Galaxy S “lag fix” makes phones FLY

I no longer have a Vibrant in my possession to test this hack, so I can’t personally vouch for it. Also, it’s very clearly designated BETA (in capital red letters) over at the original xda thread where published. What does the hack do? The original poster, RyanZA explains:

“Creates a VIRTUAL EXT2 filesystem inside the stock RFS filesystem on the internal SD card, with a 4KB block size. This means that this lag fix creates a buffer between the real filesystem and the android system. This buffer should reduce the amount of disk I/O required for all operations by utilizing EXT2 buffering, as well as not writing file access times to disk, etc. It allows only 1GB for application data at this stage, down from the 2GB of application data when running stock.”

What does that result in, benchmark-wise? Scott, the reader who sent this in ran Quadrant Standard with his “stock factory 2.1 firmware, rooted w/Busybox 1.17.1 and running Touchwiz 3.0.” Here is the result:

Quadrant Standard


Not bad for a 1-click batch file hack, right?

If you decide to try this hack out (at your own risk), let us know in the comments below what kind of practical difference you notice in daily use. Thanks to Scott for sending this in!

Via xda-developers

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hello can someone please please help me my score is 777 on quadrant ive downloaded one click and i havent got enough memory on my SD card what do i do? ive tried everything or is it cuz i havent brought an SD card help me guys please!!!!!!!

Ok either I am just not getting this or I am doing something wrong, I have looked over most all forums and just cannot find a working lag fix... if someone could help me figure this out id be much appreciative...my Quadrant score is currently 937 and for reasons I am sure I don't have to say I would like it up to the 2200+ range Phone-- Samsung Captivate Galaxy S Model-- i897 Firmware--2.2 Baseband ver--I897UCJI6 Kernel ver--2.6.32.9 Build--Froyo.UCJI6 Will donate for your time via PayPal if needed... post answer here or email me at tippers.email@gmail.com Thanks in advance

Ok either I am just not getting this or I am doing something wrong, I have looked over most all forums and just cannot find a working lag fix... if someone could help me figure this out id be much appreciative...my Quadrant score is currently 937 and for reasons I am sure I don't have to say I would like it up to the 2200+ range Phone-- Samsung Captivate Galaxy S Model-- i897 Firmware--2.2 Baseband ver--I897UCJI6 Kernel ver--2.6.32.9 Build--Froyo.UCJI6 Will donate for your time via PayPal if needed... post answer here or email me at tippers.email@gmail.com Thanks in advance

i did it but my phone doesn't vibrate when the calls and tests come

Where do i get Quadrant Standard.. ?

Where do i get Quadrant Standard.. ?

I was getting a bit annoyed with lag and general non-reponsiveness on my Vibrant. Installed this yesterday, and now everything is awesome.Effects on battery life remain to be seen

I have a rooted Vibrant and one of my co-workers has a stock Evo with Froyo, my Vibrant on android 2.1 is killing his phone in response time. I live in Atlanta as well and thanks to hspa+ even my network is faster than his "4G" network. I average about 3-5 megs down and he barely had a 4G signal. Now if they could give us Froyo and a damn gps fix this phone would be damn near perfect.

to fix the gps ... on the dialer *#*#1472365#*#* application settings - operation mode change to ms based hit the back key to save supl/cp settings - server type: supl.google.com server port: 7276 hit back key to save power off and on when back go into settings, location and security check use wireless networks. fixes everything

I just put the one click lag fix on my Galaxy S, it had never been reflashed or rooted before, and I got 1750ish on my first test about half an hour ago (cant remember the exact figure).. I tried it again and I got 1944. That's alright eh? I used the 512mb cache instead of the full 1gb cache, because I didnt want to use up too much space. But anyway, I dont need to buy any memory cards now! well okay, I still do, but for music related purposes, not lag fix ones. :)

Very Nice... ran quadrant and got a score of 2252...Also, ran the beasties root tool, and now my device is 10x better than my nexus one.Now we just need to go ahead and get the HSUPA working on the device ;)

i did it. i stay around 2200 now... the phone flies like a jet fighter. its murdering my battery now though... lol i used to get about 8 hrs of heavy use out, now im droppin like 20% an hour :( hopefully it will even out a bit more today.

So, I answered my own question regarding the symlink fix vs this one-click fix. My Vibrant scored about 960 with the Symlink hack applied. Removed that, installed one-click and am now getting 2200+. I'll stick with this one!

How does this fix compare to the symlink fix performance wise? Obviously this method is superior in terms of space since you get 1GB vs the 100+MB on /dbdata

imagine this plus 2.2, OMG the speed

do you think google knows this and they were planning the fix with froyo? hence the huge speed boost? sorry if thats noob

After installing this fix, I have noticed that I am only receiving an EDGE signal. 3G seems to be non-existent. I am in the heart of Las Vegas right now at my office, and we always have a pretty strong 3G/HSPA+ presence. Has anyone else noticed this?

I did check this out. Before I patched my phone, I had a score of 916. Post patching and a fresh reboot, my score is 2125

this works!! I scored 2052 and always blew my mind i was so happy lol

I did this hack on my Captivate. 2100 on quadrant, up from 890. The phone is so much more responsive!

I'm not rooted so I can't try this cause I honestly don't see any reason to root the vibrant. I'm happy with the phone the way it is out of the box but this is very impressive.

how would i go about putting this "hack file thingy" into my phone? I'm a new at this hacking stuff, thanks...

how would i go about putting this "hack file thingy" into my phone? I'm a new at this hacking stuff, thanks...

I used this fix on my phone a couple of hours ago and it really does make the Vibrant fly. I have experienced no lag whatsoever and the experience is pretty significant.

oh my goodness...and it doesnt even have 2.2...i knew i was making a right choice when i decided im gonna get this phone! Cant wait :D

This phone is the best currently (spec wise) for android and maybe the whole phone industry. Look at the speed boost! If they can do this in an OTA for non-rooted phones, that would be great.

The Quadrant score above I achieved after a fresh reboot of the phone. In the last few hours of anecdotal testing where I've deliberately launched multiple apps (so that the task handler was actively juggling background applications) my scores have come down to a less heady 1900-ish average. Given the nature of benchmarking and multitasking and the years I spent benchmarking every PC component on earth, this is pretty much what I expected to happen. 1900+ in Quadrant under Eclair 2.1 is still darn phenomenal!!!

Right after doing this and running a few apps, I got a score of 2105 :) I rebooted and immediately tested to get a score of 2137. Its pretty impressive.

Does anybody know if this will work for the samsung captivate as well?