I snagged a Droid Charge yesterday. Coming from the Droid X, I'm really hoping the battery life is substantially better.
One issue I've seen is slowness when playing the game Drag Racing. I don't play too many games and haven't seen slowness anywhere else yet (It's only been about 24 hours), but this game is borderline unplayable.
If I get out of the game and FC a bunch of apps, the game runs fine, but it's gotten to the point where the game is almost always choppy and slow.
I've reached out to the Dev to see if it's an incompatibility with the device, but also wanted to see if anyone else is seeing this on either Drag Racing or anything else running on the Charge.
Thanks!
The Charge is slower than the Droid X due to the proprietary file system Samsung uses. This is an infamous trait of Samsung devices, since they constrain the speed with a slow a55 file system
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So I gave my girlfriend my charge, and she is a big temple run fan. There is some decent lag on the Charge with this game and was wondering what I could do to speed up the game. I am already overclocked, and used the 5 steps to snappy lagfree awesomeness. Can I renice the app or something?
Renicing might help a little, but my gut is that it's not gonna get much better. From what I hear, that game's had some universal lag problems, and the Charge isn't the most capable handset by current standards.
shrike1978 said:
Renicing might help a little, but my gut is that it's not gonna get much better. From what I hear, that game's had some universal lag problems, and the Charge isn't the most capable handset by current standards.
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Thats unfortunate. I do notice a hair of lag once in a while on my GS3 so I guess this might just be a lost cause. I wish devs put the effort into their android ports that they do into their iphone apps. The one thing I do appreciate about the iphone is how smooth things run on it.
Edit: Problem solved. See next post.
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I recently replaced my first HTC One S (S4 Black, broken) with a new one (S4 Grey). Both were/are running HTCs stock JB unrooted. However, on the new phone I've been having some severe performance issues lately.
The phone is very, very slow (at times), for example when I unlock it the screen might take several seconds to light up (the image is displayed, but no backlight), and the pin input keyboard is very, very unresponsive - some times I can input the entire pin code before the phone seems to register the input, other times a number or two is even skipped/not registered. Opening apps ad running games is also slower than it has been, animations lag frequently (opening/closing the notification drawer, for example), and text input is also laggy. Battery life is also noticeably worse than on my old phone.
My Antutu scores as of now fluctuate between 6700 and 7700, which seems extremely low for this device (shouldn't I be scoring ~10000+?). In fact, in a few tests it scores lower than my old Sensation (on my highest scoring run today, CPU Integer and RAM were both significantly lower than the Sensation, at 599 and 939 respectively (vs. 966 and 1411). On my lowest scoring runs I only scored about 500 points higher than the Sensation (even though it's heavily OCd, that's still crazy).
I tried running the Antutu Stability test, but that didn't tell me anything useful - the top graph fluctuates between ~54 and ~46, and the temperature never got higher than 34 degrees. According to Lookout Mobile Security, there's no malware or anything like that on the phone.
Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this? Do I really have to root the phone and install a custom ROM to make it perform as it should?
Okay, never mind, I figured it out - clearing cache and data for Google Maps of all things solved this (I'd tried killing the processes and services before, to no avail). Maps was running two processes and two services and consuming a horrible amount of memory and CPU resources. My last Antutu run scored 10800, so everything's back to normal. A lesson learned, I guess.
I generally get great battery life using regular apps throughout the day. But many games seems to eat up battery life quicker than I would have thought. That coupled with how hot my phone gets, I'm a little worried there may be an issue with my phone.
The two games where my phone feels like it is burning up are Plants vs Zombies 2 and Anomaly 2. After playing a session, a quick look at the battery graph shows an extremely steep drop.
Is this normal? Maybe it is, but it doesn't feel or seem right.
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I generally get great battery life using regular apps throughout the day. But many games seems to eat up battery life quicker than I would have thought. That coupled with how hot my phone gets, I'm a little worried there may be an issue with my phone.
The two games where my phone feels like it is burning up are Plants vs Zombies 2 and Anomaly 2. After playing a session, a quick look at the battery graph shows an extremely steep drop.
Is this normal? Maybe it is, but it doesn't feel or seem right.
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its normal. cpu and gpu intensive games will warm up your device to a toasty level. but that why they make the phone have a thermal throttle. when it hits a certain temp, you phone will automatically reduce the cpu speed to cool down a little. but the heat from gpu/cpu intensive games is more than normal, its expected. btw, the safety shutdown temp for the n5 is 100C, which youll never reach because of the thermal throttle, only if you have root and disable thermal throttle, then it could hit the safety shutdown temp
I know about the problem with Plants vs Zombies 2, it eats through battery like crazy. I don't think that there is an issue with your phone, because your battery doesn't drop like that at any other intensive game, does it?
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I've noticed the exact same thing with PvZ 2. It's addictive as all hell, but chews through my battery.
I really wish they would release it on the Amazon Appstore so I could put it on my Kindle Fire. Unfortunately, because of the Google Play integration you can't even sideload it to a Kindle, you just get a black screen when you try to launch it.
Tudorrrr said:
I know about the problem with Plants vs Zombies 2, it eats through battery like crazy. I don't think that there is an issue with your phone, because your battery doesn't drop like that at any other intensive game, does it?
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I don't play any intensive games actually and I wouldn't even catagorize PvZ2 as intensive. Maybe it is just suboptimally coded apps. Anomaly2 isn't even really that intensive. Not like a FPS/3D game anyway.
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I generally get great battery life using regular apps throughout the day. But many games seems to eat up battery life quicker than I would have thought. That coupled with how hot my phone gets, I'm a little worried there may be an issue with my phone.
The two games where my phone feels like it is burning up are Plants vs Zombies 2 and Anomaly 2. After playing a session, a quick look at the battery graph shows an extremely steep drop.
Is this normal? Maybe it is, but it doesn't feel or seem right.
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PvZ2 is terrible. Get Franco kernel + his updater app. Set the per app mode of PvZ @ 652MHz. Still runs fine. The only difference you will notice is when the last big wave hits, there can be a little slow down, but it goes away quickly. With all 4 cores running at 652MHz, there is virtually no heat. Will get you 1+ hour more game time. I'm experimenting with underclocking the GPU for it as well. I don't want to underclock the phone when I'm just using apps, but these games are using much more power than they need to be using. 4x, at least.
I think it's poor coding, as @flintdragon suggested.
I was looking at the Shield Tablet for the following purposes:
1. Watching anime via MX Player
2. Reading light novels
3. general note taking via bluetooth keyboard
Would it be okay for these things?
Yes.
I have done all except use a BT keyboard. I do use BT earbuds and have no trouble.
How is the battery life on the shield tablet?
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How is the battery life on the shield tablet?
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If you are only going to be using it for those things the battery life will be great. This is the best tablet on the market right now.
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If you are only going to be using it for those things the battery life will be great. This is the best tablet on the market right now.
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Does the shield tablet only have bad battery life if you are using gamestream? or are there other things that would kill its battery life?
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Does the shield tablet only have bad battery life if you are using gamestream? or are there other things that would kill its battery life?
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Graphic intensive games and apps deplete the battery at a fast rate. Also, it gets heated up quite easily.
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Graphic intensive games and apps deplete the battery at a fast rate. Also, it gets heated up quite easily.
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The battery does die quickly when you are playing some of the more graphical games, or even poorly optimized non graphical games.. But I have not had the tablet get anywhere near hot on me, even after playing it in console mode hooked to a big screen and then pulling it off and playing it for another hour or so it has not gotten hot on me. Granted I am comparing this to every other device I have owned which is quite a few... This one actually stays the coolest out of any I have used at this point since we went to quad core.
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The battery does die quickly when you are playing some of the more graphical games, or even poorly optimized non graphical games.. But I have not had the tablet get anywhere near hot on me, even after playing it in console mode hooked to a big screen and then pulling it off and playing it for another hour or so it has not gotten hot on me. Granted I am comparing this to every other device I have owned which is quite a few... This one actually stays the coolest out of any I have used at this point since we went to quad core.
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I have tried the tegra 4 exclusive games and it does get hot for me. Try Half-life 2, Trine 2, Horn or Portal and see the device getting pushed to its limits within minutes.
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I have tried the tegra 4 exclusive games and it does get hot for me. Try Half-life 2, Trine 2, Horn or Portal and see the device getting pushed to its limits within minutes.
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I have Trine 2 and Portal and played them quite a bit with no heat issues..
Could this issue be kernel specific? Or did Nvidia make different batches of slightly different hardware that we are not aware of? I'm unable to find a reason to this.
How's reading texts on this device? Like is the screen too small to pay attention to consistently? I plan on reading pdf textbooks to be specific, I'm really leaning towards this device against the Nexus 9 but not 100% sure yet as the screen might be too small.
MetTrax said:
How's reading texts on this device? Like is the screen too small to pay attention to consistently? I plan on reading pdf textbooks to be specific, I'm really leaning towards this device against the Nexus 9 but not 100% sure yet as the screen might be too small.
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Its great for reading. I'm coming from 720p devices. Compared to the 2012 N7 and original Note 10.1 its much sharper. Comfortable weight for reading too.
1. The only reason I'm considering a new device at all is for Vainglory. The Nexus 6p has some SERIOUS I/O issues, causing Vainglory to take 20+ minutes to install additional assets every time it updates, as well as extremely long loading times within the game. This I/O issue is also apparent in other circumstances, for example it can take several minutes to unzip file only a few MB in size, and gallery apps take 5+ seconds to refresh.
This is typical with some Android devices I've had in the past with severe bottlenecks. Does the Shield K1 exhibit any of these I/O issues, especially in terms of Vainglory?
2. I'd rather have the Nexus 9, but it costs more. Out of the box, without additional hacking, will I be able to completely uninstall or at least disable every last preinstalled bloat app (e.g. any app you wouldn't find preinstalled on a Nexus device)?
3. I've heard negative things about the battery life. Is it really so bad? Vainglory is far and away the most network intensive and graphically demanding app I'll use, and it consumes about 8% per 25 minute match on the Nexus 6p, iPad mini 2, and Tab S2 8.0. Can I expect 8% per 25 minute match on the Shield K1 as well? How about things like browsing Relay for Reddit and Chrome at, say, 50% brightness?