Well, it has some kind of folder thing so one icon accesses several apps plus, you can use the notification bar on the lockscreen if I read that right. Hmmmm.
Widget locker allows you to pull down the notification bar currently, but I have found that the security/privacy conscious part of me does not like that ability. Others may feel differently, but it's definitely a thing that everyone needs to see for themselves. Although, I'd be all for the stock lockscreen if I could put some widgets on it. But looks like I'll be rocking widget locker, still. Hopefully someone makes a translucent theme for the ring locker on widget locker so it matches the rest of the Sense 3.6+ theme.
We have 1 GB ram, the Sensation has 768 MB.
Internal storage is 4 GB, of which 1 GB is available strictly for user-loaded apps.
And HTC has removed the Easter Egg before, we don't have the Gingerbread one.
I really hope that Google widget isn't locked in place like it is on the stock Nexus. We do have a search key and don't really need that at all. OK if some prefer it, but we don't need it.
Exactly but what I'm trying to say is maybe they're slimming the sensations upgrade for exactly that reason.
Mine keeps reading a total of 1176. Last was 508k used 668K free.
EDIT: Not rooted
I don't know about the whole less RAM thing on the Sensation. I think our 'surplus' of RAM is mostly just a selling point. The readouts in Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > Running seems to change as often as the wind. But if you add used + free, it usually ends up at around 750 MB of RAM. If we have (using standard rounding) 1 GB of RAM (which equals 1028 MB), then where is the missing 278 MB of RAM?
I think it's a system partitioned set of RAM that can expand and contract as it needs memory. Or, at least, a hidden set of apps that don't have to report their memory usage. So, using those numbers, I'm estimating that the Evo 3D's system is using anywhere from 250-300 MB of RAM. I can't imagine the Sensation's system RAM usage is much different, if different at all. And it definitely looks like the system RAM pulls priority, so for the sake of making an ICS update, I believe the RAM argument is irrelevant. 768 MB RAM - 300 MB for system purposes (I'll give a worst case estimate of that) = 468 MB of RAM for user space. Which is plenty. I'm only using 150 MB of my RAM. Granted, I'm rooted, zip aligned, and I've frozen the vast majority of Sense and have rebooted a few times, but I doubt even after a normal day with no reboots that I would ever scratch 468. Much less the ~600 MB of RAM I have free, currently.
I've seen similar complaints on our forums.Android Central recently posted a video showcasing a major difference between the EVO 3D and Sensation. They have found that the EVO 3D, which has 99% identical hardware and software to the Sensation, actually runs Sense 3.0 much smoother. Why is that? Well, the only notable difference between the two phones is the amount of RAM; the EVO 3D has 1GB while the Sensation has 768MB. At first I didn’t think much of this difference in RAM, Android does a fantastic job at managing background applications. However, Sense 3.0 eats up nearly all the RAM on the Sensation leaving the user with only ~120MB left to use. There have been times where playing high end games like Dungeon Defender would cause my entire phone to crash due to the RAM being depleted.
I'm assuming you're on the 'Downloaded' tab and the label reads 'Internal storage'? That's the 1 GB internal ROM. I have the same amount (1176). Click on the 'Running' tab to see the numbers I was referring to. It'll be labeled as 'RAM'.
What does Speed Boost do?
Traditional task killers only kill the running apps, which cause them to leave behind garbage data in RAM memory which then has to be cleared by the system, causing stutters and lag.
Speed Boost kills the running apps and then clears the garbage data left behind by the killed apps, which is what you see in the Toast message after the operation is performed.
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anyway - where is it?!?!? What's the freaking date, htc/sprint?!?!?!?!?
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