...and the phone can multi task. you tell me, when was the last time your RAZR was able to run Garmin in the background while giving you voice directions over stereo bluetooth into your headset, but you have the web open in the foreground and you're looking for some restaraunt, all while the music player is going in the background?
You're absolutely right. One big selling point of the N95 to me was that it could multitask at all. Now that I have a better handle on the limitations, I'll try to work around them. I wasn't the one who mooted me returning the phone.
It's real simple... I have a program written in J2ME, not in Symbian C, that does TCP/IP communications, database, encryption (blowfish and twofish), and so on. I've been running this program on a wide variety of phones for years. It runs fine on the original RAZR V3. It runs very quickly on the V3xx and on the S-E phones I've used it on. Those were all pretty cheap phones compared to the N95-4, so I expected the N95 to run it at least as well as my V3xx.
It doesn't. It runs it much slower. Especially writes; the rest is okay, but because lots of writes are required to configure and get data on, it appeared completely non-functional at first.
This slow performance is with nothing else running. It isn't a multitasking issue.
But some other playing with the phone yesterday has given me another idea. As I mentioned a few posts ago, writing seems to be the problem. I was playing with the video camera yesterday in a bar, and discovered that at the default (High-TV) resolution, the camera cannot record more than two seconds or so without stuttering and pausing. But at lower res it can. However, when I tell it to record to the phone memory rather than the virtual card, it can record high-motion High-TV just fine. So I'm thinking the 8GB virtual card is the dawg here.
Is there an easy way to move an application and its data from card to phone, or do I have to reinstall?
PhoneDiva, my use of "y'all" has not been meant to tar you.; I've been using it to refer to the general mindset of the S60 area. (Of course you do expect to find S60 fans in the S60 forum.) If you're the same Phone Diva I'm thinking of, we've run in the same circles for a long time (me sometimes with other handles) and generally agree.
well there is an issue with the video recording to mass memory where it needs to be formatted to fix this issue. many of the 8GB n95's had this issue out of the box, and the only way to fix it was format the mass memory. then that stutter should go away for you when recording video. not sure why your java app is so slow...
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Java apps are known to be slow on S60 devices, particularly when compared to SE (I haven't heard anything about Motorolas).
As far as the video recording is concerned, that's unacceptable. I've never owned either of the 8gb N95's and I don't prowl their long threads because they have never intrigued me all that much, but the more I read about it, the more I don't want to buy one. FlashLite 3, faster (but lower quality) camera, and larger screen aren't worth it if comes with all those hurdles to overcome out of the box.
I'd sell the N95-4 and grab in N95-3 with an 8gb card if I were you. It might not fix your java issue, but I haven't had to hard reset mine since the last firmware update.
If you want slow try using a WM device for a day and watch that beast hog itself down to no resources and then lag like you never seen before! Nokias a actually very snappy and the N-series are great.
I have the tilt and its always the same speed.... its never hog'd down yet.
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Java apps are known to be slow on S60 devices, particularly when compared to SE (I haven't heard anything about Motorolas).
Ah, so it is a known issue. It would've been nice to know about it earlier. Oh well...
Originally Posted by JonnyBruha
As far as the video recording is concerned, that's unacceptable. ...I'd sell the N95-4 and grab in N95-3 with an 8gb card if I were you.
The recording-stutter isn't a problem for me; we have an actual HD camera, aux lights, wireless mics etc. we use on a very frequent basis. Finding the stutter (and work-around) was useful mostly because it illustrated that there's a general write-speed issue with the 8GB virtual card. Considering how many people griped about the USB speed of the N95-3, my guess is that write speed was terrible too but was generally only noticed when using USB because few people push disk writes from the device the way I am. So I don't expect switching to the -3 would change my results.
BTW, I appreciated your suggestions in the "Which Phone" thread, and obviously followed them. I'm mostly pretty happy with this pup and don't think there's anything better out there. "Almost" perfect is far better than most get these days.
I'm glad to hear you're enjoying it other than this issue.
There would be a couple other advantages to a microSD slot other than the swapping capabilities. Using a memory card reader on your computer rather than the USB cable makes a night and day difference. I don't know for certain, but I believe an 8gb class 4 SanDisk microSD card would perform faster than whatever card is fixed in the 8gb models. For what it's worth, I've never had an issue with recording long video to the 4gb card I'm using. Sure you have your other video equipment, but part of purchasing the phone at the price you did was for all of its features to work properly.
If it's not too much of a hassle, try formatting the fixed memory also, as others have mentioned. I haven't used one, so I don't know if it'll work, but it's worth a shot at this point.
Maybe I'll give that (reformatting) a try later. The hard-reset didn't help. But switching to the internal RAM did.
I couldn't figure out how to just move it, so I uninstalled and reinstalled, and re-imported the data. It's enormously faster. Not quite V3xx J2ME speed, but not even twice as slow, so pretty easy to live with considering I gain multitasking/backgrounding, etc.
Thats good but very strange that you had these problems initially. I'm wondering if the factory firmware for these phones has something wrong with it. Like glitches or something.
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Originally Posted by TechnoCat
PhoneDiva, my use of "y'all" has not been meant to tar you.; I've been using it to refer to the general mindset of the S60 area. (Of course you do expect to find S60 fans in the S60 forum.) If you're the same Phone Diva I'm thinking of, we've run in the same circles for a long time (me sometimes with other handles) and generally agree.
The only other phone forum I'm on regularly is TC. Looking at your list of phones...
Unless you change phones like I do, LOL!
Phone addiction!! Android phones look real sweet right now.
You'd be amazed how fast I change phones usually. I had five active cell phones simultaneously for a while. One dedicated solely to my Sony Clie UX50 PDA and one for Orange in the U.K., three on different carriers here. PM'ing you on more.
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Phone addiction!! Android phones look real sweet right now. 
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