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[Xperia Play General] coreyon:
What you are experiencing is the brilliant idea of putting a small amount of ram into a android gaming phone (well thought out, Sony). When the ram is low and another app needs to use that ram, Android will automatically kill another app to claim free ram. The problem Android has is it uses Java as the base programming language. The problem with Java is it is a resource hog and totally steals as much ram as possible...see the problem yet? Also, the problem Sony has is that they are stupid.

And now for the reasons. Google choose Java as the base because of its popularity and ease of use for noobs at programming, which is also why there are so many bad apps in the Google Market compared to the iphone. While this was a smart choice for Google at the time to help accelerate their market growth to help catch up with the ios market, it's now a problem they'll always have as a consequence to that choice. To counter this problem of having a horrible base program language android phones constantly needs to have ridiculous specs in order to have comparable performance to the iphone (quad core, gig of ram, phones anyone?).

So there you have it, the core and unavoidable problem with Android. An operating system so inefficient that it warrants quad cores with close to pc specs (That is amazingly bad). So bad that they must've been really high when the folks at Sony thought it was a good idea that a GAMING phone would only need a single core with crap ram. Well played.
[Xperia Play General] DubleJayJ:
So what you are saying is, the entire Android platform is garbage because you made that decision with a garbage phone? Try multitasking on the SG3, then come back. Or, go deal with the fake multitasking of iOS.
[Xperia Play General] mathacer:
you can try supercharger, n use multitasking choice, that's the best multitasking option that i ever try, altough it will makes your free RAM under 70 MB, but multitasking is very great....
[Xperia Play General] coreyon:
All I'm saying is Android is inefficient. This is generally known and Google has been constantly criticized because of it. Going back to my point, this is why manufactures are pushing out quads on their phones.
[Xperia Play General] narflynn619:
@cityhunter62

@coreyon

So, why are you even here?
[Xperia Play General] coreyon:
I provided information on the problem...? I think a better question would be why are YOU here? You didn't provide anything on this thread.
[Xperia Play General] foryou168:
just wonder if V6 supercharger bulletproof app might help?
[Xperia Play General] ILikeTheWayYouMove2:
Tje great thing about android is that normally there is an app for whatevet you need or a flashable zip or a script ect so it just takes a quick search and abitta time and you could be tip top and there's allways the quick save feature in fpse :D
[Xperia Play General] cityhunter62:
Coreyon answered to my question and I thank him for that. Now I understand why multitasking does not work on Android, or at least on Android phones with few ram. Still, N8 had 256mb ram but handled multitasking perfectly.

Anyway, mathacer and foryou168 gave some advices that might be helpful. I had some answers, that was the point of this thread...

I'm sure I'm not the only one who experienced that kind of problem...
[Xperia Play General] CosmicDan:
Inefficient because it ran out of RAM? OEM's are pushing for quads because the software and Linux foundation is the most advanced out there. No other mobile is has such supreme multitasking and such a myriad of emulation apps.

Enable zRAM or use a swap partition if you expect this low-RAM device to keep a 32-bit-era console emulator in the background while doing phone functions.

Or get a tablet for gaming. Its still just a smartphone dude.

Or get an iPhone.

Or learn development and help the "horrible android" to be better.

Sent from Xperia Play (R800a) with Tapatalk
[Xperia Play General] m4nz:
Just don't say that android is rubbish,.. it's awesome.. And it's open.. we can customize our phone to our need... that's make it different..
[Xperia Play General] TheCraig:
Android is insufficient, but on my Galaxy S3 samsungs multitasking is absolutely terrible for 1GB, but now once I flashed the Multitaskingfix I have to say its like multitasking on a 2GB android device, I love it! and in the latest leak (with Multi view, etc) XXELK4 4.1.2 the ram used is almost half of what is used on 4.1.1, Love you samsung! can't say that about Sony, but Xperia play will always be with me until I get use to Touch screen gaming.
[Xperia Play General] coreyon:
For everyone that somehow got offended when I said Android is inefficient, please read on. Android IS inefficient, but that does not mean it's a bad operating system. I personally use it myself. It's certainly better than ios with Apples lockdown. The great positives of Android is that it uses the Linux kernel which is very advanced, and the entire operating system itself is very customizable (partly thanks to java it self).

Now with that said, like I've mentioned I don't know how many times now, it will always have a problem as apps and games become more and more advanced; there will always be the new apps that pushes the hardware to a new level and with the Android overhead will cause it to be slower than it could be. A good example of this is how Minecraft (with its amazingly bad graphics) on the PC needs Crysis-like specs to play with good fps on a PC. That's ridiculous, and it's because the game runs in Java. I know there is Minecraft for Android, but let's be honest it's a very very small map that barely has any of the pc gameplay, otherwise the phone would explode. However, just like Android, even with Minecraft's horrible lag issues it is still an awesome game, and is very easy to customize the game which is also very awesome. Does everyone understand my point now?

I AM a developer, and I have had the pleasure of struggling with Java's limitation on a multiple array of platforms. I do know what I'm talking about, it's a well known issue.
[Xperia Play General] zeppelinrox:
I'm personally suprised Java is still alive :p

Thought it would have died years ago because java programs would be slow as molasses/bog down any PC.

So I'm surprised it actually runs decently on phones... tho the phones are more powerful than PCs from a few years ago lol

And yeah, its' the same old cycle.

Software always gets bloated as hardware specs increase so it's tough to get ahead - kinda like how inflation negates pay raises :p
[Xperia Play General] eksasol:
I can agree from my experience with Java software, especially the security concerns. I heard a saying: hell is a world where Java is the only programming language. I'm more annoyed by Google trying to do things different and separating itself from Linux standard.

I have to say you are very lucky to present your thoughts here, if this was a Nexus forum all hell would break loose. The Nexus fanboys are relentless.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Xperia Play General] coreyon:
Aha, I should've made a thread for this. This went way off topic from the original purpose of the thread.
[Xperia Play General] Hicsy:
JAVA OS?

I thought IOS apps were Java also?

Either way, they have similar "multitasking", except that the programmer can control how an Android app "moves through the states" (ie. from pause when its in background to being killed) so if the FPSE programmers took advantage of the power of Android OS, they could have set the game to do a save as it was killed...

In fact, Android AUTOMATICALLY dumps some of the programs memory when killed involuntarily (the OS needs more RAM) so really, all the programmer needs to do is check to see if there is a bundle already there when the programs oncreate() is (re)called - if so, then resume!

developer[dot]android[dot]com/training/basics/activity-lifecycle/recreating.html

For the record I hate Java, and more so - ECLIPSE (Java IDE that was also itself made in Java) makes me want to shoot myself in the face whilst listening to Enya and letting spiders crawl on my testicles.
[Xperia Play General] coreyon:
I don't touch ios even with a 50 foot pole, but I'm pretty sure ios apps don't use Java. Even if they did, the core operating system doesn't, and that's enough to make a huge impact difference in performance.
[Xperia Play General] RoboWarriorSr:
I heard about some developer porting Android to C+. By passing all those legal issues with Microsoft, if Android ran on C+ wouldn't it fix all the lag much like Project Butter has and evidently fixed the incredible RAM usage by the device?
[Nexus 4 General] mb3030:
I couldn't find this posted anywhere, so i apologize if this has been stated before (yes i did search).

I just wanted to let everyone know that the US edition of the Nexus 4 came with a bunch of free media. Highlights include:

Complete season 1 of BBC's Planet Earth (was selling in play store $20+)

Complete season 1 of Falling Skies (prob $20 bucks ish, but i never looked, nor did i even know anything about this show)

Transformers (Free again, if you never got it with the Nexus 7)

Couple books, magazines and singles.

See attached image (note that the all the single songs included couldn't fit in the image)

******EDIT******

Sorry guys- Just realized (as pointed out below)- It showed in the video ap that all the episodes are listed, but that was just suggestions.

So they just gave us 1 episode free of each season plus the movie, books and songs.

Again sorry for misreading it.
[Nexus 4 General] musclehead84:
Thank you for this. I was wondering how I got the movie transformers. I kept looking to make sure I wasn't charged for the movie. Lol. This was bugging me bad. It must have come with my Nexus 7
[Nexus 4 General] ItsAaronR:
So did I o.o, I wondered why I was able to play it without paying.
[Nexus 4 General] johannt:
I checked and the Planet Earth and Falling Skies are only for the first episodes.

Thanks for the heads up on the free content though:good:
[Nexus 4 General] Rusty!:
The books and music are given to UK users as well.
[Nexus 4 General] bfspider:
Very cool! Thanks for the info. :)
[Nexus 4 General] rockr4Christ:
that planet earth looks AWESOME on this screen.
[Nexus 4 General] ceejay83:
hmm seems like you can't watch them if you're rooted
[Nexus 4 General] rockr4Christ:
im rooted though...no issues
[Nexus 4 General] kcls:
Yup... I rooted my phone first thing when I got it, and I don't have any of these. Bummer, I kinda would've liked to see those.
[Nexus 4 General] ceejay83:
When I try to load a video it says

"couldn't fetch license"
[Nexus 4 General] intern:
I'm rooted and can't seem to load these either.
[Nexus 4 General] crackmulah:
when i go to watch planet earth on my n4 only the first episode is free....how do i get the season?
[Nexus 4 General] decepticon:
It's just the first episode that we get for free
[Nexus 4 General] WalkmanX:
When I try to watch planet earth it prompts me to purchase HD or SD for $1.99 or $2.99. How do get books and movies free?
[Nexus 4 General] Fender127:
Sweet! This means I can instantly start watching some HD content on that crisp 320ppi display once I get the phone! :D If Google ever restocks of course... :(
[Nexus 4 General] OmgitzFire:
Yea sucks that they don't work if rooted, but at least we can still see them from the comp.
[Nexus 4 General] rockethot:
I'm rooted and watching the free Episode of Planet earth on my phone. Looks great on this screen.
[Nexus 4 General] apzalo:
I am rooted also and have no issue watching the free media. Those with issues, what method did you use to root your phones?

I flashed CWM and SU/Busybox like in this thread after OTA, http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1993331 and have had no issues.
[Nexus 4 General] OmgitzFire:
You re right, I rebooted and it works. Don't know why it wasn't working before:confused:
[Nexus 4 General] kcls:
Oh yeah, look at that... It's there for me too! Nice :D I'm rooted using the CWM and SU+Busybox flashable.
[Nexus 4 General] estallings15:
That is NOT a question for XDA. Are you trying to get an infraction?
[Nexus 4 General] manlisten:
Just logged into YouTube on my laptop and saw that I had these three titles on there. Next I went to check my bank account. LOL.
[Nexus 4 General] MaxCarnage:
I'm banned for life from YouTube so, meh.
[Nexus 4 General] kcls:
How'd you manage to do that?
[Nexus 4 General] intern:
You do realise he's talking about getting the included free movies that this thread is all about? They aren't showing up for some people, including me.
[Nexus 4 General] 666fff:
Hmmm...so where do we find these? I've looked in movies and play store app...nothing....
[Nexus 4 General] donec:
Can you watch the movies like transformers that show as purchased on google play more than once?

Is it possible to download the movie?

If you quit watching in the middle do you loose the rest of the movie or can you continue where you left off?
[Nexus 4 General] Mr Ian B:
I downloaded Transformers to the phone but can not tell where it saved it in the Nexus4 internal memory. Anyone know where it is found. It does play instantly when I watch the video though. Want to know in case I want to free up space since it is over 2gb.

Tia,

Ian B
[Nexus 4 General] dacho:
Not sure where it's stored but you can clear all cached data by going to storage then click cached data then it will ask you if you want to clear it.
[Nexus 4 General] Mr Ian B:
Thanks, found where stored. Went to storage and under apps was over 2.8gb. Went into it and found the movie is stored within the stock video player app under my movies.

Ian B
[Nexus 4 General] Deeco7:
I got the following content for my Nexus 4 which was ordered on the Nov 13th received on 3rd January (I know) :

BOOKS

-The Three Musketeers

-Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

-Treasure Island

MAGAZINES

-Men's Fitness UK Replica

-British Vogue

-.net

MUSIC

-Calling Me Names

-Raindrops (Original Full Vocal Mix)

-Killing the Light

No movies. :(
[Nexus 4 General] tgtoys:
My HTC HD2 came with Transformers 1 & 2 back in 2010. How come 2 years later we just get #1?? What a rip!

:p
[Nexus 4 General] elzafir:
I bought my Nexus in the US, through a friend's Google Account. I'm now in Indonesia, and I can't even access Play Movie and Books. I tried using Market Unlocker Pro to no avail.

Any ideas how to access these freebies?

On a side note, I use the latest ParanoidAndroid (came pre-rooted) and Faux kernel.
[Nexus 4 General] Rusty!:
I doubt you'll be able to, it looks like they're local market dependant.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EmDzei:
Here in Finland ISP called DNA started support HD voice on its 3G network. [article]

Does my Samsung Galaxy S I support HD voice or not? My current Android OS is v4.1.2. In the finnish article by puhelinvertoilu.com wrote that the HD voice support is in Samsung Galaxy S III, iPhone 5, newest Lumia and the hottest new Android phones.

So, is this HD voice depend on software or hardware? And if the answer is YES, how and where I put it on? Cannot find any values on menu. Dial code maybe (*#*#weird#*#*)?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EmDzei:
Seems there is trick to enable HD Voice on Samsung Galaxy S II: http://eng.samaanetwork.com/?p=8692. The tricks seems to find right radio and then after calling to number *#*#197328640#*#*, choose 7 (WB Arm) on list. And in same breath I have to say, that I do not have SGS II and haven't test above.

Hope there are similar trick for Samsung Galaxy S too. My current radio is JVT.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avenger79:
Hi all

Ok was playing around with the samsung toolkit and somehow managed to brick my phone as it will only go to the boot screen.

I can only get it to go in to the download screen (Vol down, home, power)

Ive tried this

http://xdaforums.com/show...1840030&page=3

but when i try even the first step i left it nearly 30 mins and it dosnt seem to do anything

Any help you could give would help me alot

Thanks
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] komsa:
flash stock ROM thru Odin and you'r back in saddle :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avenger79:
Could you please tell me how to do this as with everything ive done im confused thanks
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avenger79:
Just tried it this way

http://rootgalaxys3iii.com/download-samsung-galaxy-s3-latest-stock-firmware/

still seems to hang????
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
ROOT

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1695238

Basics .

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1927113

jje
[Android Apps and Games] ncc74656:
Hi guys,

Has anybody seen keyboard similar to this for android tablet?

Regards,

ncc74656
[Android Apps and Games] Bunnybugs_007:
Might be handy if you had the name of this keyboard... So people can cross-reference on google, etc...

But, on-topic, buddy of mine build something like that for a tab with ubuntu, but it doesn't work great... I can suggest SWIPE...
[Android Apps and Games] ncc74656:
The picture comes from this website . There are split keyboards for android but I didn't see any that would have round parts in bottom corners.
[Android Apps and Games] jasKaos:
Interesting keyboard... Wouldn't mind trying it out actually!

Sent from my Nexus 7
[HTC Wildfire S] fireworker:
I Heard About Tablet Mode But I Do Not Know What It Is

So Anyone Who Can Explain?
[HTC Wildfire S] TSC Yoda:
Tablet mode is a bit difficult...

regular, there are optimizations for landscape-modus and scrren resolutions.

Greetings

Markus
[HTC Wildfire S] TheProphetC3:
How do you get tablet mode?Does it come with CM?
[HTC Wildfire S] Olivier:
No, it comes with ParanoidAndroid and AOKP..

Gesendet von meinem HTC Wildfire S A510e mit Tapatalk 2
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Entwood:
Is there a list of the mandatory APK's that the Desire must have ??

I'm playing with various ROM's to try and find one I like, and the nearest so far is the RSK Special EDition. With the Aroma installer I can get rid of some of the undwanted rubbish, but that still leaves 130 odd APK's autoloaded from the sd-ext/apps folder.

Now some are well named and easy to understand .. but many others are complete guesswork as to what they do and if they are required ...

I have found lists of required APK's on the site, for example for the Samsung, but not for the Desire.

Google searching doesn't help, so can anyone here ??

Many thanks

E
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MetinKale38:
just freeze them with titanium backup or another app and if anything works fine (testfor a few days) you can remove them :p

Tapatalked with my HTC Desire
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Entwood:
Interesting idea .. I'll try that .. :)

Hopefuly it will use the name of the APK rather than the app name ?? as they seem to be quite different sometimes !!
[Galaxy S III General] dibyajyoti:
"Ignore the mindless banter below. I got trolled by Samsung"​

For the past two three days I've been relentlessly tweeting and spamming Samsung's twitter accounts with request to release the codes. This was just tweeted to me by @SamsungExynos .. Since I'm not a developer, I need someone to check if they have released the source code for real.. If they have, then its good news I assume? :D

I did a minimal check of the website, they've uploaded pdf's of each and every section related to Exynos. Developers please confirm!!

If this is not, well then :'(

Link to Source
[Galaxy S III General] didicola:
i wish it is all the right included and start making magic
[Galaxy S III General] dibyajyoti:
I hope too! And I think its genuine because it has the code to the camera also.. I have no clue about all this..Hope the developers see this soon. And if it is for real, then we can finally have stable cyanogenmod release. I've been waiting for so long.
[Galaxy S III General] dibyajyoti:
I'm not sure if I should've posted this in the Android development section? :eek::eek:
[Galaxy S III General] borjaag:
Can any developer confirm if these "sources" are usefull?
[Galaxy S III General] sumsy2011:
Any body :)
[Galaxy S III General] babijoee:
this is the right section to post in. And like everyone hope this is the real deal :good:
[Galaxy S III General] dibyajyoti:
I would request the moderators to pin this post if possible so that the developers can see this asap. :)
[Galaxy S III General] FranzJesus:
I don't know if the documentation is new. But there is still no new changes to the sources on insignal git repositories.
[Galaxy S III General] babijoee:
not worthy of pinning thread mate. Those are usually for forum notices / rules / etc. just had a quick look at the link and i don't see any mention of RIL stuff which is what the devs need. I could be wrong though :p
[Galaxy S III General] Stevemeister:
Look at the schedule....7 december we will know if it is enough.
[Galaxy S III General] binYaqoob:
Now we can expect a stable CM10 for S3
[Galaxy S III General] dibyajyoti:
I hope you're wrong.. I hope this exactly what the devs need :p
[Galaxy S III General] yahyoh:
damn this troll

there is nothing new in the insignal git :(

http://git.insignal.co.kr/
[Galaxy S III General] LaCipe:
git://git.insignal.co.kr/insignal/origen_quad/android/manifest.git

proprietary_origen_quad-ics-dev_xxxxxx.run

origenboard.org/wiki/downloads/software/origen_quad/proprietary_origen_quad-ics-dev_20120904.run

Stuff that i havent seen on git.insignal.co.kr at ALL

But what do I know, iI'm ubernoob
[Galaxy S III General] drsoran2:
As soon as you read "Origen Board" you know it'll be useless. Samsung already released source codes but there are useless since they differ to much from the real SoC's. But as Samsung will argue, they released something so they did what they promised.
[Galaxy S III General] Bleeding-Edge-Armour:
Sigh

Oh well, I guess we won't get that stable anythime soon i guess. Part of me got excited when I first read the OP, now I'm just sad :p
[Galaxy S III General] XpLoDWilD:
Big laughs from me.

First, we had those insignal sources for months.

Second, the origen_dual/quad repository doesn't even exists.

And as "about" page says there (http://git.insignal.co.kr/?p=about) : "Note: Exynos4210 based boards are not covered by this tree.", which is bad for Galaxy S2 users.

Other sources are at ICS level, like it was for months.

Haha.
[Galaxy S III General] irzero:
Seems that every phone will be running S4 Pro CPU's for a while. So it may be worth just selling up and getting a different phone if you really want stable ROMs

Exynos seems to be more hassle than its worth
[Galaxy S III General] Orginator:
dibyajyoti guess you have to continue your spam, maybe they'll fix that repo, or not :P
[Galaxy S III General] kokesh:
http://git.insignal.co.kr/samsung/exynos/android/platform/hardware/samsung_slsi/exynos4/tree/ ???
[Galaxy S III General] didicola:
so this is fake?

so our friend posted fake or sAmsung plays games on us
[Galaxy S III General] kaynpayn:
Can't tell if it's fake or not but some links in there aren't working. I picked one randomly and it's pdf wasn't found. Several others did though. So, at the very least, it's incomplete.
[Galaxy S III General] wolfboy1984:
Lol. Read and understand this.

Then close the thread.
[Galaxy S III General] dibyajyoti:
No this is not fake, here's the link to the tweet made by @SamsungExynos https://twitter.com/SamsungExynos/status/270888825402818560 Why would I make something up like this? :S

Is this the tree? Lol I dont even know what it means.

Oh hell yeah, I'm gonna continue pestering them :p
[Galaxy S III General] psychart:
Samsung trolling, to get a clear view about samsung relationships read:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/101093310520661581786/posts/SUZYDEFj8Cs

I love my I9100, mainly because of cm10, tried stock leak and coudn't stand touchwiz.

After i read Dodd's saga there's no way i buy another samsung device.

CM10 w/ all problems they faced still way better than stock.
[Galaxy S III General] elitewarrior:
Everything you have linked has been up for a while. Even the guy who linked the tree, look at the commit dates, they are from October, and the commits themselves are extremely old. It is nothing new, the devs have combed through all of that already and it's is just entirely useless. Their words, not mine.