I know I'm going to draw a lot of flak from this, but it's really annoying seeing so called *power users*(stock launcher, stock everything) saying stuff like "i have 300-400mb free ram". For other people like me that use widgetlocker, nova launcher, avast, dropsync and a number of widgets, that amount easily drops to 150-160mb free ram on IDLE after 1 minute of booting the phone. (That is on the 833mb kernels with almost all non-essentials frozen) (and yes, I've tried the one with 857mb ram too)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr4A3mm8AgA
Not my video, got that from another thread, but that clearly shows how 2gb ram is clearly better than 1gb ram. No more stupid reloading apps, browser tabs when multitasking.
What's your point?
To make a stupid thread telling us that having more of something is better than having less?
Wow, you don't say.
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i prefer more rams to be sure that later my s3 will handle that crap TW with all those bloatware than having 1gb ram and disabling/removing appz....
You point being what exactly?
I did not watch the whole thing because....maybe its just me but...its the same freaking performance. =]
Obviously more is better . Even having ram free at your disposal just incase you load a memory hog app or website is better then having android close another app to free ram for you.
Just buy the latest s3 i9305 with double ram and you will stop complaining lol enough said.
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I did not watch the whole thing because....maybe its just me but...its the same freaking performance. =]
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Yes it's you indeed like always be informed before posting at the end you'll start seeing the difference
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It's threads like these that get on my nerves, what are you trying to convey to us? Samsung did not trick you into buying the phone, and if there was no 2gb version, would you even post this?
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where's Veyka when you need him¿
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Free RAM is unutilised RAM
Uhh, what? Free ram is wasted ram, but more ram gives you more to work with.
Thread closed, we dont need to go over the fundamentals of android memory management again, there are plenty of threads on this.
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Hello,
I am curious, I have looked around but haven't really found any good or helpful information in regards to this. Although the Xperia X10 has 384mb of system ram. If I move a bunch of apps using Link2sd and free up so much space, is there anyway to increase the 384mb limit, say add another 128mb to make it 512mb thus enhancing the device?
or am i out of town on this one?
buddy our first focus should be to atleast use full 384 mb...
however we are right now only using just 256 mb of the ram.....
if you really want to use more, flash data2sd.zip through xrecovery. but, know that it is slower :S just try using a different ROM, Jerpelea's cm7 is very fast and snappy, a bit buggy for now, but try some other ones, you might find one you like
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Wait what?
Data2sd makes your phone slower?!?!
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at first its great, makes your quadrant score 2000+, but after a while, it gets buggy
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Hi, I need some battery help, this is my first android phone after running with ios for the last 4 years, I'm using th S3 and loving it however I'm having to charge the phone twice a day. Like I say this is my first android so rooting is new and I unsure what I'm doing here. I've followed plenty tips to save battery life but it's still running down too quick.
After 3 1/2 hours of very little use my battery is at 70%
Standby has zapped 24% of that
Screen another 24%
Internet 21%
System 12%
OS 8%
These safe the main culprits for the battery use, I understand you can do something when you root the devise, any help would be very much appreciated.
Many thanks
This should be in the Q&A section, but please be specific as to what exactly you were doing? (Gaming, browsing in 3g or wifi, etc.) If you just got the phone however, just wait for about three and four days and the real battery life would start to emerge. This is the time when most phones can actually last for almost a day or two. Another thing is that you should download Better BatteryStats and find apps that give the most wakelocks. Just take a screenshot and upload it here if you need help. And live wallpapers and widgets do cause some unnecessary battery drain.
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I've had it since release. I hoped that JB would fix the battery. I'll try and get a screenshot later
maybe something stopping your device from going into deepsleep.
One use Better Battery Stats ,
Two read the multitude of battery threads .
Basics .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1927113
jje
Flash a kernel that supports over/underclocking and whip that badboy down to about 800mhz when your not using it
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shenery said:
Flash a kernel that supports over/underclocking and whip that badboy down to about 800mhz when your not using it
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Flash a kernel? I assume I need to root the phone first.
I used to feel the same but after I use wanam rom ... I feel good with my battery .. so give it a try and welcome to android
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Flash a kernel that supports over/underclocking and whip that badboy down to about 800mhz when your not using it
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If you're not using your phone and it is still at 800mhz, there is something wrong. :laugh: what the hell you talking about.
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If you're not using your phone and it is still at 800mhz, there is something wrong. :laugh: what the hell you talking about.
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I think he's talking about underclocking the max cpufreq to 800 mhz when you're sure that you're not going to be using the device for a while. I think it's a pretty good idea actually, but certainly not practical for everybody especially heavy users like me
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I think he's talking about underclocking the max cpufreq to 800 mhz when you're sure that you're not going to be using the device for a while. I think it's a pretty good idea actually, but certainly not practical for everybody especially heavy users like me
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Yeah. I sometimes do that when im not near a charger and my battery is dwindeling. Anything less than 800mhz is pretty bad though when your used to the rapidness.
Looks like im selling this badboy anyway. Hopefully get a lg nexus next week. It seems to me that to acheive proper butteryness you have to use toichwiz ui. None of the cm10 or even when i use nova or any other launcher. None of are as smooth as tkuchwiz.Im mad for mods and flashing so think its time for a switch.
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Yeah. I sometimes do that when im not near a charger and my battery is dwindeling. Anything less than 800mhz is pretty bad though when your used to the rapidness.
Looks like im selling this badboy anyway. Hopefully get a lg nexus next week. It seems to me that to acheive proper butteryness you have to use toichwiz ui. None of the cm10 or even when i use nova or any other launcher. None of are as smooth as tkuchwiz.Im mad for mods and flashing so think its time for a switch.
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Thinking of the same too actually. But based on the rumors, I hear more nexuses coming from other OEMs are to be actually revealed rather than just from lg. Although if the nexus 4 really does come with just 8gb of internal storage without a microsd slot then I'm sticking with my S3. Although I hear that new parts of code are already starting to show up in the Origen-board-something for exynos processors, this might turn out to be a gamechanger for our problems with cm10 or other pure android goodies.
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Just curious to what everyone else's reason is for going to a custom ROM and/or Kernel on this device?
I have ran custom ROMs and Kernels on every single Android device I have owned, but usually to get better battery life and/or performance, but man this thing rocks! Sure I'd love to remove the bloat, but other than that.. how much improvement is anyone actually experiencing?
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Just curious to what everyone else's reason is for going to a custom ROM and/or Kernel on this device?
I have ran custom ROMs and Kernels on every single Android device I have owned, but usually to get better battery life and/or performance, but man this thing rocks! Sure I'd love to remove the bloat, but other than that.. how much improvement is anyone actually experiencing?
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I more or less just wanted to mod the theme and lower the DPI. I hate all of the clutter Verizon put in the status/notification bar, and the stock toggles are ugly, not to mention they didn't include a Wi-Fi toggle...yet decided to have an ongoing notification to turn Wi-Fi on. Also wanted to use the on screen nav bar which works great with the S-Pen. I also wanted to use root apps like TiBu and especially Directory Bind which allows me to move all of my game data to the external SD card, as some of these games take up multiple gigs of space. Modern Combat 4 and Need for Speed are incredible on this phone!
Here are a couple screenshots. I'm on Beans ROM and it's everything I could ever want. AOSP look with Touch Wiz functionality, and we even have a per app DPI changer, which makes it like Paranoid Android... but on TW!
You are correct, you really don't need to stray far from stock, but Beans ROM is really the best of both worlds!
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I love the added features of cleanrom4.05. You get all the additions from android 4.1.2 plus all the features that verizon decided not to use in touchwiz.
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I wondered the same thing . I've had my N2 since release day on Verizon and yesterday I rooted and unlocked then flashed Beans and Clean rom I liked alot of the bloat gone and the ability to add any app to multi view but was having some issues with notifications and some apps. May have been me restoring them through Titanium backup with data but in all honesty I just flashed back to stock rooted. Everything just works. So fir me idk . This phone is a Beast out of the box!
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I love the added features of cleanrom4.05. You get all the additions from android 4.1.2 plus all the features that verizon decided not to use in touchwiz.
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What additions are you referring to??
I have used both beans and cleanrom and I didn't notice any differences whatever except beans has more custom options (which I really like)
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was having some issues with notifications and some apps. May have been me restoring them through Titanium backup with data
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I pretty much guaranty the problems where caused by the TiBU restore.
I have never had even the slightest problem with either of these ROMs but I ALWAYS do a clean install and then install my apps fresh.
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and the ability to add any app to multi view
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Ahh yes, the multi window mod rocks! I love having all of my apps available to use with it.
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remove the awful gray notification bar...ughhhhhh
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What additions are you referring to??
I have used both beans and cleanrom and I didn't notice any differences whatever except beans has more custom options (which I really like)
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I pretty much guaranty the problems where caused by the TiBU restore.
I have never had even the slightest problem with either of these ROMs but I ALWAYS do a clean install and then install my apps fresh.
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I think it was. I just did a clean install of Clean Rom and just added apps from the play store, didnt use TB. Seems better now . I'll run it for a while and see how it goes.
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Just curious to what everyone else's reason is for going to a custom ROM and/or Kernel on this device?
I have ran custom ROMs and Kernels on every single Android device I have owned, but usually to get better battery life and/or performance, but man this thing rocks! Sure I'd love to remove the bloat, but other than that.. how much improvement is anyone actually experiencing?
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I wouldn't be able to have 32GB internal memory so I can install apps like nobodies business on a stock Note.
This article shows the changes in the 4.1.2 update for the note2.
http://phandroid.com/2012/12/11/galaxy-note-2-ota-upgrade/
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I wanted the bloat gone and to be able to use titanium backup plus the added apps to multi Window, no waiting for Verizon to put future updates out. One of the main reasons I rooted was I wanted a kernel with cpu vulnerability fix built in because who knows when Verizon and Samsung will get around to it.
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Hey!! Im running wannamlite latest rom with yank-s laatest kernel and just from curiosity I ran a benchmark test with Antutu,and my score was horrible, around 9800...and i saw that the gs3 has over 12-13000 ...what is my problem?
calinoii said:
Hey!! Im running wannamlite latest rom with yank-s laatest kernel and just from curiosity I ran a benchmark test with Antutu,and my score was horrible, around 9800...and i saw that the gs3 has over 12-13000 ...what is my problem?
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Benchmarks are unreliable ..
You have a custom rom and a custom kernel .
So why are you not asking the question in the relevant threads ???
jje
I never trusted benchmarks,but this one is so damn low.
Because I can ask almost everything I want in this thread.In rom/kernel thread just a part of the users answers,here a lot more people are watching so I might have extra chances xD.
Don't worry about benchmarks. Add long as real feel feels fast and not laggy then everything should be good
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But it does!Whatever rom/kernel I use,after like 2-3 days of use it becomes laggy.
I don't have more than 30 apps installed :-/
Last time I benchmarked I hit 17,000
International S III 16GB / CM10.1 / Gokhan's SK
Daft I know but do you have power saving on?
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nope,no power saving on.
calinoii said:
nope,no power saving on.
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Ok there are still other things you can do. Maybe something is eating your cpu. Try using cpuspy or setcpu to see what clocks your using. If its at the highest clock all the time that could indicate a cpu hog.
See what processes are using those high clocks with top or another program run on the phone.
Most important though is to see what is actualy causing the low score, which part of the benchmark is causing low scores. Maybe IO or memory performance, cpu might be fine.
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I'm just wondering if there is any way to expand the amount of RAM on my Galaxy Ace 2. I have Jelly Bean installed
obeynatt said:
I'm just wondering if there is any way to expand the amount of RAM on my Galaxy Ace 2. I have Jelly Bean installed
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Not physically, but you can go from round 400mb ram to 600 if you install JB correctly. There are pro's and con's of this though from reading around the place.
Ps. There is a Q & A section for a reason.
RAM Swap
I am not sure, but i guess u can use ram swap to do this. Google it!
AFAIK we have no kernel that supports SWAP at the moment.
BTW I find SWAP unnecessary since we have a lots of RAM.
dont know about RAM, but for Swap, i use it
fifo171 said:
AFAIK we have no kernel that supports SWAP at the moment.
BTW I find SWAP unnecessary since we have a lots of RAM.
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D-kernel should be able to... And mind you, you are using the L variant if im not wrong. Who says its not possible. And we have enough ram for normal usage. But gaming? You'll need at least a Gig of ram...
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teddytsen said:
D-kernel should be able to... And mind you, you are using the L variant if im not wrong. Who says its not possible. And we have enough ram for normal usage. But gaming? You'll need at least a Gig of ram...
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Yep, my mistake, D-Kernel supports SWAP. But in my opinion SWAP doesn't bring any noticeable improvement. You would need a high class SD card an it will always be slower than RAM.
And I don't think that phones in general are good for gaming. But that's just my opinion.
COULD YOU READ THIS? YOU MAKE A THREAD IN WRONG SECTION, DUDE