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Speed Boost for UIQ3 smartphones (or not. ) |
whtvr
Joined: Nov 13, 2006
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Hi,
http://www.uiqblog.com/2008/0[....]eed-boost-for-your-uiq3-phone/
I found it this morning, tested it myself and it doesn't seem to be working but I thought I'll share the news here anyway. Post your experience please.
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pnf1973
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I've installed it. Definitely seems faster to me, apps switch faster, especially messaging. I guess its going to be kinda subjective anyway. |
happykhan
Joined: Sep 03, 2005
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I did as it said and mentioned a small speed up only in contacts |
whtvr
Joined: Nov 13, 2006
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Actually I did some more testing and certain activities in Messaging are a LITTLE bit faster, like creating a new message or opening new received sms from standby (it still flashes inbox before going to the actual message though). Or maybe I'm just seeing it cause everyone else did... placebo (; |
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thatīs why i say to test the contacts and messaging (and also file explorer, walkman 3, etc) BEFORE using the trick - that way you guys can really know if improvements exist
in my case, i can clearly find speed improvements, not in all menu navigation, but in some system apps
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Do you,guys,keep your messaging and contacts apps opened at all times?Because I do since P1i and I have no problem accessing them.They don't work instantly but they are fast enough for me. Te problem before was that I had to close them all te time to ave memory,but not anymore.
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whtvr
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yeah, i've read instructions and did the testing before installing that software (particularly scrolling through almost 300 messages in inbox and around 100 contacts) and didn't see any major improvements - i was just posting my experience |
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P990- no difference for me
Opening apps before UIQ boost:
Messaging- 5 secs
Contacts- 4 secs
Calender- 4 secs
Opening apps after UIQ boost:
Messaging- 5 secs
Contacts- 4 secs
Calender- 4 secs
So does this mean it doesn't work for P990? I rebooted 3 times to be on the safe side, no change
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ares
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it just means it does not work on your phone...not all P990īs
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Mr[NiK]
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its worked on my p990 i dont know what the programs do but opening contacts or messaging is lightening fast now ! no lag at all !!
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Spattinson
Joined: Jan 10, 2007
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Is there any explanation why things may be faster? Does this patch some system libraries with more efficient routines or something?
Why would it work on some P990s and not others?
Does it make any diffrence if you install on card or internal memory?
I might do some tests myself and post back the results here.
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Nyb
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I definitely noticed a speed boost on my m600i after installing those files. |
Nipsen
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On 2008-05-09 17:02:50, Spattinson wrote:
Is there any explanation why things may be faster? Does this patch some system libraries with more efficient routines or something?
Well, it's the pips- libraries (posix for symbian), and a standard io package that uses pips. Both of those were apparently included in the pips sdk.
But whether or not that package was designed to replace all the stdio calls on the phone, or if it had to be tweaked in some way to achieve that, I don't know. I guess someone who have read some pips documentation would know..
If it was fixed to achieve this, then it's the most incredible hack I've seen. If not, it's still nice that someone is working on a few things at Symbian which we can make use of.. I mean - the phone is actually usable now.
Why does it work? I'd like to know for sure too. Maybe it's because the service the pips- pipe replaced wasn't designed very well. That the stdio on the phone expected large file- streams and single transfers at a time. Maybe it would make a program compete with itself when writing to ram and the disk (possible, if it just treated everything as system- bus calls)? Maybe just externalising the file- access would allow programs to move all the way to the next critical point before halting, instead of constantly being interrupted to check the buffer on the incoming file? That it's an exploit of the scheduler on Symbian? Maybe it's just that the programs can open more pipes to the file- system at a time?
Who knows..
Why would it work on some P990s and not others?
It doesn't make programs run faster, it just gives them access to the file- system in a way that seems to be more efficient. So some programs will flow better. Launching programs probably won't be faster at all. But anything that does file- transfers and buffers probably will be.
Does it make any diffrence if you install on card or internal memory?
No one knows - could be you need to install it on the phone- mem, if it wasn't actually designed to overwrite existing components in the first place.
I might do some tests myself and post back the results here.
Do that.
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Joined: Aug 25, 2005
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Just to add my two peneth worth, I agree that the phone is much snappier using this discovery - particularly contacts, but also with messaging - the 'busy' infoprint only flashes twice when I press my 'new SMS' shortcut, whereas before it would flash at least four times. Yay!  |
hgautam
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Just tried it... After the first restart it didn't worked... Then I shutdown my phone and removed and re-inserted the battery (just for the sake of it) and I can say that the speed in the contacts is around 50% faster now... Much better and something that makes my phone's two basic features (contacts and messaging) actually usable... Earlier these were frustrating for me... Thanks all!!!
But even now the speed is not what I prefer, P910 is still faster, UIQ3 still needs a lot of UI optimisation... |
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Posted: 2008-05-09 10:42
