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[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] citric_acid:
i can help you but don't know why madlauncher does'nt overwrite holo launcher so follow steps,

1. check whether your using roms which already has hololauncher in it like longhorn

if your not using such roms then goto step 4 or else goto next step.

2. install any launcher from market like go launcher.

3. now uninstall holo launcher using any root uninstaller from market.

4. install madlauncher from op's attachment. :good:

5. and if you want same arrangements as in op's screenshot then follow his 2nd post of widgets.

6. search all the widgets in market :p

7. in launcher settings you have to set it to look same as the above op's screenshots like hide icon text, icon color, increase desktop rows and columns (don't know why he does'nt added this)

8. have a look at my screenshots :D
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] thomasmatt25:
Does anyone know of a good email application other then K-9? The GS3's native email client doesn't push emails quick enough via IMAP. I tired K-9 by it looks down right old. I know this may sound picky but I just wanted to see what else us out there. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dragon_rckr:
You can try TouchDown HD, it a 30 day trial and the licence is $19.99 :eek:

I've used the trial for awhile and it was really good, like have outlook on the phone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] thomasmatt25:
Or even better, does anyone know how to make the native email app push emails faster? I'll receive a notification and when I open I up, I'll have 5-10 unread emails. I didn't have this on my Photon. Its not important if there isn't a solution, just more of an inconvenience.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Karim.younus:
I've had another idea relating to the Galaxy Player 5 and 5.8. I've been using ICS ROMs for around a 2 months now and in terms of UI they are very nice and smooth and I don't want to be rude but in terms of gaming performance, that's not so good. Even Gears And Guts has real issues. Now I might be wrong but is this because of hardware acceleration? If so couldn't you take the files of the Galaxy Player 5.8 and put them on the Player 5.0 to make it work? As far as I know (Which isn't that far) hardware acceleration isn't like cameras and stuff were every device has a different camera and so on. Isn't hardware acceleration a sort of universal thing? But then I may be wrong and talking complete rubbish.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Neodymium:
I know kernel modification is required. What we need to make hw acceleration work is to upgrade module, in both rom & kernel
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] heat361:
Sorry but this does not belong in the development section.Questions and other general posts belong in the general section. I post this not to be rude but to inform you because this is the second post that you posted in development and we would like to keep the section as clean as possible with roms. Thank you :)
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] DZonikg:
Gaming has apsolutly nothing to do with HW acceleration ..ICS on 5.0 and with out HW A. is much better for gaming then GB ..because ALL GAMES use Open GL ..i have gta 3,max payne ,real racing 2 ,nova 3,fifa 2012.. and they all work very very good..no single game use HW acceleration and only app that is using is chrome..and of course for video decoding witch is decoded on CPY with out HW.

And off course its not that simple,you need kernel 3.x and this not for development thread.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Karim.younus:
I'm really sorry about my posting errors. I will remember in future. And Nova 3 is OK but gears and guts which isnt very intensive at all really is almost unplayable. I don't get it
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] EcHoFiiVe:
Even minecraft runs extremely smooth, and that's an intensive game.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Karim.younus:
I also have Minecraft full and that runs buttery. But Nova 3s FPS is playable but not buttery. And gangster Rio was really quit playable for 30 secs and then it lagged really bad. But its not just gaming. The You Tube app requires hardware acceleration to play HD.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Higgs_Boson:
Have you tried a RAM Manager (or any app that has a function to auto-kill background processes)? Most of them will let you make a white list of apps that you do not want the RAM Manager to kill. Although it's not the fastest option, you could also try using Titanium to run a batch cache clear of all the apps except your games. Or, you could try tweaking your overclock settings, but you will definitely sacrifice your battery for this option.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Karim.younus:
Hmmm. I haven't found any app that auto kills apps but I have been looking for one. I did try RAM expander but it said my ROM wasn't supported. I'm running rj's custom kernel at 1.2ghz.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Higgs_Boson:
Try this one. The UI is extremely sexy and very user friendly. It has simple settings where you can set up various aspects of the app, particularly auto-kill.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5jb29sLnRhc2traWxsZXIiXQ..
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruva:
I had contact the Asus support but no answer. I ask here instead. Do you believe the TF-300 can get Dolby Digital or other 5.1 audio - support in the future over the HDMI. I get it on my Samsung Galaxy 3 and XMBC in Apple-TV2 but not on Asus TF300. If not I must save money to a Android-pad ho can do it.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruva:
Hm, think I must bye a Mele a2000 with Android to get 5.1 over HDMI. But I wonder why Asus don't get us 5.1 support over HDMI?

Tegra 3 support multi sound.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rich.x87:
My question is... Why would you want 5.1 out on your tablet if you have an Apple TV hooked to your TV?

If you want Google Play content, use the SG3
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruva:
Apple TV 2 can only give 720p and when you use XMBC its slow on the little machine. To play non Ituns format you must have XMBC I think.And I want to sell my Apple TV2. Apple free home is a happy home (joking, many people its satisfaction with the Apple "barbed wire fence" and love theirs life).

What is the wonder that you also like to be able to get 5.1 sound out of your plate even if you can get it from your phone?
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruva:
Cofirmed

From Asus support:

So if you like to get 5.1 sound out of your tablet you must get a Samsung.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rich.x87:
It figures... I do remember buying this tab because it was the cheap choice.

I'm really digging the Galaxy Note 10.1.
[About XDA developers] sayeed91:
Any idea when the galaxy ace 2 forums will be created at xda?
[About XDA developers] KidCarter93:
Please use the ***New Device Forum Requests*** forum to make such requests.

''Evil corrupts the mind of the weak but fails to feed off the mind of the strong''
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverHedgehog:
Is it possible to make Android NEVER automatically kills running apps, to have true multitasking like on Maemo and webOS?

I am really sick of it killing apps that I use.

I tried V6 supercharger, but that didn't help... I looked everywhere for an answer, but I never found one.

Surely there is a way to make Android multitask like a proper PC, where it's the user who manages apps?

(And please don't tell me that I should leave it to Android, that it knows better, and etc.)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverHedgehog:
Now, before you start defending Android:

Ever had your browser refresh the page by itself after switching to it?

Ever lost something you were writing when you switched to another app?

Ever had a video pause because you switched from the player?

That shows that Android does NOT have true multitasking.

Now, I see why Google did that - battery life. However there is a new class of devices, where battery life is not such a problem. Tablets.

And yet they still suffer from same issues.

Now, here's an example: the browser. Very often I'd come back to my browser, only to find that it is reloading the page I was on, wasting traffic, and losing whatever text I typed.

That's stupid, right?

I can even track back to what device did this first - the iPhone.

iPhone 1 had 8 times less RAM than your average high end device, yet they still have a similar problem.

So yeah. Not true multitasking. Even in the app switcher, notice that it never says "running apps", only "recent apps" - because it isn't a true multitasking app switcher, just a history of all recent apps you launched.

Go on, scroll to the very top, launch the oldest app on the list. I'm 99% sure that it has restarted. This would've never happened if Android had TRUE multitasking.

Now, there has to be a way to get that. Desktop Linux does it, so Android probably can too.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kuisma:
If you ever notice that the app restarts, it's the app that is badly implemented. All apps must be able to handle a restart by Android transparently to the user by saving its state. If not, tell the app developer to fix it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverHedgehog:
Chrome, Dolphin, Boat, Maxthon, AOSP, ICS Browser+, Opera, Firefox.

That's a list of browsers that have this problem.

Do you really think that they all implemented multitasking wrong?

Again, it's a problem with Android - I don't want apps to save their state so that Android can kill them - I want them to never leave RAM at all.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psychart:
Maybe dont answer all ur questions:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/...lication-is-that-frowned-upon/2034238#2034238

Apps who properly implement onSaveInstanceState() can come back, in case of web browsers is more complex to use it properly, texts or images are simple to imagine how to OS save on "disk" to retrieve later, what about sockets or open files (can be deleted while in background).

Android keep on background until the resources are needed for another task (and maybe a time limit, but dunno for sure), if happen very often w/ u means ur OS r using more resources than what need to keep on background.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gagdude:
Android has true multitasking, but... eh here's a link. Read yourself.

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/04/multitasking-android-way.html?m=1
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverHedgehog:
But is it possible to make it so that apps do not get killed at all, just like in Maemo or a normal PC?

What you showed me is exactly why Android does not have true multitasking: it uses stuff like services to actually have less things running - and I don't want that. I want all apps to truly stay in the background - so a YouTube video would continue playing, just like when I minimize the browser on my PC, and etc.

I understand why that isn't the default behavior on phones, but it could be really useful on a tablet.

I don't want to be at mercy of app developers - since even Google messes up: every time I switch out of Google Talk, I lose what I was typing.

I'd much rather have a limited amount of apps that I can launch at a time, and be able to manage what I want to keep open myself.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gagdude:
What you are asking for is basically to completely change core Android behavior.

Sorry, but its just not possible
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Quinny899:
It is possible, because it's been done. There was a guy who did it over on the V6 supercharger thread, but I don't think the how he did it was ever released. Instead it was developed into a "kill apps only when ram is REALLY needed" method, which could run up to 20 apps at a time on some phones apparently
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ryanalan82:
I get what you are talking about but I'd say is what device your using. My eVo 4g lte's was written screwed up by HTC. Maybe yours is like that too. My rom maker and other devs have done many fixes for it. It has got better but my eVo and eVo 3d still multitask better, and it is true multitasking. It doesn't work like I'm talking about on all devices, but for u to say it's all of Android.......... It's not.

Swyped from my eVo
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spunker88:
The mulittasking in Android has some limits which are quite annoying. On my Droid 3 apps that I haven't used will start in the background and waste RAM so there isn't enough RAM to multitask and the device is laggy. I tried rooting and freezing bloatware, but other apps have just filled the void by automatically running in the background. I really wish the user had more control over multitasking. Unless I open an app I don't want it to start in the background, even if there is enough free RAM. But Motorola makes some pretty bad software so this could be the issue.

On my Touchpad with CM9 multitasking is quite a bit better. Not sure if its having 1GB of RAM, improvements in ICS, or just CM but you can actually run several programs at once without them closing, so my browser pages stay loaded.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverHedgehog:
Then how come this was possible on iOS?

My iPad 1 was a multitasking beast with just 2 tweaks - Swap and Backgrounder.

Everything was smooth. And yet I can't get the same on devices with 4 times more RAM?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeppelinrox:
Did it weeks ago. Maximum Overdrive to bypass Maximum hidden app limit.

Just grab the Ultimate Jar PowerTools script or the windows exe version.

http://goo.gl/1JPl8

Also read Post 2 of the thread for a link to the windows.exe

Currently hacking Sense 4+ which seems to be working well.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1900626
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverHedgehog:
Tried V6 - but apps I bulletproofed still get killed.

So yeah. Looks like the only thing I can do is wait until webOS gets ported to my tablet...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeppelinrox:
Did you patch services.jar with the multitasking mods?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverHedgehog:
Yes, with "Jelly ISCream Automatic Patcher".

V6 script showed me that I'm 100% supercharged.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kurotsugi:
well...I didn't experienced these kind of problem before. android indeed has good multitasking stuff. the number of app running on background depend on the ram size. you can't expect to run such heavy app with huge ram consumption on such device with low ram. anyway, you can try to play with minfree stuff. try to minimilize the value :P
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The-Captain:
The Note 10.1 can have side by side applications, is this what you kinda mean?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeppelinrox:
Well the latest one is actually called Ultimate Jar Power Tools so if you ran that, and enable Maximum Multitasking Mods, then you should be getting better multitasking/app reloads.

The windows exe would do the same thing of course and is up to date.... well until I update it later cause I'm adding the Sense 4 mod.

Any idea about how many apps you can run before vs after?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeppelinrox:
oops... double post
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverHedgehog:
well, this issue wasn't that bad for me on Gingerbread.

I want something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hX_binee0w

While it allows just one app onscreen, notice how in the app switcher videos continue playing. that's what I want, for background apps to not just get cached, but to continue running.

well, I don't know the exact number, but it is more than before.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JunDavis:
If you don't like it go get your self a real pc. Its the apps your using that you want changed. Ask the developers.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kurotsugi:
I wonder...how much ram did you have?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The-Captain:
Ya I got you, I have a touchpad, but it's bricked.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverHedgehog:
Heh, that's just ****ing ironic.

When I had this issue on an iPad, I went to an Apple forum, and they gave me a list of tweaks that solved my problem.

And then there's you.

"Don't like it don't use it" is the lamest excuse.

1GB, the standard for Android. Nokia N900 has 256MB.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverHedgehog:
This is a screenshot from my old iPad (sold it). 14 apps running, and it's still usable. Not once did any crash on me. The only downside was that apps I didn't touch in a while would take a bit (about 5 seconds or so) to reopen, but it's probably because they were in swap.

So yeah. If an iPad can do this, surely Android can??
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Quinny899:
Not because they were in swap, but because they were cached. There's a significant difference there
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverHedgehog:
No, they weren't cached. They were actually running, thinking they're active. This was before iOS 4 - iOS didn't even cache apps before that release.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kurotsugi:
I didn't understand why did you couldn't get it with your 1gb ram. even when I was using my lil galaxy y with only 290 ram I still could have at least 3 app running in background. with only 512 mb ram in my new device I could have 5 app running in the background--and still have approx 200mb ram for another app. for the video stuff, most video player for android are designed so that it will be closed automatically if you switch to another app or use back button to minimize. it's not android system's fault if you can't run video in background. it's the app fault.

if you want to maximize your multitasking stuff in your device you might want to use an app like startup manager to manage your apps. android system have unique system to run the app. some of app are designed to automatically run at certain even like: turn on music player, put headset, access setting, turn on wifi etc. with app like startup manager you can manage those app and turn them on only when you really need it. in this way you'll got a lot of RAM space for multitasking.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverHedgehog:
As I said before, it appears to be an ICS problem.

My Galaxy Note multitasked much better on Gingerbread, than on ICS.

And I tried startup managers and etc., but sadly they didn't help me out too much.

And to be honest, I don't really see a solution.

I mentioned multitasking for iPad before - this was on iOS 3.2, before Apple's official multitasking was released. After that, I wasn't able to truly multitask anymore.

Same problem here.

We have the source code for Android, but I'm hardly a good programmer - I really doubt I'll be able to tweak anything right. That's why I'm coming to XDA, surely somebody here knows how to stop this all from happening.

Anyway, let me expand on iOS a little bit. There's this jailbreak tweak, called Backgrounder.

You could use it to choose how apps behave in background. You could either force close them every time (how iOS was before multitasking), enable 'native' multitasking (how it is since iOS 4), and finally enable true multitasking (the app thinks it is in foreground - so a video would continue playing and etc.).

Sadly nothing like this exists for Android.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lokeshsaini94:
Auto closing of apps can be decreased by changing default api values in a file of which name I don't remember right now... It involves kernel ticking... Maybe...

There are 5 of those lines ... 1 is foreground app(dexida's kitchen has options to change those) ... Changing there values can be very effective... But keep in mind that if you do that then you can get out of ram.. So do it if you have lots of ram...

All these default values are set to make your phone faster and providing ram to more important applications according to system which are stock launcher etc ...

Example When we clear ram and directly return to homescreen, stock launcher opens instantly but 3rd party launchers restarts... That's because system is set to an api value that closes all apps other than system apps as they have lesser api value than system apps...

You can also change api value of each app by editing apk I guess...

Correct me if I am wrong somewhere... :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverHedgehog:
Yeah, but it's not really that effective on ICS I think. You need to set these values before compiling the kernel for everything to work right.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lokeshsaini94:
Maybe you can edit those values by using kitchen... I know ics eats lots of ram but you can Atleast less api value of apps you use less...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kurotsugi:
have you turn off the trigger of those app? I am in ICS with only half ram space of you. my multitasking stuff is--superb :P

I feel bad doing this but please allow me to explain it a lil bit further. android ram management works in a very easy way. as long as we have ram free space, our app will be placed there. when the ram free space hit certain value some of the app will be closed to give space for foreground app. these value is stored inside the minfree stuff. this guy have good explanation on it

a lil correction, we have 6 parameter. foreground, visible, secondary server, hidden, content provider, empty app. and it's not API, its app adj value. you can type cat /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameter/minfree to check the minfree value or replace minfree with adj to see the adj parameter value. you can also change the value with echo command or use certain app to modify it. based on your explanation you might have installed more than 30 app in your device. that's totally normal if you have such ram usage.

well...I need a certain info about your device. if you don't mind, let's do a lil test with your system. I suppose you remember all the app which have been turned off in your startup manager. now, go to setting>app. tap on the "running" tab. check both running and cached processes and see if you still could find those app. if the answer is no, I can't help you further and you didn't need to read the rest of this post. if the answer is yes, then you could read it to find another solution for your device.

the common mistake on using app like startup manager is that most of us only kill "run at startup" app trigger (I don't know if I called the right name but I usually call it app trigger. it's an event which trigger an app running). we actually still have "sdcard inserted", "music played", "camera used", "wifi enabled", "gps enabled". etc etc...we have a lot of app trigger. when people are complaining how bad their multitasking are, I usually find that they didn't turn off these trigger for their apps or in some "funny" case they didn't have root permission so that the startup manager app didn't working. I assume that you already rooted your device. now, you can try to turn off those app trigger and modify your minfree stuff. for the minfree stuff you can try with this value (3857,5182,6508,8556,9881,10240). this isn't a good value to get an aggressive system but it should good for multitasking stuff. good luck

EDIT: I didn't saw the post above. the default value is stored inside the kernel ramdisk. if you're capable of modifying it, you can check into init.rc file and change the value of minfree stuff. it's difficult for common user. If you're rooted I highly recommend to use apps or terminal command to modify them.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lokeshsaini94:
Yup... Almost Every thing running on Android is an app.... Thank for explaining and correcting me..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverHedgehog:
I tried setting every value to 0 - using a variety of tools. Didn't change anything at all.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreammaker23:
Read here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=31103577
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverHedgehog:
Tried it, didn't work.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverHedgehog:
Well, the best solution for now seems to get Open webOS running on my tablet :V