Hi guys,
sorry, if this has been answered before, however, I did not find an exact answer to my problem anywhere so far.
That problem is, that I've been facing a serious slowdown on my Desire S lately. In September, when official ICS came out for this phone, after the installation I was very happy with the upgrading: the system was very fast without any delays, had a very quick response, I would say, it was faster then Gingerbread.
But some weeks later (obviously after istalling some apps) it has become "lazy" in some cases, had not so quick response anymore, but still was Ok. However, the situation got worse and worse, and now practically every action takes seconds to start/run, ex. opening call history/recent calls, messages (often more than 10 seconds to open), camera (usually 7-8 seconds). Another strange thing is, that when somebody calls me, I have to wait usually 2-3 second after accepting a call in order to be heard, of when I receive a message, first the phone vibrates and 1-2 seconds later comes just the notification sound. Not to mention, that the Sense interface almost never reacts smoothly.
Sometimes it has better days, but sometimes it completely makes me mad. Anyway, it's a significant slowdown compering to Gingerbread or what I have used to regarding this phone.
Some background info:
Internal memory "All applications" option: 335MB used, 799MB free
"Running" option: 495MB used, 100 MB free
SD card: 7GB used, 426MB free
Quadrant Standard measurements: Total: 1392, CPU:2282, Mem: 808, I/O: 2659, 2D:100, 3D: 1109
- I don't really know, whether these numbers are good or not, but at least could be compared to another Desire S results with ICS.
So first I would like to know, whether somebody else is facing the same issue as well, and on the other hand I would be more than happy, If someone could tell me, what could cause the problem, or what to try that might be helpful. Every idea would be highly appreciated.
Thanks a lot in advance!
ps: I was thinking about installing some custom ROM, but I'm a bit afraid, that I could "brick" my phone, and on the other hand I did not really find a usable step by step instruction, how to root a Desire S with hboot version 2.00.002.
Installing a custom rom won't brick youre phone. Unless you dont know what your doing or youre messing with it. But i had the same problem to on official update of ICS after that i decided to install an ICS custom rom.... And never had problems too. Iam using ICE DS rom. for about 3 a 4 weeks it's a fine rom. But because i like play heavy games i decided to use shadowhawk rom sense 3.0. But i've tried every single ICS 3.6 rom of Desire s. And i had never some slowdowns on ICE DS. Its a great allrounder with a Nice interface. Just try a custom rom.
Every rom had its benefits. And its disadvantage
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Why don't you try and free some decent size, say around 1 GB on the card. I suspect you may have moved some apps to sd and they may be finding it difficult to run.
Since initially your phone was ok with the updated system.
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ICS rom has worse multitasking, apps are killed even when 150MB ram is free
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Hi everyone,
I tried searching for fixes to my problem without success (and frankly all the information is overwhelming too!).
I upgraded my Captivate to Froyo a couple of months back through the official Rogers upgrade. Prior to that Eclair was fine with no lag.
With the Froyo update, everything is great and snappy most of the time. I have rooted and have OCLF installed. It's just that every now and then when I press the homescreen or applications button, it takes a good 10 seconds to load it. Sometimes all I want to do is look up a word in dictionary quickly but can't while I sit there waiting for it to load!
I have tried different launchers and same issues still.
Can anyone please provide assitance? I don't think I'm advanced enough yet to install a modified ROM to fix this issue.
Thanks so much...
If you already have a lag fix there Is not going to be a whole lot you can do to increase speed.as you said a custom rom is going to be the ultimate way to go. spend 4 or 5 hours reading guides and such andyou should be knowledge enough to flash
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Hello everyone. I have recently purchased an HTC One S, and I have found this issues about it, let´s see of they have some solution:
-Very few free Ram. After starting it, I only have 200 MB free Ram. Is it normal?, Can it be increased?, Am I going to have problems running some ram demanding games?, For the moment, I have run shadow gun and it works flawlessly. It is strange mostly when you see that a Desire has the same amount of free ram, having only a total of 512 MB, One S has 1 GB, where did it go?, other phones with 1 GB of Ram have 400 MB or more free ram, like xperia S, Galaxy S and so on... Is it a problem of ICS, Sense, or both?....
-The launcher keeps reloading for some seconds after running some big apps, like games, internet heavy pages and things like that. It seems that the system runs out of memory, maybe because of the first issue, and unloads the sense launcher. Can it be avoid someway, without having to root or to install custom roms?
-Calendar: let´s see if I can explain this one. We have a setting that marks the amount of minutes that we want the phone to notify us of an event in the calendar. Let´s say we have 15 minutes. Then If I create an event at 10:00 for instance, the phone will notify me at 9:45, ok?, the problem is about the postpone option. When I choose to postpone, it won´t notify me again. The problem is that the phone won´t notify you again when the real time of the event comes. The phone has a time to notify you again after having postponed of 15 minutes, so if you have the delay of the event set to 15 minutes, it would notify you 15 minutes later if you postpone it, but then the real time will be over, so it doesn´t notify you. The only way that it can notify you after postponing is to set the delay at 30 minutes or more, then if you pospone it, after 15 minutes it will advise you again.
This was different in other phones, and better from my point of view. In Diamond it was set to 5 minutes between postpones.. HD2 was 1 minute, and desire is 10 minutes. So, do you know an easy way to change this so I can be notified 5 minutes later after posponing an event?.
-Memory Android control behavior, I mean, multitasking is almost non-existent. You can go home from some apps, but sometimes the SO closes them without telling you anything, so when you go back to them, you don´t go to the point where you left it. For example, I open the manual of HTC One S in PDF, I start reading it, pass some pages, then go home and do some other tasks, when I come back to the manual, I am not taken to the last page I was in. The same with some games and other apps. Gladdly it does not seem to be happening with word or other apps that have an open and edited file, fortunatly....
Well, these are the main problems I see about the phone. The other things are great, apart from the micro arc oxidation problem that I see unacceptable, but this is another subject different from software ones..... It is a pity it has these issues, because the phone is the best one in the market right now, in my opinion, the camera is fast and great, the screen is britght and sharp....
Best regards.
Any ideas or help about any of these problems?.
Best regards.
O man, this post is really long. Lol. Ill bookmark it and read tomorrow - try to offer some help
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maybe all that has to do with the small amount of memory available for the phone to use.
i too had only about 170Mb available ram with no apps running except a battery and the usual HTC sense. I was getting similar symptoms as you do, and i suspect that the phone may be closing your apps to allow htc sense to keep on running smoothly. I cannot find an answer to that though. i sold mine for various reasons
So referring to problems 1,2 and 4... that is normal and all due to the internal management of free ram. I read somewhere in the settings that 90mbyte is the ram the system should keep free. so basically you have 80 mb of free ram (starting from 170MB total free space which is normal) before the systems start to close apps in the background. Using ram hungry apps will fill this up fast and therefore close other apps or even close sense. I to think that the HOS is a little bit harsh on closing apps...
If you install one of the ICS Ports (Miui, CM9, AOKP) you have around 400 mb free ram. So basically it is Sense which is eating your space. And to answer your last question without rooting and using a custom rom there is nothing you can change about those things.
One X users have the same issues with multitasking, and HTC official answer is that they tweaked ICS memory management for a "good sense experience"...
So, it seems that despite being toned down visually and being incredibly improved, Sense 4.0 is still having the ethernal same issue of ressourse hog... =\
So as you all say, it is quite sure that the problem is with sense. They say that they do this in order to have a "good sense experience", but I don´t see a "good sense experience" to have th sense continously reloading, grrrrr.......
Anyway.... let´s hope they solve this with an update or something, maybe we should all write htc to make presure so they solve this, don´t you think?.
What can you tell about point 3?, did you experience it too?.
Best regards.
no multitasking on t-mo
See thread "where is multitasking". The problem is with sense. Non T-mo devices received update that fixed this. T-mobile device still have this problem and since it is up to the carrier, not HTC, we might get update in months
This issue with killing application in the background just minutes you were out of of it is insane. None of the tech review website caught this in their 5 pages reviews a month ago. People just now are finding these issues.
I am patiently waiting for CM9 Beta or official release to install it. I have used sense for a month now and it is a struggle, there are so many issues, including the one with patents for "association" where you open a link for a video and loads in a browser instead of the app, and is not just with videos.
Honestly if I knew there so many "little" issues I would hold my problem free Google Nexus One sacrificing only 3G vs 4G and lower processor speed.
Sense is not as productive as Stock Android.
So you mean that there is already an update for One series?, I don´t see any update download in the web page of HTC. Mine is orange, hope they will release it soon. This thing about apps closing and sense reloading is starting to anoy me. As you say, no review talked about this when they released them.
Another issue that anoys me a lot is that when you have a long queue of songs in the music player, it doesn´t remember the song you where playing after been several hours without using it. This didn´t happen to me in the whole lot of mobiles I had, diamond, hd2, and even old nokias......
This phone is asking for an update urgently, I am afraid..... I don´t say that I wouldn´t have bought it if I knew all this, but I would have thought it better....
Best regards.
sharkoparko said:
See thread "where is multitasking". The problem is with sense. Non T-mo devices received update that fixed this. T-mobile device still have this problem and since it is up to the carrier, not HTC, we might get update in months
This issue with killing application in the background just minutes you were out of of it is insane. None of the tech review website caught this in their 5 pages reviews a month ago. People just now are finding these issues.
I am patiently waiting for CM9 Beta or official release to install it. I have used sense for a month now and it is a struggle, there are so many issues, including the one with patents for "association" where you open a link for a video and loads in a browser instead of the app, and is not just with videos.
Honestly if I knew there so many "little" issues I would hold my problem free Google Nexus One sacrificing only 3G vs 4G and lower processor speed.
Sense is not as productive as Stock Android.
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Yes, people with non carrier branded phones reported updates on engadget.com. T-mobile, Orange, etc will get it months down the road. Me, not happy with this. The development community is asking for kernel code to fix a custom rom, like CM9 and fix these issues for good. I suggest, add HTC USA, HTC UK, HTC world on facebook and post a comment about kernel release code, update, etc. in a kindly manner. They do respond, at least to me. Email them thru HTCdev.com also.
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So you mean that there is already an update for One series?, I don´t see any update download in the web page of HTC. Mine is orange, hope they will release it soon. This thing about apps closing and sense reloading is starting to anoy me. As you say, no review talked about this when they released them.
Another issue that anoys me a lot is that when you have a long queue of songs in the music player, it doesn´t remember the song you where playing after been several hours without using it. This didn´t happen to me in the whole lot of mobiles I had, diamond, hd2, and even old nokias......
This phone is asking for an update urgently, I am afraid..... I don´t say that I wouldn´t have bought it if I knew all this, but I would have thought it better....
Best regards.
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Do you know the improvements that the update will have?, you say that multitasking would be fixed, what about the sense reloading problem?.
Do you know if the update will delete anything or it is safe to install it?.
Besst regards.
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Yes, people with non carrier branded phones reported updates on engadget.com. T-mobile, Orange, etc will get it months down the road. Me, not happy with this. The development community is asking for kernel code to fix a custom rom, like CM9 and fix these issues for good. I suggest, add HTC USA, HTC UK, HTC world on facebook and post a comment about kernel release code, update, etc. in a kindly manner. They do respond, at least to me. Email them thru HTCdev.com also.
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I have no idea how each wireless carrier will customize their version of the update. To my knowledge OTA updates for the last 2 1/2 years did not delete anything.
I am not developer or anyhting. I never installed a ROM etc, but I can't stand Sense and these carrier delays with OTA updates. I am coming from Google Nexus One -(HTC),purchased straight from google 2+ years ago, where updates were distributed months before the carriers got theirs if any. CM9 for ICS will get me closer to this pure android experience.
DrJ76 said:
Do you know the improvements that the update will have?, you say that multitasking would be fixed, what about the sense reloading problem?.
Do you know if the update will delete anything or it is safe to install it?.
Besst regards.
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Hello again. I have just installed the update from orange, 1.78.75.5, and this is my first impresion:
-2 new apps, daily motion, that basically has videos and trailers, and TV, which I am not able to use because is only for orange clients, and I am a movistar user, using my sim car in an free orange one S.
-Some new animated backgorunds, very ugly in my humble opinion.
-More free RAM, not many, but some more, after restarting I have 231 MB, but after moving through the different desktops and loading the widgets for SMS, contacts, favorites, galery and so on... I have 187 Mb of RAM, when before I had about 160 MB of RAM.
-The reloading of sense is still happening after playing with shadow gun, and I am not taken to the last position where I left it if I come back to it. Anyway, I assume that this game is too big, almost 160 MB of RAM, so I can live with it, I guess the reloads will be less frequent now. I have tried blood and glory, another big game, and press home button didn´t reload the sense, so I guess it is OK for me.
-I am not sure about this, but I have the impression that 3G is better now, I can browse the web near my home, when before the update I couldn´t.
Best regards and thanks for your support.
Hey guys,
I've used a lot of Sense 4 ROMs on my Sensation, and back in February or March I remember saying to someone "you know, it seems like even though Sense 4 uses less RAM, all my recent apps have to reload like I'm on my old iPhone".
At that, the whole thread yelled at me and called me stupid, but we now know Sense 4's memory limits were drastically altered by HTC for better battery life and Sense performance.
So my question is, as somebody considering the One S, have you guys had similar problems with not being able to keep many recent apps in memory? And if you've found a way to solve this... does Sense 4 slow right down?
Just curious as I might buy one (hopefully the S4 version even though I'm in Asia, fak you HTC) in the next few weeks but couldn't live with the constant redraws and inability to go from messaging to browser and back without the browser refreshing
Cheers!
Sense 4 is great, However, Its a massive RAM hog and has this tendency to reload itself whenever it gets the chance.
Multitasking is pretty impossible. Not sure what HTC did here but its down right ridiculous !! we have one of the best processors on the market, Combined with a massive amount of RAM (for a phone) and we cannot multi-task.
This is a major error and im hoping now the kernel source code is out, that some kernel tweaks will help defeat this issue.
Doesn't bother me. Behaves pretty much the same as my Sensation did on any ROM (Sense 3.6/4 or de-Sensed).
Definitely same problem on t-mobile (with just the stock ROM). Multitasking is basically non-existant, despite having, in general, 200 MB of ram free.
edit: not trying to imply being on t-mobile has anything to do with it, just specifying its the US version
I am definitely having major multi-tasking problems. It is terrible, much worse than Sensation, possibly worse than G1. I am probably gonna return mine and get the T-Mobile GSIII.
I just got the update, and it seems like it might be *slightly* better. Then again, it could be my imagination.
Is it any better with custom roms or is it all kernel source related?
The multitasking experience on the stock un-rooted rom was utterly innexistant on my part. Ie: Google reader > Read big article in Firefox (B) Browser > Return to Reader but it has to reload because it was closed. The built-in task manager rarely reported more than 150mb on my device and it acted like it refused to use the last 100mb. With a custom ROM and tweaks (mainly if you disable the Sense launcher/widgets), I rarely see app reload in short time use. Don't expect to see open your app you closed the day before tho.
You could wait to use CM9 and have twice more free RAM but notice that you will loose the device's special features like ImageSense, Beats (and SRS/Dolby), native DLNA, native Dropbox and other online services, etc...
NienorGT said:
The multitasking experience on the stock un-rooted rom was utterly innexistant on my part. Ie: Google reader > Read big article in Firefox (B) Browser > Return to Reader but it has to reload because it was closed. The built-in task manager rarely reported more than 150mb on my device and it acted like it refused to use the last 100mb. With a custom ROM and tweaks (mainly if you disable the Sense launcher/widgets), I rarely see app reload in short time use. Don't expect to see open your app you closed the day before tho.
You could wait to use CM9 and have twice more free RAM but notice that you will loose the device's special features like ImageSense, Beats (and SRS/Dolby), native DLNA, native Dropbox and other online services, etc...
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Are you happy, overall, with the device?
Coming from an LG G2x.
Howdy hello,
I've been on my Nexus S since GB. Ever since I've rooted and been running custom ROMs. I've had some awesome experiences but some crappy ones at the same time, all of which I attributed to my phone running a custom ROM.
Now I've finally got the new, new stock JB on my device, and after running it for a few weeks, I'm a bit disappointed. The features are nice and all, but there are so many issues I face that make it near unusable. To name a few:
Google Now takes way too long to pull up. At least 5 seconds and even while it's loading the cards, it's very laggy. The search button used to be a quick way for me to search for something, but the is effectively ruined with this lag.
Constantly losing data / connectivity. I know this may be at the carrier level, but I've never had this much trouble. ALSO, in these cases, the phone will often be reporting that it has full bars / full 3g connectivity, so either way the phone is acting screwy. I mean seriously, the one thing I need my phone to do is make a damn phone call, yet it semi-frequently fails to do so.
Apps fail left and right. Today my youtube app crashed in the middle of the first video I pulled up on it. I know this isn't really the OS, but it's part of the stock experience, and I think android should be held responsible.
Just a few minor gripes. I'm just wondering: has anyone else experienced this? I did a full wipe before installing the stock JB rom, and I don't think it could just be root permissions making things go wacky. I may consider re-wiping and only installing a few apps, but I really don't have that much crap installed, so I'm not sure if that's the issue as well.
I saw another post recommending to get a new SIM card from AT&T. I have had mine for a few years, so that could be a possible fix for issue #2, but I don't think that's the entire reason.
Any feedback is welcome. Thanks a lot all.
Stock JB was very laggy on my NS for some reason. Even swipping pages in the home screen was laggy. Some apps would instantly crash, too.
I've been running custom JB roms on my Nexus S, and its been running really well. The only thing is im experiencing the same lag that you do with Google Now. It has caused me to open my browser to do a search, which is disappointing, because in GB and ICS, the Google Search bar was so quick and convenient.
shyguyhighfive said:
Howdy hello,
I've been on my Nexus S since GB. Ever since I've rooted and been running custom ROMs. I've had some awesome experiences but some crappy ones at the same time, all of which I attributed to my phone running a custom ROM.
Now I've finally got the new, new stock JB on my device, and after running it for a few weeks, I'm a bit disappointed. The features are nice and all, but there are so many issues I face that make it near unusable. To name a few:
Google Now takes way too long to pull up. At least 5 seconds and even while it's loading the cards, it's very laggy. The search button used to be a quick way for me to search for something, but the is effectively ruined with this lag.
Constantly losing data / connectivity. I know this may be at the carrier level, but I've never had this much trouble. ALSO, in these cases, the phone will often be reporting that it has full bars / full 3g connectivity, so either way the phone is acting screwy. I mean seriously, the one thing I need my phone to do is make a damn phone call, yet it semi-frequently fails to do so.
Apps fail left and right. Today my youtube app crashed in the middle of the first video I pulled up on it. I know this isn't really the OS, but it's part of the stock experience, and I think android should be held responsible.
Just a few minor gripes. I'm just wondering: has anyone else experienced this? I did a full wipe before installing the stock JB rom, and I don't think it could just be root permissions making things go wacky. I may consider re-wiping and only installing a few apps, but I really don't have that much crap installed, so I'm not sure if that's the issue as well.
I saw another post recommending to get a new SIM card from AT&T. I have had mine for a few years, so that could be a possible fix for issue #2, but I don't think that's the entire reason.
Any feedback is welcome. Thanks a lot all.
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The cards could be taking longer to load because of your flaky connectivity. Can't expect them to load instantly if your data/signal is dying all the time, can you?
Definitely an inferior experience here on stock JB compared to ICS. Really hope Google fix this in an incremental update, as it's a bit silly their second-best phone can't run JB properly.
polobunny said:
The cards could be taking longer to load because of your flaky connectivity. Can't expect them to load instantly if your data/signal is dying all the time, can you?
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heh, that's a fair point. I'm not so upset with the cards taking a long time to load as I am that, while they are loading, the OS is very unstable. It's difficult for me to bring up the keyboard and search google while it's trying to load those cards. I can't believe it's not butter
Nothijngrad said:
Definitely an inferior experience here on stock JB compared to ICS. Really hope Google fix this in an incremental update, as it's a bit silly their second-best phone can't run JB properly.
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My thoughts exactly . I was excited to get back on stock so I could have a functional phone without any added bells and whistles. New features are nice, but not at this price.
Try running a custom kernel.. Try the thalamus kernel its very stockish and it's SUPER smooth..
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I'm running stock on [email protected] with a matrix kernel everything smooth for me
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I had problems with JB too. There were a few lags, especially with Google Now. Some apps would crash every time I tried to open them, and the launcher crashed every time I tried to change wall paper.
shyguyhighfive said:
Howdy hello,
I've been on my Nexus S since GB. Ever since I've rooted and been running custom ROMs. I've had some awesome experiences but some crappy ones at the same time, all of which I attributed to my phone running a custom ROM.
Now I've finally got the new, new stock JB on my device, and after running it for a few weeks, I'm a bit disappointed. The features are nice and all, but there are so many issues I face that make it near unusable. To name a few:
Google Now takes way too long to pull up. At least 5 seconds and even while it's loading the cards, it's very laggy. The search button used to be a quick way for me to search for something, but the is effectively ruined with this lag.
Constantly losing data / connectivity. I know this may be at the carrier level, but I've never had this much trouble. ALSO, in these cases, the phone will often be reporting that it has full bars / full 3g connectivity, so either way the phone is acting screwy. I mean seriously, the one thing I need my phone to do is make a damn phone call, yet it semi-frequently fails to do so.
Apps fail left and right. Today my youtube app crashed in the middle of the first video I pulled up on it. I know this isn't really the OS, but it's part of the stock experience, and I think android should be held responsible.
Just a few minor gripes. I'm just wondering: has anyone else experienced this? I did a full wipe before installing the stock JB rom, and I don't think it could just be root permissions making things go wacky. I may consider re-wiping and only installing a few apps, but I really don't have that much crap installed, so I'm not sure if that's the issue as well.
I saw another post recommending to get a new SIM card from AT&T. I have had mine for a few years, so that could be a possible fix for issue #2, but I don't think that's the entire reason.
Any feedback is welcome. Thanks a lot all.
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Hmm I can say that AOSP JB is WAYYYY better than ICS. Soon I can port my ROM from the NS4G to the NS.
I have to agree with this. I've used stock JB when it was released, I was wowed by it's smoothness and cool animations. But everything felt a little slow and sluggish coming from ICS custom rom. After switching to Jellybro, JB feels both very fast and smooth. If you feel disappointed with JB, try using custom rom.
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I don't know if you guys with problem tried that yet, but it might be a good idea to do a factory reset. You will lose all your data if not backed up but I'm getting a feeling it could help. JB has only been smoother than ICS for most.
Looking to get an NS soon, but it may help, as others have mentioned to run a custom kernel and bump up the clock speeds a bit.
My N1 is almost perfectly smooth (very little lag and often times none) with JB installed and overclocked.
My GNEX is smooth as butter. (As to be expected). But I guess what I'm saying is, if the N1 can run JB smooth, then the NS should not have any problems.
And while I know AOSP is technically designed to run on multiple devices, only two were in mind when JB was released....the N7 and the GNEX. Everything else is an afterthought in which AOSP may not be fully optimized for the hardware that is pushing it. (Just my opinion).
And another opinion while I'm on my soap box. JB is what ICS should have been.
In my opinion 512 MB of RAM are a tight fit for Jelly Bean. I can just run 3-4 background apps without kill-restart-kill-restart-kill-restart and a constant lag.
I remember some kernels used to have compcache support. Maybe I could try to enable compcache/zram.
got556 said:
Looking to get an NS soon, but it may help, as others have mentioned to run a custom kernel and bump up the clock speeds a bit.
My N1 is almost perfectly smooth (very little lag and often times none) with JB installed and overclocked.
My GNEX is smooth as butter. (As to be expected). But I guess what I'm saying is, if the N1 can run JB smooth, then the NS should not have any problems.
And while I know AOSP is technically designed to run on multiple devices, only two were in mind when JB was released....the N7 and the GNEX. Everything else is an afterthought in which AOSP may not be fully optimized for the hardware that is pushing it. (Just my opinion).
And another opinion while I'm on my soap box. JB is what ICS should have been.
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I just got my GNex and the difference with JB on this phone is night and day. I didn't think it would be but I'm pleasantly surprised. But yeah. The RAM issue seems to be my biggest gripe with it on the NS. And for some reason, it just dominated my battery. I went through my first cycle on stock with Trinity and managed 3.5 hours of screen time over the course of almost 17 hours and still had a little under 50% remaining. My NS would've been dead long before that with the same usage pattern.....
I run stock JB with Matr1x. It works very very well.
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ekerazha said:
In my opinion 512 MB of RAM are a tight fit for Jelly Bean. I can just run 3-4 background apps without kill-restart-kill-restart-kill-restart and a constant lag.
I remember some kernels used to have compcache support. Maybe I could try to enable compcache/zram.
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Not to mention it only uses 368 mb of them. If it used the full 512, it would be pretty nice
I'm running Androxide 3.1 and used to run AdamG's custom ROM. Both ran great, no hiccups what so ever, Google now loads very fast, I guess it depends on your GPS and internet connection. My experience with JB is far better than the fastest ICS ROM out there, I believe given enough time, performance will become exceptional.
Logomotph said:
I run stock JB with Matr1x. It works very very well.
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Not to mention it only uses 368 mb of them. If it used the full 512, it would be pretty nice
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That can be tweaked a bit with different kernels.
I am running XenonHD 9 + marmite 4.2 kernel. It's stable and smooth. Worth a try.
I couple of months ago I bought a Sensation XE (beats) which came with ICS. My previous phone was an Incredible S but I got the sensation primarily for it's bigger screen (and on paper faster CPU but I can't say in normal use that made any difference)
However, after living with it. I found that the more I used it, the more it annoyed me:
- the vibrator didn't always work, but would sometimes work after have the phone a shock (as was described as a fix on this forum somewhere).
- mobile data after I had been using wi-fi. The G/3G/H icon was there but when you try to use an app that needs data it just waits and eventually times out complaining about no connection. Data would come back after a reboot but that soon got tedious.
My previous phone (an Incredible S) was rock solid on gingerbread but went flaky after it's ICS update (bluetooth problems mostly) so although at first I thought perhaps I had a dodgy handset, I had been wondering if the Sensation might be better back on gingerbread.
I had looked into what was involved to downgrade but it seemed like a lot of faff (I was sim-free on hboot v1.29, S-On, HTC unlocked, Rooted) but this week-end I finally decided I'd had enough and was even thinking of selling it, but decided to try gingerbread first. After about 6 hours (!) it's back on GB.
Today is Monday, I reverted it on Friday so it's been running for about 2 1/2 days. So far (touch wood) neither of the earlier problems have presented themselves (and no new problems have appeared).
With the HTC overlay the difference between the ICS and GB (visually) is actually very slight IMHO, ( especially since I don't use the stock launcher anyway) and other stuff like general speed of response and battery use seems no different.
So, in summary, at the mo, I think it's the best decision I ever made about this phone. If you are getting beaten up by ICS I'd recommend giving this a thought.
Hi man,
It's great that you found a solution for your problems reverting to GB.
I haven't found the first problem you mention, but I do face the 2nd from time to time.
I wouldn't go back to GB to solve it. GB+Sense 3.0 was too slow for me, ICS+Sense 3.6/4 is still slow but more usable.
I'm planning to try CM9/CM10 and senseless roms and see if any improvement.
Brgds