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Quick version for those who don't know yet: Google maps / Google maps navigation does all of its routing calculations on Google's servers. No signal and no WiFi? You're hosed. That's why some people buy standalone GPS route navigation apps.
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Are there any IM clients that sync complete logs between PC and devices? I'm not paying Trillian three dollars a month forever to store less than a hundred megabytes of text. Just needs to support AIM and preferably multiple SNs, but that's not a complete dealbreaker. Also, the app doesn't need to be free, so long as the initial cost is reasonable.
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Mar 31, 2013 23:54
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^^^ Try Imo.im. rolleyes posted:Quick version for those who don't know yet: Google maps / Google maps navigation does all of its routing calculations on Google's servers. No signal and no WiFi? You're hosed. Ah I get it now. He mentioned Google maps/navigation and I didn't even notice that navigation wasn't working when I was traveling because I actually prefer using Google maps with GPS to navigate over the actual Google navigation app. It just makes it easier for me to zoom in and out and see the map without the blue line. The Gadfly fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Apr 1, 2013 |
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Apr 1, 2013 00:16
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The Gadfly posted:Ah I get it now. He mentioned Google maps/navigation and I didn't even notice that navigation wasn't working when I was traveling because I actually prefer using Google maps with GPS to navigate over the actual Google navigation app. It just makes it easier for me to zoom in and out and see the map without the blue line. If someone made a lab for Google Maps that changed it so the blue line only appeared for X (configurable) seconds after a screen touch, Navigation would be a lot more useful.
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Apr 1, 2013 02:27
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What's the best way to track down a memory leak? Something seems to be hogging my ram. I've resorted to rebooting my phone every 5 or so hours, since that will clear it up for a while.
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Apr 1, 2013 05:54
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XIII posted:What's the best way to track down a memory leak? Something seems to be hogging my ram. I've resorted to rebooting my phone every 5 or so hours, since that will clear it up for a while.
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Apr 1, 2013 06:18
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LastInLine posted:Most of your RAM is supposed to be in use, it will be freed up as needed (this isn't Windows). If you need to track what's running though the best way is using Better Battery Stats (free on xda) but again just because something is using RAM doesn't mean the phone will be unresponsive. It is your wakelock situation that causes problems and that app shows what's holding those wakelocks. I don't think even Windows has acted like that since Vista.
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Apr 1, 2013 06:57
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:I don't think even Windows has acted like that since Vista. Windows hasn't acted like that since XP, actually.
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Apr 1, 2013 07:01
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:I don't think even Windows has acted like that since Vista. The point remains the same regardless of operating system: the computer is smarter than you, let it do the scheduling. Of course you only need to say this to Windows users because they're the only people who have been trained to attempt to manage their system's memory.
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Apr 1, 2013 07:23
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Related to the media streaming posts a couple of pages back, the YATSE remote for xbmc recently had an update that includes streaming to the device, including resume from where you left off. Its paid version only, and I'm still on the free app so I'm yet to try it. But i will upgrade to give it a go at some point.
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Apr 1, 2013 11:24
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LastInLine posted:This is true, the Windows scheduler is much improved in Vista and beyond. Of course in Vista, Microsoft did the same thing Android does and reported prefetched and cached items in the System Manager and users pitched a poo poo fit because they'd been trained by two decades of manually managing their RAM. So Vista got the reputation for being a memory hog and Windows 7 does exactly the same things in exactly the same way except now they don't report prefetching and cache in the System Manager and now the reputation is how great Windows 7 is with memory management. Unless you're one of those idiots who thinks they know computers but don't quite, and think Windows 7 'burns through memory faster' or some dumb poo poo about it ruining RAM in laymans terms. Yes, it's someone I work with.
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Apr 1, 2013 14:04
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I know the ram is supposed to be used. I'm not none of those people that freak out when they don't have 100 free megs or anything. I've just very recently started getting home screen redraws dawn near constantly, but only after my phone has been running more than a few hours. I don't have any new apps installed. This didn't start until updating to 4.2.2. I'm also seeing a poo poo ton of wake locks from Maps, despite being on 4.2.2, which I thought fixed it. Edit: is BBS any better/worse than GSam? I used BBS for a while, but switched because I liked the layout of GSam XIII fucked around with this message at 14:24 on Apr 1, 2013 |
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Apr 1, 2013 14:16
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big mean giraffe posted:Unless you're one of those idiots who thinks they know computers but don't quite, and think Windows 7 'burns through memory faster' or some dumb poo poo about it ruining RAM in laymans terms. Yes, it's someone I work with. I just don't even... but that's... what?  Does RAM (as opposed to Flash) even have an upper limit on read/write cycles?
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I think part of it was that Vista exposed a lot of bad RAM that people had been running for a long time. Since XP didn't prefetch and all that stuff that Vista and 7 do, if RAM wasn't actively being used, it wasn't being used at all. Enter superfetch, which dumps a bunch of stuff to RAM instead of idling it and *boom* a bad stick that's been sitting there unused for a couple of years suddenly turns up bad. Hence "Vista sucks! It ruined my RAM!"
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XIII posted:I know the ram is supposed to be used. I'm not none of those people that freak out when they don't have 100 free megs or anything. I've just very recently started getting home screen redraws dawn near constantly, but only after my phone has been running more than a few hours. I don't have any new apps installed. This didn't start until updating to 4.2.2. I'm also seeing a poo poo ton of wake locks from Maps, despite being on 4.2.2, which I thought fixed it. The problems you describe happen to me after every single loving OTA update. Doing a reset fixes it for me.
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Apr 1, 2013 18:37
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Badly Jester posted:The problems you describe happen to me after every single loving OTA update. Doing a reset fixes it for me. I've reset twice already. But, the first I went back to a nandroid for a few files, then nandroid'd back and the second time I restored an app backup that I made from the first time. Maybe a third time, done properly, will fix it.
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Apr 1, 2013 20:40
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rolleyes posted:I just don't even... but that's... what? Being volatile, I don't think so. I mean, stuff like the C64 and BBC Micro etc, wouldn't probably still be working if that was the case.
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Apr 1, 2013 23:23
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rolleyes posted:Does RAM (as opposed to Flash) even have an upper limit on read/write cycles? Also, most people haven't had their C64s powered on and doing computation for the past thirty years, so there's not a whole lot that can be derived from the fact that they still work, aside from the fact that they haven't suffered material instability (aside from the bromated platic in the cases). There is other 80s hardware that has been in service for nearly thirty years though. Mechanical parts (drives, fans) usually have to replaced here and there, but solid state components work fine (except RTCs with integrated batteries, grr).
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Apr 2, 2013 00:29
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Bromated plastic and leaky capacitors, anyway.
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Apr 2, 2013 00:34
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ExcessBLarg! posted:Like any other computer hardware, RAM can go bad over time, stuck bits and such. But no, it's not like flash which has such a low erase cycle lifetime that the devices are specifically engineered to maximize longevity. Yeah plus a lot of those computers have in fact broken over the years, and gone off to the landfill. Sure there's 2 million Commodore 64s still working or whatever, but there's 15 million others that aren't.
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Apr 2, 2013 00:40
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Whoah, Pandora finally has lock screen controls, only 16 months after lock screen controls became part of the API.
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Can anyone recommend me a good app that can locate your phone? I want something I can totally rely on.
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Apr 2, 2013 04:14
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Glasgow Kiss posted:Can anyone recommend me a good app that can locate your phone? I want something I can totally rely on. Cerberus. Well worth the money.
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Glasgow Kiss posted:Can anyone recommend me a good app that can locate your phone? I want something I can totally rely on. It's almost scary what you can do with it. It tracked my phone's location down to the house I was in. You can uninterruptable messages to the phone, lock the phone with a PIN (and even take pictures and forward them to your email if they get the password wrong), and do all sorts of things. It's incredibly useful and potentially terrifying to a thief if they didn't know you can make your phone read out messages you send remotely. e: Forgot to mention you can remotely wipe it if you think a guy is trying to get sensitive information on it.
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Is there an e-reader app that isn't complete laggy garbage? My mom found her ridiculous collection of ebooks and I've been downloading a bunch of readers and none of them perform well. It's honestly a blast from the past because I forgot what a full second of input lag was like, but waiting for pages to turn is ridiculous.
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Alidko always worked pretty well for me. I haven't used it for quite some time, so it might have turned to butt though.
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I've been using Aldiko for the past month or so. There's a paid and lite version of the app, and the lite version had everything I wanted. Bookmarks, find/search function, text size. It's worked perfectly and there's a bit of page lag, about half a second. It's never really bothered me though. It at least feels quicker than the handheld readers.
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Avocados posted:I've been using Aldiko for the past month or so. There's a paid and lite version of the app, and the lite version had everything I wanted. Bookmarks, find/search function, text size. It's worked perfectly and there's a bit of page lag, about half a second. It's never really bothered me though. It at least feels quicker than the handheld readers. I've used readers without that lag though. I can't remember what it was called. On a much shittier phone, too. And the half second is much more like a full second and a gigantic annoyance
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What apps do people recommend to see what's keeping my phone awake? It went through a round of Play Store updates the other day and now it periodically gets insanely hot and drains the battery because something's preventing it from sleeping.
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Apr 2, 2013 09:17
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rolleyes posted:What apps do people recommend to see what's keeping my phone awake? It went through a round of Play Store updates the other day and now it periodically gets insanely hot and drains the battery because something's preventing it from sleeping. LastInLine posted:Most of your RAM is supposed to be in use, it will be freed up as needed (this isn't Windows). If you need to track what's running though the best way is using Better Battery Stats (free on xda) but again just because something is using RAM doesn't mean the phone will be unresponsive. It is your wakelock situation that causes problems and that app shows what's holding those wakelocks.
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That'll teach me to skim the thread!  Cheers.
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nigga crab pollock posted:Is there an e-reader app that isn't complete laggy garbage? If her eBook collection is ePubs, the Nook app can load them. Just put them in /Nook/My Documents.
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re: memory usage Not long ago, I had a problem on my Galaxy Nexus with apps being forced out of memory every time I switched out of them to something else. Like if I switched from Chrome to Talk to answer a message and then back to Chrome, it would completely reload. This would happen every time. The cause was Zooper widget (a make your own widget toolkit kind of app). It was using hundreds of MB of ram. I am not sure why it was staying in memory and forcing other apps out, but it was kind of a pain in the rear end. Once I uninstalled it, everything worked like it should.
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So annoyingly by the time I managed to install Better Battery Stats and figure out how to use it, the problem seemed to have gone away. However, in the history I do see a huge partial wakelock for AlarmManager. Anyone have any ideas what could have caused that? I appreciate this isn't really the thread for this question but I'm not sure where else to ask.
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Lowen SoDium posted:re: memory usage
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I use Moon+Reader Pro for my eBook reading. It seems pretty snappy here and supports pretty much every format out there, though admittedly I'm running an SGS2 most phones should easily out-spec that nowadays. My library is also massive, about 500 odd eBooks on here at the moment and it doesn't show any signs of slowing down.
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ZombyWoof posted:I use Moon+Reader Pro for my eBook reading. It seems pretty snappy here and supports pretty much every format out there, though admittedly I'm running an SGS2 most phones should easily out-spec that nowadays. It's snappy on an ancient HTC Desire too. It also has a nice dictionary integration feature which I like.
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nigga crab pollock posted:Is there an e-reader app that isn't complete laggy garbage? I use fbreader. It's fast, lots of options, reads just about every format, reads from custom opds online catalogs (I set up one on Dropbox to share my books between my many devices), and best of all its totally free and uncrippled; no money, no "pro" version.
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LastInLine posted:That's strange. I have two Zooper widgets on my Galaxy Nexus and the app is using 18MB of RAM. What were the widgets displaying? I remember that I had 3 widgets configured. A large full screen sized on to display on my lock screen that displayed a lot of info like calendars, signal strength, battery life, clock, weather, etc. And 2 more medium sized ones on my home screens that displayed some of the same info. I really don't remember what all I had the configured to display.
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poo poo, I hope it's not Zooper. I really like my custom made clock widget.  I'll back the widget up and uninstall it to see if that helps. Anyone have any good alternatives to Zooper? UCCW?
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