Some phones exhibit choppy scrolling, especially when navigating long web pages when multiple apps are running in the background. Rate this thread to express how you smooth scrolling feels on the LG G6 under such conditions. A higher rating indicates that scrolling is always buttery smooth, even when you're reading a 10,000 word article on "how to kiss a girl".
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Terrible scrolling! My kindle fire 7 rooted has better scrolling. Unbelievable a flagship phone performs like this.
Scrolling and all around performance is excellent on my G6. No complaints at all.
Can you make a video?
novl said:
Can you make a video?
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But you ain't seen his girlfriend yet
My Lenovo P2 has smoother scrolling than this. It has Snapdragon 625 and costs $300.
Very disappointed
I am having the scroll lag issues since I got my G6. I have factory reset it multiple times. No gain. I have enabled Forced GPU rendering to no avail. I disabled HW overlays but gets disabled automatically. I don't know whats wrong here. Other than this scrolling issue, I am very happy with this phone.
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I am having the scroll lag issues since I got my G6. I have factory reset it multiple times. No gain. I have enabled Forced GPU rendering to no avail. I disabled HW overlays but gets disabled automatically. I don't know whats wrong here. Other than this scrolling issue, I am very happy with this phone.
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I guess you are mentioning about the Google Chrome scrolling lag? Try Ad Blocker to remove the ads, A Snapdragon 821 device like the LG G6 , One Plus 3T or the Google Pixel offers smooth performance without any kind of micro stutter. LG G6 is surprising smoother than the newer Snapdragon 835 or the Exynos 8895 device Galaxy S8!
Not just Google Chrome
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I guess you are mentioning about the Google Chrome scrolling lag? Try Ad Blocker to remove the ads, A Snapdragon 821 device like the LG G6 , One Plus 3T or the Google Pixel offers smooth performance without any kind of micro stutter. LG G6 is surprising smoother than the newer Snapdragon 835 or the Exynos 8895 device Galaxy S8!
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Thank you for your response. No, I am not taking about just Google Chrome. Its almost every app where there is some kinda scrolling. Examples include chrome, Firefox, Facebook, 9gag, Reddit, even XDA. Its everywhere man. Also, I do have adblocker installed.
Mine scrolls pretty, pretty smoothly in all those apps and using Adguard. There might be a problem with yours...
I've got no scrolling issues at all. Wanna test scrolling download 9gag and enable scroll with volume keys. Hold down on the volume key. Truly there's no lag at all in my phone. Maybe, just maybe some scroll blur which is nothing to not expect. But truly no lag.
Always having problem with this phone. My Galaxy S6 was much smoother overall, no single stutter in comparison with my new G6. Basically with the G6 I came back to the days of LG G3, still the same software experience.
Usually is fine. Wish I could turn off scroll animations but US997 model doesn't offer the option without custom rom.
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Some phones exhibit choppy scrolling, especially when navigating long web pages when multiple apps are running in the background. Rate this thread to express how you smooth scrolling feels on the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge under such conditions. A higher rating indicates that scrolling is always buttery smooth, even when you're reading a 10,000 word article on "how to kiss a girl".
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In chrome it's terrible. I'm not sure if it's due to the ads, since I have previously used Adaway. Scrolling is choppy with lots of frame drops. Web pages will stop loading at 90% and not let me interact with links. Often get a blank screen for 15secs while a page loads. I haven't had a browsing experience this bad since my Optimus V on sprint 3g. Looks like I'll be eating a $35 restock fee. I would've liked to try the Samsung browser but verizon has removed it.
Edit: a reboot resolved the loading issues for now, but scrolling is still choppy. Extremely choppy if you scroll while ads are still loading.
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In chrome it's terrible. I'm not sure if it's due to the ads, since I have previously used Adaway. Scrolling is choppy with lots of frame drops. Web pages will stop loading at 90% and not let me interact with links. Often get a blank screen for 15secs while a page loads. I haven't had a browsing experience this bad since my Optimus V on sprint 3g. Looks like I'll be eating a $35 restock fee. I would've liked to try the Samsung browser but verizon has removed it.
Edit: a reboot resolved the loading issues for now, but scrolling is still choppy. Extremely choppy if you scroll while ads are still loading.
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Same, I'm on T-mobile and tried the stock browser as well with the same result.
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Same, I'm on T-mobile and tried the stock browser as well with the same result.
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Ugh, I was hoping sideloading the Samsung browser would've resolved the issue. I guess not.
I've always used chrome beta on my devices but this time, I gave the stock browser a shot. It's amazing and absolutely smooth. The browser is so well optimized for this phone that it blows chrome out of the water.
Lightning+ browser is smooth as butter and consumes minimal battery with amoled display mode and inverted grayscale rendering.
When it works it feels smooth and fast. There is an issue with scrolling, the screen is over sensitive and you do face a lot of accidental key presses. This has been reported by a fair number of people.
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Ugh, I was hoping sideloading the Samsung browser would've resolved the issue. I guess not.
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The stock browser actually very smooth. About same as my iPhone 6s Plus. Here is my test https://youtu.be/hq4exPxLSrY
Chrome's latest update to V.49 fixed the scrolling lag for me entirely.
The default browser is remarkably smooth, Chrome on the other hand is kind of hit or miss. It's smooth for pages you frequent often though.
Edit: just loaded up Firefox with uBlock and it blows both stock and chrome out of the water. Definitely the most smooth experience. It's really only lacking a nice material theme/status bar.
stock browser has an ad block that you can download through the samsung store. That's what I'm using for my daily browsing and using chrome only for sites I need to get to that are bookmarked, like bills and school sites that are not ad infested.
Butter smooth.
I really do not recommend Chrome unless you use a Nexus device, stock browsers almost always perform better performance and efficiency wise. I just use stock, use it lacks some features and it doesn't even sync my bookmarks but it's not like I browse my daily readings on the phone, so it doesn't matter for me. When I browse the links almost always come from somewhere else so I don't need my favorites.
scrolling smoothness on Skype is terrible. Even after loading Skype so that all the contacts are loaded, scroling through my chats is very laggy. However, the app itself is not.
Astraphic said:
scrolling smoothness on Skype is terrible. Even after loading Skype so that all the contacts are loaded, scroling through my chats is very laggy. However, the app itself is not.
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No it is not terrible. I can say it is fu... smooth!!!
I have no issues with scrolling. But my wife won't trade phones with me. So I'm stuck with the S6.
Stock browser is great, no issues there. Some apps still exhibit some slightly imperfect scrolling behaviour (e.g. Facebook is not perfect, but much better than my Note 5 ever was). With GPU profiling on, it's easy to see that there are still frame drops (on the SD820 version at least).
After reading this thread i decided to give the stock brower another chance. Soon as i got my phone 2 wks i switched to chrome. Been using chrome for a while. I must say its faster at times. I did notice the lag on chrome just now. So im going to try the stock one again.
I'm random use the phone. Not only scrolling I've no issue about any smoothness. All are OK! It's very well for use.
I've got any scrolling issue. IMO it's the best till now for smooth
Would you say that the honor 5X is "fast" in day-to-day use? A higher rating indicates that you think the honor 5X exhibits fantastic performance. Like, is it as fast as your tears when you watch The Titanic?
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RAM Management is quite poor
Same issue with ram management but i have managed to get better performance with CM !
Lags from time to time
emui sucks
ahahahah
Poor ram management, app startup is not that good, emui4 made this ram management even poor. Wish this phone came with near stock android
Snapdragon really does the job. A perfect SoC for it's prize.
'Gets the job done'
I love the speed. Overall it's pretty smooth.
Moderate and no lag whatsoever. Still doing well after 18 months of usage.
ram management is poor
hassanjavaid8181 said:
ram management is poor
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Yes it was good till LP.. reduced drastically after MM and further
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Yes it was good till LP.. reduced drastically after MM and further
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Yeah I dont know whats wrong with huawei.why they cant manage a ram better.....
All they did in mm just add 500mb zram..:laugh:
Really good after a few hours of reboot. Some lags after that.
its fine..ram managemnt kills its performance
Custom ROM have way better speeds than EMUI.
Performance is very good running on stock or custom rom
It's not the fastest phone on the market, but it can definitely surprise you by the overall smoothness in mono-thread. In multi thread, EMUI kills the 3rd app launched. It reminds me of the Jelly bean era with low end phones...
And I found something even more interesting : as a mobile musician, I tried to use iGrand Piano from IK Multimedia and found out the phone has an imperceptible lag (i think it must be around 30ms max, and possibly under) which is really rare on the android market and on this price range. It's really great for choir when you want to quickly find a note. Seeing the potential, I then wanted to use an iRig Keys (mini-keys) with it but the stock firmware doesn't allow OTG. It's unfortunate because the OTG is present in the hardware. I couldn't unlock my phone because the Huawei website never wanted to give me my unlock code. So I got an Honor 9 Lite which was a lot more powerful and had OTG out of the box. What a deception : it had a latency of around 200-300ms out of the box with IK Multimedia iGrand Piano/iLectric. I tried deactivating a lot of stuff but it didn't change anything. Also, the smoothness of the screen is far inferior to the Honor 5x : it has a lot of remanence and although you can launch 50 apps without lag and everything launches 10x times faster than on the Honor 5X, the overall feeling of the screen is really crappy which is a shame for an "evolution".
I finally managed to unlock the bootloader of the Honor 5X this weekend : the Huawei website seemed to have evolved and asked for one more field than before et and it worked when I retried.
So I tried several Nougat OS 7.1.2 : Resurrction Remix, DotOS, Cosmic, and had the same lag (around 200-300ms) as on the Honor 9 Lite. I remembered it was absolutely perfect with the OEM skin on Marshmallow and decided it was more important to have low latency audio than the latest Android version. I tried a Cyanogenmod Marshmallow and a ResurrectionRemix 5.7.4 and it worked like a charm ! Around 30ms, almost imperceptible : it's less than a real organ or than my old Erard piano with bizarre insides and with which I learned the instrument.
So for you all : just check a Marshmallow custom Rom if you need low latency audio on this marvellous phone. It seemed it can be the equal or beat Nexus 6P phones and other high-end devices almost out of the box on this field.
After few months my Honor 5x was very laggy, After i did few tweaks, its now very responsive. Here i shared few tricks it may help others.
Please note i am on stock ROM without rooting.
1. Download & install "Google Go" app from playstore. (light version of "Google" app), uninstall/disable "Google app". I found significant improvement after doing this. (A restart required)
2. Install "Go" apps instead of regular ones. "Maps go", "files go", "youtube go", etc. note these are the latest light weight apps from google.
3. Disable & uninstall un necessary apps, i disabled few apps that i never used. ex: Google play books, google play games, google play movies, google play newstand, google+, Hangouts, Photos, Social Channels, etc.
4. Use only light weight apps, some suggesstions
Holo launcher, (not hola launcher)
Youtube go instead of youtube,
Pixel Music player
Focus Go (Gallery)
5. Allow only necessary apps to run on background. I only allowed whatsapp, gmail, etc. (go to phone manager->battery->protected apps to check)
Note: A restart required after.
Some phones exhibit choppy scrolling, especially when navigating long web pages when multiple apps are running in the background. Rate this thread to express how you smooth scrolling feels on the honor 5X under such conditions. A higher rating indicates that scrolling is always buttery smooth, even when you're reading a 10,000 word article on "how to kiss a girl".
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Scrolling issue exists on EMUI, which is proprietary UI for Huawei. With custom ROMs like Cyanogenmod, the scrolling works just fine.
Scrolling webpages and playstore was pretty bad until I installed Marshmallow. Marshmallow has improved the speed so much. It definitely feels smoother.
A bit choppy
not much of an issue, scrolling is smooth, except some little areas, where you can notice a small framedrop..
Not bad, google plus hangs sometimes
Stock ROM has smooth, sometimes laggy scrolling. CM based ROMs fixes it.
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Stock ROM has smooth, sometimes laggy scrolling. CM based ROMs fixes it.
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i do not think so. Scrolling is still choppy. I tested CM13 and LOS14.1.
Can someone recommend some kernel?
For me scrolling at times is really bad, even on latest LOS.
I guess the SOC just can't keep up.
It is incredible I cannot recall having such a bad experience on my Galaxy S3.
I will end up changing phone because of this.
I understand you completely, but it is not the soc. Cardinal os preforms very well... Aosp... From june does perform well as well
Will have to try that then! Thanks!
Bad scrolling LAG and POOR BAT life caused me to closet the Honor 5X and return to my trusty MATE HAM 2.
"BUT" to my utter surprise and relief, the latest D351 update completely eliminated those disasters and now I am finally thrilled to have this handset as a main Go-To mobile phone.
I was so close to throwing it away and chalk up as a waste too. Happy to see all was not lost after all.
Huawei needs to get the lead out because delays that linger turn users elsewhere many times for good.
Extremely bad. Huawei should focus on their software part. It stinks! Extremely poor performing software. On EMUI 4 running MM, I experienced usual stutters, phone stuck in middle of processing, laggy UI. But thanks to custom ROM developers, I am able to refresh my device.
Out of 10 scores, I will score it 4/10.
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Extremely bad. Huawei should focus on their software part. It stinks! Extremely poor performing software. On EMUI 4 running MM, I experienced usual stutters, phone stuck in middle of processing, laggy UI. But thanks to custom ROM developers, I am able to refresh my device.
Out of 10 scores, I will score it 4/10.
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Is that score for custom rom?
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Is that score for custom rom?
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Oh no no! That rating was for EMUI. Custom ROMs rock!
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Oh no no! That rating was for EMUI. Custom ROMs rock!
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Oh , u replied so quick. This shows ur enthusiasm towards custom roms. Cheers
even after latest emui update scrolling smoothness is not there
Smoothness is moderate.
at emui scrolling smoothness is not good.
Silky smooth.
Some phones exhibit choppy scrolling, especially when navigating long web pages when multiple apps are running in the background. Rate this thread to express how you smooth scrolling feels on the Essential Phone under such conditions. A higher rating indicates that scrolling is always buttery smooth, even when you're reading a 10,000 word article on "how to kiss a girl".
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It is choppy and freezes a lot. I did not expect this from a highend phone
Mine has a slight chop to it especially if there are ads and pictures in the article. Usually it is fine.
My first device ran pretty smooth, but after 2 months the fingerprint scanner stopped working. I received a replacement unit this week and this just runs horribly. I don't know if this is a touchscreen issue or software. Scrolling through Youtube or a web page will seem to just hang and not move. The other day the phone just hung in the launcher. I'm getting more disappointed with this on a daily basis. I'm almost tempted to install the Oreo beta just to see if that improves things.
Scrolling is hands down much smoother on my 2 year old Nexus 5x. Hoping Essential can fix it. It's been choppy on all of the stock-based ROMs. AOSP/custom ROMs appears to be really smooth.
If you're rooted try a kernel control app & switch the gpu governor to CPU freq, userspace, or performance. That worked well for me. Especially cpu freq & performance.
Scrolling has been smooth on open beta 2 and 3.
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If you're rooted try a kernel control app & switch the gpu governor to CPU freq, userspace, or performance. That worked well for me. Especially cpu freq & performance.
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Touch scrolling is very choppy on my device. Even the app drawer is choppy as hell. I was on OB3 and it was the same. The only fix for me on all ROMs is to set GPU governor to cpufreq or performance (which I believe are similar in keeping GPU clock mostly at max). In the past Lineage 14.1 was super smooth, but for some reason all Oreo based ROMs are just as choppy as stock. Fortunately, the GPU governor tweak works great until Essential finally releases a fix. I'll believe it when I see it. If the GPU governor tweak didn't work, I would have moved on to a different device.
I thought it was really smooth with the GPU performance governor until I used my friend's Note 8. That thing has some smooth scrolling.
This device has horrible scrolling stutter that doesn't seem will be resolved anytime before I pick up the OP6. It's unfortunate that there isn't a fix for this problem, despite having released supposed fixes. I miss the OP3, never had a single issue.
If you like a buttery smooth and readable/responsive experience, pick any other phone. This won't give it to you.
On beta 3 stock, never rooted.
I don't own the phone, but I read about the issue, and this sort of thing has really bugged me in the past. I'm curious: has anyone tested the refresh rate by going to vsynctester.com in Chrome? I wonder if the refresh rate is significantly off the reported value and resulting in an asynchronicity of sorts.
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I don't own the phone, but I read about the issue, and this sort of thing has really bugged me in the past. I'm curious: has anyone tested the refresh rate by going to vsynctester.com in Chrome? I wonder if the refresh rate is significantly off the reported value and resulting in an asynchronicity of sorts.
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Haven't used this site before, but on my phone, it's reporting 60.3-60.7 Hz refresh rate, on a 60.7 Hz screen. The word on the right generally stays grey with only 1-2 flashes of blue or red.
That’s not perfect, but it’s not too off the mark. I was expecting something like 55 or 65hz if it were to be the source of the stuttering. It’s gotta be something else causing it, then.
I'm running 8.1 Beta and the only place I notice a slight choppiness is on my Google Feed page. Very smooth everywhere else.
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I'm running 8.1 Beta and the only place I notice a slight choppiness is on my Google Feed page. Very smooth everywhere else.
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I am on beta 8.1 already, the phone is not that smooth compared to my pixel 2 XL.
on Los 15.1 03/10/2018 and is buttery smooooooooooth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For anyone who sees this and runs latest stock rom as of this reply, how is scrolling smoothness now? I am considering getting this phone for a relative but they come from a Nexus 6P and with that, smooth scrolling so switching to something like the PH-1 and have choppy scrolling. Is it any better than before?
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For anyone who sees this and runs latest stock rom as of this reply, how is scrolling smoothness now? I am considering getting this phone for a relative but they come from a Nexus 6P and with that, smooth scrolling so switching to something like the PH-1 and have choppy scrolling. Is it any better than before?
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I'm on P beta 2, scrolling jitter/frame drops are still there. Coming from a Nexus 6P I'm sure they will notice it.
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I'm on P beta 2, scrolling jitter/frame drops are still there. Coming from a Nexus 6P I'm sure they will notice it.
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What about latest 8.1 build?
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What about latest 8.1 build?
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It is an issue with the screen/digitizer so it is never going to get fixed. You can either up the responsiveness and get jitters or make it smooth but very unresponsive.
I've just bought this device and despite the good hardware i've noticed that the scrolling in many apps is really bad.
For example in apps such as Youtube, Play Store, Spotify, Amazon Prime Video the scrolling is really choppy. Web surfing in chrome is quite smooth instead.
Have you noticed this too? Is there a way to fix this issue? My antutu score is over 170000 points so i don't think i've performance problems. I'm running the last update with february security patches.
Thank you
Just badly optimised software
I noticed that too. It like day and night, compared to my pixel 2 xl in terms of smoothness and performance. I am very disappointed in this tablet. ?
I also notice very slow and choppy scrolling in Gmail app. Annoying. Hopefully, EMUI 9 will improve.
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I noticed that too. It like day and night, compared to my pixel 2 xl in terms of smoothness and performance. I am very disappointed in this tablet. ?
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Google uses such aggressive kernel settings to achieve that buttery smoothness that their devices tend to die in large numbers within the first 2 years of launch.
I can't speak for the Pixel 2XL but the Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P and Pixel XL all died in large numbers within 2 years (often after just 5 or 6 months) because the aggressive kernel settings generated too much heat leading to internal component damage.
I find the M5 smooth but I'm comparing it to other tablets from Chuwi, Amazon and Samsung rather than my phone which cost twice as much as this tablet and is indeed smoother and snappier.
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I've just bought this device and despite the good hardware i've noticed that the scrolling in many apps is really bad.
For example in apps such as Youtube, Play Store, Spotify, Amazon Prime Video the scrolling is really choppy. Web surfing in chrome is quite smooth instead.
Have you noticed this too? Is there a way to fix this issue? My antutu score is over 170000 points so i don't think i've performance problems. I'm running the last update with february security patches.
Thank you
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Trying going into the tablet manager app and let it optomize your device (or if you prefer just go into the Cleanup tab which will clean the system cache). A lot of owners have reported improved performance after using that app.
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Google uses such aggressive kernel settings to achieve that buttery smoothness that their devices tend to die in large numbers within the first 2 years of launch.
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I didn't look closely what they are doing with kernel on pixels, but read that smoothness comes from new "energy aware scheduler". Reading respective subreddit I haven't seen too many stories of devices dead because overheating.