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[crisisinthecity]

"In one common placebo procedure, however, a patient is given an inert pill, told that it may improve his/her condition, but not told that it is in fact inert. Such an intervention may cause the patient to believe the treatment will change his/her condition; and this belief may produce a subjective perception of a therapeutic effect, causing the patient to feel their condition has improved. This phenomenon is known as the placebo effect."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo

You were told it would improve speed and so you make yourself believe it did...very common. Placebo is very powerful

My sensation has never lagged although I did turn this off. The placebo effect doesnt really apply to electronic devices. I think it would be pretty obvious if your phone stops lagging. The mind is a powerful thing, but its not going to fix your smart phone.

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[crisisinthecity]

"In one common placebo procedure, however, a patient is given an inert pill, told that it may improve his/her condition, but not told that it is in fact inert. Such an intervention may cause the patient to believe the treatment will change his/her condition; and this belief may produce a subjective perception of a therapeutic effect, causing the patient to feel their condition has improved. This phenomenon is known as the placebo effect."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo

You were told it would improve speed and so you make yourself believe it did...very common. Placebo is very powerful

Placebo effect doesn't apply here. Your mind can heal your body but not your phone. Get over it.

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[mobilehavoc]

My point is that it's all subjective - show some benchmarks (any) with Tell HTC turned off and then on and show a difference that's outside the error range. that's how you know it actually does something and not what you're imagining.

 

[div3r5ity]

wow thats crazy, mine is running much faster now

 

[kevsteele]

Tried it - zilch improvement.

I didn't have a problem to begin with, though, and the phone is just as responsive and fast as before.

Dunno if it's a placebo, carrier-specific thing, or just the reboot that fixes things for some, but it made no difference at all in my phone.

 

[StructuralHazard]

I also noticed that the launcher and the panes are, in general, smoother when being swiped.

Just to make sure I wasn't seeing things, I made sure to navigate the phone and did indeed see some choppiness all around the interface before switching it off. After disabling, its slightly more responsive and less choppy.

 

[jrwingate6]

My point is that it's all subjective - show some benchmarks (any) with Tell HTC turned off and then on and show a difference that's outside the error range. that's how you know it actually does something and not what you're imagining.

How about I show you 340mb a memory free with it turned off and only 300 with it turned on?

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[mobilehavoc]

How about I show you 340mb a memory free with it turned off and only 300 with it turned on?

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Having more free memory can't make your phone faster if it isn't using it. That's like having a bigger gas tank means you can go further, but only if you use it all.
More free doesn't help you in any way. The less free ram the faster a computer can run because its using it for things like caches and preemptive paging. Sorry.

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[eyan15]

Why does everything posted in XDA turns into a 'who has got bigger penis' fight now a days.

Doesn't hurt to try this, see/feel/imagine an improvement then I say keep it or else turn it back on.

Why does this matter so much?

Cheers!

 

[The Radius Kid]

Why does everything posted in XDA turns into a 'who has got bigger penis' fight now a days.

Doesn't hurt to try this, see/feel/imagine an improvement then I say keep it or else turn it back on.

Why does this matter so much?

Cheers!

To be honest,I think it has to do with the different carriers and areas the phone is sold in.
In my situation,I specifically told my carrier to turn off data usage with my phone a long time ago.
I'm not paying a fortune for internet on my phone....period.
With that said,it *could be* that the OS is configured to transmit error problems back to HTC freely on some carriers and not others.
Some carriers might not like the phone freely using data bandwidth to report errors.

Just another thought:

Maybe later versions have been made more "sensitive" to the functions of the OS?
My version is 2.3.3 - HTC sense version 3.0.

 

[mobilehavoc]

Why does everything posted in XDA turns into a 'who has got bigger penis' fight now a days.

Doesn't hurt to try this, see/feel/imagine an improvement then I say keep it or else turn it back on.

Why does this matter so much?

Cheers!

It doesn't matter. I think people sometimes just spend so much time tweaking their phone and task killing that they don't even spend any time enjoying the phone. Just saying that on Android you should never worry about memory since the OS manages it excellently. With this HTC Tell thing it may make a difference or not but you don't have to do it to enjoy the phone. It's like battery threads where people say to turn off every feature and radio to extend battery life.

The HTC tell feature is quite important to leave on as it will send error logs and dumps to HTC so they can fix bugs with releases. You're free to turn it off but then don't ***** when they don't fix bugs you have.

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[jrwingate6]

Having more free memory can't make your phone faster if it isn't using it. That's like having a bigger gas tank means you can go further, but only if you use it all.
More free doesn't help you in any way. The less free ram the faster a computer can run because its using it for things like caches and preemptive paging. Sorry.

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Did you even read my post? I never said more RAM made my phone faster. I was simply stating that "Tell HTC" is using up quite a bit of memory.

Its not placebo as to many people are reporting change. By the way, you never answered my previous questions. Stop beating around the bush or just believe people when they say there lag is gone for the most part.

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[jrwingate6]

It doesn't matter. I think people sometimes just spend so much time tweaking their phone and task killing that they don't even spend any time enjoying the phone. Just saying that on Android you should never worry about memory since the OS manages it excellently. With this HTC Tell thing it may make a difference or not but you don't have to do it to enjoy the phone. It's like battery threads where people say to turn off every feature and radio to extend battery life.

The HTC tell feature is quite important to leave on as it will send error logs and dumps to HTC so they can fix bugs with releases. You're free to turn it off but then don't ***** when they don't fix bugs you have.

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Your on the XDA forums and asking yourself why people tweak there phones to much instead of enjoying them? Quite a oxyMORON if you ask me. This is how most people here enjoy there phones. We tweak them constantly. Secondly, you do realize that the average person who owns a Sensation isn't turning this feature off, right? Those of us on XDA who have a Sensation probably make up about .5% of total Sensations sold. In that case, I think HTC is getting all the error reports they need.

I love how you go from saying its a placebo affect to it might work but don't turn it off and enjoy your phone instead. Make up your damn mind already.

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[vvilliamm]

turning that **** off actually fixed my.. lockscreen problems.. weird

 

[djcedric]

no tweaks,completly original with latest 1.35 rom with lockscreen problem,for me also i have the feeling that i don't have the lags on the screen anymore since i have disabled this ****,i feedback any change thanks

 

[jrwingate6]

turning that **** off actually fixed my.. lockscreen problems.. weird

Nonsence, you just think it fixed your lockscreen problems. Its the placebo affect kicking into high gear....(sarcasm)

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[Xx12thANG3LxX]

It doesn't matter. I think people sometimes just spend so much time tweaking their phone and task killing that they don't even spend any time enjoying the phone. Just saying that on Android you should never worry about memory since the OS manages it excellently. With this HTC Tell thing it may make a difference or not but you don't have to do it to enjoy the phone. It's like battery threads where people say to turn off every feature and radio to extend battery life.

The HTC tell feature is quite important to leave on as it will send error logs and dumps to HTC so they can fix bugs with releases. You're free to turn it off but then don't ***** when they don't fix bugs you have.

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Lets be really honest here. I highly doubt that htc is going to be fixing your personal bugs for you on your phone. When they cant even fix s-off for so many people. I was glad to end the on going useless data that was running behind the scenes on my phone. You really want to speed things up. Stop running sense. Go download adw in market.

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[jrwingate6]

Lets be really honest here. I highly doubt that htc is going to be fixing your personal bugs for you on your phone. When they cant even fix s-off for so many people. I was glad to end the on going useless data that was running behind the scenes on my phone. You really want to speed things up. Stop running sense. Go download adw in market.

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Exactly, he's just mad because he was wrong about the placebo theory. I didn't even think about it using data. Loading ADW made my Sensation as fast as my G2X in the UI. Its always been faster in apps and the browser.

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[GHOST99K]

I'm using ADW ex launcher and everything is fast and smooth.no lag what so ever.

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[Running Sloth]

Why does everything posted in XDA turns into a 'who has got bigger penis' fight now a days.

Doesn't hurt to try this, see/feel/imagine an improvement then I say keep it or else turn it back on.

Why does this matter so much?

Cheers!

Well said lol.

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