Keep dialer open?

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Hi guys, I have some problems with default dialer basically it takes about 20-30 seconds to load but after it loads itself then I can send it to background and and open it again with call button and it appears immediately. Unfortunately after some time system closes it again(?) and again it takes a while to open it. My question is can I setup my system in the way that it will not close dialer? I want to keep it running in the memory after the first load. Can it be done?

renice is 'supposed' to help this.

but I would also like to have the phone pinned-on.

I often will open the dialer before setting the phone to sleep.
it will wake up for calls much quicker this way.
but if you are using any other apps the dialer will close.

I am sure this will be fixed. it seems to be a popular issue.

Originally Posted by mnjm9b

renice is 'supposed' to help this.

but I would also like to have the phone pinned-on.

I often will open the dialer before setting the phone to sleep.
it will wake up for calls much quicker this way.
but if you are using any other apps the dialer will close.

I am sure this will be fixed. it seems to be a popular issue.

There is a difference between the dialer and the phone. The dialer is actually Contacts.apk. The phone app which is called by the Dialer is Phone.apk.

The renice thing that people experiement with is about giving Phone.apk, or actually the process com.android.phone higher priority to speed up incoming calls. Usually that also means giving mediaserver higher priority also as it is responsible for playing the ring signal.

Contacts on the other hand is loaded fast if it's still in memory, sleeping, but if you have run other apps there is a good chance that it has been closed down. This is when it will take a long delay to start the Dialer (or Contacts as it's the same app). Renice:ing it will propably not make much difference.

Perhaps there are ways keep in the memory but I do not know how. What I do know is that increasing the memory can help keeping it there a little longer and that can be done with compcache. Compcache is compressed swap that in RAM. It's also possible to make more complicated setups with compcache that works togheter with a swap area on the SD-card.

In VaniljEclair Compcache can be enabled from within Spare Parts (in settings) and it uses 25% of the RAM for swap and while it doesn't make a huge difference it at least helps.

Personally I use Dialer One (free app from Market) instead of the stock Contacts/Dialer and I think it actually may be a bit quicker when loading.

Thanks guys for your input it helped a lot. Unfortunately one dialer doesnt work too well on my kaiser Imust admit that it loads much fasterthan the default one but isnt very responsive after the initial load so i think i will stay with the default dialer for now.

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Originally Posted by -Arturo-

Thanks guys for your input it helped a lot. Unfortunately one dialer doesnt work too well on my kaiser Imust admit that it loads much fasterthan the default one but isnt very responsive after the initial load so i think i will stay with the default dialer for now.

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With dialer one I turn off the "contact pictures" options and also vibration. works very well for me.

Originally Posted by kallt_kaffe

With dialer one I turn off the "contact pictures" options and also vibration. works very well for me.

Thanks, Kalt I tried it again and it's working fine now maybe because i finally created 2 ext partitions and both data and system were placed on them.
Also I have another issue Suddenly my power button stopped turning the screen off i can only invoke a menu with " reboot, turn off,etc." options. What could have go wrong?

Originally Posted by -Arturo-

Thanks, Kalt I tried it again and it's working fine now maybe because i finally created 2 ext partitions and both data and system were placed on them.
Also I have another issue Suddenly my power button stopped turning the screen off i can only invoke a menu with " reboot, turn off,etc." options. What could have go wrong?

check the panel and pm.sleep variables in your default.txt/startup.txt
Perhaps you've changed one of them by mistake?

Thanks Kalt actually I have managed to sort it out by assigning "sleep"action to the end call(red) button under spare parts which automatically fixed my power button.

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