Making Nonsense of Sense UI - G1 General

I have been testing out the Sense UI's released to the G1 recently, and have stuck with using King's Slide at this point and wanted to point out what I have done to see if anyone is interested, or if this is possible to modify in the update.zip before flashing.
Initially on loading, everything worked fine, however the whole system got bogged down as Rosie started doing its thing. I thought I would try running ADW instead and experiment with what I could remove from /system/app to speed up the whole experience. By doing this I was mostly concerned with maintaining the HTC styled experience by keeping all of their apk's except those associated with Rosie.
At this point, I have renamed the following apk's to apr's to see what still works:
243 /system/app/Bluetooth.apr
72 /system/app/FlashLitePlugin.apr
150 /system/app/FlashPlayer.apr
1208 /system/app/Hoops.apr
1113 /system/app/HtcClockWidget.apr
539 /system/app/HtcPhotoWidget.apr
1580 /system/app/Jbed.apr
903 /system/app/LightShow.apr
1423 /system/app/NatureTheme.apr
1248 /system/app/Palazzo.apr
251 /system/app/ProfileManager.apr
1135 /system/app/Surf.apr
81 /system/app/WidgetDownloadManager.apr
993 /system/app/Wildflower.apr
278 /system/app/com.htc.FriendStreamWidget.apr
251 /system/app/com.htc.TwitterWidget.apr
406 /system/app/com.htc.WeatherWidget.apr
326 /system/app/mytouchmusic-signed.apr
556 /system/app/vvm-signed.apr
1611 /system/app/HTCSetupWizard.apr
4459 /system/app/HTC_IME.apr
111 /system/app/HtcDm.apr
181 /system/app/HtcStreamPlayer.apr
1054 /system/app/Rosie.apr
This comes out with about 20 MB of free space with all of the HTC apps like calendar, contacts, weather, and expecially the great dialer still working. The only thing you miss out on is the Sense experience, and flash, which didn't work in this build anyway.
I realize there are a ton of dependancies that still exist in /system/lib which might also be deleted, and will concentrate on that next. What I am hoping for from this experiment is a HTC build that doesn't take a Herculean effort to fit on a G1.
I also would like some advice as to how these modifications might actually be done in the update.zip (will deleting the .apk in the zip be enough) to prevent me from having to modify the rom in ADP the entire time.

As this is less of a developement post and more of a tips/tricks post I'm going to move it to the 'general' section.

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omapclock/omapclockplus and juno with clean dev 6.1

anybody get this to work? i've followed the manual instructions on my dash before and it worked fine coming out of standby as well as restarting the phone...
as far as on the t-mobile shadow with clean dev 6.1, i can only get it to run when the phone first starts up and it won't keep it overclocked after coming out of standby...
just fyi, i've oc'ed to 240 without any problems but even worse battery life... i've tested it at 216 and it seems that this is the optimal setting for speed, battery life, and video playing quality...
fyi for noobies as well, the clock says 201mhz but its running at 186mhz, so oc'ing to 216 is actually causing vast improvement... you're not going from 201 to 216, you'ore going from 186 to 216
sorry , meant to edit this instead of new
Look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=371863&highlight=omap
I currently have mine at 252 using above rules. Namely:
1) Copy Tornadopowercontrol14.cab to your phone & install it.
2) Create a shortcut to TornadoPowerControl.exe & place it in Windows\StartUp\.
3] Edit above shortcut to look like this;
60#"\Program Files\TornadoPowerControl\TornadoPowerControl.exe" bright hide
4] Delete Power_On.ink in the program folder of TornadoPowerControl. Create a shortcut to omapclock.exe and rename it to Power_On.ink. Edit the shortcut adding '-clock XXX' where XXX is desired speed. Like so:
30#"\Program Files\OmapClock\OmapClock.exe" -clock 252
I did the same thing with Power_UserIdle.ink (as in step 4) setting it to 180. (this for me was optional, I could have deleted this short)
You should already have Total Commander installed in order to edit files or create shorts.
every time I open omap from within tornado's program folder, it says my clock is at 252. Best yet, unlike TPC's website directions, nothing ever pops up that I have to exit out of.
I also deleted the startmenu folder for TPC.
UPDATE after a couple days it rebooted for no reason, so clock is now 240
works like a charm, thanks a lot for your help

How many apps do you have installed?

Now I'm not trying to make this into a competition but I'm just trying to get an idea of how many apps people have installed. I want to get an idea what is a lot and what the average is.
I have 159 apps installed and they are installed in my SD card.
How about you?
PS... EASY WAY TO COUNT YOUR APPS IS BY USING ATRACKDOG AND ONCE ITS FINISHED SCANNING YOUR APPS CLICK ON "VERSION TRACKING" ON THE BOTTOM. NEXT PAGE SHOULD DISPLAY YOUR TOTAL NUMBER OF APPS.
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AS OF 2-16
Okay the results are in so far... and we have an average of 64 apps per person and a high of 266 apps and a low of 3 apps.
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i have apps on my sdcard to, got as high as 113 but went down to 40
I've got 139 installed here, but once the Market gets paying apps, I think I'll need to get a 16Gb sd card and increase the size of my ext2 partition.
...really you guys? I only have 4 installed
Holy crap you guys I only have 39
d00m said:
...really you guys? I only have 4 installed
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I have 3 right now...
86 so far.
What the heck do you guys have installed??? That's like having 9 pages of iPhone apps...and barely using them.
i use ALL of my apps (not including the 5 games i have) some of them are extentions to other apps like oi convert csv, and oi voice notes and tts.
i've installed about 5 apps and thats about it!
What are they
Task manager
Hello Aim and a few others! Dont really need that many plus it keeps my phone running fast and smooth!
darkjedi said:
What the heck do you guys have installed??? That's like having 9 pages of iPhone apps...and barely using them.
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Err, quite a bit, actually. I have a wonderfully powerful computer (with phone, wifi, internet access, etc.) in the palm of my hand, and I want it to do whatever I need it to do within a few swipes and taps
Note:
No kittens where harmed during photoshopping of the middle image to protect the innocent
I have 73 apps installed but about 20 I really dont need that are just for fun like the Mr T sound board. I dont think I could ever get as high as some of you guys.
I didn't realize I had that many. I have 123 so far (didn't really look very carefully but I'm sure that includes some of the stock apps that came preinstalled). I don't even worry about space anymore now that all my apps are being ran through the SD.
Yikes.....
Erm.... thought more people would be closer to what I apparently have amassed --- well color me surprised.
I currently have 266 apps installed.
Here's a screenshot of aTrackDog - incidentally, is there any other way to display total # of apps??
Last count 102 here.
Holy Batman! 266 apps? haha. Here are the apps I have.
elikser said:
Erm.... thought more people would be closer to what I apparently have amassed --- well color me surprised.
I currently have 266 apps installed.
Here's a screenshot of aTrackDog - incidentally, is there any other way to display total # of apps??
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Yes click on version tracking on atrackdog. It will show you there. I just put this in the main post too so people dont have to count 1 by 1.
40+ and all of them are on internal memory.
83 and growing
honestly guys i dont use many of the 83 apps i have but i do use almost 15 of them .
was just trying to see how many apps i can do on my sd card without feeling a little lag. have 1.1GB on EXT2 only 180MB is used and i dont think i can fill it. and by the way the phone is noticeably slowing down now. takes about 3 to 4 seconds to accept a call after i press it.
I actually use all the apps I've downloaded. I don't see any sense anything other than I need.

want to keep your newlt flashed phone as close to maximum performance as possible?

Hi! If you are like me just flashing your experia is never enough, you always end up installing the world of crap to your device.
After flashing and installing for a month or so i realised something (which is obvious if ou think about it) even if i install to the storage card something must go over to the device(link registry ect)
So after thinking for a day or so i figured out something.......if i install all my apps to the storage, reflash my phone then run them from the file explorer i can save some space as small as it may seem it adds up and hangs your ui and performance (especially manilla variants) .
now my phone runs as optimal as possible with all apps through the storage card and my UIs currently 6 on my device. When my battery is low (30 percent) i switch from manilla to orange or titanium so that i dont lose battery to processor heat.
Also a great thing to do if your run a manilla variant or want to flash one (advised only for flash files under 160 mb) is to increase your pagepool (my last was 40 currently 35) this is in its simplest term the system cache.
thats it for now ill talk about drivers and optimization tools later.
thanks for reading
ps if anyone that cooks roms wants ideas for the best performance and user satisfation pm me( the cooking process is a little to crazy for my brain lol)
Mod. edit: not a dev related issue, moved to general

The Tweak Thread (Advanced Eris Stuff) minor update 10/30/10

Hey all i created this thread for ADVANCED users (and some newbies lol) so that i can better help users tweak and improve performance on their eris. My inbox was getting crazy so i thought this would be better i will still take pm questions but it would be better if we can all learn here. This isn't really a place to report bugs as it would be better to contact your respective developer or post in that developers thread. I will try my very best to get the best performance out of your eris and hopefully we will have some fun along the way. So hopefully this can help take some of the load off of the developers threads and reduce noob-age.
I ONLY ASK THAT IF USERS WANT TO TWEAK I STRONGLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU EITHER..........
1) PURCHASE ROOT EXPLORER FROM THE MARKET OR THE FREE ESTRONGS FILE EXPLORER APP FROM THE MARKET WHICH ALSO ALLOWS ROOT ACCESS AS WELL.... BUT I THINK ROOT EXPLORER IS BETTER IMHO.
2) HAVE ADB SET UP FOR YOURSELVES AT HOME OR KNOWLEDGEABLE OF ADB. I WILL NOT HELP YOU SET UP ADB OR THE SDK
ALSO I RECOMEND PURCHING THE FULL VERSION OF TITANIUM BACKUP AS IT IS AN INVALUABLE TOOL FOR ROOTED USERS AND MAKES BACKING UP AND TWEAKING MUCH EASIER FOR NEWBIES PLUS IT HAS SOME REALLY AWSOME FEATURES
so hopefully this will give us fun things to do in between releases from our devs. And always remember to donate to these awesome awesome eris devs for their hard work and commitment to us.
i want to keep an open discussion thread, nothing is off the table.
kernels
kitchens
cooking
roms
tweaks
hacks
apps
fixes
workarounds
you name it lets talk
lets figure it out together while learning along the way
Things are always changing so if you see any errors or things that need to be updated please let me know and i will be more than happy to get the correct information posted.
Moving apks and deleting dulicates...make your system efficient
YOU need either rootexplorer OR be ADB inclined to do the following....
i was thinking while doing some root exploring of ways to make this rom more solid and here are a few tips i thought everyone could use.
IF YOU DONT HAVE DUPLICATES DONT KILL YOURSELF SEARCHING JUST CONSIDER YOURSELF LUCKY. AND YOU DONT NEED THIS POST
FIRST
when i flash a Rom i always do my set up. here is an overview of what i do when i flash........
-i flash the Rom
-then i login to google as normal so i can receive Titanium Backup (TB) and Root Explorer (RE) from the market updates
if someone could be kind enough to give us a sample command to use terminal to install apps from the sd would be a great shortcut for us
-move those two apps from data/app to system/app
-then i do a full wipe (huh a full wipe you say....system files are never wiped....they can only be flashed over, so TB and RE will still be there)
-clean nand (so if you get crazy and screw up you can easily start over)
-Rom surgery
-Restore
-login to google last and sync
-batt tweaks and extras
this process IMHO makes your rom way more efficient than flashing, login and syncing.
OK
first thing i do when i flash a rom is to remove junk
i navigate with either explorer to system/app folder
then i remove all the useless apps i dont use, need or want
AND/OR remove the "ONE USE" apps (like setupwizard.apk only need it once or none at all if your a pro )
this reduces the ROMs footprint making it smaller
the smaller the Rom the better the faster
here are some things i like to rip out of system/app folder....
ADWLauncher.apk (make sure you have another launcher first i use lanucher pro)
Mail.apk (i use gmail)
Twitter.apk (i currently dont tweet)
ProTips.apk
HtcCalibrate.apk (after i calibrate of course)
Launcher2.apk(why have a bunch of other launchers you dont use hogging memory get rid of them)
MagicSmokeWallpapers.apk (this dont work for me but other do)
Carhomegoogle.apk ONLY
etc. there are others you can remove as well depending on you
and we will experiment to find more......
NEXT
i like to move IMPORTANT apks or apps from the data/app folder to the system/app folder epically if your Rom dev has not updated the gapps lately or you cant get access to the latest gapps.zip.
if you do not then you will end up with a lot of duplicate apps installed in your system when ever you receive a gapps update and that wastes memory and will cause memory issues in the future and it screws with autokiller
i like to move my favorite launcher (launcher pro paid) to the same place where launchers go, in the system/app folder (why have your launcher where regular apps go and get killed by autokiller) i think this is better for the system and doesn't hog your app data space plus it adds stability to your launcher.
here are some things i like to move into system/app.....
i like move into system/app are
launchers (stabilze launcher)
keyboards (should speed up keyboard strokes)
root tools and IMPORTANT apps (R.E. T.B.)
security apps (never deleted or wiped in case of theft, hoping thief is not nerdy)
any of the latest gapps update
and some others
this way if any issue occurs wipe and restore is easy as pie
IMPORTANT: APPS IN THE SYSTEM FOLDERS DO NOT GET WIPED OR DELETED DURING A FACTORY DATA WIPE OR DALVIK WIPE.....THEY CAN ONLY BE FLASHED OVER BY A ROM(OVERWRITTEN)
APPS IN THE DATA FOLDERS WILL GET DELETED DURING A FACTORY WIPE......BUT NOT DALVIK
i know we are ALL have at least one pair of identical (double apks in the system)
-but the identical apks have different names
-on is in data/app the other is in system/app
if you have updated ANY google app then chances are that you may have some double apps on your system wasting. when we update these google apks 'think' the rom comes with the apk already and is stored in the protected system/app folder WHILE the actual update is stored in the data/app folder (or where regular apps go) under a different name
EXAMPLE
google maps
-MAPS.apk ........is stored system/app
-com.google.android.app.map-1.apk........is stored in the data/app (this is the latest update of google maps and should replace the older MAPS.apk in system/app)
-these are the SAME APKs
hmmm so think gmaps is 5-6 megs in size and you have 2 of them so thats like 10-12 megs in your system, get rid of the old one.
there are two thing you can do here with two different benefits
-you can either remove the copy from either the data OR system folders depending on what you prefer.
if you remove the old app from system/app that means easier updates with now file moving BUT less app storage
OR move from data/app to system/app which means less FCs, more other app memory, and dealing with future updates and moving each app.
i like to move the new apks to the system/app where they belong
unstable Launcher PRO
my launcher was very unstable for a while wasn't a big deal for me
soo i decided to move my launcher to the system/app folder like all the other launchers....
I think the instability of that launcher was because of AUTOKILLER thinking this is just a regular app in data/app which it was at the moment. i may be wrong but autokiller doesnt kill system apps. so i move my launcher there and guess what now my launcher is much better and faster and stable beacuse you now have lots more memory.
SPEED TIP: in spare parts speed up your transition and animation windows to FAST
MOVING APPS ADVANCED SHORTCUT
i finally figure out a great short cut for moving apps
-first rename and put your favorite file manager (ROOT EXPLO) onto the sd.
to be even faster rename and put your launcher and TB on there too.
-after flashing a rom bypass the setup (touch the android screen) to home screen.
-open terminal
-type
SU
cd sdcard
busybox install yourapp.apk /data/app
-now you have the file explorer ready to go
instead of trying to restore wipe restore.
and hopefully you know what to do next.
so to summarize...
-get rid of junk you dont use and free up that memory
-move apps to the proper locations in system/app AND/OR data/app
-make sure you dont have multiple google apps using different names
"MAPS.apk" and "com.google.android.app.map-1.apk" IS THE SAME APP IN DIFFERENT LOCATIONS. remove the old and put the new in system/app
make sure your main launcher is in system app so it doesn't keep getting killed by auto killer settings and reloading
Replace THESE apps = with THESE apps
system/app = data/app
Gmail.apk = com.google.android.apps.gm-1.apk
ChrometoPhone.apk = com.google.android.apps.chrometophone-1.apk
Maps.apk = com.google.android.apps.maps-1.apk
CarHomeGoogle.apk = com.google.android.carhome-1.apk
GoogleSearch.apk = com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox-1.apk
Googles.apk = com.google.android.appsunveil-1.apk
SuperUser.apk = com.noshufou.android.su-1.apk
AutoKiller = com.rs.autokiller-2.apk
TitaniumBackup = com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup-2.apk
Twittter = (forget)
Voice= com.google.android.apps.gv-1.apk i think
YouTube=
delete OLD in system/app = move NEW from data/app to system/app
YES i did all those with success more memory and speed and a massive increase in overall Rom stability
there may be more
BUT ALL THESE HAVE DUPLICATE APPS USING DIFFERENT NAMES stored in data/app and/or system/app WHEN the latest update should be system/app IMHO to prevent AUTOKILLER from always killing i believe autokiller will try to kill data apps first before system apps.
i still have my auto killer set at optimum and things work even better now
and i gained 25mb of system memory no more Force closes
Batt tweak custom set up process (a 1-2 day process to complete)
How to increase battery life
first off battery life depends on many factors.....
where you live, work, and the daily place you travel to.
im one of the lucky ones who has a cell tower down the street from me here in S. FL.
WARNING: IF you multitask alllllll day on your phone then this is not for you.This is more beneficial when your phone is at rest or in an idle state or screen off state.
Others may not be so lucky and may live in a bad signal area....which causes your phone to constantly search and listen for signals.
Also battery life could depend on the widgets you use or apps that you have active.
Example: Beautiful Widgets beautiful home is a constantly running app that also
-on occasion activates the GPS to acquire location
-on occasion downloads update weather data
Example: Facebook Widget
-by default update statuses every 15 minutes, so every 15 minutes its downloading data
so i usually adjust these settings to my personal liking
Now for the battery calibration process and how it works
Decad3nce port of Colins_ph batt tweak allows us to use some setcpu profiles without setcpu.
Setcpu and its widgets were resource monsters crippling our system and drain battery life as well. kiss setcpu goodbye we wont be needing it anymore.
the batt tweak calibration process takes some patience as the entire process could take 1-3 days to complete depending. Also i highly recommend using the latest CFS kernel by Conap as it provides extra battery savings
we will be running colins batt tweak during the calibration process so that both calibrate together, which makes a lot of sense as opposed to doning them separately.
here is the process and DS's custom settings for batt tweak 1 (the first release)
please remember to prepare yourself not to interrupt the process. the draining process may die while you are at work or during an emergency. so be prepared to have little use of your phone.
-flash latest CFS kernel found here
-flash batt tweak attached at the bottom of this post until its updated and fixed....more info in thread here
-turn off phone and let charge for a few hours or more to ensure that it is full
-when ready boot into recovery mode and wipe the batt stats and power off
-unplug phone and power on (charging cable not needed) you may experience weird battery levels or fast draining (this is normal)
-immediately open TERMINAL and activate colins_ batt tweak
with command batt-cfg and go to option 3 and input these settings........
I think this works much better
this schedueler keeps the cpu much lower
here if anyone want to try it out
underclock
ondemand
anticipatory
19200
710400
19200
710400
19200
710400 (ONLY IF YOU KNOW YOU CAN 768000)
90
15
15
15
- close terminal and operate phone normally if you want...i highly suggest leaving it alone as much as possible until it drains completely dead.
-use a cpu monitoring app just to make sure the cpu is idle i have seen mine dip down 80mhz if not then you need to kill active open apps
-let phone naturally drain completely until its dead (could take a full day or two mine was 48hrs with some usage)
-when dead make sure by pressing power rapidly a few times
-while off let phone recharge for as long as possible maybe four hours or more the mor the better
-when ready unplug phone and turn on
-when powered on reactivate batt tweak using terminal batt-cfg, then option 9 to save and your done (once setup all you need is option 9 to save and reactivate)
-wtf DS my phone is on but reads less than 100% battery. this is normal replug while on and let charge to full
- when full the process is now complete and you can use phone as normal
REMEMBER THAT SOME ROMS DO NOT ACTIVATE THE TWEAK AND YOU WILL NEED TO DO SO UNTIL YOUR DEV AS ADD THE SCRIPT TO ACTIVATE ON A REBOOT. SO UNTIL THEN OPTION 9 IN BATT TWEAK WILL DO THIS
use an app like system panel or seepu to look at cpu speeds make sure the cpu isnt running at 100%.
try to close apps if you see this but a reboot usually fixes this.
these settings allow for the cpu to use lower clock speeds when idle. much lower than the stock 245000 settings yes were going to the minimum 19200 with little to no side effects or slow downs, but the benefits are more when in a idle state. But it WILL drain at about same rate when your using it heavily.
make sure the tweak is running by either opening terminal and enter pidof batt.sh you should see the processing id number if its running.
OR for a full read out of stats do batt-diag
and observe the time in state read out at the bottom. if you see values next to the 19200 clock speeds........SUCCESS!
PS if you screen on time is 3 hours and your phone is dead, DONT BLAME THE BATT TWEAK....BLAME YOURSELF !
ENJOY
alright now lets get some real stuff in here....lol
jdog94 said:
alright now lets get some real stuff in here....lol
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just trying to a make a nice neat place to put all my post on past tweaks for users and to do some advanced stuff in the future stay tuned
DS36 said:
just trying to a make a nice neat place to put all my post on past tweaks for users and to do some advanced stuff in the future stay tuned
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good, i need this!
Great idea"!"!!
HAI! Hau do i route mai fone? I wantz haxorz warez an wireles heatherin fo free intanetz!
So seriously, is this a fan-club for DS? I'm totally in if it is.
sticktodrum said:
HAI! Hau do i route mai fone? I wantz haxorz warez an wireles heatherin fo free intanetz!
So seriously, is this a fan-club for DS? I'm totally in if it is.
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LMAO can you please please be my threads personal comedian
Keep this thread development related or Ill move it to General, Is this a support thread or something? Something about tweaks?
Its all about me
Captainkrtek said:
Keep this thread development related or Ill move it to General, Is this a support thread or something? Something about tweaks?
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this is a thread to help old and new users tweak and mod their phones and other advanced stuff
trying to put all the knowledgeable stuff in to one easy thread and it will be dev related
im just started this thread im not done i have lots to do here
my in box is getting a little crazy
this should benefit all and provides basic dev techniques and instruction
this is the beginning stages
plus should reduce the number of faqs for everyone
less fights
less arguments
and less captainrtek (but thats not a bad thing)
DS36 said:
this is a thread to help old and new users tweak and mod their phones and other advanced stuff
trying to put all the knowledgeable stuff in to one easy thread and it will be dev related
im just started this thread im not done i have lots to do here
my in box is getting a little crazy
this should benefit all and provides basic dev techniques and instruction
this is the beginning stages
plus should reduce the number of faqs for everyone
less fights
less arguments
and less captainrtek (but thats not a bad thing)
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Haha gotcha, and thanks
Thanks in advance, DS.
roirraW "edor" ehT said:
Thanks in advance, DS.
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Looking forward to working together with everyone learning along the way.
Will be post new batt tweak setting in the morn keep an eye out
Do not up date to the latest version of batt tweak it doesn't work.
Sent from my FroyoEris using XDA App
Brilliant.
sticktodrum said:
HAI! Hau do i route mai fone? I wantz haxorz warez an wireles heatherin fo free intanetz!
So seriously, is this a fan-club for DS? I'm totally in if it is.
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Lol I haz cheez burger
Sent from my FroyoEris using XDA App
rick311 said:
good, i need this!
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hey man are you ready
im going to post in the third POST what i have written down so far
but its NOT complete yet....so take a gander
DS36 said:
hey man are you ready
im going to post in the third POST what i have written down so far
but its NOT complete yet....so take a gander
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ok, i did all the setting tweaks that you recommend. do i have to input them every time i reboot? i dont see a setting that restores my previous settings.
Hey DS,
Great idea to help newbs like me! So after reading your first two posts I looked where my apps are, and every one of them seems to be in system/app... I checked in data/ and can't see anything in there (unless it's sdcard/data, in which case I have folders for Beautiful Widgets and Titanium). I'm using the EStrongs FE, although I don't think that would make a difference. Also, couldn't find any of the duplicate apps you were talking about either (I only have com.google.android.apps.maps.apk, for example). I'm on xtrROM 4.6 and used Titanium Backup to restore my apps.

reasons why sense is slow and how to make it fast!

Everything I am posting on here is for a rooted g2 with the desire z hboot.
If you have a sense rom, you must experience the whole interface of sense. Once you do you will realize that they have made it to relate to every one. Which means that there is a lot of crap that you personally wont like. Because to relate to everyone there has to be many apps and widgets and wallpapers etc. that will relate to some but not to others. And if you have a g2/ desire z which I hope you do because this is what I am directing this to although this is good for other devices as well, you will know that you wont have much ram/ system space. Because these devices werent made to have sense 3.0 and 3.5 on it.
You have to look at your phone as being separated into a system and data partition.Basically everything that comes with your phone goes into the system partition. And when you download apps and set up your home screen preferences/how your phone gets set up that gets saved into the data partition. The g2/desire z has about 550 mbs in the system partition and about 1gb for the data partition. With a sense rom you will normally have about 80 mbs free in the system partition and about 850mbs free in the data partition. Now the reason they do this is so people can download as mant apps as they want. and they pretty much filled the system partition in sense for the roms on the devices that didnt come with it.
Ok now that you see how much sense takes in your system, and have played around with sense 3.0/3.5 and you can see some things that you dont use DELETE THEM!!! Use root explorer to do so. For an example I love the weather app but I dont really see a use for the videos lodged into your system. ( the videos that I am talking about are the videos that play when you open the weather app) I know that they are eye candy and know why that they are there to make it look cool but when you see that they are 30 mbs that you can delete.
Also there are many different apps that most developers put into the system that you can delete and download from the market. For an example The youtube app. If you delete that from the system/app file and then download it from the market, you get to have the app while putting it into the data partition. Which has a lot of space. And there are many apps that they usually put into the rom that are like this, like es file explorer, adobe reader and adobe flash, facebook and a couple others. The live wallpapers are a good thing to delete as well because they can make your sense experience unusable. And some of them (weather live wallpaper) take up 10mbs in system.
So once you do all of this you can have an amazing sense experience! I can most of the time end up with 180 mbs free in my system! That is 100mbs less than what I started with! The things that I listed were things that everyone no matter what preference you have can do! once you do that along with delete the things you dont use personally your phone will run very smooth. you will notice that your ram will be up to 120 mbs out of 368 free. at the most.
But once you open up your applications and start running things you will notice ram will get filled up
(obviously). So if you really want to keep the ram free you can run the supercharger script. Supercharger is a sort of memory manager that really makes a huge difference!!! I dont know exactly how it works but it keeps killing all of the things that you have running. you will have to set it up and read his guide on how to do it. Here is a link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18703418&postcount=5021 I like to set it to the most aggressive setting. That will make a huge difference and is all you have to do in order to get things perfect for your g2 with sense 3.5!
Thanks for reading! Let me know if I made myself clear and if this was interesting or useful! Oh and a thanks and any type of reply is much appreciated!
If anyone wants me to review any roms for them please let me know! I would love to show how things work in each rom if anyone tells me.
Also if you are interested in some more interesting things on the G2/DZ and android in general come check out my blog! http://htcg2romtesting.blogspot.com/

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