Hey there!
iGO8 on my Xperia takes ages to load. The start screen shows up quickly enough, but then it appears to do nothing at all for about 30 seconds, until the Init API text is displayed and after that the program starts rather fast. Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a remedy? Some lines you can put into sys.ini to make it load more rapidly, non-important files to remove? Thanks
The same...
geodb initdbfiles and poi manager init takes a lot of time.... the startup on my athena was much faster... (Now I'm using a 16 GB memory card, maybe the read/write-speed isn't so fast as the speed from athena's internal disk)
But my problem is the time iGO8 takes before it actually shows any signs of loading at all... Once the loading progress is displayed at the bottom right corner, it's pretty quick. It's just that it seems to idle for 30 seconds before that
I had exactly the same issue, which I cured with a hard reset.
Get a good backup program (I used Sprite backup), use it to backup your phone, then go to settings -> system storage -> clear storage.
Once cleared, go through the reboot and initial customisation process, then restore the backup to your device.
It didn't take long, and I haven't found anything which I lost during the restore (even my registry tweaks remain).
Now iGO8 runs as quickly and smoothly as it used to before the recent upgrade.
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Recently I noticed that after a Soft Reset the Start Button can take up to a few good seconds to expand. In other words, this only happens the very first time I access the Start Menu. After this, it works good and as responsive as possible.
Any ideas if this is something that could be caused by a Registry Change? I've done all the suggested registry hacks (cache and all those) - but nothing out of the ordinary as far as I can remember.
This Start Button slowness is a bit annoying at times, so if anyone has any ideas.... please let me know
Make sure menu animation is off (good to use registry wizard http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=39725) and that all the programs in the first five or six named on the start menu are in main memory as if any are installed on the storage card it slows start menu down.
The behavior you are seeing is absolutely normal. When Windows starts up it has no icon cache. So when you click the "start" button for the first time, it will take some time to read all the application binaries you have installed and find their icons. After it does that, it generates a cache, so unless you run out of RAM, it won't rebuild it, until your next soft reset.
Generally, reading from the miniSD is slower than from Storage, and so it will take 2-3 more seconds if your apps are residing on SD. And it can take up to 3-4 more seconds PER application IF that application is huge in filesize (e.g. Skype, Opera, SJPhone, Bejewled2 etc -- I wish their developers were making smaller binaries that then load a bigger library instead of putting everything in a single binary which makes it slow reading the small icon).
On boot the system needs to gather the icons for the startmenu, which takes quite a while, particularly if you have skype installed. Not much to do about it. Many other possible causes as well.
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I'm getting that message.
The funny thing is, I haven't added anything to storage memory in a while. I got the phone a few weeks ago and installed everything I needed then - there was around 6MB remaining of storage.
However, whilst I'm driving today, I get an SMS and have a look and it shows me this critically low warning. I got home and tried to delete all my SMS but the phone decided to crash. After rebooting it didn't load all the today plugins properly, so I decided to reboot using SPB Pocketplus's safemode. I press the safemode option during boot and it says it will boot in safe mode but all it does is reset itself again and start in normal mode.
When it starts in normal mode it shows the critically low warning and freezes - I can't close the warning or do anything about it.
Does anyone know what could have caused this all of a sudden? Considering I had several MB free earlier today and haven't added anything to it myself... Also, what on earth can I do to fix this problem? It says to remove some programs but I can't when the device isn't responding or going into safemode...
Do a search for big files - also check your documents in case you've inadvertently recorded a lot of nothing (as I've done in the past) - also I believe temp internet files and remote desktop caching can take up quite a bit.
numanoids said:
Do a search for big files - also check your documents in case you've inadvertently recorded a lot of nothing (as I've done in the past)
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
At the time it was impossible to search for any files - the device wasn't responding at all once it had booted up. However, I managed to connect it to my PC and access it remotely - even though the device's GUI wasn't responding and I had indeed recorded a load of nothing when it had been woken in my pocket by the SMS. Needless to say that button is now disabled.
Thanks for the reply, it's sorted now. Well, as sorted as you can get with the universal's minescule amount of memory
If you spend a lot of time surfing the net, your cache will fill up the space. Try to flush the cache and search for big files too. You should use SKTOOLS, is the best.
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Daft question but where is the cache info stored. I can find may way around but I am not that technical. I am having the memory problem too. I have nothing on my device but its full. I have a map program on the card and thats it.
To clear your PIE cache, open PIE go to the menu and selct tools, options and then select the memory tab and click the delete files button. It will probably take a while. A easier way to manage this cache, in my opinion, is to purchase and install SKTools(a fantasic app for many uses) and run the quick clean program. I have the quick clean app mapped to a keyboard combo (using freeware PQZII) so it's very easy to free up memory.
Hi there
Only had it a week (2nd hand from e-bay) and very happy overall just can't seem to browse internet for long without the main memory creeping up to 75 -80% and then having to close down cos of the notification messages. also It says i have 4-5 or even more applications running, when I go to task manager to shut them down there is nothing there?
When it gets too much I go for a soft reset and that knocks the memory back down to 45-50% and off I go again
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
Spec is as follows: o2 XDA Exec
running wm5.0
Processor PXA270-520MHz
memory 49.75 MB
expansion slot: In use ( I assume this is the 1gb SD card that's in there that is empty - apart from a few pics of the kids)
Many many anticipated thanks
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You can do this to clear the cache and get rid of those popups each time it happens, without restarting.
Menu -> Tools -> Options -> Memory -> Delete Files
Then OK out.
Unfortunately there's no way of doing it automagically
You can make Pocket Internet Explorer (PIE) more usable by doing these two things:
Get MultiIE - It's an addon for tabbed browsing and other such goodies.
Get OzVGA - Actually use the VGA screen you paid for! Quadruple your space used for displaying web pages!
thank you for that I tried it yesterday and it worked for a short time. I tried to browse again today but only managed to open google, do 1 search and as I clicked on the page to open it I got the notification messages again. I tried to delete the pages but this time it didn't work. (but as it showed I was running 7 applications and was upto 79% of programme memory) I ended up going for a soft reset.
now it shows 1 application running and 51% memory. am I doing something wrong?
I haven't had this problem before and have not loaded any new software onto my phone in quite a long time...
But, today, no matter what application I attempt to view, the phone has a dead slow transition INTO the application....and when I close out of it.
When I try to move between screens within the app, it's also incredibly slow
I checked my memory and had plenty of program memory, and also made sure I shut down any running programs and STILL...it was slow as molasses.
i even ran MemMaid to see if THAT would fix the issue....but nope.
What could have brought this on??? And what can I do to fix it??
Plus...when typing email earlier this morning, the cursor moved fine, but no letters would appear....then when I tried to press enter to move to new lines, the screen would begin to duplicate.
There may be an issue with memmaid. I ran into this before, something very similar. Try this:
Memmaid -> Jump to -> Tweaks -> System Tweaks -> Optimize -> Device Dafault
Then reboot the phone.
how much is "plenty of memory"?
Are you checking the program memory and not the storage memory?
Trying running a hibernate or closeapps using OXIOS
If your device overclocked? If not, look into it
hey first thing i want to say is this phone is amazing and it blows away everything and anything i have had in the past (ok not my 360 though).
but in the last 2 weeks ive noticed whenever i perform a soft reset, mainly because of some program freezing, it takes an enormous time for the phone to recover functionality. i mean, that when i turn the phone on, i see the pink circle appear and then the t-mobile logo, after that the Launching HTC Sense shows and then it takes about 2 mins to completely show the home screen, i.e. clock tabs calender, notification bar and all.
thats all fine, but then when i try to scroll through the home screen tabs at the bottom it jitters and is extremely unresponsive moving after like 30 secs to 3 tabs. its the same with the start button, when i try to scroll down the apps its really slow and does the same jitters and when i select something it just does that 4 colour dots loading thing.
it happens every single time after a soft reset, however if i turn the phone on and leave it aside for around 15 mins then when i try to scroll through tabs or apps it works a treat, like nothing was wrong with it.
please can someone help me, i dont know if its some start up programs causing it or some registry tweak that needs to be applied to correct it. but any help is greatly appreciated and thank you
p.s. i have quite a few apps installed :s i installed resco explorer and through 1 of the apps 'system info', im going to post some of the numbers maybe it might shed some light.
program memory 336.9 MB - used 193.86 Mb (58%)
storage memory 214.7 MB - used 204.99 MB (95%)
storage card 1.8 GB - used 1.78 GB (97%)
here is a list of the things under \Windows\StartUp
BTTrayCE
DelWMPTempFolder
HTCStartUp
PKG
poutlook
RunGNAgent
XMmobiresetter
I suspect its down to having a shiny new toy and access to this "sweetshop" of a forum that's at the heart of the issue here. I too had similar problems earlier today when my storage memory dipped even lower than your's that resulted in pop up messages from windows warning me about critically low ammounts of storage and telling me to remove some installed or redundant files to improve performance..cue bye bye to co-pilot as I dont use it and things have improved considerably.Amongst the stuff I've installed are Tomtom navigator 7, Garmin mobile XT,Igo8.3.4,ACR hd,Totall commander,Resco file explorer,myplayer,Zoomer,skyfire,BsB Tweaks and a slack handfull of games...(all of them installed to the SD card which is now almost at capacity...roll on getting my 16gb card )
These two programs (RunGNAgent, XMmobiresetter) are not in my startup folder, so try to delete them (before deleting backup them), and see if that helps.
first of all thanks to terrytpot and Mikulec.
ill try to uninstall some apps and try an reduce the memory as much as i can and see if i notice an improvement. hopefully that'll work and ill also do the backup of the 2 files and delete them from the startup.
thanks again
P.S. if anyone has anymore ideas that would greatly appreciated. thank you
rungna.exe what is it, explained
well I did some experiments with this rungnagent.exe. witch apeared to be in my startup folder.
I installed sbp-safemode (just in case i would crash the phone (ps im having a samsung i-780).
then i moved the rungna.exe to my storragecard (away from any bootup options)
I shutted my phone down holding the on/off button and restarted it.
instead of waiting 2 minutes for the phone to startup I could scroll trough start, my homescreen and apps (really fast) within 20 seconds, wich was the startup-time when i got the phone .
I made sure that all my apps were still working and guess what they did not have any complications to any backgrounded or foregrounded apps.
I was starting to get very curious about what this app would be.
I loaded the program to my windows 7 desktop-pc and scanned it using filealyzer from savernetworking (the makers of spybot search and destroy).
the file seems to be a .net executable microsoft visual c# v.7.0 . net program with the following funtions in the hex-strings (the commands given to a program on how to funtion) and the behaviour is (in my case):
check the installed files from the program google navigator.
there's also in te hextext that it has to open google navigator trough a link in the windows folder named Google "Navigator.ink"
so when you deïnstall google navigator (in my case I did that because the software was crap). it can't load and run it's intergration with the system at startup and may hook your mobile phone down at that very same startup. the makers of the software just made a mistake in their deïnstall executable because it doesn't remove this specific file. (google navigator is not google maps google navigator is a 3d navigation program using google maps you can find their software on pdafun.net)
so when you deïnstalled the program just put the file somewhere on the phone (just in case) or at least remove it from your startup folder.
So this would mean: Problem solved thread closed XD
ps
my phone stoped freezing when i deleted this startup entry so for some reason it also hooked up the system when you opend more than 5 regular apps. having you to reset the phone all the time. those problems are gone now .
I would suggest that you install spb pocket plus buy it (or bittorent it XD). the software has many handy features with one in specific being very handy. the boot in safemode option.
when your phone crashes 2 times (so you stik your stilus in the resethole 2 times) it comes up with a special bootscreen giving you 2 options boot regular or boot in safe mode.
boot in safe mode means you startup your phone without loading any registry entries or boot commands. you just get a blank screen (no deskapps, tochflow, home shells, etc). with the regular startbutton and all programs and settings. meaning you can fix the phone when it crashed.
fixing means not having to do rom-resets (while worrying about contact backups, messages and all those apps you installed and have to reïnstall from scratch when hardresetting).
good luck with ya pocket personal computer XD.
amonfog
ps: thread still closed XD