So, I have a Huawei H866c and it is rooted. I am using the stock Android 2.3.6 OS.
I have SD Maid and the whole reason I am going through this now is I want to keep my phone running at its best.
I deleted many of the bloatware stock apps (the Google Play Music, Video, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Gmail, etc).
What I still have stock would be easier as I can't remember all I deleted: Browser, downloads, Maps, Navigation, Contacts, Dialer, Call log Clock Camera, Gallery, File manager, Messaging, E-mail, Phone Calendar, All Backup, Notepad, Play Store, YouTube, Google Search**
Now I had a question about that, is this Google Search app all right to delete?
Anyway back to it, I have SD Maid pro and System Tuner, so to help make things easy with all stuff in one place
Phone:
ARMv7 Processor rev 1 (v71)
Linux version 2.6.38.6-perf
800MHz
SD Card:
PQI
4GB Micro SD
A1 SD Bench results:
• SD card:
3,774MB total, 3,260 MB free
Read 16.03 MB/s - Write 2.56MB/s
• Internal Memory:
165MB total - 54MB free
Read 0.00MB/s - Write 4.93MB/s
• RAM
173MB total - 27MB free
RAM copy 807.89MB/s
Now after I totally clear out everything with system cleaner using SD Maid Pro and reboot my phone...
Before I do anything, if I open and scan with SD Maid Pro, I get 10 files every time in Tombstones and 11 in Dropbox and often get 10+ in LOST.DIR directories.
System Tuner Pro tweaks:
• Build Tweaks:
dalvik.vm.heapgrowthlimit 64m
dalvik.vm.heapsize 256m
dalvik.vmheapstartsize 8m
persist.adb.notify 0
• SysCtl Tweaks:
None because this stuff I don't understand.
• CPU Tweaks:
Performance governor
CPU Frequency 800MHz
CPU Load varies as needed
• SD Tweaks:
Cache Size 1024MB
IO Scheduler cfq
• OOM Tweaks
Preset: Medium (Foreground Apps at 4MB and Empty Apps at 64MB, gradually increasing from Foreground to Empty)
FM Radio frozen
So what I have questions with are (and I know some of these may not be possible):
• How can I change my language to British English without changing my location? I need things like market to show up in USD not Pounds? I hate switching back and forth between US and GB English.
• What are various ways I can optimise my phone for best performance? I don't care about sacrificing battery life.
• Why do I consistently get [what I assume to be] the same 10 tombstones? The drop box always increases by 11 more files over time, even if the tombstones don't (which they never do). Is this something to worry about? It takes up no room, deleting them doesn't seem to harm my phone, and it is just irritating to have to clean them up all the time. Could they be in relation to the bloatware I deleted?
Other Useful Information
I do have some random coding experience (SecondLife [yeah I know, *shudders*], C#, Java).
I also have the Android SDK Eclipse Juno and some very minor experience coding in there (trying to make a music theory quick reference app).
anathematized_one said:
• What are various ways I can optimise my phone for best performance? I don't care about sacrificing battery life.
• Why do I consistently get [what I assume to be] the same 10 tombstones? The drop box always increases by 11 more files over time, even if the tombstones don't (which they never do). Is this something to worry about? It takes up no room, deleting them doesn't seem to harm my phone, and it is just irritating to have to clean them up all the time. Could they be in relation to the bloatware I deleted?
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You can look at kernels that allow overclocking.
The tombstones are more comprehensive crash reports that get created when certain apps/system elements crash.
Two options:
You could either open them and see if you can figure out what is crashing from their content and then try to prevent the crashs creating those tombstones
Or you delete them all and change permissions on that folder so they can't be created anymore (works on some device and doesn't work on others), but it's a kind of crude solution.
The files in the dropbox folder are various logreports similiar to logcat but gathered from more sources, you have the same two options here.
There might be a third option where these two features can be turned off through a custom kernel / flags, but i'm not sure about that.
Removing/breaking logging features is never a good solution.
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You can look at kernels that allow overclocking.
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I will look more into that at another time.
Dark3n said:
The tombstones are more comprehensive crash reports that get created when certain apps/system elements crash.
Two options:
You could either open them and see if you can figure out what is crashing from their content and then try to prevent the crashs creating those tombstones
Or you delete them all and change permissions on that folder so they can't be created anymore (works on some device and doesn't work on others), but it's a kind of crude solution.
The files in the dropbox folder are various logreports similiar to logcat but gathered from more sources, you have the same two options here.
There might be a third option where these two features can be turned off through a custom kernel / flags, but i'm not sure about that.
Removing/breaking logging features is never a good solution.
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Well, I looked at the log files and they were in relation to two specific programs, one of which I don't use (Adobe PDF reader). I forget the other (I only just now could get back on my computer and my phone doesn't have the power to open XDA in the browser). So these aren't a big deal, I can just clean them.
So another thing I was looking at was I have a better MicroSD card that I am going to switch out for my current one and I was looking into "partitioning" off some space for virtual RAM, but I don't know much about flash memory or even if this is possible on Android 2.3.6
For such a thing, I found this link (I would make an actual link but I don't have 10 posts yet) and it says:
One of the worst things on certain budget-friendly smartphones is not having quite enough RAM. This normally isn’t a big deal for many users who use their phone for the practical purposes of calling people, sending texts, and checking email. However for people who do a lot more with their devices such as gaming and heavy app usage, the shortage of RAM may be a bit more limiting. Running out of RAM can cause a lot of problems such as app crashes and large-scale lag.
[...] lower end devices can enable a swap file and partition thanks to a method written up by XDA Senior Member CarlDeanCatabay. This is similar to the pagefile used in windows, and while it isn’t nearly as fast as RAM, it may help certain apps that require a bit more breathing room.
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What is SWAP : Swap is, in short, virtual RAM. With swap, a small portion of the hard drive is set aside and used like RAM. The computer will attempt to keep as much information as possible in RAM until the RAM is full. At that point, the computer will begin moving inactive blocks of memory (called pages) to the hard disk, freeing up RAM for active processes. [...]
What you need:
MiniTool Partition Wizard for SD Card Partitioning
A MicroSD HC 4GB or higher class 6 or class 10
MicroSD HC Card Adapter
A card reader (if your pc doesn’t have card reader built in | USB Mount is not adviseable)
Swapper2 from Google Play Store [DOWNLOAD]
ADB Shell or terminal Emulator (to check if swap is activated)
Make sure you have BusyBox installed
How to create Swap Partition
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Does that look like something that is legitimate?
Is there any other/better way to virtually increase the RAM? I just tried that above method and couldn't even get it to work. I swapped to my other 4 gig micro SD:
• Samsung microSDHC
• Read 18.81 MB/s - write 3.56 MB/s
So it can't read as fast but writes faster, then again I also have it formatted with 3 different partitions from where I was going to try out the swapping but that failed so... who knows when I quit being lazy and reformat it to be normal.
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Ok so my question is... Should the cache file setup for a2sd be 0 or not? Some set it to 0 stating that the internal cache is faster and with apps on sd there is plenty of internal cache. Some set cache file when partitioning external. Should we not be setting a cache file up at all when partitioning for a2sd?
Thanks for any input. BTW I have 256mb cache, 1Gb ext3, on a 16Gb class 6 card.
I think you mean swap, not cache.
BTW, freeing up space in the system flash ( "/data" ) partition will not improve your phones' performance - unless you take other specific actions, that empty file space just sits there unused - it is not reclaimed to be "put to better uses". Not that it matters, anyway: it's flash memory, after all - not RAM (it's dog slow).
Your results using swap will vary. Some have reported that (most notably in the case of the browser or the "Home" provider), that using plenty of swap will prevent that app from being harvested, and so you don't have to wait for data operations to repeat (e.g. browser page reloading) when bringing the app back into the foreground.
OTOH, a good argument can also be made that adding swap merely defeats Android's built-in method for managing application harvesting, thereby making the device actually slower for a variety of operations - the automatic application harvesting kicks in "too late", and the phone gets slow for routine operations.
Having said all that, I'll tell you that I set mine to 0 (no swap at all); swap generally only helps improve your situation after you've already started to get into trouble; better to just stay out of trouble in the first place.
Good luck
bftb0
LOL... I feel like an idiot. Yep swap would be the intended question. Thank you for the very educated response, it truly helped.
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After googling and searching alot, i didnt find my answer
so hope someone can help me here, and this will help others too.
so install apps on SD Card or Internal memory ?
The internal phone memory is generally of a lesser amount than the amount of the memory you'd have on a SD card. You cannot really change the amount of internal memory you have on your phone but you can always get a new SD card with a larger storage capacity.
So when you have apps that need a lot of space it is better to have them installed on the SD card.
will installing more apps on internal memory make the phone run slower ???
I don't think it will make the phone run slower, but you'll have lesser storage space for your other data which is stored in the internal storage like your contacts etc.
i have an HTC Sensation XE running on Darkforest ROM, this is my RAM (pic) how can i increase the free memory, thats the max i get around 180MB free
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Can I know why you wish to free up the RAM? In most cases you really don't need to because the OS manages that quite efficiently. It will free up the RAM and make room for the running applications whenever it needs to.
cuz in some apps after opening them for a while and try to close this app the phone restarts, so i read that its cuz of low RAM
please correct me if am mistaken
180 mb is a lot of RAM for a single application to use. And as I said, the OS, is pretty good at managing it. Although I cannot exactly tell you why your phone might be restarting when you close some apps, I don't really think it would be cause of the low RAM.
I checked my phone and it had about the same amount of RAM occupied as yours(i.e. 2 thirds of the total capacity). Then i started a game called Fruit Ninja which uses 3d graphics, which should need a lot of RAM. Then i pressed home and checked the RAM usage again. Even then the RAM usage did not go up by much.
You should try to verify this on your phone too. Check the amount of RAM thats being used. Then start the application thats causing the problem. Press the home button and check the RAM usage again.
An app will probably run quicker from internal mem because flash storage is much slower, but youre'e limited by space constraints.
Sent from my MB526 using XDA
Well it might load into the RAM quicker. But I don't really think there is much of a difference in speed while its running. Unless there are a lot of loading and writing operations.
Pay attention to one thing: internal storage and ram are not the same thing.
Ram is commonly allocated on a high speed journaled partition and it is 1000 times or more faster than both the internal emmc or the external SD (that'd why a swap partition is not as fast as real ram).
Just for the I/O parallelism, an app installed on the external sd could very likely run faster than one that resides in the internal emmc. Anyway, it also depends on the class of the external sd, though the class counts only when writing sequential data, while reading could even be faster when using a lower class SD.
lucaoldb said:
Pay attention to one thing: internal storage and ram are not the same thing.
Ram is commonly allocated on a high speed journaled partition and it is 1000 times or more faster than both the internal emmc or the external SD (that'd why a swap partition is not as fast as real ram).
Just for the I/O parallelism, an app installed on the external sd could very likely run faster than one that resides in the internal emmc. Anyway, it also depends on the class of the external sd, though the class counts only when writing sequential data, while reading could even be faster when using a lower class SD.
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Doesn't an application get loaded into the RAM first when its started? So would its execution speed still depend on the sd/internal memory?
I thought that would come into the picture only when theres some kind of read/write thats happening to the sd/internal memory...
Well, if it is true that any app run inside the dalvik vm and such vm is able to run simultaneously multiple apps in its sandbox, I suppose that any app could need to access its installation files and its stored data while running.... I am not sure, anyway, it is just what I believe it could be.
To be true, my supposition mostly derives from what I've experienced with chrooted linux, which run faster when the .img file is stored on the external sd.
Anyway, if it should be as you say, the app's speed would be totally independent from the support where it was installed.
lucaoldb said:
Well, if it is true that any app run inside the dalvik vm and such vm is able to run simultaneously multiple apps in its sandbox, I suppose that any app could need to access its installation files and its stored data while running.... I am not sure, anyway, it is just what I believe it could be.
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That is what I exactly meant. Although it differs from case to case, an application typically loads all the stored data it needs at the start. And then throughout the execution of this application, loading/saving of data is generally rare.
Of course this is a very generalized statement and such things are handled differently by different applications depending on how they were implemented and what they are intended to do.
Consider for example a game. The game would load all the textures, images, music it would need for a particular level. Then throughout the entire period of the level the game wouldn't need to load any data. It is only when some different support data would be needed by the game, or if the player's state is to be saved there would be a read/write operation. At such a time only would there be a need to access the sd/internal memory. So it really doesn't make the difference of where the game is installed very noticable.
Now on the other hand if you have an application say an Image viewer application which loads an image from the the sd/internal memory every time the "next" button is pressed. Then, maybe you'd have a noticable difference based on where the image is being loaded from. But even typical image viewers implement some sort of image caching to reduce such excessive loading.
Widgets
I had a problem where apps that used a widget option did, not give that feature anymore when the app is moved to the SD card...
Today I (supposedly) disabled lowmemorykiller by putting zero in minfree and adj files. I already have swap partition set up (size 1 GB) in a class 10 SDHC card.
Then I proceeded to open all the apps that I have installed and set them in a different state from default (like opening its settings, opening a file in case of officesuite etc).
These things happened:
1. After a max limit, older apps started to vanish from task manager to make space for newer apps
2. used swap space did not exceed 122 MB
3. when I tried to return to very old apps, some of them retained their last state giving an illusion of multitasking but a text message I was typing disappeared, did not even get saved as draft. ALL web browsers were killed. Some reloaded pages from internet, Opera Mini and Easy Browser failed to save last state (they always fail, so does Adobe Reader) so they were back to home screen with all opened tabs lost.
4. After an incoming call, when I returned to all the apps a second time, I found that all but the lightest of apps had lost their last states.
After setting minfree to zero and enabling swap with 60 swappiness Android is still killing apps without my permission.
<rant> I usually have less than 10 apps open and some of them can be memory intensive. Multitasking is better than default now, but still kinda random. I can't ever be sure that if I open this document now, I won't find my previous 20 minutes of research session lost upon returning to browser (history is messy for retrieving long sessions and very short in case of Opera Mini. Even Chrome browser sometimes crashes and gets reset not to mention always reloading all pages while Android Browser in ICS only renders crashes. My data limit is 3 GB/month). The three major handheld OS right now are Android, iOS, WM7 so don't tell me to stop whining and change OS; there is nowhere to go. At least Android is open source and there is a chance of someone legally implementing proper (like in PC) multitasking in it except multiple instances of same app which will probably be a little too much to ask for from a community but seeing that browsing the web is my main concern and all browsers already support multiple tabs, it will not be a deal-breaker for me</rant>
So my question is, how do I stop this T1000 Ninja Edition? Throw it into the chasm of Mount Doom?
On a serious note, any help will be appreciated. If you can't solve it but know what is killing my app sessions, please explain that.
SO I have come to the conclusion that ICS's maximum limit of Background apps is 18. As long as the app is not older than 19, it should be visible in task manager and should be in memory. I have set swappiness to 100 and use of swap memory increased to 221220. I'll put further pressure on it to see how it behaves when lots of tabs are open but I am afraid that 100 swappiness will make the device crash if too many tabs are open. It has already started to suddenly reboot time to time.
Edit:
It does not work that way. Android seems to really have its own will in this matter. There is no rule found by me so far that can predict when an app will be unloaded from memory. It seems time plays a role too.
At least iOS and WP7 clearly state that they do not support multitask. Google is the worst of all.
Edit:
Chrome Browser is not loading the pages from internet upon being recalled from task manager. It is loading the pages from swap but looks just like loading over 3G. Any changes in the actual pages are not being reflected until I manually hit reload. Not sure if other browsers will follow suit.
Hello all.
After recently obtaining root (see thread asus padfone x mini rooting device) I thought we could all begin to catalog what we have changed. Any app that required root and has proven useful and effective for you, please share it here and I will begin to aggregate all of the useful tools here in this top post.
Some stuff you might want to try after rooting
(Copied from my other thread)
A couple things I did with my phone after root.
1. Froze all bloatware. I might remove it later but I felt safer just freezing it with Titanium Backup in case I find out later it screwed something up.
2. Installed a CPU tweaker like 3C ToolBox. If I choose any governor besides interactive, the phone crashes, freezes and just won't play nice. But I have it set to on boot interactive, 1.33GHz - 1.6GHz and no problem. Phone is much faster now. Also for screen off I have ondemand 800MHZ - 933MHz with 1 CPU online, 2nd free and 3rd offline. Ondemand seems to work fine in screen off maybe because I am not accessing apps on the fly. Before root this phone would suck away the battery life and I would only be able to get 6 hours out of it. I assume it was because all the CPU's were online running high and lows and draining the battery as well as the bloatware just lingering in the background sucking up precious resources. I was right. Once I forced the screen off settings my battery now last 3-4x longer. I can have a full charge in the morning and it still be at about 50% - 60% late at night with the occasional checking emails, checking on a game or two and surfing the web. Awesome!
3. On a more important note, I HATED the AT&T boot up sound. Dun dun dun dun snap. Awful! At night it wakes my wife up when I am in bed needing to reboot my phone. I had to smother it with a pillow to muffle the sound. There was no way to change or quiet it. It was a forced noise on a forced volume. However, I used X-Plore, gave it root and navigated to /system/media/audio and renamed powerup.wav to powerup.wav.bak. No more annoying AT&T sound at bootup! Whoohoo! It is quiet as can be. Love it.
4. I also hated the low battery noise. So I went to /system/media/audio/ui and renamed lowbattery.ogg to lowbattery.ogg.bak and now no more annoying low battery notifications. Only the popup window notifies me. Yay! Progress!
5. Installed SD Fix! Finally! My 3rd party apps can now write to my external micro SD card. This allows for installing apps to SD, moving their data and just overall more usage of the micro sd card that was stupidly blocked when KitKat 4.2.2 was released. I don't care if it has more security risks. Unless they plan on making 64GB+ a standard for all phones for built-in memory, I need my micro sd card to work as intended.
This phone is 100% better because of root. Happy rooting!
How in the world do you move apps to the sd card? I did the SD fix but there is no option to move apps to sd.
Moving apps to SD
pjohnson87 said:
How in the world do you move apps to the sd card? I did the SD fix but there is no option to move apps to sd.
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I should of been more clear on moving apps to sd. Sorry about that. The operating system doesn't support apps to sd currently at least to my knowledge. Asus will have to come out with an update to their own OS or maybe someone here can do it. However, using the sd fix brings down one more obstacle to getting apps to sd working. Or, just wait for a custom rom.
NEED ROOT!
How was root obtained?!
JDubbed said:
(Copied from my other thread)
A couple things I did with my phone after root.
1. Froze all bloatware. I might remove it later but I felt safer just freezing it with Titanium Backup in case I find out later it screwed something up.
2. Installed a CPU tweaker like 3C ToolBox. If I choose any governor besides interactive, the phone crashes, freezes and just won't play nice. But I have it set to on boot interactive, 1.33GHz - 1.6GHz and no problem. Phone is much faster now. Also for screen off I have ondemand 800MHZ - 933MHz with 1 CPU online, 2nd free and 3rd offline. Ondemand seems to work fine in screen off maybe because I am not accessing apps on the fly. Before root this phone would suck away the battery life and I would only be able to get 6 hours out of it. I assume it was because all the CPU's were online running high and lows and draining the battery as well as the bloatware just lingering in the background sucking up precious resources. I was right. Once I forced the screen off settings my battery now last 3-4x longer. I can have a full charge in the morning and it still be at about 50% - 60% late at night with the occasional checking emails, checking on a game or two and surfing the web. Awesome!
3. On a more important note, I HATED the AT&T boot up sound. Dun dun dun dun snap. Awful! At night it wakes my wife up when I am in bed needing to reboot my phone. I had to smother it with a pillow to muffle the sound. There was no way to change or quiet it. It was a forced noise on a forced volume. However, I used X-Plore, gave it root and navigated to /system/media/audio and renamed powerup.wav to powerup.wav.bak. No more annoying AT&T sound at bootup! Whoohoo! It is quiet as can be. Love it.
4. I also hated the low battery noise. So I went to /system/media/audio/ui and renamed lowbattery.ogg to lowbattery.ogg.bak and now no more annoying low battery notifications. Only the popup window notifies me. Yay! Progress!
5. Installed SD Fix! Finally! My 3rd party apps can now write to my external micro SD card. This allows for installing apps to SD, moving their data and just overall more usage of the micro sd card that was stupidly blocked when KitKat 4.2.2 was released. I don't care if it has more security risks. Unless they plan on making 64GB+ a standard for all phones for built-in memory, I need my micro sd card to work as intended.
This phone is 100% better because of root. Happy rooting!
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The phone is dual core so why set three cpu's
the phone is set from factory with interactive 1.6GHz max but it's low is like 200 I checked it out with pimp my rom but didn't change or keep any tweets as my battery life is fine
SDK fix is important you can't even delete files off SDK without it I believe bloat is what causes battery drain trilla the rooting thread top post works
My mod list
Ok, so I wanted to post a reply to this to list what I have done after root access was obtained.
1. I installed Titainum and removed most of the bloatware from AT&T, along with some of the random stuff I don't need.
2. I installed permissions denied to remove permissions from apps and games that don't need access to things like my contacts or network access.
3. Installed busy box and terminal emulator so I have some basic linux commands and can configure my iptables firewall. (on a side note I am still looking at how to install the "netfilter" kernel module to allow droidwall firewall and network logging)
4. Still working on enabling WiFi tether. ( I use Straight Talk, not AT&T )
5. Installed ES File Explorer and gave it root permissions.
6. This doesn't really require root but I added Owncloud for my cloud storage on my own server, Subsonic for music streaming on my own server, carddav for syncing contacts from my own server and configured my email from my own email server. I like to keep all of my information on my server rather then Google's servers, and I am so far completely disconnected from Google other then using their servers to get my apps I use.
Once I get #4 and #5 finished and all my apps I use installed I will be stripping everything "Google" related out of the device including all of google play's services, Gmail and any background services not needed. Since Google wants to use their services for tracking user data I don't feel the need to keep them...
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Since Google wants to use their services for tracking user data I don't feel the need to keep them...
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doesnt matter if you use google,microsoft/bing, or any other service, all of them track you no matter what you try to do. i just avoid putting anything detrimental to me on my phones. no credit card data, no ss numbers, etc. all else is basically public knowledge anyway
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doesnt matter if you use google,microsoft/bing, or any other service, all of them track you no matter what you try to do. i just avoid putting anything detrimental to me on my phones. no credit card data, no ss numbers, etc. all else is basically public knowledge anyway
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Yes, all of the above invade our privacy which is why all of my email, cloud storage, and music is hosted on my own server at my house and secured with SSL encryption. I don't use microsoft, google or apple for my personal information, but I keep a gmail account for a junk mail account (not connected to my phone) and exchange for work. Also my phone is encrypted as well as my text messaging database (text secure). Now I know this does not fix all vulnerabilities but it sure does reduce them and make me feel better that my information is for the better part under my control. As far as credit card data, if I were to even consider putting that on my phone or even my SS number it would all be stored under an encrypted database.
I also do not use public hotspots since that would just open a whole other world of vulnerabilities.
JDubbed said:
I should of been more clear on moving apps to sd. Sorry about that. The operating system doesn't support apps to sd currently at least to my knowledge. Asus will have to come out with an update to their own OS or maybe someone here can do it. However, using the sd fix brings down one more obstacle to getting apps to sd working. Or, just wait for a custom rom.
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After I rooted my Mini X, I just re-partitioned my 64gb external micro sd into 3 parts. 50 gb as ntfs for regular storage, 10 gb as ext4 for link2sd app to create a link for moving apps to the sd. and the rest which was a little over 3 gb or so as swap space to help with the 1gb low ram using memory swap for root. I keep all of my important apps on the 8 gb internal phone storage... or 4gb and the rest of them go to the 10 gb reserved within the partition i created on the sd. as far as "memory swap for root" goes. It took some time to figure out how to use the swap partition, because the location /dev/block/mmcblk1p3 didn't exist. but after I rebooted everything worked as it should have. Now my mini x which is running net 10 can outrun the zenfone 5 on the antutu benchmark. There is a little glitch when you reboot, which is probably the sd mounting but after that everything runs much faster. Considering how crappy it ran from being stock. I almost took it back.
Still waiting for cwm and cyanogenmod to meet this phone. I hope this trick helped you I won't be around much online to make a step by step how to on this. Considering i am currently a laser technician and working 12 hour shifts at the moment. But to format the micro i used "full wipe" and to create partitions i used "AParted" by sylkat tools
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3. Installed busy box and terminal emulator so I have some basic linux commands and can configure my iptables firewall. (on a side note I am still looking at how to install the "netfilter" kernel module to allow droidwall firewall and network logging)
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I bought a Zenfone 5 and after rooting, I just discovered that the kernel does not support netfilter, so Droidwall cannot work !! :crying:
why Asus doesnt have this ? wish I had known earlier.
rht_sg said:
I bought a Zenfone 5 and after rooting, I just discovered that the kernel does not support netfilter, so Droidwall cannot work !! :crying:
why Asus doesnt have this ? wish I had known earlier.
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Yeah, I actually returned my Asus Padfone because I couldn't use netfilter. I needed it for network logging and Droidwall, so it was kinda a deal breaker... I ended up getting a Sony Xperia T2 unlocked and rooting it, so far everything I needed is working better then I would hoped with the Sony.
I wish you luck with your Zenfone.
Custom ROM ?
Hey all,
I'm new to the padfone x mini seeing that my note 2 finally said I give up.. But what has to happen to get a ROM oor this thing.. It seems to me that the padfone x mini has a decent amount of potential here!.. I am no developer and have never done so but I know my way around d a PC and I know my way around linux a bit. I would just like to know where to start for developing a ROM for this phone and my first actually... Any help or guidance in the proper direction is much appreciated.
Factory rom backup?
Did anyone do a backup? We're really going to need one.
I installed Root Booster which made my phone actually stable. It hasn't crashed since I installed it and paid for the high stability mode.
Removed a lot of the Google and AT&T apps. The GOOGLE app itself and the Play Music, Play Videos, Play Books, etc. were removed with the store intact and related services left alone.
Performance jumped up once I removed the "Google" app named essentially just that, "Google".
But most importantly, it is stable. Like when I installed Lollipop on the Padfone X regular, this one makes the tablet worth it and proves that AT&T destroyed yet another device with its idiocy. But I'm running this on T-Mobile since the device itself was unlocked when I got mine for $99.
Also, I reinstalled the Google Music, Video apps since you can but I wanted to remove the default version that comes preinstalled with the ROM. BUT make sure to use System app remover (ROOT) by Jumobile. If you uninstall too much, this lets you restore it right back. Just don't purge the recycle bin.
Hiya, when i play a game, PowerAmp and other music apps gets killed, here's the error message PowerAmp gives.
Poweramp was killed
Poweramp has detected it was killed during an active playback, probably by some battery saver, task killer, etc.
Please disable such optimization for Poweramp and Poweramp full version
Unlocker (botch can be killed together) in the apps settings
all help appreciate
Add some GB of RAM.
This never happened before though, all i have changed since is, changed the launcher and the new launcher uses even less RAM :/
Also, as far as my knowledge, you can't add more RAM to a Amazon Fire 7
ComputerTech312 said:
Also, as far as my knowledge, you can't add more RAM to a Amazon Fire 7
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You always can use a certain amount of internal storage memory as SWAP memory ( read: virtual memory ). More info here:
android virtual ram – Make an innovation of technology!!!!
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Yeah my phone isn't rooted though, and i won't root incase of bricking my phone :/
This seems good though
SWAP - No ROOT - Apps on Google Play
Create SWAP file without ROOT.
play.google.com
Hm, does that just create a swap file? or does it actually work?
IMO phone's Android must be rooted to set up a SWAP file. Reason is the SWAP file must get added to Android's system file named /fstab in order to get mounted when Android boots up. And operating on Android's system files requires root.
See also here:
[TOOL][ADB][WIN][ROOT]Android Virtual RAM Creator
THIS TOOL REQUIRES ANDROID IS ROOTED ! In order to work properly an Android device depends on having an adequate amount of RAM ( read: physical memory ). Simply saying that there can never be enough. The more RAM is installed the better it is...
forum.xda-developers.com
Yeah, it's a shortage of RAM. The Amazon tablets are great values but with only 2GB of RAM, it often kicks background processes out of memory.
svetius said:
Yeah, it's a shortage of RAM. The Amazon tablets are great values but with only 2GB of RAM, it often kicks background processes out of memory.
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1GB RAM on mine
although before upgrading to new launcher, it never did this before, and i found out the new launcher uses less RAM than the old one :/