Comments on: Ask Dr. Root: Themed App Upgrade Problems, Home Screen Re-Draws

By: Xgrinder911

Xgrinder911 — Fri, 27 May 2011 00:50:00 +0000

Does this work on the DROID x2?

By: RoadsterHD1

RoadsterHD1 — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 06:13:17 +0000

Does this have to be done everytime you reboot?

By: RoadsterHD1

RoadsterHD1 — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 06:12:15 +0000

Does this have to be done everytime you reboot?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 18:37:00 +0000

That is an excellent explanation, Thanks for that…. I’ve did it and so far so good. Unless I get down to about 11% memory and then my phone slows to a crawl and sliding from screen to screen becomes laggy. Then I kill apps or allow “memory booster to re cooperate memory” then it runn good again. How can we make OS more efficient in using memory? How can we make it kill apps after exiting them?

By: Samsonite801

Samsonite801 — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:55:00 +0000

The ‘Keep in Memory’ option in the launcher has very little control since the launcher runs in a sandboxed environment and has very little ability to tell the memory manager what it ‘is going to do’ (not to mention for security reasons too). The ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=1 toggle requires root too install and the command is run as root in the system, and it tells the memory manager to lock the launcher into memory whereas the ‘Keep in Memory’ toggle in the launcher settings is more of a request to the OS to ‘pretty-please keep me in your memory if you could please’ kind of thing.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 06:26:00 +0000

i have a question about changing the font on my ROM. im running sapphire 1.1.1 and i want to change the font. now some ROMs come with extra option to change these right within the ROM. but this ROM does not have that option. do you know of a way i can easily change the font on this ROM? thanks

By: eclsnowman

eclsnowman — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:24:50 +0000

if root.
1.) install titanium backup
2.) de-install youtube via titanium backup
3.) reboot (you MUST DO THIS)
4.) install youtube via market
5.) profit

By: HELP ME

HELP ME — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:54:41 +0000

I tried to get the new youtube but it wont install. so i did the steps and it still wont install what can i do to fix this?

By: Archlyte

Archlyte — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:31:13 +0000

Im not rooted and on both my D1 and my current D2 i have this problem. It's the SD card for the not-rooted crowd. Once the folder named Apps gets filled (partitioned only to 256mb) the “installation unsuccessful” starts happening. The only way i can get my apps to download/update is to remove the SD, do the download, then put it back in and its fine. this to this day i have to do this.

By: Judysigalsss

Judysigalsss — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:01:43 +0000

did some one knows a company called perfecto mobile(http://www.perfectomobile.com)

i want to test my app on real devices, and i herd that they offering that kind of service.

thanks
judy

By: Pl_tice

Pl_tice — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:03:03 +0000

I am still not able to update Google maps anyone have any other tips to try?

By: Oogalic

Oogalic — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 10:20:39 +0000

Can you do a video on this? I wanna do this but I'm scared of messing up. (Redraws)

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 09:51:32 +0000

oops actually it should go

SU
cd /data
rm loca.pr
LS -L
and the file was gone...
if your file is not 18 or less when you directory it (LS -L) then there is more in there than just this, unless of course you echoed more into it by doing it several times.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 09:47:45 +0000

ok I have a OG droid. I have LP pro 5 screens 4 of which are completely full of apps and widgets (vlingo widget, jorte, i picture and power controls widget which i have on 4 of 5 screens with resizing most of the widgets to shrink them so i can have more on the screen. so for me, when i did this "fix" i started having the apps i was in killed, for instance in the browser when i had more than one window it would exit to the launcher, when i was searching in maps using swype i was able to type in ghost moun and it bounched back the to launcher, when i used the physical keyboard it would allow ghost mountain mesa, a and kill back to launcher. so i decided to edit this out of the local.prop file but astro can't see it as it is owned by ROOT so back to terminal

su
cd /data
ls -l
and there it is local.prop so i tried ed, vi, vim, pico and none of them are recognized as commands... arghhhh
so
mv local.prop loca.pr
reboot

phone is back to life again wahoo. check the file size of loca.pr and it is 18 bytes which coincidentally was "ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=1 "
so back into terminal
su
rm loca.pr

and it is all gone and i am back to 20-30 seconds to refresh my screens when coming out of the browser or angry birds but at least the browser is not being term'd by the OS in favor of the launcher any more...

By: Stephen D

Stephen D — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 05:46:26 +0000

Redraws are one of the things that pushed me away from my Droid. I did that trick and so many things, and it always had horrible redraw issues. An extra 100mb of RAM would make a world of a difference with the OG Droid. It's still my favorite phone I've ever owned though.