Android Oreo slow down the 5x - Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello,
Most games on my devices crashing and slow down the device. I think that is not normal and the "final" seems like a beta version. What do you think?

Most of the apps are not optimized for Oreo yet.

I'm seeing a performance dip as well. It takes time to switch between apps, and there's choppy performance using WhatsApp. I don't know if it is caused by an unoptimized background app.

can confirm. Especially when multiple apps are open. Then again, we only have 2gb of ramto work with,lol

It has been optimized with the September patch I think. My device is blazing fast after the update.

Sound's like I should skip the Oreo update on my 5X for a few months.

I'm glad to report no performance issues after upgrading to 8.0 Oreo OTA.

App switching is definition slower, but typing is almost impossible at times. The keyboard cannot keep up, and it's almost impossible to type within 15 seconds of using quick search from the home screen or after any app is opened.
I'm hoping a clean install helps with this.
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App switching is definition slower, but typing is almost impossible at times. The keyboard cannot keep up, and it's almost impossible to type within 15 seconds of using quick search from the home screen or after any app is opened.
I'm hoping a clean install helps with this.

Fix for performance issues
For anyone with performance issues after Oreo update,
go to Developer options and change the default GPU renderer from
OpenGL to skia (the old one)
Fixed the rendering lags and app-switching delays on my 5x after Oreo.
I guess I'll wait for a patch to try out the openGL, but for now using Skia restored the sharpness to my device.

I have major performance issues with Oreo. Switching back to chrome after using another app often causes a wait of 10-15 seconds until chrome is responsive, worse if I have a few tabs open, and the keyboard takes another 5 or so seconds to show up.
My RAM usage is most often at 95-99% so insufficient RAM is likely the cause for me. If I remember correctly, apps targeting Oreo should have a smaller memory footprint, but it will take a while until most apps are.
This phone is going to have to last me another year, so I hope performance will improve.

Why is it that some peoples phones are blazing fast with amazing battery life, running great on Oreo and then others are slow, terrible battery life, running like crap? It just dont make sense, it cant be Oreo since alot of people are running great!

gpachov said:
For anyone with performance issues after Oreo update,
go to Developer options and change the default GPU renderer from
OpenGL to skia (the old one)
Fixed the rendering lags and app-switching delays on my 5x after Oreo.
I guess I'll wait for a patch to try out the openGL, but for now using Skia restored the sharpness to my device.
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This made my laggy oreo very fast now. Thanks. I was about to downgrade today, but I'll give it another 24 hours after switching to skia. Major improvements already with app switching and loading camera/snapchat

gpachov said:
For anyone with performance issues after Oreo update,
go to Developer options and change the default GPU renderer from
OpenGL to skia (the old one)
Fixed the rendering lags and app-switching delays on my 5x after Oreo.
I guess I'll wait for a patch to try out the openGL, but for now using Skia restored the sharpness to my device.
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omg thank you for this, this fixed lags on my stock oreo system and my battery life increased by 50%

Agree, really fast with the latest update.

gpachov said:
For anyone with performance issues after Oreo update,
go to Developer options and change the default GPU renderer from
OpenGL to skia (the old one)
Fixed the rendering lags and app-switching delays on my 5x after Oreo.
I guess I'll wait for a patch to try out the openGL, but for now using Skia restored the sharpness to my device.
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Just an FYI for others, this option and many others in Developer Options do not persist after rebooting. I'm guessing for some it's a placebo due to this.
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Thank you
So much better after doing this!
gpachov said:
For anyone with performance issues after Oreo update,
go to Developer options and change the default GPU renderer from
OpenGL to skia (the old one)
Fixed the rendering lags and app-switching delays on my 5x after Oreo.
I guess I'll wait for a patch to try out the openGL, but for now using Skia restored the sharpness to my device.
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Switching to opengl(skia) seems pretty pointless since the device reverts to opengl(default) after every reboot.

Its slow
Can confirm that there is deterioration in performance after the oreo update, choppy phone dial app, especially on cold start, everything lagging by sec or two, keyboard, app switching and especially the camera app, its taking like 5-10 sec to open, and most annoying of all the shutter speed of the camera is now like a budget Chinese phone. It's slow when taking pictures, Disappointed! The change of the rendering engine to openGL(skia) not the default one, seems to improve the performance a bit, I'm testing just now but i thinks it's not like it's supposed to be. It might be as someone pointed out that google is trying to kill off the Nexus brand or something... if thats the case it's a **** move.

Found the fix: wipe your phone cache partition in recovery, then reboot. My 5X was slow as hell after the update, after doing this it's snappy again, even faster than before!!

sinedied said:
Found the fix: wipe your phone cache partition in recovery, then reboot. My 5X was slow as hell after the update, after doing this it's snappy again, even faster than before!!
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This might have helped with my recent issue with Google Play Music - it was constantly utilizing CPU and overheating phone for no apparent reason. After cleaning of cache partition in recovery it seems to be fixed (at least for the time being).

Related

Stuttery scrolling on chrome browser on beta 10 and oos 4.0

Anyone else experiencing the same issue? There are micro strutters everywhere if you notice carefully all around the os on op3 now but especially noticeable in chrome browser while scrolling. My nexus 6p on 7.1.1 stock is a lot more smoother overall now than my op3.
Yes, I'm experiencing the same thing, but didn't find a solution till now...
Yup.performance is bad compared to ob9
I have this "problem" on other 7.0 rom..
The only solution is to increase input boost, try 1190 for 500 ms..
I am pretty sure this release was a little rushed out so they kept their promise thus it's not perfect..wait a month or two for an update and everything will be back to normal.
I don't seem to be having any lags though...make sure you did a completely clean flash to avoid any conflicts.
Not noticing this on my end. Clean flashed OOS 4.
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Yeah, same here.
Actually, I've been noticing the stuttering since MM, but after updating to Nougat it became worse
I mean, the OP3/T is maybe the fastest smartphone out there, but it ain't smooth at all, the stuttering is even more noticeable if you scroll holding the screen, not releasing it
I'm hoping this is not an issue with only some devices (faulty GPUs?), because a lot of user report no lag/stutter at all when you ask them, but hopefully it's because some people just don't notice
Try snapdragon designed browsers like Arter's Chromium build or Pryope browser, change scheduler to Fiops or BFQ or Noop and increase readahead to 2048. Also increase input boost to 1500 ms with freqency 1190-1324.
vinax89 said:
Try snapdragon designed browsers like Arter's Chromium build or Pryope browser, change scheduler to Fiops or BFQ or Noop and increase readahead to 2048. Also increase input boost to 1500 ms with freqency 1190-1324.
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Well.. the lag is actually everywhere, not just chrome (although is more noticeable there, and in play store)
I don't know where to change those settings, so i assume that you are using CM or a custom Kernel, i don't know about OP, but in my case i'm trying to stay stock so.. kind of a problem here
mj_diamond said:
Well.. the lag is actually everywhere, not just chrome (although is more noticeable there, and in play store)
I don't know where to change those settings, so i assume that you are using CM or a custom Kernel, i don't know about OP, but in my case i'm trying to stay stock so.. kind of a problem here
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If you have root you can try kernel adiutor. The options are there even in stock kernel and ROM.
I am not experiencing any lag at all using experience rom v 7 (oos 4.0.1) and ghostpepper profile
I had lag with chrome and chromium in MM but not in nougat

Android Oreo (8.0) performance issues

I'm experiencing lot's of issues with the latest Android update.
Firstly I made an clean install. My System, Recovery and Bootlader is all stock or anything else got modded.
My RAM is always 99% used.
I have only Messaging apps and Media apps installed. (i.e. WhatsApp, Telegram, Allo, Hangouts, YouTube, Spotify)
So here is my issue:
My apps won't stay in the RAM.
If I write a message in Hangouts and than switch to WhatsApp, immediately switching back to Hangouts will cause this app to restart.
This is happening to all applications...
Btw app startup takes 5-10 seconds and unlocking the device with my fingerprint sensor takes also 5-10 seconds.
I made a factory reset twice. Nothing changed...
Do you expereince the same problems with Android Oreo or is it running smooth for you?
Updated to Oreo since day one. Yes, ram do stay at 90-95% at all time. My fix was simply using greenify with root of course and put everything to hibernate except for the very important stuff like IM and Mail app. Now it's back to the standard 70-80% and I'm pretty happy with it.
Aragur said:
I'm experiencing lot's of issues with the latest Android update.
Firstly I made an clean install. My System, Recovery and Bootlader is all stock or anything else got modded.
My RAM is always 99% used.
I have only Messaging apps and Media apps installed. (i.e. WhatsApp, Telegram, Allo, Hangouts, YouTube, Spotify)
So here is my issue:
My apps won't stay in the RAM.
If I write a message in Hangouts and than switch to WhatsApp, immediately switching back to Hangouts will cause this app to restart.
This is happening to all applications...
Btw app startup takes 5-10 seconds and unlocking the device with my fingerprint sensor takes also 5-10 seconds.
I made a factory reset twice. Nothing changed...
Do you expereince the same problems with Android Oreo or is it running smooth for you?
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google is trying to throw nexus brand away!
so simple
My experience with it is good apart from battery life it's terrible.im thinking of selling my phone
anazhd said:
Updated to Oreo since day one. Yes, ram do stay at 90-95% at all time. My fix was simply using greenify with root of course and put everything to hibernate except for the very important stuff like IM and Mail app. Now it's back to the standard 70-80% and I'm pretty happy with it.
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A much better solution would be to limit background processes which can be done in Oreo manually but is normally done automatically anyway.
Keeping apps in RAM and letting the system do the memory management is a great idea, manually force closing apps (which is what "hibernate" does) just removes it from RAM and sure, you'll have more free RAM but what are you going to use that for? To reload the same apps back into RAM again which is much slower and drains more battery.
Your RAM should be as full as possible, free RAM is wasted RAM.
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Aragur said:
I'm experiencing lot's of issues with the latest Android update.
Firstly I made an clean install. My System, Recovery and Bootlader is all stock or anything else got modded.
My RAM is always 99% used.
I have only Messaging apps and Media apps installed. (i.e. WhatsApp, Telegram, Allo, Hangouts, YouTube, Spotify)
So here is my issue:
My apps won't stay in the RAM.
If I write a message in Hangouts and than switch to WhatsApp, immediately switching back to Hangouts will cause this app to restart.
This is happening to all applications...
Btw app startup takes 5-10 seconds and unlocking the device with my fingerprint sensor takes also 5-10 seconds.
I made a factory reset twice. Nothing changed...
Do you expereince the same problems with Android Oreo or is it running smooth for you?
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That the RAM is full is great, it shows that it's working as intended. That apps won't stay in RAM is a problem though, one that I don't have.
Battery life is about the same for me while the multitasking/memory management/background process limitations/performance is much, much better.
I just OTA'd it without wiping anything.
Nicktheprofessor said:
A much better solution would be to limit background processes which can be done in Oreo manually but is normally done automatically anyway.
Keeping apps in RAM and letting the system do the memory management is a great idea, manually force closing apps (which is what "hibernate" does) just removes it from RAM and sure, you'll have more free RAM but what are you going to use that for? To reload the same apps back into RAM again which is much slower and drains more battery.
Your RAM should be as full as possible, free RAM is wasted RAM.
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That the RAM is full is great, it shows that it's working as intended. That apps won't stay in RAM is a problem though, one that I don't have.
Battery life is about the same for me while the multitasking/memory management/background process limitations/performance is much, much better.
I just OTA'd it without wiping anything.
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So if I run 10 apps in the early in the morning, and then only want to use 2 apps throughout the day, I should keep the other 8 apps so it would load faster the next time? But then due to the lack of ram, every time I'm trying to do task switching between ONLY those 2 apps, I MUST wait for a reload each time? Your logic checks out mt professor. I should've used an iPhone instead.
anazhd said:
So if I run 10 apps in the early in the morning, and then only want to use 2 apps throughout the day, I should keep the other 8 apps so it would load faster the next time? But then due to the lack of ram, every time I'm trying to do task switching between ONLY those 2 apps, I MUST wait for a reload each time? Your logic checks out mt professor. I should've used an iPhone instead.
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Yes, you should keep them and NO, it doesn't work that way.
Your phone keeps the apps that are used and swaps out (ZRAM until that's full then back to disk) or flushes those that are not, the most recent apps are the ones that are prioritized and kept in RAM so your two apps will be kept in RAM at all times unless they are so large that one is swapped out but in that case "cleaning RAM" won't make any difference.
It's not my logic, it's simply the case that I know how memory management in Linux works and you don't.
BTW, the memory management in the Mach kernel (originally from FreeBSD) that IOS uses works exactly the same.
I'm having the same issues.
I made a fresh install of the Factory Image, and then flashed the OTA just to see if it helped any when it came out.
Going from any app to the home screen takes about 5 seconds, and you invariably get some time to stare at the blank wallpaper before the icons pop in several seconds later.
Starting up the camera takes probably as much. Trying to take a lens blur photo is hell, since the scrolling is all choppy.
Starting Chrome takes ages. Same thing with Facebook.
It often happens that I'm listening to music on Play Music, and I go to Facebook then task switch to, say WhatsApp, and Play Music dies.
Also nice when it happens with Uber. Ask for the car, answer WhatsApp and 10 minutes later, why isn't the car here? Surprise. The Uber app had died.
Using the Share dialog is also hell, and so is the Photos app.
Running better than Nougat here.
I have generally found that starting from scratch every major update is the way to go, instead of doing OTA updates.
Android is an open platform that allows you to customize in a lot of ways. The trade-off is you can often get rogue apps / services running in the background sucking away performance and battery life without you realising it (unless you use Better Battery Stats etc. Still, even then things can sneak under the radar).
Every now and again wiping everything and starting fresh can make your device seem like new again. The standard Google backup service is getting pretty good now as well. Combined with the new Google auto-fill service I have now ditched apps like Titanium backup completely. (Google is now backing up SMS's for you, which is a massive win).
I am using a few tweaks which is probably worth mentioning:
* EX Kernel - Glassfish 1.2 governor profile
* Magisk 13.3
* Greenify - systemized with Magisk
* Oreo Pixel mods
Using Magisk allows me to have root and still make Safetynet pass, which ensures Android Pay etc. can still be used.
tim.smart said:
Running better than Nougat here.
I have generally found that starting from scratch every major update is the way to go, instead of doing OTA updates.
Android is an open platform that allows you to customize in a lot of ways. The trade-off is you can often get rogue apps / services running in the background sucking away performance and battery life without you realising it (unless you use Better Battery Stats etc. Still, even then things can sneak under the radar).
Every now and again wiping everything and starting fresh can make your device seem like new again. The standard Google backup service is getting pretty good now as well. Combined with the new Google auto-fill service I have now ditched apps like Titanium backup completely. (Google is now backing up SMS's for you, which is a massive win).
I am using a few tweaks which is probably worth mentioning:
* EX Kernel - Glassfish 1.2 governor profile
* Magisk 13.3
* Greenify - systemized with Magisk
* Oreo Pixel mods
Using Magisk allows me to have root and still make Safetynet pass, which ensures Android Pay etc. can still be used.
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Are you using stock ROM ?
I did a full wipe but the system was very laggy compared to Nougat. Maybe EX Kernel can optimize that...
Atok_fr said:
Are you using stock ROM ?
I did a full wipe but the system was very laggy compared to Nougat. Maybe EX Kernel can optimize that...
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Yes I am using the factory images.
I don't think the EX Kernel will fix a laggy system. It will improve battery life but you won't see massive leaps in performance or anything - the stock kernel is still pretty good!
My guess is one of your installed apps is probably doing something weird.
You could try completely stock (don't install any apps) and see what the performance is like.
tim.smart said:
Running better than Nougat here.
I have generally found that starting from scratch every major update is the way to go, instead of doing OTA updates.
Android is an open platform that allows you to customize in a lot of ways. The trade-off is you can often get rogue apps / services running in the background sucking away performance and battery life without you realising it (unless you use Better Battery Stats etc. Still, even then things can sneak under the radar).
Every now and again wiping everything and starting fresh can make your device seem like new again. The standard Google backup service is getting pretty good now as well. Combined with the new Google auto-fill service I have now ditched apps like Titanium backup completely. (Google is now backing up SMS's for you, which is a massive win).
I am using a few tweaks which is probably worth mentioning:
* EX Kernel - Glassfish 1.2 governor profile
* Magisk 13.3
* Greenify - systemized with Magisk
* Oreo Pixel mods
Using Magisk allows me to have root and still make Safetynet pass, which ensures Android Pay etc. can still be used.
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Thanks a lot!
I'm no rooted using Magisk 13.6.
I'm also using Greenify (PlayStore Version). Systemized Version (via Magisk) didn't work. (Crashed during setup). But the PlayStore Version is working fine.
I'm having the best performance I ever had with my device.
Why is Google releasing such a broken version?
Finaly what Oreo Pixel mods are you using?
Aragur said:
Thanks a lot!
I'm no rooted using Magisk 13.6.
I'm also using Greenify (PlayStore Version). Systemized Version (via Magisk) didn't work. (Crashed during setup). But the PlayStore Version is working fine.
I'm having the best performance I ever had with my device.
Why is Google releasing such a broken version?
Finaly what Oreo Pixel mods are you using?
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I'm using these mods: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3663681
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Upgraded to v8 and now system performance is terrible and many FC's. It seems this release was not ready for prime time or Oreo will require more than 2GB of RAM for a functionable experience.
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Upgraded to v8 and now system performance is terrible and many FC's. It seems this release was not ready for prime time or Oreo will require more than 2GB of RAM for a functionable experience.
One of the most annoying things are these notifications that Facebook Messenger is running in the background and you can't get rid of them.
BlueZinc said:
One of the most annoying things are these notifications that Facebook Messenger is running in the background and you can't get rid of them.
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Here is a fix for that: https://www.xda-developers.com/hide-app-running-background-notification-android-oreo/
I have alot aof Lags with Oreo. Slow opening the camera and shot an Photo. Poor Performance when i using some Apps like Facebook, Google Plus and other. I just downgrade to Android 7.1.2.
Performance has been awful for me. Always stuttering and freezing up. I have had 3 Nexus phones (Nexus One, Nexus 5 and Nexus 5X). I've gotten many make major updates. The update to Oreo has been the worst by far. And the battery life has shown a large decline.
Clean flashed Oreo last night with the latest SuperSU/ElementalX/3Minit performance has been excellent; battery has been ok.
Here is the order in which I flashed:
- flashed stock via fastboot
- wiped userdata, flashed ElementalX (to unencrypt)
- booted, finished setup
- disabled most of Google's bloat (drive/Google App/TTS), updated internal GApps
- rebooted into recovery and flashed SuperSU, booted in (installed MinitResources) and rebooted back to recovery
- flashed Surround Sound/Aroma tweaks (3minit/Pixel Navbar)
- disabled A57 cluster (GhostPepper for small cluster), underclocked GPU to 367MHz, disabled KSM/ZRAM
- Buttery smooth even with a 60fps Nexus live wallpaper
:good:
Aragur said:
I'm experiencing lot's of issues with the latest Android update.
Firstly I made an clean install. My System, Recovery and Bootlader is all stock or anything else got modded.
My RAM is always 99% used.
I have only Messaging apps and Media apps installed. (i.e. WhatsApp, Telegram, Allo, Hangouts, YouTube, Spotify)
So here is my issue:
My apps won't stay in the RAM.
If I write a message in Hangouts and than switch to WhatsApp, immediately switching back to Hangouts will cause this app to restart.
This is happening to all applications...
Btw app startup takes 5-10 seconds and unlocking the device with my fingerprint sensor takes also 5-10 seconds.
I made a factory reset twice. Nothing changed...
Do you expereince the same problems with Android Oreo or is it running smooth for you?
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My experience:
Battery life was great , apart from a drain when gaming, but I don't game so I didn't care
RAM Management - I know what you mean, my RAM was 1.8 GB consistently
Speeds - No consistent problem apart from games again. When gaming, my device would freeze and go jaggedly. :crying:
Fingerprint Scanner - 1-2 seconds to unlock
But alas, I installed TWRP and got a bootloop....
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jimv1983 said:
Performance has been awful for me. Always stuttering and freezing up. I have had 3 Nexus phones (Nexus One, Nexus 5 and Nexus 5X). I've gotten many make major updates. The update to Oreo has been the worst by far. And the battery life has shown a large decline.
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That was me with Nougat. There wasnt a 7.x.x update which didnt bug my phone.
7.0 - Battery
7.1 - Battery, Bluetooth, WiFi
7.1.1 - Battery, WiFi
7.1.2 - Battery, WiFi, Bluetooth, Charging Decline
8.0.0 - Cannot handle gaming
8.0.1 - ???
I flashed the factory image, but I'm running into serous memory issues as well.
The biggest problem is that it's a toss-up if taking a picture will kill my music... Taking 2 pictures in a row will kill the music 100% of the time. I've tried turning HDR off, but I still run into the same issue every now and then. If I try to take a picture while using navigation and listening to music; it will hard crash. Not only will music and navigation close, but I will loose the picture AND my homescreen wallpaper. It will crash to the homescreen and reset whatever image or live wallpaper I have to the factory pink mountain image.
I've also had music crash when trying to send an MMS too... Multitasking just seems to be a nightmare after Oreo. My original plan was to move to a three year cycle when buying the Nexus 5X, but I doubt it'll make it another full year.

A50 General performance/smoothness feedback

I have been using the SM-A505G for almost 2 weeks now. However, I feel that the general performance/smoothness is not good always.
I see many occasional stutters throughout the day and the phone is not as responsive as I would have liked it to be always. Slight stutter are present, and sometimes small things like keyboard would open 1 second later, or swiping from one home screen to another is not smooth many times, or some other minor delays like that. I tried the Samsung One UI launcher and also the Rootless Launcher, but had similar experience on both. I had been using a Nexus6p so far with custom roms, and while this phone is much faster than that, I am not sure if these performance stutters are expected on devices in this price range. Can anyone else share their experience?
I am not playing any games or running many apps on my device as well and am more of a casual user.
Have you tried to use the reduce animations setting in Advanced features? It helps a bit.
Stock keyboard or 3rd party? Using swift key has been quite smooth.
The phone is sluggish especially when showing call screen etc but in general haven't noticed majority of the symptoms you posted.
I'm also coming from Nexus6 with a custom roms and I agree that this phone has been a godsend so far in terms of speed.
Have you thought about rooting it and then install some sort of cpu manager? I know the cpu isn't going to perform like and SD 845 or anything but maybe if u change the governor you could see better performance in day-to-day usage?
manish_bhaumik said:
I am not sure if these performance stutters are expected on devices in this price range. .
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Of course they are not expected. Those lags are from bad software optimization i.e dialer in my case
pabgar said:
Of course they are not expected. Those lags are from bad software optimization i.e dialer in my case
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Hoping that's something which Samsung will fix then. Not sure how their track record is on non flagship devices.
shadow_khan said:
Have you tried to use the reduce animations setting in Advanced features? It helps a bit.
Stock keyboard or 3rd party? Using swift key has been quite smooth.
The phone is sluggish especially when showing call screen etc but in general haven't noticed majority of the symptoms you posted.
I'm also coming from Nexus6 with a custom roms and I agree that this phone has been a godsend so far in terms of speed.
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Yeah I am trying with some changes to see what works. I switched to lawnchair launcher v2. Seems to be smoother than the others so far. The call screen/dialer is slow for me too.
AjBeld said:
Have you thought about rooting it and then install some sort of cpu manager? I know the cpu isn't going to perform like and SD 845 or anything but maybe if u change the governor you could see better performance in day-to-day usage?
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I can go that route later in the life cycle of the phone assuming it supports all that, but this is not something I really wanted to do in the first year itself.

August Update seems to have generally improved performance to me

Installed it about an hour ago (UK) and in general the phone seems a noticeably zippier for browsing and opening apps etc.
I am not a tech head, and the update is small, only 13 ish megabytes, but feels like the sluggishness I had been experiencing the last six months has gone somewhat. I had really set my mind and wallet on getting a Pixel 4a, but may stick with this a bit longer if the sluggishness has improved.
Wonder if others are finding the same ?
DonkeyKonk said:
Installed it about an hour ago (UK) and in general the phone seems a noticeably zippier for browsing and opening apps etc.
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You rebooted to install it and that is known to temporarily solve the "ram issues" that android 10 has on this phone.
It's not the update.
a1291762 said:
You rebooted to install it and that is known to temporarily solve the "ram issues" that android 10 has on this phone.
It's not the update.
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Ohh, it is the update. This one really made the phone feel snappier, and visibly improved performance. Usually it slugs down to a crawl while I'm testing to see if it's still usable after the update, and even after 24hrs after the update it still works just fine, no hogs, no slow downs, minimal stuttering while heavy multi-tasking.
For example, on 11.0.7, go to Chrome, access fast.com (internet speed test) - it downloads and uploads a test file, so intensive i/o memory usage, and try closing the tab and chrome while still downloading... it's slow, it stutters a lot, it occasionally freezes the device, that doesn't happen anymore in august update. Also the speed limitation I was talking about in my review of 11.0.9 is now gone.
TeoXSD said:
Ohh, it is the update. This one really made the phone feel snappier, and visibly improved performance. Usually it slugs down to a crawl while I'm testing to see if it's still usable after the update, and even after 24hrs after the update it still works just fine, no hogs, no slow downs, minimal stuttering while heavy multi-tasking.
For example, on 11.0.7, go to Chrome, access fast.com (internet speed test) - it downloads and uploads a test file, so intensive i/o memory usage, and try closing the tab and chrome while still downloading... it's slow, it stutters a lot, it occasionally freezes the device, that doesn't happen anymore in august update. Also the speed limitation I was talking about in my review of 11.0.9 is now gone.
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Well I think these ss weren't automated replies after all.
TeoXSD said:
even after 24hrs after the update it still works just fine
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Apparently I rebooted this morning so I only have 16 hours of uptime. But I have been rebooting weekly so I feel it is still a bit early to be celebrating.
That said, I did just have XDA stay in memory while I downloaded podcasts, updated apps and opened some pages in both Firefox beta and Firefox (opening pages to copy urls over without sync).
Maybe it was a build.prop tweak. That would be small...
a1291762 said:
Apparently I rebooted this morning so I only have 16 hours of uptime. But I have been rebooting weekly so I feel it is still a bit early to be celebrating.
That said, I did just have XDA stay in memory while I downloaded podcasts, updated apps and opened some pages in both Firefox beta and Firefox (opening pages to copy urls over without sync).
Maybe it was a build.prop tweak. That would be small...
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Actually what I want to say is I am using l speed and I have changed the RAM management profile to multitasking and that fixes my issue and basically it is it editing the build prop my question is if Xiaomi did the same thing and fix the issue isn't it good I mean I can do it with root but all they did was changed this thing which they could have done a long time ago but do keep in mind whenever I use this profile my battery drains a bit faster not like a lot faster only a little bit faster.
Aadil Gillani said:
I am using l speed and I have changed the RAM management profile to multitasking and that fixes my issue and basically it is it editing the build prop my question is if Xiaomi did the same thing and fix the issue isn't it good
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I found lspeed and friends to extend the time I could run before reboot, not fix the problem.
But now I'm curious so I'm gonna diff the partitions to find out what they changed.
a1291762 said:
I found lspeed and friends to extend the time I could run before reboot, not fix the problem.
But now I'm curious so I'm gonna diff the partitions to find out what they changed.
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Please do tell what they changed
I'm ... not seeing anything obvious
build.prop changed, but it's just timestamps and versions (ie. normal "make a release" stuff)
only boot, system and vendor were modified
I've attached the diff report (not changes, just modified files), minus a large number of .odex files.
Looks like some media lib bugs got fixed.
I dunno... also, I tried to run the diff on my phone and killed it so my uptime was reset again (finished the comparison on my computer, after converting and mounting the images).
TeoXSD said:
Ohh, it is the update. This one really made the phone feel snappier, and visibly improved performance. Usually it slugs down to a crawl while I'm testing to see if it's still usable after the update, and even after 24hrs after the update it still works just fine, no hogs, no slow downs, minimal stuttering while heavy multi-tasking.
For example, on 11.0.7, go to Chrome, access fast.com (internet speed test) - it downloads and uploads a test file, so intensive i/o memory usage, and try closing the tab and chrome while still downloading... it's slow, it stutters a lot, it occasionally freezes the device, that doesn't happen anymore in august update. Also the speed limitation I was talking about in my review of 11.0.9 is now gone.
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I have downgraded to android 8.1 version 9.6.11.0
Tried that thing with fast.com no stutter nothing! I would suggest everybody who is tired with xiaomi updates on this phone to downgrade to android 8.1 like i did and it will remind the reason why you purchased this phone in the first place! Its super fast, super responsive, the statusbar icons dont take to much space, everything is working and games will be in ram even if you minimize at morning and reopen at midnight! I thought i would change my phone because it was useless and now it is faster than i ever remembered!
Nearly 4 days of uptime and my phone is once again killing apps as soon as I leave them.
Well nearly been a week now since the update, and definitely feels to me.that things have improved at lot in general use.
Not as good as it was brand new, but nowhere near as bad as it was getting the previous few months, and very usable.
Battery life seems to have gotten back to where it was before too.

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My Pixel 6 Pro has been slow to respond when opening apps. Android 13 is installed. Very disappointed. Hopefully there will be a good trade https://omegle.onl/ vshare in offer when the Pixel 7 line is released.
I experience extreme lag on my p6pro. I updated to a13 QPR1 beta 1 and no magisk modules installed. Seems to be running fine now
No problem/issue here ... official TP1A.220905.004 release.
ı ınstall Android 13 QPR1 too and works great.
I can confirm that my p6p lags severely under heavy workloads, especially cloud sync. I'm having a lot of trouble t]ping this comment
I underclock my processor by 50% (to reduce heat and save battery) - but I haven't noticed any significant lag. Granted, I just use my phone for basic tasks and don't go too crazy with it, haha.
NippleSauce said:
I underclock my processor by 50% (to reduce heat and save battery) - but I haven't noticed any significant lag. Granted, I just use my phone for basic tasks and don't go too crazy with it, haha.
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How do you underclock? The settings don't stick if you use FKM or EXKM to change the values.
Gytole said:
How do you underclock? The settings don't stick if you use FKM or EXKM to change the values.
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Wait, really...? Perhaps I should've looked into that first lol. But I suppose that it's still -25% with MVK flashed.
*Edit* - Actually, I just checked my CPU readings and the 50% underclock is indeed working and carries over/is reapplied after each reboot. FKM FTW, haha.
P6P on A13 is just a very smooth experience for me, no lags like at all
I've had no problems on Stable Android 13 (I'm on the latest September Stable update).

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