Any tips that you guys recommend? Perhaps a tool that identifies the resource-intensive processes?
It's pretty fast 95% of the time but just wondering
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Forgive me if these questions are elementary or if they don't even make a lot of sense. I'm not claiming to be a hardware genius by any means, in fact I'm quite the opposite.
My first question is whether or not it is possible on an android device to RAID the internal partitions in any formtat? I think this would require two flash sources and my question then is whether or not, if the hardware was theoretically able to support it, the operating system would support a situation attempting to boost read/write speeds utilizing a RAID setup. Maybe there isn't even a benefit to doing this with flash? If there is, what would be some of the benefits, and conversely, drawbacks of this?
The next question I have is what the capabilities of bluetooth 3.0 are. Specifically, can BT 3.0 be used for 1080 video playback? And can BT be used in something like fastboot?
Thanks in advanced to anyone willing to field these.
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My first question is whether or not it is possible on an android device to RAID the internal partitions in any formtat? I think this would require two flash sources and my question then is whether or not, if the hardware was theoretically able to support it, the operating system would support a situation attempting to boost read/write speeds utilizing a RAID setup. Maybe there isn't even a benefit to doing this with flash? If there is, what would be some of the benefits, and conversely, drawbacks of this?
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To achieve higher performance we would probably go for a RAID0, the obvious drawback here is that if one of the memories fails, all data is lost.
With the hardware its not that much of a problem if it supports raid, but rather if the systembus has the bandwidth for it to be worth it.
There is 'MDADM' a software raid solution for linux.
You could try to compile an android kernel with the mdadm module loaded...
In the end though... why all the effort...
Why do you need this .
Hi,
Thanks for the response. Well what I'm getting at here is trying to think of ways to enhance a phone's performance without this arms race of faster and faster processors that ultimately consume more battery life with each successive increase in performance. Much like the SSD and SATA did for desktops, we should maybe focus on other areas in which phones get bottlenecked and let the chip engineers worry about smaller and more efficient instead of faster and faster.
There's a serious problem with smartphones and that problem is battery life. I'll be willing to bet that the overwhelmingly vast majority of consumers are willing to give up things that (albeit may seem necessary to us devs for our fun) are simply not very much used by the every-day consumer that doesn't even know the difference between Gingerbread and Honeycomb. I think HDMI is one of them and if BT3.0 can transfer 1080p then what's the point of having so many features in a phone that can be done by one and wasting valuable space for that additional few hundred mAh of battery power?
Most of the phones that are coming out right now do not need to get smaller, I think the market has a sweet spot for thickness and size of devices and these phones are in there--but the batteries are not. I don't know about you but just about everyone I know complains about battery life and I would kill for a phone that can go 2 or 3 days without a charge.
That is why I have advanced task killer as well as a sbc kernel. I enjoy all day fun with all the bells and whistles too.
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Stay away from task killers. They actually do more harm than good.
Check out an app on the market called tasker. Helps you to manage your battery more efficiently.
Stay away from task killers.
Bluetooth 3.0 allows a faster streaming of data when used to network information between Bluetooth devices.
Essencially yes. You can stream 1080p videos using it... but... the device your streaming it to/from needs to support the standard as well.
Ex. You decide to teather your tablet to your 4G phone via Bluetooth to watch 1080p YouTube videos.
Your phone supports 3.0 and you tablet is also 3.0. Streaming will be nice and fast.
But if one of the devices is a standard prior to 3.0, you 3.0 device will transmit at the fastest capable speed of the lesser network
I hope this helps.
And by the way,..
Stay away from task killers.
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Its it worth the time and sage to overclock the galaxy s2 skyrocket?
I have heard it will ruin the phone our that you can't maker it much faster without overheating it.
I'm new to cell modification and i'm interested in learning
The truth of the mater.
Any help is appreciated.
If you are just normal user than stock is good for u.
BUt if u are heavy gamer and play online games and other stuff OC is worth doin it.
OC will make your phone run some what fast but since you are new i don't think you will feel the difference unless you start doing benchmark. Plus stock might get you good battery life.
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Its it worth the time and sage to overclock the galaxy s2 skyrocket?
I have heard it will ruin the phone our that you can't maker it much faster without overheating it.
I'm new to cell modification and i'm interested in learning
The truth of the mater.
Any help is appreciated.
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The other alternative is to undervolt. Some people will use an overclocked kernel, set it to stock values and lower the voltage of the higher CPU speeds for better battery life.
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Thanks for the info really helped me decide if i'm going to overclock. Being i'm just a user and not gaming I think its best I don't. I do like the sounds of underclocking as way to save battery life as phoneguy589 had said. appreciate the input guys.
I under clock mine can't tell a difference honestly
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I underclock and undervolted mine, battery life has significantly improved, but I'm a heavy user so its still bad
For my purposes I haven't noticed much difference in OC-ing (I don't do a lot of gaming). For me it's not really worth placing the extra burden on the processor (or the potential to fry the processor--not sure how great that potential is but there are always dangers to overclocking).
So I recently downloaded SetCPU for my HTC Vivid and I was playing around with it. I was wondering what you guys think about using it for battery savings? Any specific profiles you guys use that work great? I'm trying to prolong the battery life of my device. Flashing a new ROM has helped a lot, but I want to squeeze as much as I can out of it. Is SetCPU really worth using for battery savings or will the extra processing it does to change around the speed cause it to not help me that much?
Hello everyone
i was wondering whether installing a safestrap rom i mean would some basic rom increase the speed of the phone allowing for underclocking the cpu for more life out of the battery
also less apps and processes
im running android 4.4 stock rom and the battery life is really really terrible
i wish you guys can help me with what im trying to achieve and i hope it is possible
if u guys have any tricks or ways to make the battery last longer tell me
I have downloaded Greenify before but I'm not familiar with all of the options that I should be enabling/disabling to get the best battery life without sacrificing device performance. Specifically when it comes to which wake-locks to block, ect. Can anyone with a Pixel 3 provide some assistance or maybe link a guide that can help me figure out how to configure this bad boy?
Thank you very much in advance, and regardless of if you can provide help or not, stay safe out there!
I think I may have read somewhere that Greenify is sort of unnecessary on current versions of Android, modern Android has apparently become pretty good with resource management. I started using FDE.AI on my aging S4 and it really helped with battery life and I believe I do notice some improvement to battery life on my Pixel 3, it costs a couple bucks but I'd recommend looking into it