Ever since I loaded my X up with ~15Gb of mp3s, each time I reboot my phone it takes 15 minutes or so to become responsive. Before then its laggy to the point of being unusable.
Anyone know a way of toning down the media scanning aggressiveness?
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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.
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.
Hello all,
I have a question about an issue that has been plaguing my phone for about the last month. I have tried numerous ROMs, kernels and basebands (which shouldn't make a difference but it's worth a try). Basically what is happening is when I have a clean install of a ROM with nothing loaded into storage, my phone is snappy and works perfectly, like butter, no matter the ROM or kernel. As soon as I load music on to my phone, the phone slows down dramatically. I start having "xxx is not responding" messages from every app I load up and the phone slows down to a crawl. I have tried many ROMs and kernels. If I install a new ROM without wiping my internal storage, the phone boots up with the newly loaded ROM slowly and can barely make it through the Android setup without crashing. If I wipe the internal storage and load a new ROM it works perfectly and snappy.
Does anyone know of a reason why this would happen? I am surprised that some music files could slow down the phone so much. Any thoughts are appreciated. I haven't tried going back to stock, but that is my next step. Somehow I think it would still slow down. I got the phone with ICS on it and immediately rooted and loaded JB ROMs on it. It didn't really start at first until I loaded my 10GB music collection on there. Any ideas?
Thanks!
Media storage scans new media and logs it into the appropriate apps.
Even with what I drop on (~4 gigs of music) it can lag for a few hours even.
Without you doing further testing and diagnosis I would guess that is your problem.
Settings>Battery should show media scanner high on the list.
Have you tried to let it settle (build up caches and read the files) for a day?
Yes, I was on a trip last week and let it sit for three days. I figured as much for the media scans, so I let it sit for a day. I don't see media scanner anywhere on my battery list. Just mediaserver, as I try to listen to the music that is on the phone as much as I can without locking anything up. I have:
Screen
Phone Idle
Mediaserver
Cell standby
Winamp
FBTouch
Android OS
Chrome
Android System
Voice Calls
jlink38 said:
Yes, I was on a trip last week and let it sit for three days. I figured as much for the media scans, so I let it sit for a day. I don't see media scanner anywhere on my battery list. Just mediaserver, as I try to listen to the music that is on the phone as much as I can without locking anything up. I have:
Screen
Phone Idle
Mediaserver
Cell standby
Winamp
FBTouch
Android OS
Chrome
Android System
Voice Calls
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Maybe you need to defragment (I kid, I kid)
danielsaenz said:
Maybe you need to defragment (I kid, I kid)
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Sometimes I wish I could.
Figured it out. I re encoded my music to VBR and copied it to my phone and all is well!
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Hi, sorry for my eng., I have the same problem as you. But I think it's not only music. Tested read\write speed on clean stock, it's awesome. Then filled storage with music (6 gigs) and movies (6 gigs) - write speed decreased from 12 MB\s to 0,7 MB/s!!! WTF?! Then I deleted all music and movies (+12 Gb free) and ran tests again - read\write speed still low! Forever Gone (Nexus 7 memory lag's solution) doesn't helped.
Any ideas?
Well, reported to google about this problem. Others should look for an Issue 39154 on google code threads and join discussion
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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?