My Desire seems to of started slowing down. It's a bit laggy in the home screen, menus are feeling a bit sluggish too.
It was lightening fast when I first had it, not sure if I've just gotten so used to it.
Any tips of speeding things up? I've removed any unused apps and wiped app cache.
The phone is also not rooted.
Any one else experiencing this a bit?
I somewhat expected the Desire to slow down after I got it... pretty much every device, computer, phone, etc I have owned slows down after it's been used a bit... I have not had a noticeable slowdown with the Desire though. There was a short time where the app manager took a while longer to load, but that didn't last long. My guess is that you have a lot of apps running in the background and maybe a live wallpaper. I have noticed as time goes on, the Desire's available ram shrinks away. After about a week and a half it usually drops to around 100 for me. A reset fixes this though, so it's not that big an issue. So, I would say get a task manager and see what all is running in the background and see if it is using your resources. I have also noticed that some of the Widgets like Friendstream are naturally a bit laggy, even when they shouldn't be.
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I dont get it... this isnt my first HD7 but i can clearly see that things take noticably longer to load. Boot, Games, random hangs on apps or when im typing on the keyboard... what gives??
Anyone know what can be causing this, or a way i can fix it?? I know nodo fixes loading times, but my previous hd7's never took this long to get things done
i know some apps depend on data upon loading. an example is Shazam, it took a really long time compared to a friend who loaded up Shazam on their iPhone. I didn't know why at first, but when i had my phone connected to WiFi and loaded up Shazam, it was significantly faster at loading. So some apps could be written where whilst loading it checks for data connection, and during this, it keeps the loading screen there, making it seem like the apps take a lot longer to load, when really it comes down to your data connection.
this is just one theory. of course the nodo fixes up a lot of games by allowing more graphics to be buffered into memory upon loading, making it quicker to load up games, but that wouldn't significantly affect general applications.
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i know some apps depend on data upon loading. an example is Shazam, it took a really long time compared to a friend who loaded up Shazam on their iPhone. I didn't know why at first, but when i had my phone connected to WiFi and loaded up Shazam, it was significantly faster at loading. So some apps could be written where whilst loading it checks for data connection, and during this, it keeps the loading screen there, making it seem like the apps take a lot longer to load, when really it comes down to your data connection.
this is just one theory. of course the nodo fixes up a lot of games by allowing more graphics to be buffered into memory upon loading, making it quicker to load up games, but that wouldn't significantly affect general applications.
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thanks for the reply. after a while of using it, im starting to believe its a memory managment issue (weird since its more noticable now than my last hd7) i open a game (ilomilo) for the first time, and it takes like 1-2 minutes till it gets to the main screen, but i open it later and it takes 20-30 seconds. I hope this is the issue because NoDo officially fixes this
I'm running the latest version of energy rom and I find the phone to be painfully slow on wake up. Sometimes it'll wake up and be fine, others it'll practically freeze for ~10 seconds before becoming usable. Rotation can also be a problem, I was using gyrator-2 but I thought it may have been slowing the phone down. I removed it but it's still a bit sluggish changing from portrait to landscape and back. Also total commander seems to take a good ~10 seconds to start initially, though works fine as long as I don't close it again.
Compared to my roommates phone (HTC Desire) this thing is a pig, his phone is almost instantaneous doing anything but mine takes significantly longer to open and use. Quite annoying when I want to quickly grab someones number, or write a note down but I have to stand there waiting and waiting
I've tried overclocking it to 730mhz which helps but still not by a significant margin
Any suggestions? I've tried running android on it and that is actually faster than winmo, though my bluetooth doesn't work so it's out
You really cannot compare to desire as desire comes with 1ghz processor and android. WinMo is always slow.
I found that the the stock sense without cookie is more responsive than with cookie home tab. So that's what i am runnign now. In addition, it seems to has less of problem of slowing down after awhile of use.
if you really need a faster phone, I guess go with stock titanium would be an option but then you will loose all of the sense features.
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I'm running the latest version of energy rom and I find the phone to be painfully slow on wake up. Sometimes it'll wake up and be fine, others it'll practically freeze for ~10 seconds before becoming usable. Rotation can also be a problem, I was using gyrator-2 but I thought it may have been slowing the phone down. I removed it but it's still a bit sluggish changing from portrait to landscape and back. Also total commander seems to take a good ~10 seconds to start initially, though works fine as long as I don't close it again.
Compared to my roommates phone (HTC Desire) this thing is a pig, his phone is almost instantaneous doing anything but mine takes significantly longer to open and use. Quite annoying when I want to quickly grab someones number, or write a note down but I have to stand there waiting and waiting
I've tried overclocking it to 730mhz which helps but still not by a significant margin
Any suggestions? I've tried running android on it and that is actually faster than winmo, though my bluetooth doesn't work so it's out
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First of all, pick a ROM that isn't THAT resource heavy as your current one. You couldn't go more wrong if you're up for speed.
If you still need more speed I suggest that you try a Sense 2.1 ROM.
not entirely sure what i've done but I managed to speed it up quite a bit by just fiddling with some settings. Which make absolutely no sense because it's things like turning animations to 'full' rather than 'off'
Also using the smaller clock, no flip animation, removing both side tabs and just leaving the main one, changing the default wallpaper, changing some sound settings and other minor things which shouldn't actually make any difference but do
As a benchmark @ stock speed, it's now waking up instantly 90% of the time,
lockscreen to sense takes 0.8 seconds
moving from portrait to landscape is 1.5 seconds
opera mini takes 1.0 seconds
Internet explorer w/ flash 9 to fully usable 5.0 seconds
going from anything back to sense 1-2 seconds
taking a phone call, once I answer it takes ~2.0 seconds to allow me to hit the speakerphone button (only part I wish was faster)
Could I still expect a significant improvement with a different ROM?
I quite like the layout I have now with a smaller clock, appointments and 3 rows of quicklinks and no side tabs. If I can keep a similiar layout and have it going faster and a bit more stable (have had to remove battery a few times, annoying) then i'll go with that
If so could I please ask for a recommendation? as i'm still new to this phone, as well as a program that will backup all my current contacts, messages, photos and appointments
edit: and while i'm at is, is there any way to remove the sliding section at the bottom that contains home, mail, contacts, internet, settings etc? I never use it and it's just taking up space
I have found that my One X often kills apps I have running when I press the power button and put it away for more than a few minutes. I know Android will try to reclaim resources starting with background apps but this is killing the app I am currently looking at.
I have almost nothing else running and my system normally has 200-300 mb of available memory so it is a very unexpected behaviour. A typical example is I have something like firefox displaying a page. I read a bit then press off. I come back 10 minutes later and it needs to restart and reload the page. With previous phones the app would still be in the foreground the next time I turn it on and unless I navigate away it would stay that way.
I have a nexus s running ICS and that does not happen.
I have a desire running GB and is doesn't hapen.
I have a desire running Froyo and it does not happen.
Is there any way to force a less aggressive memory management on HOX?
There is an option for this, in settings > developer options, furthest down under apps section, first one; "Don't keep activities" check if it is enabled.
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.. also beneath it, there is a restriction "Background process limit", it may also cause immediate kills if "no background process" is set
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Thanks for the suggestions but those were set normally.
Tried using the built in browser instead of firefox and the problem was significantly reduced. It seems the system has a bias against non google apps. Even so - this HOX is behaving different in this respect to my other phones. It is my expectation as a user that if I am doing one thing, that thing should still be there the next time I look at my phone.
Something on the device may be leaking and the result is this need to stop stuff. My money is on sense ( mainly because of the observed ripple/flicker on the home screen ).
I've noticed same with my new one x it seems over eager killing all apps even sense launcher.
settings are correct but using chrome I don't dear open anything else for fear of it closing chrome and having to log back into everything, sometimes its as bad as just answering call or replying to a text message and its been killed
just as annoying it even kills launcher if I press home after using an app for more than a few minutes I get the please wait spinner while it has to load launcher
had ICS on desire HD and on zoom tab... this is not how it should work can't believe a phone with more memory and designed to run ICS is having to kill everything when DHD runs perfect
annoying little thing that is so far ruining what is otherwise an amazing phone
Seeing the same issue on my One S.
This happens with Dark Meadow. If the screen times out, or you hit the lock button, the game kind of "crashes". Not sure if this is the One X killing it or whether it's how the app is coded.
It's irritating anyway ><
Applications with a notification icon have not this behavior. Is there a possibility to set a higher priority to applications without root?
I'm having the same problem.
With cm9 @ Desire Z, I could, say, restore my 3000 sms within GoSMS (which takes a while) and meanwhile do whatever I wanted with the phone, eg. browsing, texting and so on.
With the H1X, after a certain time, the apps gets killed/suspended and therefore anything that happened within the app - which is pretty annoying. Any solution in sight?
H1X @ ARHD
I get this too. Annoying.
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I've noticed same with my new one x it seems over eager killing all apps even sense launcher.
settings are correct but using chrome I don't dear open anything else for fear of it closing chrome and having to log back into everything, sometimes its as bad as just answering call or replying to a text message and its been killed
just as annoying it even kills launcher if I press home after using an app for more than a few minutes I get the please wait spinner while it has to load launcher
had ICS on desire HD and on zoom tab... this is not how it should work can't believe a phone with more memory and designed to run ICS is having to kill everything when DHD runs perfect
annoying little thing that is so far ruining what is otherwise an amazing phone
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Sense launcher closing is not cos of the over-aggressive app killing. It's cos the system needs more RAM, so closes Sense since it's not directly in use right now. I do notice that some apps are getting closed after a period of inactivity, probably a default ICS setting that we can tweak when kernels and ROMs get more mature releases
I'm suffering from this defect as well. It's frankly astonishing that this phone behaves in this way. Really makes you wonder if anyone actually uses the phones before releasing such junk. What use is such fantastic hardware if it performs so badly in real use conditions. Every time I press home, loading. Try to run some javascript Web pages then go send a text, then back to browser and all tabs have to refresh. Mine is going back if it doesn't get fixed pretty quickly as it's practically unusable in this state. Battery is unsatisfactory as well. 2 hours on battery, screen on for an hour, 57% left?! What are they thinking seriously
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I'm suffering from this defect as well. It's frankly astonishing that this phone behaves in this way. Really makes you wonder if anyone actually uses the phones before releasing such junk. What use is such fantastic hardware if it performs so badly in real use conditions. Every time I press home, loading. Try to run some javascript Web pages then go send a text, then back to browser and all tabs have to refresh. Mine is going back if it doesn't get fixed pretty quickly as it's practically unusable in this state. Battery is unsatisfactory as well. 2 hours on battery, screen on for an hour, 57% left?! What are they thinking seriously
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If your battery is that bad you have a bad app running rampant or your battery is faulty.
For everyone else, even in settings if "Don't keep activities" is unchecked, try checking it and unchecking it. I read that sometimes it is still set to "Don't keep activities" even if it is unchecked and checking and unchecking it could solve the problem if this is the case. Doesn't hurt to try.
Hopefully one of the devs will make a Rom/kernel with better oom adjustments... I'm hoping.
the multitask implementation on this phone is terrible. I was using runkeeper, stopped to check something in my settings during the ride, phone closed the runkeeper application deleting my ride. It is getting annoying ...
Ever since I updated my phone to stock 4.0.4, it's not been the same buttery smooth Epic Touch that it used to be on Gingerbread. Sometimes the lags gets so bad that the phone would restart itself. I have done a reformat and things have been going smooth for about 2 months and it has started lagging again now. Right now I am running minimum 3rd party apps, and only limited to reputable ones such as Facebook and whatnot. The CPU Spy shows the phone is in deep sleep most of the time. Android OS still takes up about 90% of battery usage. I made sure nothing is hogging up the ram in task manager and clear memory 2-3 times a day. Yet, it still lags like crazy especially while typing or turning the screen off.
Can anyone chime in on what else could be causing this?
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Ever since I updated my phone to stock 4.0.4, it's not been the same buttery smooth Epic Touch that it used to be on Gingerbread. Sometimes the lags gets so bad that the phone would restart itself. I have done a reformat and things have been going smooth for about 2 months and it has started lagging again now. Right now I am running minimum 3rd party apps, and only limited to reputable ones such as Facebook and whatnot. The CPU Spy shows the phone is in deep sleep most of the time. Android OS still takes up about 90% of battery usage. I made sure nothing is hogging up the ram in task manager and clear memory 2-3 times a day. Yet, it still lags like crazy especially while typing or turning the screen off.
Can anyone chime in on what else could be causing this?
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since you mention facebook what's your sync situation like? just a suggestion as I remember similar threads where constant syncing was causing issues... if android os is using that much battery something is amiss... its just a matter of figuring out what...
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since you mention facebook what's your sync situation like? just a suggestion as I remember similar threads where constant syncing was causing issues... if android os is using that much battery something is amiss... its just a matter of figuring out what...
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FB's refresh interval is set to 1 hour. Is that what you are referring to?
maxspiderx said:
Ever since I updated my phone to stock 4.0.4, it's not been the same buttery smooth Epic Touch that it used to be on Gingerbread. Sometimes the lags gets so bad that the phone would restart itself. I have done a reformat and things have been going smooth for about 2 months and it has started lagging again now. Right now I am running minimum 3rd party apps, and only limited to reputable ones such as Facebook and whatnot. The CPU Spy shows the phone is in deep sleep most of the time. Android OS still takes up about 90% of battery usage. I made sure nothing is hogging up the ram in task manager and clear memory 2-3 times a day. Yet, it still lags like crazy especially while typing or turning the screen off.
Can anyone chime in on what else could be causing this?
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Welcome to ics. I get the same thing and have tried everything. Good news is they are pumping out new builds pretty quick to hopefully they are working out all the kinks.
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try a different rom.
I have had a problem that's grown worse over time with my G2. I've noticed the phone will be snappy, fresh after flashing, but over time, it will start to slow down. I chalked it up to it just needing a good flash every once in a while. However, it's gotten to the point it will become laggy/unresponsive within a day or two now. During these periods of lag I have managed to make it struggle to the running applications screen, where I have noticed that the lag is correlated with background applications restarting themselves. Google maps, Google Voice, and Waze are usually restarting (sometimes a few times before becoming stable), and I think Imo messenger might be doing the same. Once all the background apps are done restarting, everything returns to normal. I notice these apps all require some sort of radio use, and that the app I am actively using usually will only slow down, but not crash.
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I have had a problem that's grown worse over time with my G2. I've noticed the phone will be snappy, fresh after flashing, but over time, it will start to slow down. I chalked it up to it just needing a good flash every once in a while. However, it's gotten to the point it will become laggy/unresponsive within a day or two now. During these periods of lag I have managed to make it struggle to the running applications screen, where I have noticed that the lag is correlated with background applications restarting themselves. Google maps, Google Voice, and Waze are usually restarting (sometimes a few times before becoming stable), and I think Imo messenger might be doing the same. Once all the background apps are done restarting, everything returns to normal. I notice these apps all require some sort of radio use, and that the app I am actively using usually will only slow down, but not crash.
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I have very similar issue. Soundhound oo, maps, Droid are trying to restart when it happens... I think it might be because we run out of memory... but I don't know why Android try to restart those processes so hard then.
Forgot to say I have a Galaxy S with CM 10.1
For me most of these issues go away once I set limit of background processes to 2. Even application install doesn't hand phone as before. OC also helps I guess.