This method was discovered by Darkus from smart-se.ru:
- First, make some general tests using your contacts and messaging apps. Scroll, creat new, search by letter, insert, etc. Remember the speed of it!
- Install pips_uiq_1_2_ss.sis
- Install stdioserver_uiq_1_0.sis
- Reboot. If necessary, reboot again.
- Now…repeat the tests you made in 1
- Watch how both contacts and messaging, the weak links of UIQ3 devices, are now working faster!
Pay attention, we do not know all side effects of this procedure, so there is risk! Also, Zed from CPS reckons speed improvements might be different from phone to phone, much like what happened with Twin Peaks.
Update: PIPS has been updated (both files actually). Here they are. Remember to install PIPS first, both files on drive C.
(thanks to Remi for the heads up)
72 Comments Received
May 9th, 2008 @8:59 am
It’s working for me. Hope it’s not a placebo effect tho
Great find, keep up the good work…
May 9th, 2008 @9:17 am
I don’t know, is it just me, but also file manager is working faster, the switching between drives, opening of the folders.. Now it is instant switching, and the card is 8Gb. Someone also confirm to me if W3.0 is doing a bit faster, when browsing thru albums, artists etc…
May 9th, 2008 @9:22 am
it works for me (P990i)
i noticed difference when i start File Manager and Control Panel and its contents and slightly difference with the Messaging app
thnx
May 9th, 2008 @9:51 am
thanks ares, it work for me, I can feel it was faster than before, thanks for the trick
May 9th, 2008 @12:29 pm
I have no words to explain my happiness, now my phone is faster than ever. Thanks Ares!
May 9th, 2008 @12:51 pm
Wow!!! Just a few days ago I was hoping something like this came up…and this pops up!
Thanks Ares!
I don’t know how long I can put of getting myself a W960 now, especially since UIQ 3 is looking more and more exciting!
btw, as somebody asked above, can anyone confirm if the walkman 3 too working faster?
May 9th, 2008 @12:51 pm
Wow!!! Just a few days ago I was hoping something like this came up…and this pops up!
Thanks Ares!
I don’t know how long I can put of getting myself a W960 now, especially since UIQ 3 is looking more and more exciting!
btw, as somebody asked above, can anyone confirm if the walkman 3 too is working faster?
May 9th, 2008 @2:29 pm
this news is just as great as my anticipation of paris.ü it fixes one of my primary complains in UIQ3. but i wont try it yet unless sumbody confirms that is is 100% safe and risk free.
May 9th, 2008 @3:05 pm
It works for me too.
I have M600i.
It is a significant discrete improvement.
Thank you guys!
May 9th, 2008 @3:16 pm
It must be that these installation files replace some components within the system, which are too slow (include debugging stuff?).
May 9th, 2008 @3:37 pm
Some extra information:
Based on the filenames, the two SIS files are the Posix on Symbian runtime libraries and a stdio console.
Read the P.I.P.S. press release here:
http://www.symbian.com/news/pr/2007/pr20078721.html
Release notes for v1.2:
http://developer.symbian.com/wiki/download/attachments/1411/pips_readme_1_2.pdf?version=1
May 9th, 2008 @4:01 pm
Hmm, I just tried this on my P1, and I can’t really see much difference. When you say reboot again if necessary, what’s necessary? Will it say it wants to? I only rebooted once so far… What do these two apps do, they sonud like some sort of development / engineer tools?
May 9th, 2008 @4:29 pm
it works for me too (P990i)
May 9th, 2008 @4:41 pm
i just tried it and i don’t see any particular improvement; maybe, MAYBE contacts are a LITTLE bit faster, but inbox scrolling is the same… or maybe i did something wrong?
May 9th, 2008 @4:42 pm
I can’t see any difference. And there is no reason for any speed improvement because “Symbian OS PIPS” is a posix-library for developping and migrating posix applications from unix or windows. The integrated applications don’t use the posix library, otherwise they wouldn’t start at all without it… And “Symbian OS stdioserver” is used for debugging output of stdio. This is like the console on unix and should only be installed for development purposes.
See http://developer.symbian.com/wiki/display/pub/P.I.P.S.
May 9th, 2008 @4:50 pm
Some people say they don´t see any improvements. Well, don´t take my word. Nipsen also tested it and found speed improvements in the applications i refered to. Might be that some people phones do not improve like other. However, don´t come tell me this does not work - it does.
May 9th, 2008 @5:27 pm
I installed in my p990i. Seems no significant speed increase. Maybe it’s made for P1i. thanx anyway
May 9th, 2008 @5:44 pm
Yeah! It works on my W950i! Firt of all the “search by letter” is much, mcuh faster. Absolutly instantly! An the “create new message” impreoves much too! Thanks for this!
May 9th, 2008 @5:49 pm
Bit new @ this !
Wiling to try it …
Previously fuc*ed my K800 (trying various stuff) so this time a bit couscous regarding …
My question is ?! What happened to Twin Peaks ?
May 9th, 2008 @5:56 pm
Hmm, maybe the installer of the library updates some internal functions also. Sadly on my M600i I can’t see any effect.
P.S. the PIPS library is expected to be included in Symbian 9.3 phones.
P.P.S. Many thanks for your work. I watch your blog every day and got some very good tips.
May 9th, 2008 @5:58 pm
Hi ares,
Are you res on the *** ?
Ayyway it doesent work at all on P1i.
-What we want to see, we see.-
*** Edited by Asri. We dont support warez site
May 9th, 2008 @6:18 pm
..It’s not a tweak- peaks type hack. That was cutting effects and OS calls from taking place, as far as I know. This is apparently routing the pipes for file- reader through the pips- libraries, and - I’m guessing - increasing the amount of pipes any program is allowed to use. Meaning that the bottleneck is not on the program anymore (in that it competes with it’s own OS service access on the scheduler), but is shuffled to the OS level, where it was supposed to be all along.
The “side- effect”, is that programs asking for many pipes won’t crawl to a halt every time.
Possible problems - the pips- libraries and the pipe might be worse than the existing libraries (yeah, right… :D). And it’s possible that a program that won’t close it’s components properly and continue to ask for OS services when it shouldn’t will actually not stop the system from responding. The scheduler is also so quick to rotate, that as long as you can’t produce indefinite calls out (which I think the pipe does not allow), then there’s no worse danger of causing a race- condition than it already were.
But still - I’ve no idea what exactly it does.
May 9th, 2008 @7:03 pm
Its also weird why some people experience more improvements than others.
May 9th, 2008 @7:13 pm
Nope, Tested with two P1i side by side.. no perceptible difference.
“Very superstitious, nothin more to say..”
May 9th, 2008 @7:16 pm
Anyway, I think you are “res” on one of the forums?
Am I right?
Or somebody promote this psuedo hack on your behalf.
May 9th, 2008 @9:48 pm
S. Wonder, in my P1 and nipsen´s, and several others, the difference is noticeable. If you can´t see it, too bad
You´re P1´s might be already running at full speed before 
May 9th, 2008 @10:16 pm
..It’s still just going to affect file- reading and writes while other things happen in the background.. But try Escarpod, for example, and flip through the menus a bit. Or write a new e-mail, and open the contacts (when only the ones with an e-mail address shows up). It’s impossible not to notice the list scrolls smoother (and would run even better if the sort was well programmed). I also get more stable wifi- performance compared to before. And draws in Opera tend to be quicker - pictures and pages with a lot of formatting are better. And because of less pauses between something happening, the connections won’t get dropped and end up stalling indefinitely. So pages do load quicker. It also cures bad breath.
May 10th, 2008 @12:31 am
So, a day passed, my P1i is still alive and working just fine. It really did speed up my system, believe it or not. Thanks again for the find and for the great work you guys do. This place is AFAIK my No1 place for UIQ news.
May 10th, 2008 @12:56 am
We are glad you guys are liking it! Without all this great feedback, there was no point in doing this
Now lets all hope Motorola, SE and UIQ made themselves really deserve this great community!!!
May 10th, 2008 @6:17 pm
The ability to unlock system folders made it obvious that the UIQ3 devices were open to quite some improvement. The fact that SE did absolutely nothing to give its customers any of this improvement just shows their disregard for customer opinion and satisfaction.
So it’s up to the user community to keep improving the 1st generation UIQ3 devices and make them what SE should have delivered in the first place.
Anyway, good find @ares! My p990 is getting better everyday.
May 10th, 2008 @8:56 pm
I agree that SE’s customer relations should be much better, but I disagree with makbil’s comment: We don’t know yet for sure how the speed improvement works, it does not seem to work for all people, and we are not sure whether given time some disadvantages will surface or not.
And with this very thin information situation, already blame SE for the wrong of not giving all phone users this improvement? This is premature, to say the least.
May 11th, 2008 @3:45 am
I do not base what I said on this single event. Clearly P990/M600 could have benefited greatly if SE had decided to do just a little bit more work. They didn’t do this for one of two reasons: they did not want to invest more resources, which means they didn’t care about customer satisfaction or they did not have the technical know-how to do further work. Now you tell me which is worst.
I agree with your last comment though, that is why I haven’t installed these on my primary P990. One of the known bugs is that “program termination does not delete temp files”, this is serious enough to warrant some further test before being put to serious use.
May 12th, 2008 @3:26 am
Hey, just wanted to say thanks for this. It makes messaging a thousandfold easier to do. Earlier the phone would load all the sms messages in my inbox before letting me do anything. Now it’s instantanious.
May 12th, 2008 @3:29 pm
I havent tried it yet, but what other side effects are there if I installed the sis files? I dont want to regret later after i install it..
May 12th, 2008 @9:18 pm
Um. Well. There’s a bunch of new 0kb temp files turning up in the system- folder..and some few others elsewhere. *shrug* Other than that, it’s really difficult to say if the pips- pipe really caused more problems than what was there before.
But the OS pipes pack (inside the pipsv1.2 pack) will replace /sys/bin/pipelib.ldd and /sys/bin/rpipe.dll .. so I suppose if someone could figure out if things can be turned back after an uninstall..?
May 13th, 2008 @6:44 am
Thanks nipsen for the headsup, i guess even it still has some unwanted side effects even tho it speeds up your phone =( Can someone fix this problem? I want the speed improvement but at the same time I dont want my phone to be damaged
May 13th, 2008 @7:09 am
I have this installed since day one, and have not experience any problems…
May 13th, 2008 @7:18 am
Well.. the library is supposed to be used for testing the pips sdk. Probably while waiting for pips to be included on the phones. So be grateful - it’s not often we get something like this to try out.
May 13th, 2008 @11:47 am
Ares do u have p1i too? and GW1 firmware? CUz that’s what I have
May 13th, 2008 @9:04 pm
Tried this on my W950i (firmware: R9GA001) with no effect.
Before the install, from clicking on “E-mail” in the “New” menu under the top left menu, it took ~8 seconds each time before I could start writing.
I then installed the two files, rebooted (twice) and timed it again. Still ~8 seconds every single time.
Too bad for me, but nice for those of you who got an speed bump. Just out of curiosity, how long does it take you guys to load the e-mail client in the same manner as I described above?
May 13th, 2008 @9:29 pm
I think I have about 7-8 seconds from there, too (about 6 when the program is in ram). What cuts down time from before isn’t that the app loads much faster, but that the lookup on the list is much quicker if you have a large inbox.
So now it loads without flickering on and off a few times, and then, as usual, goes into the “new message routine” (which takes… four seconds or so?). Which it only does after loading the list, and after it clears and updates it at least twice for whatever reason.
..The message app still isn’t exactly programmed for speed in the first place, no doubt about that.
May 13th, 2008 @11:06 pm
well…some people are not understand what we are saying: we DO NOT claim this procedure improves speed when loading contacts and messaging for the first time…we are considering what typical P1 and W960 users do: open messaging and contacts one time after boot, and then let them stay permanently open on background (that´s the joy of having plenty of RAM), so that acess times are reduced
now, in that scenery, what we claim is that looking up for things on message list, and contact list, whenever we need to, its much faster than before…my P1 sometimes hanged a bit when searching through contacts…well, not anymore
May 16th, 2008 @1:57 am
it really works!! quite impressive.. its strange tht the P1i shud be so slow to open the applications as its intended to be a business phone.. nevertheless.. gr8 job on these files!! certainly makes me feel much better using this phone!
May 16th, 2008 @3:30 pm
And whats UIQ btw??
ignore my ignorance in this regard:(
May 16th, 2008 @3:36 pm
Hey guys,
Im planning to buy P1i..and Im not into any techni knowledge
I need some genuine advice on this.
Also, will the new set already have these files installed which we are discussing here on this forum?
May 16th, 2008 @6:28 pm
@Shab,
Welcome to UIQBlog.com.
UIQ is the technology that empowered smartphones such as Sony Ericsson P1i, P990 and Motorola Z8. You can get more info about it at http://www.uiq.com
Cheers!
May 16th, 2008 @6:58 pm
No, it won’t. It’s.. possible they’ll end up being shipped with some of the new phones.. within some time.. or turn up in a software update one day. But I’m not really holding my breath for that to happen. Or, that anyone at SE suddenly figures out that pissing on their customers is a good strategy for selling phones.
Anyway - so buy the phone based on what you want to do with it, and how much of that is actually possible right now. For example, anyone who use the phone primarily for sms, and starts tapping their phone on the table when they have to wait two seconds, is not going to be happy with the phone. People who expect some form of diary- function, a good notepad (with mixed handwritten notes and typed text) will be disappointed. Not that it’s not possible - it’s just not programmed yet.
On the other hand, you’ve got an actual browser (with the supremely annoying copy and paste bug that they won’t bloody fix after six months of pleading). It also has a nice calendar, and some barebone functionality for the rest. Well, except the message- app, which is huge and cumbersome. But UIQ (the user interface) is based on expansion through third party programs - and there are some very good programs turning up. The potential for independent developers is also much greater on UIQ than on other platforms, which is why some of us have taken a particular liking to it, I suppose.
But truth be told - even if it’s pretty bare bone, you do get more functionality (and then I mean actually useful stuff) out of the box with the p1 than many other smartphones on the market now. And if you take away some of the hype with how accessible WM is, for example, it all starts getting a bit ridiculous.
Because what do you really get, if you don’t have Opera 9.5, and new widget support through Opengl ES (which, notably, is unlikely to be used by any smaller developers any time soon on WM)? You have a mediocre web- reader, hardly functional extras like rss, limited media- support, and a bad java- implementation, apparently with a 3d- implementation that’s slow or non- existent. Couple that with the jumbled layouts, in really traditional windows- style, and you’re really getting nowhere. Then there’s the battery, which because of the hardware- config and the OS doesn’t last very long.
Which is all, in spite of how bad the p1 really is, a huge step down from any UIQ device. Of course, we’ll see what the Diamond looks like eventually, but I’m not really all that thrilled. It’s the same like with the iPhone - it’s using something new (3d elements in the UI), but the entire thing is made in a way that screams proprietary, and just wants to be a one- shot device. No ambition, and not even potential.
Not that UIQ hasn’t squandered their potential, generously helped by their unfathomably idiotic shareholders (Moto and SE) - but at least the potential is there.
(lol…I’m really clutching at straws here, aren’t I..)
May 17th, 2008 @2:48 pm
great application i will try this and make a post later!!!!UIQ rules!!!!
May 17th, 2008 @8:04 pm
now here is my comment!!first for me there is just no effecT on my p1i,second my p1i is much more faster without this app. third i think it is just a “placebo effect” bcoz it says when you launch an app. i will be faster than before,if you install this app TO YOUR PHONE…but still some of your phone become more faster, still a good job!!!nice application,but no need for SE P1i!!!thanks and keep up the good work….UIQ RULEZZ!!!!!!
May 18th, 2008 @6:27 am
i dint benefit anything noticable on my p1i
How to uninstall this?!
thanks in advance
May 18th, 2008 @10:35 pm
tryed to install but my P1i says that the applicating trying to be installed is part of push mail and i should uninstall push mail first….anyone else seen this?
May 19th, 2008 @4:35 am
…The package claims an “UID”, or a unique ID. But since the pips- libraries never were intended for commercial use, it’s probably not been run through the Symbian signed, and has an UID someone chose at random. Could be that UID is the same as the UID of a push- service you have installed.
If not, maybe that program is using part of the pips sdk, and there’s a conflict because some files are getting overwritten? I suppose if that’s the case, then a lot of people will get this after a while.
May 20th, 2008 @11:10 am
Phone Model: SE P1i
Phone Version: CXC162037 R9K009
CDA Version: R15A
I tested this a few days ago and I’ve noticed a significant improvement after the 2nd reboot. The following is my observation.
1) Switching from apps to apps is A LOT faster. I have the configurable button set to the home screen and it gets there instantly now.
2) Killing an app from Task Manager is significantly faster now.
3) Application loading is faster. Even Opera Mini, Google Maps, and Fling loads faster than before. And again, it takes less time to switch.
4) Calendar is faster. It’s faster to move from day to day, and loading the detailed view of each meeting.
5) It’s faster to load picture gallery and browsing files.
6) It’s faster to load Blackberry. It used to take more than 3 “busy” blinks before, but I’m getting 2 blinks most of the time. I did notice a drawback after the first reboot (7 blinks), but it’s a breeze after the 2nd reboot.
Thanks ares!!!
May 25th, 2008 @10:58 am
I own a P1i and wanting to try this, but has anyone tried tweak peaks yet? which is faster?
May 25th, 2008 @5:57 pm
..Tweak peaks stops some graphical scrolling from being run and so on. The pips thing is a new implementation for the input/output system on the OS level. So, it would change different things - but the pips- libraries will fix something that was neglected on Symbian earlier on, and you will notice the difference. Pips isn’t final and might have some stability issues, though (..even if no one seems to have found any yet.. lol.. or can point out if what was in the phone before actually was better…).
May 26th, 2008 @3:32 pm
It works for me. Noticeable I might add.
June 4th, 2008 @12:42 am
Post updated, thanks to Remi for the info
June 5th, 2008 @9:25 am
here my result..
it work on me p990i
phone: R9F011
cda: R5A13
how i tested?
1. notice more speed at service test=>display (jog dial up, *, down, down, *, down, *)
2. turn off swiss manager (more speed you get…!!)
3. no problem transition effect on (moree smooth…) i like it..
probleemss..
1. dont work on latest firmware coz ur phone already fasttt..
2. battry bit little fast to dry… (well..)
3. I lIKE this phone now…(coz yesterday want to sell it douhh..!!!!)
Many thanks Ares.
June 6th, 2008 @4:48 pm
i think most of you guys have the latest firmware R9K009. thats why it doesnt work because your phone is in fastest state because of your new firmware.adhey is right.read some forum about speed boost.UIQ RULEEEZZZZ!!!!
June 29th, 2008 @4:58 am
Does anyone know if this works for s.e G900i..? Thanks in advance~~~!!
July 1st, 2008 @3:40 am
Hi everyone
just completed the installation of the two files on my Sony Ericsson P1i - and oh wonder, iit really works faster. If placebo or not, I just like the fact that iit runs faster: create a new message, browse/manage/edit contacts, even my task list loads faster etc.
And the best thing is that my P1i runs with the latest firmware R9K009. And you know, even having installed the latest firmware, the slowness of my mobile phone was driving me crazy. So, the above mentioned files to install came in just veeeeery handy and much appreciated - if it keeps running fast like that.
Since I just installed the package, I cannot tell anything about decreased battery performance or missing contacts or any unwanted side effects.
Don’t know if this is good for anyone, just wanter to let you know.
July 1st, 2008 @4:54 pm
This works for me too (p1)
July 3rd, 2008 @9:32 am
guyz, when u say reboot, does that means “restarting the phone?” and should i restart the phone twice if i install this program on my p1i?
im a bit new on modding and hacking on p1 but i already know how to manage my phone. thanks again.
heres my phone system information:
phone: cxc162037 R9K009
CDA: CDA 162024/52 R8A
btw, wat CDA means? thanks again
July 17th, 2008 @1:23 pm
I did try it in a W960i, Walkman Touch Player now is much Faster!!!, also contacts, messaging and imaging gallery have improved.
All these processes have been opened in the test at the same time, before installing the .sis the W960 was very slow when all of this was opened, now runs great!!!
July 19th, 2008 @7:52 pm
It seemed to make a slight improvement in speed in a G900, but only with the new versions.
July 27th, 2008 @11:43 am
I tried it on my P1i yesterday, with firmware R6G04; don’t know how old the firmware is, but the phone was purchased new only about 1 month ago.
There was no major/perceptible improvement in the speed, although once the apps are loaded, that’s not really a problem with this phone.
I uninstalled it today though, as I had issues with stability. Once, the Web app crashed and restarted the phone, and at least twice, I wound up in a condition where the phone was not able to switch out of / terminate an application (on two occassions, I killed Walkman 3 by restarting the phone)
The uninstall hasn’t seemed to have done any damage, but i didn’t think there was a significant improvement to keep it there.
Just for the record.
Deen 27/07/2008 13:42:03
July 27th, 2008 @5:13 pm
There is a noticeable difference on the W960 i.e. when launching the Phonebook and Messaging application from RAM.
The most noticeable difference I’ve noticed is while playing Titanic: Hidden Expedition by Astraware and Big Fish games. Earlier, it used to be close to lagging. Now everything has sped up.
August 22nd, 2008 @6:22 pm
Hi,
I tried it on my Spny Erc p1i purchased just a week back.
No difference what so ever. Maybe the phone already has the latest.
Amit
August 25th, 2008 @10:55 pm
hi..
i am have the latest firmware here.. R9K009
still the speed changed?? if u installed this app??=D
tnx~
August 31st, 2008 @12:05 pm
I have P1i with FW R9K009 and every time I restart my phone. The contact and messaging is already load also. So when I click on them, it already speed up (because they already load on the memory).
Is there any different if I install these sis ? Thanks b4.
December 13th, 2008 @12:22 am
Tests done for me on a G900 firmware R9M003:
before:
open contacts = 4s
search for letter S = 3s
open messages = 4s
news SMS = 6s
after
open contacts = 4s
search for letter S = 3s
open messages = 8s
news SMS = 4s
Nothing enormous to say.
Isn’t it a placebo effect ? At least is pointless on my G900.
May 25th, 2009 @6:21 pm
Not working at my side , same speed ,, totally waste of my time
i m using p1i
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