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the problem I have is anytime I open anything theres a lag of 1 to 3 seconds at times. when I type it takes 1-2 seconds for it to catch up with what I had typed. its getting real annoying and don't have much programs open, is there some kind of tweak that can fix this. it would really turn my productivity up ten folds... thanks
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the problem I have is anytime I open anything theres a lag of 1 to 3 seconds at times. when I type it takes 1-2 seconds for it to catch up with what I had typed. its getting real annoying and don't have much programs open, is there some kind of tweak that can fix this. it would really turn my productivity up ten folds... thanks
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yea dude, flash a new rom, what happened is your windows directory got loaded and is slowing down the preformance on your entire ppc.. some of the newer roms have fixed this.
but se I had recently flashed over to crc's 14.1.
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but se I had recently flashed over to crc's 14.1.
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when you open file explorer and browse into windows directory. how long does it take to load?
CRC is usually fully loaded, hence it will be slow. Try a lite ROM and see if you have any performance difference.
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CRC is usually fully loaded, hence it will be slow. Try a lite ROM and see if you have any performance difference.
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this could thoretically happen on a light rom also, if he were to install allot of apps that are heavy on installing to the windows directory.
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this could thoretically happen on a light rom also, if he were to install allot of apps that are heavy on installing to the windows directory.
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Agreed, performance goes down once you start installing many applications or quit flashing for a few days
Wasn't it with CRC's roms that Odd numbered roms were the stable roms and even numbered roms were in developement?
Could be using a developement rom that has a few bugs to be worked out....
Cheers...
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CRC is usually fully loaded, hence it will be slow. Try a lite ROM and see if you have any performance difference.
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Just use CRC r13, its stable and more performance than r14.1
Visit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=387990
im currently running now 13.0 stable but still the same, is there something within the registry i can do or something or could it be the auto word completion thing?
i do have quite some software on my phone but majority of them are utility programs that help me clean and or tweak my settings.
i dont wanna crank up my core speed as that will already kill the juice of my battery of what little i do get out of the day,
Use advanced config to make sure you are running with .net framework 3.5... I found a few of the newer roms have it listed as "disabled"...
I can confirm this slowdown. I tried different roms with and w/o manilla 2d interface. Recently, there has been a weird change in the codebase that causes an extreme slowdown in some applications. For example, I am a regular POWDER player, which is an awesome roguelike game. a month or two ago, I had no problems playing POWDER. But the last few roms gave me great trouble. Now the game freezes every 5-10 seconds for a few seconds. I know there is something wrong with the roms because the game is the same game I played 2 months ago. And I don't install many applications to use /windows directory. actually, I install almost nothing and this slow down hits even without installing any applications.
I always use naked roms, but recently there has been a serious lack of them. The reason "may" be the sort of bloated roms. I just hope that somebody comes with a truly naked (.net only) rom so that we can test this hypothesis.
I guess I found the source of the problem. fonts. extra fonts.
One of the programs I install by default after every flash puts three different fonts into the \windows folder. I renamed these fonts and restarted the pda. The annoying slowdown when playing POWDER is now almost gone. Once in a while it still gives me a short freeze, but these freezes are not as frequent as before. The game is much more playable now.
by the way, when I was wandering through my windows folder, I realized that there are an enourmous number of youtube files in it. How unfortunate, because I never use the youtube application. Appearantly, too much storage space is wasted for a program that I never use. I will definitely consider a non-youtube non-manilla non-htchome ROM for the next flash.
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I can confirm this slowdown. I tried different roms with and w/o manilla 2d interface. Recently, there has been a weird change in the codebase that causes an extreme slowdown in some applications. For example, I am a regular POWDER player, which is an awesome roguelike game. a month or two ago, I had no problems playing POWDER. But the last few roms gave me great trouble. Now the game freezes every 5-10 seconds for a few seconds. I know there is something wrong with the roms because the game is the same game I played 2 months ago. And I don't install many applications to use /windows directory. actually, I install almost nothing and this slow down hits even without installing any applications.
I always use naked roms, but recently there has been a serious lack of them. The reason "may" be the sort of bloated roms. I just hope that somebody comes with a truly naked (.net only) rom so that we can test this hypothesis.
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here is a very naked 20924 build for you to test your theory on dude! it's still beta but will be release soon
http://captfiero.com/roms/joshkoss/Tests/V11_Light3G.rar
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here is a very naked 20924 build for you to test your theory on dude! it's still beta but will be release soon
http://captfiero.com/roms/joshkoss/Tests/V11_Light3G.rar
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downloading... it is sort of late now to flash and test but I will do it first thing tomorrow morning.
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downloading... it is sort of late now to flash and test but I will do it first thing tomorrow morning.
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ok, couldn't wait till morning. I have been testing the rom for last hour and oh God!... this is the best, fastest, most stable ROM I have flashed in a while. I installed my regular set of software and it is still lightning fast. the windows directory loads in under a second. Probably something like 0.3 seconds!!! All applications are so responsive and everything works so fast, I am finding it difficult to not to cry. Let's see what will happen after a couple of days. But seriously, my hermes hasn't been this awesome for the last two months.
the links not working
Look around, there are a heap of Lite roms available at the moment... Try Darkvision or Tai_SW's rom... Just to name a couple...
I'm following... so heres my idea. I'm not gonna flash my phone just yet (I got a good rom working on it), but...
Can someone either point me to an ultra light rom that has titanium home, or possibly explain how to get titanium onto a non-titanium rom? I know thats like asking "how do you build an engine" or something, but is there a good starting point?
All I want is a rom thats fast, has titanium home, and has the Touchflo 2d phone skin (for big fingers).
P.S>. Why do roms slow down over time for no reason? I've noticed the latest crop of 6.5 roms run good for a day or two, then start going REALLY slow. I can't nail it down.. I try Oxios but it doesn't help. I'm not installing anything either. The honeycomb gets jerky, the "red end button" starts getting a lag / not working at all, etc.
Thanks.
Hello guys! I need your help and advise.
I need to use my kaiser to work. That's uhh.. receiving calls, making calls, sms, WiFi @ night to sync new contacts to my Google account... you know, small tasks.
I'm using as of yet CM7 with 2.3.32 (#63 IIRC) Data on SD Partition. Now.. although stable (no reboots, no crashes... seems OK) Its painfully slow.
If someone calls me, i have to wait about 7 ringtones before i know who's calling me. So.. i need your advise! Should i use a Donut ? perhaps a 2.6.25 ?
Please be honest, state your opinion and its basis
UPDATE 20110304:
I'm using as of yet:
VaniljEclair RLS11 - A fast & stable CM 5.0.8 for Vogue/Kaiser/Polaris [2010-08-19]
Battery rocks (i'm using a 2.8Ah).
Calls work pefectly.
SMS's work perfectly
Some apps apear to have a .... strange issue. They simply... don't open. But thats temporary. And a reboot fixes.
WiFi works (using latest from liquid with module update).
Quite happy
UPDATE 20110306:
Still no issues. One thing is granted, when i turn the WiFi on and let it sync... bogs down considerably. OC via atools to 490.
Will try the other option now, incubus26c's versions.
UPDATE 20110309:
Using incubus26c's with kernel .25 downloaded and edited through atools.
Been sufering from random phone problems. Simply shutdown. Cannot enable AirPlane mode. Have to reboot.
BTW, anyone has any other sugestions about roms ??
UPDATE 20110310:
Noted that my hardware keyb is sometimes eating letters... notably.. space.
Will check settings to see if disabling something helps.
Try using builds like those by incubus26c's or VaniljEclair. I've had both and enjoyed them greatly, going back to WM for the only reasons of better camera (autofocus never worked on droid for Kaiser) and ad-hoc WiFi support.
And... a few tips.
1. Use phone prioritizer (probably in VanilJEclair). This cuts delay between calling and receiving a call by two times.
2. Odexed firmware is faster, than deodexed. Yeah, no themes anymore, but you want a working device, not a box for bells and whistles, aintcha?
3. 2.6.25 is still up to date. Sometimes you'll need a patch to make wifi work, but that is a reasonable price for better speed.
What about donut? No, it is not faster then any 2.x droids.
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Try using builds like those by incubus26c's or VaniljEclair. I've had both and enjoyed them greatly, going back to WM for the only reasons of better camera (autofocus never worked on droid for Kaiser) and ad-hoc WiFi support.
And... a few tips.
1. Use phone prioritizer (probably in VanilJEclair). This cuts delay between calling and receiving a call by two times.
2. Odexed firmware is faster, than deodexed. Yeah, no themes anymore, but you want a working device, not a box for bells and whistles, aintcha?
3. 2.6.25 is still up to date. Sometimes you'll need a patch to make wifi work, but that is a reasonable price for better speed.
What about donut? No, it is not faster then any 2.x droids.
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Clear enough.
Will report back with more info
Thank you
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And again.
Still no issues. One thing is granted, when i turn the WiFi on and let it sync... bogs down considerably. OC via atools to 490.
1. get RogueTools from Market to overclock the device without atools
2. a question from my side: are Gingerbones worth it?
I actually used and tweaked a Gingerbones. Was quite good, not as fast of course, but then again, more eye candy.
I'm not getting any instability, just plain ... slow during sync. But this as been a standard with any version i've tested.
wifi sync lagging seems to be quite common for all low-end droids, both native and cooked. As long as it happens mostly with encrypted networks, i would suppose the reason is some sort of cryptographic calculations MSM72xx delegates to CPU.
Though, since all unsecured networks I encountered were very slow (256k or so), there's a chance the lag nests in higher bandwidth, causing data to be downloaded a bit too fast to be processed - sometimes HSDPA connection makes the gadget lag, too.
daedric said:
UPDATE 20110310:
Noted that my hardware keyb is sometimes eating letters... notably.. space.
Will check settings to see if disabling something helps.
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There is strange polling behavior with hardware keyboard on 2.6.25
Though I love stability in 2.6.25 kernel, the Eating of Space button is quiet frustrating when I am texting my boss :| (which I often do) and I press Enter to send right away (just as I am chatting).
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wifi sync lagging seems to be quite common for all low-end droids, both native and cooked. As long as it happens mostly with encrypted networks, i would suppose the reason is some sort of cryptographic calculations MSM72xx delegates to CPU.
Though, since all unsecured networks I encountered were very slow (256k or so), there's a chance the lag nests in higher bandwidth, causing data to be downloaded a bit too fast to be processed - sometimes HSDPA connection makes the gadget lag, too.
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So... if the massive slow(ness?? is this a word??) is coming for a bogged CPU on SSL encode/decode, we could... say... use OsMonitor to check?
Which process should be giving lots of CPU usage ?? Android System ?
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There is strange polling behavior with hardware keyboard on 2.6.25
Though I love stability in 2.6.25 kernel, the Eating of Space button is quiet frustrating when I am texting my boss :| (which I often do) and I press Enter to send right away (just as I am chatting).
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So... perhaps moving to 2.6.32 should provide me with it a better keyboard polling, at a stability price ??
P.S.
Anyone else would like to suggest another rom ?? BTW... i'm going to try and strip a gingerbones (by Aceyome if i remember his nick right) to gain extra stability.
I think yes. Though I have used .32 kernel for so less time than .25 so as I need the Mass storage functionality, which works perfect with dual mount on .25 kernel. Try Fat Free Froyo by thoughtlesskyle, if you really want a vanilla build
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I think yes. Though I have used .32 kernel for so less time than .25 so as I need the Mass storage functionality, which works perfect with dual mount on .25 kernel. Try Fat Free Froyo by thoughtlesskyle, if you really want a vanilla build
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Hey dark_prince, OFF TOPIC question:
How is the Froyo 2.2 x86 ?
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Hey dark_prince, OFF TOPIC question:
How is the Froyo 2.2 x86 ?
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Still not to be used as Primary OS. Alot of things don't work and force close on my D420. Though x86 build works pitch perfect with an EEEPC. It's blazing fast and stripped down to just 80MB and has Hardware OpenGL ES support for intel 915,945,965 chipsets. 1280x800 isnt supported fully as of yet (You can run HDPI one). Market doesnt work, but a proprietary App downloader is provided. Also, keyboard works perfect and mouse emulation is nice. Ethernet + Wifi support depends if kernel supports.
Why doesn't the market work??
(market! y u no work?)
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Why doesn't the market work??
(market! y u no work?)
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It crashes randomly with the build, thats why it was removed. But there is another handy app installer which comes with every x86 build
I'm new to using a rooted device and installing custom ROMS, and I love it!
I've loaded the latest Blackout ICS version 3.0.0, and am really impressed by how well it works. I immediately noticed that battery life is better than anything I've used previously, always different versions of Gingerbread. So that's a big improvement straight away. As others have highlighted, it's a bit laggy at times, but I overclocked the CPU and it runs much more smoothly. Even just 1.2 GHZ produced a noticeable improvement, and I'm now on just under 1.5 GHz, which I gather is a safe setting. I was worried about this affecting battery life, but if it has it's barely noticeable. I suppose it only runs at the fastest speed when it needs to.
The only problem with the ROM is the auto-brightness, which jumps up and down even in fixed light conditions. Not sure if the developers pick these threads up, but that is really the only issue I've found.
As the DHD seems to be the only device not to be getting an official port of ICS, I'd definitely recommend giving this ROM a try.
With all these other devices getting updates, is it likely that more fully working ICS ports for the DHD will be on the horizon?
Really? You get better battery? I suspect i get a little less battery time...
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Really? You get better battery? I suspect i get a little less battery time...
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Yes its noticeably better. Is this just me or have others found the same?
Sent from my HTC Desire HD using xda app-developers app
I must say I'm getting good battery as well.
Sent from my Inspire 4G using xda premium
You should also try AOSPX and Nik Project X. The first one is stock ICS and the second one is ICS with Sense 4.0. I tried both of em and they work flawlessly on my DHD.
Haven't tried Blackout yet because I saw in the thread that there were still quite a few issues to be solved.
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Really? You get better battery? I suspect i get a little less battery time...
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I was getting excellent battery life as well, but I suspect it might be killing my data connection when the phone is asleep.
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You should also try AOSPX and Nik Project X. The first one is stock ICS and the second one is ICS with Sense 4.0. I tried both of em and they work flawlessly on my DHD.
Haven't tried Blackout yet because I saw in the thread that there were still quite a few issues to be solved.
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I like the look of Nik Project X, though the final post on the forum raises an issue with not being able to get HSDPA data speed. I'll keep tabs on that forum and maybe give it a try.
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I like the look of Nik Project X, though the final post on the forum raises an issue with not being able to get HSDPA data speed. I'll keep tabs on that forum and maybe give it a try.
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Hmm, haven't really paid attention to that (I 'm mostly on WIFI). I 'll do a speedtest when I get the chance.
Edit: Did a quick test and I 'm getting 3,6Mb down / 1,6Mb up (inside a server room right now so not the best connection). Seems quite normal for my network (7,2Mb is max speed I can get from my provider). Of course the max HSDPA speed is alot higher but that 's something I cannot test.
Hi,
I've just installed, and recovered my apps, as i've wiped battery calibration i cannot talk about it, but OC is excellent. Even in default frequency the desktop turns without any lags, but as you mentionned, sometime there are some lags (typing on keyboard for instance) but i guess it's linked to the OC profile changing , try in performance instead of on demand, this should solve that.
Regarding the brightness i agree , it seems it change on "i don't know which parameter" from bright to low brightness.. so i've installed Bright day app to set the brightness along the day at low value and i've set on the main desktop the brightness widget to up from system parameters to push it up when i need, then bright day will recover the setting after a while..
Br
Trixo
trixo said:
Hi,
I've just installed, and recovered my apps, as i've wiped battery calibration i cannot talk about it, but OC is excellent. Even in default frequency the desktop turns without any lags, but as you mentionned, sometime there are some lags (typing on keyboard for instance) but i guess it's linked to the OC profile changing , try in performance instead of on demand, this should solve that.
Regarding the brightness i agree , it seems it change on "i don't know which parameter" from bright to low brightness.. so i've installed Bright day app to set the brightness along the day at low value and i've set on the main desktop the brightness widget to up from system parameters to push it up when i need, then bright day will recover the setting after a while..
Br
Trixo
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So after few days of testing here are my feelings :
Takeing account of deamon set to 1,2Ghz, i can still reach 1d and half near 2days without charging , with a light use :
Allways connected to network though HSDPA (as i take train it often check the network to change the connected cell)
Playing 20-30min 3times a days to Pirates of carabean (3D game multiplayer so connecting to the network)
Surfing a bit
no music
no video
With an harder use i reached 1d wake up to sleep:
still same network condition
playing double time at least (1 to 1,5h 3times a days)
Surfing more (1h)
no music an no video
using battery eater apps (windguru) a bit
to resume my feeling on battery is excelent, i've noticed a light improvement on idle battery drop, a bit accelerated over time (due certainly to used app remaining processes.
Let's go now to the issue i've noticed :
-Back tactil button doesn't work on phone screen while it works everywhere else
-Using smoth rosie to supersmooth show a light display trouble when reducing the app drawer windows (doubling the reducing animation)
-Light keyboard trouble doubling the A letter some time (like if the touchscreen has been typed twice when its not the case)
-blackout tweak shortcut from top task bar doesn't linked (need to go through the app drawer to access it)
-Folder creation missing from widget/app shortcut addition screen (or i didn't found it) , i use the moving app on another icon to create it (i don't know if it's the ICS new way of creating folder on desktop)
The plus i've found (don't know if it's an ICS feature) : create a folder in the lower task bar : can jump from 4 shortcut to full app contained in your phone accessible from the locked screen : I loved that !
The overall impression is really great and for an old phone that "doesn't give a good experience of ICS" following HTC, i feel this ROM fullfill my expectation from ICS on my Desire HD !
Many thanks to the Blackout team !
Br
Trixo
Sabsa Prime 4.1 works good too.
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Sabsa Prime 4.1 works good too.
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Haha.. very funny pub..
Btw, testing further again, i've found the sms issue (from my point of view it was linked to transferring sms not to content,) I'll give a try to the 3.1 to chek this out
I confirm the keyboard double "a" in certain text box, particularly in sms typing or web address typing
Lags linked to overclocking
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Trixo
Swell6 said:
I'm new to using a rooted device and installing custom ROMS, and I love it!
I've loaded the latest Blackout ICS version 3.0.0, and am really impressed by how well it works. I immediately noticed that battery life is better than anything I've used previously, always different versions of Gingerbread. So that's a big improvement straight away. As others have highlighted, it's a bit laggy at times, but I overclocked the CPU and it runs much more smoothly. Even just 1.2 GHZ produced a noticeable improvement, and I'm now on just under 1.5 GHz, which I gather is a safe setting. I was worried about this affecting battery life, but if it has it's barely noticeable. I suppose it only runs at the fastest speed when it needs to.
The only problem with the ROM is the auto-brightness, which jumps up and down even in fixed light conditions. Not sure if the developers pick these threads up, but that is really the only issue I've found.
As the DHD seems to be the only device not to be getting an official port of ICS, I'd definitely recommend giving this ROM a try.
With all these other devices getting updates, is it likely that more fully working ICS ports for the DHD will be on the horizon?
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For the life of me I cannot find whre to over/underclock or even set govonors
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For the life of me I cannot find whre to over/underclock or even set govonors
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check for the "deamon" app in your app drawer
Are there any known bugs with mms? I can not send or recieve mms with this Rom..
Imonol said:
Are there any known bugs with mms? I can not send or recieve mms with this Rom..
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Yes. Some can't send at all. Some have data drop in and out while sending and some have no issues. Seems weird to me since the hardware is supposed to be the same for the most part. I think apn and radio combo has the most to do with it.
Sent from my Inspire 4G using xda premium
Love this ROM...
This ROM would be my daily driver if the Wifi hot-spot worked. Has anyone found a work-around or fix? Wifi Tether didn't work either btw. I know it's WIP by the devs but they said it wasn't a major priority for them (Boooooo lol) Fingers crossed for v3.2
As noticed recently in the official thread, i've also noticed the magical battery jumps, i first guessed it was linked to the battery calibration wipe i've done before to flash the Blackout3.0 rom, but i can sometime still see this trouble also.
It happen even phone is in use but every time inbetween 30 and 5 percent of battery left. it goes down to low then readjust it to an higher value without any reason.
The phenomen come back lately less often, but maybe devs can check this out. I'm running on a SFR Desire HD recognized as an incredible S on the 3.0 rom.
BR
Trixo
I finally rooted my desire Z a couple of weeks ago after deciding I've had enough of the poor performance and Sense always having to reload after I exited an app.
So I installed AudacityB5 rom and at first it was looking good, good performance, pretty snappy! ALOT better than my old stock htc sense.
But now after having installed alot of the apps I used to have plus a few new ones(aorund 34 total) i'm noticing a drop in performance, not so fast and snappy all the time and the launcher have had to reload a couple of times...
So I have contemplated if I should just downgrade to GB to see if that helps or is there something I can do to improve performance on my current setup? (cause I really like the look and feel of android 4.0)
EDIT: I searched a bit before this and I've been reading about v6 supercharger and multitasking mods and whatnots... can anyone explain to me what this is all about?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1714187
Thanks! I actually spent the last half hour reading up on that rom and came to the conclusion that it might be what I was looking for. So I will try that soon!
Sent from my HTC Vision using Tapatalk 2
So, I've been using the mimicry rom for a little while now and it's a definite improvement I'd say.
But I am experiencing an annoying fault, and I'm not sure if its the mimicry rom or a fault with ICS itself. But I can't download or receive mms even though apn settings are ok. Now I can't even send mms... Any help as to what might be wrong?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/search.php?searchid=163373682
http://forum.xda-developers.com/search.php?searchid=163373840
Yeah read all those threads, nothing helps, does jellybean experience the same problems? I'm gonna try a sense rom and a JB rom and if none of those helps its back to cm7 I guess...
Sent from my HTC Vision using Tapatalk 2
Have used flinnys jellybean build now, and at first it was the same problem there, unable to send mms, but then i just chose "reset to default" or something like that and anfter that it has worked.
Are these settings stored in the sim card or does the phone download them from some place or what? Because the apn settings are basically the same as what is on my providers (OneCall) website except for the apn names which is the same as the network name, "networknorway"
Sent from my HTC Vision using Tapatalk 2
Try Flinny Andromadus CM10.1 (jellybean 4.2.2). I highly recommend it, it transforms the phone. Lots of new features plus it's faster. DL the latest build here: http://andromadus.flinny.org/?q=node/34
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Try Flinny Andromadus CM10.1 (jellybean 4.2.2). I highly recommend it, it transforms the phone. Lots of new features plus it's faster. DL the latest build here: http://andromadus.flinny.org/?q=node/34
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Yeah, I've been using build 20 since friday now, it does seem faster than build 19, still some lag from time to time but then again it's an old phone so
I'm in a similar situation to the OP, wondering what settings and modifications I can enable/install to get some extra performance out of my Desire Z. I'm running Flinny's Andromadus CM10.1 Build 19 (updated from a fresh install of 17 w/ full wipe, unsure whether that matters) and while it's certainly useable I often find my phone slowing to a crawl or throwing me "Application Not Responding" notices, sometimes even locking up to the point where the screen is stuck on black and battery removal is required. So far the only settings I've changed are the CPU min/max, currently set to 368 and 1200 respectively using the Interactive governor.
I've read through multiple threads with multiple suggestions and conflicting opinions, so I wanted to check here before doing anything drastic. So far I've seen suggested:
• Increasing VM Heap size (not sure if this would positively or negatively impact performance considering the Z's limited RAM)
• Creating a swap partition on the SD card
• Forcing 2D GPU rendering
• Setting a limit of ~2 for backgrounded apps (tried this, but didn't remember setting on reboot)
• Using a utility to move apps to the SD card
• Enabling Kernel Samepage Messaging
• Changing the I/O Scheduler (not sure what this would really do, or which one would be best for performance)
...so which ones do I do? All? None? Play around and see what works best for me? I really don't care about multitasking all that much, all I'm looking for is a more fluid UI and less application lags/lockups/freezes.
Thanks in advance for the help, by the way! I've become very attached to the hardware of my Desire Z and would like to get as much use out of it as I possibly can.
I know reducing the number of background processes to 2 or 3 makes the phone supper snappy for me. Without that I'm experiencing the same issues as you are. However, this setting causes certain background processes to halt and hence background notifications from apps such as facebook might simply seize to function properly.
I've been struggling with the issue of responsiveness, apps not responding, sluggishness, etc. ever since I started flashing custom ROMs on my G2 (so basically since day 1, somewhere in 2010). Alas, setting the hard, low limit for background processes is the best workaround I managed to find so far. I tried Supercharger (helps just a tiny bit), creating a swap partition (makes the phone even slower), kernel samepage messaging (no difference), changing VM heap size (no difference), and other possible solutions and hints I found here and there.
Cheers
tommern said:
I finally rooted my desire Z a couple of weeks ago after deciding I've had enough of the poor performance and Sense always having to reload after I exited an app.
So I installed AudacityB5 rom and at first it was looking good, good performance, pretty snappy! ALOT better than my old stock htc sense.
But now after having installed alot of the apps I used to have plus a few new ones(aorund 34 total) i'm noticing a drop in performance, not so fast and snappy all the time and the launcher have had to reload a couple of times...
So I have contemplated if I should just downgrade to GB to see if that helps or is there something I can do to improve performance on my current setup? (cause I really like the look and feel of android 4.0)
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Actually, regarding the downgrade, I did it and I am very impressed with the result, a fresh install of CM 7.2: Looks great, is really lag-free and responsive. I don't feel I have lost anything significant by not having the latest Android. Maybe this is also going to change over time, but for now it looks like something to be recommended.
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Actually, regarding the downgrade, I did it and I am very impressed with the result, a fresh install of CM 7.2: Looks great, is really lag-free and responsive. I don't feel I have lost anything significant by not having the latest Android. Maybe this is also going to change over time, but for now it looks like something to be recommended.
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I have considered it a lot recently!! Performance has been very sluggish, but I just upgraded from b20 to build 21 of flinnys 4.2, and wow, I'm seeing around 80-115mb of free ram, we'll see how it holds up over the next few days :fingers-crossed:
If it gets laggy again I'll probably downgrade too...
I've had my galaxy nexus for a while and i've put up with the slow response and lag up until now. Most of my apps take forever to use and other just don't even work anymore because there's too much lag. If i even have more than 1 or 2 apps opened, my phone (for whatever reason) just can't handle it, heats up like crazy, and just drains so much battery that I have to take out my battery and wait for a few minutes just so to let it cool down and reset it.
I've tried a few of the better options which is to root my device, get slimkat android 4.4.4 (which kind of worked), and get lagfix premium along with greenify. But after all of that and trying a few other options, my phone is still as slow and laggy as ever. what else is there that i can do? If I need to provide any other information on my phone, let me know and I will reply.
So just to clarify, when use installed your roms you did a full clean wipe, yes?
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oh wow u are facing the exact same problems as me though im on aokp rom. it got so bad till i decided to come here to look for an alternative solution too! was hoping to find a new lightweight rom to see if it solves the problem since aokp is like long dead.
so you already tried the slimrom, that's normally my solution to phones being slow I personally use ziyan's cm 12.1 beta builds and for me they are really fast and pretty reliable, they've for just a few minor issues I don't mind, maybe that's something for you to consider