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Root Yet another reason we want Froyo on the Galaxy

That is nice to hear, but how much memory will Google Earth eat on our Galaxy that is the question?
 
256 mb ram in this phone wd have made it so much better .......is it by any chance possible to upgrade ram ??
 
for upgrading the RAM (in a sense) you can try enabling SWAP on the phone. Obviously, it will have to be a rooted phone and it's recommended to have a Class 6 or higher microSD card.

-chronodekar
 
Just for the hell of it I went looking for a class 6 sd card. The one website I was on ( it was a very short look ) only had a class 4 and I was surprised at the cost difference between that and a class 2. Is there a particular reason is HAS to be a class 6 ? I only ask because I enable swap with my current memory card. I took it out to look and see what the class was and its not on there ( leading me to believe that it might be class 1 ( if there is such a thing ). Phone appears to be working just find. Swap values are set at the stock values in Galaxo+ settings.
 
weasel said:
Just for the hell of it I went looking for a class 6 sd card. The one website I was on ( it was a very short look ) only had a class 4 and I was surprised at the cost difference between that and a class 2. Is there a particular reason is HAS to be a class 6 ? I only ask because I enable swap with my current memory card. I took it out to look and see what the class was and its not on there ( leading me to believe that it might be class 1 ( if there is such a thing ). Phone appears to be working just find. Swap values are set at the stock values in Galaxo+ settings.
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Well, I don't use swap, but you really should get the fastest one you can afford. It's just like the difference between RAM and a normal hard drive on a computer.

RAM can get speeds of around 1Gb per second, and I'm not even talking about DDR3. You can't use normal memory effectively as RAM, as it's simply not fast enough and wouldn't speed up the system (well, you could, and it would probably speed up the system, but not by much, and only if you really needed more ram).

I never tried though, so I don't know if the difference really is worth it. My guess would be yes though.
 
swaping wd adversely affect on performance , ill be upgrading to Galaxy S very soon ..
if anyone interested in my i7500 personal message me.
 
There is a HUGE difference between the different classes of microSD cards. From the wikipedia page,

Class 2 : 16 Mbits/s
Class 4 : 32 Mbits/s
Class 6 : 48 Mbits/s

The whole point of enabling swap is for increased performance. That performance is obtained by faster read/write operations performed on said swap. If you use a slower than recommended class card, you won't see much of a performance improvement. And you risk slowing down your phone.

Having said that, I found class 6 cards too expensive in my neighborhood and tried swap with a class 2. There's no noticeable degradation in speed of operation, but the phone appears more stable. (without the swap, the camera app just kept crashing on me)

Others on this forum have reported noticeable improvements when using a class 6 (or higher) microSD card - and I believe them.

-chronodekar
 
Now all I need to do is, to search local stores and inform myself about the price range of SD cards and hope it's not really expensive.

P.S.: Also, I'm waiting for the release of GAOSP, to see the perfomance of Froyo on Galaxy
 
Lelouch said:
Now all I need to do is, to search local stores and inform myself about the price range of SD cards and hope it's not really expensive.

P.S.: Also, I'm waiting for the release of GAOSP, to see the perfomance of Froyo on Galaxy
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Why not install the nightly builds? They are very very good as of now. You can always made a nandroid backup of your 1.6 install and revert back.

I did it a few time already.
 
Frojd,

That's an interesting app. First I've heard of it.

However, there's a contradiction here. We're talking about the internal SD card and 2 of our members are reporting different values ?!?! Shouldn't the phone be uniform internally?

Either someone is mis-representing the values or something really odd is going on.

Puzzled,
chronodekar
 
I tested my internal as I don't have any external mounted. ;)

chronodekar said:
Either someone is mis-representing the values or something really odd is going on.
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I think Andronix tested his external. It would be interesting to compare values of the internal card, see if we get the same or if there are differences between devices.
 
Frojd said:
I tested my internal as I don't have any external mounted. ;)



I think Andronix tested his external. It would be interesting to compare values of the internal card, see if we get the same or if there are differences between devices.
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Good question. App doesn't ask you about which sd card it tests. I think it defaults to external card. I have sandisk 8gb class4.
 
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