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Home App ....Witchcraft or Miracle Worker?

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ejlax

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Nov 25, 2009
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I was reading through some forums for help on speed and battery life on my wife's Eris. I came across a thread that talked about a program called "Home". Apparently it calibrates and 'optimizes' system memory and will give you a much much faster phone. After seeing the marked results with my wife's phone, i downloaded it for my droid. I have no idea what this thing does, but dammit, if my droid isn't even faster.:D:D I was so shocked I called every one of my friends who owns a droid and told them to download it immediately. Unbelievable difference.

Has anyone else tried this app yet, and if so did you experience the same thing? Or am i crazy...

EDIT: Make sure that once the program is downloaded and installed, you open it. You will see a black screen that says optimizing system memory. Then you know it is 'working'.
 
Yeah the description is very off-putting, i mean it could be eating my phone from the inside or sending all of my data to some off-shore server, but i will damned if my phone isn't 100% faster flipping through apps, browser pages, home screen rotation to landscape is smoother, it just is.

I will let you know if I or any of my friends have issues.

EDT: My available memory increased after checking on Advanced Task Killer
 
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Had this app running on my Eris and initially it DID speed things up. Then I noticed it was sucking my battery dry.

Uninstalled and back to normal, with no noticeable slow down.

I'd call it vaporware.

How did you know that this was draining your battery? I just checked the programs that are consuming the battery, and this program isn't even listed. Not saying that it couldn't still be consuming more battery because possibly it may overclock the processor...just a thought
 
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just ran a benchmark test before and after, below are the scores:

Before:
Graphics Score - 16.653042
CPU - 391.22006
Mem - 278.53708
File System - 78.79264

After
Graphics Score - 17.116117
CPU - 410.9955
Mem - 262.33612
File System - 76.21477

The CPU, Graphics definitely increase but the Mem and File System decrease...not sure why or how???
 
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How long are you supposed to let it "optimize device memory"?


Does it do a "defrag" of your memory? If I hit the home button on the phone to get out of the "Optimizing Device Memory" screen, then look at running applications, it's not there.

Is it really doing anything? Does it tell you when it's done optimizing the memory?
 
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Results from "Benchmark".
All tests completed without killing any apps that are run day to day.
No task killer is installed on my phone, nor has one ever been.
The phone was plugged in for the duration of the testing.


Without Home Installed


1st run

Graphic: 16.631996
CPU: 413.53955
Memory: 280.0967
Filesystem:69.26584


2nd run

Graphic: 17.206749
CPU: 411.8707
Memory: 286.3648
Filesystem: 76.47237


3rd run

Graphic: 17.162254
CPU: 413.629
Memory: 295.04022
Filesystem: 71.14381



With Home Installed

1st Run

Graphic: 17.086626
CPU: 415.77475
Memory: 301.92044
Filesystem: 78.79367


2nd Run

Graphic: 17.295588
CPU: 415.4974
Memory: 290.5994
Filesystem: 69.21907



3rd Run

Graphic: 19.824236
CPU: 406.94156
Memory: 305.1012
Filesystem: 70.2082



After Home Has Been Uninstalled


1st Run

Graphic: 17.129614
CPU: 410.05698
Memory: 289.52905
Filesystem: 72.18175


2nd Run

Graphic: 17.133022
CPU: 410.13168
Memory: 288.16446
Filesystem: 69.17706


3rd Run

Graphic: 16.87553
CPU: 413.00464
Memory: 302.66776
Filesystem: 76.41316
 
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honestly it would take quite a large sample of test to determine what if anything this does to speed it up. But to answer the previous question of how long to let it run, i just opened it, then hit my home key and let it do its thing in the backgroud.

I know my phone is faster now, but i even turned it off and tried it again and it still seems faster. Maybe this is only something that you need to do once in a while, just like a defrag...
 
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From reading other threads, I thought it mostly deleted the cache of most of the programs. My only issue, if this is what it is doing, is that then other programs like my browser/FB, will take longer because nothing is saved in it's cache.

Also, I can delete the cache manually on most programs that I don't mind if I get rid of it's cache.

I'm with others though, if it's able to do more that can't be done manually, then it would be great to find out. Also, if I could set it not to delete the cache of some programs, then it would be fantastic!!!
 
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