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2016-06-28
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Originally Posted by aegis
The point I was arguing was your claim that the Android method saves battery. I wasn't arguing on the usefulness of saving state.
It is true.
Android first saves state IN RAM. IE. It just leaves an instance of the running app IN RAM. If it then runs out of RAM, it offloads that instance to storage.
Yes, it may use more instructions to restore state than to restore a swapped out process but you are getting the inbuilt protection of not having an app lose all its transient unsaved data.
Anyway, nobody wants their device to be continuously swapping. Nobody would argue that they'd rather have swapping for performance reasons.
The Android method has its advantages, I don't dispute that. Regardless of whether the OS is Maemo or Android, when the system runs low on memory, the OOM has to do something and that normally involves copy operations to non-volatile storage. On Maemo or any other regular Linux, there will not be continuous swapping if there is plenty of memory available so I don't really understand your subsequent argument either.
There's a lot of misconception here about Android multitasking. One problem people here have with Android multitasking is that the if an app is not active, it will be sent a SIGSTOP signal unless the app developer has explicitly told it not to. I think that is perfectly reasonable behaviour when you consider Android's target audience. You wouldn't want a misbehaving app to drain the battery.
I just want a device that behaves like a computer. I'm perfectly capable of identifying a misbehaving process and dealing with it.
When I see that modern Android devices have the "feature" displayed in the image below, it tells me that there is something very wrong with the design of the operating system. Then I look at the uptime on my 256MB N900 and I'm reminded that no Android device would ever replace it.
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DebiaN900 - Native Debian on the N900. Deprecated in favour of Maemo Leste.
Maemo Leste for N950 and N9 (currently broken).
Devuan for N950 and N9.
Mobile devices with mainline Linux support - Help needed with documentation.
"Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." - Henry Spencer
Maemo Leste for N950 and N9 (currently broken).
Devuan for N950 and N9.
Mobile devices with mainline Linux support - Help needed with documentation.
"Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." - Henry Spencer
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2016-07-01
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Originally Posted by aegis
The point is, as long as there's no a single, accepted, definition of what multitasking means, we will be comparing apples to oranges.
That's a ridiculous analogy. You may as well claim that because Maemo has a terminal built in, it's closer to MS-DOS.
Microsoft said Windows 3.1 did multitasling (cooperative). IBM said no, and argued OS/2 did multitasking (pre-emptive). Microsoft then said NT did real multitasking (independent input queues).
In my "book" multitasking also implies that tasks are not frozen randomly. They may be killed (OOM) but not just frozen around without me knowing or noticing it.
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Like wicket says above: "I just want a device that behaves like a computer."
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In Android the only way to have a task continuously running is by having a persistent notification (AFAIK, maybe there are other ways). This is hacky, unreliable, and just plain wrong (again, in my book).
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2016-07-01
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#44
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check this out
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/...freeform-mode/
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/...freeform-mode/
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research complete.
sorry for my bad english
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2016-07-01
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Long and short of it. If I start up an app, I want to be the one in charge of exiting it or keeping it in background. Not android.
Last edited by mscion; 2016-07-01 at 16:53.
Last edited by mscion; 2016-07-01 at 16:53.
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2016-07-01
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Originally Posted by hardy_magnus
Heh, "freedom mode", funny they named it that since Google is all the time locking down Android more and more...
check this out
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/...freeform-mode/
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2016-07-02
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Android - well i used android for downloads long time back (kitkat) and used apps
for Regular Download - Android Download Manager
for Jdownloader type Downloads - Share Downloader
for Torrents - A-torrent Pro
while Browsing and "None of them Ever Quit"
although i feel there are always some hidden apps that steal your internet-bandwidth(data) in Android.
For Navigation in Android(root) - you can always change the button(bottom three or any other) configration to whatever with Xposed tweak "Gravitybox"
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iOs - Right Now i am Using iPhone which is Jailbroken , then applied a Cydia Tweak called Multiplexor>>Aura. Aura lets any app run in background for infinity. and there is no internet-bandwidth(data) theft in ios(mostly)
so ios+Aura=super strong multitasking
Why download from Mobile Device - well its Really Good to save your Electric Bills
P.s - do you know most of iOs jailbroken tweaks are .Deb files. so i feel its definitely possible for Debian Apps to get installed in iOs, just imagine Easy Debian Ported to ios.
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for Regular Download - Android Download Manager
for Jdownloader type Downloads - Share Downloader
for Torrents - A-torrent Pro
while Browsing and "None of them Ever Quit"
although i feel there are always some hidden apps that steal your internet-bandwidth(data) in Android.
For Navigation in Android(root) - you can always change the button(bottom three or any other) configration to whatever with Xposed tweak "Gravitybox"
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iOs - Right Now i am Using iPhone which is Jailbroken , then applied a Cydia Tweak called Multiplexor>>Aura. Aura lets any app run in background for infinity. and there is no internet-bandwidth(data) theft in ios(mostly)
so ios+Aura=super strong multitasking
Why download from Mobile Device - well its Really Good to save your Electric Bills
P.s - do you know most of iOs jailbroken tweaks are .Deb files. so i feel its definitely possible for Debian Apps to get installed in iOs, just imagine Easy Debian Ported to ios.
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[Transform] Easy Debian LXDE to Window Xp, Win7, Win98 Desktop
[Transform] N900 Nitdroid to Cute "iPad Micro-Tablet"
[Transform] N900 Nitdroid to Awesome "HONEYCOMB MICRO-TABLET"
[SOLVED]- N900 Nitdroid WiFi Hotspot(Ad-Hoc WiFi Tether)
[SOLVED]- WiFi[Ad-Hoc] Internet Tethering problem
[INSTALL] Oprea Mobile to PC
LXDE simplified , TMO [Night-Mode]
Be the change you want to see in the World - Mahatma Gandhi
[Transform] Easy Debian LXDE to Window Xp, Win7, Win98 Desktop
[Transform] N900 Nitdroid to Cute "iPad Micro-Tablet"
[Transform] N900 Nitdroid to Awesome "HONEYCOMB MICRO-TABLET"
[SOLVED]- N900 Nitdroid WiFi Hotspot(Ad-Hoc WiFi Tether)
[SOLVED]- WiFi[Ad-Hoc] Internet Tethering problem
[INSTALL] Oprea Mobile to PC
LXDE simplified , TMO [Night-Mode]
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2016-07-02
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Originally Posted by imaginaryenemy
Just wondering, what's even worse to you?
I am NOT an Android "fan", but how it handles multitasking really isn't the issue that the "facts" point it to be. There are plenty of other MUCH better reasons to hate Android...
Power management sucks (but Jolla uses Android drivers, Ubuntu uses Android drivers, unavoidable)
Privacy - you could get Replicant.
Java - yep, that's some reason, but can survive with decent spec.
Lack of decent glibc - this is really irritating to a power user, but can chroot (read: workaround avaialable)
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2016-07-05
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Originally Posted by marmistrz
You know, everything Google. Even though you can block some of Google's peering eyes and wandering fingers, they still sink their teeth into just about everything you do.
Just wondering, what's even worse to you?
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2016-07-06
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Neither do I like the way Android is one big Google-playground.
But you can after all use Replicant. I know it's not so fully up-to-date. Or use some Android without Google services.
This is something that could be possibly alleviated by the community (but, let's be frank, won't)
The multitasking is a (bad) design decision
But you can after all use Replicant. I know it's not so fully up-to-date. Or use some Android without Google services.
This is something that could be possibly alleviated by the community (but, let's be frank, won't)
The multitasking is a (bad) design decision
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If it doesn't do anything, the OS will still save the state of text in edit fields (for example) in a bundle. When you navigate back to the same instance, those are restored to the view.
I think this discussion is clouded by years of Nokia phones with not enough RAM in them be they Symbian, Maemo, Meego or following on, Jolla and Sailfish who seem to have inherited that daft notion that they can squeeze a quart out of a pint pot.