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Texting is an ordeal any help?

On the newest modaco .. i find the htc_ime is really laggy when texting it makes it so difficult to text sometimes ! Does anyone know any fixes for this ? Even when ive used taskiller to kill all the other tasks it is still so slow. Please don't advise better keyboard i didn't find it helpful.

wipe & reflash

I tried that .. nothing .. epic fail... do you get decent texting speed?

i had this prob with many of the 2.1 roms, a pause between typing would be seen as a long press. making texting a real ordeal
i went back to modaco 3.1
all is good now

Yes, many 2.1 ROMs have this lag, but none of the MoDaCo ROMs .. they work perfectly!

I know it sounds stupid, but are you sure you'r using MoDaCo 3.1? I have never had any lag on the ROM at all. Even the keypad/keyboard. Where as that was laggy on stock 1.5 Sense and all of the 2.1 roms. But since i flashed MoDaCo all is good.

I am possitive i am using 3.1 ... i have always had this problem its been so laggy texting like ... if i write three words it will only be half way through the first word when im finished and il be waiting and generally when you rush it gets confused and starts changing your words to weird longer ones.
thanks for the thoughts thought but keep them coming! Come on

Im using modaco 3.1 and the only time mine ever gets laggy which is very rare is when my wifi is on. Otherwise texting runs like a dream or hero excuse the pun. I have read by turning the "vibrate when typing" off in the settings helps supposedly to speed it up a little. Otherwise i recommend like others before me, to do a full wipe and reflash also backup any important files you need to keep i.e nandroid etc that u have on the sd card and format it. Also wipe ext 2 or ext 3 if you are using it. As I had to after installing 3.1 as i found it a bit laggy in areas. Good luck.

completely removed ext partition remade it installed rom and still same lag... havent even put old stuff back on simcard..

Try this, install and use Advanced Task Killer there's a free version in android Market. Maybe you have an app that is hogging all your cpu just kill that app and try your texting. Although you shouldn't have since u wiped. Unless u installed any apps after that. If no joy hopefully one of the experienced devs could help you. Hope you get it sorted.

Tried taskiller aswell as that one damn..

You're not alone! I too suffer from obscene lag when texting at times (running MCR 3.1). I can type 6 or 7 words before the first is displayed and then watch them slowly appear. I also suffer from typing a word and it'll either be in all caps or the first few letters will be caps and the rest lower case. Oh and it can take forever and a day to actually open a message or flick between them with the widget.
I have two solutions when this happens to me, first off is reboot the phone, that quite often solves the issue, at least for a while. The second solution is to delete some messages. It seems the more messages you have, the slower the messaging app reacts. I deleted just over 1400 messages this morning and seem to have gone back up to full speed.
One other thing to note, if you are receiving / have just received or are sending / just sent a message, the app will be quite slow, or at least it is for me.
Florida.

tried deleting all the messages etc i think its the HTC_IME itself and not the messages... anyone know anything about that?

i encountered typing to be a little laggy, found that the phone is low on resources. something is running at background causing the usage to be 99% but i can't find any apps doing that (btw, im using smart monitor). typing also lag in ak notepad
when i go online, everything seems back normal. it seems that the phone is running some update or trying to... after going online, the lag is gone
the lag will happen again after every phone reboot

Any developers know anything ?

Evo reboots during use

Weird problem, had my Evo for a couple of days now and everything seemed fine for the first day but now when I run certain apps like google maps for pandora my Evo will reboot. This doesn't happen all the time but will eventually happen after an hour or two of usage. I did buy a case for my phone, maybe it's a heat issue?

taziz23 said:
Weird problem, had my Evo for a couple of days now and everything seemed fine for the first day but now when I run certain apps like google maps for pandora my Evo will reboot. This doesn't happen all the time but will eventually happen after an hour or two of usage. I did buy a case for my phone, maybe it's a heat issue?
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I've had this happen on my hero. It is just clearing memory are you using autokiller ? It started on my hero when using autokiller. It's not a heat issue the led will flash red and green when the phone is hot.

I'm using advanced task killer but I don't think it's set to autokill apps. A hard reset has seemed to fix this issue for now, how do I ensure it doesn't happen again in the future?

It might help to check your preset in autokiller and set to moderate or optimum but some apps use more memory than others so you might see it from time to time. I still use autokiller set on extreme and would only see that once every week or two on the hero. So it's not that big of a deal. You could just uninstall it if it bugs you or to see if it stops. I have not seen it on my evo yet but I am just rooted no custom ROM yet (Waiting for fresh ROM with espresso theme). That might help contribute to it as well.

taziz23, I don't mean to hi-jack your thread but I've been chasing down the cause of random reboots also. I've been searching around for someone with a similar issue and all I've been finding are people talking about the reboot loop caused by an exchange account. I'm not using exchange at the moment so I know that's not what's affecting me.
It sounds similar to what you're talking about. About 30 minutes to an hour apart regardless of whether I'm using the phone or not. It just did it while sitting on the desk next to me with the screen off for at least 15 minutes.
I've hard reset a few times to see if it was related to the OTA, and turns out it happens to both .1 and .6
I've found out that if I don't associate my google account during the initial setup (or any other accounts like facebook, twitter, etc.) it doesn't seem to reboot anymore. Once I do setup an account and set it to auto sync, I start seeing the reboots happening. So I've been playing with different combinations of disabling calendar sync, contacts sync, etc. to narrow it down but so far, I've come up with nothing.
I've even exported my contacts to a .cvs file using my desktop browser and cleaning out any of the <HTCDATA> stuff that links facebook and twitter to make sure nothing is corrupt and reimported them, but as the reboots are still happening, it looks like that might rule out contact corruption.
I had made it through most of Friday before the reboots started. I recall installing the update to Facebook and TasKiller just before it started happening, but have hard reset since then and have not installed either of these again.
Has anyone else seen anything like this?

Two words: Kernel Panic.
Actually, that's just a guess. I'd imagine anything else would cause some kind of error message to show up like a force close for example.
It has happened with my Evo a few times so far. It also happened with my Hero when I use to use that.
It's probably just a module misbehaving which confuses the OS and causes the kernel panic, so I imagine it's nothing more than a software bug.

Yea... I was thinking some KP's might be happening, but if the release build is dated in April, I must have some fluky hardware right?
Maybe I'll run an `adb logcat` and just wait.
I remember the hard crashes on some of the early donut and eclair builds for the Vogue (CDMA Touch) and these are pretty much the same deal. Just drops out and goes straight to the bootsplash.

Regardless of the phone or OS, I've seen this happen on all the phones I've owned. Android is at least open to allow normal people to debug and fix these problems though.

Me too!
I had a seemingly random reboot happen today on my EVO as well... then it happened again.
Both times, I had Waze and Pandora running and was about 30 seconds into a phone call.
Advanced Task Killer is installed, and is set to kill "when screen off".
I'm pretty new to Android based phones, so I'm not even sure where to start with troubleshooting... but found this thread, and thought this info may help.
Krissy
(P.S. I love this phone so much, right now - I don't even care that it has rebooted on me twice in the middle of a phone call... but eventually the honeymoon will be over, and I'll want this figured out. LOL)

I am having an exact same ISSUE i got it from google I/O its just happened suddenly while you are using it I have no Idea .. Search is also not that great .. Platform need lot of work until it get mature .... I was definately enjoying 1st 2 weeks but not anymore its just killing me now ... Issues after Issues so many Bugs I have start noticing now.. I am not complanning but its just not solid they need to fix this asap... I was enjoying Pre it was slow but I like that OS .. not too much buggy... some apps just Crash randomly .. I was huh .. and its doing more and more now ..

After my hard reset a couple of days ago I haven't had any reboots. I do think it was related to the task killer I think it might have caused some data corruption possibly when killing an application. I set the auto killer to safe in the meantime. If it stats happening again I'll try uninstalling the task killer before I hard reset.

I had the same thing happen, but only once. I was using google maps I think. I also have advance task killer installed. Does the ignore list in advance task killer and setting it to auto kill, kill everything except for what's in the ignore list?

I'm not sure but I did notice that most of my reboots were happening when running google maps..

My Evo rebooted most days 4 or 5 times, day or night, in use or not. The store where I purchased it refused to replace it since I couldn't duplicate the problem to the local technical store. They acted like I needed someone to talk to and not like I had a problem needing resolution. After about 20 calls to customer support they told me to return it where I purchased it and they're sending me out a new one. Apparently no one at Sprint has ever heard that there's this issue. Mine was stock. Period.

I have had some reboot issues that I can't explain. I removed Advance Task killer and it seems to happen less frequent. Maybe once every two days, but never during a call. Waiting to see if this stops with Froyo.
Used to have similar, but less frequent, reboot issues and an occasional "frozen" screen with my previous Blackberry 8830.

I've only had it reboot once or maybe twice for no reason but When I use advanced task kill I almost expect it to happen. And I only use it to kill whatever app I was just using and any other ones Ive downloaded that have no business running.

I have had the same issue, only I am using the full version of Memory Booster..I am going to uninstall it and see if that helps, I also notice that my phone was very hot. It rebooted about 3 times before letting me use the phone again.
Any other suggestions?
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Glitch?

So randomly my phone will be really glitchy and i don't know why. It's kind of tough to explain, but its like an extra set of hands (not mine) is touching the screen. For example i'll be in the middle of typing a word in sms and it's as if someone clicked on the screen so it stopped in the middle. Or it'll go from my keyboard typing screen to the conversation and then to select which messages to delete. It starts randomly vibrating like it does when the screen is being touched when i'm not touching it. It's really annoying cause it seems to always happen when i need to be having a serious convo lol! it'll just start vibing like crazy and then exit sms go to my apps or just open up the convo and then somehow scroll all the way up to the top! and just random **** like that. it's so annoyinggg someone helpp meeeeeee

Task Killers, Non oem chargers, and/or not doing a factory reset after the gingerbread ota will cause this possibly. You can also try clearing cache for messaging.
sent from my inc2

What's your OS.stock no stock,what's running in the background.
did you hard reset after update like above person said
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Try recalibrating it, if that doesn't work then i'm afraid you'll have to factory reset it.

sorry for the late response thanks for all you're help so far.
i'm running RMK's gingersense. i did a full wipe after installing it and updating it. i did have a lot of text messages so i changed the setting to auto delete after 100 and i stopped using task killer. it looks like its helping it hasn't occured since. thanks for all you're help guys. i just remembered that the battery would get really hot when it would glitch so maybe i just had too many messages for it to handle. thanks guys!!!

[Q] Synergy RLS1 Keyboard issues

Couldn't post this in the synergy thread as don't have enough posts. Have not seen anyone else with this problem.
About once a day my keyboard will no longer display what I type on the screen. I can see it cycling through the dictionary but nothing will end up on the screen. Been doing this for the last several synergy releases.
This is with ANY keyboard as have tried the default android, Gingerbread from the market and Swype. Once I reboot the problem goes away for a time.
Problem usually surfaces in Handcent or Enhanced Email as those are the programs where I am the most and typing.
Anyone else run into this?
Thanks!

fraslin said:
Couldn't post this in the synergy thread as don't have enough posts. Have not seen anyone else with this problem.
About once a day my keyboard will no longer display what I type on the screen. I can see it cycling through the dictionary but nothing will end up on the screen. Been doing this for the last several synergy releases.
This is with ANY keyboard as have tried the default android, Gingerbread from the market and Swype. Once I reboot the problem goes away for a time.
Problem usually surfaces in Handcent or Enhanced Email as those are the programs where I am the most and typing.
Anyone else run into this?
Thanks!
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No idea, I used synergy for a good long time and never had that issue. What I'd suggest you do:
Use the stock e-mail and messenger apps for a day and see if the problem happens in there. If it does, then you might need a clean, fresh install. If not, then you know the problem lies Handcent and Enhanced E-mail apps and, thus, I recommend finding replacements or learn to like the stock apps.
Worst case, just reboot the phone when it happens. Reboots are like erasers, it fixes all the problems.
If I helped, please hit the thanks button ^_^

Thanks for the reply!
Am assuming that a clean install would fix but have been seeking to avoid.
I did switch to Smart Keyboard Pro from the Gingerbread one and it seems like it may have fixed it.
Need a couple more days to verify...

Every Rom becomes slow after a few months?

I tried out both CM9 beta and AA only to reflash after a month due to performance issues with the rom, just things like opening up handcent, contacts etc the phone would often hang for half a second. I figured that ICS was just not meant for our hardware so I'm now running CM7.2 and after 2 months of solid use, the slowness is back. Is it my hardware that's stuffed or am I just getting impaitent?
It seems as soon as you flash the phone, it is super fast for the first few weeks then it just goes back to its old sluggish ways. Any one got any ideas? Or should I just wait another 2 months till my contract is up and replace my old girl.
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You should reformat your storage to 4ext. Also, try wiping cache and app caches (for example maps, sms etc.) once in a while

On all phone I tried its the same thing.
on the moto milestone is the worst since its an old device. When I reflash a new rom, its really fast again.
It does it on SII and my DZ also.
Its like windows, more you use it, slower it will be.
GO SMS can take 5-6 second to come up. Fresh rom is instant.
On my DZ I tried to use it a maximum of time before it crash. After 300 hours without rebooting, the device was barely unusable. I cant take calls because it was so slow that I had time to miss it. I had a big delay between sound and vibration. Open opera takes around 20 seconds, etc.
And I love to keep my phone clean : no app running, no widget, no live wallpaper. I run sdmaid, and clean my cache often, but it didint help.

May be a app you are using causes this. App which eats up ram+swap etc. What are the apps you usually use.
and with most roms, its better to restart the phone every once in a while. I usually restart once every 2 days at least.

Thanks for the responses. I tried clearing the App data and it made a little difference at first but now it appears to be slow again, not always just at random times.
I don't use many apps, just Handcent for messaging, Contacts, Camera and Tapatalk. They all seem to hang when opening at random times.
I agree rebooting helps, usually when the slowness becomes too much I'll reboot and things will be a bit better for a day. I try to reboot at least once a week.
Hmmm I have an old iphone 3GS as my work phone, its older then my DZ and still performs better, which makes me think that this is a software issue rather then hardware.
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Your phone is no different then using a computer. Reinstall an OS and you suddenly have a super fast computer. How well you can maintain that OS depends on how fast it degrades or if at all.

I use SDMAID pro it is great at cleaning up application files. It keeps things running smooth.
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Carlovn said:
You should reformat your storage to 4ext. Also, try wiping cache and app caches (for example maps, sms etc.) once in a while
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That would be EXT4
The system partition is formatted by the updater script on every system installation.
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jessv3 said:
I tried out both CM9 beta and AA only to reflash after a month due to performance issues with the rom, just things like opening up handcent, contacts etc the phone would often hang for half a second. I figured that ICS was just not meant for our hardware so I'm now running CM7.2 and after 2 months of solid use, the slowness is back. Is it my hardware that's stuffed or am I just getting impaitent?
It seems as soon as you flash the phone, it is super fast for the first few weeks then it just goes back to its old sluggish ways. Any one got any ideas? Or should I just wait another 2 months till my contract is up and replace my old girl.
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There is no reason for it to slow down, except possibly if you are installing something that slows it down. Might want to go through all your software and try to figure out what it is that is slowing you down.

Same problem, but after uninstalling some apps the system run like new flashed rom.
Is ext4 a big performance improvement?

mx03 said:
Same problem, but after uninstalling some apps the system run like new flashed rom.
Is ext4 a big performance improvement?
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Yes, it's a must for ICS.
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Can you refer me to a link where I can use this ext4 thing?
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4ext recovery control i believe allows the reformat to ext4
apps like Facebook or chrome may also slow your phone down

i not agree all. but this things is happended on my dz' s rom.
cm7 sense miui .....try to wipe all.

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It's usually the apps you installed that causes the slowdown. I kept my phone clean, with only essential apps that I need to use and it's performed the same throughout the whole year.

hi
ive got the same problem, i have 4 droid z's, was using miui roms at first but when i get calls sometimes i cant pick em up, go sms takes 5-6 seconds easy. the lags r random and usually go away when i run memory booster. This lag free instance lasts for only like 10-20 seconds though. The problem is finding out which app is causing this sluggish behaviour... are there any apps which can help in tracing out which apps are averaging more memory?

apps that are "memory boosters" or "task killers" or whatever should almost never be used. more often than not they just bog things down more and end up doing the opposite they are supposed to. watchdog (found in the market) will help point to apps that are using your cpu, not just whats in ram. (most of the time it is best to let android kill tasks for you) you can also run a logcat to see what processes are going on in the background. a little google searching or using the search button in xda here will turn out loads of apps that are known for memory leaks and slowing down phones

ext4 may actually make performance worst if journalling is enabled as it is constantly reading/writing to your sd card. If you mount it without journalling then maybe it is better