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anyone thinking about going back?

Outlaw71 said:
I'm of the opinion that if trying to decide between having 2.1 and 2.2 running on your Motorola Droid X is the biggest issue in your life right now, you don't have problems. Go spend a year in Afganistan. When you get back, you won't give a damn which OS your phone is running.
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My brother in law just got back from Afganistan and is home for now. He has a Droid X. I seriously doubt he even knows that there's an upgrade.
 
I have a question for everyone about ATK and here is my scenario of when I use it.

I have deleted pretty much everything you can from the phone and have it still be the working phone and all of androids features. Now, I have made an ignore list inside of ATK of programs that are needed to run the phone, aka the auto starting processes.

Now, when I boot up and open up ATK, there will be no programs running that can be killed that shouldn't be being ignored. After I use my phone for a while and I have been texting, browsing the web and market.. all those things are running on my phone.

If I plan on not using anything for a while, would it be a good idea to kill those tasks??

Thoughts....?
 
I don't see any performance boost, the phone functions fine. I'd go back just to have a better looking swype keyboard and to have the swype be as accurate as before. I guess it need's to re learn my typing habits but it has been freaking annoying since the update. Some of the words it chooses makes no sense. I like some of the new features but still don't get why every one was complaining about not having 2.2, sure would like to swype number 2 without it typing 2moro evey f*cking time.
 
eraursls1984 said:
But if I dont kill them then my phone lags and kills what I'm currently working on/using. When I first got my phone it lagged alot, then I read about why to use task killers so I grabbed one and it helped. A few days later I started seeing all the treads talking about how bad they are so I uninstalled my task killer and started having the lagging issues agian. The problem is with auto task killers set to kill everything, or to kill things on a cycle. Task killers should be set to ONLY kill the apps you dont use and only if you know what they are. They shouldn't be put on a cycle, only use them when you start seeing performance issues or before you use a program for lengthy sessions. If I don't kill some of what is eating my memory then I end up losing my webpages, music or whatever I doing at the time.
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That is wild. i dont think my phone has ever made me lose what im doing. i have never seen any prompts for memory issues either. I dont use a Task Killer or even try to shut things down. What kind of lag, now sometimes when i type on the keyboard on the web and in messages it will lag a bit.
 
cbaty08 said:
I have a question for everyone about ATK and here is my scenario of when I use it.

I have deleted pretty much everything you can from the phone and have it still be the working phone and all of androids features. Now, I have made an ignore list inside of ATK of programs that are needed to run the phone, aka the auto starting processes.

Now, when I boot up and open up ATK, there will be no programs running that can be killed that shouldn't be being ignored. After I use my phone for a while and I have been texting, browsing the web and market.. all those things are running on my phone.

If I plan on not using anything for a while, would it be a good idea to kill those tasks??

Thoughts....?
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Theoretically its bad to kill that stuff. The Android OS is supposed to kill what your not using to free space for what you are doing. Unless I have faulty software it doesn't work the way its supposed to. It takes gpu power when you kill stuff to put it back into the memory
 
nynvolt said:
I don't see any performance boost, the phone functions fine. I'd go back just to have a better looking swype keyboard and to have the swype be as accurate as before. I guess it need's to re learn my typing habits but it has been freaking annoying since the update. Some of the words it chooses makes no sense. I like some of the new features but still don't get why every one was complaining about not having 2.2, sure would like to swype number 2 without it typing 2moro evey f*cking time.
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The new keyboard does take some getting used to, but try playing with the settings. After I did this, it is much smoother that Swype #1 and it types much faster now as well.
 
I've had the first leak for a while, reverted, clean start then upgraded OTA 2.2 - about the same, few things have changed - BUT when I reverted back to 2.1 briefly I didn't miss that one bit, and that was even after a factory reset, so choppy, nothing installed so nothing to blame, just out of the box X - thought of rooting for WIFI purposes but honestly I'd rather have a stable phone and verizon support ( at the moment ) -

Long story short - I dug the leak, I'm digging the official - sticking with it until birdman finds a way to to go which ever way we want, then I may root.
 
NoShineMM said:
That is wild. i dont think my phone has ever made me lose what im doing. i have never seen any prompts for memory issues either. I dont use a Task Killer or even try to shut things down. What kind of lag, now sometimes when i type on the keyboard on the web and in messages it will lag a bit.
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The lag I have is when I try to bring the screen back up the lock screen lags and then I can't select anything when I get to the home screen I also have a hard time going from screen to screen. Or ill be browsing and it'll get really slow or close all together. I use to go in to task killer, hit kill selected and have no more lag for a little whil, now I cant.
 
srq2625 said:
Yeah, hated that. How about this (from Swype help):

"To remove a word from the dictioinary, hightlight ONLY the word that you want to delete, and then tap the Swype key. A message screen will display to confirm that you want to delete the word."
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I must be doing it wrong I can't seem to get a delete option, seems pointless to have short cut's to words like tomorrow on swype. I'll figure it out eventually.
 
Ok someone walk me through a factory reset, what exactly do you have to do? Should you remove your SD card while doing it? I'd imagine it takes your phone back to ground zero and you build back up from there right? So I would have to go back and reinstall Launcher Pro Plus, redo my home screens, reload every one of my apps, etc... correct? And does AppBrain save all of your paid apps so that they can be reinstalled as well? I only have 4 or 5 paid apps, still, I would hate to lose them. Oh yeah, and on stuff like Mint and all that, I suppose I'd have to go back and resubmit all of my account numbers and all that stuff eh? Damn, seems like such a lot of work, does it realy help things out? I mean is it really worth going through all of that trouble?
 
yea, its a total pain in the butt, you need to sit there and click "ok" for each app install, and "done" (and with many clicking cancel on the App2SD option) so for us with a lot of apps it takes a lot of time.
Your best option is Titanium, itll restore the settings for any apps that store them, so that should help with some apps.
 
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