I've had my DX2 (rooted) for about a week now. Since rooting, I've gotten improvements in many of the oft-mentioned areas except for web browsing. Seems when I launch the default browser, it is slow to load the homepage (Google Search). If typing in a url, it seems equally as slow to resolve to the target page. Is anyone else experiencing these issues and is replacing the browser the eventual solve? I haven't yet tried FF or Dolphin, but would be willing to do so if that will speed things up. Or if there are other tweaks/tunes that will help, I'm open to trying them as well. Thanks so much in advance!
The stock browser for me was really laggy. I always use Dolphin HD, especially since it is the main browser I use on my Asus TF..Try it, or even Miren Browser, it's kinda fast too.
I don't like Firefox on my phone (or my laptop that much). It is always laggy and freezes on me.
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SwiftLegend said:
The stock browser for me was really laggy. I always use Dolphin HD, especially since it is the main browser I use on my Asus TF..Try it, or even Miren Browser, it's kinda fast too.
I don't like Firefox on my phone (or my laptop that much). It is always laggy and freezes on me.
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Thanks, I will give that a try this evening and report back on the results!
Ok this gets quite annoying and I would like to know if there is a fix. When multitasking between apps sometimes the stock browser will want to refresh all tabs that are opened and pages on them. This really slow down everything when this happens and is quite annoying.
I couldn't find a thread about this.
At times when I open a web page with lots of content (images) the page will be loaded just fine until it is almost done. Everything is fine and I can scroll the page. Then it will just freeze until I get the dialog "Browser not responding" asking if I want to close it. However, instantly when I choose "Wait" the browser becomes responsive again and finishes loading the page.
Lately this has been happening a lot more frequently. About every 5th time I load a big web site. Sometimes it happens even here, but it is quite rare.
I've tried this with other browsers and they behave almost exactly the same way, except they freeze for a shorter period of time and it never gets to the "App not responding" dialog. But they will still be frozen for multiple seconds during which I can't scroll the page.
During the freeze none of the Android buttons work but music playing in the background plays without any errors.
This has really started to irritate me so I wanted to know if others are experiencing this.
This far and away my biggest problem with the Prime. I really hope this gets fixed.
Same problem here.
I thought it was related to the common freeze/reboot issue addressed by the latest patches, but it is still occurring with patch .15 (just had one loading this thread).
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If you prefer to use the stock browser, download ics browser + from market.
Same as stock but with more features. Works flawlessly on my prime.
My friend also have this problem. Also with the ics+ browser. It works flawlessly on chrome though, so maybe flash is the problem?
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torsrex said:
My friend also have this problem. Also with the ics+ browser. It works flawlessly on chrome though, so maybe flash is the problem?
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No, even if you block flash on the stock browser, this problem randomly happens ... it looks like a problem with Stock and ICS+ browser (well ICS+ uses pretty much the same code base I think), but doesn't happen in other browsers as far as I can tell.
So most probably it's a problem with the stock browser !
For me it happens even if I don't have Flash installed.
It happens with Dolphin browser as well. Haven't noticed it in Opera.
Chrome is a bit different. Occasionally when you scroll down while it is still loading you only see white until after some time it starts to fill the page again. I think it could be related because the duration is pretty much the same as with the freezing issue.
My biggest frustration also.. figured it was possibly related with all the reboot issues also but still happens regardless of what browser I try and I have tried all of them.. I hope this get fixed soon..
That was my biggest complaint about the Prime... Browsing was just not fun because of this. I switched to Dolphin and it's much better.
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That was my biggest complaint about the Prime... Browsing was just not fun because of this. I switched to Dolphin and it's much better.
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You are lucky.. Dolphin no better here and just switched to chrome to post this after Dolphin closed out afterward and happened on chrome.. Please Asus fix this.. main reason I have a tablet is to surf! It is very tiring
from my experience all the browsers (ICS, ICS+, Firefox, Dolphin, Boat, Opera) have flaws, even Chrome Beta which still doesn't recognize the Function keys on the Keyboard dock and somehow interprets a character return when you try to enter an uppercase "B" on the dock.
At this point, I rather Microsoft get involved and just put up an Internet Explorer for Android. All the other browser alternatives have flopped hard to deliver. It would be an ironic twist if a IE for Android just simply worked. (not to mention the Silverlight and Flash support )
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Ditto here. Biggest complaint about the prime for me, too... after WiFi and GPS.
I think I've had this happen to me on every browser I've tried. Dolphin, chrome, ics, boat...
jeejee said:
I couldn't find a thread about this.
At times when I open a web page with lots of content (images) the page will be loaded just fine until it is almost done. Everything is fine and I can scroll the page. Then it will just freeze until I get the dialog "Browser not responding" asking if I want to close it. However, instantly when I choose "Wait" the browser becomes responsive again and finishes loading the page.
Lately this has been happening a lot more frequently. About every 5th time I load a big web site. Sometimes it happens even here, but it is quite rare.
I've tried this with other browsers and they behave almost exactly the same way, except they freeze for a shorter period of time and it never gets to the "App not responding" dialog. But they will still be frozen for multiple seconds during which I can't scroll the page.
During the freeze none of the Android buttons work but music playing in the background plays without any errors.
This has really started to irritate me so I wanted to know if others are experiencing this.
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I get the same thing. Figured it was just me.
My biggest annoyence by far, I've got this problem with all browsers on a regular base and it's a big problem that needs to be fixed quickly.
Same problem here even after latest update.
I also noticed this before. The strange thing is that with the same site, on different times, I sometimes do have this problem, and sometimes I don't.
I have same problem the browser freez and chrash and sometimes i get force close
Me too.
I have had the same problem on all the 4.0 builds. With stock, dolphin and chrome browser.
Did a factory reset after .15 update, no better.
The ics browser on my phone does not freeze. Seems its a prime thing. Anyone notice this behavior on any other ics devices?
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I think that my device doesn't load pages very quickly sometimes either on wifi or data 3g.
When I surf through mini opera sometimes it takes a lot of time to load or it stucks and the bar doesn't progress.
When I surf through stock browser or dolphin HD , it loads very quickly but the touch and scrolling is unacceptable. It lags a lot (you have to wait a lot to load the page first so that it stops lagging) and the touch (especially in dolphin) is not much responsive. Whta do you think ?
Is there any other browser better than these?? Thanks.
georgebest said:
I think that my device doesn't load pages very quickly sometimes either on wifi or data 3g.
When I surf through mini opera sometimes it takes a lot of time to load or it stucks and the bar doesn't progress.
When I surf through stock browser or dolphin HD , it loads very quickly but the touch and scrolling is unacceptable. It lags a lot (you have to wait a lot to load the page first so that it stops lagging) and the touch (especially in dolphin) is not much responsive. Whta do you think ?
Is there any other browser better than these?? Thanks.
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Hi,
Not in my case i use all of them even UC browser and its very smooth. Check the default zoom in settings of stock browser set it to medium. If this does not work try resetting to default settings. Hope this helps.
shoz_on4u said:
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Not in my case i use all of them even UC browser and its very smooth. Check the default zoom in settings of stock browser set it to medium. If this does not work try resetting to default settings. Hope this helps.
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I tried UC browser but again it lags a little. And when I touch a spot and move my finger right-left-up-down it isn't smooth in the beginning.
Wondering if anyone else is experiencing Chrome slowness? I am running latest .28 rooted, OC'd to 1.6Ghz and using the systune v0.4 max script. Everything on the device flies and is wonderful as well as other browsers. Then there is Chrome.... ugh. Slow as hell to load pages and tabs and painfully slow to respond to input. Reboot and soft reset doesn't make any difference with Chrome at all. I went as far as wiping the cache and data and then uninstalling and re-installing it still to no avail. Any suggestions?
My experience with android chrome has always been crap (at least on the prime) stock or custom roms it doesn't matter.
Scrolling is block chunky appearing.
Even if it worked as good as other browsers, I still just prefer stock/quick ics browser because they actually have features.
Like permanent desktop mode, and opening folders of bookmarks all at once (I NEED THIS WHY DO SO FEW BROWSERS HAVE IT )