Phone App really slow to load with Darkside Evolution ROM - T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989

Hello,
I have a S2 SGH-T989, and I recently installed the Darkside Evolution ICS Rom. It works beautifully, with a couple of annoyances: the only one that is somewhat intolerable is that the phone and contacts apps are very slow to load.
When I click on the phone on my home screen, it highlights it with a light blue background, but then takes > 5 seconds to pull up the keypad and phone application. Similar behavior happens with the contacts application. Even worse, when I start hitting numbers on the keypad, it doesn't register or display those numbers as I'm dialing them for > 3 seconds. Once it's caught up to my typing, it seems to work fairly well, but this is intolerable, since I can't see what I'm typing, and phone numbers are so short that I usually end up typing the first 3 or 4 numbers, waiting for it to bring up my contact associated with that number, and then selecting one, when the process should take only as much time as it takes me to type the numbers.
I have tried wiping the Dalvik cache, but to no avail. I have not yet tried reinstalling the ROM, as that does tend to be quite a bit of work to set up all of my home screens and such (as well as restoring data from my SD card, etc..), so I'd like to avoid that if possible. However, if it's going to fix this problem, I'll happily do that to avoid the annoyances I'm dealing with at the moment.
I'm wondering if anyone has suggestions on how to fix this issue, or whether others have had this issue and have found something that helps with it.
Thanks!
~jwir3

Try flashing the cache wipe.zip
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By the cache wipe.zip, do you mean the super wipe that came with the rom? Or where do I get the wipe.zip from?
Thanks,

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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 ?

[Q] CM7 eventually just starts showing black screens instead of most things. Why?

This problem only really happens after my phone has been on for days at a time. I have had this problem on the latest stable and latest nightly for CM7 (each one cleanly installed after a total wipe).
What happens is that most screens are replaced with entirely black ones. The most consistent example of this is the settings screen. The first Settings screen (which shows Display, Sound, etc) loads correctly. If I click on any of those, I just get a black screen. This will happen in other applications too, like Baconreader or Browser. Also, another connected issue is that the lockscreen won't animate once this problem starts. I can drag it down to unlock, but the rotary wheel won't move at all. If I drag to the right to load my custom app, the lockscreen won't go away and it will force my to pull the battery.
Has anyone else run into this problem? I'd just like to know I'm not alone. I'm not really expecting a bugfix, especially when I'm not even posting a Logcat.
Did you fix permissions?
midget tossing is habit...2010 midwest regional champion... hw 001
Saturn2K said:
This problem only really happens after my phone has been on for days at a time. I have had this problem on the latest stable and latest nightly for CM7 (each one cleanly installed after a total wipe).
What happens is that most screens are replaced with entirely black ones. The most consistent example of this is the settings screen. The first Settings screen (which shows Display, Sound, etc) loads correctly. If I click on any of those, I just get a black screen. This will happen in other applications too, like Baconreader or Browser. Also, another connected issue is that the lockscreen won't animate once this problem starts. I can drag it down to unlock, but the rotary wheel won't move at all. If I drag to the right to load my custom app, the lockscreen won't go away and it will force my to pull the battery.
Has anyone else run into this problem? I'd just like to know I'm not alone. I'm not really expecting a bugfix, especially when I'm not even posting a Logcat.
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I suffered this same thing today. Thankfully a full restart fixed out, but I would love to learn a real solution.
bootny said:
Did you fix permissions?
midget tossing is habit...2010 midwest regional champion... hw 001
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Next time it happens I will, I'm just afraid it will break Facebook/SMS integration like I've had happen before.
It's just so weird since it breaks everything. The lockscreen, the options, Pandora's station list, the browser, and it goes on and on. It's like there's some sort of display mode that gets screwed up.
dom085 said:
I suffered this same thing today. Thankfully a full restart fixed out, but I would love to learn a real solution.
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What version are you using. I'm going to try to install nightly 77 today after a fresh wipe.
I was seeing the same thing. Now I'm trying to figure out why my data speeds are so painfully slow on CM7 so I can't offer a fix. Flashing back to Warm to troubleshoot 3G.
I get these issues all the time no matter what kernel or nightly I'm running. It has forced me back to sense roms lol
Same problem here. I updated stable mod from stable mod. Reinstalled. Going on 4 days, no issues so far.
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I have the same exact issue. This never happens on a sense rom. I did some tweaks to my system over the past week and I haven't had to reboot since this past Saturday or Sunday. I thought I had fixed it!
Then...
My phone started doing it this morning after I turned on 4G at work, literally as I was writing this post it started doing it. I then turned off 4G.. and it instantly went away. Turning back on 4G and it isnt doing it right now. Now my phone is doing something weird with go sms pro... when I get a text and I respond via the pop up message.. once my text moves to a second line I dont see what I am typing anymore... and now it has progressed to where the pop up box isnt refreshing after I send a message (this is all happening while I am typing this post). Now the phone has become laggy and somewhat unstable... rebooted! All is well. So I went roughly 4-5 days without a reboot... where as before I had to reboot at least once a day.
Thats about the best I can get with these settings:
CM7 7.0.3.1
Savaged Zen 2.6.38.5 CFS > Using SavagedZen Governor, min 384 max 998
Displaying some animations (read somewhere that is a "fix".. or helping extend the time it takes for the Black screen of death to appear).
This is after several full wipes, several when I was running Amon RA recovery 1.8 then updated to the latest and did it two more times. After upgrading Amon and wiping I did not use any backups and started completely from scratch.
So I am not sure what else to do. Some people are getting this, some are not.

[Q] Nils' Business Gingersense 3.0 V2.3

I've been running Nils' V2.2 ROM for several days now, and here's my observations (I'd have made these in the dev thread, but I'm still < 10 posts):
Initially, lots of force closes, but this settled down after a day or so. Occasional hot reboots hung on for another day, but stopped when I installed Tiny's kernel, enabled smartass, and enabled fast-boot. Now, I get an occasional FC on "System App", particularly when I'm playing with configurations, but other than the popup, I see no other side effects. Applications on the SD card are easily lost, and pretty difficult to get back to the SD. When I reinstall and try to move it to the SD again, I get failures once or twice, then it moves. Other than this, I find it a little more laggy than is really ideal. I did eventually overclock the high end, but this only improved the lag a little.
Other mods I installed are the black lock ring, the Rosie 5X4 app drawer, and WildStang83s Bunker Buster DTR.
So, that said, it's a really sexy ROM, and I can't wait to see what comes with V2.3.
First question, will flashing V2.3 wipe out the DTR mod? I'm assuming it will.
Next, if the DTR is wiped, can I flash the same one, or will V2.3 have changed enough that a new DTR is needed?
Thanks a bunch!
Lou
I have run a variant of the GingerSense ROM's for a month, haven't had any of the issues you raised.
Are you restoring anything to the ROM? Particularly system data along with an app?
Assume the appropriate HBOOT, cwm, and minimum radio are in place as well as ample room on the sd card?
Also assume complete wipes of data, caches, system, factory reset, boot, etc?
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smtom gave you your answer. If you are getting FC's or any other strange behavior because something like the wrong hboot or residue from the prior ROM is still there.
Follow the instructions in my first post to clean the system out and reflash.
Thank you both for the suggestions.
When I flashed 2.3 over 2.2, I did clear the cache and Dalvik *before* taking the backup, just to be safe, and it does seem a fair bit snappier now. Still not quite the interface speed I was seeing with stock Sense 1.0, but pretty close, and it really is so much cooler ...
As far as restoring system data, the first time I tried V2.2 (the day it was released), I did make the mistake of restoring some of the system stuff - like Mail accounts - I might even have inadvertently restored the old Mail app itself, which was clearly a dumb thing to do. It was my first non-stock ROM, so I suppose it can be chalked up to Newbie mistakes. Anyway, that resulted in a lot of ugliness that was obviously not your ROM, and I knew it. I was a lot more careful not to do anything so dumb the next time around, but I did get some instability anyway. Maybe something got left behind, I don't know.
Now, I limit restores to user apps and only restore data for some of the more annoying apps to set up - 1Password, DropBox, SugarSync, Facebook, things like that - not GMail, Mail, or contacts. I manually re-enter all the mail accounts and sync contacts from Google.
Wouldn't it be nice if Google gave you the option to track your app installs (free apps too, not just the paid ones) and gave you a batch re-install button?
I probably pushed my luck a little by flashing the DTR before rebooting from the ROM flash, but so far no problems at all.
When I do see a small lag in the homescreens, it seems to hang on for a second or two, then the phone seems to get itself in gear and the home screens flip like nobody's business. I still haven't put Tiny's kernel back on though. I'll stick with the stock version for awhile at least.
I do have SetCPU installed, set to on-demand from 245MHz to 998MHz. I haven't set up any profiles though. I know they are a bad idea with Tiny's kernel, and probably no problem with the stock Gingersense kernel, but I wanted to see how it works with the default configuration for awhile.
I am also using the 2.15.00.07.28 radio. I tried the leaked 2.15.10.07.07 version, but didn't find any improvement, so I went back.
My HBoot is 0.92.
I still haven't put the Rosie 5X4 app drawer back in. I was wondering if there's a way to disable the "paging" scrolling behavior and enable the smooth scrolling that Sense 1.0 used?
Thank you both again.
Nils, this seems like mostly minor updates, but whatever happened, it's a lot more snappy and stable for me now.
Cheers!
Lou
Yee haw! Appbrain will track and batch reinstall applications, fwiw.
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Can't set my contact card image
It seems every time I try to reflash, some other minor thing comes up. Up to now, I was always getting the image I had set for my profile on Google with my contact card, and in my Handcent conversations.
Now, not only is my image not there, but I can't set it. Seems I can't set *any* of the contact images. At least before, I could modify my Google contact in the Google web interface, but now I'm not sure that would work.
I've tried fixing permissions through CWM (5.0.2.0), and even tried manually changing permissions on /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts.files/* to 666 as detailed here for a similar issue.
Any ideas what could cause this, or how I could fix it?
Thanks (again) in advance
Lou

EVERY app, stock or not, continiously resets(closes and reopens).

Ive sort of tried to search this one (How do I search JUST the Epic 4g section of XDA??) and found no one describing this problem the way I do...
This is my second time having this issue, and the fix for it last time was a pain in the ass, so id like a new fix-
Every app, every aspect of my phone, continuously resets/reloads. This is most noticeable with Hancent SMS, as it saves a message as a draft when you close out of the app... Well, right now, ill be typing and "message saved as draft" will constantly pop up at the bottom of the screen (about once every 2 seconds), and the phone will lag and it will erase 1 or two characters(making me look like I cant type :silly: ).
If this was the only problem, maybe I could live with it, but it affects everything. Launcher Pro randomly/continuously resets. The notification bar often resets while trying to pull it down. The phone app will close or freeze as soon as I start receiving a call. Sometimes it'll play my ringtone without a way for me to answer, other times I never knew I missed a call unless they leave a voice mail... And sometimes its worse than others, sometimes its fine for an hour, then something goes stupid and even a reboot doesn't help. For instance, right now, it was happy. I launched aLogcat to check it out and now the screen orientation REFUSES to stay one way. Even setting the phone down, it switches directions every few seconds, which makes aLogcat reload and therefor its unusable.
I haven't mentioned what im running because Ive had this exact same issue on a totally different rom, almost a year ago, but im running-
build - SleeperROM_3.0.0_FC09
kernal - 2.6.35.7-Shadow-FC09_v1.0
baseband - S700.0.5s.FC09
firmware - 2.3.6
Ive had this happen on EB13 on the EpicExperience ROM too.
SOO, if anyone has advice on how to fix this, id be extremely interested.
On the other hand, last time I had this issue I was convinced it was a corrupt piece of memory somewhere early in the OS, something I corrupt during install, and I went ahead and reflashed and wiped and reflashed and wiped and returned to stock and etc. etc. etc... and that seemed to work... actually, I dont know exactly what part of the process fixed it, thats why I do not want to repeat it unless I have to... BUT, if someone would like to explain/point me in the right direction. I'd like to know how to DELETE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE and FLASH as CLEAN as possible. (that is, if no one else knows of a fix for my problem)
thanks all!
Err, well only thing I can think of is a truly clean install using Odin. This means do not restore any data from backups. Then slowly begin installing applications 1-by-1 through the play store website (for speed sake) to see if your issue creeps up again.
It also couldn't hurt to format your SD card too. Corrupt data on the SD card can cause some wonky things at times.
get another device...i hope u have the equipment protection plan
Thanks for the advice guys OFF TO THE ODIN MACHINE! haha.

Performance issue after CM nightlies updates.

Hi all!
I'm running CM11 24.06 nightly, along with Devil3 kernel on my n7100.
I've recently updated from 06.06 nightly (I believe), which was a fresh install (full wipe, no updates before), but I have had this issue before already. I think it starts to happen after I perform an update to the newest nightly. Rolling back to previous one doesn't help - another full wipe and fresh install is required to fix this or at least I didn't find a solution.
So, what's the issue? There are four issues that, to me, are connected:
1. Waking up - I'm experiencing serious lag when waking up the device. Sometimes the device doesn't want to wake up for half a minute, sometimes it doesn't wake up at all and it requires me to restart it by holding the power button
2. Lag after unlocking - Most of the time though, when device is actually successfully woken up and I want to fe. go straight to SMS app from lock screen and type something immediately, phone freezes for a second and when I'm able to type (touchscreen reacts, letter-press animation plays) - the letters aren't appearing. Sometimes it takes a while after I can type, sometimes I have to close the app. I've tried different SMS apps, deleting big conversations, different keyboard apps (I'm using SwiftKey, but stock app is the same - this one actually remembers what I type, recommends me something, but when I tap to use the recommendation, nothing is being typed into the text box) and some other things.
3. Application start up time and white status bar - Apps are starting to drop in performance as well. For example, when I run, let's say Play Store, the status bar on top of the screen is flashing white and it takes a bit longer to be able to use them (just like the SMS app).
4. % battery usage of certain (unexpected?) apps - Most battery hunger process is Android System. I've reset battery stats, for the last 1h and 45min used phone to type 2-3 messages, and it's usage is @27%, whereas 2nd process is screen with 18% and 3rd is Android OS with 11%.
Restarting the device seems to temporarily fix first three issues. They start to come back as soon as I start using the device, like opening apps, etc.
As I said before, it all happens after performing an update. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? I usually flash the update, restart device, go to recovery, flash kernel and restart. Since the issue happened again, I've tried to flash the new nightly and kernel together before, it didn't help. Clearing cache/dalvik is not helping (before, after).
I don't have any backups made (I know, I should've made one), so, I guess I'll prolly end up performing a full wipe again. But does anyone have some ideas what may be causing this? So I can prevent this for good next time, hopefully.
Ksenios said:
Hi all!
I'm running CM11 24.06 nightly, along with Devil3 kernel on my n7100.
I've recently updated from 06.06 nightly (I believe), which was a fresh install (full wipe, no updates before), but I have had this issue before already. I think it starts to happen after I perform an update to the newest nightly. Rolling back to previous one doesn't help - another full wipe and fresh install is required to fix this or at least I didn't find a solution.
So, what's the issue? There are four issues that, to me, are connected:
1. Waking up - I'm experiencing serious lag when waking up the device. Sometimes the device doesn't want to wake up for half a minute, sometimes it doesn't wake up at all and it requires me to restart it by holding the power button
2. Lag after unlocking - Most of the time though, when device is actually successfully woken up and I want to fe. go straight to SMS app from lock screen and type something immediately, phone freezes for a second and when I'm able to type (touchscreen reacts, letter-press animation plays) - the letters aren't appearing. Sometimes it takes a while after I can type, sometimes I have to close the app. I've tried different SMS apps, deleting big conversations, different keyboard apps (I'm using SwiftKey, but stock app is the same - this one actually remembers what I type, recommends me something, but when I tap to use the recommendation, nothing is being typed into the text box) and some other things.
3. Application start up time and white status bar - Apps are starting to drop in performance as well. For example, when I run, let's say Play Store, the status bar on top of the screen is flashing white and it takes a bit longer to be able to use them (just like the SMS app).
4. % battery usage of certain (unexpected?) apps - Most battery hunger process is Android System. I've reset battery stats, for the last 1h and 45min used phone to type 2-3 messages, and it's usage is @27%, whereas 2nd process is screen with 18% and 3rd is Android OS with 11%.
Restarting the device seems to temporarily fix first three issues. They start to come back as soon as I start using the device, like opening apps, etc.
As I said before, it all happens after performing an update. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? I usually flash the update, restart device, go to recovery, flash kernel and restart. Since the issue happened again, I've tried to flash the new nightly and kernel together before, it didn't help. Clearing cache/dalvik is not helping (before, after).
I don't have any backups made (I know, I should've made one), so, I guess I'll prolly end up performing a full wipe again. But does anyone have some ideas what may be causing this? So I can prevent this for good next time, hopefully.
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i think this kernel issue..mybe u should stay with stock cm kernel..
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Azhery said:
i think this kernel issue..mybe u should stay with stock cm kernel..
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Well, like I said, everything is working fine after a fresh install (with full wipe prior to it), is it possible for kernel to cause that after a nightly update?
Ksenios said:
Well, like I said, everything is working fine after a fresh install (with full wipe prior to it), is it possible for kernel to cause that after a nightly update?
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mybe problem on nightly..do you hve try other cm based rom?
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Azhery said:
mybe problem on nightly..do you hve try other cm based rom?
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Some time ago I had OmniRom and after few OTAs I actually started noticing similar issue if I recall correctly (that was the reason for me to switch back to CM).
mybe u try..full wipe..wipe data..wipe cache..wipe system..wipe internal storage..
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But that's the point, I'll probably end up doing it since restarting my phone every 30-60 minutes is out of the question. But, then what? every few nightly/snapshot I'm gonna perform a full wipe?
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But that's the point, I'll probably end up doing it since restarting my phone every 30-60 minutes is out of the question. But, then what? every few nightly/snapshot I'm gonna perform a full wipe?
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mybe u can try other rom like cyanogenmodx..bcause i nver had this issue..
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I was actually thinking about it, but as I said, when I used OmniRom few months ago, I recall that I had similar issues. Nevertheless thank you for your insight. Anyone have any slightest idea what might be causing such behavior?
I seem to have fixed the issue. Turns out the culprit was Business Calendar - Business Tasks to be more precise. I unistalled both and so far didn't experience those wake up lags.

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