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Apologies if this has been covered before, found these settings on another website (http://smartmobileassets.com/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b=winmobile,m=1132411511)
Have they been tried and do they make any difference?
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\FATFS\CacheSize=0x1000(4096)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\FATFS\EnableCache=0x1(1)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\Filters\fsreplxfilt\ReplStoreCacheSize=0x1000(4096)
Yes they work!
Yes they work beautiful on my Jasjar, the device is noticeable faster in all the applications.
Thank you!
Rodrigo Gonzalez
Cache settings, hum... how safe is this?? I take the chance and test them
Morituri said:
Apologies if this has been covered before, found these settings on another website (http://smartmobileassets.com/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b=winmobile,m=1132411511)
Have they been tried and do they make any difference?
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\FATFS\CacheSize=0x1000(4096)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\FATFS\EnableCache=0x1(1)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\Filters\fsreplxfilt\ReplStoreCacheSize=0x1000(4096)
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hi. please could you tell me is i need to insert the full value "0x1000(4096)" or only one of them? thank you,
Just one, one is the Hex Value the other is the decimal
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Just one, one is the Hex Value the other is the decimal
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so for ex in hex 0x1000
sorry but registry is like crystal...
Just one, one is the Hex Value the other is the decimal
Yes, "0x1000" in Hex is identical to "4096" in decimal. Put whichever one you want into the relevant registry entry.
I've messed about with these registry settings too, but in all honesty I haven't noticed any difference in performance....
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but in all honesty I haven't noticed any difference in performance....
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me too...
But as darkdestroyer says in the other sites forum...
Yes i've done this since it was first released on Aximsite by another member. At first I had 8 mb allocated, but i guess 4 is the best number. The PDA right after a soft reboot is still the same speed, but after you have all of the shortcut's/programs run once, they will be put into ram and the following run's of those same programs/shortcuts will be much much faster. This is indeed a great find and should be standard with WM5
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No changes in the performance of the device.
The only change is battery draining faster than the original settings.
I've done these changes before and had to reflash the ROM again to my device.
I don't see any need to make these changes, and I don't advise any one to do them.
Regards,
These registry settings have been reported to increase performance by many users on different forums, some using the Dell Axim x51v ,BA users and even some Universal users and are even incorporated into tweaks2k2. My advice is to try them for yourself and make sure the changes are actually being applied after a soft reset and then perform some tasks on your device (see the post by Carnivor) and then make your own judgement. No one so far has reported any negative impact apart from a small reduction in program memory. The changes can always be reversed if needed.
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But as darkdestroyer says in the other sites forum...
Yes i've done this since it was first released on Aximsite by another member. At first I had 8 mb allocated, but i guess 4 is the best number. The PDA right after a soft reboot is still the same speed, but after you have all of the shortcut's/programs run once, they will be put into ram and the following run's of those same programs/shortcuts will be much much faster. This is indeed a great find and should be standard with WM5
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Erm... so is this registry tweak adding cache memory to the system for running applications then? So that .exes or .dlls that are loaded when a program is run are available more quickly to the system next time they're needed?
If so (and I can't quite believe that this could be the case ), are we now recommending that we allow programs to stay resident in memory to speed up the machine?
... much like the standard PocketPC "Minimise, not close" behaviour that people seem to hate so much?
LMFAO if so! (and please tell me I'm wrong if not! )
SiliconS,
You are absolutely wright.
The proof is that after making the registery editing the application when opened for the first time it does not open on a faster way than the original settings, but when you open it for the second time it opens faster that the first time.
The appications remain opened in the phone memory and reduces the devices memory and the battery life as well.
Microsoft's WM5 development team must be LTFAO when they read stuff like this. People spend hours complaining and looking for ways of forcing the system to properly close apps using MagicButton or PocketPlus, and complain when their WM5 machine runs slow.
Then someone comes along offering a way of speeding things up by caching programs and files in memory!!
Am I the only person who thinks this is utterly bizarre?
Oh, man. MS must be laughing at us. :shock:
(No offence intended to anybody - I'm just amused by this. )
So, if you are running something like GSPocketMagic, Magic Button, etc, which actually close applications properly, all you are doing is reducing the amount of memory available to run programs with no gain whatsoever?
Well I made the changes and found no improvement in speed, but it was worth a try. In the light of what has been said, I'd like to change back the settings, but can't remember what they were!!!!!
Can someone post up the original values please
Here they are:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\FATFS\CacheSize=0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\FATFS\EnableCache=1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\Filters\fsreplxfilt\ReplStoreCacheSize=0
Many thanks - all sorted
Guys, these registry hacks work! If you haven't been able to get them to work you may have missed a step or two.
First of all, Windows Mobile 5 already holds running information in the RAM, so these tweaks do not truly change that but they do enhance it to make the WM5 device runs MUCH better.
I've have had a TON of people comment and e-mail me about these changes both on my site and many others about how well these tweaks work. In fact, I don't think that the developer of Tweaks2k2 would include that in his latest version if it didn't work.
Couple things; you have to either cycle the power on your WM5 device or do a soft reset from a software app only! Cycling the power will write anything in RAM to ROM, in this case the registry settings you have just changed. If cycling does not work you should soft reset your device using a software app. I think there are a couple free apps to do that but you can also use SPB's Pocket Plus or others. If you just hit the reset button on the back after making the changes it soft resets right away without writing RAM content to ROM.
You can check this by looking at your registry settings after a soft reset to see if the changes took.
I have still noticed that sometime after a reset my device will still run slowly but it isn't because of these changes. In fact, most of the time it is perfectly fine and MUCH better than it was before the changes. MUCH!
Be sure to also turn off error reporting and do the activesync hack to keep those from draining battery and you should do well.
Again, many have made these changes and seen a very significant improvement in performance.
I've been using it for two weeks and I love this little machine!
However, I sometimes find it quite slow (I usually open two apps at the same time) and turn on Wi-fi and GPRS.
Anybody can share your experience on how to optimize your Shift / Vista?
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Anybody can share your experience on how to optimize your Shift / Vista?
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sure, one of the plans of shift project is to collect shift specific and also non specific tweaks to vista
I'm still on my little holiday but ltxda is looking into that
here's some generic ones though common sense will already tell you, but just in case:
- disable stupid services - though HTC already did some of that work, still worth checking that out. funny thing here: shagctrl relies on windows audio so leave those services alone.
- disable window animations, the vista theme itself doesn't require much resources but any kind of animation and other vista fluff will have a serious impact on GUI performance.
- disable any other features in control panel that you don't need. I heartily recommend you check out all advanced settings too
- remove all useless tray icons and startup services / other startup apps
- use apps that are light on resources - my preferred email and IM clients are such programs, also opera is a bit faster than the default IE7... definitely faster than firefox 2 (sorry).
that way I get 500MB free ram easily and near 3 hours on battery with some wifi usage.
ofcourse the ultimate optimization is ... snapvue
Hi Cmonex,
500mb of RAM free eh? i'd love that... best i've got is about 400mb... is there any chance you could embellish the above a bit more and give us a bit more detail of what you did please?
Thanks!
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- disable stupid services -
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The chalence there for me is that I have no idea what service I need an witch I don't. I am clueless about what exactly they do...
Could you list the ones that you disabled? and what they normaly do?
greetz,
Pfeffa-rah
Check here - http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=513758
for a very useful post on which services do what, and whether they are safe to disable.
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Check here - http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=513758
for a very useful post on which services do what, and whether they are safe to disable.
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Great Thanks!
That is a big list! Just what I asked for. Thanks
Just for info, I found that by typing 'disable vista services' into Google.
Google really is your best friend.
Lots of people I know think that I know everything about computers - I don't (yet ) but I do know that Google knows all. All you need to know is how to ask the question.
There is an excellent tutorial on getting the best from Google here.
note - I'm not having a dig at anyone with this post, just thought some might find the info useful.
I guess you're right...
Thx for googling for me.
Hello my beloved Community!
Since Sunday, I'm a proud owner of the new Leo. The device is just overwhelming and beat all my expectations! The thing that surprised me most is the battery life that is more than enough for me. That's why I thought... If power saving is not an issue, then why not go in the other direction... squeezing as much RAW POWER and SPEED from my device? Yeah, thats what turns me on!!! Generally I'm happy with the performance, but theres always room for improovement as engineers say. For example the weather animations are usually glitchy (they werent on my previous Diamond2). I've already tried several performance tweaks, but they don't seem to improove anything. Those were:
-Touch X Leo turbo
-performance tweaks from BsB Tweaks
-performance tweaks from Leo Hints&Tips thread(CaheSize)
-Chainfire D3D Drivers
As stated before, they dont seem to improove anything. That's why I'm searching for other ones. The ideal situation would be if this thread became a comprehensive PERFORMANCE-ONLY tweaks database.
By the way... There were some drivers for improving SDcard reading times for older devices (SDTuneUP) but they screw my Leo up. Is there an alternative or new version for them, or maybe its not needed anymore?
Thanks in advance for any new PERFORMANCE-ONLY tweaks!
jgal said:
Hello my beloved Community!
Since Sunday, I'm a proud owner of the new Leo. The device is just overwhelming and beat all my expectations! The thing that surprised me most is the battery life that is more than enough for me. That's why I thought... If power saving is not an issue, then why not go in the other direction... squeezing as much RAW POWER and SPEED from my device? Yeah, thats what turns me on!!! Generally I'm happy with the performance, but theres always room for improovement as engineers say. For example the weather animations are usually glitchy (they werent on my previous Diamond2). I've already tried several performance tweaks, but they don't seem to improove anything. Those were:
-Touch X Leo turbo
-performance tweaks from BsB Tweaks
-performance tweaks from Leo Hints&Tips thread(CaheSize)
-Chainfire D3D Drivers
As stated before, they dont seem to improove anything. That's why I'm searching for other ones. The ideal situation would be if this thread became a comprehensive PERFORMANCE-ONLY tweaks database.
By the way... There were some drivers for improving SDcard reading times for older devices (SDTuneUP) but they screw my Leo up. Is there an alternative or new version for them, or maybe its not needed anymore?
Thanks in advance for any new PERFORMANCE-ONLY tweaks!
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the cache tweaks probably don't work.. most of them were designed for much older devices.. personally I think the cache at 0 works best on 6.5 roms.
I don't think you need to tweak the sdcard, but if there's a way I've not found it yet.
use my wifi - n for faster net access.
if you don't think chainfires drivers make things better then there's not much anyone can do for you I'm afraid,
try the 148 rom. it's a bit quicker than 143 and manila is a bit more responsive
Yeah I've heard the 148 ROM is faster but I still have to wait until it becomes available for my location:/ But Im confused with, for example, these weather animation glitches. Is this normal? Does anyone else experience it? As for the D3D drivers, as far as I understand, making Manila faster is not their main goal, am I right? So You suggest I should try changing the Cache size to 0 ???
As for the WiFi N tweak - I think it is the only one that really does a noticeable difference
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Yeah I've heard the 148 ROM is faster but I still have to wait until it becomes available for my location:/ But Im confused with, for example, these weather animation glitches. Is this normal? Does anyone else experience it? As for the D3D drivers, as far as I understand, making Manila faster is not their main goal, am I right? So You suggest I should try changing the Cache size to 0 ???
As for the WiFi N tweak - I think it is the only one that really does a noticeable difference
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1. no I don't have glitches.
2. TURN the caching stuff (Glyph and HDD) on. Leave the file filter disabled. They STILL make a difference because WM 6.5 isn't that much different to WM 6.1. It's just the difference is less noticable because the HD2 is so powerful. I've used the same tweaks on Custom WM 6.5.x beta builds on the Touch HD and they still make a difference in performance
3. Install those Chainfire drivers. You won't notice the performance increase until you start playing tower defense / flight commander / NFS... then you'll thank him.
EDIT: I think now the only other way to improve performance is Custom ROMS. Be patient and wait for HardSPL to be done for the HD2... then go custom!
aussiebum said:
1. no I don't have glitches.
2. TURN the caching stuff (Glyph and HDD) on. Leave the file filter disabled.
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So one more question... What is HDD and where is that file filter?
The thing that came to my mind is that I remember my Diamond2 to be also glitchy out of the box, untill Ive done a hard reset. I guess hard reset is a good practice for all new out of the box devices.
I guess as for now I'll wait for the 148 ROM and see what it brings, I wont be doing a hard reset untill then.
One more thing... I remember that there was a set of tools for the Diamond that killed some useless system processes that freed up memory. Ive noticed there are quite a lot of processes running on my Leo. So maybe is there something similar for Leo?
Hi all,
My ram is always sitting around 76% usage. Is this normal? After I use the cleanram, it will clean it to about 73% usage. And for example, when i open Opera mobile 10, it will be at around 89% usage. I have a tilt 2 by the way.
thanks in advance!!
Nausicaaa
Nausicaaa said:
Hi all,
My ram is always sitting around 76% usage. Is this normal? After I use the cleanram, it will clean it to about 73% usage. And for example, when i open Opera mobile 10, it will be at around 89% usage. I have a tilt 2 by the way.
thanks in advance!!
Nausicaaa
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which rom are you using?
My Tilt2 used to run +75%. From what I read, some programs take up memory even after being closed out. I did some more searching and installed the Dynamic Resource Proxy and No Push Internet cabs from here. Now I run in the 50-60% range.
I am using the stock tilt 2 rom from AT&T. What does the dynamic resource proxy do?
Thanks!
Hi jcterry, nvm, i just read the forum you linked. Thanks alot for the help! If anyone have any other ideas to get the ram down or if my nam usage at76% is about normal let me know so i dont worry hehe
thanks all
From the "research" that I have done, the high RAM is normal. If you disable the TF3D, obviously it will drop even more (to around 37%). You can also soft reset periodically. When I do that, I start off with 49% but eventually it will go up. I haven't noticed any perfomance issues, so I haven't worried about it.
Nausicaaa said:
Hi all,
My ram is always sitting around 76% usage. Is this normal? After I use the cleanram, it will clean it to about 73% usage. And for example, when i open Opera mobile 10, it will be at around 89% usage. I have a tilt 2 by the way.
thanks in advance!!
Nausicaaa
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That depends a lot on the ROM you are using, normally a stock ROM comes with a lot of garbage on it and makes it more heavy RAM usage.
I would recommend to flash to a cooked ROM, but if you prefer to stay with stock, try to eliminate all the stuff you don´t use.
And don´t forget to vote for Rhodium!!
Nausicaaa said:
Hi jcterry, nvm, i just read the forum you linked. Thanks alot for the help! If anyone have any other ideas to get the ram down or if my nam usage at76% is about normal let me know so i dont worry hehe
thanks all
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You should install CleanRAM if you haven't already.
This is one of a number of threads along a similar line I've read on this forum and that I don't understand.
What I don't understand is why having xx% used RAM is a problem. I mean if you have error messages that say there's not enough free RAM then fair enough but why would it matter otherwise ?
For some unkown reason there's a limit on the number of processes that are allowed to run (by the power of M$) so having some RAM cleaning software running constantly will only limit what else you can run.
If it"s not broken ........
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This is one of a number of threads along a similar line I've read on this forum and that I don't understand.
What I don't understand is why having xx% used RAM is a problem. I mean if you have error messages that say there's not enough free RAM then fair enough but why would it matter otherwise ?
For some unkown reason there's a limit on the number of processes that are allowed to run (by the power of M$) so having some RAM cleaning software running constantly will only limit what else you can run.
If it"s not broken ........
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Things can and frequently do run slower/sluggish/laggy when memory is heavily full even before there's an error message.
This is true, but with 25% free I'm not sure that that's the case here.
And having another process running in the background will defo slow things down, esp when it's active. And seeing as there's a limit on the number of processes you're "allowed" to run I don't think having a RAM cleaner contantly running is a good plan.
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Things can and frequently do run slower/sluggish/laggy when memory is heavily full even before there's an error message.
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... my case ... apparently WM 6.5 (the new ROM, stock in my case) is much more of a memory hog than 6.1. I have had to become used to the phone freezing during and especially immediately after calls are finished.
One possible explanation could be that I have Auto Call Record installed and running... need to check how it affects RAM
MJ
Of course 6.5 is much more RAM hungry than 6.1
But making the proper tweaks is all about!
have a look on WVGA Tweak (if not installed on your ROM search it) it´s very good tool, as mentioned before
I had the same problem with memory usage. I found the best one to be "Perfect Black" for a cooked ROM. Take a look at some of my other posts. I did some testing with various versions and posted the results for the Rhodium and Raphael.
I get the same thing, too. I found this suggestion by Mighty Mike on ppcgeeks:
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=85716
I tried the registry edit (changing sharememsize), and it seems to have worked. Aside from that, you can also disable TF3D, since it seems to eat up about 20MB.
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I get the same thing, too. I found this suggestion by Mighty Mike on ppcgeeks:
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=85716
I tried the registry edit (changing sharememsize), and it seems to have worked. Aside from that, you can also disable TF3D, since it seems to eat up about 20MB.
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This tweak seems to have worked for me also. So far so good.
Plz. Tricks and mods for a longer lasting battery charge.
There is a few power managment options in "AdvacedConfigTool"(search forum for it) , but I haven't tested it yet.
There are many threads on this topic already........
But generally speaking use advanced configurations tools, diamond tweak and/or SK Tools to change your settings.....
thanks to you for reply
And here some extra reading.........http://winmo.techparaiso.com/3-batt...your-windows-phone-network-backlight-general/
Today I've activated power options from "diamond tweak" - they are same as these in AdvancedConfigTool . Now I'm testing and will tell you in few days if there is an advantage ....
Which options in AdvacedConfigTool are for Power-Saving?
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Which options in AdvacedConfigTool are for Power-Saving?
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Look under "power management".......
Okay.... the question was a bit stupid ;-)....
But, which options are to be recommended without that the system is affected...to become slow or something like that?
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Okay.... the question was a bit stupid ;-)....
But, which options are to be recommended without that the system is affected...to become slow or something like that?
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Well there is no such thing as stupid just "less" experienced and "senior".......and what for you is too slow is good enough for somebody else....
Go to advanced conf tools section performance and choose the advised options per selection......you hardly can go wrong there.
But remember that low energy means less performance and the other way round....
Okay, thx.... i will try it
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Okay, thx.... i will try it
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Let us know the result......
Hey, just a minor info. guess u might already knew but try to set ur phone to "ring" only and change to "vibrate" when u are outside or in a big crowd. It shows a big diff. to my mega as it start the second day with battery still 100% when i changed to ring only. Just try to get loud ringtone. Vibrate just when u are in a club or sumthing.