Quadrant benchmark question plus root question

[Rev2010]

When most comparisons are run using a benchmark like Quadrant is there some standard as to what they leave running? Like, do they usually shut down certain non-essential processes or do they leave everything running? Reason I ask is because I get great results when force closing running apps before running the benchmark. Nothing essential, just stuff left running that I'd used prior. I still get good results with them left running but with them off it shows my D2 as outperforming everything listed.

Also, when you root the phone, is it easy to remove the installed stuff like amazon mp3, skype, etc? Or is there a special way to remove them?


Rev.

 

[Brett]

In regards to the quadrant question, there really isn't a standard when people run quadrant. If you close out all of the apps then you will have more memory which can give you better results. The only thing is that if you manually close out apps then you are really not receiving a true quadrant score because that is not how your phone would perform normally since most people do not close out all of the apps every time they use their phone.

Now on to the 2nd question. There are multiple different ways to eliminate these bloat-ware apps. The 2 easiest ways that come to mind are a) installing a customer rom with those apps removed from the get-go. b) purchase "root explorer" from the market and then manually search and delete those apps that you do not want anymore. If you do use root explorer, please be careful when you delete files. Only delete the files that you are 100% positive you want to delete. Not sure how much you know about rooting but if before you use root explorer (and you are fiddling around with deleting stuff you do not need) you could always make a nandroid back up before hand this way if you delete something important on accident you can always revert to the backup.

 

[maxiang]

I don't know about the first part, but I'm going to guess (based on my results) that when Phil runs it he hasn't FC'd anything. On a side note, I prefer to let android handle memory and running processes on its own.

I don't know if there's an easier way nowadays, but when I rooted my CLIQ last year I just had to run through ADB and rm whatever I didn't want. Seemed pretty easy to me, as long as your careful about what you remove