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[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] VDubGli:
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooOO!!!! I want to know too! i used to own one of the originals. I miss those little hungry buggers
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] thebritons:
Come on guys, its a game right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamagotchi#Tamagotchi_Video_Games

Found a gameboy (.gb) rom via google. Works great with SmartGear.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] mike2nl:
look here on xda: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=549888
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] VDubGli:
Thank you but that only seems to work for windows os
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tsuushin:
As per the title.

I know I can press the gear key on the keyboard, and then switch the input language from the Touch Input Settings menu, but as I find myself switching often, this is kind of a pain.

Isn't there a faster way of doing this? Maybe a better, third party keyboard?

Thanks!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zhypr:
The default HTC Froyo keyboard maybe?;)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tsuushin:
What if am I on TELUS and they haven't yet released their froyo update :(
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frozndevl:
I flashed DC 3.5 yesterday on top of my 3.2.3, and it was working flawlessly. However, I realized that some of my apps didn't like the upgrade, so I was planning on restoring my nandroid of my 3.2.3 installation, backing them up with TB and then restoring. I began the restore process and it has been running for over 1.5 hours so far. This seems excessive but I don't want to just pull the battery out if this could be normal.

I haven't changed from the default SD card that came with my EVO, so I know that it isn't the fastest card. Some advice would be appreciated.

Edit: I gave up waiting, pulled the battery, and restored my froyo backup. This restored in about 3-4 minutes, so that tells me there was something wrong with my 3.2.3 backup. That's obnoxious
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] surrealmethod:
Try restoring one more time...if it doesn't work then restore froyo again
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TF1984:
I have similar problem, I am trying to do a nandroid restore. It's been going for two 1.5 hours.

I was on CM6 RC1 with Snap V7.b kernel.

Trying to nandroid restore fresh 3.1.0.1.

The restore process has completely filled my screen with the dots it's been going for SOOOOOOOOO long. What should I do?

If I pull the battery will it toast the phone? phone is unresponsive to button pushes but the dots are still going. PLEASE HELP:confused:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] surrealmethod:
You should be fine pulling the battery. If you've been running this for 1.5 hours as you say, I'm sure you wasted a significant amount of juice. just leave the phone off and charge it for an hour and then boot up into recovery and try again.

If it happens once more, either select a different nandroid or flash a new rom again.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sdimezq8:
Using the program 'Android System' I noticed the dashboard shows a MAX of 325MB with X amount FREE. I understand there is some overhead for Video etc but 187MB?! I don’t think so... My next thought was that 2.1 only supports X amount of RAM and that when 2.2 comes out we will see closer to the full 512MB. Does anyone know if this is the case? :eek: Thanks in advance!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dareoth:
It has 512, but the phone is unable to use it all at present. The 2.2 update will come with a kernal update, which will allow full use of all 512mb. Unless some enterprising developers gets there first with a custom ROM...

It is interesting you report 325mb of RAM. I was fairly certain the 2.6.29 Kernal was limited to 256.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joeybear23:
I can only see 199 with all the tools I have tried, but I don't know exactly how much is dedicated to the OS.

In 2.2 the phone is supposed to be able to use all 512... which means we will probably see 400 max available for programs.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] max_warheads:
Physically it has 512MB of RAM, but the system doesnt recognize all of it under 2.1

\It will be recognized in 2.2
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sdimezq8:
Thanks for the info guys!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kagoshema:
interesting, he reported 325 and joey reported 199

each around 58 lower than what the system would recognize (256 or 384)

so is it possible that the system uses about 58mb and there is some setting or secret firmware allowing him to recognize more?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sdimezq8:
I have the stock JF6 ROM... Nothing special just a few mods nothing RAM related. I just checked it again; 325MB. Are you guys using the 'Android System Info' app, maybe it/mine is reporting incorrectly!? Any ideas?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctalbot:
Since this is a Linux system you can get the real info from /proc/meminfo.

MemTotal ~ 325MB as reported by the 2.6.29 kernel. As others have reported Froyo should see all 512. From http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.2-highlights.html

2.6.32 kernel upgrade

HIGHMEM support for RAM >256MB

SDIO scheduling and BT improvements

# cat /proc/meminfo
cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 333336 kB
MemFree: 3408 kB
Buffers: 372 kB
Cached: 63816 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 130364 kB
Inactive: 146516 kB
Active(anon): 106464 kB
Inactive(anon): 106684 kB
Active(file): 23900 kB
Inactive(file): 39832 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB
SwapFree: 0 kB
Dirty: 0 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 212704 kB
Mapped: 35116 kB
Slab: 12040 kB
SReclaimable: 2388 kB
SUnreclaim: 9652 kB
PageTables: 14684 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
WritebackTmp: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 166668 kB
Committed_AS: 9151572 kB
VmallocTotal: 286720 kB
VmallocUsed: 88084 kB
VmallocChunk: 178180 kB
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joeybear23:
Ok, I pulled up /proc/meminfo and get 333336 as well...

I wonder why the "running processes" app only shows a total of 199?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shammyh:
Just thought I'd try to resurrect this thread instead of starting another...

I've been doing a little googling, and I found on one of the original Korean teardowns of a GT-i9000 (intl. version of our Galaxy S). Link is here.

It would appear (at least based on their teardown) that the Galaxy S DOES NOT in fact have 512 MB of DDR memory. It does have a total of 512 MB of "RAM", just that 384 MB is DDR RAM, and the last 128 MB is OneNAND memory. Plus an extra 512 MB of non-storage NAND (aka, ROM in the traditional sense).

I have no idea, but if I had to guess, I'd say that the OneNAND is somehow being used for radio and GPU, and the DDR is the "RAM" we see in Android. But it would seem clear from every teardown I could find, that the Galaxy S does not have 512 MB of DDR like we expect it too. Not nessecarily a good or a bad thing, it may just be that Samsung decided to design the Galaxy S a little bit differently than other current smartphones. I'm betting that the OneNAND is assigned and controlled entirely by the radio, and is already being used way before the Android kernel even gets going. Either way, until I see someone actually address all 512 MB of RAM with a kernel, I'm going to assume that there isn't actually 512 MB of DDR RAM in the thing.

People can feel free to disagree, but I think this is a reasonable solution for why Samsung claims that the Galaxy S has 512 MB of "RAM", but also why we are seeing significantly less user-addressable RAM from within Android. They are just being slightly deceptive by calling the OneNAND flash memory "RAM".
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sdimezq8:
Thanks for trying to bring this post back! I agree with you, from every teardown and some gathered info; The captivate only has 384MB of OS RAM. (and that RAM may even be shared with the video) Kinda BS if you ask me; its like saying my PC has 9.5GB of RAM. Rather than stating that I have 8GB of OS RAM and 1.5GB of video RAM. Oh well... Please correct me if I am wrong!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PhrProfess:
Question: Why on Earth DOESN'T this device use all 512MB from teh get-go?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shammyh:
Well that is the question isn't it? Perhaps as time goes by devs will be able to recover (or perhaps reallocate) even more of that RAM towards OS use. Seems sort of unlikely to recover the OneNAND though, as it's probably controlled by mostly proprietary low-level code.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ipxnsv:
My thoughts are still that the kernels for ALL the galaxy variants are designed to support the 384 megs of ram that the fascinate has. Yes, the fascinate only has 384 megs of ram( as per the Samsung website). We may have 512 physical ram but the cookie cutter kernel is only using 384. This would have saved Samsung some QA time-- or maybe that kernel mad the most stable memory allocation configuration.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shammyh:
Yea, probably not though. Why would Samsung design their "cookie cutter kernel" based on one of the least popular design variants? That wouldn't really make much sense from a efficiency standpoint would it?

Either way, I think this has more to do with the physical hardware on board than the way the kernel is addressing it. If anything, I think Verizon didn't want to perpetuate the lie that Samsung has had going with all the other carriers, and just decided to fess up that the Galaxy S only has 384 MB of traditional DDR RAM.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ipxnsv:
Because ALL variants have AT-LEAST 384 megs of ram. Easier going down, than up.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sdimezq8:
Verizon has crippled thier devices in the past; the htc touch pro... The verizon version has 192MB vs 288MB for the ATT version, also the verizon version has no accelerometer. Kinda off subject there but anyways, I still wish we knew more about how the memory is being allocated on the captivate!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XGX5309:
The Galaxy S has the c111a application processor (hummingbird), which includes... 4Gb NAND + 3Gb DDR + 1Gb OneNAND.

I don't know exactly how that's divvied up, but it does have 512MB there for RAM.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] A.VOID:
384 sounds like no gingerbread for us
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shammyh:
That's my point exactly. 512 MB ROM, 384 MB DDR RAM, and 128 MB OneNAND.

OneNAND != DDR.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sdimezq8:
This may help explain it...

http://dev.odroid.com/wiki/odroid-t/pds/FrontPage/s_blockdiagram.jpg

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/products/fusionmemory/Products_OneDRAM.html
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shammyh:
Good find.

So we've got LPDDR1 RAM and OneDRAM for "RAM", and OneNAND and moviNAND for cache and storage.

Think Samsung could have fit any other type of memory in? Almost like a technology demonstrator for Sammy's "Fusion Memory" products.

(Though I believe we actually have LPDDR2 RAM in our phones, not LPDDR1 as in the diagram)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LNJ:
I was gonna start a thread about this very subject since I just got the Captivate. Coming from an Acer Liquid E which reported 512 correctly and had over 260mb free upon fresh boot, I was a little surprised.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joeybear23:
512 RAM? Yes.

512 Available to user apps? No.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dasbin:
Great, but then what *is* it available for? It doesn't seem to be in use by the system - all low-level phone processes and services are loaded into this 384MB space from what I can see. With all tasks killed, I never have more than 100MB free. Other Android phones with 512MB RAM have much more than that free. So clearly the phone is not offloading system services into the remaining RAM.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diablo009:
Check the atrix. It is said to have 1 GB RAM, but the OS monitor app shows only around 850 MB. I think same applies to Captivate too.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
This has been explained a few times before but not in awhile so here goes. From what I have read in the threads sense its release, the remaining ram is set aside by samsung for the screens graphics. Simple Answer.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LNJ:
That's a little deceiving considering older phones like the Nexus One and even the lowly Acer Liquid E have 512mb of usable RAM.

Also isn't the cpu supposed to be an ARM 8?

Every utility I have reports it as an ARM 7.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shammyh:
Long story short:

No, the Captivate DOES NOT have 512MB of regular "user addressable" RAM. It has 384 MB of LPDDR (low power ddr) and 128 MB of something special called OneDRAM. Combined together, it has a total of 512 MB of "random access memory", but never will all 512 of that be addressable by the android kernel, or user space.

There are many low level hardware pieces that need RAM; GPU, Radio, etc and get dibs on the RAM before Android is even booted. With the recent RAM tweaks included in almost all custom kernels, you will see about ~340 MB of usable RAM in android. Truthfully, this is probably enough for almost anything you could do, especially since Android is very aggressive (as it should be) with memory management. But no, you will never see a total of "512" in Android with any Galaxy S device.

All of the memory is being used though one way or another, so don't worry.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bobapunk:
FYI, My Captivate running Stock 2.2 Froyo reports 339MB of RAM using the stock Task Manager App.

Unfortunately, the 2.2 update did not "make" more usable memory.

The expatiation that Shammyh (and others) posted just above this seems most logical
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LNJ:
Being set aside for graphics is bullpoop since 120+mb is not needed for a mobile phone.

Not like we are watching 1080p video or creating multimedia.

I believe it's just marketing crap adding 1 type of memory and another type of non accessible memory and calling it 512mb total.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yogimel:
i concur. it should have been a full 512mb ram.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sdimezq8:
IMO its all for marketing as stated above. Either way I look at it, its BS! We only have 384MB of true RAM as we traditionally know it. Yes there is 128MB of other memory, but not traditional RAM.
[Desire General] parisien99:
Hello.

i have a custom rom and i have to upgrade it with wiping.

and i have a question.

1 - i tried to save my apps with appmonster (i thing it is the same issue with titanium). But when i restore the app on the phone on the new rom, i can not see it in the download tab of the android market.

Will the app be updated even if i can not see in the downloaded list on the app market ???

2 - Do you know what file i have to backup for the called (and received) numbers list and the setting of the mobile ???

3 - also, is there a file that tell to my new rom what widgets icones i have put on my htc sense front pages ?

Thank you
[Desire General] parisien99:
no answer ?
[Desire General] kmetek:
Titanium backup

sms backup & restore
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnnyboy1549:
From a performance and functionality stand point which is the better froyo rom?
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orkillakilla:
I'm not going to say what is the BETTER rom. They are both very good. My personal opinion is celb if I had to choose between the two. Also don't forget about cyanogentazz which is also a very good froyo rom.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MacShannon:
You could also give Nonsensikal a try its the newest of the Froyo builds.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hungry Man:
Tazz.

10 chara
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] richiea19:
Kaos updates his ROM it seems like every two days. That's good because you know he is active in developing the ROM. Most are no wipe, so updates are simple.

In fact, he posted an update the other day on the same day that the new search was introduced. Included in the ROM.

That being said, my daily is CELB Froyo. ELB was my first rooted ROM.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PimpShit420:
Is there really that much of a difference between the froyo roms? It seems to me that they update the same things basically at the same time. I assume they all talk on andIRC cause Ive seen them all in there I believe. The main source comes from cynaogen, kernels from another person, vender trees from yet another, so whats the differences, besides name and Background Picture?
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xllxjustinxllx:
+1 for Nonsensikal, i just flashed it and it is the most stable Froyo rom yet. Plus the blue is pretty awesome.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tazzpatriot:
never saw me in there :D
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orkillakilla:
They all add their own tweaks for speed and battery life and things like that. They add their own backgrounds and ringtones. Also system apps. I actually switched back to tazz. I love the customizable power widget (would be even better if I could choose the indicator color. Going for a red theme :) don't know If that's even possible though). Also the toggle 2g app is awesome. And the themed version I also like. Now I don't have to fool around with metamorph. Its all just a matter of personal preference.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahjee:
They are all good, I generally flash amongst them all every week or so..it's to hard to say...on now nonsensikal and it's been as stable as can be For me.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zwade01:
I downloaded Power Widget from the Market (I think it's like a buck or 2) and you can alter the indicator to any color you want. You can also adjust the transparency, have up to 7 buttons on the widget, and choose the size. I have 7 buttons on 1 widget and it's 1x3 in size.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spencer_Moore:
I used Kaos. Out of all the ones I tried had the least bugs and Kaos is a classy dev on top of it, not like the others are not. I just tried to stick with Kaos because he had originally brought Froyo to the Eris.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orkillakilla:
Yeah I tried that widget but some of them didn't work like the data toggle.

Sent from my leaked rooted HTC Droid Eris with CyanogenTazz v8 Froyo using Swype
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samlemur:
Kaos seems to work the best for me. But in the end, all the Froyo roms have a bit of each dev in them. Go with what works best for you.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zalatorisaurus:
I agree with samlemur. I've tried kaos and tazz and I prefer kaos. Mostly because it had the camera fix first and I use the camera heavily.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eric1948:
What's Celeb Froyo? All I've been able to find is CELB Froyo...:eek::p:D
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 5thAgent:
kaos. and it's CELB. not celeb. I'm not joking this time.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 5thAgent:
Well okay I am joking. But I'm not. It Cyanogen Eris Lightning Bolt. Not some kind of rom celebrities use.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahjee:
Lol.

I'm running kaos but it's hard to say, I flash between these froyo kind of often as these awesome devs we have consistently conjure them up for us. Lately I've been between nonsensikal and kaos, kaos froyo v32 may be the smoothest and quickest so far with less lag than other versions/roms.

Sent from an Eris running in beast mode aka KaosFroYo v32 using the XDA App
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droidfreak:
+1

agreed
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigredcherokee:
I use Kaos and its great but its the only Rom I have used. I just came off stock HTC junk and I will say that i like my eris now.

I do have a question. How do some of you change from diff roms weekly or daily for that matter? Is there a way to backup the apps and ones IMAP settings so you don't spend time loading them up again?

Also with the Kaos rom I like the fact that he updates it often. I would like to know how to update his roms with out loosing what I have install on my current V32.

Thanks.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nikolai2.1:
I prefer CELB. And use titanium backup to backup everything for Rom wipe updates.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rycheme:
+1 for Tazz
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MOS95B:
I seem to have the best luck with the KAOS ROMs. I also use my phone as my primary camera, and seem to have the least number of issues with kaos and the camera
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] n1ghtl1fe:
Ok, first things first ive been in the android scene since the early G1 days when cyans first came out. Im just looking for some input from you guys because Im not sure which to flash. I also hope this helps out anyone else thinking about what to flash.

I like speed and stability but I do enjoy sense's widgets and fb syncing. Cyans will of course perform better but at the same time I will miss things like flash and all my contacts fb pics. Im sure theres other reasons to flash one over the other or any OTHER rom you would suggest please let me know what you think!

Just basically we have the rom bible now whats your favorite rom and why is it better than the others?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] djR3Z:
In continuing The Droid Demos round-up of Android keyboards, today I bring you Smart Keyboard Pro. After posting about SwiftKey, I received a suggestion from a reader to try out Smart Keyboard Pro and I have to say, its one of the best Android keyboards I've used. While not so much focused on text prediction, Smart Keyboard Pro has GREAT spell correction. You'll have to go for the Pro version(paid) to get the full options, but its definitely worth it. With common mistakes correction, spell correction, prediction, and user learning(it tries to learn how you type), Smart Keyboard Pro is certainly a welcome replacement for the stock Android keyboard.

Smart Keyboard Pro Video Demo
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Gregalous:
+1 on this. I've used SKBP for a while and I have yet to find a new keyboard that I like better. Plus it has multitouch ;)
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] bacdoliljo:
Everything looked great about the keyboard and settings until you tried to demo its usage.. haha. Anyway, I might give this a try to see if it's as good as the Sense keyboard in speed and spelling correction/text prediction. The extra settings such as long-press time should be very useful.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] djR3Z:
Wow haha completely forgot to cut that out :P I'll edit that. I was sitting really awkwardly and I have that problem with every keyboard haha
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] sblum:
Keyboard looks good. I enjoyed swiftkey but the skin was HORRIBLE. These are much better, I am enjoying the android stock look and the multitouch. Also the ability to edit the amount of time for a long press is really great. Wish I could ditch the microphone key for a comma. I also kind of miss the stock way to get to the numbers, sliding above the keyboard... I will live with this for a while and see :)
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] berardi:
I'm using Smart Keyboard Pro and find it to be the best.

One key feature for me is the gestures:

I have one set to voice search, one to arrows, one to delete last word, and the other to edit dictionary.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] djR3Z:
Oh nice! Thanks for the tip. I think I'll try those settings out.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] ajones7279:
You can! It's in the SkbPro settings. Scroll to the Voice input section and uncheck Mic Button and it will change to a comma.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] TJDuckett:
Thank you for the review OP. This board needs more reviews. I wish they'd do games as well.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] djR3Z:
No problem! Once I get some more time on my hands I'm gonna try to churn out more, including LOTS of games :)