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[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jumaaneface:
android (especially customized skinned versions) have lots and lots of background processes running doing different things. syncing gmail, rss feeds, tweets, facebook updates, not to mention data services. your ipod touch only syncs things when on wifi and probably not as frequently nor to the extent of android. and web browsing using flash requires lots of RAM. many aspects of android that we all love eat through ram. in a nutshell. its more extensive then this but im sure you get the jist of it
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] All~G1:
What exactly are you running? Are you taking this reading after loading everything on your phone or after a fresh wipe? I have adwex running, wp live wallpaper, swype, among other many other services/widgets and still have on average 185- 201mb free.

Edit: actually, running services shows 190 free and the vibrant internal task killer shows 225 free?

I know this doesn't address your main question, but I think your comparison might be a little skewed and filled with end user variables.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reuthermonkey:
1. android uses memory efficiently. That actually means that android uses up your memory available. Free memory is wasted memory - especially on a mobile device. This isn't windows where a lot of free memory is a good thing, and a page file is inexplicably necessary no matter how much ram you have.

2. Multi-tasking. It takes memory to have efficient multi-tasking.

It's a common misconception that loads of free memory is a good thing. Kinda like the misconceptions about task killers. They're based off of very old android (pre 1.5) on underspecced devices (g1).

Additionally, if you really want android to manage memory differently, you can tell it to use more or less aggressive profiles. The sgs tools apps have that capability.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dearmiju:
Sorry to hijack the post but just wondering..Would more free ram result in smoother game play? ? I'm sad that dungeon defenders ask for 256 mb of free ram at runtime in description and I can't get that amount on my galaxy

Can't help but assume that us causing the lag on dd.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xriderx66:
Before playing end everything launcher etc through stock task, killer.

Then open game see if it works, if it does theres a rogue app using more memory because my vb phone handles dungeon defenders wonderful. No lag no nothing, I'm running nero, but every 2.2 rom has acted same
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saquibs2004:
I have a froyo vibrant and an ipod touch 4. every same app that i run on both android and ios runs better, lag-free, smoother, doesn't close by itself on ipt4. i have my vibrant rooted and tweaked using sgs tuner, toolbox, etc. i don't have widgets on my homescreen. my ipt4 is jailbroken with many tweaks and it still runs smooth. ios is just a better made os.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reuthermonkey:
When you don't know anything about Android, I can see how the uninformed like yourself may come to such a silly conclusion.

The Vibrant is hamstrung by Samsung's proprietary file system. That file system is a root cause for the lag that we see on our devices. How do we know this? Because other similarly specced devices by HTC are much smoother. And because the IP4 uses the exact same Samsung-made Hummingbird SoC, but simply used a slightly slower graphics processor, and then renamed it the "A4".

Moreover, the example that you're giving has little-to-nothing to do with the topic at hand.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PaiPiePia:
Next time you use an iPod Touch/iPhone pay attention to the UI animation/application transition screen. Apple device appears smoother because their transition is really slow, and pages scrolls less "distance" than they are on Android.

Just try it. Load the same webpage on your Vibrant and iPod Touch, scroll both using the same strength, I can guarantee you that Android scrollls farther and thus loads more contents and appears to be laggier.

Same can be applied to the UI transition animation, when you got from on page to the next, the "page flip effect" is really really slow but smooth, Android is more practical by speeding up that animation which gives the appearance of less smoother change.

*owner of iPod Touch 4G and Vibrant.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hitman818:
No such thing as ipod touch 4g just 4.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arkasai:
I wouldn't say it's incorrect calling it that, it's probably more correct including 4G in that case than in any other case ;p currently.

OP: And I wouldn't worry about not having gobs of free memory, again like others have said memory not in use is memory wasted. Android is very good about allotting memory as it's needed, so the user should never have to manually manage memory usage.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hitman818:
Why would you call it 4g if it doesnt have 4g speeds?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reuthermonkey:
Yeah.. it doesn't even have a cellular data radio...
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xriderx66:
because its the 4th generation are you dumb or something?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkmdlb:
No, I don't think hitman818 is the dumb one here. He is accurately describing the device in question. 4g refers to the technology behind the internet connection and has nothing to do with the generation of the device specifically, hence phones like the HTC Vision/G2 are advertised as 4g but are not 4th generation phones. The 4g refers to their ability to utilise HSPA+. The iPod Touch does not have a 4g radio, like reuthermonkey said, and therefore cannot rightly be called the iPod Touch 4g. Apple certainly does not call it the iPod Touch 4g.

I know I'm new but seriously, no need to be like that.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xriderx66:
I probably shouldn't have called him dumb but its common sense.

The first ipod is known as 1G the second 2G etc. they mean generation, and not obviously 4G radio.

Its a music player. people should learn to use common sense.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PaiPiePia:
This is exactly what I meant. 4th Generation.

Apple users call the devices by generations, 1G. 2G 3G 4G.

as stated before I own serveral iPods so I got used to it.

Edit: /rant Also common sense tells you iPod doesn't have a cellular radio. It's funny how Android owners has to nick pick everything. OH no I said 4G instead of 4 on a ****ing Apple Product, it's the end of the world.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reuthermonkey:
Considering the technical competence of most Apple product owners, it's a fairly frequently recurring theme.

When I stop seeing people refer to the iPhone4 as the iPhone4g, I'll stop nit-picking Apple owners who don't know the difference between MB and mb, 4g and 4th gen, wifi and cellular, etc.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PaiPiePia:
I will group you together with that guy who got pissed over an iPhone link at the top of the forum claiming passion for Android in an originally WinMo forum.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reuthermonkey:
No idea who that guy is. I stick to the Android forums and prefer not to troll iPhone and WinMo forums. I've owned iPhones and Androids, so I have no ill-will towards Apple users in general. Just the delusional ones.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jeremiah_mn:
It might have been mentioned already. But a big thing to consider is that the ios has to run on 1 hardware platform, not a wide variety of phones. I also own an ipod 4, and in my experience when I multi task different apps on both of them, my android crushes the ipod 4 in performance. But ymmv.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shouryasharma:
Tech overview and solution

Android consists of a JVM - Java Virtual Machine (Dalvik) sitting on top of linux kernel. Java has dynamic memory management which leads to a lot of data stored in heaps rather than stacks. Also, automatic memory management leads to unnecessary usage of RAM. That's why Windows and iOS are much more efficient systems but are proprietary, so they dont receive much attention of the developers.
[Hero CDMA General] coppertop4646:
I was checking my email earlier and I'm not really sure what happened but the button that I circled in the picture got replaced with the Gmail button. How do I get back the button that I circled in the picture?
[Hero CDMA General] dastin1015:
Long press on the homescreen and select launcher actions. Then select open app drawer. Drag that icon into middle spot and it will replace gmail.
[Hero CDMA General] coppertop4646:
Ok I tried pressing on my homescreen and all I get is the menu where I can add widgets, shortcuts, etc...

Then I tried holding the home button and I get a faded black screen that says Recent then has the Messaging App, Gmail App, and Settings App icons underneath that.

I forgot to add I'm running CM 6.1
[Hero CDMA General] ULoveAriana:
When you longpress & the submenu comes up you should go to shortcuts or custom shortcuts & pick your activity then choose launcher actions & the app launcher button should be available then just place & drag to the spot you want. I'm running cm6.2 but the same options should be available if not maybe you could restart ADW. Hope that helps
[Hero CDMA General] user7618:
You are running an older version of ADW. long press/ custom shortcut/ launcher actions / open close app drawer. Drag the icon created down to your dock and you're in business.

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Sent from my CDMA Hero. I got some hot Froyo-on-Hero action here!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jokes1:
i am pretty new to this whole android thing and i need to return my phone for another one and i want to make sure my nv_data.bin files are ok. i have flashed so many roms cant remember all the names and i just found out that some roms change ur nv_dtat file. just want to make sure everything is ok. already found the thread on how to fix it but how do i check if its ok? thank u
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diablo009:
Format the internal SD and restore stock, and u should be good.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rootnik:
Just follow diablo's advice. They are not going to check your nv_data.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blspyro:
i have dug a little and found the files which need edditting in order to make my own rom but still really have no idea what is what and really could use a tutorial or two....Would be great if somebody could direct me in the right direction,i would love ot atleast poke a little more in developing my own rom.i have 3 linux varieties to my disposal because the one thing i read said you needed linux however i don't know what additional software,etc to download.

PyRo
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iampepito:
I've been pondering the same thing, I found the following

http://samsunggalaxysforums.com/showthread.php/3770-Make-your-own-ROM-Doc-and-Stefunel.

This appears to be everything you need to get started. Let me know what issues you have because I'm planning on taking this task on myself. Perhaps bouncing troubleshooting issues could come in handy.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] samouri:
Dear All, kindly i'm new here and i looked a lot on topics about how to install themes but i couldn't find a step by step guide to make me learn, most of the themes i download comes with 2 folders (META-INF & system) so kindly guide me to install and guide me about how if i want to return to my original phone theme

my phone baseband version is JXJPE and build no. is JPJPG.

Thanks for help
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Mikulec:
U need to have deodexed rom and working CWM recovery. After that u put the zip file (do not unpack it) of your theme to sd card, go to cwm recovery and there install it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] samouri:
thank you for your reply. but kindly would you explain more, what do you mean with deodexed rom as really i'm new in android phones, thanks
[General Topics] baric88:
this is a cool little science app that you can keep up with the latest ideas and leave your own
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wildstang83:
Ok half of the problem is I deleted the gallery from my Eris running vanilla tazz 26. I mistook it for something else when I was deleting it.

After searching I found this over on the desire forums:

When I installed it everything seems to work fine except the camera button. It dosn't work because I also deleted the stock camera. I use FxCamera. I just like it better. When I'm in FxCamera and I push the gallery button it takes me to the 3dGallery I installed which is perfect thats what I want it to do.

My question is when I'm in 3dGallery and I push the camera button can I make it automatically open FxCamera? Right now when I push the cam button in 3dgallery it just force closes. Thank you so much in advance.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mindnumbinglyfun:
To make it open fxcamera, I don't know. However if you ever want your gallery and camera back, an easy way is to just pull them out of the roms .zip file.

Edit: I suppose you would have to decompile the gallery3d.apk and edit some xml to change the targeted app to open when that button is pushed
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thomaslau:
how come the pic in the website isnt clear when i enlarge?

it is kind of blur
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nxt:
Huh? Can you be more specific? What are you talking about? What pic? What website? What are you doing?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ztm.000:
lolz

10char
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thomaslau:
I mean when u enlarge the pic(even HD wallpaper) in the website it will become blur, not sharp
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] distortedloop:
Give us a link to check so we can see for ourselves.

Could it be that the site you're on is seeing that you're on a mobile device and not offering up full resolution images?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thomaslau:
here is the link

http://thundafunda.com/wallpaper-blog/blog/hd-wallpapers/
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slowz3r:
are you tethering? or just from on the device?

one of the Androidandme.com guys posted on twitter saying that when he was tethering his NS the images on his laptop appeared way compressed
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] distortedloop:
Okay, I just looked at that site on both my MacBook Pro (Chrome and Safari browser) and the phone.

Using the park bench in the snow as a sample, it zooms in pretty butt ugly pixelated on both screens. That image is only 600x450 to begin with.

Using the yellow and black starburst 1600x1200 image on both, it zooms in very nicely.

I think it's just a matter of too small a resolution image being zoomed in too tightly. Should the phone (or laptop) do some kind blending to smooth things out...?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thomaslau:
oh i see~~ because I saw sb said when using NS, ths SMS? image becone blurry
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] distortedloop:
Well, that was a totally different issue, and it's been corrected by T-Mobile/Google.

If I recall correctly, that had something to do with T-Mobile service not recognizing the phone properly, so T-Mo was compressing the MMS pics too much on the server side. Seems to be a common thing with T-Mo and new devices they don't launch on their own (according to what I've read).
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slowz3r:
ya, it was an issue with the tmobile MMSC server not knowing how to handle the device/not knowing what device it was, that issue since has been corrected,

but thanks for reminding me, gotta remove the link in my sig :)
[HD7 General] nexus14:
I'm not sure how many people are BOTH HD2 and HD7 owners, but if you are, I would like your opinion: which one offers a better display? As far as I know, the hardware is completely the same (battery, processor, RAM, etc) but I am unsure about the display

Thank you!

edit:

THE ANSWER:

TY jonno!
[HD7 General] xma1e:
I have both and they clearly are not the same hardware. HD7 is a much brighter and clearer screen.
[HD7 General] Rouz.:
HD2 comes with a 65k color display, while hd7 supports 16 million colors.

You can clearly notice it at the first sight. Its more vibrant and alive.
[HD7 General] Jonno2343:
Has anyone been able to compare it to the HTC Desire HD or one of the other HTC S-LCD screened devices such as the Mozart / Trophy?

I'd like to know how they compare as the Desire HD's screen is incredible and if the HD7 is even half as good I'd be completely content.
[HD7 General] Rouz.:
I have worked with desire hd, and seriously, the display aint any better than the one on HD7.

HD7's display is just as sharp and vibrant as the one on desire hd
[HD7 General] nexus14:
Since there's such a huge difference between HD2 and HD7, how is it appeared to Samsung displays? Is the difference just as great?
[HD7 General] tempest2112:
Can you not get into a store and check them out side by side, in my opinion the best method for visually comparing differences.

Came from a Samsung to the HD7 and I can't see any noticeable difference, but thats the opinion of an old git with failing eyesight ;-)
[HD7 General] Jonno2343:
Wow, that's fantastic!

I was incredibly impressed by the Desire HD's screen, it almost looked like a fake unit as the screen was right up on top of the device and it was all so clear.

It's going to be even harder to wait to get my HD7 now.
[HD7 General] jelliottz:
I have both phones and agree with one of the posters above. The screen on the HD7 is significantly better than the one on my HD2. Colors are brighter and more vibrant. Viewing angles are slightly improved. These were compared with the same images and WebPages on both phones.

The HD7 just looks better!
[HD7 General] nexus14:
thank you for the replies
[HD7 General] serdar111:
hi

I Have both hd7 and hd2

only the colors are better

everything else is same

also the hardware only the look changed
[HD7 General] MartyLK:
Well...the battery isn't the same, but pretty much everything else is, with the exception of the buttons. The displays are the same for appearance. I detect no difference.
[HD7 General] nexus14:
yes, that's what i assume but as others have noted, they say the display is different. i thought it was the same display panel but the early posters disagree.
[HD7 General] MartyLK:
It might be the placebo effect they are experiencing. At one time I actually thought is was more washed out than the HD2's display. But I chalked it up to newness...not being broken-in yet. Nevertheless, both devices do have a gorgeous display, among the top level for LCD displays.
[HD7 General] Jonno2343:
This video provides a pretty good comparison of the 2 devices running WP7.

The comparison starts at about half way.

http://wmpoweruser.com/comparison-of-the-htc-hd2-and-htc-hd7-running-wp7/

THe HD7's start screen looks much better than the HD2 in terms of colour reproduction but they look pretty similar everywhere else.
[HD7 General] nexus14:
thank you for the video. very good comparison
[HD7 General] pvdw50:
When you watch the video, the verdict is easy. The HD7 screen is much brighter.

I don't know if I'm the only one, but I own an international HD2 and a T-Mobile US HD2, when you compare those screens the TMOUS HD2 screen is much brighter. So when even the various versions of HD2's are way different, how trustworthy is this video.
[HD7 General] tai4de2:
I think they are exactly the same.

If the HD7 is "brighter" than the HD2 it's probably because it is adjusted that way via a setting in the OS.

I discern no real difference between my HD2 and HD7.
[G Tablet Android Development] pershoot:
[Kernel] 2.6.32.48 - OC-UV-VFP_FP - Gtab/Zpad

-Initial release for Viewsonic’s Gtablet/Malata Zpad

-merge up to nvidia’s 10.9.9

-merge up to Kernel.org’s 2.6.32.48

-add NTFS (w./ write support (proceed with caution if writing!)),AUFS,CIFS,FUSE,TUN,HFSPlus,NFS Client v3/4 (kernel modules; pull the desired module from lib-2632.48.tar.gz and place in to /system/lib/modules/2.6.32.48-cyanogenmod/ and use insmod to insert) and EXT4 (in-built)

-DM_CRYPT/Ciphers/Routines,Cgroups,Namespaces support,Errata’s 430973,458693,460075

-ondemand governor default

-tweak cpufreq_ondemand a bit (use values from vision-2632)

-cortex-a9/vfp cc -O1 optimisations, using CodeSourcery’s 2009q1-203 ARM-EABI toolchain

-pull in a few changes from vision-2632

-use bcm4329, Version 4.218.248-23, FW Version 4.218.248-18

-add MP/PPP/TP/OE and USB Serial,IPV4/6,Netfilter, and Queuing options

-oc to 1.4GHZ; min mv: 900, max mv: 1200

-reduce voltages

-statically compile koush’s anykernel for use with harmony/tegra2, and add an unpackbootimg script

http://droidbasement.com/db-blog/

http://github.com/pershoot/gtab-2632
[G Tablet Android Development] babybacon:
so do we have overclocking yet?
[G Tablet Android Development] pershoot:
not yet. its on my list (to pick apart dvfs/nvodm and backport AOSP's frequency scaling, etc.).
[G Tablet Android Development] anlog:
Thanks pershoot!

We appreciate all of the hard work you are putting into this!
[G Tablet Android Development] babybacon:
that sounds awesome. good luck with it man. maybe you will get it done by the time mine gets rma'd.
[G Tablet Android Development] rcgabriel:
Nice, thanks pershoot!
[G Tablet Android Development] clemsyn:
Thanks a lot pershoot! Great work here :)
[G Tablet Android Development] rcgabriel:
clemsyn - we also now know have a nice template to properly package a kernel in a standalone ZIP updater rather than just reflashing the entire boot partition. :)
[G Tablet Android Development] Chenglu:
Well done. :)
[G Tablet Android Development] rcgabriel:
Pershoot - am running your kernel currently with Vegan Beta 5.1, everything looking good. Just one issue so far - I get error -18 on installing from Market apps that attempt to install to SD (Angry Birds, Uniwar are the two games I install that always do this).

VSC and I identified this as an issue with CONFIG_BLK_DEV and CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP not being enabled in the code Viewsonic shipped (as well as some related crypto stuff that the loop device needs). See my post with the config file changes (patch for Viewsonic 10.8.2 stock kernel) and the thread in general over at: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10168177&postcount=5

Not sure if those config options are enabled in your code base, could also be some of the related crypto options though?

I started with a clean install of Vegan Beta 5.1, freshly re-partitioned SD card last night, and flashed your kernel this morning, so there was no user data or anything else sitting around on my internal SD card to muck up my results.

EDIT: I'm browsing your repo right now and looking at your pershoot_tegra_harmony_android_defconfig file. It looks like you have the CONFIG_BLK_DEV and CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP stuff enabled. Maybe it's the CRYPTO_ZLIB_DEFLATE and CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEFLATE settings? Those were in my patch but not enabled on your kernel, not sure if those are needed. Or CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP, though that wasn't enabled on my kernel either, and from what I just read about that setting I don't think that's it. Maybe you'll see something obvious I'm missing here.
[G Tablet Android Development] manfly9884:
Thanks pershoot. Downloading now.
[G Tablet Android Development] pershoot:
Rcgabriel, ill look in to it this wknd.