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Homescreen load time

Hey guys,
I've got a little problem for over a few months, so I thought why not ask it on XDA maybe all those smart guys know a solution!
Problem is that when i'm in a program (mail, music, sms, or any other app / game) and I press the home button, it always takes about 15 to 20 seconds before it's fully loaded. First after 3 seconds you see the blank background. Then the icons come back after like 13 seconds, then the widget(s) (i only have 2) and finally after some more seconds waiting it's all usable.
Well, it's a pretty annoying problem, everytime i have to look for something fast, I have to wait those 20 seconds. I can't find a solution, here is what i've already done:
1. It started with the CM 4.xxx roms so I wiped installed it again -> nope didn't work
2. Fully wiped everything including the ext partition and flashed Super D -> nope
3. Since CM 5 is out, wiped again and flashed CM5 -> nope...
The weird thing is, that when I freshly installed one of those roms, it seems to work but after a few app installs and phone useage, it starts lagging loading the home screen. And in 2 days it becomes worse untill every press is a looong load time!
I've got an Transcend 8GB Micro SD which is class 6 (should be enough). It was standard delivered with my T-Mobile G1. The ext partition is 457MB large (and there is 351 free space on it). Internal on the phone is now 21MB free. But even with 70 free it won't work...
I don't have swap enabled now with the new CM, but I did had it with Super D so that also doesn't seems to work. I've got Compcache enabled now. I REALLY don't know what to do... it just sucks that it takes so long to load, I hope anyone of you has a solution
Thanks!

Here is my approach:
In spare parts enable both comp cache (you indicated this is done) and launcher in memory.
The hope is launcher will not need to usually fully reload but can be compressed into the compcache when not is active use.
This applies to cm 4.2 and cm 5 on the dream.. every now and then the system will still kill the launcher if memory is tight so don't be shocked at it fully reloading from tike to time.. but usually it works out and keeps the phone very responsive.
Do not use swap.
(Well if desperate you can try 20-30mb but more than that will not work well with android memory management.. and even that small amount may do more damage to the SD card then actually help the system runtime.. I just don't use swap and attempt to back out of applications when done)

Thanks for the reply, i've done that and hope it will load a bit faster now I'll let u know!

Thanks it works great, my phone just feels so much faster now!

CyanogenMod 5.0.8 - cant stream radio station apps, low ram, browser issues??!

How's it going guys... so I took all the time needed to learn how to root my G1 and I love the improvements with the look and speed. But I do have some issues:
- Before rooting, I used XiiLive or Radio Time to stream radio stations and now neither one will work. It'll play the audio for a few seconds and as soon as I go to the home screen or try to surf the net, it stops and doesnt reconnect or anything. I've tried wiping the phone and then reloading the ROM, but still nothing.. is there some kind of streaming audio issues with this ROM or something I can do/change in the settings?!?
- My phone is always running with about 20-30% of available RAM.. why?!
I thought rooting the phone would help this out??!
- Even though I have the Apps2sd enabled, I still only have about 40mb of internal memory available after rooting. All the apps I've installed (about 15 or so total) are on the card. I used to have about the same amount of MB when my phone wasnt rooted and I had about the same amount of apps.
- Before rooting, my browser used to always show me the websites with a moderate zoom and automatically fit the page to my screen by default. Well now, it has a faaaar zoom (even though I change the settings), and yeah it does fit in my screen, but only because its zoomed out so far?! What am I missing in the settings?!?
...So if anybody can help me out, I'd appreciate it.

[Q] need help with multiple issues

Okay it all started when I updated my original Samsung Galaxy S i9000 running Eclair to Froyo I9000XXJP3 using Samsung Kies. Since then its been really slow and very laggy. I ran around Google for a bit and found some clues about doing a factory reset just after updating to Froyo. To do this I would like to download all apps that can be installed onto and SD card to my SD card so I dont have to re-install all the 111 apps I have after factory reset. It would be pretty cool if someone told me how to backup my contacts, ALL of my settings, my email, basically EVERYTHING on my phone that I would have added on myself after I started using it. Of course I am guessing that the default Samsung Apps that came with the phone and are still available on Froyo will still be available after the factory reset.
My next problem. While someone on these forums tell me how to backup ALL of my data (apps, contacts, media, etc........) onto an SD card before factory resetting I decided I will try to root my phone and apply OneClickLagFix V2.2+. So I used an Windows app called SuperOneClick to root my phone, successfully. After this I installed OneClickLagFix, gave it permission. Then I installed the OneClickLagFix V2.2+, also successfully. After this I tested my phone with Quadrant Benchmark and I got a score of 1956 (which is amazing because I had got 915 before I had applied the LagFix). This is all amazing, but I realised that my battery is draining really fast, because usually if I don't use my phone in the night while sleeping for approx.6-8 hours it drains little to nothing of the battery, but after applying the lag fix I left it on at night (with full battery) while sleeping and when I woke up it had only half of its battery left, so I am guessing OneClickLagFix V2.2+ drains my battery while trying to speed up my phone which is really not helpful (which is why I would like to try to factory reset as a means of speeding up my phone without draining battery).
The third thing, still related to the topic of battery power and speeding up Froyo. I realised that even after applying the OneClickLagFix V2.2+ and gaining a Quadrant mark of 1956, my Galaxy S still did not have the iPhone style smoothness I would expect from the powerful 1Ghz processor in the phone, so please dose anyone have any ways of basically speeding up the phone (with iPhone style smoothness) and not draining battery.
My next thing is not a problem, it's just for fun. I heard that the Galaxy S's CPU can be overclocked to 1.2GHz and 1.6GHz. Could someone post a guide that explained in detail what I have to do to overclock my Galaxy S because I am quite new to hacking my phone and things like that.
So my questions so far:
How to speed up my Froyo phone (make it very fast and smooth like the iOS) without draining too much battery?
How to backup EVERYTHING (like all my downloaded apps, contacts, SMS, etc..) before factory resetting?
How to overclock CPU to 1.2GHz and 1.6GHz?

Hi, I'm still running 2.1 Eclair but maybe i can help a bit. I very much doubt that its OneClickLagFix draining your battery, ive been running it for over 6 months without any problems and so have thousands of others but you could try looking through the OneClickLagFix thread just in case
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=784691&highlight=oneclicklagfix
Next thing, are you running a task manager or process killer? they can drain the battery while they kill a process and it starts again and gets killed again and starts agai...... you get the idea
I use AutoKiller Memory manager from the market. This works with the built in android process killer and just tweaks it to work better. I find the moderate preset setting to be good but others have suggested going further so you may need to experiment on that.
Also are you sure you didnt install another 'rogue' app? some apps are known to stop the phone from going into sleep mode and that would also cause battery loss at night.
As for backing your things up, AppBrain from the market will take care of your apps if you make an account with them and use your Google log in. It will remember which were installed and put them back when you are ready, I dont think it will save 'in game' data like saves and such though. I cant help with contacts, messages and the rest, sorry.
Lastly, to overclock it you will need to be rooted (as you said you are) and use an app called SetCPU from the market. But be warned, firstly it is guaranteed to cost more battery power overclocking it and the phone will get hotter in use. It will however speed things up a little IF it doesnt blow up LOL. The opposite would be to underclock and save power but then it would run slower and you don't seem to be aiming for that
Good Luck

Thanks!
Thanks for the help, I used App Brain to sync apps and also backed up my apps using Titanium Backup to my SD card, which also backed up the app data. Also, I backed up my contacts by pressing the menu button on the contacts screen and exporting. To backup my messages I used SMSBackup. It all worked well.
I will look into the battery matter, yes, I am using Advanced Task Killer but after reading your response I did not re install it after the factory reset. I will definitely try AutoKiller Memory manager and look into the battery matter further if it doesnt change things.
I tried SetCPU but it only lets me move the sliders upto 1GHz, not higher. Any help is appreciated. And also I just want to try the 1.2GHz, because I am guessing 1.6GHz will REALLY push things past the limit and might mess things up. If things mess up with 1.2GHz I will put it back to 1GHz, and if you had not told me I wouldnt have known about the heating problem, thanks .
How does overclocking work anyway?

Similar issues like whoosh with my phone too.
Pre froyo (no root no lagfix) - app drawer page transition smoothness superb. No lag or stutter in transitions.
Post froyo (pre root and lagfix) - stuttery app drawer page transitions.
Root and voodoo lagfix have not fixed that problem.
- Quadrant ~1500
- formatted internal sd card.
- factory reset post froyo install.
- formatted ext sd card.
- ext sd card sandisk class 4 16gb.
Any solutions to above issues would be greatly appreciated as i would assume would also assist op with their issues.
Cheers
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App

Hey, erm, I thought the Galaxy S has 512MB of RAM but the RAM manager is 300 and something MB of RAM. Maybe thats why it is so slow, because i would expect iPhone-style smoothness from a 1GHz Processor and 512MB of RAM, but looks like it has a cap on. Is there anyway we can fully uncap the RAM usage, so all the 512MB is used? that would be helpful

problems fixed
I used the power of my rooted phone to titanium backup (pro recommended) and then backed up all apps with user data. I factory reset my phone which speeded everything up A BIT. then i discovered Darky's ROM 5.5 (maybe higher by the time some read this post) and installed that following the CLEAN guide written very well (video too) on his forum (CLEAN recommended to upgrade from normal galaxy s firmware to darky's ROM then EASY guide for upgrading from past versions of Darky's ROM).
After following the guide, everything booted up perfectly (amazing gingerbread experience, it feels and looks a lot like it, just missing vibration from gingerbread keyboard and some gingerbread icons, also if darky reads this, maybe you should integrate the new Nexus wallpaper in, but its not that hard to install it yourself either so its fine).
I set the phone up, redownloaded Titanium Backup and it took about half an hour to restore all my apps (with all data). Also note that before I had installed Darky's ROM 5.5 it had taken me 1 and a half hours to restore apps using Titanium Backup so you can see how significantly fast Darky's ROM is. It is amazing!
Well done!

[Q] Select which apps run at start up???

Is there a way to select which apps you want to start up and run when the phone is booted? Since I've rooted I've had a lot more apps running right after turning the phone on (15-25 apps running). It is sluggish at start up, I'm assuming this is because the phone is trying to start and run a whole bunch of apps at the same time as well as obtain signal, check verify media on the SD card etc. and the processor is bogged down. Is there a way to select which apps I'd like to run at start up?

If you want to reduce lag try roms. Any app that tries to control what Is starting up will largely be ineffective

Any speculation as to why I never experienced this until after I rooted my phone?

Rooting should not cause programs to just start running.
Are you certain you have not added something else since root that may be causing lag?

I wouldn't describe it as general lag. It's only at start up. Once everything has loaded it runs the same it did the day I got it. It's just that it takes longer to boot initially. And when I use my task killer once everything is loaded it typically kills off 20-25 apps. Before I rooted I had a max of 6 apps running at start up. Currently I have 80 apps installed. Before I rooted I might have had 10 less apps.

Go to market, put startup in search, you should find several apps that claim to help with this

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

Startup Auditor. Works for me, give it a shot.

Im having some instability problems on my moto x

I changed my rom last year, from stock 5.1 to cyanogenmod 12.1 running android 5.1.1.
First I want to tell you my experience with my moto x. At first, although the battery was pretty bad, it was the only downside to it. When I bought it, it was on android 4.4.2 (I think). And it worked very well, it was fast and fluid. So after a while, the motorola forced all the time the android 5 update, which I did not want to do. But I gave up and did. From there, my RAM was always full at 70%, I had delay, it got much less fluid experience. I switched to cyanogenmod, because the internal storage space was tiny, it was my only alternative. I earned my storage space. A week ago i discovered that the voice recorder does not work on this rom, when I had to record a class on a class. Some options inside settings crashes, and close by themselves. The phone started to crash and reboot itself. I've added numerous apks from suspicious sources. I uninstalled all my applications and 5 gbs of internal space is still being taken. The memory is always 90% occupied. I can not put many application shortcuts on the desktop or the phone gets even slower. I recently discovered that recovery is no longer working. I can not access the twrp. i tried to flash twrp again, but when i use the recovery option, it just boot the phone again. I think he's corrupted. Root no longer works. I can not play pokemon go even with magisk installed. The camera image is also strange, it has several black spots as if it were dirty. So I gave up the rom. But I do not know what rom to install. I wanted some ROM based on Android 4.4.2 and it was as fast and stable as possible. I'm multi-tasking and I leave many apps open at the same time. I want some definitive rom so I'll never need to change rom again.