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Old April 17th, 2010, 09:52 AM   #158 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by scottmbolt View Post
The answers to that question is no, it doesn't.
This is because it isn't really changing anything since the slot cycle is network, not handset, controlled. But I don't know how many times I have to repeat myself. Here is a quote from someone at XDA:

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I believe I read somewhere that changing the slot cycle index on the phone itself will not actually change anything, except that it may drain your battery faster. As I understand it, the tower's setting for that attribute will override end-user devices' settings.

FWIW, I changed it on my Hero, and it made exactly zero difference in the ring delay (timed in seconds). If you watch a timestamped kernel debug log when a call comes in, you can see that it simply takes the phone a long time to get its sh*t together and start ringing. This is common across HTC phones. Piss-poor design for a phone if you ask me.
The problem is the phone has to check in with the network, then it has to wake itself up when it realizes a call is coming in, then it has to play your ringer. This take some time, and it takes even longer on smart phones that have a number of processes running.
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