I am a noob to the rooting experience and this site, however i have successfully rooted my Droid X2 via Gingerbreak and explored some of the advantages of rooting. The only thing that I miss from my previous Iphone is Pandora. Pandora plays very slow on my android phones. Is this normal? and has anyone found a way to make it better?
jasonwmiles said:
I am a noob to the rooting experience and this site, however i have successfully rooted my Droid X2 via Gingerbreak and explored some of the advantages of rooting. The only thing that I miss from my previous Iphone is Pandora. Pandora plays very slow on my android phones. Is this normal? and has anyone found a way to make it better?
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Could you define slow? Does it stutter, quit, skip, buffer for too long?
I use it on my Droid X2 now and it seems fine. Is your experience the same on Wifi and 3G?
Slow - meaning it takes 5x longer to load on any android phone I have had than an Iphone and in between songs it pauses for about 30 - 40 seconds
For me it has been very variable. Some days it's quick and some days it seems to take forever. Was your iphone on AT&T and Verizon? Have you tried it while on Wi-Fi?
I missed the last part asking about 3g vs wifi.
This is mainly on wifi but it seems to be the exact same on 3g
jasonwmiles said:
I missed the last part asking about 3g vs wifi.
This is mainly on wifi but it seems to be the exact same on 3g
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You could try clearing data of the app and see it that cleans it out. Especially on Wifi, mine goes to the next song immediately.
Slacker Is Basically The Same Thing Except It Allows You To Cache A Station So If You Lose Service You Don't Lose Radio Station.
No issues like that. It was acting up alot, not loading songs at all, etc. Cleared data/cache/etc in applications menu and uninstalled/reinstalled. been fine since. Give that a go.
Pandora take 1-3 minutes to load and play next song
Hey, I tried everything:
Uninstall/Re-install
Clear cache
Battery pull
Return to stock and re-jailbreak
Nothing works.
Issues:
Pandora on load can take from 1-3 minutes to start the first song
On either skip or end of song Pandora can take 1-5 minutes to load the next song
Intermittently stops playing a song and attempts to load the next song (can take 1-3 minutes to load).
Notes:
Issues happen on 3G and Wifi
Supercharger not installed
Not location based - happens when driving, at home, work or anywhere.
Uninstalled LauncherPro Plus to help with battery life (too many widgets and it was killing my battery <10hrs).
stein5830 said:
Hey, I tried everything:
Uninstall/Re-install
Clear cache
Battery pull
Return to stock and re-jailbreak
Nothing works.
Issues:
Pandora on load can take from 1-3 minutes to start the first song
On either skip or end of song Pandora can take 1-5 minutes to load the next song
Intermittently stops playing a song and attempts to load the next song (can take 1-3 minutes to load).
Notes:
Issues happen on 3G and Wifi
Supercharger not installed
Not location based - happens when driving, at home, work or anywhere.
Uninstalled LauncherPro Plus to help with battery life (too many widgets and it was killing my battery <10hrs).
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Wow!!! Sorry, but I'm out of ideas.
Droid X2 here. Got it maybe two weeks ago. My previous Eris was a slow POS but it launched pandora in about 2 minutes and songs went immediately one song to the next. The x2 takes 30-50 seconds between songs. I tried uninstalling reinstalling the app and clearing its cache. Its odd since Netflix starts up right away and plays quicker on my phone than it does at home...
bionaraq said:
Droid X2 here. Got it maybe two weeks ago. My previous Eris was a slow POS but it launched pandora in about 2 minutes and songs went immediately one song to the next. The x2 takes 30-50 seconds between songs. I tried uninstalling reinstalling the app and clearing its cache. Its odd since Netflix starts up right away and plays quicker on my phone than it does at home...
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I got rid of Pandora for similar reasons, kept changing songs halfway through a song. Seems Pandora is failing, and have you ever checked the permissions it asks for? I'd recommend another radio app but I haven't found one as good as Pandora used to be. In summary, Pandora sucks.
Sent from my DROID X2 using XDA App
I have been dealing with the same. It seems to be any ROM I have tried. None of the various tweaks or even an old 1.3 version of Pandora that some said did not have the issue seem to fix this problem. Just search google using the terms android and slow you will see many folks having similar issues. My wifes D2G does the same. Wifi and 3G both give the same inconsistent results.
It used to be really bad for me, now its every now and then, always on a song in really enjoying >.< makes me wanna try spotify or something seeing as it came out for android pretty recently.
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I was about to root and rom my wife's phone because she was complaining about Pandora doing exactly what you are describing. Think I will hold off for now since it doesn't appear to be something that can be fixed that way. Been trying to move her over to Spotify, maybe this will be the time...
Odd issue and I will use Pandora as an example. I usually stream music through my phone in my car over the AT&T data connection. Odd thing is, if my screen locks by itself when a song is playing it will not play the next song, due to no data connection, until I unlock the screen.
The only thing I can think of, and I admit I have not verified yet, is if it is Juicedefender doing this when the screen locks. I will test this out by uninstalling and verifying, but I wanted to see if anyone else has anything similar happening to them.
I haven't used juice defender is some time but I think unless you tinker with some of the settings. It will shut off your data anytime the screen locks. Try digging into some of the options.
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msherman123 said:
Odd issue and I will use Pandora as an example. I usually stream music through my phone in my car over the AT&T data connection. Odd thing is, if my screen locks by itself when a song is playing it will not play the next song, due to no data connection, until I unlock the screen.
The only thing I can think of, and I admit I have not verified yet, is if it is Juicedefender doing this when the screen locks. I will test this out by uninstalling and verifying, but I wanted to see if anyone else has anything similar happening to them.
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I almost made this exact thread the other day. The problem is juice defender. It's actually not a problem because that's how it works by design. When you run pandora, pandora caches the song it's playing so while it's playing that song, there's no active data transfer so juice defender shuts down the data connection when the screen locks.
To fix it you can either get one of the upgraded pay versions of juice defender which let you set up a list of apps that you don't want JD to shut down the data when they're open or just do what I do........disable JD when you're running pandora.
I appreciate the replies from you both! Thanks
I use my phone at work to listen to Pandora and TuneIn a lot, but one day it started stuttering so bad I could no longer use them.
For example, with Pandora, when I start the app it'll say "Loading" or "Buffering 1%" then skip to the next song.. and skip to the next song, and so on. When listening to TuneIn is plays for a bit, then buffers, stops, plays, stops plays, enough to pretty much be un-listenable.
Now I've tried everything, re-provisioned, factory wiped, even installed a whole new ROM (MeanICS) and it still does this. I've wiped and re-installed the applications, still a no go.
Ran SpeedTest multiple times and everything seems fine. Anyone have a clue as to what in the world is going on?
I blame the network. I don't know what the hell is going on, but I have had more issues with the data on this phone than I have on my old phone. I've talked to Sprint about it and they offer zero help on the issue. I also can't get "Roam only" to work on my phone, so I've been trying to rotate songs through my SD card.
Network issues try a profile.and prl update
Hit the thanks button if i helped
I've experienced this a few times while downloading apps or surfing the web. At times it flies and other times it just crawls. My reception is always 4 or 5 bars and asking Sprint why something isn't working is like pulling teeth.
kidstechno said:
I use my phone at work to listen to Pandora and TuneIn a lot, but one day it started stuttering so bad I could no longer use them.
For example, with Pandora, when I start the app it'll say "Loading" or "Buffering 1%" then skip to the next song.. and skip to the next song, and so on. When listening to TuneIn is plays for a bit, then buffers, stops, plays, stops plays, enough to pretty much be un-listenable.
Now I've tried everything, re-provisioned, factory wiped, even installed a whole new ROM (MeanICS) and it still does this. I've wiped and re-installed the applications, still a no go.
Ran SpeedTest multiple times and everything seems fine. Anyone have a clue as to what in the world is going on?
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i also do that to
gdrocks said:
I blame the network. I don't know what the hell is going on, but I have had more issues with the data on this phone than I have on my old phone. I've talked to Sprint about it and they offer zero help on the issue. I also can't get "Roam only" to work on my phone, so I've been trying to rotate songs through my SD card.
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yea man i do that to and i love google music and when im on 3g it keeps on loading so i keep songs on my sd card also but sometimes google play works on a 3g network. hopefully LTE works alot better.
The nice thing about Google Music is the offline cache, it decreases the pauses when I'm switching between no signal/1x/EVDO. Unfortunately it isn't as helpful when you're mostly without a signal.
So, it's been bothering me for a while but my now 2-year-and-2-month old Samsung Galaxy S3 always just runs incredibly slowly. Not only that, but I tend to burn through the battery easily within 6 hours. For the past year and a half, or so, I've had to resort to carrying around two spare batteries with me as it has a tendency to run out of charge in the middle of the day, let alone if I'm out at a music festival or something. I'm not a particulaly heavy user, as in I rarely play video games on my phone, nor do I really watch videos or ever use bluetooth. Occasionally I do use GPS or WiFi, but I try to keep them turned off when I'm not using them. I tend to use my phone for music when I'm in the car, or texting / whatsapp / occasional snapchatting, or checking Pulse News or my internet banking. I don't have a particularly huge amount of apps installed, I don't think. And I regularly hold the Home button, & press the close-all-apps button to make sure that they're not running in the background.
Yet, my phone is so laggy. It's like there's a constant 3 or 5, or even sometimes 10, second delay for whatever action you've initiated to actually occur. You'll press Messages, and it'll take about 4 seconds for my text messages to show up. You'll press Home, and it takes about 3 seconds for it to close. Facebook just took about 8 seconds to load. It doesn't sound alot, but it can be quite infuriating when you're trying to get things done in a hurry. It's even worse when apps are running in the background!
So, I got to check my running processes and there's just loads of things running that both don't appear to be running when I hold the Home button but also shouldn't be running because I haven't used them in forever. It appears my phone has approximately 850MB of RAM, yet my phone tends to ALWAYS run at around 725MB used (currently it's at 751MB, as can be seen in the screenshot attached). But when I do go through the list of things running, the right hand side it tells you how much RAM is supposedly being used. Yet if I total up all of the RAM being used by all of the apps that are apparently running, it only comes to about 300MB. So where the heck is this other 450MB of RAM being used?! THIS is what is slowing down my phone, I think.
Not only that, but there are things in this list that are running that shouldn't be running, & I don't understand why they are. Facebook, sure I can understand, in case you get a notification or something. But TuneIn Radio... I'm not listening to the radio at the moment, nor have I used the app in weeks (and my phone has been restarted numerous times since then), why is it running? S Voice, too? Video Hub? Google Play Music, I've never even used it. And then there's loads of things I haven't got a clue what they are, like Exchange Services, ELM Agent, SmartcardService, etc. Now I understand it's like a computer, where there are a number of background processes that have to run to make the OS work, but why are all these other apps running that I'm not using?!
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Furthermore, I've started trying to use Google Now because I would like to get a Moto 360 (but I'll ask questions about that in a seperate thread). So, it seemed to work fine a few weeks ago. It gave me stocks, news updates, ETA to work or home, started remembering where I was parking. But now a few days ago I go back to it, after not using it for a little while, & it's all reset; Asking me to set it up again. So I did, & it mostly works but I can only ever seem to get the first "page" of cards up. When I click "More" at the bottom I just get an endless spinning circle & then the message "No Internet Connection - Content was last updated X minutes ago" appears as the top card, when infact I know I do have an internet connection. Exiting the app, closing it down, & then re-opening does not fix the issue either. I'm at a complete loss as to what to do.
Furthermore, it always asks me to "Improve my location: For more accurate location, let google search for Wi-Fi connections, even when Wi-Fi is off." I don't understand how this works, and what it's trying to do? If I turn it on, is that not going to be effectively the same as leaving my WiFi turned on at all times? Well, except without the benefits of being connected via WiFi. It's just going to drain my battery more, as leaving WiFi on usually does.
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So tldr:
- Why is my RAM mysteriously using 450MB that I can't vouch for? Where is it going? How I stop it?
- Why is Google Now not letting my manually update the cards?
You are missing huge amounts of very basic information, search and read for what is safe to disable on stock rom, some things are vital others are optional.
If you leave everything running as default then 6hrs battery life is about right.
Benaholic said:
So, it's been bothering me for a while but my now 2-year-and-2-month old Samsung Galaxy S3 always just runs incredibly slowly. Not only that, but I tend to burn through the battery easily within 6 hours. For the past year and a half, or so, I've had to resort to carrying around two spare batteries with me as it has a tendency to run out of charge in the middle of the day, let alone if I'm out at a music festival or something. I'm not a particulaly heavy user, as in I rarely play video games on my phone, nor do I really watch videos or ever use bluetooth. Occasionally I do use GPS or WiFi, but I try to keep them turned off when I'm not using them. I tend to use my phone for music when I'm in the car, or texting / whatsapp / occasional snapchatting, or checking Pulse News or my internet banking. I don't have a particularly huge amount of apps installed, I don't think. And I regularly hold the Home button, & press the close-all-apps button to make sure that they're not running in the background.
Yet, my phone is so laggy. It's like there's a constant 3 or 5, or even sometimes 10, second delay for whatever action you've initiated to actually occur. You'll press Messages, and it'll take about 4 seconds for my text messages to show up. You'll press Home, and it takes about 3 seconds for it to close. Facebook just took about 8 seconds to load. It doesn't sound alot, but it can be quite infuriating when you're trying to get things done in a hurry. It's even worse when apps are running in the background!
So, I got to check my running processes and there's just loads of things running that both don't appear to be running when I hold the Home button but also shouldn't be running because I haven't used them in forever. It appears my phone has approximately 850MB of RAM, yet my phone tends to ALWAYS run at around 725MB used (currently it's at 751MB, as can be seen in the screenshot attached). But when I do go through the list of things running, the right hand side it tells you how much RAM is supposedly being used. Yet if I total up all of the RAM being used by all of the apps that are apparently running, it only comes to about 300MB. So where the heck is this other 450MB of RAM being used?! THIS is what is slowing down my phone, I think.
Not only that, but there are things in this list that are running that shouldn't be running, & I don't understand why they are. Facebook, sure I can understand, in case you get a notification or something. But TuneIn Radio... I'm not listening to the radio at the moment, nor have I used the app in weeks (and my phone has been restarted numerous times since then), why is it running? S Voice, too? Video Hub? Google Play Music, I've never even used it. And then there's loads of things I haven't got a clue what they are, like Exchange Services, ELM Agent, SmartcardService, etc. Now I understand it's like a computer, where there are a number of background processes that have to run to make the OS work, but why are all these other apps running that I'm not using?!
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Furthermore, I've started trying to use Google Now because I would like to get a Moto 360 (but I'll ask questions about that in a seperate thread). So, it seemed to work fine a few weeks ago. It gave me stocks, news updates, ETA to work or home, started remembering where I was parking. But now a few days ago I go back to it, after not using it for a little while, & it's all reset; Asking me to set it up again. So I did, & it mostly works but I can only ever seem to get the first "page" of cards up. When I click "More" at the bottom I just get an endless spinning circle & then the message "No Internet Connection - Content was last updated X minutes ago" appears as the top card, when infact I know I do have an internet connection. Exiting the app, closing it down, & then re-opening does not fix the issue either. I'm at a complete loss as to what to do.
Furthermore, it always asks me to "Improve my location: For more accurate location, let google search for Wi-Fi connections, even when Wi-Fi is off." I don't understand how this works, and what it's trying to do? If I turn it on, is that not going to be effectively the same as leaving my WiFi turned on at all times? Well, except without the benefits of being connected via WiFi. It's just going to drain my battery more, as leaving WiFi on usually does.
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So tldr:
- Why is my RAM mysteriously using 450MB that I can't vouch for? Where is it going? How I stop it?
- Why is Google Now not letting my manually update the cards?
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Benaholic said:
So, it's been bothering me for a while but my now 2-year-and-2-month old Samsung Galaxy S3 always just runs incredibly slowly. Not only that, but I tend to burn through the battery easily within 6 hours. For the past year and a half, or so, I've had to resort to carrying around two spare batteries with me as it has a tendency to run out of charge in the middle of the day, let alone if I'm out at a music festival or something. I'm not a particulaly heavy user, as in I rarely play video games on my phone, nor do I really watch videos or ever use bluetooth. Occasionally I do use GPS or WiFi, but I try to keep them turned off when I'm not using them. I tend to use my phone for music when I'm in the car, or texting / whatsapp / occasional snapchatting, or checking Pulse News or my internet banking. I don't have a particularly huge amount of apps installed, I don't think. And I regularly hold the Home button, & press the close-all-apps button to make sure that they're not running in the background.
Yet, my phone is so laggy. It's like there's a constant 3 or 5, or even sometimes 10, second delay for whatever action you've initiated to actually occur. You'll press Messages, and it'll take about 4 seconds for my text messages to show up. You'll press Home, and it takes about 3 seconds for it to close. Facebook just took about 8 seconds to load. It doesn't sound alot, but it can be quite infuriating when you're trying to get things done in a hurry. It's even worse when apps are running in the background!
So, I got to check my running processes and there's just loads of things running that both don't appear to be running when I hold the Home button but also shouldn't be running because I haven't used them in forever. It appears my phone has approximately 850MB of RAM, yet my phone tends to ALWAYS run at around 725MB used (currently it's at 751MB, as can be seen in the screenshot attached). But when I do go through the list of things running, the right hand side it tells you how much RAM is supposedly being used. Yet if I total up all of the RAM being used by all of the apps that are apparently running, it only comes to about 300MB. So where the heck is this other 450MB of RAM being used?! THIS is what is slowing down my phone, I think.
Not only that, but there are things in this list that are running that shouldn't be running, & I don't understand why they are. Facebook, sure I can understand, in case you get a notification or something. But TuneIn Radio... I'm not listening to the radio at the moment, nor have I used the app in weeks (and my phone has been restarted numerous times since then), why is it running? S Voice, too? Video Hub? Google Play Music, I've never even used it. And then there's loads of things I haven't got a clue what they are, like Exchange Services, ELM Agent, SmartcardService, etc. Now I understand it's like a computer, where there are a number of background processes that have to run to make the OS work, but why are all these other apps running that I'm not using?!
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Furthermore, I've started trying to use Google Now because I would like to get a Moto 360 (but I'll ask questions about that in a seperate thread). So, it seemed to work fine a few weeks ago. It gave me stocks, news updates, ETA to work or home, started remembering where I was parking. But now a few days ago I go back to it, after not using it for a little while, & it's all reset; Asking me to set it up again. So I did, & it mostly works but I can only ever seem to get the first "page" of cards up. When I click "More" at the bottom I just get an endless spinning circle & then the message "No Internet Connection - Content was last updated X minutes ago" appears as the top card, when infact I know I do have an internet connection. Exiting the app, closing it down, & then re-opening does not fix the issue either. I'm at a complete loss as to what to do.
Furthermore, it always asks me to "Improve my location: For more accurate location, let google search for Wi-Fi connections, even when Wi-Fi is off." I don't understand how this works, and what it's trying to do? If I turn it on, is that not going to be effectively the same as leaving my WiFi turned on at all times? Well, except without the benefits of being connected via WiFi. It's just going to drain my battery more, as leaving WiFi on usually does.
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So tldr:
- Why is my RAM mysteriously using 450MB that I can't vouch for? Where is it going? How I stop it?
- Why is Google Now not letting my manually update the cards?
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