I notice that when i mount my sd card in ubuntu that there is a folder that says tombstones. i was wondering if anyone knew what it does or is? will it be a bad idea if i were to delete the folder. i have a class 6 8gig with a 570isg MB ext3 and im looking to make it a little faster if possible.
that's where we keep iphone corpses...
I honestly have no idea, it must be something that came with your card. Are you looking to make the card itself faster?... or the phone with a swap partition...
just mount it and see what there's in there. Back it up if you feel you should, and then partition away...
jubeh said:
that's where we keep iphone corpses...
Well is there anything i can do to speed my card up. i hve cyanogen 3.6.8.1 overclocked at 328/528 and compcache but i still get lag sometimes. but i was just wondering about the tombstones, kinda got off subject a bit. lmao
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Could be a folder associated with an app you have. Don't really know tho. If there is nothing in the folder then I would say you can delete it. If it is associated with an app then whenever that app is ran it should put that folder back.
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i'm wondering if theres anyway to get the normal contacts app on my hero rom.
For some reason (on jacs 2.7.3) all the regular apps and the desktop work fine with little to no lag.
but the HTC apps have a ridiculous amount of lag. It can take me 15-20 seconds to actually get into contacts, select a contact and call them. and thats assuming that it even grabs the right one. In trying to call from the call log about 95% of the time it calls the person above or below the person i'm trying to call.
So basically i'm good with just the regular 1.5 contacts app if that can be done.
Or, even better, someone could tell me how to fix the lag in the apps. and once again its ONLY the HTC apps. Homescreen and everything else work perfectly fine.
Don't believe it can be done. I could be wrong tho.
What class card you got? And do you got a linux swap partition?
Class 6, 128MB linux-swap. And like i said, i experience NO LAG AT ALL with the homescreen, which before i got my class 6 was the worst, Now i only get lag in the HTC apps, and ONLY in the HTC aps which is kinda wierd.
Have you tried lowering your linux swap size partition. Most people have there's at 32 or 64. Heard anything above that you will experience lag issues.
If you don't like running the HTC apps- namely the contacts app with social integration, what's the point of running hero? May as well just run a Rogers rom and have no lag on anything.
man i love people that can't read.
@vr25: i said nothing about not liking them, i said that they lag too much. Only reason why i was trying to get the old app was because it dosn't have any lag.
Havn't tried lowering it yet because i wasn't sure if it would wipe the whole card. that and i got to go find my ubuntu disk. Guess i havn't really done that much so if it does wipe it oh well.
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man i love people that can't read.
@vr25: i said nothing about not liking them, i said that they lag too much. Only reason why i was trying to get the old app was because it dosn't have any lag.
Havn't tried lowering it yet because i wasn't sure if it would wipe the whole card. that and i got to go find my ubuntu disk. Guess i havn't really done that much so if it does wipe it oh well.
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You can repartition it from Cyanogen's Recovery 1.4, it won't delete everything because your making it smaller, not bigger, you'll merely have some unallocated space left over.
alright i'll give that a shot and lower it to 32MB.
so lowered it to 32MB. noticed a change in a few apps. Call log, clock, and calendar work a lot better now. still lag but no where near as bad.
Contacts app had no change at all. Still barely useable.
And the notification bar is still lagging as well.
so yeah, any ideas. 32MB swap now. Contacts and Notifications still all laggy.
Can someone explain what the advanced launcher is? Maybe I am just confused by the options it provides. What does creating a submenu do? What is the application drawer (when I click on it, the screen is blank)? What does it mean by the number of home screens? Tray Launcher columns? I've been on XDA for a bit of time now but I've never understood the Advanced Launcher thing.
I can answer some of these for you.
Sub menu, in the app draw (the thing at the bottom that you slide up with all of you applications) instead of everything all listed you can make folders so they are grouped.
Home Screens when you swipe left and right how many do you want? default is 3 1 middle 1 left 1 right but you can have more.
Tray launcher columns, in the app draw when you open it up how many icons wide do you want? I think default is 4 but you can set it higher and the icons are smaller so more fit in the window.
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Can someone explain what the advanced launcher is? Maybe I am just confused by the options it provides. What does creating a submenu do? What is the application drawer (when I click on it, the screen is blank)? What does it mean by the number of home screens? Tray Launcher columns? I've been on XDA for a bit of time now but I've never understood the Advanced Launcher thing.
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It is the Homescreen on steroids. Submenu means in the app drawer you can have folders to categorize apps. The app drawer is the tab that you pull up to see your apps. It lets you have more than the default 3, I think it allows for up to 10. How many apps do you want going across in the app drawer, 3, 4, 5?
Ahhhh, I see. So basically its useless for my needs...How do I delete it? In applications -> manage applications, there isn't an option to uninstall. Thanks, guys.
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Ahhhh, I see. So basically its useless for my needs...How do I delete it? In applications -> manage applications, there isn't an option to uninstall. Thanks, guys.
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That's probably included by default. You can't delete it because I think there is no reg. homescreen included.
But if you want to try, then
rm /system/app/AdvancedLauncher.apk
I don't recommend it though
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That's probably included by default. You can't delete it because I think there is no reg. homescreen included.
But if you want to try, then
rm /system/app/AdvancedLauncher.apk
I don't recommend it though
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I'm using Cyan 4.2.12.2 w/Darkstar .6.8 and I flashed the AL separately. I wanted to check it our but it sucks IMO (not the AL itself but it sucks for my needs).
While I have your attention, I have also gone to only FAT32 and Linux Swap partitions because I wanted to see if things run faster w/o A2SD. I was trying to do my partitions via ADB and only wanted to use a FAT32 because I think I read Cyanogen doesn't use swap. I got some sort of error but I was at work and couldn't really pay too much attention to the error. So, I formatted with 64 Linux-swap and the rest FAT32 just to get my phone functioning again. Soooo, my question is, should I just keep the swap there or should I try to get rid of it and use all 8GB for FAT32? Do I need to delete any user.conf's that may be lingering in there somewhere? Anything else I should pay attention to given that I don't have an ext partition right now? Again, thanks a lot for your help.
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I'm using Cyan 4.2.12.2 w/Darkstar .6.8 and I flashed the AL separately. I wanted to check it our but it sucks IMO (not the AL itself but it sucks for my needs).
While I have your attention, I have also gone to only FAT32 and Linux Swap partitions because I wanted to see if things run faster w/o A2SD. I was trying to do my partitions via ADB and only wanted to use a FAT32 because I think I read Cyanogen doesn't use swap. I got some sort of error but I was at work and couldn't really pay too much attention to the error. So, I formatted with 64 Linux-swap and the rest FAT32 just to get my phone functioning again. Soooo, my question is, should I just keep the swap there or should I try to get rid of it and use all 8GB for FAT32? Do I need to delete any user.conf's that may be lingering in there somewhere? Anything else I should pay attention to given that I don't have an ext partition right now? Again, thanks a lot for your help.
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Since it seems that it didn't work without swap I would keep it. It also helps if you ever want to use swap, then it doesn't require you to flash and reformat again
I'm using froyo FR91 and noticed within the last day that my system was slow. I downloaded an app that shows cpu and memory usage and noticed that the total cpu usage is at 99%. The Android System process is between 84% and 90% all the time.....any suggestions? Do I need a bigger swap partition or something?
Oh ya, and it will reboot my nexus one after a while when trying to use the system in this state.
interesting... i took out my SD card and it isn't acting slow... could it be the way the partition is setup?
Have you looked at System Panel or some other program to see exactly what is using CPU?
Ya like I mentioned it just says Android System. I am using Android System Info. I wonder if it is a setting with the sd card because it doesn't seem to happen without a sd card in it.
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Ya like I mentioned it just says Android System. I am using Android System Info. I wonder if it is a setting with the sd card because it doesn't seem to happen without a sd card in it.
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I said System Panel. It's in the market.
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I said System Panel. It's in the market.
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Is System Panel better than Android System Info, which is another app in the market? I now have both installed, and they seem to do the same thing.
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Is System Panel better than Android System Info, which is another app in the market? I now have both installed, and they seem to do the same thing.
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Ah, if they do similar things then okay, I haven't used the other one, I was reading it as you were using something in the Preferences to see what was using CPU there.
Hope you figure it out, I've never seen excessive usage in any program except for a handful of times that something went rogue.
Maybe you should start removing widgets.. Then if that doesn't locate the problem, background apps..
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Ah, if they do similar things then okay, I haven't used the other one, I was reading it as you were using something in the Preferences to see what was using CPU there.
Hope you figure it out, I've never seen excessive usage in any program except for a handful of times that something went rogue.
Maybe you should start removing widgets.. Then if that doesn't locate the problem, background apps..
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Oh, I'm not actually the guy with the problem, just someone who's been looking for a good program to track CPU usage. I've been using System Panel for a few days and actually prefer the interface to System Info. Thanks for the tip!
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Oh, I'm not actually the guy with the problem, just someone who's been looking for a good program to track CPU usage. I've been using System Panel for a few days and actually prefer the interface to System Info. Thanks for the tip!
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Oops, missed you weren't the same, but hey, glad you like System Panel I have zero to do with the app/author but I suggest it to anyone wanting insight into what's going on, it's really great for monitoring to see long-term app behavior (paid version) or a very good whats-going-on-right-now and app killer in the free version.
seems like it was the card. I was using an adata 16gb class6 card. The card seems fine on its own. Tests on it seem ok, but once in a while the card makes the android process take a lot of cpu usage. Not sure why. I will try again on cyanogens version.
Ok its not the card because I tried a different card and it happened again. Anyone else have this issue?
Same issue,
Even swapped out my 16GB class 6 for a 32GB class 2 . Both OEM ( not ebay cards ) and the phone still reboots/ hangs ect whenusing things like animated gifs.
This has happened to me too (system_server stuck at 100%), had to reboot to fix it.
Maybe a froyo bug? Any1 try cyanogen yet?
I didnt want to clutter up the AOIP thread any more, so I just came on here to say I tried the ram manager and ram expander. I settled on ram expander. phone is quiet a different machine now.
however I am having issues when getting a screenshot. I get an error saying "couldnt capture screenshot. storage may be in use" thoughts ? i have tried with and without the ram expander active.
running the newest AOIP 2.0 (4.3)
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I didnt want to clutter up the AOIP thread any more, so I just came on here to say I tried the ram manager and ram expander. I settled on ram expander. phone is quiet a different machine now.
however I am having issues when getting a screenshot. I get an error saying "couldnt capture screenshot. storage may be in use" thoughts ? i have tried with and without the ram expander active.
running the newest AOIP 2.0 (4.3)
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hmmm it could be just an issue with AOIP 2.0 or a background app causing the issue. On 1.5 I don't have that issue and never messed with screen capture when I tested 2.0. In AOIP tread i posted a screen capture with ramexpander and LBE running.
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I didnt want to clutter up the AOIP thread any more, so I just came on here to say I tried the ram manager and ram expander. I settled on ram expander. phone is quiet a different machine now.
however I am having issues when getting a screenshot. I get an error saying "couldnt capture screenshot. storage may be in use" thoughts ? i have tried with and without the ram expander active.
running the newest AOIP 2.0 (4.3)
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Which SD card are your screenshots stored? If it's on the card where the swap file is that is most likely the issue. I do know that the SWAP file stops any ability to transfer files from PC to phone on the SD card in which it is in use. Change the storage location of the screenshots to the other card, bet that fixes it.
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Which SD card are your screenshots stored? If it's on the card where the swap file is that is most likely the issue. I do know that the SWAP file stops any ability to transfer files from PC to phone on the SD card in which it is in use. Change the storage location of the screenshots to the other card, bet that fixes it.
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Obviously it makes sense when using usb cable as it gets unmounted from android first but android wont unmount if something is already accessing the sdcard. internal or external. its same with any os. however he is just accessing it within andoid it's self when using screen capture.. So which goes back to what i originally said as i can use screen capture on either sdcards with and without swap. Its either a bug with AOIP 2.0 or another app he has is blocking its access.
thanks for the feedback. im thinking its something in AOIP, I just wiped and reflashed AOIP 2.0 with the gapps from the thread, still no recording of the screenshot to either sd card. so im at a loss for now. I might post this back in the AOIP thread...
im still playing around with different settings trying to get the screen capture to work right for me. I do get a screenshot file, its just a blank black picture.
i know there is a way to track or i guess log the activity on the phone....can someone help me out on how to do that?
There's an app called aLogcat or from phone terminal type: logcat > /storage/sdcard1/logcat.txt. If you have adb installed, $: adb shell logcat.
ya hes right. If you you can't figure out after looking over logcat. attach it to a post and I'll see what I can find and do.
this is the file i generated from the logcat. i went through in wordpad and spaced out the commands, so if something looks out of place...sorry.
hope it helps. thanks!
-trout
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this is the file i generated from the logcat. i went through in wordpad and spaced out the commands, so if something looks out of place...sorry.
hope it helps. thanks!
-trout
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k i just saved it to pc. ill look it over when i get a chance either later today my time or tomorrow for sure
sorry for being later at replying back got swamped with some freelance work. After reviewing logcat it looks like its losing focus due to not finding a qualified user. I may be completely wrong but I think it may be a bug in aoip 2.0. Cam may be better at seeing something I do not as he has a lot more experience at it. Your best bet at this current point is to pm cam to see if he can pin point the exact area and I'm sure i can do the rest as he is a busy family man. Depending on what he says you may have to either a) wait if bug has to be fixed in source code or b) swap roms to either previous aoip or different rom all together and but not least c) try an app that does it and see if it gives the same problem.
cool deal. thanks for looking at it. i will try a third party app and see how that works. and cam, if you happen to see this, i guess take note?
thanks guys!
not a problem.
Just going to report back, using a third party app I am now able to capture screenshots.
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Just going to report back, using a third party app I am now able to capture screenshots.
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:highfive: so ya its a bug in aoip 2.0 but least you got something is better than nothing for the time being
Ok I know I've seen it some where but can not find or figure it out at all anymore...can't get in the lap top due to ask the running for the little ones dance and the search box for xda likes to disappear when I click it...
Ok anyways the question is I hover on 5-9 gb free on the sd card... There is also another folder in there that shows "sd0" had the same exact info pix,etc in it...am I running into duplicates on my phone robbing up space? I'm lost on where to go or look Any help would be greatly appreciated!