yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] cowithgun:
I think this is a good time to introduce 1 of the new feature of this ROM:

V-sync and Triple buffering

Just like in PC, disabling v-sync will speed up graphic operation since GPU no longer need to wait till the slow screen to refresh. This is the default option in this ROM. However, there is side effect with v-sync off, just like in PC; effect which you seen above.

Some people may not even notice, but for those who cannot stand it, you should use Cow Panel (an app i coded which can be found in App panel) to change to use Triple buffering. With triple buffering, your GPU no longer idle waiting for screen refresh. It can continue to draw on the 3rd buffer. When the refresh is done, it can use the latest buffer. This will eliminate the tearing effect. Although you may see low graphic score in Antutu but the performance is actually much better. This is limitation in benchmarking tool since they only measure frame per seconds. Read more here:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2794/2

Fast or smooth? The choice is yours. :p Reboot to take effect.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] jahlee:
Maybe they want customize the oom value or whatever..to much more aggressive or less.....

Or maybe because its look cool...xD

sent from another space
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] andynroid:
Do you guys see the Synergy of what arco68 can do for us....Just the beginning......:)
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] snwman:
So basically there is no need for the supercharger script on this rom. I tried searching about the scorpion bionic optimization but there is no word about it.

I'll happily uninstall the supercharger if the rom does not need it.

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Also just on the people using this rom what task manager/killer do you use. I was always using go launcher with the downloaded task manager but trying to use zeam launcher now and a different task manager than the standard one on the W.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] minatovladoski:
Wahhh...got chilled to battery consumption, using wifi, mailing, browsing, reading online manga, watching film and the juice run from 80% to 30% for 7 hours...

Never achieve things like this on 5th rom and another rom...
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] Edea:
Is there any way to get the german samsung-keyboard with german T9 on this rom?

Gesendet von meinem GT-I8150 mit Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] jananan:
unlike the Tegra2 which did not include NEON instructions... unable to play 1080p with hardware decoding even with its dual core processor...

thank god they included it in Tegra3
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] souwatt:
Thanks so much for the explanations... I think I got the point :D
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] sgilmans:
Having more FC lately... :( is it my phone problem or my sd card ??? is there a way to check if my sd card is a class 1 crap ??
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] _jis_:
Use 'SD Tools' on AppBrain: http://www.appbrain.com/app/ales.veluscek.sdtools to test your SD card.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] sgilmans:
thanks bro..:D , but how can I tell from the result for which class my SD is ??:confused:
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] _jis_:
From the writing speed which has your card achieved. Roughly write speed in MBPS is your class.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] sgilmans:
It came out 5.2 MB/s on writing speed , so my sd card is a class 5 ....:p Thanks again Bro..
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] ertank07:
"1920MHZ 6020 Antutu score" Why? Rom(kernel) ?
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] sgilmans:
:eek::eek::eek: ......................
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] AdliHebat:
Can u help verify something for me?

I had the FC issue, initially only once a day until it becomes more frequent that I stopped using this ROM.

In my case, I found that the /data folder mount becomes readonly. So all apps that need to write to it FCs. Not sure what the cause. I suspected my SDcard had issue so I swapped back to use original "internal" sdcard but the issue remains.

How to check:

When you start experiencing force close,

1) run the terminal emulator apps; or run adb shell

2) execute mount command (just mount<enter>)

In normal situation, it should have this line

/dev/block/mmcblk0p17 /data ext4 rw,........

when the multiple force close happens, it becomes

/dev/block/mmcblk0p17 /data ext4 ro,........

where the only solution is to reboot the phone....

i wonder if there is some sdcard tweak settings i can disable in this ROM
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] sgilmans:
Hi Bro.. actually I'm a noob in this matter , and facing the same problem just like you did, I don't even be able to instal adb on my PC, it just doesn't work, so mostly using root explorer to do all the similar things. By the time I'm typing this my phone just giving me more FC :p , I think I'll flash back to stock , until someone can really solve this :( , coz I really love this rom, fast and save lot of juice .
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] destroyerz:
Thank you cow :D

BTW your Bionic Cow is awesome! :D
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] snwman:
Good score but i cant for the life of me trust antutu it is to random. I got a higher score using qzems Gingerice 2.1 rom and a lower score using cows bionic rom. But even though i know it my head and the way the phone performs that cows rom is faster and smoother..

I can never get over 4500 in 1804mhz on either rom. Have a ****ty sd card as well
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] ertank07:
1920mhz which Rom ?
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] Orishaz:
Non oc

Is there any way to change theme? Like theme changer?
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] andynroid:
Just install another launcher...
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] snwman:
@Cow using your rom since monday morning and got afew force closes on startup screen and then the sms. Seem to happened when i received a message and then it would force close when i went to open it. Then there today it started getting slow for no reason was only going through music files and got very very laggy and then froze. I would of just installed it again from my backup i made but i dont really like the force closing.

Also it would not let me type in sms screen what so ever no matter what typing method i used. Bit strange since it worked this last few days.??

Few little bugs but still good work on the rom, really love it only for them few niggles.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] andynroid:
snwman.....

During my Beta Testing I had faced once a FC upon receiving a text message..after I clicked the SMS icon in the lock screen.

If you are getting further FC...was there any apps restored using TB ?

This ROM is indeed stable...I remember once the very first time I had flashed this ROM...wiped clear all folders in CWM mount n storage...system..data..cache etc.

Never had faced any FC using the official release....

I did not OC it....left it at default speed.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] cowithgun:
I thought I solved the SMS FC. :p A few others reported similar FC when trying to open SMS. Apparently, they all using V6 Supercharger or some other task killer that closes Messenger. Once they started Messenger, no FC anymore.

About the massive lag, try disable zram:

sh /etc/zram.sh off

This will temporary disable zram. It will be back after reboot. To permanently disable it, edit /system/etc/init.qcom.post_boot.sh Look for #cow comment.

If the massive lag didn't occur often, I recommend you to keep zram. With zram, more stuff can be cached in the RAM, less disk activity, save more battery, less 'memory wear' on your flash ram.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] ertank07:
"Andynroid", he does not say anything one;) Did you do a fantastic score, or does it surprise Rom?
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] irishpancake:
Is there not a problem using zram [compcache] and memory manager like V6 TC.....together!!!

Given also we don't got disk as such, just Flash memory!!!

Surely zram reduces the actual amount of real RAM available to Apps....

there has to be overhead in using RAM this way....

compressing/decompressing.....extra CPU cycles.....

Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages....

Just asking if this is a reason for Android system FC'ing Apps!!!
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] andynroid:
As qzem mentioned here the scores are not really important....what is most crucial is the stability n efficiency. .

Fantastic score ? I did..can't remember too many daily benchmark n flashing of ROMs :)
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] Orishaz:
Can anyone explain how can i install socialhub? thx
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] destroyerz:
download this http://www.mediafire.com/?lkygto7ucejvdtv

extract and copy SocialHub.apk to system/app :D
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] snwman:
@andyroid i installed everything from the market again didnt use TB.

I always left it at the default speed i never overclocked as there is no need to imo just like the fact the voltage settings are different and thus saving battery.

I format everything when i installed the rom with CWM. As i do with every rom

@Cow i uninstalled the V6 script and always had loads of ram to play with never went over 220mb. As for the force close in messages it was when i would receive a message and try to open it in lock screen it would force close. Then earlier today i could not type in sms screen as all. And then the phone started to get laggy after that for unknown reasons.

Will try the rom again tomorrow maybe when i get time and see how it works again
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] Orishaz:
Done it, and its working...:D thx
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HiTach:
I captured a full res video on my AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II (unrooted) for the maximum time (~1Hr), which created a file about 4GB in size. The file played fine several times.

Now it has a filesize of 0 bytes. The file was stored in the camera RAM, not on the external SD card, so I can't use file recovery programs as they don't see the camera memory. I haven't added new pictures since, so I am hoping the file space is not overwritten, but it has been through several power cycles.

Any ideas how I can recover the file?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
Couldn't have been stored in RAM. You must mean internal SD. Internal SD DOES get assigned a drive letter when you connect to a computer in USB storage mode, you could try that.

Also, you should note that this is the forum for the International Galaxy SII, which is the I9100. You have the AT&T variant, which is the SGH-I777. While this question is pretty general, and any solution presented would probably be applicable to you, you should really be in the correct forum for your device.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HiTach:
Thanks for the quick tips.

Yes, the wrong forum I'm afraid, sorry. I shall use the correct place next time.

I had connected my device several times without seeing drive letters assigned, and found I had to enable USB debugging, (Menu->Settings->Applications) which did produce the drive letters for both the internal system storage and external SD storage.

Using FinalRecovery 1.21, which I have used successfully on SD/CF cards, I found the file was deleted, but the size is shown as a negative number (-3670016), probably overflowing the sizes allowed, so I shall explore other apps to see if the file can still be recovered.

I appreciate your help in any case!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] sharp87:
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[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] espinoza6942:
Because I download or and can't open it please help
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] akshay13071990:
its javad0111
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] espinoza6942:
No that's not it
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ffaaiissaall:
Akshay is right...its Javad0111 with J capital(capslock on)
[Networking] loki993:
Ok, so Verizon is doing a hundred off all their 4G smart phones right now. Ive been waiting for a hew phone and this may be the time.

I currently have a D2. I originally looked at, and was ready to buy, the D4 for the keyboard, but the screen was terrible when compared to the other phones and I've honestly been using the keyboad on my D2 less and less.

I've also looked at the Galaxy Nexus, I've tried to like it but I just can. I was very dissapointed by the hardware when it was announced first off and secondly it just doesn't feel like a very well built phone. It feels cheap and plasticky. Ive seen way too many threads about signal issues too. Having a phone you can do anything to doesn't matter if it doesn't work. Also its the most expensive, by a hundred dollars.

I've looked at the Razr and love the screen and speed of the phone. Its got the Moto build quality, Gorilla Glass, kevlar, aluminium etc etc all the other stuff they say it has. Its very light and thin, too much so I think. Also its a bit wide and Im not sure I like the way it feels in the hand. I like the size of the Maxx better actually, but the hundred extra they charge for whats just a bigger battery is a bit asinine. Also its a moto and that means locked down tight. Sure there will be some ROMs for it but not to then extent you have with the Nexus or HTC. I'm kinda used to it coning from the D2 but sometimes it would be nice to have more variety and support. Even though it looks like someone may have figured a way to bypass the bootloader, but who knows how long it'll take to filter to CDMA phones. I also don't know if that would increase support a ton.

I've looked at the Rezound and in my hand that feels the best to me. Its got an unlocked bootloader now so support is going and it should increase. I like the screen. I could really care less about beats, but Its cool it comes with a halfway decent set of headphones I guess. Things that worry me is the build quality, but I think its probably fine and battery life. I've also heard that the call quality is not the best.

So it seems the prices are running 99 for the Razr and Rezound and 199 for the Nexus. I'm leaning towards the Rezound right now, as long as battery life or call quality isn't awful.

Anyone have any opinion or suggestions Id appreciate it? Thanks
[Networking] xneuromancer:
if I had to choose right now, I would go with the Galaxy Nexus since it's a plain Google phone with no fluff and built for ICS from the start instead of Gingerbread build and upgrade to ICS (at some point).
[Networking] bnovak:
I wouldn't trade my VZW Incredible 2 for anything....Yeah, it's a year old or so, but still one of the best phones built. Slap a case on it and it's nearly indestructible, and I've never had a single issue with the stock ROM.

except I'm on T-mobile now so I'm getting an Amaze :D
[Networking] loki993:
Ok, but there are ICS builds for the Rezound, obviously not official ones, so I should be able to use one of them and get the ICS experience on that as well right?

Is there anything that can be or has been done in the dev community to address the battery life and signal issues that Nexus is having?
[Networking] jcmm11:
All I can say is "I love my Nexus". Signal is fine for me. Battery life as well. The determining factor for battery life is really screen time. I can currently get a solid 4 hours screen on time using the stock battery. If I'm not using the screen as much I can get 15 hours easy , although I'm still playing with different kennel settings etc. Using Franco kernel and rooted 4.0.4 ROM at the moment.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Networking] loki993:
Obviously the Nexus is a hundred dollars more then the Rezound at this point. You may not be having signal issues, but a lot of people are. Now the question is is it hardware or software. Software can be fixed and Id be fine dealing with that until it was taken care of. Im going to take it on faith that its software and let just say itll be fixed eventually.

How much can different kernals effect signal and battery life? Im thinking it can be quite a bit.

Does anyone have a battery life comparison of the Nexus to the Rezound? I just need to know if theyre comparable.

Also you can now swap kernals on the Rezound too. Sure it will never have the dev support the Nexus has, but it should have a good bit right?

I just want to know if I do decide on the Nexus that Im actually getting a hundred dollars more phones worth.

One of the things that does make the Nexus attractive though is resale. It will always go for more then most phones just of because of what it is. Once the next big HTC drops the Rezound will take a hit in the resale market.
[Networking] loki993:
Anyone else have any suggestions?
[Networking] noesilva:
Having had all Verizon's phones I'm happiest with my nexus razr looked and felt the best but Motorola killed it with blur for me. The rezound gets uncomfortably hott trust me I went thru 3. The hardware is not bad at all on the nexus don't go off of a spec sheet you honestly can't tell the difference. Ics is top notch pure Google experience works this time
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bgurny:
Is it possible to have a Galaxy nexus and dualboot it with windows 7.5?

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] thequinox:
I'm not going to say anything is impossible... but no. Not easily at least.

Even if you could get it on there drivers would probably be a big issue. It would take a lot of development to get things working properly. You'd have a lot of obstacles to overcome as well such as the lack of physical buttons.

Good luck :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] WiredPirate:
The Q&A threads are to be posted here.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] razor2006:
What the **** is Windows 7.5?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] QUEDRO:
I think he meant Windows Phone 7
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bgurny:
Windows mango 7.5 is the operating system of windows phones
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dario3040:
Nope.

Even if you somehow got it running it would still be illegal.

And to even try you would need the source code.

It simply won't happen.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] martonikaj:
WP7 is closed source. Not gonna happen.

Buy a Windows Phone :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] @rbiter:
And I am willing to be op wants this just so he can show his friends and the only effort put into it was getting on the internet. Drivers, ram, code, and development would be only the smallest of obstacles if downloading and flashing it were your goals. The windows phone can be had over there.

Sent from my Nexus in Texas.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ArmanUV:
windows 7.5? not in this life time. :D

different ICS roms? use bootmanager from market.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bgurny:
Thanks

Thanks everyone for there answer!

Maybe one day I'll buy one but for now I just love my Gnex.:D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ArmanUV:
I'll wait for windows 8. Windows phone 7 is just a temporary solution from microsoft to stop apple and android from dominating the market. No doubt it is decent but it's still in its infancy and doesn't have a lot of apps.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Rem3Dy:
Yeah that sure worked out for Microsoft. They sure took away that 1% of market share. They should be proud.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] [hfm]:
Hahahahaha. Mission Accomplished.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cordell507:
Depending on how tech savvy your friends are just download a windows phone launcher and claim that you developed a new type of hybrid device, its worked for me before lol
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ArmanUV:
yeah well they tried and failed. even the director of wp7 developtment admitted defeat a few months ago :p. Personally I think it is a very decent platform. I really like its elagant user interface but if I just wanted ui I would've stayed with ios.

The reason wp7 didn't take off was because it was too late and there was no demand for it, not because it sucked.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] myself11:
I have dual boot Mango and ICS on my HD2.

Believe me, WP7.5 has a beautiful layout and the best keyboard, but besides that it's way inferior when compared to Android and iOS. Very lame browser and the apps have less options. It's fun to play with for a day, but more than that you'll get really frustrated.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kbrian:
Do you mean you have Mango like that browser demo? Or it's only on that phone that can do it?

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] EKnofsky:
The HD2 is a Windows Mobile 6.5 phone that you can install Mango on and dual boot into Android since other Android phones are very similar to.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] stumpyz9:
Adding to what he said, since the hd2 already had windows on it it allowed It to be easier to port it onto, I think test builds where also made for it too. And since android is open source it was easy to port over( not really but easy for a dev). You'd have better luck buying a windows phone and dual booting that with android
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] escapist69:
Any experience overclocking the Xoom 2 ?

And whats the best way/app to do it?

Not that the device is slow... but I have a lot of 1080p movies with enormous bitrates that I want to watch that bring my xoom2 to its knees.

I will root the device soon... havn't done that yet. Is there something I have to look for when I overclock ? I dont want to destroy it of course...

Is the processor even good for overclocking ?

Help would be much appreciated.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elysian893:
No one has overclocked yet. Someone at one point a while back mentioned insertable kernel modules he made for the processor in the Xyboard/Xoom 2 but I can't find his post anymore...
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] escapist69:
Hm ok. Sounds a little bit too complicated for my taste... I was hoping for an easy software solution. Only tried 2-3 apps none of them works...

but its really not a big deal... just found out that most of the movies I wanted to watch work fine as long as I dont try to play them over wifi and they are more or less H.264 Baseline Profile... all is fine.

But I bet in the future overclocking will be useful. ;)
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sidmoraes:
Take a look at http://code.google.com/p/opptimizer/

You will need to root your device, use these modules, and setcpu.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elysian893:
Giving that a try now, thanks :cool: That was most likely the same guy who mentioned it previously.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vanpeebles:
You do not need to overclock to watch hd movies. I was having issues with hd not being able to play. I just downloaded the best video player app from market with hd performance codex & played my movies great!
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] victor.carlotto:
Did you had success with that? Can you post how to overclock the device if it worked for you?

Thanks!
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elysian893:
I haven't had any luck. When I change the frequencies (manually, none of his scripting works) it just bogs down completely, even though SetCPU shows it running at 1.5ghz... Can barely do anything but shut it down and restart it...
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mdcykkk9:
I have overclocked my device at 1.36 and is stable but i hadn't any luck in higher frequencies
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] escapist69:
Could you post a little step by step tutorial about how you did it?

I tried to put these opptimizer files in the system directory but I get an error message all the time... :/

I have root but wasn't able to get it to work. Help would be appreciated.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mdcykkk9:
i will post a small tutorial in few hours or tommorow when i will have a little spare time ...