So Im running JACxHEROSkiv1.6r2B and I have a 4gig class 6 sd card. I have the fat32 set up, ext3, and linux swap at 32.
I had a class 4 before, but hearing everyone rant and rave how fast hero runs with a class 6 I went out and bought one. However, hero still seems to be a little laggy and slow..... at least for me. I'll get the htc screen and the loading screen.. I even reverted back to superhero v2 and that was the fastest hero for me, no lag, no loading screens nothing.
But the newer hero's seem to be slow for some reason even with a class 6. Can anyone help, I absolutly love hero, just want it to be fast like how everyone says it is.
Thanks in advance...
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the speed of hero roms will vary depending on the phone itself, the way the phone is used, the settings on the phone, the way people use their phone, how they choose to set up their linux-swap size and what they set swappiness to, in short, different people get different results with hero roms, some find them fast, some find them tremendously slow, its most likely a mind over matter type deal... so finally we reach the point of all this.... stop with the why isn't my hero blazing fast threads and how do i make hero make hero faster threads. basically you have 2 options for optimizing your hero build, set it up exactly the way the first post of the thread tells you to, or you can pm the people with amazingly fast hero roms and ask them what they are doing...
wow i was a smart ass and still managed to give a half way decent answer
I did follow ALL directions, i've flashed tons of roms and experienced different things with different builds. Kind of wierd how superhero v2 seems to run faster then the new builds. Even with the echo at 60, some threads say set it to 10, etc. Followed all directions, and still have these results. When a thread says FAST, you kind of expect it. I mean gimme a break going from checking the market to your home screen you get a loading issue, c'mon. There has to be something to alter to fix it. I know im not the only person having slow issues with hero EVEN on a CLASS 6
there was a post i just read where some one set there linux-swap to 96mb and swappiness to 100 and said it ran really fast, that was the newest jacski hero rom version b i think. you could always try that, though whether or not it will suffer future slow downs remains to be seen. I haven't tried a hero rom recently (since 3.6.8.1 was released by cyanogen damn that was a while back) because of the slow downs i would get after a day or so i don't know much other than to try what others are saying works.
though with the way drizzy's new hero v1 is shaping up to look i might have to try it when he drops it. I remember trying jac's 1.4 hero, if you think the hero roms they have now have lag... but alas now i am reminiscing
I agree, his new hero rom is supposed to be the best to date, so we'll see, I just flashed over to cyans 4.0.4 since its fast. I also read about the 96mb and 100swap, but I want to see what happens in a few days with that.
cire253 said:
So Im running JACxHEROSkiv1.6r2B and I have a 4gig class 6 sd card. I have the fat32 set up, ext3, and linux swap at 32.
I had a class 4 before, but hearing everyone rant and rave how fast hero runs with a class 6 I went out and bought one. However, hero still seems to be a little laggy and slow..... at least for me. I'll get the htc screen and the loading screen.. I even reverted back to superhero v2 and that was the fastest hero for me, no lag, no loading screens nothing.
But the newer hero's seem to be slow for some reason even with a class 6. Can anyone help, I absolutly love hero, just want it to be fast like how everyone says it is.
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I had the same issue with my 32mb swap. I changed it to 96 and saw a HUGE increase in performance. No compcache. Just swap with 60 swappiness and I hardly ever see Loading or the HTC screen.
Here is a thread that discusses this issue:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=551643
It is among many, however almost everyone has their own opinion based on their own phone which is of course based on their own needs. The key is playing around with it and seeing what works best for you. Start with the swappiness and then try your swap partition size and see what works best for you.
Then there was a vague tweet from jac about a possible fix for bluetooth, and twisted zero is supposedly getting really close with the led's, also with the htc kernal that was made open.
It really wouldn't suprise to me to see in another month or so a hero rom that competes with stock cupcake, maybe i'm too optimistic though lol
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...maybe i'm too optimistic though lol
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I think so too.
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I think so too.
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well when you compare jac's 1.4 back when hero threads were getting thrashed left and right to what the hero rom's are now. there is a vast improvement. I remember when I couldn't use a hero rom for more than a few hours without having to go to a stable rom. now my friend has had a rom on his phone a few weeks and hasn't said anything to me about it running horribly so maybe one day...
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well when you compare jac's 1.4 back when hero threads were getting thrashed left and right to what the hero rom's are now. there is a vast improvement. I remember when I couldn't use a hero rom for more than a few hours without having to go to a stable rom. now my friend has had a rom on his phone a few weeks and hasn't said anything to me about it running horribly so maybe one day...
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I agree that the Hero roms are stable enough for daily use provided that you make certain adjustments, but in regards to the LED and bluetooth I don't think they will be perfect for a long time. The LED will hopefully come soon since Twisted reported getting them to work. But I don't understand why we don't have fully working LED's like that was announce last week. Perhaps it was an accidental fix that couldn't be recreated? Perhaps it was a fluke? Who knows. What I do know is that the LED's still need work even after it was reported to have a fix. As for bluetooth... as far as I know and read it could only be initialized by manual command lines and not from the settings app. Even IF there is a fix... will it be full bluetooth (A2DP) or just enough to pair and use a headset?
The fact that the BT and LED's for Hero builds tend to work with MT3G and not the G1 tells me that it's hardware related and not so much in code or scripts. So if fixes to the LED and BT are developed and perfected then how will the MT3G work after flashed a ROM with these patches included? Will they conflict? Will we need different ROMs for different phones? I'm not trying to be negative or pessimistic but I'm just not seeing full fixes for these issues to be ready, available and implemented this week or next. Maybe in a month or two... but that's as far as my optimisism takes me. But I hope that I'm wrong.
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You're wrong.
JACHero 2.3.3 in my opinion is near as fast as an original T-Mobile ROM @ 384 MHz!
It only lagged for me, when I set the swap-size to more then 16 MB.
I think 16 mb are enough, with swappiness 20.
The only reason for switching back to JF 1.51 ADP + Hero theme is, the messaging issue.
If that gets fixed, i'll stick with hero.
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First of all i disagree. I have used JacHero for a while and it is very well ready for everyday use. The thing that made me switch back is the battery life, not the lag (which i had none once going to JacHero 2.3). If you know how to setup your rom then it will run soooooooooooooooo smooth. IF u need help setting up a Hero rom, i will be willing to help
i agree on the laggy part, took me 2 mins just to place a call and a min to pick up a phone call.. but hey whom ever is runnin hero roms should be use to the laggy by now.
i dont want hero gone, it will improve, and if it works on the G1 then it belongs here.
my opinion is hero will disappear when google builds a sexy looking rom for the g1. google android is so plain you'll get laughed at for even showing it off to other people. but hero makes everyone drool when they see it. card carrying iphone owners who'll never switch to a g1 or any other product give hero props. so yes hero will be a thing of the past but only when the new kid on the block shows up and kicks his a$$ and steals his lunch money while mother rosie looks on with terror. LOL
-sighs- Yes I do wish they'd go away. All the devs work so hard on hero and I give them props but they're still slow. Probably b/c hero was built for a phone with much more RAM then the g1. Even with apps2sd, overclock, and swapper still not fash enough for me. My 0.02$ on this.
I'm sure it'll improve over time. there are far too may good devs working on it for it not to. I just hope that time is before htc bring out a version of the hero phone with a keyboard and I've had a weak moment and bought it. it reminds me of putting touchflo on my hermes. I think the devs have got it working smoothly enough now but I spent about a year with it running like a dog and then bought the G1.
Trouble is, that once you see these things you just can't turn back.
for me it is all the other stuff in hero that is more important. the htc versions of contacts and album with the facebook integration and stocks and weather are the things that i can't leave alone. The Rosie home screen is just a 'nice to have'
I dont think Hero should go away. after JAC hero 2.3.3 its running great with no lag. I classify lag as stuttering in animation and responsiveness. Yes I wish i would never see the loading screen after first boot but I have it down to about 10-15 sec's whenever it does have to reload, which isn't much only when surfing internet for awhile or going into the weather app. So average times a day i get the loading screen is maybe 2-3 times a day. If you dont want hero, then dont download it. I dont think it should go away just because some people dont like it. If speed is a must for your build then download a faster ROM. I dont know about you but one of the things I love about my G1 is the choices in what ROMs I want to put on. Apple cant even claim that. There is really only one choice. Yes there is a jailbreak and non-jailbreak ROMs for apple but they function the same way, just one lets you install non app store apps.
Hey guys,
I'm new to rooting and xda, I'm thinking about getting a Hero rom on my g1 but I have read mixed reviews about lag etc..
My question to you is, are you running a Hero Rom? How does it perform? Which Rom would you recommend?
Thanks, I love you guys.
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Hey guys,
I'm new to rooting and xda, I'm thinking about getting a Hero rom on my g1 but I have read mixed reviews about lag etc..
My question to you is, are you running a Hero Rom? How does it perform? Which Rom would you recommend?
Thanks, I love you guys.
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I'm interested in this question too! Would love to hear some feedback.
APEX.7 said:
Hey guys,
I'm new to rooting and xda, I'm thinking about getting a Hero rom on my g1 but I have read mixed reviews about lag etc..
My question to you is, are you running a Hero Rom? How does it perform? Which Rom would you recommend?
Thanks, I love you guys.
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hero roms when compared to cupcake roms do tend to lag at time. esp when the phone has been runign for hours or days without restart.
in my opinion i think drizzy 2.2r2 is the best hero rom for speed and is pretty stable. i am waiting for drizzy to finish his 5 or 6 rom project and he told me that dopod will be the best hero rom to date.
some hero roms tend to have missing sms...esp when receiving.. i recommend again drizzy 2.2r2 for speed but jacxhero 1.4 or 1.2 is the best as far as stability goes in my opinion. stability meaning lack of bugs. esp in the market and sms issues. but jac hero roms tend to run slower than drizzy.
I'm currently running JacxHeroskiv 1.4 (gotta love the name ) and I find it's fairly useable if you use a 64mb linux-swap partition on a Class 6 card. I only populate one screen, this is just a prefrence, if you use more than one the homescreen is still useable, but sometimes you will swipe and it wont change screen for a few seconds. Battery life is poor. It must be about 3/4 of what I get on Cyanogen Mod, but I can live with that. One of the problems with Hero ROMs is that they are made for a phone without a keyboard. So there are lots of apps that don't rotate and there are issues with the virtual keyboard and hardware keyboard which are ver annoying. If you can live without bluetooth and LEDs (they are working on LEDs) and a slightly slower phone it's worth a try. Just make a nandroid backup before hand.
My advise for the moment is wait from Drizzy Drake's "Dopod" ROM. It's based off and upcoming update for the Hero itself, to make the phone more smooth and add a couple of extra features. We don't really know when it's going to be out but I'm guessing it will be here in a couple of weeks.
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..... My advise for the moment is wait from Drizzy Drake's "Dopod" ROM. It's based off and upcoming update for the Hero itself, to make the phone more smooth and add a couple of extra features. We don't really know when it's going to be out but I'm guessing it will be here in a couple of weeks.
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great, thank you very much for your advice. i think il stick with my current cyanogen rom until this gets released then.. plus i need to read up on all this sd card stuff, i dont understand any of it. lol thanks again
APEX.7 said:
great, thank you very much for your advice. i think il stick with my current cyanogen rom until this gets released then.. plus i need to read up on all this sd card stuff, i dont understand any of it. lol thanks again
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AdrianK said:
My advise for the moment is wait from Drizzy Drake's "Dopod" ROM. It's based off and upcoming update for the Hero itself, to make the phone more smooth and add a couple of extra features. We don't really know when it's going to be out but I'm guessing it will be here in a couple of weeks.
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drizzy said dopod will be out this weekend
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drizzy said dopod will be out this weekend
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great news. thank you sir
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drizzy said dopod will be out this weekend
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According to his latest Tweet it will be released today, he is out running around paying bills, you know the normal stuff people do that have life's, unlike most of us
It's a sad day in my life when I wake up and the first thing I do is check xda for ROM updates! It's Saturday for gods's sake!! I need to get out!
Anyway
I'm running Jac's Hero 1.4 and love it! I'm not one that cares for colors (theme's)
I get NO lag or htc or loading in 4 days since switching to 96mb Linux-swap and swappiness at 60. Love them settings!
SUggest you get it if you want bling and don't care about bluetooth not working
I got back and fourth between Hero and Cyan builds. Check my signature for build types.
My opinion on Hero is this...
It's good to try out and play around with but I wouldn't use it as a primary rom for your phone. In other words... it's good to flash if your bored and with time to kill. I've never had it on my phone for more then a day or two. If you want fast and stable then go for the 4.0.1 Stable Cyanogen Rom (or the updated version depending on when you reference this and since he's updating all the time for improvements) and you won't regret it. Since your considering Hero, I'm assuming that you've already partitioned your sdcard with the ext format. This is a requirement for Hero roms but it optional but recommended for Cyanogen roms (for apps to sd purposes). If you want to bounce back and forth between roms you can use the Switchrom Script with the Cyanogen 1.4 Recovery and it's painless to do. Even without a computer. Give it a shot... the worse that can happen assuming you get past the Danger SPL part is that you won't like one and can switch back.
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According to his latest Tweet it will be released today, he is out running around paying bills, you know the normal stuff people do that have life's, unlike most of us
It's a sad day in my life when I wake up and the first thing I do is check xda for ROM updates! It's Saturday for gods's sake!! I need to get out!
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I'm running Jac's Hero 1.4 and love it! I'm not one that cares for colors (theme's)
I get NO lag or htc or loading in 4 days since switching to 96mb Linux-swap and swappiness at 60. Love them settings!
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Ahhh i know the feeling of waking up in the morning with the hope of a brand spanking new rom out there... i do it practically everyday... haha
as for my hero preferences, I'm running JACxHeroski 1.4 as well, only with my swap at 32 and it's running perfectly. been running it for a while and only gotten one or two loading screens.
ALSO, if you check out Teh Dust's Rosie color changer, you can change the entire system colors. it's pretty awesome. i've got a purple rosie and purple framework and everything.
That about says it above. Hero has some cool features I like like flash 9 and some other cool UI stuff. Like it was suggested above and on jac's post use as few screens as possible and I stay away from the weather widget, or I choose one and it usually does okay. For me after the newness wore off I wanted my speed back! Anywho...Go for it!
It's not worth it, not made for g1 no matter what they do to it. Lags no matter what you do. Get Cyanogen's or jacxrom's build.
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According to his latest Tweet it will be released today, he is out running around paying bills, you know the normal stuff people do that have life's, unlike most of us
It's a sad day in my life when I wake up and the first thing I do is check xda for ROM updates! It's Saturday for gods's sake!! I need to get out!
Anyway
I'm running Jac's Hero 1.4 and love it! I'm not one that cares for colors (theme's)
I get NO lag or htc or loading in 4 days since switching to 96mb Linux-swap and swappiness at 60. Love them settings!
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I know...these updates and all this is so consuming. Next thing you know you have twitter alerts waking you up at night to let you know that something new is out. lol
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It's not worth it, not made for g1 no matter what they do to it. Lags no matter what you do. Get Cyanogen's or jacxrom's build.
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that's a little negative... sure, it has lag occasionally, if you do it correctly. but then again, cyan's isn't perfect either. don't get me wrong. cyanogen is my go-to cupcake rom. but it still has it's bugs.
hero is something for someone who has a little bit of patience. everybody is entitled to his own opinion
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It's not worth it, not made for g1 no matter what they do to it. Lags no matter what you do. Get Cyanogen's or jacxrom's build.
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I agree...it even lags on the actual hero itself. With that being said it's fun to show off and experience first hand without actually buying a hero. It's cool, Just not stupid fast or super stable as of yet.
And that's what I need...stupid fast! lol
Spent 10 hours today!
I am not new to this stuff...been modding iPhones since the first one came out and so forth. I spent 10 hours today working with Hero...JackHero..I think it was. I loved it! It took some work to make it work however...alot of work. The end result was i twas not fast enough for me. I thought i could comprimise becasue I had seen the demos and such...but I am more "Go " than "Show" Unfortuatly I could not get it as fast as I liked. other than that it is AWESOME!
grandomegabosses said:
that's a little negative... sure, it has lag occasionally, if you do it correctly. but then again, cyan's isn't perfect either. don't get me wrong. cyanogen is my go-to cupcake rom. but it still has it's bugs.
hero is something for someone who has a little bit of patience. everybody is entitled to his own opinion
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I think the hero rom is the best one out there. The lag is not really a problem for me(using 92MB swap). However, the they are working on the update that will improve the speed. Nothing beats the Hero's UI!!
I just rooted my phone today after finally getting an 8gb class 6 so I only have one days experience with the hero Rom but so far I like it, the lag is there but I can deal with it for now...my browser is pretty fast and I get all things incoming so I'm happy as long as that works..eventually I'll start to mess with the partions to get it to run a little faster...I've been nodding psp's for years now so I know I could get the hang of this...
grandomegabosses said:
that's a little negative... sure, it has lag occasionally, if you do it correctly. but then again, cyan's isn't perfect either. don't get me wrong. cyanogen is my go-to cupcake rom. but it still has it's bugs.
hero is something for someone who has a little bit of patience. everybody is entitled to his own opinion
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Not negative truthful, want him to know what he's getting into before he does it. Every build has bugs that's just the nature of the beast. Patience has nothing to do with it for me personally, I use my phone for a phone above all and I need something reliable.
I was wondering if there is one hero rom out there that is not slooooow. I tried bunch of them, jachero, drizy full and now I have drizy superlite which is working ok, just little lag when using browser and downside is that it doesnt have touchflo.
I'm using setcpu and swapper but every hero rom is so slow, like typing a message and then going back to the homescreen takes a good minute.
Also flash is horrible, flash video is not smooth at all. Even skyfire does flash video better.
I was just wondering if there is one truly smooth working hero rom out.
If not, then i'm going back to cupcake or a cynagon modified rom.
Whoa one day and you realise that hero on the g1 is worthless, good job, all heros are slow and laggy, which is why I tried to steer you away from it but everybody wants to check it out for themselves. You can try a linux-swap partion of 96mb and a swapiness of 60, it will speed it up a bit but not all that much better. Go back to a cupcake rom that is meant for the phone and you will be much happier.
if you want aesthetics you go for a hero rom. if you want performance you go for a cupcake build. really was this all that necessary. some people claim that they have a fast hero build and maybe with their exact set up they do have what they would consider a fast hero rom, but every phone acts differently. please stop making threads that ask basically the same question. I just typed "hero" into the search this forum option and it gave me 18 pages of threads.
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if you want aesthetics you go for a hero rom. if you want performance you go for a cupcake build. really was this all that necessary. some people claim that they have a fast hero build and maybe with their exact set up they do have what they would consider a fast hero rom, but every phone acts differently. please stop making threads that ask basically the same question. I just typed "hero" into the search this forum option and it gave me 18 pages of threads.
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Amen... Hero isnt meant to run on the G1, our hardware specs arent up to par to what it would take to smoothly run the basic OS, let alone Sense UI. From the reviews I've read even Hero isnt running the Hero rom as smoothly as it probably should.
And david... its kinda a catch 22... I agree there are way too many posts on the same crap... but I also think that no one wants to sit there for hours readign through 18 pages to find out whether or not their question has been answered. I think a major cleanup of these forums is extremely necessary.
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I was wondering if there is one hero rom out there that is not slooooow. I tried bunch of them, jachero, drizy full and now I have drizy superlite which is working ok, just little lag when using browser and downside is that it doesnt have touchflo.
I'm using setcpu and swapper but every hero rom is so slow, like typing a message and then going back to the homescreen takes a good minute.
Also flash is horrible, flash video is not smooth at all. Even skyfire does flash video better.
I was just wondering if there is one truly smooth working hero rom out.
If not, then i'm going back to cupcake or a cynagon modified rom.
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It's best not to use any CPU apps on Hero, the ROMs are already optimized for best CPU performance. So clocking to 528 will not only drain your battery faster but probably slow your phone down too.
Don't use swapper either. If you have a linux-swap partition (which you really should) it will automatically be utilized. It's best to keep it between 32-64mb. Don't go crazy and make it 96 or 128, because it won't make your phone any faster and has been known to cause "ghost" lag.
Yes, the Hero browser is slow as a *****. That's why I always push back the cupcake one, because it's useable and you can use the freakin' status bar.
I would wait for JacxHero 1.6r2. Apparently the kernels that have been cooked from the HTC source code that was released yesterday are blazing fast.
Everyone is releasing ROMs based on Cyanogen's eclair builds and claiming fast fast fast. Am I the only one who is experiencing MAJOR speed issues on any eclair ROM? I have tried a few of them so far and the results are the same. Pretty fast initially, but after a couple days everything comes to a screeching halt. I've tried rebooting, clearing cache, clearing swap, and nothing seems to help. I'll pop my phone open and open messaging and it will take sometimes up to 10 seconds to open. Very misleading for devs to post a ROM calling it crazy fast when it is obviously not.
Maybe I've been spoiled by the speed of some of the donut ROMs I guess... Guess I'll be on donut til I get a new device?
I think it might be SuperE. Same thing happend to me and my buddy. Im flashing SpeedTeams Eclair rom right now hopefully gonna get better results. wish me luck!
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No,can't be super eclair, I'm running
It and its just fine. Have you set setcpu and activated apps2sd? Wipe everything and try superEclair. Have you formatted your sdcard?
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apps2sd enabled, I run about 40MB free on average. Even if SetCPU is maxed out. It runs decent for the first few days and then goes to crap. Last time I tried SpeedTeam's ROM it bootlooped on first flash over and over, even after wiping, repairing, etc. I'll try it again I suppose.
Probably just spoiled by donuts, but I'll keep trying.
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Everyone is releasing ROMs based on Cyanogen's eclair builds and claiming fast fast fast. Am I the only one who is experiencing MAJOR speed issues on any eclair ROM? I have tried a few of them so far and the results are the same. Pretty fast initially, but after a couple days everything comes to a screeching halt. I've tried rebooting, clearing cache, clearing swap, and nothing seems to help. I'll pop my phone open and open messaging and it will take sometimes up to 10 seconds to open. Very misleading for devs to post a ROM calling it crazy fast when it is obviously not.
Maybe I've been spoiled by the speed of some of the donut ROMs I guess... Guess I'll be on donut til I get a new device?
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You mention something about SWAP.
There's your slow down.
Get rid of swap!
It's also really important, if you want to use SWAP and apps2sd that you use
a CLASS6 - micro SD Card...
Otherwise this will be a big bottleneck for your mobile
I was also really suprised about the difference between my class 2
and now the class 6 card...
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It's also really important, if you want to use SWAP and apps2sd that you use
a CLASS6 - micro SD Card...
Otherwise this will be a big bottleneck for your mobile
I was also really suprised about the difference between my class 2
and now the class 6 card...
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You used swap AND apps2sd AND C2 at the same time? Ouch. That's gotta be bad.
Using a Class6 is like night and day.
Definitely invest in a bigger/faster microSD card.
HTCclay's Superbad Eclair is kickin ass for me. i just reboot every night and i ran up to 3 days fine. Sure not as buttery smooth as it first was but nothing bad at all.
Thanks for the help guys; think I'll try running without swap for a while.
Since getting a Desire, my Dream has been relegated to gym-time/weekend drinking duties, places I don't want to take my shiny new phone and get it broken or lost (also touchscreen-only keyboard just does not cut it when i'm drunk).
I used to flash a new ROM onto my Dream now & again to try stuff out, but really and truly all I want out of it now is speed and stability. I've really fallen out of the scene, and no longer have a clue what is what. Plus I just don't have the time any more :-(
Current ROM is SuperBad 1.3.3 (yes, that's how long ago I last flashed) and that is just laggy and annoying. I think it's set up with 32mb compcache and no swap. I don't really want to mess around adjusting settings to get best performance any more.
Would people mind giving their opinion on the best ROM for me? It would be awesome if you could all chip in! I honestly don't need any features out of this ROM, I don't care if it's cupcake, donut, eclair or froyo. All I want is phone/text/music functions, and for it be fast with no lag - I couldn't care less about anything else.
Thanks so much!
Go Donut, avoid anything above 1.6.
I highly recommend SuperD, it is currently the ROM I have stuck with the longest and will probably stick with for a very long time because it is indeed very fast and reliable and provides me with everything I need from a phone.
Took your advice and installed SuperD 1.11 (Black Ramhack), and it seems to be a good deal quicker than my previous ROM, and stable so far although I've not taxed it too much yet. The main improvement is that although you get the occasional pause when multitasking from app to app, that's all it is - just a pause. My last ROM used to hang for ages and you didn't know if it was going to complete the operation or not.
I suspect this SuperD is approaching the pinnacle of what can be achieved with the Dream, considering it's limited (by today's standards) hardware.
Now I'm thinking to myself "Hmmm, perhaps Froyo performance improvements can be had?" - and after I just said I didn't have time for messing around with this phone any more, lol!
Thanks again for the advice
Wow, I was suffering the same problem just like you before. I bought my Dream in April 2010. It slowed down when apps were installed.
I was annoyed at the speed of the performance. I tried a lot of ROMs, but they were all all SLOW.
A few days ago, I thought things must be changed. I bought a 4GB microSD Class 4 and used recovery to part is into three partions: 500MB ext, 3.4GB FAT32 and 96MB swap.
Than I tried out CyanogenMod 5.0.8.
I added some commands in userinit.sh to enable swap at startup.
I enabled App2SD to keep data partion clean.
I then installed TONS of apps.
It really runs well! Fast and stable!
BTW, the google-addons are installed separately so your Dream can be a phone/text/music-only phone.
Well, I am a Chinese high student and this is my first post in XDA. ^_^