Ways in which to speed up the blade?

[Guest timmothy111]

Just wondering if there are any ways out there to speed up the running of this phone.

I am using a froyo release, alpha 3. Movement between homescreens is jerky, sometimes a lot worse than others,

games start running slowly like angry birds yet from reading on here it should run great with a froy release.

So just wondering if anyone has some helpful hints for speeding up performence.

[Guest rayraven]

Get Launcher Pro from the market to replace the stock launcher.

The Stock launcher is really the only slow thing on Froyo for me.

Angry Birds, can be slow sometimes, on larger levels.

Edited December 17, 2010 by rayraven

[Guest timmothy111]

I have launcher pro, i dont understand what it adds apart from an irritating popup every tome you press the home button, yes i know that can be deactivated but i dont know what the launcher even does or how to use it.

[Guest fryguyse]

I have launcher pro, i dont understand what it adds apart from an irritating popup every tome you press the home button, yes i know that can be deactivated but i dont know what the launcher even does or how to use it.

You can configure it to make it behave like you want, press the menubutton and preferences.

[Guest markusj]

I have launcher pro, i dont understand what it adds apart from an irritating popup every tome you press the home button, yes i know that can be deactivated but i dont know what the launcher even does or how to use it.

Then you should check everything in it's preferences, it has many features.

It stores your homescreens and your app drawer in a cache, so it doesn't have to reload them when you slide them.

[Guest reallordx]

u got a live wallpaper running? these take a lot of performance...

[Guest heavyduty00]

the christmas wallpaper from market is so awesome lol

but it sometimes lags a lot for me

[Guest rayraven]

Did you up the cm heap to 32? That helps immensely!

[Guest heavyduty00]

how do u do that

[Guest jurrasstoil]

how do u do that

VM Heap Tool App

[Guest timmothy111]

how do u do that

mine is aready on 32?

secondly i cant find the launcher pro to even change the settings, i cant find the icon :-( , its there in applications to uninstall but cant find the actual application.

Edited December 17, 2010 by timmothy111

[Guest cartierv]

mine is aready on 32?

secondly i cant find the launcher pro to even change the settings, i cant find the icon :-( , its there in applications to uninstall but cant find the actual application.

If I remember you pick it from homescreen selector, it's not lying around as an 'app' well not at the regular user level.

Launcher pro is just as easy as the others, but it's the only one worth using.

Interesting if Froyo is not that much faster. I thought it was supposed to be ?? I might just wait until there's a working gingerbread before putting a new rom on.

[Guest IronDoc]

mine is aready on 32?

secondly i cant find the launcher pro to even change the settings, i cant find the icon :-( , its there in applications to uninstall but cant find the actual application.

It's a replacement homescreen. not a standalone app. Press the home key and choose LauncherPro (tick set as default to stop this popup). Then click menu. Settings is the standard settings menu and preferences is for LauncherPro's settings.

[Guest cobhc]

I have launcher pro, i dont understand what it adds apart from an irritating popup every tome you press the home button, yes i know that can be deactivated but i dont know what the launcher even does or how to use it.

That "irritating popup" is where you choose LauncherPro lol!

[Guest jennie81]

is it launcher pro crashing that keeps having my back to the homescreen selector page?

happens pretty much everyday.

Could this be launcher pro or another App causing this?

J

[Guest rayraven]

^No, android is asking you which home screen you want to use, since you have more than one installed.

Select the check box that says "use this by default.." and it wont ask you again.

[Guest fLaMePr0oF]

I'm currently using Jap Jelly R3B Rom and can't fault it in any way - rock solid stable and fast. (And it has native wifi hotspot and USB tethering :unsure:)

Installing the 50% AHB overclock mod increases my Quadrant score by around 100 points and ups the Neocore score by 1-2 fps, without any noticeable loss of battery life.

Being a droid n00b I don't know what exactly AHB overclocking is but I'm guessing it's similar to FSB overclocking on a PC? (i.e. increasing a bus speed rather than CPU frequency?)

Anyway, it's reported that straight CPU overclocking can reduce 3D performance but the AHB method improves scores across the board.

I also use the free version of Advanced Task Killer set to kill tasks on screen off at 'crazy' kill level, this keeps memory and CPU resource usage to a minimum, speeds up the handset and increases battery life ;o)

fLaMePr0oF

[Guest Jickelsen]

fLaMePrOoF: Are you sure you want to use a Task Killer, especially in FroYo? I think Watchdog is a much better solution.

[Guest rayraven]

I'm currently using Jap Jelly R3B Rom and can't fault it in any way - rock solid stable and fast. (And it has native wifi hotspot and USB tethering :unsure:)

Installing the 50% AHB overclock mod increases my Quadrant score by around 100 points and ups the Neocore score by 1-2 fps, without any noticeable loss of battery life.

Being a droid n00b I don't know what exactly AHB overclocking is but I'm guessing it's similar to FSB overclocking on a PC? (i.e. increasing a bus speed rather than CPU frequency?)

Anyway, it's reported that straight CPU overclocking can reduce 3D performance but the AHB method improves scores across the board.

I also use the free version of Advanced Task Killer set to kill tasks on screen off at 'crazy' kill level, this keeps memory and CPU resource usage to a minimum, speeds up the handset and increases battery life ;o)

fLaMePr0oF

Since you are a self confessed droid noob, i'll tell you this one time, android does not need task killers.

Sure all your desktop operating systems do, but android doesnt.

The Android system itself watches apps and kills them if it needs more memory.

It also loads apps into memory, if it finds too free memory.

So, by killing a bunch of apps, you are effectively forcing android to restart them again, making it use cpu time.

Android 2.2 pretty much 'killed' all task-killers, they dont work anymore.

Try leaving the app management to android for a couple of days, and see how your battery fares, compared to your style of aggresive task killing.

Btw, welcome to the forums B)

[Guest silverspring]

The Android system itself watches apps and kills them if it needs more memory.

It also loads apps into memory, if it finds too free memory.

Why does it do this? Surely less apps running will conserve battery as less memory is required, so by Android loading apps it's effectively contributing to a faster battery drain?

Edited January 2, 2011 by silverspring

[Guest gusthy]

Why does it do this? Surely less apps running will conserve battery as less memory is required, so by Android loading apps it's effectively contributing to a faster battery drain?

Not really - this phones contain DRAM that has to be refreshed continously, so it doesn't make any difference.

Plus, and it is an important point, if an app has to be started again and again, it requires CPU usage, flash memory usage etc., and these are really battery consuming.

[Guest Jickelsen]

Why does it do this? Surely less apps running will conserve battery as less memory is required, so by Android loading apps it's effectively contributing to a faster battery drain?

Apps have different running modes that are treated differently by the Android system They can effectively lie in the background without using many or any CPU cycles.

However, some apps do misbehave due to bad programming or other issues, and with an app like Watchdog you can get a warning if a background app is consuming too much memory or CPU.

[Guest lixcab]

Get setCPU and change setting to "Performance". This should make the Cpu run at max speed when you're using it. (You can also set minimum CPU speed when Idle to save battery.)

There's a free version here somewhere if you search the forum.

[Guest mouseman99]

Get setCPU and change setting to "Performance". This should make the Cpu run at max speed when you're using it. (You can also set minimum CPU speed when Idle to save battery.)

There's a free version here somewhere if you search the forum.

Would this make much of a difference? I'm sick of playing a game like Angry Birds for example and you can see it struggling to keep up. In many rounds, the game just crashes and dies. I'm on Bladevillan 2.1 rom btw.

Does anybody else have this problem??? The missus loves to get a smirk in when she is playing away on her Iphone. Damn her!

[Guest rayraven]

^Move to froyo, i can play all levels smoothly, just have to wait a few seconds [some time as much as 10-15] for the game to settle, its a physics based game and the system applies gravity at the beginning of the level, incase of complex levels it can make game stutter.

also, it's not just android or blade's fault, the code isnt optimisied, rovio announced they're making a new version with lower end devices in mind.