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scotty85
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Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb event video posted [Watch it at your leisure] | Gadgetell
see if that link works. honeycomb is primarily aimed at tablets... it seems a bit silly to port it to phones. later there will be a new OS,possibly codenamed "ice cream" that combines features of gingerbread and honeycomb into one universam OS that runs on tablets or phones(and is smart enuff to know which one its being run on to optimize it for that). so we can be like apple and have one OS for our phones and tablets
ignore the part where engineering director chris yerga is demonstrating the new online market on an apple laptop
see if that link works. honeycomb is primarily aimed at tablets... it seems a bit silly to port it to phones. later there will be a new OS,possibly codenamed "ice cream" that combines features of gingerbread and honeycomb into one universam OS that runs on tablets or phones(and is smart enuff to know which one its being run on to optimize it for that). so we can be like apple and have one OS for our phones and tablets
ignore the part where engineering director chris yerga is demonstrating the new online market on an apple laptop
scotty85
Extreme Android User
also heres a link to the video of it running on the incredible or the evo,not sure which its pretty dark. i was gonna download it for sh*ts and giggles,but it doesnt look like theres much point yet
http://t3hh4xx0r.com/?p=1353
http://t3hh4xx0r.com/?p=1353
Coming from CELB myself, that's all that I did - data wipe and Dalvik wipe. I think that if you had some apps installed to the SD card in Froyo that you may have an issue, but I had already moved all of my apps back to internal anyway.
Of course I can't answer why, but you should think about flashing the xtrCache2Cache for Froyo, which works perfectly with GSB. Just remember to flash it whenever you update the ROM - so, to update the ROM, wipe Dalvik, flash GSB, flash the gapps, then flash xtrcach2cache. Then restart the phone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=924562
Personally, I think that the Froyo/GSB apps2sd is a little too fragile, so I avoid it myself. I have something like 70 apps on my phone with xtrcache2cache and have a bit more that 60 MB free. I'm thinking that I'll be fine.
I agree that if you start hitting 30 MB free you may want to think about either wiping data caches, remove some apps, or try apps2sd.
But don't worry at all about app installs on xtrcache2cache. It is only the
cache that is moving to the /cache partition, not the apps themselves.
I did a nand backup and flashed 1.6 over 1.5 and seems to be working fine.
Edit: I tried flashing over without reflashing gapps but no go.Also I didn't do a wipe either.
bobcat i had that same prollem. might as well have wiped if we have to flash gapps again and reset everything up
For the last two updates, as I noted above, I wiped Dalvik, flashed the new GSB, flashed gapps, then flashed xtrcache2cache and restarted. I did not have to reset anything up - everything was exactly as it was set up with the previous update. At some point some of the gapps will be ahead of what is in the gapps for gb zip, so you may be going into the market to reflash some of them again.
I recall Workshed saying in the xda thread that this was one of the items that was addressed.
I have not installed it and it seems to be running just fine - no lag, apps stay in background appropriately.
I'm not saying that I recommend these, but this is what I have set:
- CPU is set to 604.8/245. I changed the governor to smartass - I've heard people report weirdness with smartass over ondemand, but I decided to try it, to see if it gives adequate performance but better battery life. I also ticked set on boot.
- compcache I change to 18 MB (listed as the default, but the default was that it was turned off.)
- JIT I turned on. It was off by default, IIRC.
- lock home in memory
Everything else I left unchanged.
I wonder why Workshed disabled it. What does it do anyway? Does anyone have a good explanation?
Why 18 MB, as opposed to some other number?
might as well just make one. I have a tazz nand and GSB. different themes, same difference otherwise. Only difference I could tell is sequence of which they got working first (tazz camera 1rst, gsb wi-fi). shed added the dead call fix but that could be added to any rom. I really didn't expect them to be much different.
scotty85
Extreme Android User
wierd. thats what i did,with the exception of not flashing the gapps. i rebooted and had no market,so i booted to recovery again and flashed the gapps and rebooted. this time it took me to the "touch android to begin" screen.
on my droid i started with the nightlies on version 23(now up to 43
) and i havent flashed gapps since flashing that first one.downloading 1.6 now... im going to try again flashing overtop with no gapps,and if i get somethin wierd im going to restore my backup,then flash overtop with update and gapps. just to see what happens
i havent used any sort of task killer or auto killer with any gingerbread roms on any of my various rooted phones. i put a shortcut to running services on my home screen and i check it now and then... there are consistently only a few things running. they remain smooth and while i cant say that it helps to not be constantly tapping a task killer,running without it certainly hasnt made my phone slower or use more battery.
It compresses the swap files, giving slightly more RAM space (at a price of performance, for the compression/decompression.)
Here's a lot more info: Swap and Compcache - CyanogenMod Wiki
The default is actually off, or zero, but there is a second default of it looks like about 10% of available RAM space, I guess.
Funny, I just checked mine and it says that I have no swap. I must have not set compcache on, or the setting is not working.
Go to Settings>Applications>Storage Use>On SD Card to move them back and forth.
If you want to pick SD by default for newly-installed apps, go to Settings>CyanogenMod settings>Application>Install location.
bobcat i had that same prollem. might as well have wiped if we have to flash gapps again and reset everything up
when i flash the new nightly on my droid i wipe cache and flash overtop without flashing gapps and my phone is still set up the way it was prior. i was hoping it would be the case here too,but guess not.
i just saw that honeycomb was running on the desire z and ports have made it to the evo and incredible. wonder how long till someone attempts that for the lil ol eris
Yea Scotty that's a real pain in the backside if have to keep doing that. I think doogald has an answer for that. I'm on my phone right now until I get home so I have a hard time typing.
scotty85
Extreme Android User
downloading 1.6 now... im going to try again flashing overtop with no gapps,and if i get somethin wierd im going to restore my backup,then flash overtop with update and gapps. just to see what happens
i just backed up,wiped dalvic,and then flashed 1.6 overtop of 1.5,no gapps. same issue as before- no market,and apps that i had placed on my homescreens were pictured by the lil android fellow(instead of their usual icon) and would not launch.
this time instead of booting back and flashing gapps overtop of that,i wiped data and dalvic,and restored the 1.5 backup. booted back to recovery,wiped dalvic,flashed 1.6,flashed gapps. this time everything was as it should be,no re-setup.
the touch android to begin scenario i had the other time must have come from rebooting between flashing the update,and flashing gapps.
for whatever thats worth,anyway
scotty85
Extreme Android User
looks like were fine to flash over the old and not have to reset everything up as long as we flash both the update and gapps. strange how on the droid gapps was only needed once.
Here's the deal: when you flash GSB, the first thing that it does is to clear out the contents of /system in internal storage, and then writes all of the files that go into /system from the .zip file. When you flash the Google apps package, which includes the market, it stores these apps in /system as well.
So, that's the problem - if you wipe out the files in /system, and then don't replace them, you don't have the market. However, it does not touch /data, where you store your third party apps, so those remain if you do not wipe data/factory reset.
That's why you need to flash gapps after you flash GSB, even if you do not wipe data.
So, that's the problem - if you wipe out the files in /system, and then don't replace them, you don't have the market. However, it does not touch /data, where you store your third party apps, so those remain if you do not wipe data/factory reset.
That's why you need to flash gapps after you flash GSB, even if you do not wipe data.
scotty85
Extreme Android User
i guess here is where i was confused... i thot that by flashing overtop we werent clearing the contents out of anything, just adding additional code and/or overwriting some things.
The power off animation stopped working for me even though it's still checked. Any ideas? Rebooting didn't help and neither did unchecking and re-checking the box.
Also, I can't find the setting that keeps the screen from rotating 90* in the other direction. It was there in Froyo but I can't find it in GSB.
Also, I can't find the setting that keeps the screen from rotating 90* in the other direction. It was there in Froyo but I can't find it in GSB.