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[HTC Rezound] Div033:
Thanks for the responses everyone. This really helps.

It is not my intention to offend any rezound users, most especially the devs. I know the incredible amount of work they put into the mods and ROMs they provide for free. If I'm slandering anyone, it's HTC and/or Qualcomm. Its because of them the devs have to try and find ways to make things smoother in the first place. I apologize of anyone was offended.

I know this phone was developed with sense in mind and with sense comes a lot of bloat. I considered this to be a reason for the lag, but I still find this unacceptable for such a large company.

I will inform him of the adreno driver update and walk him through how to install them. Thanks for that tidbit of info!

Edit: are these drivers for aosp only or do they work on sense too?
[HTC Rezound] Droid12User:
lol...that's an interesting way of putting it!
[HTC Rezound] IrvChynaman:
From what I've gathered they work on both. Tell him to do a nand backup tho just in case
[HTC Rezound] SteveG12543:
The drivers work on any ROM :)
[HTC Rezound] nrfitchett4:
I'm on vigor360 and I have no lag on Sense. I can scroll side to side, pull down the status bar and there is no lag. Maybe its the amount of stuff he's added to the homescreen? I keep mine fairly light.
[HTC Rezound] Argumentation:
Also another thing to try if he's using Apex, is to go into settings and change the minimum scrolling time for the homescreen and app drawer from 0 to somewhere between 12-15, that eliminated all the lag for me. :)
[HTC Rezound] Kelton Rivas:
I just downloaded and flashed the drivers from that link; I'm positive I'm now seeing a large increase in the speed of XDA loading and navigating my home screens. After flashing the new drivers would it make sense for me to see a noticeable difference? Or am I imagining it? Also, if I flash a new ROM in the future will I have to flash that zip again? Also, because the phone runs more smoothly, will battery life decrease faster while moving through the phone?
[HTC Rezound] th3b3:
yes it should be a noticeable upgrade! Well that depends if they have included it I'm sure in the future they will...It shouldnt decrease battery life in any way.
[HTC Rezound] TUDrewser:
This made a big difference for me in snappiness when switching screens...go figure. Thanks!
[HTC Rezound] blackhand1001:
A concise explanation is that qualcomms drivers don't accelerate a lot of different types of drawing. There are some newer drivers around the web that add more acceleration. Hopefully jellybean motivates Qualcomm to put full acceleration in like the ti omap 4460 sgx540 in the galaxy nexus and the tegra 3 in the nexus 7 and many other devices. People can hate on nvidia but their android graphics drivers for ICS and jellybean are rock solid. Way smoother in ICS on the transformer prime I played with in the store then my friends epic 4g touch is in cm9 even with the low resolution screen and the exynos. Tegra 3 does amazing on my nexus 7 in jellybean as does the omap 4460 in my nexus. Little to no lag at all.
[HTC Rezound] dogswind:
I think the real simple answer is HTC didn't have ICS in mind with this phone, and therefore didn't put much effort into it. It's more of a, "Look! We follow through with updates! Buy our ****!" thing.
[HTC Rezound] rfarrah:
No lag on Nilsp Business Sense 3.6 or Ineffible Deus ROMS for me. Even on stock kernal.

...just sayin....
[HTC Rezound] loonatik78:
Samsung devices generally have more muscular graphics. My girlfriend's Samsung Stratosphere, an inferior device by nearly every measure, scores just about even with my Rezound on graphics benchmarks. I'd fully expect a more modern Samsung to show an edge up against the Rezound.
[HTC Rezound] michaelbsheldon:
.

Some ICS's don't lag. I'm on ZONE-Rom Red with newest BAMF kernel

and highly 'self apk-delete modded' , and there's no lag anywhere plus decent

battery life. If you feel like fiddling around with different custom roms, you could

find something that's fast on your phone.
[General Questions and Answers] reddragonXPS:
hey everybody .......i m new here ,and i dnt have technical knowledge in these things but these things intrests me.........and i found about XDA when i was reading an article abt android.

I checked the site and found it amazing so i joined.:good:

i bought my Xperia S (LT26i) 3 months ago ,i updated it to ics few days back and i have a ques.

" how can i check standard precise benchmarks of my phone by myself? "

is there some standard app or tool for that???

thanks in advance
[General Questions and Answers] gagdude:
People mainly use quadrant standard, but there's also antutu benchmark, and many more. They are all apps in the play store.

Note that benchmarks are not very accurate representations of a phones speed.
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4ktvs:
I know android is droping it, but come on. Just about every video playing web site use's it and loads more do to. I know about HTML 5, but next to no one use's that crap yet. :(

That and I would like to know if USB tethering can work on it like android.

Thanks to all
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayhipkiss:
Don't expect to see Flash Player on a WP8 device as Adobe have stopped developing Flash for mobiles a while ago now. It's also about time for websites to drop this aged format and move with the times. HTML5 is the future, like it or not.

Ray.
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcosmin222:
Flash is among the worst things that ever happened to the internet. The adobe player is clunky, hangs a lot, eats a ton of resources, makes navigation a lot harder for lower end computers/devices.

Flash should be phased out of existance, HTML5 is much better in pretty much every respect.
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lumpaywk:
And to answer question 2 is yes you can tether wp8, you can already tether windows phone 7. Just go to settings - internet sharing. Not sure if its same by usb but that gives you wifi and you can plug in via usb to save battery.
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4ktvs:
I would like flash to be dead as the next guy, BUT just about every video playing web site is flash and HTML 5 won't be done intill like 2022 or some crap like that. I don't want to wait 2,3,5 or 10 years for HTML 5 Ok. If there is 0 flash on WP8, I will stick to my S3 intill they fix that crap called HTML 5.
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] link68759:
Wow, calm down. Number one, HTML5 isn't crap. It's far better than flash. Flash is crap. Just because none of your porn sites use it yet doesn't mean it's bad.

Number two, almost always, flash player and html5 are just handles for a video stream. It should be fairly easy to develop an app that [more thoroughly] detects and captures the stream and plays it back in the system video player, bypassing flash entirely. In fact that's what WP7 already does with sites like youtube.

Sites that don't work with this method are the ones using some form of DRM to prevent you from stealing their videos. This is a stupid thing to do and I suggest you direct your anger at the sites that have the deplorable practice of using DRM at the expense of their visitors: they are the real problem.
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StevieBallz:
Given that it's not up to those sites in many cases if they use DRM protection on the content or not and given that HTML5 DRM support is also not about to happen anytime soon we can look forward to a Mobile Web that is not compatible with most Video Sites.

The current state of HTML5 support is pretty much the same tired old story we had in the days of HTML4 browser wars, with people needing to quite often use conditional CSS statements for different browsers. I guess they will have figured out how to interpret that standard some years after they start working on HTML6 - until then: prepare to be disapointed.
[HTC One S] roadstr:
I almost did not buy this phone because of all the problems folks said they were having. I went to a T-Mobile store that was a little farther than my local store because a T-Mobile associate had the One S as his personal phone. He said he had a very good experience with his and no problems. He went on to explain the interface of the phone and how he was more favorable to it over the Samsung experience. I have nothing against the Samsung and I still have my rooted Infuse.

I ordered the One S and I can say it's fully functional. There is nothing more to say because there is nothing wrong.

If something turns up I will post it. Oh yeh... wi-fi calling is just fine and tethering is fast enough, even in my location where I have 4Mbps speeds and using RDP is fine. I'm moving to an area with 42Mbps where I have tested it at 17-23Mbps and there RDP into servers will be even better.

Thanks HTC and T-Mobile!
[HTC One S] nor-ric:
Agree! ;)

And since the last update the forum seems to be much more silent: the software is overall (almost) perfect!
[HTC One S] Fredfly:
Personally I think Samsung is all sizzle with no steak. HTC is where its at. The one s in particular is what I like to call a sleeper; to the untrained eye it would be overlooked but mess with it and you'll be surprised. I have owned two HTC s and I have had absolutely no problems. Their security restrictions are a bit of a brother but the quality of their phones are worth it.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] PixeLuL:
Warez is against the rules!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] KidCarter93:
Reported as what you're after is warez, which is against the forum rules.

As mentioned already, this isn't the place to ask for that kinda thing. If you think it is, then you probably shouldn't be here.

This site is about developers and without contributing to developers and ripping there work off, they'll simply stop releasing stuff.

I'm a product of the system I was born to destroy!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] THIRSTY GNOMES:
I am running the Blu Kuban, and have been having problems with talk failing and random reboots. I follow the Rom posts from devs pretty regurly. I have seen that Ruj, and others reccomend removing the themed version of talk, and installing the stock version that is availble in the Rom updater. I tried this about a week ago, but even after fixing permissions in the recovery my phone would keep restarting till I reinstalled the rom. I was working just fine after a fresh, and wiped out install up untill a few days ago. I am getting the messages again that my talk app is failing, or sometimes not responding. It was not untill I started messing around with goveners that I started having this issue. I had the default hyper after install, but switched it to wheatly. It was not untill I switched to hotplug two nights ago that I have been having issues with talk. I was having the same problem with the newset Kuban kernal with random reboots of the phone, and thought it was with govener, as that is all I have changed in Ex tweaks. The mods I have installed are; Blank pull down, No rotate/no landscape/no crt, In call sms notification, and finally no battery bar. My restarts of the phone have been random, they can be from anything from loading facebook, turning on wifi, adjusting phone volume, to even putting phone to sleep. I guess after my long rant of problems is there anything that I can do differently to make phone run better? I am not overclocking or underclocking. Have not played with voltages. I turned my screen off profiles off too. I am thinking that unless it gets worse, I will wait for Ruj, to release any new kinds update. Is it the kernel that is giving the problem? I saw someone posted to try older kernel version, is that very dependable?

Also I know this post is getting pretty long, but can someone please tell me if there is any sort of geographical list of modems that work best in certain area's? http://xdaforums.com/wiki/Samsung_Epic_4G_Touch/Modems this showed me that there is a bunch to try, but I want to know which ones work best in area before I go messing around. Does Sprint use different ones in different locations is what I am asking about modems.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Ravaged Pheonix:
There is a talk fix in the 4th post of the faq.

As far as the modems, they are kind of a subjective choice. My phone is best on fg20 and my wife uses fe22. You just goes try them all until you get one you like. I currently use the latest Kuban kernel and do not have any reboot issues. If you keep having issues I would recommend a fresh install or setting extweaks back to the defaults, then making adjustments one at a time until you are happy with the setup.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BAlfa:
Hello everybody ;)

I found exposure slider in camera setting has no effect on viewfinder and also on resulted media . Weather was still camera or video.

Any one confirm this or else?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sjaakbanaan:
I have the exact same problem, from both front and back cameras. Same in third party camera apps, exposure controls simply do not function as expected, no change at all. HDR picture mode seems to work fine though.

Not a serious enough problem for me to RMA, but it is a small dent in the glory of the S3 for sure..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bollux78:
I also had this issue and was deeply disappointed, because my optimus 2x made much better shots in low light because of the exposure compensation.

I found the solution today: I used the hidden camera menu *#34971539# and discovered that my camera was ZDFE02 and the phone firmware was ZDFE03. If your phone to cam button is greyed out, do this: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=32721917

After copying the file to internal SD, restart, then update and restart. You get new cam firmware and now the exposure works.
[Motorola Droid X2] PCWright86:
Does anybody have the file for PA and the hybrid gapps...... The link seems to be down and I can not post in PA topic yet... noobie
[Motorola Droid X2] sd_shadow:
links working for me

rom http://ge.tt/4GkqBVL/v/7?c

gaaps http://ge.tt/4GkqBVL/v/0?c

downloading now
[Motorola Droid X2] PCWright86:
Thanks, the link will pull up but won't download. I got a someone to download

to there PC and send to me...
[Motorola Photon 4G] jahildebra:
Arch Linux

for the Photon 4G​

About:

Hey everybody! I've had my Photon for almost a year now, and absolutely love it. However, I have flashed the poor little thing to death, and have never been quite happy with any particular ROMs. I've been using Arch Linux on my computer for a while now, and it's quickly become my favorite Linux distro. So, I figured, why not put it on my phone?

It will come in two versions: a VNC Build that runs alongside Android, and a full system replacement. (That's right: a full Android replacement.)

Updates:

09/18/12 - First VNC Build boot.
09/13/12 - Started project. Downloaded Tegra2 TrimSlice release of Arch Linux ARM.

Contribute:

Want to contribute to the project? PM me with any information or files you may have, and if it's used, I'll credit you!

Other Information:

I'll be working on a regular basis to get Arch Linux ARM running on our Photons. Sorry for the lack of information at the moment: Stay tuned for more info!

Also, feel free to post any questions you may have here, or message me in private.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jahildebra:
Credits:

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[Motorola Photon 4G] hellot1M:
interesting.. but is this going to play as a full operating system replacing android or a ride-along like ubuntop/webtop/ect.. i like the idea that full linux distros can be flashed as a primary OS for phones but its just for looks as the screen size is just intolerable. when ubuntu first came out i had the same issue. it was cool that i could have ubuntu on my phone but it just wasnt worth it until ubuntop. from the screenshots ive seen of this distro for mobile it actually looks pretty badass.. for a tablet. i guess ill wait to see what you can do with this.

also could you port the keyboard over with it instead of androids stock? archlinuxarm has a neat and clean keyboard.
[Motorola Photon 4G] mambaram:
Good lock, I will test it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] hightech316:
Awesome!!!

Really looking forward for this.
[Motorola Photon 4G] thatguy07:
You've got a tester in me if needed.
[Motorola Photon 4G] hightech316:
Will this be set up like other Linux distros on android? VNC viewer, batch scripts , etc?
[Motorola Photon 4G] elitepsycho:
Advanced linux user here willing to be a tester also :) this is something ive been hoping someone would be willing to put effort in. Ive did the vnc thing it just doesn't compare to runing a pure linux install with no android in the background. Really hope its possible to get this going smoothly!
[Motorola Photon 4G] hightech316:
Have you setup a github? I'm willing to contribute
[Motorola Photon 4G] jahildebra:
This will come in 2 versions: One that you can view in a VNC that runs alongside Android, and one that replaces Android.

I'll be using either Openbox or Enlightenment for the DE/WM, as these are highly configurable. Hopefully this will make up for the small screen.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Acvice:
Cool to hear you looked into openbox. I havnt used Enlightenment in years, I'm sure they've made leaps and bounds with it since my last experience. Also, feel free to hit me up if you need people to test.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jahildebra:
Alright, so I'm currently working on the first VNC build. I've gotten it to boot into the terminal, but not much else.

The VNC builds should typically be the first finished, as they allow me to test the build without booting it on my phone.

This may change when I boot the first build on my phone, because that would remove the Android bootloader, and I don't know if there would be a way to ever go back to Android.

Full system replacements are scary stuff.
[Motorola Photon 4G] hightech316:
Full system replacements are scary stuff.

I've used multi boot on other phones . Maybe possible if sdcard was dedicated to is and emmc phone?
[Motorola Photon 4G] jahildebra:
As far as I know, the Photon is not able to boot from the SD card.

If anyone has been able to boot from the SD card without any software required to do so, that'd be great.

The problem is that installing Arch over Android means removing the bootloader and recovery, so if I messed up there the chances of being able to recover my phone would be pretty slim.

EDIT: Does anyone know if booting from USB is possible? It would be nice to be able to boot from an external disk drive over USB into the Arch Linux environment. That'd be perfect for testing builds.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jahildebra:
Sorry for the delay in updates everyone, but I haven't gotten a chance to work on this in a day or two.

Some good news though: I received a PM from "shev4enkostr", informing me that it is possible to boot from the sdcard.

He didn't go into detail about how, exactly, it could be done, but I'll now be more confident going into a full system replace, which I should be attempting soon.

Wish me luck!
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
I personally may never use the Arch OS replacement. Right now I think many moto devices will need all the help they can get from devs with the vague status of us ever getting another update.

I think shev4enkostr may have been referring to the "Atrix 4G Dual Booting Method for Linux and Windows". I think there are 1 or 2 other similar projects but can't seem to find them right now.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jahildebra:
You may be right, as he didn't clarify as to how he had gone about getting the photon to boot from the SD. I'm starting to think now that it would be impossible to have the Photon boot from an external drive of any kind without any assistance from software.

I've been thinking recently about how I'm going to approach the problem of doing a full system replacement, if possible. Do you, or anyone else in the Photon/Android community know how to externally access the Photon's internal drive, from the root folder up? I need some way of manually editing the file/folder structure of the root directory, most likely without having the Photon booted.

If anything, I'd need to find a recovery image that allows me to access the root drive through a USB connection. I know that using the 'Mount USB' option from Clockworkmod just mounts the SD card, but I'm using TWRP. Anyone know if this would be possible if not through a custom version of Clockwordmod, then through TWRP or some other recovery image?

I could try creating a flashable .zip with Arch Linux and GRUB2 in it, as well as scripts to fully wipe the internal drive. I've never fooled around with building flashable files before, so does anyone with experience with that kind of thing know if this is a viable work-around?

It's a bit embarrassing to have to ask so many questions regarding my own project, but it's certainly better than blindly charging into something like this and bricking my device.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lokifish Marz:
Unlocked you should have at least limited access to everything via adb and fastboot. We are talking command line, raw dumps and tar.gz/ddimage in most cases. Don't bother with looking into NVFlash as Moto locked us out and nobody has cracked it yet. It may be of some use to install Ubuntop and here's why.

I haven't explored it much but on the Photon there is a bug in mounting external NTFS drives in Ubuntop. It results in the mounting of almost all the partitions (if I remember correctly it mounts all of them). Full access is limited but I think there may be a backdoor in there somewhere.

I'd be concerned about drivers though in regards to replacing Android with Arch. If you do load up Ubuntop, pull device ID's and make sure there are drivers/source compatible with Arch. Also be careful, think of Android and Webtop are one system and this applies to Ubuntop as well.

Oh, another thing you may want to look at is Ubuntu on the AC100. I think you may find some gems that could be of use.

Actually if you could get a chroot method working, with full audio and usb support that

doesn't

use VNC, you'll would be ahead of the game. Here's some links that may be of use;

Capturing the Android Framebuffer

Arch Linux LXDE /w Xorg Mouse Keyboard on Nook Color Android Tablet
[Motorola Photon 4G] jahildebra:
Thanks for the information! I'll look over all of this once I get home.

Also, I'll nandroid my current setup and roll back to gingerbread, so I can install Ubuntop again. Even if for project-related reasons, It'll be nice seeing what all you've done with it since the last time I used it almost a year ago.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] AgentCherryColla:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdIWKytq_q4&feature=player_embedded

This is a Video of people comparing the new iPhone 5, to the old 4s. But there's a little catch to it, the 5 isn't out yet.... Take a look to see how it plays out.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] cybot_x1024:
This brings the Apple Vs Samsung verdict to mind. I wonder if they are related.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] sino8r:
Mahahahahhahahha! This made my day. I needed a good laugh today and this was it ;)

People are so stupid.... truth be told, this happens a lot with various things. The power of suggestion is quite real. P.T. Barnum said it best about a sucker being born every minute hehehehe!

---------- Post added at 07:37 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:35 PM ----------

Good point... people can be manipulated into believing anything. You know that it's gonna be appealed for sure.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] cj chitwood:
I would agree with the apple v samsung comment if samsung were mentioned in this video, but they were comparing apples and apples. literally.

Still funny. People are idiots. Doesn't the phone say it's a 4S on the back in extremely tiny letters? And of course a new phone without any web cache or app cache or e-mail updates every ten seconds slowing it down will be faster. All goes to show you can social-engineer just about anything.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] ekoee:
LOLOL that's awesome.