HTC EVO 4G :: Remaining Amount Of ROM Available?
Jun 30, 2010
So, it definitely blows that this was advertised with 1 gb of ROM, and we only ended up with about 370mb of ROM. But, it is what it is. Now, I know RAM is more important when it comes to making the phone snappy and dealing with all the open apps. But, does it affect the phones performance when the phone gets low on ROM? I'm around 220mb of available ROM, which is still a good amount, but I cant help but check the file size of every app and game i download and cringe if its bigger than average. So, is there a number I should try to stay above? 150mb, 100, 50, or does it really not matter as far as the phone's responsiveness and snappiness is concerned?
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Jul 25, 2010
Doesn't the vibrant have 512M of RAM? Where is all of it going? I am using the ATK (advanced task killer) to keep background tasks at a minimum, but I only see around 100M of available memory. Is this good? It doesn't seem like a lot. Can others post them amount of available memory they have remaining?
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Jan 1, 2010
When I first got my HTC Hero before installing any apps from the Market I checked how much memory I have. 148 mb was available, does this sound about right for you guys?? or is it quite low?
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Feb 9, 2010
Searching old posts reveal that no one knows a way to get the current battery level without using intents. Is this true? There's no method to just return the current battery level?
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May 26, 2010
62 hours and 24% battery still remaining. This is after my initial period of hammering on the phone and back to my normal daily usage pattern which is like a blackberry user (some phone calls in and out, lots of email, at least a few every 30 minutes during the day and early evening). What this means for me as a blackberry user is that I can now confidently switch over from blackberry to the Evo as primary phone and get through a normal day (16 hours) without needing a mid-day charge.
Here are settings from my testing experience that I wish I had known when I first got the EVO at Google I/O:
1. Add to home sense screen:
widget: Power Control Android
widget: settings, 4G
widget: settings: Hotspot
2. Install android market apps (free):
Advanced Task Killer
Spare Parts
K-9 Mail
3. Run Advanced Task Killer (some disagree, do what you want. I'll revisit and retest this when 2.2 gets released by HTC for the EVO. I don't need sprint navigation, sprint tv, etc. to ever be running since I will use google navigation. I haven't had time to do another endurance test without using ATK and I'm not planning to do another endurance test)
Deselect things you actually want to keep running in the background, e.g.:
voice dialer
voice search
google voice
calendar
k-9 mail
gmail
....
Kill selected apps
ATK will put a notification up at each boot and remember your selections so it's easy to re-kill off all the sprint and other apps you don't normally want 'running' in the background.
4. Turn off 4G and hotspot on the main page with widgets installed.
Note: I found I don't need to disable gps or bluetooth since with streamlined apps running nothing is using them unless I want it to and I want my bluetooth to automatically pickup when I get in the car.
5. Turn screen brightness to low or medium using widget icon. this disables auto brightness but the lower screen brightness seems fine for me. When outside in the sun just click it up if needed
6. Settings Wireless and Networks, Wi-Fi Settings, <menu button> Advanced, Wi-Fi sleep policy, Never.
It's a bit counterintuitive, but I've tested it out both ways and confirmed the articles that recommend this. The phone uses dramatically less power in this state as opposed to auto sleeping wi-fi which turns on the 3G radio. Dramatic as in without keeping wi-fi alive overnight my battery went from like 70% to almost nothing during earlier tests.
7. <optional> Run the battery from a full charge to completely drained once. I'm not sure if this had an effect or not, just putting it in because I did it once before this current long runtime since charge to make sure the battery was properly profiled. It's easy to do with 4G on and watching HD youtube videos.
8. K-9 versus gmail client. I'm seeing much more cpu usage from gmail client versus K-9. I have work email on a host service that supports imap idle (rackspace). The imap idle push seems to really save on cpu usage and my work email delivers as fast to the Evo as it does to my blackberry. I like the gmail client for my personal mail but may end up switching my gmail.com to deliver via K-9 instead to really save on battery. Needs more exploring but it appears the gmail client 'push' is not as efficient as the imap idle.
9. Summary, when you want to show off your 4G Youtube HD or use the phone as a mobile hotspot, just click on the 4G and away it goes. But normally keep that radio off since you don't actually need it and it's a huge power drain. With the widget installed this becomes an easy habit.
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Jan 7, 2010
I am able to see how much of my phone is using the battery i.e. display 50%, but I can't find what my total battery remaining is. How do I show that?
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May 8, 2009
Is there any way to detect remaining space on the sdcard through the API? I prefer not to make native or shell calls.
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Jun 28, 2010
I was wondering though how people handle being so close to the limit. My problems seem to come when I update my apps. Despite no reason for space increase when I update them I regularly lose space. Today I update a couple of apps and it pushed me over the limit, so I had to go in a find a few I don't use and remove them. That left me with supposed about 15.5mb left, but now it's gone down to 14.95, despite no apps being added, so I can see a warning coming soon. One thing I have noticed is that for some apps removing them completely, and then added them back again seems to gain you some space.
It unfortunately is just blind luck in finding ones that will happen for, or at least it seems to be so to me. Also very annoying is that the space you clear by deleting apps doesn't seem to correspond with what you get back. I just cleared supposedly 1.5mb of cache from the web browser, yet I only got 500kb of space back? Obviously I've been through all the apps and looked for any that I can clear the cache for. One thing I would like to know is why the low space warning has to come at ~15mb? Seems to be I've always got that space just wasted, which is a pain as there are plenty of 200-300kb apps I could add, using just 5mb of the space.
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Aug 4, 2010
I just got my Droid X and I saw someplace that it is supposed to have 7 home screens, but mine only has 4.. how do I get the other 3?
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Jul 22, 2013
I moved from Shanghai to an apartment building in Chicago. Internet is included in my new building--just need to provide your own router. I have a Netgear N600 router from a few years ago that I plugged in, and everything fired up properly and looked great. But I noticed that my wifi bars remained gray with no Google Services sync. I have a Nexus 7 and a Nexus 4, both rooted and running CM 10.1.2. The only mod I have on either is LTE enabled on the N4.
I did a factory reset and went through the setup wizard again. I also checked for a firmware update, but there wasn't one available. The reset didn't solve the problem. If I flip my WiFi off on the N4, I immediately connect to T-Mobile 4G data, and all of my Google Services sync. When I turn wifi back on, I reconnect to my router, and my Google Services sync stops. I can force a per-app sync by going into Gmail, Google Voice, etc., but there is no background sync.
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Mar 25, 2010
Anyone know of a simple app that you can set your minutes per month allowance, monthly end dates and have the app pop an alert at a predefined # of minutes used. So, I could tell it to alert me when I reach 800 minutes (or when I have 100 remianing)? I use the MyVerizon app, but would like a way to set an alert in case I forget to check and get close to my minutes.
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Sep 24, 2010
I have a long text and I want it to be displayed with a TextView. The text I have is much longer than the available space. However I don't want to use scrolling, but ViewFlipper to flip to the next page. How can I retrieve the lines from the first TextView that are not shown because the view is to short so that I can paste them into the next TextView?
I simply have to use a custom View with a StaticLayout like this:
public ReaderColumView(Context context, Typeface typeface, String cText) { super(context);
Display display = ((WindowManager)
context.getSystemService(Context.WINDOW_SERVICE)).getDefaultDisplay();
dWidth = display.getWidth(); dHeight = display.getHeight();
contentText = cText; tp = new TextPaint();
tp.setTypeface(typeface); tp.setTextSize(25);
tp.setColor(Color.BLACK); tp.setAntiAlias(true);
StaticLayout measureLayout = new StaticLayout(contentText, tp, 440, Alignment.ALIGN_NORMAL, 1, 2, true);
Boolean reachedEndOfScreen = false;
int line = 0; while (!reachedEndOfScreen) {
if (measureLayout.getLineBottom(line) > dHeight-30) { reachedEndOfScreen = true;
fittedText = contentText.substring(0, measureLayout.getLineEnd(line-1));
setLeftoverText(contentText.substring(measureLayout.getLineEnd(line-1)));
} line++;
} } protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) { super.onDraw(canvas);
StaticLayout textLayout = new StaticLayout(fittedText, tp, 440, Alignment.ALIGN_NORMAL, 1, 2, true);
canvas.translate(20,20); textLayout.draw(canvas);
}
Thats not optimized yet but you get the point.
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Jul 10, 2010
how come none of the roms for the droid don't display the battery remaining in 1% increments. I just put a new ron on my girlfriends eris and it has this ability, just wondering why we don't have that, it would be nice.
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Aug 23, 2010
I would say within 5 minutes of taking the phone off of the charger, the battery drops to 90%. I'm running stock software (2.1), ran the *228 option 2, turned off GPS tried anything simple I could find by searching.
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Sep 9, 2010
I have the following layout in my xml file:
<RelativeLayout android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<FrameLayout android:id="@+id/logoLayout"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
-- some images </FrameLayout>
<RelativeLayout android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_below="@+id/logoLayout">
Button 1
Button 2
Button 3
Button 4
</RelativeLayout>
<RelativeLayout android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_margin="5dip"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true">
Button 5
</RelativeLayout>
<RelativeLayout>
Maybe I didn't do it in the best way. What I want: have the Layout that contains the 4 buttons to use the entire space between the top and bottom layout, and I want to have the button equally arranged in the layout. Something like this:
http://img16.imageshack.us/i/androidq.png/
I add the whole layout code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="@drawable/background">
<!--The header of the page-->
<FrameLayout android:id="@+id/logoLayout"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<ImageView android:id="@+id/logoBackground"
android:src="@drawable/logo_background_small"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
<ImageView android:id="@+id/logoImage"
android:src="@drawable/logo_small"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="left"
android:gravity="center"
android:padding="3dip"/>
<TextView android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/tracks"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:gravity="right"
android:textSize="22dip"
android:textColor="#ffffff"
android:padding="3dip">
</TextView>
</FrameLayout>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_below="@+id/logoLayout">
<Button android:id="@+id/btn1"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="250dip"
android:drawableLeft="@drawable/img_small_btn_look_around"
android:background="@drawable/main_long_menu_button"
android:text="@string/btn1"
android:textSize="18dip"
android:textColor="#ffffff"
android:layout_marginTop="20dip"
android:onClick="btnMyTracksOnClick">
</Button> <Button android:id="@+id/btn2"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="250dip"
android:drawableLeft="@drawable/img_small_btn_look_around"
android:background="@drawable/main_long_menu_button"
android:text="@string/btn2"
android:textSize="18dip"
android:textColor="#ffffff"
android:layout_marginTop="20dip"
android:layout_below="@+id/btn1">
</Button>
<Button android:id="@+id/btn3"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="250dip"
android:drawableLeft="@drawable/img_small_btn_look_around"
android:background="@drawable/main_long_menu_button"
android:text="@string/btn3"
android:textSize="18dip"
android:textColor="#ffffff"
android:layout_marginTop="20dip"
android:layout_below="@+id/btn2">
</Button>
<Button android:id="@+id/btn4"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="250dip"
android:drawableLeft="@drawable/img_small_btn_look_around"
android:background="@drawable/main_long_menu_button"
android:text="@string/btn4"
android:textSize="18dip"
android:textColor="#ffffff"
android:layout_marginTop="20dip"
android:layout_below="@+id/bt3">
</Button> </RelativeLayout>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_margin="5dip"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
<Button android:layout_width="90dip"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textSize="20dip"
android:textColor="#ffffff"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:background="@drawable/sett_menu_button"
android:text="@string/back"
android:layout_marginLeft="3dip"/>
</RelativeLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
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Jun 29, 2012
I'm looking for an app that would show the battery life remaining in my notification bar (similar to battery life remaining on mac computers), I've searched and searched and searched and cannot seem to find an app that does so. I have found apps that can tell me the time remaining, just not in the top bar of my phone. I'm running a Galaxy S3 w/ ICS.
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Apr 14, 2010
I have received my i7500 today and flashed Galaxo 1.6.2 right away. I actually thought it would add home screens to the device (read somewhere that it should have 10) but I can only access 3 (the middle one and one to the left/right) after flashing it - and I am sure Galaxo works fine as the phone information confirm that I am on JC6 with Galaxo.
Any idea how I get the remaining home screens to work?
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Apr 14, 2010
I have received my i7500 today and flashed Galaxo 1.6.2 right away. I actually thought it would add home screens to the device (read somewhere that it should have 10) but I can only access 3 (the middle one and one to the left/right) after flashing it - and I am sure Galaxo works fine as the phone information confirm that I am on JC6 with Galaxo.
Any idea how I get the remaining home screens to work?
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Sep 20, 2010
I want to run an countdown time , in which i want to show days,hours,sec and millisecond remaining for a specific date. and will be be keep changing till the end of the specific date.
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Jul 3, 2010
Any word on how the evo is doing as far as number of sales? I haven't heard anything at all. Which is kind of strange usually after the first week or two a number is released.
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May 12, 2010
I have decided to go to a smartphone on 13th June when my present contract expires. My Query is, I am in the U.K. and if I look at contracts for the iphone they normally include unlimited Wifi and 1Gb of wireless data, whereas the Desire seems to come with only 500Mb of wireless.
I would much prefer to get a Desire, but I am concerned that I could be lumbering myself with excess charges if I go over the 500Mb limit.
I have never had a phone with an Internet connection before so I'm sure that there will be a lot of playing going on at least to start with.
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Jun 15, 2010
I noticed that this seems to happen whenever me and the person on the other end try talking at the same time. Its like walkie talkie kinda sound. really frustrating because it happens a lot throughout the call. have you had this problem?
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May 4, 2010
Has anyone experienced this drastic amount of battery use? Im on Villain 5.4 and this is atcually awful.
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Sep 3, 2010
I have been using the Fresh Rom that was built on the sprint release and I never have over 30mb of internal space, this causes my phone to run extremely slow. I barely have any apps on my phone, just dolphin HD, Sirius/Xm, Facebook, Mixzing. What is a solid 2.x Rom with little bugs and the most space. I thought I read somewhere that you should keep over 60mb free.
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Apr 9, 2009
I am trying to place only the exact amount of data into a TextView but I need to know how much it can hold. Is there a way to do this based on it's height, width and the textsize?
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Aug 8, 2010
I was putting files on my SD Card from my computer and I noticed I was using up a lot of space. When it got down to like 3.24 GB remaining, I decided to delete stuff off the card to free up some space. I deleted just about everything, but it is still displaying 3.24 GB as the amount of available space. what is going on here? How do I fix this?
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Aug 2, 2010
I was wondering if the weather app that Moto has built in still uses the same amount of battery/data regardless of whether or not it is on the home screen. I took the widget off the home screen and stopped the weather process and it just comes back anyway. So the weather process is still running in the background. I'd like to use the weather widget, but don't want to deal with battery drain. Bad enough my phone has reset itself twice in the last 24 hours.
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Apr 30, 2010
I totally love this incredible new HTC my only thing is how the heck do you delete a mass amount of E-mails on this thing, does anyone know ?
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Jun 5, 2010
Well this is really a two question thread, I'm new to Android.
1) Which multi-protocol (AIM, Facebook, MSN, etc) client eats the least amount of battery?
I downloaded Meebo and it seems pretty good (heard eBuddy is worse in consumption), I'm wondering if there's anything better.
2) Does GTalk consume the least amount of battery since it's integrated with Android in comparison to third party clients?
As of now I don't have any friends who use GTalk but I'm trying to convince a few to get it.
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Oct 29, 2010
why is it we have 326 random access memorie ram and why cant find full amount on specs?
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