Dear forum members,
I intend to start learning to develop apps for Android. My PC is a bit old however, Intel Core i7 920 2.67 GHz from 2009, with 16 GB ram, running Windows 10.
Will this computer be good enough for Android App development? I guess I need decent speed of the build process and I need to be able to run various emulators sufficiently fast.
If not good enough, could you recommend a decent (Windows) modern computer configuration that will not break my bank?
Warm regards,
Sven
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hi!
After wandering through the main searchengines out there and having found nothing for my question, i hope somebody here can help...
The question itself is fairly simple:
Is there any way to compare the cpu of a pda phone with the cpu of a desktop pc in terms of speed?
Can i assume that 500mhz on a pda are the same as 500mhz on a desktop or am i missing an important part?
Thanks in advance as always.
Dont know about phones specificaly but in general you cannot compare MHz across processor brands or types. I highly doubt very much that you can compare directly a desktop v a phone.
TheConfusedOne said:
The question itself is fairly simple:
Is there any way to compare the cpu of a pda phone with the cpu of a desktop pc in terms of speed?
Can i assume that 500mhz on a pda are the same as 500mhz on a desktop
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In a nutshell No
The question is indeed fairly simple but the answer isnt as straight cut.
heres a basic yet informative explantion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megahertz_Myth
TheConfusedOne said:
hi!
After wandering through the main searchengines out there and having found nothing for my question, i hope somebody here can help...
The question itself is fairly simple:
Is there any way to compare the cpu of a pda phone with the cpu of a desktop pc in terms of speed?
Can i assume that 500mhz on a pda are the same as 500mhz on a desktop or am i missing an important part?
Thanks in advance as always.
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If your computer is running as fast (slow) as your PPC, then you may need a new one!
In a nutshell No
The question is indeed fairly simple but the answer isnt as straight cut.
heres a basic yet informative explantion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megahertz_Myth
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ok... thx for this... its a good start.
so basicly i cannot compare a pda with a desktop...
its a little hard to believe... yet you guys will surely have more expierience in this matter than me...
though... before i settle with this...
has there ever been some kind of benchmark to see how various tasks are being performed on ppc in terms of speed in comparison to the desktop-pc?
it would be a valid answer for if somebody says:
"the newest pda phone is roughly as performant as a desktop with a pentium II"
OK ... if you don't believe us then you can always try your own testing
create an Excel spreadsheet with a lot of data in it and a complicated forumla operating on them: time it updating.
Load same spreadsheet onto Pocket Excel and perform the same.
Thats the ONLY way you can do it. Grab an app, perform a function and time it. Copy the same/perform the same on the other platform and repeat.
These systems use totaly diferent processors and therefore instruction sets and architecture and so a direct comparison of MHz/GHz is not possible. Indeed, you can't even compare AMD CPU's to Intel CPU's for the very same reason.
500mhz=500mhz
simple math isn't it,but it stops there...they HAVE the same frequency but not the speed (speed is proportional to the frequency,but they are not the same)
2. major thing related to speed is memory
average pda has 20-50mb of ram memory
and even the lowest level pc has 128mb which is 3-4times more
things that are responsible for speed are
1.processor (not only mhz and ghz but technology 45,65,90nm , series -pentium2 and pentium3 on 500mhz haven't got the same speed only the same frequency,architecture)
2.memory
3.bus
4.cache
5.motherboard
6.drivers (instruction sets) responsible for mentioned above
and some more less crucial things
Hi everyone!
I was wondering if there by any chance is possible to run windows mobile as an os on a notebook(for example my asus eee 900)?
The only 'netbook' that will run windows mobile is redfly, and at that it needs to be plugged into the phone to make it work still.
Also on the front of it on a regular netbook i somehow doubt it as the processor architecture is x86 in the asus whereas all of the wimo phones run on arm processors which have very different (and better, in some ways) architecture.
Also the resolution of the asus would not be supported as the biggest wimo supports is 800x480 and i somehow beleive that your asus is greater than this.
So at the end of the day in a long way, no you cant, to my knowledge
WinCE 6.0 is running fine on PC, but it need to be compiled for x86 first
There are some netbooks out there based on windows ce as far as I know. But getting it to run on a normal pc would at least require a lot of tweaking.
On that note, I've been using a redfly since last fall and absolutely love it (even though quite a few people find it an unnecessary thing). The thing is, it's in fact just like a bluetooth keyboard bundled with a bigger screen and usb host functionality. So it still uses the phones processor - and the processor architecture would be the real problem...
Concerning resolutions: It seems that Windows ce does indeed support resolutions at least up to 1024x768.
Yo, XDA,
Those who deal with the foolishness of Windows everyday, I need your help. I recently upgraded to Win 7 from Vista and need to upgrade another computer to 7 from XP, but that's besides the point. Every time I plug in something to my laptop, I get a BSoD with the same error almost every time. I have a few shots here (sorry they're blurry; my laptop dumps to disk and reboots frustratingly fast): https://plus.google.com/u/0/103259074847580013585/posts
I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 with Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1. These are the rest of the stats:
Intel Pentium Dual-core CPU [email protected] 2.00GHz each and integrated Intel "HD" graphics
4 GB of memory
I seem to be getting errors SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION and ***STOP: 0x0000003B (0x00000000C000001D, 0xFFFFF88000000000, 0xFFFFF88007F5F150, 0x0000000000000000)
If anyone can help me I would so appreciate it, bro.
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Hey,
So I have a tablet that was given to my daughter but was pretty useless out of the box last year. Its an ICRAIG powered by a Cortex A9 Duel Core 1.5 GHz 4G flash memory with the capacity to hold a 32G SD card to serve as an extension of that initial 4G. Now basically to a novice but trying to learn person like me the deal was kind of like: ICRAIG took some older cheaper cell phone android tech (It runs off 4.2 and upgrades only to 4.4 I believe) and shoved in into a tablet without modifying the firmware to support the new form. For instance the keyboard that's actually pretty standard in appearance is impossible to choose as an option and its default is the cellular keyboard option Android uses.
I have managed to root it using KingRoot app and Ive hooked it up to my computer to verify that Droid Drive works on it and it does, my computer recognizes the device as a CD. I am planning to flash over a different OS to take over the device and not use the Android platform at all. More specifically Kali Linux because I feel that will be a good way for me to learn coding and white hat pen testing as well along my path to a new career and because being stuck without working after it consumed my life for 18 years (Which means since I was 16, so my whole life) or the ability to drive has made me horribly bored to the point I'm trying to find, fix, refurbish, rig together anything I can without spending a fortune doing it with limited income. Broken neck, 3 places actually, is why I'm a bit stuck finding a career/hobby suitable to someone with limited movement. Not complaining or whining just telling you Androidians why I'm trying to replace your software of choice.
So is there anything I should know before attempting this backwards "burn" to reformat the tablet. Like just find an applicable ARM image on Kali.org? Should I just wipe it clean and rebuild from nothing or from the kernel at least? or wasting my time with this approach and just need to wipe it and use it as doorstop? I would keep Android and use a Linux Deploy approach but due to the keyboard not functioning and the lack of touch screen I feel the onscreen keyboard I have to use now would not be suitable to a VM style approach. Also hoping it I can just replace the OS I can then find the applicable drivers for things like the keyboard. I'm not sure if I should pull off all software except Droid Drive to the USB the device will hold and then flash or keep certain files (for instance whatever file may hold the drivers and kernel) or some of the build in apps? Etc Etc. You see where I'm going here. Replace the existing OS with Kali and any pointers with using Drive Droid or any other way you all think I could approach this better even if its flashing Damn Small Linux first and building up or just working of the Linux sites to build my own image kernel and all....I would appreciate any advice and I'm heading over to read Droid Drive info now. Ive just recently had time or interest in computing since I used my Blackberry or iPhone for any computing I needed or work computers on their own network. So until about a month ago the last system rebuild I did was on a Gateway running Windows 97 or so.
Thanks Androidians I'm off to start an online Android course now actually.
_D
Yep, the title says it:
Is there any virtualization host for Android which supports a kind of USB-passthrough?
I have an old phone, which I would like to use with tvheadend which would require dvb driver support and many other things which wouldn't be available on existing Android versions for the phone.
So I thought of using an Linux VM, with the phone's USB-port passed through, so the Linux distro could supply it's own driver and run the tvheadend-server for me.
I am steadily on tight budget, and currently I am using an old hp t610 thin client for this purpose, which is using about 15Watts. By using the old phone instead I could easily save about 13W, which would make for a 40€ saving each year where I am living.
Yes, I know 'Get and RasPi', but this would also cost money, and the phone is already there, and the phone's screen and battery are broken, so there's no purpose in seeling it for levering credits for an RasPi, too.
I think the phone should have enough performance, as it's an Snapdragon 625 with 8 cores.
Would be great if someone had an solution
Thank you very much!