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[General Questions and Answers] Xinchao1234:
Can anyone explain why the system app "phone and messaging storage" on my phone takes so much RAM? It makes my phone slow and need to restart time to time to use. I'm using the Pixel Experience - Android 12. I've been looking for a way to "fix" this phone for almost 1 week now.

Please help me find the best solution...
[General Questions and Answers] xXx yYy:
It's not actually used RAM but RAM used within the last 3 hours.

If you tap the mentioned entry, you can see the frequency of use, the maximum amount of memory it’s used, how much Z-Ram it’s used, etc.pp
[General Questions and Answers] Xinchao1234:
so is it normal? i haven't seen this much usage before.
[General Questions and Answers] xXx yYy:
To me it doesn't look too much. :)

The benefit of RAM is that it allows the interface to operate more efficiently. Say you open the Phone app. It will take a while to start up the first time it is launched, as it has to load all the content to show you. You can then leave the app and return to it. Launching will take much less time the second time you access it, as it will grab all the files from the RAM and utilize what is still relevant.
[Off-topic] xXx yYy:
You've probably read it too: Elon Musk, the new sole owner of Twitter, wants to monetize the existing accounts: hence it's time to switch to Mastodon, IMO.

Mastodon is the largest decentralized social network on the Internet. Instead of a single website, it's a network of millions of users in independent communities that can all interact seamlessly with each other. No matter what interests you, you can meet passionate people who post about it on Mastodon! Join a community and create your profile. Find and follow fascinating people and read their posts in an ad-free, chronological timeline. Express yourself with custom emojis, images, GIFs, videos and audio in posts

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Mastodon is open-source and has an elegant, well-documented API that is available to everyone. Make your own app, or use one of the many third-party apps made by other developers!​

Requires Android 6+ ( API 23 )

As a centrally operated service, Twitter – in contrast to decentralized platforms such as Mastodon – can be censored. Tweets can therefore be deleted, both by the author and by the platform operator.

More info here:

Mastodon - Decentralized social media

Learn more about Mastodon, the radically different, free and open-source decentralized social media platform.

joinmastodon.org
[Off-topic] SigmundDroid:
Basically it's rich jerk owner with outdated technological concept vs leftish wannabees with decentralized approach.

Generally I prefer federate systems just I fail to see the benefit in either:

Did that mistake once with facebook. Very glad I left. Such social media is for companies and morons.

Isn't it? :unsure:

Or is it? :giggle:
[Off-topic] xXx yYy:
Personally yesterday switched from Twitter to Mastodon because for me the most important thing to note about decentralized social media as Mastodon is that it doesn't consist of one central server. Many of the biggest social media networks out there today, including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, are all centralized, meaning one core authority holds all the power over the network.

Decentralized social media outlets have a very special characteristic: multiple distributed networks can exist within them. This means that individuals can choose which network they'd like to join. Any user can create their own network, allowing for individuals with similar interests or ideas to connect.

These platforms use a system of governance instead of the word of a few individuals - or only one like Elon Musk - to make decisions. Users can vote on things to have their say in how the platform progresses, instead of having to go along with whatever the central authority wants.

So, decentralized social media as Mastodon offer a fresh take on digital communication, wherein multiple networks can exist within one platform, all of which are controlled by independent servers.
[Off-topic] SigmundDroid:
Good choice! I wonder how mastodon will work out for you in the long run.

Federation works email since decades (unfortunately for spammers, too). Will you switch also to XMPP with your messaging then?
[Off-topic] Dayuser:
I stay on Twitter as long as people who i follow stays too.
[Off-topic] SigmundDroid:
As much as I despise social media, shouldn't you try to convince those people at least to switch to the better system?

Too often I see people I would rather admire, then I see them using twitter - instant turn off, I cringe.
[Off-topic] Dayuser:
My twitter usage is mostly reading Twitter and not tweeting anything. I follow large tech companies and sites so me saying "switch to Mastodon or something else" does not have any effect.

and i don't see any major changes to my Twitter usage even that owner is chanced..
[Off-topic] xtcislove:
So whats the difference in twitter now and a week ago? The new owner has more money and the leftist dont like the new owner.

Most twitter users do literally nothing but complaining but never take any responsibility. Thats why they need a decentralized social media. In fact you will get more and more ideological owners, but in a smaller package.

You change from a regulated big system to a non controlled small system. Thats fine but there are consequences. Its on you which matter more to you.

Anyway i dont have Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/Mastodon or anything else except XDA. This gives you much time to do useful things.
[Off-topic] mayer2:
Mastodon that's been around for about 6 yrs, has emerged as a potential and popular choice. The very day of Musk's Twitter takeover, Mstodon gained 70,000 new users. As of 2Nov2022, it's grown to host 655,000 active users. Of course that's only a drop in the bucket compared with Twitter's reported 450 million daily users.

Warning: Mastodon’s model comes with its own risks. If the server you join disappears, you could lose everything, just like if your email provider shut down. A Mastodon server admin also has ultimate control over everything you do: if for some reason the owner of kpop.social doesn’t like that you boosted a toot from dolphin.town, they could remove it or even “defederate” the server, which would block all dolphin toots from the k-pop server completely. A server admin could also snoop on your private toots if they wanted to – or delete your account for any reason.
[Off-topic] xXx yYy:
IMO the new Twitter boss now faces a difficult choice. On the one hand, the important advertisers are not very enthusiastic about the idea of seeing their messages next to potentially extremist, offensive or otherwise problematic statements that correspond to Musk's idea of free speech. On the other hand, Twitter must not only make up for its losses, but also bring in the interest if it does not want to finance the service out of its own ( Musk's ) pocket. Musk will have to pay a price – the only question is which one it will be.
[Off-topic] karandpr:
Leave Twitter , Embrace XDA
[Off-topic] Clark Joseph Kent:
:cowboy:(y)
[Off-topic] galaxys:
^ Worthy of having it's own Thread!😉
[Off-topic] Clark Joseph Kent:
:unsure::D
[Off-topic] Austinredstoner:
For me personally I'm not leaving Twitter (at least for now) reason for this is because people like XDA still use it and it's harder for me to live without Twitter as long as my favorite content creators still use it.
[Off-topic] Austinredstoner:
Same here
[Off-topic] Oswald Boelcke:
Isn't this what these "companies" calculate with? That nobody makes the first step and tries to convince the others to follow...

I'm not using twitter, facebook, instagram, linkedIn, whatsapp (please name the rest), and I don't miss anything. And why do I only visit the portal when the forum goes "offline due to maintenance" (gratefully the bugs that made that regularly to occur a few weeks ago are fixed)? This is the reason:

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[Off-topic] orb3000:
Ive never suscribed to any newsletter, maybe its time to start...
[Off-topic] SigmundDroid:
Uhm, so twitter (and the likewise centralized alternatives) is worse is worse than mastodon (well, in a technical sense, not many people will disagree on this, I guess).

How about the next step? Going away from servers and use something p2p-like...

I know only of freenet (tried it eons ago), are there any other solutions?
[Off-topic] SigmundDroid:
Why is that? Can't be worse than twitter, eh?
[Off-topic] Oswald Boelcke:
Meanwhile I'd a closer look. The concepts of Mastodon and in general the Fediverse but also Musk's statements and actions have convinced me. I've created my Mastodon account.
[Off-topic] Clark Joseph Kent:
:oops:;):p:ROFLMAO:
[Off-topic] V0latyle:
I'm personally pretty happy that Twitter is under new ownership, as big changes are happening, mostly for the better. As far as monetization...Welcome to social media. That's how Big Tech makes its money - with user data. Any company's ultimate goal is to generate revenue, so I don't fault Musk for trying to make Twitter more profitable. Further, given how much of the online social sphere that Twitter dominates, I am very glad that political and ideological censorship is being reevaluated. As a general rule, I am skeptical of the idea that we need any more arbitration than simply keeping the peace. Here on XDA, we don't censor opinions; sunlight is the best disinfectant, so we don't try to silence people simply for being wrong. Granted, we try to keep the conversations appropriate for the intent of this forum - focused on personal electronics, software, and development - but we aren't going to actively combat "disinformation" as that is a slippery slope, and the truth is always exposed at some point or another. I don't think it is Twitter's, or any other tech company's responsibility to tell us what is true vs what isn't; we need to encourage open, diverse discussion, where everyone has the right to express their opinion even if they're wrong. If certain beliefs and opinions are actively suppressed, or certain information is intentionally withheld, it's not truly a free and open discussion.

But, a lot of this also comes from my personal belief that freedom and democracy go hand in hand; unless EVERYONE has an equal voice and equal liberty to believe and express what they want, it's not really fair, is it? So, that would be my primary concern for a platform like Mastodon: Is it truly neutral? Does it have a social, political, or ideological agenda? Does it actually promote freedom of opinions on their platform? Does it censor information, particularly when it comes to the press? I think the open source and decentralized nature of Mastodon is a good way to guarantee this.

That's just the "ethics and ideology" take.

As far as technology and quality...A big part of why decentralized services such as IRC lost popularity is because of their decentralization. What the Big Tech services excel at is user oriented features. Big companies are always going to have more resources to produce a better product. Mastodon on the other hand struggles with many of the same issues IRC did - where there are a lot of competing clients/softwares that provide similar services, all with different feature sets.

If someone were to come up with something that works similar to Reddit, where each sub is controlled more or less independently by its own moderators, but where the user experience is similar regardless of where you are on the platform...That would probably have a better chance of catching on. The big problem with Reddit is that the entire site is hosted in one place, and the admins/main moderators of the site often exhibit significant bias.
[Off-topic] mayer2:
twitter is like smoking: you can let it go or not
[Off-topic] SigmundDroid:
Me, too. Just because thus it's going downhill 😁

I consider that a very big problem.

Agreed and that's the point!

(that actually triggered my answer)

Not sure about that, I think it rather correlates with average "computer savviness" of internet users... and then, partially yes, some "herd effects" just like...

...just like with whatsapp. A real simple program, so simple that it suits all ages from 5 to 95 but it lured all the people in, even the dumbest person can use whatsapp... and violates the privacy rights of an entire planet.

In other words: Not a better programm but merely the (temporary) winner of "what comes after fax"-competition (again "herd effect") with sufficient resources to stay alive (so far).

I like it and it works! Thanks for that, XDA 😍
[Off-topic] bitpushr:
Joined Twitter in 2007. Followed a bunch of local people and also "techies". Went to a bunch of Tweetups and made friendships that lasted to today.

Since 2012 or so I feel like Twitter is a net negative on society. I stopped posting frequently a long time ago but still checked it out almost daily.

I moved over to Mastodon. Created an account in 2019 when it first came out, but didn't really see the point of focusing any energy on it until now. What I miss in Twitter is the community that evolved around it, just like why I love XDA. I just found a great community on there. Honestly, if XDA wants to start a Mastodon server, I would be behind that. Just show me that there is enough interest!
[Off-topic] bitpushr:
I just added Mastodon profile link to custom fields on our accounts. I also added a link to our profiles that should allow XDA to show up as a "Verified" link on Mastodon profiles.
[Off-topic] bitpushr:
We do own xda.dev 😎

I added XDA profile verification on Mastodon. First add your Mastodon profile on your XDA profile. Then add your XDA profile to your Mastodon profile, and it will show up as a green checkmark/verified.
[Off-topic] karandpr:
Does it matter anymore?

After yesterday's stunt, most of the peeps I follow quit.

They are not coming back.
[Off-topic] bitpushr:
Yeah I was already on the edge, will probably read (because you still find some info exclusively there) but not interacting with it any more. Now with the questionable intentions of the financial backers... No thanks!
[Off-topic] karandpr:
Yeah, I am actually not bothered at all. I might make a book purchase or course of some of the peeps I have met.

But I am not really interested in joining Mastadon or whatever...
[Off-topic] Oswald Boelcke:
Just as an update: All highest German Federal Courts are available on Mastodon since today. I'm very positively surprised that the highest German jurisdiction is able to follow where German parties and politicians commonly seem to have different interests - not to the benefit of German citizens. Now it's just on the German Federal Constitutional Court as one of the five standing German constitutional bodies to follow!

But again most important. German jurisdiction is independent! And the German Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information just disallowed the Federal Press Office to run its Facebook fanpage! These are very good days at the start of March! Source:

Pressemitteilungen - BfDI untersagt Betrieb der Fanpage der Bundesregierung

Der BfDI, Professor Ulrich Kelber, hat das Bundespresseamt (BPA) angewiesen, den Betrieb der Facebook Fanpage der Bundesregierung einzustellen. Ein entsprechendes Schreiben hat der BfDI zu Beginn der Woche versendet. Das BPA hat ab Erhalt des Bescheids vier Wochen Zeit diesen umzusetzen.

www.bfdi.bund.de

Bundesgerichtshof (@BGH_Bund@social.bund.de)

316 Posts, 0 Following, 2.31K Followers · Aktuelle Pressemitteilungen des Bundesgerichtshofs . Beachten Sie, dass Anfragen über Mastodon nicht beantwortet werden.

social.bund.de

Bundesverwaltungsgericht (@BVerwG_de@social.bund.de)

70 Posts, 0 Following, 1.08K Followers · Aktuelle Pressemitteilungen des Bundesverwaltungsgerichts. Anfragen werden über Mastodon nicht beantwortet.

social.bund.de

Bundesfinanzhof (@bundesfinanzhof@social.bund.de)

62 Posts, 0 Following, 773 Followers · Aktuelle Pressemitteilungen des Bundesfinanzhofs. Entsprechende Anfragen über Mastodon werden nicht beantwortet.

social.bund.de

Bundesarbeitsgericht (@bundesarbeitsgericht@social.bund.de)

55 Posts, 5 Following, 1.13K Followers · Aktuelle Pressemitteilungen des Bundesarbeitsgerichts. Beachten Sie, dass Anfragen über Mastodon nicht beantwortet werden.

social.bund.de

Bundessozialgericht (@Bundessozialgericht@social.bund.de)

508 Posts, 0 Following, 822 Followers · Aktuelle Informationen der Pressestelle des Bundessozialgerichts Anfragen an das Bundessozialgericht über Mastodon werden nicht beantwortet.

social.bund.de
[Off-topic] SigmundDroid:
Sounds like an ad :unsure: What fascinating people did you find worth following?
[Off-topic] NOSS8:
:oops:

Mastodon's decentralized social network has a major CSAM problem

A study from Stanford shows that Mastodon has a big child sexual abuse (CSAM) problem.

www.engadget.com
[Off-topic] heinhuiz:
Yes, so what now?
[Off-topic] Timmmmaaahh!:
Bluesky? 🤷‍♂️
[Off-topic] heinhuiz:
What I actually meant is that any decentralised social network will have these problems. If you want them to reflect society without centralised governing, you will find the excesses of society there too.
[Off-topic] Timmmmaaahh!:
True. But anything beats supporting X nowadays, I guess. Musk is going mental. Tesla fell in love with a pigeon so we can't say we didn't see it coming, lol. I got on Bluesky just yesterday, it does seem a bit less decentralized compared to Mastodon as the default is just joining the bsky.social server. IIRC Mastodon forces to use any random server.

Hey, it can't all be moderated as awesomely as XDA, right? 🤪

Edit: come to think of it, X.com would've been the perfect XDA rebranding! We should talk to Musk...
[Off-topic] NOSS8:
http://sixdegrees.com/ ??
[Off-topic] heinhuiz:
Sixdegrees doesn't even have https-encryption. Are you really submitting your username and password through that page? 😲
[Off-topic] NOSS8:
a bit of history

SixDegrees.com - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org
[Off-topic] heinhuiz:
😅 I never heard of it 🫣
[Off-topic] SigmundDroid:
First, this seems pretty much click bait.

Second, if true, isn't that a good thing? It shouldn't be really the job of any platform to police its users. This is the job of the police. Besides what can they do? Delete the post or user? This is a question of moderation and applies to any social media. Where does it begin, where does it stop?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky_Social

What's the deal? Lots of hot air in their FAQ but I seem to miss the important part, is there any?
[Off-topic] Timmmmaaahh!:
Not sure yet, I'm not much of a social media guy anyway. It's basically vanilla Twitter 𝕏 without ads and of course with much lower activity. I like the no-nonsense interface and the fact that no greedy algorithm is trying to serve me a never ending stream of BS. For some reason I see a lot of trans people, though. Not sure if that says something about me or about the platform, lol.
[Off-topic] espionage724:
All social media encourages echo-chambers and behavior modification. Anything that isn't mainstream (FB, Twitter/X) is worse as it tends to attract certain groups of people who were likely kicked off those mainstream platforms for... non-mainstream views I have no interest in sharing a platform with or wanting to encourage. The only thing stopping someone else's instance (Mastodon or another fediverse) from becoming non-ideal are other people on that platform with discretion, who also have the primary objective of wanting more people on the platform.

And of course you have to be concerned if whoever is hosting the server won't take it down, either by themselves or their web host if they don't like that site's community. And finally if you really want to be social with people, mainstream platforms are still the largest by-far if you want the largest audience; it'll get boring talking to the same 5 people after a while :p

I've self-hosted my own personal-use Friendica instance since it fit into my LEMP stack and previously GNU social. It served nicely as a micro-blog, and anyone else that cared could even subscribe to me via any other compatible fediverse.

I plan on looking into Jekyll for a really-light microblog since the only real requirement is something to render text nicely. I'll get to blog, and anyone who cares can see it; no mass-marketing, advertisers, bad-actors, or manipulation involved :p

HTTP/1.1 Upgrade header - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Not that it matters in Sixdegrees instance, but just because you see a plain-HTTP URL doesn't mean it's only HTTP. My domains do that in-case someone or a spider tries HTTP, but I only share HTTPS links :p
[Off-topic] espionage724:
{Mod edit: Quoted post has been deleted. Oswald Boelcke, Senior Moderator}

Hey, a perfect example of the nonsense social media encourages as a forum post from a fresh 1-post account :p

That's the fun you get to weave-through on social media; usually it's not so-blatantly fake.
[General Questions and Answers] smily:
Hi,

I have an HTC Touch Diamond.When I played an mp3 it came up with gwes.exe error and froze the phone.I tried another hard spl and a few different roms as well but now it slows the phone down and the sounds goes soft and off and comes back after a while with no gwes.exe error now.When I play the radio through the speaker it plays ok so it's not the speaker.

can anyone assist?
[OnePlus 9] :
My device was permanently unlocked before I accidentally erased modemst1 and modemst2 partitions without even knowing what these partitions do. Now my phone is network locked again and I can't unlock it. Tell me how to fix this problem please. I don't have backup of modemst1 and modemst2 partitions. I did MSM and also updated to latest software version but network unlock app is giving error.

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[OnePlus 9] :
Can someone give modemst1 and modemst2 partitions backup for tmobile oneplus 9 ?
[OnePlus 9] :
Someone gave me these partitions but the problem is not solved. I am never going to buy tmobile phone again. Network lock is pain. It should have been fixed by re-flashing those partitions. Unlock app is also having server error.
[OnePlus 9] rizzmughal:
There is one solution for network unlock try root and use magisk module to fix data dual sim bug that works even in network locked devices
[OnePlus 9] rizzmughal:
https://xdaforums.com/t/tmo-oos-cos-data-fix.4392893/
[OnePlus 9] :
Okay I will try it.
[OnePlus 9] Appreciative:
Modemst1/2 are unique to your device. Deleting them was not a good idea. This isn't really fair to blame the tmobile variant for this. You said it was previously unlocked. If your phone was globally unlocked and you deleted the modemst1/2, you'd still have a problem as it holds more than lock/unlock status. It has your imei1/2 and more. I believe it's tied to your hardware serial ID as well

What does your imei show right now when you do *#06# in dialer? If 0, use qualcomm tool to set imei back to normal.

You may be able to extract a valid modemst1/2 from efs/fsg. Using dd to pull efs and flashing that back in or causing efs to repair itself, then maybe or maybe not need using qpst to set your imei back to what it was. Then unlock the sim again.

There's a method I've read about is using qualcomm's tools and a valid qcn. Samsung qpst. But I don't know if it works for OP9!

You get a known good qcn and edit it, then use qualcomm tools to flash the edited qcn into your device. Flashing someone else's modemst1/2 is not a good idea for you or them. Which is why you don't find tons of modemst1/2 files all over xda for people to flash and unlock their phones with. No idea if this works on your device.

You can read more about it here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Xiaomi/comments/903k2v
[OnePlus 9] :
I didn't delete the partitions but just erased them. You should know that IMEI is not stored in the modemst partition. Reflashing modemst partition from another tmobile unlocked phone should have fixed the problem but it is still there. This shiit would not have happened on the global model by erasinig modemst partition. My sim is detected but the phone is network locked by t-mobile and the unlock app is not working.
[OnePlus 9] :
I know how to repair IMEI. SIM Unlock app isn't working with any IMEI including the original IMEI written on the back of phone.