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Frf91 ota!

No noticeable difference yet. I did think that battery life was poor with earlier 2.2 builds so see how that pans out.

No sign of louder speaker volume that has been reported.

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I got OTA 91 today . I'm in Kuwait I have one of the early TMo no contract .
I manually updateed to FR83 till today when I got update is there notice .
 
to my surprise, I am sitting here at work and my phone has an update waiting notice. I had installed 85 manually last Monday.. so 91 is currently installing.
 
Monsignor said:
FWIW I got my FRF91 update this morning (Dallas, TX) OTA yet previously did my 2.2 manually....
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Same thing for me here in Albuquerque, NM -- manually downloaded all other 2.2 builds, including FRF85B on Wednesday. OTA for FRF91 was waiting when I woke up this morning.
 
I got FRF91 yesterday at around 5pm. T-Mobile Los Angeles. I was quite surprised since I was still running stock 2.1 and it went right to 2.2 FRF91. I haven't noticed anything different in regards to battery life or app organization, but I'll see how it goes over the long weekend.
 
Rusty! said:
You've not installed the wrong zip :) It wouldn't let you do that.

You could try something though, fire up recovery and try the wipe cache option. This seems to have helped a fair few people out with things. While you're in recovery, get FRF91 loaded up as well :D
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I cleared my cache history with an app called HistoryEraser...I'd think that's the same thing as clearing it through Recovery.
 
Nah don't think it's quite the same, it's not for history and that. It's like stored data from all apps I think.
 
Rusty! said:
You've not installed the wrong zip :) It wouldn't let you do that.

You could try something though, fire up recovery and try the wipe cache option. This seems to have helped a fair few people out with things. While you're in recovery, get FRF91 loaded up as well :D
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I just received the OTA for 2.2 build frf91 and am experiencing similar issues as Roze:(. Can you provide directions/link on how to fire up recovery and reinstalling? Thanks. :)
 
Turn the phone off, hold the volume down key and turn it on.

You should be at a white screen with some Androids skateboarding.

Use the volume keys to select the recovery option and use the power button to select it.

Eventually you'll come to a screen with a Droid next to a warning triangle. Hold down the power button and press vol up. Now use the trackball to select wipe cache partition and press it to select.

Now reboot from the same menu and see if it helped.
 
Rusty! said:
Turn the phone off, hold the volume down key and turn it on.

You should be at a white screen with some Androids skateboarding.

Use the volume keys to select the recovery option and use the power button to select it.

Eventually you'll come to a screen with a Droid next to a warning triangle. Hold down the power button and press vol up. Now use the trackball to select wipe cache partition and press it to select.

Now reboot from the same menu and see if it helped.
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Yeah Roze, this is not the same as what you did.

I would definitely try this to see if your issue fixes. :)
 
Rusty! said:
Turn the phone off, hold the volume down key and turn it on.

You should be at a white screen with some Androids skateboarding.

Use the volume keys to select the recovery option and use the power button to select it.

Eventually you'll come to a screen with a Droid next to a warning triangle. Hold down the power button and press vol up. Now use the trackball to select wipe cache partition and press it to select.

Now reboot from the same menu and see if it helped.
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Thanks Rusty! Would I then need to reload frf91, or will it prompt me with another OTA to do that?
 
Has anyone else seen that there is less memory available to the phone since upgrading from 85b to 91? I have Advanced Task Killer installed, and before 85b with multiple apps open (or in the background) it would usually be around 30MB free. After upgrading, even with multiple programs open, the available memory would be over 100MB (similar to my dad's EVO.) Now, after going to 91, it's back to the way it used to be pre-FroYo. Did this new update mess up something, or was the 100MB+ readings from the previous version a fluke to begin with?
 
dvandam said:
Has anyone else seen that there is less memory available to the phone since upgrading from 85b to 91? I have Advanced Task Killer installed, and before 85b with multiple apps open (or in the background) it would usually be around 30MB free. After upgrading, even with multiple programs open, the available memory would be over 100MB (similar to my dad's EVO.) Now, after going to 91, it's back to the way it used to be pre-FroYo. Did this new update mess up something, or was the 100MB+ readings from the previous version a fluke to begin with?
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I have Advanced Task Killer as well and with 18 processes running I have 234MB free.
 
dvandam said:
Has anyone else seen that there is less memory available to the phone since upgrading from 85b to 91? I have Advanced Task Killer installed, and before 85b with multiple apps open (or in the background) it would usually be around 30MB free. After upgrading, even with multiple programs open, the available memory would be over 100MB (similar to my dad's EVO.) Now, after going to 91, it's back to the way it used to be pre-FroYo. Did this new update mess up something, or was the 100MB+ readings from the previous version a fluke to begin with?
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I'm still on 85B and I have 196MB of Memory (even though the amount is the same, this is not Internal Storage). Idle is at 25.79MB...I have a total of 386MB for Memory...so what happened to the rest of my memory MB?
 
Nah don't think it's quite the same, it's not for history and that. It's like stored data from all apps I think.
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So wait, will that wipe all settings of all my apps? I was considering a cache wipe because of some minor stability issues.
Resetting all settings is the main reason I don't want to factory reset (busy/lazy) :p
Edit: also, cache or dalvik cache wipe? I wouldn't know what the dalvik cache would keep stored between phone boots.

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Roze said:
I'm still on 85B and I have 196MB of Memory (even though the amount is the same, this is not Internal Storage). Idle is at 25.79MB...I have a total of 386MB for Memory...so what happened to the rest of my memory MB?
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*looks in my pocket*

Nope, not there... >.>

I would suggest (as stated in another thread) that you upgrade to FRF91, fully boot into FRF91, boot into recovery and clear cache, then boot into FRF91 again.

This is what I do when I update my ROM's to help keep up a clean slate and make sure that nothing is lurking from an old flash.

Does this fix everything? No, not that I can verify, but I have no issues with any of my ROM builds I have flashed. :)

Hope this help! :D
 
Teknologic said:
So wait, will that wipe all settings of all my apps? I was considering a cache wipe because of some minor stability issues.
Resetting all settings is the main reason I don't want to factory reset (busy/lazy) :p

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Cache wipe does NOT wipe any App Data or other data that you can see.

I just clears the temporary memory space that is used by applications (kinda what Cache is supposed to be used for... :) ).

- Cache memory is random access memory (RAM) that a computer microprocessor can access more quickly than it can access regular RAM. As the microprocessor processes data, it looks first in the cache memory and if it finds the data there (from a previous reading of data), it does not have to do the more time-consuming reading of data from larger memory.

Cache memory is sometimes described in levels of closeness and accessibility to the microprocessor. An L1 cache is on the same chip as the microprocessor. (For example, the PowerPC 601 processor has a 32 kilobyte level-1 cache built into its chip.) L2 is usually a separate static RAM (SRAM) chip. The main RAM is usually a dynamic RAM (DRAM) chip.

In addition to cache memory, one can think of RAM itself as a cache of memory for hard disk storage since all of RAM's contents come from the hard disk initially when you turn your computer on and load the operating system (you are loading it into RAM) and later as you start new applications and access new data. RAM can also contain a special area called a disk cache that contains the data most recently read in from the hard disk.
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dvandam said:
Has anyone else seen that there is less memory available to the phone since upgrading from 85b to 91? I have Advanced Task Killer installed, and before 85b with multiple apps open (or in the background) it would usually be around 30MB free. After upgrading, even with multiple programs open, the available memory would be over 100MB (similar to my dad's EVO.) Now, after going to 91, it's back to the way it used to be pre-FroYo. Did this new update mess up something, or was the 100MB+ readings from the previous version a fluke to begin with?
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Must be something with your phone... I'm seeing 243 megs free after having it on for a while.
 
Ok I just rebooted my phone and now it says I have 262 MB free. Maybe the low memory thing was just a 1 time thing because I hadn't rebooted my phone since upgrading to 91.

On a related topic, can someone give more information about wiping the cache partition? What does that actually do, and why would someone want to do it?
 
dvandam said:
Ok I just rebooted my phone and now it says I have 262 MB free. Maybe the low memory thing was just a 1 time thing because I hadn't rebooted my phone since upgrading to 91.

On a related topic, can someone give more information about wiping the cache partition? What does that actually do, and why would someone want to do it?
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Unfortunately app dev's are not perfect, nor are the OS Dev's.

Simply put, when an app is running and it needs to access data, the IS will cache data that is used often to make it faster for the app to get too.

Sometimes, the OS does not clear this and sometimes it becomes fragmented.

Normally, a reboot will clear things up. Not always. Cache is used differently in mobile devices, well, every type of device uses it differently, so sometimes you have to just wipe the cache partition (in the case of N1 and Android there is a separate partition of memory space for cache) and it will all be fresh and new.

Hope this clears some things up. :)
 
Thanks for refreshing that Tald, it's been a while since my computer architecture classes hehe :p

I'm clearing both the regular and the Dalvik cache now, see if that helps a bit with my OS's wonkyness :p
 
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