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[Q] Improve latency and lag?

Hi,
I got my One X yesterday. I have to say it looks stunning!
My current device is a Galaxy S2 running latest version of cyanogenmod 9 (2012-04-09).
Comparing the two i have to admit that the screen on the One X gives much better color reproduction. My Galaxy S2 screen has a kind of blue tint to it.
I don't think its the hardware but the One X has a constant tag troughout the UI compared to Galaxy S2, and the latency is much higher. My S2 has almost the same latency as an iPhone 4 (yes, you read right, the old iphone 4 still is a tiny tiny bit more responsive then my Galaxy S2, probably due to prioritization of the render thread) but the One X is far behind.
Test the latency using this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.batterypoweredgames.mtvistest
When draging the circles rapidly you see that they are not very close to your finger. There is quite much "delay" (latency)
Will custom ROMs improve this bad lag and latency issue?
Something like this would be to prefer since we have the nice Tegra 3 processor in our pocket: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DehlRJZPsDY

I have noticed this also, just when navigating through the phone UI it's not as smooth as my desire was. Especially the Brower.. I'm hoping to see many updates for this phone to sort out many of the issues

do you guys happen to have a fair few mp3s on your phone?
I've noticed on my phone the more mp3s I load the slower the UI gets, esp loading lag.
stuff is fast once its loaded / in memory, but whilst its loading, there's a delay

Love my new HOX, but a couple issues could be a deal breaker.

Got my new HOX in the mail on Friday, played with it all weekend long. I'm coming from a Galaxy S2 to a Galaxy Note to finally the HOX.
First off, the phone design is gorgeous. Build quality is fantastic, it really blows the Samsung's away.
I also much prefer the display in the HOX over the unnatural pentile super amoled displays in the Samsung's. The HOX display reminds me of my other favorite phone display, my LG G2x. Just much higher resolution.
The Camera on the HOX is fast, but quality is lacking a lot compared to the Samsung's. I find the Samsung's to take much better pictures on average in all lighting conditions.
I also have read some reviews claiming the HOX to be the fastest Android experience they had. I find that hard to believe, there is lag in Sense, in many places, the browser isn't fluid either. Galaxy S2 and Note (particularly the S2)
had no lag whatsoever and the browser was fluid like an iPhone. For example, open a page with flash content, the HOX does okay, but stutters when you pan and zoom around the page. The S2 is fluid no matter what's displayed on the browser. Like butter smooth, even playing full flash content and videos. Maybe it's because Adobe flash hasn't been quite optimized for ICS yet? Flash content sucked on a customer's Galaxy Nexus I played with also.
I've literally had every recent Android Super-phone in my possession, my company specializes in phone repair, the S2 is definitely the smoothest android experience.
Another thing I was excited about was the LED notification, that was one thing I missed dearly when I sold my Droid X and HTC Amaze. Too bad it doesn't always work, sometimes it works great. Sometimes I get no notification and I unlock the phone to see a missed call and email. What the heck?
Another deal breaker is the phone will connect to my car's built in Bluetooth audio streaming, but the next time I get in, Bluetooth will not automatically reconnect. Even pressing the reconnect button on the navigation screen, it won't reconnect. I have to go through the whole Bluetooth setup process again. I have the settings in my car to reconnect every time I get in but it just doesn't. Also when it connects, there is no song title or any info on the screen. The S2 and Note works flawless in Bluetooth audio streaming, always connects when I get in my car automatically. Always displays the song list, title, artist etc. on screen. Boo... I have to connect the phone through my car's USB port now.
One last issue is Wifi, it will disconnect overnight and will not wake up. I noticed I didn't get any emails in the morning, turns out Wifi disconnected itself and would not wake up. I turned off wifi, turned it back on manually and then all my emails came at once. That sucked. Oh, and under wifi sleep policy I have it always on, and the check under best wifi performance is checked. I am also on the newest firmware 1.28.401 for my phone.
After a few days of use, I'm not sure I will keep it. I can't wait to get my hands on a Galaxy S3. I've had really good experiences with the Galaxy line so far running the Exynos processors. I just pray to the Galaxy Gods they put in an LED notification, that will completely seal the deal!

Dan37tz said:
The Camera on the HOX is fast, but quality is lacking a lot compared to the Samsung's. I find the Samsung's to take much better pictures on average in all lighting conditions.
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Some folks took pictures using another camera app and they appeared much more natural and were better exposed. That points to s/w potentially improving the One X down the road. There are some threads discussing camera performance.
I find that hard to believe, there is lag in Sense, in many places, the browser isn't fluid either. Galaxy S2 and Note (particularly the S2)
had no lag whatsoever and the browser was fluid like an iPhone.
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I've come from a i9100 also. Sense is brutally fast using the same 75 apps I was using previously. As is the browser. Was yours that way out of the box or after you added apps? It's it's the former you may have bad h/w.
Sometimes I get no notification and I unlock the phone to see a missed call and email. What the heck?
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Could be bad h/w or, again, a rogue app. The intensity of the light seems to vary by device based on where beneath the speaker grate it's placed but other than that they've all seemed consistent.
Another deal breaker is the phone will connect to my car's built in Bluetooth audio streaming, but the next time I get in, Bluetooth will not automatically reconnect.
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I use a lot of BT. No issues to report. I have a late model Infiniti (Nissan) with factory nav and have no issues with connections, A2DP, address book sync, or the like. The One X uses BT 4.0 which is supposedly backward compatible but perhaps that's your issue. Warning though, the One X doesn't support BT dialing out of the box as the Voice Dialer APK wasn't included. I've tried other ICS APK's and they fail. Vlingo's the only solution I've found that works.
One last issue is Wifi, it will disconnect overnight and will not wake up.
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I've had no issues but there have been a few reports. Could be your device with a h/w issue or just not liking your brand of router (I'm using a NetGear). The SGS2 hated D-Link.

Dan37tz said:
Got my new HOX in the mail on Friday, played with it all weekend long. I'm coming from a Galaxy S2 to a Galaxy Note to finally the HOX.
First off, the phone design is gorgeous. Build quality is fantastic, it really blows the Samsung's away.
I also much prefer the display in the HOX over the unnatural pentile super amoled displays in the Samsung's. The HOX display reminds me of my other favorite phone display, my LG G2x. Just much higher resolution.
The Camera on the HOX is fast, but quality is lacking a lot compared to the Samsung's. I find the Samsung's to take much better pictures on average in all lighting conditions.
I also have read some reviews claiming the HOX to be the fastest Android experience they had. I find that hard to believe, there is lag in Sense, in many places, the browser isn't fluid either. Galaxy S2 and Note (particularly the S2)
had no lag whatsoever and the browser was fluid like an iPhone. For example, open a page with flash content, the HOX does okay, but stutters when you pan and zoom around the page. The S2 is fluid no matter what's displayed on the browser. Like butter smooth, even playing full flash content and videos. Maybe it's because Adobe flash hasn't been quite optimized for ICS yet? Flash content sucked on a customer's Galaxy Nexus I played with also.
I've literally had every recent Android Super-phone in my possession, my company specializes in phone repair, the S2 is definitely the smoothest android experience.
Another thing I was excited about was the LED notification, that was one thing I missed dearly when I sold my Droid X and HTC Amaze. Too bad it doesn't always work, sometimes it works great. Sometimes I get no notification and I unlock the phone to see a missed call and email. What the heck?
Another deal breaker is the phone will connect to my car's built in Bluetooth audio streaming, but the next time I get in, Bluetooth will not automatically reconnect. Even pressing the reconnect button on the navigation screen, it won't reconnect. I have to go through the whole Bluetooth setup process again. I have the settings in my car to reconnect every time I get in but it just doesn't. Also when it connects, there is no song title or any info on the screen. The S2 and Note works flawless in Bluetooth audio streaming, always connects when I get in my car automatically. Always displays the song list, title, artist etc. on screen. Boo... I have to connect the phone through my car's USB port now.
One last issue is Wifi, it will disconnect overnight and will not wake up. I noticed I didn't get any emails in the morning, turns out Wifi disconnected itself and would not wake up. I turned off wifi, turned it back on manually and then all my emails came at once. That sucked. Oh, and under wifi sleep policy I have it always on, and the check under best wifi performance is checked. I am also on the newest firmware 1.28.401 for my phone.
After a few days of use, I'm not sure I will keep it. I can't wait to get my hands on a Galaxy S3. I've had really good experiences with the Galaxy line so far running the Exynos processors. I just pray to the Galaxy Gods they put in an LED notification, that will completely seal the deal!
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To this day, no android phone is as smooth as the Galaxy S2 there is no denying that. It may not be the fastest anymore, but it is buttery smooth and in the browser I believe its actually smoother than the iphone. The HOX is a beast with its specs but it does lag that is a fact that almost everyone as reported including official reviewer.

barondebxl said:
To this day, no android phone is as smooth as the Galaxy S2 there is no denying that. It may not be the fastest anymore, but it is buttery smooth and in the browser I believe its actually smoother than the iphone. The HOX is a beast with its specs but it does lag that is a fact that almost everyone as reported including official reviewer.
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Have you seen vids showing the stuttering? I'd like to see them. I'm as anal retentive as anyone on XDA and I haven't seen any (by my definition) stuttering. Maybe my standards are too low. After two weeks of use I'd say the One X is faster than my ex-i9100 in every possible way. Only downsides are battery life and lack of removable storage.

barondebxl said:
To this day, no android phone is as smooth as the Galaxy S2 there is no denying that. It may not be the fastest anymore, but it is buttery smooth and in the browser I believe its actually smoother than the iphone. The HOX is a beast with its specs but it does lag that is a fact that almost everyone as reported including official reviewer.
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I have to agree with you on the S2, it is nearly the pinnacle of Android phones to date. However, I'm very confident HTC will be providing updates to the One X to smooth things out.

have to agree with all of you..my good old s2 was the best phone i had so far and i would even say it is better than my old iphone 4 i had. Heck some areas it is better than my One X at the mo. But i love my new baby and already got few accessories for it and will be buying more in the future.. I just love this phone. But i can understand the OP finding it hard to adjust after coming from the S2..All i will say is you probably have a faulty phone exchange it and then just give it time and development will pick up once kernel sources are released..this phone has huge potential and will be in the top 3 biggest phones of the year

Don't have ANY of your issues, hmm weird, usually I find myself struggling with the same problems like everyone else..mine is just using battery like a crazy mofo, connect through wi-fi on here and just scroll through few topics, battery goes out like 5%, is that normal? my ram usage is around 630MB+, screen kinda analogly flickers sometimes (that stopped in the last few days, knock on wood uf), stock internet browser crashes, put Chrome Beta in now so hopefully this will be ok...anyone else having those RAM usage numbers? Cached processes also, using juice like crazy :S

The stock sense browser does jutter sometimes but in the chrome browser I see no lag at all. Also the S2 wasn't as smooth as the 4S in my opinion but it was still a very good phone I just missed sense.

I don't know if you can turn this off but at the store I played with the One XL. Whan you zoom into the browser and pan around there is a split second when it reflows the text and re-refreshes the page. I turned off text wrap but it didn't stop. It was totally annoying. How do you guys turn that off? Or do you just use a different browser?

barondebxl said:
To this day, no android phone is as smooth as the Galaxy S2 there is no denying that. It may not be the fastest anymore, but it is buttery smooth and in the browser I believe its actually smoother than the iphone. The HOX is a beast with its specs but it does lag that is a fact that almost everyone as reported including official reviewer.
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No denying sense won't be as smooth as a skin less heavy on stock android but the features it brings over tw is a lot more beneficial imo. Don't worry soon enough there will be vanilla Android roms I guess.
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I think the lag on hox on browser could be the text wrap. I wouldn't mind a little lag so it will put the text in place when I zoom in. Rather then having to scroll all over the place.
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Correct. Turn off text wrap and it'll be butter smooth.
It's a common htc thing. A lot of htc users always recommend to turn text wrap off

[Q] Galaxy Note 2 overheating ??

Just thought I'd throw this out to see if anyone else has encountered this problem. Yesterday I was using some apps on my Note 2 (TomTom, voip, wifi and 4G ...) and I noticed the top of the phone getting rather hot, to the point that it was becoming uncomfortable to hold to my ear. This was much hotter than normal. I shut down all the running apps with app manager, but the phone stayed hot. CPU was running only about 10%. Finally I had to reboot...then it was back to normal. Its worrying that it could at some time be damaged by overheating. Has anybody had this problem and/or know what might be causing it? Thanks.

i got the same problem when playing a game in 10-15 mins it heated up pretty fast especially the front near samsung logo it was like over 100 degree

The only time I experience overheating is when I'm playing Need For Speed Most Wanted. It happens after about fifteen minutes of play. I haven't had it get uncomfortably hot but I always stop playing the game as it becomes abnormally hot. It's a shame to because I would like to play NFS more that fifteen minutes.

Jerry D said:
The only time I experience overheating is when I'm paying Need For Speed Most Wanted. It happens after about fifteen minutes of play. I haven't had it get uncomfortably hot but I always stop playing the game as it becomes abnormally hot. It's a shame to because I would like to play NFS more that fifteen minutes.
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Lol that is the game I was talking
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dandn0ten said:
Lol that is the game I was talking
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Yes that's the same area, near the phone speaker and logo, where mine was most hot. I'm thinking it could be cpu or graphics processor but I don't know the internal layout of components. But it seems odd on mine that it stayed hot after shutting down any running apps and only 10% CPU. Maybe something running in the background.

That is where the uber powerful quad core monster is grinding the gears of awesomeness at a mind blowing brain zapping 1.6 billion gigahertz lives at. And his girlfriend mali400 lives right next door and she is pumping out all the eye candy she can to satisfy the pleasure receptor s directly into your braiiiiiin.... Lol
In other words yes that's the main processor and graphics chip suckin up the battery. While it does that it's generating heat as a by product. It's completely normal. Nothing to worry about. Happy gaming. And it takes a while for it to cool back down to ambient.
Hope that helps
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Meditating_Apes said:
Yes that's the same area, near the phone speaker and logo, where mine was most hot. I'm thinking it could be cpu or graphics processor but I don't know the internal layout of components. But it seems odd on mine that it stayed hot after shutting down any running apps and only 10% CPU. Maybe something running in the background.
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Did a quick net search on this and found a few forums reporting this problem. i.e. http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...es-your-galaxy-note-ii-gt-n7100-overheat.html
I reported the overheating to Samsung Support. They said they have had no reports of the phone overheating...sounds unlikely after several months and millions of devices sold. Support suggests doing a data wipe from the recovery screen as this will "resolve most problems". Really? ???
Could be a firmware issue which Samsung will find and fix if they get sufficient number of reports. I suggest you report it to Samsung Support: http://www.samsung.com/us/support/...click on "live chat" for mobile phones.
Need for Speed is a game provided by (presumably) Samsung. If you can't play it for long, it seems like that represents some kind of inherent problem with the device. My concern is whether the overheating will be an ongoing, recurring problem. That would limit the usability of the device.
It's not clear if this is a problem that is worse on individual phones or if this is a problem common to all Note 2s. If its individual phones, then I'd probably like to return it for one that doesn't do this.
It seems the Exynos cpu is located near the speaker/logo. "System Tuner Pro" app reports system temperature under "CPU"

Mine is overheating while charging..I Woke up to a battery too hot message..the only thing different is I'm using a flip cover now,I took a screenshot of the temperature, and this was already cooled down a little..anybody know what this is? It's only been happening while charging though...
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Samsung Note 2 Overheating Culprit
Two specific reasons : Quad core processor, Aluminium wiring.
Reports of deformity of the note 2 trickling in slowly. Try using processor hungry tasks and see it drop its jaw in 2 hrs.
they cant recall it, now its getting cheaper every day.

Try clearing the cache, supposedly things can occasionally get discombobulated. Last time my phone was about to set fire (gs3), cleared the cache & dalvik and it went back to normal.

summer heat
arctic84 said:
Try clearing the cache, supposedly things can occasionally get discombobulated. Last time my phone was about to set fire (gs3), cleared the cache & dalvik and it went back to normal.
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I live in Chicago and summer days are already here. My Note 2 has started to let me down, since yesterday my phone is been up to 40c without any used.44 while charging. I dont think this is normal. Im on stock rom. Thank you in advanced.

Overheating persists
My 2 weeks old Galaxy Note 2 gets abnormally hot on the same area(rear camera part & the front phone calling speaker) while on charging, while playing games usually Modern Combat 4 or otherwise, & i am on stock rom as well. ...if anyone has a resolution for the problem then please share..

New FW - Anyone else find laggy?

So finally updated the fw but so far find it laggy and slow compared to the prior version. I like the ui improvement for Amazon content but the downside is occasional stutter and overall lagginess when it was so fast before.
Debating about downgrading.... is everyone experiencing the same?

I too found it lagging after the update, but I rebooted (hold down ok/select and play/pause buttons for 5 seconds) and it went back to the normal speed. In fact it feels a little quicker than before the update.

Same here at first was laggy but did the reboot and got snappier
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Maybe its like Windows update where an update-related process is slowing it down by taking up to 100% of the CPU usage until it finishes the task.
Can somebody with the faster update test CoolN64 to see how it runs now?
If you know how,add the no frameskip code from PJ64 Forums for Banjo-Tooie and config then use Rice to play it.
Normally,it goes fairly slow in large area views and really slow in HailFire Peaks when on the ledge in front of the oil drill.

Why is it laggier in some day than other days?

My moto 360 on 5.0.2 was performing fine yesterday, but today, for almost the whole day, all the animations are really choppy, swiping, etc. I know that it's not supposed to be as smooth as Snapdragon 400 Wear devices, but yesterday, I could tolerate it. Today, it's a whole new level of stuttering.
It's not just for an hour or so either. Almost for the whole day I was checking notifications time to time, it was choppy. Annoyingly choppy.
Do you know what's causing this? Maybe because I have slow 3G connection? I don't have LTE. I'm home right now, and it seems to be smooth again now. But weirdly, yesterday I was on 3G too, but it was much better.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

sw6lee said:
My moto 360 on 5.0.2 was performing fine yesterday, but today, for almost the whole day, all the animations are really choppy, swiping, etc. I know that it's not supposed to be as smooth as Snapdragon 400 Wear devices, but yesterday, I could tolerate it. Today, it's a whole new level of stuttering.
It's not just for an hour or so either. Almost for the whole day I was checking notifications time to time, it was choppy. Annoyingly choppy.
Do you know what's causing this? Maybe because I have slow 3G connection? I don't have LTE. I'm home right now, and it seems to be smooth again now. But weirdly, yesterday I was on 3G too, but it was much better.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
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Why would your phone's data connection have any effect on your 360? Have you reboot the watch to see if it helps?