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[AT&T LG Optimus G] n1mr0d:
Not yet. The current rom is mostly stock with a lot of the cruft removed.

With the folks I see on irc working on this, I would imagine that more rom choices are not far away.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] seh6183:
Root and use titanium backup to freeze fast dormancy.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] n1mr0d:
If only it were that simple. It's not a separate application that can be frozen that I've found.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] seh6183:
There's a process called modem fast dormancy that can be frozen.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] n1mr0d:
I'd love to see that. Screen shot please?
[AT&T LG Optimus G] seh6183:
Middle of the page
[AT&T LG Optimus G] n1mr0d:
I don't seem to have that...
[AT&T LG Optimus G] seh6183:
Yes but directly below it is what's being discussed.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] n1mr0d:
I saw that just after. I don't have that.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] NotablyNice:
SMH...um no
[AT&T LG Optimus G] seh6183:
Yea well that's because it's from a different motorla phone. I assumed it would be the same.

I assumed wrong.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] n1mr0d:
Thanks. I was starting to think i was going crazy and missing something terribly obvious.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] faisalsiddiqui:
Sir, I just wanted to see if you have been able to find a solution as yet? I really love the phone but if we can't fix this I will have no choice but to return my phone and I am closing in on that return Window.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] n1mr0d:
Not yet.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] vwauditech:
I'm having a serious amount of wakeups from com.android.phone as well. Specifically action_check_netstat

If anyone has a solution I would gladly reward you via PayPal. If you need more info find me on Google at kevsppc

Thanks
[AT&T LG Optimus G] BoostedSR20:
Yeah I'm getting horrible bad battery life also.. the phone is NEVER in deep sleep. I've just installed Better Battery Stats, guess I'm probably going to find the same thing..
[AT&T LG Optimus G] faisalsiddiqui:
There is an option to disable fast dormancy in the secret menu but it does not seem to help, I am posting it here so that someone more intelligent can come up with a solution which can help all of us;

3845#*970#>WCDMA Only>Modem Setting>PDP Setting>Set Fast Dormancy>Off
[AT&T LG Optimus G] avus_m3:
Was this resolved in the OTA update?
[AT&T LG Optimus G] vwauditech:
You didn't notice any difference at all? Are you in a LTE area?
[AT&T LG Optimus G] faisalsiddiqui:
No there is no difference at all. I am in an LTE area but I get very crappy signal at my home so I have set up an att micro cell which gives a 3g signal and when I am home my phone never goes to sleep and the process keeps it awake.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] Cojam1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8L50sCY7CI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Since you guys are talking about fast dormancy, I did a little searching and found this nice piece of info. Hope it helps.
[AT&T LG Optimus G] jonasl:
If you're rooted, please try this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2018894
[AT&T LG Optimus G] BoostedSR20:
Thanks for this, I'll give it a shot when I get home.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fidorulz:
I have been using Paranoid ROM for a while and wanted to try some of the new samsung roms to see.

I have tried several ROMs like Fox Hound and MS Team HD 6.0 with various theme options and in all cases only get default stock ROM theme once the install is finished.

Some people told me this is due to Siyah kernel and duel boot but I dont kow how to fix it.

I formatted and wiped my internal memory as well as system and same thing.

I dont like the stock samsung theme and wanted other one buts if I cant fix this issue ill be stuff using Paranoid for a while

Any ideas on what is causing this and how to fix it?

Thanks
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fidorulz:
Anyone? I'm sure I'm not the only one with this issue
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Planet X:
If you have the Samsung ROM as your second ROM make sure you boot into 2nd ROM recovery through stweaks.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fidorulz:
But that's the thing I'm not using a 2nd rom just the kernel. Some people where saying that since this kernel creates another sd card partition or something the themes and stuff get installed there.

Here is what I did.

Format and wipe internal, system, caches and did a factory reset

Ran Mike revolution cleaning script

Ran kernel cleaning script

This should remove any lingering kernel stuff

Then try to install any rom.

I always end up with stock Samsung theme for all the roms

I don't know what to do as this is the most screwed up issue I have had
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fidorulz:
Found out the issue is caused by TWP recovery. Seems it wont support themes for some reason but CWM works

Find it odd that a recovery would prevent theme installs
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] EvoYas:
Ok guys, I have a quick question. I bought a T Mobile SGS2 brand new and will be unlocking it with which ever site I can find to buy the code off of. But my question is that, if I root it and flash custom roms on it and all that we do with our Android devices, will it be locked again after a flash or root.

Reason why I am asking is because I will be sending this phone to a family member outside of US but before that I will root and flash CM10 on it.

So can someone please tell me if it will stay unlocked?

Sent from my GT-N7100
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] premiatul:
Once unlocked - forever unlocked, no matter the Rom.

To unlock, you need to be on the original T-mo Rom and you

can request from T-mo Tech. support the unlock code for free.

:cool:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] EvoYas:
Awesome news, now.I wont have a problem sending the phone. Thank you for your response, appreciated.

Sent from my GT-N7100
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] w1ll1am23:
T-Mobile will not unlock

Hello I just wanted to let anyone who stumbles across this to know that T-Mobile will not unlock the phone if you are not currently a T-Mobile customer. I was able to unlock my phone using cellunlocker.net for $25.
[Nexus 4 Android Development] goldfingerfif:
Here is the dsixda kitchen edify file I have been using for Nexus 4 (mako).

If using cygwin copy mako file to your cygwin\home\username\tools\edify_defs folder.

Thanks to mskip for mount points

UPDATE:

As promised download the dsixda_JB42.zip and copy the files to the appropriate folder. This will help with Deodexing and by help I mean it will allow all files to be deodexed.
[Nexus 4 Android Development] nitsuajd:
Hi goldfingerfif, first of all thanks a lot for the file, then I would like to use this to build a rom with latest dsixda kitchen release (0.214) but when I’m trying to deodex core.odex I’m getting an error, only with this file, the others works fine. Did you have the same problem? How do you solve it? I tried to do it with api level 16 and 15 but I have the same error. Maybe you did it manually? Or using the kitchen?

Thanks in advance
[Nexus 4 Android Development] goldfingerfif:
I'll upload the other changes...I forgot I changed api to 17 and updated smali and baksmali and the version to use file.
[Nexus 4 Android Development] EddyOS:
Was about to say about updating the smali/baksmali files - I did all that but it was this file I was missing so thanks a lot!
[Nexus 4 Android Development] goldfingerfif:
Updated OP
[Nexus 4 Android Development] nitsuajd:
Thanks so much!!

Edit: I'm Having troubles with wifi like you with my dsixda's rom, can you tell me how you solved it please?
[Nexus 4 Android Development] goldfingerfif:
I haven't found the script file to add some things that it misses. You can compare the updater-script against mine or I'll post the lines you have to add.
[Nexus 4 Android Development] nitsuajd:
Thanks dude, you're right!

Exactly these two lines:

symlink("/data/misc/wifi/WCNSS_qcom_cfg.ini", "/system/vendor/firmware/wlan/prima/WCNSS_qcom_cfg.ini");
symlink("/data/misc/wifi/WCNSS_qcom_wlan_nv.bin", "/system/vendor/firmware/wlan/prima/WCNSS_qcom_wlan_nv.bin");
[Nexus 4 Android Development] dsixda:
Were you guys using Cygwin when you saw this issue? I know that Cygwin sometimes messes up the symlinks that are not under /system/bin; whereas Linux / OS X are sometimes nicer. In other words, I try not to recommend Cygwin due to these kinds of issues.
[Nexus 4 Android Development] dsixda:
@goldfingerfif - thanks for the edify_defs file. I've updated the kitchen to add Nexus 4 support in version 0.216.
[Nexus 4 Android Development] KidCarter93:
I've just added this to the Nexus 4 Complete Index :)
[Nexus 4 Android Development] goldfingerfif:
I was using Cygwin
[Nexus 4 Android Development] dsixda:
The Windows application that is used to extract the files from the rom has an issue because it removes the symlinks. You will not see this happen in Linux or OS X. However, I have fixed your problem for those specific files in Cygwin.
[Nexus 4 Android Development] goldfingerfif:
Yes I just picked up a 120gb ssd and going to dual boot with Linux as it will make life with android so much easier.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Daiskei:
Hey guys,

I'm currently trying to come up with some sort of fix for the camera saving pics in the wrong orientation...

Does anyone maybe know a JB rom that happens to not have the issue where mms rotates the pics before you send them? Liquid or something?

Thanks in advance!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] iNeedICS:
Pm me when u find out I would. Love to know the same :D

Sent from my iPad 2 (and I'm not proud of it-_-)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thatdude02:
I don't think PACman has any issues on orientation. Plus super smooth and a blend of Paranoid Android, Cyanogen Mod, and AOKP. It's a beauty
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] testrider:
Hi,

I just rooted my TMobile SGS2 T-989 and everything went fine. I got root.

Then I like to do a nandroid backup before I do anything further. I was able

to go into CWM 5.0.2.7 and selected 'backup', it went on for a while

until it gets to:

Backing up data...

Can't mount /data!

and stopped and put me back in the main menu.

What was the problem and how do I do it?

Thank you!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] testrider:
My SGS2 is running ICS 4.0.4 and I looked in /data and it's empty. It did create a folder with 3 files on my external SD card. Does it mean I'm ok?

Actually it's not empty. ES File Explorer showed a lot of files in /data...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Falco:
I have the same issue that I said in an earlier thread, still couldn't find a solution
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] testrider:
Did you turn on encryption? I did. I wonder if /data was encrypted that CWM couldn't do a backup? When I booted up in recovery, it did not ask me for the password to decrypt.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] testrider:
Solved:

I decrypted the internal storage (settings->security->decrypt) and did a nandroid backup again and now everything is fine. So it was the encryption that prevented the /data to be mounted.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -Falco:
It doesn't let me encrypt my sd card, I can't click anything, when I go to settings>security> encrypt sd card
[Galaxy S III General] Kojaes:
i can only open about 3-4 app before my ram is full and its forcing to closing app . seriously ? wtf is this .

i feel like this phone is worse than n95 .

if i open a web page one youtube link and i still have in memory my message app it will start closing app and sometime it even close the Touch wiz widget so they have to re appear and load for 4 second . i cant believe they only putted 1gb of ram with all there touchwiz bloarware.
[Galaxy S III General] jseb14:
Ram issues

Check what apps are running on the background, i would check primarily things you log into that are always logged in like FB, Gtalk, Skype. although even with all those running you shouldnt have issues, maybe try doing a cache and dalvik cache wipe reboot and check changes.

MY BEST FIX is rooting, flashing an AOSP based rom that normally for me they use 350 to 400mb on a normal basis instead of 550-600mb in a sammy based rom.
[Galaxy S III General] 1slow4G:
mine is usally 800-1g and im constantly clearing memory. I dont get it either.
[Galaxy S III General] Selina40Kyle:
S3 has a horrible memory management.

1 gb ram ain't enough for the beast.

Launcher redraw on a Top end phone is an Epic fail.
[Galaxy S III General] 1slow4G:
I agree, I just opened every app i have and went up to 1.26gb.. and when i have no apps open it jumps from 800-1gb on its own.. so i guess its all in the system that takes up most of the space
[Galaxy S III General] scoffyburito:
Jeez 1gb is more than enough
[Galaxy S III General] KMino:
Problem is with the Samsung bloatware. Kies, Remote Controls and all those other services. Delete kiesexe and freeze the Samsung crap inc SVoice..

I see no need to sync to Samsung and Google. The Google services are enough.. The Samsung store is only worth unfreezing for those free offers. The four tracking services ain't needed etc I use Avast to do that etc.

Getting 285M free apx after bootup, same as ICS, on 4.1.2 now. 12 widgets, FB, G+, Fancy widgets, Jorte etc

Also make sure not to run supercharger. It kills multitasking!
[Galaxy S III General] aakarani:
Disable all the Bloatware or freeze it using link2sd.

(all share, talk back, s-voice)

Still sitting between 540mb and 630mb maximum
[Galaxy S III General] themadproducer:
Kojaes

My 2gb i747m really makes use of the extra ram. It not only can handle 50 background apps with stock rom as apposed to 15-20 for the 1gb version (assuming there is enough ram), but it will boot with about 1.6-1.7gb available, about 700mb used, and 1gb free, and will use memory up to about 200mb free before killing apps to make room for new apps. Bottom line, it multitasks like a S.O.B. My opinion based on 2.5 years Android experience...is that 2gb ram helps big time...especially if you do not optimize your system.

If I had the 1gb version, I would consider a lighter rom as some have mentioned, but also the V6 Supercharger app with specific settings to allow maximum multitasking while remaining stable...which might take some experimenting. I would install Titanium Backup Pro and freeze as many non needed apps to prevent them from loading at boot and using up precious ram. Also, for some apps, I use AutoRuns to prevent them from loading at boot time.

Also remember...that some apps will stay in RAM when it's plentiful. But other apps are programed to allow Android to kill them after a certain length of idle time when they haven't been used.
[Galaxy S III General] nfsmw_gr:
Ram management is fine on the S3.

If you are not happy with it use a task killer, custom rom/kernel and/or supercharger v6 script.

Also if your ram<100 then you should start making complaints.

My free ram is at 120mb-160mb and i'm happy,no lags,no slowdowns,nothing at all.

Android preloads apps in memmory in order to open faster when we launch them.

Free ram really is wasted ram...it cancels multitasking and if you've bough a 600$ phone and can't multitask with it then you're worth of your fate.
[Galaxy S III General] eggman89:
The fact that an user has to get task killer and manage memory by him own: FAIL!

I know android pre loads stuff in memory, but it got the priority all wrong.

Why does it keep killing msging, phone and the GODDAMN launcher .

While it never kils the stupid stuff like "Google Book mark Sync", unless you freeze it.

There's no denying that 1gb has crippled S3 badly.

You can claim "Free ram is wasted ram" and throw down links, but at the end of the day it is giving me a bad experience.

Case in point:

1) Launcher Redraw:

Two points to it:

->Bad priority (I'm not sure if it's either a Samsung fault or Android; OOM 6 isn't the way to go).

-> Less ram.

The fact that browsing through play store for 15 mins and then hitting Home button results in launcher redraw is pathetic.

Less ram is the culprit( atleast one of the).

On such an expensive device this is just EPIC FAIL.

Sure we can do Super recharge and try removing the bloatware, but these are quick fixes and doesn't get rid of the main problem.

Not to mention not every one finds all this stuff easy.

The fact that you have to do tweaking on the 'supposedly greatest android phone' to make it work smoothly is an EPIC FAIL.

Custom Roms for an device as expensive as S3, should be there to enhance functionality and increase features. Not to make it works the way it should have out of the box.

2) Sh**ty Multitasking:

Trust me, my iPod touch does better multi tasking that S3 for day to day experience. (I am not an apple troll, btw)

And it doesn't even have a true multitasking and the specs are no where near S3.

When I pause a game, and resume it after an hour it starts from exactly same place . Try that with S3.

Try to use your phone when many apps are getting updated and notification bar is constantly changing.

It'll lag the hell out.

There's no defending to these points.

This is where Apple excels , by giving user everything perfect from out of the box.

Sure you can't do much, but what ever you can, you do it smoothly.

What makes me sad is that Samsung is so close to it, yet they screwed the experience.

And I'm not even going to talk about Contacts and Phone apps.
[Galaxy S III General] biffsmash:
Sorry but this is complete and utter drivel. Stop quoting websites and Google and start wising up.

If you have a game that needs to run and it uses 100mb and the phone has no free ram it kills something else.

This would be fine if the phone loaded the apps quickly but it doesn't.

Custom ROMs do not fix the lack of ram and neither do any of the memory management scripts.

My phone has around 200mb to 300mb though and it still loads and reloads phone and messaging and browser randomly.

Sgs3 is useless at memory management and anyone who says otherwise is living in a dreamland.

No lags and slowdowns is just blatantly not true as your messaging app and phone app will frequently take up to two seconds to load if you are using any Samsung ROM.
[Galaxy S III General] eggman89:
True that.

I have no idea what is stored for 500-600Mb ram if not the important things like Phone, Msg and Launcher.

Useless stuff.
[Galaxy S III General] stefankorun:
It is just marketing and business politics, Samsung knew that 1GB is not at all future proof but that is exactly what they need so they can sell the Note 2 and the i9305.

And still they sold over 30M i9300 devices.

Man, Android loads that stuff itself based on usage, OOM settings and Minfree values. The other stuff is services that need to run full time so that Kies sync, Location and other Samsung bloat that is really not doing anything most of the time.
[Galaxy S III General] eggman89:
Ya I know.

I wonder how can the most important thing, launcher, has an OOM of 6.

Stupid really.

Is it a fault of Android or Samsung messed it up.

In all the galaxy nexus videos I've never seen launcher redraws.

So maybe Samsung messed up for whatever reason.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S3
[Galaxy S III General] Squall-Leonhart:
that remark has been misused greatly by people that can't code for ass and fail at memory optimisation.

It was originally in reference to the Superfetch feature in Vista/7 storing frequently accessed data in ram for faster application startup. It wasn't meant to be applied to applications that use huge amounts of memory for no good reason.

much of Androids poor memory management is Java related, who knows, maybe Google will get a clue and dump the Dalvik VM eventually for a native operating system.
[Galaxy S III General] Diaze:
Use aokp or cm 10
[Galaxy S III General] eggman89:
For many of us, camera is an important thing.
[Galaxy S III General] Kojaes:
Is it in the app store ?

Is there any way to freeze samsung permanently without root ?

does link2sd need root to work ?

is advance task killer enough to kill all samsung bloatware ?
[Galaxy S III General] eggman89:
1) Yes.

2) Yes. You can go to "manage apps", select the applications. There will be an option called "Disable". No need for any app.

3) See above
[Galaxy S III General] Galactus:
This lol
[Galaxy S III General] Kojaes:
Thanks guys now the ram is bad , but its normal .

i can have 7-8 apps and still only use like 600 ram . its still bad if i try to open games and stuff but its not horrible anymore .

i hope it well last me a year until the next nexus .
[Galaxy S III General] jseb14:
How to free RAM?

As i said before, The best way to get the most ram out is to install a custom rom that has the less ram consumption possible. A stock sammi rom has a launcher and interface that alone consumes 50mb more prooved by me when i installed stock 4.1.1 launcher on DLJ5 and frooze UX launcher, also uses 32mb on the lockscreen effect and 5mb on the lockscreen itself. that is an extra 80mb free you can have on a AOSP rom considering it will be more cause each motion gesture consumes ram cause it's always running on the background to catch whenever you do the gesture. Also adding to the ram consumption on Sammy roms there is all these apps like Samsung account syncs, Kies software update, etc. that will consume a lot of ram. An aosp rom doesnt have redraw issues on launcher, nor does it lag on phone or contacts.

Free ram on AOKP-AOSP-CM10 and their hybrids without v6 supercharger nor task killers

no apps running --- used 432mb - 401mb free

13 apps running --- Used 611mb - 222mb free

After a kill all --- used 413mb - 420mb free

Native Options of my rom which i recommend - JellyBam -AOKP/PA/CM10 Hybrid with Updated Mali drivers, EXCELLENT Battery management + Latest Siyah kernel with -100 undervolting and 1.5ghz overclock.

zRam - Compression of memory to increase virtual capacity - it takes some cpu power but its nothing big

18%

Allow purging of assets is on enabled -Purging of bitmap assets allows the freeing of more ram when needed.
[Galaxy S III General] Galactus:
I have a lot more things running on mine to be honest. Maps, Facebook, Whatsapp, GoSMS, Exdialer, Words with friends. Still got 200mb free and multitasking is fine for me. That, or the phone loads the app so fast I barely noticed it was opening after being killed
[Galaxy S III General] jseb14:
As i said before, 13 apps open and you should still have 200+ ram, taking in account the actual free memory can say 200mb but the actual used memory is less, i believe linux handles three states of memory: wired, active, and inactive memory. Wired memory is the memory that is always in use, active memory is the momery that is active and in use by open applications, inactive memory is memory that contains stuff from recent programs that will be used if needed, what ever is left from these three states is free memory. so that means if you add inactive and free memory you will get the actual amount of memory that can be used by an application since inactive memory is readily available if requested but if not requested is used to contain importan files from recent apps to be able to run them quicker if accesed b4 this inactive memory is requested by another app
[Galaxy S III General] Squall-Leonhart:
Android could benefit from having some swap space on the internal flash.
[Galaxy S III General] Kojaes:
With stock rom ?

its start to closing apps after about 7-8 ones . thats after i disable all samsung bloatware.
[Galaxy S III General] Matt3333:
I've never had an issue with the RAM, probably because I cross off any apps whenever I can. It will only lag like **** if you leave endless apps running. I agree 1GB is not enough, nor is it future proof!
[Galaxy S III General] themadproducer:
I believe the background app limit is somewhere around 15 for a stock S3 1gb.

Even if your 7-8 apps consume little memory, apps will start to close if at boot time there are already 7 or more background apps automatically loaded into ram. There is a test that the Dev for V6 Supercharger showed me that shows users a simple way to test this app limit. Let me know if you need instructions.
[Galaxy S III General] Kung-Fu-Tse:
here you need this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2007854