Got my Titan last Friday, loving parts of it (design of both WP7 and the phone itself, smoothness).
However I can't get over these (related) issues, can anyone help me:
1. apps restart when you open them again. I see a splash screen and there's a delay. Is this normal? Shouldn't these apps just resume (almost) instantly?
2. I use Twitter a lot. All twitter apps (most of them look gorgeous!) I've tried can't keep their position in the timeline when restarted. The app restarts completely and loses the position in the timeline, making it unusable for me. I've tried all settings in these apps, no luck.
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Any one else notice their Hero slowing down?
Mine's gotten to the point where it takes a few attempts at even unlocking the home screen....
Yeah, started to put some apps on the phone the first night I had it ( Friday) and when I started 'Sky map' to see what it was like the poor old phone had a major moment and wouldn't do much at all.
I had read up on this so installed taskiller and just killed the app -it was fine after that-
I believe it will be sorted soon, there is a firmware update just about to be released (hopefully) that addresses this issue.
I bought TasKiller Pro, since it lets you have unlimited amounts of Ignored apps. Then I just:
* Go into TasKiller and Ignore TouchFlo, Touch Input, com.htc.dcs (whatever that is, it's always on) and all other apps you don't want to kill when you clean up (Babbler, ConnectBot etc... whatever you fancy)
* Put the TasKiller widget on the desktop next to the TasKiller app icon.
* Whenever I notice a slowdown I just press the widget button and it kills all processes / programs except the ones I've ignored. It immediately speeds up the phone
This isn't an iPhone, this actually lets you start multiple programs at the same time and since the cpu isn't event capable of playing smooth MP4 videos (unless they are 480x360), there isn't a lot to spare.
When I woke up this morning, i made a ConnectBot connection to screen to open irc, surfed a couple of webpages, wrote a couple of mails, started babbler for facebook and eBuddy for MSN and the slowdown on the desktop was visible. When I was done I clicked the TasKiller "Kill all" button and the phone was smooth as butter again.
The moral of the story: If you start a lot of programs at the same time, it WILL slow down the phone. Nothing you can do about it. The iPhone "never" slows down, because it's the equivalent (almost) of a Hero with only one app running at any one time. Given those conditions, the Hero would be just as smooth as the iPhone too!
Still, I hope sincerely for some optimization with the forthcoming update.
You need to look into how the Android OS works.
there are two types of running apps.
Applications and services.
With applications, when you press the home button the application is suspended and can no longer use memory or cpu, Android can reclaim this memory when it needs to.
Second is services, these run in the background. These do use cpu and memory while you are doing other things. So if you have a lot of apps that uses services running then it may slow down.
I have found that usually the slowdown is because when you click home and then suspend the widgets that update are suspended and so when you unsuspend they wake up and start to refresh and that causes the slow down. Tip #1 when clicking home to put the phone into standby dont click standby for about 5 secs and see if it helps.
Hi,
I recently bought a Samsung Galaxy Player 4, and I am until now very happy with it - except for one point: it seems to be kind of unstable. I usually shut it down overnight, so the ram should be cleared, however it has sometimes even crashed twice in a day. Here's the other thing: it is usually while doing fairly simple tasks, like browsing, astrid (I am talking about the todo list app), etc. Usually it freezes, so I leave it, and then it crashes - I see the startup animation again, and the whole thing reboots. I do use it fairly heavily - I switch apps a lot, use it all day on and off, have many incoming notifications, have many widgets (astrid, default calendar, custom power widget, battery, program monitor, shazam, facebook, and a couple of sticky notes), and I also have an icon somewhere for every one of my apps (I prefer not to use the app drawer. I also can't seem to be able to run more than 3 apps in the background (I got 4 once), even ones that are light on memory. Is this normal? Am I over-using my device? I love it while it is working, but it seems to me like as soon as one app stops working, everything stops working - I can't return to the home screen, it just eventually crashes. Is this normal, should I slow down, or is there something wrong with my device?
Thanks
I have an Acer Iconia Tab A200 running a stock 4.0.3 ROM - the latest (and perhaps final) Android version for the model. In recent months, the core Google Apps (and several other programs, but nowhere near as regularly) have become frustratingly prone to freezing/crashing on a regular basis, and often in response to basic, repeatable user interaction.
Calendar, for example, frequently displays a black screen when I try to create an new event, although I can exit to my launcher at will. It will sometimes freeze when I'm swiping from one week to view another, and even the virtual Home button doesn't respond for a while.
Google Play will crash, almost without fail, when I initiate three or four app updates after checking each of their store pages for a list of changes. All Play Store downloads cease and I'm dropped back to my launcher. On occasion, it, too, freezes completely, and I cannot quit to my launcher, forcing a hard power off.
Maps has a tendency to suddenly freeze if I scroll around the area for a few minutes. If it does, it becomes unresponsive for a few seconds before closing and dropping me to my launcher.
Google+ will freeze midway through scrolling down posts, and it usually remains stuck for around 30 to 90 seconds. No part of the screen will respond during this time.
Does anyone have any ideas as to what may be causing this behavior, or any suggestions for a fix to try?
Hi, I've got issues.
My GT i9205 will not run background apps for any length of time.
For example, if I am playing music (poweramp) and I go into any game, or fire up chrome/feedly/redditFlow, the music stops and the app icon for poweramp disappears. The access to the quick controls in my task bar is no longer there and if I switch back to the music app and press play again, it will not remember the last played point. Plus my game will get killed.
Another, possibly better example - if I fire up a more resource heavy game, tasker, swipepad, any kind of system monitor will die and their icons will disappear from the taskbar.
It also seems to be progressive, when it first started - maybe 3 months after getting the phone, I could still play games and some background apps would die, but some would stay. Now none stay and sometimes the games themselves die (while loading a level, it may kick me back out to whatever homescreen launcher I'm using).
There is also an issue whereby, when I reboot the phone, I will have to try 2/3 times as it tends to get stuck at the gently pulsating Samsung Logo and will not go further.
I'd had previous advice from someone who suspected a corrupted filesystem and recommended a factory reset, which I did. No joy, after same deal.
Last week I rooted the phone for the first time (nothing fancy just vcoreroot-v2.tar) and today I went to Sammobile and got the newest Stock ROM. Just used it with Odin and apart from Root disappearing, which was expected, I still have all the same problems.
I'm having a hard time finding a way to locate anybody else whose had the same issue and fast running out of ideas...
Any help would be much appreciated.
Hi guys,
I bought a Lenovo p2 a couple of weeks ago and have been having problems with apps (mainly whatsapp and podcast addict) being closed soon after the screen turns off. I am running android 7.0; stock firmware. Whatsapp wont push notification until I reopen the app manually. Podcast eddict sometimes stops playing a podcast when the screen is turned of manually or automatically; sometimes it resumes where I stopped listening the time before the last time and I can't rewind the podcast, so it become unplayable. I am pretty sure that these and more app are being closed aggressively, which also makes the corresponding widget unclickable. The weird thing is that I am not sure that I had these problems from the start. Maybe I had them, but didn't notice them or they have become more pronounced somehow.
Things I tried but didn't help:
- reset all the permissions for all the apps (I remember denying a lot of them when I first installed them and thought that the apps might not be working properly because of that)
- changed whatsapp and podcast addict to "not optimized" in the battery optimization menu
- I went through all the settings of the phone and of the corresponding apps, but didn't find a solution or an setting I accidentally changed
- I tried to get into the advanced settings menu by longpressing the gear button on the dropdown menu. I read that the gear should start spinning, but mine didn't
- I locked whatsapp and podcast addict in the multitask window, by clicking on the lock icon
Any help is much appreciated and let me know if I left out anything that you guys need to know.