Why is \Windows access so slow?

[Keir333]

Originally Posted by chronster

Have all WM devices always been like this? Are the Dell PPC's like this?

My Mogul used to take about 5 minutes to load the Windows directory, and half of the time it would just freeze up and I'd have to soft reset.
I definitely don't miss that at all. My Touch Pro has never taken more than about 10 seconds tops to load

-Keir-

[Darkness231]

Mine wasn't really slow until I added the TF3D from HD

[schettj]

Your desktop PC is using a directory cached in ram. Ram running 100x faster. Being accessed by a CPU running 8x faster (per core) with instructions that operate in far fewer clock cycles.

Your WinMo is trying to struggle through really slow flash stores, or mildly slow ram, with a slow cpu, with a mediocre instruction set.

And yeah, it's the manilla files. All you need to do is hard reset and never install anything and you'll be able to browse \Windows really fast.

Note, do not hard reset, that was a joke.

[Success100]

Originally Posted by schettj

Your desktop PC is using a directory cached in ram. Ram running 100x faster. Being accessed by a CPU running 8x faster (per core) with instructions that operate in far fewer clock cycles.

Your WinMo is trying to struggle through really slow flash stores, or mildly slow ram, with a slow cpu, with a mediocre instruction set.

And yeah, it's the manilla files. All you need to do is hard reset and never install anything and you'll be able to browse \Windows really fast.

Note, do not hard reset, that was a joke.

GREAT EXPLANATION!

[[sammich]]

Well mine is only 3 seconds with GSM a GSM manila installed [not HD]

But... man I hope XBOXMod's new manila won't make \windows take minutes to load.

[chronster]

God I'm dumb. I think it's lack of sleep. Thanks for pointing that out to me bedoig

[bedoig]

Ya, at first glance it just looks like a folder/tree-view pane and a detail pane

[chronster]

Here's an update: I hard reset my phone and now my windows folder loads up in about a quarter of the time it used to take. Go figure.

Originally Posted by chronster

Here's an update: I hard reset my phone and now my windows folder loads up in about a quarter of the time it used to take. Go figure.

Must have been something you had installed. The stock ROMs are horribly slow at loading the windows directory, too... but I don't think there are too many people who are active around here who are still on a stock ROM.

[Darkjedi]

How long does it/did it take when you use explorer on your phone? Mine takes only about 5 seconds to load up all the files. I almost never browse my folders in Activesync though, and when I do I do it through the storage card as USB drive.

//I'm using stock ROM with the Sprint clean-up tweak