[android-developers] Re: intensive writing to internal memory

2010-04-05 Thread Nadav
Indeed we are not able to push continuously to a server - both because of network availability and also the power consumption is probably much higher than saving it and sending in bulk. I think we will indeed aim for the 3 level approach and try to put as little as possilbe on the main memory just

[android-developers] Re: intensive writing to internal memory

2010-04-04 Thread Bob Kerns
If Jason's suggestion of pushing it to a server is inadequate, you can buffer events, and only write them out once a minute or 10 minutes or something. This will put an upper bound on the number of writes performed. You can combine the approaches, and push to the server, and only write to the file

Re: [android-developers] Re: intensive writing to internal memory

2010-04-04 Thread Jason LeBlanc
Why not push the data up to a server? J On Apr 4, 2010 2:53 PM, "Nadav" wrote: Thanks Bob and Dianne, The issue is that I have no choice but do a lot of writing since this is a research app that constantly logs phone and user activity over many months... We are dealing ok with battery and proc

[android-developers] Re: intensive writing to internal memory

2010-04-04 Thread Nadav
Thanks Bob and Dianne, The issue is that I have no choice but do a lot of writing since this is a research app that constantly logs phone and user activity over many months... We are dealing ok with battery and processing power (we only write every several minutes), and the main concern remains t

[android-developers] Re: intensive writing to internal memory

2010-04-03 Thread Bob Kerns
I've wondered about this, and don't have any definitive answer to this. However, there are several factors involved. Flash memory involves rewriting entire chunks of data, often larger than a single block, when a single block is written. This can affect how often a given location is written. Remap