Hello,
I plan to buy an HTC magic 32B from SFR (France provider), does a way to obtain the full Hero Sens UI on this device?
Thanks for your help.
Regards
LikeM8
Wrong Section, I guess.
But shure there is the possibility of installing senseUI.
A lot of custom roms (old and new sese) can be found in the "dream" section (dream roms usually run on 32b board Magic aswell.)
You might want to get an class6 sd card and install a swap partition on that (amon-ra recovery will do that for you. search for it and install it)
Although using stock android makes more sense (lol... sense) if you want to have an amazingly fast phone (a couple of hero roms are running very well. for daily use its ok. But it is more fun having a phone that feels iphone3gspeedish )
Problem is the ram. it has 192mb whereas hero has 288 (or so).
that's why you should use a swap partition (or at least compcache, what is compressing ram on runtime)
there is also a 10mb RAM hack that makes use of some secondary grafic memory.
Makes system run, but it is no longer possible to play certain 3d games...
Whatever you do, you will have fun with your Magic
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I've just installed compcache on my Cyanogen ROM, and preliminary farting around gives me the impression "this is frelling epic". I can have some big apps running, all at once, flick between them without reloads, and go back to the home screen instantly.
So here's the question: why is the ext2 partition needed? If compcache does it magic by creating a ramdisk that has compression enabled, and then using that for swap, why does it need any changes to your SD card at all? (I've made the changes, I have my ext2 partition - I'd just like to understand WHY).
Also, has anyone done any empirical testing on battery life with compcache versus swappper? My gut feeling (although this is not based on any proper analysis) is that swapper has made my battery take a real nose-dive, and I've seen people on the Dream boards say compcache has the same or worse effect. How are people finding it on their Magics?
I have had swapper for a while and it does not appear to have any effect on my battery thus far. I've heard of people running both compcache and swapper. Is there a good tutorial out there on setting compcache up? The one I found was kinda outdated and listed support roms that were WAY outdated. I wouldn't mind trying both in conjunction with each other.
I found this over in the Dream forums
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=537236
but it does presuppose that you're running Cyanogen.
I've actually bumped up my "swap" with Compcache to 64Mb. Rationale is that the Dream has less RAM than we do (even us poor relation 32B RAM-cripped Magic owners). Loaded Google Mail, Exchange Mail, Pacman, Teeter, and loaded up icanhascheezburger.com on the browser (the latter usually being a sure-fire way of prompting a pause for reloading when going back to the home screen). There was no more than half a second delay switching from app to app once they'd all loaded and they all seemed to stay in memory rather than the oldest one used dropping out and needing a reload. If the battery life holds up I'm very pleased.
Just to verify, Swapper is for using a swap on a SD while Compcache utilizes space on the built in ram for a swap. Is this correct?
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Just to verify, Swapper is for using a swap on a SD while Compcache utilizes space on the built in ram for a swap. Is this correct?
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As I understand it, yes. So basically Compcache will grab (say) 32Mb of your RAM and uses it as swap. Which would make no sense (because why would you swap to RAM - just use the RAM as RAM!) except Compcache compresses what gets swapped. Your 32Mb thus becomes 96Mb or more (I'm seeing compression factors of 70-odd %). What I don't personally get is why Compcache needs an ext2 (linux) partition on your SD card.
Using GUI for Darktremor Apps2SD on my phone it shows available RAM usually between 40mb and 85mb. Yet, on Total Free - it shows around 294mb of 457mb. How is this possible? I've ran the a2sd reinstall and never had any issues come back. How is this possible?
My phone is VERY snappy. Wow. Thats all I'm saying, but it does get sluggish if it drops in available memory. How do I use MORE of the total memory? Thinking maybe firerat? (this repartitions the internal memory I believe)
Any suggestions or explanations?
Its a Sprint HTC Hero. Rooted. Running aospCMod-20110322 (froyo 2.3.3). Class 6 2GB microSD card. Using Darktremor Apps2SD with swap, and cache on SD card. I am not using Froyo's native app2SD. Just the symlink used by Darktremor.
must be a GUI bug that prevents showing the real memory available. just go to settings> storage and scroll down to the phone memory row. it will show you the real memory available.
Settings > Memory Info Still shows 53 / 190
Sadly it shows me basically the same thing. Available memory / free memory. Thats my confusion. How do I get it to be 190 available memory or am I misunderstanding something.
HI, I'm new to the forums. Mostly I SEARCH & SEARCH & SEARCH again... so I don't have to ask too many questions. However, as I'm new I can't post yet other areas.
You know about 2 things that I want to ask about.
Having aps2sd (DarkTremors) how long did it take to install? You said you did the Cache which I want to do and when I did mine, it seems to have frozen? I reverted back to my backup. It's my public phone and I need it working. Though I could toss the 'sim' back in the old phone I replaced.
I got to test the effectiveness of a Back up which was quite fast. (That's why I'm wondering? Why it was taking so long?)
SO, how long does it take to install aps2sd (Including letting it do it's thing and creat links? 20 30 40 min?)
I've got a Class4 32gb card.
My other question is about the setup of the GUI. Just install the .apk or do I need to do any tweeking to get it functional with the script?
Hope to get a reply here. Thanks in advance. OH, in case it helps, I'm running an Xperia Mini Pro. I did consider waiting for the Xperia Pro but decided I wanted the compactness... it's a nice
daily user and good pocket size.
OH, and of course great price...
Hi guys,
I have a Desire which I am more than happy with however after getting the low storage message I decided to change to a more minimalist ROM - opting for the Oxygen Gingerbread (2.0.1).
At first I was very impressed with it's minimalism and went a good week or so without any major faults. However, this has changed and I've had enough of the small niggling problems - touch screen not responding, randomly rebooting and getting stuck in a boot loop only curable by pulling the battery, etc.
From what I can gather its HTC Sense takes up a lot of internal memory on the Android software which brings me onto the area of which I'm after some help.
I know the Desire and the Nexus are virtually the same piece of kit, however the Nexus is shipped, obviously, HTC Sense free. Is it possible to flash a stock Nexus ROM onto my Desire? If not, can I relosd tthe stock ROM that came with my phone but remove HTC Sense and all related apps such as Footprints, etc?
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
You should not try flashing stock Nexus ROM on a Desire.
Even a minute difference between devices could cause a problem, and they do have different bootloaders.
(plus there is a minor hardware difference - Nexus one has a trackball while the desire has a pad)
Note, that removing apps from stock ROM will not increase your storage capacity by it self.
Those apps are installed on system partition which is mounted write only by default and is not counted as available storage space.
There would be a need for a special ROM package that resizes partitions.
One peace of advice I can give you, is to look for odex'd ROMs.
And odex, is a file which contains an Android application in ready to run state.
Usualy, when you install an app, the binary is extracted from the apk file (the package the app comes in) processed and placed in the cache.
So it takes up additional storage space.
Manufacturers like HTC ship their release ROMs with the applications preprocessed, so the odex files resides on the system partition and so the built in apps do not take up any space in cache.
In my experience, on a Desire the difference between an odex and unodexed ROM containing same apps can result in around 40MB of storage.
Ok great! Thanks for the advice, I've done some reading up about odex'd ROMs and have a much better understanding now.
Cheers again.
Hello,
I was reading a lot of posts about adding a swap partition in the SD card for android devices.
There seems to be no support for it in the stock kernel of the HTC Sensation, and there isnt any rom that supports it.
Is it very difficult to recompile a kernel (for example I'm using LEEdroid 1.3)
Do you guys think that it will be worth the hassle?
I have a Class 10 Sd card, and coming from a Nokia N900 swapping on it wasnt that slow, but In what Im more interested is in keeping more things in memory to avoid doing reloads (for example when you open 3 tabs in the web browser and go to google talk or play something like drag racing and then you reopen the web browser all the tabs must be reloaded, from what I understand to avoid running out of memory).
Sorry for my english, sorry for asking this in this forum, but I'm a new member and I'm not allowed to Post in the android development forums, but any help would be really appreciated.
Again Sorry for my english,
And Saludos desde españa!
i was thinking the same way but it seems that no one is interested in swap support
There comes a point when swap just wouldn't be as useful. It was needed on the G1 because it barely had enough Ram to hold a home screen in memory, so there was no other alternative BUT to use swap to make your phone functional, but on a phone like this it would noticeably slow it down since your sdcard would be slower than internal Ram. The reason it would be slower is because the phone doesn't actually run the apps from swap, it just stores them there, so every time you would want to run an app that was stored in swap, your phone would have to move one app from internal ram to swap, then move the app you want to use back to internal. Even with a class 10 sdcard, that would be slower than your dual-core phone opening the app from scratch I'd think...
Hopefully this helps, and hopefully I explained it right. Been so long since I used swap, I really had to think to remember.
Hi,
I guess I might sound like a retard - but to the best of my understanding, I believe I have mostly understood what I need to do to install a larger ROM on my HD2 Leo
I have the radio, Hardspl 2.08 and MAGLDR already installed on my HTC and a previously CWM ROM I believe to be am ICS type I wish to upgrade from.
I would love to load a larger "sense" type ROM, but I realise it takes up more memory. So, I have ordered a 32Gb SD card with the intention of using it after "partioning" it to load my large ROM. I also want to a fair bit of memory set aside to install some large type apps, so I guess this is where the SD card comes into play as well.
I've read the guides and tried to ascertain what the best method would be for me - but there seems to be a few ways of going about it, and I easily get confused. Do I root the phone? - do a "Nand" or SD-based ROM install?
If I could get a simple rough guide as to which would be the simplest way to achieve the above - I would be greatly appreciative.
Smokey...