yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC Amaze 4G] mr5:
hey there people.

before i get started please BACK UP your phone! just in case YOU screw up.

so i decided to make myself a boot animation w/ sound based on the Salival DVD that the Tool Band released some years ago. This is my first attempt (hopefully not my last) at making an animation. so i have tested the animation and it works perfecty fine on my HTC AMAZE. It is not a flashable zip, so please do not flash. please unzip and place both files in their boot animation folders. i believe that particular folder is rom specific. (Please excuse me as i am noobsome). however i am running NRGZ28 latest ICS Energy rom and the boot animation folder location is under:

system/customize/resource<----place bootanimation.zip and android_audio.mp3 files here!

Too NRGZ28 rom was missing the some coding to allow the sound file to play at startup.

Go to: system/customize/CID and find the default.xml file.

open the defualt.xml file and on the lower half of the file you will see this as the default settigns:

View attachment 1170701

Please make the change as follows:

View attachment 1170702

add in: "system/customize/resource/android_audio.mp3"

dont forget to save.

I hope those of you who like Tool will enjoy this animation.

Please view my youtube video on the animation prior to downloading (i dont want to waste your time)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snfH-6H6hOM

Torrent file:

http://www.demonoid.me/files/details/2964496/006035174376/
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Gadgetz:
So one of my observations about 3rd party launchers on this phone is homescreen scrolling has a slight stutter at times even when the fastest speed setting is in place. So tonight I realized I hadn't checked out the LWP's and decided to do so....I set one as my wallpaper and holy ****, my homescreens scrolled fast and smooth, no stutter at all. I put back a regular WP and sure as ****, the stutter was back. For all of these tests, power saving was on. In comparison, TW is fast and smooth with no stutter no matter what.

Any idea as to why it would be faster and smoother with a LWP vs. a regular one?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] murdermonkey9000:
You are right sir, I was wondering what changed, I was running lwps then switched to static but didn't link the stuttering to that. You're a goddamn genius.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] dasfool:
Perhaps gpu rendering is turning on when a live wallpaper is being used. Maybe try forcing gpu rendering in the developer options.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] murdermonkey9000:
Tried that first, may have improved very very slightly.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Success100:
umm, lap effect the fluidity on ALL android phones to SOME degree
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Felnarion:
It's likely kicking the phone out of power saving mode, upping the clocks (cpu, gpu, or both) So while you should see increased smoothness, you will see decreased battery life as well.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] nabbed:
nevermind.......
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] ghost77:
What I noticed on apex launcher, to get smooth transitions on static wallpaper. Go to apex settings / homescreen settings / wallpaper mode ( single none scrolling)

Transitions became smooth for me, and or alternatively set live wallpaper.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Gadgetz:
PS still shows enabled though....tomorrow i'm gonna run a static WP but this time turn PS off and see how that works out as far as battery life is concerned.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] sp991:
The power saving option is doing something weird on the GPU.

My device is rooted so I can limit my CPU clock speed with Voltage Control and when I put it to 1026 Mhz (wich is the same as the PS option) I don't have any lag on my Nova Prime home screen.

However when I put back to defeault my CPU setting and turn PS on I get the same kind of stutter/lag as you on Nova and I see 1026MHz as my top CPU clock in Voltage Control.

Conclusion : PS option is most likely limiting the clock speed of the GPU for downloaded apps but a LWP might be able to use it anyway as this feature is built in android as is TW on our SGS III.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Raikia:
This solved my problem. Thanks!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] aznmode:
I use go launcher with sense theme with go widget sense theme and it too is super smooth better than tw

You can see in the first 5 seconds of my video below

[youtube]8oQ3YQoHWG0[/youtube]
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Gadgetz:
So you can't see that lag from the time you swipe to the time it actually responds? That would drive me crazy!
[HTC Amaze 4G] glacierguy:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=28112814

You guys may like this
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Juicy555:
All the threads on it look outdated and i dont know if they work anymore.

Anybody ablet o use it on 3g without a tethering plan?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Juicy555:
nobody?? ...
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loktite:
In case you haven't already, check out this thread (haven't tried myself) http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=25216130
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wingmanjd:
This also works for me:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1494608
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] bhsvault:
This is the 4th time I've opened my task manager today and realized I was using over a gig. It easy to use over a gig when its there :D
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] dardani89:
a phone OS using more ram than Vista??? not a good sign. God where are the AOSP roms already :crying:
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] stuff:
Kernel knows it has more memory available so apps are more likely to stay in their suspended state, rather than removed from memory.

But I enjoy the 2GB of ram for sure.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Voltage Spike:
Using RAM is not bad; needing RAM is bad. Android 4.0 can easily run with less than 400 MB, but some things can be a little faster when they don't have to constantly reload.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] zaisaroni:
This. Everything switches back instantly!!

One of the most frustrating parts of the HTC OneX for me was when i was reading a long page of comments on sites like the verge or typing up a forum post. If i left the browser to reply to a text or facebook notification, and then returned to the browser it would always reload a page, and at the top.

Even the (heavy) Sense 4 launcher would have to load up every now and then.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] dardani89:
i wasn't making fun of android, i was making fun of touchwiz. too much bloat.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] demarcmj:
If the RAM will mean Nova Launcher wont reload itself as much as it currently does on my Incredible, then that's reason enough for me.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Sennant:
Having had the 1X for a month the 2 gb ram was one of the reasons I switched.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] neyenlives:
The 2GB of ram (and LTE) has been excessively downplayed by the International crowd because..well..they don't have it. The fact is the 2GB of ram should allow a stock phone to reload things much less. If you want to look forward 6 months to a year, I think the difference will be potentially much larger when we start to see creative devs tweaking their kernels to really use this extra ram. This is a ground breaking hardware move. We haven't even really begun to see what is possible. Judging any of these based on stock software at release is pointless. Think about how much better other phones have gotten after a few OTA updates....this device, especially with the extra ram is really well equipped for a long time.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Docavelli:
This ^^^

Truth

XDA Mobile
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] shook187:
By the time any phone will actually use 2gb of ram, im sure most of us will have moved on to a new phone already. Of course having the extra ram is good for bragging rights, but does it actually mean anything? I'll say no, but im sure some will argue that.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] neyenlives:
they already make use of 1.1-1.2GB of ram out of the box running all stock software.......imagine if custom roms/kernels were available that make use of it....it's not far off....."by the time any phone will use" is closer than you think
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] tylerdurdin:
This is good in theory but everyone on here is talking like we have been missing two gigs all this time in our phones. If you are coming to the S3 from a single core phone of course this is night and day. My SGSII has NEVER.....I repeat NEVER run out of memory lost track multitasking or had to close out multiple apps to make room for more.....how many apps does one need sitting in a suspended state?.....I have 5 or 6 apps open at any given time with PLENTY of room for more...sure the extra ram is nice to have, but its completely unnecessary ....dual cores with a gig of ram have NO problem doing heavy multitasking .....ask anyone running as SGSII or Gnex.

The extra ram in the S3 is there to offset the loss of quadcore....its a nice helping hand to the Krait chip but not necessary for everyday multitasking that the average person does.....I don't know what phones alot of you guys are coming from but from the sounds of these posts they were serious under achievers.

Sent from........Somewhere In Time
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] neyenlives:
i think the reason you never saw your device running out of room is likely because the system knew how much memory it had to work with and was always adjusting things to accommodate as much memory....if the system had more memory available to it it can behave differently....it's not about "how many apps one needs in a suspended state", it's about "the more apps you can keep in a suspended state the quicker the apps will run for the user"

i know this isn't x86 and it's not windows, but the analogy still stands, consider Windows 7

if you build a pc using it with 2Gb of ram it will run just fine, it will use somewhere around 1Gb of ram sitting idle, using it for the prefetch cache to be ready to launch your most used apps while maintaining a safe amount of memory for sudden useage/overhead

if you upgrade that same pc to 4Gb of ram, it will use close to 2Gb at idle.....it's not quite linear as that but you can see a direct correlation between available memory and memory utilization

the Linux kernel behind android appears to work very similarly, it will keep the most called upon code in local memory so that it launches faster when next called upon. the more memory available to the kernel, the less time it can spend killing apps in order to maintain that same level of free memory for the unexpected execution of a new app

the more memory it has, if it is written/compiled to take advantage of it, the more potential for performance is there.

I would say the 2Gb of memory is more easily utilized than the additional redundant cores in the Exynos kit. I have been looking for some real data on Android and SMP but I know recently Intel made a rare public statement about how it is not ready for even dual core utilization. I don't think Intel would make such a specific claim without data. I don't think the Exynos users are really getting much good at all from the four cores other than synthetic benchmark scores and I think they could see more benefits down the road from more memory than redundant A9 older technology additional cores.

disclaimer: I am still learning about all this so if some smart guy comes along and sees something above that is not quite right....it's not because I am making this up....it's what I understand to be true based on reading.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] tylerdurdin:
You are pretty spot on for the most part....but the difference here lies in the amount of ram needed to cache applications and perform extended tasks.....the reason my GSII never runs out of memory is because it has plenty for any array of tasks. While caching 8 applications I use all day...and still have anywhere from 325 to 400 megs available for any other array tasks .....I just can't see where I would need more.

As for your earlier mention of custom roms.....this becomes even less necessary ....right now a stock GS3 is using over a gig.....that's because its loaded chock full O'carrier BS on top of all samsungs layers of bloat and BS "features"....you strip all that crap out and you have a 275mb OS and more ram than you will know what to do with.

Bloat is the only thing requiring this extra ram because its running at system level which is also why Sense stuffed a dagger in the H1X.

Performance for launching is helped greatly by the processor for anything not in ram and the threshold for my phone is 64mb....which means my phone will not start killing of apps until that's met.....I could not seem to hit it just messing around.

Sent from........Somewhere In Time
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] neyenlives:
right on, yeah i agree it's overkill right now. I just think within the next two years, we will easily see multiple areas where having more is better than having less. I am thinking way outside the box but I am seeing visions of custom kernels that are doing some extreme caching, even running a VM type environment.....actually I am thinking of running Android and perhaps there will be an opportunity to run Windows RT or some desktop version of Linux simultaneously......something a device with even four cores and 1GB of ram would have a hard time doing.....and that's not to say it would run well on the S4 US version either, but it is certainly more suited for it
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] tylerdurdin:
I like the way you think:D;)

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[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] nativestranger:
You are partially right. My sensation xl and my friends galaxy note works multitask pretty well with just 768mb and 1GB ram. But that was on Gingerbread. Once we upgraded to ICS multitasking suffers tremendously. He even blamed me for persuading him to do the update. For GB 1GB is enough. For ICS 1GB is not enough if you want the best multitasking experience.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] tylerdurdin:
I have to blame both device and OS....I am running ICS on my GS2 and have not even seen the slightest difference.....although my battery is just slightly worse.

Sent from........Somewhere In Time
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] shook187:
You must be running some early leeks cause some of my phones like the GS2 and the evo 3d are running ICS flawlessly.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] americasteam:
This is what we need. Another 2gb of ram isn't needed argument. ;) The extra gb of ram wasn't thrown in as a dual core parting gift. It was put in because the amount of ram Qualcomm has dedicated for it's chipset. 1 gb of ram doesn't cut it for this hardware.

Don't believe me, go use the LTE One X for a little while and get back to us. I know, I know, HTC has purposely crippled their flagship device with aggressive multitasking. You know, just because. Doesn't have anything to do with the decision to cut costs by using only 1gb of ram. They knew it wasn't right, but figured they could mask it with aggressive programming. From my understanding, HTC was in bad financial shape at the time. I'm sure that played a big factor in their decision. For the record, I still have the One X. It's a fine device.

What I find amusing is all the people on here at XDA defending their mistake. Could it just be the 1gb crowd? lol I applaude Samsung for making the right decision and taking the financial hit for adding the extra ram. It makes a world of difference on devices running the S4. I have real world experience to back up my claim.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] nativestranger:
Yes i noticed there's a lot less services on the gs2. On my international GS3 I can tell you that 1GB is not enough. My browser quits, my music quits, my home screen quits. Just a while ago I was browsing gsmarena reading a long page of comments. I returned to home and saw the slow reloading. Then I checked system panel to see the available memory there's like a dozen auto cached and unused apps in there that the retarded os refused to quit. So annoyed by the so called intelligent android memory management.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] theraffman:
I just cleared ram on my device... killed 52 applications... still had about 600 Mb remaining too... that's what you can do with 2GB ram. Every app that I return to is in the exact place I left it... even apps I haven't return to in over a day, home never has to redraw, except when I cleared memory. I love having this much ram... it does show.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Idan73:
Yup. Opera with video playing is a best task killer. After running it you check ram usage and see all processes killed lol, just like after fresh boot.

Still keeping it though for a while. Waiting for development to pick up, and for Fido to get lte. So, at least 3 more months with international.

'Unused ram is wasted ram' argument is so stupid. It's my ram to waste. It is as saying unspent money is wasted as well. Why would anyone want an nest egg. It is for a peace of mind. That is also why unlimited talk plans are popular.

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] zaisaroni:
Don't forget part of it is set aside for the GPU. The exynos chip has dedicated discrete gpu memory. (IIRC)

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Diviance:
I don't think you understand what the argument you quoted is saying.

I will make it easier.

More RAM in use = efficient, proper usage.

Less RAM in use = Inefficient, improper usage.

So yes, RAM that is not being used literally is being wasted as its purpose is to be used. To speed up loading times. To bring data to the forefront faster. You are denying this and, instead, slowing your phone down for no reason other than because you think a bigger number is better.

Saying the argument is just like saying unspent money is wasted is a completely incorrect analogy.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Idan73:
Not denying anything. Yes it is nice that ram is used, that is its purpose after all but I would rather have overhead than be short when needed.

Again if I had 2 gb it would be my ram to waste.

As for international I own, I don't use task killers. Mentioning them above is meant to be sarcastic as I thought I have gone away trying to watch ram since I moved from sgs to sgs2. Using same apps as I'm used to on sgs2. Keep running into screen redraws or opera just shutting off cause the system ran out of memory and is force closing stuff automatically, while the whole phone freezes for a split second.

Anyone claiming differently on sgs3 inyernational is either not using their phone that much, or selectively limits themselves which apps they use, or is straight up in denial.

Also don't think having unused ram after all the processes that are meant to be used are loaded and running is slowing down the phone.

Don't think I'm off with the analogy either based on 'money is meant to be spent' similar to 'ram is meant to be used', yet people go beyond what they need and/or can spend.

Is 2gb an overkill? Maybe. Maybe international and North American version only need couple of hundred more than present one gig. Question is, if you had international version all things same with present one gig or one with two, which would you pick?

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Spidey01:
At least for me, I'm opting to get the International because I've more use for `make --j12` like scenarios than loading apps faster/etc with an extra gig of RAM. Most of my laptops have been single core/1GB, and tasks that would call for swapping wouldn't be that much worse off for having to use a "Swap file" to compensate.

Since I want the phone to last me at least 2.5+ years or until the typical premium phone makes these chunky 32nm A9's look crap next to A15's, I also don't feel that the Adreno 225 graphics are worth it versus the Mali chip, especially not when I could wait for Adreno 320 powered Krait's.

To each their own, use whatever fits your bucket. Some would benefit from more RAM and some (like me) would benefit more from the CPU differences. To lay consumers and many phone users, it probably makes little big difference which version they have, as long as they get service.

I spend much of my time in a Debian chroot and have a rarely touched setup for X. Not sure if any of the software for that works on ARM but from experience on single core/1GB and dual core/2GB x86 machines in the past, I think you may want to wait for more than 2GB to make serious head room there.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] sfetaz:
I am waiting for my verizon s3 but i can tell you one reason i need the extra ram is web browsing. I tend to be a new tab whore. Ill sometimes have over 10 or 20 different tabs of pages loaded at once. On older windows pcs this would cause slowdown. On my top of the line windows 7 pc with 8 gigs of ram i never have this problem.

On my thunderbolt and my asus transformer 1, i have tried multiple browsers and all slow the phone down a lot and a bunch of times crash without the force close message when i have too many tabs open. I expect this problem to happen less often or not at all when i use my s3. We will see when the phone ships.

I think their are different advantages to quad core vs more ram, and in the future when more demanding apps are released, the advantages to each will be more noticable depending on which apps each individual uses. Another thing is future android os versions. Dont know if jelly bean will have total quad core support, i assume whatever comes after that will. Eventually though quad core 1 gig s3s will suffer in some ways due to lower ram, and dual core 2gig s3s will suffer in different ways once apps and the os relies more on 4 cores.

Bottom line tho, i expect most of us to be very happy s3 users.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] kivlad:
Task switching reloads the app on that phone, it's a bug HTC says they won't bother fixing.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] neyenlives:
I just think the time we see quads even remotely utilized well will be long long after we see the usefulness in having 2GB of ram. By the time that comes both devices will feel rather aged but I would still want to be holding the fully utilized dual with 2 gigs of ram than the quad with one gig.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] eyecon82:
I cant believe people are trying to convince themselves and others that 1gb of ram is better than 2gb. Rofl.

---------- Post added at 08:26 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:19 AM ----------

Exactly. All these users who are trying to convince others less ram is better is pure comedy to me
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] benefit14snake:
Erm... Well my 32 inch tv is way better than your 65 inch. Besides your huge tv takes up a lot of your living room. Used space is wasted space... Hrmm.... *jealous grumbling* Hrmm......
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Beakerzor:
when phones come standard with 4GB ram next year, they'll be saying "how are people able to cope with just 1GB ram?"
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] dandog96:
On my fascinate with less than 512 mb available multitasking was quite fine on ics, sometimes a wee bit low, but always working fine. I see no reason for over a gigabyte