Does anyone know of a program to show when the disk drive is being used?
I would like to optimize battery use by minimizing disk access.
For example, I have TCPMP installed on the disk drive. When I watch a movie, is the program transferred ENTIRELY to solid-state memory or does the X7500 have to access the disk continuously to run the program?
I have the movie installed on the SD card to avoid disk drive use, but I cannot tell if that eliminates all disk drive use once TCPMP has started.
nrm said:
Does anyone know of a program to show when the disk drive is being used?
I would like to optimize battery use by minimizing disk access.
For example, I have TCPMP installed on the disk drive. When I watch a movie, is the program transferred ENTIRELY to solid-state memory or does the X7500 have to access the disk continuously to run the program?
I have the movie installed on the SD card to avoid disk drive use, but I cannot tell if that eliminates all disk drive use once TCPMP has started.
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I would have thought if its installed to the MD (Micro Drive) then when accessed, it will be in constant use for as long as you are using that app, but I can't be sure, as your vid is on the SD card. LoL most of us do it the other way around.
In any event, No, sorry, don't know of an app that shows its usage in this way.
i would put the movie on the MD so its only running when u r watching it
It's hard for me to believe that any half-decent engineer would design a battey operated device to run a program off a disk drive. Here is what I found:
Without TCPMP runnig:
Storage.................Program
Total 144.04..........Total 110.94
In use 69.27..........In use 48.05
FREE 74.77............FREE 62.89
With TCPMP running:
Storage................Program
Total 144.04.........Total 110.94
In use 69.27........In use 71.84
FREE 74.77...........FREE 39.10
This means that "in use" PROGRAM memory is increased by about 22MB when TCPMP is loaded, which I HOPE means that the program is running in Solid-state memory, not from the disk drive. HOWEVER, it could also mean that the movie has been transferred from the storage card in slices. This would make no sense from a design aspect but it could happen.
Any ideas?
Does anyone think that HTC would be willing to share the design detail of disk usage?
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since this is my first post...u can all me newbie.
I'm trying to copy/paste some movies to device.
The card is 256mb from sandisk. Usually the is in divx mode. But the transfer takes a long time, and never ends!
So, is it because of the format of movie?
The size?
Have tried an app to rip from dvd to divs. Even then can't copy the stupid thing!
Some can gime me some hints?
thx a bunch
Oh...by the way, never thought that so many people uses the same device as me... :shock:
Hi,
I tend to use an SD card reader to copy large files onto my SD card.
I had big issues with the file explorer hanging when transferring a movie to my SD via Active sync. When I use a card reader, no problems and it's a LOT quicker
The only time I use active sync to transfer files is when i need to convert something into a PocketPC format (eg. excel to pocketexcel).
Good luck, I do enjoy watching a movie on the train or while I'm waiting for something.
Hooligan
So, u are saying, use something like a card reader/writer? Guess that's what u are saying. Will try that one.
Thx a bunch! :wink:
I use a card reade/write and often have problems when I remove the card after copying files to it I get "delayed write error", I now click on eject before removing it which I think flushes the memory buffer.
If you plan on sync'ing big files (ie movies regularly), than I would also suggest you get a card reader. However, make sure you get a USB 2.0 reader to really speed things up. I'm not sure if a USB 1.1 reader will improve MUCH on the speed of Activesync.
I have a 2.0 reader, which I bought on E-bay (you can get them from as little as 6GBP) and it sync's a movie that would normally take about 18mins to sync with the cradle, to about 2 mins!
I also sync a lot of music/songs to my storage card, taking about 5 seconds to sync a song.
I transfer movie files from pc to PPC via active sync and have had no bother !
best program to use is DVD to PPC ! find it very easy to use and never failed me yet !
anyone got anything interesting to watch on XDAII then ?
cheers
Hi, this is my first post believe it or not.
So: Hello Everyone.
This is the issue:
I use Media Player on my computer to access a Turkish Soccer TV Channel (Subscription Based). Since I purchased a T-Mobile branded Magician, and a WiFi SD Card, I would like to be able to watch it on my PDA, as well.
First problem: Media Player is trying to use the free space on the main memory to buffer. Therefore I get "Not enough storage is available to complete this operation." Also, when I am able to see video, it freezes every 2 seconds.
Second problem: I was not able to find any place to change buffer settings.
Question: How can I change these to enjoy high quality (367 Kbps) video on my PDA, for personal enjoyment and show off to others. Also, how can I configure the media player to use the free space on the SD not main memory?
Thank you.
You don't..
You do NOT want to use your SD cards memory for this..
The reason?
You have about 5 to 10 thousand write operations before the storage "cell" on the SD card is "worn out"..
Well, you do the math..
367kbps is a lot of data, many RW operations..
It would kill your SD card after a "short" time..
The only way to solve this is by using the RAMDISK patch, and use that as buffer memory..
If this is doable, I'm not sure..
Your other option is installing the translated 2003SE ROM, it has WMP10..
I couldn't find the patch on the ftp server. Could you tell me under which directory it is located?
Thank you.
Should be under the WM2005 directory..
I don't have access to port 21 right now, so I cant confirm anything..
Search for "RAMDISK" and "BUZZ"...
Then you'll find the files and instructions..
so, I came across a problem with tcpmp a few weeks ago where the program wouldn't play video at a decent frame rate when installed to the phone storage.
which I find strange as I would have thought that running the program and reading the video from the same source would result in slow down its self!
so my question is, is the internal storage more slow than the memory card and if so could the storage of sms be moved to the sd card for speed improvements.
if this is the case then lots of other things could also be moved to the sd card!
your thoughts ?
hmmm
nobody interested in this?
I would hazard a guess that this is because the phone is running the player from the same source as the video is stored, so it can only access either the program, or the video file at any one time, not both together, so it accesses the system for a second, then the video, then the system, then the video,,, but if the video is on the card, it can access the system and the video at the same time.
that's the point
ill be more through
if the program is installed to the phone storage ie tcpmp installed to phone memory, then when you play a video it jogs! very low fps.
now if you installed the program to the memory card, which is where the video is stored also then its played a full fps
it is much much faster, so this either tells you the memory card can read files quicker than the phone storage or there is a problem with the phone storage talking to main memory.
that's my point! sms takes an age to load if you have more 20 message on the same thread. moving these messages to the storage card permanently may increase loading times of each thread.
try it your self with tcpmp you will get what I mean, the videos I'm using are dvd rips in avi format
Hello all I am typing this on my new iconia. The tablet seems to always want to use internal memory for everything (pictures videos etc.)and does not offer app2sd or a way to even navigate to the microsd card without a 3rd party app like astro, so what is the SD card intended for?
It is a little odd there's no mention of it in the default file browser, isn't it?
It's not a primary feature; not when the tablet itself sports 32GB of storage, I guess. It was enough that Android supported it, so they bunged it in just because.
If you've filled up your 32GB I can see how it would be a hassle trying to use the external SD card as easily as you do the internal storage.
http://youtu.be/JmvCpR45LKA
You can never have to much storage. I keep my 32gb flash drive and 250gb hard drive close by.
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hazard99 said:
You can never have to much storage.
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Amen to that!! I've got 2.5Tb storage on my server, 1Tb on this PC, 1Tb on my PS3, about 700 megabytes in removable storage and then some in various gadgets.. and I STILL feel like I'm running out of space all the time!
Well my tablet is a 16gb and is running out of room due to offline maps. I had not really considered that the data would be handled differently than an android phone where the app lives in internal memory and the data was on the SD card.
I've moved all of my video and music to the external SD card; PowerAmp has no issues with the files being there (and has an option to look in any subfolder off /mnt/ to find the files.)
Since most of my music is in WMA format I don't use the default Music player very often and don't know if it's "smart" enough (i.e. been told) to look in a /Music folder on the external card.
What is the max size USB drive that I can use with these Android units?
As long as it's formatted to fat32, any size should work
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As long as it's formatted to fat32, any size should work
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is that the same format required for micro sd cards?
CadillacMike said:
is that the same format required for micro sd cards?
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I believe so
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Windows will not let you FAT32 format anything bigger than 32 Gib, so you will need to use a utility called fat32format - just google it. With that I was able to install a 250 Gb USB SSD drive in my glove compartment!
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Windows will not let you FAT32 format anything bigger than 32 Gib, so you will need to use a utility called fat32format - just google it. With that I was able to install a 250 Gb USB SSD drive in my glove compartment!
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With a drive that size, how long does it take to read the files?
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With a drive that size, how long does it take to read the files?
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Read what files?
Playing movies or music is instant, because it only reads a very small part at a time. If you are copying files the size of the drive has nothing to do with throughput. The SSD drive is faster than anything else (USB flash drive or SD card), but the throughput is bottle-necked by the USB2.0 interface.
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Read what files?
Playing movies or music is instant, because it only reads a very small part at a time. If you are copying files the size of the drive has nothing to do with throughput. The SSD drive is faster than anything else (USB flash drive or SD card), but the throughput is bottle-necked by the USB2.0 interface.
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I meant more like opening the music folder and having to scroll from A to Z and having a lot of music. I'm kind of comparing apples to oranges here, as I'm thinking about my old Kenwood deck. It would take a while to scroll through 50,000 mp3's looking for something. The more I think about it, it is probably more related to the deck than the storage.
I have a 128gb memory stick formatted in fat32. It only take about 5 mins when I 1st connect the memory stick. otherwise it plays instantly, and searching is instant. I use Poweramp as my music player app.
Koush
Nothing on my unit takes 5 minutes, not even 5 seconds. Everything seems to be instant. Of course I don't have 50,000 mp3's and even if I did, I would not dump them into a single folder - I would rather organize them into manageable playlists. The reason I installed the large SSD is because I found myself replacing large chunk of my mp3 collection with VEVO mp4s that I download from YouTube. It seems more fun when you have a head unit capable of playing music videos. Also I have a fairly large collection TTC videos, which can also be listened to.
That's the exact response I was looking for.
You can use what ever you want anything over 32gb you must format from xfat to fat 32 you loose some capacity but not enough to worry about
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