Making the hero 10x faster

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So I did the RUU flash for 2nd time so I could update with the MR, and this time I skipped the google sync options at startup.

And let me tell ya, that alone has made my phone 10x faster!!! WTF!?!?! most noticeable when dialing, but the keyborad rotates faster, the browser loads pages faster, etc...

I am thinking its mainly because of the large number of contacts, since I use the gmail app not the phone's. So my new goal is to limit the amount of stuff that gets stuffed into the phone by google. I haven't decided how I am going to do it but I dont need all 500 contacts in my phone thats for sure.

Try it out for yourself.

Go in to your gmail contacts and create a group only for the people you want to actually have on your phone. I have over 1000 in gmail but only about 50 in my phone. I created a group called "people i talked to" and assigned those people to that group.

Then on your phone go in to People and scroll over to groups and only pick the "people i talk to" group and uncheck anything else. Done.

Nice. I will be doing that.

Originally Posted by flipzmode

Go in to your gmail contacts and create a group only for the people you want to actually have on your phone. I have over 1000 in gmail but only about 50 in my phone. I created a group called "people i talked to" and assigned those people to that group.

Then on your phone go in to People and scroll over to groups and only pick the "people i talk to" group and uncheck anything else. Done.

Great tip!

Originally Posted by flipzmode

Go in to your gmail contacts and create a group only for the people you want to actually have on your phone. I have over 1000 in gmail but only about 50 in my phone. I created a group called "people i talked to" and assigned those people to that group.

Then on your phone go in to People and scroll over to groups and only pick the "people i talk to" group and uncheck anything else. Done.

um...There isn't a checkbox in the people group page for me, just a name of the group and a "group" icon next to it. Also, I still have 328 contacts listed, even after making the group. I'm going to just go to the "view" options in menu and turn off google contacts altogether. Any other suggestions, or am I looking in the wrong place? Thanks!

Originally Posted by kmartburrito

um...There isn't a checkbox in the people group page for me, just a name of the group and a "group" icon next to it. Also, I still have 328 contacts listed, even after making the group. I'm going to just go to the "view" options in menu and turn off google contacts altogether. Any other suggestions, or am I looking in the wrong place? Thanks!

I did it off the top of my head. My phone is in the middle of flashing right now. Heh. Let me double check for you once it flashes and boots up. I'll edit this post.

Originally Posted by flipzmode

I did it off the top of my head. My phone is in the middle of flashing right now. Heh. Let me double check for you once it flashes and boots up. I'll edit this post.

thanks homie! I thought I was going crazy for a minute

Originally Posted by kmartburrito

um...There isn't a checkbox in the people group page for me, just a name of the group and a "group" icon next to it. Also, I still have 328 contacts listed, even after making the group. I'm going to just go to the "view" options in menu and turn off google contacts altogether. Any other suggestions, or am I looking in the wrong place? Thanks!

He meant go into your contacts on the Gmail web site. There should already be a group called My Contacts. Move the contacts you actually talk to into that group.

Then, on your phone, go to People, then go to the Groups tab. Hit Menu and then Sync Groups. Uncheck all of them except My Contacts.

Done.

Originally Posted by jonnythan

He meant go into your contacts on the Gmail web site. There should already be a group called My Contacts. Move the contacts you actually talk to into that group.

Then, on your phone, go to People, then go to the Groups tab. Hit Menu and then Sync Groups. Uncheck all of them except My Contacts.

Done.

Yup. Thanks jonnythan. I guess that's where the confusion was. You first create the group and assign the contacts on gmail's website. And then on your phone you enable that group and disable the other groups in People < Groups (tab) < Menu (button) < Sync Groups

I don't even have a single google contact and only use my exchange contacts. Phone is still slow w/o a custom rom... :P