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Hey guys, just got my G2X whooo!!!
Loving it so far, got it home, immediately rooted and put ADW EX on it. I've noticed, however that ADW seems to bog when doing certain multitasking, like live wallpapers for instance. This is relative to the stock launcher that seemed to not be bothered at all by running a live wallpaper.
So my presumption is that ADW is yet to be dual core optimized and is probably using the same core as the live wallpaper and I'm wondering if anyone knows of another launcher that may be better suited to our ivory (dual core) needs.
Thoughts?
I've noticed the same with mine, the stock launcher is BLAZING and smooth but ADW and LauncherPro both stutter and are slow and painful. Just give it time for updates I would imagine.
Yeah I'm sure they'll come in time.
Just wondering if anyone knows of one that's already got the dual core treatment. Was a touch disappointed to try launcher pro and adw and go slower though i guess in this case it speaks to the insanely fast performance of the phone when optimized.
I wonder how the CM guys are going to handle this, since one of it's performance boosters is ADW.
Anyone try Zeam yet? That always seemed to be the quickest one on all of my devices.
Never heard of it.
Gonna try it out now though.
Really though, I think the problem is more so with the dual core optimizations than anything else.
well now im bummed. i love adw. damn it.
and how long does the delivery guy take?
damn. it.
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Marcus Ryan said:
Never heard of it.
Gonna try it out now though.
Really though, I think the problem is more so with the dual core optimizations than anything else.
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Man, Zeam is the best launcher I have ever used. It just got a update too. It doesn't have as many options as ADW or LP but it's much faster.
how does go launcher perform on this phone ?
zeam runs pretty well, but not as quick as the stocker.
I had allot of force closes w/ LP+ on my dual core Atrix, I had to play with the memory usage settings to stop them. If you do, be careful and only change one setting at a time. I had to uninstall/reinstall LP once during my testing because of constant FC. I rarely ever see a FC now, maybe once a week. Its very smooth now also.
When I first used the phone I was mildly impressed. For some reason stock launcher was laggy, but once I installed go I was happy. Only thing that bothers me about the ui now is the white task bar, but hopefully there'll be an update soon (woohoo ginger).
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I've had no problems with stock, so there's where I am now. With my SGS4G I switched to Launcher Pro, but with my G2X I don't feel the need at this point.
My stock launcher was around 30fps and it bugged the crap out of me.
I installed launcher pro and everything is 60+fps and buttery smooth.
It slows down a bit with the 3d app drawer though.
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diablos991 said:
My stock launcher was around 30fps and it bugged the crap out of me.
I installed launcher pro and everything is 60+fps and buttery smooth.
It slows down a bit with the 3d app drawer though.
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Also using Launcher Pro, and I'm having no problems with speed whatsoever. I did notice some lag when I used the homescreen transition effects that LP offers, but I never really used those anyway so it doesn't make a difference to me.
twoeleven99 said:
how does go launcher perform on this phone ?
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i've been using go launcher for the last 3 days with no lag or other issues.
kingpongg said:
i've been using go launcher for the last 3 days with no lag or other issues.
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Same here, i have been using Go Launcher and i have to say i like it much better than ADW have not tried Zeam yet though. but Go is very smooth and i like the customization better.
I'm using ADW but don't use live wallpaper. The 4D app drawer and move wall paper background when sliding home pages, both of which are resource heavy, are really smooth. It might be a combination of ADW and something else you have installed that's slowing you down.
After the update to 3.1 it seems to be a lot more laggy and benchmark is quite abit slower????
kojo2001 said:
After the update to 3.1 it seems to be a lot more laggy and benchmark is quite abit slower????
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my youtube and vevo has slowed down like crazy
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have to say that mine is definitely more snappy, have done a restart since install? My broswed is much faster as is music ap scrolling video quality in YouTube is much better too. Imo a definite improvement on my machine, there seems to be varying results which i find odd :-(
wow keyboard lag system lag!!!!! NOT HAPPY!!!!
keyboard lag reached a new high when browsing forums and larger webpages.
I AM NOT AMUSED
Slower here, transitions are even worse than before
Quandrant went from 2000 to 1500!
I'm am seeing all of the above - starting to wish I hadn't upgraded. Scalable widgets are great but not worth the slow-down - especially as I don't even have the option of a gmail widget at the moment!
X7og said:
my youtube and vevo has slowed down like crazy
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I just received my TF today so can't compare with Android versions before 3.1, but video from YouTube seems to load slowly (lengthy buffering) even for short clips.
I also noted keyboard lag.
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I just received my TF today so can't compare with Android versions before 3.1, but video from YouTube seems to load slowly (lengthy buffering) even for short clips.
I also noted keyboard lag.
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Did it ship with 3.1?
Jazd71 said:
have to say that mine is definitely more snappy, have done a restart since install? My broswed is much faster as is music ap scrolling video quality in YouTube is much better too. Imo a definite improvement on my machine, there seems to be varying results which i find odd :-(
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I have to agree with you. In general my experience has been pleasant. Although I haven't had the update for very long I have had to force stop the browser as it got extremely slow and wouldn't load pages (at one point the page was just lines of green) properly after a while of use. Has anyone come across this issue?
Well I have to say I'm really happy with the update so far. I've still got my Gmail widget and i don't see any lag at all. Typing has been a breeze, before it used to lag a hell of a lot but I'm typing pretty fast ATM and its keeping up with me no problem. I've also seen that some people cannot get the zinio app to work and I've been on mine and it works perfectly.
I don't understand how some people are getting different things from the same uodate.
Mabee because people rooted or summit? I've not touched mine its stock, although I wouldn't have thought that would have been a problem at all.
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Well I have to say I'm really happy with the update so far. I've still got my Gmail widget and i don't see any lag at all. Typing has been a breeze, before it used to lag a hell of a lot but I'm typing pretty fast ATM and its keeping up with me no problem. I've also seen that some people cannot get the zinio app to work and I've been on mine and it works perfectly.
I don't understand how some people are getting different things from the same uodate.
Mabee because people rooted or summit? I've not touched mine its stock, although I wouldn't have thought that would have been a problem at all.
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+1.. 3.1 is working flawlessly on my TF.. everything seems a lot more responsive
I am a bit confused about the different user experiences since upgrading also. I guess my unit was from one of the first batches as I have had it since a few days after launch, but I haven't put any custom roms or rooted or anything. And still I am getting a worse experience since upgrading, along with missing gmail widget.
Think I will have to do a factory reset and see if that fixes things
kojo2001 said:
more laggy after ofa 3.1 updae?????
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No! because it wasn't 'laggy' before: none, zero, asnje, zaden, egyik sem, nessuno, geen, ziltch
checkbox111 said:
No! because it wasn't 'laggy' before: none, zero, asnje, zaden, egyik sem, nessuno, geen, ziltch
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+1 works fine and still have the gmail widget
No lag here, it feels more tweaked out, youtube is fast, and the so called jutter effect while using the slider in the browser is'nt that bad as i saw in some vids.
I'm a happy camper with 3.1 (ww version)
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After using the TF for some time after boot, the browser seems to force close without any error every time I open it and browse to a webpage. a reboot fixes it for awhile.
The you tube app works fine but I was trying to play a vimeo HD video in the browers and it wasn't pretty. audio is smooth but the video was just black for awhile and then showed up and started chopping.
I'm running the leaked 3.1
Overall performance seems good though.
Just did the ota upgrade last night and been browsing and checking youtube. Everything is working better for me.
Smooth browser scrolling
Can load large webpages
Keyboard lag much improved. Not perfect but workable.
720p video in youtube is smooth
Not fixed though is my weather widget on the home page. Will cut off the temperature a bit if rotating a certain way. No biggie.
Overall, I feel much better about this device.
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Touchwiz launcher stuttering when swiping. Even more stuttering while playing music.
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Solution? Don't use TouchWiz.
This phone is just laggy period. You can thank the crapdragon processor.
Yeah. I miss the i777 Exynos. Everyday, I find something that used to be perfect on the i777, but choppy on i727. But when LTE hits California 2-8 months from now, it'll make up for it when I tether.
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Yeah. I miss the i777 Exynos. Everyday, I find something that used to be perfect on the i777, but choppy on i727. But when LTE hits California 2-8 months from now, it'll make up for it when I tether.
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+1 Coming from the I777 where everything was just so smooth I'm still debating whether return it. I'm guessing is a software issue.
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Question is will ICS make things better or worse. I'm willing to give up 10-20% in cpu performance for the five times better network performance.
I got rid of touchwiz. Im using LauncherPro
you have an issue. no lag here at all when swiping even when playing music.. don't blame the proc.
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you have an issue. no lag here at all when swiping even when playing music.. don't blame the proc.
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So maybe I do have a defective unit. But the thing is I'm not just the only one noticing the lag. I could only get 1 return. Osgs2 or a new skyrocket? Have you notice any lag on the twlauncher with a few Widgets? And worst when playing music. Swipe quickly left and right.
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So maybe I do have a defective unit. But the thing is I'm not just the only one noticing the lag. I could only get 1 return. Osgs2 or a new skyrocket? Have you notice any lag on the twlauncher with a few Widgets? And worst when playing music. Swipe quickly left and right.
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i run several widgets... beweather, taskmanager, traffic monitor, google search, agenda calendar and 6- 8 bookmarks.
without knowing what those with this issue are running it is very hard to say. do not limit your list to just widgets. list all 3rd party apps and stock apps that you have not removed. also include what rom and tweaks you have done...
Music app lags when it's loading album art. Derp.
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I have 0 lag. Even with stock rom/kernel I had 0 lag by removing the crapwidgets running and installing spare parts to set Anim to Fast.
TouchWiz is definitely not the fastest of UI's anyway, but it is running mint here.
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I have 0 lag. Even with stock rom/kernel I had 0 lag by removing the crapwidgets running and installing spare parts to set Anim to Fast.
TouchWiz is definitely not the fastest of UI's anyway, but it is running mint here.
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That might be your perception. Is not smooth PERIOD.
Android PERSE is laggy and choppy.
iPhone is SMOOTH
Launcher pro is nice
Go launcher is a tad laggy.
Maybe ICS.
To all the Android owners that I have talked about that say, their phone is smooth and mint I can tell them look here.... Their reply.. DAMMIT!
highlanderx said:
That might be your perception. Is not smooth PERIOD.
Android PERSE is laggy and choppy.
iPhone is SMOOTH
Launcher pro is nice
Go launcher is a tad laggy.
Maybe ICS.
To all the Android owners that I have talked about that say, their phone is smooth and mint I can tell them look here.... Their reply.. DAMMIT!
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At&T SGS2 was running super smooth for me, no matter how many Widgets, live wallpaper or apps running in the background. The only slight stutter I ve seen on the skyrocket is in the launcher and only visible when running a few Widgets. Could be a firmware issue from "Samsung" not stock android. Comparing perfomance iPhone to android is not fair at the time, if anything compare it to WP7 since there's no multitasking, Widgets, background process, live wallpaper,ect on either phones.
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So I have had the Transformer + Dock for a couple months now and love almost everything about it, except the responsiveness of the keyboard.
(I am rooted, have a custom ROM installed (Revolver), and am OC'ed 1.52 GHz.)
It lags in any application I use it with (Browser, XDA app, etc). It's not a huge problem but it would be nice if it could keep up with my typing, so does anyone know of any applications or tricks I could do to speed up its responsiveness?
Thanks for any tips in advance.
So, a while back I worked as a cop. You know those panasonic toughbooks that the military and cops use? I had one of those. My keyboard was rubberized so it could be water resistant. The guys complained all the time that they couldn't type their reports that well with such a keyboard. You know what I did? I started typing more definely and worked on my finger strength. In no time, I could type just as fast and accurate as I could on a normal keyboard.
The answer to your question is no there's no way to make the keyboard more responsive. It's a hardware thing. Either learn to live with it or not.
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So, a while back I worked as a cop. You know those panasonic toughbooks that the military and cops use? I had one of those. My keyboard was rubberized so it could be water resistant. The guys complained all the time that they couldn't type their reports that well with such a keyboard. You know what I did? I started typing more definely and worked on my finger strength. In no time, I could type just as fast and accurate as I could on a normal keyboard.
The answer to your question is no there's no way to make the keyboard more responsive. It's a hardware thing. Either learn to live with it or not.
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Thanks for the response. I decided to try a wired USB keyboard and see how that compared to the dock and suprisingly after switching back and forth I don't really see a difference anymore. Probably more of a placebo than anything but typing this out on the dock feels exactly the same as typing other comments with the keyboard. Probably just me taking things out of proportion in terms of the sluggishness of the dock, especially since I am using a tablet compared to my normal high end laptop.
Only problems I've had are software related; e.g. browser textarea's
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It's more of an Android/Keyboard/Tegra2 thing. Current tablets are still lacking the computing power. I think the best solution is to get a more powerful tablet, maybe TF201, lol.
I recentley flashed the Krakd ROM and the keyboard suddenly picks up everything instantly. It may be a coincidence, but I also had the lag when I first bought my tablet and dock.
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ThEiiNoCeNT said:
I recentley flashed the Krakd ROM and the keyboard suddenly picks up everything instantly. It may be a coincidence, but I also had the lag when I first bought my tablet and dock.
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What's the system up time?
Best tip is don't use the stock browser (or any browser that uses the stock browser, like Dolphin).
Try Opera, it's blisteringly fast, no keyboard lag here, and it's much better than the stock browser to boot.
I'm not sure when you say up time, but I have had this installed for the past week.
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I'm sure the lag will be fixed in the ICS, at least I hope it will be.
CrazyPeter said:
Best tip is don't use the stock browser (or any browser that uses the stock browser, like Dolphin).
Try Opera, it's blisteringly fast, no keyboard lag here, and it's much better than the stock browser to boot.
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Funny you mention this, the first thing I did was install Dolphin and have been using that, then on Friday my GF picked it up and started using the stock browser (Woman >.> lol) but surprisingly it is actually more responsive than both Opera and Dolphin, I was pleasantly surprised!
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I'm not sure when you say up time, but I have had this installed for the past week.
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Uptime, this is how long since you powered down or rebooted your device. try running 'uptime' in the terminal.
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In that case, I typically reboot in the morning and night after clearing the cache. So only 9 hours or so.
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Mine was pretty bad, but after doing a factory reset twice now, I can report my lag is not bad.
I see a SLIGHT stutter in the opening/closing animations of apps. Definitely lag in the app drawer. The lockscreen is probably where I see the most unresponsiveness/lag. You hit the power button and you have to wait a second, then its fine. The animation from the lock screen to the home screen almost always stutters. The default browser seems about 95% zippy and responsive. Pinch to zoom stutters occasionally. But touchwiz seems very smooth and fluid for the most part. The camera takes perfect pictures. There also is some shutter lag, but not bad.
Overall, the phone is nice, but I am going to be calling Samsung/AT&T and do whatever it takes for them to fix this. This is unacceptable. I noticed that the apps I put on my phone, the more the lag grew. I disabled a lot of the AT&T bloatware and Samsung garbage. Right when I performed a factory reset my phone had ZERO lag. So those getting new devices are probably experiencing what I did. The lag slowly came back, but not as bad as before.
My only reason for not returning it is, once this device gets roms, its going to be a beast. But right now, its performing like a 2011 device.
I reset mine 20 times and it still lags
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I reset mine 20 times and it still lags
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How bad though, and where?
I've done one factory reset and things have improved quite a bit. However, it's still not performing anywhere near where it should be. Can't wait for AOKP..
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mine was sluggish too.. When opping application, can feel the jerk...
slight lag when opening messaging, and phone. also, the occasional stutter when swiping thru home screens and app drawer pages. samsung better acknowledge and release an update!!! im still contemplating on returning this!!! s2 was beast otb, s3 was better but s4 otb just feels unfinished to me.
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slight lag when opening messaging, and phone. also, the occasional stutter when swiping thru home screens and app drawer pages. samsung better acknowledge and release an update!!! im still contemplating on returning this!!! s2 was beast otb, s3 was better but s4 otb just feels unfinished to me.
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What about with the lockscreen?
The S2 was such a beast OTB, I actually miss it.
I just got off the phone with Samsung support and they took notes on this issue. Of course, this was the first he heard of it. We gotta inform Samsung there is a problem.
Call 1-888-987-4357
Why in the world would you start a new thread about this. We're the other 10 or 15 lag threads not worthy of this content?
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Why in the world would you start a new thread about this. We're the other 10 or 15 lag threads not worthy of this content?
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I've read them all, trust me. Nobody exactly describes what is going on with their lag. Some are reporting minor lag, while others are reporting much worse lag. I was hoping everyone call describe exactly where the lag is and when its happening.
i guess i'm lucky. I dont experience any lag, whatsoever.
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I've read them all, trust me. Nobody exactly describes what is going on with their lag. Some are reporting minor lag, while others are reporting much worse lag. I was hoping everyone call describe exactly where the lag is and when its happening.
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Dude this is the 2nd thread you made about the lag, theres already 20 threads about it
To be honest I kind of agree with the OP. I've read many lag threads but nobody mentions what's lagging. The only lag I've noticed on mine is the gallery is super slow. At least 3 seconds to load from home. I haven't tried quickpic yet though. Mostly because I'm finding air view useful.
But really, other than the gallery, zero lag.
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When i got my wifi on i still seen the 4glte in use at the same time,,,and when i have a weak signal and then i make a call signal goes up immmediately ,,,after i finish the call goes down again but that happen when i got a weak signal....
Hmmmm is this like the homebutton lag like the first GS2 had ? or is it worst ?
Hey guys just wanted to say, I followed the trickster mod in the general section and my lag has been reduced by about 95%. My quadrant scores are also a bit higher.. Might wanna check it out
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Hey guys just wanted to say, I followed the trickster mod in the general section and my lag has been reduced by about 95%. My quadrant scores are also a bit higher.. Might wanna check it out
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I deleted about 97 apps / processes and have another 4 frozen, turned animations to zero, forced enable GPU rendering, installed Nova launcher, and am running Trickster..
The entire phone is lightning fast now with the exception of the keyboard opening and closing. The Samsung KB is unusable.. Swiftkey works much better but it does still have very minor lag.
The steps I have taken are insane and should not have to be done on a phone carrying these specs. This phone should flat out scream right out of the box.
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I deleted about 97 apps / processes and have another 4 frozen, turned animations to zero, forced enable GPU rendering, installed Nova launcher, and am running Trickster..
The entire phone is lightning fast now with the exception of the keyboard opening and closing. The Samsung KB is unusable.. Swiftkey works much better but it does still have very minor lag.
The steps I have taken are insane and should not have to be done on a phone carrying these specs. This phone should flat out scream right out of the box.
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Yea I reduced my animations to 0.5x and it definitely helped. Everyone should at least do that much. Most people do that on custom ROMs anyway.
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Go here for lag discussion http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2263311