Laggy Multitasker? - Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion

When I long-press the home to get to the multitasker, swiping and scrolling seems pretty laggy. I use this often so its an eyesore . Anyway to smoothen things out? My phone is smooth other than the multitasker.

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You are saying multitasker, but I thought holding home brings up the apps that are suspended and still cached in memory. I thought the apps are like paused not still running. Like the 'recently used apps' menu from the X10.
Lag can be caused by any background apps running, check to see what is running when it happens.
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Holding the home button is used to bring up the previously used apps menu yes, you can use an app like ram manager pro to lock your phone, if you're rooted to have more free ram for multi tasking or make sure when you are done with an app push the back button to home not the home button
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Same here...whn ever i open recent apps by keep pressing home button...swiping is very laggy...doesnt feel like a dual core performance...my bros xperia mini pro is smoother( im talkin abt the recent apps part).
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What rom are you on? Im on [email protected] rom and its pretty smooth .

l.Urker said:
What rom are you on? Im on [email protected] rom and its pretty smooth .
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I was on stock...but now im on CM10 And the lag is gone...its so much smoother that i can afford a few reboots
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Closing apps with ics

Is there a way to close apps using the "other apps" area, ie when you hooks down the home button and see list of recent apps, Swype left or right to remove from list, but this doesn't close them. Is there a way so that it will close the apps?
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It does close them
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Task Manager
or
Giving phone a mini-bath
Yeah use task manager
I just want to be able to Swipe then away like it has without without having to go to another screen. For example (sorry to use this as an example) on iOS a user can double tap the home button to see all running apps and can close the apps right there. I want to be able to do the same thing with the system we have.
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adracup said:
I just want to be able to Swipe then away like it has without without having to go to another screen. For example (sorry to use this as an example) on iOS a user can double tap the home button to see all running apps and can close the apps right there. I want to be able to do the same thing with the system we have.
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Can I ask why? Android handles task/memory management without your intervention. The only time you should have to manually close an app is if it stops responding.
swiping from the recent list does close them...
Yes, this is correct, swiping from the recent list does NOT close any apps, it just clears them from the list.
If you wanted to force close an app click the task manager button, then click exit or exit all on the Active Applications tab.
Wrong..... It does close them. End of discussion. Look at your task manager then do the screen wipe and clear all tasks... Check task manager again... All gone.
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It does close them but beware, unless the application is ACTIVELY running in the background closing applications will do nothing but free a little RAM (which you have plenty of) and will decrease battery life if you restart the applications at a later time.
Right now I have 26 Apps "open" and have no slow down. All in all I suggest you leave them be.
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The slowest thing on your phone

Hi guys. So, now when we have Jelly Bean and all things are really smooth, what's the slowest/most lagging app on your phone?
Ironically for me it's the official XDA app.
XDA app stutters like crazy. Surprisingly, Facebook is really smooth.
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the youtube app is the slowest to open (1-2 sec after u tap the icon) , whereas other apps mostly open instantly.
as for lags and stutters well there is a big list of such apps, xda is definitively one of them
I am the slowest thing on my phone - everything else - super fast.
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Netflix is still laggy when I open it, but that's not the phone's fault. Everything else seems to be up to par.
rayiskon said:
the youtube app is the slowest to open (1-2 sec after u tap the icon) , whereas other apps mostly open instantly.
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Do you exit from apps with back button? For the first time it relly takes about two seconds, but later it loads instantly if i exit from app with home button.
Power Amp is the slowest to open on my phone, but once I'm in, it's fast.
MS. said:
Do you exit from apps with back button? For the first time it relly takes about two seconds, but later it loads instantly if i exit from app with home button.
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That's because its still running after you do that.
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Ichart is my only slow app
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MEdscape app no doubt.
Erm, still waiting for MIUI to come out with JellyBean.
jediman said:
That's because its still running after you do that.
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Indeed. Isn't it the whole point of home button? I always exit apps with home button so they open instatly later.
eksasol said:
Erm, still waiting for MIUI to come out with JellyBean.
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So you say MIUI will be slowest thing on your phone?
MS. said:
So you say MIUI will be slowest thing on your phone?
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Yes, but its no secret MIUI have been very slow on Nexus and sometimes buggy. But it have great features so I still use it.
Yep xda is the most stuttery
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I'll see your XDA official app and raise you a whatsapp
scrolling lags like crazy
Does anyone have App Drawer lag? if you leave the app drawer long enough and don't use it, then when it comes to using it and you open it, does it lag a tiny bit for the first swipe?
I don't know if it's just me getting that but it's random and looks like it's sticky or something.
roman87626 said:
Does anyone have App Drawer lag? if you leave the app drawer long enough and don't use it, then when it comes to using it and you open it, does it lag a tiny bit for the first swipe?
I don't know if it's just me getting that but it's random and looks like it's sticky or something.
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What launcher you're using? I use Nova launcher and it's buttery smooth. Also lag could be caused by inproper CPU speed/governor settings.
I am using apex launcher and its very smooth.no lags or something.
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the lag I notice most is loading the dialer, idk if its really "lag", but its not as instant loading as messages lol

[Q] Measure Lag

Its well known that iOS is known for their almost lagless software. Android has had lag issues in the past and tries to remedy this by improving CPU and size of RAm. But i still sense lag when opening programs sometimes or unlocking my screen or even refreshing a weather widget. Galaxy S3 is supposed to be one of if not the fastest android phones available but still suffers from some of the same problems that the G1 had. O well...i guess google has to stick with the framework they've already written. It'd be nice though if there was an app that measured lag. I know there're several benchmarking apps that measure overall speed but are they any that measure response time of a phone? An app that maybe runs several processes in the background and asks the user to touch the screen. Maybe type a few words using the keyboard or open and close a folder or two...
What apps are you having issues with, exactly? What firmware are you running?
Hate to admit it but I notice lag all over this phone on TW opening messaging unlocking the phone and stuff, on AOKP no lag what so ever. I don't think its Googles doings or code. More so the carriers and Manufacturers that make these phones full of bloatware and their own code.
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Unless im mistaken ios seems more 'lag free' simply because it will only run one thing at a time, it cant multitask.
Android can run multiple apps at once.
If android was coded with the same limitation as ios it would certainly feel even faster.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Unless im mistaken ios seems more 'lag free' simply because it will only run one thing at a time, it cant multitask.
Android can run multiple apps at once.
If android was coded with the same limitation as ios it would certainly feel even faster.
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This.
I don't even mind the minor lags. I do so much with my phone in surprised it doesn't lag more.
IPhones... i didn't do much with it really.
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Teo032 said:
This.
I don't even mind the minor lags. I do so much with my phone in surprised it doesn't lag more.
IPhones... i didn't do much with it really.
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Yeah this is true. And what you quoted. Not to mention, you cant get lost when using an android OS
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What apps are you having issues with, exactly? What firmware are you running?
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Not apps really...home button lag. Wake/unlock lag... honestly if my phone can play music while i run a game/ browser, im fine with not multitasking.
If you have an ipod touch or iphone, you'll notice that if you try to load a webpage while continuously touching the screen, the page won't load!! Its using almost of its cpu on screen sensors which equals no lag!
For home button lag, double press home then in svoice go to settings and uncheck open with double home press (or something like that)
The lag is because it is waiting to see if you are single or double pressing the button.
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Since we are on the issue of lag. Xda has not been friendly to me since I got the phone. If I browse for more the 10 min. It's impossible to scroll through posts its like it ran out of ram and skips top to bottom when I scroll. If I keep trying it will FC on me. Running stock
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sheltrack said:
Not apps really...home button lag. Wake/unlock lag... honestly if my phone can play music while i run a game/ browser, im fine with not multitasking.
If you have an ipod touch or iphone, you'll notice that if you try to load a webpage while continuously touching the screen, the page won't load!! Its using almost of its cpu on screen sensors which equals no lag!
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Whoever said iPhone don't lag is in denial. IPhone 2g-4s lags. And I hate ios 6 lol. The new app store layout suck too.
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vopezy said:
Since we are on the issue of lag. Xda has not been friendly to me since I got the phone. If I browse for more the 10 min. It's impossible to scroll through posts its like it ran out of ram and skips top to bottom when I scroll. If I keep trying it will FC on me. Running stock
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Yup! At times i actually find myself looking forward to fcs on this app just so itll straighten up for a bit!! :what:
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Home button lag?

Hi I currently own a galaxy nexus and I'm really missing my gs2. I am looking to get a gs3 and when I went to the mobile store I noticed that when pressing the home button from any open app there was a slight lag to get to home screen. Is this just normal for this phone or is the display model borked? I've own the gs2 and SBS and home screen button never was that slow at returning to the home screen. Any input would be nice before I purchase this phone.
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Deactivate double pressing to launch svoice and wont be any lag.
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Deactivate double pressing to launch svoice and wont be any lag.
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^This
It's in S-Voice settings.
Oh SK its how the sgs2 was? Nice. Then I am getting it for sure. Been keeping up with the threads here and not much negative stuff . The gnex is nice but the volume is too low and WiFi and connectivity issues are killing the pure android experience. Updates aren't worth dealing with that. Even with custom Roms there are issues.
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how to kill all app in one click

Have note 2 , 4.1.2 and everytime i need to press home button and kill one by one, i try lot of killing app but dont kill ,
before with my note 1 , task manager do all in one click
witch software or how to close all without one by one
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If you are on stock firmware 4.1.2,
Long press home button
Tap on the 'trash'/'dustbin' icon on the bottom right.. it will close all apps
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i dont see this, i need to swipe one by one each background app
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martinjo24 said:
Have note 2 , 4.1.2 and everytime i need to press home button and kill one by one, i try lot of killing app but dont kill ,
before with my note 1 , task manager do all in one click
witch software or how to close all without one by one
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I wouldn't bother. Unused RAM is wasted RAM; Android memory management is WAY better than anything you can do manually so all you're really doing is wasting clock cycles and battery by killing apps that Android is just going to start up again at some point.
All this app killing nonsense is just that, complete nonsense. Stop bothering with it.

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