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some apps not opening

some apps( mostly games )don't open
Also I get a message twlauncher is not responding
But as you clear RAM it opens
I have not rooted the phone
What can I do?
please help
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username1234321 said:
some apps( mostly games )don't open
Also I get a message twlauncher is not responding
But as you clear RAM it opens
I have not rooted the phone
What can I do?
please help
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Can u tell more about ur prob? What happens when u touch icons of app? Have u done anything to ur phone?
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When I touch the icon the screen blinks
And then sometimes I get a force close message
Ihave not done anything to the phone
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username1234321 said:
When I touch the icon the screen blinks
And then sometimes I get a force close message
Ihave not done anything to the phone
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Normally how much free RAM do you have while you aren't using any apps ? If its low then there could be some background apps that are using a big chunk of your RAM.
Hope this helps.

username1234321 said:
some apps( mostly games )don't open
Also I get a message twlauncher is not responding
But as you clear RAM it opens
I have not rooted the phone
What can I do?
please help
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try fixing permission from rom manager...
it will b okey

my phone is not rooted
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'cooleagle' said:
Normally how much free RAM do you have while you aren't using any apps ? If its low then there could be some background apps that are using a big chunk of your RAM.
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around 300mb is free
is there any app which could kill those background apps automatically and constantly?
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username1234321 said:
around 300mb is free
is there any app which could kill those background apps automatically and constantly?
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300MB free RAM is good enough to run most of the games, could you be more specific for which games are you facing problems ?
If you have a good amount of widgets & live wallpapers on the homescreen then first reduce them to the minimal, that'll help increase the available RAM.
AFAIR there's no way you can automatically kill the background apps on an unrooted handset but remember don't kill all thep background processes as not all are junk some are required.
Better get rooted or install a custom ROM by downloading from this forum & you'll be spared all the hassles.

username1234321 said:
around 300mb is free
is there any app which could kill those background apps automatically and constantly?
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Try this, but I do not think that will solve these problems.https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wxLDEsImNvbS5hcHBhbGwub3B0aW1pemF0aW9uYm94Il0.
Maybe not a problem in games and applications, install another launcher maybe your current launcher sets the problems..

Thanks for the replies!
is this phone going to get ics uptdate?
i was thinking to wait for the update
it may solve these problems
rooting is my last option
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username1234321 said:
Thanks for the replies!
is this phone going to get ics uptdate?
i was thinking to wait for the update
it may solve these problems
rooting is my last option
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Ics should get, but it is not known when

troubles with 4.2.2

At work 400 people have a S2 Plus. After the update, many problems have arrived:
- APN settings are lost, set to basic. This could be a problem for busines phones.
- [email protected] crashes..... no worries, just an App..
- Google+ crashes... Hmm, sleightly worrying
- S Planner is messed up. Options are unreachable, Letters are massive and i'm unable to change to week view.. it's locked on month (as soon as i have pictures i'll show
- Email letters are massive... changable for email itself but buttons stay big
As soon as i find more, I'll share
Anyone else have these problems?

No I don't have these problems...May be you can reflash the Rom?
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We have about 400 S2 Plus phones here, it would not be wise to reflash all those ROM's.. about 50 of those phones have troubles.

Have you guys tried wiping data... like factory reset the whole phone
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update to 4.2.2 without wiping will have crashes in some of the apps. it will happen to other phone too(my good old ace),it's wise to have it backup then update n wipe.

I am not having such problems too.
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We just let people update, so indeed we updated without factory wipe.
I'll test it on one of the devices'.
Would another option be re-installing the apps? if i could get my hands on the apk of s-planner for instance..

at leat try to clean cash it may help ..

Try factory reset first.
Installing system apps as custom app isn't really that ideal to me
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Brian_SGW_CM9 said:
Try factory reset first.
Installing system apps as custom app isn't really that ideal to me
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and maybe google automaticly restores your apps

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and maybe google automaticly restores your apps
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In setup wizard u can choose not to restore from Google account
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Brian_SGW_CM9 said:
In setup wizard u can choose not to restore from Google account
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Jups i know

Any of you have problem with phone freezing? Not in use, when it is on standby. It work only when it is rebooted (holding power button for 5 seconds) or when battery is pulled out and powered on again.
Friend of mine has this problem since he upgraded to 4.2.2. First it was often, he used Powersave option. After he turned Powersave off, phone worked normal for some day (about 10). And now the problem occurred again, without Powersave on.

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Any of you have problem with phone freezing? Not in use, when it is on standby. It work only when it is rebooted (holding power button for 5 seconds) or when battery is pulled out and powered on again.
Friend of mine has this problem since he upgraded to 4.2.2. First it was often, he used Powersave option. After he turned Powersave off, phone worked normal for some day (about 10). And now the problem occurred again, without Powersave on.
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Sometimes it's not related to power save. It might just be a system bug:
Sleep of death
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Nexus 5 lagging

Going through some threads it seems most dont experience any lag so im wondering what the problem could be in my case i sometimes notice slight lags when opening/closing app drawer, switching to quick settings, opening/closing apps (turned off animations so not really a problem now) and a few other instances is this normal? it got quite bad so i unrooted it and locked bootloader then unlocked and re-rooted and at the moment i am on stock rom, stock launcher and faux123 stable mainline 11 kernel

Glad I'm not the only one. Do the apps include any of the following: Timely, YouTube?
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enriquelabrada said:
Glad I'm not the only one. Do the apps include any of the following: Timely, YouTube?
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yes youtube does lag a little infact quite a few apps do although i just assumed this was more to do with the apps than the phone itself?

fedor12 said:
yes youtube does lag a little infact quite a few apps do although i just assumed this was more to do with the apps than the phone itself?
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Is this when it's starting or at any given time in the app? Mine has like some delay at launch, the rest is bad WiFi.
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enriquelabrada said:
Is this when it's starting or at any given time in the app? Mine has like some delay at launch, the rest is bad WiFi.
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can happen anytime really not just starting up, it is a little annoying my nex4 seemed smoother although it may just be because im being abit more picky with the nex5 lol

fedor12 said:
can happen anytime really not just starting up, it is a little annoying my nex4 seemed smoother although it may just be because im being abit more picky with the nex5 lol
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I've been doing some browsing here and it looks like your not alone. Maybe next update will fix this for Android in general or that app.
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enriquelabrada said:
I've been doing some browsing here and it looks like your not alone. Maybe next update will fix this for Android in general or that app.
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hopefully it is something that an android update will fix soon as its not just apps for me its everywhere but not all the time, i was wondering if its the custom kernel im using? Hopefully it isn't as i cant change the gamma values in stock kernel so that is the main reason for me flashing a custom one

fedor12 said:
hopefully it is something that an android update will fix soon as its not just apps for me its everywhere but not all the time, i was wondering if its the custom kernel im using? Hopefully it isn't as i cant change the gamma values in stock kernel so that is the main reason for me flashing a custom one
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Doubt it's your kernel. I'm running stock and suffering as well :/ It could also be a defect, some run fine others don't. Same with the same speaker issue, some newer owners especially the red ones claim it sounds better as the old ones.
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Try switching to ART runtime, it seems to be much smoother. Im using Franco's kernel with a lot of downgrading in setup and yet I don't experience lags.

I did think about switching to ART but to be honest i dont want to lose anything in terms of stability but hopefully soon it will become part of an update so if lag is normal on dalvik now i dont mind waiting i just wanted to see if its normal or im doing something wrong

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and faux123 stable mainline 11 kernel
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I'm sure that the problem could be around some settings with faux kernel. I use it too but recommended settings foe nexus 5 seem to cause some lag for everyone as it's more for saving battery life...
You might nee to play with some settings there Like governor and Hotplug.

GUGUITOMTG4 said:
I'm sure that the problem could be around some settings with faux kernel. I use it too but recommended settings foe nexus 5 seem to cause some lag for everyone as it's more for saving battery life...
You might nee to play with some settings there Like governor and Hotplug.
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I am on mpdecision and the governer is ondemand would you say thats ok?

Go into developer settings and speed up the animations. See if that helps. Sorry cut the last 2out the 3 to 0ff and speed first
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Go into developer settings and speed up the animations. See if that helps. Sorry cut the last 2out the 3 to 0ff and speed first
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I have already turned off animations for transition animation scales but when i turned off the rest it looked weird so turned them back on, i didn't understand 'Sorry cut the last 2out the 3 to 0ff and speed first'

Another thing i forgot to mention is when i unrooted/went back to stock i let the apps auto update and straight after i noticed there was lag when opening app drawer so i uninstalled all the updates and it fixed itself has anyone else had this happen? I have had to set the apps to never auto update now
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fedor12 said:
Another thing i forgot to mention is when i unrooted/went back to stock i let the apps auto update and straight after i noticed there was lag when opening app drawer so i uninstalled all the updates and it fixed itself has anyone else had this happen? I have had to set the apps to never auto update now
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Installing updates from Play doesn`t make the phone laggy unless there is a problem with an app or some apps. Rebooting after installing updates clears most problems most of the time.

gee2012 said:
Installing updates from Play doesn`t make the phone laggy unless there is a problem with an app or some apps. Rebooting after installing updates clears most problems most of the time.
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Im going to let the updates install then and reboot, if it messes the phone up again im just going to uninstall again
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fedor12 said:
Im going to let the updates install then and reboot, if it messes the phone up again im just going to uninstall again
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Install BetterBatteryStatts for unusual app behaviour which is most likely the reason of your phone lagging.

I downloaded betterbatterystats but it isn't showing me anything regarding apps only the device wake/sleep stats etc
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fedor12 said:
I downloaded betterbatterystats but it isn't showing me anything regarding apps only the device wake/sleep stats etc
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Turn on root options within settings advanced
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Killing apps is it worth it??

I have a bad habit of frequently clearing all apps from my recents
I somewhere read that it's not good (can't remember where)
So is it worth killing apps frequently ?? Does this effect battery life too??
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Hi,
I would say you "kill" multitasking...

...which is actually not good, because opening an app that is already in the phones RAM loads much faster plus it doesn't consume that much battery juice

Just leave em. Don't be obsessed with closing stuff all the time
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Apps running in your multi tasking window still drain some battery. Even Google suggests closing them if you're not using them, to extend battery life.
Launching apps doesn't doesn't spike my current widget readings so I don't think much battery is used there. I've noticed rebooting the phone does cause huge spikes though so try and only do that while plugged in.
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sohail77 said:
I have a bad habit of frequently clearing all apps from my recents
I somewhere read that it's not good (can't remember where)
So is it worth killing apps frequently ?? Does this effect battery life too??
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This topic has been debated again and again. It makes no tangible difference in battery life. If you want to swipe your apps, go ahead and swipe them. You will never see a difference in battery. And that's because there isn't one.

I notice that if I don't reboot my N5 for a long time, my available RAM goes down to <150mb regardless of what I close. Does it sound like I have a bad app?
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no point. the device is more than capable of handling multiple apps open in the background.

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I notice that if I don't reboot my N5 for a long time, my available RAM goes down to <150mb regardless of what I close. Does it sound like I have a bad app?
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Or a bad kernel
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I notice that if I don't reboot my N5 for a long time, my available RAM goes down to <150mb regardless of what I close. Does it sound like I have a bad app?
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Doesn't happen with me
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Usually its best to just keep pressing the back button repeatedly to exit an app and let it be in the recents. I read that just swiping the app off the Recent doesn't completely exit the app and there's still some background process that will be running for some time.
Read this article http://www.howtogeek.com/169549/wha...ipe-an-android-app-from-the-recent-apps-list/
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greenify em

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Or a bad kernel
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Running pure stock. Haven't flashed a thing.
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What works best for me is leaving all the apps that I'll be using more than 2/3 times during the day and closing all others.

[Q] Google search update lag

I have had a look online to see if others are having my problem but can't seem to find anything on it so thought i would ask here.
A few months back i created a thread regarding lag issues on my nexus 5 more specifically app drawer opening/closing lag, well after flashing back to stock, unrooting and factory resetting a few times the lag was still there UNTIL i turned off auto update apps and the lag dissapeared so i figured it must be an app so after a while of trying to find out which one it is i found out it was the updated google search causing the lag for some reason so i uninstalled the updates and the lag dissapeared and now i have had auto update off for a couple of months.
Well now i want to turn auto update all apps on again and update the google search app to get ok google again but again after updating the lags back so had to delete it once again, anyone got any ideas on why this is happening? I have already tried rebooting the phone which didn't make a difference so i wiped dalvik and cache again this didn't make any difference

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Anyone at all?
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Your post is long, and confusing. Are you experiencing lag when opening app drawer? Are you saying that updating any Google services through the play store causes your phone to lag? Can you tell us what's your phone set up?
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fxdil said:
Your post is long, and confusing. Are you experiencing lag when opening app drawer? Are you saying that updating any Google services through the play store causes your phone to lag? Can you tell us what's your phone set up?
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Yes the lag is there when opening and closing the app drawer. The only google service that causes this is the google search app, when i uninstall it through play store it just uninstalls the updates so i lose the ok google hotword feature but the lag is completely gone and the phone is buttery smooth, as soon as i update it again the lag starts.
I'm on a rooted nexus 5 4.4.2 running a stable release of faux kernel that's it everything else is stock
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fedor12 said:
Yes the lag is there when opening and closing the app drawer. The only google service that causes this is the google search app, when i uninstall it through play store it just uninstalls the updates so i lose the ok google hotword feature but the lag is completely gone and the phone is buttery smooth, as soon as i update it again the lag starts.
I'm on a rooted nexus 5 4.4.2 running a stable release of faux kernel that's it everything else is stock
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is it possible for you to recreate the lag again, and check your processes to see if there's anything running in the background that might cause the lag.
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is it possible for you to recreate the lag again, and check your processes to see if there's anything running in the background that might cause the lag.
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The lag is still there as i have updated google search so the app draw is still stuttering. I checked running applications on settings but there doesn't seem to be anything abnormal but i don't really know what i am looking for though
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fedor12 said:
The lag is still there as i have updated google search so the app draw is still stuttering. I checked running applications on settings but there doesn't seem to be anything abnormal but i don't really know what i am looking for though
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I'm referring to any apps, specifically from Google, that's running in the background. It might be taking up a large chunk of your processing power or downloading something, causing your phone to lag. Are you running Dalvik or Art?
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I'm referring to any apps, specifically from Google, that's running in the background. It might be taking up a large chunk of your processing power or downloading something, causing your phone to lag. Are you running Dalvik or Art?
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These are the only google services running. I'm running dalvik but i also have a cousin running dalvik and his is perfectly fine with the updated google search app
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fedor12 said:
These are the only google services running. I'm running dalvik but i also have a cousin running dalvik and his is perfectly fine with the updated google search app
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Can you switch to ART and see if the problem persist? If you are not comfortable switching, you could flash the Dalvik+Bionic library optimization. I found it very smooth, compared to stock Dalvik.
Also, scale down Windows animation and Transition animation to .5x in developer options.
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Can you switch to ART and see if the problem persist? If you are not comfortable switching, you could flash the Dalvik+Bionic library optimization. I found it very smooth, compared to stock Dalvik.
Also, scale down Windows animation and Transition animation to .5x in developer options.
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But wouldn't this only mask the problem? It is perfectly smooth again once i uninstall the google search updates and as i said my cousin is running dalvik same as me yet his is perfectly smooth
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fedor12 said:
But wouldn't this only mask the problem? It is perfectly smooth again once i uninstall the google search updates and as i said my cousin is running dalvik same as me yet his is perfectly smooth
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That's a crude way of putting it, but yes. In a way we're all trying to mask our phone's shortcomings. Seeing that even though we all have the same phones, yet some are better than others, some encounter more problems than others, some have better battery life than others. You can't come in here and expect your phone to be perfect with no problems. Sometimes we find a fix, sometimes we find a workaround. It's hard to pinpoint the problem without much in-depth troubleshooting, but if it "fixes" the problem, than that should be sufficient for now right?
(damn I feel like a philosopher)
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That's a crude way of putting it, but yes. In a way we're all trying to mask our phone's shortcomings. Seeing that even though we all have the same phones, yet some are better than others, some encounter more problems than others, some have better battery life than others. You can't come in here and expect your phone to be perfect with no problems. Sometimes we find a fix, sometimes we find a workaround. It's hard to pinpoint the problem without much in-depth troubleshooting, but if it "fixes" the problem, than that should be sufficient for now right?
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But since they are all mass produced shouldn't they all produce the same results? I mean they aren't exactly living beings like us some being more successful than others lol so would you say mine is actually a faulty device? I've just switched to ART so will test it a little, i didn't switch earlier due to ART not being fully stable and ready not sure if that's changed now
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fedor12 said:
But since they are all mass produced shouldn't they all produce the same results? I mean they aren't exactly living beings like us some being more successful than others lol so would you say mine is actually a faulty device? I've just switched to ART so will test it a little, i didn't switch earlier due to ART not being fully stable and ready not sure if that's changed now
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If that was the case, this whole forum would not exist. Every phone is different, even if they're the same model. We tweak it and mod it to our liking, and we never stop trying to bring it to its optimum ability.
Yes ART is unstable to some apps and mods. Before rooting my phone, I was on ART for a few months on stock. It was very smooth, and surprisingly didn't have any incompatibility issues. After root, in order to have Xposed, I had to switch to Dalvik. There was definitely some lag issues. I also experienced them with the app drawer, similar to yours. But to circumvent that, I flashed the Dalvik+Bionic libraries and it was as smooth, if not smoother, than it was while I was on stock ART.
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If that was the case, this whole forum would not exist. Every phone is different, even if they're the same model. We tweak it and mod it to our liking, and we never stop trying to bring it to its optimum ability.
Yes ART is unstable to some apps and mods. Before rooting my phone, I was on ART for a few months on stock. It was very smooth, and surprisingly didn't have any incompatibility issues. After root, in order to have Xposed, I had to switch to Dalvik. There was definitely some lag issues. I also experienced them with the app drawer, similar to yours. But to circumvent that, I flashed the Dalvik+Bionic libraries and it was as smooth, if not smoother, than it was while I was on stock ART.
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So your saying that let's say we both bought the same phone in this case the nexus 5 and when we turn it on it's brand new so nothing installed on it yet but one phone has lag but the other is as smooth as butter would you consider that perfectly normal or would you think something is wrong?
I have been running ART for a few hours now and unfortunately the lag is still there, once i uninstall the google search app updates it goes back to being as smooth as butter same as when i was on dalvik but like dalvik once i install it again the lag comes back
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