Hi Guys,
My XS has been behaving strangely the past couple of weeks and I was wondering whether anyone had an idea as to why it might be.
I'm running STOCK Three UK .75 firmware, no root, no boot unlock.
1. When waking the screen up by pressing the power button I noticed that rather than my standard lock screen, I had the old X10 lock screen load up instead. I probably wouldn't have noticed had the clock not been so different to the Xperia S stock clock... but it shocked me since these were OLD software UI elements that must be on my XS somewhere, and something caused them to render rather than the current UI.
2. When swiping to a different home screen I've noticed the screen black out temporarily before continuing with the animation and loading the next home screen. I'm not a widget intensive user... I've got clock and google search on one screen, "tool" toggles and track ID on another, and accuweather on the third.
3. Facebook images flickering and sometimes staying greyed out. Wifi connection is strong so it's not a connectivity issue... it seems to be a graphical issue, as with the rest of the problems. Facebook news feed sometimes stays completely black, though the UI elements are rendered at the top perfectly.
4. General increased lag across the UI as a whole.
Rebooting hasn't helped... removing a number of apps I thought might be causing issues hasn't helped. Any idea what has happened to my XS all of a sudden?! Seems to me like whatever is rendering graphics is having a problem.
Is it likely to be firmware related or a problem with the graphics chip? Maybe a bad app? The official Three UK ICS is available to me if that might solve the problem?
Cheers.
Try a factory reset before upgrading.
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Factory reset hasn't affected the symptoms at all. I'm wondering whether my gpu is struggling? Is there any way to test its performance?
All you can do is flash another firmware or update to ics,if the symptoms still there than you have to send it to service.
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I have also encounter the few problem as you have mentioned on .75 (generic uk)
But after upgarding to ics it has completely gone. Try upgrading it to ics, I'm sure that 3 have already rolled out ICS.
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The first one is a common problem experienced in GB fw. Sony fixed it when they upgrade the fw to ICS.
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maybe try running a benchmark app like antutu benchmark and see how your device compares to other using stock rom etc
Thanks guys.
I ran an Antutu Benchmark check and it came out at the same levels to other stock users so I guess there's nothing majorly wrong.
I'll flash ICS and be done with it I think.
Cheers again.
Why So Serious? said:
Thanks guys.
I ran an Antutu Benchmark check and it came out at the same levels to other stock users so I guess there's nothing majorly wrong.
I'll flash ICS and be done with it I think.
Cheers again.
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at least its not a hardware issue fella, good luck sorting it, post back if it sorts your issues maybe beneficial to someone else
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at least its not a hardware issue fella, good luck sorting it, post back if it sorts your issues maybe beneficial to someone else
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Hi,
After ICS update I noticed a very annoing and frequent bug.
It was described by other users in these subforums, and factory reset can not help it.
It is difficult to describe, as it lasts for maybe one tenth of a second and I can't find a proper word for this as I'm not a native English speaker.
But I recorded a video, so you can see this.
It's like a single flickerring in a shape of triangle in left bottom part of the active window or entire screen - a short white blink.
In the video I show it happening when pressing Menu for Recent Tasks, but it happens in other occasions too.
When playing video there are also some 1/10 second distortions - difficult to describe, but I suspect they have something in common with this bug...
Let's hope Sony will see this and fix this bug.
I really wonder how such a bug could have left after the development stage. I, as a regular user, have noticed this after a couple of hours of playing with the tablet. What about Sony testers?
It's annoying!! its happening to me also, mines are black, and they happen in the left side of the tablet screen. :/
Not seeing flickering on mine yet.
Im just here because i am looking for a system dump to port things but it is a common issue on the Asus Transformer on ICS as well It is not a device specific bug but rather one in google's code. One fix is to only have <5 apps running at a time
Mine does not show this flickering .
Also....this is a development section of the forum . Your question should have been posted in the Tablet S General section
This is happening to a lot of us. It has already been discussed in the General section under the ICS First Impressions topic.
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Yes I have the flickering, and it happens a lot using recent apps on the homescreen.
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mrevankyle said:
Im just here because i am looking for a system dump to port things but it is a common issue on the Asus Transformer on ICS as well It is not a device specific bug but rather one in google's code. One fix is to only have <5 apps running at a time
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This is very useful info. Thank you!!!!
I had it a little yesterday but it's gone today
Got it too but its not that annoying,
It does not happen all the time its just an google thing,
It will not damage anything but if you think its to annoying then you could try
to use a CPU speed up "Dont apply EXTREME" that will higher the chance to
crash your device, i think the tegra chip is getting to much info to read,
so its a sort of buffer overrun maby speed up app will lower the flickering
YF,
Mahaco
You can't over clock the kernel.. We don't have a kernel which supports that yet
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I have flickering too. It's probably due to low ram at certain points. Even with the flickering on occasion, the recent apps list is MUCH faster than on Honeycomb.
the flickering only happens on my tablet when it's in the cradle on clock mode and it stops completely if I use a regular wallpaper instead of a live wallpaper
To me flickering happens when I open recent apps on the launcher or when I ve a popup (inside the application, on internet etc.) with a dark trasparent effect under. The same graphical problem turn up heavily with the youtube application or sometime using keyboard.
It's very very annoying this problem. It doesn't limit the use of the tablet, which is very fast and smooth, but simply ruins something which, simply, would be perfect without it.
It will be interesting create a class action, a mail, with the signature of who wants a resolution of this problem, to send to Sony for forcing it to realize a solution.
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Not seeing flickering on mine yet.
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Let me retract my previous statement. Since I've rooted ICS and have been using it more and I do see screen flickering occasionally.
I can't say that I see any performance improvement with ICS though.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/26/lg-optimus-4x-hands-on/
25 seconds into the video, you can see it happen on the new LG optimus 4X, i think it may be something to do with ICS.
If you people bothered to read the entire thread you would see that it has happened to other tablets. Not only the Sony. ASUS has this problem as well.
Read the thread and you will see
Yup ISC bug, first i didn't give a shhh.. but now its getting pretty annoying i hope it will be better with 4.0.4. Wich runs super smooth on my Samsung Galaxy S2 in tablet mode.
yes, have the same problem! It's annoying!
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Yup ISC bug, first i didn't give a shhh.. but now its getting pretty annoying i hope it will be better with 4.0.4. Wich runs super smooth on my Samsung Galaxy S2 in tablet mode.
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I second this!
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I had home screen loading lag before but fixed it by disabling s-voice and after a few days the home screen loading lag (a few seconds) came back. What is making it take so long to load?
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I had home screen loading lag before but fixed it by disabling s-voice and after a few days the home screen loading lag (a few seconds) came back. What is making it take so long to load?
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I agree, its just as bad as the SG2 for lag. It can be as long as 2 seconds or more to come on.
S-Voice made no difference really for me, which for the record is complete rubbish!
I must admit though, it may be since i rooted it with the CF kernel... I can't recall the issue before, but then I did root it within minutes of powering it on.
I wanted to share this with the forum. I bought the Galaxy S3 as soon as it came out and immediately installed the same apps that I had on the S2. My S2 never lagged and had a brilliant low battery usage, so my dissapiontment was great that the S3 consumed battery like cold beer on a summerday and was lagging up to several seconds between home screens. Finally today after reading this thread I thought of removing my widgets one after one and checking lag each time. Lag could be confirmed with 100% certainty by going to settings>wifi and then going back to home screen and switch. Every single time it would lag up to several seconds. When I uninstalled Palmary weather widget, every single trace og lag was completely gone. I have tested this about 100 times now, restarted the phone several times. The result is, no lag at all without palmary and every single time I add Palmary weather as a widget again, it starts lagging. Maybe it isn´t Palmary for everyone experiencing this problem, but try removing widgets one after one and testing or remove them all and add them one after the other, while testing in between. The only problem I have with the S3 now (stock rom updated and rooted) is the terrible cell standby power consumption. I solved this by only using only gsm for now, but this is not acceptable and I expect Samsung to confirm this problem and fix it, and do it fast. My S2 is a far superior phone as things are now, except from design.
Regards
John
Cell standby isn't using a lot of power, its being calculated incorrectly.
In the stats it should be a draw of 3.4ma but instead someone forgot the . So it thinks its using 34ma.
It isn't
Its only a mistake in stats.
This had been well documented here.
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Ok, but nevertheless, it´s eating up the juice way too fast with mobile data enabled. The S2 didn´t do that.
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Ok, but nevertheless, it´s eating up the juice way too fast with mobile data enabled. The S2 didn´t do that.
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Flash a different modem and test.
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Thanks for the info John. I tried your thought of removing the weather widget but it didn't improve my 1-2sec lag from switching on and off for me. It happents intermittently and I dnt have too many things running anyway. Its strange to say the least.
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Use nova and set animation scale to 0.5x
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But if there are other handsets that don't have lag with the touchwiz, then we shouldn't have to install nova to cure the problem. I already have 0.5 for the animations. I'm pretty sure that its widget/app related but hey. This is what happens in complicated machines.
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But if there are other handsets that don't have lag with the touchwiz, then we shouldn't have to install nova to cure the problem. I already have 0.5 for the animations. I'm pretty sure that its widget/app related but hey. This is what happens in complicated machines.
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Agreed, it's just ****ty programing from Samsung
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Noticed something else. I had cpu reduction for power saving. Once I cancelled that the lag is gone unless I had multiple apps running in the backround. So that may play some role as well.
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This isn't exactly a scientific answer but when I press my home button lightly there is a delay for the screen to come on but if I push it harder the screen comes on right away. True Story
Just like the title says. I've been getting bad battery life and my keyboard (both the ics one and smart key) lags major. I have gone to the development menu and checked the option for force 2D bla bla
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For the bad battery, make sure you're on the latest, and trying to turning off your wifi...mine has been getting a pretty bad wakelock on wifi. For the keyboard lag, go into developer options and force gpu rendering.
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What keyboard are you using? Stock or a third party keyboard? Try removing the 2d gpu render and see if you get keyboard lag. Worked in my case with Swift keyboard. I think the gpu rendering vary per user, as I've got opposite results after enabling it in dev settings. My best advice would be follow shrikes advice, flash the newest RUU and play with the gpu rendering setting and see what works for you.
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I am not on the latest. I will try flashing that and see if I get some improvement. I have a question though...can I just flash the firmware via bootloader and be ok?
Do I have to go through the process of flashing a new recovery/rom?
Even though I am not 100%, from years of being on here, I would say yes for rom. I think there are moded firmwares out there where you do not need to change recovery or it will for you. The way I think about it, firmware is a heart or brain and if you don't start over the connectors of the rom will be looking for the old firmware. (This could be a terrible analogy, just trying to help).
Definitely make sure that you're on the latest firmwares. But when you say bad battery life what kinda are you getting? CM9 keyboard lag is pretty easy to troubleshoot but bad battery life could be a bunch of different things.
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I am not on the latest. I will try flashing that and see if I get some improvement. I have a question though...can I just flash the firmware via bootloader and be ok?
Do I have to go through the process of flashing a new recovery/rom?
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I think he meant the latest CM9 build, the one that came out on 9/12 had wakelock issues with Bluetooth where the phone wouldn't go into deep sleep. The fix for that is in the 9/18 release Gray put up. I let my phone sit overnight unplugged on the 9/12 release and my battery went from 100% to dead in under 6 hours, not seeing that issue anymore on the latest release.
As for firmware, I'd be at least on ICS firmware. If you're s-off you can just grab the latest firmware out of the firmware thread in the dev section, otherwise you need to flash the whole RUU via the bootloader.
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For the bad battery, make sure you're on the latest, and trying to turning off your wifi...mine has been getting a pretty bad wakelock on wifi. For the keyboard lag, go into developer options and force gpu rendering.
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Force gpu should never be recommended, it breaks various apps.
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Hi guys, I'm running the latest version of Slim Bean with stock modem XXLE8 and whatever kernel comes with Slim. I've noticed that there is a 1.5-2 second delay upon hitting the power or home button to the screen turning on and being ready to use. It's pretty annoying as you can imagine, I've actually figured out what the problem is, my phone is going to deep sleep too early and is taking up to 2 seconds to wake up, I wouldn't mind this if the phone has been left alone for 2 hours or so, but if I leave my phone for 5 minutes I shouldn't have to wait 2 seconds to unlock it. I came to this conclusion by using the app softlocker from the market, which disables sleep, and the lockscreen is perfectly fine with no lag, so should I try a new modem or a new kernel or is there something else I have to try to solve this issue?
There are already some discussions about that problem:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1687328
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1636680
It is a very annoying problem and I don't really understand how a top range device like the Galaxy S3 has such a problem.
I was hopping that the official Jelly Bean update would fix it... If it does not, I will contact Samsung (as should everyone who is annoyed by the wake up lag).
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There are already some discussions about that problem:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1687328
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1636680
It is a very annoying problem and I don't really understand how a top range device like the Galaxy S3 has such a problem.
I was hopping that the official Jelly Bean update would fix it... If it does not, I will contact Samsung (as should everyone who is annoyed by the wake up lag).
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I've read both but neither seem to provide much of a solution. It is pretty ridiculous a phone like the S3 with such powerful hardware suffers from unlock lag. My HTC Desire Z used to unlock instantly... Kinda disappointing.
I'm totally annoyed because of this problem, too.
isn't there a kernel or something where this doesnt happen??
No issues with Omega v34, instant
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I'm totally annoyed because of this problem, too.
isn't there a kernel or something where this doesnt happen??
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I've been looking but can't seem to find one. The delay is about 1.5-2 seconds on Siyah, was about the same with YANK kernel.
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No issues with Omega v34, instant
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Hmmmmm I might flash a stock rom and check it out because I don't remember it happening when I was running stock, tho that was for a grand total of 3 days lol.
This has always been a particular issue surrounding the Android software in terms of the optimisation of the OS...Keep in mind that kernels and ROMs with plently of adjustment may also mean plenty of variables, as small settings adjustments may alter and cause detrimental lags and issues as such. I use Phenomenal which is pretty good as there is little adjustments, disabled logs and undervolted...very good battery and response...I would recommend looking at something like that...unfortunately, should you wish not to root your device and keep it as standard, you may look at if there is an app that might be causing your the issue...but please note that slow unlocking/wake is because the device is in deep sleep.
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This has always been a particular issue surrounding the Android software in terms of the optimisation of the OS...Keep in mind that kernels and ROMs with plently of adjustment may also mean plenty of variables, as small settings adjustments may alter and cause detrimental lags and issues as such. I use Phenomenal which is pretty good as there is little adjustments, disabled logs and undervolted...very good battery and response...I would recommend looking at something like that...unfortunately, should you wish not to root your device and keep it as standard, you may look at if there is an app that might be causing your the issue...but please note that slow unlocking/wake is because the device is in deep sleep.
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sure, but i own quite a view other android phones and none behaves like the s3, not even the superlow-budget htc one v
i installed the omega 4.2 AOKP rom today, but the lag is there, too....i got back to arhd for now...
theres a app called softlocker, but with that the cpu never gets to deepsleep, my s3 gets warm and the battery drains badly
I usually do not root my tablets, but I am thinking about rooting my nexus 9. I really enjoy nexus products and I love htc products so I thought the Nexus 9 would be great, but the lag that this tablet has is horrible. I read that it might be hardware issue, since the processor uses denver, but I also heard it might be software related. So I want to ask if the guys who have rooted their tablet experienced less lag or not? If you happen to experience less lag then I would be more inclined to root the tablet. Thanks.
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Rooting is not going to change wether it lags or not.
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Rooting is not going to change wether it lags or not.
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OK maybe I should have been more clear... I want to know if some people who had rooted and flashed a custom aosp room noticed less lag or not... Is the lag driven from a software issue or because of the new architecture of the processor?
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cables2590 said:
OK maybe I should have been more clear... I want to know if some people who had rooted and flashed a custom aosp room noticed less lag or not... Is the lag driven from a software issue or because of the new architecture of the processor?
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Ok, it helps to be clear. Rooting and flashing are two different things. You can flash a rom without rooting. I'm on stock and have not noticed any significant lag. When you have lag check in developer options, process stats. See where your memory is. If it's in critical clear out open tabs.
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Ok, it helps to be clear. Rooting and flashing are two different things. You can flash a rom without rooting. I'm on stock and have not noticed any significant lag. When you have lag check in developer options, process stats. See where your memory is. If it's in critical clear out open tabs.
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OK that does make sense and I'll keep an eye on that, but when I checked now, my memory is in normal condition... However, it is on the closer side of critical though, so that might explain that I experience lag when I open a bigger app... I'm not completely used to the way lollipop multitask
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This has got to be the worst device I have had for lag issues, even trying to get back to the home screen can take 10-15 seconds.
jkr284 said:
This has got to be the worst device I have had for lag issues, even trying to get back to the home screen can take 10-15 seconds.
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Okay, I guess here's something wrong with your device. My N9 never takes this much time to return to the home screen. Occasionally there are some short breaks when returning to the home screen of approximately 2 - 3 seconds...
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This has got to be the worst device I have had for lag issues, even trying to get back to the home screen can take 10-15 seconds.
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Yeah that don't sound right Currently mine lag for 2 seconds the most... I just feel like it should not lag... It does seem however that putting a custom rom helps a little... Just my two sense
I have a lot installed on my nexus 9 but my nexus 6 has the same apps and even more installed. The Nexus 6 is instant and buttery smooth. My nexus 9 also can take a while to screen rotate.
The Nvidia chipset is very driver dependent, therefore software dependent. Read the Anandtech reiew article and it will clarify why there are short pauses/freezes sometimes with the N9.
Let's hope 5.1 fixes this...
you want nasty lag, goto htc's N9 web page.. I've not seen a poorly coded webpage with that type of lag in ages.
I know, its not the lag you are talking about , but I had to say something about it someplace ?
http://www.htc.com/us/tablets/nexus-9/
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I don't notice lag on my N9, but I just came from using my N7 2012. Its horrible, so my 9 seems supercharged. I do have freeze ups in Chrome occasionally, but that's about it. I must not max out my memory enough.
Wiping the cache seemed to help a little. I'm going to sell my Nexus 9. For a flagship reference there shouldn't be any lag. I'm sticking to Qualcomm chip set for now.
I have never rooted my N9 and got my device in Nov. I'm running the latest 5.01 and started to notice lag creeping in every 30 - 45 seconds (for no apparent reason). It wasn't very noticeable surfing the web or navigating the tablet but became very apparent playing games. Power cycling the device did nothing.. I was hoping the 5.1 update would solve the problem but grew too impatient waiting for it to arrive so I decided to flash the stock 5.01 image onto my device (from google site). All the lag is gone now, games that were previously unplayable due to the lag are now buttery smooth again. Not sure what caused the lag to begin with but stock 5.01 image reflashing solved my problems.
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I have never rooted my N9 and got my device in Nov. I'm running the latest 5.01 and started to notice lag creeping in every 30 - 45 seconds (for no apparent reason). It wasn't very noticeable surfing the web or navigating the tablet but became very apparent playing games. Power cycling the device did nothing.. I was hoping the 5.1 update would solve the problem but grew too impatient waiting for it to arrive so I decided to flash the stock 5.01 image onto my device (from google site). All the lag is gone now, games that were previously unplayable due to the lag are now buttery smooth again. Not sure what caused the lag to begin with but stock 5.01 image reflashing solved my problems.
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Yeah a few people has mentioned that flashing the stock image helped out quit a bit, but I'm running a rooted version of 5.1 and it's running great... Which I think means it's the memory leak causing the issue, and even though there is still a memory leak on 5.1 it's much better...
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In my case I don't think it was the memory leak issue causing the lag. If that was the case then power cycling the device would have resolved the issue momentarily. But it did not. The lag was consistently present regardless of the numbers of power cycles and clearing of all "recent apps".
I can understand the frustration some have voiced in the forums making it sound like the N9 is plagued with issues. Re-flashing stock 5.01and bringing back my tablet to the same state (reinstalled all apps again) it was in solved my problems. Hopefully the 5.1 OTA fixes whatever lag has been introduced with previous updates.
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Which I think means it's the memory leak causing the issue, and even though there is still a memory leak on 5.1 it's much better...
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The lag is getting annoying.