Samsung Galaxy i5700 'Portal'

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Skyfall said:
Has anyone else noticed something strange about their Portal's touch screen?

If I hold the phone in my hand it works perfectly, but if I rest it on some surfaces, I.E. the sofa I can no longer drag or swipe it registers the swipe as a touch and usually starts up what ever is under the start of the swipe. Clicks become unreliable too.

Seems a little weird to me, works if I put i on my leg or arm but not on the floor etc.

Anyone know a reason for this?

Sidenote: 2.1 makes this phone so much nicer and a much better bargain.
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Yup I have noticed that too, it is quite annoying isn't it :p.

Have you tried your 3d games then, like your favourite one labyrinth, notice a big improvement at all?

EDIT: Could some one link me to the gallery3d.apk download please, tried looking for it but the only ones that I can find is for android 1.5 or 1.6 on the spica not 2.1, plus any links which I did find they were all broken.

Thanks
 
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The touch screen does seem a bit weird if it's not on a solid surface :( I just tought that was how it was meant to be :confused:

I got a new case today :) seems ok so far but will see in time I guess.
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Only cost £2 so not too bothered if I don't use it.

Seems to fit quite well and will at least protect the back and the sides.
I don't think the back cover is very solid :( but that seems the norm for most new phones :(

edit: Has anyone else tried the ARM11 Optimized Calculator, JIT v8.7 & OpenGL v1.4 ? :) seems pretty cool, linpack went from 3MFLOPS to 8MFLOPS
 
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I was looking at flashing the optimized calculator but from what I understand it only really improves actual calculations rather than real world OS operations.

Edit: Just installed the non JIT version, my MFLOPS doubled and maybe gained a slight improvement in a few of the more laggy games but not really seeing much improvement overall, it's all pretty marginal.

Further edit: Just tried speedx which works great now, was a bit choppy before the update, and lol benchmarkpi is now faster than stock xperia. Also trying a few other games and they're running a bit faster too. I guess it's worth the update, just don't forget to fix the calculator app as it fcs unless you run another update.

Nexus18 said:
Have you tried your 3d games then, like your favourite one labyrinth, notice a big improvement at all?
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3D seems a little better and the games that were a bit slow before in 2D have sped up to a better level, there are also a few games that work properly now that had a bunch of glitches before, labyrinth now works a lot better, it's still not perfect like the G1 but it's now playable :)

Nexus18 said:
EDIT: Could some one link me to the gallery3d.apk download please, tried looking for it but the only ones that I can find is for android 1.5 or 1.6 on the spica not 2.1, plus any links which I did find they were all broken.
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Errrmm... I have it installed but I can't find the apk lol

Another edit: http://forum.samdroid.net/threads/1049-gallery.apk-no-bug.?highlight=gallery
 
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Skyfall said:
3D seems a little better and the games that were a bit slow before in 2D have sped up to a better level, there are also a few games that work properly now that had a bunch of glitches before, labyrinth now works a lot better, it's still not perfect like the G1 but it's now playable :)
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That's good :). I found that when I had the sounds and especially the vibrations on for labyrinth, the game didn't seem any where as smooth as what it was with them turned off.

Skyfall said:
Errrmm... I have it installed but I can't find the apk lol

Another edit: http://forum.samdroid.net/threads/1049-gallery.apk-no-bug.?highlight=gallery
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Lol. Ok thanks very much, got it installed and working :D, when I first installed it, there were quite a lot of glitches, taking forever to load and most images weren't loading but a restart fixed all of those problems, looks great, nice features and it runs pretty smooth and is pretty quick considering all the rotation stuff etc. :D.

Thanks again :D.
 
Nexus18 said:
That's good :). I found that when I had the sounds and especially the vibrations on for labyrinth, the game didn't seem any where as smooth as what it was with them turned off.
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Yea it was really weird, it did seem like the vibrations were messing up the game and for me on 1.5 and it was unplayable, but now especially after I flashed the new kernel it's almost perfect.
 
Oh man, my love for this phone grows every day, I just got the wifi tethering working, I don't think there is anything I can't do now :D

2.1 runs a dream and those Samdroid people have really made this a great little phone.

If you're looking for a cheap android phone then you can't go wrong with the portal, as long as it has 2.1.
 
No-one filled up their /data partition yet?

filled mine other night and have now released a mod to relocate dalvik-cache to the /cache partition on the phone freeing up 45mb of app storage :D
also means you don't need to mess around with slow apps2sd
 
Skyfall said:
What is this data partition you speak of? Do we lose anything by moving the dalvik cache?
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You don't lose anything.

It seems that the i5700 is partitioned a bit wierd.

you have 512mb divided:

/dev 82mb
/system 200mb
/data 150mb
/cache 80mb

dalvik was taking up 45mb on my phone and the cache partition was near empty (/cache only gets used every now and again by processes & OTA updates)

before moving
Code: 
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs                    82624        12     82612   0% /dev
tmpfs                     4096         0      4096   0% /sqlite_stmt_journals
/dev/stl6               200996    133660     67336  66% /system
/dev/stl5               150644    150184       460 100% /data
/dev/stl7                80576      4180     76396   5% /cache
/dev/stl10                7729       776      6953  10% /efs
/dev/bml8                 4096      4096         0 100% /xbin
after moving
Code: 
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs                    82624        12     82612   0% /dev
tmpfs                     4096         0      4096   0% /sqlite_stmt_journals
/dev/stl6               200996    133668     67328  67% /system
/dev/stl5               150644    105580     45064  70% /data
/dev/stl7                80576     41962     38614  52% /cache
/dev/stl10                7729       776      6953  10% /efs
/dev/bml8                 4096      4096         0 100% /xbin
/dev/stl7                80576     41962     38614  52% /data/dalvik-cache
Also in comparison the htc desire only has a 40mb /cache partition
 
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hmm just looking into the problem and I think some of the memory usage stems from using JIT
There are dumps made by the debugger on crashes. These just seem to mount up and use up memory.
Code: 
65.7M   /data/tombstones

checkout my thread on the development section of samdroid for more info

my phone atm (after using my new script)
Code: 
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs                    80.7M     12.0K     80.7M   0% /dev
tmpfs                     4.0M         0      4.0M   0% /sqlite_stmt_journals
/dev/stl6               196.3M    130.5M     65.8M  67% /system
/dev/stl5               147.1M     52.8M     94.3M  36% /data
/dev/stl7                78.7M     41.9M     36.8M  53% /cache
/dev/stl10                7.5M    776.0K      6.8M  10% /efs
/dev/bml8                 4.0M      4.0M         0 100% /xbin
/dev/stl7                78.7M     41.9M     36.8M  53% /data/dalvik-cache
 
Just done the update, thanks for the free space, might move some of my stuff to data later.
 
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Skyfall said:
I guess that's with JIT? Might have to give JIT a try, just keep hearing that it's unstable.
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The only thing I had problems with before was tapatalk but as soon as I upgraded to JIT 8.11 it seemed fine.
I then uninstalled it as I realised it was a waste of time tho :)

Not had any problems since :)

Currently using the ARM11 JIT v8.12 & ARM11 OpenGL v1.4

Only just put the new kernel on so not sure about it being stable but so far it seems ok.
 
Some good news :), although I am not getting my hopes up yet until it has been 100% confirmed by samsung that the I5700 is getting 2.2:

"From the SamsungFirmwares web forum admins twitter feed:
Question: @SamsungFirmware Any updates on the i5700/2.2 issue? Did you have that phone call with the Samsung Devs?
Response: I got a great mail back from a person of samsung. He told me that they are busy with updates 2.1 and 2.2

Question: Busy with updates *other* than the i5700, or on 2.2 for the i5700 too?
Response: Android 2.1 and 2.2 they checking better fw version for 2.1 and testing 2.2.

From Facebook:
Great news: Samsung is busy with new updates for the Samsung Spica. 2.1 and 2.2."
 
Nexus18 said:
Some good news :), although I am not getting my hopes up yet until it has been 100% confirmed by samsung that the I5700 is getting 2.2:

"From the SamsungFirmwares web forum admins twitter feed:
Question: @SamsungFirmware Any updates on the i5700/2.2 issue? Did you have that phone call with the Samsung Devs?
Response: I got a great mail back from a person of samsung. He told me that they are busy with updates 2.1 and 2.2

Question: Busy with updates *other* than the i5700, or on 2.2 for the i5700 too?
Response: Android 2.1 and 2.2 they checking better fw version for 2.1 and testing 2.2.

From Facebook:
Great news: Samsung is busy with new updates for the Samsung Spica. 2.1 and 2.2."
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Cool :)
will be amazing!! :D

altho maybe t-mobile will roll out 2.1 when 2.2 is released? :rolleyes:

the speed increase should be excellent for such a cheap handset aswell :D 800mhz on froyo w00p
 
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