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Very laggy Sprint Gnex

I have the Sprint Gnex. It has been laggy with every ROM I have installed. Lag can happen throughout the day to a couple times a week. It is fine for a week or two when new. I went from stock to teambaked black to stock ota 4.2.1(whatever the latest Sprint OTA is) to commotio B57 4.3 then did the update to B59 9-19? Bluetooth using GooManager. Except for the last update I always did a complete erase when loading a new ROM and the only data I carried over was from SMSBackup and Restore App.
Sometimes when loading the camera the camera buttons will be at the top left for several seconds and the screen black when in portrait mode . Restarting multiple times, airplane mode on/off, and overclocking dont change anything. Every button press will take several seconds to load, I never get a low ram warning. Only several apps are used mainly daily.
Am I doing something wrong? How do I stop the lag?

Weird. I have had mine lag from time to time, but a reboot freshens it up and so does Advanced Task Killer. I find things running snappy and quick when I have around 100-200 MB free of RAM. When I get down to ~30 or so MB free, things slow to a crawl like you described. I wonder if you have a bunch of apps running in the background...anything atypical there? (if you go to Settings | Apps | swipe over to Running). How much free RAM do you currently have while having those symptoms?
Also I have found the Facebook app is always running even though I have all abilities for it to sync turned off. I'm so close to uninstalling it and using the browser.

I had lag phone too (Sprint Gnex). I put 10.2CM on it and it runs lag free.
stonny9 said:
I have the Sprint Gnex. It has been laggy with every ROM I have installed. Lag can happen throughout the day to a couple times a week. It is fine for a week or two when new. I went from stock to teambaked black to stock ota 4.2.1(whatever the latest Sprint OTA is) to commotio B57 4.3 then did the update to B59 9-19? Bluetooth using GooManager. Except for the last update I always did a complete erase when loading a new ROM and the only data I carried over was from SMSBackup and Restore App.
Sometimes when loading the camera the camera buttons will be at the top left for several seconds and the screen black when in portrait mode . Restarting multiple times, airplane mode on/off, and overclocking dont change anything. Every button press will take several seconds to load, I never get a low ram warning. Only several apps are used mainly daily.
Am I doing something wrong? How do I stop the lag?
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yotvb531 said:
Weird. I have had mine lag from time to time, but a reboot freshens it up and so does Advanced Task Killer. I find things running snappy and quick when I have around 100-200 MB free of RAM. When I get down to ~30 or so MB free, things slow to a crawl like you described. I wonder if you have a bunch of apps running in the background...anything atypical there? (if you go to Settings | Apps | swipe over to Running). How much free RAM do you currently have while having those symptoms?
Also I have found the Facebook app is always running even though I have all abilities for it to sync turned off. I'm so close to uninstalling it and using the browser.
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Everytime that I have looked at the Apps folder before there has been 80-100MB free. There are no cached processes but last night I watched it for a couple minutes and it dropped to 30MB. I noticed about 50% of the apps showed restarting all at once. There are 16 Apps running with 8 being system processes. Facebook takes up the most at 40MB. On a fresh restart it dropped as low as 100MB as various apps loaded then exited and it is now hovering at 152MB. 10 mins later with only disabling notifications for RetailMeNot and Google Offers and disabling the Apex Launcher it is down to 77MB with 36MB in cashed processes.
I might try a stable CM like user readable mentioned.

Lag after 5.1.1 update

Hi, i dont remember there being much lag before updating yet now, opening apps or even trying to swipe between the pull down menu pages (battery, cinema mode & settings) for example sometimes takes a couple of seconds.
I've reset the watch to factory settings and uninstalled the app on my phone and reinstalled.
It feels like i need to reduce the animation times like i would in the phones developer settings.
Any suggestions?

I haven't seen anyone else on XDA or reddit with lag issues. If you can sideload a CPU profiler or otherwise monitor processor load, I would recommend making sure an app or system process isn't hogging all the CPU cycles. If there is no issue and the lag is still there, the only option might be to contact Sony support.

I could not use the watch lagged too much, restarted the watch and it seems better.

Android Oreo update animation stuttering

After debranding my 3 UK Razer Phone, installing the factory image and updating to Oreo via an OTA update, I noticed that various animations and interactions such as scrolling anywhere or opening the app drawer are stuttering or skipping frames. I am very perceptive of frames and I can definitely say that after the Oreo update my phone has developed micro stutters. The phone doesn't hang or lag, it just feels like it skips frames. I have tried all performance profiles via Game Booster but the same issue persists. Has anyone else noticed a similar issue after updating to Oreo?

I dont have a probme but i do notice a bit if my frames dropping. I always run the phone on 120 fps but sonetimes recently i norice the divice falling to 60 fps and going back to 120. I did not glash anything and im doing so e testing to see if the problem is becauae of so ething i have installed ir not. But i dont notice any stutters ir frame skips.

I also have observed this issue and it is driving ne crazy. Pulling down the notification shade, scrolling through recent apps, scrolling in general, all have this micro stutter now. I had this issue before with my Axon 7 so I knew how to test it. Under developer settings, enable GPU Profiling on screen as bars. With the Axon 7, when scrolling, every time a frame dropped, the gpu profile would show a spike well above the green line. When I first got my Razer phone (on Nougat), everything was buttery smooth and upon using the same test, there were no gpu profile spikes above the green line when scrolling or making thebphone undergo any sort of animation. However, on Oreo, it feels as though the Razer phone is dropping frames in the same manner that my Axon 7 did before. I may just roll back to Nougat tbh.

Pixel XL laggy since Pie OTA update

Been running stock Android ever since I got my Pixel XL and have been happily running the phone since it came up with each Android update and security patch. Never an issue.
Since a couple of weeks ago when I got the OTA update for Pie, ever since I have noticed the phone to just be laggy. Switching apps and launching stuff, things just take longer to happen. Sometimes they take seconds sometimes less. Games that would play fine now seem to have low frame rates.
My partner who has the Pixel (not XL) is in the same boat as me but having a worse time with the whole phone becoming unresponsive and locking up all the time.
Now the only reports I've seen regarding Android Pie is fast charging issues but neither of us are suffering those issue. All our PD USB-c chargers continue to fast charge fine. I have also seen some high profile Pixel 2 XL users have lag issues but no lag issues with Pixel XL.
Anyone else having lag issues, low framerates and system lockups with Android Pie on the original Pixel phones?
We have yet to factory flash but want to hold out before having to set everything up again.
A theory I have to why my phone is laggy is that I think the system is throttling back my CPU due to battery health. I know Google put some new smarter battery management in this version of Android but I think it is working too hard to a point where the phone is getting very irritating to use.
Thoughts?

No lags on Android 9 here but also flashed clean with factory image.

My Pixel XL is also bit laggy on android 9.
Clearly visible with this live wallpaper which was running super smoothly in 8.1 android, now it freezes for a fraction of a second when unlocking the phone and live wallpaper kicks in.
General app start seems to have slowed down a bit for me too.
Maybe all this crap began with Adaptive battery thingie?

same problem here a lot of lag and freez in my og pixel xl when using ordinary apps like IG, gallery, clock and even xda apps but strangely it run smoothly when playing heavy game like asphalt or PUBG
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wingman021280 said:
My Pixel XL is also bit laggy on android 9.
Clearly visible with this live wallpaper which was running super smoothly in 8.1 android, now it freezes for a fraction of a second when unlocking the phone and live wallpaper kicks in.
General app start seems to have slowed down a bit for me too.
Maybe all this crap began with Adaptive battery thingie?
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I've turn off adaptive battery on my pixel xl but the problem still persists

Phone runs smooth on 9.0 for me. Clean flashed factory image. Maybe you guys too need a clean flash? I do understand that formatting should not be required for a phone to run smoothly after each update but looks like that is the solution for now.

I would agree that Android 9 is not as smooth as 8.1. When I first updated, it ran really bad - I eventually did a factory reset, and while it's not as smooth or fluid as 8.1, there's far less freezes or frame drops.

Went back to 8.1. Pie runs like garbage. It was taking 4-5 seconds to open my texting app. Everything back to normal on Oreo.

Pie was lagging my v1 Pixel XL. Seriously bad and huge battery drain. Did a factory reset and that resolved all my issues. Except for the PITA having to log back into every app and resurrect Google Authenticator for 2FA (make sure to right down all the auth sites and have backup codes ready). But as the other poster mentioned a clean install seems to be the only way to get Pie to work. Just bite the bullet and factory reset Pie.

Same-laggy original pixel XL and fast draining battery+ brightness issue
I'll try to factory reset like everyone is suggesting but wanted to go on record about this since expect more from a Google flagship that's only 2 years old. In addition to what everyone else has said, I've experienced problem with brightness of screen. Before pie update I could really cranking up brightness. Obviously battery would take a hit but sometimes needed that extra brightness. Anyone else experience this?

Relamine said:
I'll try to factory reset like everyone is suggesting but wanted to go on record about this since expect more from a Google flagship that's only 2 years old. In addition to what everyone else has said, I've experienced problem with brightness of screen. Before pie update I could really cranking up brightness. Obviously battery would take a hit but sometimes needed that extra brightness. Anyone else experience this?
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Do you have adaptive brightness enabled? It is enabled by default and adjusts the brightness based on machine learning algorithms

My pixel xl was lagging too. I noticed my Zooper widgets were not loading. I went into the Zooper widgets app and was prompted with a message about it not being tested on 9 yet. After I acknowledged the message, runs without any lag. Widgets loaded on home screen too. Maybe you have a hanging app in the background.

tiny4579 said:
Do you have adaptive brightness enabled? It is enabled by default and adjusts the brightness based on machine learning algorithms
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I've had adaptive brightness off so that can't be it. But thanks

how do i disable the pie update notification on my android 8.1 pixel XL?

Can't. Not without root.

My camera was seriously lagging. Sometimes 6-7 seconds to open and then 3-4 seconds to take a pic. Someone mentioned adaptive battery and it occured to me that maybe Accubattery was somehow causing problems with the adaptive battery settings in Pie. I uninstalled Accubattery and now my phone is back to normal. No shutter lag at all, camera opens in a fraction of a second.

Bought it a few days ago with Oreo, updated to Pie, and got one bug fix update after - no lag or something, runs super smooth.

There's really no reason to use things like that anymore, especially with newer versions of Android. It used to be necessary back in the day, hell Greenify was like mandatory lol. But really if you're going to use anything , you'd want a program to turn off GPS while screen is off, stuff like that , but it doesn't honestly make a dramatic difference with the optimization in Pie. I get roughly 4 hours screen on time and about 20% battery life left at the end of a cycle. That's 20% drain per hour and I never turn ANYTHING off. GPS always on, most of my day not on wifi, Facebook, Twitter , I just kill it.

To enjoy pie, its best to format data and flash factory images

I've been rebooting my phone at least once a day because the lag is so bad. It's becoming very frustrating.

murso74 said:
I've been rebooting my phone at least once a day because the lag is so bad. It's becoming very frustrating.
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Did you OTA update or start fresh flashing an image with fastboot?

Question .037 update forced 120hz all the time

Anyone else notice the phone also got super snappy and smooth all the time? I tried turning on show refresh rate an hour ago just to find out the phone never go back down to 60hz.
I tried not touching the screen untill it actually auto lock, opening youtube, netflix, tiktok, chrome, settings etc etc. I even rebooted and no change. Battery life has been slightly better which is kinda weird though.
Also i checked twice, the force peak refresh rate is turned off.

Try clearing the system cache.

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Anyone else notice the phone also got super snappy and smooth all the time? I tried turning on show refresh rate an hour ago just to find out the phone never go back down to 60hz.
I tried not touching the screen untill it actually auto lock, opening youtube, netflix, tiktok, chrome, settings etc etc. I even rebooted and no change. Battery life has been slightly better which is kinda weird though.
Also i checked twice, the force peak refresh rate is turned off.
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I just checked my phone (updated to .037), and the refresh rate is still dropping to 60hz whenever there is no input, so the adaptive refresh rate still works on my end.

My phone is dropping to 60 when there's no input as well. I just played a YouTube video and it went to 60.

On my device i have the exact same problem. As you already described, it is "always" on 120hz - it only jumps down to 60 Hz for a very brief moment, then again reaches the 120hz. This cicle is repeating itself as long as the display is turned on.
I already tried disabling all overlay services and other settings that could, as far as I could think of, have an impact on these behavior, like apps that have access to usage or device controll etc.
But as for now, I don't have a solution for this.
The strange part is that i also have a better display on time since the last update, but after checking the battery temperature for the last week (i installed the .037 on thursday) it reaches higher temperatures now as it was before the update, with around 34 Celsius on .036 vs 38 Celsius on .037 after around an hour of the same activities in the mostly same environment. The temperature difference does make sense for me, because the screen won't chill as it should. On the other hand, the longer battery life does'nt seem to fit too well in this picture.

Rauchinator said:
On my device i have the exact same problem. As you already described, it is "always" on 120hz - it only jumps down to 60 Hz for a very brief moment, then again reaches the 120hz. This cicle is repeating itself as long as the display is turned on.
I already tried disabling all overlay services and other settings that could, as far as I could think of, have an impact on these behavior, like apps that have access to usage or device controll etc.
But as for now, I don't have a solution for this.
The strange part is that i also have a better display on time since the last update, but after checking the battery temperature for the last week (i installed the .037 on thursday) it reaches higher temperatures now as it was before the update, with around 34 Celsius on .036 vs 38 Celsius on .037 after around an hour of the same activities in the mostly same environment. The temperature difference does make sense for me, because the screen won't chill as it should. On the other hand, the longer battery life does'nt seem to fit too well in this picture.
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As far as we know, it's currently buggy anyway, since the
Pixel 6 Pro is consuming more power in 60Hz mode than in 120Hz one*​
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Pixel 6 Pro Consuming More Power In 60Hz Mode Than In 120Hz One
The Google Pixel 6 Pro seems to be consuming more power in 60Hz mode, than it does in 120Hz mode. Needless to say, this is not normal, as higher refresh
www.androidheadlines.com
*in certain scenarios, like low brightness
Battery life tests have also shown that there is only a minor difference in battery life between 60hz or 120hz, so it doesn't really matter and you should - because of that - 120hz anyway since it's a much better experience.

Anyone from the UK had this update yet?
I only ask because I don't have any major issues and fingers crossed this update doesn't make anything worse.

wilpang said:
Anyone from the UK had this update yet?
I only ask because I don't have any major issues and fingers crossed this update doesn't make anything worse.
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Officially it's only a rollout in the USA and Canada, it will come to the rest of the world with the December update (or you manually sideload it, as I did).

Morgrain said:
Officially it's only a rollout in the USA and Canada, it will come to the rest of the world with the December update (or you manually sideload it, as I did).
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Notice anything major from the update?

Morgrain said:
As far as we know, it's currently buggy anyway, since the
Pixel 6 Pro Consuming More Power In 60Hz Mode Than In 120Hz One
The Google Pixel 6 Pro seems to be consuming more power in 60Hz mode, than it does in 120Hz mode. Needless to say, this is not normal, as higher refresh
www.androidheadlines.com
*in certain scenarios, like low brightness
Battery life tests have also shown that there is only a minor difference in battery life between 60hz or 120hz, so it doesn't really matter and you should - because of that - 120hz anyway since it's a much better experience.
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Adaptive refresh is totally borked on the 6Pro.