Related
I just got my Samsung Vibrant 4 days ago. It has a JI6 Elcair (2.1) build. I have done rooting and backups so far. Now I need to decide which ROM to flash. Currently the GPS takes 4-5 minutes to lock, so I would like to improve the GPS functionality. Also I'm confused about this: with a 2.1 system currently on my phone, can I only choose those custom ROMs under 2.1, or can I choose those under 2.2 as well?
Thanks a million!
You ca't go wrong with anything team whiskey puts out. The great thing is you can try them all out. And yes you can go from 2. 1 to 2. 2.
Look at my signature to see the combo I use.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App
Take a look in this survey and choose yourself
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=962190
badaphooko01 said:
You ca't go wrong with anything team whiskey puts out. The great thing is you can try them all out. And yes you can go from 2. 1 to 2. 2.
Look at my signature to see the combo I use.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ditto... Bionix is a beast and theres plenty of themes for it, and I did the jump 2.1 straight to bionix V with no issues at all gps works great too
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App
to tell you the truth...depends on your taste....
like if you want it to look good and stuff with decent performance. go with trigger or something by the einherjar team and jallete.
now if you want mad speed and performance but stock themes go with team whiskey stuff
last if you want good performance and decent visuals go with axura
p.s. It's my opinion and im not insulting anyone or any of our developers... they all rock it just depends on ur taste
Trigger combines beauty and speed.
I push everyone to Trigger.. I added back the KB1 though, I prefer it over KA7.
I just flashed to Bionix now. Everything was smooth except for one problem: none of the 3rd-party applications I installed before are seen now under titanium backup (I thought I backed them up). How can I restore them? Are they lost?
Menu > batch > restore missing apps
s15274n said:
Menu > batch > restore missing apps
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Didn't find those app's there. Maybe I didn't back up those app's! Big mistake...
If you dont recall backing them up, then yes... good chance.
Make sure you dont have a filter on (menu > Filter)
Open app
hit menu -> preferences
scroll down to backup folder name, hit that
rename that from TitaniumBackup -> external_sd/TitaniumBackup, hit OK
exit out of app and reopen it
are your apps back at this point? check batch and run restore missing apps?
mj56gt said:
Didn't find those app's there. Maybe I didn't back up those app's! Big mistake...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The exact same thing happened to me, after backing up an app I uninstalled it rebooted and tried restoring it, it just kept saying zero applications need restoring even tho the applications were clearly not installed AND they were in the titanium back up folder.... Backed up using astro instead. Much more reliable in my opinion
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App
i think Bionix-v 1.2.1 is a good choice
mj56gt said:
I just flashed to Bionix now. Everything was smooth except for one problem: none of the 3rd-party applications I installed before are seen now under titanium backup (I thought I backed them up). How can I restore them? Are they lost?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It's possible that there is a problem with busybox in Titanium. From the main Titanium screen, click the box at the bottom that says "problems?" and follow prompts.
I just flashed nero 5 and it is fast. Snappy Fast! I downloaded the gps restore app from market and it seems to be working fine for me.
I love axura and all the pretty themes but I must say nero 5 won me over with keeping touchwiz and having uber speed preformance.
Does anyone know the speed on it, since a lot of my high read apps have huge issues with my transformer. I wanted to also know if there was anyway to point or force them to run off my class 10 card I got in it.
Its not a hard drive, its NAND flash memory and it should be as quick or quicker than your SD card
ryan stewart said:
Its not a hard drive, its NAND flash memory and it should be as quick or quicker than your SD card
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Weird, for some reason my tablet seems to be getting slower and it's driving me nuts. Now I am not sure if it's the custom rom or not, maybe I should just say nuts to it and get rid of root and reload the stock rom.
Is there a way to test the read wright speed so I can double check?
RiffyDivine said:
Weird, for some reason my tablet seems to be getting slower and it's driving me nuts. Now I am not sure if it's the custom rom or not, maybe I should just say nuts to it and get rid of root and reload the stock rom.
Is there a way to test the read wright speed so I can double check?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Do you have a task killer running? If you do, then that's most likely the culprit.
hauj0bb said:
Do you have a task killer running? If you do, then that's most likely the culprit.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Nope, the biggest issues are when just pictures or chandroid is running. They move fine but slow to a crippled crawl in a bit, as for a task killer I don't have any unless it comes stock off the custom rom.
Honestly it is annoying as hell when it gets to a craw and then force close over and over.
RiffyDivine said:
Nope, the biggest issues are when just pictures or chandroid is running. They move fine but slow to a crippled crawl in a bit, as for a task killer I don't have any unless it comes stock off the custom rom.
Honestly it is annoying as hell when it gets to a craw and then force close over and over.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sounds like it's just a bad app?
hauj0bb said:
Sounds like it's just a bad app?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No, they both work fine on my nook and my hd2 and my other tablet. It's just the newest one I got (ie the transformer) that I started to notice the issue. I worked with the dev from chandroid and we tried everything and he said as he looked over the crash report that there was nothing wrong with the app.
On the stock build of OS, he said it was an issue being caused by splashtop stuff. Is there anyway to rip every program out by the core needed to run and let me add them one at a time to test?
RiffyDivine said:
No, they both work fine on my nook and my hd2 and my other tablet. It's just the newest one I got (ie the transformer) that I started to notice the issue. I worked with the dev from chandroid and we tried everything and he said as he looked over the crash report that there was nothing wrong with the app.
On the stock build of OS, he said it was an issue being caused by splashtop stuff. Is there anyway to rip every program out by the core needed to run and let me add them one at a time to test?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If you're rooted, you should just be able to uninstall stuff with Titanium Backup.. but make sure you backup the app first.
hauj0bb said:
If you're rooted, you should just be able to uninstall stuff with Titanium Backup.. but make sure you backup the app first.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Aye, I got root. I was hoping to find out if there was a rom that was just barebones. So more or less do a full backup and then pull them all out and test it one at a time? I can just do a backup in clockwork mod.
I am just reaching a head with being annoying and asking for help.
RiffyDivine said:
Aye, I got root. I was hoping to find out if there was a rom that was just barebones. So more or less do a full backup and then pull them all out and test it one at a time? I can just do a backup in clockwork mod.
I am just reaching a head with being annoying and asking for help.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah, I'm not aware of a super barebones rom. Full backup and uninstall one by one is what I would do.
hauj0bb said:
Yeah, I'm not aware of a super barebones rom. Full backup and uninstall one by one is what I would do.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
What is the best way to remove anything/everything? Cause if I got it backed up and if I blow the OS I can just do a recovery.
The easiest way would be to freeze the app with titanium backup, you could also just manually rename it or delete it.
RiffyDivine said:
No, they both work fine on my nook and my hd2 and my other tablet. It's just the newest one I got (ie the transformer) that I started to notice the issue. I worked with the dev from chandroid and we tried everything and he said as he looked over the crash report that there was nothing wrong with the app.
On the stock build of OS, he said it was an issue being caused by splashtop stuff. Is there anyway to rip every program out by the core needed to run and let me add them one at a time to test?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Is the nook running honeycomb?
ryan stewart said:
Is the nook running honeycomb?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I believe so.
RiffyDivine said:
I believe so.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Should be obvious. Does it look and act identical to the transformer?
Once thing I have found is that apps can run well on older versions of android but have issues with honeycomb. Like cut the rope, it crashes and is slower to load on the tablet but blazes on my evo. Asked the dev and he said its not yet developed for honeycomb.
My TFs internal memory is plenty fast.
Just root it without someones Rom. Stock would be your goal to see if a Rom affects it.
Watchdog from the market would help. It would show you what apps are running and how much they are using the Cpu
When I use Dolphin HD or Pad I can see when it's hanging up...not loading the page then..it dies lol freaking apps.
ryan stewart said:
Should be obvious. Does it look and act identical to the transformer?
Once thing I have found is that apps can run well on older versions of android but have issues with honeycomb. Like cut the rope, it crashes and is slower to load on the tablet but blazes on my evo. Asked the dev and he said its not yet developed for honeycomb.
My TFs internal memory is plenty fast.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It wasn't obvious cause I wasn't at home. Yes it is running 3.0 it's a stable honeycomb build but I never use the nook much if at all.
DilloDroid said:
Just root it without someones Rom. Stock would be your goal to see if a Rom affects it.
Watchdog from the market would help. It would show you what apps are running and how much they are using the Cpu
When I use Dolphin HD or Pad I can see when it's hanging up...not loading the page then..it dies lol freaking apps.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I will try that, honestly I just want a way to see what's going on with it. I am not sure if it's using all the memory or what with all the images it loads. Since my problems always come from mass images loading.
Possibly just eating up your RAM then - the SSD shouldn't be (that) active if it's image loading and not saving.
Kireas said:
Possibly just eating up your RAM then - the SSD shouldn't be (that) active if it's image loading and not saving.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Well like with just pictures, it's a big display of thumbnails for viewing your images. I know it can cashe the data to make it faster but that just seems to make it slower, as for chandroid the longer I use it the slower it gets. So maybe it's not purging old data?
Hey all:
I have been traveling on business all week, and was just wondering if there was new news about GB being in the playbook this week? I have a feeling if it were, it would be top of the forum, but just in case it is in a "unobvious" thread, I thought I would ask.
Here is my next question. My Samsung Epic is completely stock, except for being rooted. I have noticed it is really slow when switching to the home screen, and switching to and from apps. It is ESPECIALLY slow when bringing up the TwLauncher sometimes. I have tried clearing data on the TwLauncher to see if there was corruption, but same thing. I have about 110 apps installed on my phone, and all of the apps that can be moved to the SD card are already there.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Milkman00 said:
Hey all:
I have been traveling on business all week, and was just wondering if there was new news about GB being in the playbook this week? I have a feeling if it were, it would be top of the forum, but just in case it is in a "unobvious" thread, I thought I would ask.
Here is my next question. My Samsung Epic is completely stock, except for being rooted. I have noticed it is really slow when switching to the home screen, and switching to and from apps. It is ESPECIALLY slow when bringing up the TwLauncher sometimes. I have tried clearing data on the TwLauncher to see if there was corruption, but same thing. I have about 110 apps installed on my phone, and all of the apps that can be moved to the SD card are already there.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No, and what is the question on the second one?
No news on GB.
Other question....your homescreens are taking longer because it takes longer to access and find all the apps on your sd card. SD card access is slower so the more apps on it the more it will slow down. Clean some apps off your homescreen that are on the sd card that you don't use and see if that speeds it up a little.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App
ouch. I had a feeling this was the case. Let me ask this.
I have the stock SD card in my phone (class 4 I think). If I bought a class 10, is the phone capable of utilizing those faster speeds, and would I notice the difference?
Milkman00 said:
Hey all:
I have been traveling on business all week, and was just wondering if there was new news about GB being in the playbook this week? I have a feeling if it were, it would be top of the forum, but just in case it is in a "unobvious" thread, I thought I would ask.
Here is my next question. My Samsung Epic is completely stock, except for being rooted. I have noticed it is really slow when switching to the home screen, and switching to and from apps. It is ESPECIALLY slow when bringing up the TwLauncher sometimes. I have tried clearing data on the TwLauncher to see if there was corruption, but same thing. I have about 110 apps installed on my phone, and all of the apps that can be moved to the SD card are already there.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
1. No news
2. You are running out of memory.
No, I had a class 10 card (recently got corrupted and I changed back to the included Samsung sd card) and I still had this issue.
I've heard that the biggest reason we see this issue with the home screen is because the Epic uses the RTS (murderous) file system. As you are rooted, I believe you can search for the solution someone had that puts a 1GB swap space on the SD card that uses EXT4.
This is interesting.
I wonder if a Class 10 card would help if the swap file is on the SD. I almost wish I would have installed the stock ROM without the bloatware, as I think that would also help my situation, since my internal memory is down to around 60 megs...
hmmmmm.
Milkman00 said:
Hey all:
I have been traveling ......... ask.
Here is my next question. My Samsung Epic is completely stock, except for being rooted. I have noticed it is really slow when switching to the home screen, and switching to and from apps. It is ESPECIALLY slow when bringing up the TwLauncher sometimes. I have tried clearing data on the TwLauncher to see if there was corruption, but same thing. I have about 110 apps installed on my phone, and all of the apps that can be moved to the SD card are already there.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I have 140 apps and 98% of those are on my SD card - the other 2% that "can" go on the SD card, I don't move because those apps are in folders on my home screens and if moved to the SD card, on next boot the icons change to a default Android icon instead of the normal app icon.
With that being said, I am stock and rooted like you except that I have a kernel so I can overclock my cpu. My phone is fast and stable in every way and so is my wife's epic which I have set up almost the same way - I have no problems with speed in switching or opening apps.
I would try overclocking but stay stock IMHO.
mouseglider said:
I have 140 apps and 98% of those are on my SD card - the other 2% that "can" go on the SD card, I don't move because those apps are in folders on my home screens and if moved to the SD card, on next boot the icons change to a default Android icon instead of the normal app icon.
With that being said, I am stock and rooted like you except that I have a kernel so I can overclock my cpu. My phone is fast and stable in every way and so is my wife's epic which I have set up almost the same way - I have no problems with speed in switching or opening apps.
I would try overclocking but stay stock IMHO.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Can you point me to a good way to do this? Do you find that OC affects your battery life??? Mine is terrible.
senecarr said:
No, I had a class 10 card (recently got corrupted and I changed back to the included Samsung sd card) and I still had this issue.
I've heard that the biggest reason we see this issue with the home screen is because the Epic uses the RTS (murderous) file system. As you are rooted, I believe you can search for the solution someone had that puts a 1GB swap space on the SD card that uses EXT4.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I think you mean RFS. And yes, some people worship ext4.
But really op? 110 apps?! I have 25...
Wipe data and flash SRF
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App
marcusant said:
Wipe data and flash SRF
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I dread doing this. I use two paid backup programs (Titanium and MyBackup).
Neither of them seem to backup the actual data that the applications use. What do I mean by that? I am talking about the saved login information for an app, as well as preferences, etc. It is never as easy as it should be.
Milkman00 said:
Can you point me to a good way to do this? Do you find that OC affects your battery life??? Mine is terrible.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I would only do the kernel and not a rom yet, baby steps! Read the OP at least 3 times so you can understand.
Make sure you make a nandroid before you try this, just in case somethings goes wrong. When overclocking, don't mess with undervolting until everything is stable, then baby steps.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=961614
I run exactly whats in my signature. I have duplicated the same setup on my wife's phone with the exception that I keep hers clocked no higher than 1.3ghz. Where I float back and forth between 1.3ghz and 1.4ghz, because I am testing battery life. I get as good or better on battery life and a snappier phone on 1.3ghz and a little less battery at 1.4ghz, but that is only when I play a game at 1.4ghz. Under normal daily usage, I would still have to give the edge in battery life to 1.3ghz, but 1.4ghz sure is fast!
I have the free version of Titanium Backup and my App Data restores perfectly.
I'm thinking same as one of the other posters, more than one instance of your apps are killing your ram, what I do is chop down on apps, and look at what apps are running under processes. Remember that out of those 110 apps you have installed, not every single one has optimized programming code, so in theory, half of those are making new bugs that your phone has to bitterly endure. For titanium backup I do batch restore apps+data. Maybe you're just not restoring right. There's so many options that I find it possible. Imo opinion, I don't reccommend OC if you want battery life and for your epic's overall life to end sooner. As for gingerbread news nothing new yet, but it'll come out when we least expect it, I'm sure.
Milkman00 said:
I dread doing this. I use two paid backup programs (Titanium and MyBackup).
Neither of them seem to backup the actual data that the applications use. What do I mean by that? I am talking about the saved login information for an app, as well as preferences, etc. It is never as easy as it should be.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I have MyBackup Pro and I don't even use that anymore, as I nandroid every 3 to 5 days or when I am going to do something drastic that could cause problems from the unknown. As an example my last unknown that was kind of glitchy was when I upgraded to Superuser went to 3.0
If you are rooted, just do a nandroid, if you have a crash, it will bring everything back just like it was when you made the nandroid.
Flash clean kernel for EC05
Sent from my SPH-D700
marcusant said:
Wipe data and flash SRF
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Lol that would probably give him other problems.
Sent from my Galaxy Tab 10.1
|| Acer || said:
Lol that would probably give him other problems.
Sent from my Galaxy Tab 10.1
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
And "that" is why I said to just flash a kernel first. I am almost sure he would go nuts, because he has to flash SRF 1.1 first then SFR 1.2, then a kernel and make sure he has been converted to ext4 from rfs, than probably have journaling on, and the list goes on.
Go kernel first! And if that works and is stable and your phone works perfect after a week of use, then you can go on to the next step!
mouseglider said:
And "that" is why I said to just flash a kernel first. I am almost sure he would go nuts, because he has to flash SRF 1.1 first then SFR 1.2, then a kernel and make sure he has been converted to ext4 from rfs, than probably have journaling on, and the list goes on.
Go kernel first! And if that works and is stable and your phone works perfect after a week of use, then you can go on to the next step!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That is awesome advice. That is what I did back in November. Genocide was the first thing I flashed after rooting to change my bootanimation.
Its due to apps on sd card having a shortcut on a home screen or on a folder on a home screen. I don't think file system, kernel, or ROM will improve that very much. I would hate for you to go to all the work to find no improvement.
The cache and speed tweaks could help and a faster card could help. You might also give a new launcher a try. In the end, I decided to just keep apps on internal memory that I needed on home screen. Same as the 98% - 2% guy above.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App
Hi guys,
I've been struggling with the G3's battery life. After monitoring the CPU for days I found out that the McAfee security was eating up a constant 20-40% of the cpu.
Using root access and Titanium root backup I've uninstalled it and installed another security suite (I'm using 360 Security).
So far it had doubled (yes!) my battery lifetime and reduced the heat and CPU usage dramatically.
To top that I've installed Greenify and placed on non needed apps into the freezer there.
So far (knock on wood) I've had excellent results.
I highly recommend it (although you take full responsibility if you do try it of course).
This was the first app I removed.
Don't bother with ANY security/anti-virus apps.
MalekoUK said:
This was the first app I removed.
Don't bother with ANY security/anti-virus apps.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I tried to uninstall mcAffee security as well but couldn't not locate the app using titanium backup.. Can you please tell me how I should locate the McAffee security?
Thanks in advance
mustang2012 said:
I tried to uninstall mcAffee security as well but couldn't not locate the app using titanium backup.. Can you please tell me how I should locate the McAffee security?
Thanks in advance
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I deleted the APK using root explorer.
Can't remember which folder it was in, but either:
System/app
System/pri-app
data/app
Maybe it's only on some devices not all of them
Sent from my LGLS990 using XDA Premium HD app
mustang2012 said:
I tried to uninstall mcAffee security as well but couldn't not locate the app using titanium backup.. Can you please tell me how I should locate the McAffee security?
Thanks in advance
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Some don't have it. For example, T-Mobile has a deal with Lookout for Jump customers, so they don't install anything for security.
giliav said:
Hi guys,
I've been struggling with the G3's battery life. After monitoring the CPU for days I found out that the McAfee security was eating up a constant 20-40% of the cpu.
Using root access and Titanium root backup I've uninstalled it and installed another security suite (I'm using 360 Security).
So far it had doubled (yes!) my battery lifetime and reduced the heat and CPU usage dramatically.
To top that I've installed Greenify and placed on non needed apps into the freezer there.
So far (knock on wood) I've had excellent results.
I highly recommend it (although you take full responsibility if you do try it of course).
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for sharing.
There is anyway to do this without root ?
how about just turning off mc afee's realtime scan, auto update, notify me, and track sim card?
will that work too?
tia.
Just a question why are anti virus needed for android or even exist? I never had a so called virus on my phone never
Congratts for your new 6000mAh battery !! :good:
I can find no McAffee, or Verizon Security and Protection as they call it, on my TOT-restored, rooted. I use titanium backup pro. I am beginning to think is was not in the TOT image. It was the Verizon v10b TOT image I flashed.
Sent from my VS985 4G using Tapatalk
I have sprint variant. No McAfee on mine.
Sent from rotary technology Phone
krazy_smokezalot said:
Just a question why are anti virus needed for android or even exist? I never had a so called virus on my phone never
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It's for the silly people who feel better having one installed... totally pointless.
Hi everyone!
I have a note 4 for a long time now, and I just feel like it is get slower and slower... And my battery life has been really crappy recently!
I'm writing from it right now and it is laggy just by typing on the keyboard!
It is a rooted SM-N910F running touch wiz 5.0.1 with an external 64gb microsd.
I sometimes clean garbage with Clean Master, I don't know if it's a good app..
I also use Greenify, but it doesn't seem to be that useful. :/
Do you guys have any tips to offer it a second life? Or am I doing something wrong?
Thanks in advance.
Devz
lucasriondel said:
Hi everyone!
I have a note 4 for a long time now, and I just feel like it is get slower and slower... And my battery life has been really crappy recently!
I'm writing from it right now and it is laggy just by typing on the keyboard!
It is a rooted SM-N910F running touch wiz 5.0.1 with an external 64gb microsd.
I sometimes clean garbage with Clean Master, I don't know if it's a good app..
I also use Greenify, but it doesn't seem to be that useful. :/
Do you guys have any tips to offer it a second life? Or am I doing something wrong?
Thanks in advance.
Devz
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You should update to 5.1.1. Android 5.0.1 it's the worse version for note 4. You'll notice a lot of improvement.
Ok thanks, I will do that. But do you know some must have apps for performance?
lucasriondel said:
Ok thanks, I will do that. But do you know some must have apps for performance?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You dont need greenify, it was great for like Jelly Bean but not LP. With the latest 5.1.1. build there is a smart manager app which is used to clear ram, space and also has a better battery manager. Flash it through Odin and once done, it is highly recommended to wipe data factory reset. For me, I reset, flash, reset again. This clears any left over nonsense from previous builds. Also, don't worry about root unless you REALLY need it. Most of the bloatware can be disabled but if you delete a specific app, Touchwhiz might look for that app and cause a slowdown.
Ok great, thanks ! i'm downloading it right now.
But i'm not really confortable with the flash process, i've done it a few times but i can't remember : wipe data factory reset does wipe everything on my phone right ? I need to backup everything ?