On 2/12/09, Disconnect <[email protected]> wrote:
> I hesitated a lot before sending this, because frankly your original
> attitude sucked. Not "this is really annoying" sucked, but more "omg you are
> all idiots for putting such crap out into the world" sucked..
>
> That said, you cannot remove myfaves (and have a functional phone) - it is
> tied deeply into the system. (And is closed source, although on current
> releases just about -everyhing- is effectively closed, so..)
>
> There is good news though. If you have root access, you can use a different
> image. (RC8, ADP1 and Holiday images all come without myfaves.) The most
> popular ones come from JF, and the most updated versions are at
> http://jf.andblogs.net/
Thanks for your unconditional help (I mean it). I guess my attitude
was more user-like ("oh, shit, this crap doesn't work and I can't even
return it") than developer's (in the line of "shit happens").
Now that I'm calm I realize in my 1st post I sound like a complete jerk.
Cheers
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Stoyan Damov
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Romain Guy <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > First of all, please calm down, getting angry and cursing won't help.
>>
>> Calm. Won't curse anybody, can't deny me to be angry :)
>>
>> >
>> > Then, you are not reading the logs correctly. While the GC should
>> > certainly not be active all the time, the logs show that the GC is
>> > active in *different processes.* All the GCs you see do not come from
>> > the same process and might not come from your application *at all.* If
>> > you see these lines after you exit your app, then the GC don't happen
>> > in your app. It's as simple as that. You can use DDMS or adb shell ps
>> > to see the pid of running processes and match them against the logs.
>> > This GC for instance occurred in the process of pid 757:
>> >
>> > 02-12 12:48:57.230: DEBUG/dalvikvm(757): GC freed 110 objects / 5128
>> > bytes in 74m
>>
>> You were right. ps revealed that it's com.android.mms. It frees
>> exactly 110 objects every ~15 seconds or so.
>> I'm not online, neither on wifi nor on edge. I don't have a clue why
>> com.android.mms insists on doing anything when I'm not online.
>>
>> >
>> > Note that this kind of activity is expected when the phone is syncing
>> > data from your Google account for instance. It could also be due to a
>> > 3rd party application or a bug in one of the standard apps. Without
>> > knowing what process cause the GC, there's not much we can do.
>> >
>> >>WHAT THE HELL???? Is the device trying to send or receive *anything*
>> >>w/o my consent???
>> >
>> > You bought a T-Mobile G1, which is expected to be used on a T-Mobile
>> > network. In this case, the myFaves application is sending an SMS to
>> > the carrier to see whether you have the myFaves service enabled on
>> > your plan. On a T-Mobile network this costs you nothing, I don't know
>> > about other networks. It probably is a special kind of SMS used to
>> > carrier operations that costs you nothing.
>>
>> Is there any way I could disable myFaves entirely on G1?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Stoyan
>>
>> >
>>
>
> >
>
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