Came across this->http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1466245 thread on the x2 forums. It cites that most 3g speed tweaks are aimed at gsm, and suggests a build.prop edit that might improve cdma 3g speeds. Before I go any further, I should say, I have no level of expertise in this, and have no knowledge of what function this line in the build.prop served before or after said modification. Now, with that out of the way. I checked the build.prop on my r800x running cm7 to find the line in question was not even in my build.prop. Perhaps for a reason however, as I said ^^^ no knowledge whatsoever in the matter. In any case, I added the line suggested to be edited and changed the value to the suggested value. From my rather breif and unscientific testing, my 3g speeds seem to be faster. Browser, xda app, twitter, and google+ just to name a few seem more responsive when requiring data to load what's being displayed. Keep in mind, my observations are strictly just that, observations. This could all be placebo.
The line is:
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persist.ril.uart.flowctrl=1
Its suggested that it can be any number between 1-10. And recommends 10.
I just added it to the bottom of my build.prop. and changed 1 to 10, then rebooted
*Disclaimer: I'm not responsible for ANYTHING you do to YOUR phone*
Well, anyone else feeling adventurous? Moreover if any more knowledgeable folk know what atrocity I just committed, I'd enjoy your entertaining my ignorance with your input . I'm curious why my build.prop lacked this line. Also, I'd love to know what purpose its actually for. On that note, I'm off to Google.
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I read through the entire thread of replys form the link you found, Seems this does work for some and others didnt notice.
Im def. gonna try it out later , thanks for sharing!
I'll try this later as well.
I been playin around with it now. I used the recommended 10 and didnt try any other numbers. I used the SpeedTest app and tried to do it in as much of a "controlled environment" as possible.
I first chose one spot in my office at work that id say was the best for service and I held my hand in same position for the entire test of this tweak idea. Then with tweak applied I turned the phone off , waited 30sec, turned on, waited 30sec, Opened Speedtest, made sure my server was the same each time then began speed testing. I ran each test back to back without leaving the app or shutting the screen off, There were about 5 seconds in between each test, only to write down test numbers.
I did (10) tests with and (10) tests without the tweak in build.prop
I attached my results. I highlighted the best score from each set of tests in each catagory. ( someone correct me but isn't a "lower Ping" better? )
216Monster said:
I been playin around with it now. I used the recommended 10 and didnt try any other numbers. I used the SpeedTest app and tried to do it in as much of a "controlled environment" as possible.
I first chose one spot in my office at work that id say was the best for service and I held my hand in same position for the entire test of this tweak idea. Then with tweak applied I turned the phone off , waited 30sec, turned on, waited 30sec, Opened Speedtest, made sure my server was the same each time then began speed testing. I ran each test back to back without leaving the app or shutting the screen off, There were about 5 seconds in between each test, only to write down test numbers.
I did (10) tests with and (10) tests without the tweak in build.prop
I attached my results. I highlighted the best score from each set of tests in each catagory. ( someone correct me but isn't a "lower Ping" better? )
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Lower ping is better, these definitely suggest lower speeds as an outcome of the edit. Weird since I still "feel" like load times are faster. Ah the power of the mind
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Lower ping is better, these definitely suggest lower speeds as an outcome of the edit. Weird since I still "feel" like load times are faster. Ah the power of the mind
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Yea the beautiful mind! I thought it felt faster at times but it would seem not :/
This won't really matter.
Unless your service provider caps speeds on the device, as opposed to on the network (e.g. T-Mobile, with 100mbs of 4g, followed by the network provider limiting your speeds) this really won't make a difference... (as seen by 216monster's results)
On the other hand, what if this number is like golf (lower is better) and deals with power input? Does switching to 10 provide better battery life?
@216 -thank you for testing out every new idea that comes along, whether it's missing your play to try to add an hdmi port out keeping up with cdma uk ROM
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paxChristos said:
This won't really matter.
Unless your service provider caps speeds on the device, as opposed to on the network (e.g. T-Mobile, with 100mbs of 4g, followed by the network provider limiting your speeds) this really won't make a difference... (as seen by 216monster's results)
On the other hand, what if this number is like golf (lower is better) and deals with power input? Does switching to 10 provide better battery life?
@216 -thank you for testing out every new idea that comes along, whether it's missing your play to try to add an hdmi port out keeping up with cdma uk ROM
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Thank you. I enjoy working on it.
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I have had the Vibrant for about a week, and love it dearly despite its shortcomings. I have noticed the data speeds and connectivity are in no way related to the amount of bars of service showing, except when it drops to EDGE (which it seems to do an seemingly random times).
I ran the Speedtest.net app about 20 times in different settings, many one right after another without holding the phone. The speeds fluctuate so wildly I can't describe it.
Sometimes I get DL speeds of 100kbs and upload speeds of over 2mbs in the same test, and everywhere in between.
The Nexus one fluctuates a little bit, but no where near this. N1 is on CM6.
This sucks because sometimes for example I'll click the news widgets story, and the webpage will not load even with full 3g service.
And yes, I can stop the speedtest completely by covering the antennae bump with my finger.
Any Ideas?
I also suffer from very spotty GPS functionality, even after the fix. I am not able to root this phone the standard way, tried over 20 times to restart holding VOL up and down, never gets to recovery mode - have not tried adb yet. (I'm at work lol)
Have you done a factory reset on the Vibrant? You should if you haven't. Might solve this too but there is something you have to understand, bandwidth is shared on every tower. If 2 phones are downloading a 1GB file EVERYONE's speed will suffer on that tower. So make sure you're not doing them at the same time because it's not going to be accurate if you are doing them at the same time
Hmm interesting, and thanks for the response. I don't think two phones downloading a file at the same time should make a huge difference, I am in downtown New York City.
I usually kill all processes on an hourly basis usually to prevent lag. Should I not?
System restore from the recovery menu you mean?
I only did two concurrent tests on the N1 and my Vibrant - all others were done by itself.
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Have you done a factory reset on the Vibrant?
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i see this alot, i got my vibrant and rooteded but never done a factory reset... Im not having any issues, is there a reason i should look into this?
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i see this alot, i got my vibrant and rooteded but never done a factory reset... Im not having any issues, is there a reason i should look into this?
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I factory reset every new phone. Just because.. been doing it since windows mobile... any problems factory reset helps so I just start from a factory reset. ...
Do you recommend a backup first? Like Titanium if I was rooted?
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Might solve this too but there is something you have to understand, bandwidth is shared on every tower. If 2 phones are downloading a 1GB file EVERYONE's speed will suffer on that tower. So make sure you're not doing them at the same time because it's not going to be accurate if you're doing them at different times.
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Umm, not necessarily. We don't know how big the internet pipeline for each tower is. The way GSM works though, is each tower only has a specific number of slots for phones that can be connected at one time. Kinda lile a QOS type thing. So each phone sorta has a dedicated pipeline while it's connected. That's just on the GSM switchboard, though. As far as I know the internet pipeline is shared. I'm not saying one way or another on speeds slowing when more people are online, just saying "don't jump to conclusions". Because if they engineered the internet pipeline the same way they engineered the GSM switchboard, then each phone might have it's own dedicated pipeline. Just saying.
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Just did a factory reset, seems speedier already.
I used mIQ to sync because I wasnt able to root the phone for Titanium. Will report back.
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Umm, not necessarily. We don't know how big the internet pipeline for each tower is. The way GSM works though, is each tower only has a specific number of slots for phones that can be connected at one time. Kinda lile a QOS type thing. So each phone sorta has a dedicated pipeline while it's connected. That's just on the GSM switchboard, though. As far as I know the internet pipeline is shared. I'm not saying one way or another on speeds slowing when more people are online, just saying "don't jump to conclusions". Because if they engineered the internet pipeline the same way they engineered the GSM switchboard, then each phone might have it's own dedicated pipeline. Just saying.
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3G is not GSM. Bandwidth on each and EVERY tower is a shared media. I know because I've done it myself. Two phones pitted against each other would always leave one phone slower than the other.
Also there is the possibility that the phones are each on a different tower.
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3G is not GSM. Bandwidth on each and EVERY tower is a shared media. I know because I've done it myself. Two phones pitted against each other would always leave one phone slower than the other.
Also there is the possibility that the phones are each on a different tower.
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True, 3G is a CDMA technology but I really doubt the pipeline is so small that two phones running a test would cause it to slow down. A more likely explanation would be that the radios in the two devices were interfering with each other, and suffered a slower data speed due to lower SNR.
unrelated to this, how do you guys get your speed test results to show on your signature?
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I factory reset every new phone. Just because.. been doing it since windows mobile... any problems factory reset helps so I just start from a factory reset. ...
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just learned that myself, for some reason my pinch to zoom was not smooth at all when loading certain websites it would be very choppy and such until I did a factory reset, now everything works perfectly. Also I think having a task killer is a must on this phone at times I can have 36 apps running at a time which makes for a laggy phone. I thought these phones had better self management systems. Guess not!
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unrelated to this, how do you guys get your speed test results to show on your signature?
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Get the image of the speedtest result then [ img] picture link [ /img] ?
To get the image: Do a speedtest.. click Direct link when its done and bam.
But most likely since its T-MOBILE USA as the ISP.. they most likely tethered and did a speedtest on speedtest.net
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unrelated to this, how do you guys get your speed test results to show on your signature?
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When you complete a test at Speedtest.net, it gives you a link to a picture of your results to post on forums and such.
PePPaZ said:
I have had the Vibrant for about a week, and love it dearly despite its shortcomings. I have noticed the data speeds and connectivity are in no way related to the amount of bars of service showing, except when it drops to EDGE (which it seems to do an seemingly random times).
I ran the Speedtest.net app about 20 times in different settings, many one right after another without holding the phone. The speeds fluctuate so wildly I can't describe it.
Sometimes I get DL speeds of 100kbs and upload speeds of over 2mbs in the same test, and everywhere in between.
The Nexus one fluctuates a little bit, but no where near this. N1 is on CM6.
This sucks because sometimes for example I'll click the news widgets story, and the webpage will not load even with full 3g service.
And yes, I can stop the speedtest completely by covering the antennae bump with my finger.
Any Ideas?
I also suffer from very spotty GPS functionality, even after the fix. I am not able to root this phone the standard way, tried over 20 times to restart holding VOL up and down, never gets to recovery mode - have not tried adb yet. (I'm at work lol)
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Thanks for sharing.
I will say though that speedtest.net is not very accurate and very buggy. I've experienced some of the same issues as you and have been using speedtest.net for a very long time.
I'm curious to know what the most accurate speed test site is out there.
Try: www.MobileSpeedTest.com
When doing the test, let the initial test finish, but scroll down and click on 2MB test to test it again. That should give you a pretty accurate result.
so there is no way to do it from the app itself?
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so there is no way to do it from the app itself?
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Not that I know of. I looked for that option but couldn't find it.
i keep getting a "Missing Liscense Key" error at speedtest.net.
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so there is no way to do it from the app itself?
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Could do a speedtest on the phone and take a screenshot of it on the phone if you REALLY REALLY wanted it but it wouldn't look very official lol.
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so there is no way to do it from the app itself?
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yes, go to the results tab then go to the specific test you want the results to. Then hit the menu button and click "email results", it will send you the same picture that the "direct link" would give you.
I've read various posts about people complaining about the new Linpack update taking much more time to calculate scores. Not sure if Linpack has been updated to read Froyo with more precision or there's something weird going on but I had scores as high as 41mflops and post update can't get above 35.
ha ha plain and simple I like your style lol looks like I'll be reverting back to the previous version.
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I suspect they had to redo their scale/marks to allow for the Droid X which is wiping the floor with everyone.
i can email the apk for the old linpack if you're interested send me a PM
I try to follow the KISS principle… Keep It Simple Stupid.
I haven’t updated Linpack in a long time and I knew that I need to make some major changes. So, I updated the app this morning with the first major change in almost 4 months. I increased the matrix that is calculated from 200×200 to 500×500. This change was done to hopefully reduce the number of erroneous MFLOPS numbers. With the matrix at 200, times were starting to get well under 1 second. This is not good for a timing benchmark. Since FroYo is taking over, the matrix had to be
enlarged to make the calculation take longer. This happened with the Java Linpack in the 90s, with faster systems they had to increase the size of the matrix too.
Don’t be surprised if your Linpack run takes up to 6 times longer to run, it’s supposed to do that. Look at the resulting MFLOPS over several runs; hopefully they will be more consistent.
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Directly from the Linpack website.
I honestly think it's better now because it's more accurate across the board. Running a test 4-10 times the results are a lot closer now, whereas before they varied by almost 10 points.
Just my 2c
That makes sense, you always get a better/most accurate result with larger sample data. Thanks for taking the time to look this up and post it (although I'm still slightly depressed by the fact that the DInc isn't top dog anymore, hehe it works for what I need it for though and then some... Android phone tech is moving so quickly!).
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I wouldn't say that its top dog anymore.
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Agreed, that's why I used the word "isn't" =p. I think you're eyes might need a rest jd, too much ADB and posting via XDA Forum App makes Jack a blind boy!
jdkoreclipse said:
Wow....its time for me to take a little vacation from xda....I meant to say I don't think the since isn't the top anymore.
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Yeah it's vacation time for you, sir. That made absolutely no sense whatsoever.
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Ever since I downloaded the new update (DI18) this morning, I cannot get good download speeds, but my upload speeds have greatly increased. Any ideas? Here is some proof...If someone could give me a clue of what the problem could be, that would be great.
I tried to insert the pictures of speedtest.net results, but since I'm new, it won't let me.
I've had crazy results like 97kbps down and 702kbps up?!?
my download has remained the same while the upload increased
Between 900 and 1200 down and 400 to 700 up depending on signal strength. I'm in the western suburbs of Chicago.
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I had same problem, I rebooted the phone and all seems fixed now
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All seems normal after OTA update, loving the increased upload speeds.
I was getting like 650s up and about the same or worse down. Very laggy net and things would time out frequently. 600 or 700 was the best down I could get even with full signal strength. I flashed the previous release and all went back to normal. Up was between 100 to 200 and down was 1.5 or better. I guess I prefer better down. I guess if when it gets pushed to me officially, and things act like that, I will go back to 06. Really looking forward to 2.2 and the improvements it offers.
Downstream speeds are exactly the same or better for me. My update was pushed OTA. Is everyone waiting for the GPS to resolve completely before testing? It seems to affect speed, this happened with my Evo, and seems to still be the case with the Epic.
Right now I'm getting 6.24 mpbs download and 1.13 upload on 4g is that good?
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my download is always awful on 3g after the update.
J3ff said:
my download is always awful on 3g after the update.
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Dude why are you complaining this is by farrrr the best phone right now....and a few months down in developement imagine how much better it will be i still am in awwww with a 2.1 rom if you have so many complains take your phone back.
Didn't see any slow download speeds on my 3g are >1000 and uploads >150. So I'm fine over here. Go outside or somthing, this could deal with your location.
And even before this update my phone perfformed fine on all radios.(less upload of course)
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II5StarII Swag said:
Dude why are you complaining this is by farrrr the best phone right now....and a few months down in developement imagine how much better it will be i still am in awwww with a 2.1 rom if you have so many complains take your phone back.
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The guy asked a question.
My downloads since the update here at home on 3g has never been above 400k/sec
That's pretty weak isnt it?
Also my uploads since the fix have ALWAYS been faster! Which is neat, but man.
hmm maybe something is wrong with your phone bro if your getting that on 3g..didnt know it was that low
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hmm maybe something is wrong with your phone bro if your getting that on 3g..didnt know it was that low
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Looks like I'm not the only one.
The pictures posted in this thread are exactly like what I'm seeing.
http://androidforums.com/samsung-ep...ds-increased-ul-speeds-after-di18-update.html
I just did a test w two bars of 3 g and dl speed was 400 and up speed 70 ? On wifi it was 600 dl and 147 up the update made my phone slower is that possible wtf
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I just downloaded the speedtest net version and
got 550 dl and 250 upp and wifi 680d 450up
I get 500-1000 down consistently and up to 700 at times up.
I do remember pre update going over 1000 down was very common and pushing 2000 wasn't out of the question either.
While not complaining my downstream did take a hit but with the nature of networks and cell towers it could simply be not phone related. If it's the same a few weeks or so from now I would consider it phone related. (Unless someone can run side by side tests with another phone). 4G is still blazing fast though.
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I'm just wondering. Are you noticing slower download speeds or are you just going by the speed test programs?
You can tell the difference in just browsing. There used to be a not so dramatic difference between 3g down and 4g down. At work. 2000 down on 3g wasn't uncommon at all.. I get full bars here all day long on 3g. Just running a speed test on a server 12 miles away I got 649 down with full strength. Tried different server, the same. At home the results are worse. So yeah you can notice the difference between 500-1000 down(average is 700 with good signal) and 1000-2000 down without speed tests.
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Let me add also. Speed tests down before the update the needle on the meter was fluid and smooth in movement. Now it seems to be rigid and make sudden jerky shifts in speed like there is some kind of random packet lose.
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My X has been running slow and a little funny. I have froyo 2.3.15, with FlyX Rom, Revolution Themes, LauncherPro Plus, and Beautiful Widgets all running. Revolution was the last thing I added about a week ago and ever since then, it seems to be running different. Its slower to react, doesn't change from portrait to landscape very fast, whenever I unlock the screen, if I'm holding it straight up and down, it always opens into landscape mode. This seems like a pretty standard setup to a lot of people on here. Any advice and info on this topic would be appreciated, or just conversation about what others are running similar or different. Thanks a lot!
(also, I ran quadrant benchmark with scores between 1440 and 1495)
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My X has been running slow and a little funny. I have froyo 2.3.15, with FlyX Rom, Revolution Themes, LauncherPro Plus, and Beautiful Widgets all running. Revolution was the last thing I added about a week ago and ever since then, it seems to be running different. Its slower to react, doesn't change from portrait to landscape very fast, whenever I unlock the screen, if I'm holding it straight up and down, it always opens into landscape mode. This seems like a pretty standard setup to a lot of people on here. Any advice and info on this topic would be appreciated, or just conversation about what others are running similar or different. Thanks a lot!
(also, I ran quadrant benchmark with scores between 1440 and 1495)
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I cannot recall whether or not FlyX includes the build.prop modifications or not, if not you would definitely want to make those. Other than that the only other thing I would recommend is giving MinFreeManager a shot, it changes the "low memory" requirements for the built in memory manager (task manager) of android. If configured properly it can really make a difference in both battery life and performance (not speed, but responsiveness). It does not do it for you, it lets you set the fields, so learn how to do it first, it varies depending on your use of your phone, I don't run any facebook or other streaming applications so my settings are 6,8,16,60,60,150 but this could vary greatly, and may adversely affect others, so read up on the app in the market.
Again that app will improve responsiveness, in that it will give you less delay when swyping the screen in the UI and such, in that your phone does not have to kill a task to free up memory to complete the next task, it will not improve benchmarks, at the same time, poor memory management will give you poor performance in real world use but may not affect your benchmarks, another reason that benchmarks are poor ways of measuring performance.
Outside of that, what it really comes down to is our Android systems need hardware acceleration... Google really needs to get of there... well... you know... and get with the game here, based off the recent discussion and their advisement to manufacturers to hold of the release of tablets until the next android release, I am hoping they are currently implementing it, but without GPU hardware acceleration in the UI and web browser, we will constantly have the appearance of choppiness and the illusion of poor performance even on our overqualified phones... it is one area where I am sad to say the iPhone has us beat... very sad to say... as a matter of fact, I just washed my mouth out with a bit of soap...
EDIT: a good example of how well that application worked for me over actual "tasks killers" on the market such as task killer and such... before having this app installed and configured, a quick investigation of "settings, applications, running services" and viewing the available memory, it would display "Avail:16MB+98MB in ##" after having this app and having it configured it displays "Avail:72MB+116MB in 26" I am assuming my poor UI responsiveness was due to the first of the two numbers...
Yeah I always hate to say that about iPhones too but they do seem to keep the same speed and responsiveness ALL the time... Oh well, they've been around a little longer so Android will just have to keep working on it. I believe it'll be there soon. I will try that app you recommended. I appreciate the speedy response.
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Yeah I always hate to say that about iPhones too but they do seem to keep the same speed and responsiveness ALL the time... Oh well, they've been around a little longer so Android will just have to keep working on it. I believe it'll be there soon. I will try that app you recommended. I appreciate the speedy response.
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no problem, yeah, the iPhone has had GPU hardware acceleration in the UI since it came out, they structured their OS around it, Google chose otherwise, and I can only hope they regret that decision now... but hopefully they will make amends for that...
just make sure you read the post referenced in the app itself. It is written for the HTC Hero which only has 288MB of Ram as opposed to our 512MB Ram, but it still basically applies.
Keep in mind:
It does not automatically set on reboot until you tell it to, do not tell it to until you are sure the settings you have set do not mess with anything.
You probably will not notice a difference for about an hour... at least that's how long it took for me to truly notice a difference... I'm not really sure why, it apparently took that long for the priorities to take affect, and get the right processes killed, etc., etc. After that, especially later that day I was truly noticing a difference, especially in typing... I have always had a delay when typing on this phone, and that seems to be gone now...
yeah i was guessing that. i read an article at androidcentral.com about it and just set it to aggressive for now. applied it, but the specs under "running services" haven't changed so i'll give it an hour or so. i'll let you know how it turns out. thanks again!
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yeah i was guessing that. i read an article at androidcentral.com about it and just set it to aggressive for now. applied it, but the specs under "running services" haven't changed so i'll give it an hour or so. i'll let you know how it turns out. thanks again!
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Sounds good, your welcome and good luck!
If those settings work out for you without any problems, you'll probably want to up them a bit, it might say aggressive, but they are only so aggressive... If it makes a big difference for you then stick with them, if you still have slow down, and you are running what you described before, you can probably get away running settings similar to what I posted, just don't have them set on boot just in case, if they don't work out you can always set them lower or back to a preset. It is definitely something you can expiriment with, if worst comes to worst, you can always reboot, but as long as you don't touch the first 4 values, you won't mess anything up, the worst that you will do with the last 2 is temporarly screw up facebook sync. or something similar, and really you can get away with changing the 4th value to, it just has a chance of affecting more things, but I doubt you'll end up affecting anything with values around 50 anyway. Like I said, experimenting never hurts, slow phones do... Just keep an eye on it ;-) good luck again.
To add a little correction.if you are running fly x then you are not running 2.3.15 you are running the earlier related release it Is based on. Even if you did have2.3.15 before installing it fly x over writes the system to the files it uses. All roms do. Do you actually have like 2.3.9 I think
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It does say 2.3.9. I inquired about this before because I used teamblackhat to get .15 and the system never seemed to change to .15 every time I tried to download it... I guess that's why, because of flyx...
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After reading Captian Taco's post I was eager to try it out, and its actually making a big difference =D thanks!
Yes it is... its been running much smoother and more responsive all day. Thanks again captaintaco... (boy thats kinda funny to type...)
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Thanks CaptainTaco! Installed MFM to clear up my "lag" issues that are usually experienced in the evenings after a reset first thing in the a.m. each day. Before MFM it wasn't a huge deal to do a reset to clear up the issue, but I much prefer it to just work right all the time.
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Thanks CaptainTaco! Installed MFM to clear up my "lag" issues that are usually experienced in the evenings after a reset first thing in the a.m. each day. Before MFM it wasn't a huge deal to do a reset to clear up the issue, but I much prefer it to just work right all the time.
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Hey don't thank me, thank the creator of MFM, I'm pretty sure he was one of the first to discover the power of Androids integrated minimum memory management, if not the first. Just glad to share my discovery of his discovery haha. But yea, to be honest I don't even use a custom Rom anymore, it runs so quick just having that (thought it works even better in conjunction with your standard simplistic task killer such as "advanced task killer" just to kill apps in the foreground after you are done with them, since many apps don't include a way of closing themselves out...
I still try the custom Roms out and play around with them for the hell of it, but as for right now, I rely heavily on corporate integration, and most of the good blurless Roms remove features required for true and proper corporate sync, such as calender sync and the like... and I just don't like touchdown pro... So this helps me out greatly... remove some bloat, throw launcher pro on there, and get this fix fired up, phone runs like a dream... now if only they could get exchange active sync running like it was on Sense... best implementation I have seen of Exchange active sync so far... I do miss that...
Well after all the advice I ended up installing the zapx rom last night. Wow! It is sooo fast... everything just responds and reacts so much faster than before. I suggest installing zapx to anyone. Best rom so far I think...
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Has anyone tried this app on atrix:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1987032
the developer states that it's compatible with all android versions.
734 people agree, must be good. I'll give a try and let you know.
Edit: On EPinter's CM10, it turns off as soon as I exit the app. Not sure if I installed it properly as the instructions weren't clear in OP or on Play Store.
Edit 2: The app stays working after a restart. As long as I don't close it from recent apps, it's fine. Apparently, others are having similar issues in the Play Store. It does seem to go back to the launcher faster.
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thesummoner101 said:
734 people agree, must be good. I'll give a try and let you know.
Edit: On EPinter's CM10, it turns off as soon as I exit the app. Not sure if I installed it properly as the instructions weren't clear in OP or on Play Store.
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I'm sure I've read somewhere in the thread that it doesnt turn off even if it's shown so. the developer is pretty sure about it.
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I'm sure I've read somewhere in the thread that it doesnt turn off even if it's shown so. the developer is pretty sure about it.
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Have you personally tried it? Can't say I've noticed a big difference other than returning to home screen. I'll torture my phone later today to see how big of a difference it makes.
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I installed it this afternoon while using mmontouri's CM7 and there was definitely a noticeable increase in app launch speed. I also noticed animation frames I had never seen before. It may just be psychological but it really appears and feels faster responding. I tried loading a few games to see if there was a speed difference. Plants vs. Zombie's launched considerably faster as did Drag Racing and a couple of the Angry Bird's (hey, I like the Star Wars one!) incarnations. Returning to the home screen is instantaneous, no stuttering back to it like it was before.
The only drawback I've seen so far was the first time Angry Birds Star Wars launched it crashed and hasn't since (in about ten different launches.) I also haven't noticed any significant change (good or bad) in battery life.
Edit: To install, just grab the apk (last link) in the OP and install that. None of the other files are required.
I read the thread linked in the OP, figured out the basic idea, and then did my own spinoff (instead of a precompiled binary I did a small shell script that does the same thing). I also changed the run time to 2 seconds instead of 1. At first glance seems it's possible that it actually does improve certain things. I tried GMaps (not much of a gamer here), the tiles loaded pretty fast (but I could've just been lucky). We'll see how things go in the long run.
Gave this a go on mrom cm7 and saw no difference. Placebo effect I think.
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Holding off on this for now. XDA news has reported that it is mostly placebo and might impact battery life.
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/entropy-seed-generator-not-all-its-hacked-up-to-be/
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Yeah, I can't say I see much improvement either, I'm guessing if it works at all it's mostly for specific use cases. On the other hand, my Atrix seems quite snappy as it is, maybe there's just not much else to do.
I have been using this for a couple of days and it actually improved my battery while I sleep at night... I used wake up with 70% after unplug when I go to bed, now its around 85%. Weird.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhH4Gf8Az5o&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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