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amawanqa
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Taken from GSMArena:
'Google's Android platform turns 3, Gingerbread due on 11 November
The Android platform was born on this day three years ago, on 5 November 2007, and the first device based on the platform was introduced nearly one year later, on 22 October when the T-Mobile G1 saw daylight for the first time.
However, the story began back in 2005 when Google acquired the Android Inc. Then, it was only a matter of time for the Android platform to show up. Now, a few years later, this is one of the fastest developing operating systems.
The Android OS hasn't stop improving since Day One. Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo… Those are all sweets but at the same time these are the names of the numerous Android updates released over the years. And rumor is the next one, Android 2.3 a.k.a. Gingerbread, is about to be launched in a week, on 11 November.
As for the applications compatible with the Android platform, currently, there are more than 100 000 apps over at the Android Market and their number is continuing growing and growing.
Currently, we have 141 Android handset in our database and those are not all phones available worldwide as as we don't list all CDMA handsets.'
[ This Message was edited by: amawanqa on 2010-11-06 09:58 ] He who laughs last... thinks slowest.
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Hobbs
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Yeah Wangs.Android is exploding.Gingerbread unfortunitely (I could be wrong) needs 512MB of RAM (think this X10 only has 384MB) so the chances of us getting that on our X10's are slim.But like I said,I could be wrong.
Im pretty pleased with my Eclair 2.1 on the X10.The boys at XDA seem to be slooowly progressing on working on cracking the X10's bootloader and hopefully once they've done it Tsepz and I can progress onto Fro-yo before SE comes to the party.
Froyo for us X10 users is the big one.I don't think we are looking beyond that.
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Radio Time.Great app.You can choose local stations.Was quite suprised it even picked up Cape Talk.lol
Yeah I'm getting old lol
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I just used Barnacle Wifi Tether on the X10 with my little Acer Aspire and it is lightning fast.Very impressed with it.
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I'll give both those a try Hobbs, thanks a lot.
Have you tried LauncherPro? Ive dumped ADW Launcher for it, its a bit more customizable but also a lot better performance wise than ADW, it doesnt seem to be clashing with anything.
I hope we do get Froyo, Rikard at the SE Product Blog did say the 2.1x update for the UXP UI may also be a OS update to 2.2, we'll have to wait and see, 2.1.has brought out alot in the X10 but Froyo with its JIT Compiler is what will completely unleash it, this phone still has alot in it, i did the Quadrant benchmark now on 2.1 and got 550, it's higher than the NexusOne and Desire on 2.1, clearly SE's engineers know how to get the best out the Snapdragon CPU.
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Rob123
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On 2010-11-08 20:12:58, Tsepz_GP wrote:
I hope we do get Froyo, Rikard at the SE Product Blog did say the 2.1x update for the UXP UI may also be a OS update to 2.2, we'll have to wait and see, 2.1.has brought out alot in the X10 but Froyo with its JIT Compiler is what will completely unleash it, this phone still has alot in it, i did the Quadrant benchmark now on 2.1 and got 550, it's higher than the NexusOne and Desire on 2.1, clearly SE's engineers know how to get the best out the Snapdragon CPU.
You can add JIT to your X10 right now! I managed to go from 549 to 700+ in Quadrant ......
BUT......
I have noticed that where I used to lose 0-1% battery overnight in Airplane mode, I now lose 22% overnight.
I have switched it off for now but would like to see it fixed so that we can use it again.
See these links for more, guys:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833324
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=829660
See my comments at : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=829660&page=46
and at : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=829660&page=42
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Thanks Rob.Will check out those links.That battery drain seems pretty excessive though.Doesn't seem worth it.22% drain in Airplane Mode.Ouch! Something wrong there me thinks.
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Thanks Rob.Will check out those links.That battery drain seems pretty excessive though.Doesn't seem worth it.22% drain in Airplane Mode.Ouch! Something wrong there me thinks.
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I have made some tweaks to the JIT scripts and am giving it another go. I will let you know my findings in the morning.... |
Tsepz_GP
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Thats great news Rob, sucks it gobbles battery though, im sure the phone gets super warm to? The X10 and it seems most other Snapdragon droids tend to get realy warm at times.
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I lost exactly 22% in Airplane mode again so I am going to reflash and try again. Will try Nordic instead of Global this time just for a change......
It really only seems to be Airplane mode related as far as I can see. I will see if anyone else has picked this up too. Let me know if you read anything about it. Thanks. |
Rob123
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Has anyone updated with the local version of 2.1 (without going to Nordic or Global) yet? Is it out yet?
I see that version 3 of the optimiser is on its way so I will give that a go and let you know how it goes. |
Hobbs
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Nah Rob.I went Nordic and then updated.
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Tsepz_GP
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Nordic here to. Strange it loses so much batt in Offline, maybe its apps that want to access the net and keep sending the request over and over again to connect?
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I found the problem : Location: -Use Wireless Network.
If this is checked then the battery will drain fast (but maybe only in Airplane mode - can't tell...)
I will stick with JIT until we can get Froyo on our handsets, and it is stable.
I see that there is already a video of 2.2 running on an X10, so I think we are close to custom rom time!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEZQjKLOhUk
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=835308
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