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Just showin off a bit : )

So after reading nearly 5 hours and spending my time in the wee hours of morning, I finally did all the "stable" mods for the phone... If you haven't been reading, make sure you guys check out the stuff in the development forum.
After all modifications, I was able to get 2701 points in quadrant benchmark. What mods did I do?
-i9000 eclair flash (JM5)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734871
-Alternative mimocans lag fix
(one click installer http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=749495)
-One click root (googled it for i9000)
-Overclock kernel 1.0Ghz to 1.2Ghz
(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=746343)
This stuff really does help out your phone folks. Bench it now with quadrant, then take a peak at the other stuff and make magic happen. If anyone needs any additional help setting up their captivate, I'm more than happy to help.

I agree those fixes help speed a lot. But the quadrant score is meaningless. the speed hack creates an io loopback. The loopback just tells quadrant what it wants to hear.

Does your BT work on the european ROM. For me all people hear is a gargeled mess on there end?
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Can you post the results of these tests:
Neocore
Linpack
CPU Benchmark

I keep hearing about this quadrant, does it actually improve real world performance? Or is just for the sake of scores?

jhego said:
I keep hearing about this quadrant, does it actually improve real world performance? Or is just for the sake of scores?
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Quadrant is just benchmarking software that takes the cpu, gpu and memory read/write speeds into account. It runs a series of tests and spits a score number out at the end, so you can compare your device to others (like comparing boner sizes, but less gay).
It doesn't actually do anything to speed up the device though.

modest_mandroid said:
Quadrant is just benchmarking software that takes the cpu, gpu and memory read/write speeds into account. It runs a series of tests and spits a score number out at the end, so you can compare your device to others (like comparing boner sizes, but less gay).
It doesn't actually do anything to speed up the device though.
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This is correct and to be honest there is way to much weight in the I/O tests. That is the only reason that the stock Droid X bests the Gal X. It has more weight than cpu and gpu so you can't put to much into those scores. They really don't mean anything more than bragging rights. What I am interested in is real world usage.

Real world use with the hack provides amazing speed gains opening and switching apps. Io heavy apps are very much improved while open too. It's finally as fast as the iphone.

Whats your battery life like after the overclock?

The score ended up getting lower and lower every time i used quadrant. 2701 is the highest I was able to get so far, but that's with a fresh install of the rom and all the stuff before I started loading on apps. Everytime I ran the benchmark, I of course killed the apps beforehand.
The battery life is the same- to be honest. This is me comparing a rooted stock ROM to the somewhat fresh install of the eclair i9000. The phone is very snappy. I came from an iPhone 4 and one of the biggest eye sores to me was the less-fluidness of changing programs, response to buttons (homescreen-back button) and pinch to zoom. After all these changes, it's a whole different story. Browsing is very appealing, especially since pinch to zoom isn't jagged or slow. The smoothness of this functionality is on par to an iPhone. And there is no waiting when I press the home button or back button.
True, maybe these numbers aren't considerably accurate (as far as the lag fix and EXT2) but at least it shows raw computing capability in it's current state... meaning, the usage of a virtual EXT2. Never the less, the phone is still all around faster, even if it isn't exactly the proper way of going about it.
The only problem I've seen so far is that it likes to randomly shut off. Won't respond to anything unless if I soft reset it. I haven't really found what causes it, since the consistency of it happening goes about in a non set pattern.

I didn't see any real world increase .. so I reverted back in about 4 hours.... I'd rather have the memory than a number that don't transfer to real world speeds...

Overclocking difference

I use the phone overclocked and non overclock and i cant seem to notice a difference at all in the phones preformance. At stock speeds it is just as fast as overclocked. There doesnt seem any difference in noticable speed of overclocking to me. Do any of you notice a difference.

i see a difference on some of the more laggy roms but it is small. think about it, the most you can see is a posible 20% at 1200mhz and with cpu scaling it isn't that often it usses 1200. although that is significant you still have the same memory bandwidth and file read/write speeds. the responsiveness difference in the kernel has more to do with available ram and kernel hz. as well as aggressiveness in cpu throttling.
overclocking is more for benchmarks and bragging rights. it's for those that need to tweak and whatever or those that need to say theres is better. i can turn the phone down to 600mhz on the old 2.1 kernels that had that step added in before i could notice and it still wasnt laggy much beyond the normal touchwiz. even 400 was usable.
now if the phone is older and the os and apps push the boundries of its capabilities by all means overclock to keep up with the times. otherwise it is preference for your own personal reasons. i do it to test what the phone is capable of. but i often have it disabled.
there is power locked away in these phones that we havent seen yet, the 3d processor can run opengl at framerates better than older laptops i have used and after all these months no other manufacturer has felt the need to compete with it. some open gl benchmarks are fully twice as high as a droid 2/x and 20% better than the newest htc phones running qualcom chips and even the motorolas are considered to have a power gpu. it is a great gaming platform as is and the gpu is stable at 11% overclock, some phones at 25% overclock and maybe beyond. if you flash a custom rom that doesnt lag and do the whole ext4 or jfs conversion you should be happy with the performance of the phone untill your contract is up and maybe beyond. the technology is accelerating faster than the software.
after honeycomb and dualcore platforms hit the shelves then the software that will take advantage of our hidden power will start to roll out. at this time too many android phones are running at 500-600 mhz with little opengl capability, even the popular 1ghz snapdragon phones like the evo as well as they benchmark cant run 3d applications very well and there popularity is holding up software devlopment is some way. there isnt much money in apps that only run on the top 5% of the phones out there. we will have to wait till the droid2/x galaxy s and g2 and mt4g are the norm and there are faster platforms available before we see great differences in overclocking. maybe honeycomb or whatever comes after that will use some opengl in the ui or something, who knows.

Dani897 said:
i see a difference on some of the more laggy roms but it is small. think about it, the most you can see is a posible 20% at 1200mhz and with cpu scaling it isn't that often it usses 1200. although that is significant you still have the same memory bandwidth and file read/write speeds. the responsiveness difference in the kernel has more to do with available ram and kernel hz. as well as aggressiveness in cpu throttling.
overclocking is more for benchmarks and bragging rights. it's for those that need to tweak and whatever or those that need to say theres is better. i can turn the phone down to 600mhz on the old 2.1 kernels that had that step added in before i could notice and it still wasnt laggy much beyond the normal touchwiz. even 400 was usable.
now if the phone is older and the os and apps push the boundries of its capabilities by all means overclock to keep up with the times. otherwise it is preference for your own personal reasons. i do it to test what the phone is capable of. but i often have it disabled.
there is power locked away in these phones that we havent seen yet, the 3d processor can run opengl at framerates better than older laptops i have used and after all these months no other manufacturer has felt the need to compete with it. some open gl benchmarks are fully twice as high as a droid 2/x and 20% better than the newest htc phones running qualcom chips and even the motorolas are considered to have a power gpu. it is a great gaming platform as is and the gpu is stable at 11% overclock, some phones at 25% overclock and maybe beyond. if you flash a custom rom that doesnt lag and do the whole ext4 or jfs conversion you should be happy with the performance of the phone untill your contract is up and maybe beyond. the technology is accelerating faster than the software.
after honeycomb and dualcore platforms hit the shelves then the software that will take advantage of our hidden power will start to roll out. at this time too many android phones are running at 500-600 mhz with little opengl capability, even the popular 1ghz snapdragon phones like the evo as well as they benchmark cant run 3d applications very well and there popularity is holding up software devlopment is some way. there isnt much money in apps that only run on the top 5% of the phones out there. we will have to wait till the droid2/x galaxy s and g2 and mt4g are the norm and there are faster platforms available before we see great differences in overclocking. maybe honeycomb or whatever comes after that will use some opengl in the ui or something, who knows.
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agreed
overclocking seems pretty pointless at this point other than bragging rights
the only situation i can see it being handy are game emulators

Don't forget HQ flash streams on the browser, like some on justin.tv. My personal experience was that at 1 ghz it was a little bit choppy, and according to the rom as well, somewhere between 1.2 and 1.4 it becomes really smooth. Though if I used skyfire to watch it is smooth at stock speed, but some quality is lost in the optimization.
Am I the only one that thinks there is a difference at this? I also think the performance on heavy flash web pages improves when I use oc.
I have not seen any real difference in other than flash performance though... But I was kind of expecting this since in my desktop I had to use oc for it to work smoother as well.

why not overclock the Xoom more?

just curious lol I love to push my devices to the limit!

I'm pretty sure a 50% increase in CPU speed on a dual core processor is more than enough for this guy. Why would you even need to go higher? You'll just end up breaking your device and come here complaining to the devs that it's their fault..
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I had mine set to 1.5 and it was very smooth and fast. But I noticed that if I was watching a movie, my xoom got pretty hot in my hand. Maybe not such a good idea to go that high or much higher than that perhaps?
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chrisharmful said:
I had mine set to 1.5 and it was very smooth and fast. But I noticed that if I was watching a movie, my xoom got pretty hot in my hand. Maybe not such a good idea to go that high or much higher than that perhaps?
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Exactly. Same here!

i think if it was totally safe motorola would have been the one to do it and brag that they have the fastest tablet in the market with a 1.5 - 2.0 Ghz Processor. if you want you device to last, leave it with the stock speed, this thing is pretty fast as is, and if you do have to overclock i think the max would be what others have said 1.5. there is no other benefit, and i doubt you will notice any difference. other then your battery lasting 2 hours and your web pages loading a second faster (not important), and maybe apps opening a little faster(won't notice) and then your device getting hot as other have said, which can bcome an issue with other things on the the motherboard becoming hot. and in the next few months you'll end up with a Motorola DOOM

RAM that makes the impact

Having a high speed memory is just inevitable. I have a ton of work the entire day, and the nature of my work demands things to be done in a swift , and yes I am a stock broker, the speed that prevails in my office is something that waits for nothing, not even my box of a computer, as the speed it runs on is a speed some era the tortoise win its race on, but now slow and steady are not even an option, and therefore a new RAM is needed. A colleague just replaced its RAM with Kingston's HyperX Impact, and the performance that I saw was just amazing, and the cool it keeps is what I am looking forward to. Now the only thing I want to know is that where is it available, can anyone help me out with this?

Lag

I know i made some negative posts on the htc u11 but tbh i love this phone and i was just feeling annoyed by some things.. But i wanted to ask, i expected this phone to be lag free and super fast, yes it is super fast abd smooth but the thing is that it does lag with me and it is noticable. Happens a couple of times a day i think, am i the only one having lag problems? I do have the power saving option on and idk if it's what's causing the phone to lag or not but all i know is it does lag with me and it is unexpected since this phone has htc sense and snapdragon 835. Share your thoughts below

Not just lag but freeze

I'll share my thoughts : you should really stop openning these threads because actually no one believes you, we're all aware that you're here to throw up on this phone.
For who ? We don't know.
Maybe a simple Samsung fanboy who's upset because HTC made a better phone than Samsung's flagships two years in a row ?
Now stop please, it's not funny and it will not prevent people to buy the U11 if they want to.

I don't see Samsung logo on front... Soo no lag here.

Dejan Kruljac said:
I don't see Samsung logo on front... Soo no lag here.
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Turn off the power saver. It's not needed with the Snapdragon 835 and it alters the distribution of the load between the clusters. Things that would complete swiftly and thus conserve power on the big cores gets offloaded to the little cores. The kernel isn't optimized to take advantage of the efficiency of the 835. With it being incredibly easy to get 7 hours of SoT, there is no need for the power saver. Somewhere on XDA there's a very detailed explanation as to what the power saver does and why it shouldn't be used unless your phone is about to die but it curbs both clock speeds and shuffles around the load, preferring to not use the big cores at all. It basically abolishes the efficiency of the big.LITTLE premise and often has opposite the intended effect if you're actively using the phone.
If you need optimization, you can use Boost+ to set individual high drain apps up to be run in 1080p, limit background usage, etc. This is much more effective than essentially killing the performance of the phone and gaining little, if any, additional battery life. It can have the opposite effect and in fact did so on the 10.
Think of it like this - the little cluster may take half the power per cycle than the big cluster (I don't know the exact numbers and highly doubt it's anywhere near half but it works for the example). You open an app that would have completed in a single cycle on the big cluster. That same app can take four to five cycles on the little cluster. You've just thrown efficiency out the window.
If you have a lot of background apps misbehaving and a lot of apps constantly syncing, it can be advantageous but I haven't seen any evidence of that since the Snapdragon 820. The 805 in my Nexus 6 benefited from it but my Note 5 with the Exynos 7420 and my 10 with the Snapdragon 820 suffered.

Lag?? OP must be in the wrong forum. Please go back to your Lagsung S8..

I had freezes on my previous HTC(one m7), and the reason was some crappy game I installed. After removal - no lag at all. Just try and revise your applications and remove ones you have doubts

0 lag. None, Nada, zilch. Either the person who started this post has an app or setting that is causing it or they are intentionally trying to keep people from buying it...Which seems crazy...who would care that much...?