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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] LaDjA:
Hi

I would have put this under the BlackJelly thread in the dev forum, but it seems that I'm not yet allowed to post replied there. So, I'm posting here, in hopes for help.

I have a few issues, but I will open them up in seperate threads, as though they are all about basic issues w\ BlackJelly, they are still quite distinct.

I'll start off by saying that generally speaking, I LOVE this ROM. I do, however, have a few issues that I need to take care of.

Two of these issues involve theming: (a) I replaced my lockscreen wallpaper, but I liked the one that came with the ROM better. Where is it hiding? I couldn't find it. (b) is there any way of theming the entire system? I tried to install WasabiWa83's themes (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2008601), and it themed everything except for wallpapers. But the whole thing looks kinda stupid w\o the appropriate wallpaper. Anybody knows how I can fix that?

Thanks!

Tal
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] BWolf56:
Wallpapers often aren't part of a theme. Although, you can most likely ask the themer to link the wallpaper or you could simply search it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] LaDjA:
thanks for the response. unfortunately the guy who made this rom doesn't reply to my question, regarding his wallpaper. Ill try with WasabiWa83. Hope it works.

Thanks!
[Galaxy S II Accessories] leondestiny:
sooo i am looking and looking and looking am not sure which screen protector really is clear and smooth oil free bla etc. but i cant find any that has super good review.. i tried some befor from ebay they were s** and i use matte atm their rly good cheap bought but only bad thing about it is the Quality loss. sooo guys any good one i can buy !?? please it should contain at least 3 ... so i can reuse them :L (should be the smooth normal SP not matte..) i am gonna order one now but im not sure which is good ... thanks in advance
[Galaxy S II Accessories] schizovivek:
RealLook - Ive used these and the display looks brilliant.. really thin like its not there... but oily fingers.. beware .. although u can always wipe it off :P

http://www.amazon.com/REALOOK-Samsu...81608&sr=1-88&keywords=screen+protector+i9100

ArmourSuit - this seems to have decent reviews

http://www.amazon.com/ArmorSuit-Mil...iewpoints=1&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending
[Galaxy S II Accessories] leondestiny:
Well i have ordered 2 kinds of SP's this time... I'll report here a review i hope their good
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hardikbajaj007:
Can someone help to boost battery without root
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rafacla:
Which rom are you using?

Also I'd say you can give Deep Sleep Battery Saver (DS Battery) a try, in LPZ it really extended my battery, but in LQ4 I didn't think it was necessary.
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lucasleal:
I enter here ti recommend DS batery. Came late haha.

You can also set only GSM mode, if you do not care about live without 3G like me.

Without root u do not have so many options, remove facebook app and installing app 'fast for facebook' is a good one.
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sami Kabir:
Root is a must if u really want to get the most out of your phone.... now that we have Binary Counter Reset (app)... what are you worried about?!

1. Use Power Saving mode before you go to sleep... when you wake up just disable it :p

2. Increase Deep Sleep state... codes are on CoCafe's kernel's thread... (CoCore E 2.8)

3. Use the app Battery Widget Reborn.... go the last page/tab... setup Auto Night Mode....

4. Change governors to Hotplug, Powersave or Conservative....

5. Disable Background Sync

6. Disable Live or bright wallpapers...

These are a few I remember :p

PS: I Seriously typed this all.. I did not Copy/Paste... I think I deserve a thanks! :p

Sent from my GT-I9070
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adamuadamu:
actually, there's not too much room to play around if you're not rooted

you can also try llama or other profiling stuff to automate enabling/disabling things when you need them, ie. like bluetooth: having it on all the day can consume lots of battery, but you can create an event that enables bt when you're answering the call. then to disable bt when you leave your car or sth like that. just an example - depends on you

ofc 2G saves battery, too. and you can't automate it to 3G while using data unless we get CM :( but still, you can create profile like enabling sync for 60 secs every 20 minutes, so that it drains less battery that being constantly synced

if you're not rooted, then you can't use kernels that incorporate multi-core aware governors like hotplug or pegasusq as stock roms do have only the basic ones and you can't change them unless you've got root

again, I strongly encourage you to root your phone. otherwise there aren't many possibilities left
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coolkillermax:
Like my expert android friend said - phone without Root is like 50% scrap metal phone, :p after rooted use Cocore kernel just simple set Governor = Pegasusq+SIO my phone just use 0%-1% when i wake up bed in morning & light usage(less 3G ,wifi online facebook,wechat,calling) i can use about 2 days... No need to set GSM only & install battery boost apps..... Just with Good kernel & good custom ROM enough... :victory:
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrischa:
darker screen = less power consumption (thanks to AMOLED)

disable unused syncs like picasa, dropbox ...

avoid using services running in background like poweramps phone jack sensing

DONT USE FACEBOOK APP :D

turn wifi off if your not using it
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ManiacShri:
agree! facebook app is a *****! fc's a LOT of times, making the phone hang repeatedly!drinks battery too!
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sbtm1337:
AW: (Q) how to boost battery life

For me, my battery doesn't care if Facebook is installed or not. just disable notifications and set updating to manually and you're doing good.

When using wi-fi disable mobile data. (In previous firmwares it had more power consumption than mobile data but with lq4 it has less, weird)

Gesendet von meinem GT-I9070
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Closed Force:
If you live in area where 3g network signal is weak or your home walls are fat :) :

-you got to manually switch to 2g, it could double your battery life... Unfortunately there is no app that can switch this, but only ones that shortcut to Settings>more settings>mobile network>GSM ONLY

1.)When I'm at home, i use wifi + gsm only (weak 3g),

2.)when i get outside on the streets or to the university i switch back to auto and turn off wifi

3.)When I travel between cities i switch to gsm only also
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fedevd:
I cant use it more than 8-9 hs.. Its anything wrong here?:

Enviado desde mi GT-I9070 usando Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hardikbajaj007:
From where to download binary reset app
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrischa:
You may also install Battery Stats Plus to find out about potentially battery draining apps. i think its a very cool app which provides you a lot of information about your battery and about consuming apps. You can set it up to notify you if it means an app is draining your battery. I dont do so but i think its a cool feature :)
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hardikbajaj007:
I have downloaded battery booster it really helped
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksguptalive:
install juice defender

just find and install juice defender...
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hardikbajaj007:
I dont know my battery life is reducing
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shut_down:
Search for Triangle Away here, on XDA.
[Galaxy S Advance I9070 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rahulraj39:
To save battery better to not use any battery booster or any ram increaser its no use instead you should install less app and games cause it use background process restarts automatically even if it is not in use turn off gps :beer: and turn off data at night when it is not in use use brightness level at modrate
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the_boo:
Doesn't matter what Rom I'm on, cleanrom, aokp, stock, even after I close all apps and services all task managers tell me I am using at least 1gb

ALWAYS

Is this normal?
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EniGmA1987:
Use the search function on these forums
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] espionage724:
I'd try 4.2.2 stock, I have around 400-500MB usage idle. On 4.2.1 (stock and custom) I had way higher usage though (700MB-1GB).

On 4.2.2 though I seem to have only 1.2GB of usable RAM whereas 4.2.1 had 1.6GB
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bee55:
I'm no pro, but if RAM 'disappeared' maybe it got reserved as GPU memory? And the GPU using it's own pool now would explain why you have less used up in general.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] espionage724:
Well the N10 is advertised to have 2GB of RAM. Prior to 4.2.2, we had 1.6GB usable, with the other 400MB or so (from what I hear) reserved for the GPU already. Now after 4.2.2, there's 1.2GB usable.

May as well just sold it as a 1GB device at this point... lol
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] filthygoat223996:
Lol but almost all devices usable memory for the user is about half of the advertised amount

As you can see my 1gb ram HTC amaze only has about half usable
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] espionage724:
Hmm, the only other device that comes close to this behavior that I've seen is the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 (stated 1GB, has around 600MB usable). The display isn't nearly HD on that (1024x600 I think) so I really can't think of an actual reason for the 400MB loss there.

A Galaxy Prevail I have shows about 235MB usable, with 384MB stated.

Can't recall numbers on the Nexus 7 or Galaxy Tab 7 though, but I really don't recall memory usage/free being of a concern.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] squshy 7:
And the device does have 2gb RAM. You should know by now that the RAM in phones and tablets is versatile and used for more than just user space.

One could easily argue the counterpoint of yours, which is that 2gb of RAM means more for the GPU while still keeping a respectable amount for the user. But obviously, you need to do your research when buying.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brees75:
With some simple init.d and sysctl.conf tweaks you can have complete control over how the RAM is used. Search is your friend. Or at least it should be. LOL
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jayrod1980:
It has to share ram with the GPU. This is monster resolution screen... Did you think it would have as much ram usable as a 720p screen? There's a lot going on at all times with this hardware because of the screen. Remember that ram is worthless if its not being used.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gzub:
They just released the updated kernel source for 4.2.2 for the N10 and there is a change where they up the ram reserved for the GPU by 384mb. The comment says they did this as otherwise when the GPU needed more ram it would cause fragmentation of the user space ram.

Geoff
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] styckx:
Sounds reasonable enough.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] borgy:
...uhm...

After having upgraded to 4.2.2... I have the same behaviour ....ram decreased to 1.3...in total before with 4.2.1 was 1.6...something strange, if the extra ram has been allocated for gpu....why with 4.2.1 wasn't like now?...in my opinion...they didn't free up the ram after upgrading..it's just locked...

I don't see notable differences between 4.2.2 and 4.2.1.... So that strange...could it be a bug?
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VanCatRabbit:
The answer to why the total ram availible has decreased has been solved - Read gzub post.

Called it re-allocated, free'd up or locked, The GPU now has 800mb in 4.2.2 all to its self, where as before it had half that. So in running apps you will only see a total of around 1.2gb.

moving on...

I have a similar issue as the OP.

Sitting idle its running at around 400-500mb used but can, and often does, spike up to over a gb which causes it to not function correctly (Chrome especially seems to throw a massive wobbler and never stay open). I have nothing different installed than I have on my N7 or S3. I mainly use it for browsing, email. If I check running apps there is nothing else there above what was there when it was idling at around 400-500mb.

I have tried a factory reset and the issue still persists. Next step is to roll back to 4.2.1 to see if I can get the stability back as I didn't have these issues on 4.2.1.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CazeW:
Sounds you might be suffering from the same thing as I have since I got my N10.

I don't know how many have this or has noticed it but after a while the amount of free memory just starts disappearing and no matter what you do, you don't seem to be able to recover it unless you reboot. And when the memory gets low enough, the device soft reboots itself. I still haven't found the cause of this but I have finally found where all the memory is going. It turns out that it's the surfaceflinger process that hogs the memory. I started checking when I was running low on memory and surfaceflinger was at that point using over 400MB of it. My suspicion was confirmed when I rebooted and noticed that it went down to around 25MB and now after a while of usage, it has slowly climbed to 50MB.

It would be great if some developer could take a look at this in order to try to fix it.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VanCatRabbit:
Sorry for my ignorance, but what is surfaceflinger? I don't see anything similarly named on my device.

I've just downloaded 'usage timelines free' to monitor memory usage in more detail on all my devices and compare.

I'll try to update if I see anything interesting.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] styckx:
It's a system process out of /system/bin/. Check your app to see if it's hiding system processes. Most of the process viewing apps/loggers hide system processes by default.

SurfaceFlinger is Androids compositor: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5699107/android-surfaceflinger

SurfaceFlinger shouldn't stay open though. Everytime I've seen it in OS Monitor the process lasts less than a second and disappears. Something he's running, or the ROM he's using is keeping it open for whatever reason..
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CazeW:
I noticed it with the "ps" terminal command. Currently I'm running Aokp but before that I was running stock. I'm suspecting the aosp browser or flash being the cause but I can't confirm it.

EDIT: surfaceflinger is shown in OS Monitor all the time but with ps I can see the amount of memory it is using.
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VanCatRabbit:
After some monitoring I found nothing. I did a full refresh install of 4.2.2 from the factory image and have installed nothing on top other than applying updates for what comes as standard. After two days of browsing it started to slow down again and show as low memory. I installed a terminal and ran 'PS surfaceflinger', it was showing as using over 600mbs. Stupidly I didn't take a screen dump, but I imagine it will happen again.

Anyone able to shed any light on what's going on here?
[Nexus 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Trent8381:
Having the same issue

I too have seen surfaceflinger using almost 600MB of RAM. My used RAM was over 1GB and apps were running very sluggish. My SwiftKey keyboard constantly does a soft restart in the middle of typing when the tablet is in this state as well as other apps acting as others have described in this thread. Time for a fix Google!
[Xoom General] gbrasil:
Hi, anyone knows how to install a stable version of xbmc for xoom and does not produce a Force closed.
[Xoom General] bartvincke:
You need to wait for a stable 4.2 version.

It runs without crashes on the 4.2 nightlies but atm the nighlies are still far from stable both in features and mostly in speed.
[Xoom General] Salpula:
Which version is smooth on 4.2? I have the XAF custom and it FCs left and right.
[Xoom General] deejaydave:
Same here...4.2.2 with XAF, won't even start!
[General Topics] mihaiandrei:
Hello everybody,

I am looking for some particular phone that should meet my desires and i hope i can get a few good recommendations.

I am a noob when it comes to phones, now I'm owning a Nokia X2 and i want to change it beacuase i have it for almost 2 years.

What i want from my next phone: in first place i want to be a phone with a good battery life, i also want to be with touch screen , to be easy to use , to be simple (i am using my phone almost just for normal talking), to have a fast moving menu, and i also want to be small with a squared shape, and if it's a NOKIA phone it would be a perfect one.

Basically what i want is an old phone combined with present days technology.

Thank you!
[General Topics] Scythe22:
How much is your budget?

maybe you should try android phones i am sure you will like it.
[General Topics] mihaiandrei:
My budget is 300$, i looked over nokia's phones and the most good looking are the N9 ,Lumia 800 and lumia 620. What android phone could you recommend with a long life battery? That is the most important thing that i want from a phone, if i should recharge it every 2-3 days using it in normal conditions then it's a bad phone!
[General Topics] bbrad:
I would recomend that new Nokia windows phone that came out it seems like it meets your needs perfectly
[General Topics] rodrigo634:
Don't know if exists a phone that last 2-3 days without recharging... But yes maybe nokia with Windows phone is all you need
[General Topics] abhi7395:
Yeah... you should go with wp8...

Nokia is best but now htc can also be a choice...

In my opinion htc is best(est)!:D
[General Topics] mihaiandrei:
My current nokia X2 after almost 2 years i recharge it once 4-5 days and i used to recharge it only on Sundays back in the days.
[General Topics] mihaiandrei:
Lumia 620 it's the closest to my needs but i am a little concern about the battery and the touchscreen - TFT capacitive touchscreen. It is a good touchscreen? it will get scratched quickly if i do not use protection ? what do u think about this?
[General Topics] bbrad:
Yea its a fine touchscreen about like any other lol all touchscreens are gonna get scatched without protection so a screen protector is a must
[General Topics] djexacto:
Any time you add a touch screen, especially one on the +3.5" side, battery life is going to suffer. Big bright screens are the number one battery killers on today's smartphones, and there is usually a substantial tradeoff between aesthetics and battery life.

I don't think any smartphone today will give you even 3 days, but some of the ones with huge batteries (galaxy note 2 and RAZR maxx) could last 2 assuming you don't have the screen on much.
[General Topics] mnishamk:
Doesn't htc explorer give a great battery life?

Heard a friend of mine say he usually gets three days from one charge

Sent from my Xperia Mini Pro
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gaz@usgermanlawyers.com:
Just learned that all Windows Phone 8 have limitation in BT, HID tools e.g. an external keyboard, cannot be connected. What reason MS has for such a thing is not explainable. I want to use a foldable keyboard but cannot. Is here someone who knows to fix the BT stack? We all should complain by MS. the same with the weekly calendar and notes or to does. I like my Samsung ATIV S but not this nonsense from the software - OS builders. In which world do they live?
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thresher:
We feel your pain. I spent the time to explain the BT stack issue in your other threads about this same topic. I also included links to the Survey MS site to add your votes so that this will be included.

I can't imagine we will have to wait much longer for them to accept it. Who knows, so irritating to not have a keyboard.
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ellokomen:
Microsoft ran out of time when releasing WP, that's why so many features are missing.
[Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thresher:
MS on WP8 updated the BT stacks that devs had access to and simply left one of the key six out. Do we know that they ran out of time, because it certainly seems like they just don't know if they want to support it, vs not having time for it...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dbenney:
I am running freegs3 newest version with stock kernel. I was showing a buddy some pics that were stored in my sdcard...a 32gb pny class 10. Everything was fine then I went to pull up another pic and phone started acting up...wouldn't pull up pics...finally got back to home screen. Tried to get to pics again no go. Got an ongoing message in notification screen saying something about new sdcard or unsupported files. Idk what happened but suspect my sd card. Anyone had this happen? Any recommendations?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CrfEpic4g:
Try your sd card in someone elses phone and see if it works
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Naddict:
try this thread, it may help you... or at least make you feal unalone.... :p

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1906058
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dbenney:
well got home and put it into my adapter and laptop. It recognized the card, but said it was corrupted and needed to be reformated. :( i reformated it cuz I really didnt lose much except for a few pics. oh well... guess ill just be careful for a while and monitor it cuz the card is about 1 1/2-2 years old.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] teh roxxorz:
Well shouldn't matter the age, as long as its taken care of. When you remove it, do you unmount it, or just remove it?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dbenney:
i rarely take it out, but when I do i always turn my phone off.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] defleshed2:
Hello guys,

I was wondering if anyone has used app2sd or any others to convert your apps in your internal to external memory

when i tried using app2sd it will put it on my external yes but as soon as i run an application like a game it will re download it and put it onto my internal. Anyone else having this issue?

there is another solution:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2109112

This solution works to swap internal with external but for 64G SD cards people are having issues so I am re framing from doing this method.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] wase4711:
don't bother with this; there is so much room in your internal memory, that its a waste of time and effort..you will never fill up your internal app space.

I have 300 apps installed, and still have almost 7 gigs free...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] vincedoggy:
Hi try the rom toolbox from play store to install app on sd card.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] spycedtx:
That's not entirely true. Some people play various games which seemingly chew through storage space for all the media bits and pieces. Look through some of the directory bind threads for examples.

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I would love to help you, but help yourself first: ask a better question

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Gameraddikted:
I totally agree. With my 16gb GN2 I find myself low on internal storage all the time. Yes you can install literally 100's of smaller apps but games such as NFS: Most Wanted, Nova 3, Spider Man and many others nearing 2 gigs each or more, it's hard to have more than a few games installed before having to un install just to try out a new game that you're interested in. If you find a good work-around let me know. I've found that App Mgr III doesn't work with our devices (and many others) and my ROM Toolbox Pro only gives you the option to install all apps to either your internal or external without the option to pick and choose which goes where on an app to app basis.