Poor browser performance - Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I've owned my tab since it first came out, and one thing has been bothering me since day one. Does anyone know why the browser performance is so poor on my tablet (I don't think this affects everyone with a TF300T).
In stock form, the browser would hang on many web pages, especially those with ads. I tried many different browsers with no luck. I finally broke down and unlocked and put CM9 on it, and the performance was much better, but not great. Now running JB and I no longer get the hangs, but the browser performance overall is still poor.
I've sort of learned to live with it, and thought it was simply due to CPU or I/O performance on a device not designed for sustained performance, but for comparison, sites on my HTC Vivid (Android 4.0.3) in stock browser or Chrome are about on par with a Windows desktop. I've seen chatter online regarding a forthcoming Asus upgrade to address I/O (something to do with MySQL or SQLLite performance, can't recall the details). Anyone have experience with this or any input for me?
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bsaman said:
I've owned my tab since it first came out, and one thing has been bothering me since day one. Does anyone know why the browser performance is so poor on my tablet (I don't think this affects everyone with a TF300T).
In stock form, the browser would hang on many web pages, especially those with ads. I tried many different browsers with no luck. I finally broke down and unlocked and put CM9 on it, and the performance was much better, but not great. Now running JB and I no longer get the hangs, but the browser performance overall is still poor.
I've sort of learned to live with it, and thought it was simply due to CPU or I/O performance on a device not designed for sustained performance, but for comparison, sites on my HTC Vivid (Android 4.0.3) in stock browser or Chrome are about on par with a Windows desktop. I've seen chatter online regarding a forthcoming Asus upgrade to address I/O (something to do with MySQL or SQLLite performance, can't recall the details). Anyone have experience with this or any input for me?
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i had the same experience before i rooted and installed adfree,
yesterday i rooted mine and installed adfree, then now i see no ads and the browser is really quick, i'm sure the ads make the browser hangs, i'm using chrome

nooktablet said:
i had the same experience before i rooted and installed adfree,
yesterday i rooted mine and installed adfree, then now i see no ads and the browser is really quick, i'm sure the ads make the browser hangs, i'm using chrome
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I've encountered two issues with this as a solution:
1. Adfree isn't very manageable. If I do want ads on a page (somes sites refuse to play video unless you watch the ads first). Adfree doesn't provide a UI to easily bypass the block, and editing the HOSTS file is problematic as it is too big to open in most tablet text editor.
- <aside>Could my inability to open and edit the HOSTS file be somewhat related? The tablet has enough RAM to open a >100MB file, yet I can't get it to open without locking up the text editor </aside>
2. My phone doesn't have adfree and the sites behave normally. No delays.

get browser2ram
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dolphin browser beta seems to be better for me on my un-rooted pad
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Rycon33 said:
dolphin browser beta seems to be better for me on my un-rooted pad
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You're right, it was better for me as well, but not enough to stick with it. This is especially true now that I'm running the stock browser in JB and having none of the browser hangs I used to experience on the stock ICS. In reality, I would much prefer using the stock browser as it does most of what I need, including play flash video.

jgaf said:
get browser2ram
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This looks promising. A quick search revealed that the developer for this app is a XDA member: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25286407
Here's a separate blog post regarding this issue: http://mark-tech.blogspot.com/2012/06/browser2ram-fixes-transformer-prime.html
I'll try it this evening.

It only works with stock browser AFAIK
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Related

Is your Web browsing extremely slow?

Everything on my 300 works excellent except web browsing. Does anyone else have this issue? It's getting to the point to where I want to sell it!
Web pages seem to load slower than on my phone. Has anyone else noticed this?
Is it a problem with the Nvidia chipset? Or is it something Asus can fix with a software update?
I am hoping I don't have a lemon.
I have been having this same issue, actually. I was just talking to the co-worker who sold me this tablet over the Prime and was expressing my concern with the really slow web browsing. Disclaimer, though, that I'm using Google Chrome to browse, not the stock browser. I was encouraged to try Opera and other browsers before condemning this device to slow browsing, so perhaps that would help us both?
I'm also in the process of rooting mine so -hopefully- the custom ROM's I install will have some performance tweaks.
Browsing seemed slow in both stock and Firefox. Tried Chrome and it seamed slow too.
On Boat browser now and it is really snappy. About as fast as my desktop. I really like the ability to import bookmarks from HTML files. Have Firefox synced to my desktop but like Boat better.
software tune up
I'm pretty sure that they just don't use the whole 100% tegra3 can give yet.
From my experience the custom + open source based ROMs usually perform better than stock.
this is probably due to slow IO performance ( internal storage)
look at the prime forums , prime has the same problem.
cfq io scheduler makes it better (kernel mod), browser2ram fixes this because it does not cache on disk but in ram..
asus is looking into this but most people believe that asus uses cheap/slow memory chips/controllers....
if you rootyour device, you can use this...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25286407&postcount=61
it works extremly good
black_impact said:
if you rootyour device, you can use this...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25286407&postcount=61
it works extremly good
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I was reading about that. From what I have heard it works really well. I also heard through some rumors that ASUS will be addressing this in their next update. Although it is just rumors and who knows how long until the next update.
What I find to be a problem is the freezing and hiccups which occur on large webpages. Frequently I'll see the 'This program has stopped responding' message, forcing me to click on the wait button. I really hope a firmware fix will address this - it appears on all browsers for me. My Galaxy Note is far faster than my TF300 at loading sites. It's very frustrating.
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Tempie007 said:
this is probably due to slow IO performance ( internal storage)
look at the prime forums , prime has the same problem.
cfq io scheduler makes it better (kernel mod), browser2ram fixes this because it does not cache on disk but in ram..
asus is looking into this but most people believe that asus uses cheap/slow memory chips/controllers....
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Yep the IO performance sucks, hopefully we will get custom kernels soon, or asus will fix this who knows.
Yep just rooted and downloaded the apk. It's almost necessary. Chrome runs so much better right off the bat. I will say though that you do lose all your previous browser settings but it's 100% worth it.
jgaf said:
Yep the IO performance sucks, hopefully we will get custom kernels soon, or asus will fix this who knows.
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Yea i hope asus finds a way fix this , some improvements can be made with a different io scheduler such as cfq however this will not improve raw speed, which is still terrible.
The sqlite benchmark shows us extreme bad performance especially on the 1000 inserts, 70 seconds where other devices are done in less than 1 second. I find it hard to believe that this is caused by memory chips itself , we are talking about hundred times worse?"
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Guys. Thanks for the help. I have only tried Boat browser so far and I have noticed it is a bit faster than all the other browsers I've tried so far. Not perfect by any means, but better.
I will try those other methods later this week.
What are the odds Asus fixes this issue?
How come there aren't more complaints about this in the TF300 forum? Or does this not affect every tablet?
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Has anyonec changed the performance settings to Performance Mode and noticed a difference? Seemed like I did.
On some web pages I can swipe the page, and then count to two before it actually moves. Then swipe again nothing. Then a couple of seconds later the page moves!
Like the web page is stuck in jello. Really Frustrating.
I kind of hope that the Transformer Infinity uses something other than Tegra 3 as has been suggested. Not sure I want to take a chance on another Tegra 3 device just yet.
black_impact said:
if you rootyour device, you can use this...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25286407&postcount=61
it works extremly good
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This has worked wonders with the speed of the stock browser. Thanks for pointing us to the link
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Anyone tried this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1714253 it was made for the prime fw. 28, maybe it will work on the 300
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The best thing to do is browser2ram, period.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25286407
second best to do is to use the cfq scheduler which is included in certain custom kernels.
and further lets wait for asus, my guess is that they will use cfq scheduler in the near future ...
Is there a 1 click root available? I have never used adb. I'm too noobish.
I've rooted several phones with 1 click root, never done a root the way they suggest.
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Zdidge said:
Is there a 1 click root available? I have never used adb. I'm too noobish.
I've rooted several phones with 1 click root, never done a root the way they suggest.
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I got mine yesterday and its already rooted. All I did was install the asus pc suite for the driver. Then be sure to close Asus Sync in the system tray. Then I used this method.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1711678
It was more like 5 clicks but took all of two minutes.
I put these drivers on my pc, correct?
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[Q] General performance question...

I'm wondering if anyone can weigh in on how their device performs out of the box. I got mine on Saturday and unlocked it and am thinking of installing some of CM9's work because I've always like what he's done on the Droids, but I'm noticing that this tablet, for lack of a better way to say, is awful.
It freezes all the time. When you get into a the browser, whether it's stock or chrome, the pages are unresponsive to zoom in and out. I mean ultimately your action will be performed, but I've seen it take 5 seconds. It's actually unbearable. My D4 NEVER has this problem EVER and the tablet should blow the D4 away.
How does everyone else's tf300 work? And will custom ROM's improve this awful experience? I don't want to have to take it back and I won't if there is potential somewhere that I'm not realizing. I have 10 days left to decide and right now, it's a no-go. So if anyone can share their experience I'd love to hear it.
I bought my tf300 yesterday, and couldn't be happier. I unlocked it and installed aokp this morning and things have been great. Haven't noticed any lag viewing webpages, youtube, music etc. I've been very happy with this tabIet, as it's my first one. I believe aokp allows you to overclock to 1.5ghz (obviously it drains batteries a little bit more) but even on the stock asus rom, i encountered no lag whatsoever.
as shocking as it might be to know..i have not yet rooted the tf300t. i've been using it for over a month now..i got it the week that it came out..and i've happy with it. every once in a while you will see a "freeze" for now reason. It does seem to freeze more on startup because it is trying to do several things at once (like update gmail, corporate account, and sync up other things). But after that it is really smooth.
I was talking to another friend about this and he managed to hunt down someone else having similar issues to me and Asus declared their product to be defective, issue a new one, which works "flawlessly". I guess it's back to Office Depot I go. I refuse to let Apple win.
Hopefully you get a working one, I'm enjoying mine quite a bit. The aokp rom is quick and fun to use, and I refuse to ever own apple products. Go android!
I bought mine about 2 weeks ago , and it freezes one or 2 times , but in general works great , didn't unlocked and changed to custom roms yet but will in future , but for now i am loving it
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Have it now for 6+ weeks. Stock/rooted. Works like a champ. Good tablet apps are the issue, not the tab. No way you should have the issues you do.
Still Charged Up
Nice performance
Got mine 3 weeks before. unlocked it and rooted from the second day, i am really happy from the latest update the us.30 for me. i dont experience any lag or freezes or force closes at all. The performance is better but it always depends on the owner.
I found useful to install an app called autostarts (needs root) that prevents apps from being loaded at any time u use your device.
For example i cant understand why google play store must open when i remove an application. With this program i prevent things from loading at startup of the device, so i have a quicker startup time and i know that no other apps are in use when i dont need them and only working is the app that i use.
U can see what apps are runnig at any time with a task manager or something relevant.
So as i say before the performance of a device depends also on the owner.
I bought 2 tf300's, one for me and one for my girlfriend. Mine has Cyanogenmod 9 on it, hers has stock (.30 firmware).
I will say that mine is noticeably faster, Chrome doesn't lag hardly ever, hers freezes up a lot more.
You should be careful about some apps too, Facebook in my opinion is the worst. That app will cause your phone/tablet to lag like nothing else, as soon as I uninstalled Facebook on my girlfriends tablet it was like a brand new machine (though still not quite as fast as CM 9)
strakajagr said:
I'm wondering if anyone can weigh in on how their device performs out of the box. I got mine on Saturday and unlocked it and am thinking of installing some of CM9's work because I've always like what he's done on the Droids, but I'm noticing that this tablet, for lack of a better way to say, is awful.
It freezes all the time. When you get into a the browser, whether it's stock or chrome, the pages are unresponsive to zoom in and out. I mean ultimately your action will be performed, but I've seen it take 5 seconds. It's actually unbearable. My D4 NEVER has this problem EVER and the tablet should blow the D4 away.
How does everyone else's tf300 work? And will custom ROM's improve this awful experience? I don't want to have to take it back and I won't if there is potential somewhere that I'm not realizing. I have 10 days left to decide and right now, it's a no-go. So if anyone can share their experience I'd love to hear it.
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I was having this issue also and was getting pretty fed up with it.
However, after doing a reset on the device it works perfectly now. Resetting the device formats the primary partition and takes it back to stock (keeping firmware updates). You can get to this option by turning the device off and holding the volume down button when powering on and it should be the second option. This stopped the force closes and lags with my TF300T
I know that asus has loaded some bloatware on the tablet which cause it to lag occasionaly so i used seanz rom. It's so fast it's scary it really takes advantage of the power of this tablet.
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Charle692 said:
I know that asus has loaded some bloatware on the tablet which cause it to lag occasionaly so i used seanz rom. It's so fast it's scary it really takes advantage of the power of this tablet.
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Yeah. Seanz' Hydro rom makes stock appear laggy and unresponsive my device was running slow before the. 30 firmware update.
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The lag is mostly happening due to the I/O scheduler in the kernel. We probably won't see the true performance on this tablet until we get a custom kernel. The source is on ASUS's website but no kernel hackers have this device. The lag only shows when mounting and un mounting SD cards, writing to SD cards/NAND and downloading/updating Play store apps.
The only fix I know so far is to go find a SIO scheduler from the Transformer Prime's forum and install it. I did that and the lag went away but looking at benchmarks for I/O schedulers (noop vs SIO), noop has lag but higher scores and SIO has very little or no lag with lower scores.
Try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27948613
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Possible fix for choppy JB animations/transitons and overall performance

We all know that the animations/transitions for JB on the infinity are a bit choppy/slow. A possible fix I found is with Nova Launcher. In Nova settings/ look and feel/app animation, select Ice Cream Sandwich. Of course this will change the animations to ICS but I find them way better and faster than the stock JB on the Infinity. Also I feel the tablet snappier. Please share your thougths.
My animations after the JB update have been so much more smooth than ics even after just first installing it install. Even after factory resetting and not using Nova launcher for the little bit of time I had no issues with the animations at all in fact they seemed to improve slightly after the factory reset. If you haven't done that I would suggest doing so, that may help.
itrof61 said:
We all know that the animations/transitions for JB on the infinity are a bit choppy/slow. A possible fix I found is with Nova Launcher. In Nova settings/ look and feel/app animation, select Ice Cream Sandwich. Of course this will change the animations to ICS but I find them way better and faster than the stock JB on the Infinity. Also I feel the tablet snappier. Please share your thougths.
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I believe this is quite subjective part. Some feels nearly perfect, other don't. Just like in video game some complains couple frame drops here and there, and others don't care at all.
One thing that may be helpful if you can is to show us a video clip of before and after so we know what are exactly the benefit.
HoushaSen said:
I believe this is quite subjective part. Some feels nearly perfect, other don't. Just like in video game some complains couple frame drops here and there, and others don't care at all.
One thing that may be helpful if you can is to show us a video clip of before and after so we know what are exactly the benefit.
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I'm just saying that with this method the animations/transitions seem a lot smoother. You can try it and let me know, it would be helpful.
My animations are smooth, but web browsing is useless on website with more than a few pictures on them. I can literally wait 3-4 seconds everytime i scroll, before the graphics catch up. Bought mine a day ago, still undecided on wether to just return it.
It work!!! I was so worried. I had a friend buy this for me in the US as UK amazon is still not available and when it is, is at a ridiculous price. Got it 2 days ago and the first thing I did was to update the firmware which was available OTA so I didn't get to see ICS on it. JB was so bad. This Nova option is great. Let's see if an update fixes the issues. cheers.
I have a TF700T and a Ipad3. The iPads claime to fame is internet content consumption and that is where its still ahead of every one else in fluidity and smoothness as well as speed of loading a web pages content. With that said my TF700T with JB as its OS is close to my Ipad3 in these functions. Its far better than the TF101 and TF201 that I have had. If all your going to use a tablet for is web content then go and get a iPAD3 and enjoy. If however you intend to utilize the TF700T for all of its tremendous other features than just accept the 3-4 seconds wait and be content. My Ipad3 has nothing to conpair with my TF700T on the file management side as well as internal memory capabilities. JG has speed up every aspect of my TF700T to the point that its seeable in ease of transitions from screen to screen, application loading, use of applications. It is fare and above anything Asus has put out in the Transformer series before. Web content is only a single feature of the TF700T. The hardware features that Asus has brought into the TF700T tablet make it way more versitile than my Ipad3. I am on my TF700T 4-6 hours each day so much so that I have two dock keyboards. One connected to a AC outlet and fully charged ready for use and the other one married to my tablet. Again, if your looking for the ultimate smoothness and fluidness of only web content IMHO buy a Ipad3 and leave the TF700T alone because you will never be satisfied. If however you can find value in all of the many additional features that Asus has designed into the TF700T tablet and dock keyboard than accept the slight delay and wait patientely until Asus is able to make the OS as smooth and fluid as IOS is at this point in time.
rlarson)mn said:
I have a TF700T and a Ipad3. The iPads claime to fame is internet content consumption and that is where its still ahead of every one else in fluidity and smoothness as well as speed of loading a web pages content. With that said my TF700T with JB as its OS is close to my Ipad3 in these functions. Its far better than the TF101 and TF201 that I have had. If all your going to use a tablet for is web content then go and get a iPAD3 and enjoy. If however you intend to utilize the TF700T for all of its tremendous other features than just accept the 3-4 seconds wait and be content. My Ipad3 has nothing to conpair with my TF700T on the file management side as well as internal memory capabilities. JG has speed up every aspect of my TF700T to the point that its seeable in ease of transitions from screen to screen, application loading, use of applications. It is fare and above anything Asus has put out in the Transformer series before. Web content is only a single feature of the TF700T. The hardware features that Asus has brought into the TF700T tablet make it way more versitile than my Ipad3. I am on my TF700T 4-6 hours each day so much so that I have two dock keyboards. One connected to a AC outlet and fully charged ready for use and the other one married to my tablet. Again, if your looking for the ultimate smoothness and fluidness of only web content IMHO buy a Ipad3 and leave the TF700T alone because you will never be satisfied. If however you can find value in all of the many additional features that Asus has designed into the TF700T tablet and dock keyboard than accept the slight delay and wait patientely until Asus is able to make the OS as smooth and fluid as IOS is at this point in time.
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Exactly
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itrof61 said:
We all know that the animations/transitions for JB on the infinity are a bit choppy/slow. A possible fix I found is with Nova Launcher. In Nova settings/ look and feel/app animation, select Ice Cream Sandwich. Of course this will change the animations to ICS but I find them way better and faster than the stock JB on the Infinity. Also I feel the tablet snappier. Please share your thougths.
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Strange, the ICS animation is much smoother. Thanks!
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Strange, the ICS animation is much smoother. Thanks!
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You're welcome!
You're so right. it's much much better. thanks for the tip. Dolphin browser is even running faster and loading pages faster.
i prefer the stock launcher instead of nova or apex. Somehow the stock launcher is all around smoother than other launchers now that we upgraded to JB. Yes, the JB animation is semi choppy but nova or apex does not perfomance like the stock launcher.
I believe one of the reasons this is true is that after-market launchers run on top of the stock launcher, so there is a double memory usage.
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I believe one of the reasons this is true is that after-market launchers run on top of the stock launcher, so there is a double memory usage.
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You can always freeze the stock launcher.
Yup, but then if something breaks in the after market one you're hosed without a launcher....well, unless you're conversant with adb shell commands.
No need for this. Go to development options and set all three animation speeds to 0.5. Your tablet will begin to fly...

Browser fix????

I dont want to root but i still want a smooth browser experience, i want the tablet that i paid 720 bucks for, it pretty stupid to see how my dual core gnexus handles pretty much everything better, pls helppp
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ray3andrei said:
I dont want to root but i still want a smooth browser experience, i want the tablet that i paid 720 bucks for, it pretty stupid to see how my dual core gnexus handles pretty much everything better, pls helppp
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Not what you want to hear, but rooting would be a solution, because you could install Browser2Ram afterwards. Rooting doesn't void your warranty though, I thought.
Even better would be rooting + unlocking (installing CRomI), but that completely voids your warranty.
PS: Are you on the latest firmware, because some reported it fixed some of the general lagginess.
ray3andrei said:
I dont want to root but i still want a smooth browser experience, i want the tablet that i paid 720 bucks for, it pretty stupid to see how my dual core gnexus handles pretty much everything better, pls helppp
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This is by Asus poor design, without root and unlock not much we can help, you just have to wait until Asus releases a new firmware that address it.
How does browser2ram work exactly ?
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ray3andrei said:
How does browser2ram work exactly ?
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It mounts a ramdisk to the directory where the browser stores its cache - so the cache is redirected from slow flash to fast RAM.
So it`s the flash that causes all this ? Why doesnt asus do this as well id it fixes the annoying lag.
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ray3andrei said:
So it`s the flash that causes all this ? Why doesnt asus do this as well id it fixes the annoying lag.
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It's a trade-off - the browser cache uses RAM which is then not available for other processes, and it does not survive a reboot, so depending on your internet connection speed you may even see pages load slower due to Browser2RAM after a reboot.
I have some questions for browser2ram.
Is it also work with other browsers ie Chrome? The stock browser is definitely faster with it but Chrome is still laggy like before and I normally use Chrome because of the bookmark sync T_T
shaoran_ojo said:
I have some questions for browser2ram.
Is it also work with other browsers ie Chrome? The stock browser is definitely faster with it but Chrome is still laggy like before and I normally use Chrome because of the bookmark sync T_T
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You can sync the stock browser with desktop chrome as well you know. I heard that the new version of B2R works with chrome. When I tested it with Chrome, it was still, shall we say ****e. :cyclops:

Surfing with Chrome on this tablet is really laggy, anyone else experiencing this?

It's no where near as snappy as surfing with Chrome on my Nexus 7.
I'm running Cromi-X with:
fsync disabled
that Chrome speed up mod option when you first install Cromi-X
I see posts on here where people's TF700's run smooth. What other things are you doing to your tablet?
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It's no where near as snappy as surfing with Chrome on my Nexus 7.
I'm running Cromi-X with:
fsync disabled
that Chrome speed up mod option when you first install Cromi-X
I see posts on here where people's TF700's run smooth. What other things are you doing to your tablet?
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Chrome has always ran slow on my tablet. B2R takes away the lag mostly but it is still slow. I prefer Dolphin, Boat, and stock.
Tylor
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Neo3D said:
It's no where near as snappy as surfing with Chrome on my Nexus 7.
I'm running Cromi-X with:
fsync disabled
that Chrome speed up mod option when you first install Cromi-X
I see posts on here where people's TF700's run smooth. What other things are you doing to your tablet?
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Yeah its awful on the TF. No idea why.
Stock is perfect. Pages load quick. sbdags did an excellent job with it
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Yeah its awful on the TF. No idea why.
Stock is perfect. Pages load quick. sbdags did an excellent job with it
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That's too bad. I like Chrome, but I guess I'll switch to the stock browser.
That's so strange, tho. Chrome runs perfect on the Nexus 7.
What are your settings in the Labs tab of the stock browser?
Neo3D said:
That's too bad. I like Chrome, but I guess I'll switch to the stock browser.
That's so strange, tho. Chrome runs perfect on the Nexus 7.
What are your settings in the Labs tab of the stock browser?
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Did you guys play with about:flags? Type that into the url in chrome and check it out. Its Labs ^2.
Ps-I'm the guy that wrote the B2R script for CROMIX and I run chrome beta. I can be made to run pretty fast, but not as fast as stock unfortunately but I prefer it.
I use to use Chrome on my phone and everything, but after a while was like na I'll try the stock one out. Haven't looked back since. Its quick and solid on Cromi-X
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Neo3D said:
It's no where near as snappy as surfing with Chrome on my Nexus 7.
I'm running Cromi-X with:
fsync disabled
that Chrome speed up mod option when you first install Cromi-X
I see posts on here where people's TF700's run smooth. What other things are you doing to your tablet?
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Try Firefox beta. Its running very smooth
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Chrome has gotten progressively worse in my experience, despite tons of small updates with "performance improvements". Recently it was all but unusable. I installed the latest firmware update and it seems to be better, so perhaps the problem is the stock ROM rather than the app.
I agree that stock browser is quite good. I particularly like the gesture mode (swipe from side and you get a speed dial for the different functions). However, I disagree that its page loading times are up to snuff. The browser's much slower than Chrome (after Chrome recovers from being unresponsive for a while when entering URLs). I think some of the issue may even be only apparent, since Chrome starts rendering pages immediately while stock browser waits until the loading bar is some 3/4 of the way, but still the (subjective) impression I get is that Chrome renders much faster.
If you google android browser tests there are quite a few fairly comprehensive ones.
Most of those note that Chrome for some reason just doesn't run well.
Quite ironic considering it's my desktop browser of choice due to it's speed
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elfaure said:
Did you guys play with about:flags? Type that into the url in chrome and check it out. Its Labs ^2.
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I enabled "Override software rendering list" and Chrome seems to be a little bit snappier. I will play with more of the about:flags settings and see if any of them really help!
Edit: I also enabled "Accelerated overflow scroll".
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Hey There,
TF700 stock not-rooted here, and chrome suck's, very laggy to change from tabs it looks like it re-render / refresh the page, and it usually get "stuck" and have to be closed, I still use it because I use it on my work notebook, personal notebook, Galaxy S2, and well, I really enjoy my favorites everywhere, but I have been using very little.
Does anyone got any improves just changing parameters on about:flags? We could do a sticky post with all the information about it, and the results of the tests.
I will give a shot when I get home, any improvements I will post here, even though I think I will change the ROM first, this stock is killing me.
Takx said:
Hey There,
TF700 stock not-rooted here, and chrome suck's, very laggy to change from tabs it looks like it re-render / refresh the page, and it usually get "stuck" and have to be closed, I still use it because I use it on my work notebook, personal notebook, Galaxy S2, and well, I really enjoy my favorites everywhere, but I have been using very little.
Does anyone got any improves just changing parameters on about:flags? We could do a sticky post with all the information about it, and the results of the tests.
I will give a shot when I get home, any improvements I will post here, even though I think I will change the ROM first, this stock is killing me.
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Obviously it's your choice but IMO just how frustrated i got with stock and Chrome browsers on the stock ASUS firmware was rendering the tablet unusable. It was so frustrating, especially in lectures where a friend on his iPad could look through about 5 tabs before mine had loaded a page and let me type an URL.
Since CROMI-X the stock browser runs incredibly well. (AS IN IT ACTUALLY WORKS LIKE ON MOST OTHER TABLETS) :laugh:
KinetiClutch said:
Obviously it's your choice but IMO just how frustrated i got with stock and Chrome browsers on the stock ASUS firmware was rendering the tablet unusable. It was so frustrating, especially in lectures where a friend on his iPad could look through about 5 tabs before mine had loaded a page and let me type an URL.
Since CROMI-X the stock browser runs incredibly well. (AS IN IT ACTUALLY WORKS LIKE ON MOST OTHER TABLETS) :laugh:
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Yeah, I know about your frustration.
I just got to the forum (to actually post something), even though I have a galaxy S2 with ressurection remix for quite a long time, just now I'm having time to look for ROM's for the TF700.
I already got notes and will research about CROMI-X and will look for some more ROM's, do you know any other? I know that changing the kernel can directly affect the performance and battery on the ROM, I guess will have to research a lot.
B2R is best - I was using dolphin - not anymore!
Let's face it chrome sucks, even with b2r. I don't know what Google are doing. The stock browser combined with b2r is unbeatable IMO.
Hundsbuah said:
Try Firefox beta. Its running very smooth
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FYI - Not yet released, but I will add Firefox beta and Dolphin beta to the next final release of the MB2R script. There is some cleanup I need to do as well.
Neo3D said:
It's no where near as snappy as surfing with Chrome on my Nexus 7.
I'm running Cromi-X with:
fsync disabled
that Chrome speed up mod option when you first install Cromi-X
I see posts on here where people's TF700's run smooth. What other things are you doing to your tablet?
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You may need to fine tune your network speed and buffersize for a better loading and downloading. For example, hsxpa, dns, wifi read and write buffer, ipv4.tcp_mem, ipv4.udp_rmem, ipv4_udp_rmem, core.wmem_max and rmem_max=2M, tcp_congestion_control=cubic, and change your minfree a little more aggressive especially the last two numbers.
sbdags said:
Let's face it chrome sucks, even with b2r. I don't know what Google are doing. The stock browser combined with b2r is unbeatable IMO.
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Is b2r enabled by default? If not, how do we do that?
Yes it is enabled in CROMi-X by default.

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