sjkellyfetti
New Member
Hi,
I just rooted my Droid last night, and went straight to Sapphire 1.0.0 after reading about it Droid-Life. I like it a lot so far (compared to stock 2.1), though I admint that while I understand the concept of what I've done, I am not exactly sure what to do with it yet, which leads to this odd behavior (not sure if it is a bug or due to my lack of understanding and button mashing instincts).
I was messing around in the GEM Settings earlier today and found my way to the Scaling Governor (Settings > Gem Settings > Performance > Scaling Governor).
I saw it was set to ondemand, and looking at the settings I thought "hmmmm, powersave. That sounds like a good way to scale to CPU to help conserve battery...". So I jumped in and changed the setting. Like you do... Things were running along as per normal, until I ran into the music rocker bug (which I see I responded to incorrectly after reading about it here).
When it started skipping, I was getting ready to go into a restaurant to eat, sitting in my car. I long pressed the volume by mistake as I was unlocking it to stop the playback of ACast, which somehow started the Meridian player. When it freaked out and started skipping songs, I unlocked the phone and tried closing Meridian from the app, but it relaunched when the track changed. I then tried Advanced Task Killer, but it kept coming back still. So I rebooted the phone and went to eat.
While it rebooted, it was going very slowly. The Sapphire boot animation was up for maybe 20-25 seconds (normally it is about 7-8 seconds on my phone). It seemed eternal. When it finally came up to the lock screen, I attempted to unlock it, but everything was going very slowly. The lock button stuttered (graphically) while trying to unlock it and it didnt take, but I tried slower and it worked. Immediately the following message popped up:
Sorry! (pop-up title)
Process System is not responding.
[Force close] [Wait] [Report] (buttons)
It's modal so you couldn't do anything but deal with it, so I hit Wait, not wanting to FC the OS (I have learned when the message is general and vague like that (referencing some System I am not familiar with), it is usually related to the OS). The message went away, and the desktop came up. When I went to try anything, it was like my phone was gummed up with molasses. Everything reacted very slowly. Any screen where I needed to scroll took a visiblly long pause to react to the touch screen. I freaked out. What the heck had I done to my phone?!?
Fearing I would have to reinstall the ROM with another wipe and format, I thought back to the changes I had made today. I uninstalled a couple of apps that I had put on today and rebooted a couple of times (with identical results) before I recalled that I had changed the Scaling Governor, and also that some of the GEM settings said on them that they required a reboot to take effect. I quickly (as quickly as you can go while wading through molasses) changed it back and rebooted. Presto! Changeo! The phone rebooted in the normal time, and behaved as it had previously. I have since repeated this behavior.
So, is this a bug, or am I doing the wrong thing?
As for the music rocker issue, I am so not used to that functionality yet - is there a way to disable it? I may prefer that since I mostly listen to hour long podcasts during my commute and don't have a general need to FF in my listening
~Skells
I just rooted my Droid last night, and went straight to Sapphire 1.0.0 after reading about it Droid-Life. I like it a lot so far (compared to stock 2.1), though I admint that while I understand the concept of what I've done, I am not exactly sure what to do with it yet, which leads to this odd behavior (not sure if it is a bug or due to my lack of understanding and button mashing instincts).
I was messing around in the GEM Settings earlier today and found my way to the Scaling Governor (Settings > Gem Settings > Performance > Scaling Governor).
I saw it was set to ondemand, and looking at the settings I thought "hmmmm, powersave. That sounds like a good way to scale to CPU to help conserve battery...". So I jumped in and changed the setting. Like you do... Things were running along as per normal, until I ran into the music rocker bug (which I see I responded to incorrectly after reading about it here).
When it started skipping, I was getting ready to go into a restaurant to eat, sitting in my car. I long pressed the volume by mistake as I was unlocking it to stop the playback of ACast, which somehow started the Meridian player. When it freaked out and started skipping songs, I unlocked the phone and tried closing Meridian from the app, but it relaunched when the track changed. I then tried Advanced Task Killer, but it kept coming back still. So I rebooted the phone and went to eat.
While it rebooted, it was going very slowly. The Sapphire boot animation was up for maybe 20-25 seconds (normally it is about 7-8 seconds on my phone). It seemed eternal. When it finally came up to the lock screen, I attempted to unlock it, but everything was going very slowly. The lock button stuttered (graphically) while trying to unlock it and it didnt take, but I tried slower and it worked. Immediately the following message popped up:
Sorry! (pop-up title)
Process System is not responding.
[Force close] [Wait] [Report] (buttons)
It's modal so you couldn't do anything but deal with it, so I hit Wait, not wanting to FC the OS (I have learned when the message is general and vague like that (referencing some System I am not familiar with), it is usually related to the OS). The message went away, and the desktop came up. When I went to try anything, it was like my phone was gummed up with molasses. Everything reacted very slowly. Any screen where I needed to scroll took a visiblly long pause to react to the touch screen. I freaked out. What the heck had I done to my phone?!?
Fearing I would have to reinstall the ROM with another wipe and format, I thought back to the changes I had made today. I uninstalled a couple of apps that I had put on today and rebooted a couple of times (with identical results) before I recalled that I had changed the Scaling Governor, and also that some of the GEM settings said on them that they required a reboot to take effect. I quickly (as quickly as you can go while wading through molasses) changed it back and rebooted. Presto! Changeo! The phone rebooted in the normal time, and behaved as it had previously. I have since repeated this behavior.
So, is this a bug, or am I doing the wrong thing?
As for the music rocker issue, I am so not used to that functionality yet - is there a way to disable it? I may prefer that since I mostly listen to hour long podcasts during my commute and don't have a general need to FF in my listening
~Skells
