http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMioPBv4PbI&feature=player_embedded
Interesting. It's nothing too noticeable, but I really hope it gets addressed in an OTA update. This and the unresponsive screen/quick swiping issue need to get addressed fast.
only thing that comes to mind is the RAM difference compared to the EVO
1024 > 768
I think the sensation is far from a final device..IMO it is a beta device and I hate htc for that
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I think the sensation is far from a final device..IMO it is a beta device and I hate htc for that
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Well I have had zero issues thus far. Am I lucky or you unlucky?
Dunno about I but my Sensation has less lag than that, though it does take about 3 swipes to get my homescreens spinning. Also, I saw noticeable lag there on the EVO 3D especially towards the end of the Video.
The culprit is sense but the EVO 3D looks slightly more smoothe than on my phone.
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I've played with both devices in hand (I work for Sprint and we've got our demo unit in) and so far I haven't noticed a big difference.
There is a hell of a lot more bloatware on the Sensation then on the Evo 3D, so I'm hoping once we get root we can remove all the crap.
I only have about 110MB of RAM free on a fresh boot with nothing installed yet (so there is defiantly a lot of garbage installed).
Are you checking your free RAM from that stock "task" manager? If so it's very unreliable. You should manually from the Manage Apps screen.
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The spinning effect is just a pointless gimmick anyway. And honestly it looks like it spins way to easily on the Evo.
Sprint SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I think the sensation is far from a final device..IMO it is a beta device and I hate htc for that
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If they give u a final device this mean they are going to close the company and set drinking tea and coffee at their house This A,B business they will never make final device. this is just how it is.
I think this is totally a software issue. The only way it would be RAM is if the RAM was already maxed out and we know this happens even with 200 free.
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I think this is totally a software issue. The only way it would be RAM is if the RAM was already maxed out and we know this happens even with 200 free.
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Yeah I don't think its the ram either, people have said sense3.0 runs smoother on the MT4G which has the same ammount of ram. Even the PS3 only has 256mb RAM and its a beast for graphics. (yes even the seperate GPU is only 256mb)
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Are you checking your free RAM from that stock "task" manager? If so it's very unreliable. You should manually from the Manage Apps screen.
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Both spots show right around the same amount of memory free in the RAM.
nccu_eagles said:
Sprint SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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And why do you think I work for Sprint and carry a T-Mobile phone...
Because I agree.
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Both spots show right around the same amount of memory free in the RAM.
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that's odd. mine always show 2 different.
task manager always show way less.
setting>app I get around 300mb free.
anyway, I dont' think it's a ram issue. perhaps it's because of bloatware on the phone?
I also think that Evo goes into the carousel mode too easily. it would drive me nuts if every time I wanted to change pages and I flick a little too hard and it goes into a carousel...
It also seems to me that the Evo screen is more vibrant.
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i think it's just brightness setting, and evo have the widget clock sun shine effect on...
I'm sorry
I don't see ' unresponsive' or lagged in the video. It's just very slightly different.
Mine can take one swipe to spin it .. if I swipe quickly enough .. in fairness I can't imagine needing it to spin anyway.
Right I'm off to try and find something wrong with it..
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Its sense, I wouldn't be surprised if the difference of ram really mattered. I use launcher pro and my nexus one had absolutely 0 lag. The sensation has no lag on a fresh boot but 10 sexongs later has lag on the expose style feature. I can't wait to root this thing. All I want is vanilla android with the HTC unlock screen
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Hello guys!
AFAIK Sensation has 1 gb of internal storage memory and 768 mbytes of RAM. I hear people say that of that RAM, only ~170 mbytes are available to the user.
Do you experience problems with memory like when applications start to stutter when you start a few of them simultaneously and do you have to delete other apps to make room for new ones (because of ridiculously small internal storage)?
There are no ram issues with the sensation. I'm coming from a g2x which only had 512 and I always had free ram even when I had open everything I normally had open. I constantly had about 95 MB free. With the sensation I constantly have around 150 free with everything open. Someone once said here on the forums. If you constantly have a lot of free then its pretty much wasted ram. And there is 558 or something like that available. The rest is reserved for the gpu. That's the case on many phones and tablets now. They reserve some of the ram for the graphics processor.
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The only ram issues I ran into is after closing Firefox sense would reboot. I'm almost positive its a Firefox issue though. Because that is the only time I had that issue.
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Thanks! But what about the internal storage? Is 1gb enough or will I have to make compromises and delete rarely used apps to make room for new ones?
I haven't had any issues with internal storage yet either. You can alway just move apps to the sd card if you feel like you are losing space.
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Thanks! But what about the internal storage? Is 1gb enough or will I have to make compromises and delete rarely used apps to make room for new ones?
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I don't use as many apps as others but I have about 30-40 apps installed and still have 910Mb of free space. Unless you install over 300 apps I think you'll be fine.
As far as the ram goes if I use a launcher other than sense I can get over 200mb free, compared to just over 100 with sense. I like sense alright, but the ram usage does make me a bit worried. Also I had the sense reboot quite a bit when moving between aps and even when waking up the phone, which I think may be a ram issue (though I certainly don't know it could be something else but I don't have to put up with a 5+ second load with other launchers) .
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As far as the ram goes if I use a launcher other than sense I can get over 200mb free, compared to just over 100 with sense. I like sense alright, but the ram usage does make me a bit worried. Also I had the sense reboot quite a bit when moving between aps and even when waking up the phone, which I think may be a ram issue (though I certainly don't know it could be something else but I don't have to put up with a 5+ second load with other launchers) .
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Welcome to XDA. Is Sense still running in the background?
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Welcome to XDA. Is Sense still running in the background?
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Thanks.
I really can't imagine that it wouldn't be running in the background in some compacity as the lockscreen and contacts etc are all from htc. Only kinda negative thing is you loose the htc widgets. Also I somehow lost the ability to longtap on the homescreen to edit widgets, but I'm sure that is from me doing something wrong; I just haven't google foo'd the right answer yet.
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Thanks.
I really can't imagine that it wouldn't be running in the background in some compacity as the lockscreen and contacts etc are all from htc. Only kinda negative thing is you loose the htc widgets. Also I somehow lost the ability to longtap on the homescreen to edit widgets, but I'm sure that is from me doing something wrong; I just haven't google foo'd the right answer yet.
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Even if you use a launcher sense will still be running in the background. At least that's how it use to be. I think you might be able to kill it at start up with a app like android assistant or something.
I'm waiting for unlocked bootloader so I can hopefully get rid of sense and tmo bloatware. Hopefully the wait won't be too long.
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I'm waiting for unlocked bootloader so I can hopefully get rid of sense and tmo bloatware. Hopefully the wait won't be too long.
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+1 Although I dont have the bloat since I have an unbranded sensation
more and more posts and threads about laggy sense or laggy screen ...... etc
i think it is not god te see every day a complaint in such a device which should be the fastest and most powerful device that htc produced
the last video published on youtube was this
verry laggy in that game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-GPHlKdEZ0
what r htc planning ???
is it a ram "hardware" issue ??? or a software issue that can be repaired later by an update ???
i was going to buy it but now i m confused about it
Mine runs great, even in games. No problems whatsoever.
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Put ADW on it and call it a day. Sense sucks anyway. With ADW its faster than anything I've used including my G2X.
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jrwingate6 said:
Put ADW on it and call it a day. Sense sucks anyway. With ADW its faster than anything I've used including my G2X.
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I put ADW on it and I get extreme lag in app drawer. LP is better, but Go Launcher is the smoothest.
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I don't play games anyway but I tested and u have no lag
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more and more posts and threads about laggy sense or laggy screen ...... etc
i think it is not god te see every day a complaint in such a device which should be the fastest and most powerful device that htc produced
the last video published on youtube was this
verry laggy in that game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-GPHlKdEZ0
what r htc planning ???
is it a ram "hardware" issue ??? or a software issue that can be repaired later by an update ???
i was going to buy it but now i m confused about it
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It's software, definitely. There is no reason why a dual-core couldn't handle a game like this. It's just incredibly laggy Sense and bull**** bloatware. Can't wait for S-Off.
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I put ADW on it and I get extreme lag in app drawer. LP is better, but Go Launcher is the smoothest.
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Dave, you must turn off the annimation in ADW where the icons fly in and out.
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yeah, that person found a particular game -.- btw thanks, the newest 3D games just running fine farm story man ...
xdafun4all said:
more and more posts and threads about laggy sense or laggy screen ...... etc
i think it is not god te see every day a complaint in such a device which should be the fastest and most powerful device that htc produced
the last video published on youtube was this
verry laggy in that game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-GPHlKdEZ0
what r htc planning ???
is it a ram "hardware" issue ??? or a software issue that can be repaired later by an update ???
i was going to buy it but now i m confused about it
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but what about the non responsive screen and lock screen ring issues ??
htc need to introduce an update to solve all these problems ..... as the update recently released lead to more laggy device and less smooth performance
as mentioned by users who installed the update
xdafun4all said:
but what about the non responsive screen and lock screen ring issues ??
htc need to introduce an update to solve all these problems ..... as the update recently released lead to more laggy device and less smooth performance
as mentioned by users who installed the update
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Do you have a sensation ,or are u just a troll,sensation is not even close to laggy, I had some issues called in for replacement and the phone I had seemed like it fixed itself , the replacement is smooth as babys bottom and I'm sorry but sense Is ten times better than any other launcher ....and I had them all
install new OTA update and TADA sense is very fast!
OP happened to find game which clearly isnt made properly for adreno or new cpu's.
try dungeon defenders for example.. it runs VERY smooth even though its probably one of the most advanced and heavy load games.
i can speak aboin mine and my friends unbranded : none of these problems. probably a simple cry issue above. do u even own a sensation ?
xdafun4all said:
but what about the non responsive screen and lock screen ring issues ??
htc need to introduce an update to solve all these problems ..... as the update recently released lead to more laggy device and less smooth performance
as mentioned by users who installed the update
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These problems that mentioned above are real. I mean how don't you see related threads by now?
Unresponsiveness which includes lockscreen issue appears after sometime. This my second unit and it semms to appear again. Being your not having right now doesn't mean there isn't.
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i was going to buy it but now i m confused about it
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i think this is obvious .... i dont have the device but the forum here is full of people posting every day their experience about lagging and lock screen and many bugs in the device
my thred is to confirm that all these bugs and lagging issues are going to be solved or it is a hardware related issues
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These problems that mentioned above are real. I mean how don't you see related threads by now?
Unresponsiveness which includes lockscreen issue appears after sometime. This my second unit and it semms to appear again. Being your not having right now doesn't mean there isn't.
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Agree entirely. Those who haven't witnessed these bugs yet are just downright lucky.
My phone freezes all the time - to the extent that it sometimes takes me more than 30 seconds to hang up a call (since the screen locks and then you can't unlock it... and then it's this whole embarrassing ordeal of power on power off).
Every single time I press home ( which is pretty much the only way to go back - since the back button is pretty much completely unresponsive) - I get the HTC white screen & then loading for 30 seconds.
This phone is slower than my Nexus One. I really feel like I have gone down a notch instead of up.
Sorry to hear of all the troubles with the Sensation. I had to go thru 3 other units before I found one that worked well. I am on my 4th Sensation 4G now. This one seems to be free from the issues mentioned. The 1st one had the lockscreen not responsive issue and also the build quality of the case to the phone was squeaky after 2 weeks of use. The 2nd one had a poor screen. The widgets would have static lines running horizontally thru it. The 3rd one had an overly recessed power button and loose volume button. The 4th was the good one. Thus far its worked well with no major issues. There have been a couple times of quick HTC reboots, but that's bout it. I can live with mild reboots due to low memories.
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Thank God for 3rd party launchers. I can't stand Sense and I have given it every chance as well. Apart from the extremely annoying frequent Sense reboots the phone lags and things feel slower than on my old Incredible. Just switching from Sense to LauncherPro without changing anything else I get back over 50MB of RAM. That's ridiculous, talk about bloat.
I still haven't s-off my phone yet but I'm starting to consider it. Especially when we get stable builds from Cyanogen.
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Are you crazy you don't like sense3.0 it runs smooth as glass on my inspire but if you don't use the widgets I can see why you would go for launcher pro. But your nuts if you don't root. I would have had that puppy rooted the minute it came out.
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Are you crazy you don't like sense3.0 it runs smooth as glass on my inspire but if you don't use the widgets I can see why you would go for launcher pro. But your nuts if you don't root. I would have had that puppy rooted the minute it came out.
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Inspire Sense 3.0 and Sensation Sense 3.0 (Stock) are two completely different beasts. The stock build for Sensation has some issues.
mobilehavoc said:
Thank God for 3rd party launchers. I can't stand Sense and I have given it every chance as well. Apart from the extremely annoying frequent Sense reboots the phone lags and things feel slower than on my old Incredible. Just switching from Sense to LauncherPro without changing anything else I get back over 50MB of RAM. That's ridiculous, talk about bloat.
I still haven't s-off my phone yet but I'm starting to consider it. Especially when we get stable builds from Cyanogen.
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Pretty funny. Buy an htc phone knowing it comes with sense. How about next time pass on a htc phone so you don't have to deal with bloat as you call it
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What about if you buy a phome for hardware... People do that with computers and dual boot linux etc because they are not a fan of windows
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I really like Sense 3.0, I just wish it was more optimized out of the gate.
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Pretty funny. Buy an htc phone knowing it comes with sense. How about next time pass on a htc phone so you don't have to deal with bloat as you call it
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I knew it came with Sense. My Incredible came with Sense and it was lightning fast. As much as I like it its too slow and buggy. Once they update it and hopefully improve things I might give it another shot.
Oh and this phone hardware is reason enough to buy the phone.
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im s-off but i dont want a custom rom i like what i have just want to theme my stock rom a little other than that it runs smooth as a babys ass lol......... maybe its those dump **** apps your installing
LauncherPro locks up my Sensation something fierce.
jam34 said:
Pretty funny. Buy an htc phone knowing it comes with sense. How about next time pass on a htc phone so you don't have to deal with bloat as you call it
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Personally, I like HTC's hardware. It's Sense I can always do without. I mean, c'mon! This is a forum for phone modding, not for keeping your phone like stock.
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If I can't install the apps I want then the phone is useless. Enjoy limiting what you install on your phone to keep running how you want.
I have been using ADW on it since I got it. I hate Sense and always have. To much eye candy for no apparent reason. Ill take function over form any day of the week.
By the way, I just switched everyone from the other thread regarding this same topic over to ADW from LP and gave them my settings. The 5 that did all agree that ADW is faster than LP with the correct settings. Also, the free version of ADW will not be as fast due to it not having a lot of the settings. You have to purchase ADW EX in order to feel the speed.
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Sense 3 is acceptable to me
But I prefer Google's original launch app
But LaunchPro and ADW are something makes wanna throw the phone right to the wall
Sense is just trash, period. Can't wait to get my CM7!
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I can't figure it out but my phone hates Sense. Even after I uninstalled the Good for Enterprise app which I thought was causing the issues Sense starts slowing down and then craps out after a little while. It literally restarts Sense after every app install or update or even uninstall. I don't think its a memory issue only because there's plenty free but it doesn't happen right after a reboot either. I can't figure it out but it definitely seems like something is leaking memory or corrupting Sense.
When is T-Mobile releasing our update? I'm good using LP for now but it'd be nice to have a proper functioning stock launcher as an option as well.
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I was running ADW EX for a few days. It was fast as ****, but I missed the Sense 3.0. Widgets and interface. My phone has no lag at all and works perfect with Sense as well. If it was laggy, I would definitely drop it for ADW. My brother uses Launcher Pro and is a big fan. To each his own.
Totally agree, to each his own.
For me ... this phone is totally usable with Sense...
Each launcher has it's pluses and minuses. There are quite a few alternatives to Sense widgets but none has completely done it for me. Same goes for HTC's apps, especially People/Phone and Email apps.
The major problem with Sense 3 was the many frequent Launcher restarts, which is almost solved now with the custom rom I'm using (CrystalPyramid), been using it for 3 days and it's been as fast as can be for me. I really can't be happier with my Sensation now.
The only two things I really miss about other launchers are changing home number of rows and resizable widgets.
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I was running ADW EX for a few days. It was fast as ****, but I missed the Sense 3.0. Widgets and interface. My phone has no lag at all and works perfect with Sense as well. If it was laggy, I would definitely drop it for ADW. My brother uses Launcher Pro and is a big fan. To each his own.
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I definitely have an app or something that is messing with Sense. It starts out well enough and then just craps its pants after a while. I would like to use it but can't if I want to maintain my sanity.
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LauncherPro locks up my Sensation something fierce.
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Have you tried playing around with the Memory Usage and other options under LauncherPro's Preferences --> Advanced Settings menu?
I was already pretty happy with LP's performance on my phone, but a couple of experiments with those tweaks made it even better for me. Hopefully it'll make things a little rosier for you too? That is, if you're even interested in LP anymore
I would get the white screen with green HTC logo almost everytime I went out of an app so, started using Launcher Pro. Today just for the frell of it
I decided to download Go Launcher EX. I got say its 1, Free, 2, there are
loads of free themes and 3 customizable!
The guy at T-Mobile said that once this phone gets 2.3.4 and the HTC
update as well then Sense might not be so buggy.
Here's a link to view about the launcher above.
http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/productivity/go-launcher-ex_ragy.html
I currently have a Desire, considering getting a Sensation. The biggest problem with the Desire is the limited internal memory - only 512MB, which is also used by the OS itself. So there's very little memory for applications. There exist some solutions to move apps to SD, but they are not nice to set up and don't always perform best.
So my question is, is the 1GB memory on the Sensation enough for installing as many apps as you want? Has anyone hit the limit?
Thanks!
P.S. I'd also like to hear opinions from former Desire users that have already upgraded to Sensation. For example, the capacitive keys and the lack of a trackpad with an action button.
P.P.S. I just realized the topic should go to the Q&A section, but cannot delete this thread anymore...
I would say so! I have everything installed on my sensation that I had on my desire with A2SD and still have 529MB free space
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So my question is, is the 1GB memory on the Sensation enough for installing as many apps as you want? Has anyone hit the limit?
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the sensation actually has 2GGB of internal memory where 1GB is reserved for the system meaning you have appproximately 1GB for apps in practic. I find this more than sufficient
It ends up being 10x what the Desire had. Coming from the Nexus One, its definitely nice to not have to worry about space. If you put every app on the SD Card, you can fit about 1,000 apps. About 200 apps if you don't put any on the SD Card.
The trackball is missed a bit, but with it gone you realize how much space it was taking up. The touchscreen is better, and HTC has a little software snippit that's slows down the response rate so you can select text better.
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frederikh said:
the sensation actually has 2GGB of internal memory where 1GB is reserved for the system meaning you have appproximately 1GB for apps in practic. I find this more than sufficient
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Sensation has 4GB... 3gb are reserved.
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Hgaara said:
Sensation has 4GB... 3gb are reserved.
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Woah, that's a lot! Does it hint some possible bigger future updates (e.g. Ice Cream Sandwitch with Chocolate Topping and Caramel Almonds )
this question is mostly user preference, since it depends on how the user uses his cellphone. If a user is mostly a application geek or more like games then its not enough. And even if its not enough there is an APP2SD.
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Sensation has 4GB... 3gb are reserved.
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Look at the memory with an app like Titanium Backup. It's 1gig internal, 1gig external.
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frederikh said:
the sensation actually has 2GGB of internal memory where 1GB is reserved for the system meaning you have appproximately 1GB for apps in practic. I find this more than sufficient
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Yeah, a phone with more than 1gb worth of apps is like a closet with a bunch of **** in it you don't need. You can only use so many apps.
1GB with 3 in reserved? How do we get around this so we can use all 4GBs?
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1GB with 3 in reserved? How do we get around this so we can use all 4GBs?
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I'm sure the specs got bumped down to 2gigs (total). But with a ROM like CM7 or an AOSP build, which is much smaller than Sense, we should be able to reformat the internal memory and get 1.5gigs external, .5gigs internal.
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1GB is more than enough for me. I have 920mb left. I have lots of apps on the SD.
I used to have the desire. Correct me if i'm wrong but I remember only having 250mg for apps not 500! Since moving to my Desire hd and now the sensation I have no worries about running out of memory.
chapinrico said:
I used to have the desire. Correct me if i'm wrong but I remember only having 250mg for apps not 500! Since moving to my Desire hd and now the sensation I have no worries about running out of memory.
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250? My wildfire only had 100 MB. Yes it seems ok for me and u can always use apps to sd
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My desire had only 100mb for apps. Sense gobbled up the vast chunk of the 512mb rom. Then there were the data and cache partitions as well.
By the way you cannot repartition the Sensation as the flash nand is emmc protected. I don't really understand the technical details but it boils down to the fact that the emmc security prevents it.
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Desire user here too, the storage alone was worth upgrading to the sensation, I haven't had the chance to use A2SD on the desire (I had the desire for 2 months), so talking stock, the difference is HUGE, I mean with desire I after installing just barely the basic stuff I use plus some games, I had 26mb or so free, with the sensation right now I have programs that I have no idea what they're for, many games, all while keeping firefox, opera, and several other programs on the internal storage for fast access, free MB : 767mb, so yeah HUGE difference
Thank you, guys! I'm almost convinced to upgrade now The last two questions whose answers will help me convince my wallet:
1) How was the feeling upgrading from Desire? Screen, performance, features?
2) Is it the right time now to upgrade? Is a much better device than the Sensation around the corner?
IMO, the Sensation is the best Android device that has ever come out. Samsung Galaxy S2 feels really bulky and plasticy (like all Samsung devices, including the Nexus S), and I hate their UI mods.
1. Deff. Yes
2. No every 3/6 month a better phone will come out..so buy your phone in the year 2020
Went from Desire to Desire HD to this. Desire HD has sane screen size as this but same resolution as Desire and I must say the screen on the DHD looks silly now. It just looks like it should fit more on the screen than it does.
Now on the Sensation I can use adw launcher with a 5x5 grid and it looks natural. On the last two phones it looked cramped and unpleasant.
The only issue is the handful of apps which can't deal with the higher resolution. I've got two right now which refuse to use any more than 3/4 of the screen. Hopefully the develops will get around to fixing them.
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Thanks, dr.m0x, that's a good point. I've also been wondering how apps deal with the qHD screen, as I had the fear that many of them would assume a 800x480 display.
Still, most (at least of the essential/popular) apps deal with the resolution, don't they? And how about games? Resolution seems more critical there, I guess...
So apparently HTC broke Multitasking on Sense 4.
Lets say your watching a youtube video. Press pause, hit home and then go into your messaging app. Now hit the multitasking button and then try to go back to your youtube video.
But heres the problem.
IT REFRESHES!
WHY!?!?!
thats not how multitasking is supposed to work...
how can we get this fixed?
my tmo sgs2 never did this to me.
PC Jona said:
So apparently HTC broke Multitasking on Sense 4.
Lets say your watching a youtube video. Press pause, hit home and then go into your messaging app. Now hit the multitasking button and then try to go back to your youtube video.
But heres the problem.
IT REFRESHES!
WHY!?!?!
thats not how multitasking is supposed to work...
how can we get this fixed?
my tmo sgs2 never did this to me.
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The only fix is to not use sense.
PC Jona said:
So apparently HTC broke Multitasking on Sense 4.
Lets say your watching a youtube video. Press pause, hit home and then go into your messaging app. Now hit the multitasking button and then try to go back to your youtube video.
But heres the problem.
IT REFRESHES!
WHY!?!?!
thats not how multitasking is supposed to work...
how can we get this fixed?
my tmo sgs2 never did this to me.
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There are many threads and posts on this issue. There's a script somewhere that fixes it...
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invasion2 said:
There are many threads and posts on this issue. There's a script somewhere that fixes it...
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could you help me find that?
it should be built in to every rom
thats such an inconvenience
invasion2 said:
There are many threads and posts on this issue. There's a script somewhere that fixes it...
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There is a script that improves it... I would hesitate to say fixed
WCCobra said:
There is a script that improves it... I would hesitate to say fixed
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please link me =[ im searching and i cant find anything...
PC Jona said:
So apparently HTC broke Multitasking on Sense 4.
Lets say your watching a youtube video. Press pause, hit home and then go into your messaging app. Now hit the multitasking button and then try to go back to your youtube video.
But heres the problem.
IT REFRESHES!
WHY!?!?!
thats not how multitasking is supposed to work...
how can we get this fixed?
my tmo sgs2 never did this to me.
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For youtube it always does this.
The issue in terms of multitasking is really just a lack of RAM. I know that the One XL got an update where they managed to get another 100 mb of RAM out of it to improve multitasking, but who knows...
Hunt3r.j2 said:
For youtube it always does this.
The issue in terms of multitasking is really just a lack of RAM. I know that the One XL got an update where they managed to get another 100 mb of RAM out of it to improve multitasking, but who knows...
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i hate that youtube refreshes. that should be one of the main things that it DOESNT do.
why would u pause a video and do something else, then go back to the video just to have it refresh and loose my place.
idiots at htc im telling you.
and it doesnt make sense that its a lack of ram. my sgs2 had the same amount of ram and didnt do this crap.
BS
PC Jona said:
please link me =[ im searching and i cant find anything...
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1706832&highlight=multitask
It's not broken. And its not a bug. It's how it was made..
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yes it's how it was made (scripts don't work, needs to be fixed on kernel level) and i can't wait till we get a proper "fix" for it.
PC Jona said:
i hate that youtube refreshes. that should be one of the main things that it DOESNT do.
why would u pause a video and do something else, then go back to the video just to have it refresh and loose my place.
idiots at htc im telling you.
and it doesnt make sense that its a lack of ram. my sgs2 had the same amount of ram and didnt do this crap.
BS
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Youtube always dumps the stream cache when you leave the app, is this supposed to be new?
The GS2 has something like 200 more megs of RAM to use compared to the One S, which might as well be the difference between multitasking that works and one that doesn't at all.
So far the only phone that doesn't have multitasking issues that launched with ICS is the US variant Galaxy S3.
Hunt3r.j2 said:
Youtube always dumps the stream cache when you leave the app, is this supposed to be new?
The GS2 has something like 200 more megs of RAM to use compared to the One S, which might as well be the difference between multitasking that works and one that doesn't at all.
So far the only phone that doesn't have multitasking issues that launched with ICS is the US variant Galaxy S3.
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my sgs2 on cm9 never dumped the cache when i left the app.
so thats new to me.
dont remember it happening to me on other phones either (sensation, epic4g, evo)
PC Jona said:
my sgs2 on cm9 never dumped the cache when i left the app.
so thats new to me.
dont remember it happening to me on other phones either (sensation, epic4g, evo)
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Because HTC made it this way.... It's not a bug or anything. It's meant to be this way. Doesn't mean anyone likes it, but then again, it doesn't really bother me.
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xxquicksh0txx said:
Because HTC made it this way.... It's not a bug or anything. It's meant to be this way. Doesn't mean anyone likes it, but then again, it doesn't really bother me.
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That's all fine and good, but they should not be allowed to advertise 1gB of RAM if you can only keep one program in memory at a time.
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PC Jona said:
my sgs2 on cm9 never dumped the cache when i left the app.
so thats new to me.
dont remember it happening to me on other phones either (sensation, epic4g, evo)
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I just tried it on a Desire HD. I went from a youtube video, to messaging. When I got back to youtube, it dumped the cache and had to buffer the video for a while before it started again. Is that what you're experiencing?
On my One S, when I leave the YouTube app the video pauses. When I go back into the YouTube app, it starts replaying from where it left off. It does take a second or two for it to prepare the video for playback, but overall it is pretty seamless. Compare that to my laptop where the YouTube video replays instantly (at least the sound does) but the video is all choppy for several seconds until it catches up.
One of the main new developments of android ICS was the improved multitasking functionality, and manufacturers have poorly understood the concept. To have more fluid multitasking your priority lies on increasing RAM over having a fancier quad-core processor! Something well shown by the HTC one S with is S4 dual-core that is able run apps very smoothly, rivalling the One X, but cant run many of them.
hm so i should have gotten the s3 then lol.
but after feeling how this phone is and just the quality and how nice htc sense is idk if i can go back.
they just need to give the next phone 2gbs of ram!
If you install a stock ics or jb rom you won't have this issue. I didn't mind Sense on this phone but the multitasking is brutal. I can't take it... The recent apps implementation is brutal and more time consuming than just going back to the home screen and app drawer. Never mind that it won't cache apps properly..
All the talk of stream lining Sense 4.0 is a joke. A sense rom is almost half a gig, I stock rom is a third of that, come on!
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