I was wondering what are people's take on widgets. For me it slows down my phone considerable to the point that it is unusable. All i had was the weather one, one that shows the time and date, battery and internal memory. Once i took all of them off the phone went back to normal. Is it just me or everyone else and aproximately how many widgets do you use?
It tends to slow down the phone a tad. I have a bunch of feed widgets, including weather and the retro clock and it seems to only slow for times when they are updating. Otherwise its barely noticeable.
A poorly written/buggy widget will do that, yes, but usually the developers are fairly quick at ironing theses things out. I had some issues with the Sky Weather widget and the Retro Clock one, but after a few updates they're both running without any noticable lag
I've noticed this too as well. I use to have a bunch of widgets, music, battery, weather, date, etc, but I've removed everything except for the sky weather widget.
I think part of the problem is that their taking up too much RAM which leaves less space for other apps to run which means a lot of swapping between ram and flash, which will definitely cause slowdowns.
I noticed that the htc magic has 288 megs of RAM vs 192 megs of RAM on the g1, so I guess google and the hardware makers are aware of this issue.
exile20 said:
I was wondering what are people's take on widgets. For me it slows down my phone considerable to the point that it is unusable. All i had was the weather one, one that shows the time and date, battery and internal memory. Once i took all of them off the phone went back to normal. Is it just me or everyone else and aproximately how many widgets do you use?
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I only use retro clock and date, no lag since update for me. Not only do they slow performance but they also run in the backround and drain battery faster.
Currently I use two Picture Frame widgets, calender widget, weather widget, toggle bluetooth and toggle ringer widgets and sticky note widget. I cant really speak on the lag since I use setCPU and overclock 528mhz. There is no lag for me at all even with all the service apps I have running, tho every once in a while I experiencea lag returning to home screen. Not very often, about once or twice a day.
Yes. The widget slows down the phone a lot and I really couldn't stand the speed of it. Even clockibng it to 528mhz doesn't help...sigh
When u said u took off the widget. Do u mean took it off the home screen or do u mean uninstalling them?
Yes. The widget slows down the phone a lot and I really couldn't stand the speed of it. Even clockibng it to 528mhz doesn't help...sigh
When u said u took off the widget. Do u mean took it off the home screen or do u mean uninstalling them?
If you have a class 6 SD card and want to run lots of widgets without any slowdown then download the swapper app on the market. This tool will utilize free space on your SDcard as ram. Be aware that this will decrease the lifetime of your sd card. I used it and my G1 is FLYING with tons of widgets on screen.
Ye definately the lag on the phone and when going to the home screen. When i say take them off i meant remaove them from the home screen. I dont know less battery plus lag because of the widgets is not a good thing at all. I am not sure if it is the OS's or the widget's fault.
I don't know about your mileage, but I just learned that (on my phone at least) the lag was being caused by having "Use Wireless Networks" for location services enabled. Disabling that, and my phone is snappy as it used to be. I had been seeing a lot of lag going back to my homescreen, now it is way better. I have the clock widget, calendar widget, music widget, search widget, and JS Weather widget running.
I had thought it was due to the dalivk-cache being moved to my ext2 partition, but moving it back internal did not correct the lag (it would take a long time - starting from a blank screen) to redraw the home screen). But once I disabled the "Use Wireless Networks", it has drastically improved. I am about to move the dalvik-cache back to my ext2.
I made a list of apps that I like and find very useful
Customization:
LauncherPro (if you don't like LG's UI Overlay and want a smooth homescreen,comes with widgets and wallpapers.)
http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/9170/20110709161334.png
GOTO Lockscreen (If you want a cool looking lockscreen)
http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/7726/20110711165352.png
Useful apps:
Wireless Tether [root] (You can use your 3G network for your PC)
Memory Booster (Kill running applications and save battery)
Speedtest (See how good your internet connection is)
SuperBox (App installer, App uninstaller, Move app to SD card, Clear Cache etc..)
Sound Hound (If you hear a song on the radio and wanna know what that song is? use this app to find out)
AdFree[root] (get rid of annoying advertisements)
4Shared (Install Apps that's not free, also has alot of apps that isn't in the market, remember to search .apk)
Games:
Mystique. Chapter 1 (Scary Saw/Amnesia kinda game)
Pocket Legends (MMO Game, very good if you're bored)
Snowboard
Contract Killer (Use guns to shoot mafia bosses from roofs)
Battle Bears (Very funny/cute? killing game)
Happy Vikings (Collect falling objects and stack them in 3 or more)
Glow Hocky (Funny game which you can play with your friends)
Turbofly 3D (futuristic racing game)
Download full 3D games here: http://mobileplanet-waryam.blogspot.com/2011/05/31-full-android-hd-gamessdcard-files.html (some come with game data, others you will have to download the data with WiFi)
Do you have any other apps? post them here | Please remember to press the thank button if you liked one of these apps
try picsay pro...best picture eiditor..
adw ex is better then launcher pro..i guess..
ttorrent to download torrents...
system panel..
rock player to play many types of video.u can even play .mkv files(480p)..
and opera mobile browser which supports flash player is last but not least...
Hmm here the list of my apps:
- adw launcher ex
- widgetlocker
- minimalistic text
- smart keyboard
- twitdryoid
- im+
- tapatalk
- audioguru
- switchpro widget
- norton utilities
- astro
- whatsapp
- photobucket
- snapbucket
- appbrain
- camera360
- google+
- etc
Some root level apps:
- shoot me
- chainfire3d
- market enabler
- root explorer
- terminal
- autostarts
- anreboot
- busybox
- titanium backup
Sent from my LG-P970 using Tapatalk
lesp4ul said:
Some root level apps:
- shoot me
- chainfire3d
- market enabler
- root explorer
- terminal
- autostarts
- anreboot
- busybox
- titanium backup
Sent from my LG-P970 using Tapatalk
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Click to collapse
You don't have to use Shoot Me, press the home and power button to take a screen shot
PowerAmp is a must have for better sound. It sounds amazing.
OP, isn't Wireless tether sort of redundant since we already have portable hotspot available on the phone already?
rimatox said:
You don't have to use Shoot Me, press the home and power button to take a screen shot
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah I know, I liked shoot me because it fun to use shake feature to capture. Hahaa!
Sent from my LG-P970 using Tapatalk
thanks for the info
would someone please provide link to download memory booster (full version) and Pro Amp for free???
Thx before...
deadcaster said:
would someone please provide link to download memory booster (full version) and Pro Amp for free???
Thx before...
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Go 4shared server,type the 'names'.apk
Some of mines.
3G Watchdog
Battery Dr to Save battery
Camera360
ConnectBot
Dolphin HD
NewsRob
picplz
pulWifi
Root Call Blocker
Super Manager
WiFi Manager
I've got something to ask, which battery saver application is the best? I'm using android booster, memory booster, battery widget, task killer advance, ADW Launcher EX and juice defender ultimate... I'm afraid this is too much, so I decide to uninstall some...
Here are 2 useful apps I recommend:
Samba Filesharing - easily access the device over wifi as a Windows shared folder (much faster than FTP)
Jota Text Editor - good text editor with monospace font and automatical charset recognition (displays e.g. Windows texts with German umlauts correctly)
(As a new user, I'm not allowed to post links, so you have to google yourself.)
---------- Post added at 12:21 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:07 AM ----------
deadcaster said:
I've got something to ask, which battery saver application is the best? I'm using android booster, memory booster, battery widget, task killer advance, ADW Launcher EX and juice defender ultimate... I'm afraid this is too much, so I decide to uninstall some...
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Are you really using all these apps simultaneously? I'm only using the free version of Juice Defender with the 'Balanced' setting which makes the phone go online every 15 minutes to let the apps sync their data in the standby mode. This reduces the battery consumption for wifi from 32% to ~6% which gives at least 25% more battery life. Nevertheless, I have to charge the battery each day, but at least it gives me a bit of extra time to get through the day.
I only use:
Alarmdroid
Blacklist Pro
Facebook
Millennium
Root Explorer
Does widget locker consumes considerable amount of battery? and chainfire3d fullyworking?
Security: I bought both wavesecure and juicedefender plus, and installed where's my droid for times when I forget where I left my phone
Launcher: Go Launcher Ex. It's idiot-proof.
The usual: titanium backup, astro, autokiller, dolphin browser HD
twitter: twicca
facebook: friendcast. facebook android takes forever to load.
integrated chatting app: imo messenger
I also installed jango (music streaming), pulse (news feed), bought smart keyboard pro (cos I liked it and didn't like the popups for the trial version, though that was the only difference between trial and pro), jorte (organiser) and the google navigation app (modified, because nav is not available in my area).
Which is the best explorer for android thru which i can send multiple files thru bluetooth
Sent from my LG-P970 using Tapatalk
The Ones 1 Use...
1. Launcher: the stock LG HOME launcher: because i find the HOME pretty decent. it has the "G" sensor working and i also love the stock widgets.
2. MUSIC:i use the LG Stock Music Player because of the widget, dolby digital equalizer, lock screen pull down control and the notification control . additionally i use UBER MUSIC (with the metro skin and clear widgets skin becasue i like the seamless fluidity of the app and the skin)
3. GAME: only two games: a) BLOOD & GLORY-for serious gaming b) PEGGLE -for casual time pass
5. BROWSER: the stock browser because of the best flash integration.
4. OTHER APPS: set cpu, root explorer, Simple Task Manager, Ambient Time LWP.
is there any other "must have" app that i am missing???
achyut said:
is there any other "must have" app that i am missing???
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Click to collapse
Titanium Backup ?
denclaud said:
Does widget locker consumes considerable amount of battery? and chainfire3d fullyworking?
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I don't have any issues with Chainfire3d, I use it to play Nvidia games and such.
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Hello dear XDA users, today we are going to talk about improving the performance of your freshly flashed Official CyanogenMod 7.2 ROM on your Galaxy Mini!.
I am going to cover a couple of simple stages that could make your Mini run happier and be more responsive! This is strictly performance orientated, we are going to disable various animations and speed them up wherever possible.
Do not expect miracles. To be honest, I think many of you already know this stuff, but it can help newbies or somebody who doesn't know it.
What you're going to need for this is 2 things:
1. Galaxy Mini with Official CM7.2 flashed on it (doh!)
2. Common sence and ability to understand every word I've written here
DISCLAIMER
I am not responsible for anything that happens to your device during the following of these procedures. Also, don't blame me for undesirable effects, you're doing this on your own responsibility. Every operation should be harmeless if you follow it correctly. DO A NANDROID BACKUP BEFORE DOING ANYTHING!
Okay. Ready? Let's start!
Disable CPU Rendering
The original guide is in this thread: [GUIDE] Disable CPU Rendering, thanks & credits are going to leolawliet!!!
This modification will speed things up since the system will use GPU instead of CPU for some of the graphics rendering.
To get this mod, you first have to download the egl.zip which you can find in that thread. Extract it, and copy the egl.cfg to the root of your sdcard. Then, navigate to /system/lib/egl and delete libGLES_android.so. After that, copy the egl.cfg from the SD card to that system/lib/egl folder, overwrite it with the original one, and change the permissions to rw-r-r. After that, it's just a matter of rebooting your device!
Warning! There is a small chance of bootloop, so have a nandroid backup handy!
You can do all this deleting and copying with Root Explorer or any other file manager which can mount the /system partition and mess with permissions of files. Also, all this can be done with Terminal Emulator if you know how, but it's waaay more complicated.
ADW Launcher tweaking
I recommend you do not switch to another launcher. The reason for that is this one is lightweight and fast. CyanogenMod team had a reason to integrate this launcher and not some other within their ROM
Open ADW launcher settings. In the Screen preferences, go ahead and disable Wallpaper scrolling, and Desktop overshoot. Also, change the desktop scrolling speed to 0 (my prefered setting, because the launcher isn't that smooth and I love speed, not animations)
In the Drawer Settings, disable Animated drawer, disable Fade app labels and also change the background color of the drawer to whatever color you like, mine is set to black (that will disable the transparent drawer, which lags A LOT)
In the General Behaviour section, disable Sense like previews, and, if you want, go ahead and disable Show notifications (don't worry, notifications will show up in the status bar, this is just for the sms and dialer icons, on top of them the number of missed sms's and calls show up)
And lastly, in the UI Settings, disable New icons selector and disable Show desktop indicator, else is optional
Here is a pic where you can find all of the settings I mentioned:
The ROM settings and tweaks
I am a personal fan of non-animated things, because that makes me fell I have a faster phone. And animations use a little bit of battery since every time phone has to render an animation, it uses CPU and GPU power. However, battery savings here are unmeasurable, but they do exist.
If you want to do that, go to the Display section in the main settings menu, and under Animation dropbar select "No window animations are shown". Also, in the CyanogenMod settings, there is also a Display section. Go there and disable Rotation and Screen off animation.
I find "Sliding Tab" lockscreen style faster too, so go ahead and change that if you want to try it out. You can find it in the CyanogenMod settings->Lockscreen settings->Style options.
And now we come to the "Performance" part of the CyanogenMod settings menu. In there, go ahead and disable "Enable surface dithering", enable "Use 16bit transparency, set Scrolling cache to Force Disable, check "Allow purging of assets", and disable boot animation. Do not check Lock home and messaging app in memory since they do almost nothing, and we need them disabled for another tweak coming on later!
Overclocking is something you should also consider doing. I think that part you will have to do for yourself, because every phone has different overclocking ranges on which it works stable. But I think that every phone should run at 710MHz without problems. Give it a shot, if it reboots imidiately or later as you use the phone, try the lower values and see what works the best for you. If everything works fine, and you want more, go for it.
The best way to test your overclocked setting is to just use your phone like you would always do. Playing games alo is not a bad idea, however if you don't play them you might be able to jump the frequecy one step further, since everyday operations don't stress the CPU so much. Keep an eye on the temperatures, if your phone gets very hot quickly you might consider going a couple of notches down.
Removing apps that came with the ROM
Everything is covered in this article: Cyanogenmod Wiki: Barebones
You can read everything you're worried about there. My knowledge also comes form that place, so credits go to the CyanogenMod team!
For the lazy ones who don't want to mess with Terminal Emulator, you have alternative ways of doing this which are listed a little below!
Why would you want to remove system apps? Basically, if you use a replacement app or there is a app you do not use at all, the apps that are left over use internal memory, and potentialy RAM memory!
To delete an app:
1. Open Android Terminal Emulator (comes preinstalled on the ROM, so nothing to download form the Market)
2. Type
Code:
su
- to give it SuperUser permissions (Superuser app might come up asking you do you want to allow the emulator root access, allow it)
3. Then type
Code:
mount -o rw,remount /system
-to allow read/write operations on the /system partition, or basically to "mount" it.
4. And then, to remove an acctual app, type:
Code:
rm -f /system/app/app_you_wanna_remove.apk
- rm stands for remove, -f is force, and the rest is where the terminal can find the app for deleting. If you're deleting Email app, it would go like this:
Code:
rm -f /system/app/Email.apk
Carefull! This is case sensitive, and you're using the -f command. If you make a typo, nothing will be deleted, nor you will be warned about it! Check it before you press "enter"
List of apps you can delete (that i've deleted):
1. CarHomeGoogle.apk (App for using in the car, while the phone is mounted on the carholder)
2. CMStats.apk (CyanogenMod statistics)
3. CMUpdateNotify.apk (CyanogenMod update notifications. Not working without ROM Manager premium)
4. CMWallpapers.apk (CyanogenMod Wallpapers)
5. Development.apk (The development app, not needed by an average Joe)
6. DSPManager.apk (DSP Manager app. It's that equalizer app you can acces trough your music player. Eats 3megs of RAM!)
7. Email.apk (Email applications. Does NOT affect GMail)
8. GenieWidget.apk (Weather and News app and widget)
9. GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk (Google Search)
10. LiveWallpapersPicker.apk (Live Wallpapers selector)
11. PicoTts.apk (Copilot Live or Copilot GPS need this app (noted by ArthurBorsboom ). Also, might break Voice Search. Otherwise, safe to remove)
12. Protips.apk (That widget that shows up right after flashing the ROM. It even tells you that you can delete it lol)
13. RomManager.apk (DELETE DELETE DELETE!!!)
14. SoundRecorder.apk (Stock sound/voice recorder app)
15. Talk.apk (Google Talk)
16. ThemeChooser.apk (Theme Chooser. If you delete it - no themes, only the stock one!)
17. ThemeManager.apk (Theme Manager. The app that can't work without the chooser, themes your system when you apply a theme)
18. VoiceDialer.apk (Voice Dialer app. Not to be confused with Phone app)
19. VoiceSearch.apk (Google Voice Search)
20. LiveWallpapers.apk (Live Wallpapers that are included in the ROM)
21. MagicSmokeWallpapers.apk (Some wallpapers, I don't know everything)
22. VisualizationWallpapers.apk (Some wallpapers, I don't know everything)
23. SpareParts.apk (I don't know, never opened it - don't need it)
24. FM.apk (FM radio)
25. TtsService.apk (again something related to text-to-speech features. Might break Voice Search)
If you're using a non-stock keyboard, you can delete LatinIME.apk
If you're using a non-stock gallery, you can delete Gallery3D.apk
If you're using a non-stock music player, you can delete Music.apk
If you're using a non-stock internet browser, you can delete Browser.apk (PLEASE NOTE: This is apparently a hard-coded requirement for Google Voice Search (along with Talk and Voice); without it, Voice Search will FC after recognizing speech. Having Dolphin, etc., installed will not work. )
Beware of deleting LatinIME.apk! That's the keyboard app! If you don't have another keyboard which is already set up as the default one, don't delete it, otherwise you'd get stuck with no keyboard, and you kinda don't want that lol
If you want to find out if there is more apps to delete (but I assure you that you won't find anything worth bothering), navigate the stock FileManager to /system/app and check it out.
Alternative, more easy methods for app deleteing
I would avoid them if you feel taking that kind of time. Why? Well, installing an app to delete another one... no... just no. If you want, go ahead and do that
1. You can use Root Uninstaller from the Google Play to uninstall apps. (suggestion by ChunkFlip)
2. If you have bought Titanium Backup Pro, you can use it to remove apps as well. Also, you can use the app to make backup of the programs you're deleting, although you can pull them from the flashable .zip of the ROM anytime you want, and for the most part, just install them. (suggestion by avrox and R.A.G.E)
3. If you happen to have Root Explorer bought, you can easily delete apps by just navigating to the /system/app folder and delete the .apks you want. However, do not pirate the app. If you haven't bought it, I strongly encourage you to follow the original method using the Terminal Emulator. Do not pirate an app if you have free alternatives! NEVER!
Delete apps you do not use, and use as light-weight apps as possible
If you have a game or an app that is just sitting there and you don't really use it, delete it! I know it sounds silly, but those apps can have some services that run in our percious RAM and practically waste it. Not to mention you have less internal memory available, which is pretty obvious.
Use light-weight apps! Don't just throw a 5MB stopwatch app on the phone or something like that. Look for an app that's smaller and does exactly the same job. If you look hard you will usually find some stonning small apps that do the same thing as even 10x larger ones. And larger ones open slower, run slower, and use more RAM memory! Not what you really want, do you?!
Install V6 SuperCharger script by zeppelinrox
It's awesome! It will stop launcher redraws and potentially improve performance even more! I'm not going to write anything about it, because the download link and the instructions are all found in his thread, check it out!
[U9RC11T9] STOP! -=SuperCharger Time=- You Can't Touch This! Please zep don't hurt em
BTW, you do not have to downgrade the BusyBox, the one included in the CM7.2 (1.20.x) works great. There was some problems with BusyBox 1.18 at that time, that's why he mentions it. Don't worry about it, just install the damn script!
Don't forget to give him a thanks!
Speaking of scripts: don't use like all the scripts and tweaks that are out here. They usually tend to conflict and that is not what you want! If you install one RAM script tweak, don't install another one! Same goes for transfering apps to ext partition and a bunch of other things.
Don't use task managers
Why you may ask? It's simple, and you will have to get over it - Android is better at app and memory management than you . Killing apps with a task manager doesn't do a thing except waste resources, because Android will run the app again if it wants to. Using auto kill app function is even worse, because the task manager will kill the app, Android will launch it, the task manager is going to kill it again, Android is going to launch it and the cycle repeats over and over again...
It's pretty obvious that will kill the performance, and impact battery life a lot. Not something you want, right? Yes, a task manager is included in stock sammy ROMs, but hey, stock ROM is crap anyway, and the point of it is to have as much of bloatware as it can possibly handle. Don't worry about free RAM and loaded apps, Android does a better job than you on it's own.
That's it, for now! I will keep updating the thread with something new, and possibly better. YOU make a suggestion how to improve performance, and I can add it here in the first post!
Note:
I will no longer update this thread. The reason for this: I have a new device now. Sorry about that
Non-performance related stuff
Apps restoring
For this one we will use the infamous Terminal Emulator again. The operation is actually quite easy.
I guess you have a PC, the CM7.2 ROM you flashed on your hard drive, and a program that can mess with .zip files
Open the .zip file and in /system/app you can find all the apps that came stock. Extract the one you need from the .zip file and copy it to the root of your sd card.
Now, fire up Terminal emulator and type
Code:
su
Mount the system partition:
Code:
mount -o rw,remount /system
Return the app back where it was
Code:
mv /sdcard/app_name.apk /system/app
And we are almost done! Since the permissions are ****ed up, type
Code:
chmod 644 /system/app/app_name.apk
app_name.apk is the app you are restoring. Be carefull, the app name is case sensitive!
Reboot the phone and... that should be it! Next time watch out what apps you need, so you don't have to go through this
great tut bro
domcale said:
Hello dear XDA users, today we are going to talk about improving the performance of your freshly flashed official CyanogenMod 7.2 ROM on your Galaxy Mini!.
I am going to cover a couple of simple stages that could make your Mini run happier and be more responsive! This is strictly performance orientated, we are going to disable various animations and speed them up wherever possible.
Do not expect miracles. To be honest, i think many of you already know this stuff, but it can help newbies or somebody who doesn't know it.
What you're going to need for this is 2 things:
1. Galaxy Mini with Official CM7.2 flashed on it (doh!)
2. Common sence and ability to understand every word i've written here
DISCLAIMER
I am not responsible for anything that happens to your device during the following of these procedures. Also, don't blame me for undesirable effects, you're doing this on your own responsibility. Every operation should be harmeless if you follow it correctly. DO A NANDROID BACKUP BEFORE DOING ANYTHING
Okay. Ready? Let's start!
ADW Launcher tweaking
I recommend you do not switch to another launcher. The reason for that is this one is lightweight and fast. CyanogenMod team had a reason to integrate this launcher and not some other within their ROM
Open ADW launcher settings. In the Screen preferences, go ahead and disable Wallpaper scrolling, and Desktop overshoot. Also, change the desktop scrolling speed to 0 (my prefered setting, because the launcher isn't that smooth and i love speed, not animations)
In the Drawer Settings, disable Animated drawer, disable Fade app labels and also change the background color of the drawer to whatever colour you like, mine is set to black (that will disable the transparent drawer, which lags A LOT)
In the General Behaviour section, disable Sense like previews, and, if you want, go ahead and disable show notifications (don't worry, notifications will show up in the status bar, this is just for the sms and dialer icons, on top of them the number of missed sms's and aclls show up)
And lastly, in the UI Settings, disable New icons selector and disable Show desktop indicator, else is optional
Here is a pic where you can find all of the settings i mentioned
The ROM settings and tweaks
I am a personal fan of non-animated things, because that makes me fell I have a faster phone. And animations use a little bit of battery since every time phone has to render an animation, it uses CPU and GPU power. However, battery savings here are unmeasurable, but they do exist.
If you want to do that, go to the Display section in the main settings menu, and under Animation dropbar select "No window animations are shown". Also, in the CyanogenMod settings, there is also a Display section. Go there and disable Rotation and Screen off animation.
I find "Sliding Tab" lockscreen style faster too, so go ahead and change that if you want to try it out. You can find it in the CyanogenMod settings->Lockscreen settings->Style options.
And now we come to the "Performance" part of the CyanogenMod settings menu. In there, go ahead and disable "Enable surface dithering", enable "Use 16bit transparency, set Scrolling cache to Force Disable, check " Allow purging of assets, and disable boot animation. Do not check Lock home and messaging app in memory since they do almost nothing, and we need them disabled for another tweak coming on later!
Overclocking is something you should also consider doing. I think that part you will have to do for yourself, because every phone has different overclocking ranges on which it works stable. But I think that every phone should run at 710MHz without problems. Give it a shot, if it reboots imidiately or later as you use the phone, try the lower values and see what works the best for you. If everything works fine, and you want more, go for it.
Removing apps that came with the ROM
Everything is covered in this article: Cyanogenmod Wiki: Barebones
You can read everything you're worried about there. My knowledge also comes form that place, so credits go to the CyanogenMod team!
Why would you want to remove system apps? Basically, if you use a replacement app or there is a app you do not use at all, the apps that are left over use internal memory, and potentialy RAM memory!
To delete an app:
1. Open Android Terminal Emulator (comes preinstalled on the ROM, so nothing to download form the Market)
2. Type
Code:
su
- to give it SuperUser permissions (Superuser app might come up asking you do you want to allow the emulator SU rights, allow it)
3. Then type
Code:
mount -o rw,remount /system
-to allow read/write operations on the /system partition, or basically to "mount" it.
4. And then, to remove an acctual app, type:
Code:
rm -f /system/app/app_you_wanna_remove.apk
- rm stands for remove, -f is force, and the rest is where the terminal can find the app for deleting. If you're deleting Email app, it would go like this:
Code:
rm -f /system/app/Email.apk
Carefull! This is case sensitive, and you're using the -f command. If you make a typo, nothing will be deleted, nor you will be warned about it! Check it before you press "enter"
List of apps you can delete (that i've deleted):
1. CarHomeGoogle.apk (App for using in the car, while the phone is mounted on the carholder)
2. CMStats.apk (CyanogenMod statistics)
3. CMUpdateNotify.apk (CyanogenMod update notifications. Not working without ROM Manager premium)
4. CMWallpapers.apk (no need for an explanation)
5. Development.apk (The development app, not needed by an average Joe)
6. DSPManager.apk (DSP Manager app. It's that equalizer app you can acces trough your music player. Eats 3megs of RAM!)
7. Email.apk (nothing to explain here)
8. GenieWidget.apk (Weather and News app and widget)
9. GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk (Google Search)
10. LiveWallpapersPicker.apk (no explanation needed)
11. PicoTts.apk (Text-to-voice, or voice-to-text, i'm not sure. I don't need it)
12. Protips.apk (That widget that shows up right after flashing the ROM. It even tells you that you can delete it lol)
13. RomManager.apk (DELETE DELETE DELETE!!!)
14. SoundRecorder.apk (again, no need to wear my keyboard)
15. Talk.apk (Google Talk app)
16. ThemeChooser.apk (Theme Chooser. If you delete it - no themes, only the stock one!)
17. ThemeManager.apk (Theme Manager. The app that can't work without the chooser, themes your system when you apply a theme)
18. VoiceDialer.apk (Voice Dialer app. Not to be confused with Phone app)
19. VoiceSearch.apk (no need for explanations)
20. LiveWallpapers.apk (^read the above^)
21. MagicSmokeWallpapers.apk (Some wallpapers, i don't know everything lol)
22. VisualizationWallpapers.apk (^read the above^)
23. SpareParts.apk (also not needed for average Joes)
If you're using a non-stock keyboard, you can delete LatinIME.apk
If you're using a non-stock gallery, you can delete Gallery3D.apk
If you're using a non-stock music player, you can delete Music.apk
Beware of deleting LatinIME.apk! That's the keyboard app! If you don't have another keyboard which is already set up as the default one, don't delete it, otherwise you'd get stuck with no keyboard, and you kinda don't want that lol
If you want to find out if there is more apps to delete (but i assure you that you won't find anything worth bothering), navigate the stock FileManager to /system/app and check it out.
Install V6 SuperCharger script by zeppelinrox
It's awesome! It will stop launcher redraws and potentially improve performance even more! I'm not going to write anything about it, because the download and the instructions are all found in his thread check it out!
[U9RC10] V6. SuperCharger or: How I Learned to Stop Laggying and Love the Launcher
Don't forget to give him a thanks!
That's it, for now! I will keep updating the thread with something new, and possibly better. YOU make a suggestion how to improve performance, and I can add it here in the first post!
Let me know what you think!
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launcherpro is faster than adw.launcher anyways.
Depends on what do you think of when you say "fast". Disabling homscreen transition animations makes the launcher blazing fast
I prefer freezing over removing completely in case I need it
And u can also add buil.prop tweak
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is this work for rom that uses cm7 as its base?
droidface said:
is this work for rom that uses cm7 as its base?
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For cm setting Yes
For launcher and remove app it mostly universal
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R.A.G.E said:
I prefer freezing over removing completely in case I need it
And u can also add buil.prop tweak
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That's not a bad idea, but then again it's still in the internal memory taking up valuable space. Deleting all those apps and i have enough internal memory space to not need an sd-ext partition!
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is this work for rom that uses cm7 as its base?
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For the most part, it should. Athough this is for pure CM7, that ROM that it's based on could have come other apps for removing, or the ROM builder could've removed something on his own. System tweaks are the same, and if you use ADW launcher - it's the same too.
it wud be better to use TITANIUM BACKUP PRO-ALL for installing and uninstalling apps..
Titanium Backup Pro is a paid app, and there is no place for piracy on xda . Bare in mind we are removing bloatware from the ROM, not adding it
im using new experience v1.1 for me the best rom, but i have a high ram usage, task manager indicates 215 / 280. and sometimes facebook app closes when im not using it, can u recomend me something to fix that?. btw the room works fast etc. :laugh:
sry for my translator english :silly:
I am not sure if that ROM has any memory tweak preinstalled, but don't bother looking at task managers, beacuse Android manages RAM on its own pretty good. Sometimes it is perfectly normal for an app you do not use to close. It remains cached for fast startup, so it is not that big deal of an issue.
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I am not sure if that ROM has any memory tweak preinstalled, but don't bother looking at task managers, beacuse Android manages RAM on its own pretty good. Sometimes it is perfectly normal for an app you do not use to close. It remains cached for fast startup, so it is not that big deal of an issue.
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yep but is bad to me, because i lost my contacts sincronisation, and i have to log in every time is >.<!
There could be something wrong with account management of the ROM or the Facebook application itself. RAM memory issues should not cause a log off from your Facebook account. Consult with the ROM creator, maybe he can help you.
okay guys, thanks for your answers
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for dealting system apps you could also use root uninstaller from the market.
Good point, I'll add it to the first post, but like I said, I do not prefer to intall an app to delete another one . Terminal emulator comes with the ROM, and you are going to need it at some point in time anyway, so that's IMO the best option. However, I will include it for the lazy ones
i just delete the apps and then i uninstall root uninstaller
That's ok, but i'm still tracking the habbit from Windows... never install an app you will use just once and then uninstall it. The reason - registry clogging.
I know Android doesn't function that way, it's just a habbit
Firstly mods, I apologize if this is in the wrong place. Please feel free to move it!
So lets get started. What are the "must have" apps that everybody is using on their MM MXPE? Whats working and what's broken?
Right now I am using:
Nova Launcher(donate)
Titanium Backup Pro
ES File Explorer
xPosed w/ GravityBox(Greenify module not yet activated)
Greenify
Root Booster
SD Booster
Uninstaller Pro
I'm probably missing one or two... I haven't installed BB from the free BusyBox Installer app as I haven't checked compatibility. I like Root Booster but I don't want to pay for the pro edition and while the simplicity is nice, the lack of fine grain control and any real explanation of what it is doing to achieve its promised gains is kind of a turn off. I wish there was a good, free, alternative that has an easy and intuitive interface that allows for not only one tap mods but further fine grain control. I know there are various options available but for some reason I see many people recommend Root Booster. Also, I swear xposed and/or GB are hitting my battery and I'm certainly not doing anything exotic with them. Anyway, What is everybody else using? What are your MM compatible must haves for the MXPE? Anything that takes advantage of some of our specific to MXPE features and the 6.0 iteration that we presently limited to? Share your list here!
Have to be careful using Greenify if you wish to enable all options (mainly hibernating system apps).. It causes unexpected restarts.
Titanium Backup Pro can detect nandroid backup on sd card ?? i cant
Naptime. It lets you activate doze when the screen turns off or you can set by amount of time, instead of the phone having to be flat and motionless for 30 minutes.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.franco.doze
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Does xprivacy work?
Root apps:
Ad away
Androzip pro
Xposed with gravitybox and flat style colored bars
Cf.lumen
Not root apps:
Default app manager pro
My paid apps
Mx player pro
Neutron
Google now launcher
Those are the essentials for me
squallz506 said:
Root apps:
Ad away
Androzip pro
Xposed with gravitybox and flat style colored bars
Cf.lumen
Not root apps:
Default app manager pro
My paid apps
Mx player pro
Neutron
Google now launcher
Those are the essentials for me
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Google launcher is just overhyped,sure its fast but even old launchers from many years ago have more customization then Google now.
No I won't pay for xposed gel settings In order to be able to use for example custom icons lol...
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Google launcher is just overhyped,sure its fast but even old launchers from many years ago have more customization then Google now.
No I won't pay for xposed gel settings In order to be able to use for example custom icons lol...
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I use Google now multiple times everyday. I use it for ease of access to Google now not for customization.
squallz506 said:
I use Google now multiple times everyday. I use it for ease of access to Google now not for customization.
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google now is overated as well
You know what's not overrated? The ignore list, and welcome to mine.
My list is:
Amplify, DriveDroid, ES File Explorer, Kernel Adiutor & Swipe Navigation Pro. I use Action Launcher 3 Pro for my Launcher and have quick access to Google Now, Google Now on Tap & Google Music Search via Swipe Navigation Home, Home Long Press and Back Long Press.
JoeNeckbone said:
Naptime. It lets you activate doze when the screen turns off or you can set by amount of time, instead of the phone having to be flat and motionless for 30 minutes.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.franco.doze
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How did you get Naptime working? My settings never stick. I even tried Doze Settings Editor but it doesn't stick either. Actually, it doesn't seem to change the values at all.
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How did you get Naptime working? My settings never stick. I even tried Doze Settings Editor but it doesn't stick either. Actually, it doesn't seem to change the values at all.
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I'm using default values and aggressive doze.
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