] petermg:
It's called DEVELOPMENT. This is CLEARLY a development related topic. There are NO WRITTEN RULES stating that only ROM threads can be created in the DEV section. Please people. Either MAKE IT a rule by putting it in the OFFICIAL rules posting, or let devs post DEV related threads in the DEV section and not just ROMS. Or make a ROMs subsection in the DEV area. There needs to be DEV talk threads NOT JUST relating to specific ROMs but STILL related to a specific DEVICE!
[HTC EVO 3D] noname81:
Thanks! Perhaps something like r&d was missing in the thread title. :-) I really wanted to start some real dev here and it would have been possible to reimplement the feature...

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] tikiroom32:
Live in the US and would just like to use as a tablet and not phone. Do you have to activate the phone portion or can you just use as a tablet Wifi device?

Thx

Jim
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] intruda119:
If you have no intentions on using it as a phone, why dont you check out the samsung player 5.

I know its not the same but just a suggestion. Unless you got money to blow, then yes you can use just about any android device without activating the phone portion.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/16/samsung-galaxy-player-4-and-5-hit-the-us-this-spring/
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] CGI_Ram:
My job supplies a blackberry for work and my primary phone. So my Note is a pocket tablet with cell connectivity for data on a tablet plan.