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[D-D-]

Well that's the thing. I don't use it for gaming either, I use it for my uni mainly, presentations, business, emails...
And android stuff is actually syncinc in background.
But nvm, as u said YMMV.

[pedrojaime]

As much as we try to expand the possibilities with the OS and 3rd party apps (some of which are truly amazing), the problem I see is that being a 1st generation android device the hardware is the limiting factor, Pulse/Huawei/U8220 only comes with 100Mb RAM and a slow processor (by today's standards) so I have settled on a few functions I want from my phone to do and do them well:
1. phone - must be quick to access dialer, contacts, receive calls/make calls, and of course get as good a signal as possible.
I don't change the contacts on my phone that often so toying with the idea of only syncing my contacts once every three weeks.  If I were a sales person I would need to add in phone contacts daily or even hourly..
2. Skype - best way to keep in touch with family abroad
3. to do list + Alarms + gmail Contacts + Google Calendar to make sure I don't drop anything important.
4. calculator, esp. for managing bills and costs
5. SMS - because everyone in Ecuador is still hung up on Blackberries and Whats App uses up all the RAM!
6. Most importantly: Music!
+ ocassionally email

I guess part of the reason I have taken this approach is because in Ecuador we are not quite (yet) a completely online society like the UK, US where stores accept google wallet/Paypal payments, etc readily.  Bills are still mostly paid the old fashion way by going to the phone company/bank and if you don't harrass people  on the phone you don't get results - very different from just sending a quick email and working/buying groceries from home as is common in the UK.  Besides, surfing the web on public transport/in the street will mean your phone get stolen quickly here..

What I have concluded is that once I have the apps and phone setup as I want it, I don't need Market running in the background slowing the thing down and running down the battery unnecessarily.  I have tried many games, GPS, transferred files via bluetooth and voice recorders but in the end i have settled for having a reliable, fast phone more than a tablet.  Nevertheless, I still get the itch from time to time to get back on Market and hunt around for new apps (or leaner alternatives to existing ones).  As an example, I was amazed with the functionality you get out of Mixzing media player but the music kept stuttering, people would complain that it took a long time for me to pick up incoming phone calls and this was fixed by installing Vanilla player instead.  Just some observations of mine, everyone uses their phone differently and I respect that.  The underlying core of the software IMHO should perform and be stable withous FCs..

Peter

P.S. going to re-enable Market to install 'SMS filter' today. I hate my network provider's SMS spam and what I love about Android is that there is no such thing as 'not possible'.  If you don't like something you can always change it!

Edited by pedrojaime, 13 December 2011 - 04:26 PM.

[jaydeeuk1]

Just 'upgraded' to this rom, was on some other custom rom before which was just far too slow, and decided to do a refresh..

First, I setup my SD card (4gb, class 4 I think), 3.2 gb fat32 partition, 256mb ext2 and 32 swap.

Everything installed fine, seemed much quicker from the off. Had the sync on and it started downloading apps, like google sky, bbc, nothing huge, largest probably 5mb and all that I previously had on my phone.

After 2 apps, I get the insufficient space warning. Restarted and still the same. Reformatted phone again, and setup my sd card with 512mb ext2 partition, again made no difference.

Loaded a2sdgui and it reckoned I had a ton of free space on internal memory and sd-ext (86mb and 503mb respectively)
Cache had 1mb free from 20

Ram wise, 3mb free from 107. Swap 29mb free.

I've had a read around, did some su a2sd cached (something like that) restarted but made no difference.

Will be something obvious no doubt, any ideas?

Edited by jaydeeuk1, 13 December 2011 - 09:10 PM.

[jaydeeuk1]

Ok, I solved it!

Apparently quite a common issue, installed something called marketfix

http://www.appbrain....c.erismarketfix

Now works perfectly, phone flying along nicely.

Bit sad I'm trading for an Xperia play for xmas now!

Edited by jaydeeuk1, 13 December 2011 - 09:55 PM.

[twrock]

jaydeeuk1, on 13 December 2011 - 09:54 PM, said:

Ok, I solved it!

Apparently quite a common issue, installed something called marketfix

http://www.appbrain....c.erismarketfix

Now works perfectly, phone flying along nicely.

Bit sad I'm trading for an Xperia play for xmas now!

Interesting. I'd have thought "a2sd cachesd" would have done the trick.
I'll definitely need to have a look at your link. Thanks for the info.

Edit: After looking into it, I don't have any idea why that solved your problem, but I'm happy it did. The basic function of the MarketFix app is to replace the "fingerprint" in your rom with one from the Sholes phone. Since this TXG rom has already replaced that line in build.prop with one from the Nexus phone [edit: what Tom G did originally], I would have thought that particular problem was already solved. But nonetheless, it looks like you've got it working, which is always the goal in the end.

Edited by twrock, 15 December 2011 - 09:01 AM.

[thisweb]

twrock, on 13 December 2011 - 01:12 AM, said:

No problem for me either (other than paid apps, which is a location issue for those of us in Taiwan; stupid Google! )

Did you do a full wipe before installing the rom? Did you update to the official 2010 UK dload as your base for partitioning purposes?

Thanks all for help, Twrock, I have official UK update , and did full wipe data/system (except SD storage) .   I am thinking it might be a location issue.  I am in UK not Taiwan.  I remember reading something about  Fingerprint files  a while ago, anyone know what they are and if I can change them?  It worked fine on the old market app on CM6.1  Is anyone from UK able to verify if this problem occurs?  Really dont want to have to change rom again, this is by far the cleanest/ fastest ROM ive used.

[thisweb]

jaydeeuk1, on 13 December 2011 - 09:54 PM, said:

Ok, I solved it!

Apparently quite a common issue, installed something called marketfix

http://www.appbrain....c.erismarketfix

Now works perfectly, phone flying along nicely.

Bit sad I'm trading for an Xperia play for xmas now!

OK I just get this!!!!  I assume you must have been replying to my earlier post about market not working , I think that's why TWRock got confused.  I just tried this and that fixed it perfectly!!!  Something not right with fingerprint.  Also I am guessing from your name you are from UK which might be why TWrock not seen it?  Thanks both of you anyway. This has made my day!  )

[twrock]

thisweb, on 14 December 2011 - 07:42 PM, said:

Thanks all for help, Twrock, I have official UK update , and did full wipe data/system (except SD storage) .   I am thinking it might be a location issue.  I am in UK not Taiwan.  I remember reading something about  Fingerprint files  a while ago, anyone know what they are and if I can change them?  It worked fine on the old market app on CM6.1  Is anyone from UK able to verify if this problem occurs?  Really dont want to have to change rom again, this is by far the cleanest/ fastest ROM ive used.

For future reference, the "fingerprint" is a line in a file called build.prop. That file contains a lot of settings for our phone. If you open /system/build.prop with a text editor, you will easily find that line.

[twrock]

thisweb, on 14 December 2011 - 08:04 PM, said:

OK I just get this!!!!  I assume you must have been replying to my earlier post about market not working , I think that's why TWRock got confused.  I just tried this and that fixed it perfectly!!!  Something not right with fingerprint.  Also I am guessing from your name you are from UK which might be why TWrock not seen it?  Thanks both of you anyway. This has made my day!  )

I still don't know why you are seeing this. I have not changed the fingerprint from the "Basic CM6.1" rom, so if it was a problem, I'd think it would have shown up a long time ago. But I'm happy it's working for you.

[twics]

Anyone having issue's with wifi? mine seems to be working one minute and not the next eventhough its connected, I have to reboot regula to get it to work.

[Nguyen Huy]

I installed this ROM 30 mins before and got 2 errors:
1. No load image in market
2. Error install some apps from market, and many *.apk files (I think it's not caused by this ROM because I tried other stable ROM but no change ( )

[twrock]

Nguyen Huy, on 15 December 2011 - 07:16 PM, said:

I installed this ROM 30 mins before and got 2 errors:
1. No load image in market
2. Error install some apps from market, and many *.apk files (I think it's not caused by this ROM because I tried other stable ROM but no change ( )

See my signature for a  link to information about rom installation problems. Market problems are common when there are errors in rom installation. (There are other possible reasons, but this is a common reason.)

Also I suggested above to another person's problem with the Market:
1. Update to the 2010 UK official update first.
2. Do a full factory wipe before installing this rom.

[Basher52]

Thanks for your great work with the tmobile pulse, twrock!

This will be the final rom for both my sisters  and fathers pulse, just impressive how long our old buggy pulse was supported by devs like you

[Dante2070]

I noticed several "slow downs" the last few days. Sometimes, it takes quite a while when I access the call or sms app from the lockscreen. Also, after using manage applications, any app or function after that takes significantly longer. I am talking about seconds here, but these are very noticeable and not (less) present in the 2.1 rom.
Is moving the dalvik cache to the sd card benefiting only phone space, or do things run smoother? Should I upgrade to a Class 8 (or higher) card before doing this? I'm still using the card that came with the phone and I was told that it's a bad idea to move the dalvik cache to such a low class card. Is there any truth to that?

[twics]

Iv noticed the slow down aswell backing out of apps like gmail/ market/ browser, ect, I just get a black screen for ages and often the launcher will fc with the option to wait, and I dont know whats going on with my wifi works then it dont work

Not complaining though just informing.
However at times it does seem responsive.

Edited by twics, 16 December 2011 - 06:01 PM.

[twrock]

twics, on 16 December 2011 - 05:06 PM, said:

Iv noticed the slow down aswell backing out of apps like gmail/ market/ browser, ect, I just get a black screen for ages and often the launcher will fc with the option to wait, and I dont know whats going on with my wifi works then it dont work

Not complaining though just informing.
However at times it does seem responsive.

Sorry to hear you (and Dante) are having problems. I didn't experience those, but I only used this rom for a short time. I maybe should run this rom again for a longer time to see I start to experience those problems.

But it would be helpful to know more details about your setup and settings. It's hard to try to be helpful when there is so little information. Particularly consider giving details about the following:

• SD card setup (what Class, partition details, etc.)
• Any setting related to CPU and memory management, particularly anything you have set different than stock (CPU speed and governor settings, swappiness, lowmem settings, JIT, compcache, vm head, etc.)
• Any settings related to Apps2SD (run "a2sd check" and tell us what is "on")
• Any third-party apps you are running that might have anything to do with any of the above.
• Were you running any CM6.1 based rom before, and did you have any of these problem?

Edited by twrock, 17 December 2011 - 02:24 AM.

[D-D-]

Hey twrock, I saw this script and decided to give it a go and it did speeded my phone quite enough. http://forum.xda-dev...ad.php?t=991276
It changes the memory management directly in the android. It tells u which one to apply based on the internal memory.

[Dante2070]

twrock, on 17 December 2011 - 02:23 AM, said:

Sorry to hear you (and Dante) are having problems. I didn't experience those, but I only used this rom for a short time. I maybe should run this rom again for a longer time to see I start to experience those problems.

But it would be helpful to know more details about your setup and settings. It's hard to try to be helpful when there is so little information. Particularly consider giving details about the following:

• SD card setup (what Class, partition details, etc.)
• Any setting related to CPU and memory management, particularly anything you have set different than stock (CPU speed and governor settings, swappiness, lowmem settings, JIT, compcache, vm head, etc.)
• Any settings related to Apps2SD (run "a2sd check" and tell us what is "on")
• Any third-party apps you are running that might have anything to do with any of the above.
• Were you running any CM6.1 based rom before, and did you have any of these problem?

I am using the same partitioning setup you recommended for for this and the 2.1 Rom, with the sdcard that came with the phone. On the card itself, there is no indication what class it is, which probably means it's a class 2 or 4 (just guessing here).
I didn't change any settings after installing the rom. The only app that could be running in background is Opera Mini browser, but I don't believe it does. I did experience the same (similar) problems with Tom G's rom.

[Dante2070]

D-D-, on 17 December 2011 - 02:59 AM, said:

Hey twrock, I saw this script and decided to give it a go and it did speeded my phone quite enough. http://forum.xda-dev...ad.php?t=991276
It changes the memory management directly in the android. It tells u which one to apply based on the internal memory.

I don't really get how to use it. Can I just download the script on my phone and execute it with terminal emulator (with the intended results)?

[hzf]

Excellent work twrock!

Works perfectly on RBM2(U8230)
had to install market fix to have apps2sd working.