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[Epic 4G General] jok3sta:
One of my coworkers has a tmobile vibrant with some lag fix according to him.. he did a quadrant benchmark right in front of me and it was showing 2500 plus everytime.. Im very curious as to what is making his phone so fast. And can it be dont to ours. Hes not running a custom rom or overclocking. Im only getting 1030 with mine clocked at 1.2ghz. Any Ideas? I couldnt get into too much details with him yesterday and I dont know whens the next time ill see him..
[Epic 4G General] Tgrable:
If you were to look at a test break down you would see generally all the scores are identical or the epic a little ahead except in the read/write area. The scores from their read/write are just inflating their overall score. It's a issue with quadrant and how it handles its overall score. Basically it just makes the system easy to abuse/cheat. So I wouldn't worry much about the difference in your score and his.

Sent from my Samsung Epic
[Epic 4G General] hydralisk:
The reason other Galaxy S phones score high in quadrant is because of the lag fix they use. The lag fix mounts a different file system on the phone with DRAMATICALLY increases read-write times. That portion of the quadrant benchmark gets inflated beyond reason. Using this game technique, Cyanogen was able to score more than 3000 on a snapdragon phone.

All of the Galaxy S phones have the same processor. Also, quadrant is a terrible benchmark. It's the most over-quoted and abused benchmark for android phones :mad:
[Epic 4G General] jok3sta:
Ahh ok.. thats good to know.. so what would be a better benchmark to use? Linpack?
[Epic 4G General] hydralisk:
Linpack is good for measuring raw CPU processing power... but only on devices running the same version of android. Phones with 2.2 will score insanely high due to the JIT compiler. For example, a snapdragon phone with Froyo can score ~40 Mflops. A snapdragon phone with eclair scores around 7 Mflops. Does Froyo make the phone run 5-6X faster? Hell no. In some cases, the difference is almost unnoticeable to the human eye.

Here is a rundown of what I believe to be the pros and cons of various benchmarks:

Linpack

Pros:

- Good for measuring CPU processing power on the same version of Android

- Great tool for measuring the performance gain from overclocking

Cons

- Scores are boosted unreasonably by Froyo's JIT compiler on snapdragon phones

Quadrant

Pros:

- Great tool for measuring the performance gain from overclocking

- Decent tool for measuring 3D graphics performance (just pay attention to FPS, not the end result)

- Decent tool for measuring 2D graphics performance (again, look at FPS)

- The paid version ("Quadrant Pro" I believe) shows which parts of the benchmark contributed to the score. Easier to spot the inflated CPU or I/O inflation

Cons:

- I/O portion isn't valued as much as others, but can boost scores beyond reason via exploits, hacks, fixes, etc.

- CPU portion is inflated on phones running 2.2. A Nexus One is not faster than any Galaxy S, Droid X, Droid 2, etc.

Neocore

Pros:

- Good tool for measuring graphics processing power

Cons:

- Graphics are not intense enough to push the power of very fast GPU's. Some phones will hit their FPS limit

- Only measures graphics processing power.

Nenamark1

Pros:

- Great tool for measuring graphics processing power

- Effects are advanced enough to show the performance of faster GPUs in relation to phones with lesser GPUs.

Cons:

- Only measures graphics processing power.
[Epic 4G General] jok3sta:
Sweet thanks for all the info man..
[Epic 4G General] Masterface7:
Agreed, this is great info thanks. I think the quadrant score is the most quoted becuase it provides a very easy to read graph built in with it for instant comparing/gratification. I guess I am gonna start going by linpack and nenamark1.
[Epic 4G General] gTen:
Linpack is ok for when your using same CPU comparison, different CPU's can cause issues...The reason why snapdragon gets scores of 5-6x is for some reason the snapdragon utilizes the VFP rather then using raw processing power..aka snapdragon cheats on the Linpack.

In reality our I/O scores should be a lot higher then it is as even in the Epic some of samsung's crappy file system still exists. But not as high as the lagfixed Vibrant of course.

Quadrant Pro is probably best indicator out of them all(The non-pro version is pretty much useless unless your comparing the same phone)...the con of having 2.2 show is higher is expected as it is a measure of efficiency of JIT in comparison to the current. The OS always played a role in Benchmarks so it is expected.
[Epic 4G General] rjmjr69:
it can be faked by using a different partition to test on. IIRC the data partition making the speeds much faster than they should be so be careful when accepting those high scores
[Epic 4G General] gTen:
It is not exactly faking it..as you are increasing performance..thing is you cannot see at what it performs well at unless you see the individual scores from the Pro version....
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] frankiedizzle87:
I just sold my iphone 4 for this unlocked vibrant.but its really lacking in the games department.do any of you guys know of any visually speaking games?
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] monsta34:
Just sent you a pm
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] fit333:
+1 pm dispatched

Edit: worth a look http://androidhd.blogspot.com/2010/01/50-android-games-in-one-video.html

See bellow, VVV I present to you..drum role....the jobs troll...VVV
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] mikeye9:
You sold an iPhone for the Vibrant? Kind of a downgrade if you ask me.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] dan0zone:
don't think he asked you princess..
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] frankiedizzle87:
I didn't sell for a vibrant per say.i sold for 650.and got vibrant on craigslist for 250 new. (probably stolen)
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Superfrag:
That's a brilliant deal IMO! Got mine for $370.

Oh, and its possible that that guy who sold it you for $250, made a $50 profit.. hehe.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] bobofosho123:
"probably stolen" and the que the cops breaking down your door in 5...4...3...2...:D.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] 98classic:
lol... thats great
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] frankiedizzle87:
True
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Jaynrb:
dont think it was stolen... when you upgrade with TMO if you only have 1 line you can add a line ( shared minutes ) for 5.00 more and get a phone at the discounted price. I got my Vibrant for 243.00 with a 100 rebate and i got one free. chose to give the free one to my wife rather than sell on craigslist. Its a good deal if you know how to work it. I got a buddy that has 3 lines and when he gets the upgrades for the discounted price he just sells the other 2 for a good profit.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] boodies:
LOL BWAM.

You ifart lovers will bend over and take what steve jobs gives you with a grin on your faces
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] ColbyRyptos:
Get a playstation for games lol they all suck and always will with touch screens plus the battery is ****
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] frankiedizzle87:
@gameloft@Frankied101 Frankly, dev team has experience with Apple. As they learn Android, they release finalized versions. It's a learning process.

That's what gameloft said to me on twitter today
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Genesis1791:
The gameloft games have to be purchased from gamelofts site directly they aren't available on the market for some reason, but yeah they are definitely your best bet for good looking games.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Cpl.Garcia18:
Every time I go to gameloft's website they tell me that their sorry but they have no games that support my phone. Any ideas what I need to do?
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] samomamo:
Looking for good 3d games.

Go to Gameloft site buy them from there there are the same games gameloft has for iphone ihad the same problem.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] splat matt:
You need to turn wifi off. Surf to gameloft under 3G or EDGE. Not sure why though.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] frankiedizzle87:
Hmmmm I don't have that issue ig google game loft click first link and it works .
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] bananamandave:
If you can find it, Need for Speed Shift is available. Best game graphic for the SuperAMOLED by far. Stunning!
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Anderdroid:
quake3droid ;) search it on market
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] bdveteran18:
Haha ZING!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leegreggs:
time in notificaon bar is different to time on clock on home screen tried changing time , but no change , still the same .....

time in n/bar is 1 hr behind
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elburna:
Check The location in your widget...
[Epic 4G Themes] kaokollaa:
Adobe Flash 10.1 full support for Android 2.0 and 2.1 Download and install apk

Android 2.2 comes with the new feature for full flash support. Here how it’s work google just integrated a plugin called com.google.android.feature.GOOGLE_PLUGIN. And Flash uses it to embed itself inside browser. So browser in android 2.1 mobile phones does not see plugin. Now if you are owner of Android 2.1 or 2.0 smartphone then download theAdobe Flash 10.1 apk application below and get full flash support for your Android 2.1 or 2.0 mobiles.

Mod Edit - Link removed -

This apps was developed for Android by xda-developer AuxLV.
[Epic 4G Themes] PlankLongBeard:
Tried it.. doesn't work! I tried running the hulu app that I have up on the Evo thread, n nothing. :-(

I don't know if deleting the flash 9 plugin might help, but I doubt it. Lemme me or us know if this becomes available, correctly. :-)

Sent From The Moon... :-)
[Epic 4G Themes] kaokollaa:
it works perfect for me look just install the apk and reboot the phone and try youtube it work for me
[Epic 4G Themes] avalanche32:
Installed it doesn't work at all even after two reboots.:confused:
[Epic 4G Themes] Da Skeleton King:
Downloaded.....rebooted...no hulu (or xvideos...ha ha)
[Epic 4G Themes] aim1126:
Im pretty sure you can watch youtube without flash on a phone
[Epic 4G Themes] hydralisk:
People kept posting stuff like this on the EVO forums prior to 2.2 and it never worked. If someone actually does get it to work, let me know :D
[Epic 4G Themes] aim1126:
I got it to work on my 2.1 evo but never on my epic
[Epic 4G Themes] pyrotech:
The reason it worked on the Evo was b/c the sense UI used "Flash Lite".. There was a 2.1 Flash install that would upgrade the Flash lite to full Flash.. The epic does not have any version of flash at all.. =\
[Epic 4G Themes] tokyomonster:
This is wrong. The Epic also ships with Flash Lite. There is also no way to 'upgrade' Flash Lite to 'Flash Full' -- it simply doesn't exist for 2.1.

Any Flash you see floating around for 2.1 is just Flash Lite.

The Flash Lite plugin on the Epic does allow you to view flash on a few sites already, without installing anything else. Try going to Youtube -- videos should play in the browser, they'll just run like ****.
[Epic 4G Themes] cts627:
i know that the web broser skyfire allows u to see flash content on the Epic cause i tried it. and im not rooted so i know someone around here has the talent to implement into stock browser the skyfire works well but is very corny not better than stock browser, so if anyone knows someone that knows someone see if they will be willing to give it a try.. hopefully it will get going cause theres alot of talent around here and if its possible it can be done it will be done here.. just a thought. thanks guys http://http://www.skyfire.com/
[Epic 4G Themes] tokyomonster:
You won't be able to implement Skyfire's method into the stock browser -- Skyfire takes the flash content, and converts it on the fly, on their servers, and then sends the video down to the phone in a playable format.
[Epic 4G Themes] xXSecretAgentXx:
this works guys! :) Make sure your using the stock browser. 3rd party browsers have not worked :(
[Epic 4G Themes] awrnsmn:
What flash sites are you using because it didn't work for me and several others?
[Epic 4G Themes] othan1:
Go to ArmorGames.com (flash game site) and see if any of the games work. I seriously doubt they will.

I will continue to patiently wait for 2.2.
[Epic 4G Themes] cts627:
well thanks anyway just a thought im not good at that stuff so i just assumed it might have a shot...:(
[Epic 4G Themes] lazydazed:
It works with stock browser... but cache saves to phone mem which sucks...
[Epic 4G Themes] saywhat4118:
how did you test it? I have it downloaded and it didnt work on stock browser or xScope 6 browser. i went to ign.com to see their Halo Reach review.
[Epic 4G Themes] lazydazed:
Stock epic no root... just installed, rebooted the phone and went to some naughty site and it worked...
[Epic 4G Themes] saywhat4118:
hmm i didn't reboot so maybe thats why it didn't work for me.
[Epic 4G Themes] bomix:
Seems to be hit or miss because I got one game to load halfway on newgrounds.. and then.. nothing else worked.. Can't wait for 2.2 now.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FelluRan:
This just crossed my mind; so IF my HTC Desire's screen would break and i would want to send it back for repair, how could i unroot it without being able to use the screen (let's assume the screen is totally f'd up)?

Thanks in advance!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] klaas4:
If your device does power on, but you just can't see the screen, you can go into fastboot (power on whilst holding Volume-Down, wait 15 seconds for the sd card to "initialize" and press power) and run an RUU. You won't see whats going on but you can watch your computer for info on the restore process.

I hope this didn't happen to you, because that would really suck. Let's keep it a thought, shall we? :):)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FelluRan:
No worries, it hasn't happened to me, i just dreamt of that scenario :D

Thanks for the reply!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vpraveenis:
It happened to me... got the dreaded SLCD brick :(

made a mistake with framework-res.

device stuck in boot screen

Clockworkmod refused to restore the backup it created. Stuck with no other backup

Clockworkmod refused to flash any custom rom. Dont know why but always said signature verification failed.

Downloaded a RUU and flashed it... but turned out it bricked the LCD.

Then Downloaded another RUU and thankfully it restored the device to stock state.

Moral of the story: If you root, always have nandroid backup. If nandroid restore fails and you dont have any other backup, it will be a tough time ahead....atleast till you learn lessons like me..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ramiawad99:
Hi,

When i download any app from the market, it finishs downloading smothly, but after that when the application is being installed, it teribbly slows down and nearly the phone is not responding until the app finish installing, it takes around 5 - 7 seconds.

I have a stock 2.1 JPJG8 rooted with Autokiller, is any one experincing the same? will a lagfix resolve it?

I'm thinking about applying a lagfix (voodoo) but the phone is generally fast for me and wants to wait for froyo, but if it will fix this, then i might apply it sooner.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
it is a known issue

installing the lag fix might kill your internal SD

just a warning.

if you still have the invoice and can send the phone in for warranty, then you are good to install the lag fix

if you don't have the invoice for the warranty, then it might be problematic when it fails
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bilboa1:
bs

in all cases you better have your warranty, but the lag fix won't kill your sd all that quick. original fs is slow only cause it's crap.

the lagfix won't fix slowly installing apps as well btw. it will still freeze when installing.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
just search the forum, there are lots of prove, look for SD, internal SD, bricked, can't mount, can't boot, etc...

the majority of those are after installing a lag fix or a rom with lag fix like voodoo, and i'm currently submitting two phones to warranty from fellow XDA members because of that

and you don't need to believe me, but time will tell for anyone using the lag fixes
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ramiawad99:
Thanks for the info.

Is it a known issue for the galaxy s, or for all android phones and versions?

Is there any timeframe for a fix ?

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dmulligan:
I was just talking with a friend about this problem this morning. He had never seen this problem with his Nexus 1. I don't believe that this is an android problem just a sgs problem.

I wonder if this is some how related to the black screen issue. It seems that something has priority over the ui thread or has exclusive access to a resource required by the ui.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Prasad:
In my case, when I first used the phone, apps downloaded from market installed almost instantaneously. However, now apps install noticeably slower. However, I assume me having 9 pages of apps now might be the culprit... :-P
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
the lag fix was made only for the SGS

yes, it's only a SGS problem, it seems to affect more the units with 16 GB internal SD
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bilboa1:
it's not the memory wearing out, it's errors in applying the fixes/mix firmwares/etc (or bugs in the fixes themselves sometimes)

even if memory would wear out faster, its not like if lifetime would be reduced to a couple of minutes (or even days of constant write)

as i said making any such modification you should have the warranty or take your own risks (theres always a disclaimer !) but it's not the memory wearing out
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vcespon:
To the OP: That's your big problem with the device? Man... please...

Who cares if it takes 5 seconds to install an app, that's something you do the first day only. You never saw a program in Windows taking 15 minutes to install? I have a SLC SSD on my laptop and that reduces the disk access times a lot, but if a program takes a few minutes to install, so be it. I'm not installing 100 programs every day.

The same with the SGS. Inputting the details and configuring the options of my e-mail, twitter, facebook, kindle, etc accounts takes much more time than installing the apps.
[HD2 General] elabs:
hai friends

my phone got struck at stick togeather. i read the forums and most of them say to use task29. my phone is hard spl -ed. when i load into bootloader and connected to pc, my system doesnt recognize & also usb is not showing in bootloader. i just want to know whether is it possible to use task29 via sd card. kindly inform us. have a nice day
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
no unfortunately it isn't. you should try your stock rom from sd.
[Android Software Development] Visosilver:
Hey guys

I declared an image in the layout.xml file and now I want it do disappear with a command from the java file.

Any ideas how I could do this?

thx and greez visosilver
[Android Software Development] Number22:
You need to give the ImageView an id and then simply reference it from inside the code with something like this:

ImageView iv = (ImageView) findViewById(id); // id is the id of the image you want to remove
iv.setVisibility(8);
[Android Software Development] Visosilver:
thx a lot dude, thats working! :D

greez visosilver
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stevejoy5:
Hi guys i have replaced my screen as i dropped it and it smashed. Have rebuilt the phone and all works ok except when i connect to my parrot ck3100 in the van the speaking from me and to others is not working and all distorted. does anyone know which component i need to check in the back of the phone? wasnt the easiest thing to do either!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] dwillMUFC:
After seeing many people complain about the GPS signal on the Galaxy s and variations. I decided to look into system files and it looks like some other people have as well xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=731462.

So this program lets you easily change the gps config file so that instead of looking to acquire satellite's in north America. It can look for ones in UK and Europe, so to improve the time it takes to locate the Satellite's as mentioned in the post above most users have posted improved results but a few have not noticed a difference. I will be uploading a video soon comparing different settings.

But for now here is the program > www.multiupload.com/O2F6ZXPTWZ

Instructions:

For now you have to copy the gps.conf file to the internal or external sd card or your computer itself, in the future i will make it so that this can be copied over automatically via adb.

SO...

1. Locate the file system/etc\ gps.conf

2. Copy over to you computer Or copy to Sd card (either will do) then mount to computer.

3. Install the Program and run.

4. Locate the file.

5. Choose backup (Optional)

6. Choose either Uk or Europe.

7. Replace original gps.conf on the mobile phone.

8. Reboot and post your results here :)

NOTE: if you cant copy / change the system you need to mount in re-writeable this new app that has come out is great to do this xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=792097.

Changleog:

Update V2 - Added automatically search setting thanks to AllGamer

Thanks Dan
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] dupel:
Im going to go in the dark and guess - but you made the same thing we do with *#1472365# do?

Cos if it is indeed - it quite useless at its harder than typing up just one command (or using application like sgstools)
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] dwillMUFC:
I was under the assumption that changed the product code or is that something else.

I really don't think its the same, as in the thread shown in the link above no one has said about that method.

Dan
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] ragin:
How about adding more countries? I live in India. Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] dwillMUFC:
Yeah will add it i opened this post before but guessed you missed it aha

xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=8319501#post8319501

Dan
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] zenkinz:
that's server in north america, not satellites.

it's probably server that allows you to download satellite ephemeris data. since gps signal is broadcast, there's no need to specify which satellite to get the signal from, a receiver will just get whichever broadcasted and available signal.

so no, this will not help to improve the performance, even though I've not tried out your fix. If it helps, it's probably because at the point when the receiver is trying to pre-download satellite ephemeris data, the north america server is not available.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Jb boin:
NTP = Network Time Protocol

Its a protocol used to synchronise time clock of computers, its definitely more logical to choose a server/pool that is geographically near but it wont totally solve the GPS issues, it might just makes things a bit better especially for finding GPS faster with A-GPS but classical GPS (without internet access) doesnt have access to NTP servers.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] DamianGto:
wast of time.

Use the gps meny in the phone and put it on auto or write the site there.

On 2.1 you can use *#*#1472365#*#* on 2.2 (froyo, jpk) use

*#3214789650#

Its NOT the satellite's you change. the are still up there and you can never choose witch to use. If you still say that you dont know much about GPS.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] rkantos:
Guys.. Have you thought that the galaxy s misght have a problem with its clock? As you all know, gps systems depend heavily on clocks. So maybe there's a big enough drift in the gs's clock?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Case_:
The title of this thread is VERY misleading. This "tweak" has nothing to do with improving GPS signal whatsoever. It just changes NTP server settings used for aGPS.