Well, due to unexpected turn of events, I am using an HTC Aria as my daily driver phone on Net10, S-OFF and currently running the last CM7.2 Nightly ROM with the included kernel (Max clock 768/Min 245, OnDemand and tried Interactive) and I have been getting daily reboots, not really bad but annoying. Any thoughts on cleaning up the reboots, is the Official Stable version better? I am running at 25 MB free consistently after moving everything to the SD card that can be moved, could this be part of the reboot problem?
Is there a better daily driver ROM, perhaps one with more internal storage free or one that uses the external SD as it's primary storage (acts as internal storage)? Thoughts on MIUI or something else? What is everyone who is still using the Aria using as their daily driver ROM?
I know this is very much a legacy device, but for the next few months at least I need to make this work fairly solid and I really don't like the stock ROM with all it's bloat
I'm not using my Aria anymore, but I gave mine to a friend, and it had the latest CM10 rom(not CM10.1) on it by WinSuk. So far it hasn't been giving him any problems. Maybe you should give CM7.2 Stable a shot before trying CM10 out though, since there are some bugs on CM10. Have you tried using Links2sd or moving the dalvik cache to the sd card for more storage space?
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I'm not using my Aria anymore, but I gave mine to a friend, and it had the latest CM10 rom(not CM10.1) on it by WinSuk. So far it hasn't been giving him any problems. Maybe you should give CM7.2 Stable a shot before trying CM10 out though, since there are some bugs on CM10. Have you tried using Links2sd or moving the dalvik cache to the sd card for more storage space?
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I have been using DroidSail's App2SD thinking it was the same thing, but I am learning it is very different. I will look into that, thanks. I was short on time yesterday so tried to dirty flash back to CM 7.2 Stable, but it was rather... umm... unsuccessful... Had to nandroid back, when I get some more time this weekend I will probably try again with a clean flash, maybe CM10, and perhaps MIUI as well. Thanks again!
EDIT: Interesting, last night around 7pm I changed the Max Clock speed to 787 MHz instead of 768, and dropped an app I didn't need freeing up 15MB of space (maintaining 41MB free on average), much smoother operation of the phone all around and no reboots in almost 24 hours. Note sure if the extra space helped or changing the clock speed, but seems to make a difference. I would assume that 787 uses a slightly different bus speed than 768 rather than a multiplier change so that alone could make a huge difference if I was at the edge of what the HW could take.
Edit 2: Nvm... it still reboots, back down to 600 MHz max for now.
acejavelin said:
I have been using DroidSail's App2SD thinking it was the same thing, but I am learning it is very different. I will look into that, thanks. I was short on time yesterday so tried to dirty flash back to CM 7.2 Stable, but it was rather... umm... unsuccessful... Had to nandroid back, when I get some more time this weekend I will probably try again with a clean flash, maybe CM10, and perhaps MIUI as well. Thanks again!
EDIT: Interesting, last night around 7pm I changed the Max Clock speed to 787 MHz instead of 768, and dropped an app I didn't need freeing up 15MB of space (maintaining 41MB free on average), much smoother operation of the phone all around and no reboots in almost 24 hours. Note sure if the extra space helped or changing the clock speed, but seems to make a difference. I would assume that 787 uses a slightly different bus speed than 768 rather than a multiplier change so that alone could make a huge difference if I was at the edge of what the HW could take.
Edit 2: Nvm... it still reboots, back down to 600 MHz max for now.
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I still use my aria as a media player, and keep it as a spare phone. CM9 and 10 were both nicely stable for me, but at this point you pretty much have to run an apps to ext partition solution due to the current size of apps and lack of internal space on the device. In any case, mine has always had random reboot issues if I overclock past 768, on any ROM.
I have CM10.1 on there now... but I can't get s2e to work with it (my old standby for apps to ext) and link 2sd seems to be misbehaving, or I don't know how to use it correctly. I'm going to go back to either cm10, or maybe a stock based froyo rom if I can track one down, just for the heck of it. What I want is attn1's liberated fr008.
Good luck.
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So now that the GB ROMs seem to be in full swing.....
What are the pros and cons vs Froyo?
Well, I went from Froyo to GB and for me:
Much faster and smoother
Almost no lag, you would think it was a 1Ghz phone
WIFI and GPS locks on almost instantly and does not drop out.
3G data rate is mouch more consistent
I have been waiting patiently for the Thunderbolt, and this rom will make the wait much easier
Thanks to Workshed for an amazing rom.
There is really not a whole lot different, besides looks. The GB keyboard is better. I could really use either one in a pinch, though right now I am using GSB myself.
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There is really not a whole lot different, besides looks. The GB keyboard is better. I could really use either one in a pinch, though right now I am using GSB myself.
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That's actually not true at all, there are quite a few differences. Workshed's rom uses the latest CM7 nightly (RC1). Tazz's rom uses ADW as the default home launcher, Workshed's uses LauncherPro. Not sure of the numbers but both roms come overclocked at different numbers. Workshed's rom comes with an extra theme (Mau5KANG). There are quite a few differences but my suggestion honestly is to try them both for about 5 days each and see which one you like best ! Hope all this helps.
Its the little things;
Theme Manager has great potential, change themes on the fly
Better memory management. I no longer use autokiller.
App Management in settings, populates fast and is more user friendly. Great for killing stubborn or hung apps without the need for 3rd party app. (Older versions were slow and clunky).
Built in CPU manager clock speed and governor.
Auto bright setting controls seem much improved IMO.
More lockscreen options.
Overall responsiveness improved, providing better user experience.
Active development. More options and improvements still to come.
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That's actually not true at all, there are quite a few differences. Workshed's rom uses the latest CM7 nightly (RC1). Tazz's rom uses ADW as the default home launcher, Workshed's uses LauncherPro. Not sure of the numbers but both roms come overclocked at different numbers. Workshed's rom comes with an extra theme (Mau5KANG). There are quite a few differences but my suggestion honestly is to try them both for about 5 days each and see which one you like best ! Hope all this helps.
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He asked the pros and cons between Gingerbread and Froyo, not between the two GB ROMs - and that's what my post was answering.
Thanks for the info, any input is appreciated.
My biggest concern is speed.
I have flashed a lot of ROMs over the past year or so. I have found regardless of the ROM when my available memory drops below 50M my phone gets laggy. I started using Go Launcher about a month ago and really like it (running app tab is great). I see apps running in the background that I know I haven't used like facebook, youtube and Pandora. Autokiller does not seem to be doing a good job squashing them. I want Pandora on my phone I just only want it running when I am using it.
Conapp, Tazz, Kaos and Shed have all been great and very responsive to questions or issues with their ROMs
I think it is time to give GB a run.
GB does a great job managing memory and terminating background apps. Never get the slow Downs like I did on 2.1 or 2.2
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I have flashed a lot of ROMs over the past year or so. I have found regardless of the ROM when my available memory drops below 50M my phone gets laggy.
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As part of the upgrade, look into flashing xtrcache2cache, which will free up a lot of memory for data and apps - probably about 30 MB or so. If you do use it, you just have to remember to re-flash it after updating the ROM. So,
- flash GSB
- flash gapps (mandatory, even for no wipe updates)
- flash cache2cache
It's here, and works just fine with GSB: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=924562
Ok, one more advantage to GB, and this, to me, is a big one, is cursor placement/text selection. It's much better - I actually like it more than iOS's tap/hold/magnifying glass.
http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.3-highlights.html
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Ok, one more advantage to GB, and this, to me, is a big one, is cursor placement/text selection. It's much better - I actually like it more than iOS's tap/hold/magnifying glass.
http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.3-highlights.html
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Ah! That helps answer a concern of mine wondering how easy it will be to get used to not having a trackball when I do eventually (probably not for a year) upgrade from the Eris. I don't use the trackball a lot, but for fine adjustments to text selections, it certainly has helped.
i am finding GB to be much faster and my battery life seems to be better.
Peace
Wwonka69
[KERNEL][CM7][Froyo] Dalingrin's OC kernel w/fixed IO perf (quadrant) & 1.2Ghz test
Disclaimer: As always, flash at your own risk.
Background
So, recently there has been alot of debate over why quadrant (and to some extent, system performance) was lower with the OC kernel, as compared to the stock CM7 kernel. (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1002504) As part of my examining the problem, i went looking for a solution. Starting from the first OC CM7 kernel, i would run quadrant and see how the performance fared. I finally found the issue appeared in the 3-08a kernel; using that, i rolled back changes until i found the commit remove to fix the issue. Specifically, it seems to be somewhere in the 2.6.29.6 update: https://github.com/dalingrin/nook_kernel/commits/gingerbread-exp
In short, using his source, i have compiled a kernel with fixed I/O performance, and all his other tweaks (interactive gov, etc).
So, I want to make this clear; this is still dalingrin's kernel; in no way do i wish to take credit for his work. But, while he is out, work must go on, right?
Information
Who is this kernel for?
eMMC Froyo and CM7 users
Will this work on SD cards?
It may if you manually replace you uImage, but i cannot guarantee it (since i cannot test it)
Is everything working in this release?
everything like bluetooth and dsp should still be just fine (you may have to do a few hard shutdowns/reboots to kick on BT, like normal).
Kernel Links -3/25/10
OC kernels (up to 1100Mhz, Interactive gov, BT and DSP):
Regular
http://www.mediafire.com/?k00ruvyulf01y64
Extra network features (PPP, etc)
http://www.mediafire.com/?i9h76wn483tk16v
OC kernel (up to 1190Mhz, Interactive gov, BT and DSP):
http://www.mediafire.com/?v6d2jpzaynvchde
For those having problems setting this speed in the CM7 performance settings, give setCPU a try, but don't use profiles. Using set CPU, i am able to get my system stable at 1190, where the CM7 manager instantly locks up.
Feedback
After flashing, please make note of OVERALL system response. The dip in quadrant scores prompted the fix, but i feel that the system is overall better; I would like some more input if others are seeing this as well.
Any and all feedback is welcome, and I will do what i can for support...
Great job man, you and dalingrin both!
Ran 3 quadrant tests on newest nightly (#30)
1. 1856
2. 1700 even
3. Whopping 2030!
Can you be more specific about which network features are in the second choice ?
Thanks !!
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Can you be more specific about which network features are in the second choice ?
Thanks !!
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Um....truth is, i am really not too familiar with it, but looking a the diff between the two configs:
# Core Netfilter Configuration
# IP: Netfilter Configuration
# CONFIG_TUN
# CONFIG_PPP
I am trying out the net kernel again, to see if it is better than the last time i tried it..
Edit: Its looking better than the last time i tried it. Launcher pro hangs for a but on startup, but so far so good after that.
Just started using CM7 last night (w/bottom keys mod, so the nightly is from a few revisions back), but just installed this kernel (the regular version, w/out the Net adds, which I don't need), wiped cache & Dalvik, rebooted, set OC to 1100 and "performance" in CyangenMod Settings and now getting 1918 Quad score...vs. 1372 on the stock kernel with no OC.
I can definitely live with that score...great work to you and dalingrin!!
Thanks for taking care of this while I am gone. Much appreciated.
The update to *.6 is not necessary anyway.
When I get back I will revert the *.6 update and compile some of the netfilter/iptables and tun as modules as this seems to be more compatible than compiling them directly into the kernel.
Madcat, kudos to you. This is perceptibly faster.
great work!
so is this a 2.6.29.5 kernel then?
WOW, scrolling through XDA forum is much smoother than it used to be.
Tried on SDcard, installed by copying uImage to Boot. Reboots to EMMC when trying to load desktop. Back to CM7 stock. I guess I'll wait. Thanks though!
Homer
Can I have the config file for the first? I'm going to play with the kernel a bit.
EDIT: I'm just going to keep my big mouth shut for a while. I hoped it was just a bug with quadrant, but I flashed your kernel just now. There is a huge difference in interactivity. I was playing with the app drawer yesterday and couldn't get it to be smooth with "labels fade in" turned on and a 1000ms or so time on the animation for the app drawer. Now it's perfect every time.
GOOD JOB!
I love Open Source.
Will try this in some minutes. (Nook charging)
Ok, tested it. My scores below.
** QUADRANT SCORES **
Before update, 1100mhz: ~700
After update, 800mhz: ~1500
Now, 1100mhz: 1920
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Awesome!
Just flashed it on mine and seems silky smooth to me. Not real sure there is a big difference, but it is not worse at least. Seems better to me.. Good job Madcat!!
Waiting anxiously for Dalingrin to return to his lab and see what else he can whip up for us..
nice!
i'm getting the same numbers as others (~1800) now. haven't really tested for overall smoothness yet.
will this kernel ever get a nookie version?
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will this kernel ever get a nookie version?
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I have to admit - i said CM7 only, since that is all i have to test it on. If you do want to try it, you don't really risk anything; if it doesn't work, simply reboot to recovery and flash your last working kernel again.
As it is, i haven't really given a good look at what might be different between versions, so i can't give much advice on why it would/wouldn't work on Froyo.
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Tried on SDcard, installed by copying uImage to Boot. Reboots to EMMC when trying to load desktop. Back to CM7 stock. I guess I'll wait. Thanks though!
Homer
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Got the same issue with the Net feature kernel. However the other one works fine. Got 1918 Quadrant on SD Card with OC 1100 GHz + interactive gov.
So I guess CM7 performance on SD is not too bad compared to eMMC
@Divine_Madcat : Could you look into the problem of the Net features kernel with SD Card booting? It run into eMMC after the bootanimation.
Thanks much for your work, an action is much better than thousand words !!
I tried both of these from SD card. The non-net features version boots but posted some terrible #s for me (<700 Quadrant and ~6-7 Linpack); the net features version doesn't boot. Is there something special I need to do with the first kernel to see the benefits? I checked and was clocked to 1.1GHz in CM settings.
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@Divine_Madcat : Could you look into the problem of the Net features kernel with SD Card booting? It run into eMMC after the bootanimation.
Thanks much for your work, an action is much better than thousand words !!
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Ill be happy to take a look, but can't promise anything right away.
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I tried both of these from SD card. The non-net features version boots but posted some terrible #s for me (<700 Quadrant and ~6-7 Linpack); the net features version doesn't boot. Is there something special I need to do with the first kernel to see the benefits? I checked and was clocked to 1.1GHz in CM settings.
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hmmmm.. that doesn't sound right at all. May i ask which nightly you are using? Right now, i am on nightly 27, and haven't seen anything like that (in my case, it either works, or just boot loops, if i set the clock too high).
i know that this is a rather foolish question.but i am 13 years old and i really want an answer.this is the only place i think to find an answer.
i know that our android phone has a specified amount of internal storage.part of it is for storing apk,datas etc.another part is for rom image and all all those stuff.what i want to know is when i am installing a new rom,is it actually overwritting the existing rom.or is it installed alongside it.cause my phone is getting slower each time i install a new custom rom in my htc hero.it has 600 mhz processor.but even angry birds lag in my phone but it works smooth on my nokia 5233 xpress music touch phone.both these games are are of similar size and have same graphics quality.
No the previous rom is over written or in most cases deleted when you carry out the full wipe/delete.
The hero is an old phone and as time goes on and software evolves ect.. it also become larger in size in most cases, if you are after speed, keep away from sense roms, and generally the older the rom the better in terms of performance/free space ect..
I used to own a hero and "eleinux" (i think his name is) had a good rom called speedmachine which was a pretty good rom for the hero while still having some ports from cyanogen, if you really want a sense rom the maybe look up villainrom as they are pretty good at gutting out all the crap within sense. You could always try over-clock your CPU as-well with setCPU or if you have a cyanogen based rom there is a function within there that will allow you to over-clock.
Other than that the hero is a very dated phone, might be time to consider a new one or newer one.
no. your internal memory never ever gets reduced. if u are rooted. u can use apps like setcpu to increase speed by overclocking(at the cost of lil battery life)
you can virtually increase yout internal memory by partition ur sdcard with ext4,3
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...and I thought my phone was old.
Your phone is outdated, it will slow down with age. Be sure to fully wipe when flashing roms. At the minimum, wipe caches. If you haven't in a while, you should wipe everything before flashing your next rom. Really you should do a full wipe with each rom flash unless flashing an update.
Try out the V6 Supercharger script for a bit more speed, that should help some. You can buy used phones for less than $50 that are better than yours, like the Evo 4G.
I've heard good things about villianrom as well, so I did some searching for you and found this link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=654030
hope it helps, it's very important to do a full wipe of your phone before you install new roms.
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Do you mean all nooks clocked over 1200mhz is bad, or just running cm9? I'm running cm7.1 at 1325mhz, and just want to make sure I'm not doing something stupid. Thanks
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Yes and no. If you have a 24/7 overclock of above 1200 MHz, then it is very unstable and can cause damadge. The Texas Instruments OMAP is good at managing overclock up to 1200 MHz, so if your 1200 MHz and don't go over that, you should be fine. It dosent matter what software, it is all the same processor.
In other words, if you are constantly running the way you are, you may be slowly damadging the processor and after a long period of time it will just die completely. Now if you just clock it that high when gaming or running a system taxing process, then you should be just fine, as long as you lower it into acceptable levels when you are done with said process.
I hope this helps!
Yes that does help, and thank you. I've jumped into all of this with absolutely no knowledge of computers or anything related and would never forgive myself ifI did something to damage my nook. Lol. I hate to bother you with another question, but im wanting to run cm9 off an sd card butI can't seem tI find good instructions on how to do so. My problem is that even using generic-sdcard-v1.3-ics-large-img and its still says I don't have enough space whenI try and put a cm9 nightlies on boot. Very confused. Once again thankyou for your help and sorry to bother you.
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Yes that does help, and thank you. I've jumped into all of this with absolutely no knowledge of computers or anything related and would never forgive myself ifI did something to damage my nook. Lol. I hate to bother you with another question, but im wanting to run cm9 off an sd card butI can't seem tI find good instructions on how to do so. My problem is that even using generic-sdcard-v1.3-ics-large-img and its still says I don't have enough space whenI try and put a cm9 nightlies on boot. Very confused. Once again thankyou for your help and sorry to bother you.
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You are using a ssandisk class 4 card? if not You may have problems. I use only Sandisk sd cards 8 or 16 GB cards.
You write the image file to the sdcard, remove the sdcard then reinsert card back into the computer, then use easeus or mintools partision program to resize the partision to about 1GB (do not resize above 1.87gb or you will have problems), remove and reinsert the card and then copy the ICS nightly to the sdcard. follow the rest of the insrtuction from there.
Adding on to Paul's post (which did a nice complete job, I might add.), you want to do a full wipe of the SD Card using your NookColor (preferable because Windows 7 dosent recognized some items you flash to the SD card) or Computer.
I have a Nook Color 1.4.2 running Verygreen CM7 via SD Card. I installed Nova v3.50.apk and I get the game running in a very small screen on my Nook Color.
What am I doing wrong? How can it run full screen like yours?
Thanks.
This is N.O.V.A 3 the new game by gameloft v1.0.1 not the Nova 1 v1.0.1. I am running CM9 however and on my device emmc (internal memory).
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This is N.O.V.A 3 the new game by gameloft v1.0.1 not the Nova 1 v1.0.1. I am running CM9 however and on my device emmc (internal memory).
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That explains it. Wrong game.
I wonder if NOVA3 will run on CM7/SD.
It probably will, but may not look or be as nice as on CM9 =P.
I'm currently installing Nova as we speak been shooting emails back in forth with with WM and he is very very helpful. Cheers mate and thanks for the fantastic help and understanding.
Thread overhaul is done! Now it has tons of more information and hopefully full instructions on how to do this yourself! Hope you guys enjoy!
I plan to try NOVA 2 at Cm9 non opengl, running from Sd.
Should I make any tweaking? My OC is at 1200 mhz.
Unleashed from my Revolutionized Desire HD
Nova 2 doesn't even start for me.
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Where'd did you get your dalingren kernel? The only ones I can find are for CM7. My nook is now running the latest nightly build of eyeballer's non open gl cm9, and i can only Overclock to 1200 mhz max
All you need is to get the Nook color tools app here. It is free by the way. If you have any other problems just contact me via this thread PM message or by my email address in the Main Thread.
Any proposal for game that runs in CM9 in Sacred Odyssey style?
I like RPG but not these with anime and like cartoon graphics.
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A game was announced at Google I/O 2012 that was a 3rd person free roam RPG, that looked graphically amazing. I do not remember the name of it, but I was impressed with the graphical quality so you may want to check into it. Ill see if I can find it and Ill post a link if I do. Hope I can help!
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A game was announced at Google I/O 2012 that was a 3rd person free roam RPG, that looked graphically amazing. I do not remember the name of it, but I was impressed with the graphical quality so you may want to check into it. Ill see if I can find it and Ill post a link if I do. Hope I can help!
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Horn by http://www.phosphorgames.com/. You see it at about 51:44 in the google io day 1 keynote video
They haven't seemed to have much news on it though heh
Dead Trigger was also shown, which you can easily find on play
Updates updates updates! Dead Trigger and compatibility for CM7 has been added. Cheers! I hope you enjoy.
Yep, this is still a problem.
I just noticed my that Sony may have been right in directing me to check available RAM on ICS. I have a tiny amount of RAM available and had to delete many apps, still the phone doesn't run smoothly.
Anyone here still on Gingerbread? What's your available RAM like? Roughly, how many apps do you have installed? I may switch back, I've had enough.
I can see why this happened:
http://www.androidauthority.com/o2-sony-xperia-ray-arc-neo-ics-update-112137/
Flashing time maybe
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Yep, this is still a problem.
I just noticed my that Sony may have been right in directing me to check available RAM on ICS. I have a tiny amount of RAM available and had to delete many apps, still the phone doesn't run smoothly.
Anyone here still on Gingerbread? What's your available RAM like? Roughly, how many apps do you have installed? I may switch back, I've had enough.
We do not have the same phones so i do not know if the following is relevant or even possible for you. I recently flashed the ics333 rom with a semaphore kernel on my Galaxy SI and it really flies. If i have understood correctly the semaphore kernel frees up extra ram. I now have on average 140-170Mb available instead of 30-60Mb It makes such a difference. even games like Temple Run which i could not play before work without lag.
You should maybe consider flashing an optimised rom, if available.
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A better kernel, or simply a custom ROM, I appreciate your help! :victory:
I came back from my first trip to Paris and my camera app kept freezing, it drove me crazy. I'll definitely look into the kernels.
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Yep, this is still a problem.
I just noticed my that Sony may have been right in directing me to check available RAM on ICS. I have a tiny amount of RAM available and had to delete many apps, still the phone doesn't run smoothly.
Anyone here still on Gingerbread? What's your available RAM like? Roughly, how many apps do you have installed? I may switch back, I've had enough.
I just switched back to GB stock ROM (184 kernel) after having tried ICS stock and xICS Hybrid ROM. In both the ICS based ROMs , I found that the battery usage is quite high (both normal usage and standby) . Also the phone started freezing after a certain number of apps were launched. I face no such issues in GB Stock ROM and it is quite fast too. Also Sony has done a good work wid UI esp. Gesture based typing and word predicition(which is quite accurate)
I have around 12-15 apps installed and I use most of them regularly yet I always have around 90-120 MB of free RAM and I have never run into issues with free RAM as such.
Also, while using ICS receiving a call used to be laggy esp when you are in middle of something and u get a call but GB is quite good in that respect. So I can safely suggest GB is well suited for Sola . Go for ICS only if you need a feature specific to it or if you are too crazy about new UI. Hope this helps a bit :laugh:
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That really helps, thanks! :good:
I couldn't remember much about RAM usage on GingerB but I knew that I didn't have that freezing problem with apps or with phone calls etc. On ICS, I checked my RAM and it was constantly around 20MB, I never imagined I'd be the person that installed too many apps for the RAM to handle. I think Sony made some poor decisions re: RAM and OS upgrade.
Thankfully we can backup our ROMS so easily so I think I'll go back to Gingerbread.
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That really helps, thanks! :good:
I couldn't remember much about RAM usage on GingerB but I knew that I didn't have that freezing problem with apps or with phone calls etc. On ICS, I checked my RAM and it was constantly around 20MB, I never imagined I'd be the person that installed too many apps for the RAM to handle. I think Sony made some poor decisions re: RAM and OS upgrade.
Thankfully we can backup our ROMS so easily so I think I'll go back to Gingerbread.
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Juts to add to my last post, After switching back to GB I found that the battery usage (on standby ) overnight dropped to 3% from 30-40% in case of ICS based ROMs :laugh: