A Google Phone

2010-05-27 21:08:53

#1

Naturn: Deeds, not words.; +311|6813|Greenwood, IN

Hi,

I was wondering if any of you have a phone with Android? I've had an HTC Hero(Sprint) since Christmas and love it! However with the Android OS becoming beefy with a lot of features my phone with the newest official update for it has become a bit slow. So if any of you have one I would like to hear any tips if at all possible.

Thanks.

2010-05-27 22:28:53

#2

Benzin: Member; +576|6206

Clean up the useless applications on your phone and make sure you use a task management application to free up memory if you get a lot of programs clogging up the OS. TasKiller is the application that most people use and the one that I would recommend you look into.

2010-05-27 22:29:56

#3

TheDonkey: Eat my bearrrrrrrrrrr, Tonighttt; +163|5925|Vancouver, BC, Canada

The newest-newest update that came out a couple days ago (Which so far I think has only been released for the Nexus phone) claims to be better optimized so it might speed things up a bit, if/when it becomes available for your handset.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/ente … rate-of-i/
^^ Article I read yesterday talking a bit about your situation, new OS updates are coming out so fucking fast that 6 month old phones are already lagging and struggling to keep up.

2010-05-28 00:14:38

#4

Naturn: Deeds, not words.; +311|6813|Greenwood, IN

Yea I have 2.1 that came out for my phone last week. I only have a few apps installed including Taskiller. But, its still slow. I'm wondering if 2.2 will be worked out for my phone.

2010-05-28 03:38:52

#5

jsnipy: ...; +3,276|6730|...

CapnNismo wrote:
Clean up the useless applications on your phone and make sure you use a task management application to free up memory if you get a lot of programs clogging up the OS. TasKiller is the application that most people use and the one that I would recommend you look into.

True for winmo phones, but quite opposite actually for Android. Android does a great job managing memory (hint: does not work the same way windows does)

Have a droid an love it. Responsive, attractive, easy to develop for

2010-05-28 16:28:40

#6

Naturn: Deeds, not words.; +311|6813|Greenwood, IN

Is there like an official thread somewhere on these forums for Android phones? Maybe a list of apps? If not does someone want to put together a list of good apps?

2010-05-28 16:45:50

#7

Microwave: _; +515|6863|Loughborough Uni / Leeds, UK

If you find a thread (I couldn't) I'll make a list of apps.

If there isn't one, we need an official Android thread made nowww!

2010-05-28 16:49:28

#8

Morpheus: This shit still going?; +508|6207|The Mitten

original Android (T-Mobil G1) here.

Love it.

EE (hats

2010-05-28 16:57:22

#9

King_County_Downy: shitfaced; +2,791|6805|Seattle

Microwave wrote:
If you find a thread (I couldn't) I'll make a list of apps.

If there isn't one, we need an official Android thread made nowww!

I nominate you to make that thread

Sober enough to know what I'm doing, drunk enough to really enjoy doing it

2010-05-28 16:59:41

#10

Microwave: _; +515|6863|Loughborough Uni / Leeds, UK

King_County_Downy wrote:
Microwave wrote:
If you find a thread (I couldn't) I'll make a list of apps.

If there isn't one, we need an official Android thread made nowww!
I nominate you to make that thread

On it boss!

2010-05-28 17:42:38

#11

Naturn: Deeds, not words.; +311|6813|Greenwood, IN

Very nice!

I'm a nightly reader so an ereader is a must for me. I use FBReader with .epub file format. I list the apps I have installed but, I only have a few because of the 2.1 update. I plan on flash the 2.2 once someone comes out with one for HTC Hero(Sprint).

Apps:
FBReader
Daily Sudoku
ASTRO File Manager
Speed Test
Taskiller

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