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[Xperia Arc General] mekayzer:
Using swap didn't kill you sd-card, you have to wait for 10 years for.

Anyway, there is a simple way to activate swap and take more apps on multitask, just do this.

Create with minitools in your sd-card these partitions in this order :

- fat 32 (any size)

- ext2 (512MB, to use with link2sd and move apps on)

- swap (min 256, max 1gb)

Then, go on adb shell and enter these commands :

- swapon /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 (3 partitions, otherwise put mmcblk0p2)

- free (to verify swap working)

To get a permanent swap, create a script named userinit.sh in /data/local/ and put this on it :

#!/system/bin/sh

#Swap

swapon /dev/block/mmcblk0pX (x is 2 or 3, see higher)

Save it, and in adb shell enter this command: chmod a+x /data/local/userinit.sh

Finally also on adb shell, this last command :echo vm.swappiness=60 >> /system/etc/sysctl.conf

Personnaly i use 0 on swappiness to got more reactivity.

Reboot and enjoy.
[Xperia Arc General] KradEdis:
Do this work on locked bootloader? :)

Sent from my LT18i
[Xperia Arc General] mekayzer:
Nope, since the kernel dont monitor ext and swap partition.
[Xperia Arc General] spidermoon:
seems like swap works with 587 stock

I try this with the 587 firmware, AND IT'S WORK : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1821071&highlight=swap

On 481, trying to activate swap leads to error.
[Xperia Arc General] mortillo:
but do you have stock kernel too??
[Xperia Arc General] spidermoon:
yes, stock kernel, locked bootloader.
[Xperia Arc General] mortillo:
and now swap is working properly?
[Xperia Arc General] mortillo:
Lol, i tested it and yes Swapper2 is working with stock kernel!! wow!!
[Xperia Arc General] spidermoon:
yes, but i don't see any improvment. And now i don't know how to get rid off those swap :(

I turn swap off, delete file and uncheck start on boot with swapper_2, but the file is always recreated on boot. It's the same for zram, there is no script that enable it, but on reboot swaps are enabled again :crying:
[Xperia Arc General] vr5411:
Hi mekayzer,

On new .587 fw for Arc, Sony (Ericsson) crew added zram and swap support.

And zram is activated on kernel level (no init.d on stock rom).

Now I added and linux swap partition of 300MB (new class 10 micro SD).

So totally 360 MB for swap.

Any advice how to fine tune this?
[Xperia Arc General] omersonster:
Okay i've already downloaded a swapper apk. though havent tried Zram yet,. i should say that the program is worthy of it's price,. makes my Arc S more responsive, by the way I;m on a Arconium + Doomlord Kernel v22, the best combination everrr. It's like i'm using an Iphone, even when i'm using GO Applications + Games etc... it doesnt lag..:good:

Edit: Ahmm by the way i use the old version 1.2.x of Swapit Expander and set my partition to only 512mb,. I dont think it's using all of the swap partition... Ahh by the way what does Swappiness Means? some say that a 0 value is the best while others say 60 or 90..
[Xperia Arc General] spidermoon:
To check swap, i use MemInfo from the market. For swapiness, the more the percentage, the more Android are likely to swap. On my Arcs S, ise only zram with 60MB and 60% swapiness, feels good.
[Xperia Arc General] simplyjustkids:
I'm on stock 4.0.3 still with doomkernel, ever since I enable zram, gaming performance had been improve. Have not try swap yet.

Sent From My Sony Xperia Arc S
[Xperia Arc General] Lefteris Fragiadakis (Frago):
my friend can u share with me ur mod
[Xperia Arc General] sean.paul:
Can you post a link of education to increase the ram us?
[Xperia Arc General] tobbbie:
I started using the zram swap on my ray which is long off stock conditions - you write above that stock had enabled zram swap already with 60MB, is that true? How can I check that on a stock device without tools (e.g. on a demo device in a shop)?

I am currently at 64MB swap and real use is about 22 MB RAM - well since swap is not RAM the question is really of how well 3xmore swap compensates for less 1xRAM.

Regarding the use of SD for swap I am still reluctant - check the contents of /sys/dev/zram0/num_writes - the same should exist for your other swap. Observe over time and then rethink of how many write cycles your card will still survive.

Not sure either how linux swap would know about the blocks in memory that can be swapped out - for sure it does not care a dime about the Android memory manager on top and what that is doing. I think that basically any managed memory block that is less frequently accessed is prone to be swapped out by linux swap.

So due to this disconnect of the 2 memory managers (mind that usually Android does NOT have swap active in Linux underneath) the resulting effects on performance or lag are hardly predictable and are big field of speculation and rumors.

I had just today also written something on zram here.
[Xperia Arc General] Samuel IP:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=42504581

RAM EXPANSION BY SWAP (EASIEST OF ALL)

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[Xperia Arc General] tobbbie:
Several assumptions in the OP are plain wrong - it is not "zram vs swap" but you better:

Understand what swapping is and why it was not used initially for Linux kernels underneath Android

Then decide to use swap or not

Then where to swap to

flash memory (internal or to sd card)

compressed RAM (zram)

Adjust kernel swappiness to balance RAM versus SWAP space use

Bottom lines:

zRAM is a paging device and can only be used for SWAP

zRAM eats your RAM but supplies ~3 times more SWAP than it eats RAM

Swapping does not happen on a "per program" base but on a per-memory-page basis - it may affect all programs.

swapped pages cannot be used directly - they must be swapped back to RAM before use (this is what the kernel does automatically and this takes some time)

creating a zRAM block device does no harm and eats no memory until it is used for swapping

When creating a zRAM device and using it for paging, the amount of pages given (e.g. 20MB) defines the space that the kernel sees for paging. It is NOT the amount of RAM that the device eats from your RAM (roughly only 1/3rd of it)

There are program that supply a GUI for the creation of SWAP devices (e.g. zRAM), their assignment to swap space and how aggressive the kernel shall do the swapping.

I may not have the right use of "swapping" and "paging" and use it more or less for the same action - please forgive me :)
[Xperia Arc General] gu5t3r:
Compression ratio for zRam is more like 2 - 2.5... Rarely or never 3...

It can be easily calculated from files /sys/block/zram0/mem_used_total and /sys/block/zram0/orig_data_size

---------- Post added at 05:13 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:56 PM ----------

You can't, only way is "cat /proc/swaps"...

On .587 ROM and up you can search for zram_start.sh script in /system/bin, if you can read it's contents, in it is written zram size...

There is no num_writes for real partitions...

.587 roms and up have 60MB zRam enabled by default from /system/bin/zram_start.sh

zRam helps with multitasking, as when you open new app, old one is not killed, rather pushed to swap...

Example is when you are clicking link in FaceBook and open it in browser, usually when zRam is disabled, opening browser kills FB and when you return to FB your position on news page is not remembered...

When zRam is enabled, while opening browser, FB is not killed then rather pushed to swap and when you exit browser FB is restored from swap and you position on news page is remembered and you don't have to scroll down over posts you already read...

---------- Post added at 05:29 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:13 PM ----------

zRam produces lags when you make it too big... 64MB of zram uses about 25MB of RAM, ram you can never use for APP currently running...

80MB of zRam uses 32MB of RAM you cannot use for current APP...

BUT

64MB of RAM will give you 64-25=39MB of RAM for current APP by swapping apps you don't currently use...

80MB of RAM will give you 80-32=48MB of RAM...etc...

zRam size over 1/4 of RAM size (25%) is NOT recommended because you can't swap some essential system APP's and then over time zRam gets full of old user apps, and you have i.e. 40-50MB less available for currently running app...

When I use zRam I usually use 64MB as stock kernel had 60 on 339MB of ram, and on LuPuS kernels you have 355MB of ram...

---------- Post added at 05:31 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:29 PM ----------

CM recommends 18%, which on 355MB is 64MB...

---------- Post added at 05:36 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:31 PM ----------

I wouldn't call it RAM expansion as it does not really expand ram...

SWAP:

Plus over zRam is that it's not using RAM, so you have full ram size available for currently running APP...

Minus over zRam is that it is much slower...
[Xperia Arc General] Bl!nd:
Best Performance

If u want best performance just get the Atomic GB 7.0 Rom, Adreno Booster for GB, flash DooMKerneL and OC to 1.6 or 1.8, download Ram Manager Pro and use the "max performance" option, do 1gb of swap, and the phone will be way better than stock.
[Xperia Arc General] BeboBBM:
yea swap is better but we can use zram like swap with terminal use :

mkswap /dev/block/zram0

swapon /dev/block/zram0
[Xperia Arc General] BeboBBM:
no man not every phone in mmcblk0pX you can cause hard break because

there are phone sd partions in mmcblk1pX no 0pX

u first must know your partion where its because if u choosed wrong partion can hard break your phone
[Xperia Arc General] Pixel_rom_a12:
Will this work for non rooted phone?
[Captivate General] CheesyNutz:
but im moving on i picked up a sgs3 today and its loaded with aokp lol

gave the phone to my son and he loves it with CM10
[Captivate General] knight3405:
Conrats bro good luck on you new journey
[Captivate General] b-eock:
Intl' S3?
[Captivate General] leezrd:
10charecters
[Captivate General] pizz0wn3d:
AT&T, I've seen him around ;P

Now it's your turn to upgrade :)

Herp derp SGS3 Tapatalk 2
[Captivate General] b-eock:
I have the Intl S3 already, got it the same day in the mail as the US version was released
[Captivate General] pizz0wn3d:
Why would you go Intl? :(

Jerk.

Herp derp SGS3 Tapatalk 2
[Captivate General] b-eock:
I wanted better development support and didn't wan't to wait for AT&T, also if I was going to pay full price for a phone, I am going to choose the one with better specs :) Hey maybe next time I buy a Galaxy S phone (most likely the S5) you can buy the Intl' version with me :D :winner:
[Captivate General] pizz0wn3d:
Pfft. The specs aren't really "better" than the U.S. version. It has a slightly better GPU, at the cost of 1gb of ram and LTE (not that LTE is even relevant for most people lol). I'll give you the better development, though. Doesn't bother me much though considering Cyanogen has the tmo version and I pretty much stick to CM/AOKP roms anyways.

Herp derp SGS3 Tapatalk 2
[Captivate General] cloudreader:
S3

Is there a faster phone than S3? I want to upgrade my cappy soon...
[Captivate General] panda_mode:
International s3 is the fastest right now
[Captivate General] MikeyMike01:
People think quad core is just magically better. :eek:
[Captivate General] BTRL30NTM:
Good luck with the s3!
[Captivate General] b-eock:
Well its a quad core Exynos 4412 with a newly designed Mali-400 GPU. It trumps it in every way...
[Captivate General] jmtheiss:
If anyone is interested in a SGS3, Amazon is running a deal today (September 12, 2012) to get one for $99 USD with a new 2-year plan. Might want to jump on that deal while it's available.

Not trying to advertise, just letting everyone know of something I thought I missed out on.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] rockky:
To the tune of 1 billion plus.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/24/3266391/apple-samsung-patent-damages-verdict

Aa much as I'm android thru and thru and have loved Samsung devices, it is what it is: Samsungs Galaxys have been IPhone derivatives from the getgo. Doesn't surprise me. Predicted it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] NotablyNice:
Considering the Galaxy Note has a wacom stylus and 5.3 inch screen.. Total copy... SMH
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] reinbeau:
Thus has been posted over and over, its a general topic, and doesn't belong here.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GeneralCrocket:
What's the best ROM currently with tablet UI? I know it's a matter of opinion, but I still want to hear it.

Google Wallet should also work as well.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] G1_enthusiast:
i have clean rom 1.1 works and no system ui crashes
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnnyvol:
+1
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RiNo808:
So far paranoid android is smooth for me...
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nippero:
I'm curious about this as well. Been looking at Paranoid Android mainly.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JaZart:
Paranoid is the best way to go.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qtr47:
I am very happy about Paranoid
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zZDave_Stud:
Definitely paranoid because some apps look really wonky with tablet ui at 720px, but with PA you can customize the layout of each individual app which is awesome.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atticusmas:
Paranoid is amazing though I wish i could use other ROMs with paranoid features
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bluetooth_decay:
Paranoid working fine for me. Like the per-app customization.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamesst20:
Stock works fine too.

IMUI has a really different and beautiful UI then all other ROM
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WastedJoker:
MIUI is terrible for the Nexus 7. I love it on my S2 but too many phone features are still present in the Nexus 7 MIUI build. It feels half-done.

Paranoid Android is very slow but the UI customization is good.

I'm tempted to go back to stock though because it has been the smoothest and best battery performance rom for me.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muimui725:
PA 2.1 is good for me
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oujiff:
Team Bamf

I'm using team bamf paradigm v2.2. Seems to work really well get really nice battery life out of it.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PR0XiMA:
TeamEOS

The TeamEOS ROM works quite good for me.. I would recommend it to everyone! :laugh:
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidNinjaReview:
Nexus 7 ROM

The AOKP nightly ROM is pretty awesome.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mlaws90:
Just ordered my Nexus 7 today, this have been sort of helpful...lol.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] player911:
EOS has a dead simple Tablet UI option. Just check and forget. It uses the same DPI as stock so you dont have any comparability issues like other methods. I haven't had a single problem running in tablet mode regarding apps and games. PA gets good rep too but EOS simply just works so good I can't come off of it.

Battery is also simply amazing. I unplug at 8 when I go to work and will still be at 100% when I get home if I dont use it. I unplugged the N7 like 20 minutes ago and on XDA and still at 100%. Absolutely no complaints.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] player911:
Duplicate post
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rayoubi:
Okay basically I have a samsung Galaxy S III from ATT. I'm trying to restore my phone to stock. I downloaded this file

http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SGH-I747

okay, I notice this file is a ZIP file. Do I flash odin with the zip file or do I put it on my sdcard and flash thru CWR. I"m really confused on how to get my phone to 100% stock. Any ideas?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrhaley30705:
Extract with 7zip it equivalent, then you should have a tar or tar.md5 file. Place that in the pda slot in Odin.
[Kindle Fire General] Leraeniesh:
Has anyone had luck with this one? I'm looking for one that is not too expensive.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000Q8UAWY/ref=aw_cr_d_electronics

Sent from my Kindle Fire
[Kindle Fire General] kinfauns:
That's not a "powered" hub. By most definitions, a powered hub would utilize a separate power source like an AC adapter, so the attached devices can draw power from it rather than the host device. Something like this perhaps...

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000ERAOL4

I don't have any experience with either product... just wanted to point out the difference.
[Kindle Fire General] tim1987:
The Belkin looks like a good choice. There are cheaper products, but I suggest paying the extra bucks for something with a name brand and reputation.

I've had mixed results with cheaper powered hubs. Some worked fine, but none of them for long. My most common problem with cheap hubs is that the USB ports get loose and stop making good connections with your devices.

I've had another odd problem with one of the cheaper ones. The 5v input from the included transformer was not correctly isolated from the 5v of the USB port that heads to the PC. When my PC was shut down, other USB devices on my PC would try to power up through the tiny transformer, which eventually killed the transformer, and was also the most likely reason I had a set of USB ports fail on that machine.

Anyway, what I'm saying is that my recomendation is to buy from a company with a reputation to protect, it's worth the extra few bucks.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] typicalgamer:
I can't find the weather widget that came with the phone. I'm currently on Nova launcher, and it doesn't show the widget. Please help
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] gagb1967:
Manufacturers widgets (twiz, sense) won't show up when 3rd party launchers are running.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] typicalgamer:
really? damn. Is there any other widget app that looks like the original weather widget?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] saldebot:
I personally use beautiful widgets, you can download clock and weather themes. It's a paid app in the play store.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] ocelot4ark:
I like Weather Eye.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] gagb1967:
There are many different weather widgets @ the Play Store, just look around. That is the beauty of android, choice.....
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SyavashP:
I've installed Marange ICS MIUI Rom and its very slow and buggy, I was wondering if installing a kernel could help? Now I know nothing of kernels and I tried searching on XDA but I can not understand any of the kernel related terminology or which one is compatible with this ROM?

IF anyone can give me a list of kernels I could try which are stable and make the ROM faster, I'd really appreciate it. Plus a link to how to install/flash kernels and the risk involved would help aswell. Thanks. :D

EDIT: Current Kernel according to "About Phone" is: 2.6.38.8-evervolv-turba-ics+drew@master #1 Sunday May 27th.

MIUI Version: 2.8.20
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sarbashrestha:
I am using the tiamat kernel and that seems a lot better. Try it out.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qwer4021:
I think Shaky's kernel with better HWA, tt's smoother.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] danisariandi:
Excuse me, I want to full working Radio from Xperia S ICS. Can you share me Xperia S ICS Radio.apk with required libs and etc ?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Chxrlyglez:
Which files exactly you need??
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] danisariandi:
Radio.apk, libfmradio.so and more dependances
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Michael94:
can anyone upload these files?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Deleted member 4529355:
I'm trying to port the NXT Radio to the 2011 models, here's what I got at this time from the GX, other are similar:

http://www.mediafire.com/?3fm1nxyb5yaqag2
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] danisariandi:
How to install this ?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] danisariandi:
I'm trying this but I get stopped when I flashed with required libs
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] danisariandi:
Also FC what should I do ?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] mousis:
thanks
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] danisariandi:
What libs are required ?
[HTC One S] Mesaman2012:
Im thinking about getting a one s only if it will be receving the J.b. update.
[HTC One S] invasion2:
YES...It's been covered many times.

Sent from my HTC One S using Xparent Blue Tapatalk 2
[HTC One S] eddiemurphy:
Yep its been confirmed by Htc that the one x and s will be receiving the android jelly bean update soon probably next month so go ahead and buy the phone if this was stopping you. Cheers:screwy:
[HTC One S] glenroebuck:
if you have the tmo version it might be a lot longer - it seems like it took forever for the s2 to get ics update.
[HTC One S] invasion2:
Only if you aren't rooted ;). All we need is an RUU and then we can get ROMs updated, and people can run the RUU to get it officially.
[HTC One S] xxquicksh0txx:
Unless HTC goes out business in the next couple if months.
[HTC One S] MattDN93:
Unlikely. Yes their profits are falling quite severely but weren't they banking on the One series to "restore the faith" if you will? If this is the case the only way HTC can get customers to trust them again is to bring out updates on time, this way they reduce the negative reports about slow updates and are likely to attract more customers beased on their already good build quality etc.
[HTC One S] gabgen93:
yes
[HTC One S] derdustin:
yes yes
[EVO 4G General] thelonerangers:
I do construction for a living so at times I'm exposed to metal shavings and what not. Is there a way to clean the ear pice and speaker out on my evo cause at times its terrible. Sprint store will replace speaker but they don't do a thing about ear piece. Any help would be sweet.
[EVO 4G General] 9h0s7:
Mine is the same way from locksmithing, unfortunately I never found a fix just a work-around. I got a bluetooth headset.
[EVO 4G General] Klown80:
There is another thread about this already for evo 4g. You need an earth magnet and it requires taking apart the phone. It does work, it did for me at least. I thought I kept blowing the ear piece speaker and it turned out to just be metal shards in the speaker (I work in construction).

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1126195
[EVO 4G General] oodork123:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1126195

I fix the link for the ones who uses xda app.

that stoner at Circle K with ICS. Yummy
[EVO 4G General] Klown80:
ooops! Thanks, forgot to add the [URL} to it, much appreciated!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] frostbytedc:
I know many of you guys have years of experience in programming and such. I am in no way trying to say that i know anything cause i don't. Would it be possible to design a device similar to the XTC Clip for the HTC phones which uses the sim card slot and a gold card to unlock the simlock and bootloader on HTC phones. Has anyone tried to make something like this??? Does anyone even know how that thing works?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] romdroid.:
imo the only way to unlock the bootloader if there was a system engineer leak (aka pudding for atrix, photon etc) for the RAZR. But I dont know if people are searching for it? because u need to have the cheesecake app and check from time to time
[Galaxy S III Accessories] almightyjoe82:
Today I bought the Verizon Wireless charging pad and battery door. So for it works really good. I found them only in the store. It does give your phone a slight budge but not much and a little more weight.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] almightyjoe82:
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[Galaxy S III Accessories] imstill@g:
What is charging speed like? Can you report back with a full charge time .Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] almightyjoe82:
Ok I'll test tonight
[Galaxy S III Accessories] The_Biz:
Price? Location of store?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] almightyjoe82:
It was a Verizon store in Louisiana and the battery cover was $39.99 and the charging pad was on sale for $49.99
[Galaxy S III Accessories] WinDroidGuy:
You should check out this thread [UPDATED]Verizon Inductive Cover works on ALL S3 models save some money and buy the Energizer charging pad on Amazon :)

Charges at the same speed as if plugged in to the USB cord from my "testing"