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is there a way to display the download and upload bitrate of my phone? there are arrows next to the network type symbol to indicate if the data connection is uploading or downloading but I'm looking for a way to give any indication about the speed. anyone knows anything?
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If you want to bench your Nexus One, you can install the speedtest.net app into your phone (available on the market). This will surely gives you a good indication of your current location data speed.
But having the speed constantly updated/refreshed in the notification area... Would it be useful? SmartPhone trafic is bursty: a couple of Kb in/out at a time. Sometime bigger "short" D/L of apps and/or images... Unless you do long transfer, most of your readings would not give you the real picture of your data rate.
Also, 2G/3G data rates are "fixed". You can compare it to "old phone modems" there were specific rates: 14.4K, 28.8K, 33.6K. So, you can never end up with a 29.3K speed.
You have to refer to the HSDPA/HSUPA rate tables.
Network Speed is what you need. Shows current up/down speed in notification pane + shortish term historic graph on click. http://www.appbrain.com/app/network-speed/netspeed.pt I had uninstalled it because there was no way to exit (it slows the system down a bit) but I see that's been solved now.
awesome about what I was looking for. thx
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With the recent release of Spz0s rom and Adrynalyne getting this beat over clocked these settings are becoming obsolete. Use at your own discretion.
I recently restored my phone to stock, with basic settings, meaning I did not use any of the settings listed here. I scored a 1013 on a bench with stock everything. Now that I have VTL Launcher as stock again and have everything set back up for me, I'm scoring 1000s and 990s regularly. Again without any of these settings enabled. Which is leading me to believe that a stable system is the fastest thing when it comes to performance and benchmark scores. The settings listed below did help me out, with an unstable system. Now that I am running on a stable system, none of the settings below helped my performance or bench scores, they only hurt them. So these settings below will help anyone with an unstable system to not feel the lag of said unstability. If you try these settings and they don't do anything, or hurt your performance or score, turn them back to stock and revel at how much you rock for having a super stable system! I have also noticed that the app AUTO KILLER MEMORY OPTIMIZER virtually replaces sysctl. If you run AUTO KILLER I would suggest setting sysctl back to stock! I would recommend AUTO KILLER MEMORY OPTIMIZER from the Market to EVERYONE with a Zio. Nice app, set it to Aggressive!
FIRST OFF, THESE SETTINGS ARE ONLY CHANGEABLE IF YOU ARE ROOTED!! If you are not I cannot help you!!
I am making this thread to address performance issues with the Zio. If you have done a benchmark score with just basic settings, it's already apparent to you the Zio is not the best phone. I have found some tweaks to make the phone run faster and score better on benches.
USE THESE SETTINGS AT YOUR OWN RISK. IF YOU SCREW SOMETHING UP, DON'T CRY TO ME.
Stagefright: Stagefright is part of the stock media player that comes disabled on the Zio. Turning on stagefright will increase your benchmark score by a lot, and has also been reported to make Video Playback much better, getting rid of jumpy lagging videos.
You need to make sure you have r/w(read/write) access in your file manager. Root Explorer has r/o(read/only) and r/w. You cannot change any files without r/w access in your file manager.
To Enable Stagefright you open your file explorer(i.e. root explorer, astro, etc.) and navigate to the system folder. Open build.prop in your text editor. Scroll down to where you find stagefright. There are four settings for it grouped together near the bottom of the script. Next to each setting it says =false. You need to edit the false to say true. Once that is done, go up just slightly from that spot, there is also another spot to enable stagefright. Change that to true as well. Also notice that just above this last stagefright script, there is something about the vm.heap and dalvik cache. This is where you change your VM Heap size.
(NOTE: ENABLING THE HTTP SETTING IN STAGEFRIGHT ALLOWS FOR A RICHER HTTP BROWSING EXPERIENCE BUT WILL ALSO PUT A GREEN BAR ON YOUTUBE VIDEOS. KEEPING IT SET TO FALSE WILL AVOID THIS GREEN BAR AND SHOULD NOT AFFECT OVERALL PERFORMANCE!)
VM Heap-Not exactly sure what the technical aspect of it is, but increasing the vm.heap gives the dalvik cache more room to work with, thus making your memory faster. THIS NUMBER SHOULD NOT BE SET BELOW ANDROID DEFAULT WHICH IS 24. And should also not be set above 44. If you want to change this number, add or subtract 4 within the above values, 24-44. This can go down to 16 but you'll see the results and why I said to leave it up pretty fast.
SYSCTL- To edit these settings, open your file explorer, hit the ETC folder. Scroll to bottom and find sysctl.conf, long press and open in text editor. So far I can only say there are three settings here you need to adjust.
To edit SYSCTL settings you must first download and install the app sysctl config from the Market. After you set it up initially it can be uninstalled and leave behind the settings folder for further settings changes by manually editing or you can keep it and just use it to make the changes.
First is MIN FREE KB. This number will not be the same for everyone, although I can tell you setting this number above 4096 seems to slow the system way down. Although you may try any of the following numbers..
1536, 2048, 4096, 5120, 5632, or 6144.
These are the only numbers I would suggest using as they are parameters that came out of the phone itself.
sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters. <----DO NOT CHANGE the numbers in this location, they are system defined parameters and are NOT to be changed!
The second setting is vfs.cachepressure. I have this set to 10. Default is 50. Basically what I've read about this, it opens more room by setting it lower, leaving more memory free from constantly checking and clearing the cache. Read more here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=523707&page=12
The Third setting is oom. It's the last value in sysctl.conf and needs to be set to 1 or 0. Instead of your phone starting to kill apps when it's out of memory, it does something else that I didn't quite understand, which is supposed to boost memory performance. Some people are seeing great results with this setting. Some people say it doesn't do anything. Seems to be specific to the user, and I have yet to find anything in common between two users who say this helps. Although bench scores are higher with it set to 1.
For these settings to take effect you must reboot your phone. Changes to these settings are only applied by a reboot, so any time you change anything, REBOOT!
If you do not know how to change settings manually, there are two apps in the market to help. VM Heap Tool will change your VM Heap for you, no need to manually edit if you don't want to. sysctl config is an app that will allow you to easily change the sysctl settings.
There is an App that will change your stagefright settings for you called Blade Buddy. I did not have a good expeience with this program and would suggest that you edit stagefright manually since it's pretty easy with a superuser file manager.
I can say with certainty that turning on stagefright and adjusting and playing with the rest of the settings that your phone will turn in to a beast compared to how it came out of the box.
As far as battery performance goes, I've noticed a 10-15 percent increase(estimated) over the life of a charge(depending on amount of usage and type). I have noticed more battery use. But not so much that these settings wouldn't be worth using. I gave numerous variations of these settings tries over 2 very long months of restarts and three different benchmark programs. Any additional information or discoveries are welcome.
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Muchos Gracias to everyone in #openzio as always. Spz0 n Mattix are always a big part of anything I do. They are always nice enough to save me from myself. And much thanks to anyone that helps out with the Zio at all. Lets own this phone!
Nice write-up bro.
Well, good guide. Hopefully Kyocera calls me back in regards to the kernel source code so we can really overclock this thing.
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Their lawyer in San Diego got a hold of me on Facebook. Asked me to call her back. Three calls and no dice. Waiting on her response now. Hopefully soon. She said they are "working the bugs out". Which is a load of BS since we have phones in our hands, the source is done. They just have to give it to us and I told her bluntly just that.
Tell them to call me lol, I want the source. Give us the source!
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So what happened to getting it? Teacher not know the right trick? Have you heard about using git to get the source? I dunno what git is but it may help? Ever heard of it?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software).
Google is your friend???
Also, I don't have a sysctl.conf file. At least not where you said it is or one that root explorer can find...
Yeah if I actually understood any of that I wouldn't be asking.
Ok here is the best benchmark average I have gotten so far. These are the settings I used to achieve it.
Avg Benchmark - 795
High - 900 (omitted from average)
Low - 710 (omitted from average)
Avg with high and low only changed by 6 points.
Sysctl Support - Enabled ( I am using the Sysctl app form the market.)
Min free Kbytes - 4096
Dirty Ratio - 80
Dirty BG Ratio - 40
Oom Allocating Tasks - Enabled
VM Heap Tool - VM Heap set to 36m
Stagefright settings are all set to "True"
What we need to know now is what setting are going to speed up the UI. Like cutting load times on FB and other apps, what is making the phone just lightning fast? Doesn't seem to matter too much as long as you don't go above 4096. Finally started to see some system lag with 8192. We need to figure out what makes the phone the most responsive, fastest, beast of a phone.
Messing with the radio numbers only seems to slow me down. And still can't really find anything on what vm.swapiness does either.
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What we need to know now is what setting are going to speed up the UI. Like cutting load times on FB and other apps, what is making the phone just lightning fast? Doesn't seem to matter too much as long as you don't go above 4096. Finally started to see some system lag with 8192. We need to figure out what makes the phone the most responsive, fastest, beast of a phone.
Messing with the radio numbers only seems to slow me down. And still can't really find anything on what vm.swapiness does either.
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Well, I have also downloaded Link2SD from the market and put every app (except system apps) on the SD card and That has given me a little over 100MB free on phone storage and I am using Memory booster lite to free up memory on the phone. All of these things have made a huge difference in the speed and performance of the phone including page load times. (facebook opens and loads almost instantly).
Be careful. Don't move things like Widgets that need to refresh or themes for your launcher or the launcher itself. Seems fine at first until you run for a while and Widgets stop and launcher always reloads.
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Are you on Wi-Fi while opening apps or 3G and if 3G how many bars?
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Using Root Explorer /ect/sysctl.conf I'm not seeing this file...
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Serious changes coming soon. New numbers up for min free KB below already.
Stagefright: Stagefright is part of the stock media player that comes disabled on the Zio. Turning on stagefright will increase your benchmark score by a lot, and has also been reported to make Video Playback much better, getting rid of jumpy lagging videos.
To Enable Stagefright you open your file explorer(i.e. root explorer, astro, etc.) and navigate to the system folder. Open build.prop in your text editor. Scroll down to where you find stagefright. There are four settings for it grouped together near the bottom of the script. Next to each setting it says =false. You need to edit the false to say true. Once that is done, go up just slightly from that spot, there is also another spot to enable stagefright. Change that to true as well. Also notice that just above this last stagefright script, there is something about the vm.heap and dalvik cache. This is where you change your VM Heap size. (NOTE: ENABLING THE HTTP SETTING IN STAGEFRIGHT ALLOWS FOR A RICHER HTTP BROWSING EXPERIENCE BUT WILL ALSO PUT A GREEN BAR ON YOUTUBE VIDEOS. KEEPING IT SET TO FALSE WILL AVOID THIS GREEN BAR AND SHOULD NOT AFFECT OVERALL PERFORMANCE!)
VM Heap-Not exactly sure what the technical aspect of it is, but increasing the vm.heap gives the dalvik cache more room to work with, thus making your memory faster. THIS NUMBER SHOULD NOT BE SET BELOW ANDROID DEFAULT WHICH IS 24. And should also not be set above 44. If you want to change this number, add or subtract 4 within the above values, 24-44.
Phone Edit- Found numbers for min free KB. sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters. 1536, 2048, 4096, 5120, 5632, 6144. Assuming these are new guidelines. Will edit fully tomorrow. Don't change these settings. They are system parameters and should NOT be changed.
SYSCTL- To edit these settings, open your file explorer, hit the ETC folder. Scroll to bottom and find sysctl.conf, long press and open in text editor. So far I can only say there are three settings here you need to adjust. First is MIN FREE KB. This number will not be the same for everyone, although I can tell you setting this number above 8192 will slow the phone down, most people report anything over 4096 slowing the phone down. The default is 2048, I would suggest going up to 4096 or 8192.
The second setting is vfs.cachepressure. I have this set to 10. Default is 50. Basically what I've read about this, it opens more room by setting it lower, leaving more memory free from constantly checking and clearing the cache. Read more here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=523707&page=12
The Third setting is oom. It's the last value in sysctl.conf and needs to be set to 1 for everyone. Instead of your phone starting to kill apps when it's out of memory, it does something else that I didn't quite understand, and this should add speed to everything you do, like surfing or Facebook. Everything should load faster and smoother with this setting enabled. Remember stock value is Zero and may only be set to 1 or 0.
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Try /system/etc micro. Same thing.
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Current settings.
4096
95
60
50
Oom
VM heap 30
Stqgefright all but http
Running fast and stable. Launcher pro Orientation from portrait to landscape is faster. Home loads instantly even though I am not using a launcher from /system/app
I will be doing some more tweaks to speed this up but maintain some battery life.
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I have Stagefright fully enabled. Running 2048 Free KB. Stock radio and background. Turned oom to 0. Zoomin right along.
Sin. How did you edit sysctl.conf I can't find it in ETC
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Thanks! /system/etc still nothing. I have rtecdc_apsta.bin and void.fstab no luck still.
sinisin said:
Try /system/etc micro. Same thing.
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Looks like we need to include sysctl.conf in the next theme update.
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Does anyone know how to change the MTU on the Revolution? I was on the Tbolt forums, and people are getting huge speed increases by changing their MTU to 1500. I looked in the build.prop file but didn't find anything.
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Samsuck said:
Does anyone know how to change the MTU on the Revolution? I was on the Tbolt forums, and people are getting huge speed increases by changing their MTU to 1500. I looked in the build.prop file but didn't find anything.
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I believe the MTU settings need to be changed through a terminal emulator
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I found a path in root explorer to a file titled MTU.. Maybe it can be edited there?
Sys/class/net/lo/MTU
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I found a path in root explorer to a file titled MTU.. Maybe it can be edited there?
Sys/class/net/lo/MTU
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Odd, I see "lo" but it's not a folder that leads me to MTU, it's just blank.
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Odd, I see "lo" but it's not a folder that leads me to MTU, it's just blank.
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That's strange. I was able to open up the mtu file I had, and the setting was 16436.. I set it to 1500, and my phone would not connect to 4g
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Yes, it can be changed using a terminal emulator. It requires root, and I have heard that changing the mtu has led others to being unable to connect to 4G.
I just had to do this to tether my wife's revolution to my ASUS Transformer. Rather than changing the mtu on the REVO, I changed it on the Transformer. Didn't want to risk her not being able to connect to 4G.
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Yes, it can be changed using a terminal emulator. It requires root, and I have heard that changing the mtu has led others to being unable to connect to 4G.
I just had to do this to tether my wife's revolution to my ASUS Transformer. Rather than changing the mtu on the REVO, I changed it on the Transformer. Didn't want to risk her not being able to connect to 4G.
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is there a thread you followed to do this? have a transformer as well
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is there a thread you followed to do this? have a transformer as well
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There was a short article. I was going to post a link, but I don't have enough posts on this forum to do so.
If you go to Google and search for "Tether Another Android Device to a Motorola Triumph" it should be the first result that pops up. Your Transformer must be rooted, and you need to get a terminal emulator app. There's a QR code in the article leading straight to the market to download it.
Don't be like me and think it didn't work when the terminal emulator tells you "Permission Denied" when you enter the first command. That's supposed to happen. Just type "su", hit Enter and you're good to go.
Also, set the mtu to 1428 for best results, if you are tethering the Transformer to the REVO.
Following the tutorial I changed the MTU settings to 1500 (default was 1428) and my speed test scores seem to have improved. Just before the change I got scores of 32.17mbps, 37.73mbps, and 32.02mbps down. Afterwards I got scores of 45.99mbps, 38.37mbps, 36.93mbps, and 44.6mbps down. While not conclusive, the small sample size suggests faster downloads.
To change to the mtu I used terminal emulator:
$su
#ip link set dev bond0 mtu 1500
That was it. to put it back to stock:
$su
#ip link set dev bond0 mtu 1428
Do at your own risk. I haven't seen any ill effects yet, but I'm not responsible if you kill your phone. Wifi still works after the change too, at least to tether my laptop, I'll check to see if my hp touchpad still works later tonight. I also can't promise that it actually helps =)
It should still work to tether to most devices. Seems like most out there default to 1500. Can you let me know if you have any trouble connecting to 4G? Sounds like some folks are having issues connecting to 4G after changing their default mtu.
Also, I noticed that after a reboot, my Transformer reverted to stock mtu. Would not be surprised to see the revo do the same.
I do have 4g still after setting to 1500, but it does revert back to 1428 on a reboot. I also am not sure if it's the mtu setting, but i've had issues using wifi tether causing my phone to reboot itself today. I also have determined after running many more speed tests in different areas of town, that if there is a speed increase it's pretty much negligible. It might actually even reduce speed. It's hard to tell with the speedtest.net app, though, since three tests in a row can produce 3 very different results.
Anyway, it was kind of a fun experiment, but don't think it helps at all.
@MeshiaSamurai, if you decide that you need it to run at 1500 even after boot, it would be really easy to create a script that would run at boot with script manager so that it would stay at 1500.
When you say easy to create, realize you are talking to someone who has barely touched a line of script in his life. That would be nice though. It's not too difficult to pop into terminal emulator and change my mtu settings, but it would sure be easier if I only had to keep the phone at 1500, rather than adjusting everything else to 1428.
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I do have 4g still after setting to 1500, but it does revert back to 1428 on a reboot. I also am not sure if it's the mtu setting, but i've had issues using wifi tether causing my phone to reboot itself today. I also have determined after running many more speed tests in different areas of town, that if there is a speed increase it's pretty much negligible. It might actually even reduce speed. It's hard to tell with the speedtest.net app, though, since three tests in a row can produce 3 very different results.
Anyway, it was kind of a fun experiment, but don't think it helps at all.
@MeshiaSamurai, if you decide that you need it to run at 1500 even after boot, it would be really easy to create a script that would run at boot with script manager so that it would stay at 1500.
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Something I notice when people use the SpeedTest app to compare results is that they fail to verify that the same exact server is being used. It's displayed at the top and can be selected through options.
Something I though I would point out for those wanting to assure a true test/change...
-Cybie
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When you say easy to create, realize you are talking to someone who has barely touched a line of script in his life. That would be nice though. It's not too difficult to pop into terminal emulator and change my mtu settings, but it would sure be easier if I only had to keep the phone at 1500, rather than adjusting everything else to 1428.
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To create the script (should take about 5 minutes)
1. Download script manager (free in the market.
2. On the main page hit the menu softkey and choose "new", then new script, and enter a file name.
3. If prompted, choose SM editor as the program to use
4. In the editor type in the command that you use to set the mtu, but you don't need type su. The end result should look like:
#!/system/bin/sh
ip link set dev bond0 mtu 1500
But the second line should be the one that works for your phone. Also make sure the second line is all lower case, autocorrect will probably try to capitalize IP.
5. Save and go back to the main page of script manager.
6. Scroll down and tap on the file you just created.
7. Click on su and boot so that they're highlighted and hit save.
8. Exit, and you're good to go.
9. Reboot and use terminal emulator to make sure it worked.
@Cybie, yup, same server. I was more referring to how 3 tests in a row can each vary by up to 10mbps even using the same server.
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My mtu is at like 16k sumthing whats better a higher number or lower??
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Got that script running on my Transformer just fine. It boots and adjusts the mtu to what I desire; in this case 1428.
Tried doing it with the REVO. It will not run the script successfully on boot. It will run it just fine if I go to my script editor and run it manually, though. Doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the script itself. It just isn't running it properly on boot.
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Better is not necessarily higher as far as mtu is concerned. It stands for maximum transmission unit, and it governs the packet size of incoming or outgoing data. Theoretically, higher would be more efficient. However, the larger the packets, the more likely any given packet will contain corrupted data. Packets containing corrupted data have to be sent again. Thus, having packets that are too large can actually slow down your connection.
The default broadband mtu is 1500. Most devices also default to 1500. However, for some wacky reason, the REVO defaults WiFi Tethering to 1428. Setting it to 1500, or setting the device you are tethering it to down to 1428 will allow you to tether successfully.
O ok... thanks and if u get a script running do u think u can put a dl link or sumthing so we can all use it also??
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I have just bought a new Galaxy Note and I think it is really really good, but there's just a few things that I'm not sure how to do and what certain things mean etc:
1. I have only ever had a H symbol with 2 arrows in the notification bar. I thought that I would have a 3G symbol but this has never appeared. Question is, what is the H symbol and is my 3G working? I have just turned off fast dormancy, as I have read that it may drain batter, and now I have an E where the H usually is. What is the E for?
2. I'd like to improve the battery life and I have read on here of a few ways to do that. One of the ways is to make sure that apps don't update too regularly. Where do I actually go to check how often the apps update?
3. I have downloaded a few apps and some have saved to the SD card and some have saved to the phone. Why is this? How do I choose where apps save to?
4. I used to have an iPhone 4 and I was forever double tapping the menu button and closing down apps. As far as I am aware with an adroid phone you don't need to do this? Is that right?
I'm sorry for length of this post and the amount of questions that I have asked. I am normally really good with phones but the galaxy note is more like a computer and I would rather just ask the questions than figure it all out myself over time.
Thanks in advance.
H is like 3.5G its a little faster than 3G bit still not 4G. E or edge is 2G.
You can check in the settings of most apps itself how frequently they auto update
As far as moving apps go you can go to setting then apps and choose where the app is, except for system apps.
To close apps and not have them run in the background you have to long press the home button and then swipe the app you want to close
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ottawayd said:
I have just bought a new Galaxy Note and I think it is really really good, but there's just a few things that I'm not sure how to do and what certain things mean etc:
1. I have only ever had a H symbol with 2 arrows in the notification bar. I thought that I would have a 3G symbol but this has never appeared. Question is, what is the H symbol and is my 3G working? I have just turned off fast dormancy, as I have read that it may drain batter, and now I have an E where the H usually is. What is the E for?
2. I'd like to improve the battery life and I have read on here of a few ways to do that. One of the ways is to make sure that apps don't update too regularly. Where do I actually go to check how often the apps update?
3. I have downloaded a few apps and some have saved to the SD card and some have saved to the phone. Why is this? How do I choose where apps save to?
4. I used to have an iPhone 4 and I was forever double tapping the menu button and closing down apps. As far as I am aware with an adroid phone you don't need to do this? Is that right?
I'm sorry for length of this post and the amount of questions that I have asked. I am normally really good with phones but the galaxy note is more like a computer and I would rather just ask the questions than figure it all out myself over time.
Thanks in advance.
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H is the fastest internet you'll get on your note, the downside of it is that it drains the battery pretty fast. As for me, I switch to it when I want to load YouTube videos, download lots of data and similar. You can download a "3G switch" widget from Google Play to quickly jump between H(3G) and EDGE(the E symbol, slower internet, but much better battery life)
By turning off the automatic sync, you save a lot of data and battery life, you can do that via Settings > Accounts and Sync. Personally, I find it better to manually refresh my email and similar when I need it, but it's your decision.
Since Note has a massive internal memory, you should keep all apps installed to the internal memory rather than the SD card, for the fastest experience, since none of the apps need to load from the slower SD card.
Android handles processes very well by itself so there is no need to manually "kill" apps. If you wish to end some unresponsive ones, you can get SystemPanel Task manager from the Google Play store, it's pretty good.
Feel free to PM me for any further questions
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2. I'd like to improve the battery life and I have read on here of a few ways to do that. One of the ways is to make sure that apps don't update too regularly. Where do I actually go to check how often the apps update?
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besides turning the global sync off, you can:
- check the betterbatterystats thread, it may seem confusing at first, but it's worth the effort
- disable gps location
- in all internet apps (e.g. facebook, rss readers, weather etc. ) turn the automatic updates off (or set to every 8/16/24hr)
- if you feel brave, check either autostarts or autorun manager in the market (both apps paid) - based on trial and error you can disable triggers which make apps to autostart, without damaging their functionality
- avoid taskkillers
- check lama (also on market, free), you can set it to do a lot of things, like turn wifi on when you're at home and switch to mobile when not, turn sync and internet off when screen is of etc. etc.
Firefox Hacks
Desktop UA:
To set Firefox to use a Desktop UA by default, type in about:config in the address bar and then click on Add a New Setting, select String, and enter general.useragent.override, click ok and enter:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:23.0) Gecko/20130406 Firefox/23.0 for a Firefox User Agent.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1468.0 Safari/537.36 for a Chrome User Agent.
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.6; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0; InfoPath.2; SLCC1; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) 3gpp-gba UNTRUSTED/1.0 for a Internet Explorer User Agent.
Finally type in agent in the search box and find general.useragent.enable_overrides and toggle it to true
Make Firefox FasterEnable Pipelining:
Browsers are normally very polite, sending a request to a server then waiting for a response before continuing. Pipelining is a more aggressive technique that lets them send multiple requests before any responses are received, often reducing page download times. To enable it, type about:config in the address bar, type in pipelining in the search box and hit enter. Find network.http.pipelining.agressive and toggle it to true and network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and click on modify and change it to 50(use a lower number if you have a low speed connection)
Render quickly:
Large, complex web pages can take a while to download. Firefox doesn't want to keep you waiting, so by default will display what it's received so far every 0.12 seconds (the "content notify interval"). While this helps the browser feel snappy, frequent redraws increase the total page load time, so a longer content notify interval will improve performance. To enable it type about:config in the address bar and click on Add a New Setting select Integer Type content.notify.interval as your preference name, click OK, enter 500000 and then click on Add a New Setting and select Boolean create a value called content.notify.ontimer and set it to True
Faster loading:
If you haven't touched your screen for .75 second, then Firefox enters a low frequency interrupt mode, which means its interface becomes less responsive but your page loads more quickly. Reducing the content switch threshold can improve performance, then, and it only takes a moment. To enable it type about:config,in the address bar and click on Add a New Setting select Integer Type content.switch.threshold, as your preference name, click OK, enter 250000 (quarter of a second)
Increase the cache size:
As you browse the web so Firefox stores site images and scripts in a local memory cache, where they can be speedily retrieved if you revisit the same page. If you have plenty of RAM, leave Firefox running all the time and regularly return to pages then you can improve performance by increasing this cache size. To enable it type about:config,in the address bar and click on Add a New Setting select Integer Type browser.cache.memory.capacity as your preference name, click OK, enter 18432
Enable TraceMonkey:
TraceMonkey is a new Firefox feature that converts slow JavaScript into super-speedy x86 code, and so lets it run some functions up to 20 times faster than the current version. To enable it type about:config, in the address bar and then type jit in the search box and hit enter. Find javascript.options.methodjit.chrome and toggle it to true and javascript.options.methodjit_alwaysand toggle it to true.
Cache:
Unfortunately Firefox collects copious amounts of data and there is no way to prevent it.
This was adapted from: http://www.techradar.com/us/news/software/applications/8-hacks-to-make-firefox-ridiculously-fast-468317 and http://useragentstring.com/pages/useragentstring.php
This makes Firefox blazingly fast on my tablet and so far every website works perfectly.
To save settings for easy restoring navigate to data/data/org.mozilla.firefox/files/mozilla/widlm1lw.default/ and make a copy of prefs.js
Some more possibly useful settings:
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browser.download.manager.displayedHistoryDays set to 1 (set to whatever you like)
browser.enable_automatic_image_resizing set to true
browser.enable_click_image_resizing set to true
browser.helperApps.deleteTempFileOnExit set to true
browser.history_expire_days set to 1 (set to whatever you like)
browser.history_expire_days_min set to 1 (set to whatever you like)
browser.zoom.full set to true
browser.zoom.reflowOnZoom set to true
browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl set to false
If anyone finds any more useful settings that can be changed or settings that work best, post them here.
ABSOLUTE BEAUTY.
I knew about 90% of these on the Desktop version, don't know why it didn't click it may be the same on Tablet, BOOKMARKED for Later, THANKS!!
Wilks3y said:
ABSOLUTE BEAUTY.
I knew about 90% of these on the Desktop version, don't know why it didn't click it may be the same on Tablet, BOOKMARKED for Later, THANKS!!
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It's rather ironic, that this is the only real desktop browser on android, yet most of the desktop settings aren't enabled or set by default. This is only browser that I have ever used that I can use all day on flash heavy sites and never crash. I've only had one FC in the past month.
prestige777 said:
It's rather ironic, that this is the only real desktop browser on android, yet most of the desktop settings aren't enabled or set by default. This is only browser that I have ever used that I can use all day on flash heavy sites and never crash. I've only had one FC in the past month.
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Yeah FF is hands down a quality browser, I'd be using it on Desktop if it wasn't so weird about my Cookies (never keeps me signed in on Forums[XDA] etc)
But I can't believe these options are just as usable on desktop, and yeah, even without these settings enabled I must say FF has never crashed on me on my tablet (even with flash heavy sites as you say).
Whereas Chrome just stutters, cries and gives up.
Boat just freaks out and FC's
Dolphin just isn't my pick.
Opera I don't like at all.
SO WEEEE Thanks for these tips my friend !
Wilks3y said:
Yeah FF is hands down a quality browser, I'd be using it on Desktop if it wasn't so weird about my Cookies (never keeps me signed in on Forums[XDA] etc)
But I can't believe these options are just as usable on desktop, and yeah, even without these settings enabled I must say FF has never crashed on me on my tablet (even with flash heavy sites as you say).
Whereas Chrome just stutters, cries and gives up.
Boat just freaks out and FC's
Dolphin just isn't my pick.
Opera I don't like at all.
SO WEEEE Thanks for these tips my friend !
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No problem, if you have any good tips or variations please feel free to post them here.
Thanks for the post, very interesting.
I applied your tips to firefox running on my Nexus 4, but I did not see much of an improvement. Just doing some casual/typical browsing that I would normally do it felt almost the same as before without the tweaks, although I wasn`t doing any timing with a stopwatch or anything of that matter so I can`t say for sure that there wasn`t an improvement. Maybe these tweaks would benefit lower/older end devices more than the newer high speed quadcores.
SkyandDirt said:
Thanks for the post, very interesting.
I applied your tips to firefox running on my Nexus 4, but I did not see much of an improvement. Just doing some casual/typical browsing that I would normally do it felt almost the same as before without the tweaks, although I wasn`t doing any timing with a stopwatch or anything of that matter so I can`t say for sure that there wasn`t an improvement. Maybe these tweaks would benefit lower/older end devices more than the newer high speed quadcores.
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Its really noticeable when you start with a fresh install of Firefox with no data, once Firefox starts collecting data it starts really slowing down. Firefox really needs to deal with this data collection issue. For me it collects over 100mb of data in just a couple of weeks despite clearing everything from within the app. I don't think most of settings affect Firefox's performance if its not being used with a desktop user agent since that is handled completely different than if you're using the default android user agent.
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Finally type in agent in the search box and find general.useragent.enable_overrides and toggle it to true
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This is not true, general.useragent.enable_overrides has no effect on general.useragent.override (which is always enabled) and instead affects overriding the User Agent on a per-domain basis as described here.
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Increase the cache size:
As you browse the web so Firefox stores site images and scripts in a local memory cache, where they can be speedily retrieved if you revisit the same page. If you have plenty of RAM, leave Firefox running all the time and regularly return to pages then you can improve performance by increasing this cache size. To enable it type about:config,in the address bar and click on Add a New Setting select Integer Type browser.cache.memory.capacity as your preference name, click OK, enter 18432
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You should tell people the integer is the cache size in KB. My config already had this setting and it was set to 1024. According to mozillaZine, the default is set according to RAM size but as mine defaulted to 1024, perhaps this is different for mobiles. Setting it to your apparently random value of 18432 could work, but after reading the tweaks page you referenced and mozillaZine, I opted to set it to -1 which should let Firefox decide according to how much RAM I have and if it follows the table in mozillaZine, will make a substantially bigger cache than you suggested.
Thanks for bringing my attention to these useful features.
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