Cool. Can you put 700+ photos on there and then demonstrate for us. That would be very helpful. I'm going to transfer the photos to the class 2 that came with the Droid and see if there is a difference.
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Cool. Can you put 700+ photos on there and then demonstrate for us. That would be very helpful. I'm going to transfer the photos to the class 2 that came with the Droid and see if there is a difference.
CatsTide
Android Expert
onr thing that you did a little wrong that made the operation seem bad was when you paused on a pic...you don't have to tap the top to bring up the arrows again.you can just tap the side again to bring up the arrows. i do wish it had swipe instead of the arrows.
Gunner
Android Enthusiast
Don't know what to say other than nothing in this world is perfect...nothing. Not people, nor the products they produce. The more you roll w/ that reality, the happier you'll be. I readily agree the Droid has flaws, issues, annoyances. But it is still by far the best phone I've ever used. Is something better going to come out? Of course. Probably next year even. Will it be pefect? No, it will not. I guarantee you.
Not that your post is invalid, its just not qualified. It may have helped if you first shown what else was running on the Droid before posting any performance based results. Also keep in mind that the SD card given with the phone is a large slow Class 2 microSD. I'm sure performance would improve with a class 4 or 6, just like an upgrade on the iPhone's microSD.
As i thought I said in the video and have posted it was a off of my Sandisk 16GB class 6 card and I even did a full error and bad sector scan just to make sure there were no faults.
It shouldn't matter what was running on the droid because android is multitasking, right? So to get good gallery performance i should say hold on I'll show you the pic after I put in my class 6 card reboot the phone open a task manager, kill running apps and then browse th my pic using a kludgy interface?
I am going to test just the pics on the class 2 card because I suspect maybe performance is hit because i have 12 gigs of videos, photos and files on the class 6 card. Although that would still be bush because then you'd need to disclaim the fact that as your 16GB of storage fills up your speed drops wayyy down. where that doesnt occur on the ipod that i have been able to tell...
BottledHate
Android Enthusiast
photos on my itouch are optimized by itunes before being put on....
photos on my droid scrolls fast too, accept the large 5mp photos, and backgrounds that don't scroll fast.
i wonder if someone optimized a few thousand pics just for the screens resolution, the results might be different.
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for all i know itunes creates a small thumb image at the same time as optimizing the pic.... droid renders the icons/thumbs on the fly.
photos on my droid scrolls fast too, accept the large 5mp photos, and backgrounds that don't scroll fast.
i wonder if someone optimized a few thousand pics just for the screens resolution, the results might be different.
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for all i know itunes creates a small thumb image at the same time as optimizing the pic.... droid renders the icons/thumbs on the fly.
I wouldn't know if you said it on the vid...wasn't listening, and didn't see anything to that effect. No you shouldn't have to stop and switch, cards, a faster card should already be in there. As far as multitasking, we don't know what possible buggy app you've installed and possibly jacking up your phone. This forum is full of varying reports of lagg, or absence of, along with reasons for it.
But for someone so obviously into photography, and clearly knowlegable to an advanced state, why would you use a cell phone as such an important/primary photo device?
Really... are you asking me this quesion for real....Because i dont lug around by backs and lenses all the time for personal stuff. that's for uncle charlie who has nothing beter to shoot with his Digital rebel...Which is why I have a Lumix LX3 for most of my personal stull, its an awesome compact and what i actually use to shoot even most of my family video stuff even though i have Several Sony Z7U cams. But I find myself in PLENTY of situations where having a half decent cameraphone gets me great images. My last trip to the keys i didn't even bother bringing my LX3 to the beach I just took shots with the HTC Hero and processed them in cam with CameraZoomFX app and I loved them. When the kids are doing somehing cut it is nice to whip out the phone and get a decent video, not say... Hold on while I grab the cam and you do that again.... If I was going to take holiday card pics or 8x10 ports yeah i would have shot with my DSLR...
Its not all photos taken with the cameraphone. It is photos constantly synched to my pics and docs on the raid for instant acess and archive at all times.
Why not do that? If my raid goes down in a catastrophe then i actually have all of my family photos saved with me at all times as well as all of my thousands of personal and business documents in PDF. Why not if you have the storage space and if the ipod can instantly browse them, why can't the droid since it is advertised to beat that kind of device.
Are you telling me it is not advertised to beat that device? Are you telling me I shouldn't exect it to have that capability? I did the same thing on my Touch Pro... Should the Droid not do that?
BottledHate
Android Enthusiast
maybe instant access and reference?
my itouch (1st gen) doesn't retain the full resolution of the photo synced through itunes... does your iphone? have you tried manually puling the photos off the phone and seeing what quality you are left with? .....is that really backing them up if they aren't original quality?
You check include full resolution photos.
Hee is a good engadget tut on retrieving data and see the manually retriving photos near the bottom.
BottledHate
Android Enthusiast
good to know
might find some use for that old thing(itouch)... i have way too many photos that could use another backup source!I don't know...I didn't design the phone, nor develop the marketing strategy. Again, I also don't know what else you've done with your phone to make it laggy. As stated, the screen res is higher on DROID than iPhone. If your requirement to have access to 6000+ photos "instantly accessible", as part of a redundant backup, and the Droid isn't doing it, move on. Try the Nokia n900. I've seen it handle 27 apps running simultaneously and it has 1GB of RAM. It also has a 5Mp Carl Zeiss FWIW.
If the photo and video features aren't up to snuff, try a 3rd party. iphone is all about "there's an app for that", why not the DROID. Sorry its not working and I can't be a help. My DROIDS went back a week ago.
Also, can you even change the SD card in an iPhone?
Just as i suspected. When I moved the 700 pics to the class 2 card that te Droid came with the thumbnails were instant. But when i moved all the data to the class 2 card which was 12 GB of the 16GB Then it was WAAAYYY worse. Where with 12GB on the class 6 card even though the thumbs were white when scrolling once I stopped you could see them populate the screen very fast. On the class 2 once they stopped you had to wait for about 5 secs or so then they would start filling up.
So unfortunately it looks like the Droid has 16GB of storage but if you start filling it up your performance takes a HUGE hit.
So unfortunately it looks like the Droid has 16GB of storage but if you start filling it up your performance takes a HUGE hit.
Why would you need to with 32GC full performance beats the SD sotrage because it lags the phone more as you fill it up. I have a class 6 and it lags like as in the video. use the affordable class 2 and it is at least 5 times worse.
iboombastic
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yeah they need to fix the multimedia apps, which maybe they will for the android 2.5 update.
I think if you do another test with just pics what you'll find is that it's the videos you have on there that is slowing things down. I just did a test a little while ago, exported roughly 5000 pics to .jpgs as I shoot in raw, and copied them to the phone. I could scroll through them as fast as I could swipe the screen forward an back with no lag/white boxes.. I tossed in about 12-15 videos after that and then I noticed some slowing but not like what you had in your video.
If there was a way to exclude videos from appearing when showing all photos I don't think there would be any issue at all.
yes you can exclude videos or pics you dont want to show up in the gallery by just using a file browser and browse to that folder then put a period before the folder name and then it wont be seen by the gallery.
But that shouldnt matter. The software should be engineered to cache the thumbnails so there is little to no lag. The Ipod prob has 30 videos or more on ther.
I am posting another video with my findings and applying to the eris with other feedback i have been trying to illustrate.
How full is your card?
Mine is at about 12GB with documents, music and such that are hidden from the gallery. i dont have many videos displaying in the gallery
Just click your name and read your replies to others then you'll know the true definition of Douche. Now go back to the NAMBLA forums where you can contribute your personal experience instead of weak one word or one line replies without substance that you leave on this forum.