I'm running the leaked HC (globatron). In general, Honeycomb seems fine insofar as transitions between screens and running programs. However, one area where I notice some substantial lag is in returning to the home screen within an application. For example, I would be browsing the internet, and I hit home; the screen goes to black, with the loading animation.
The time it takes to load is perhaps 2 seconds, which does not sound like a lot of time, but it's quite substantial with what I had in GB.
Does anybody else remark this feature? Some people have recommended that in issues dealing with lag, you should go to the bootloader and do a wipe. However, that's a bit of a pain as I'd need to reinstall my apps
For those who are still getting home screen flickering after .14 update and thinking it's a random thing, here's how to reproduce the problem regardless of docking or performance mode:
1. Go to the home screen (you should have a decent amount of apps, widgets and folders on it).
2. Bring up something that overlays the home screen. This includes:
a. Recent Apps on the left
b. ASUS (or Android) Quick Setting on the lower right
c. Mouse cursor (arrow or circle)
(Opened folders don't seem to trigger the problem.)
3. Keep the overlay on the screen and wait. Within 10 seconds you should see a big black triangle on the lower left of the screen flickering. It takes longer for the flickering to appear for the first time, but afterwards you almost always see it after a few seconds.
4. Once the overlay is gone (for the mouse cursor, just wait about 10 seconds and the cursor will disappear automatically), the flickering will not occur regardless of how long you wait!
Hopefully this issue can be addressed in the next update!! It's starting to annoy me.
P.S. The home screen will also show some very occasional black or white horizontal lines flickering. Now I think this one is truly random. Usually you need to stare at the screen for a long time to see it.
** UPDATE **
As I've mentioned in the reply, I've discovered that having News and Weather widget in the screen on either side of the center Home Screen (but not on the center screen itself) will increase the chance of reproducibility. Also, having a lot of widgets and apps on the home screen will also do it. Having more than 7 or 8 apps in Recent Apps will definitely do it.
I have the triangle thing too but only if I have a couple of apps (enough that I can scroll the list) open.
I can't recreate it but I have seen it before
You also get some 'flickering' when you have SD card mounted and some other app is updating an ongoing notification.
It seems to forget it's place and the ordering of the notifications jump around.
Same Bug here...
i can recreate it using texttab and pressing any overlay item. its irritating
I get this bug as well in .14. I don't remember seeing it in previous ICS builds (.11 or .13), but I wasn't exactly looking for it either.
I used to get this just when it was charging in the dock... now its worse.
I've found that swiping away a few apps from the recent item overlay fixes things for me whenever it happens. It's annoying though
Yes I had this issue as well but I did a Factory Reset and re-installed my apps last night and cannot reproduce this problem now. Anyone else?
I've had this bug in every build except the current one. Seems gone for me. Only problem I've (luckily) seen with my Prime.
Sent from my Transformer Prime TF201 using xda premium
Before upgrading to ICS I didn't see the screen flicker at all, but now that I've upgraded I see it all the time when I use a live wallpaper
Mine occurs with use youtube & thumb keyboard
Open youtube app, quickly in the search bar, and as the keyboard and the video loads in the background it'll flicker
also as you type
Mickeylittle said:
Yes I had this issue as well but I did a Factory Reset and re-installed my apps last night and cannot reproduce this problem now. Anyone else?
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Yes I finally gave in and did a complete data wipe. Initially the problem went away as expected (because the Home screens were mostly empty after the factory reset). After all the apps and Home screen states were restored, the problem came back as before, completely reproducible.
So this got me thinking: perhaps it was one of the widgets, or too many widgets/folders/apps on the home screen that's causing this flickering. I finally narrowed down to just one: the stock News and Weather widget. As long as this widget is on either side of the center home screen (but not on the center home screen itself), the flickering will appear, completely reproducible! Since this widget is not really functioning properly under ICS (no setup screen) so no lost there.
Oh, and that more-than-7-or-8-apps-in-Recent-Apps thing will also produce flickering regardless of anything, but only when you first open it up. Otherwise it works the same as other overlays if other conditions are met.
Now I have to go restore about 20GB of stuff. Factor reset wiped it all clean. The thing is, I could've figured all this out without the factory reset. Oh well.
OP has been updated.
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Yes I finally gave in and did a complete data wipe. Initially the problem went away as expected (because the Home screens were mostly empty after the factory reset). After all the apps and Home screen states were restored, the problem came back as before, completely reproducible.
So this got me thinking: perhaps it was one of the widgets, or too many widgets/folders/apps on the home screen that's causing this flickering. I finally narrowed down to just one: the stock News and Weather widget. As long as this widget is on either side of the center home screen (but not on the center home screen itself), the flickering will appear, completely reproducible! Since this widget is not really functioning properly under ICS (no setup screen) so no lost there.
Oh, and that more-than-7-or-8-apps-in-Recent-Apps thing will also produce flickering regardless of anything, but only when you first open it up. Otherwise it works the same as other overlays if other conditions are met.
Now I have to go restore about 20GB of stuff. Factor reset wiped it all clean. The thing is, I could've figured all this out without the factory reset. Oh well.
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The News and Weather made no difference for me, but the number of items in Recent Apps did. Swiping items out of the list made the triangle flicker disappear from the home screen and from within other apps.
This bug only popped up for me once the jitter came back for me - any and all overlays (including the bottom bar, notification popup, and a couple monitoring apps) constantly move up and down a few pixels. I can't capture on my cell phone because the frame rate is apparently in sync, but this video from another poster here shows it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIO2LBMG-dc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I really hope Gary and Asus will address this issue shortly.
I sometimes have a flickering and screen freeze during games like Reckless Racing 2 or some other too. A workaround is to go back to homescreen then and close the app where it happened.
Not sure if it's the same problem you guys are talking about.
Got still the 9.4.2.11 build here in germany. This never happened to me in the last weeks, but since 2 or 3 days I got it a few times while running games (without the dock).
The .14 update has greatly reduced this issue for me, but there is still a very brief flicker when showing the recent apps menu if there are a lot of apps in it
same problem
I always had this problem. I did factory reset once and the problem remained. After the .14 update, i still have the problem. Really really really want to have the problem solved..But thank you so much for telling me how to reproduce the problem
can't reproduce it either, but i still experience it once in a while. a minor bug, but still among a long list
I've begun to have very odd screen tearing, I'll try to describe it the best I can, as I haven't been able to get a proper screenshot of it happening, and I hope someone can help me out
Almost all the time the bottom bar, where the nav buttons and notifications are, will "jump" up and down about 1-2 pixels. It didn't notice it much at first, but it's really starting to annoy me.
When I play music, play any kind of game, open the gallery, the left side of my screen (about 1-2 cm) will start flickering and tear the picture.
When in gallery and swiping from picture to picture, the flickering/tear will start, but when just looking at a picture (aka nothing moving on the screen), it will stop completely.
The left side flicker/tear covers all the way from the top to the bottom, including the nav "back" button. The home and recent apps aren't affected.
Most of the screen flicker/tear stops when I'm just on my homescreens, the only part still affected by it is the "back" nav button.
It never happens when i'm in the browser (i use ICS Browser+).
I've tried restarting the device many times, I've tried turning it off and letting it rest for 24 hours, turned it on and within 5min it started again.
I haven't tried factory reset yet, since I wanted to check if it was fixable without doing so.
I'm currently running "almost" stock .28 update, rooted (not unlocked), I edited the SystemUI.apk, the keyboard layout for the dock and the bootanimation.
I hope someone can help me out
- Moon
PS: It isn't the old "recent apps" screen tear, it never affects recent apps.
You're experience what nearly everyone hear has experienced. Sometimes it'll fix itself, sometimes I have to reboot. So far, there's nothing you can do about it.
I've only had this thing a month. I didn't expect great performance, but there are times it is just agonizingly slow! Switching from messaging to the home screen seems to take forever. I stare at a blank screen for a long time before the icons appear. Touch also seems sluggish -- I have to press the home icon several times before the home screen appears. I accidently started playing music with the Play Music app but couldn't get it to stop. Pressing the pause icon repeatedly and the music blared on. I couldn't turn down the volume, couldn't turn it off. It just kept going. I'm not talking minutes but certainly a lot longer than I had with OnePlus 3 and Nexus 6. I'm constantly clearing background apps to improve performance, but that isn't helping.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Try disabling the in-built ASUS apps. I was able to disable the following apps with no negative side effects:
ASUS Cover
"Do It Later"
Gallery
Mini Movie
"PhotoCollage"
Quick Memo
Splendid
Weather
ZenCircle
ZenFone Care
I would also recommend switching from the ZenUI Launcher to something like Nova Launcher (or your favorite launcher).
Hope this helps.
-Levi
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I've only had this thing a month. I didn't expect great performance, but there are times it is just agonizingly slow! Switching from messaging to the home screen seems to take forever. I stare at a blank screen for a long time before the icons appear. Touch also seems sluggish -- I have to press the home icon several times before the home screen appears. I accidently started playing music with the Play Music app but couldn't get it to stop. Pressing the pause icon repeatedly and the music blared on. I couldn't turn down the volume, couldn't turn it off. It just kept going. I'm not talking minutes but certainly a lot longer than I had with OnePlus 3 and Nexus 6. I'm constantly clearing background apps to improve performance, but that isn't helping.
Any advice would be appreciated.
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I've got the same thing because of Android 7.
I just come back to android 6
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I've got the same thing because of Android 7.
I just come back to android 6
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How did you flash back to 6?
Yeah, you need to disable the Asus bloat. You can also try using ftllauncher. The issue is limited ram when running the Asus OS.
I have the following problem with my LG G5 (official latest EU ROM).
When I touch and swipe to scroll or move the screen, the scroll will just start after I have moved the finger about 0.5-1cm (when moved normal or slowly).
After this trigger point, holding the finger and move up/down, the scroll is instantly and works normal.
Lifting the finger and do a new touch swipe results in the problem again.
This actually happens in mostly all apps and on the home screen (Nova launcher), and I have the feeling it is even worse in the Google Play store.
The weird thing is, it does not happen in the android settings menu / list.
Can someone please tell if it happens on their phone too. Is there maybe a way to fix it?
I have tested it on an Android 4 and Android 5 tablet too, and there it is the same, so it seems to be a global Android problem.
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I don't have that problem on my G5 or on my tablet that still runs on Jellybean, and the S4 I had until last year didn't have it either.
So no, I wouldn't say it's a global Android problem
Sounds to me like your problem has to do with using Nova Launcher.
Have you tried uninstalling it and seeing if the issue persists?
I have two G5s (one mine, one wife), both stock and no added bells and whistles. Pretty different profiles, very different users. Neither phone lags at all.
You may have an accessibility option turned on?