Carousel scrolling is laggy. Hopefully they'll fix this and ship it so that we can play with it

edit: ignore me, i was looking at last year's video
see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBPMcswW8LY

This post has been edited by gmhafiz: Feb 25 2011, 02:21 AM

great! Any idea when it'll be available for android?

Flipping pages of 100kb size pdf format is slow using adobe. Ipad is alot smoother although it has half the ram. Is anyone else experiencing the same thing?

Bad news: I accidentally made spb shell my default launcher and it keeps on asking me to activate

Good news: Time to test another rom after long time using insanity!

I never flashed darkyy's before. Always doc's or insanity.

I'd clear default if I could but now I only get a black screen with top notification bar because fallback is spb shell which is not activated. Downloading Simply Galaxy ROM 2.2.1 SweetHoney now.

haha forgot about that. but too late, I have already flashed insanity cwm version that I have in the sdcard by going into recovery mode (always a good thing to leave a cwm one in the sdcard. can avoid odin). Going to transfer the simple galaxy rom now. I'll give feedback after a few days use.

http://www.samsunghub.com/2011/02/26/andro...rmed-for-march/

hopefully we can get leaked firmwares by that time. cyanogenmod team has to work faster!

True, since the bootloader is not locked, it is very hacker friendly unlike other manufacturers.

Quick review of simply galaxy sweet rom (what a mouthful!)
- beautiful honeycomb theme - modified circle battery mod, icon, dialer, among others.
- everything is faster than insanity. Maybe because animations are all off compared to the previous rom and I have avoided installing apps that may slow down the phone.
- idle battery drain is excellent. 5%/9 hours. Will test this again tonight.
- there are few unnecessary apps like quick boot, social hub,memo and others. I think they try to make a complete rom. Certainly not a minimalistic rom like insanity. Of course, can change all this manually.
- finally, spb shell works, insanity 0.5.3 didn't.

So far I'm satisfied and will stay with it for a while. The rom maker seems like a cheerful and friendly person. Recommended.

If from darkyy, the rom maker said better to flash stock firmware first (start fresh and clean, preferably eclair rom jm8 because it has 2e recovery) because darkyy rom is difficult to remove. With 2e recovery, download both 2.2 base and 2.3 update with a reboot in between.

For other rom, just download both cwm zip file and flash from recovery mode, with a boot in between to let it deodexed.

He didn't say other custom rom although theoritically, doc's rom should work too.

After installing 2.2, reboot your phone. Then hold power button for the recovery mode shortcut. In the recovery mode, install the 2.3 update.

The reboot must be done to let the rom deodexed. If you notice, first boot takes a long time. Cannot flash other cwm packages in the same recovery mode instance. This is true for flashing all other rom.

Normal. Linpack, like quadrant is not optimized for hummingbird chip used in galaxy s.

RyanZa is developing realbench but I haven't looked into it for a long time. Can search for it in xda i9000 development forum. Neocore can be used for gpu. But remember that there is a 56fps cap in our galaxy s. Something that many reviewers don't know/forget about it and makes the conclusion that galaxy s' gpu ability is less powerful.

TBH, I don't care about benchmark. What I care is our phone operate smoothly and has excellent battery life contributed by the combination of optimized rom, kernel and theme.

using simple galaxy rom with ext4 lagfix. Fast, smooth and beautiful.


I like the new interface, can show off to iPhone friends. Pretty funtional too although I'd like more customization. But I'd like it to have less ram consumption.

Yes, formatting and defragmenting too many times can shorten the lifetime of your PC hard disk. Flash disk has even shorter lifetime than traditional hard disk. Which is why our pen drive can die quickly. But we need to find out more about the flash disk in our phone.

Try to use a non-wipe rom whenever possible if flashing a same base as there will be less data read/write.

But if internal SD card fails, cannot flash official stock rom to claim warranty.

1. Yup.
2. Same, screen scrolls up and down.

If you look here, our NAND flash is rated at 5k-10k cycles. I have never read anyone scared about flash drive wear and tear among the flasholics. I guess, it's fine.

I read through this thread while googling for the NAND wear level: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=800353
I don't know much about the file systems. What I know is that ext4 has more overhead than ext2. but I remember hardcore said about changes he made in ext4 code that made it to have less read/write than RFS. Less read/write = less wear = longer life.

I'm scared to use ext2 because it doesn't have journaling. But damiangto claims that his kernel users do not encounter any problem with it.

JFS is another interesting file system. nitr8 used it in his earlier rom. I found that JFS was noticeably smoother than ext4, and has less overhead as well. But now he seems contempt with RFS only.

My conclusion. No matter what file system you use, the NAND flash drive should last 2-3 years on normal usage. Now, I am no longer afraid to test new roms

How long did you take to finish all that? Super!

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Added on February 27, 2011, 10:47 pmOn simple galaxy rom 2.2.1: While using ZSJPE modem on edge, I got 5%/4hours. Got a lot less idle battery than when wifi (5%/9hours drain) is switched on. Wifi signal is strong anyway. ZSJPE It is probably slightly better than JPP modem because I got 7%/8hours drain + battery-fu app with it.

All while using speedmod kernel with ext4 lagfix

This post has been edited by gmhafiz: Feb 27 2011, 10:47 PM

how come you don't want to be ts anymore?

I nominate myself to be ts for the next thread

New thread here: http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1771996