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What has has happened. The site has slowed down so much it's almost unusable. HELP PLEASE.
I agree...
taking forever to open anything (if it opens at all). Keep getting page cannot be displayed, keep having to refresh page and hope for the best!!
Maybe time for a defrag? :lol:
the slowdown has probably something to do with the news about Windows Mobile 2005..
its been slow like this for months. nothing to do with wm2005
strange. yet the ftp seems fast as anything.
This site is really painfully slow. My company is willing to donate a full dedicated server for hosting purposes. Please PM me if you interested.
The site hasn't been accessible for the past 5 hours, and now it's back, it's unusably slow, as it has been for several days. If I didn't have a broadband connection, I'd have long since stopped using the forum.
This does need sorting out. ASAP
Add to that the FTP server gets wiped out, its slowly becoming no fun to post, write in wiki nor answer the cries of help form the comunaty.
Still no answers on this? Been slow for ages - more than once I have done a reply, but the page has timed out and I could not be bothered to re-trype it all. I can't be the only one!!! R
This site feels like its running off a home DSL connection. Its been like this for a year. I ran accross this site in june 2004 and it was super slow back then. I wondered how so many people can post and write with such a slow site. I thoght it was a backbone problem, but I am using a different ISP and different location and its still slow.
WOW!
Something has happened because the site is flying today!
Hope its not just an April's Fool joke :lol:
Has anyone else noticed that the site has become very slow? it is taking around a minute or so to load each page and if it has images on the page..... your looking at putting the kettle on before its loaded! LOL
Is the server just having a go slow or is there a prob somewhere along the lines?
Same here, been like it about a week for me
It's working fine for me, the pages are loading at the normal speed.
Site very slow?
Yes the site is very slow.....(((((((
From Rio de Janeiro Brazil.
Yes same here : very very slow almost unusable...
Yes it is painfully slow from here. Unusable !!! really.
Yes the site is _very_ slow from Germany too.
Maybe the server is overloaded by the many users and posts :lol:
I experience a few 'periods' where the site is very slow- not just in the last few days. On the whole it's a usable speed.
Suppose that's what you get with a voluntary(?) site with no ads.
Perhaps more donations from users would resolve this issue (says he who hasn't done so himself :shock: )
We know it's too slow. We're working on it. We are currently researching a lot of option, including professionalising what has been a back-burner hobby project. Stay tuned, more news and a longer post about this soon...
I'm having difficulty posting at all now. This seems like a more recent problem than any inherent slowness
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well if its your host messing you around, then i can arrange some VERY cheap hosting for this site, cheaper than anything you can find!
Speed again ! Great
yeahh!!!
"WILD THING! de de de de, YOU MAKE MY HEART SING!" :lol: 8)
What was the problem in the end, Peter? Care to share for the curious ones?
christopherwoods said:
What was the problem in the end, Peter? Care to share for the curious ones?
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Cryx, our heroic god-like sysadmin, has updated the FreeBSD that sits underneath xda-developers.com and installed something called eAccelerator. (The FreeBSD upgrade brought most of the speed increase, I am told.) All of this is sort of stop-gap though, the way phpBB talks to the MySQL database just doesn't easily scale to the size of this operation.
For the slightly longer run, Cryx has joined our star PHP-programmer Elisa in working on the first preparations for the monster logistical operation of switching board software. All in all we're going to be making some profound changes in the way xda-developers looks, works and feels.
Much more news will follow in January, but the gist is that there will be full-time paid people (not me) on call for xda-developers. The flip-side of that is that we will likely have a moderate amount of non-obtrusive ads in the not too distant future. We're still researching and building it all, so all of this is very fresh thinking.
Is anyone else experiencing very slow running of this website & forums?
For the last 3 days, it has been taking a really long time for any page to load up (3-5mins). Often they just time out with server not responding. Occasionally however, pages load instantly like they should, but this is very rare!
Last night I was getting "500 - Server Error" pages when trying to view any page in the forum.
I am not getting these problems on any other website, only xda-developers. I need to work out if it is an anomaly with my ISP, or if it is a problem with xda-developers.
I am running on 5.5Mbit ADSL connection in UK with F9 (part of PlusNet). I use OpenDNS as my DNS servers. I've tried multiple computers from two different houses (both F9 though).
Thanks
Mike
Yes in the last couple of days, it is really slow
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same here i read somewhere else it maybe because a lot of people are downloading all the roms before they get taken off
it is slow indeed
i noticed the same here.
it is very very slow
Same here from Germany, but perhaps it's just because everyone tries to mirror the FTP-Server with all the ROMs ;-)
Nah, the slowdown started before the MS warning.
True, but sometimes is fast as usual. Especially in the evening (GMT+1)
it's not fast now...
Slow as f***
Slow Site
I agree with the other posts, this site has been running slow since I found out about it about a month ago.
It is really annoying waiting all that time for the pages to load!!
But the information on this site is brilliant and well worth the wait!!
I am not an expert on site speeds but I would put the slow speeds down to the site needing a bigger and faster server.
The Pocket PC market is really taking off now and so more and more people are seeking help and advice about their devices, so the site is bound to run slower than it was set up for.
I would be willing to donate to help speed up the site if the owners purchased a new server, presuming that is the cause of course!
Other great sites to visit are :
coolsmartphone.co.uk
modaco.com
Keep up the good work, but please make the pages load faster!
Snails pace
Here in South Africa it is virtually impossible to get onto the site.
IS THE SITE NOT BEING THROTTLED?
This has only been for the past 3 to 4 days.
Moderators please let us know what's happening
I think is time to dump my HTC products!
one of the server drives died so it has been running solo....plus all the people dowloading.....drive is been replaced.
The fact that the Inquirer.net linked to the forum post about the ROM dump being shut down by MS doesn't help our forum speeds either.. however I've noticed that the number of votes on the petition DOUBLED in just one day -- the response from the community has been quite impressive thus far. Whether or not the petition has had any benefits so far remains to be seen, however I hope for our sake that all this traffic helps out in the long run.
Time will tell.
Sir Lancealot
It's not the "time to drop HTC products".
It's time to find a more sophisticated way to store and share the ROMs, so that stupid crybabies who would call Mommy (Operator) for bleedin' warranty (!) when their XDA gets bricked won't get another chance to screw it up for everybody.
Long live HTC products. Looking for the next Universal like - VGA, WM6 Professional (Phone), GPS, lots of internal Storage so never again "9MB free" on it -- and of course "the King is dead, long live the King" -- you can't stop good work floating around.
Blame HTC not XDA
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It's not the "time to drop HTC products".
It's time to find a more sophisticated way to store and share the ROMs, so that stupid crybabies who would call Mommy (Operator) for bleedin' warranty (!) when their XDA gets bricked won't get another chance to screw it up for everybody.
Long live HTC products. Looking for the next Universal like - VGA, WM6 Professional (Phone), GPS, lots of internal Storage so never again "9MB free" on it -- and of course "the King is dead, long live the King" -- you can't stop good work floating around.
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I don't think you will ever stop people bricking their devices. As long as they understand the risks it's their problem. I do feel that users with bricked devices are stupid to check in for warrantee repairs - Operators should just reject their claims.
I feel that the threat to XDA to remove ROMS will only drive the practise underground and they will loose control forever. I quote the example of the "unlocker" that was removed after a complaint about infringement of rights issue. Well this fix floats around on many sites on the internet and cannot be stopped.
I think that MS and the operators are going to loose their greatest test and development site.
I purchased my TyTn in September in the UK and right from the start it had issues that HTC knew about but continued to sell the devices. THIS TO ME IS THE UNETHICAL AND THE BLAME MUST REST SQUARELY ON THE SHOULDERS OF HTC.
Why can individuals not attemt to correct these faults?
I have waited from end September 2006 for a promised upgrade to correct the problems. I have the correspondence with HTC Europe as proof.
The TyTn is an expensive phone full of "issues"
basilrsa said:
I purchased my TyTn in September in the UK and right from the start it had issues that HTC knew about but continued to sell the devices. THIS TO ME IS THE UNETHICAL AND THE BLAME MUST REST SQUARELY ON THE SHOULDERS OF HTC.
Why can individuals not attemt to correct these faults?
I have waited from end September 2006 for a promised upgrade to correct the problems. I have the correspondence with HTC Europe as proof.
The TyTn is an expensive phone full of "issues"
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I realize that this is off topic, but I'm with Basil 100%. The bottom line is that XDA Developers is starting to make HTC and M$ look like fools, because this excellent site and its supporters are fixing issues that HTC and M$ should be fixing -- Voice Command 1.6 and BT A2DP are two that are at the top of my list. So rather than welcome this group of brilliant users (what better beta testing can you find anywhere else) and work with us, they'd rather ignore us and get into bed with the carriers/operators who are just as bad.
It shouldn't matter where we bought our devices (I purchased mine in the US from an HTC "distributor") -- these are HTC-designed and manufactured devices running the M$ OS. Therefore they should be fully supported by HTC and M$. As for "bricking" a device, most (all?) warranties state that they only cover incidental damages or issues caused by "normal" use. An operator should return a "bricked" device to the user unrepaired (if it is found to be running a "non-standard" version of the ROM firmware), with a quote for repair/replacement should the user wish to persue the matter further.
I for one hope that the iPhone turns out to be half as good as Steve Jobs says it is/will be, because I think that Apple will make M$ and its OEMs finally wake up and smell the coffee. At least Apple listen to their users and fix their problems (as few as there are) in a timely fashion. On the other hand, maybe I am living in Wonderland with Alice... ;^)
John
EastExpert said:
It's not the "time to drop HTC products".
It's time to find a more sophisticated way to store and share the ROMs, so that stupid crybabies who would call Mommy (Operator) for bleedin' warranty (!) when their XDA gets bricked won't get another chance to screw it up for everybody.
Long live HTC products. Looking for the next Universal like - VGA, WM6 Professional (Phone), GPS, lots of internal Storage so never again "9MB free" on it -- and of course "the King is dead, long live the King" -- you can't stop good work floating around.
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Yeah! Let's keep the momentum alive! We'll find a workaround ;-)
finaly
for the past 3 or 4 days i have not been able to go into the site. been getting gateway time out and till today in the morning i was able to go in but another time out right after i went to a different post at least I'm logged in right now. hope it gets back to normal
Looks like better now
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Looks like better now
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yeah I'm not getting time outs anymore
Loving my HTC Mozart but the real issue I'm having with MS is the severe lack of localization on the phone. I live in Australia but this phone seems like it can only do half of what is promised due to me not living in America. I've changed my locale and region to USA so now I can get the 'local' option which will work when I go on Bing. However ultimately I feel let down in the regard that Zune I cannot search for any songs as it just returns 'no artists found' and smart links do not work (so kind of needing that C+P SOON MS!)
Now that that rant is over I'd just like to add I still think its a great phone and hope MS can get their act together soon and realise that people outside of the USA actually matter.
same here,in Australia...although I didn owe a WP7 device.But Zune is just pretty let me down...unlike itunes,even if I don't have a Idevice,I still can browse the marketplace.However,it is totally different case in Zune software.You have to change your country to US before you download the Zune software,if not you can never browse the marketplace...
Well bugs are to be expected and if its reported to Microsoft then hopefully they will improve it.
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Well bugs are to be expected and if its reported to Microsoft then hopefully they will improve it.
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It's not due to a bug its due to Bing being subpar everywhere outside of America which is a huge issue.
Ah... I am not sure but in that case I might get that issue in the UK. Maybe submitting feedback to the Bing team will get sorted as that isn't that good as most customers will be outside the USA.
I live in Bangkok. My zune is set up for a connection in Australia and I have no trouble using all of zunes features.
The only thing I have not tried is buying apps.
The only problem I came across when setting up was my PC needed to be set to the same region as my e-mail account.
BadaSI has reached 30.000 downloads. 250-300 downloads on a Day.
It is time to reproduce with the ratings which country is the best, and a developer should always aim on this countries, which like his apps. I have rated every positiv comment with an extra plus, every worse comment with an extra minus. Countries in worse i will ignore in future, it is not profitable for me to release my apps there.
Here are the 15 that i can rate, others are to rare to be listet.
Excellent:
1. Italy - 95%
2. India - 92%
3. Germany - 90%
4. South Korea - 90%
5. Finland - 90%
Very Good:
6. Spain - 84%
7. Hungary - 80%
8. Ukraine - 75%
Good:
9. Turkey - 72%
10. Poland - 69%
Middle:
11. Russia - 54%
12. Autria - 50%
10. China - 40%
Worst:
14. France - 20%
15. Canada - 20%
Every developer has with his own style another destination group, my group is fixed, i will support more countries that are from middle and above, the others aren't important.
Also the little countries that are not listed are aimed, cause there is the much potential to get known through apps.
On what do you base your results? Downloads? or just comments?
For me, France is the most 'profitable' country after germany, and my apps are not even translated to french .....
Both and the bugreports, questions, critizizm and also the populution is a important factor, india has 1 billion citizens and 10% is there bada strong, this makes india very attractive, and positive comments and ratings gives such countries a lot of plus.
France is not so good as acpected, i am also surprized. India goeas also to the other side, not less even more downloads. It could also be that it would change with another app, but in such countries i am not so known as in countries where the first is well known. Germany is also a good one, but has also the most negative comments after china.
I am surprized by Italy, the best rating from this country as you see and download count.
since im not into the developing scene i have a couple of questions for you :
do you have to pay samsung for every country you release the app, or are there country zones (like: europe, asia, etc) ?
is there any kind of global release, for example having the app in english ?
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Both and the bugreports, questions, critizizm and also the populution is a important factor, india has 1 billion citizens and 10% is there bada strong, this makes india very attractive, and positive comments and ratings gives such countries a lot of plus.
France is not so good as acpected, i am also surprized. India goeas also to the other side, not less even more downloads. It could also be that it would change with another app, but in such countries i am not so known as in countries where the first is well known. Germany is also a good one, but has also the most negative comments after china.
I am surprized by Italy, the best rating from this country as you see and download count.
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I'am also suprised by the low %, since bada's marketshare in France.
Do you have any numbers about the Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands & Luxembourg)?
Sure i have, the main point i think is, what can the app do and how it looks, if you would make an app to provide skype access i think this would be the burner in all countries.
Belgium 123
Luxembourg 13
Netherlands 198
I think this would not be fair to rate such countries to the other where the downloads are 10-30 times higher.
India will do it i think in a month, they are always constantly over 350 weekly, the startup there was not so good but currently it is the only constant country.
They first one to publish an app with Skype access (not chatting only) will be a rich man in the whole Bada world.
Yes i think nearly more than the half (about 1,5 to 2 million) downloads would be there possible, i don't even understant why a profi don't do this, messangers like msn, gmail, and all the stuff. bada is a gold mine, but most of the huge companies don't wont realize it.
1 euro with only 1 million downloads would bring a lot of money. Nfs Shift was downloadet over a half million in a few months that is not a bad value for only one app, after this half million the app price has been raised to 7 euro, this was surely a big mistake of ea.
Nobody or a small amount pay this prices, to bad that their managers are blind to rate an app price better,...
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Sure i have, the main point i think is, what can the app do and how it looks, if you would make an app to provide skype access i think this would be the burner in all countries.
Belgium 123
Luxembourg 13
Netherlands 198
I think this would not be fair to rate such countries to the other where the downloads are 10-30 times higher.
India will do it i think in a month, they are always constantly over 350 weekly, the startup there was not so good but currently it is the only constant country.
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thx for the numbers. I'm a bit surprised that Belgium is pretty close to the Netherlands.
From my side I agree with you that the functionality and the looks are important.
But I also believe that the name of a app can also make some difference.
I assume that BadaSi is standing for Bada system info?
indian market now favor samsung as nokia doesnt have much to offer.so bada has better scope
The worst is Indonesia. Sadly thats my own country.
I gave discount 100% for an apps, and almost 200 downloads from Indonesia every day, in total 900 in a week without say "thank you".. no one say "thank you"...
In my opinion, The best is Germany, Russia and Italy. Not only my top gain but the people are nice too. Even there are some negative comments, but usually they gave me suggestion, thats cheer me up. Indian people nice too.. but phone billing payment in India is nightmare. for an $0.99 app.. until tax, fees etc, its only $0.09 left.. hahahaha.
France? uh.. even for free apps, they still complaint.. I dunno why..