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[XPERIA X8 General] Leon1234:
Hello guys,;)

Our X8/W8 is a slow speed device :( and without proper memory management there would be many lags and unresponsiveness in our device.So to overcome these problems I have some tips and thought that I will share it with all you guys.

These are those tips that I know of and those that I believe will actually speed up your phone and some tips here will also allow you to conserve some battery life too.So here we go:

Dont use too many apps.Delete all unused apps.

Dont use more than 2 launchers in the same device.It will cause a lot of RAM loss.

When selecting your default launcher try to select a launcher that is small in size so that it will ony take up a small amount of RAM.

To reduce HomeScreen Redrawing check the "Keep Home In Memory" app found in almost all Custom ROMs.This will reduce the time taken for your HomeScreen to fully load up after you exit an app.

Dont Undervolt the CPU if you find that your Phone is becoming too slow.

When selecting a rom make sure that your ROM is lightweight(small in size).The Custom ROM runs in the RAM of our device and when the Custom Rom is small in size then it will take up only a small amount of RAM and you will have more free RAM.

Odexed ROMs should technically speed up your Phone but the difference will be only minor.

If your manufacturing date is 11W29 or below then it would be good to unlock the Bootloader and flash a Custom Kernel.If the Custom Kernel is a good one then we can notice a change in our Phone's speed.

Remove all bloatware from the Custom Rom.

Reduce the use of Live Wallpapers.

Turn off 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, Data Services etc when they are not in use.This speeds up your Rom and also conserves your Battery.

Overclocking should be done ONLY when needed so bad.What it does is that it supplies more power than needed to you CPU and tries to increase its clock speed.This may speed up you phone but it also OVERHEATS the CPU and as a long term effect it may destroy your CPU.So you will have to buy a new phone!

Its better to have a darker theme than a lighter one.Darker themes conserves the Battery and also speed up your device a bit.

Dont use a Third Party Task Killer app. Android will manage it memory by itself.

After Rebooting or Turning on the device wait for a 1-2 minutes even after the screen is fully loaded.This allows the ROM to settle and you can use it more efficiently afterwards.

Use of V6 Supercharger by Zepplinrox,The Adrenaline Engine etc has to be considered over Overclocking as overclocking will ultimately damage the CPU.

This list of tips will be constantly updating.:)If you have any tips that you use to speed up your phone please post it here and I will add it to this list.:D

Click THANKS if this helped!!

Enjoy!!!!!!!!
[XPERIA X8 General] Yokisen:
Thanks!!!!
[XPERIA X8 General] CnC-ROCK:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=35471324&postcount=1

read point 5.;)
[XPERIA X8 General] hzai93:
nice!!

just a question, would u recommend x8 users to use supercharger? or any other tweaks?
[XPERIA X8 General] Gogeta:
Supercharger with lukenda's ultraram settings :thumbup:
[XPERIA X8 General] Leon1234:
Thats by using different apps but this one doesnt use any third party apps to speed up our phone.These are general methods to speed up our phone.
[XPERIA X8 General] Hazirul:
Thanks.. ! :D
[XPERIA X8 General] Suhairul:
Thanks a lot!!:D
[XPERIA X8 General] Gogeta:
Both of you:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

There's a button for that...

What u did is called spamming!

wanna thank xda? here
[XPERIA X8 General] paulebe525:
Cool
[XPERIA X8 General] hzai93:
what about for jelly bean?

hey guys do you guys know any good tweak that i can use to speed up my minicm10? :) just wanna ask since i am addicted to tweaking my phone to its max potential :o
[XPERIA X8 General] iks8:
This is bad. Android will kill other more important app. One time it killed my systemUI :D. So I prefer to wait but I haven't seen redrawing launcher since I'm using custom kernel and good rom ;)

Have somebody seen bricked x8 by overclock? I don't think so. I'm using my phone with maximum oc my phone can run. 245/787mhz for about year (since I have bought it) and it is still working great without any issues.

Sorry for my English.
[XPERIA X8 General] Leon1234:
This is bad. Android will kill other more important app. One time it killed my systemUI . So I prefer to wait but I haven't seen redrawing launcher since I'm using custom kernel and good rom

In all my life I have never heard this before.I dont think Android will kill the SystemUI. It is like killing itself, and that is

NOT

likely to happen.The "Lock Home In Memory" doesnt make your launcher indestructible! It just make it a little more difficult to kill but yet "kill-able".It will kill the launcher only when a lot of other unwanted apps have been killed.That option just gives the launcher a little more priority.

Have somebody seen bricked x8 by overclock? I don't think so. I'm using my phone with maximum oc my phone can run. 245/787mhz for about year (since I have bought it) and it is still working great without any issues.
Sorry for my English.

When you overclock have you ever touched the phone's back???

Well you can see that its hotter than usual. This means that more amount of power goes into the CPU.

For example, You take the case of a LED.When you give it the right amount of power it lights up very well,but what happens when you give it a lot more power than needed??It will overheat and eventually get destroyed.Thats the same thing that will happen here.Overclocking may not explode your CPU but if you have overclocked for a long time and then switch to normal then you can see that the CPU is now less efficient than it was before overclocking.

Cheers :)

Leon
[XPERIA X8 General] Bart11666:
last mini cm10 nightly + nAa .32 v4 its pretty fast but when I add Seeder app it seems to be a lot of faster.

App is reduced some lags so maybe it's only illusion
[XPERIA X8 General] Leon1234:
By doing implementing these tips you can get a better speed without much effort.But surely these tips wont make your phone an Xperia Z but you can surely notice some effects.
[XPERIA X8 General] Ajjai:
Swapper 2

Does using swapper 2 or a similar application help ?:confused:
[XPERIA X8 General] Leon1234:
I personally wont recommend Swaping. It will reduce our SDcard life. And we need to use a very high quality SD card which is very costly and and you will have a reduced life span of SD card too. But if you can afford buying a High Quality Class SD card once in a while then its OK.
[XPERIA X8 General] Gogeta:
can be used only while gaming:)
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spawk:
Hi i have this message on smartphone

an pop up with

PDA : I8190XXAMA2

phone : XXXX

CSC :I8190QUXAMA1

H/W : not active

RF cal Date : NONE

SMD :

CAMERA :N/A,FrontCAM :N/A

TSP :0X11

TSK :0X19

Band : Unknown,CH :N/A

UART :N/A,USB :N/A

UN : nuber and lettre

can any one help to restore it thank you
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ppero196:
Flash original stock
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faria:
from the pm you sent me...

Did you just flash an update .zip that included the boot.img and the recovery.img?!

Im pretty sure that you should not do that!

Why are the the 2 Ste_boot. imgs being flashed to the same location? or there in the first place?

From the info you posted above it seems like the Partitions are pretty much messed up.

If you cant get into download mode then there is no way you can fix it.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackknightavalon:
I ended up having a brick from a CWM touch recovery (not yours) I couldn't fix and I ended up flashing stock everything and rerooting.

Sent from Spaceball One.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spawk:
I can reboot into download mode and i can flash rom stock or other I have lost internal disque ( is shown but with no exacte size I have -100000000 in size for the internal storage if i can flash with an full erras this can fix ?
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faria:
Dam! You ****eup the internal memory !flash official rom with the pit file to re partition the device.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spawk:
I have find this tool Samsung_Format_Utility_V1.4 now i try it and see if any one have solution pleas give it :p

in another web site talk about flashe with 3 files ( csc , phone , pda ) and talk about working after performe this but all firmware are on ONE files how I get Official firmware with this 3 files ?
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faria:
Do not format your device with any tools if you don't know what they do.

The device has a single flash chip, repartitioned into several Partitions, if you attempt to format you will format the partition table, then the device will require a new motherboard.

Those 3 files are separate partitions instead of one tar, quite common in other devices.

I would try to repackge the original images into separated tars,something like this....

boot.img as boot.tar

modem bin as phone.tar

cache.image as csc.tar

system.img and all remaning .img files, as pda.tar

then flash the all together via odin with repartition.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spawk:
Ok I wait for your files here i have no formated device

i attached photo for more info if this help
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faria:
I never said i would build the files!

i got no time at the moment.

your efs folder has been erased,got a backup?
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spawk:
I had a backup but I don't find him I scanned the whole pc but I had not

yet put in a corner apart I believe that is was simply removed by mistake :(
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jony1512:
just as it is for me too I'm already all the time to try to get back down

what you are looking for, maybe I can help even further ......
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spawk:
pit file or firmware but not in 1 package separate package ( modem , system ...) ,

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=37174896&postcount=8 is explained here by faria
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faria:
the other option is to flash all the separated images with Heimdall Suite.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jony1512:
for a sequence in which the rom with Heimdall Suite is geflash??
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spawk:
i dont have linux and i dont know how use heimdall :( but if have tut complet step by step
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faria:
it can be used in windows, as for the sequence, i don't think it matters .
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spawk:
I have this message with haimdal
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spawk:
if any one can make this http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=37174896&postcount=8 is so great this can help some user in case like mine with softbricked phone Thank in advance if not i wait until faria have some time now in haimdall i have pop up message with xml not fund i have attached screen shoot and i dont know wher i find this xml also if any one can share PIT + phone + pda thanks in advance
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faria:
i will make tomorrow as soon once i have time, problem is my upload speeds are atrocious .like 6 hours to upload 500mb.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spawk:
Ok thank you i wait take ur time and big thanks for your help :good:
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spawk:
very strange when you see attached screen in 1st thread the hardwar turned OFF but I have tested and wifi work when I enable it camera also work Bluetouth not tested but font camera also work perhaps need only files to enable hardwar but what is this files loll :silly:
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faria:
Im uploading a rom package as promised.

Rom consist off:

Pda.tar

boot.tar

modem.tar

csc.tar

also as extras:

recovery tar and param.tar

The rom is based on latest 4.1.2 from DBT

rom is not rooted.

Intrucins how to flash are included,

this has not been tested and i cant promise it will fix your device.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spawk:
Thank you i test when is finished uploading I pray that it works :fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faria:
Here is the rom,good luck
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spawk:
Thank you I try and feed if not worked tomorow i go with phone to samsung :)
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faria:
I had some time today ,so i took a look at this custom recovery's available...

Anyway, i need some one with a custom recovery to pm me to run a test, If im right i found the way of restoring the recovery and param.lfs to original state ,this means no binary count and a signed image.

Yes when installing custom recoverys you are actually flashing 2 partitions into the device, the kernel_1 and kernel_2 .
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spawk:
Grrr proces aborted when he begine write

i explain odine begine flashe and we see

boot

ste boot 1

ste boot 2

modem

system

hidden

cache

and after have message pleas wait 2 min untile system write

and have message wait until receive response from LOKE

LOKE response ok .... wait write

and here have error and is with modem :(

i try diferant combinaison if past ok is great if not tomorow gona to store with phone and wait until samsung unbrick it
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faria:
flash again with out modem.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Benzonat0r:
Use your CWM recovery to format /modem and flash your modem.bin as PDA, no need to pack it in tar.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spawk:
CWM no stock you speak about custom recovery ? ok i try it but when i try with modem the proces begine and in 50% get failed now i try with pit + modem.bin

if not work test params :D
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Benzonat0r:
Yes you need CWM custom recovery. I think it runs out of space on that particular partition that's why Odin fails at 50%.

I had this issue too and I solved it this way. You will have everything in working order but CP will stay at XXXX.

To fix that we need /modemfs folder from an untouched device but no idea where to get it yet.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spawk:
are you sure is some problem i have attached photo in 1st thread here you can see pop up i have on phone see if some problem like you ? if yes can you explain exactly xhat tool are you using thanks ^^
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spawk:
now with pit files i have tested to flash stock rom with cheked repartition perhaps this can make corect partition if the problem come from here ^^ if not gona tomorow to give it to samsung :o
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Benzonat0r:
It was the same problem believe me. :)

No, don't check repartition if you don't have multiple files to flash. You need Bootloader, PDA, Phone, CSC otherwise it will fail I think.

I haven't used anything but CWM and Odin. So CWM to format /modem and Odin to reflash the device.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faria:
I would gladly give you the files but i cant, first rule, never post files from your device without knowing what they are.

I know that the folder is somewhat related to the efs partition as it contains NV.dat and PPVALLUES.DAT.

This may help

input this service code *#197328640# then go to common and press NV rebuild, then reboot.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spawk:
have this message

FAIL to remove GUARDFIL
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faria:
Go to the modemfs folder a copy the that file to a safe place, then delete the one from modemfs, then try to rebuild nv.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Benzonat0r:
Nope didn't work.

Well I have PPVALLUES.DAT but no NV.dat so that's a problem. :)

@spawk: Remove it manually using root explorer but make a backup first.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spawk:
I dont can make backup or install any app I have no space my internal memory are -156825965 a number like this is no corect value for 4 GB loll here is - 156 GB is impocible mdrrrr i have phone and not server with tera byte hihihihi here is the another problem now the pop up in photo 1st post you have some info and H/W not enabled ok H/W is hardware now why camera is working wifi work google play work but call not work :( and have this pop up always in screen grrrrr
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faria:
The nv.dat is in a sub folder of the modemfs.

Modemfs/perm/prot/
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Benzonat0r:
Just like PPVALUES.DAT yes and that's totally missing. :D

Then I suggest you listen to me and flash CWM, reboot in recovery, format /modem and flash the 4.1.2 firmware again. :)
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faria:
How did the modem partition got damaged in the first place?

Did you guys formated it, or was it done by the custom recovery?
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spawk:
:( i don't have backup ( is lost ) because initialy the recovery when make a backup from rom he creat it directly in /sdcard and not into ext_sdcard and now see what i have info when is connected to pc
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Benzonat0r:
That's funny actually. I was trying to dd if=/ boot.img and wrote mmcblk0p12 (it was a typo) instead of mmcblk0p20 so I had to format it. It was the only way. :D

Yes I know that, I'm sorry but you're just gonna have to flash it with Odin. :(
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spawk:
tested a recovery build ( touche recovery to try fix bootloop into recovery ) and when coming back to stock first have bricked phone and only download mode working and after some FAIL to flashe one have past succefull but lost all data :( and lost csc but now have restored csc but H/W are disabled when i remove sim card i have notification with sim card removed but he dont ask me to tape my pin code and don't searche for network to connect tomorow gona to samsung ^^ I hope they will repair
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Benzonat0r:
Oh I have another idea.

First, delete everything in /modemfs folder, then reboot into download mode and flash your phone again.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faria:
Dam that was unlucky! I ask because I been in the forum for years and dev for many devices, but in all this time I never seen such a mess related to a custom image in this case, custom recoverys.

Also the amount of miss information, lack of proper info about such projects is astounding.

When people hear about custom recovery they automatically assume it's like older devices that use the zimage to accomplish that,

What we have here is a edited custom boot. img re labeled as recovery.

This recoverys (boot. Img) contain 2 partitions the zimage and the param.lfs,

As they are not signed once you flash them you are pretty much stuck with it or with its effects afterwards.

The sad part is that newbies are flashing this as as if it was a standard root.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spawk:
euh i understand but actualy i can comeback to stock recovery ;) this is not problem the problem why the lost all info in internal card ( storage of phone ) we have 4 GB wher is ? mdrrrr are you see attached screen shot mdrrr I have -1000000000 octet loll and no GB
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Benzonat0r:
Yeah that's very true. But hey at least I've managed to get my phone working again. Everything's working great, still have my IMEI, my serial number and all that jazz. The only thing that I don't have is a Baseband version but I'm pretty sure it's I8190XXAMA2. :)

I just saw your post in another topic saying that I'm missing GARDFIIL and trace_auto.conf. Feeling generous enough to tell me whats inside trace_auto.conf? :)

It's not lost spawk, your phone just can't recognize the partition. Why don't you just delete everything in your /modemfs folder and flash the firmware again? :D
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spawk:
OK tomorow gona to samsung because now I have tested to restore with kies ( imergency recovery phone ) when restor finiched i have this pop up on PC

BUT when phone Boot are some with famous pop up and xxxx in phone and unknown CSC now hhahaaha
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Benzonat0r:
CSC is easy to fix, actually I've made a flashable zip for that. :p
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spawk:
yes i know also on odine you flash the rom on csc ;) and we have corect csc to you region but here i have tested all and is some the phone is not work ( no call no sms ) and problem with internal storage space is not changed is some -1042547800
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Benzonat0r:
Yes I realize what the problem is, cause I've been there and fixed it, but you're ignoring my solution pal. :)
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spawk:
i have not ignored your solution ;) installed custome recovery and errased modemfs and installed rom againe by odine and installed also by Kies all process past ok but when phone boot NO change always the pop up with H/W NA ......

;)
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spawk:
this is an idea but if imagine I get an backup ( ccustome recovery creat backup from fresh system installed with out any user info ) and place it in my ext_sdcard and reboot into recovery and choos recover and choos backup folder from ext_sd this can fix ? is an IDEA and I don't have another phone for this but imagine ? can change or not ?
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Benzonat0r:
I don't think it can but I'm not sure.

Let's try this.

Flash Modem.zip in CWM
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spawk:
i try and let you know in few minutes
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spawk:
tested flash past sucefull but No change always pop up and unknown and hardwar NA etc...etc hihihihi is very strange
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Benzonat0r:
Oh come on...

Let's try zImage flash then.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spawk:
phone is gona dead now and din't want to boot into download and no boot is realy bricked
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Benzonat0r:
Ok that never should've happened, it's perfectly capable of handling a zImage flash, I did that on my phone when I changed my splash screen from LaFleur to stock Samsung logo.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spawk:
i have rebooted to recovery and installed your zip then after have navigat into recovery to reboot device and black screen and now i can't turne ON or turne into download mode the phone is not response
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Benzonat0r:
Find a guy with JTAG box somewhere let him unbrick it. And for god's sake don't take it to Samsung, they'll rip you off.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spawk:
why samsung rip off ? to be honest with you I think they have a good service personally in addition they never ripped my
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Benzonat0r:
Well I can't speak to that but personally I don't have good experiences with their services here
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xd.bx:
Hi,

Please be more careful when telling people to flash stuff. At least check the updater-script to make sure it does not erase any important partition for the target phone. You can't just flash a zip from another device, it's a recipee for bricking because of the different partition layout.

assert(package_extract_file("zImage", "/tmp/zImage"),
write_raw_image("/tmp/zImage", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p5"),
delete("/tmp/zImage"));

mmcblk0p5 contains one of the bootloaders...

I recommend that you remove the Kernel-zImage.zip attachment so that others don't brick their phone.