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Weird glitch on android!

I've been noticing this recently, when I'm in an application and go to another one that background from the past app is still there even tho I'm in another app!, anyone have any idea of this, this is really weird.
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You mean its still open?
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Welcome to multi-tasking lol.
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if you dont like this use a task killer every few mins

brilldoctor said:
if you dont like this use a task killer every few mins
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Lmao so that's what it is, LOL I will use task killer from now on but I was just curious about this, not complaining about it
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That's strange. I never use a task killer and I've never seen anything like that before.

What's even wrong? You're hearing background music from a different app?
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seems to me like the OP is saying that the previous app can be seen through the current app - like the newly opened app is semi-transparent or something...
Anyway, that's how I read it, and that is weird, and no you shouldn't have to use a task killer to fix something like that - that's a proper bug.

ushneb said:
That's strange. I never use a task killer and I've never seen anything like that before.
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Now that's a problem, if yu don't see it I shouldn't have to see it either. Ill get in contact with tmo for a replacement, cuz I've been thru 3 already and I never notice this on the other G2s either so it has to be the phone.....
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Sounds fancy but odd.
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I had a weird YouTube bug with my MT4G running CM7 RC2. I paused a video and turned the screen off to go do something for a few minutes, and when I went back to the video, it froze and I had to force-close youtube to get any sort of control.
But the audio from the video was still going! I had to reboot to stop it--even opening another video in youtube just made two audios playing at once LOL.

synaesthetic said:
I had a weird YouTube bug with my MT4G running CM7 RC2. I paused a video and turned the screen off to go do something for a few minutes, and when I went back to the video, it froze and I had to force-close youtube to get any sort of control.
But the audio from the video was still going! I had to reboot to stop it--even opening another video in youtube just made two audios playing at once LOL.
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Lmao that's even weirder, and btw I just notice that I had just rebooted my phone and I opened up the xda app first thing and notice my backgroud wallpaper in the back ground with the enotification bar and everything, I doubt this is due to multi tasking, now I'm really concern with this.
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Woah yeah that's not normal. What if you in to another app after XDA? Does it then show XDA in the backround? You're best off getting a new one off TMo tbh.
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Some screenshots would help, it sounds like a really weird problem.
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Skellyyy said:
Woah yeah that's not normal. What if you in to another app after XDA? Does it then show XDA in the backround? You're best off getting a new one off TMo tbh.
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Yup after I exit xda app it show the back I was last in XDA, I will contact tmobile today thnx.
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I also did kill all the apps and the see thru was there anyway, so is the lcd on the G2 defective or something?
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I'd love to see a screen of this.
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This is rom related and has nothing to do with android itself.
Post this in the cynaogenmod thread in the g2 section. I have the same issue and its definitely rom related. It has only happened on the nightly's 1-20 Rc1 and rc2 but I haven't had it on nightly #30. Cm7.
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I Am Marino said:
I'd love to see a screen of this.
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Lmao wanna buy it LOL
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elracing21 said:
This is rom related and has nothing to do with android itself.
Post this in the cynaogenmod thread in the g2 section. I have the same issue and its definitely rom related. It has only happened on the nightly's 1-20 Rc1 and rc2 but I haven't had it on nightly #30. Cm7.
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Thanks I will post this on the cynaogenmod thread
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Best task killer?

I would love my task killer from my vibrant.
But since the g2x doesn't have a native tl, what is the best one?
The ones i use seem not to work. Even force killing apps doesn't work.
Anyone found one that keeps apps closed?
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No task killer.

I think I prefer one.
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Glad this topic was posted. So I called T-Mobile support yesterday about the battery issues and the first thing the guy asked me was if I was running a Task Killer - I was running Advanced Task Killer. BTW, he was zero help about the battery issue!
Today, I stopped into a TMo store to look for a case. The rep told me to uninstall the ATK that they did more harm than good. The rep today seemed to be more of a technical individual and understood much more than the phone rep from yesterday. The rep today told me I would have much better luck actually stopping the processes under Applications / Running Services.
So which is it?
Thanks in advance.

azsl1326 said:
Glad this topic was posted. So I called T-Mobile support yesterday about the battery issues and the first thing the guy asked me was if I was running a Task Killer - I was running Advanced Task Killer. BTW, he was zero help about the battery issue!
Today, I stopped into a TMo store to look for a case. The rep told me to uninstall the ATK that they did more harm than good. The rep today seemed to be more of a technical individual and understood much more than the phone rep from yesterday. The rep today told me I would have much better luck actually stopping the processes under Applications / Running Services.
So which is it?
Thanks in advance.
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Well we former vibrant owners have been told not use one since day one.
Then the vibrant got a native task killer. It was amazing.
The fact is those programs are taking up cache and I don't even use them.
Tmo apppack? Wtf. Telenav? Does anyone even use telenav?
Yes I know TK are suppose to be bad for android. But I think it clearly extends battery and speeds up my phone.
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azsl1326 said:
Glad this topic was posted. So I called T-Mobile support yesterday about the battery issues and the first thing the guy asked me was if I was running a Task Killer - I was running Advanced Task Killer. BTW, he was zero help about the battery issue!
Today, I stopped into a TMo store to look for a case. The rep told me to uninstall the ATK that they did more harm than good. The rep today seemed to be more of a technical individual and understood much more than the phone rep from yesterday. The rep today told me I would have much better luck actually stopping the processes under Applications / Running Services.
So which is it?
Thanks in advance.
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What I keep reading out there is that the task killers worked well for the early android phones. But the OS is much better nowadays and does a good job managing things for ya. I also read that even tho an app is started, it doesn't mean it is using up resources.. most are sitting there dormant. Thus, the processing power used to stop them (and then they are restarting) is using up more battery.
I've read this enough to make me question whether to uninstall ATK or not. I'm seriously considering it. I do have Titanium backup installed and I have used that to freeze appPack, car home, and 1-2 others . Now they never start. But, I'm wondering... is something else triggering those apps to start? If so and they cannot be started, is there a constant attempt to start them? ping ping ping....

schmit said:
What I keep reading out there is that the task killers worked well for the early android phones. But the OS is much better nowadays and does a good job managing things for ya. I also read that even tho an app is started, it doesn't mean it is using up resources.. most are sitting there dormant. Thus, the processing power used to stop them (and then they are restarting) is using up more battery.
I've read this enough to make me question whether to uninstall ATK or not. I'm seriously considering it. I do have Titanium backup installed and I have used that to freeze appPack, car home, and 1-2 others . Now they never start. But, I'm wondering... is something else triggering those apps to start? If so and they cannot be started, is there a constant attempt to start them? ping ping ping....
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Install a cache cleaner. It will show about 6mb going to those unused apps.
For a dormant app? Why?
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schmit said:
.....I've read this enough to make me question whether to uninstall ATK or not. I'm seriously considering it. I do have Titanium backup installed and I have used that to freeze appPack, car home, and 1-2 others . Now they never start. But, I'm wondering... is something else triggering those apps to start? If so and they cannot be started, is there a constant attempt to start them? ping ping ping....
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I took the store rep's advice and uninstalled it. I will see what happens. I haven't noticed a difference yet. I am also using Bloat Freezer to freeze the apps that TMobile felt that had to put on the phone that are more or less useless to me (and probably everyone else).

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Install a cache cleaner. It will show about 6mb going to those unused apps.
For a dormant app? Why?
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ya, that's what i'd like to know.. so really.. is it even worth freezing them out? What cache cleaner you using?

schmit said:
ya, that's what i'd like to know.. so really.. is it even worth freezing them out? What cache cleaner you using?
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1tap
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Found the atk with the blue x will stop the cache use. The one with the red x would not.
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i'm going to try to do a test w/ similar usage.. Unfreeze everything in titanium and don't end any tasks vs freezing and ending tasks.. Try to see the diff. in battery usage. It's hard to get a true apples to apples comparison because usage differs.. but I'll give it a try..

schmit said:
i'm going to try to do a test w/ similar usage.. Unfreeze everything in titanium and don't end any tasks vs freezing and ending tasks.. Try to see the diff. in battery usage. It's hard to get a true apples to apples comparison because usage differs.. but I'll give it a try..
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Thnx
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I've gone with and without on 5 different Android phones. I wouldn't go with out one.
While it is true that Froyo and Gingerbread SHOULDN'T need taskkillers, poor coding and memory leaks have proven otherwise for me.
To each their own.

Well in my opinion
I have had a G1 a N1 and now i have a G2x, and have tried a task killer with each phone, and personally i think it eats up more battery by making everything reset everytime it kills an app that automatically launches anyway(Widgets and Bloatware) so honestly if your having problems with background tasks root and freeze them.

I actually find that if you freeze what apps you don't want to randomly start for stupid reasons like when the wind blows, then freeze them. Then under ATK, I ignore processes that are vital and apps that I want to allow to notify me our run in the background, and the rest I just kill when I'm done with them, and it frees up assloads of memory.
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Here is a great article explaining why task killers are bad for android....
http://m.lifehacker.com/5650894/and...ed-what-they-do-and-why-you-shouldnt-use-them

I can't believe there are people out there who still believe in the task killer myth. 2009 called, they want their misconceptions back.
Freezing apps can be useful. Force killing them every 10 minutes is not.
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cyberchuck9000 said:
I can't believe there are people out there who still believe in the task killer myth. 2009 called, they want their misconceptions back.
Freezing apps can be useful. Force killing them every 10 minutes is not.
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Agree 100%
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cyberchuck9000 said:
I can't believe there are people out there who still believe in the task killer myth. 2009 called, they want their misconceptions back.
Freezing apps can be useful. Force killing them every 10 minutes is not.
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true story.

G2X looses data connection, Stuck on Up Arrow.

My G2X periodically loses all data connection, and the up arrow on the top gets stuck. It usually comes back after 15-20 seconds, but lately it has been happening more frequently. It happened while I was on stock, so I thought maybe a new rom would fix it. I've tried cm7, and I'm currently running the leaked gingerbread rom, I even went to t mobile and got a brand new sim card, but it's only getting worse. At first it happened once every few hours, but lately it had been happening 3-5 times an hour, and it's getting very annoying. Is this happening to any body else?
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Yeah I had the same problem with my o2x running cmx-11. I think its fixed now. What I did was flash modaco fr15 and that seemed to fix it. One of the bugs I guess :/
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Used to do that on froyo on my n1. Gingerbread fixed it. In the meantime, switch into airplane mode and then turn it back to normal mode. Used to work for me.
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jsauce75 said:
Used to do that on froyo on my n1. Gingerbread fixed it. In the meantime, switch into airplane mode and then turn it back to normal mode. Used to work for me.
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That works for me too, but it's only a temporary fix, and it only shaves off like 5 seconds on the waiting. Then it will happen again within the hour.
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Man im not going to lie to you, this problem seems to be a quirk with tmobiles network or maybe gsm data as a whole. I have been having this problem on every single 3g phone ive had on tmobiles network since the g1 (then another g1, then cliq, then n900, then n1, then vibrant, g2, g2x...in certain areas its worse..and the ish can be really annoying.

Yup same here, mt4g, n1, now g2x data gets stuck all the time, customer service is a joke, i probably know more about phones than them, all they have you do is reboot phone, this problem is very very annoying.
G2X

It happens to my G2x also...it's very annoying!
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Used to happen alot on my mt3gs. Experienced it a few times on my G2x. Only quick fix I use is task killing which I try not to do. Another way is calling my voice mail and let my network kinda 'find and reset' itself. Worked for me majority of the time lol.
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turbo_k said:
Used to happen alot on my mt3gs. Experienced it a few times on my G2x. Only quick fix I use is task killing which I try not to do. Another way is calling my voice mail and let my network kinda 'find and reset' itself. Worked for me majority of the time lol.
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Yeah all those work arounds do the job but its bull caca, it should work good, im pissed off radio gets cut off all the time, i say we flood theyr phone and demand to speak with tecs!!
G2X

Also me have this problem.....in a P990 (Lg Dual)
The only solution that i have found is to go on "settigns" and Tap again on the APN....after 5 sec it will works....
Ops: i forgot....i got the stock ROM (V10b)

Used to happen alot on my mt3gs. Experienced it a few times on my G2x. Only quick fix I use is task killing which I try not to do. Another way is calling my voice mail and let my network kinda 'find and reset' itself. Worked for me majority of the time lol.
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Yeah all those work arounds do the job but its bull caca, it should work good, im pissed off radio gets cut off all the time, i say we flood theyr phone and demand to speak with tecs!!
G2X
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True that homie,...but technology can only go so far ya know -_-
I wonder if other networks experience this as well?
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turbo_k said:
True that homie,...but technology can only go so far ya know -_-
I wonder if other networks experience this as well?
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This also been happening to be since I got the g2x I tried everything ... hopefully the gingerbread update will fix everything till then we will see ..

Happens on my vibrant, G1, and just about every single android phone on T-Mobile. I'm curious to know if this happens on other networks also, or if it is an android problem. I have very little tolerance for this kind of bs and if I can confirm this is a tmo problem then I'm bailing.

i get the same stupid problem

Ditto. I cringe to say it but my data connection was way more solid on my Vibrant (and it's replacement) than my g2x (and it's 2nd & 3rd replacements)... I'm praying it's the drivers... I'll be kicking myself if I picked another lemon. >=\

About the other networks...I had an epic 4g. .and it didn't do that
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maybe solved?
Hi, I had this problem with my P990 also and adjusted slightly the APN-Settings: I set APN-Type to "default" and APN-Protocol to "IPv4/IPv6". Seems to work now. koem

Gmail unresponsive

Gmail is borked. I can open it but it just flickers. I search the forum but I didn't find anything. I reinstalled it, reflashed gapps, rebooted, and fix permissions but it still won't work. I'm able to receive emails but can't open them or anything. Any ideas for a fix?
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Wipe Dalvik?
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I dunno.

chrisram88 said:
Gmail is borked. I can open it but it just flickers. I search the forum but I didn't find anything. I reinstalled it, reflashed gapps, rebooted, and fix permissions but it still won't work. I'm able to receive emails but can't open them or anything. Any ideas for a fix?
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What rom are you on?
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theking_13 said:
What rom are you on?
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Euroskank but not latest 7.2 kang. Also using faux kernel.
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My entire Google account has been acting strange lately. Sync has been a little messed up and I can't download from the market. No relevant changes have been made since it last seemed fine two days ago. Did you start noticing problems around then too? I'm not on the same rom as you which leads me to believe it's a Google thing. Dunno though...is your market working?
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e4e5nf3nc6 said:
My entire Google account has been acting strange lately. Sync has been a little messed up and I can't download from the market. No relevant changes have been made since it last seemed fine two days ago. Did you start noticing problems around then too? I'm not on the same rom as you which leads me to believe it's a Google thing. Dunno though...is your market working?
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I'm not too sure exactly when it started because I noticed that my Gmail sync was off. Weird , I never turned it off. I checked it on and received emails. I went to view them and noticed the app behaving weird. I didn't do anything our of the ordinary just use the phone. I'm able to download apps so I'm not sure if it's Google. So yes market works.
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Ok so I checked the market comments and seems like I'm not alone. Everyone is posting about the app not working and just flickering.. Think I jumped the gun here ^_^ let's play the waiting game a bit.
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Yeah, this looks like a screwup on Google's part not related to any one R0M or anything...
Really hope they get it fixed soon.
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Google fixed the issue on their part! Thanks guys
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Google fixed the issue on their part! Thanks guys
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Glad I never experienced it, but glad it got resolved as well!

Yeah, it got fixed last night. Would have been nice to have gotten some transparency about what was going on from Google though...
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bornagainpenguin said:
Yeah, it got fixed last night. Would have been nice to have gotten some transparency about what was going on from Google though...
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Yea that would have been nice. A little heads up on what was going on
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Anyone experiencing huge delays in GMAIL Sync in the last few days? Today and yesterday is insane...

Bigs73 said:
Anyone experiencing huge delays in GMAIL Sync in the last few days? Today and yesterday is insane...
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I never had any luck with the gmail app I have always just used the stock email app... dame deal though huge delays, unable to receive mail even after manual refreshes, ect... the black background mod that comes with it makes it look good too if your like me and into the minimal look
Pin it to Win it.

Yeah I like it pretty dark and simple!
I noticed that it's not Gmail... When I hit the airplane mode to disable all antenna's and re-enable it again, it's fine until I reboot my phone. Then I have to do this again if I want to get my email notifications back. The Gmail apps seems to work fine so far for me... But I will try the dark theme for it!
I have EagleBlood AOSP 4.0.4...

Words with Friends on HTC One S is PAINFULLY slow

Has anyone tried playing Words With Friends on their new One S yet? It works, but as the title suggests, it's painfully slow when trying to return to the game from the ads after taking my turn (if there was a paid version I would buy it to avoid this). And it even tries to force close! I'm using the most recent version - 4.83.
Just curious if anyone else is having the same experience?
Thanks y'all.

It's probably an issue with the app on ICS rather than your specific model. I haven't played it yet on my phone but I remember even on my SGS2 it started to get annoyingly laggy!

unclespoon said:
It's probably an issue with the app on ICS rather than your specific model. I haven't played it yet on my phone but I remember even on my SGS2 it started to get annoyingly laggy!
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Thanks unclespoon. I have to admit - I never considered for a moment that it was actually a problem with the One S. That phone RULES. I just wondered if others had a similar experience.
Hopefully it will get optimized for the One S and other ICS devices sometime soon.

Works fine on my Ville..
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joshnichols189 said:
Works fine on my Ville..
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It doesn't ever sort of stutter or time out on the way back in from the ads? Do you have the newest version of the app? Maybe I'll uninstall/reinstall?
Anyone else out there?

Try going to app info and clearing data/cache. Never seems to stutter at all for me.
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joshnichols189 said:
Try going to app info and clearing data/cache. Never seems to stutter at all for me.
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Tried this. It's somewhat better, but not smooth. It was never perfect, but it didn't try to force close either. Got one more force close this AM after clearing the data/cache. Still stumped on this one.

I picked up the One S a few days ago...same issues for me, including the FC when it gets tired of waiting. Definitely not the phone--the phone is sick as hell. It was the one to finally knock my HD2 off its perch, and I haven't looked back yet (though I did keep the old girl as CM9 and ICS are still being developed at a nice clip for that device).

smb282 said:
I picked up the One S a few days ago...same issues for me, including the FC when it gets tired of waiting. Definitely not the phone--the phone is sick as hell...
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Couldn't agree more. It's definitely not the phone. The phone RULES! At everything except WWF, apparently.

I am still waiting for my 1s but playing on my sensation with ics I had the same issue making me believe it it's the OS not the phone
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Robertcrow said:
I am still waiting for my 1s but playing on my sensation with ics I had the same issue making me believe it it's the OS not the phone
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That's an interesting point that it might be that it's bad with ICS - not the phone itself (which rules).
Thanks!