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So I have a Canadian Rogers Dream with Cyanogen 4.1.12.2 installed but to install Cyan you need to have a special EBI1 kernel installed right? But when I install the 10 meg ram hack my phone gets stuck at the Rogers screen, it won't boot. I'm assuming this is due to having a special kernel for the Rogers phones, does anyone know if there has been development for this or even a solution? Has there been people with the EBI1 kernel that have gotten the hack to work?
If you are still stuck at the Rogers boot screen, all you have to do to get things going again is re-flash the kernel port file (the last one, after the defanged base & CM).
I'd personally love it if someone could get the 10mb ram hack working for those of us stuck on EBI1. I had to switch because of the Rogers 911 debacle, and since then my phone feels unusably slow. I want my 10mb back!
I have Sansung galaxy s on TMobile uk - Had it replaced now 3 times in 6 months - great phone but fed up with lag - keeps freezing - black screen - lost data - lost signal .. crap hotmail
How do i fix it ?? Whats a Lag fix ?? Please help/recomend
Thanks
a lagfix is a generic name for a couple of different methods used to ... fix the lag
Most lagfix solutions require ROOTing the phone... which, in simple terms, just means giving yourself administrator privileges to change things on the phone.
A simple and fairly popular way to fix the lag is OCLF 2.0 which you can get on the Market. You need to first root the phone using z4root or other rooting tools (look around the forum.. easy to find info on different root methods).
Other lagfix methods change your file system to ext4, which is just a different way of managing bits and files on the phone. Voodoo (also documented on XDA is one of those methods).
If you are a little bit brave, a slightly scary but entirely safe way to fix the lag is to simply replace the ROM (from your carrier and Samsung) with a custom ROM.
While this was a very technical process 6-9 months ago, there are a whole bunch of tools and great documentation that make it pretty easy nowadays.
I would suggest looking at RomKitchen ... take a few minutes to read the documentation, and play with Rom Manager to do a full backup of your current phone setup to get a feel for what is involved. Then if you are comfortable, try installing a custom ROM using a lot of the default choices in RomKitchen (having done a full backup beforehand, of course).
One note...
I spent a lot of time in the last few months playing with 'lagfixes' before installing custom ROMs. In the latest releases of the Galaxy ROMs (JPY and JS3) I've found the speed and battery life very good, even without resorting to lagfixes.
Then you can decide if you actually need a lagfix for that extra bit of performance, or if the 'standard-custom' ROM is good enough
First try to upgrade to froyo 2.2.1 and you have almost no lag and its okey for normal use.
If you want more out of the phone you need to use a custom kernel that make the phone much better.
You can also put a custom rom on it to make it even better.
Right now im using stock jpy Rom with my kernel. Its very nice;-)
**DamianGTO Steam kernel. 350MB Ram. 500HZ. ext2/jfs . js3 base**
I'm also using RomKitchen builds with no lagfix and they are incredibly faster than the stock build.
Hi Everyone,
I have been using Samsung Galaxy S Plus for a few months now and have noticed that my phone lags after a few days of use. I have quite a few applications installed on my phone and figured that maybe this might be the cause of my problem. I have used apps like "FMR Memory", AutoKiller Memory, Speed Booster to kill running processes which might be causing the lag but without any great improvement. I have even installed CPU Master and set the min CPU speed as 768 MHz but that didn't rectify the issue either. I have used Android Assistant to keep unwanted apps on starting at boot as well but without much benefit.
My phone is rooted, and im using the stock rom, namely XXKPE (Kernel version 2.6.35.7-perf [email protected]#1), firmware version 2.3.4.
The best solution i have seen so far is to reboot the phone. But this is just a temporary solution because after a day or two the phone starts lagging again. I almost always have a problem when i make a lot of calls on my phone.
Any help or tips which might help me resolve this issue would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Saf
Try to install latest XXKQE. Should help.
Also clear cache, but I don't know if that option is present in stock Android recovery.
Hi przemcio510,
Thanks for the reply. I have used 1click cache cleaner as well but didn't notice much difference.
I will check out the ROM you mentioned but i would really prefer not to flash my device.
I want to know the reason which causes my phones to lag and how to identify and stop it.
Saf
You may having lots of apps on ur phone. To solve this without flashing, buy a external sd and transfer the apps from internel to external. Check out App 2 sd after getting the external sd. Other way is to flash a kernel. Flashing a kernel will increase performance by overclock thus you will experience zero lag. After flashing a kernel you will be able to overclock. Increase the MAX VALUE, not the MIN VALUE. You can't overclock a stock kernel.
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I've been lurking on these forums a bit - trying to nerve myself up to install Jellybean. I'm a complete noob. (some Linux experience, curious about Android) Here's what I've picked up. (All measured relative to stock Froyo.) (And I like to fiddle, but I also love my Captivate-so I'm a bit nervous about this...)
Good stuff:
1. Jellybean is great, everything works. Helly Bean/Devil is probably a bit more stable than Cyanogenmod 10 right now. Phone, WIFI, Camera, Movie, Apps all work at the moment. ICS and Gingerbread were all appreciably laggy.
Iffy Stuff:
1. The GPS on anything but stock Froyo may behave a bit better, or not, as the Captivate GPS has hardware issues in addition to possible problems with stock Froyo.
Bad stuff
1. Encryption Unsuccessful: Jellybean is likely to share the 'Encryption Unsuccessful' bug with ICS on the Captivate. For some reason, ICS seems to handle SD access a bit differently than Froyo and this occasionally permanently borks the internal SD. It may occasionally bork an external SD, but that seems fixable so far. Someday, someone may figure out a fix, but don't count on it. For now, any Captive running ICS or later should expect to eventually lose the internal SD permanently.
2. IMEI: Something in the latest installs may result in replacement of my IMEI with a generic one. This will result in AT&T temporarily blocking my phone. This may be related to some custom roms and possibly some apps borking up the efs folder after something in the more recent Cyanogenmods sets the efs folder as R/W.
3. Bootloaders: If I bork up bootloader flashing, I can end up hard-bricked.
4. Sleep of death: Custom ROMs may aggravate a 'sleep of death' issue on older Captivates. Fortunately, I checked and my Captivate doesn't have this issue.
I'm wondering if the following sketch is workable and if I've left anything major out:
1. Backup phone thoroughly. Test backups.
2. Remove SIM card (or stay at home, AT&T simply doesn't pick up here anyways-)
3. Print out and follow one of the sensible guides for upgrading to Helly Bean/Devil Kernel. Use Heimdell - and - after the first time I flash new bootloaders - stop flashing new bootloaders. If I do hardbrick, I can most likely do a bit of soldering to do the unbrickable mod for recovery.
4. Disable access to internal storage and run from partitioned 64 GB external SD card chosen for fast R/W in small blocks (4k).
5. Check IMEI and fix access permissions to efs folder.
So, assuming that the above isn't completely idiotic...
1. How comparable (in terms of speed and stability) should I expect this setup to be? I'm particularly worried about running from a SD card. Most earlier recommendations have been to run from 16 GB SD cards, but I'd kind of like the extra storage. People who bork their internal SD cards seem to end up switching phones even after getting the external setup working and I'm wondering if external access is just unreasonably slow. Also, would 64 GB sizes result in ridiculous boot times or some sort of size limit?
2. Also, is Jellybean inherently laggy on a Captivate - or should it be comparable in responsiveness to Froyo?
3. If I do someday successfully bork my external SD card with an Encryption Unsuccessful message -what sort of information would be useful for me to provide?
4. I should expect a modest increase in setup time when flashing new roms (editing mounting information), but not that many other problems?
I would say you are over-thinking it.
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Yeah I would agree that you're over thinking it. But there's nothing wrong with that. I remember being equally cautious and skeptical about flashing once, but luckily I had a knowledgeable friend to help me quite a bit.
You said you're on stock Froyo? Make sure you root, I don't think I saw that in any of your steps.
Honestly, if you follow the instructions to most ROMS you'll be fine. No need to worry so much. Especially once you do it once, you'll be MUCH more comfortable with flashing in the future. Maybe even watch a few youtube videos of people doing it! That always helps me. I'm more of a visual learner though.
But you're right, you do need to have a backup of your EFS folder, and taking your sim out would be best As far as performance vs froyo. Phenomenal. I've never had my cappy run this smooth, and you can thank project butter for that. Android lag is virtually gone
I was super nervous about rooting and going CM but it is the best decision you will ever make thats for sure. It has increased my phones speed enourmously and made it like a new phone, I would never run a phone on stock firware now lol. Why dont you just go with CM9 stabel release to start if you are nervous. My gf is still on CM9 and it is miles ahead of stock and essentially bug free
Slim ICS & Helly Bean
Yeah I would not go straight to Jelly Bean... try out ICS.
I have been using Slim ICS v4.2 as a daily driver for about a month now, no issues so far. Thank God, the Encryption Unsuccessful issue has not hit me yet. It seems to be random, so be careful. There are guides out there to get the phone running again, but those are for ICS. Not sure if they would work on JB.
Ice Cream Sandwich is much faster than stock 2.3.5 Gingerbread, don't know about 2.2 though. Though it does depend on what ROM you're using. I think the most popular ones are Slim, Team Nyx (ICSSGS?), CM9 and of course AOKP and MIUI (WeUI?). Jelly Bean ROMs include Helly Bean, Slim Bean, ParanoidAndroid, and CM10 nightlies (just off the top of my head, feel free to add to this guys).
I have not tried Jelly Bean yet as I am a bit apprehensive as well. I heard that Jelly Bean removes the datadata partition, and that screws things up going back to GB/ICS? Or maybe it screws up restoring Nandroids? Not sure. I mean, if I don't like Helly Bean, I want to comfortably be able to go back to Slim ICS. I think I will try a Jelly Bean ROM eventually but I may go back to ICS if it's slow/buggy/laggy. The developer of Helly Bean is DerTeufel, I know he's an amazing dev and more knowledgeable at this stuff than I will ever be, but I had a horrible experience using his Devil kernel with Slim ICS. Random reboots whenever I tried doing something "heavy" (like scrolling fast in browser). Semaphore kernel was better but it broke Maps and video playback. So I re-flashed the ROM and it's all good again.
And I like to fiddle, but I also love my Captivate-so I'm a bit nervous about this...
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Yeah, same here, I just got it this year (2012) so I'll probably have it for a long time! Android has come so far though, it makes me jealous, and I want the latest Thank God this phone has gotten awesome support from developers, maybe we'll have Android 4.2 and - who knows? - a 5.0 ROM or two Maybe I should learn developing so I can make it myself.
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run from partitioned 64 GB external SD card
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Hmm, I thought Captivate only supports 32 GB? Maybe a custom ROM will support 64?
Just about any ROM in the development forum is going to be SO MUCH better than stock froyo.
I have enjoyed using slim ics and slim Bean. Both great roms..
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curiousgeo said:
So, assuming that the above isn't completely idiotic...
1. How comparable (in terms of speed and stability) should I expect this setup to be? I'm particularly worried about running from a SD card. Most earlier recommendations have been to run from 16 GB SD cards, but I'd kind of like the extra storage. People who bork their internal SD cards seem to end up switching phones even after getting the external setup working and I'm wondering if external access is just unreasonably slow. Also, would 64 GB sizes result in ridiculous boot times or some sort of size limit?
2. Also, is Jellybean inherently laggy on a Captivate - or should it be comparable in responsiveness to Froyo?
3. If I do someday successfully bork my external SD card with an Encryption Unsuccessful message -what sort of information would be useful for me to provide?
4. I should expect a modest increase in setup time when flashing new roms (editing mounting information), but not that many other problems?
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I think the phone's internal memory is FINE. Just the internal SDcard is messed up. Since the system partition, and other OS files are in the internal memory, you should be fine with booting and speed. All that's messed up are the /data and /sdcard partitions.
Thanks to you all :good::good::good:- particularly the guy who mentioned that a 64 Gb card wouldn't work. (I'm not sure it wouldn't - since some threads sounded like they were able to get one working...but...realistically...I'm not close to filling up storage anyways.)
Rooting went smooth (One Click Root), backups are pretty smooth-still need to test them. (Titanium, Pro version, not because I need it...just the developer obviously put in a lot of work...) A 32 GB microSD card is on order - Sandisk ULT Class 10 - seems to have excellent noncontiguous read/write speeds. By the way, Amazon had much, much better prices than the local Best Buy.
Y'know, some people are pretty aggressive - that's great. Other people...read every thread on XDA regarding the encryption unsuccessful bug before rooting their phones. Yes. Sigh. It would have been more cost-effective to buy a new phone. I did learn a few things though.
I'm confused. For Captivates, I thought the OS was typically stored on the internal SD card? And the Encryption Unsuccessful Fixes I've seen amount to partitioning the external card, installing a rom on the external card, and modifying vold.fstab. Um...maybe I'll just install a file explorer and have a look. Need to pick a good one - want exploration and chmod. There doesn't seem to be an explicit guide to running Helly Bean from an external card, (unless my search foo fails me), so I'll need to figure something out.
Attached is a screenshot of several different folders in Root Browser. You can see all the different partitions.
The guy who made the guide for the Encryption Unsuccessful issue mentioned,
Your partitions for /data and /sdcard are no longer accessible.
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So I guess that means everything else is fine? And I think you install the ROM from the external SD card, not on it.
Well I have been running helly bean with/Devil kernel and it is a bit laggy at frist, but it's all about getting the tweaks right in the devil configuration set-up. I would definitely suggest going through ICS, and not go straight to helly bean/ devil kernel. I would suggest doc's ICS V12, and get comfortable using that particular Rom with the icey glitch kernel before moving on to helly bean/ Devil kernel.
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May i ask how did you tweak the Devil kernel and what are your settings? When I installed helly bean i found it lags quite a bit (even with lagfree governor), so i returned to cm9 (which is virtually lag free)
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Hi
Phone info:
Kernel 2.6.29
Baseband M76XX-TSNCJOLYM-53404015
10W44 on phone's sticker
Currently using Gingerdx v028b with stock kernel
I want to delete absolutely everything on my phone just like it came out of box, but i do not have an idea, how?
Then i would like to put on:
Gingerdx v028b (or if you know any better performance rom, be my guest and suggest one ) I know how to install those
Custom kernel (fastest performance kernel please) - never tried that before
For best performance im going to perform those tasks:
OC CPU 768mhz, i have done that successfully
ODEX - done that before
SD card booster 2048kb cache - done that before
VM heap 48mb - done that before
Fast Reboot for killing tasks - done that before
Calibrated N1 Cool render effect- done that before
Swapping memory? Is it a good idea or not, give me your thoughts/experience. Never tried that
E15 optimizer - never used that
V6 Supercharger- never used that
If you think any of these ideas are bad or not worth it, just let me know
Also tell me what task you would add to increase phone's performance?
Any help is appreciated
install a custom kernel much better.since your on 10w44.but still be careful
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Install naa14 and minicm 7........latest version.....
To revert back to stock 2.1 flash the stock 2.1.ftf files...
Download link for stock ftf file:http://hotfile.com/dl/128941602/d01b6c1/X8_E15i_2.1.1.C.0.0._un.ftf.html
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But how do i get it back to default, just like it came from shop? I want to have absolutely clean phone, which means i need to delete everything.
Shall i just delete everything on SD card? And full wipe with CWM?
0rang33 said:
But how do i get it back to default, just like it came from shop? I want to have absolutely clean phone, which means i need to delete everything.
Shall i just delete everything on SD card? And full wipe with CWM?
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To get back to default, just download flashtool and stock firmware. Flash using flashtool and you should be good, bloatwareq included.
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0rang33 said:
But how do i get it back to default, just like it came from shop? I want to have absolutely clean phone, which means i need to delete everything.
Shall i just delete everything on SD card? And full wipe with CWM?
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Hey just format u r sdcard.....flash stock os with flash tool and u should be good.
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0rang33 said:
Hi
Phone info:
Kernel 2.6.29
Baseband M76XX-TSNCJOLYM-53404015
10W44 on phone's sticker
Currently using Gingerdx v028b with stock kernel
I want to delete absolutely everything on my phone just like it came out of box, but i do not have an idea, how?
Then i would like to put on:
Gingerdx v028b (or if you know any better performance rom, be my guest and suggest one ) I know how to install those
Custom kernel (fastest performance kernel please) - never tried that before
For best performance im going to perform those tasks:
OC CPU 768mhz, i have done that successfully
ODEX - done that before
SD card booster 2048kb cache - done that before
VM heap 48mb - done that before
Fast Reboot for killing tasks - done that before
Calibrated N1 Cool render effect- done that before
Swapping memory? Is it a good idea or not, give me your thoughts/experience. Never tried that
E15 optimizer - never used that
V6 Supercharger- never used that
If you think any of these ideas are bad or not worth it, just let me know
Also tell me what task you would add to increase phone's performance?
Any help is appreciated
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Why don't you unlock the bootloader and install the alfs v08-a for cm7 kernel and gingerzaraki rom ?
It's the fastest rom ever tried on my x8.
Still if you want to use stock repair your phone using Sony update service ..
Unlocked bootloader successfully, now im going to research a fast ROM with smooth ICS like launcher (like gingerdx) or ported one with best kernel, any suggestions are welcome.
Tasks done:
Cleaned phone with stock firmware and format sd card
Rooted phone
Unlocked bootloader
Installed CWM Recovery
Tasks to do:
Find a decent ROM with best kernel
OC CPU 768mhz, i have done that successfully
ODEX - done that before
SD card booster 2048kb cache - done that before
VM heap 48mb - done that before
Fast Reboot for killing tasks - done that before
Calibrated N1 Cool render effect- done that before
Swapping memory? Is it a good idea or not, give me your thoughts/experience. Never tried that
E15 optimizer - never used that (CANNOT USE THAT, ONLY STOCK KERNELS)
V6 Supercharger- never used that (not sure if im going to add it)
Still waiting your opinions about these optimizations. Also waiting your recommendations to get a faster phone
I am really waiting your comments about Swapping Memory, as i know it reduces SD card lifespan but increases RAM amount as Swap partition, is it noticeable change in performance?
Question for moderators: Can you change thread name to "Making Our X8 Faster" please
You can change the title by yourself,hit the "edit post" button and change it...
About swap,of course there is change and a big one,now that you have custom kernel you can do it by using swapper2,not sure though because I have locked bootloader
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what size is optimal for swapping memory?
0rang33 said:
what size is optimal for swapping memory?
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64MB should be fairly enough. More is wasted space.