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[Motorola Droid 3] rynosaur:
Yes, please explain what you did to obtain Swap. The last Android device I had with functioning swap was the G1/HTC Dream, and we had swap because custom kernels had support for it an modules created the fs every time android booted. Whether a swap partition was created and mounted was up to the rooted user. I have used the makeswap and swapon commands with busybox from the command line and could not get the swap partition to show up in mount. Which address block did you use to create the partition? I tried /dev/mmcblk1p025 and 26 (sdcard and emmc?) and neither worked.

BTW: Many intelligent minds say swap in Android is useless since the Java/DalvikVM is so aggressive about reclaiming memory (just watch logcat to see that happening non-stop). You would have to swap to a device that is as fast as your secondary storage (meaning the 512mb of DDR2 installed in the XT862) in order to "beat" Dalvik's garbage collection and "augment" the natural AndroidOS memory management. One of the gifts of running bytecode in Java is that one does not usually address RAM directly (unless you jump out of Java with some C/C++ code), the OS is always handling your classes-to-registers allocation for you, the developer. In other words, it's Android's job to manage your memory, and if you ask the linux kernel and file system to cache registers to the comparatively "slow" sdcard (flashmem is slower than DRAM), you'll essentially be blocking Android's ability to handling your instructions, data, and files because it will then have to go pick up that data from a slow swap partition. When we were trying to push the G1's limits (which was delivered with a paltry 64mb of userdata space), swap made sense because the time it took to request stuff from swap was much slower than recreating threads out of compcache (compressed and old handles). 512mb is still relatively big for a device, and Android, like Linux, will always buffer most of your memory to make sure you don't run out of space for your apps. I am not a programmer so I may have messed up some of the finer points--but this is the gist of Android-vs-Swap as some see it.
[Motorola Droid 3] eww245:
Swap will have to be setup on the external sdcard, which is /dev/block/mmcblk0p

mmcblk0p1 - * would be the partitions
[Motorola Droid 3] 白い熊:
Exactly, setup a swap partition on an ext SD card, then swap on it. Never had a prob.

I don't really care about Android memory usage and management, I need swap because I run GNU/Linux in a chroot, and for that the measly 150M that the Droid 3 has free by default is useless...
[Motorola Droid 3] SKAm69:
I really like DROID 3 and would get it but 512 of RAM and locked bootloader are killing me. But I can't imagine a better device than this one if those two factors didn't count.

Please tell me that something can be done with ICS, low RAM and custom kernels?
[Motorola Droid 3] MrObvious:
ICS runs good and the only reason I tweak my memory settings is just because Words with Friends is a battery hog and so is FB sometimes. I never seem to run out of RAM.
[Motorola Droid 3] slayer621:
If you like the keyboard, why not get a Droid 4?
[Motorola Droid 3] SKAm69:
Droid 4 doesn't support GSM networks and I am from Europe where most of the carriers are GSM and so is mine. Droid 3 xt862 is a global phone (both CDMA and GSM) and Milestone 3 xt860 - GSM only. Besides Droid/Milestone 3 looks much better than D4 as for me.
[Motorola Droid 3] eXecuter.bin:
Droid 4 does sport gsm, but Verizon isn't activating the gsm support feature yet.
[Motorola Droid 3] SKAm69:
It's never mentioned in specs that it supports gsm unlike D3. How would they activate it, is it hardware related? Can it be just unlocked to use with any GSM carriers?
[Motorola Droid 3] Willis111:
Indeed, phonearena etc only mention cdma on the verizon d4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid_4 same thing, says in the first paragraph no gsm roaming but like many articles I saw it says "As initially marketed by Verizon, the Droid 4 is not capable of roaming in countries with non-CDMA wireless networks. However, Verizon has announced that this capability will be made available at some point in the future." They're probably disabling it with the software and will patch it up later. Radio is hardware that is controlled by software, much like the rest of the phone. They either dont include or disable support for certain bands I would imagine. I think with a few little build.prop edits I can get my d3 to not recognize any simcards, which imo would be a software solution to removing gsm support, pretty basic but good example I think.
[Motorola Droid 3] nicktastique:
I just did some prodding at the swap issue.

Obviously, the kernel doesn't like swap files on fat32 partitions, hence the reboot when it tries to use one.

As previously noted, swap partitions should work just fine.

But messing with partitions is a bit of a hassle. Using a swap file is much easier, and less permanent. To that end, if you set up a swap file in, say /data/local, which is ext3 rather than fat32, it will work just fine. /data appears to be 2GB (df rounds down and reports 1GB), leaving plenty of space to create, say a 512MB swap file, bringing the phone up to 1GB of memory. You could probably go even higher - my phone has about 1.4GB free on /data - but you shouldn't need to.

That said, if you swap constantly, you will reduce the lifespan of the internal SD card, and you should probably set up a partition on the external SD card, since it can be replaced in the event of failure.

But in the typical case, I think swap on /data should be fine for the following reasons.

My guess is that typically, the memory that gets swapped will belong to processes which tend to spend most of their time idle, which means they will probably stay swapped, leaving more RAM available for programs which need it, thus reducing churn. (Again, that's a guess. I hope the kernel is smart enough to first choose long-idle processes for swapping...)

The vm.swappiness kernel parameter can be adjusted to instruct the system to only swap when it absolutely has to.

Personally, I rarely find myself running out of memory with only 512MB, so there's usually no need to swap in the first place. In fact, tonight is the first time I've been constrained by 512MB - hence my looking into swap. But even tonight's OOM was under a ridiculous circumstance, debugging Chrome in gdb using Debian running on the phone. Over 1GB of debugging symbols....yeah.

So anyway, I hope this is helpful to someone.
[Motorola Droid 3] dvrts:
So.. Guys, as I understood, swap usage is possible on Droid 3, yes?

Well, how to use it?

Maybe somebody can write a short manual?
[TouchPad General] Dixon Butz:
Anyway to disable that annoying accent character popup when typing on a bluetooth keyboard?

I'm using a TP with CM7 3.5 with a Motorola BT KB. I'v googled this to death and haven't found any solutions.

I tried null keyboard. Don't work.

Can't find anything in settings.

Anyone know?

Thx
[TouchPad General] Moshe5368:
I have the same issue with the motor kbd. I believe the issue is in the kbd software not the tp.
[TouchPad General] Moshe5368:
I called Motorola and Logitech (I have both keyboards and have the same issue with both) about the popup boxes. Both companies told me that it is a function of the operating system and is not hard coded into the keyboards. They said we should look into a software solution as the keyboard does not have the accent popup feature. Maybe this is a thing for the devs.
[TouchPad General] Dixon Butz:
Thx

I just noticed you get a accent box popup when long pressing the on screen keyboard.

There has to be some way to change this.
[TouchPad General] addnaan:
thabksssssss
[TouchPad General] Dixon Butz:
I installed the Go Keyboard app and no longer get the accent box popup.

I just wish there was an app that would get rid of it. Or someone figure out how change the setting in Android.

I like using the BT KB with null keyboard. Which has no onscreen keyboard.
[TouchPad General] Dixon Butz:
When using a BT KB with go keyboard, holding the shift does not capitalize letters. You have to tap the shift key once to capitalize. You can't hold it. I emailed the authors to try to get them to fix that.

I tried a few other addon keyboards and they all have that stupid popup.

My wife's android phone with a physicial keyboard phone gets the same accent popup.
[TouchPad General] dubidu:
The BlueInput soft doesn't have that problem.

I think you needed to pair the keyboard with their software and not with the buildit android one, but after that it doesn't show the annoying pop when long press on the keyboard keys.

I use it with one of those mini BT keyboards and works fine.
[TouchPad General] Dixon Butz:
YES! This works properly! Thx a LOT!
[TouchPad General] Dixon Butz:
BlueInput doesn't work reliably. Mouse would not work with it. Uninstalled.
[TouchPad General] dubidu:
8(

Only tried with the crappy keyboard, but good to know that it doesn't pick the mouse.
[TouchPad General] Dixon Butz:
I'm guessing the batteries in my mouse were almost dead. Even without Blueinput installed, mouse would not stay connected. I'v only had this mouse since Saturday. It came with Everready Energizers. This Motorolla mouse has an indicator that is supposed to flash orange when the batts are low, it didn't. So I thought they were still good.

After reading some reviews on some BT mice, some said the batts died really fast. So I installed some fresh duracell's today and mouse is working fine. I'll keep the switch off when not using it this time.

So I reinstalled Blueinput and just connected the KB through it. Left the mouse connected through android. I'm pretty sure the mouse would work through Blueint now with the fresh batts.
[TouchPad General] dubidu:
Just got myself a new BT keyboard with an integrated mouse, as you said, when paring/connecting using the BlueInput driver the mouse doesn't work which kind of sucks 8)

I found some another driver does appear to work fine (at least it allows me to use both the keyboard and mouse at the same time without the annoying "accent" popup window.

BlueKeyboard JP

https://market.android.com/details?id=elbrain.bluekeyboard.ime&hl=en

Still need to test a play a little bit more (see which layout fits my keyboard) but I think is more usable with this driver than the original/build-in CM7 one.
[TouchPad General] Dixon Butz:
Works well. I have seen this before. Not sure why I didn't try it. Maybe I thought it was Japanese only. IDK. Tried so many.

Are you getting this when clicking on an iput box?

The setting of "selected keyboard" is not found.

It still works everytime. Just weird.
[TouchPad General] Dixon Butz:
Oh I figured out that error. I had to actually select the kb in Bluekeyboard JP settings. I didn't select it before. I could see it there. I though it was already selected. It wasn't.
[TouchPad General] Dixon Butz:
Another thing I noticed. When you select your BT KB in "Connecting process" in Bluekeyboard JP settings, everytime you click on an input box, there is a message box saying "connecting.. don't touch the keyboard yet". The KB still worked while that message was displayed.

I got rid of that by unchecking "Connecting process" in settings.

So now it works with no message boxes.
[TouchPad General] Dixon Butz:
Blueinput JP FC's on every boot...
[TouchPad General] dubidu:
I normally use Hacker's Keyboard and change to the BT one when I connect the extenal keyboard,

just done a quick reboot and no FCs.

Still I think is good enough for me, I read somewhere than since Android 3.1 the keyboard is handled a litlle diferente (no more bin files for each keyboard, just plain text) so maybe whenever ICS is out we can have a better option 8) (xmast wish hehe)
[TouchPad General] Dixon Butz:
Bluekeyboard JP works perfectly on CM9! No more FC's. Reconnects nicely.

I mistakenly called it Blueinput JP a couple of posts above.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] MountainDrew:
While I'm waiting for my keyboard dock to come in, I'm using the ASUS on-screen keyboard, which is a pile of crap. Is there a way to get the stock Honeycomb keyboard, or should I look for a third party keyboard in the market?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] tr.slate:
you can change it in the settings, under language to get the stock one. im still searching for a better one than both of those. so far, its go kb...
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] rospenz:
The stock keyboard is way better than the Asus one for me, too. But which is the best tablet keyboard out there?

I've seen recommendations for Swiftkey-X for Tablets, and for "Thumb Keyboard." Both are paid apps, so I've been hesitant without a solid recommendation. I know there are others too.

What's best?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
Yeah asus keyboard sux. I'm using the slideIt keyboard now. works great and fast. a lot faster to slide in portrait mode than in landscape. I have big hands but thiswidescreen is even to wide for me to type easily like on my iPad.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] MountainDrew:
Took me a while to find it, but thanks. Much better now. :)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] digimuzik:
I just read a review comparing SwiftKey and Thumb. Even though I love Swift on my phone, Thumb won out because it's cheaper and MUCH more configurable. From just a little bit of use, I'm definitely liking it.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] ravizzle:
had the og transformer, and thumb keyboard is the best! Also has a bunch of themes so looks nice too.

Sent from my Galaxy S2
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] username235:
You guys could get the swype beta, it's cool, in landscape mode, it can turn into a small little keyboard that you can move from side to side, and use with one hand. Just go on swype .com to get it
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drwario:
I'm looking for a link to the stock firmware for the sl101.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] weedahoe:
I want to record something on my screen but last time i checked screencast wasnt working with ICS yet
[Motorola Droid RAZR] lubluchka:
I foolishly restored the wrong file (a samsung backup) on my razr and of course I ended up in bootlop and lost the razr bootstrap cmw. I can only access the stock cmw. Is there any way to install the a rom on my rarzr? I can then restore the correct backup.

Please help me!

Never mind, found the solution!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Heahevohn:
I was going to the store to buy a galaxy s but after seeing bad news about ics I am disappointed.. SGS and the Nexus S has the same hardware.. And it won't get ics because of crapwiz. Is this phone still worth its price?.. Even f***ing LG Optimus Black will get ICS. Why Samsung? HTC DHD has the same price. HTC EVO 3D is about $50 expensive.. But HTCs are too heavy! And SGS2 is about $250+ . :confused:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DeadSOL:
Well, according to my experience; it is better to buy a phone that has 1GB of RAM.

The Galaxy S just doesn't cut it when it comes to multi-tasking! For shame.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] burakgon:
Buy a 1gb or more ram phone.

Look xiaomi mione. That's just 310$ and 1.5 ghz dual core /1gb ram / 1930 mah battery
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Taxiozaurus:
In actual, ICS uses less RAM than GB and Sammy's being lazy. So the only hope is to develop ports and customs. Tweak and take apart AOSP and make SGS ROMs, maybe then Samsung will give us something ('cuz I hope that there aren't id***s working).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mammenj:
It all depends on what you are going to do with the phone.

Currently on the galaxy s i use as

Phone

Navigation

Maps

Browsing

Email

Chat

Video chat

FM

Camera

Watch movies, streaming also

YouTube

Flash video and content

Movie recording

Music

Social networking

Read news and magazine

Minor photo shopping

and more

All this have done without any issues.

Only thing I don't do is play games.

May be if are you into games you could do with more RAM otherwise save your money and stick with galaxy s.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kiantrel:
Buy an SGS I9000 and flash ICS yourself, is almost as stable as an official rom, way beter because is google experience.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pk1025:
THere are different ICS ROMS. How do you know which one to use?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] burakgon:
Rc1 is better today for me. But TEAMHACKSU G vers. will be better anyway. Easy and regular updates.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] senotrius:
please buy a phone with more than a gb of actual useable ram..samsung basically sucks when it comes to software.hence everyone ends up using custom roms or kernels.check out the galaxy r if ur tight on money.(well,they're similarly priced :o )in my place its actually VERY cheap compared to similarly spec ed phones from other manufacturers.it also gets ics update confirmed by samsung.however if u have money go for a HTC..most importantly no matter what check out If the phone has a developer community at xda.cause the manufacturers will leave u alone just like that.they don't care.xda does.so take a look at galaxy r if its also similarly priced in ur country.or HTC if u can afford.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Etienne38:
Hi,

In Belgium, now and because Galaxy Nexus is available, and because ICS will not be ported to Galaxy S, the Galaxy S is now available for 230 euros; which is incredibly low price regarding phone quality.

Very important point as well is that there is many dev and support activity in the forums for this model.

So, if you don't need big cpu power, I would say that Galaxy S is a very good phone, on which you will be able to install ICS rom thanks to xda devs ;-)

The price difference is so big between Galaxy S and SII or Galaxy Nexus that I wonder if I would pay that difference, even if I had the money.

Anyway, I did not try other phone than Samsung (Apollo, Galaxy Captivate, Galaxy S, Galaxy SII), but I am still very happy with my beloved Galaxy S1 :-)
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidST:
Hey guys. I'm new here as a member, but I have been reading the XDA forum since summer. I have two anoying problems with my G3 but unfortunately I couldn't find answers for them, so I would appreciate your help.

The first problem is that the screen doesn't want to turn on after removing the G3 from the ear. Sometimes it turns on after 2-3 sec. but sometimes the only thing I can do to end call is to push one of physical buttons and then to end call. There is an option in settings to end call with power button but I don't like to use power button for that purpose. The only thing I found here on XDA about this problem was a thread about adding commands in build.prob (mot.proximity.delay=150), and reboot two times. Tried that, but didn't work. Tried at least 10 custom ROMs, still the same (a bit faster on Kyrillos).

The second problem is that battery indicator sometimes shows wrong values when the battery is half empty. For instance, I have 50% of battery left. If I recieve a call, the battery will fall down on 5%, but if I restart it, it will go back to 50. That never hapends above 50, only under. And if I put it on the charger when it shows 5% it will go to 50 in less then a minute. Recalibrating battery fixes this problem, but after a while it comes back again.

I am using roted stock JPS with stock kernel and my G3 is 5 months old. With my usage the battery lasts 4 (sometimes 5) days. Tried flashing JPU for three times but for some reason there is no sound on it after doing factory reset.
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shankermk:
I agree the delayed screen turn on is a big issue for me.... especially when dealing with call center where i have enter options via dial pad..... evry time i need to enter an iput for ivr i have first wait for the screen to switch on... either i shld turn on faster or not turn of at all or allow us to choose.
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PicoBp:
Had similar issues with stock rom. I've recently been experimenting with custom roms, and have to say that Kyrillos 9.3 is a pain-free everyday option with amazing speed and stability. Try flashing it, you won't regret! ;)
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidST:
Flashed it once, and liked it very much but unfortunately market didnt'want to work. Tried to delete cache, market cache, download manager.... everyhing I could remember of, but it just didn't want to work. So I was forced to go back to stock. But without that problem Kyrillos 9.3 is a super-stable, nice and fast ROM.
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PicoBp:
Flash 9.0 OC through ODIN, factory reset/wipe data in CWM, reboot, update to 9.3 in CWM with update.zip, and there you go! No issues with Market here! You can also download the latest Market .apk, which proves to be even faster and more stable than the one included in the ROM.
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gauravgs:
In order to update to 9.3 you will first have to update to 9.2 (as mentioned by the developer).

---------- Post added at 03:26 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:20 PM ----------

use kyrillos ROM v 9.3 and you won't regret this.

It is a superfast ROM.

I myself installed v9.3 OC version with G3Mod kernel (v2.2.2), all the problems that you mentioned are now gone completely.

While in call if you move your phone away from your ear and in front of your face, the screen now turn instant on :)

(There might be some issue with your battery, have you tried any other (new one) battery?
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PicoBp:
No, you don't. Already did it several times, 9.3 update.zip contains all previous changes.
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bscraze:
You need to. V9.3 doesn't contain the frameworks.jar fix that fixes the browser fc

Cheers:)

Sent from my i9003 powered by Poseidon's Rom + UC kernel
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidST:
I didn't try a new battery because this one lasts for 4 to 5 days with my usage (as I mentioned in my first post). I only need to restart the G3 when I get that false reading and it comes back to normal. Looks like I will flash Kyrillos after new year. Thanks guys for your help. I really appreciate it :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hekigan:
Hello guys,

I have been reading this forum for quite a while and found a lot of useful information here.

So, first of all thank you to all the guys who put some hard work in developing those programs to make our lives and our smartphones better! :)

So here goes nothing. Just got this LG Optimus LTE phone some days ago.

And it is packed full with apps I don't need and that Docomo prevents us to remove them. Thanks to this the batteries goes bye bye even faster than expected.

So I would love to get root access to get full control.

like: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1376233&page=6

I read some threads, followed some methods -like 4 or 5 different ones- but nothing worked so far... Anyone who had success in that matter?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hyphy_bears:
Really want to get an Optimus LTE (L-01D) but need to know I can root it first.

type this URL in your browser: i can't post links yet. logsoku.com/thread/anago.2ch.net/smartphone/1324176244/

these guys seemed to have tried everything. Scroll to #45, doesn't look like the Japanese version can be rooted.

they tried a bunch of things as well but to no avail.

I'm just curious, but the reason why I want to root it is so that I can get the nook app on it so I can read. I was able to use VPN to download apps on my HTC Desire HD, but when i got the Arrows Tab LTE, i wasn't able to use VPN to get the Nook app. is it possible with the Optimus?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hekigan:
I don't use this app, so that would be a tough question to answer.

Thing is, since docomo pretty much installed and configured the phone as they liked -with a crappy Home, slow as hell, that can be changed though- I am wondering if they would charge you extra for tethering.

They might have installed something to check on that. But this is just a random guess.