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Whether rom&kernel I used I always have lag on phone while the graphic chip is being used, for example in YouTube application when the video started it becomes too laggy and when I paused or stopped it becomes normal, and when i opened a game when i turn off the screen the crt animation becomes too laggy, too, and in bencmarkes my 3d points lower than other Evos, what do you think the problem is and how to solve it?
Not a gpu issue. What CPU gov r u using. When I use interactive it just stays at the minimum so it could be that
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Not a gpu issue. What CPU gov r u using. When I use interactive it just stays at the minimum so it could be that
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No, I've tried every kind of governor even the performance governor its the same. And its not the interactive governor which stays minimum, its powersave governor.
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No, I've tried every kind of governor even the performance governor its the same. And its not the interactive governor which stays minimum, its powersave governor.
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Seems as if you've tried many different troubleshooting options and still are experiecing this issue. I haven't seen many reports of it and it does seem very odd.
If this option is possible, I would load 100% stock software back on the device and see how it operates. If it is still really slow, there might simply be something internally wrong with the hardware and I would look into returning/exchanging.
I'm on 100% stock and have been since June '11. I've never seen any lag during the screen off CRT animation. Lag at that point seems awfully odd unless you're in the middle of some type of graphics/cpu intensive program .. even then .. I would have a hard time seeing consistent lag at that point to be legitmate behavior.
Hope that helps!
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Seems as if you've tried many different troubleshooting options and still are experiecing this issue. I haven't seen many reports of it and it does seem very odd.
If this option is possible, I would load 100% stock software back on the device and see how it operates. If it is still really slow, there might simply be something internally wrong with the hardware and I would look into returning/exchanging.
I'm on 100% stock and have been since June '11. I've never seen any lag during the screen off CRT animation. Lag at that point seems awfully odd unless you're in the middle of some type of graphics/cpu intensive program .. even then .. I would have a hard time seeing consistent lag at that point to be legitmate behavior.
Hope that helps!
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Thanks for your answer, I've tried stock Europe RUU and its the same and i don't have guarantee to exchange what to do now?
And I remember, I wasn't having these issues before, after trying too much ROM and kernel it happened, I always wipe everything before installing a rom, but do we have a full cleaner, kernel cleaner eg.?
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Thanks for your answer, I've tried stock Europe RUU and its the same and i don't have guarantee to exchange what to do now?
And I remember, I wasn't having these issues before, after trying too much ROM and kernel it happened, I always wipe everything before installing a rom, but do we have a full cleaner, kernel cleaner eg.?
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Using the real RUU will restore all stock partitions with the stock images.
I suppose, if you wanted to go the extra mile, boot into the custom recovery and format each partition, then run the RUU, but don't think I've ever heard of people doing that before an RUU so not positive if there would be any adverse side effects.
If you're on the stock RUU and experiecing issues, it would seem hardware related in my opinion as I'm on stock and have rarely seen those issues.
The only other thought which comes to mind is sometimes when people overclock they perhaps allow the device to become "too hot" and I suppose this could cause some minor but permanent damage.
Another thought, I know in my EVO last year, had a bright spot appear on the screen from "over heating" although I never overclocked, it was essentially a design flaw many experienced.
The only other suggestions I can think of would be to back to stock, knowing you've cleared all custom software off and perhaps load a basic kernel which supports voltage/speed adjustments and see if tweaking any of those help with the graphics lag.
Good luck!
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Using the real RUU will restore all stock partitions with the stock images.
I suppose, if you wanted to go the extra mile, boot into the custom recovery and format each partition, then run the RUU, but don't think I've ever heard of people doing that before an RUU so not positive if there would be any adverse side effects.
If you're on the stock RUU and experiecing issues, it would seem hardware related in my opinion as I'm on stock and have rarely seen those issues.
The only other thought which comes to mind is sometimes when people overclock they perhaps allow the device to become "too hot" and I suppose this could cause some minor but permanent damage.
Another thought, I know in my EVO last year, had a bright spot appear on the screen from "over heating" although I never overclocked, it was essentially a design flaw many experienced.
The only other suggestions I can think of would be to back to stock, knowing you've cleared all custom software off and perhaps load a basic kernel which supports voltage/speed adjustments and see if tweaking any of those help with the graphics lag.
Good luck!
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Thank you again I've started to think of a hardware problem cause I used overclock kernels such as unity v2 and leedroid kernel and i oc'd to max and used and I think these kernels oc'd gpu, too, but I never oc'd gpu and the problem is always the same and I'll try to format every partition as you said cause whether I wiped It's not getting completely formatted and from last format some of my bookmarks was left?
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Thank you again I've started to think of a hardware problem cause I used overclock kernels such as unity v2 and leedroid kernel and i oc'd to max and used and I think these kernels oc'd gpu, too, but I never oc'd gpu and the problem is always the same and I'll try to format every partition as you said cause whether I wiped It's not getting completely formatted and from last format some of my bookmarks was left?
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Great point, I actually had forgot about the sdcard. Some bookmarks are stored on the sdcard!
I wouldn't think any important settings are stored on the sdcard, but if you wanted to be even more thorough, you could backup all your sdcard contents to your desktop and format your sdcard.
That should ensure no settings remain after running the RUU.
So many details to remember! Hope that helps!
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Great point, I actually had forgot about the sdcard. Some bookmarks are stored on the sdcard!
I wouldn't think any important settings are stored on the sdcard, but if you wanted to be even more thorough, you could backup all your sdcard contents to your desktop and format your sdcard.
That should ensure no settings remain after running the RUU.
So many details to remember! Hope that helps!
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Ooohh yeah I took a point! I've tried other browsers, and now I'm using dolphin, and while I'm using maxthon browser I played 1080p video and I've turned off and on screen without any lag! But if I use YouTube application, or play video from the phone with its own player or es video player it lags, and in games lag has gone too, its getting interesting every time
Aha I've got one more point too! I used MX player and when in hardware mod the lag happens, but if i choose software mod, the lag goes away!
I have around a strange persistant problem.
I have around 250MB of internal app storage space left and used about 650Mb of storage of apps on my external 32Gb SDHC card.
I am using autostarts and task manager to manage the start up of apps and stop things running which works really well at prolonging battery life to the point where I reach a good 14 hours with heavy use on battery (I have five e-mail accounts pushed all sorts of widgets and use the phone fairly heavily on an average day, admittedly I get a little less if I use multimedia to any extent) I am using a stock 2.3.5 build from which I have removed some bloat stuff so I have about 35MB of rom storage left. It's rooted and has CWM installed etc.
In total I have something approaching 650 app elements in Titanium Backup depending on what I do or dont have installed at any given point.
Without the SD card the phone boots fine everytime. With the SD card in depending on the amount of .asec files in the .android secure folder the phone will often boot up and then during the processes after boot semi crash. By this I mean it will boot up then about 2-5minutes during the afterboot it will stop working and drop in a loop where it is still trying to run after boot process like scanning for media and stuff but loses connection with the carrier and then loops. Removing the sdhc card and moving some of the .asec files out of the the .androidsecure folder usually fixes this. It does not come up with safe mode or anything like that.
Has anyone else experienced this? Have I simply reached the limits of what the phone can do? My guess is that the problem lies with the process of copying/unpacking the .asec files into the /mnt/asec structure?
Can anyone offer any useful advice the 32Gb SDHC card is only class 2 (all that was available when I got it) I am thinking a faster one MIGHT solve the issue but that seems only a possibility and investing in a new card simply to find out it doesnt fix the issue would be a relatively expensive mistake. Has anyone else found similar limits?
You realise that's intimidatingly long to read right? Please write in shorter forms.
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ionious said:
You realise that's intimidatingly long to read right? Please write in shorter forms.
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Not exactly helpful... Its far better to have a decent descriptive long post than people who writes "I have tons of apps but I get problem with connection".
@op I also have a tons of apps, fairly close to the amount you have, but still have quite a bit of space left, do you make a lot of backups and such? Check your SD card, because I remember a post here saying that deleting files within the lost folder can save space. (some people lost GBs, some just a few MBs) Best if someone here can confirm its safe to delete the files within though.
A known problem with some phones is 32GB cards some work well others dont some phones play up others dont .64GB even worse .
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Hmmmm seems like you are stressing the filesystem's/IO scheduler's timeout limit to the max with a class 2 card.
I would recommend you doing two things:
a) You have your phone rooted, try installing SiyahKernel, Voltage Control and change the I/O schedulers - thru set on boot -> init.d script (try alternating between noop, sio, bfq and VR), if that still doesn't help, try adding Thunderbolt Scripts as well - especially the remount script via script manager (links in my sig).
b) Try a different rom perhaps? Stock ROMs are not the most optimized things under the sun in terms of SGS2... back up your media to your PC, do a nandroid/titanium backup to your external sdcard and try flashing another rom. If it doesn't work, you can always restore the nandroid.
Hope it helped somewhat ^^
Thanks for the advice guys, think I might see if I cant test a faster card off a mate see if that helps.
Otherwise I will try that syrah kernel and scripts, not too keen to go for custom roms my experience of them with the galaxy s was they all seemed to have a major bug that I couldn't live with I always ened up back on stock with mods. Haven't really tested any on the s2 but if I were to I would need to be very stable with very few bugs. I also kind of like some of the samsung stuff? for example I'm using a hack versions (fragg0rs) of TW4 with it I can run the buddies now widgit from the original galaxy s and I love that. nearest thing I can find to the carosel I used to get on the samsung omnia i8910 (great phone badly let down by symbian)
To the guy that criticised the length of the original post on top of what else that has already been said, do you have the first clue about troubleshooting? especially an issue that is not referenced anywhere else? The golden rule is the more information the better. This is an issue I have been working around now for several months, I have been searching for similar (on and off not obsessively) issues posted anywhere and found nothing that helps but thanks for your rather pointless input stick to helping with the noob posts eh?
This is known problem. I have this problem too.
Several threads already talked about this since long time ago.
Here are some of threads exactly describing same problem with OP:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1285844
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1102920
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1328191
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1446961
That last one is the thread I created last month and still active until now.
So here is the summary:
- This problem is side effect since ROM version 2.3.5.
- Version 2.3.4 and earlier does not have this problem.
- This problem still exists in ICS LPB leak
- It seems that Samsung does not know about this problem.
The only workaround solution:
- Downgrade to version 2.3.4 or below
For us who have this problem, please add your post to the thread I created above (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1446961) and rate high to keep the thread alive so it will get attention from many users and hopefully from Samsung.
you just saved me money buying a new card thanks for that.
I'm getting rather fed up with my Rezound. My battery life has been poor, and I am constantly dealing with all sorts of crashes and glitches. I've gone from Sense to AOSP and back again, and since JB came out with working Bluetooth have stuck with JB. I've wiped and started from fresh so many times, and though everything works fine at first, it seems to just be a matter of time. I don't want to nuke all my Titanium Backup backups but I'm getting to the point where I don't know what else to do.
To the point: Is there a way to test and confirm the integrity of the phone's hardware? I know that some PCs can test hardware via BIOS, so I imagine something similar might be possible with mobile devices. This is most likely something that could not be done while running Android, due to the compartmentalization and sandboxing implemented in the OS. I want to test the RAM, NVRAM, and the CPU (possibly with a stress test though this can be done through Android via apps) and find out if there are any hardware issues.
On the other hand, if I'm going in the wrong direction, please let me know. As aforementioned, I'm running JB AOSP, been going back and forth between Wildstang83's CM10 build and Neo's RAGE (currently Infection). I've stopped trying different kernels as my battery life sucks either way. Recovery is AmonRa 3.15, HBOOT is 2.27.xxx, baseband is 2.22.10.0801r/2.22.10.0803r.
Problems include screen freezing on wake (soft keys light up, screen stays dark and doesn't respond); System UI crashing, generally followed by whatever app I'm trying to use such as Messaging, and often results in wallpaper resetting to default; ANRs in Maps and other apps; Phone crashing when trying to make an outbound call; poor battery life (I've killed all startups and stripped down idle run apps to bare minimum, it doesn't help, I replaced the battery about 6 months ago) and various other issues.
Phone has never been wet and has no significant damage; it has worn rather well for being over a year old.
Kernel tuner for "bios" type stuff and stability test for stress testing. Undervolting helps save battery for me. I also use dancedance/badass governor. Idk about your bug problems though, I have had issues with restoring data from old ROMs that completely made a new ROM unusable
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You got a good point. I've just tried a fresh setup, restoring only data for user apps. We'll see how things go.
Looking for advice here. I have no idea if this is hardware, software, something I'm doing wrong. I'd say the past year of having my note, it's painfully laggy. I've tried most of the more popular roms that are released. It's not always horribly slow.. but just about any time I switch to any new app, it becomes temporarily unresponsive. I've just come to terms with this thinking it is what it is.
I'm currently running the first cm 4.3 nightly, with the Uber kernel, running Jamie's settings. I've never been too into modding kernel stuff, so I don't know if I should look there first. but yeah.. any help would be appreciated. Just sick of the inconsistent speed
thanks!
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Since you said this was with all roms you flashed, I'm going to guess something you're doing.
This is usually due to not properly formatting data and system areas before flashing, and also improperly restoring apps after flashing.
Install Black Star X or an ICS based ROM. If it's laggy, it's your phone. If it's not, it's because you've been trying jelly bean ROMs.
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Looking for advice here. I have no idea if this is hardware, software, something I'm doing wrong. I'd say the past year of having my note, it's painfully laggy. I've tried most of the more popular roms that are released. It's not always horribly slow.. but just about any time I switch to any new app, it becomes temporarily unresponsive. I've just come to terms with this thinking it is what it is.
I'm currently running the first cm 4.3 nightly, with the Uber kernel, running Jamie's settings. I've never been too into modding kernel stuff, so I don't know if I should look there first. but yeah.. any help would be appreciated. Just sick of the inconsistent speed
thanks!
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What is your flashing procedure? do you do the proper wipes... wait a bit after install before touching or changing much, rebooting like 4 times at least to let it settle in?
What clock speed / governor are you running?
undervolted?
SD boosting cache write amount, if any?
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What is your flashing procedure? do you do the proper wipes... wait a bit after install before touching or changing much, rebooting like 4 times at least to let it settle in?
What clock speed / governor are you running?
undervolted?
SD boosting cache write amount, if any?
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Ok.. I'll try to give my best answers.
Using TWRP, i'll go to wipe>system, then factory reset (data/cache).
Then flash the rom, then gapps if necessary.
Settle? Eh, I usually try to let it. I've also heard from the Devs there's no actual reason to do this, it's just to stop people from complaining the first 10 minutes of using the rom.
As for the other stuff... I've never really messed with it. After flashing the UBer kernel I tried to follow some settings I saw jamie recommend.. ondemand governer. That's really it.
Do I need to get more into tweaking frequency profiles, voltage, etc? different governors?
And btw.. yes, these are all JB roms. I refuse to use ICS.
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Ok.. I'll try to give my best answers.
Using TWRP, i'll go to wipe>system, then factory reset (data/cache).
Then flash the rom, then gapps if necessary.
Settle? Eh, I usually try to let it. I've also heard from the Devs there's no actual reason to do this, it's just to stop people from complaining the first 10 minutes of using the rom.
As for the other stuff... I've never really messed with it. After flashing the UBer kernel I tried to follow some settings I saw jamie recommend.. ondemand governer. That's really it.
Do I need to get more into tweaking frequency profiles, voltage, etc? different governors?
And btw.. yes, these are all JB roms. I refuse to use ICS.
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Storage saturation is far more important than any of the factors we've spoken about.
Just answer this one question. Have you ever moved an app to your SD Card?
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Storage saturation is far more important than any of the factors we've spoken about.
Just answer this one question. Have you ever moved an app to your SD Card?
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I went to apps>sd card in settings. It appears my user downloaded apps are all on my SD card. I'm guessing thats a problem. How would I change that? That's nothing I ever did, that's a default.
edit: nvm. I misinterpreted that screen. XDA app was the only one that was checked off for on sd card. They're all on my phone.
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I went to apps>sd card in settings. It appears my user downloaded apps are all on my SD card. I'm guessing thats a problem. How would I change that? That's nothing I ever did, that's a default.
edit: nvm. I misinterpreted that screen. XDA app was the only one that was checked off for on sd card. They're all on my phone.
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Sorry, I should have been more specific.
I meant moving your apps to your external SD Card when the internal storage (the 2gb /data partition) got full.
Moving as few as little as a single app to your external SD card can dramatically slow down android (for some reason). Nonetheless, a full partition elsewhere can still effect performance significantly.
Download "Storage Analyzer" from the Play Store, and see if any of your partitions are particularly full.
I try to keep 300mb or more free on all of them.
Additionally, you can wipe cache & dalvik.
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And btw.. yes, these are all JB roms. I refuse to use ICS.
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Then be content knowing you're trading speed and stability to satisfy your need to say you run jb
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Ok.. I'll try to give my best answers.
Using TWRP, i'll go to wipe>system, then factory reset (data/cache).
Then flash the rom, then gapps if necessary.
Settle? Eh, I usually try to let it. I've also heard from the Devs there's no actual reason to do this, it's just to stop people from complaining the first 10 minutes of using the rom.
As for the other stuff... I've never really messed with it. After flashing the UBer kernel I tried to follow some settings I saw jamie recommend.. ondemand governer. That's really it.
Do I need to get more into tweaking frequency profiles, voltage, etc? different governors?
And btw.. yes, these are all JB roms. I refuse to use ICS.
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1. if you have been around at all, then you would know many wipe as many as 3 times.
2. I don't know what dev's told you there is no reason.........there is and it not to stop people from complaining. that sounds pretty selfish to me and the folk who develop here are far from that. I am not sure of he actual terminology, but the data basically needs to work its way through the system. your phone needs to read all this new system it is supposed to run.
some developers will even flash rom, then flash rom again with gapps. let it boot and settle the 10. then boot it again. set it up and then boot yet again and wiping davlik and cache every flash.
3. many developers ill also suggest you give rom a day or so with stock kernel. if you make so many changes so fast how do you know what working or whats not?
but hey if that's all to much trouble for you, to have a phone run the way you are expecting it to....... congratulations. your phone is perfect.
I apologize if this sounds harsh, it just sounds like you expect your phone to run flawlessly, but you don't want to exhaust what minimal efforts are needed to get it that way.
good luck my friend
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I just went back an double checked your post count. you are definitely not a newbie here. a lot of this should be common practice for you, even if you were coming from another device.
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Ok.. I'll try to give my best answers.
Using TWRP, i'll go to wipe>system, then factory reset (data/cache).
Then flash the rom, then gapps if necessary.
Settle? Eh, I usually try to let it. I've also heard from the Devs there's no actual reason to do this, it's just to stop people from complaining the first 10 minutes of using the rom.
As for the other stuff... I've never really messed with it. After flashing the UBer kernel I tried to follow some settings I saw jamie recommend.. ondemand governer. That's really it.
Do I need to get more into tweaking frequency profiles, voltage, etc? different governors?
And btw.. yes, these are all JB roms. I refuse to use ICS.
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Playing with JB roms you have to keep in mind that the radio you are on, and corresponding certs/ril/PRL .. etc, will most likely not be made for that rom and have your radio switching back n forth, left, right, n all around looking for a signal because it isnt configured right... that being said, your kernel is an integral part of the whole package and should also be flashed properly (wipe CACHE/DALVIK) at least once.. 3-4 times is proper. Go into settings, select remove method of -rm .. and repeat the wipes. Then flash kernel on top of an already settled rom ... or sometimes you flash the kernel before you even boot into the rom (my preference when possible). FIX PERMISSIONS . . always. Then sometimes do a Cache/Dalvik wipe AGaIN after the flash , especially if instructed. Same goes for flashing radios.
When flashing a ROM .. you gotta wipe everything except the external SD (Assuming you didnt move apps/data) there... remove android secure with a wipe, system wiped, boot, dalvik, cache, system, factory reset, internal SD, wipe wipe wipe wipe. If you have ever looked at the partitions after only one wipe you will know why all the fuss.
Assuming you flashed PERFECT, no dirty overlapping/conflicting stuff going on, and the rom has executed its post install scripts without being messed with, reboots done a few times to break it in.. the kernel you flash will have to be configured to the hardwares capabilities. Not all can be undervolted and or overclocked the same. . SD boost cache size is almost a must 1024 - 2048 or whatever are adequate .. might wanna do a benchmark in ROM Manager to see where your SD sees the best performance. Also, the IO scheduler type (sio, noop, cfq, vr, etc)
On demand is a good balanced governor but its only one in many variables... SD Swap.. dalvik vm heap sizes, JIT
pretty sure you know how to get into dev mode with those roms.. enable debugging .. if not, just go to phone info and hit the build a buncha times . .
memory and task management is another thing.. how many things you got loading at startup .. what is managing memory to close unwanted processes etc. .
Android Tune + ROM Manager should take care of that.. .
I've found the latest beanstalk rom with the latest uberkernel 4.3 and the Blaze modem isn't laggy but I have a new factory-refurbished phone. I have not moved any of the apps to the SDcard. But then again I don't have any games on the phone and I just came from an old Galaxy S 4g so I may not have any idea of what lag is. I noticed that some of the 4.3 roms, the Pac-Man nightlies, for instance, seemed slow enough so that I immediately flashed back to Beanstalk.
this may be another question, but I've noticed that the IO scores -- file system writes and database reads -- come out a bit slow on quadrant. On my previous phone, there was a script that sped that up, but I don't know what the equivalent would be for this phone and jelly bean.
So, after 8 months of use, my M8 is finally in a situation where I'm kind of sick of it running so poorly. In the past I've always had these issues over time, but I always contributed it mainly to running custom ROM's. Well, when I got my M8, it ran so well I decided to leave it stock. Well it's finally starting to hit a wall and it's more of a frustration than a joy to use. Swype is borderline impossible to use since it lags so bad, freezes are infrequent but occur, etc etc.
So my question is, what are the most likely contributors? Apps that run in the background? Too many apps? Too much space used? I can't think of much else, since, like I said, it's still fully stock. Or is this just what I have to expect from a phone?
Do you clear the cache in your app settings. If you game a lot than I would definitely start with the game apps first.
Cachemate for root users
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...chemate&pcampaignid=APPU__rOUVPowg5TJBNTAgKAD
Android 5.0.1 is pretty lag free in my opinion
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So, after 8 months of use, my M8 is finally in a situation where I'm kind of sick of it running so poorly. In the past I've always had these issues over time, but I always contributed it mainly to running custom ROM's. Well, when I got my M8, it ran so well I decided to leave it stock. Well it's finally starting to hit a wall and it's more of a frustration than a joy to use. Swype is borderline impossible to use since it lags so bad, freezes are infrequent but occur, etc etc.
So my question is, what are the most likely contributors? Apps that run in the background? Too many apps? Too much space used? I can't think of much else, since, like I said, it's still fully stock. Or is this just what I have to expect from a phone?
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I kept my phone stock for quite some time because I felt I didn't need to change anything, until last week because I was tired of radio issues. Bottom line, ATT sucks at getting updates out, so if your running stock, your firmware is like three updates back. I see a massive improvements in speed and battery with 3.28.1540.5. If you know how, I would S-OFF and upgrade firmware to that and flash the debloated custom stock Rom that comes with root and SU. There are straight forward instructions in the att m8 development thread.
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I kept my phone stock for quite some time because I felt I didn't need to change anything, until last week because I was tired of radio issues. Bottom line, ATT sucks at getting updates out, so if your running stock, your firmware is like three updates back. I see a massive improvements in speed and battery with 3.28.1540.5. If you know how, I would S-OFF and upgrade firmware to that and flash the debloated custom stock Rom that comes with root and SU. There are straight forward instructions in the att m8 development thread.
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I might look into this. What I don't get though.. I can understand if new updates are quicker. That makes sense. What doesn't, is how ridiculously poor my phone runs compared to the first few months I had it. It's been like this for every phone I've had. I don't game, I don't have all that many apps. In my running app list, the only self installed things there are Facebook and Swype. I have plenty of extra storage internal and on my SD. So what is it that causes such poor performance over time? I'll definitely have to check out the newer roms and finally s-off.. but I've done plenty of custom roms before with other phones and the same thing always happens, things run fine for a bit and then slowly go to crap.
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cgibsong002 said:
I might look into this. What I don't get though.. I can understand if new updates are quicker. That makes sense. What doesn't, is how ridiculously poor my phone runs compared to the first few months I had it. It's been like this for every phone I've had. I don't game, I don't have all that many apps. In my running app list, the only self installed things there are Facebook and Swype. I have plenty of extra storage internal and on my SD. So what is it that causes such poor performance over time? I'll definitely have to check out the newer roms and finally s-off.. but I've done plenty of custom roms before with other phones and the same thing always happens, things run fine for a bit and then slowly go to crap.
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Its hard to say what is causing your issue, and aside from saying Swype is lagging (might be an issue with that app itself) and the phone "doesn't run so great anymore" you really haven't provided any specifics of what the problem is. You also haven't indicated if you tried to clear cached as jball suggested, and if so, if it helped at all.
Might be some runaway (poorly coded) AT&T bloat apps. But in general, apps running in the background will not slow the system down much. There are various apps to track battery and memory usage, so you might try one of those, to determine if any particular apps are the culprit.
I can't say I've seen any lag on my M8, but I switch ROMs fairly occasionally, and keep it updated to current Android builds (thanks to s-off). Clearing up your data partition alone might help (but might now, on the other hand) so you might also consider backing up any personal data and doing a factory reset. Wiping the slate clean might solve your issue.
Ok.. well a lot info there but one step at a time. I realized my phone is Sunday unusable with Wi-Fi turned on.. which is quite interesting and I'm pretty lost on this one. With Wi-Fi on, it's like my entire phone stops, not just the actual internet speeds. Apps like Facebook take ten seconds just to load, and then the actual content takes sometimes 15 seconds to load or maybe not even at all. Also, keep in mind, my actual internet speeds are fine, and even test perfectly fine on my phone.
As soon as I turn off Wi-Fi, it seems everything on my phone I'd dramatically quicker and everything loads near immediate. I've tried restarting my phone, cycling airplane mode, not really sure what else to do.
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Ok.. well a lot info there but one step at a time. I realized my phone is Sunday unusable with Wi-Fi turned on.. which is quite interesting and I'm pretty lost on this one. With Wi-Fi on, it's like my entire phone stops, not just the actual internet speeds. Apps like Facebook take ten seconds just to load, and then the actual content takes sometimes 15 seconds to load or maybe not even at all. Also, keep in mind, my actual internet speeds are fine, and even test perfectly fine on my phone.
As soon as I turn off Wi-Fi, it seems everything on my phone I'd dramatically quicker and everything loads near immediate. I've tried restarting my phone, cycling airplane mode, not really sure what else to do.
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Does it happen anywhere you use WiFi? If so maybe try fully wiping and flashing the firmware, or just bust out the ruu to make it easier, can't hurt to try it should help tho
Did you even try to wipe cache, as has been suggested twice previously?
Otherwise, if no major system changes, and the phone has just been running worse and worse, a factory reset may help; as I would have to think it may be 3rd party apps that are to blame. Backup your personal data, factory reset, and just start to install a minimum of apps, and see how it runs.
If still no improvement, the above comment to try to RUU is not a bad idea, either. RUU provides a fully "blank slate" and may solve your issue.