SMS responsiveness on Android - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I love Android, I truly do... but there is one thing I just cannot stand about any Android phone I've seen: the SMS app(s). The SMS apps and responsiveness of them are atrocious. I've had my system hang plenty of times when trying to send SMS along with MMS too, is there any reason for it? I don't see such an issue when it comes to iOS... I have no other UI responsiveness issues when it comes to Android other than anything SMS related.
I originally had an Acer Liquid E before, granted it's not the best phone, but I flashed a custom ROM for it, UI responsiveness was increased, however one problem still remained: SMS app(s) responsiveness. I recently purchased a Galaxy S2 LTE thinking that it would be fixed, however the problem STILL remains... and I'm boggled as to why it remains even after ICS.
Is there anyone that can provide some sort of explanation or has a similar annoyance with it?

tatootian said:
I love Android, I truly do... but there is one thing I just cannot stand about any Android phone I've seen: the SMS app(s). The SMS apps and responsiveness of them are atrocious. I've had my system hang plenty of times when trying to send SMS along with MMS too, is there any reason for it? I don't see such an issue when it comes to iOS... I have no other UI responsiveness issues when it comes to Android other than anything SMS related.
I originally had an Acer Liquid E before, granted it's not the best phone, but I flashed a custom ROM for it, UI responsiveness was increased, however one problem still remained: SMS app(s) responsiveness. I recently purchased a Galaxy S2 LTE thinking that it would be fixed, however the problem STILL remains... and I'm boggled as to why it remains even after ICS.
Is there anyone that can provide some sort of explanation or has a similar annoyance with it?
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Same here, HTC Desire, 4.0.4.
Whenever I open a thread which has a larger amount of texts in it, the app hangs on loading and then on scrolling.
I think it's due to the way the interface for reading and storing messages (which is app-independent) has a sub-optimal way of retrieving them, causing the app to hang during operations with the database.

Number22 said:
Same here, HTC Desire, 4.0.4.
Whenever I open a thread which has a larger amount of texts in it, the app hangs on loading and then on scrolling.
I think it's due to the way the interface for reading and storing messages (which is app-independent) has a sub-optimal way of retrieving them, causing the app to hang during operations with the database.
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I don't really get lag when opening convos, but only when sending SMS/MMS, not sure if anyone else has this issue or if you do too..

I've switched to Sky-ICS and I still have this issue with a little over 20k+ texts... I really, REALLY wonder if there is a fix to this issue, I'm sure I'm not the only one that experiences huge lag when sending and receiving SMSes (on stock or 3rd party apps).
Obviously removing the 20k texts would fix the issue, but I don't see why this should be necessary? iOS doesn't have this issue...

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[Q] problems with HD2

Hi,
I have been using the HD2 since christmas and other then the updates from HTC i only have 1 or 2 apps on it.
for a while now the phone has gotten all sluggish, studdering when scrolling through the "windows" or taking a few secs to unlock etc.
another problem, dont know if they are related, is that the sluggishness is very noticable when writting text messages or emails. Often it feels like the phone is trying to catch up with my typping. Another annoying thing is that the coursor will jump around, i.e. writting a sentence and then pressing "," and the "," will all the sudden be at the beginning of the message ...
Anyone experience this kind of problem and know a fix?
Any help is greatly appreciated
What rom are you running ?
Have you tried using task manager and cleanram to free up memory and make sure the phone isn't working on other things in the backround ?
Sometimes if twitter is updating when im typing i get an issue like you've mentioned but generally its not that bad, but there's always the little few milliseconds delay which doesn't sound much but does hinder the typing...
you probably have a load of txt messages built up. The hd2 doesnt perform at all well when there are more than a hundred or so txts saved.

[Q] Animation lag when sending sms (samsung messaging app)

This doesn't happen all the time but when I send an sms to a friend who I have sent plenty of messages to (more than usual friends) there is a lag in the animation when I send it. I have tried limiting the number of messages per thread and that did not help. It also doesn't seem to matter if there are a lot of apps open. It is very annoying and hopefully can be fixed. I am on the stock 2.3.5 firmware (KI3) but this has been happening since I got the phone. Any suggestions?
No one else has this problem?
I did when I first bought the phone, however after updating to 2.3.5 it dissapeared. I stopped usng it anyways, prefer handcent
i noticed that in 2.3.4 which i updated yesterday.....i tried to delete the conversation with lots of sms and it was smooth again, it wasn't doing so in 2.3.3. they fix one thing and another goes off, classic!!
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[Q] Slow Droid.

I'm new to this forum so I really have no idea what I'm doing. And I'm not crazy smart with my phone. I have a Droid Eris and it's super slow. Everything runs slow even when no applications are open. I dont have a lot of apps open because I have the task killer. I got rid of all my texts too and deleted a few apps. When I go to call someone, it's delayed for about two minutes and finally calls. I also have problems with text messages, sometimes when I go to text back I'll type but nothing will show up in the box where I'm typing. I was reading about roots and such, but I have no idea how to go about doing this or changing everything so it can be faster. I need some serious step by step information as I'm not familiar with all the terms and what everything means. I've seen a few posts about this but don't understand it at all. Please help!
These phones are not fast period lol my fiance uses one and i rooted and flashed many roms to it and it still has a lag....shes running cm7 and its better than the stock rom but still laggy....even on froyo its laggy but guess that what we get using a 3+ year old phone
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ls628 said:
I'm new to this forum so I really have no idea what I'm doing. And I'm not crazy smart with my phone. I have a Droid Eris and it's super slow. Everything runs slow even when no applications are open. I dont have a lot of apps open because I have the task killer. I got rid of all my texts too and deleted a few apps. When I go to call someone, it's delayed for about two minutes and finally calls. I also have problems with text messages, sometimes when I go to text back I'll type but nothing will show up in the box where I'm typing. I was reading about roots and such, but I have no idea how to go about doing this or changing everything so it can be faster. I need some serious step by step information as I'm not familiar with all the terms and what everything means. I've seen a few posts about this but don't understand it at all. Please help!
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Is your phone rooted or unrooted? If rooted what ROM are you running?
Either way, when's the last time you deleted a bunch of old text messages? I think I've read that when you have a buildup of a lot of old text (and especially MMS) messages, it can slow your phone down.
If all else fails and you're running the stock (unrooted) ROM, you could try a Factory Reset. The phone will be just like when it was new, so you should back up your apps that you have installed, and their data, if you feel you must, then after the Factory Reset only add things back a little at a time. I find that once your phone has less than 40MB of RAM left on a regular basis, that it really causes it to slow down tremendously.

[Q] Make apps stay in memory

Hi,
Just got a S3 the other day, so now I've rooted it and flashed Omega v26 custom ROM.
Everything works fine, but one thing has been bugging me; the dialer, contact app and message app doesnt stay in memory. When they're not in memory they take like 0,5-1,5 seconds to load, which is unacceptable to me! :crying:
Is there a way to make them stay in memory, regardless..?
Thanks in advance!
I believe it's the jb leaks that have thus problem? So nothing to do really.
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sulan83 said:
I believe it's the jb leaks that have thus problem? So nothing to do really.
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So this is not an issue in ICS?
Yes, it IS an issue with ICS. A lot of people might not notice it, because, obviously, if you've just recently used the dialer or contacts app, they are still in memory and load quickly, but even in ICS, it's an issue I'd sacrifice a bit of memory if there was a way to keep them active. There's got to be a way to do it.
I have CM10 on my wife's SII and the dialer loads much faster by comparison, and there's still a lot of work to make JB fully ready for the SII, since kernel sources have not been released yet for it.
It's a shame that such a device is plagued in such an obvious way. It's the Achilles Heel of the SIII, IMO.
It's a PHONE and the dialer and contacts should be something that every user will be reaching for constantly in normal use. Can't see the reason why this cannot be solved.
donalgodon said:
Yes, it IS an issue with ICS. A lot of people might not notice it, because, obviously, if you've just recently used the dialer or contacts app, they are still in memory and load quickly, but even in ICS, it's an issue I'd sacrifice a bit of memory if there was a way to keep them active. There's got to be a way to do it.
I have CM10 on my wife's SII and the dialer loads much faster by comparison, and there's still a lot of work to make JB fully ready for the SII, since kernel sources have not been released yet for it.
It's a shame that such a device is plagued in such an obvious way. It's the Achilles Heel of the SIII, IMO.
It's a PHONE and the dialer and contacts should be something that every user will be reaching for constantly in normal use. Can't see the reason why this cannot be solved.
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A friend of mine thought of a way to work around this. I havent tried it, but in theory it sounds doable.
If you disable the built-in app killer and install another which has capability to ignore certain apps in a list when freeing up memory.
How about that? Is that worth trying? If so, whats the best app killer out there?
I have the same issue ... but with normal apps such as a twitter app or mini-games (not 3D dynamic games). I keep reloading them if I don't use them by leaving them inactive in background for more than 3 minutes give or take.
Where is multitasking for Gode's sake ?
I think its more an issue with the touchwiz contacts and dialer being very bloated. The cm10 contacts and dialer isn't always in memory, but it loads up so fast that it doesn't HAVE to be in memory. Last I checked, the touchwiz contacts can take up to 80-90mb of ram (I only have 130 contacts) which is way too much to be honest, and phone doesn't have much user free ram as it is. The only alternative is to use EX Dialer, it always stays in ram and is very fast, if you get a missed calls though they won't be cleared until you use the stock dialer, very annoying
DramatikBeats said:
I think its more an issue with the touchwiz contacts and dialer being very bloated. The cm10 contacts and dialer isn't always in memory, but it loads up so fast that it doesn't HAVE to be in memory. Last I checked, the touchwiz contacts can take up to 80-90mb of ram (I only have 130 contacts) which is way too much to be honest, and phone doesn't have much user free ram as it is. The only alternative is to use EX Dialer, it always stays in ram and is very fast, if you get a missed calls though they won't be cleared until you use the stock dialer, very annoying
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Well, that sounds like a lot.
But my friend who has a Galaxy S2 doesnt have this problem (he's running 2.3) and the dialer, contacts and message app is not that different on the S3 so it should not take up much more RAM, right?
naffgorr said:
Well, that sounds like a lot.
But my friend who has a Galaxy S2 doesnt have this problem (he's running 2.3) and the dialer, contacts and message app is not that different on the S3 so it should not take up much more RAM, right?
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That's what you'd think, but it does. Even on the S2 though the contacts and dialer were slow to load, don't know what tests Samsung are doing when they optimize the software on their phones but I think the Contacts/Dialer/Messaging should always be in ram as default. 1-2 seconds might not seem like a lot to people, but when phones with inferior hardware are opening the same thing in under a second I can imagine someone pulling this face in astonishment
Edit: Just checked how much ram messaging and contacts uses in CM10. 30mb together lol, compared to the average 50mb I had with Stock TW Contacts
DramatikBeats said:
Edit: Just checked how much ram messaging and contacts uses in CM10. 30mb together lol, compared to the average 50mb I had with Stock TW Contacts
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So there's a 20mb difference between stock TW dialer/sms/contact and CM10? If it's not more then that I don't see what the problem is. Would gladly sacrifice a few megabytes more RAM to get rid of that annoying lag..
Do you think this issue will be corrected in future releases?
I honestly do not think it will be corrected ever. Since that problem was present in galaxy s also...
One can certainly hope.
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Hello,
Due to the fact that I had the same problem with dialer/sms/contact on my i9300 (4.1.1) I decided to write my solution of this.
So, I did as follows:
1. root
2. edit /system/build.prop and add lines:
ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=1
sys.keep_app_1=com.android.contacts
sys.keep_app_2=com.android.mms
3. reboot
Now, these applications works perfect!
Regards,
Kondik
kondikk said:
Hello,
Due to the fact that I had the same problem with dialer/sms/contact on my i9300 (4.1.1) I decided to write my solution of this.
So, I did as follows:
1. root
2. edit /system/build.prop and add lines:
ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=1
sys.keep_app_1=com.android.contacts
sys.keep_app_2=com.android.mms
3. reboot
Now, these applications works perfect!
Regards,
Kondik
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hi kondik, what does this do? keep the 2 apps in memory all the time?
budisuharto said:
hi kondik, what does this do? keep the 2 apps in memory all the time?
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Well, it should be... but unfortunately sys.keep_app doesn't work in JB as it turned out later so I'm looking for another solution to keep dialer, contacts and sms in memory permanently.
However the ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=1 line improves performance of my i9300 and now is much better.
When dialer/contacts/sms are in buffer memory then there is no lag and phone works amazing!
any news ???

call lag (audio/answer) looking for rom advice or workaround recommendations

hi, sure many of you know the X-U has (or for some of us certainly has) a problem with "call lag". this is in two parts:
1) cannot answer calls quickly because sometimes cannot reach the slider, i think if phone was in deep sleep when call comes in?
2) after answering a call, you cannot hear the other person for some period of time after answering, around 5-10 seconds approx.
i have a warranty replacment XperiaU and i'm trying to decide between the newest official based roms (b.1.100? debloated etc., which i'm hoping Sony has fixed some of this (?)) and the newer, apparently fairly bug free CM10 builds here. obviously the latter means unlocking BL which i'm willing to do IF it offers any benefit (to this issue, not really bothered about other benefits, mainly trying to use it as a phone!)
not sure if this is a resource management issue as the first reports for e.g.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2484559
say that it had no lag, but later reports clearly say it does.
the video i saw on that thread made the phone look noticely faster than i'm used to on b.1.54
if there's some app or tweak to improve this that would be equally good.
any thoughts/advice much appreciated.
just a note this problem still present in CM11 beta builds i'm using (from macaw.pl)
changd to SmartAssv2 governor, usually about 70MB RAM showing free. not using any RAM management app other than greenify. phone actually runs pretty well otherwise on kitkat.
going to try ExDialer (not free? :/) and that RAM manager that i keep seeing recommended.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jrummy.apps.memory.manager
see some recommendations for this also, not sure specifically what in there is helping?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cleanmaster.mguard
Some say to delete call logs, anyone found that helps? anyone tried different governors etc.?
or a tweek to keep dialler in memory, like the launcher?
Smiff2 said:
or a tweek to keep dialler in memory, like the launcher?
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just came across this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=51179564&postcount=2439
looks hopeful!
quick update, haven't solved this it's still a major problem with this phone, but i realised you can use the power button to wake it and then answer the call! sort of a workaround, but inelegant.

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