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So I just recently got the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and I have to say I'm a bit disappointed. I am familiar with Android and I know what I'm doing (or so I think lol) but some things just aren't working and I don't know if it's me or software limitation. Regardless I'm hoping someone can shedd some light on these...
1. The market is lacking a LOT of applications that are available on phones. Is that right? I thought it would just scale for the most part....I can't even find the official Facebook app on the market. Am I looking in the wrong place or something? Hulu? Netflix??
1a. Some applications that I sideload (mainly widgets) like typoclock or something of that sort....install, but when I go to add the widget it is not there, as if never installed. Even when I try to reinstall it, it says that it will replace the old one so i know for a fact that it installs, but the widgets aren't available, and they arent listed in the installed apps drawer either.
2. It seems kind of sluggish...and I really haven't installed much, even from a cold boot...it's kinda laggy, not as quick as I have seen on some review videos. Quadrant scores around 1400-1500. I Rooted it, installed the latest SunBurst ROM and overclocked to 1.4Ghz and it's still laggy often despite nearing 3000 on quadrant now.
3. So I couldn't get any Netflix apk to work on it stock, so once I rooted, installed Sunburst ROM it came installed with a Netflix app, but I don't think it's official since the icon is orange and has a little android on it. Needless to say THAT app doesn't work and CAN'T be installed (I figure it's cooked onto the ROM) regardless I found a Netflix apk that install and replaces it, and works...but after one day it reverts back to the old netflix and doesn't work. So pretty much everytime I want to use Netflix I have to reinstall and overwrite with the new Netflix apk I found...it's annoying. (and the search function doesn't work on that Netflix either)
I know it's a lot to rant about and a lot of issues, and I love the tab and honeycomb, but I can't believe these issues still persist. I hope someone can help me with one/all of these and I will be forever grateful.
Thanks, hope someone can help...
1a. Try a restart after you install a widget. It seems that if the widget is not made for HC, it doesn't appear before you restart.
i tried rebooting but that didn't help any unfortunately...
There's a netflix 1.3 APK somewhere that sideloads perfectly. I haven't tried it with Touchwiz yet - I haven't even touched Touchwiz.
Try stock ROM first. Your ROM might have broken something. I know Bonsai completely broke USB storage support as an example, and Starburst claims to be the "most complete and fastest Touchwiz experience" which means it's going to have missing and broken things. Any ROM dev making claims like that is compensating for something. The "hacked-icon" Netflix app is an obvious sign they went a LITTLE too far.
Netflix sideload works perfectly on my Tab. Unrooted. TouchWiz. Stock.
i tried netflix fix on starburst rom, it did work but reverted back to fcs after a reboot. i switched to bonsai 3, netflix seems to be working fine even after a reboot.
2. It seems kind of sluggish...
The default launcher is a bit sluggish, it is a honeycomb issue. For me I have seen after a "reboot", the tab does take a couple of minutes to "settle", then it is smooth for me, but if you have lot of widgets on your homescreens it will be sluggish, my experience in any case.
thanks to all you guys for all the replies.
As far as the Netflix, I know I do have the correct apk I think the issue is that it isn't playing nice with the one that is baked into the rom. I guess I will have to install another rom.
However I haven't heard anything on the apps, is that right? There's no Facebook? Anyoneelse having issues with Widgets not appearing?
For Facebook search for an app in the market called 'Friend Me'
Looks great and works great =)
for getting rid of sluggishness try this launcher: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1188701
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For Facebook search for an app in the market called 'Friend Me'
Looks great and works great =)
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Thanks! Good call, app looks great!
@js931,I'll give that launcher a try and see how it goes.
I understand and feel for you on your problems. My 3rd (and final) Galaxy Tab is on the way to me from Amazon.com. I also have an Asus Transformer on the way as well and the device that gives me the least amount of problems is the device I plan to keep. I want to like the Tab but I don't have high hopes since I'm about to be on my 3rd device. The 2nd one worked perfectly after Touchwiz for a while - even fixed issues I was having such as the typing lag - but the issues I had with the first one (screen and/or Wifi doesn't respond after bringing the device out of sleep) resurfaced a few days ago. The 2nd Tab also had something loose on the inside as it produces a loud rattling noise whenever it vibrates. While that is easily cured by turning off the vibration, I paid $600 for this device and I expect it to be near-perfect. So any little issue I have with this 3rd Tab means it's going back for a refund and I'll keep the Transformer... assuming it behaves like it should, lol.
At any rate, good luck with your issues. The Tab is a beautiful device but seems to be problematic... at least that's my experience with it.
I assume that everybody is having he same problem given the popularity of Scrabble, but I can't get Scrabble to install on Flashback **I have tried the spare parts thing and I have downloaded an apk to try to side load. It simply says that the install was not successful. Does anybody have any ideas?
just a question, are you installing from the market or amazon?
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just a question, are you installing from the market or amazon?
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I don't see it on Amazon, but I have side loaded it and downloaded from market. Weird thing is that it will say installing and then it will say installation not successful. I think it has something to do with the app checking pixels before installing, but I am not sure.
Ok, I inserted a 1g Micro SD card and Scrabble has installed from the Market. I am not sure how that helped, but it was just a hunch and it worked. Now Scrabble Free opens in the top left quadrant in a very small area. I assume that the screen pixels are incorrect for the game. Any ideas on how to make Scrabble come to full screen?
so i installed it last night from the marketplace on Flashback. The problem you had with installing I had also with FB but that was with 8.0. On the upgrade to 8.1 I didn't get that error any more.
also forgot i get the tiny screen as well in the top right and it looks like it's not optimized for tablets yet
Thanks, I have not upgraded to 8.1 yet, I am a bit of a noob and don't know quite how to update without loosing all of my apps and settings. I can install a new ROM, but I haven't had to upgrade.
Anyway, Scrabble works on my Acer A500, but I guess the Gtab won't simply resize the screen like the Acer does. Guess I have to wait for a tablet version of Scrabble.
I've had a Razr Maxx for a few weeks and recently (but not originally) have a problem with the accelerometer lagging when I tilt from vertical to horizontal or vice versa. I mostly run vertical (portrait), but use horizontal for typing (larger keys), web browsing (easier to read), watching video and maybe playing a game or two.
I rooted my Razr the day I got it and had no problem. I've received at least one system update since then and rerooted it after the OTA update (using VooDoo OTA RootKeeper) with no problem. I know that my accelerometer lag did not begin after either the updates or the rooting. I'm not running a custom ROM.
I've added plenty of apps and widgets but nothing I haven't used with my Incredible (rooted but no custom ROM) or my Nook Color (CM7). A few days ago I began to notice a lag of at least 10 seconds and sometimes as much as THIRTY ONE SECONDS when I shift the Razr between vertical and horizontal. I used ROM Manager to fix permissions, I used Titanium Backup Pro to freeze bloatware apps, I systematically eliminated every widget I had running, I turned animations on and off, I changed from Go Launcher Ex to Zeam Launcher and I rebooted between every adjustment I made. I installed Advanced Task Killer, which I normally do not use, and killed every app I could. None of these actions has reduced the considerable accelerometer lag at all.
Everything else about the Razr seems to be working fine. Its fast, it navigates home screens and web pages and apps instantly, it plays even large video files flawlessly. Under About Phone it shows that my System Updates are current running Android 2.3.6.
My next step, I guess, is to start uninstalling apps. I hate to do this just randomly because I don't know how to back up my system (ROM Manager won't let me do a backup because I can't install ClockworkMod Recovery) and its a pain to manually reinstall everything.
When I search this topic I find other Android phones having this problem but I haven't found it mentioned among Razr users. What am I missing? I love the phone and really want to solve this problem.
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I'Ir'sve had a Razr Maxx for a few weeks and recently (but not originally) have a problem with the accelerometer lagging when I tilt from vertical to horizontal or vice versa. I mostly run vertical (portrait), but use horizontal for typing (larger keys), web browsing (easier to read), watching video and maybe playing a game or two.
I rooted my Razr the day I got it and had no problem. I've received at least one system update since then and rerooted it after the OTA update (using VooDoo OTA RootKeeper) with no problem. I know that my accelerometer lag did not begin after either the updates or the rooting. I'm not running a custom ROM.
I've added plenty of apps and widgets but nothing I haven't used with my Incredible (rooted but no custom ROM) or my Nook Color (CM7). A few days ago I began to notice a lag of at least 10 seconds and sometimes as much as THIRTY ONE SECONDS when I shift the Razr between vertical and horizontal. I used ROM Manager to fix permissions, I used Titanium Backup Pro to freeze bloatware apps, I systematically eliminated every widget I had running, I turned animations on and off, I changed from Go Launcher Ex to Zeam Launcher and I rebooted between every adjustment I made. I installed Advanced Task Killer, which I normally do not use, and killed every app I could. None of these actions has reduced the considerable accelerometer lag at all.
Everything else about the Razr seems to be working fine. Its fast, it navigates home screens and web pages and apps instantly, it plays even large video files flawlessly. Under About Phone it shows that my System Updates are current running Android 2.3.6.
My next step, I guess, is to start uninstalling apps. I hate to do this just randomly because I don't know how to back up my system (ROM Manager won't let me do a backup because I can't install ClockworkMod Recovery) and its a pain to manually reinstall everything.
When I search this topic I find other Android phones having this problem but I haven't found it mentioned among Razr users. What am I missing? I love the phone and really want to solve this problem.
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It's a Moto bad sofware config. I had imprived a little bit the razr speed disabling animations. But it's indeed laggy. Either removing bloathware won't help anyway.
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Since posting I've gone the last step and reset the phone to original condition. At that point it's worth noting that the LAG WAS GONE! OK, so the guts of the phone aren't the issue but likely something I'm adding along the way. I began reinstalling apps a few at a time. Everything was fine until I reinstalled Button Savior. As soon as that app was active (pro edition, fully updated) my lag was back in a major way. Once I uninstalled Button Savior my accelerometer became responsive once again.
I've got about 90% of the apps I had on my Razr originally back and still no lag (except with Button Savior). I'll run the phone for a couple of days to see if I really have pinpointed the problem and then post my findings.
I've noticed that Chrome dies every few minutes, (sometimes it can go 30+ minutes depending on what I'm doing.) Just yesterday when I was on KK, Chrome NEVER lost the tabs, even when I had 20+ of them.
I tend to stream talk radio/pod casts from websites, and up until now, it hasn't been a problem. This is actually a really big problem in the base Lollipop code. Is anyone else noticing this?
http://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus5/comments/2q6bed/lollipop_memory_leak_still_on_501/
I've rebooted my phone several times today, yet I'm at 1.2GB+ system usage, and 850MB+ app usage. I can't compare this to KK directly because I never once cared to check those metrics. This is making the phone quite unusable. I'm using the odexed stock ROM. This is fairly disappointing.
What android version is the LG update? Was the memory leak fixed in 5.0.2? Cuz I'm running bliss ROM, which I believe is 5.0.2, and don't seem to have memory leak issues.
Haven't noticed anything like what you're describing, but battery life is taking a major hit on 5.0.1. Eight hours at work on KK and the battery still had around ninety percent. The same thing on Lollipop and it's around sixty percent. This is just sitting in my pocket for all but 15 minutes or so during lunch.
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Haven't noticed anything like what you're describing, but battery life is taking a major hit on 5.0.1. Eight hours at work on KK and the battery still had around ninety percent. The same thing on Lollipop and it's around sixty percent. This is just sitting in my pocket for all but 15 minutes or so during lunch.
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From what I understand the bug persists in 5.0.2 but the ROM developer might have made some tweaks to mitigate the problem. Stock/OEM versions of 5.0.1 and 5.0.2 have this issue. My brother with a Sprint S5 is having the same problem. After a few hours of runtime, then you'll notice the home screen redrawing when you hit home... you'll notice your tabs in Chrome re-drawing as well. If you were streaming something like audio or video, then it dies in the background. People are also complaining that this happens with Google Music, and things of that nature. I haven't played around enough to see what all will close.
With bumped stock ROM, I never once had Chrome close in the background. At this point, I'm having a hard time seeing the benefits of LP over KK. A few fun things like unlock w/ BT connection, but what else? I see that framerate improved by about 20%, but didn't eliminate stutter completely from this phone. That's likely never going to be fixed, as it's a result of the 2K screen.
I also find it bizarre that I can CAUSE Chrome to die on-demand. If I'm listening to this particular podcast, and Chrome is the only app running in the background, then I go to Setttings > Apps > Running, within 5 seconds, the audio stops. Chrome dies. I see the System RAM usage drop from 1.5GB to 1.0GB. App usage stays around 800MB.
Rebooting the phone seems to help a bit, but it comes right back after I go through a few apps in normal use. On KK, I almost NEVER swiped away apps, or closed Chrome tabs. I only did that if I had clutter and I wanted things to be more neatly organized in the recent apps dialog.
Can anyone else try loading up a podcast like thebiggestproblemintheuniverse.com in Chrome/Chrome Beta, then using their phone like normal with this all in the background for a bit. Try going to Running apps and see if it kills/freezes the Chrome process.
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Can anyone else try loading up a podcast like thebiggestproblemintheuniverse.com in Chrome/Chrome Beta, then using their phone like normal with this all in the background for a bit. Try going to Running apps and see if it kills/freezes the Chrome process.
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So I went ahead and tried the above on my non-rooted / stock KK and as soon as I went into the Apps settings Chrome stopped playing the podcast and closed. I tried this multiple time and it happened each time. FYI - Am on Chrome V.40.0.2214.109.
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I also find it bizarre that I can CAUSE Chrome to die on-demand. If I'm listening to this particular podcast, and Chrome is the only app running in the background, then I go to Setttings > Apps > Running, within 5 seconds, the audio stops. Chrome dies. I see the System RAM usage drop from 1.5GB to 1.0GB. App usage stays around 800MB.
Rebooting the phone seems to help a bit, but it comes right back after I go through a few apps in normal use. On KK, I almost NEVER swiped away apps, or closed Chrome tabs. I only did that if I had clutter and I wanted things to be more neatly organized in the recent apps dialog.
Can anyone else try loading up a podcast like thebiggestproblemintheuniverse.com in Chrome/Chrome Beta, then using their phone like normal with this all in the background for a bit. Try going to Running apps and see if it kills/freezes the Chrome process.
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I'm rooted, L odexed, and on the latest Chrome beta and can confirm this happened exactly as you described. Within 2-3 seconds of going to running apps, the podcast died. When I opened chrome again, it came back to that web page but had to reload it.
Forgive me if I am entirely off base here as I am not a dev,
It was noted here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/g-watch/development/android-5-0-lollipop-memory-leak-fix-lg-t3030871
that the LG G watch suffered from the same thing, and from this git hub: https://github.com/temasek/android_...services/core/java/com/android/server/display
The dev made a patched services.jar, could this point in the right direction
To be fair, I never tried to go to the 'Running' apps while streaming on KK, because I never had a problem with the podcast stopping. It's possible that Android 'cheats' by clearing up RAM when you visit this page to make things look more efficient. That's actually kinda shady.
Since some days my tablet has been experiencing some slowdowns, and app lock ups. But no straightout freezes or reboots just yet.
Until today that is. My tablet starting to experience even greater slowdown, and apps really became unresponsive resulting in a reboot of the entire tablet.
Now this doesn't go away with each reboot, but sometimes it vanishes for a period of time. And If I look in advandes task manager sometimes the entire thing is EMPTY. which is weird because ther should always be apps in there. Or only 2 apps.
And the memory % still seems like a good amount of ram is in use..
So what im asking is what can you advice me to do?
Also im running a custom rom (i think?) can't remember. At the very least i rooted my tablet
How can i update to new Android OS rooted? Perhaps this will fix it.
Can I do this with a backup of my apps?