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[Captivate General] carporsche:
Hi Guys

I installed the Android System App on my captivate and i could get a lot of information about my phone. Especially the system info tab gives a detailed listing of all the hardware components on the phone.

Couple of things caught my attention

1. It mentions RAM to be 326MB.. I thought captivate had 512 MB of RAM

2. Processor speed is not constant at 800 MHz (i know its obvious). The App gives a percentage breakup of CPU frequency and mine showed that the CPU runs at 100MHz 68% of the time (during idle times i guess)

This is really an awesome app. Can spend a lot of time looking into the info here.

CAn someone double check on the Memory info in their Captivate.

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[Captivate General] labbu63:
the ram limit is cause in 2.2 support for more ram comes tahts what i read on the 2.2 release notes
[Captivate General] LGSilva:
I've searched the market and could not find this app. Can you post a link?
[Captivate General] carporsche:
here it is

http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.electricsheep.asi

Njoy
[Captivate General] SiL3nTKiLL:
cool thanks!
[Captivate General] phonerrr:
Has anyone used the android system info app to uninstall the AT&T crapware?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] bobsnag:
Hi i'm using a at&t tilt2. its a great phone. I'm running some version of a wm6.5 energyrom with sense 2.5 and cookie home tab.

My problem is that after i start up my phone and while i'm using it throughout the day the % ram memory used is usually from 70-85% and it sometimes even reaches 90%. The only app that i am running regularly is palringo, which is usually on most of the time.

I tried installing the nopushinternet and dynamic resource proxy cabs, but they didn't really change anything. I've heard of people having percentages of even 30-40%. If i could get anywhere from 40-50% i would be really happy.

any suggestions?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Miami_Son:
WM is notorious for memory leaks. I start with about 53% (TF3D active and modded), but within an hour I'll be up around 65% or more without even using the phone. I use HTC CleanRAM and even have it scheduled to run every morning before I wake so the phone starts somewhat fresh, but the only real way to recover your RAM is to do a soft reset once or twice a day. Just one of the many things M$ hasn't fixed in all these years.:mad:
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] samylines:
Even I am using Energy ROM and facing similar memory issues..

The only solution I have found was to disable HTC sense and it got my RAM usage to almost 45% from 64%.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] fone_fanatic:
NRG creates vanilla (blank) roms for people that want more ram, these don't have sense included.

I'm on the 21XXX sense 2.5 cookie july 16th energy rom and have high ram usage as well specially when i use opera. Its known and the best thing you can do is either cleanram or soft reset (which i do a couple times a day).
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] cirrob:
its because you are using sense. its a massive memory leak wrapped up in a nice UI. EVERYONE using sense in any rendition (2.x) has the exact same problem. if they tell you otherwise they are lieing. sense routinely jumps up to 70% to 90%, even with every memory hack you can think of or with every rom you can think of.

while it is not scientific, i have tried just about every rom here including the official roms and i have done so on two tp2s: always the massive resource consumption. people claim to keep it at like 60% or lower, but thats not true unless they are rebooting every 3 hours. i decided to switch back to stock tf3d on 6.1 and i am at 51% and have not rebooted my phone for 3 days. granted i did the memory hacks and have clean ram running every three hours, but thats a realistic expectation.

if you want a smooth UI and memory, ditch sense and go back to tf3d.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Miami_Son:
I have TF3D and mine hovers around 65% with nothing running. I've seen it climb to as high as 85% at which point my Tilt 2 starts to bog down. Sense may be worse, but TF is no speed demon, either. I'd be interested in those memory hacks you mentioned. Any links?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] moSess:
All of your situations suck balls... I left windows mobile for Android for just that reason... And came back eventually! Why? The power under the hood.

I was running energy, and it was looking good, just always had the mem leak. Its usually gwes.exe, if we could fix that, then it would have been golden. I guess its not for fixing, might be out of xdas realm of expertise as yet.

And that is why I use 6.1... and haven't reset my phone in FOUR days!!! Granted at its height 6.1 was buggy as well because of the nature of XDA, which is to push the limits.

I wanted the power of a windows mobile phone. My nexus could go a month without a glitch or hiccup or reset, yes reset! The battery would go 15 hours at best though, hardly using it. That was unacceptable. I still had this Rhodium, sold the nexus threw on jackos oldschool and forgot about being cutting edge. Now I have power and stability.... and 30 hours of battery:)

By the way, I have not reset in four days and never feel the need to. I will say that the first Android phone with decent battery life and a keyboard comparable to my Rhodium that comes out spells the end for me and windows on a phone. I will be leaving the sinking ship as i doubt iWindows will do it for me when it finally releases. Android aint windows, but it aint the Iphoney either!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] jonto:
I just use the standard default AT&T ROM, along with some tweaks, and SPB Mobile Shell and I have 57% FREE after a boot up. By the end of the day its usually around 45-48% FREE, depending on use.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] miked79928:
I am using the ROM and Cookie combination in my signature and my memory sits at about 30% free all day long. A reason for this is I have Seven push mail running in the background at all times. I am extremely happy with this as my phone never seems to feel the effects.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] hskeik:
The cookies tabs takes many many many of RAM, I have now Athine ROM clean with SPB mobile shell, it's well, and stable, the only nigative point is that the SPB mobile shell makes battery life for little bit less
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] moSess:
I forgot to mention my memory stays at 52% available after like four-5 days with the occasional running of memmaid:eek:
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] ioandancus:
ArkSwitch

I just do not understand why ArkSwitch is showing me that I have "46MB free out of 181MB". In the "about phone" menu it is clearly written that I have 288MB of RAM. Why in Ark Switch is 181?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlexAuran:
I was wondering if there is any way to hide the taskbar when the screen is locked, but have it shown when using the phone. It would make my phone look absolutely amazing. I'm using the clear lockscreen mod, with the Sprint banner replaced by a space. If there is a way to do this, it would basically make the phone a digital picture frame with a clock on it. See the screen for what I mean.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlexAuran:
I didn't want a new thread, but is there any way to extend the timer before the screen turns off before you unlock the device?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] playya:
Are you talking about the screen timeout? menu - settings - display?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlexAuran:
No, I mean the base slide lock screen, from when you first turn on the device. Is there a way to control how long it will display the clock and wallpaper before turning the screen off due to no entry?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] can90:
Hi. Last month I bought a LG Fathom (which is a Verizon phone). It is a WM 6.5.3 phone and supports both CDMA and GSM, it has both MEID and IMEI number. In the past month, I ordered many unlock codes from different sellers but they couldn't find it. I need to find that 8 digit unlock I'm ready to pay anything to unlock my phone, so if you even know something like "Octopus Box" for LG Fathom, I will be very happy to learn that. Please share any of your opinion with me, I really need your help to unlock that phone. A Verizon unlock seller, a box fro LG Fathom or an unlocker application will be very nice. Please help me:(

Thanks

Can
[Vibrant General] mi4kidzmom:
I do want to know about legitimate problems with the phone but having it all on one thread would help everyone out to know they could click on ONE thread to find all problems and of course the complainers would have somewhere to vent without pages and pages of the same complaint

Or maybe make a poll
[Vibrant General] neema:
I think the short answer is no.
[Vibrant General] ttabbal:
Depends, can complaining about the complainers be moved there too? :)

Telling everyone to search would kind of suck if all issues are moved into one big thread. The default search is just titles IIRC.
[Vibrant General] sombionix:
Actually, putting all of the complaints, problems, and questions regarding this phone into ONE thread would make things 1000 times harder. The key is putting these threads in the appropriate 'section'. Questions, complaints, or basically ANYTHING not related to the development of the phone belongs in the 'general' section. Its keeps the forum organized and helps people find what they're looking for a lot faster. If you were to put everything into one thread, you're basically eliminating the 'search' feature, which first searches thread titles.
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
A moderator could really clean shop in here. I could pay a mod to delete about half the thread created today. People who are new to android, and/or this forum clearly don't understand what XDA is about... I know I ask what may seem like dumb questions, but I also help others who are genuinely seeking help, but if I are crying over the Internet about your phone (which some on here do not even own), well I could get banned for telling you what I think of you.
[Vibrant General] Pneumatic:
A new forum section would make more sense.
[Vibrant General] neema:
Vibrant whining section? Now that gets my vote.
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
There are always a select few that just love to complain and act like the few people that have their same issues equals "everyone". I've seen it everywhere and right now, it's more tiring than anything.
[Vibrant General] shaneaus:
Refer them to my post!

LOL! On one hand it is great to have all these new people excited about Android and purchasing the devices.

On the other hand it sure would be nice if they could join a couple of forums and put all the "General" discussion on the other forums and come here to discuss development, modding, and themeing.... But, it just ain't going to happen! :(
[Vibrant General] couped:
kudos!

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[Android Software Development] GinoAMelone:
Ok, I've googled and forum-searched a bunch.

I'm writing a little app to help me maintain my phone how I like it (hopefully I'll get it working and release it to the hoards soon). I need to get SU access within my app.

My question is how? Or perhaps should be, is this still correct?

Some further questions. It looks like I can only make use of SU access by exec'ing a command. Not within pure Java. Is this true?

Will the permission be automatically "asked for" if I exec the su command without any other actions?

Thanks,

Gino A...
[Android Software Development] GinoAMelone:
Alright, I can answer some of my own questions after experimenting last night. But, I still don't have this working.

The old post I linked to is not correct on CM6. I tried that code and the intent wasn't found.

Calling su w/out any other permission requests doesn't work. Just get a not-allowed message.

Anybody made this work and want to help a guy out? Anybody able to point me to a github of working code?

Thanks.
[Android Software Development] GinoAMelone:
Ok, now I'm really confused. Been wandering through github looking at people's code. Found a few different apps that seem to just call "su -c [...]" without any thing else. WTH?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] pkulak:
I have a theory that Android uses the CPU exclusively to display a webpage, while iOS loads the rendered result of the current window into the graphics buffer. This would explain the checkerboarding that you get on iOS that you don't on Android, why zooming on Android doesn't blur like iOS does, and why slow scrolling on iOS is so smooth.

Does anyone know if I'm right about this?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] xtcislove:
iOS display every Website in the same way. Visit a website that is not mobile and u see Android is faster!

iOS display not the whole website so its get good performance.

Edit me if i am wrong
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] runawayprisoner:
It's actually the other way around. Visit a website that is not mobile and you'll see the Android default browser crawl. The checkerboard pattern on iOS is precisely as you described it: the CPU is not keeping up with page rendering, and it hasn't loaded that part of the web page into the GPU buffer yet. But it only happens to really large web pages with a lot of contents (a tech blog).

The Android UI lacks any sort of GPU acceleration possible, and it's been an ongoing issue for a while. The Android team responded that it wasn't done earlier on because earlier hardware just wasn't enough for it. All current Android devices are effected...

On the bright side, if you want smooth browsing on your Android phone, you can use Opera Mini. I'm using it myself.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] linuxguy:
Hi guys, sorry if a thread like this has already been started, but I looked and search results on xda returned no thread found, so I figure might as well start one. I'm an new poster here, so please be patient. Here are some pictures I've taken with my galaxy s (from t-mobile usa). I've also uploaded a video to vimeo (I think I'm the first one, again, all searches on vimeo show no sgs videos, since I think most if not all are uploaded to youtube). Anyways, the pictures and video are on my site dublew dublew dublew dot foscode dot com/samsung-galaxy-review , and hopefully admins won't block the link from appearing (this is not a spam site). In case they do block it, I'm trying to also upload the pics to this forum. Hope you enjoy the pics and videos.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] cashless:
Page Not Found. Korean Community of Cincinati page right?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] linuxguy:
thanks for trying to check it out on my site, not sure why it redirected to the other one I maintain, I do have both sites on the same server, but I never had this problem before. I just tried accessing the site from a co-workers' pc and foscode came up... Please try again when you have a chance, and thanks for the input.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] HyBry:
Is there a chance someone could post pictures taken in low light or dark environment. Since there is no flash they most likely are not usable, but I would like to see what the phone can do. Cause every once in a while there is that moment when you need to take a picture of your buddy passed out drunk at the table in bar or on the street.. :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] linuxguy:
Here are some pictures taken at waverly hills sanitarium, louisville, ky.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] linuxguy:
Sorrt, didn't know they wouldn't be all in the same reply, here is another
[Galaxy S I9000 General] linuxguy:
Another one..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] linuxguy:
Last one ... Taken at the morgue.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] HyBry:
Thanks... Not too bad in the dark i would say but it really need to light to take good pictures... :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
just like all digital cameras
[Galaxy S I9000 General] linuxguy:
Thanks, it was fun testing it out there in the dark, didn't get to see any ghosts though. Here is a picture a shot almost at the same time when someone took theirs with a flash, I had part of my finger in front of the camera.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Amdathlonuk:
Wow....those pictures are really poor quality, I expected better from the camera?

Are they taken in low light?

Don't get me wrong I love the Galaxy, my wife has one.

The picture attached was taken with my Nexus.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] linuxguy:
Those pics were taken at an abandoned building, at night, with no lights, or flash. If you are not familiar, look up waverly hills sanatorium on google, it is a famous tuberculosis hospital that closed in the 1960's, now they offer tours. So, to answer your question, yes, there were no lights at all, just imagine an abandoned building, in the middle of the night, no lights and no flash, try using any digital camera under the same cinditions and you'll probably get the same results. Thanks for checking the pictures out though.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] hiraj_panosian:
But still, i m not quite amazed either, its not only these pictures Ive seen others too, but i m quite disappointed. I ordered a SGS but Im gonna miss my X10i :(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Karupan:
Too much noise in those pics. Im surprised the camera is THIS bad.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Piny12:
Just some shots I did while testing the camera for the first time.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] linuxguy:
Another couple of pics....
[Galaxy S I9000 General] linuxguy:
..... And the second one.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] linuxguy:
Outside shot.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dannyd2134:
This is at iso 800 which will have alot of noise because the size of the sensor. Havin more pixels doesn't mean better low light pics.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] quinckekorotkoffqk:
indoors pic are as bad as my 1.3 mega pixel camera mobile:p
[Galaxy S I9000 General] scrizz:
come on now, the pics aren't "that" bad.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksekhar:
Is there any way to test a newly built ROM on simulator or something similar to see if it is at least booting. I am trying to cook ROMs and copying it to device and testing is taking lot of energy and of course time consuming. There must be a better way... Pls do let me know if you know any.

Thanks in advance.
[Vibrant General] asko1981:
Does anyone know if it's possible to adjust the delay before the capacitive buttons turn off?

The issue I'm having is while using the phone in the dark. The buttons light up and a couple seconds later they turn off. Finding the right button in the dark is a pain.

The only way to get the buttons to light up again is by touching the screen.

Thanks.
[Vibrant General] candre23:
Came here looking for the same info. There is at least one thread in the captivate forum asking the same thing, so it looks like it's a problem for the whole galaxy line. It does not appear to be adjustable in the current firmware. I'm really hoping for a fix from Samsung or one of the homebrew developers soon.
[Droid X General] swordphsh:
Hopefully this hasn't been noted already. I use the stock messaging widget and click on it to quick-view my new texts, then hit reply to enter the "quick-text" which pre-fills in the recipient.

The problem I'm having is that when I use Swype as the input method in this box, it seems to lag and sometimes puts spaces in the wrong places, or punctuation before a word (as opposed to after). It appears that what's happening is that I'll 'swype' a word, it will bring up the selection list, and I'll hit a period. Normally this would insert the first-selected word and then a period, but in the quick-text, it appears to enter the period before auto-selecting the word from the list. This also happens where it will type the first letter of a word, put a space, then the rest of the word combined with the following word. For example "how a reyou" shows up often. The overall response time of using Swype as input for this seems slow and laggy.

I'm just curious if anyone else has encountered this or if there's a fix.
[Droid X General] Mikerrrrrrrr:
I think I've seen a screenshot of someone's phone trying to type in Skype in the stock Moto messaging widget and having a ton of gibberish in the input box, so I don't think it's just your phone.
[Droid X General] swordphsh:
I guess I'm kinda glad about that. Hopefully they fix it. I've just been trying to avoid using it, but it's so convenient.
[Droid X General] gobbles23:
When I first started using swype I was having all kinds of spaces and lag. Now that I'm running launcher pro everything is running smooth and I haven't had any lag problems. I also messed with some of the settings for swype.
[Vibrant General] buttsbuttsbutts:
One thing I've found irritating is that the Vibrant has at least two brightness settings. The systems setting allows you to select "auto brightness" BUT

The browser has its own brightness controls and does have an "auto brightness" setting that I can find?!
[Vibrant General] BigWorldJust:
The screen is so bright you need two settings for it.
[Vibrant General] neema:
Why is this annoying? Use a different browser.
[Vibrant General] SykesAT:
I agree. I see no need to have a separate setting for the browser. One system brightness setting would suffice...
[Vibrant General] Pneumatic:
Is that part of the "Power saving mode" (two below the "Brightness" setting)?

That option says "Save power by analyzing image and adjusting LCD brightness". Maybe the browser isn't playing nice with that function.

For the record... Mine is checked and I see the brightness increase on the browser too. I am not in a position to test it at the moment.
[Vibrant General] SykesAT:
"power saving mode" on or off I can independently adjust system and browser brightness.
[Vibrant General] buttsbuttsbutts:
There is another brightness setting under the browser opt ins when you load the browser itself
[Vibrant General] kolyan:
so we got 3 brightness settings :)
[Vibrant General] buttsbuttsbutts:
Sadly yes lol
[Vibrant General] designerfx:
4. Don't forget the tmobile app does some kind of auto brightness too iirc.
[Vibrant General] AndroidZ28:
The browser has a setting because a majority of websites are white, this is the opposite of most of the phone's Apps, so it makes sense that the browser would be different. If your phone has brightness up and you are reading a website at night, odds are you don't want the bright white light blinding you.
[Vibrant General] razorhanny:
I know this is an old post, but damn! I've been laughing my A$# off for 15 minutes straight after reading that! And it was the first anwser! You are a genius
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] undeclared:
so basically i have flashed cm6 on my incredible and a theme and i want to know if there is a way i can make a rom of what i have on my phone now of if i can combine the zips to make a working rom i can further edit. i have a rom kitchen set up and i am still trying to learn all the in's and out's of it.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JustinD2473:
I would say that is what alot of people are doing right now with incredible rom's.....that is why people are releasing patches and fixes after seeing them working in other roms.

......I have a rather easy question that applies to this subject also....

before loading a rom to my phone, can i go into the zip file and remove some 3rd party app apk files that i don't want before running it and will it still be ok ?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tcberg2010:
JustinD,

U can not just unzip it change things and rezip. It needs a signiture. Use the basic htc kitchen that's posted in chef central, it will unzip it into a working folder allowing u to change things at your will, u also use the kitchen to rezip and sign.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JustinD2473:
Excellent. Thank you. I figured it wasn't as simple as I put it, but I just wanted to make sure before I did something stupid. :cool:
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mini_monsta:
Or use 7zip to manipulate files in the archive without even having to unzip it.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dgourd:
No. Changing even 1 byte will change the signature needed. You need to use the kitchen so you can resign the ROM and flash it.