So after using the phone for several weeks, I've noticed that it does NOT multitask very well.
With my Moment, I could be playing a game, pause it, put it down, come back 5-10-30 minutes later, and the program would resume where I paused it on wake.
With the ET, 9 times out of 10, games will completely restart if the phone has been sleeping for more than 30 seconds.
Is there a memory management setting or something that I can tweak to prevent actively running apps from being reset on wake?
Yea I'm having the same issues. Cant browse the web via wifi while on a call, cant take a pic while on a call. Cant do anything to the phone while transferring files. Thinking about going to HTC 3D my evo did all this and more just with stock.
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Never shuts down. I always have to take battery out. It just stays on the 'shutting down...' menu with the blured background.
How do I fix it?
This is a stock, unbranded desire from 3UK.
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I used to have this problem, it did eventually shut down after about 10 minutes though.
I gave up trying to fix it and now it no longer does it.
I used to have the same problem but it seames to have dissaprared. I can't say I have a solution but you might want to try this:
- power of your phone (take out battery if needed)
- power on the phone while holding the menu key; this will make your phone enter safe mode i.e. no third party apps will be available, just the system ones
- let it finish the whole startup sequence and then turn of your phone and restart normally again
Please report back if this solves the problem.
its usually linked to task managers,
Used to have it all the time, but since i dont use any task managers, everything is fine
Good luck
JD
I've noticed I get this problem too sometimes. I think it has a lot to do with android trying to shut down all the runing processes. Do you have a non HTC or Google live wallpaper (especially a graphic intensive one) ? do you get a lot of e-mails/tweets/texts tun up while you are shutting down, do you plug your phone in to charge as you are shutting down. All these things leave the system with lots to do and I think that if the efect is the same as if you were trying to do too many things on an underpowered windows PC, there is a logjam of things all wanting to happen at the same time. This will eventually clear, but it take a while as noted above.
I found the solution on mine after a month of taking out the battery which is not good for the phone.so to make it shut down you have to turn off the WIFI before turning the phone off.i notice no more problem..so try that and let me know if it worked.
I got this problem as well and it WAS annoying (must took out battery!).
Here is THE solution:
Before shutting down:
- Turn OFF WiFi
- Go to settings -> SD-Card -> click UNMOUNT ...
Reboot.
That's it
In addition, I also download this FREE "SDRescan" app:
http://www.cyrket.com/p/android/com.bero.sdrescan/
And did rescan BEFORE UNMOUNT
The time to boot is now shorten to few seconds max 1 minute or so.
This depending how many apps do you have installed!
I hate it when people ask questions, get suggestions on how to solve their problems but then NEVER give feedback.
its went away now and shut downs instantly, i just pressed shut down and went to sleep for the night, since then its fine.
To begin, I'm running Myn's Synergy ROM with Godmode and the Freedom a0.6 Synergy (Godmode) Kernel.
On other ROMs I've used (MikFroyo I think did this best) I could listen to a podcast on the music player (1-2 hours) for about 20 minutes during my morning commute, pause it, go about my 8 hour or so workday, and then on the way home resume the podcast and it would pick up exactly where it was paused. This was fantastic for things like Science Friday and other longer shows.
However, on Myn's Synergy ROM, I've found that if I pause a song/podcast, if I go to unpause it later, it restarts from the beginning. This also happens with games if I switch out of them (homescreen button or long homescreen to switch apps) and then back in, even for just a couple of minutes. It used to be that I could pause a game and come back 30+ minutes later and it would pick up where it left off.
I'm assuming these are tied to the same issue--is it the aggressive kernel? Is it something to do with Gingerbread closing apps that it says are no longer "in use"?
Any advice or suggestions are welcome on how to work with this; I'd like to get back to listening to podcasts to and from work.
Thanks!
EDIT: Just flashed the stock GB kernel on my system and it's still restarting music tracks after 10-15 minutes. So, it's not the custom kernel.
I don't know if this fixed it necessarily, but I found a way around it (for those interested).
After some testing today, it seems that the default music app in Gingerbread closes/exits out after only about 5-10 minutes of not being used. DoubleTwist and WinAmp both hold the position of the song during playback even through being rebooted (tested with both).
I guess for anyone else in this situation, the best recommendation is just use a different program for long-podcast playback.
The most likely reason for this is that Synergy just doesn't leave as much free RAM as the older Sense 1.0 ROMs did. Android will kill apps when it runs out of memory, and it's far, far more likely to run out of memory and start killing stuff on a Sense 2.3/3.0 ROM.
As for why the other apps are working better for you, there are a few possibilities. One is that they just take less memory. Another is that they use tricks to try to convince Android to keep them running (like leaving a notification icon in the notification bar). Another is that they actually *are* being killed, but they're coded to correctly use the hooks that Android provides to let an app save its state before being killed and reload that state when restarted. That can make it look seamless. It's possible HTC's music player doesn't do that and starts over.
Over the last couple of days. my GNex has gone very sluggish. The most noticeable areas are:
When the notification bar is pulled down, it does not go back up smoothly. Sometimes it just jerks to half way up the screen
When I open Whats App, it takes about 8-9 seconds to open. It was instant on my SGS2
When I go back to the home screen, it is on my wallpaper, but empty for 3-4 seconds, then the widgets re-appear
When I press the multitasking key, it does not register immediately. Then about 2-3 seconds, it highlights, and the open programs appear
I've had my unit for about 3 weeks with around 50 apps installed. Has anyone else experienced this, and can you suggest anything?
AMoosa said:
Over the last couple of days. my GNex has gone very sluggish. The most noticeable areas are:
When the notification bar is pulled down, it does not go back up smoothly. Sometimes it just jerks to half way up the screen
When I open Whats App, it takes about 8-9 seconds to open. It was instant on my SGS2
When I go back to the home screen, it is on my wallpaper, but empty for 3-4 seconds, then the widgets re-appear
When I press the multitasking key, it does not register immediately. Then about 2-3 seconds, it highlights, and the open programs appear
I've had my unit for about 3 weeks with around 50 apps installed. Has anyone else experienced this, and can you suggest anything?
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I don't notice any of this except very rarely the homescreen-redraw one (I think that is more an issue with the Launcher app itself, as it has been on every Android device I've owned), and it is WAY less pronounced/occurs less often than on my previous devices- even the Tegra-2 Atrix.
AMoosa said:
Over the last couple of days. my GNex has gone very sluggish. The most noticeable areas are:
When the notification bar is pulled down, it does not go back up smoothly. Sometimes it just jerks to half way up the screen
When I open Whats App, it takes about 8-9 seconds to open. It was instant on my SGS2
When I go back to the home screen, it is on my wallpaper, but empty for 3-4 seconds, then the widgets re-appear
When I press the multitasking key, it does not register immediately. Then about 2-3 seconds, it highlights, and the open programs appear
I've had my unit for about 3 weeks with around 50 apps installed. Has anyone else experienced this, and can you suggest anything?
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I'd guess it's probably because some of the apps are not compatible with ICS yet, and they are running on background eating up system resources. You should check running apps and even battery history to see which app used abnormal amount of battery ...
I use the app Watchdog to help with finding the culprit sometimes.
have you tried turning it off and on again ?
thanks for all the suggestions guys. I looked at my background apps and i saw one suspect one which was 'Touch' aka pingchat. I uninstalled it and things are back to normal. The suggestion of watchdog sounds pretty good too. I'll use that in the future.
I experienced all that about a week ago. It was definitely due to various apps that are not ics optimized . Once uninstalled the phone was back to normal. Dont install apps in bulk, instal them one by one with couple of hours in between, or simply keep the track of the apps installed in chronological order . Ics is so new, that any app can corrupt your phone, and u want to know which one it is. Hope that helps. Cheers
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It bewilders me everytime it happens. I'll be just doing general things on the phone, listening to music in the background, RAM usually on the 800mb+ spectrum, and then when the song changes, at one point my phone was near frozen for almost 40 seconds, while nothing else is going on. I disabled most bloatware, and very obsessively monitor my RAM usage and currently running apps, but when a song changes, whether natively stored on my SD card, or Pandora, the phone gets crazy slow. The weird part to me is, for example, I'll be playing a PS1 game and have my framerate counter in the top, and it'll usually be at 60(Full speed), but when the song changes in the background that I'm listening to, the game will seem like it's running at like 5 fps for like 15 seconds, and yet my framerate counter still displays the normal 60, as if my phone isn't actually slowing down, but it really is. Any way to remedy this?
Anyone?
Dang, no one else in my boat huh. Here's to hoping lollipop miraculously fixes my issue.
For anyone reading, found the issue. It was the Media Utilities app I downloaded to give me Pandora controls on the notification screen.
So yesterday my m8 suddenly started lagging, the whole time no matter what I do (reboot, power down for an hour, format internal memory, reflash rom).
It worked fine after charging overnight but now it's slow all the time again. It's not responsive at all, feels like 1fps and 100ms input lag, all animations are slowed down, sometimes input takes a few seconds to register (feels like a laggy kindle).
And like I said, it just suddenly started, haven't installed any apps in weeks.
Weird thing is, tasks run normally in the background, like talking on the phone or listening to music etc.
Anything I can do besides throw this phone away?
I have a similar problem.Can anyone help?Maybe it was the wine hboot?