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Galaxy S3 Verizon CDMA Version Working As GSM World Phone! Surprise! Surprise! How to make your Verizon Galaxy S III CDMA a World Phone, ie., GSM Phone? >> http://forum.xda-dev...d.php?t=1809314

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.

Just as an example, devices like this >> http://orders.ebay.i...id=180878952260 There may be other better models/brands.

Ok guys, I'm back with some new tweaks and tricks. As far as I know, people who are using Photon on Reliance might get "MIP Error 67 - Registration Resonse Error" on their photon programmed by Gurus. I've a simple solution for this. How to: TURN AEROPLANE / FLIGHT MODE ON 1. Your phone must be Rooted.(If not Google on How to) 2. Download the attached zip file & extract it. 3. Copy & Paste the libmoto_ril.so (attached) file on Internal Storage 4. Open Root Explorer or any other file explorer you use. 5. Copy the libmoto_ril.so (attached) file.. (Long press on file and select copy) 6. Go to System / Lib and rename the existing libmoto_ril.so to libmoto_ril.so.bak 7. Paste the copied file in/System/Lib and set the permissions rw- r-- r-- 8. Reboot and enjoy TURN AEROPLANE / FLIGHT MODE OFF Now Error GONE... build.prop Edits This will significantly increase battery life by stabilizing data connection. ro.mot.eri.losalert.delay=1000 (or simply play with this value for best results ) Update these lines persist.ril.uart.flowctrl=20 ro.ril.gprsclass=32 I'm stock firmware and using the same settings... Soon you'll see these settings on future ICS/JB builds for photon.. as I'm working with Th3Bill on JB Builds for our beloved Photon 4G.. libmoto_ril.rar

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One more thing. It is aways better to keep the memory card size as low as possible. Higher capacity may lead to sluggishness