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dalvik
http://milk.com/kodebase/dalvik-docs-mirror/docs/embedded-vm-control.html
# dalvikvm --help
The following extended options are recognized:
-Xrunjdwp:<options>
-Xbootclasspath:bootclasspath
-Xcheck:tag (e.g. 'jni')
-XmsN (min heap, must be multiple of 1K, >= 1MB)
-XmxN (max heap, must be multiple of 1K, >= 2MB)
-XssN (stack size, >= 1KB, <= 256KB)
-Xverify:{none,remote,all}
-Xrs
-Xint (extended to accept ':portable', ':fast' and ':jit')
These are unique to Dalvik:
-Xzygote
-Xdexopt:{none,verified,all,full}
-Xnoquithandler
-Xjnigreflimit:N (must be multiple of 100, >= 200)
-Xjniopts:{warnonly,forcecopy}
-Xjnitrace:substring (eg NativeClass or nativeMethod)
-Xstacktracefile:<filename>
-Xgc:[no]precise
-Xgc:[no]preverify
-Xgc:[no]postverify
-Xgc:[no]concurrent
-Xgc:[no]verifycardtable
-XX:+DisableExplicitGC
-X[no]genregmap
-Xverifyopt:[no]checkmon
-Xcheckdexsum
-Xincludeselectedop
-Xjitop:hexopvalue[-endvalue][,hexopvalue[-endvalue]]*
-Xincludeselectedmethod
-Xjitthreshold:decimalvalue
-Xjitblocking
-Xjitmethod:signature[,signature]* (eg Ljava/lang/String\;replace)
-Xjitcheckcg
-Xjitverbose
-Xjitprofile
-Xjitdisableopt
-Xjitsuspendpoll
Extended JNI Checks
Default RO: ro.kernel.android.checkjni can be overriden by: dalvik.vm.checkjni
setprop dalvik.vm.checkjni true
To pass dalvik.vm.jniopts option as -Xjniopts argument.
setprop dalvik.vm.jniopts forcecopy
Bytecode Verification
setprop dalvik.vm.dexopt-flags v=a,o=v
then the framework will pass -Xverify:all -Xdexopt:verified to the VM. This enables verification, and only optimizes classes that successfully verified.
Map registration
setprop dalvik.vm.dexopt-flags "m=y"
“Map registration = yes”
Stack size
setprop dalvik.vm.dexopt-flags "m=y -Xss16K"
# DISABLE ERROR CHECKING ro.kernel.android.checkjni=0 dalvik.vm.checkjni=false dalvik.vm.dexopt-data-only=1 dalvik.vm.heapsize=64m dalvik.vm.verify-bytecode=false dalvik.vm.lockprof.threshold=250 dalvik.vm.dexopt-flags=m=v,o=y -Xverify:none -Xdexopt:verified dalvik.vm.stack-trace-file=/data/anr/traces.txt dalvik.vm.jmiopts=forcecopy #to enable execution of JIT dalvik.vm.execution-mode=int:jit
# MAKES APPS LOAD FASTER AND FREES MORE RAM / use only one of them dalvik.vm.dexopt-flags=v=a,o=v,m=y,u=y dalvik.vm.dexopt-flags m=y,o=v,u=y dalvik.vm.dexopt-flags=m=y
MediaScanner
pm disable com.android.providers.media/com.android.providers.media.MediaScannerReceiver pm enable com.android.providers.media/com.android.providers.media.MediaScannerReceiver
ADB
add your user to plugdev group:
sudo gpasswd -a username plugdev
Enable EU Wifi Channels
sqlite3 /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db "INSERT INTO secure (name, value) VALUES ('wifi_country_code', 'EU');"
Change defaul keyboard / IME
adb shell
ime list -a
com.android.inputmethod.latin/.LatinIME: ... com.jefftharris.passwdsafe/.PasswdSafeIME: ...
ime set com.android.inputmethod.latin/.LatinIME