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Think Your Smartphone is Sluggish, Your Memory Card is The Culprit Source Source Source This was a revelation waiting to happen. After spending thousands behind that latest dual core android beasts, do you still think, it lags in performance. Your Memory Card is to be blamed for that... Reason perhaps Apple Still does not allow Memory Cards in iPhones after all this years!!! As per a recent study, "Revisiting Storage For Smartphones" at the Georgia Institute of Techbology on File and Storage Technologies.. Download Full Study Paper >> http://static.usenix..._papers/Kim.pdf With manufacturers focusing on the speed and number of cores a smartphone’s processor features, megapixel numbers, and network technologies like LTE, the performance of an Android handset should largely be based on its hardware, right? Wrong, according to a new study undertaken by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The type and brand of microSD storage installed in the device could just as well be the culprit. Their study that found that flash storage often accounted for a 100 to 300 percent drop in performance. In one instance the numbers dipped by an astonishing 2,000 percent. The researchers tested top selling 16GB embedded flash memory cards in several Android smartphones and found performance over WiFi varied between 100% to 300% across applications. In one flash memory test, performance dropped more than 20X. Ironically, benchmarking tests showed that some lower grade microSD cards performed better than some higher grade cards. As for naming names, Kim writes that Kingston's microSD card performs so badly that its results need to be removed from test data to get realistic averages. Transcend performs the best for random writes by as much as a factor of 100 compared to the competition. The bottom line is that the brand of microSD card you use in your device does make a difference in how fast it runs. Kim checked the launch time for eight popular apps including Angry Birds, Twitter and YouTube and found that Kingston's microSD cards offered up the slowest times for most of the apps. And for those who complain about how sluggish their Android model is, a change in the microSD card brand you use could make the difference. "A good chunk of time for users is spent waiting for websites to load ... [and for] applications to load," said Hyojun Kim, a Ph.D. student in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. And, while waiting for apps to load is annoying, a more nefarious impact of poor flash performance is that it depletes a smartphone's battery. Kim said wireless network performance has kept pace with most of today's mobile applications, as have the single and dual core CPUs being used in today's sophisticated smartphones. What hasn't kept pace is the bandwidth of NAND flash, he said. "Why would anyone want to see a 20-second wait time on their phone, particularly if the network is not the problem," he said. The research identified the problem with poor flash device performance to be rooted in random I/O from application databases such as heavy random writes. In flash memory, random write performance is orders of magnitude worse than sequential writes, Kim said. The smartphone tests involved the use of applications such as WebBench Browser, Facebook, Android Email. Google Maps, App Install, Pulse News Reader, and RLBench SQLite. The flash cards came from Transcend, RiData, SanDisk, Kingston, Wintec, A-Data, Patriot Memory and PNY. "Apart from the benefits of selecting a good flash card, there are some fundamental ways we're using storage in a bad way," he said, referring to the way many applications are created to write data randomly, which causes flash performance to fall of a cliff.

^^ as other Sellers would agree, it's easy to sell handsets but very difficult to service each sales since most of the Sellers here are not full time mobile Sellers. Everyone has other commitments n sales is just a part of hobby with a bit of earning. I tried selling sub 10k handsets n all of then sold very quickly but after sales was rather difficult as the issues were generic related to reliance, activation, macds, retain, evdo, phone book transfer, wifi, etc which can be googled n solved but as a buyer no one takes this pain n personally i don't like to ignore issues of my buyers how silly they may be, due to my nature.. (no direct offense to anyone here). Hence i reduced my importing frequency as my 1st priority is my main stock Broking business.. So to sum up, RM is totally right that masses should also use high end smart phones on Cdma but then as a seller, i feel it's very difficult to service the sales n bringing 10k range handsets would imply high volume which in turn would require lot of after sales service which is very tedious job, specially if issues are silly as i mentioned above... Getting omh handsets at this price point will reduce lot of after sales issues, at least, activation n evdo related n seller can focus on other things... And i know kapil has been doing really good work n he would surely try to lower the price point.. Getting mint handsets is really a luck game but i always got mint handsets only and always satisfied till now.. I think mods can allow pre booking so kapil can take risk of importing mint / new handsets in bulk. Last, i am thankful to Hetal bhai, Hitesh Hambarde, Parinbhai, this forum n google. Though i mentioned the problems above related to service, even i am one of the person who has learned from above people, even when i had not purchased from them anything. But i make it a point to solve the issues mostly through email or gtalk so they will reply when they have time. I would suggest buyers to do prior research n then buy the handsets so they can solve the issues by themselves. There is lot of 1st hand info available on this forum itself. Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk

Here is the simple guide how to root Motorola Droid 2/Droid 2 global/Droid x/Droid X 2/Droid Pro Download Latest Motorola drivers here. Install the drivers. Download attached zip file and unzip it in any folder. Don't forget to connect your phone with usb debugging on and connect it in PC mode. Click on motorola root tools.exe inside the folder you downloaded. One window will open and now click on root my phone. Your device will be found and from here onwards tool will do everything. You just need to wait and watch. Don't Painic, It will reboot 3 times and don't disconnect the phone until it says your phone is rooted successfully. Though this guide is safe to use but as precautionary warning you have to do it at your own risk. Pm me if you face any difficulty. Press Thanks if it helps MotorolaRootTools_v1.07(1).zip

how to upgrade i-559 to gingerbread?kies is providing option for update but its not working.plz help.

Went to Casio showroom here to have a feel of the watch. This one and the 5013D - http://www.watchkart...7a-watches.html looked good. He was not going below 7K for the price of this one. So ordered on COD. Lets see. well, Sat/Sun I don't have internet access, otherwise I could have immediately posted you this coupen. MKWK77821 (See 2nd row in Page 2) for 300 Rs off. Attached is the list of all coupens, I got while using Mobikwik on line recharge service..Maybe useful to others for other things.. Mobikwik (http://www.mobikwik.com) is an excellent service for prepaid users. As one can recharge mobile phone with any amount / any time just by sending an SMS or making a phone call or by a wap application or by internet. Not only you can recharge your phone, you can recharge other phones as well after registering their number in your account. I have been using it since last 6 months & found they are highly reliable, as history of phone recharge is maintained very accurately. Coupens like attached file are added benefit. I have not used any of these, but seeing the code, I don't think they will be user locked..

I was a bit busy and could not find time to ship the TPU skin to Vishal last few days. Yesterday I shipped it via speed post. Have asked Vishal to recharge my ported in MTS number with an amount of Rs. 25 (the speed post expenditure)