yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BigSplit:
That has more to do with specific hardware then brand name.
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Quetzalcoatl:
processor and RAM mainly.

My 4gb dualcore would take around 5-6 hours to compile from source lol

Its just a matter of how much time you're willing to wait really.
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chad The Pathfinder:
Jesuscash, I looked at your computer on line and it blows my hp away. 5-6 hours to compile from source? Wow!
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Quetzalcoatl:
Yeah, but this laptop isnt exactly in tip-top shape lol

It overheats a lot and the battery is on the ****s.

It took me 5 hours to convert a pdf of scanned images into a pdf with searchable text, and that was setting the process' priority to high. The pdf was a gb though lol

It lagged so bad that I clicked on the firefox icon and it opened up 30 minutes later lol

I'm investing in a high-end gaming desktop rig when my next round of college money comes in, just because.

I rarely game, but I've been craving a powerful machine for years now. and who knows. I may start learning to dev again :)

My current desktop has 184mb of ram and it runs ubuntu 9.10 like a champ.
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chad The Pathfinder:
Next question. Intel or AMD?
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prboy1969:
I like both, but I lean more more towards AMD. Although my current Laptop is Intel, and I have no regrets with it :D.

TEAM MiK

MikROMs Since 3/13/11
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chad The Pathfinder:
I've used AMD most in the past because at the time they seemed less expensive....
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chad The Pathfinder:
Is there really a difference between the two processors or does it just come down to, do you want a Ford Crown Vvictoria or a Lincoln Towncar? Is one really better than the other?
[EVO Shift 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cdrury88:
As an amd user I love it. I have a quad core black edition and I can overclock to 3.6 without an issue. I do a lot of gaming so I run crossfire to. The only downside is that I've found that some software, mostly games, don't play nice with my gfx cards. But I feel you get more bang for your buck with amd. There is a difference between a quad core from amd and Intel. Intel will always beat out the amd card in something but they are close. Amd always wins in price though. Just my 2 cents
[LG Optimus Black] SalmanSH1:
what is scope about fsync in zeus tweaker ?

plz help
[LG Optimus Black] I_SBerg:
It has 10x zoom and red dot on the center. Has night vision and wind speed & direction calculation. It fits on most military spec long barreled rifles. :D
[LG Optimus Black] SalmanSH1:
:rolleyes:
[LG Optimus Black] Duumke1:
Nothing personal......
[LG Optimus Black] N00BY0815:
OMG guys I just lolled sooo hard :D Thanks ;)
[LG Optimus Black] Duumke1:
After some searching i found this.

But i have no idea what you mean with your question.

Looks to me it's not a "zeus" specific function. Huexxx only added a function in his Zeus Tweaker tool to enable/disable the fsync function. It's a "disable at your own risk" feature. Turn it off nd you might get some screwed up files after a crash.

=================================

Android will do the sync when it needs to -- such as when the screen turns off, shutting down the device, etc. If you are just looking at "normal" operation, explicit sync by applications is never needed.

The problem comes when the user pulls the battery out of their device (or does a hard reset of the kernel), and you want to ensure you don't lose any data.

So the first thing to realize: the issue is when power is suddenly lost, so a clean shutdown can not happen, and the question of what is going to happen in persistent storage at that point.

If you are just writing a single independent new file, it doesn't really matter what you do. The user could have pulled the battery while you were in the middle of writing, right before you started writing, etc. If you don't sync, it just means there is some longer time from when you are done writing during which pulling the battery will lose the data.

The big concern here is when you want to update a file. In that case, when you next read the file you want to have either the previous contents, or the new contents. You don't want to get something half-way written, or lose the data.

This is often done by writing the data in a new file, and then switching to that from the old file. Prior to ext4 you knew that, once you had finished writing a file, further operations on other files would not go on disk until the ones on that file, so you could safely delete the previous file or otherwise do operations that depend on your new file being fully written.

However now if you write the new file, then delete the old one, and the battery is pulled, when you next boot you may see that the old file is deleted and new file created but the contents of the new file is not complete. By doing the sync, you ensure that the new file is completely written at that point so can do further changes (such as deleting the old file) that depend on that state.
[LG Optimus Black] SalmanSH1:
why?
[LG Optimus Black] SalmanSH1:
very nice & fulll
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrjraider:
Hi,

Recently i tried to flash a modded SystemUI. I made an backup before flashing (duhh).

However, every time i tried to restore it gets stuck at restoring system and sometimes it gives an error.

So i tried to reflash stock samsung, even with ODIN it hangs at System.img.ext4 download.

With some luck i managed to get ShadowROM working and my phone works however, i still dont trust it. So i made a backup and again at restoring it gets stuck at restoring System.

Even ADB push and pull doenst work with debugging enabled...

Did i just ruined my phone?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xsenman:
Have you tried to Format everything in CWM before flashing New ROM?
[Galaxy S III General] graffixnyc:
Guys,

There has been so many "Which is the best ROM?" and "Which is the best kernel?" threads lately.

This is a reminder.. these kind of threads are NOT allowed.

Why are they not allowed? Well because that the best rom and kernel for me might be the worst for someone else. It's subjective. It's like asking who the hottest girl in the world is. Or which sports car is the best. If you ask 100 people you will get 100 different answers.

The best advice is to try them all and figure out which one is best for YOU and YOUR needs. Not based on what's best for someone else.

I have just been closing these threads but I'm going to start to hand out official warnings if it continues.
[Galaxy S III General] AndreiLux:
I understand the moral conundrum in saying that A is better than thing B, such things are not subjective but can be substantiated through facts. You can disallow saying that one or the other is better with idiotic posts "because lolz its awesome", but any other comparison is empiric and valid. The one and only thing this does not apply is aesthetics of themes.

Please stop the stupefying XDA as a community for the sake of political correctness with such half though-through policies, it's destroying this site as a real resource.
[Galaxy S III General] graffixnyc:
Do you understand how many reports we get on threads where someone is asking "what's the best rom?", "What's the best rom for battery life", "what's the best kernel?"

The rules state these types of threads are not allowed. I just enforcing the rule. If you do not agree with the rule then I suggest you take it up with the Admins that make the rules not the mods that are enforcing them. I know I close at least 5 of these types of threads a day and it's our community that also finds them undesirable and this is why when there is a thread like this created tons of users report them.

These ARE subjective because what is the best for one person sucks for another. It depends on the person's needs and preferences. For some people AOSP based roms are best, for others not so much. The only way someone can find what the best rom for them is to try them all.

And I must disagree. Cluttering our community with pointless threads is doing more damage to the community than enforcing the rules..

As I have said, if you have a problem with the rules then take it up with the higher powers not the person enforcing them
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Uhm, has anyone so far ever posted a comment/thread where one's saying that rom A is better than rom B and then provided facts? Then again, who'd bother reading them? The average XDA user probably doesn't even care about a wall-post of differences between roms.
[Galaxy S III General] JJEgan:
I don't see the problem as asking is A better than B .

The problem is ten posts a day every day of the week asking the exact same question does this forum no good at all .

In that respect why not a specific whats the best rom only thread for all such posts .

But to be honest i don't believe that will stop the multiple whats the best posts .

jje
[Galaxy S III General] jerdog:
Comparing ROMs is relatively useless because I dare say there isn't one person in this entire XDA community that has their device setup EXACTLY like yours (ROM, KERNEL, Apps, etc.). So because of that the comparisons become subjective and usually someone tries to grow their epeen and then it becomes null and void.

An acceptable alternative would be a "ROM Comparison Thread" - but that will just become convoluted.
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Even if two people had their phones set up completely alike, they would still perform differently. The quality of the chip silicon can vary a whole lot. Most noticeable in what a user can stably overclock to.
[Galaxy S III General] AndreiLux:
Solution:

This. Do this single thing in a substantive and quality manner and sticky it, let it be editorialized, and you have your problem gone.

Ever since this forum opened every single comparison thread has been bombarded with posts complaining the thread goes against the rules, rather than there being any kind of problem with the thread content itself, that's why it devolves into a cluster-**** and the moderators get that many reports. 8 out of 10 posts are about people bashing on the OP for being an idiot because he's "going against the rule". The rule itself is causing more problems than the people asking these questions in the first place.

Because you're doing a subjective comparison again. A objective comparison is saying:

ROM A has these and these features, those features bring advantage X and Y.

Kernel 1 has feature Z and therefore is more battery efficient than kernels who don't have Z.

I don't understand why this is so hard to do. Educate the masses.
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
AndreiLux, honestly, who the hell cares?
[Galaxy S III General] AndreiLux:
Is that question for real? Is this what one gets for trying to improve the quality of the community? ... I'm sorry then and I'll leave, if nobody really cares.
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Don't leave. I'm nobody.
[Galaxy S III General] nhariamine:
i like Best rom Posts,it make my stomach vibrate and make me try many Roms to be convinced.
[Galaxy S III General] kofiaa:
Your stomach vibrating is a sign of gas held in for too long, or hunger.

If you want to change roms, the best thing to do is read the different rom threads and try the ones that interest you. Don't start a whole new thread.
[Galaxy S III General] nhariamine:
hahahaha,nice!!!:laugh:
[Galaxy S III General] graffixnyc:
I guess we can try that. having a dedicated thread for it. We will see how that goes. If we are making one for ROMS we should also make one for Kernels because there are a lot of "what is the best kernel" threads as well.. If it lessens the amount of threads we get on the matter significantly then good.

If one of you guys wants to create the OP (Looks at JJEgan) that would be great and then I'll sticky them. If not I can create them but I wont have the time until tomorrow night
[Galaxy S III General] slaphead20:
I like the idea of a sticky, however I have always had a reservation about these things as they encourage "fanboyism" for want of a better phrase, this could in turn lead to the same old exchange of idiotic tit for tat.

Furthermore, and more importantly, the whole thing could be deemed as incredibly disheartening for up and coming, but less experienced, developers.

So yes, I agree that Andrielux has a good point about objective analysis of what a Rom provides, but I remain sceptical as to whether it would work out there, in the cesspool that was, at one time, an invigorating and intellectually stimulating environment.

XDA really has become a victim of its own success in that respect sadly.

I'm just grateful to ALL developers for their great work and to XDA for sharing it with us......and to all the staff who battle on trying to keep this place orderly and decent.
[Galaxy S III General] jinosong:
You're absolutely correct. This forum stands to educate the masses. The more people are educated, more good will come about. Having said that, everyone is on different levels of knowledge. We have to be able to educate the new users in an efficient and effective way. Having a thread that debates the merits and faults of different ROMs is an excellent way to educate people, Heck, I don't have time to test 100 different ROMs and I don't want to read thousands of pages of threads to find the BEST ROM.

Who Cares? I do. You know what's ironic? Check out FORUM RULE #10.

10. Help others if you can.

If you see posts from others where you can help out, please do. This place exists because people are helping each other, and even if you are relatively new to the matter, there's probably already quite a few people newer than you that would benefit from what you've learned. DON'T BE SHY.
[Galaxy S III General] JohnnyEpic:
So. Is ROM A the best one out there?

Sorry. I couldn't resist. You make very valid points.

Sent from the Mars Rover.
[Galaxy S III General] jinosong:
I like B better because of the battery life.

Honestly though, Omega v27 is the beast of all ROMs and the stats prove it.

Personally, I always use stock but over 4 million thread visits impressive.
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Admins and mods, I'm going to have to completely agree with Slappy here. You're going to encourage fanboy-ism and this will lead to a lot of hate and division in the community.

Do you know what's going on right now? We have threads for specific ROMs where no one bashes each other. People stay with their fellow custom ROM users. If you merge all these warring nations into one thread, I'm afraid you're going to have to deal with a lot more than closing a couple of threads each week. People are going to swear non-stop and abuse specific custom ROM developers (which will be harmful for the developers and the substantial amount of hard work they're putting into their work day and night).

I've created the General Thread for that very reason- if people have issues/questions/problems, then they can come and discuss it with all of the helpful lads in the General Thread instead of making an inordinate amount of extra threads that clutter this great community.
[Galaxy S III General] ceo.mtcl:
^^This^^ is exactly why this thread was created by graffixnyc. The best statistics that this guy can provide is four million hits. In that sense you would assume that andreilux's kernel is the worst one?

☞ sent from GS3 or Nexus
[Galaxy S III General] slaphead20:
^^^^^^ I can only sit back and laugh at the audacity of someone posting such an invalid reason as to why a Rom is best.....in a thread created by a mod in order to stamp out best Rom threads! I do agree that this is a perfect reason to not have best Rom threads.

I do however still agree with AndreiLuxs utopian idea, simply because, like him,I am ever hopeful that these things can succeed.

If the OP of the thread where to contain instructions on what was acceptable to post, with a stern warning about what was acceptable, and the penalty for not complying.....then I would personally be quite happy to keep a regular eye on proceedings and report back if things go amiss.

However, this may, possibly inevitably, lead to an increase in workload for the mods that they may not need or want!
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
*cough* Slappy for moderator *cough*
[Galaxy S III General] slaphead20:
ha ha, someone recently recommended me for RC status, not something I even realised I could apply for, but was most welcome, as a compliment if nothing else!

Honest,I didn't do it! :D
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Well, mate, you honestly deserve it! Look at the number of likes you have! That's more than what some developers have!!! :D

Not that "thanks" are the sole reason of judgement. Everybody likes you and you never lose your calm. You'd be perfect for moderation! :highfive:
[Galaxy S III General] JJEgan:
RC better CE

jje
[Galaxy S III General] slaphead20:
come on jj, explain what CE means?

And if anyone else has a go at you for helping I'm gonna chew their freakin heads off! :thumbup::D:thumbup:
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Lol, imagine me as a RC. *shrug*

Now let's think of something better. ;)
[Galaxy S III General] nanavati1:
Ditto
[Galaxy S III General] JohnnyEpic:
So. He's a better RC cause of the likes he has? (yes, I just did)

So, then Rom B is not better from the views?

I'm simply stating the obvious hilarity in this entire discussion. You guys have made a silly thread in to the most intelligent, intellectual, mature discussion I've ever seen about a thread creating issue. Love it, honestly.

Really. I bet you. If they didn't bother to search, read, or edumacate themselves to begin with, what makes you think they will find that thread?

To be honest, it doesn't matter what Rom A does over Rom B for the most part. Its the thread and the people who are in it that can sometimes ultimately make a ROM what it is. (TPR is an example) Perhaps a thread with screen shots, and features list w/ links might help, because one thing is for certain, YMMV in these situations.

Sent from the Mars Rover.

---------- Post added at 08:02 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:58 AM ----------

One more thing. Reading some of slap's post on here and in this thread, definitely qualified for RC imho.

Sent from the Mars Rover.
[Galaxy S III General] slaphead20:
@JohnnyEpic

Must admit the thanks comment made me cringe a bit, but Dead SOL is a great lad with only good intentions, and thanks for the compliment :)
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Please read my entire comment instead of taking things out of context:

Not that "thanks" are the sole reason of judgement. -That's what I also said in the same comment.

Judging from this, I guess you meant no offense so... It's all cool, man. :highfive:
[Galaxy S III General] JohnnyEpic:
I meant no offense. My sarcasm sometimea gets in the way of humor. Apologies if I came off that way. May have been a bad attempt at humor using the 'Rom A/Person with Likes is better than Rom B/Person with not as many likes'.

You guys do need to realize that no matter what thread rules or one that you create, the massive influx of users Samsung has managed to gain in the Android space (20+ million?) and the ever so fast pace of popularity of XDA as the GOTO site, the # of passerbys or people seeking a quick solution without effort, of which a lot have never participated in a 'community oriented forum' will still post these questions.

'What is the best Rom?'

'What is the best way to root?'

'Where can I get wifi hotspothack?'

And my personal favorite.

'When will you release it?'

:eek:

Sent from the Mars Rover.
[Galaxy S III General] AbuYahya:
Single thread

maybe if we had a single thread where every one who wished to discuss

"Your Favourite ROM, mod, kernel, underwear etc Thread"

and all requests would go there!

it would keep it tidy, and the rest of us could ignore it!

EDIT

sorry just read some of the earlier posts. ---this has already been suggested
[Galaxy S III General] AbuYahya:
Here is a long example of such an illegal thread (don't tell the admins otherwise some moderators might get fired)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=24511165

Sent from my .... using ...... app ( take a guess )
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
It's all good, my man. :laugh:
[Galaxy S III General] gibazzz:
i used to own an i9000 and now i have upgraded to an i9300.

something's got me puzzled, why isn't the cm10 rom not as followed,downloaded,appreciated for the i9300 as for the i9000?
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Haha. That's because the I9000 is stuck on Gingerbread. We already have Ice-Cream Sandwich and Jellybean. :p

Don't get me wrong, though. Cyanogenmod is the BEST thing to happen to Android. :)
[Galaxy S III General] gibazzz:
true but from what i saw by reading a couple of threads that cm10 is not even out of the top 10 roms for the sgs3

---------- Post added at 12:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:54 AM ----------

for the record, i'm stuck on ics and actually some things are faster on my cm10 running sgs than on stock sgs3.

example: opening the contacts app which lags as hell on the sgs3
[Galaxy S III General] JohnnyEpic:
What the hey were we talking about anyways?

:eek:

Sent from the Mars Rover.
[Galaxy S III General] droidis:
Allow me to place a comment as a junior...

First I would like to say that I agree with graffixnyc on the objectivity of the comparisons. People want to know what is the best ROM for their phones. Why is this not allowed? If I would ask you which car is the best a ferrari or a cinquecento, would you reply that none is the best? But we all would prefer to have a ferrari than a cinquecento, or not?

So, why I should try first 20 ROMS before I get my phone working as I want, or working at all? Why the devices are treated as something holy just like the developers? Why I' m not allowed to say something bad about my phone or the ROM I run? Why cannot I complain? Should I be happy that a I don't have a working phone since 2 years? Well, I'm not happy to instal a ROM and after some days I discover that the WiFi is not working, the launcher is crashing and so on...Why is just take it or leave it? Is this the meaning of the community? Are the developers developing for themselves and not for the community and we the users are like "guinea pigs"? Take the example of the galnetmiui. The developer did in my opinion an excellent job. Why I'm I allowed to comment positively for his work and I cannot comment negatively or complain for a bad work of another developer?

The comparisons are the driving force in this world. If everything was the same then we would have no Samsung, no iphones, no Nokias...But we prefer to buy Samsung and not Apple for some reasons and we have to compare first. Without comparison there is no competition and there is no improvement. It's logical that since the developers are putting effort and time and are doing it for free we cannot expect that much but they have to be open to the opinions of the people, to the community, otherwise it is just no community. And of course I' m not saying to insult each other but If you don't react there is no change, no improvement.

And again, If someone is offended with my post and want to insult me, as it is very common here, particularly for the fanboys, don't even bother. And even If the admins think my post is offending they can delete my post and throw me out of the forum. No problem, that's only my opinion.