Hi all,
This is my first post on the forum!
I have a XT910 bought in Nov 2011. The phone is from Asia Region. I faced the well known SMS issue on this device on Asia Retail 4.0.4. Initially there was no problem but later it just randomly started. Fed up I rooted the device and flashed the EU JB Official ROM from this forum. Later on I have since installed Cyanogenmod (using Safestrap and done a dual boot with my stock ROM intact). The problem I face these days is that the phone is too slow / sluggish / unresponsive at times and it really drives me crazy. The problem occurs usually when I open some heavy app like Chrome or do some "new" activity .. like a new app installed and configured etc. The thing is this slowness is visible in both the stock / cyanogen mod. I have been on CM10.2 to 12.1 now but the problem exists always. I have done multiple reflashes / formats for CM as well as factory resets for the stock ROM but the issue does eventually crop up after a few days. I have observed the following though using various tools:
1. RAM usage is almost touching 85%+ but rarely do I have less than 50MB of RAM left.
2. Processor also seems to be okay
3. The I/O on the disk is too high tough. Sometimes I have seen GB of data "written" just when opening a blank chrome window (using System Monitor Lite). I wonder if my on board flash memory is to blame? I also have an external class 10 16GB SD card, though removing this doesn't seem to give any performance boosts.
I have been facing this problem almost since I moved to the EU JB ROM about 1.5 yrs back, though I must say the Asia Retail ICS wasn't really fast either.
What are your opinions / troubleshooting hints that I can follow or do you think the phone is plain simple too old and really needs to be replaced?
Thanks.
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Hello again guys..
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Installed the monitor. That monitor app reports estimated transfer speed not amount data transferred. I.e. installing chrome is done at about 790kb/s. Since I don't have the paid version I cannot see how much it takes to open chrome. At least you know that it is not heat forcing your processor to throttle.
Doing RSD can be a better approach. And then factory reset WITH internal sdcard deletion. Just in case you have bad file system.
You explain in the post that first rooted then installed EU ROM over an asian phone. I don't think it would have worked but if it did, maybe rom is not working well with your kernel. Do a Rsd or flash the corresponding kernel. Second choice have gave me troubles before, so be ready to rsd.
Minimal installation of gapps. Avoiding heavy launchers like aviate. Using .nomedia files to disable media search in certain folders.
Not messing with ad blockers or location services or permissions for a while. Also ohmster had an interesting post in cm11 thread about what he does to get a better experience.
I have been using the LG G3 for about a year and my wife dropped hers in the water so I'm getting the note up and running, it got me thinking about updating from CM10.1.3 to 11 or 12. I didn't see anything great from 11 to 12.1 on my G3, couple lock screen options etc simple stuff, however I have to cycle the data toggle every so often to get data working, the loss of bluetooth was a deal breaker and required 12.1, but I digress.
on CM's website I see there is a snapshot (not nightly, but, also not stable) for both 11 and 12. In your opinion what do you think about cm11 or cm 12.1 on the note 2. Are they stable enough for you? worth it? Many benefits? Blownout of the water? Side notes - I won't use full screen casting (I have an android box), I will use pandora/etc music apps chromecast option to our stereo some mornings, I don't care how my lock screen looks or functions (I turned them off on my G3).
[/U] Issues I foresee if I stay on cm10 - security if apps are updated, and I don't update my apps, some stuff might get outdated and just stop working and require an update to use it, on that note I see my navionics app stopped working and won't load. My LG G3 kept loosing bluetooth in Pandora and Soundcloud after they were updated, I fixed it by moving to cm12.1.
Lastly I had to update the oem software on the LG to get a newer baseband for cm12.1. Do I need to do anything similar for the note 2, or can I flash from 10 to 12? [/B I'm on baseband VRAMC3
Thanks for taking the time to help me
Hey.
This has been happening for a while, at first with Lineage OS (the last Oreo build before they stopped development), my phone had random shutdowns, GCam lagged a ton, demanding apps like Games or Photo editors (Cytus 2 or Snapseed for example) just didn't work right, they froze for a full 5 seconds, Social Network apps didn't work right either, I had to use Lite versions of their apps to make it less stressful to use.
I got back to MIUI but with Xiaomi.eu's ROM and I loved it, but it had some problems too, and I really hated that I wasn't able to experience newer androids, and I missed GCam a lot, so I went and Installed Pixel Experience, and it was laggy too, nearly unusable in every situation, it freezes at most of the apps I tried and it didn't work really well. Finally, I'm with Havoc OS, and I love it, but is UNUSABLE outside of a Wi-Fi network, when outside it doesn't just lags, it freezes, does random reboots, and also my headphone jack doesn't work so I can't even listen to music while having the phone on my pocket, it just does a blank noise when tapping some buttons.
I'm sick of my phone being too slow with every custom rom that I install, and I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, of I have some strange firmware or whatever it is, I don't know.
I have TWRP updated, I installed every rom on a clean state, wiping everything.
My phone is a kenzo 2GB variant.
Please help me, I really want to listen to music while browsing Instagram again, now I can't even do one of these things..
Defblue said:
Hey.
This has been happening for a while, at first with Lineage OS (the last Oreo build before they stopped development), my phone had random shutdowns, GCam lagged a ton, demanding apps like Games or Photo editors (Cytus 2 or Snapseed for example) just didn't work right, they froze for a full 5 seconds, Social Network apps didn't work right either, I had to use Lite versions of their apps to make it less stressful to use.
I got back to MIUI but with Xiaomi.eu's ROM and I loved it, but it had some problems too, and I really hated that I wasn't able to experience newer androids, and I missed GCam a lot, so I went and Installed Pixel Experience, and it was laggy too, nearly unusable in every situation, it freezes at most of the apps I tried and it didn't work really well. Finally, I'm with Havoc OS, and I love it, but is UNUSABLE outside of a Wi-Fi network, when outside it doesn't just lags, it freezes, does random reboots, and also my headphone jack doesn't work so I can't even listen to music while having the phone on my pocket, it just does a blank noise when tapping some buttons.
I'm sick of my phone being too slow with every custom rom that I install, and I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, of I have some strange firmware or whatever it is, I don't know.
I have TWRP updated, I installed every rom on a clean state, wiping everything.
My phone is a kenzo 2GB variant.
Please help me, I really want to listen to music while browsing Instagram again, now I can't even do one of these things..
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Buy 4gb ram phone.
Black_Stark said:
Buy 4gb ram phone.
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but he needs HIS PHONE, no another one.
try LiquidRemix or go back to Oreo Rom
Hey mate. Try this Lineage OS 14 https://forum.xda-developers.com/redmi-note-3/development/rom-lineage-os-t3877377/
I also have 2GB variant of RN3Pro and I also tried so many roms that promise speed. But to be honest everything past Nougat is unusable. The combination of Google service eating tons of rams and the OS itself taking more space in your ram ended up costing a lot of performance.
That Lineage OS 14 is the current best for me, it supported a lot of new features (splitscreen, better GCam) while remains low in RAM usage. Good SOT too, still managed to squeze 5+ hours of SOT (but that's probably because my Radon kernel setting).
WillyKristianto said:
Hey mate. Try this Lineage OS 14 https://forum.xda-developers.com/redmi-note-3/development/rom-lineage-os-t3877377/
I also have 2GB variant of RN3Pro and I also tried so many roms that promise speed. But to be honest everything past Nougat is unusable. The combination of Google service eating tons of rams and the OS itself taking more space in your ram ended up costing a lot of performance.
That Lineage OS 14 is the current best for me, it supported a lot of new features (splitscreen, better GCam) while remains low in RAM usage. Good SOT too, still managed to squeze 5+ hours of SOT (but that's probably because my Radon kernel setting).
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Pie getting 6+ of SOT very easily. I m using Crdroid with shadow. Now dev has provided xcrima and shadow kernel with default enabled 500mb + zram for 2gb ram. So its relief.
I was having the same issue, every rom didn't had a near good experience of use for me, so I started searching and I've found microg, which is an alternative for google apps, but using much less ram.
So what I did was installing nanodroid-microg, and one of the stores that comes with the package(in my case, Yalp Store, but according to their wiki, you can install google playstore also.), Now I have about 1gb ram free (I'm also using AppOps to block some app permissions like wake lock, run in background etc.), but I had some problems so I will show you what I did to install it and make it fully work.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/magisk/module-nanomod-5-0-20170405-microg-t3584928
Firstly you have to download two of their stable release packages, one is nanodroid-setupwizard and the other is the nanodroid-microg.
Then you will flash the rom you want, the kernel you want, magisk and finally both packages, first the setupwizard, then the microg package.
There's no secret when flashing setupwizard, it's a aroma package which will give you steps to choose what you want to install, I remember choosing swype libraries, microg (of course), Yalp Store (with fakestore), Google Map API and UnifiedNlp location backends (Mozilla and Deja'vu)
After that, just flash nanodroid-microg and then follow the tuturial below starting from step 15
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-6/how-to/guide-microg-oneplus-6-source-ligthway-t3874469
Obs: at step 25: if your push notification tester app show you a error related to incompatibility or unavailability of google play services, you probably need to enable signature spoofing on FakeStore like I had to, I'm using aex 7.1 rom so I don't know if the steps will be the same for you but what I did was: go to settings > apps > tap setting button on the top right corner > app permission > signature spoofing > tap three dots on the top right corner > show system > then enable FakeStore. After that try step 25 again and proceed.
I hope it helps you or anybody reading this which choose to install it. Enjoy and I'm sorry for any grammar mistakes.
Your best bet at speed is an old nougat ROM and a swap memory. Format ur internal storage before flashing.
I've installed aosp pie on 3gb and it's very good. Maybe 1gb ram does make a big difference. Choose light os like lineage or Nexus
Defblue said:
Hey.
This has been happening for a while, at first with Lineage OS (the last Oreo build before they stopped development), my phone had random shutdowns, GCam lagged a ton, demanding apps like Games or Photo editors (Cytus 2 or Snapseed for example) just didn't work right, they froze for a full 5 seconds, Social Network apps didn't work right either, I had to use Lite versions of their apps to make it less stressful to use.
I got back to MIUI but with Xiaomi.eu's ROM and I loved it, but it had some problems too, and I really hated that I wasn't able to experience newer androids, and I missed GCam a lot, so I went and Installed Pixel Experience, and it was laggy too, nearly unusable in every situation, it freezes at most of the apps I tried and it didn't work really well. Finally, I'm with Havoc OS, and I love it, but is UNUSABLE outside of a Wi-Fi network, when outside it doesn't just lags, it freezes, does random reboots, and also my headphone jack doesn't work so I can't even listen to music while having the phone on my pocket, it just does a blank noise when tapping some buttons.
I'm sick of my phone being too slow with every custom rom that I install, and I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, of I have some strange firmware or whatever it is, I don't know.
I have TWRP updated, I installed every rom on a clean state, wiping everything.
My phone is a kenzo 2GB variant.
Please help me, I really want to listen to music while browsing Instagram again, now I can't even do one of these things..
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just flash android pie pixel experience (go edition)
https://download.pixelexperience.org/kenzo/
If you want to stay on pie. Try ArrowOs pie. It's the most smooth pie ROM I found for my 2gb rn3p. However the ROM is no longer being updated.
strange problem with 2 devices of z2 it happens late of 2019 up to now! force me to format my phone more than 5 times per month
system UI has stopped and the device becomes very slow and it always hangs up it forces me to factory data reset to normally work again and reinstall stock ROM it works greet after the age of system one weak to two weeks it again freeze and hung up and many apps close unfortunately and system UI also close when I facing that I know it will never work normally it force me to format everything on it, I told my self it is from stock rom my rom is stock marshmallow, I moved to customs ROMs carbon android 8 and moved to android version 10
the same problem happens I tried all carbon version the same problem, the phone works for few days and begin hanging up like a turtle and sometimes when I press restart it will never boot again it goes to boot loop.
I used these apps: pubg game, Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram , Pinterest
I know and I swear my problems it is not with ROMs mentioned down after all that aching I can say its big companies of hardware with google with sony company they send us virus to make your old devices won't work to force us to buy a new smartphone
tested on 2 devices of Xperia z2
RR-N-v5.8.5-20171020-sirius-Final_2
marshmallow stock rom
RR-O-v6.0.0-20180508-sirius-rev2-Official
RR-O-v6.0.0-20180508-sirius-rev2-Official
CARBON-CR-6.1-NOCT-RELEASE-sirius-20190824-1227
CARBON-CR-6.1-NOCT-RELEASE-sirius-20191223-0414_2
CARBON-CR-6.120200225-1659 25-2-2020
lineage-17.1-20200223-UNOFFICIAL-sirius
after finishing posting it happening again with me it starting to freeze
Osama Alsanbi said:
strange problem with 2 devices of z2 it happens late of 2019 up to now! force me to format my phone more than 5 times per month
system UI has stopped and the device becomes very slow and it always hangs up it forces me to factory data reset to normally work again and reinstall stock ROM it works greet after the age of system one weak to two weeks it again freeze and hung up and many apps close unfortunately and system UI also close when I facing that I know it will never work normally it force me to format everything on it, I told my self it is from stock rom my rom is stock marshmallow, I moved to customs ROMs carbon android 8 and moved to android version 10
the same problem happens I tried all carbon version the same problem, the phone works for few days and begin hanging up like a turtle and sometimes when I press restart it will never boot again it goes to boot loop.
I used these apps: pubg game, Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram , Pinterest
I know and I swear my problems it is not with ROMs mentioned down after all that aching I can say its big companies of hardware with google with sony company they send us virus to make your old devices won't work to force us to buy a new smartphone
tested on 2 devices of Xperia z2
RR-N-v5.8.5-20171020-sirius-Final_2
marshmallow stock rom
RR-O-v6.0.0-20180508-sirius-rev2-Official
RR-O-v6.0.0-20180508-sirius-rev2-Official
CARBON-CR-6.1-NOCT-RELEASE-sirius-20190824-1227
CARBON-CR-6.1-NOCT-RELEASE-sirius-20191223-0414_2
CARBON-CR-6.120200225-1659 25-2-2020
lineage-17.1-20200223-UNOFFICIAL-sirius
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I yesterday formated my phone now after finishing posting this post I look my phone it happening again with me, it starts to freeze and begin of endless aching
Same issue
I am having the same problem, at least once a week I need to format and reinstall the ROM.
me too... i have this odd and strange problem!!!! really annoying...
even in stock rom i have problem
Me three! After installing new roms (android 8, 9 and 10) and after a week or so it was freezing, showing system UI had crashed etc. I was thinking I had a hardware issue. I wonder if we all had installed a particular ROM or TWRP version and it caused this .
This forced me to obtain another Z2 to see if it was a software issue - so far its been okay but its been less than a week.
Just so you know, I have always clean installed, and to remedy the situation used 'fastboot erase system -w' to delete everything thinking it was down to bad ram or flash sectors.
I'll let you know how the new one does.
Update: the new Z2 is absolutely fine. The one that kept crashing still does this, but with less usage it takes a while for it to play up. I think the internal memory is bad, where a certain sector is unusable - if that can happen with these mobile flash drives. Apart from writing very big files onto the phone, does anyone know a formatting tool available for android?
Hi has there been any update on this.
I have tried formatting with TWRP but the problem persists.
I just recently upgraded from a rooted Pixel 6. New phone is rooted on Android 12 with Magisk. I noticed a lot of features I was previously using on my P6 is a subscription service, like photo editing in Photos and the Sound Recorder. Is there any way I can get these features without paying since I own a Pixel like copying the apps over with a root method? Does it look at build.prop or do pixels get a different version of apps with everything enabled? Let me know if I've posted in the wrong place, there's too many categories to choose from.
pbsavages said:
I just recently upgraded from a rooted Pixel 6. New phone is rooted on Android 12 with Magisk. I noticed a lot of features I was previously using on my P6 is a subscription service, like photo editing in Photos and the Sound Recorder. Is there any way I can get these features without paying since I own a Pixel like copying the apps over with a root method? Does it look at build.prop or do pixels get a different version of apps with everything enabled? Let me know if I've posted in the wrong place, there's too many categories to choose from.
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You could try this: https://github.com/Kingsman44/Pixelify
I've never used it, so I have no idea if it would work.
Hmm.. I'll look into it, thanks.
Thanks, it works like a charm!