Extreme HW mod: RAM expansion - Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General

Hi guys!
I'm getting out of ram problems and I notice that my device is just fast as hell with pagepool set to 0 (zero)... but that means just more ram usage.. yes, I know that there are many applications designed for freeing ram but that's just too simple and although those programs doesn't work correctly with some applications, causing sometimes an integrated application to malfunction.
now i'm writing from my diamond with 0pagepool.. yes it's fast.. but for example if i want to leave opera running in background for running another application, I'll get out of ram error...
Point of all is...
Is it possible to desolder the actual ram chip for soldering a larger one (in terms of MB)?
Thank you!

i'm not a scientist - but i have read threads where they've said it's not possible... but good luck! i'll be keeping an eye on this thread

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Ram issue

hi all
in device information, it says i have 160mb of ram (128mo i think)
but in task manager it shows only 81mb
so if i run TF3D it reach 90% of ram so i can use programs like garmin, camera, or games ...
anybody had this same issue ? is this lack of ram normal or is there a way to down the use of ram or to use the whole ram ?
thanks for helping
This question has already been asked.....
You CAN'T use the whole ram because a part of it is taken from the operating system and the other programs which must run on your ppc.....
Have a look to you desktop pc ram... if you have 1000mb ram, surely at the moment you haven't 1000 mb free, but about 700mb, because windows must use a part of your ram to run.....
yes i have juste find the topic about that but this is very odd that htc does not see that tf3d is unusable with this amount of ram ??!!
so i wonder if there is a way to reduce ram comsuption or else

Why is there so few RAM available??

Hey guys,
I just switched from a Polaris to my Kaiser a few days ago, because of the keyboard.
I love my Kaiser, but there is one thing I'm wondering about.
Why is there so few RAM in the Kaiser?
On my Polaris I had 60+ MB free (with an 8MB Touchcube loaded), up to 68.
On the Kaiser I have max. 43-45 free with nothing (I know of) running in the background....
How is that?
Stefan
edit: It's the same situation on different ROMs I tested and it was the same situation on different Polaris ROMs, too. They were all fully loaded, no light ROMs etc.
I think most ROM chefs have gone to either "larger" page pools, or dynamic page pools. And depending on the page pool size, you will see less available RAM.
Would you like to "SEE" a lot of free ram but run yr machine slow because of no caching/paging? Or you want to "FEEL" a lot smoother user experience because we spend some ram for cache/pagepool?
With 128mb Qvga machine like Kaiser, I don't even dare to look at the memory meter since I NEVER run into not enough ram issue even I abuse it w/ lots of concurrent apps (Iguidance 4 + TomTom 7 + A2DP w/ Coreplayer + lots of todays plugins).
I rather concern about too many unnecessary background service/process since WM has a physical limit of 32 processes
45MB free is nothing to worry about, I've never really managed to use more than 20MB with more than 10 apps running.
And devices like the Hermes were doing fine with less than 20MB free after a clean boot.
very nice way expressing/explaining
so thats call for button X application (plug in)
jackleung said:
Would you like to "SEE" a lot of free ram but run yr machine slow because of no caching/paging? Or you want to "FEEL" a lot smoother user experience because we spend some ram for cache/pagepool?
With 128mb Qvga machine like Kaiser, I don't even dare to look at the memory meter since I NEVER run into not enough ram issue even I abuse it w/ lots of concurrent apps (Iguidance 4 + TomTom 7 + A2DP w/ Coreplayer + lots of todays plugins).
I rather concern about too many unnecessary background service/process since WM has a physical limit of 32 processes
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The ROMs I used on the Polaris had a 18MB PP...
Laurentius' V10 also has 18MB...
And I also can't seem to fill the RAM, but I'm a little confused...
I also go pretty high on my page pools (24 mb). However, you can request a ROM of your liking with the page pool you want (look at my sig) .
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I also go pretty high on my page pools (24 mb). However, you can request a ROM of your liking with the page pool you want (look at my sig) .
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Thx, but as I said, I'm alright with my RAM.
I'm only curious why a ROM which is (supposed to be) very similar to a Polaris one according to the settings (where the Polaris ROM actually had the TouchCube with 8MB loaded) has 15-20MB less RAM available... what the hell is running in the background on the Kaiser that takes that much memory?
Oh, and btw, all the screenshots for the Kaiser I saw (even from light ROMs), don't have much more than 50MB free, so how can a light Polaris ROM have 70MB free??!!
Stefan
P.S: I don't mean to annoy anyone, but I just can't help it...
I wanna know what takes my RAM away...
Sayuuk said:
Oh, and btw, all the screenshots for the Kaiser I saw (even from light ROMs), don't have much more than 50MB free
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There, just for you. 47.3MB with no programs running but no reboot for more than one week, and 63.1MB after reboot. The screenshot program is taking 1MB in both cases, and I have a couple of small programs starting automatically on boot.
Any chance you'd be using WM6 on one and WM6.1 on the other?
Sayuuk said:
what the hell is running in the background on the Kaiser that takes that much memory?
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Why don't you use Memmaid and take a look?
jackleung said:
Why don't you use Memmaid and take a look?
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I can't find anything, that's why I'm asking ;-)
@kilrah: interesting, I never saw that much free RAM on a Kaiser.
However, on my Polaris I had a ROM (as previously mentioned) that was fully loaded, all the stuff I have on my Kaiser + the Cube and I still had about 20MB more free RAM than I have on my Kaiser without a Cube...
The only Hardware-based difference on the Kaiser is the keyboard... but that can't have anything to di with it, can it?
Stefan
I was also always curious as to why, if they can make 32gb micro sd cards, can't they simply put that much memory into the Kaiser to begin with?
Two Things
A) They don't have 32Gb MicroSD cards yet.
B) Lets say they Did. Leaving the Card Slot Blank costs nothing. Filling it with a Card costs money. Larger Profit Margin for HTC. They win.
And some more:
D) Most people don't give a damn about having 16/32GB in their phone, and would certainly be pissed off if they had to pay more for something they didn't need. Those will just buy a 1GB card and be fine with it.
E) That would open the door to iphone-like ripoff, with $100-200 difference between the 8GB and 16GB models... when we know that a 8GB memory card costs around $20 nowadays, so much more like $5 to add it inside the phone for the manufacturer. But as we all know, internal memory always costs more than cards....
F) Bit unrelated, but in my country electronic devices are subject to a copyright-style tax based on the amount of internal memory. But memory cards aren't taxed. Choose the best option
And backup sizes increase too!
After watching my free device memory decline and backup sizes go up every day, I found that PIE (Pocket Internet Explorer) and Opera were taking a more than decent amount of memory for their caches.
Clearing PIE and Opera's cache freed over 30M of device memory for me!
While Opera gives a setting for cache size, PIE has only a registry setting:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\Cache\Content\CacheLimit
It's set to 42680 in my Tilt. While I can change the registry value, the change won't survive a soft reset.
My solution is to regularly clear the browser caches and check the device for temp files. It's made a huge difference for me (from 11M free to 61M free)
gavink said:
After watching my free device memory decline and backup sizes go up every day, I found that PIE (Pocket Internet Explorer) and Opera were taking a more than decent amount of memory for their caches.
Clearing PIE and Opera's cache freed over 30M of device memory for me!
While Opera gives a setting for cache size, PIE has only a registry setting:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\Cache\Content\CacheLimit
It's set to 42680 in my Tilt. While I can change the registry value, the change won't survive a soft reset.
My solution is to regularly clear the browser caches and check the device for temp files. It's made a huge difference for me (from 11M free to 61M free)
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Man, we are talking about RAM (program memory) and you are talking about ROM (storage memory).
I always use memmaid to clean up before backup to make sure no junks are being backup. In fact, most backup software allow you to choose what directory to or not to backup.
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Man, we are talking about RAM (program memory) and you are talking about ROM (storage memory).
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I don't see that in the previous posts. I do understand the difference between program and storage memory. RAM is where everything but the base system is stored... right? ROM (read only memory) isn't used for a dynamic cache... right?
gavink said:
I don't see that in the previous posts. I do understand the difference between program and storage memory. RAM is where everything but the base system is stored... right? ROM (read only memory) isn't used for a dynamic cache... right?
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That was back on '03... the terms stayed the same but since WM5 the technology changed
It's like on your PC.
RAM is the storage the programs actually run in, ROM is the ... rest
If you look at the Memory Page in the settings. ROM ("Storage") is what you're talking about and RAM ("Program") is what the rest of us is talking about...
Stefan
Sayuuk said:
That was back on '03... the terms stayed the same but since WM5 the technology changed
It's like on your PC.
RAM is the storage the programs actually run in, ROM is the ... rest
If you look at the Memory Page in the settings. ROM ("Storage") is what you're talking about and RAM ("Program") is what the rest of us is talking about...
Stefan
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Sooo... you're saying that my PIE and Opera caches are both in my Tilt's ROM? Wow... somehow I fell waaaay behind the times!
gavink said:
Sooo... you're saying that my PIE and Opera caches are both in my Tilt's ROM? Wow... somehow I fell waaaay behind the times!
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It's not actually ROM anymore, that's what I meant and I guess that's why you're confused.
I think you understand what RAM is. Now what we mean when we say ROM is just the rest of the internal storage that is NOT the RAM.
If you read the specs of HTC phones you always see 128MB RAM and 256MB ROM. ROM in this case is just a name that's in use cuz it's always been used, though it's not ReadOnlyMemory nowadays.
Stefan

Free ram

Hi, maybe this is a stupid question:
I have a diamond with dib 1.33 rom installed, it's normal that with no open application minimum usage of ram is 77%
thanks
thats a bit high memory usage i think,
mine is at 55% when i have no active applications runing
(rom ver 1.37.407.2 GER)
it is normal if you havent soft rested for few days otherwise change rom
That is high, will make phone slow. Are you closing apps after use by tapping on Today screen Task Manager in upper right hand corner? You can go into tools and change settings that make them close automatically when you close them.
One of the features of WinMo is to have them running, so this might be where you are eating percent use.
Mine gets high dring the course of a couple of days sometimes up 90%
It's fine after a soft reset though - back down to 55-60%
God knows why it gets up so high when there are no applications running.
mine hardly ever hits 50% with normal use (programs set to close on X)
never had to Soft Reset either.
my opinion-go to windows folder find task manager,and you`ll see which processes uses such high ram
After an Hard Reset, a new installation of DIB rom V_1.33, and the installation of some apps, thi is the result: 73% (minimum is 65%).
Any suggestion?
Thanks
The best way is to use a light rom. I use Cloudy 1.1 without manila and then SPB Mobile Shell. I have about 60mB of ram free after a soft reset. After a day or so it reduces to about 50-55mB and that's where it stays with no running programs.
The second best way to increase your available ram without soft resetting is to use the freeram program in SKTools. Or you can use the free ram here: http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-cleanram.html.
These should help you.
mitsi said:
The best way is to use a light rom. I use Cloudy 1.1 without manila and then SPB Mobile Shell. I have about 60mB of ram free after a soft reset. After a day or so it reduces to about 50-55mB and that's where it stays with no running programs.
The second best way to increase your available ram without soft resetting is to use the freeram program in SKTools. Or you can use the free ram here: http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-cleanram.html.
These should help you.
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just used the free ram app, nice one....found out i had saved 7mb straight off on level two clean
Another variable that no one here discussed is Pagepool. Because the Diamonds lack of memory, it's recommended by chefs to use 10mg. This gives a balance between stability (doesn't use as much Ram as 12mg) but yet has good speed. Most chefs with the new ROMs have already switched to 10mg but it's always good to ask they haven't mentioned it.
band27 said:
Another variable that no one here discussed is Pagepool. Because the Diamonds lack of memory, it's recommended by chefs to use 10mg. This gives a balance between stability (doesn't use as much Ram as 12mg) but yet has good speed. Most chefs with the new ROMs have already switched to 10mg but it's always good to ask they haven't mentioned it.
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Thanks, I'll try it.

Ramdisk for WinMo? useful?

Hi all, been lurking for a while now. Fantastic community here, lots of useful advice, files etc
I've been playing with ramdisks on my desktop lately and was wandering if there is such a thing that works well on xperia, and if its a worthwhile thing to do. I've seen a few cabs about the net, but most seem to be rather old and under-developed.
Is there a ramdisk utility that has been test with xperia? this thing has plenty of ram and i would expect dedicating 32mb or so to caches / temp files would be useful, reduce checkerboard effect on browser, help with buffering vid's etc.
thanks all.
What good is it if the software isn't looking/optimized for it?
X1 has 256MB, far more than most WinMo phones. How is putting a virtual drive in RAM going to make things faster? You'd just be lowering system RAM. The whole idea seems pointless...even on desktops nowadays.
This is actually a good way to improve Opera's performance if you tell it to use the RAM disk as cache.
JKingDev said:
This is actually a good way to improve Opera's performance if you tell it to use the RAM disk as cache.
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...as opposed to?
WhyBe said:
...as opposed to?
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He didn't insinuate a comparison, why do you ask for one? Jking just said it's a good way to deal with Opera loading, nothing else. Smartass.
Angelusz said:
He didn't insinuate a comparison, why do you ask for one? Jking just said it's a good way to deal with Opera loading, nothing else. Smartass.
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lol thanks. Opera uses storage memory (which is flash memory) as cache when loading webpages. Therefore uing a RAMdisk is faster than regular storage.
Angelusz said:
He didn't insinuate a comparison, why do you ask for one? Jking just said it's a good way to deal with Opera loading, nothing else. Smartass.
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Yes he did, because he is talking about using RAM disk technique which isn't currently used by Opera. The comparison was implied...dumbass!
JKingDev said:
lol thanks. Opera uses storage memory (which is flash memory) as cache when loading webpages. Therefore uing a RAMdisk is faster than regular storage.
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Do you think internal RAM would be that much faster in this case? I think the data connection is the bottleneck when it comes to web browsing, not RAM speed. Besides, you're going to sacrifice system RAM in order to have the RAM disk. So would you even be getting a net gain in speed?
WhyBe said:
Yes he did, because he is talking about using RAM disk technique which isn't currently used by Opera. The comparison was implied...dumbass!
Do you think internal RAM would be that much faster in this case? I think the data connection is the bottleneck when it comes to web browsing, not RAM speed. Besides, you're going to sacrifice system RAM in order to have the RAM disk. So would you even be getting a net gain in speed?
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I've been using ramdisk on my rom since half year ago (v2.x). And both IE and Opera could take advantage of it after some tweak. RAM is definitely a lot faster if you did some benchmark on both. And if you really understand how caching works, it won't help in your first visit where data connection is the bottleneck. But it does help if you reload/revisit the same page since caching from ram is faster from flash memory.
And there are side benefit like security (all content/cookie are gone after reset), and prolong yr flash memory life (flash memory is not as good for I/O wearing but may not be a big deal since most of us change phone so often).
After all, X1 has 256mb of ram which is a lot for mobile device and I selfdom running out of it. Then why not making good use of them? Maybe seeing big chunk of free memory (and slow everything down) make you feel happy? Unlike desktop, the main component contribut to speed is CPU where free memory only contribute for how many program/process you can open concurrently. Seeing lot of free memory without utilize them is simply stupid.
BTW, I use 3Gig ramdisk on my 8Gig Vista64 and it HELPS a GREAT DEAL in rom cooking since rom cooking involved lots of read/write over thousands (TF3D alone is ~ 2000) of small files. A cooking process that takes 3 mins with HD reduces to 1 mins with ramdisk in my experience. The same reason I listed above holds true for desktop + using ramdisk for /Temp helps a lot for IE and winrar since they use /TEMP to process the files.
^^^ OK, I understand what you are saying. But if RAM disk were really an advantage in mobiles, why wouldn't mobile browser developers utilize their own RAMDisk routines in their browsers (since speed seems to be the main comparison between browsers)?
for me totally none use!
WhyBe said:
^^^ OK, I understand what you are saying. But if RAM disk were really an advantage in mobiles, why wouldn't mobile browser developers utilize their own RAMDisk routines in their browsers (since speed seems to be the main comparison between browsers)?
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It could be they are developing a "generic" browsers that serve PDAs with different size of RAM. And many of the older devices still have 64mb physical memory and 20-30mb left after boot (e.g. My P525 and x51v) . Those machines simple don't have any ram left for that.
And they can simply use malloc (C programming) to allocate a chunk of memory and don't have to use external driver like ramdisk to accomplish this. But if the browser itself don't support this feature and we know we have enough ram to spend, we can take advantage of it if needed.
Developers always have priorities in features and there are other means to speed things up to more users (e.g. server side compression like Opera 9.7)

[APP][EXPERIMENTAL] MobileBooster v.a1 [UPD.:21-03-2010]

(Current version: alpha 1) DISCONTINUED!
MobileBooster is an experimental CPU-booster tool (experimental as if it may have no effect at all in worst case).
In theory this application can improve the speed and responsiveness of your device in high-load scenarios. It has no settings and is completely invisible.
Features:
- simple and clean installation and uninstalation
- boosts your multitasking capabilities by managing process priorities
- slightly boosts active application speed at the expense of background tasks
- supports all HTC devices
Requirements:
- 275kb of free space
- 148kb of RAM
- Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 3.5
Installation:
- download and install the CAB to your device
- soft reset and you're all set!
Uninstalation:
- uninstall using Remove Programs, no reset is required
- be aware that you DO need to soft reset to eliminate all boosting effects (for benchmarks/comparing speed)
The usual disclaimer:
This application is provided as-is. I take no responsibility for any damages that may occur by misuse or bugs in this software.
Project goal:
This is experimental concept and it may have no effect at all save for consuming CPU cycles. If you download and test this, please post back your impressions and opinions. You may experience increased fluidity of your device during normal use and better responsiveness under heavier load. You may experience nothing at all. You may experience decreased speed. Whatever this does for you, uninstall will wipe the application clean so this should be a risk-free test.
Note that your device is less responsive immediatelly after soft reset - this is normal WM behavior. Give it a few minutes before testing.
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let's give it a go on my TP2 with AthineOS 23549
first impression: Opera 10 seems to render the xda forum pages much quicker. Now lets's play BoingGLES
Yeah... "SEEMS" is the keyword here, Opera indeed seems to be working faster for me, especially with running background tasks and Sense is a bit more responsive, but even though the theory behind this is valid and time proven on single-core PCs, it may all be just a placebo effect.
That's why I posted it for others to see and judge
It could just be a roll of the dice, but gscroll is actually working perfectly (on ereader) with this running. I probably shouldn't have said anything, cuz it'll decide to take a lunch-break soon.
Can't tell much else, but it doesn't seem to break anything.
each restart of the HTC HD2 it gives error cant start this application,
so i unistalled
On my TP works fine, actually seems the whole system actually speeded-up. I had an error once but never happened again. It takes 624k of RAM, so it's quite something but oh well... keep up doin this good job!
Well it's not exactly optimized for memory or CPU usage, neither does it properly handle runtime errors... this is just experimental proof of concept
I have been testing it extensively and from my experience:
1) it definitely does not slow things down.. if it seems so, it's probably because your device is still booting
2) it has little to no effect when you use only 1 application
3) it seems to help a little with concurrency of 2 or more processes
that can be seen during heavy background network traffic or heavy concurrent tasks
- Opera loading pages and rendering at the same time
- you can notice increased responsiveness while playing music in background and doing stuff
- rotating screen in various scenarios also seems a bit faster
- sound cracking under heavy load should be reduced
- basically the more things you run at once, the better improvement you should see; well until you hit the ceiling of your CPU
... I'm not talking huge improvements here but every little bit helps
4) keep on mind that part of the effect is persistent until you soft reset, even if you uninstall or kill the booster you need to soft reset if you want to bench/compare
Thanks nik3r for the app I tried it installed and uninstalled easy with no errors.
Unfortunately, it greatly slowed down my TP performance. Opera rendering was sluggish, opened apps were windows media player, contacts, WLM, tasks, calendar, activesync. As for opening and using other programs , i did not notice a dip or increase in speed.
i'll try it o my htc touch pro 2 and my HTC mogul...
Could you please post the name of your ROM and pagepool size if you know it? I think that pagepool may have huge impact on the ability to multitask.
I'm not 100% sure it has to do with mobileboost, but I've been having some issues with writing to the sd card. (This is actually kind of funny, lol). Last night, I created a shortcut to mobileboost.exe and put it on my sd card, where I have a second copy of my start menu that I access with the XTask file manager (I put stuff I'm testing out there instead of the real start menu). This morning, I scanned my sd card with Scandisk, and it found an error in the folder where I put the shortcut. Ok, no big deal. Today, I was running some SK Tools benchmarks with mobile boost, and I copied them to my sd card (and created a new folder) while MSB was running. After soft resetting and running some tests w/o it running, I looked in the sd card and the folder with the benchmarks wasn't there. I scanned the disk, and the files were recovered as .chk files. I guess it could be happening because I'm using caches applied to the sd card as well as writeback. But, I've never seen this happen before.
Code:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\Profiles\SDMemory\FATFS]
"EnableWriteBack"=dword:00000001
"BitmapCacheSize"=dword:00000100
"FatCacheSize"=dword:00000400
"DataCacheSize"=dword:00000c00
Definitely unrelated, MobileBooster installs to the device no matter what you chose and it autostarts (from \windows\startup folder).
Make sure you safely disconnect from PC when you're in flash drive mode and don't connect/disconnect the device in flash mode during any transfers
OK, here are some benchmarks with SK Tools. The first two compare benchmarking w/ and w/o mobileboost running, each after a soft reset. I ran three tests, took the average of each three and show the standard deviations.
W/O the boost:
Test AVG STDEV Units
Integer 329.2143667 2.620626281 Moves/25 usec
Floating point 7.595333333 0.022590558 MWIPS
RAM access 537 31.48015248 Speed index
Draw bitmaps 638.6666667 7.637626158 Speed index
Main storage (write) 2366.656667 29.27902036 KB/sec
Main storage (read) 6871.67 770.7838631 KB/sec
Storage Card (write) 3385.506667 131.6158236 KB/sec
Storage Card (read) 4341.836667 1005.563271 KB/sec
File List 2606.666667 139.2850794 Items/s
FL: Storage Card 2424.666667 26.57693235 Items/s
SKTools loading 2185 86.79285685 ms
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With the boost running:
Test AVG STDEV
Integer 329.7313333 2.010925713
Floating point 7.614 0.031240999
RAM access 442 1
Draw bitmaps 653 4
Main storage (write) 2420.056667 27.17658244
Main storage (read) 7459.18 177.8904416
Storage Card (write) 2712.48 215.2829438
Storage Card (read) 5341.15 928.2778203
File List 2512.333333 68.23733094
FL: Storage Card 2340.666667 67.82575715
SKTools loading 2187.666667 27.53785274
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These two are really pretty similar. In my experience, there's a lot of variance in how well the RAM access and bitmap tests run; they aren't consistent at all, so seeing the faster ram access without the boost running probably means nothing.
Next, I ran a set of .mp3's over WMP and did the tests (3 for each, w and w/o the boost, with a soft reset in between the tests). This was to test multi-tasking performance. I ran the same two songs for each test (takes about 5 min per test).
W/o boost:
Test AVG STDEV
Integer 289.113 23.80731014
Floating point 7.300333333 0.015143756
RAM access 531.6666667 10.96965511
Draw bitmaps 729.3333333 4.509249753
Main storage (write) 1840.866667 46.8405992
Main storage (read) 7033.93 267.0015249
Storage Card (write) 2730.49 189.3420405
Storage Card (read) 4724.97 997.641275
File List 2279.333333 34.58805189
FL: Storage Card 2196 40.03748244
SKTools loading 2320 57.61076288
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W/ the boost:
Test AVG STDEV
Integer 241.0114 13.07119076
Floating point 7.227333333 0.007023769
RAM access 543.6666667 13.0511813
Draw bitmaps 727.6666667 3.055050463
Main storage (write) 1898.493333 59.4344196
Main storage (read) 6885.55 481.199009
Storage Card (write) 2708.99 39.82972383
Storage Card (read) 5276.103333 174.1402014
File List 2342.333333 44.23045708
FL: Storage Card 2057.333333 43.01550108
SKTools loading 2286 11.35781669
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The integer test is a lot faster w/o the boost running, and the floating point is slightly faster (not a ton). Both take a hit compared to not running WMP, which is a major resource hog. The RAM and bitmap tests are both faster, and this just goes to show that they're pretty random tests and I wouldn't ever get too excited about results with these two tests (unless they're consistently awful, I suppose). The only benchmark (besides the first two tests, which basically measure processor speed or effectiveness) that I care about is the last one, which is the SK Tools boot-time (you have to close the app and re-start to get different measurements). It's pretty good in all cases, and doesn't change that much.
Long story short, I'm not seeing much benefit in these tests, but if it helps to get gscroll to work (not sure 100% yet), then I might use it.
nik3r said:
Definitely unrelated, MobileBooster installs to the device no matter what you chose and it autostarts (from \windows\startup folder).
Make sure you safely disconnect from PC when you're in flash drive mode and don't connect/disconnect the device in flash mode during any transfers
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Yeah, I dunno if it's related or not, but I was doing all the file transfers with total commander on the device. I didn't use the cab to install mobilespeedbooster, I dumped the contents with sk tools and then started it manually with a shortcut (that I made w/ TC). So, it wasn't running from startup.
Edit: now that I think about it, I've also got these keys applied to the sd card:
Code:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\Profiles\SDMemory\FATFS\Filters\CacheFilt]
"Dll"="CacheFilt.dll"
"Order"=dword:2
"FileCacheWriteBackPriority256"=dword:FE ;shadrac's settings
"FileCacheWriteBackTimeout"=dword:A
I have a feeling that mobileboost was messing with the writeback thread, and that's why I wasn't seeing files writing properly to my card.
Thanks for the tests, even though synthetic benchmarks on WM are inherently imprecise and this app is more about perceived speed than actual raw speed. Your SD problem at least gave me more ideas, I should really treat system services separately with higher priority and try to decrease the thread scheduling overhead, which may cause the differences in benchmarks.
where can I find the setting app?
cause I cannot find it on System settings and start program....
or just install it without setting and anything else...?
There's no settings, the core is fully automated - just install and soft reset and it's online.
Improved performance on my phone
I'll like to start off by thanking you for this great app I usually just read other people who post and if it looks good I download it and I never post back but I really liked this app so I felt like it deserved some feedback. I've noticed my TP run smoother and faster esp when I'm listening to music . Also I don't know if its from your program but my phone would just go to a white screen for 5 sec when I try to go back to my home screen, but thats about the only issue I've seen so far. Keep up the good work
Mine is Exquisite ROM 4.06 ... and i think the pagepool size is 0... as the thread says...
Torakiki83 said:
Mine is Exquisite ROM 4.06 ... and i think the pagepool size is 0... as the thread says...
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and i forgot, sense 2.5

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