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hi all
ive been reading this thread re installing android on my HD2,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=733752
it says on page 11 might have been before that i need radio 2.10 2.12 , i then started to read this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=611787
about updating my radio but it has several different downloads for radio 2.10 and 1 for 2.12 then below there is some that start 15 so not exactly sure which one to download
i would like to try the latest android version the froyo 2.2, not bothered about it autobooting, i dont mind having to press a button once the phone is running but would like to keep wm as my main os.
here are my phone specs, ive not altered the software in anyway since i bought it.
UK T-Mobile
os version 5.2.2189
manila version 2.5.20121429.0
Rom 1.72.110.4 (86525) WWE
radio version 2.07.51.22.2
flash size 512mb
8 GB sd card
could someone pleasse list exactly what i need links to files would be grate, someething like
step 1update radio to (link to radio download)
step 2 download latest android ( link )
step 3 install android loader
i can follow instructions in the links i gave but just a little unsure which radio and andriod version to get. and as ive seen altering files can ruin my phone i want to be as sure as i can before i start this
in any stage of adding android to my phone will it wipe my memory card ??
can the android part be completely uninstalled ???
i have the usb cable and windows mobile device center so i guess ill wait for a reply.
thanks for reading and hope someone can help me
cheers craig
Hi Craig,
I am willing to help but first read the link AGAIN & AGAIN, if you are still not sure then PM me on my Hotmail.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=732380
I have 4 HD2s in my friends including myself, and I am dealing Android on all the 4 devices.
My recommended Android ROM is: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=859817
Regards
Sid
thanks for reply sid,
i read the post you linked to and updated the radio and Hard SPL, i then downloaded the rom you linked to and copied that to my sd card, clicked the two files and it rebooted as android, seems to work ok,
just one thing if you could let me know is that can i just delete the android folder and be back to normal or when it booted did it copy files somewhere else or is everything contained for androlid os in the android folder,
might try some different roms thats all but would want to remove others first
thanks
Wahaaayyyy, Well Done.
If you want to try another Android Rom than you have to EITHER delete or backup (for future use) few folders such as:
* .android_secure
* .bookmark_thumb1
* .estrongs
* .footprints
* .Mail
* Android
* DCIM (This is the folder where the Camera picture saves !!! IMPORTANT if you want to save the pictures taken from within Android)
* download
* LazyList
* LOST.DIR
* media (I think this folder keeps all the ringtones)
* myalbum
* rosie_scroll
* rssreader
(Dont worry if any of the mentioned is not in your card)
Then again put new rom's android folder in the card & run 2 files as you did.
Important: It is recommended to Format the card each time on FAT-32 (Not Quick Format) for a fresh start but MAKE SURE to save/backup your Windows folders prior to format, and copy them back after format, this will save you from some random rebooting or crashes of Android.
If you want to try an ULTRA FAST Android rom than try this one, as this one uses your HD2s hard chip RAM rather than the RAM through the SD-Card, But this is without HTC sence: (READ the instructions carefully) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=870518
Good luck & let me know
Regards
Sid
thanks again for your reply sid,
i tried the other faster version you linked and it seems loads quicker but battery life doesnt seem to be as good unplugged it from charging this morning and used about 80% in about 10 hours, is this normal.when i am running windows it lasts about 2 days before needing to be charged,
also when i booted back into windows i got some errors, saying couldnt run exe files as they wernt signed or something to that effect, after googling the error it turns out afew people had this error after using android, and a hard reset was rthe only cure, i did this and both are working fine so not sure what happened there
what can you recommed to do a complete backup of my windows OS, including installed apps contacts / messages etc, basically a full backup in case it happens again,
thanks for your input already its been much appreciated, the feedback from both the roms is the 2nd 1 is definately loads quicker at loading, also the apps close fully not leaving them running whereas the 1st one seemed to leave them all running unless i was doing something wrong, i just press the back arrow to close them,
the second rom doesnt have loads of pre-installed stuff, which i like beacuse i just put the stuff i need on,
just need to use it a little more to find out where stuff is
cheers craig
Craig the battery consumption is also depends on the speed of the SD card (Class), I am using class-4 16GB Kingston, I have also tried Class-6 16GB but that was sucking the battery allot more than class-4, but class-2 makes it suck as well because it takes more time & provide less info to the rom in the required time, I hope you are catching what I am saying.
So according to my experience "Kingston Class-4 8/16GB" is the most appropriate card to run Android through the card.
Although Android through the SdCard will always consume more battery than any OS on the chip itself, that is why Windows OS is giving us 2 days. There is a way of DELETING Windows OS and install Android on the HardChip through MAGLDR, but I am sorry I can play anything with the SdCard but with the device itself NO WAY.
My aim was to try Android in my hand rather than word-of-mouth, so I can decide about my next device.
About the Windows crash & Hard Resetting, I would suggest you to install/Design all you loving softwares in WinOS and once you finish use "Sprite Backup" (Brilliant application) to take a complete backup of your Windows as well as your Android folders at the same time in one single or two separate Sprite (self executable) files.
My tip to you: Use Sprite Backup in android with the schedule backup (at-least twice a week) of your calls & txt, as Android DO CORRUPT suddenly sometime, OH YES, (Just had a weeping friend this weekend, lost his 150+ txt, woooooohhhhh).
Keep me updated
Regards
Sid
morning sidd,
im using an 8gb class 10 sd card, i read through the post for the rom and it mentioned turning the wifi off as some people will suffer a high battery drain, i had it fully charged last night before bed and this morning its only gone down 7 % on 6 1/2 hours so thats much better, i suppose it was me messing about with it a lot more than usual plus the wifi so ill run it today and see,
ill look in to the sprite backup also, not really bothered about texts so probably wont backup it up as often as twice a week, its mainly the apps n contacts having to reinstall them all the time and more often than not loosing new ones that havent been synced.
you are right about not changing the software on the chip too, leaving it with windows so when i come to sell it will be as it should and the buyer can do with it what he/she likes, also giving the same reason as to why i put android on in the first place, so i can try it for myself and workout the next phone which is about 6 months off
Hi Craig,
According to my experience even the Class-6 was consuming the battery a bit extra than class-4, a normal Android standby MA (Milli-Amps) should be around 3-6mA then you can have a bit more than 1 whole day of battery life. (App called "Current Widget", see attached picture).
If you are worried about the apps to install in the Android than there is also an easy way of installing all your favourite apps at once rather than going one-by-one. In Mdeejay's roms there is a folder "AndroidApps" (\Android\AndroidApps), you can copy your desired APKs in there and on the first time installation Android will install all the APKs automatically for you.
About the HardChip installation side (MAGLDR), you can also revert back your Windows Rom before selling your device through any Windows Rom, but obviously there a procedure for that, and I would HARDLY suggest anyone to read & read before play.
Regards
Sid
heres my finding after a few days of use,
the desire rom mdeejay one is good but it leaves loads of apps running in the background, if from the home screen i slide down for the notifications i can see them across the top and asume from this they are still running which will use the battery faster, to close an app i use the arrow key, (in the darkstone rom i can hold that key and app killed comes up, they dont show in the notification screen)
i do like some features of HTC SENSE though, like the clock and weatjer on the main screen and the friend stream, most of the other apps i wouldnt probably use
the darkstone rom is very fast, kills apps from memory and isnt pre installed with loads of apps which makes it easier to customize as i dont have to remove all the other apps first, the only downside i can see so far is i cant get rid of the adverts, if copied the host file but they are still there even after several reboots.
the other difference in both roms compared to windows is the contact setup, in windows if i goto a contact, i can select messages and it will show me only messages from that contact, same with call logs,so while im in a specific contact the messages, emails, call logs are all related directly to that contact, i dont have to keep looking in different screens
so to conclude
option 1 i would like to run the darkstone rom with the clock and weather widget and friend stream from mdeejays rom, but would like my contacts to be like they were in windows 6.5 but no adds
option 2 would be run mdeejays rom, with the long press back arrow to kill apps and find an app for contacts like windows
if anyone has a suggestion as to how i can achieve this it will be appreciated, thanks
I'm having an intermittent problem where the apps which have been moved to the SD card often (but not always) disappear. They do not show up on my launcher (ADW) and I am also unable to install or update any apps. I haven't seen anyone else reporting a similar problem, but the weird thing is that the same thing happens on my daughter's Epic. Here's what I do know:
1. This only happens with Froyo ROMs. It was happening on my phone with SFR 1.1. I installed a Gingerbread ROM (Swiss Cheese Samsprint) and it went away. However, my daughter is on stock (but rooted) EC05 and the same thing is happening with her phone. Additionally, I installed Urban Inception (a GB ROM) and did not have the problem. But I missed the speed of the custom kernels, so I returned my phone to Froyo (this time SFR 1.2) and the problem is again recurring. So, it seems to be 2.2-specific.
2. I have used Odin to return to stock several times, that has not resolved the problem.
3. I have formatted my SD card (once using Windows and again using the format option on my phone) and that has had no effect.
4. When I boot my phone, the apps on the SD card do not show up in the app drawer. After a few minutes, they often appear, but not always. Again this is true on both my daughter's phone and mine, but only with a Froyo ROM.
5. The phone will usually get through two or maybe three new app installs or updates, then all the rest will fail until I reboot. Again, this occurs on both my and my daughter's phones, and only with Froyo. It doesn't matter if these are market apps or Amazon appstore apps. Once one update or install fails, nothing else will install or update until I reboot the phone.
I suppose I could solve my problem by going with GB, but those ROMs are so much slower than the Froyo ones with custom kernels. Also, I like my daughter being as stock as possible, because she won't mess with her phone and can't always give it to me to fix. I doubt it's a hardware issue because we both have it. But, it also doesn't appear to be a ROM issue, since we have different ROMs. Since it's obviously not common, it must be related to either an app we have installed or something strange that I have done (though her phone has nothing done to it but the one-click CWM 3.0.0.5/6).
Anyone have any ideas for me? I suppose my issue will resolve once we have official GB and custom kernels start appearing for it, but I thought it was very strange that I have two phones that both exhibit a problem that nobody else seems to have.
Thanks for reading all this.
This had been happening to me for a while too. I don't have as many apps anymore and keep it all in the phone and noticed better battery life but still want to be able to use apps2sd
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Stock sd's?
cd's or tapes?
schnowdapowda said:
Stock sd's?
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Yes, on both phones.
I just noticed this yesterday. I saw Angry Birds had updated but I didn't get notified in my market. The app was still in my launcher though. Don't know if it matters but I hadn't played it in a long time.
Reinstalling worked and didn't lose any data.
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I've had this problem too on the MidnightRom v5.2. It's especially annoying when my kids want to play Angry Birds and they are all installed to the SD card. I have "fixed" the apps not showing up in the App drawer by creating shortcuts on one of my home screens to the apps I have on the SD card. When the apps don't show up in the App drawer, the icon on the home screen looks like a generic "Android installed app". The apps I have on the SD card are: apps that came with my Rom (Video Editor), Apps installed from the Market and Apps installed from the Amazon App store.
*I've noticed* it's more common the icons don't show up in the App drawer or have the wrong icon if I unlock my phone before it completely boots (finishes the Scanning Media twice in the status bar).
edonnelly- if you are "missing" an App, try creating a shortcut for it to see if it's in the Applications list. That way at least you can launch it if you reboot and the app isn't showing up in the app drawer.
schnowdapowda- I'm also using my stock 16gb Samsung microSD card, and I've also formatted it with the same results.
Fast Boot option may be the culprit
This is actually a long-standing problem in Android OS, going back at least two years (donkey's years in this technology!)
Something about the interaction of the OS and an sdcard formated for holding apps creates odd behaviours.
Lots of complicated suggestions have been made, including reformatting sdcard, reinstalling ROMs, changing launchers (the one suggested here) and such.
None of these approaches seems really to solve the problem even in most cases.
What seems to be working for me (at least for the last week or so) is the following very simple tweak.
CUT TO THE SOLUTION BELOW -- SEARCH FOR ////
Some (not all) of my apps moved to SD (all by Titanium Backup Pro) have begun to disappear and (sometimes) reappear without warning after I began to add and delete large Virtual Machines created in QEMU from my 16GB SanDisc class 10 microSD card on my HTC Droid Incredible running rooted stock Verizon Android Froyo 2.2.3. I know this thread is far from my phone's "home base", but from what I can tell this problem with disappearing apps located on an sdcard is NOT determined by hardware or even Android version.
I also happen to use LauncherPro by Federico Carnales instead of the built-in HTC Sense launcher. I noted elsewhere on XDA that a user had suggested that because at least some (maybe all) launchers start before the SD Card that this may be a problem, especially if changes are made to the sdcard that the launcher did not perform, or was not active during their performance by other apps such as Titanium Backup. That fits my situation, because I unmounted the SD, physically removed it to a PC, and added/deleted large VM files to save (lots) of time. No problems of this sort before I did this, so there must be some connection.
I noted that other users have tried reformatting SD, substituting different brands of SD, using newer/older SD etc. None of these reliably helped. So I skipped these options.
//// The (simple!) solution I tried that SEEMS to work (only time will tell!) is buried in the main Android Settings (accessed from the Menu button while in Home screen). Under "Applications" there is a setting "Fast Boot" that I checked long ago and forgot about (it seemed like a good thing to do at the time). The text warns "Turn off to use some Market apps" (that shows the age of my 2-yr old used phone and Android OS -- ohmygosh!-- because it refers to Market rather than Google Play Store!) Anyway, I unchecked the option and rebooted the phone.
Yes, it took a bit longer to boot (maybe a whole minute!), but after waiting about another minute ALL my home screen apps had normal icons and loaded properly. Titanium Backup Pro batch scenarios confirmed there were no apps in a forced uninstalled state (i.e. I had not done the deed, the system somehow had done it or at least rendered the apps "invisible" to Titanium, which decided they needed reinstallation).
The only odd behaviour was that auto brightness was turned off after I unchecked Fast Boot and rebooted. Going into Android Settings > Display and rechecking "auto brightness" took care of that. No other oddities or strange behaviours thus far (but it has only been about an hour).
I will report anything further on this thread only (Samsung Fascinate > Fascinate Q&A > What just happend? apps on sdcard) if anything else requires reporting. Silence implies success!
link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1873670
(I am copying this post to other relevant threads, but will not post anything further elsewhere -- only there. This is a bit arbitrary (especially now that the chosen thread no longer is the most recent active one on this topic), but I hope this approach pleases the XDA sysops/admins) :angel:
I've recently noticed my phone is becoming sluggish and slow. Lockscreen isn't 'fast' (wake up and slide,slider just sits there). There's a 2 second delay when I hit the home button or sleep/wake button before the screen shows anything.
When opening/exiting apps,it takes a couple of seconds,sometimes it gives a black blank screen.
Any one know of any fixes?
What exactly have you done with your phone?
Clearing your cache is something someone will recommend, so ill go ahead and tell you to try wiping your cache.
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Well recently I frozen a couple of apps(couple of google syncs stuff I don't use),service menu,street view,tts service,the 4 verify certificate dummy apps <-- are these save to freeze?
That's all I can think of.
choose carefully which ones but with titanium I did an uninstall instead of freeze and my device runs much faster.
If simple tweaks don't work a fresh start will. You could always do a security wipe. worse case yet re flash device with flashtool. anyhow make backups with clockwork mod as you get it where you want it.
I took all my apps off the system and put them on my SD card.
HOWEVER their data remains, you should use sd maid from the market and clean your phone. Despite it's name, it cleans more than the SD card and it has a nice and easy ui!
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I have been having a problem with my 1.4.2 nootered, overclocked Nook Color that I can't find being mentioned anywhere on this board. And since I don't have enough posts to post this in the Manual Nooter thread, I am following GMPower's request and posting here.
Every time I add, or update, an app my screen, and I assume my system, will keep refreshing, from anywhere from 10 to over 50 times, and can take over 5 minutes to finish. The only thing I can do while it is doing this, is go into settings until it finishes. None of my widgets, or screen shortcuts are visible, and the app drawer is empty while this is going on
I am using Zeam launcher, MN 5.02.19 apps2sd with dalingrin's 091111 OC kernel, which I have been using without a problem since it was released, and my Nook is 1.4.2 software.
I have rerooted, following the instructions, multiple times, redownloaded all of the files, just in case they were the problem, and completely reset the Nook, using the 8 failed reboots, and started from scratch, with no improvement.
As of right now it is just a (major) annoyance, but I can't show off how cool my rooted Nook is to other Nook owners for fear that it will be refreshing itself and be unusable.
Is anyone else having this problem, and/or does anyone know how to fix it?
Thanks, Rick
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I have been having a problem with my 1.4.2 nootered, overclocked Nook Color that I can't find being mentioned anywhere on this board. And since I don't have enough posts to post this in the Manual Nooter thread, I am following GMPower's request and posting here.
Every time I add, or update, an app my screen, and I assume my system, will keep refreshing, from anywhere from 10 to over 50 times, and can take over 5 minutes to finish. The only thing I can do while it is doing this, is go into settings until it finishes. None of my widgets, or screen shortcuts are visible, and the app drawer is empty while this is going on
I am using Zeam launcher, MN 5.02.19 apps2sd with dalingrin's 091111 OC kernel, which I have been using without a problem since it was released, and my Nook is 1.4.2 software.
I have rerooted, following the instructions, multiple times, redownloaded all of the files, just in case they were the problem, and completely reset the Nook, using the 8 failed reboots, and started from scratch, with no improvement.
As of right now it is just a (major) annoyance, but I can't show off how cool my rooted Nook is to other Nook owners for fear that it will be refreshing itself and be unusable.
Is anyone else having this problem, and/or does anyone know how to fix it?
Thanks, Rick
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First off, thank you for following my request in the post, it makes it so much easier for me to quickly get on here and address this question for you. What it sounds like your describing, is a little issue that I have seen with the apps2sd support. The system is taking longer than it should to scan and remount the SD card.
I have been too busy with other stuff to get around to looking into the problem. I have never heard of anything as severe as yours. I personally have only had one screen refresh upon system startup, and again after removing the USB cable. I have a total of 13 apps that are installed on the SD card, and run a class 10 SD card. You can try moving all apps that are installed on the SD card to the device, then plug the device into the computer and delete any leftover files in the /sdcard/.android_secure folder.
If the issue continues to be a problem, and you want to remove the apps2sd support, feel free to send me a PM, and I can send you a file to flash that will remove it.
GM thanks for the quick reply. I moved most of my apps off of the sd card, and so far it looks promising. I will update after more experimenting. Looks like the problem could've been too many apps on the sd card. Thanks for your help, and for all you have done to make our Nooks better.
Rick
Well it looked promising, I downloaded an app from the amazon app store, and only one, very quick refresh and all was well. I just updated 3 apps from google play, wifi analyzer, google earth, and PvM, once done my nook started to refresh, the screen went black, except for the button savior buttons, and the notification bar. It stayed black and I had to reboot, and during the reboot I got stuck at the Nook Color by NookDevs portion of the boot up, and had to reboot again. It did reboot normally, and no refresh and appears to be acting normally now. I will keep experimenting.
Rick
Ohai ladies and gentlemen , i created this thread to share our performance tweaks of minicm9 , we all use different
I use Nova launcher Prime , Supercharger , Swap 256mb and ES task manager
waiting on yours :d
Why do you use a task manager?
Your phone is supercharged!
Well may not be much but I've finally reached 22 hours with battery life I'm sorry that I can't give the specifics of what i did because I randomly did stuff (supercharge, oc, ram manager, optimizations, tweaking the light sensors) so idk what really gave me almost 1 day battery life with heavy use
New Way : Try Fruit Ninja
I used to play Fruit Ninja (The CHINESE VERSION having pomegranate at the end of the arcade mode) to check every type of performance.
Although i tried Benchmark which does not working properly due to no 3D hardware acceleration.
It shows 130 points for RAM
And goes only to 50 FPS on that spiral test.
But when i checked playing Fruit Ninja ,
Graphic Performance is equal to that of any light GB Rom say STARK Rom etc. without any special tweaks. Even while playing Music.
And when i minimize Fruit Ninja for any thing it does not get off close due to less Ram and on maximizing it do not lags for a while even and go on smoothly.
Also i tried Temple Run and it just running as in GB Rom
And also tried Trial Extreme Winter which is going awesome.
By the way , i am unable to understand that how a tweak can do something, and if they do why they are already not included on the Roms.
I used to format system myself and clear cache and wipe data every time and i disable the services like facebook, widgets, gtalk, gmail etc which starts automatically on any event, using AUTOSTART app , this is enough for me to get good performance.
Here's mine: supercharger, apex launcher, smartassv2 governor with min cpu set to 19 Mhz, max to 600Mz, Only get 12 hours of battery with normal use
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here's mine
ADW Launcher ex latest
KSM - On
Compcache - Off (speeds up a lot! As the os does less work to get data on and off the ram, compression increases ram access time)
Min freq - 19
Max freq - 748
Governor - smartassv2
Undervolt - Off
Full day battery with wifi nearly always connected!
And smooth and fast too...
Apex launcher
600-19 mhz frequency
Smartassv2
Ram manager pro hard multitasking
I got 12 hours max with medium usage.this rom is amazing,but i dont think its usable for daily usage yet.
1day 17 hours
no oc ,smartv2,delete and freeze some app, no undervolt( i found battery drain, dunno why) night sleep using air-plane drop 1%
oc 748.
no supercharger.
apex launcher.
ondemand governor.
1 - 2 days battery life.
nashshafrulrezza said:
oc 748.
no supercharger.
apex launcher.
ondemand governor.
1 - 2 days battery life.
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My battery life barely stands for half a day....even when mostly idle.. :/
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To reiterate and expand on my post here:
SD card:
Do NOT make an ext4 partition with swap (and make sure there isn't one)
System setup:
Flash minicm9 and gapps as normal
Remove unwanted applications and services (e.g. for me, Google Talk, FM radio, etc.).
Remove DSP Manager.
If you like the dark ICS theme, you can replace your Contacts.apk, Mms.apk and Email.apk with the ones from here. Flashing doesn't work for me, but you can extract and copy them manually. Do not replace your music.apk.
Flash this zip to get SRS audio support if you want virtual surround when listening to music on earphones (stock player). Similar to what the DSP Manager can do for you, but a lot more lightweight.
Do not 'install a2sd' via console
System configuration:
Set up your autobrightness settings like this
Test your pulse notification light. If it stops flashing after a couple of seconds, go to system/lib/hw via your root file manager and delete/rename lights.shakira.so. Once you reboot, your notification light should work normally.
Disable Google's location service (GPS is okay)
Min CPU: 320MHz (important); Max CPU: ~? (I use 748)
Governor: SMARTASSV2
Disable zRam
Do not enable 'Allow purging of assets'
Do not enable Kernel samepage merging
Surface dithering: Yes
16bit transparency: No|Yes (up to you)
You should now:
Have a for the most part very fluid minicm9 (using Trebuchet). There should be no crashes or instablity, apps will not hang or FC. Memory will feel a little short, but apps should load quickly enough and be incredibly responsive once loaded. Stock browser will choke on low memory, I suggest Opera mobile as an alternative.
This is a very usable state of affairs, but if you want more and have a decent SD card, keep reading:
Performance tweaks:
Do NOT use Supercharger.
Move large apps that are not usually running to SD (e.g. Opera) via Settings»Apps»Move to SD. If this option is greyed out, follow this guide to move them anyway (NB: the command for the ICS platform is set-install-location rather than setInstallLocation).
Install SD-Booster and a SD card speed test of your choice. Adjust the cache until you get an optimal read/write speed (for me, this is at 4096KB) – more is not always better. You can uninstall the speed tester once you're done.
Install Swapper2.
Set swap place to somewhere safe on your SD card (do not use an ext partition)
Set swap size to at least 128M, I recommend 256M.
Set swappiness to 20
Advanced options» tick Recreate swap file and Reformat swap
Enable swap once (may take a bit as it writes the file).
When it says 'Done' open Terminal emulator and type in 'free'. You should now see the available swap (however much you set).
Go to your favourite file explorer and navigate to your swap file/folder. Make a copy of the .swp file
Back in swapper2 go to Advanced options again, and UNtick Recreate swap file & Reformat swap. Once you hit okay, it should say 'Swap file removed, all ok!'. Note that enabling swap will now fail as it can't find the file (bug?)
This is why we made the copy back in your file manager. Open it up and rename the copied swap file to its original filename.
Back in swapper2 (without touching the settings) click 'On'. It should now enable swap just fine. Verify in terminal, and you are done!
Note that to connect your USB storage, you will have to turn off swapper2. As you don't recreate/format swap every time this should be pretty much instantaneous (as long as you remember to do it!)
Your ROM should now still be running every bit as smooth as it was before, BUT you should have a lot more memory to work with, which means apps will no longer reload all the time (I would still suggest to free up apps via home button » swipe if you no longer need them).
Enjoy!
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If you've set everything up properly, this should be about what you can expect in performance:
http://vimeo.com/42602916
(pass to view is xda)
epithetic said:
Remove unwanted applications and services (e.g. for me, Google Talk, FM radio, etc.).
Remove DSP Manager.
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Hello,
how to remove those applications? I don't have "uninstall" button.
Use Titanium Backup or Root Explorer to delete these apps.
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^ this.
tethnekos said:
Hello,
how to remove those applications? I don't have "uninstall" button.
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Open system/app in a root file manager and delete the .apks you don't use or need.
You can backup your system beforehand if you're concerned about deleting something important.
OK, let me add my experience. Not gonna talk here about self-evident things like remove apps you don´t need, watch what they do in background etc.
Two main things are of concern. Battery life and performance. Now I´m only gonna talk about the latter.
I was one of those unfortunates who used to stare more than 5 secs at the black screen when starting phone, contacts, messages, settings. Tried pretty much every possible combination of governors and CPU freqs to no avail.
Then one single thing that made it better - to some 2-3 secs - was to disable compcache.
The second step I took was experimenting with swap. Now my phone, contacts .. etc open almost INSTANTLY. I´ve got a class 10 32GB SD and I was using ext4 since Slade´s ZP kernel, but without swap. Now it was for the first time I´ve set up a swap in ext4 and for me that solved performance problems perfectly.
So, if you have a DECENT SD card, you may want to give it a try for yourself.
One more thing. If anybody is worried about ext4 speed and/or SD wear - there is a option to disable data journalling on ext4. More on that later if anybody´s interested, or try to google.
CosminAdriaan said:
Ohai ladies and gentlemen , i created this thread to share our performance tweaks of minicm9 , we all use different
I use Nova launcher Prime , Supercharger , Swap 256mb and ES task manager
waiting on yours :d
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Dolphin Companion,Apex Launcher,root browser, Undervolt, max.600MHz and min.120MHz, ultra brightness all time, LIVE WALLPAPER(lexus)... 3-4days!
drfr said:
If anybody is worried about ext4 speed and/or SD wear - there is a option to disable data journalling on ext4. More on that later if anybody´s interested, or try to google.
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Does that solve the problems with ext4 swap?
Because for me (see above) swap works great but as soon as there is an ext4 swap partition/swap file on ext everything comes to a grinding halt.