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Performance issues after installing apps,etc

I've got an Tilt 2 (ATT) using the stock rom from e2 rom. Seems like the device starts to slow down over time especially with a bunch of apps installed. I install apps to my storage card. I have used memory reclaimers, but they never seems to reclaim all the ram that is being used. I can see this because I know how much is in use after boot up.
In particular, tabs in TF3D can be slow to appear when they are stopped in, apps slow to launch. I have the app stay open in the background, maybe that is also part of my problem, but I do manually close apps at times too to keep the running ones down to 4 or less.
Anyway..does anyone else notice this? I try not to reboot my phone much. I guess I would like to not have to reboot the phone every few days but if that is what other people do, then so be it.
Thanks for any advice people might have...

Several items:
-stock ROMs especially from carriers are often bloated and don't perform as well as cooked ROMs.
-regular soft resets are unfortunately crucial to keeping your device performing at a high level throughout the day. I have a program that schedules my device to soft reset every morning. But I'd say once every 2 or 3 days is fine.

I'm using the stock rom minus the bloat provided by eraser...
Thanks for the help..I'll just reboot the device every few days.

Linear2202 said:
I'm using the stock rom minus the bloat provided by eraser...
Thanks for the help..I'll just reboot the device every few days.
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There's several memory management tweaks and apps that have shown to help a lot with freeing up those resources in the TP2. Have you already tried the two .cabs (nopushinternet and resproxy delete) that have been circulating here? Those, along with a registry edit have made a big difference in the RAM consumption on the TP2 for a number of people on the 6.5 rom. There's also some settings via Advanced Configuration that seem to help.

I actually purchased Memmaid because the TP2 tools wouldn't work on my device for some reason. Memmaid helps, but it doesn't quite do it.
The rom I'm using has push internet disabled, but I am aware of the cab for it too, thank you.
I have not tried the proxy delete cab, I will look into that.
The memmaid app has some performance registry tweaks. There are some for internet explorer, but I use opera, so I'm going to put those back to normal.
I tend to let apps be open too and perhaps that is also part of the problem. I go in an close them when several are open, but maybe I should just have the X button close the app instead.
Thanks again for everyone's input. Much appreciated.

make sure you use the opera9 edits or cabs to disable auto startup of Opera. I know normally have 48% ram to use with stock rom and before it would be in the high 30's after a while without anything open. I agree the mem progams dont restore it to fresh boot state but they do help.

I also haven't disabled Opera at startup, i will look into that as well to give me a bit more ram. Thanks again.

Questions on best practice and most stable ROMS

So far I have always been running rooted stock ROMS. From what I read they tent to be very stable, the battery last longer, and do not lose some features (4G, HDMI) etc.
However lately, probably because of the apps I have installed, the phone is pretty slow, the memory on the phone is running out and does not work properly.
It is time for a complete wipe. However I am not the kind the person that change rom once a week. I would like something for the long term.
I have a few questions (feel free to answer to a subset of them):
1) I can I maximize the free space on the phone? On stock you can update a stock app (ex flash, acrobat reader, etc) but you cannot uninstalled. I was wondering if after the update, I have now the app taking twice as much space that is supposed to.
2) What is the best way to backup all the apps on the phone and restore them quickly, being able to chose what and what not? I am using Titanium Backup but it is not clear what is an installed app and what is system app. How do I guarantee that I do not lose the app data? I am trying to find a way that once I update the ROM I can configure/restore the apps that I want without having to spend hours on it. What I am afraid is to install/restore something that it is not going to work but it takes spaces on the phone. One of the thing I really want to keep is the email configuration (3 gmails account, 1 hotmail and the link with Facebook accounts).
3) I am using App 2 SD Free but there are some large apps that cannot be moved on the SD (gmail, facebook, qik, flash, maps, twitter, Google Music, G+, etc). Does any work around exist to save precious space on the phone?
4) Regarding stability, not bloated, and full features available on OTA (4G, Bluetooth, HDMI, etc) What is the best ROM? I was looking into Fresh Evo (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20101297), Swagged Out (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1258932), Sprint Updated 2.0 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1321340), Clean Rom 1.0 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1351890). I am leaning toward Fresh Evo because the author have been updating for a long time). Any suggestions?
Best,
Camicia

Camicia said:
So far I have always been running rooted stock ROMS. From what I read they tent to be very stable, the battery last longer, and do not lose some features (4G, HDMI) etc.
However lately, probably because of the apps I have installed, the phone is pretty slow, the memory on the phone is running out and does not work properly.
It is time for a complete wipe. However I am not the kind the person that change rom once a week. I would like something for the long term.
I have a few questions (feel free to answer to a subset of them):
1) I can I maximize the free space on the phone? On stock you can update a stock app (ex flash, acrobat reader, etc) but you cannot uninstalled. I was wondering if after the update, I have now the app taking twice as much space that is supposed to.
Use A2SD, in terminal type:
SU
a2sd cachesd
Moves your Dalvik Cache to the SD Card. Free'd up about 200+MB on mine
2) What is the best way to backup all the apps on the phone and restore them quickly, being able to chose what and what not? I am using Titanium Backup but it is not clear what is an installed app and what is system app. How do I guarantee that I do not lose the app data? I am trying to find a way that once I update the ROM I can configure/restore the apps that I want without having to spend hours on it. What I am afraid is to install/restore something that it is not going to work but it takes spaces on the phone. One of the thing I really want to keep is the email configuration (3 gmails account, 1 hotmail and the link with Facebook accounts).
It's actually very easy to tell which are user apps with TB. They're the ones in white text
3) I am using App 2 SD Free but there are some large apps that cannot be moved on the SD (gmail, facebook, qik, flash, maps, twitter, Google Music, G+, etc). Does any work around exist to save precious space on the phone?
4) Regarding stability, not bloated, and full features available on OTA (4G, Bluetooth, HDMI, etc) What is the best ROM? I was looking into Fresh Evo (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20101297), Swagged Out (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1258932), Sprint Updated 2.0 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1321340), Clean Rom 1.0 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1351890). I am leaning toward Fresh Evo because the author have been updating for a long time). Any suggestions?
MIUI, as long as you don't need 4G, everything else works and it's extremely stable. Other than a few times trying other ROMs, I've been using it as a Daily since June
Best,
Camicia
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Thank you for your answers. I have some follow up questions:
1)
Use A2SD, in terminal type:
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a2sd cachesd
Moves your Dalvik Cache to the SD Card. Free'd up about 200+MB on mine
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What is the quickest way to use terminal? Do I need the dev tools on my computer and put the phone in debug mode?
Where is the Dalvik Cache normally stored? I thought it was on RAM. Since it is a cache, I would expect that it changes often. Is it not going to wear out the sd card quickly?
2) The point is that I want to save also some system settings (ex: remembered password of wifis, browser history, sync settings, etc). Last backup save 203 items. It is going to be a pain to go thought one by one.
4) I looked at MIUI but I ruled it out because it does not support 4G. I use it every now and then.

Like you I was having some problems with my rooted stock (low phone memory, slow and some other performance issues).
I downloaded ROM Manager and then made a backup of my rooted stock. You can also do it manually by booting into recovery but ROM Manager is easier though some people will say is more prone to errors. Also download Titanium Backup or something similar and save all of the apps (both download and system apps).
Once I backed up my rooted stock ROM I then downloaded and installed the latest Cyanogenmod. As this does not have HTC Sense or bloatware I immediately got a significant amount of free space that handles all that I load.
One thing with Cyanogenmod 7.1, some people like myself will have freezing issues if you have less than 130 MB of free space on the phone. This is not a problem for me as I have more than that available. I chose Cyanogoenmod ROM over MIUI ROM as Cyanogenmod allows for 4G. Take a look though at all of the ROMs out there and decide for yourself.
I find that everything is running faster now and I no longer have the Bloat that Sprint put on the phone. You can also move more apps over to the SD Card freeing up more internal memory.
Apps like Flash and Adobe Reader can be downloaded from the Market and are updated just like any other app.
Good luck

Uhh, no to ROM Manager. It's known to cause problems.
The Terminal is an app. You use it on your phone.
AS for system settings, only a very few can be successfully moved from ROM to ROM. The only thing I backup is my Alarms. You don't have to do them one at a time, you know. Hit Menu, Batch and then you can do them en masse

Depending on how many apps you load on your phone you may want to re-partition your SD card if you have the space and create a 1-2 gig ext2 or ext3 partition to use for apps2sd. The main reason I rooted my EVO was because I constantly kept running out of space on my phone. I'm an app addict though and have been known to have up to 200+ apps on my phone before I re-flash it with another rom. With a 1.5 gig partition and apps2d, I have never run out of space for apps on my phone though If you do decide to re-partition your SD card you will need to completely backup your SD card to your PC first as it will wipe all data on the card. I have a 16 gig class 10card in my EVO and the speed is pretty good.

i would give energy sensation a go, i was using that rom as my daily it is really staple, great battery life and improves the video recording to 1080p HD as well as plenty of other little tweaks here and there....I am running ics-decks-pre-alpha7 which i am really liking only thing is you would have to be willing to give up your camera til a stable alpha or beta is released. I hope this helps...

I have been running the Sprint Updated 2.0 Final for a few weeks (see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20631581 ). I also re-partition my SD card with 1.5Gb (if I remember well). So far everything is good except:
1) I have 99Mb free on the phone. I think the main reason is that I disinstall some of the Sprint Bloatware and haven't reinstall all the apps. However I started having problems when I had 60Mb available before the upgrade to this new ROM. So I am afraid that I am getting close :-/
2) Wifi Tether has problems. I am experience the problem here: http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/issues/detail?id=1288 .
The workaround with Barnacle alleviate the problem but beside being annoying that I have to start Bernacle first and then the Wi-Fi tether, it sometimes stop working (I think it is when I I use the 4G and the 4g connection is lost) and I have to go though the cycle again :-/
Best,
Camicia

Best ROM is probably team nocturnal's shooter, but everyone likes different stuff.
I sure my backup root to back up and restore apps
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I use my backup root I meant lol
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I think that one ROM that's 2.3.7 but they managed to get the ics launcher on it. My ***** runs it, so I forgot the name. Sorry I use a ns4g
Edit: it's by chadthegreat.
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Your *****?? nice.... <sarcasm>

Yes my *****. Because I think I could do better.
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Your *****?? nice.... <sarcasm>
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Im on Mikg v3.0 w. Less freedom kernel and its extremely stable smooth and complete im not sure if it has 4g (im on metro so only got 3g) i do reflash like crazy but this ROM has me pretty satisfied i havent flashed in a while u might lose a thing or two but nothing u cant live w. Out.
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If u want AOSP evo-deck-(gingerbread 2.3.7) only takes up 13mb of internal on initial boot 19mb after flashing gapps and its really stable too u might have to fix gps but thats the only issue i ran into (which is just a flashable zip if you do have to) and you can move the majority of apps to sd like CM it has a allow move to external option.
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OC, Darkside Ver.8, Performance questions

First – I know this forum is not the right place for this post but as a new member I am not allowed to post in T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II Android Development
Appreciate it if anyone could help or offer links….
Background – Recently rooted my T989 for six reasons:
1. Remove (or freeze) T-Mobile and Samsung bloatware with Titanium
2. Ability to create complete a backup of the phone with ROM Manager and quality backups of each individual app with Titanium
3. Save power effectively/efficiently with Juice Defender
4. OC the CPU (I now know rooting the native phone ROM is not sufficient to OC CPU)
5. Finally I was pissed the Samsung (Kies)/T-Mobile upgrade from gingerbread to ICS (4.0.3) basically did NOTHING to improve my user experience/enjoyment of the phone.
6. Change USB packet size with SD Speed (After many benchmarks and actual UBS transfers to/from a desktop it is clear changing USB packet size for groups of files larger than 1MB is basically useless on my phone/SD card)
Use Profile - At least weekly… I use the phone to:
1. watch various codec files and streaming online video (via HDMI) – App MX Player and Dolphin
2. email (various email providers) – App Mail Droid
3. play mp3s (through phone speaker or Bluetooth) – App Poweramp
4. play games (on and off line) – App various
5. social networking – App Facebook and others
6. use mapping programs in conjunction with GPS – App Google Maps and Sygic
7. monitor/check car performance/sensors with OBD II software connected via Bluetooth – App Torque and others
8. take and modify pictures/video – App native Camera and others
9. Web surf – App Dolphin
10. reference phone sensors (tilt, acceleration, magnetic) – App various
11. reference offline technical material like ElectroDroid, handyCalc, and Universal Converter
12. move large files (like a thumb drive) with USB between Windows computers (The only physical mod I have done to the phone is addition of a 64GB SD Card)
13. provide an alarm clock – App native Clock
14. Finally and most important Creation/Modification of MS Office files (via HDMI with Bluetooth mouse and keyboard connected) – App Kingsoft Office and OfficeSuite Pro
Questions –
1. Is there any way to OC the CPU without installing a new ROM? (not interested in underclocking or CPU sleeping apps)
2. Can I just install a new kernel to OC the CPU? (It looks like “yes” when I read the Kernels section links of “[REF] Your One-Stop-Shop for rooting, roms, kernels and themes![UPDATED!][7/31]”. BUT I’m no UNIX / Linux expert and don’t want to screw the phone up)
3. Will installing ROM DARKSIDE.EVOLUTION.3 provide me with any significant user benefits over my base rooted Samsung ROM? If yes, can you provide a link to benefits? Will I loose capabilities?
4. Other performance modification suggestions would be appreciated.
Tks in advance

To start this definitely would be where you post this, either here or q&a section. This would not be OK to post in the development section as it is purely for development.
Now to address your question, there are a few ROMs out there (including my own)that def do enhance performance and allow overclocking. The most important thing to remember is to Read Read Read before doing anything to make sure everything is done right. And Google has many answers and YouTube has many flashing tutorials, just a tip happy flashing
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Yes you could just flash a new kernel and oc. I'd recommend tdj's dark side. Then again, why don't you just flash a rom? I mean you already rooted your phone (which to me is the most unnerving part). Just make you sure you have the correct version of cwm and wipe cache (or using tdj's super wipe/cache wipe) as needed per kernel/rom/radio(yes, you might to flash a new radio) and you'd be good to go.
I was on dark side rom with the kernel for a while and it seems like it has better battery life over cm9 rc2 which is what's on my phone right now. And since the dark side was based on the official release it is pretty much bug free.
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I agree with ptmr3, research and ask questions. Thats exactly what i did before i did anything to my phone. Yes it maybe a scary process thinking about flashing and the possibility of flashing the wrong zip and bricking. But as long as you research, you'll be ok.
They pretty much answered your questions, but feel free to PM me if you have any questions. I got a pretty good knowledge on most things here and i like to help other members out when possible.

Thanks
God I was meaning to make this type of thread but I got lazy I wanted to heavily discuss Darkside Rom. I have flashed it about 3 times. Once with the latest version and 2 with the previous. I really liked it. ICS is amazing and the Kernel gave me a bit more battery than usual (20 hours moderate use)
When I first flashed darkside it was a bit laggy even after wiping cache, data, davlik cache 3 times before running darkside then running the rom that has darkside included... It would crash very often when I had poweramp open. When it played the music would cut off terribly into static with actions such as pulling down the drawer or opening folders/menu. Twitter would crash as well and gmail would be laggy and sometimes give me a bit of a green screen I know I am being a bit picky, but still that bugs me.. Everything else was awesome though.
Things improved with the latest version, but after a while the power amp bugs persisted as well as the slight crashes with twitter and gmail (even though I performed fresh installs of all these apps) Jeez it was so good I ignored the few and rare times it got buggy. But then I noticed that after a while when my battery hit low the time would change the phone would state a totally different time. Like 2 pm. It wouldn't improve until I charged it to 100% and reboot....
It makes me sad I really wanted to stay with ICS...
I am going to try CM 9 but I really liked darkside. Might also try AOKP as well... I never bothered fixing permissions with TDJ's darkside cache wipe Do you believe that would help? I never had rebooting issues and I never really flashed anything on my phone but Darkside.... I did flash a CM nightly inbetween the previous and newer version of Darkside.
Anyone can recommend me any help? I am back to gingerbread it runs smoothly but ICS is just amazing... :\
Also please recommend me some kernels for either gingerbread stock or an ICS rom so I can have better performance and battery life.
I know I wrote a lot but thank you so much guys.

iSchadenfreude said:
God I was meaning to make this type of thread but I got lazy I wanted to heavily discuss Darkside Rom. I have flashed it about 3 times. Once with the latest version and 2 with the previous. I really liked it. ICS is amazing and the Kernel gave me a bit more battery than usual (20 hours moderate use)
When I first flashed darkside it was a bit laggy even after wiping cache, data, davlik cache 3 times before running darkside then running the rom that has darkside included... It would crash very often when I had poweramp open. When it played the music would cut off terribly into static with actions such as pulling down the drawer or opening folders/menu. Twitter would crash as well and gmail would be laggy and sometimes give me a bit of a green screen I know I am being a bit picky, but still that bugs me.. Everything else was awesome though.
Things improved with the latest version, but after a while the power amp bugs persisted as well as the slight crashes with twitter and gmail (even though I performed fresh installs of all these apps) Jeez it was so good I ignored the few and rare times it got buggy. But then I noticed that after a while when my battery hit low the time would change the phone would state a totally different time. Like 2 pm. It wouldn't improve until I charged it to 100% and reboot....
It makes me sad I really wanted to stay with ICS...
I am going to try CM 9 but I really liked darkside. Might also try AOKP as well... I never bothered fixing permissions with TDJ's darkside cache wipe Do you believe that would help? I never had rebooting issues and I never really flashed anything on my phone but Darkside.... I did flash a CM nightly inbetween the previous and newer version of Darkside.
Anyone can recommend me any help? I am back to gingerbread it runs smoothly but ICS is just amazing... :\
Also please recommend me some kernels for either gingerbread stock or an ICS rom so I can have better performance and battery life.
I know I wrote a lot but thank you so much guys.
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Hey did you use any tools to restore like Titanium Backup whenever you put the new or updated versions of the roms on your phone?

OKP milestone 6 on HTC Wildfire (Buzz) - gps/radio problem

Hey guys... I flshed OKP milestone 6 on my Wildfire, and i have to say that it wotrks pretty fine, considering Wildifre is a low-end phone, there are a few glitches, but most of it works. So far i noticed that stock camera and allery apps do not work (as mentioned in some thread here). i simply replaced the stock apps with some custom ones from the market. but....
GPS also does not work. and i can't fix it. i followed these instructions : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1574504 But i still can't make a gps fix. I tried installing Gps status as a monitoring app, and left it for an hour or so, but it still didn't make a fix. i use Copilot for navigation, and all it says that it found a gps signal, but can't make a fix....
Please, i really need GPS, and i usuall use it extensively... can any body help in any way?

neverone said:
Hey guys... I flshed OKP milestone 6 on my Wildfire, and i have to say that it wotrks pretty fine, considering Wildifre is a low-end phone, there are a few glitches, but most of it works. So far i noticed that stock camera and allery apps do not work (as mentioned in some thread here). i simply replaced the stock apps with some custom ones from the market. but....
GPS also does not work. and i can't fix it. i followed these instructions : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1574504 But i still can't make a gps fix. I tried installing Gps status as a monitoring app, and left it for an hour or so, but it still didn't make a fix. i use Copilot for navigation, and all it says that it found a gps signal, but can't make a fix....
Please, i really need GPS, and i usuall use it extensively... can any body help in any way?
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The tweak doesn't work because it's for the One X. Did u made a full wipe? If not this tweak may helps:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1447591

miniAndroidian said:
The tweak doesn't work because it's for the One X. Did u made a full wipe? If not this tweak may helps:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1447591
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you mean before flashing with AOKP m6? yes, i did. made a full swipe, clean cache, and clean dalvik cache.... will give this a try and let you know soon

flash the latest radio again on temp. CWM 2.5.
It is a comon problem on CM based roms

Hazou said:
flash the latest radio again on temp. CWM 2.5.
It is a comon problem on CM based roms
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Yeh, i know. i had this problem on both CM6 and CM7 i used to have before AOKP. usually, flashing radio with a downloaded zip file helped, but now for some reason, clockwork does not allow me to flash radio, and i don't know why
EDIT: i will try both of the suggestions above mentioned in a few hours, got to go outsinde now, have some work to do, and will let you both know how did it go...

miniAndroidian said:
The tweak doesn't work because it's for the One X. Did u made a full wipe? If not this tweak may helps:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1447591
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hey, i just tried that tutorial (method 2 from the instructions), using no-ssl patch. i had to copy/paste the files using root explorer because clockworkmod aborted the instalation of both of these two files (anybody knows why?)
anyway, my phone is currently outside, on the balcony, and has been there for about 10 minutes, but Copilot still can't find fix... Also, it may be of importance, although gps is turned on, i do not see the gps icon in the notification bar...
any other ideas?
EDIT: So far i tried the tutorial i used to flash radio when on CM (http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/35540-gps-does-not-work-with-any-cyanogen/), but it still wont work. however i had to downgrade clockworkmod via rom manager, and that might be a problem, since, after a restart, clockwork reverts to a newer version, so, the flash of radio might have not occured at all..
Guys, help! puuhh-leeese!

You know all the information you need is here, Google is your friend.......
This is a very common bug that has happened to just about every cm user and i'd say there a hundreds of threads about it.
Downgrade to the 19.25 radio, reboot and then upgrade to the 20.10 again and the gps should work...
If it doesn't the alternative method is take a backup and flash a sense based Rom, turn on gps open g maps and wait for a fix. Give it a few minutes to get a good position. Then boot into recovery and restore your backup or do a fresh install. Fresh install is best imo....
The reason cwm reverts back is because the old version you flashed is temporary, its not broken and did work as it should.
The agps patch is not a fix for a broken radio but more a change in how and where the gps information comes from.
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neverone said:
EDIT: So far i tried the tutorial i used to flash radio when on CM (http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/35540-gps-does-not-work-with-any-cyanogen/), but it still wont work
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additionally to scratch's answer and suggestions I'd like to mention that sometimes it's mandatory to follow the suggested solutions with a good portion of accuracy (unless you buy 3 or 4 Android books and try to get a few years experience) - so have you also tried a 3rd radio as suggested in the CM forum or did you just try the 13.53.55.24H_3.35.19.25? What radio did you have before you tried to solve the prob? (just in case... could also be possible that you already had the older one, flashing just the same radio most likely won't help).

to answer some of the previous quedtions - i do not know what radio version was before i started meddling with it, and now it probably doeen't matter, because i tried several different flashes, methods etc coming from various sources.
although, i have to correct myself - the last method (the one with fixing the radio after flashing CM) DID work. it seems that the temporary downgrade of clockwork worked, and i managed to flash radio with the 3.35.19.25 version. i know it because it was the last thing i did yesterday before i gave up and went to sleep. the gps does make a fix with it! the first thing i noticed is the gps icon in the notification bar, and the second was, of course, the fix itself and finding the satellites. guess i was just too tired yesterday to figure that out. and maybe i wasn't exactly at the good spot to make a fix.
so, anyways, it works now, and thank you all for the help and suggestions!
EDIT: however, i do have another question.... i noticed that when my phone is locked and not in use, when sb calls me, the phone lags heavily: the ringtone starts to play, and i have to press the off button, unlock the phone, and then get the option on the screen to answer the phone, and after i chose to answer, the ringtone continues to play for a 2-3 seconds until the call is truly established.... it happened to me on CM 6 and 7, but not to this extent. this is truly slow and painstaking, and we're speaking about the very basic function of a phone. is there any way to fix that or speed that up?

neverone said:
EDIT: however, i do have another question.... i noticed that when my phone is locked and not in use, when sb calls me, the phone lags heavily: the ringtone starts to play, and i have to press the off button, unlock the phone, and then get the option on the screen to answer the phone, and after i chose to answer, the ringtone continues to play for a 2-3 seconds until the call is truly established.... it happened to me on CM 6 and 7, but not to this extent. this is truly slow and painstaking, and we're speaking about the very basic function of a phone. is there any way to fix that or speed that up?
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What performance settings do you have? (overclocked?, governor?) - if you didn't tweak anything you probably should have a good read(s) here in the forums what settings others use etc.
Each Wildfire is a bit individual regarding performance (plus it depends heavily on the apps you use, active services etc.). I've rooted my Willy explicitely for the reason to get control over that.
It depends on you how fast and responsive your phone will be as you have total control over everything
For unlocking on calls explicitely: I have a min CPU setting of 264MHz which works reliable but as mentioned above YMMV.

eventcom said:
What performance settings do you have? (overclocked?, governor?) - if you didn't tweak anything you probably should have a good read(s) here in the forums what settings others use etc.
Each Wildfire is a bit individual regarding performance (plus it depends heavily on the apps you use, active services etc.). I've rooted my Willy explicitely for the reason to get control over that.
It depends on you how fast and responsive your phone will be as you have total control over everything
For unlocking on calls explicitely: I have a min CPU setting of 264MHz which works reliable but as mentioned above YMMV.
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set the processor to have min CPU 352 MHz and max CPU 768 MHz. the scaling governor is set to interactive, i even installed the v6 supercharger script from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1126940 so that i don't have to deal with app killers from google play that never really proved their worth.... as for active services (is that the running apps from the apps manager?), i have facebook, go weather (just the widget), clock, dsp manager and android keyboard. total of 7 processes and 9 services... what do you make of that?
p.s. wouldn't a smaller min CPU setting mean a grater possibility of a phone lag?
EDIT (i always seem to edit my posts ): i got an idea to browse to /system/app, and to delete some apps that i think i might not need in hope that that might speed up my phone. however there are some that i don't now if i should delete them. so here's the list of those and please tell me if there is soem app that i shouldn't delete:
AOKtips.apk - i suppose that this is the introductory tips on controling the rom and launcher. i don't think i need this
Apollo.apk - this is stock music player. i use another one
ApplicationsProvider.apk - ??? do i need it?
Broser.apk i use opera next mini an it's much faster
ChromeBookmarksSyncAdapter.apk - chrome bookmarks sync? i don't sync my bookmarks, neither do i use chrome on my phone
DownloadProvider.apk
DownloadProviderUI.apk - is this one, and the one before that used for OS update? if so, i might not need them because, i usually don't update system, i am prone to make a full wipe in clockwork and install a fresh, updated system
DSPManager.apk - ??? do i need it?
Email.apk - generic email app, i use gmail, and if not, i would rather enter an address and log into via opera
Exchange.apk - ???? don't know what this one is, but it has the same icon as Email.apk
GalleryGoogle.apk - it has the same icon as stock gallery, which doesn't work anyways, and i use an other app for that
GenieWidget.apk - this looks to be a news widget, and i don't really need it
GoogleFeedback.apk - ??? do i need it?
GooglePartnerSetup.apk - ??? do i need it?
GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk - is this the search widget that appears in the upper part of the screen? if so, i don't need it, i disabled it anyways since it takes away precious screen space
HoloSpiralWallpaper.apk - live wallpaper? don't need it
KeyChain.apk - ??? do i need it?
Launcher2.apk - don't now if i need it if i have nova launcher that comes with the rom?
SetupWizard.apk - ??? do i need it?
UserDictiponaryProvider.apk - is this for predictive text when typing? if so, i don't use predictive text nor anything similar. i type my own texts
VoiceDialer.apk - don't use it
VoiceSearch.apk - don't use it
VpnDialogs.apk - ??? do i need it?
WAPPushManager.apk - ??? do i need it?
would removing these or only part of these speed up the phone? especially when receiving calls, since this seems to be the time when the phone lags the most....
sorry guys for such a long post, and i know that it would take time to read all this, but bear with me, please, my knowledge about android is quite superficial, i still think i know only the basics, and what i've picked up from other people and from googling

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set the processor to have min CPU 352 MHz and max CPU 768 MHz. the scaling governor is set to interactive, i even installed the v6 supercharger script from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1126940 so that i don't have to deal with app killers from google play that never really proved their worth.... as for active services (is that the running apps from the apps manager?), i have facebook, go weather (just the widget), clock, dsp manager and android keyboard. total of 7 processes and 9 services... what do you make of that?
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doesn't look you have some memory wasters there (besides Facebook lol - nags me every day). I've dropped V6 for several reasons (too long to explain here and now) and use an app from the playstore (autostarts) to find out and cut automatic startups (one of the few apps to be worth to pay for, if you're used to compile you can get it on Github, too - open source).
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p.s. wouldn't a smaller min CPU setting mean a grater possibility of a phone lag?
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yes, but like I said: min 264MHz works fine for me most of the time. Plus I'm using setCPU to explicitly set the screen off value.
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i got an idea to browse to /system/app, and to delete some apps that i think i might not need ... please tell me if there is soem app that i shouldn't delete
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unfortunately you have to do some work yourself :silly: because I'm either short on time and - even more important - it's not always yes or no if you can delete it (depends on your setup, prefs and likes) - but you could read the approximately 20-30 posts from here in the LeWa thread where slymobi and me are discussing almost all CM7 system apps (including our keep/delete lists)
My personal major finding was AutoKiller Memory Optimizer (which you might know from the V6 thread). In fact I knew about the app for a long time but always missed testing it. When I did my phone already felt fast and snappy - no lags at all - but that really gave it a remarkable additional boost... (in your case most settings are done by V6 Supercharger - but to be honest I never had the same feeling with that script - but: ymmv).

eventcom said:
unfortunately you have to do some work yourself :silly: because I'm either short on time and - even more important - it's not always yes or no if you can delete it (depends on your setup, prefs and likes) - but you could read the approximately 20-30 posts from here in the LeWa thread where slymobi and me are discussing almost all CM7 system apps (including our keep/delete lists)
My personal major finding was AutoKiller Memory Optimizer (which you might know from the V6 thread). In fact I knew about the app for a long time but always missed testing it. When I did my phone already felt fast and snappy - no lags at all - but that really gave it a remarkable additional boost... (in your case most settings are done by V6 Supercharger - but to be honest I never had the same feeling with that script - but: ymmv).
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i just uninstalled v6 supercharger and removed some of the system apps by taking a look at the links you've provided me, and as well as taking a look at tables and lists from these links: http://www.vmroms.com/index.php?topic=35.0 and http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Barebones....
right after root explorer finished with moving the apps from /system/app/ (i moved the apps to sd-card for backup), the system restarted automatically, and i got the AOKP flash animation. i nearly **** my pants, as i thought "that's it, broke my phone" , but, once the system got up again, the difference is amazing!! the phone literary flashes through menus and options etc... i will try out autokiller memory optimizer and autostarts to see if i can squeeze some more perfomance.
will update you on the results, as for now i still didn't receive any calls, so i can't comment on that.
oh, and, p.s. the apps that i removed from /system/app/ are:
AOKTips.apk
Apollo.apk
ApplicationsProvider.apk
Browser.apk
Camera.apk
ChromeBookmarksSyncAdapter.apk
DSPManager.apk
Email.apk
Exchange.apk
GalleryGoogle.apk
GenieWidget.apk
GoogleFeedback.apk.
Launcher2.apk
HoloSpiralWallpaper.apk
MagicSmokeWallpaper.apk
PhaseBeam.apk
PicoTts.apk
UnicornPorn.apk
UserDictionaryProvider.apk
VideoEditor.apk
VisualizationWallpapers.apk
VoiceDialer.apk
VoiceSearch.apk
VpnDialogs.apk
and just for the fun of it, i downloaded latest stable cm7 rom and extracted camera.apk and gallery.apk from it, and pasted it into /system/app/ since, well the stock camera and gallery in AOKP m6 don't work, but, after a restart, the phone didn't show them at all, does anybody know why is that? these apps worked quite fine on CM 7, i thought they might work here as well
and BTW, i still can't figure out how do i make an incoming phone cal wake up my phone?when sb calls me i can hear the ringtone, but the screen if off and i have to press the on/off key, unlock the phone and only THEN i get the option to answer/reject the call. it's an idiotic glitch that i can't seem to solve....

[TIPS] Making ICS Better [Still in Construction]

Introduction.
In P350, we have little RAM, and everybody knows that. I'm constructing this thread to try maximize the performance on ICS.
The First Tip -> Gapps.
As we all know, in each version of Android, Gapps size is increased. In Froyo, Gapps like Google Maps and others really slowed the phone to the point of hacking it to improve performance. In Gingerbread, in most of ROM's, it wasn't a BIG problem. But in Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean, Gapps are landing direct hits on performance overall, because of 3 reasons:
It's size is now very BIG;
It has some unknown background apps that eats RAM;
Now the Gapps are consuming memory, CPU and GPU.
As a effect, some Devs and p350 users are searching a way to improve performance. But some problems occur in the way, like low memory RAM, discussions on thread and some others. So I'm giving the first TIP.
DO NOT USE FLASH GAPPS.
You are now asking yourself : "What the Hell are you saying Dark?"
I answer, it's very simple. Most of the Android Users (Yes, not only P350) do not use half of the installed apks. Saying by other words, Android users flash and don't use 50% or more of Gapps, so unknown apps are installed and are kept in phone. And most of the users only flash Gapps because they want them installed for nothing, without knowing what these apps are doing in background. To finish, a big part of New Android users only use Google Play. So, how we clear this?
DOWNLOAD THE DESIRED GAPPS FROM GOOGLE PLAY.
If you use some Gapps to work or any other reason, like Google Mail and Youtube, you might consider downloading then instead of flashing. But now you are asking yourself: "What is the difference?". I answer why downloading is better thant flashing them:
A great part of ROM's (if not all), do not need Gapps to work, so you can only download Google Play, setting your account on phone and start hunting the apps you use;
Because of this, you has an Greater control of deciding what app you need and want to install;
Unknown apps will not be installed on your phone;
No background apps active -> More RAM -> Better performance!
Now you have a better performance than before.
The Second Tip -> Uninstall what you don't use.
Yes, in every version of ICS the most worry of users is : "RAM is good on this ROM?", because little RAM, poor performance. In some versions, like ConnectMod betas, the RAM is very poor, according to dodo1255 . How to solve this problem?
UNINSTALL SYSTEM APPS.
Some ROM's come with unnecessary apps, and they consume your memory, both internal and RAM. To Advanced users:
Extract ROM, go to system/apps and delete manually the undesired apps.
To basic users, do this:
Download Root Uninstaller or Root Uninstaller Pro;
Open it and Search some apps that you don't use and uninstall them.
Attention: Before making anything make a Backup first! And, do not try this if you are New on Android world. If you want to do this, first search on net about this and what apps you can uninstall.
I'm not responsible for bricked devices, suicide, getting fired at your work because alarm app failed, or your mama kamikazing herself instead of jumping parachute because you didn't call her and tell what airplane to catch on airport. You decided of making these modifications. If you point your finger at me, I'll laugh of you.
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Some people just do this and get an improved performance, but if you want to go further.
The Third Tip -> Overclock and Swap.
Yep, it's a basic tip this one. But be aware of the limit of the overclocking in the respective kernel, and what's the most stable frequency on that ROM. And if you're planning Swap your ROM, do not use apps like Swapper, they do not help because they runs in background. Search and you'll find good tips on how to do it.
The Fourth Tip -> Download some optimizer apps.
Yes, i'm recomending because of other things that they can do. But do not install:
Apps that kills other apps, like task managers. They do not improve performance and really increase the number of Force Closes on your phone;
Apps that creates a big amount of cache;
You can install apps like:
Auto Memory Manager and RAM Manager Pro - Can help on improving performance;
AnTuTu CPU Master Pro - With some settings it helps on performance and battery;
Zdbox or other that cleans cache - Cleans your phone to a better level of performance.
The Fifth Tip -> Smoothing your phone in a easy manner.
This tip was suggested by gogyly.
This app, Seeder, was created by lambgx02 to reduce lags and to improve even better Any Rom. In the thread you can find more specifications.
I tested and works flawlessy, it's very good, a must-have app for us now.
Seeder
The Sixty Tip ->A GREAT Replacement for Google Play.
This tip is for those that only use Google Play when flash gapps. It's a custom market called 1Mobile Market. It's UI is like Google Play, feature the hottest apps for free (I found GTA Vice City to download here), you can log in with your google account and has a really amount of apps. I'm current using and is very good.
Link for download -> 1Mobile Market
Doubt of every ICS user ->Why my phone is having low battery fast?.
It's because of tweaks. Yeah, TWEAKS MAKE THE BATTERY LAST A FEW HOURS. I concluded this when i moved myself of ICS from my Genesis. They are almost equal on performance (with over my one reaches close , going to 2203 and ICS with stock freq. 2230). And, ironically, the two wastes battery even when i'm not using it. Result -> 1 day battery. Froyo, the more slow ROM, do not wastes battery when i'm not using it, even with overclock. Result -> 3+ day battery.
And 1 thing: Devs, do not put 2 or tweak packages on your ROM's, because some scripts was already used on other packages, making the system run 2 or more times the same script, wasting battery.
You can help on this list by suggesting some improvements that I do not listed here. If I help, press thanks.

So for Accounts syncing, Flash Gapps is not really needed? Only a account-related app, such as Gmail? Interesting... But how do I get Play Store without flashing Gapps?

dbarrera, account sync app come in some ICS roms. If not, you can download gapps and put this application on system/apps of the ROM. You can get Play Store apk file in XDA, or in others websites. If you cannot found, i have the .apk file so i can upload for you =D.

For instance, I'm testing JellyME ROM... It has Account & Sync app, but even with Gmail and Play Store (3.7.11 from a June dump, I dunno if its the latest) app installed, I can't add my Google account for it to sync Contact and Calendar data... Ideas?

Yes. Go to Settings -> Account & Sync -> Add Account, and do the step guide. First check your internet connection because it will be loggin to verify and associate your account to that phone and you're done. After all tap your account to find the options to Sync Contacts and Calendar. Hope i helped you. =D

Or use blackmart.
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Hi. I think u should try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33999592
I've used this app on kamesh ICS, and it helps reduce lag. I didn'nt test it much on ICS (rolled back to MIUI), but on MIUI GB, realy reduces lag on minimum. I'm curently on powersaving governor and all is still buttery smooth. Check out and give your opinion. Cheers!!!
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Okay I'll try using it on my new ROM and soon i'll post results =D

Had to flash Gapps (tiny-gapps) for Google related data (Contacts and Calendar) sync...

I just hope that these tiny-gapps does not come with unnecessary apps. But you can do this step: Extract gapps and extract rom. Put the desired apps on system/apps of the ROM and make a .zip file with contents. That should do the trick next time =D

Just the APKs? In the tiny-gapps also comes some libs and stuff... Probably dependencies?

Maybe ... But here in my phone it wasn't a problem. Maybe these libs modifies system and allow unknown apps or other things to run in background.

Being that the case, GoogleBackupTransport (I guess this one keeps data backed up with Google), Google[Calendar | Contacts]SyncAdapter (I guess the name says it all), GoogleLoginService (Need to login into Mothership somehow), MarketUpdater, Phonesky (Play Store), Talk (Yes, I'm guilty of using it) should be the only ones to load directly into the ROM's /system/app folder?

Yes, theorically talking. But soon some ROM's will implant the useful Gapps, so we will not have to do this work =D

If the JellyMe developer includes Google Login without Gapps (and fixes the bugs already posted on his thread), I'm sold!

And how about any tips for battery life? I've tried some ICS ROMs, they were quite smooth,all good but I didn't like the battery life, that's why I'm still using CM7. Anybody running ICS can post some battery stats? On CM7, it takes 3%/8 hours with airplane mode, but with ICS 40%!! Did I do something wrong(I mean bad kernel or flashing gapps) or is it normal with ICS? Thanks

ICS is a really battery eater because more apps are running in background. And it goes fast. You can download different battery savers and check what's the best for you.

Well that's shame,because I'd really like to use ICS(CM9),it has some good functions(killing with back button,smoother and faster than CM7). The weirdest thing is it drains the battery even in deep sleep?!
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Bender9467 said:
Well that's shame,because I'd really like to use ICS(CM9),it has some good functions(killing with back button,smoother and faster than CM7). The weirdest thing is it drains the battery even in deep sleep?!
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Don't use ICS if you cannot adapt to its functionality. Yes it has bugs, and yes, you'll be in trouble if you dont know how to make remedies.
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rho57 said:
Don't use ICS if you cannot adapt to its functionality. Yes it has bugs, and yes, you'll be in trouble if you dont know how to make remedies.
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I don't want to be rude, because I know that there's a lot of hard, long and sometimes annoying work. I'm happy I can even flash ICS. I've just asked if there's any way to improve battery life (especially when phone is not used). I don't think that low battery life is a "functionality" which I should adapt to.