Hi guys, I have some problems with default dialer basically it takes about 20-30 seconds to load but after it loads itself then I can send it to background and and open it again with call button and it appears immediately. Unfortunately after some time system closes it again(?) and again it takes a while to open it. My question is can I setup my system in the way that it will not close dialer? I want to keep it running in the memory after the first load. Can it be done?
renice is 'supposed' to help this.
but I would also like to have the phone pinned-on.
I often will open the dialer before setting the phone to sleep.
it will wake up for calls much quicker this way.
but if you are using any other apps the dialer will close.
I am sure this will be fixed. it seems to be a popular issue.
mnjm9b said:
renice is 'supposed' to help this.
but I would also like to have the phone pinned-on.
I often will open the dialer before setting the phone to sleep.
it will wake up for calls much quicker this way.
but if you are using any other apps the dialer will close.
I am sure this will be fixed. it seems to be a popular issue.
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There is a difference between the dialer and the phone. The dialer is actually Contacts.apk. The phone app which is called by the Dialer is Phone.apk.
The renice thing that people experiement with is about giving Phone.apk, or actually the process com.android.phone higher priority to speed up incoming calls. Usually that also means giving mediaserver higher priority also as it is responsible for playing the ring signal.
Contacts on the other hand is loaded fast if it's still in memory, sleeping, but if you have run other apps there is a good chance that it has been closed down. This is when it will take a long delay to start the Dialer (or Contacts as it's the same app). Renice:ing it will propably not make much difference.
Perhaps there are ways keep in the memory but I do not know how. What I do know is that increasing the memory can help keeping it there a little longer and that can be done with compcache. Compcache is compressed swap that in RAM. It's also possible to make more complicated setups with compcache that works togheter with a swap area on the SD-card.
In VaniljEclair Compcache can be enabled from within Spare Parts (in settings) and it uses 25% of the RAM for swap and while it doesn't make a huge difference it at least helps.
Personally I use Dialer One (free app from Market) instead of the stock Contacts/Dialer and I think it actually may be a bit quicker when loading.
Thanks guys for your input it helped a lot. Unfortunately one dialer doesnt work too well on my kaiser Imust admit that it loads much fasterthan the default one but isnt very responsive after the initial load so i think i will stay with the default dialer for now.
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Thanks guys for your input it helped a lot. Unfortunately one dialer doesnt work too well on my kaiser Imust admit that it loads much fasterthan the default one but isnt very responsive after the initial load so i think i will stay with the default dialer for now.
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With dialer one I turn off the "contact pictures" options and also vibration. works very well for me.
kallt_kaffe said:
With dialer one I turn off the "contact pictures" options and also vibration. works very well for me.
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Thanks, Kalt I tried it again and it's working fine now maybe because i finally created 2 ext partitions and both data and system were placed on them.
Also I have another issue Suddenly my power button stopped turning the screen off i can only invoke a menu with " reboot, turn off,etc." options. What could have go wrong?
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Thanks, Kalt I tried it again and it's working fine now maybe because i finally created 2 ext partitions and both data and system were placed on them.
Also I have another issue Suddenly my power button stopped turning the screen off i can only invoke a menu with " reboot, turn off,etc." options. What could have go wrong?
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check the panel and pm.sleep variables in your default.txt/startup.txt
Perhaps you've changed one of them by mistake?
Thanks Kalt actually I have managed to sort it out by assigning "sleep"action to the end call(red) button under spare parts which automatically fixed my power button.
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k i read about an app called spare parts on here so i figured hey i'll try it out. i did saw what extra setting were there and decided i wasn't gonna use it didn't even change any settings.
after opening the app and then pressing home something wierd happened i saw a white screen with HTC in green in the center for about 3-5 seconds my backround with a loading pop-up and nothing else for about another 3-5 seconds. this is happening every time i press the home button or exit out of an app. it's getting infuriating, i'm also getting wicked bad lagg in sense and lot's of hang up's and force closes. also wicked bad battery life. i don't know what to do to fix it.
i have the OTA and rooted last night with unrevoked method, this morning is when i tried the app around 10 or 11 not sure last couple days is a blur.
can anyone help, how can i restore what i had previously, do i have to do a full wipe.
nobody...... anyone plz, it is cripling my evo
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k i read about an app called spare parts on here so i figured hey i'll try it out. i did saw what extra setting were there and decided i wasn't gonna use it didn't even change any settings.
after opening the app and then pressing home something wierd happened i saw a white screen with HTC in green in the center for about 3-5 seconds my backround with a loading pop-up and nothing else for about another 3-5 seconds. this is happening every time i press the home button or exit out of an app. it's getting infuriating, i'm also getting wicked bad lagg in sense and lot's of hang up's and force closes. also wicked bad battery life. i don't know what to do to fix it.
i have the OTA and rooted last night with unrevoked method, this morning is when i tried the app around 10 or 11 not sure last couple days is a blur.
can anyone help, how can i restore what i had previously, do i have to do a full wipe.
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get used to it if you intend to use sense, the screen you speak of is sort of like the htc sense/rosie intro. If you dont like it you can go vanilla and use another launcher, like adw froyo,launcherpro, or even the extra launcher thats included....
Sounds like you enabled aggressive handling of apps. Can you get in there to turn it off?
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Sounds like you enabled aggressive handling of apps. Can you get in there to turn it off?
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Or just do a factory reset.
also, you are experiencing some isolated problems which leads me to beleive the issue is software related rather than hardware.I have experienced NOT ONE of the issues you speak of. Make sure you update prl. I can vouch for that one. My data was 90% broken till i did. Also try and wipe data, that would prolly fix everything as well.....FYI, i cannot gurantee the problem lies with your hardware OR software. Thats just my diagnosis. Good luck
Thats what it was the agressive handling of processes thanks alot guys feel like a fool.....
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Thats what it was the agressive handling of processes thanks alot guys feel like a fool.....
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Heh...I did that once on my hero. I know the feeling.
some versions of spare parts come with a launcher. the problem is that when you press the home button now, it's trying to goof with /system, which is forcing the reboot. even though you may be rooted, you don't have rw privileges in /system while messing with android.
you may be able to get away with accessing /system and erasing your goofy installed spare parts app. you'll have to do that through adb shell, and the custom recovery. do a search for 'remove apps', you should find it easily enough. i think the thread was moved from dev to general, or q and a.
anything that will call a write to /system (i.e. a rooted app that needs access to it to work right) has the potential to cause the phone to reboot. when i installed adfree, it had the same effect. trying to install hosts (which write to /system/etc) caused a reboot. i had to install hosts through recovery with a push after remount.
hope that helps
Hmm I installed autokiller and it appears to work doesn't mess with anything that is
I really dunno a way of testing that its actually working though if you where looking for a way to manage memory
I was using a task killer but read up on stuff and turned it off just keeping it in case I need it for something that wont close and the phone is running great and battery life keeps getting better and better.
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autokiller
People you need to be careful with autokillers!
Make sure that you are not closing down sense items.
Put anything that says htc or sense on ignore.
If not you are shutting down parts of sense. Then sense has to reboot. Witch is why you see the white screen with the htc logo in the middle.
I don't know if anyone else has come across this, but it seems that I can't get Tasker to actually stay running in the background - it loads up and allows me to create profiles etc, and after clicking the green tick to apply, the Tasker notification appears (to allow it to stay running), but after a few seconds it disappears. I've tried this both with profiles in the app, and after a clean reinstall of the app with nothing setup, and have the same experience.
I'm going to email a bug report to the developer, but just wanted to see if anyone else had also had this issue, to try and figure out what the cause is.
ROM: MCR Ir4
Tasker Version: 1.1.1u2m
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I don't know if anyone else has come across this, but it seems that I can't get Tasker to actually stay running in the background - it loads up and allows me to create profiles etc, and after clicking the green tick to apply, the Tasker notification appears (to allow it to stay running), but after a few seconds it disappears. I've tried this both with profiles in the app, and after a clean reinstall of the app with nothing setup, and have the same experience.
I'm going to email a bug report to the developer, but just wanted to see if anyone else had also had this issue, to try and figure out what the cause is.
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I haven't installed Tasker on my Gnex, but it worked fine on my Nexus S with ICS.
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I haven't installed Tasker on my Gnex, but it worked fine on my Nexus S with ICS.
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Interesting - I had assumed it was an OS incompatibility, but maybe it's something else...
Tasker works for me on G Nexus
Same here....
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Tasker works for me on G Nexus
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Same here....
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Could you tell me - are you both running stock ICS, or a custom ROM?
Stock Galaxy Nexus CDMA
There's a number of threads on the Google support group for Tasker re ICS issues, including notification icon disappearing. Pent's waiting on ICS for his Nexus S to look into it further.
I'm due to receive my GN tomorrow and am a *very* heavy Tasker user so will be interested to see whether I hit any issues..
Either way I have faith that Pent will sort it; he's never let us down before
the icon disappears sometimes for me but when a profile kicks in the icon comes back, so I think it does actually run. For me anyway.
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Running fine for me, stock ICS, light usage (very new)
As for alsex87 I only have an icon when a profile is doing something.
Tasker work perfect in my phone.
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Works fine on my GN too. Agree with other comments that it comes back when profiles change. So I'm pretty sure it's still running.
Well it's looking good so far for my setup; had to tweak tasks setting volume levels as I moved from an Atrix but everything else seems intact (including deactivating the lock screen when in 'sleep' mode). Will know for sure by the weekend.
Re: the notification icon, I have run in foreground unchecked and no icon showing. Doesn't seem to have had a negative effect so far..
It doesn't work for me. Same thing. Allows me to create a profile, but then keeps crashing.
Won't run at all for me, I was assuming it was an ICS compatibility issue. I kept waiting for an update but when I never got one, I figured I would google it. Well, I found here that it's working for most people, so I don't know what it is that's wrong.
I am a heavy Tasker user too. Just got my profiles installed. The "home" profile (wifi near) activates, then both the Tasker icon and my "home" icon disappear.
As a side question is there an easy way to copy the backup files from an old phones sd card to the Nexus? The SD card folder doesnt show up when I plug into my computer.
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I am a heavy Tasker user too. Just got my profiles installed. The "home" profile (wifi near) activates, then both the Tasker icon and my "home" icon disappear.
As a side question is there an easy way to copy the backup files from an old phones sd card to the Nexus? The SD card folder doesnt show up when I plug into my computer.
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I've seen some people leaving it in MTP mode, but I have the best luck transferring files in PTP mode. When you plug it in to a computer, select the various modes by clicking on the USB symbol in the notification tray. Just don't switch it up while moving data.
This isn't immediately pertinent, but Locale (which I'd consider the predecessor to Tasker) seems to work fine. The only problem I have is that I can't split notification volume from ring volume (I silence emails at night but leave ringer on), but that's not Locale's fault as ICS itself doesn't seem to offer the option.
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There's a number of threads on the Google support group for Tasker re ICS issues, including notification icon disappearing. Pent's waiting on ICS for his Nexus S to look into it further.
I'm due to receive my GN tomorrow and am a *very* heavy Tasker user so will be interested to see whether I hit any issues..
Either way I have faith that Pent will sort it; he's never let us down before
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Pent now has ICS - expect reported / found issues to be resolved with the upcoming v1.2 release of Tasker per http://groups.google.com/group/tasker/browse_thread/thread/e3a1ec4dd8e30a0a
Tasker crashes for me when I try to launch it. Running a Sensation with Android 4.0.3.
Recently I started getting this annoying freezing on my dialer. I'll go to enter a number or call a contact and I get this pop-up stating 'Activity Dialer (in process com.android.phone) is not responding.' and get the options to fc or wait. (tried to screenshot but I can't) If it takes to long and I fc, my signal get's an x then goes to the home screen. I've searched and didn't really find any help.
My question is, 1. is this common? and 2. how can I fix this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Device info is r800x vzw stock 2.3.4. thanks in advance.
1) Check if you have recently installed some new apps with bad compatibility.
A stock ROM should be functioning well all the time.
2) If you often gets an "x" which means poor phone signal; you may as well try a new Rom; or simply flashing a newer baseband.
3) I came across this "active dialer non responding" once too; when I used SetCpu to lock the lowest cpu clock at 138Mhz? or so; and it's proved that high-priority low CPU clock setting can generate this "active dialer non responding", as the cpu do not have enough power to respond at that low clock.:silly:
Thanks for the reply. The 'x' that I get is after I click to force close. Only for a quick second, then it gets signal again.
And I was using setcpu but I changed to antutu cpu master. Do you think if I upped the minimum settings that it might help it? Or do you have any other suggestions?
Use a new dialer?
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How so? I use Go Dialer EX but it's the actual stock 2.3.4 r800x phone. I've actually tried using the Xperia S and another dialer but no other dialers actually worked...
Anyone else have any help?
Hello everyone,
I just bought my S3 last Sunday. Since then I have noticed several issues with it and I'm wondering if it's worth exchanging. They seem to be both software and hardware issues.
1. It's pretty laggy. For such a "groundbreaking" phone this is lagging much more than my old Sensation. It's rarely smooth switching between screens and going from lock screen to home screen is also laggy. Overall, it's not very smooth. Is this common on this device? Maybe I'm expecting too much.
2. The music player skips and repeats A LOT. Whenever a song is playing, it will constantly have gaps in the music. It will just stop playing for a brief second but then continue normally. It also will repeat parts of a song, such as saying some lyrics twice.
3. Whenever someone calls me, my voice sounds "distant" to them. If I call someone my voice sounds totally normal but when I receive the call I am either echoing or I sound like I'm holding my phone away from my face.
I guess my biggest problem is the lag. It really bothers me since it's supposed to be such an amazing and smooth phone. It takes several times longer to load apps and things than my old Sensation did, and I don't have many apps installed at all. Opening the app drawer is consistently laggy as well.
Are these common issues or do you guys think it would be worthwhile to exchange the phone? As of right now, I'm not very pleased with it.
Thanks for all your input, guys!
Edit: Also, whenever I hit the home button it takes several seconds to load it up. Is there a way to speed this up?
Also, I am not rooted yet. I always like to spend a few weeks with the stock setup before rooting.
Edit 2: Last thing, S Voice is a piece of **** on this. Literally. It takes FOREVER to load up and RARELY does what I say. Does this actually work for you guys or is S voice generally useless?
Not common at all. Exchange.
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Not common at all. Exchange.
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thanks! i'll exchange it tomorrow. Are the S3's generally pretty smooth? Any lag at all?
alecjake said:
thanks! i'll exchange it tomorrow. Are the S3's generally pretty smooth? Any lag at all?
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Smooth as butter.
Have you tried installing the latest OTA? It may help with some of your problems. For the home key lag, double press to open s voice, then go into settings and turn off double press home to open.
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1. Try this. Settings >Developer Options > Window animation scale ->change to 0.5x or off. Transition animation scale >animation is off
Also make sure Do not keep activities under developer options is unchecked. Check it first then uncheck it. This should solve the redraw issue on teh homescreen (at least it did for me)
2. Did not happen to me
3. Turn off noise reduction
For the distant sound issue open the dialer>call settings>additional settings>uncheck noise reduction. Even running unrooted the interface should be very smooth however.
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Have you tried installing the latest OTA? It may help with some of your problems. For the home key lag, double press to open s voice, then go into settings and turn off double press home to open.
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that is yet another odd thing about my device. it claims I have the latest OTA, when I know I don't. Also, it says the music hub is still unavailable (even though I know several people who have it running)
I haven't actually used s-voice myself, but a lot of reviews said it wasn't very good.
Another thing you can try for the lag you mentioned is in Developer Options, change the Force GPU Rendering option.
Also try limiting background processes to 3 or 4. Though you shouldn't have to resort to this. If other options don't work id still take it back for exchange.
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wyuan said:
1. Try this. Settings >Developer Options > Window animation scale ->change to 0.5x or off. Transition animation scale >animation is off
Also make sure Do not keep activities under developer options is unchecked. Check it first then uncheck it. This should solve the redraw issue on teh homescreen (at least it did for me)
2. Did not happen to me
3. Turn off noise reduction
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I just tried all the things you listed in number 1 and it is definitely faster, in a way. When I click the home button, the wallpaper pops up immediately. The apps however take significantly longer to load up and the app drawer still takes quite a while to load. I think I am stuck with a return. Thank you for all your help!
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Edit: Also, whenever I hit the home button it takes several seconds to load it up. Is there a way to speed this up?
Also, I am not rooted yet. I always like to spend a few weeks with the stock setup before rooting.
Edit 2: Last thing, S Voice is a piece of **** on this. Literally. It takes FOREVER to load up and RARELY does what I say. Does this actually work for you guys or is S voice generally useless?
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To speed up the home screen button:
Double tap home screen (bring up s-voice)
Tap menu softkey
Tap settings
Uncheck launch s-voice
You will need to do this with your new device as well.
And s-voice is generally useless, or as far as I've found.
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Yea s-voice makes home button laggy. And have u tried to factory reset it?
Do a master reset without restoring back up. Sometimes this all that is necessary on any Rom. If that fails do a buyers remorse exchange.
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Yea s-voice makes home button laggy. And have u tried to factory reset it?
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wow. i cant believe i didnt think of this. i just did a factory reset and it is a world of difference. so much faster and smoother! i still think i'm going to exchange it tomorrow, however. the speaker issue worries me since it is probably a hardware issue
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wow. i cant believe i didnt think of this. i just did a factory reset and it is a world of difference. so much faster and smoother! i still think i'm going to exchange it tomorrow, however. the speaker issue worries me since it is probably a hardware issue
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Yea it usually helps especially with the weird problems. But now if u are still having problems then yea take it back. Because now u ruled almost everything out or have done what u could have. Good luck
some people just want to complain.....
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Mine is so smooth. But I have not rooted it. WIthout any memory eating apps running, it is not only smooth but actually bolting fast!!:victory::victory::victory:
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some people just want to complain.....
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Thank you for making your own point.
make sure power save option is disable.it will make it very laggy
I haven't had any problems with my device. But a lot of times when I'm talking to my girlfriend she always asks if I put her on speakerphone and I haven't. She sometimes also says she hears an echo.
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I've been on Andromadus Mimicry for a few months now and my biggest gripe is the super slow Phone and Contacts app. Incoming calls take a long time to display full details, tapping on the phone icon can sometimes take up to 10s for the dialer to pop up.
Is there a way to substitute a GB Phone.apk or something?
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I've been on Andromadus Mimicry for a few months now and my biggest gripe is the super slow Phone and Contacts app. Incoming calls take a long time to display full details, tapping on the phone icon can sometimes take up to 10s for the dialer to pop up.
Is there a way to substitute a GB Phone.apk or something?
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U can try your self. It is not big deal, just make backup before that. I noticed (have issues with the personal ringtones) that 3rd party apps with this purpose using contacts and contact storage as well. I think the problem is low priority process of phone and contacts app cuz of that sometimes play personal ringtone sometimes not. I'd make all of my ringtones *.ogg for minimize cpu usage (followed result from google search). I didn't experience problems with dialer and contacts, especially any kind of lag.
P.S. I'm on Mimicry 1.5 ICS as well
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U can try your self. It is not big deal, just make backup before that. I noticed (have issues with the personal ringtones) that 3rd party apps with this purpose using contacts and contact storage as well. I think the problem is low priority process of phone and contacts app cuz of that sometimes play personal ringtone sometimes not. I'd make all of my ringtones *.ogg for minimize cpu usage (followed result from google search). I didn't experience problems with dialer and contacts, especially any kind of lag.
P.S. I'm on Mimicry 1.5 ICS as well
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Oh! so when you made your custom ringtones as ogg, do they work? Mine works only some times. I think the dialer/phone thing is somehow hardware related. some people see it. Some don't.
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Oh! so when you made your custom ringtones as ogg, do they work? Mine works only some times. I think the dialer/phone thing is somehow hardware related. some people see it. Some don't.
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No, not really works. I'd give up and install app for random ringtone
I use a custom mp3 ringtone on my sdcard and it has never not used the tone on incoming call. I also don't have lag with incoming caller ID or the phone/dialer app taking a long time to load.
The reason I'm saying this is because surely there's a difference somewhere that causes lag and other issues with these apps that is influenced outside of the rom itself.
It's frustrating to hear reports like this as a developer and not know how to help people or how to reproduce them yourself locally.
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I use a custom mp3 ringtone on my sdcard and it has never not used the tone on incoming call. I also don't have lag with incoming caller ID or the phone/dialer app taking a long time to load.
The reason I'm saying this is because surely there's a difference somewhere that causes lag and other issues with these apps that is influenced outside of the rom itself.
It's frustrating to hear reports like this as a developer and not know how to help people or how to reproduce them yourself locally.
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On incoming call sometimes show only number and it takes about a sec to check in contacts and show the name... I think this is related to the issue that i described HERE
I've started experience same problems since a month, so I'll wake up thread.
Is there Phone app that I can try to replace build-in one?
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