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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shoputer:
I have to agree with member devator22.

Android is not Windows. Android is basically Linux and Linux is using a different memory management than Windows does. (Although Windows has got a lot of improvements during the last years)

RAM which isn't used, is wasted! That's a fact.

So, if you run a specific application, some of its data my be cached. Linux is reporting this as "buffered" (you can see the amount by running the 'top' command)

There might be a more or less big chance to hit this cache. If so, the data is loaded much faster ( definetly > 10 ) than if it had to be requested from the file system.

By killing your application by a task manger you are releasing this buffered resources (actually you are forcing the OS to release it). In the worst case you are wasting your advantage of loading already cached data from the RAM. In the best case you are gaining nothing because your device has to load it from the file system anyway.

(sorry for my english :))
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrrick:
Get watchdog!

/end

*just because nobody understands you, doesn't make you an artist..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kyokeun1234:
Thank you so much for these replies! I really appreciate it! I decided to keep my task killer but not use it aggressively. I probably will use it to end apps that i really find it pointless. And also to the people who said android dies it's own task managing, you're right but wrong at the same time. When i didn't use my task killer, android did killed some apps in in order to launch more apps, but it left only like 10mb of 300mb, which i found little odd and also it mainly killed launchers which was very annoying.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] androidapk.net:
Task killer will speed up your phone if you know what you're doing. Only kill tasks that you are familiar with...e.g. apps that you know you have launched and won't be using anymore. Those apps running in the background can slow down your device.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jinx Lumos Joke:
If I'm on ICS, its better to use the bult-in task killer, or download one from the market?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fenstre:
Guys, he's not saying he does it for the memory. He says the phone's smoother. I don't know whether this is true, but if there are background tasks performing operations that he doesn't want them to do, it's *absolutely appropriate* to kill them.

The flip side of that is that the applications will eventually be automatically started again, and that startup takes extra CPU time. As long as the process startup and process killing happens when the screen is off, I would think this could improve the responsiveness.

But I think on most people's phones, the background processes really don't use a lot of CPU...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m4xwellmurd3r:
I know by default even Gbs memory management isn't the best. The app priorities are a bit weird aand the launcher gets killed to easily. Running the v6 supercharger scripts and making the launcher hard to kill and fixing the priorities and changing the oom settings makes any from wicked fast
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kyokeun1234:
I am not rooted, so I can't do anything that involves rooting.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jr67:
Instead of killing an app over and over again install something like Gemini App Manager and disable the app's autostart permissions. For example, dropbox and dropbox sync are set to automatically start at boot or when there's a connectivity change. I understand why they're set to do that but for my purposes I only needed them to start when I actually used them.

Having said that, I no longer use Gemini and have never used an automatic task killer. I think android (ICS) does a good enough job managing it's memory that I don't need to be anal about micromanaging it myself. I think it also helps that I'm not an appaholic. I'm very picky about what I install and will only keep an app installed if I regularly use it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jayRokk:
Built-In is much better

im on ics on my captivate and it runs beyond smooth

like stated before having free RAM with not do anything

android has a good way of muti tasking
[Verizon Droid Charge] ztkryan:
Looking for an awesome boot animation to go with imnuts new kernel any suggestions?
[Verizon Droid Charge] d-loko:
There are tons of threads on this floating around if u search...

Try here or even here.
[Android General] KayxGee1:
Which do you prefer and why? Pros and cons please!

Rank from most liked to the least.

My favorite=MIUI

Pro: The beautiful UI and very easy, high customization of everything.

Con: Takes a little more battery life due to UI.

Second=AOSP

Pro: Always works flawlessly and doesn't feel bloated. Simple and clean.

Con: IMHO, none.

Third=Sense

Pro: Again, I'm a UI guy, and Sense is very nice in that aspect

Con: Unlike MIUI, even though it is heavily themed, it always feels slowed down on every device I have tried it on, not matter all the tweaking.

Feel free to put multiple pros and cons :)
[Android General] Smacdallas:
Considering ive never owned an htc device im just gonne do touchwiz :D

Touch wiz pro: fast and has many cool features

con: Sort of ugly (in my opinion)

Miui

pro fast and simple

con: i want an app drawer ):

Aosp.. im assumin thats what cm7 is?

pro: fast very smooth

cons: to simple for me im a ui guy aswell
[Android General] orb3000:
Thread moved

Android without Sense it´s kinda boring, even ICS...

In my opinion:cool:
[Android General] pandoraFlavor:
I'd definitely take sense and miui over aosp
[Android General] kekkle:
I got a HTC Desire. Went like this:

Sense 1.9 > Sense 2.1 + 3.0 > AOSP (CyanogenMod) > MIUI.

And well, I'm still on MIUI.

I loved Sense 1.9. Sense 2.1 + 3.0 was also great.

AOSP felt really empty and lacking, especially coming from Sense.

MIUI felt iOS-ish in beginning, but customizing it changes that all. I love it and been using it quite a while now.

Love all the simple touches of MIUI.

- Hold Menu on lockscreen for torch.

- All settings toggleable from notification bar.

- Volume Down + Home takes a picture from screen. (So no software needed)

- Double tap on lockscreen for music widget to come up.

The only thing I don't like is that the default music app doesn't support playlists of any open format. So you just gotta shuffle everything you have or use a 3rd party music player. And the default widgets are lacking.

Tip: TypoClock looks great with MIUI.
[Android General] shoputer:
Nothing more to add :)

I've got a Desire S and I think I've tried probably every available ROM out there.

My Ranking

1. Sense

2. MIUI

3. AOSP

I like the speed of the AOSP roms and the look of MIUI, but I really love the way Sense is working. First, the widgets. Second, and that's actually much more important, is the way it the different apps are interlocking (I hope that's the correct translation, sorry if not). I mean I can browse my contacts, see their Facebook albums, I can easily stream my media to my laptop and vice versa and so on. I love it :P
[Android General] Arjoma:
Not that much between the three as they're the best user interfaces imho.

Nr1 for me is AOSP (stock ICS).

Nr. 2 is MIUI v4 (Nr. 2.5 would be the older MIUI)

Nr. 3 for me is Sense, although it is a nice UI but just doesn't match the other two in terms of clean beauty
[Android General] I Am Marino:
I wish I could take some of the themes from MIUI and put them into normal AOSP, like the messaging and music player.

As for Sense, favorite of the OEM skins lookswise but it's a memory hog.
[Android General] lowandbehold:
1. AOSP- clean and quick. You can theme it however you want.

2. Sense- love HTC and Sense is beatiful

148. Miui- for the Iphone lover at heart
[Android General] shadowmoses68:
I haven't had the chance to try Miui yet, but so far I think I like AOSP ICS.

I was using Sense for quite some time, but as others have mentions it does have lag at times. Plus, I was using Sense since I got my phone so I was really sick of it.

There are things I do miss about it though.
[Android General] zelendel:
Sense

OEM based custom

AOSP
[Android General] Jinx Lumos Joke:
My favourite is MIUI, with a few CM tweaks. :) That's best of both words.

(Called WIUI on Defy)
[Android General] weedy2887:
MIUI v4, but i'm slightly biased since I'm a mirror :P

If you don't like the lack of app drawer you can use a lancher pretty easy.

If you don't like the iphone-ness (agreed) you can use blackandroidtheme.blogspot.com/p/miui.html which also happens to be made by an miuiandroid dev.

NS with v4 and SG-NS-ICS_24012012 kernel with tweaks.
[Android General] phillysdon04:
Sense - Pros: Everything works, HTC Apps & Widgets. Cons: Can't use HTC Sense widgets with other launchers.

MIUI - Pros: Fully Customizable UI. Cons:no 4g, no 720p, it looks like the Iphone UI.

AOSP/CM7 - Pros: Semi-Customizable UI and Many Tweaks. Cons: no 720p.
[Android General] Arjoma:
All these people saying MIUI looks like iOS: Yes, the launcher has no app drawer (that's why I always imediately replace it,just as I do with almost every other standard launcher) and some Iconslook similar (But there are tons of themes that change the icons). That's it! In general the UI looks beautiful imoand the customisation is a huge plus, just like the lot of other custom apps and tweals thatcan't be found anywhere else, neither on iOS not on CM7/ AOSP.
[Android General] fenstre:
I really like Sense. Unfortunately, it's slow and I have an old-ish phone, so I don't use it. Also, I know HTC isn't gonna release ICS for my phone, so I've started using CyanogenMod. CM9 is great but the UI is lacking in small ways--the launchers have dead space around the widgets and icons. The status bar doesn't say the date. I haven't noticed that many issues, though.
[Android General] imonther:
Sense comes first, slow compared to others though
[Android General] DeathlySpectator:
I prefer MIUI over Sense and AOSP. MIUI's user interface just looks much more polish than AOSP and much more customizable than Sense. I never make my Android look like an iPhone, which is why I use other themes, mine looks somewhat like Meego now...
[Android General] Grim-Droid:
I have tried all of them and I personally like AOSP but at the same time each have their own pros such as miui's ability to customize everything so easily in any way you want but sense is also a very clean ui everything just works nicely with it.
[Android General] simacai:
AOSP is my favorite! and MIUI is good,,,and sense is not my type
[Android General] CobyBE:
Well for me I feel like AOSP with some theming is the nicest. Second comes TW (I know, don't shoot me please! :p) and then MIUI followed by Sense. I just don't like Sense :\
[Android General] donbronco:
AOSP ics is really awesome! Way better than sense!
[Android General] zelendel:
OK before this gets to far just let me state that there is no better or worse only what works for each of us.
[Android General] Wod_Katitten:
At the first time, Sense was my favorite, but after some time i installed CM7 and it was awesome.

I tested miui and it is really smoth but i handle it.

Now Im on ICS Beta and will never use any non AOSP as a dailyRom
[Android General] TheBiles:
Delicious AOSP.
[Android General] Dirk:
I've always been a staunch advocate of AOSP, but with ICS i just hope there's some good Themes released for it! I couldn't bear using it otherwise. A CM9 release with Theme Chooser and a nice Gingerbread theme would be a good thing.

Otherwise i might consider using a phone with a Manufacturer skin, god forbid!
[Android General] TheBiles:
What? ICS is absolutely dead sexy. MUCH better looking than any AOSP releases before.
[Android General] Dirk:
...in your opinion.
[Android General] rowdyrauter:
Android stock

Pure 100% android
[Android General] MamaSaidWhat?:
My preference depends on my mood...

Sense

Pros: I love the way that Sense looks; the widgets (beautiful + practical), the 3D Rosie (in 3.0 + 3.5), the complete-ness of the theming (in messages, contacts, dialer, notifications etc.)

Cons: No matter how "light" a rom is, or what device I'm using it always feels so much heavier, and bloated than AOSP or MIUI.

AOSP

Pros: It's pure Android. It's smooth, quick and can be very heavily tampered with to maximise performance. Battery life is always fantastic, too.

Cons: It can look "too minimalistic" (to some people) in its purest form, and there are a lack of incorporated widgets + apps so more need to be downloaded to complete an overall "look".

MIUI

Pros: You can theme literally anything with the press of a single button. Not even a restart is needed. Theming is deep as well, anything from messaging, to the dialer, to the dock etc. can be themed in 1000s of different styles.

Cons: Overall it can come across as an imitation iPhone look (to some people) due to the lack of an app drawer, icons being on the home screen and the shape of the icons etc.

Just my opinion anyway :D
[Android General] snoskier:
First=AOSP

Pro: Its simple, its fast and on ICS it looks fantastic

Con:Sometimes its too simple

Second=Sense

Pro: beautifully themed, colorful settings, and the most useful of all the manufacturer skins

Con: it can get to be a little much (thats only cause HTC really loves sense)

Last=MIUI

Pro: It looks nice and rounded edges are easier on the eyes

Con: Every time ill look at my phone I feel like I'm running an iPhone knock off. If Steve Jobs could see me he would probably try to sue me for sure.
[Android General] mcord11758:
They all have their strengths. For me I guess

Asop < sense =miui

I don't buy the whole miui looks like iPhone bit, it is a blend of ios looks with android but the vast sellection of themes make it look however you want it to.
[Android General] I Am Marino:
I'm personally surprised Apple hasn't tried to sue MIUI, or at least a C&D from using it.

Sent from my ADR6425LVW
[Android General] mcord11758:
They would if the phone was sold outside of china
[Android General] PharmCAT:
1. AOSP 2. MIUI 3. SENSE

AOSP - I love these roms especially because they get the most attention from developers. You have Google putting in the big stuff like ICS, then you have awesome people like aerovan, protek, etc. who just go anal with the coding and optimizing and whatnot. And generally these are the roms that really give a consistent "So this is what android is about".

MIUI - this is still technically AOSP, but in terms of non-official they probably create a lot of awesome stuff from the ground up. Seriously, it feels like a full different version of android, so much is changed.

Sense - this is the most boring out of three. It's fine if it comes with your phone as the default, and you don't feel like rooting. But having dipped you toe in rooting your phone, this rom leaves a lot to be desired. Even the mod community is a snooze, it's just forks of the same sense, with a change of color(full black of course, manly!) and each one claims to be more awesome and more powerful than the other releases. And you just end up with very little variation from one version to the other. Besides HTC themselves, there is very little that is actually done with the sense roms.
[Android General] dinesh690:
1. MIUI- 3 words. Elegance, speed, beauty. I am in love with this. Put together the best of IOS with Android. Im not talking about the launcher functioning like IOS but the pure elegance and speed of it.

2. Stock based roms- Optimised, fast and usually has amazing battery life. Usually has everything working and is pretty awesome.

3. AOSP- Fast, stable but it has no character and is too boring IMO
[Android General] mugey:
AOSP > MIUI > Sense
[Android General] OnlyRinaldo:
Sense=> MIUI=> AOSP

I love the sense interface, I always miss it when I install MIUI or a AOSP rom.

Although I use MIUI with Launcher 7 for the moment and it is really fast.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] clizano:
My infuse does not have oudio of calls.

I have installed several Rom but none has solved the problem, any suggestion??
[Samsung Infuse 4G] dman3285:
Turn the volume up?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] clizano:
Yes Sure.

Volume Check

Use Hands Free Check

Use Earphones

Use Speaker Check

Restore factory Check

Reinstall Rom Check

Update Rom Check

Install Others Rom Check

Install Original Rom Check

I turn madman check

Help Me....
[Samsung Infuse 4G] clizano:
Some solution?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Erik_T:
Try headphones. Not permanently just to test.
[LG Optimus 2x] hellraiser:
:confused:Need help to restore nanadroid backup of stock 2.3.4, hi guys i have made my nadroid backup using cwm 5.0, and flashed cyanogenmod 7.1 roms after playing while i found some issues with this rom, so while restoring nandroid i got stuck on the kg logo, then i used nvflash method and flashed stock 2.2.2 which has battery drain issues, need help here i have my 2.3.4 nadroid backup which i want to restore :(
[LG Optimus 2x] IDan1109:
Please before asking you should use the search button!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1098745&highlight=restore
[LG Optimus 2x] PG101:
^^^ Like he said ^^^
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmoG530:
Are there any??? If so, what's the ratio you think? Also, I see guys rooting their girls/wives phones, but I've only seen about two females that actually do it themselves. I don't know, just something random that popped up in my head. Lol
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IUH1991:
That's a very good question. I think/hope there are a good number of female developers in XDA and other sites. My guess is that they might use more gender neutral names, which would make it harder for us to notice (a lot like how female authors used to use male pseudonyms in order to make their novels more noticeable). Either way, I for one am certainly interested in finding them.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmoG530:
Me as well. I think it would be pretty awesome to find out any that are. Also, of the work that they do. Females are known for finesse and precision, so I'm pretty sure it would be pretty good...and just for security measures, I'm not in any way, shape or form, trying to be sexist. Lol "D
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cowsaregreat:
Person of the female persuasion here. :cool:

...though your initial question asked about female

devs

, of which I certainly am not. This phone was my first smartphone. To answer one of the OP's questions: I do believe in having full rights to the stuff I buy, so rooting was the first thing I did after getting the phone in May. Just took the bootloader + custom rom plunge this month after first reading the hell out of these message boards.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmoG530:
I'm glad to hear that. I wish more females were into rooting. Most of the times, you tell them how cool it is and all the things that you can do and they seem interested (at least in my case) only in being able to change the theme colors and nothing else. Lol
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bllix:
Kinda surprised at the tumbleweed. I'm a developer and a female (simultaneously!).

:eek: Is it okay to say that? Now I'm paranoid. Maybe there's something in the Official Women Rulebook of Life that disallows voluntarily revealing our gender. (That thing is way too long and boring and full of emotions, I didn't read all of it.) Policy enforcement agents are probably going to crash through my windows any second now. One of you had better bail me out.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blueangel180:
How do you post as a guest?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] troycarpenter:
This could be the start of a new subforum: XDAting service
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shottah:
HAHAHAHAHA!!!:D

Bought several smartphones for my wife because she gets bored with them easily. She loves the stuff I do to my phones, but tbh, she couldn't be bothered to try any herself. I guess she likes the idea more than the application.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sheeparecurious:
Short answer: I wasn't a guest.

Longer answer: I had a new-ish but valid account, with a couple of thanks on the meter. Until one day it wasn't there. I couldn't log in, my email address wasn't found in the system when I tried resetting my password. So I sent two emails (waiting a couple of days in between) to the forum gods asking about the state of my account, and I didn't hear back. So I just gave up and made a new account, no harm, no foul.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pre4speed:
I too am female but no way a developer. That being said, the first thing I ever do to any new phone I get (all moto at this point, first was backflip, then flipside now atrix) is root it. Not to be able to change themes but so its MINE. I bought it, why should I be limited in what I can do with it. I just last month finally got the balls (Haha, ok, the guts) to unlock bootloader and flash. Im no n00b by any means to technology. I started going to college to get my AS in computer science, but life and children stopped me. Im still all into playing with things. Replaced my screen on my atrix already, trying to get the flipside a custom recovery so custom roms can be flashed (which if anyone wants to help, id be grateful! ;-)). Love android, hate icrap.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] charlyee:
I am a female, not a developer but an Electrical Engineer by profession, and do all the rooting and modding for myself and hubby. :)
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] live4nyy:
I remember you. At one time you graciously corrected me on a mistake I made about inverted settings I believe. :)

Weird that your account just folded on you like that. But I threw you a "Thanks" to get the ball rolling again since you did help me before. :p
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sheeparecurious:
Hey, thanks for that! :D (And you were quite helpful with my noob flashing questions.)

At any rate, the "forum gods that be" said my account was apparently deleted, but were nice enough to look into it for me. This will do for a replacement. :cool:
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] live4nyy:
Love the avatar by the way, I've read every Calvin N Hobbes comic. :D
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sheeparecurious:
I used to be able to quote entire strips from memory. "Scientific progress goes 'boink' " is practically a life philosophy at this point. :p
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bllix:
Ok I LOL'd. Not sure if this would really take off; I've notice most male devs are either 17 years old, married, or with some chick who knows absolutely nothing about what he does. It's hard enough to find a guy who isn't scared to root his device. :rolleyes:
[General Questions and Answers] ScottRTL:
Hey everyone:

I am not really sure where to start, but ill give it a shot:

My wife wants a home phone, and I don't really feel it's necessary, but I kept seeing the Archos 35 Smart home phone, I couldn't find it anywhere, went to eBay.co.uk and found a place selling them, called them, got it shipped to me.

After figuring out some minor power adaptor related issues, I now have a working Archos android home phone.

Basically it has Android 2.2 and I would like to root it, cook/install a custom ROM and get the Android Market on it, but I have no idea where to start.

I have rooted several different phones and installed all kinds of custom ROMs, (including some of the hardest phones to unlock/root, like Moto Atrix, Telus HTC Desire HD, etc.) So ability is not an issue. I have just never been the first to have a phone, or a need to figure out how to root/cook my own ROM.

Where do I start? I want to make this baby all it can be!

I also know this phone is coming to North America in the next few months, so this development could potentially help some NA users in the future.

I am able to install from unknown sources, so that may help with known root methods...

Please, if you are in the know, let me know what I need to do. Keep in mind that this would be the first time I would be doing it, so step-by-step instructions, or a link to a place that can give me step-by-step directions would be nice.

Thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] ScottRTL:
Any ideas? I want to be able to integrate my gmail account... you cant even do that out of box... :(