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.
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 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.
I like to open multiple tabs, usually 10+.
Eventually I will hit a situation where one of the chrome tabs hang and won't scroll anymore. If I switch to other tabs, they'll still respond, but will be jumpy, like chrome is busy doing something else.
I noticed whenever I get into this state, by broadband connection is pegged at 100% utilization (via SNMP monitor)
Once I close the chrome app, usage immediately goes to 0%.
I've gone through logcat and dmesg to see if there was anything obvious like highly repeated errors. While there were errors, nothing really seemed to indicate Chrome was stuck doing something repeatedly.
It has been doing this for 10 minutes now while I looked through the logs.
There is no video on any of the tabs and the network activity continues even when the screen is shutoff and even if Chrome is not in the foreground anymore.
This is on stock Android with with the exception of SuperSU 1.51 installed. The same behavior was happening before SU got installed though (ie pure stock)
The reason I first noticed this is someone else complained the broadband connection was a little slow and whether I was watching a video, which I was not. I have traffic shaping on my router, so even at 100% things can work ok, just a little slower, so I just assumed someone else was watching a video, but when they asked me, I knew something was not right.
Android is otherwise responsive and the hung tab eventually became responsive again, though if I open more tabs, the chance of a hung tab increase tremendously when I am in this state.
Anybody else experience something like this?
chrome has serious issues... cpu usage is just nuts....
it hangs a lot.. at times it won't register clicks... I use boat in fact paid for boat browser yesterday... first try the free version... btw it supports flash :
Chrome really sucks right now. Hangs for me with one tap of endaget open... Weird and annoying
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Hi All,
Anybody here with the same issue ?
Looks like a software issue/touch unresponsive issue because usually I find it coming back to normal once I press power button and unlock it again.
Sounds like RAM allocation issue, isn't ?
Thinking to sell it. Please suggest if you guys know a better way to deal with it !
Even if I go to SC, I cannot reproduce the issue at that particular time. They will just reset it and give me back, and that where I don't want to waste my time.
Does this looks fruitful to flash stock firmware again by the unbrick way ? I feel like that will be me last try.
You seem new here, so welcome on xda
One thing you should keep in mind is to be as precise as possible when presenting an issue, your description right now is not very clear, by the title it sounded like your phone actually froze, which could have been a ram or even a power management issue, but after reading your post it seems more likely that your display was wet, or that you were charging your phone, capacitive touchscreens are sensible to that.
Usually a frozen phone does not respond to the power button like yours did, and a ram issue seems very unlikely tbh
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You seem new here, so welcome on xda
One thing you should keep in mind is to be as precise as possible when presenting an issue, your description right now is not very clear, by the title it sounded like your phone actually froze, which could have been a ram or even a power management issue, but after reading your post it seems more likely that your display was wet, or that you were charging your phone, capacitive touchscreens are sensible to that.
Usually a frozen phone does not respond to the power button like yours did, and a ram issue seems very unlikely tbh
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My style of using I believe is the same and I had no such issues in my Cool 1 ever in an year. Was a lot better in every way. Picked it up because I loved the looks, but have lost my trust on Huawei. They really need a lot of improvement.
i am having the same issues as the OP (Although i don't know what he means by "going to the SC")
the phone just goes through moments of extreme lag for about 10-30 seconds, sometimes longer, and it makes the phone COMPLETELY unusable during those times. it happens at least once every other day or so, sometimes several times a day, and sometimes it only lasts about 10 seconds, although on a few occasions, it has lasted several minutes, the phone will "attempt" to respond to inputs, but it gets nowhere quick, opening apps i did not click on, closing apps that weren't open, black-screening, half-screening (app on half the screen), etc.. sometimes i have to just power cycle..
i have the exact same feeling as the OP in that i want to sell the phone. (although i type much better, i'll assume english is a second language for him/her)
i like EMUI a lot.. although i think i want a galaxy s8/s9 now.
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Tirken said:
i am having the same issues as the OP (Although i don't know what he means by "going to the SC")
the phone just goes through moments of extreme lag for about 10-30 seconds, sometimes longer, and it makes the phone COMPLETELY unusable during those times. it happens at least once every other day or so, sometimes several times a day, and sometimes it only lasts about 10 seconds, although on a few occasions, it has lasted several minutes, the phone will "attempt" to respond to inputs, but it gets nowhere quick, opening apps i did not click on, closing apps that weren't open, black-screening, half-screening (app on half the screen), etc.. sometimes i have to just power cycle..
i have the exact same feeling as the OP in that i want to sell the phone. (although i type much better, i'll assume english is a second language for him/her)
i like EMUI a lot.. although i think i want a galaxy s8/s9 now.
BND-L24 HONOR 7X B140 no root
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Since yours is the us variant, I'm assuming you've got 3 gb of ram instead of 4 gb, in which case a ram issue seems much more likely.
Not much of an issue actually, just that you probably had lots of apps open at the same time, leading to almost full ram (so the system starts closing background and even foreground apps if needed, leading to the strange behaviour you noticed).
Just remember to close apps you don't use and you'll be fine
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Just remember to close apps you don't use and you'll be fine
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It's 2018 and I think the OP and I know how smartphones work. I am coming from a phone with 2GB RAM and it has no such issues, no matter how many apps and/or games are open. Google explicitly states that closing background apps is unnecessary, and I should think EMUI offers an improvement over stock Android, not a detrimental experience. However, if you are correct and it is the RAM, it is not acceptable and needs to be fixed or I'm buying a new phone from a different company. In today's world, phones will open links to Chrome and from Chrome open reddit, xda app, pinterest, link to Facebook, share to Twitter, etc etc.. every time I click on a button I should not be having to back track to make sure I only have a certain amount of apps open. Nougat limits max open apps to 20 BTW, marshmallow it was 30.. But RAM management CPU management should be better. If it's of any interest, my reported "free" ram always stays at or above 1-1.5GB so I don't think its ram.. CPU or software problem, possibly.. But my Temps are good as well. Yes it's the 3GB version
Just a quick thought of something you could check (I also have the US 3GB version and was experiencing the same issue). Open up Settings > Battery, and other the "Other" section click "Consumption". See if there's any apps there that are keeping the phone awake and preventing it from sleeping. I would get constant lag after only a few hours of use, and it was intermittent just like you're experiencing. I was about to send the phone back, but checked this setting first. Turns out, the CNN app was running the CPU at nearly 100% for hours on end and preventing the phone from deep sleeping. Once I uninstalled that app, I haven't had issues since then. Could be something similar, just a thought. YMMV.
And by the way, it's NOT the ram. 3GB is plenty. You can see how much is being used on the app select screen, and I've never used more than 1.5 with a ton of apps in the background.
Let me help you there guys....i got the US variant too and has these freezing and lags all over the place, what i discover and did was:
1- Not all the apps works well with the phone hardware(they told me that somewhere) so try to test the apps you put on the phone.
2-Delete all the unnecessary apps from emui, that will give you less lag.
3-Check the battery consuming apps like the guy said and if you want turn on the close apps on screen lock.
Now after all of these my phone have been moving better but the problem isnt the ram, is the software so wait a little more so they can fix this cause is really a good value phone
It has to be the RAM management. Huawei must have optimized the software for 4GB, and then released a US 3GB version without changing anything, so it's screwed up even though phone is showing lots of free RAM.
Wao man thats the best explanation for this problem thanks man
It isn't and never was a RAM thing. Android's memory management essentially force closes apps (but shows them in recents) if it needs more memory. Note there is no work involved in that and you'd never know it until you switch apps and it has to reload, shows logo, etc. Amazing how non-solutions we're brought up multiple times and even thanked. Insert that's-not-how-any-of-this-works meme.
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It isn't and never was a RAM thing. Android's memory management essentially force closes apps (but shows them in recents) if it needs more memory. Note there is no work involved in that and you'd never know it until you switch apps and it has to reload, shows logo, etc. Amazing how non-solutions we're brought up multiple times and even thanked. Insert that's-not-how-any-of-this-works meme.
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Well, yeah, ram issues nowadays should not be present, but I do speak on a basis, I have experienced bad performance and foreground apps getting killed on a nexus 5, which has 2 gb of ram and stock android. I have no idea what's emui's ram management policy, but on a scale, this would be the least likely cause for sure