How to root or unlock bootloader or make phone smoother

[XperianPro]

I need help.

I dont know what to do with that phone.

I cant root it,cant unlock bootloader and its not as smooth as other same range devices,my LwW was much smoother than this phone.

I have it for only one month and I only got headaches.

1. Phone lags in some apps like market,settings,mega jump so I send it to repair and nothing happened so I send second time and still nothing happened so I send third time and still same problem.

2. I asked operator for simunlock code so I unlocked my phone but still I cant unlock bootloader "bootloader unlock allowed : no"

3. Bad Update support,there is no ICS yet and I dont believe that ICS will solve anything.

I dont know what to do,please someone help me,what to do.

[Johan]

To make the phone run smoother and increasing it's performance you should free up as much phone memory as possible and you can also reduce the amounts of elements on your home screen.

[Uliwooly]

ICS it's around the corner, once you get ICS you will be able to disable apps and free up some RAM, in the mean time do NOT install taskillers, antivirus, ram and battery apps they will drain your battery and run in the background, thus using RAM.

[dragpyre]

By RAM you mean CPU time yes? Because it takes the same amount of power to fill 120MB of RAM as it does 380MB of RAM.

Freeing RAM does not make things go smoother! Was what I just said completely ignored!?

[Uliwooly]

if you read above, my reply is NOT for you, but for XperianPro "completely ignored!?"

[dragpyre]

I am aware that your reply was not directed at me, however, XperianPro doesn't need false information. Freeing RAM does not speed up a Linux/UNIX based OS, this is not Windows!

Surely with approaching 25,000 posts you should know that? Or do I need to post more links as to how Linux handles memory and why it is not used RAM that kills battery, but CPU usage?

[Uliwooly]

it is not false information, but you are free to post anything you want as long as you follow the forum rules, please do share how Android not linux, linux is NOT exactly linux.

here is some good reading

http://developer.android.com/guide/components/fundamentals.html

and here

http://www.differencebetween.net/technology/software-technology/difference-between-android-and-linux...

[dragpyre]

" please do share how Android not linux, linux is NOT exactly linux."

I'm going to try to decipher what you just said as best as I can.

What is in your About Phone menu? The Kernel version. What is the Kernel version of? Ohwait, the Kernel that was produced by Linus Torvalds. What's that again? Ah yes, Linux! Android is Linux. Android manages memory, CPU and a whole bunch of other things in very similar, if not exact ways to the vanilla Linux kernel and many Linux distros. The only real striking different is the use of the Dalvik VM which applications and services are run in. Android is essentially emulation of Java on top of a Linux Kernel base. The kernel handles CPU time, memory management, and is the route by which applications communicate with the hardware.

Android is just another Linux distro. Whie Android is open source, the way it handles memory, unless you use scripts, like SuperCharger V6, is fairly consistent because most developers don't go that deep into the kernel.

The old saying "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" comes to mind.

1. Android is an open source operating system developed by Android, Inc. which is now owned by Google, Inc. whereas Linux is developed as an open source operating system under the GNU project by Linus Torvalds and many others.

Linux is not an operating system, Linux is a Kernel. Linus created and maintains a Kernel. Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Gentoo, Arch are operating systems based on the Linux KERNEL.

2. Android is developed for Mobile Internet Devices and mobile phones whereas Linux is developed for desktops/laptops/servers.

Ubuntu for mobile is in the works. Enough said.

3. The Android operating system has its own C library called Bionic whereas Linux systems use GNU C library.

C libraries have nothing to do with the Kernel

4. The Android systems use flash memory instead of hard drives while the standard Linux systems use magnetic drives.

SSD's are flash memory. a USB stick is flash memory. Most linux systems can run on either. Point invalid

5. The Android systems have their own power manager whereas the Linux systems use APM and ACPI to manage the power.

Power Manager - Nothing to do with memory management.

[Uliwooly]

you misread what I'd said above, this is going off topic, check the links above and start a new thread if you want to continue on this topic, as this is not that relevant to this thread. and again, please do not take me out of context nor change add or take away some words I'd used.

[XperianPro]

OK,thanks for answers,it looks they fixed laggaging on my LWW ICS so hope update for U will bring some performance fixes too anyway how for god sake I should unlock my bootloader?