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Gallery app constantly reloading

Anyone have issues with their gallery app constantly reloading? I've got about 1100 pictures on my picasa account and about 150 in the camera folder. And some other random ones strung about the phone. But I don't think that's too many, for the phone especially since they don't load alllll of pics at the one time (logically at least). But every time I open the app I don't hardly have time to click on a folder before the screen blacks and it reloads it self....over and over again.
If its a common issues anyone find a good alternative? Preferably one you can share from.
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It is doing that because we only hav 324 mb of ra available to use and we are set to start killing apps at 40 mb free. It will quickly cache and maybe kill your gallery app.
Als your vm heap must be set to 24 instead of 32.
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[Q] How many apps do you have?

Just curious to what the average number of apps a person has installed is.
If I open my app drawer, I have 64 apps.
How many do you have?

64!!!!!!!!!! wow i only have 16 apps that i acctually use on a daily basis and like 3 that i use every once and a while for entertainment

37 including system apps.
But my personal apps total 22.

Monkey Pox said:
Just curious to what the average number of apps a person has installed is.
If I open my app drawer, I have 64 apps.
How many do you have?
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I have 9 full pages, so (9*16) it's 144 and I not counting apps of the day from Amazon that I got but never install. Phone does periodically complains about having low memory space... .

I have 88 apps in total lol
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123 currently loaded in app drawer = I do not have the Amazon Freebies in there and have not re-installed my 3 Angry Bird versions

Yeah I have 128 in app drawer. Of course some of those are stock apps but I have deleted about 10 stock apps too. I have easily purchased over $100 in apps and there are about 20 that aren't even installed anymore, but just sit in my Market as purchased.

I have 71 total apps
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I think I'm an appaholic. My market history shows 154 downloads, and the Amazon appstore shows another 95 (most just free apps of the day I tried out). The "ALL" catalog on my ADW shows 16 windows of 4 x 4 apps (for 256 installed apps, many of which are system apps).
In my defense, a lot of these are games (most for my kids, but some that I like). I also try out a lot of apps, and those that can be moved to the SD card I just leave on there. I definitely have a lot that I stumbled upon, thought "oh, this would be great to have," and then have never used.

I have 181 apps on my apps drawer. I have some apps on sd card cause o don't have enough room on my phone for them all
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CrfEpic4g said:
64!!!!!!!!!! wow i only have 16 apps that i acctually use on a daily basis and like 3 that i use every once and a while for entertainment
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Look at all this!! It only got worse!
Barebones-ish for the win!

I have 140 including system.. I have about 20 or so frozen tho...
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72 here (including system apps).
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I have a 129 with 28 paid at a cost of $155.00 and I use them all! Although some more than others
Edit: whats more important, is that they all work and they work together with speed and great battery life!

79 including system apps.
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I have 186.

42, sprint bloatware removed.

162 minus bloatware
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100 total. 20paid, 5 gameloft,more in mybackuppro archive
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13paid. 3free. Most used app is root explorer.
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GetJar is giving out 100 free apps

GetJar is giving out 100 paid apps for free. Here is the site to get an idea of what they are offering and the getjar.apk.
Side note: GetJar runs as a service in the background, so what I do is find the app I want, download it and either uninstall or "freeze" it to stop the service from running and eating my data/battery [see my guide for more detail on this].
Have fun and happy downloading (and unlike the Market sale, there are actually some utility/productivity apps included).
GetJar is offering over 100 paid Android apps for free! To compete against Google’s 10 Billion App Downloads promotion and Amazon’s “One Paid App for free everyday“, GetJar has come out with its own offering which is better than both the Google’s official Android market and Amazon’s app market.
Usually when offers like this come about the apps are quite crap, this is not the case with GetJar’s deal. Some notable apps which are being offered for free are Paper Camera, TweetCaster Pro, They Need To Be Fed, Splashtop Remote Desktop and more.
All you have to do to access the free apps is download GetJar for your mobile by hitting this url into your mobile phone browser - m.getjar.com/gold
You can check out all the apps available here - GetJar have very nicely laid out all the apps on a side-scrolling type page.
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Source: http://theultralinx.com/2011/12/100-paid-android-apps-free-getjar-gold.html

Thanks for this I just got some nice apps for free!! But where did you get all 100? I don't think it shows a 100 on that website or in the app
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Just what I read in the source site. First line says Getjar gives 100 away. Glad you got some good ones.

hmmm Word Up!
Getjar giving away stuff...how novel!
What they do not tell you is that their crappy app runs constantly in the background! Unlike amazon or android market Getjar is a real battery drain!
With our poor vibrants battery life being what it is, I personally would rather keep it "alive" longer for other things than scanning getjars web site for news/files.
If they were to change this detail, then it would be worth revisiting untill then not for me.
Hope this helps!

RoxAbout said:
Getjar giving away stuff...how novel!
What they do not tell you is that their crappy app runs constantly in the background! Unlike amazon or android market Getjar is a real battery drain!
With our poor vibrants battery life being what it is, I personally would rather keep it "alive" longer for other things than scanning getjars web site for news/files.
If they were to change this detail, then it would be worth revisiting untill then not for me.
Hope this helps!
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Nice thing is you can remove it after you get the apps you want and you don't need it to run them.

yeah the app itself runs your battery like water... i dont understand why but i uninstalled it after i saw in 5 minutes my battery decreased 10%

Hence my sidenote in the OP about it running as a background service. I've seen that same drain before on other times I have used it. That is why I usually get what I need and then kick the app to the curb.

Just curious are we able to update these apps through the regular Android market
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Just curious are we able to update these apps through the regular Android market
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Usually not. They do get linked to the Market though; so you'll get an update alert. But when you try to update you'll get a message saying you can't because "you didn't pay for the app." A little annoying; but it's true.
Once in a while it does work though. I think I was able to update Paper Camera a while ago.
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Getjar has been been giving free apps for a while now. The sad thing is NO updates.
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iwillkillyou said:
Getjar has been been giving free apps for a while now. The sad thing is NO updates.
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That's the downside when you get apps from Getjar. But their free apps are really good, even better than Amazon appstore.
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Originally Posted by iwillkillyou
Getjar has been been giving free apps for a while now. The sad thing is NO updates.
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That's the downside when you get apps from Getjar. But their free apps are really good, even better than Amazon appstore.
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Exactly my point... u miss out on new features on updates. Its a good way of previewing apps before u buy though.
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I got a few apps the other day and none of them are showing up in my Market. I'm not new to GetJar, I know they aren't going to update, but I've been having problems with my phone and would like to know if this is happening to anyone else.

Been using it for about 6 months now and there have been some real good apps.
try redownloading the apps once an update is shown in Market.
Sometimes it takes them a while but they do update the versions in GetJar.
cheers

Best facebook app for our tf101

Trying to figure out which one you guys feel is the best for our tf101. What do you think?
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I use friendcaster. It might not be perfect but this is much better than the official Facebook application. The official is very slow and is pretty useless in low network connectivity condition.
Gabriel

Since all of the browsers and apps are terribly glitchy for me, the best solution is using Splashtop HD to remote desktop my computer and view from there... Rather roundabout but it's fast and Doesn't Glitch!

I think there are three real tablet Facebook apps:
FaceDroid (paid app)
Friend Me
Friendcaster.
I'd say Friendcaster is the best one, gives you a very nice Facebook experience with all needed features and a nice UI, plus good widgets.

Definitely not the Facebook app! Too clunky
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Arjoma said:
I think there are three real tablet Facebook apps:
FaceDroid (paid app)
Friend Me
Friendcaster.
I'd say Friendcaster is the best one, gives you a very nice Facebook experience with all needed features and a nice UI, plus good widgets.
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how is that facedroid app? I heard its pretty good as well. Anyone have any experience with it?
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I like facedroid,but I think that fbm is better . But with facedroid if you have a problem or find a bug and report it to the developer, he will E-mail you back within a couple of hours on how to fix your problem or within a week or so you will see an update that fixes that bug.So the great support is worth the money alone.But it does show those pesky game updates in the feed like anyone needs to see that jeff married his cousin on farm ville.Without the games in the feed it would be the best fb app in my opinion.
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gideo said:
I like facedroid,but I think that fbm is better . But with facedroid if you have a problem or find a bug and report it to the developer, he will E-mail you back within a couple of hours on how to fix your problem or within a week or so you will see an update that fixes that bug.So the great support is worth the money alone.But it does show those pesky game updates in the feed like anyone needs to see that jeff married his cousin on farm ville.Without the games in the feed it would be the best fb app in my opinion.
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hmmm interesting. What is fbm btw? Anyone else give a +1 to facedroid? Gideo how is the UI compared to friendcaster?
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I've never tried friendcaster,but the UI is pretty clean,and fbm has a nearly identical look to the official fb app with the ability to upload pics and post YouTube links and has notification,but it does not crash,and when you open it it just works....best part is when you turn it off it is off and does not use 30 to 50mb of ram all the time like official fb app.
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Use the default facebook app or facebook website if you want to see all your friend's posts.
Use third-party apps if you don't mind missing posts, but like the customization.
Remember, third party apps can be blocked by your friends so they not only see your posts, but you don't see theirs either.
Unfortunately, the stock Facebook app is a memory hog, but it works.
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EP2008 said:
Use the default facebook app or facebook website if you want to see all your friend's posts.
Use third-party apps if you don't mind missing posts, but like the customization.
Remember, third party apps can be blocked by your friends so they not only see your posts, but you don't see theirs either.
Unfortunately, the stock Facebook app is a memory hog, but it works.
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Not only is it a memory hog but it kills sleep eating up your battery. So get your friends to allow 3rd party apps to see their posts.
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I've been looking for one too that works 100%, I love the look of Friendcaster Pro and have been using it for 6+ months but it screws up a lot and either doesn't post my comments/status updates or when I try and load something it will be like "Friendcaster received an invalid response from Facebook". The notification Window annoys me on the official app because it's so tiny and only shows about three or four things, not to mention I still can't figure out how to share things from it. Is it even possible to do so?
I'll give Facedroid a try and see how it is.
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pierrekid said:
Trying to figure out which one you guys feel is the best for our tf101. What do you think?
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Friendcaster is good.
Using Firefox beta (v14) with agent set as Desktop/ipad is also good enough. (Desktop-like interface)

Stock rom gets ridiculously slow when having lots of apps installed

It seems that stock rom goes smooth for the first months after buying the phone or wiping, but as you get a handful of apps installed soon you'll get LOTS of lag, especially on UIs, even when overclocked at 2 GHz on performance governor. Currently got 60 mbs left on internal memory and usually got 100 mbs of 'free' memory on average (cached memory fills it almost fully). Anyone?
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Use Link2SD to free up internal storage. Also, stop unnecessary services from starting on boot with Autostarts. Voila

jacklebott said:
Use Link2SD to free up internal storage. Also, stop unnecessary services from starting on boot with Autostarts. Voila
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Tried that, and that. Even supercharged it. The problem is that the UIs often drop below, say 20 fps, like it's struggling to do something. For example, the Go Launcher's app drawer almost literally struggles when sliding your finger, and when taking a photo it may take up to 20 seconds to load it up, even when the microsd card I use is a class ten and I've made the sdcard cache speed tweak thingy. It only runs smooth when I don't have many apps installed, currently 9 4x4 pages of apps (about 136 apps)
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Maybe it's just your phone. Mine's running just fine, and I've installed plenty of apps.
Also, I highly advise against running at 2GHz

jacklebott said:
Maybe it's just your phone. Mine's running just fine, and I've installed plenty of apps.
Also, I highly advise against running at 2GHz
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I guess I'm going to wipe and enjoy smoothness for another few months. If it is just my phone, I would burst into rage.
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My phone does the same thing, and I always thought it might have been an issue with the 2.3.3 .ftf I was using
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Same here.
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DanielEGVi said:
It seems that stock rom goes smooth for the first months after buying the phone or wiping, but as you get a handful of apps installed soon you'll get LOTS of lag, especially on UIs, even when overclocked at 2 GHz on performance governor. Currently got 60 mbs left on internal memory and usually got 100 mbs of 'free' memory on average (cached memory fills it almost fully). Anyone?
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Really? I'm on stock with 280 apps and an alt UI with no tweaks and it seems my entire YouTube channel thinks my Xperia Play's on drugs for being so smooth.