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[Q] OnePlus One doesn't feel faster than my Nexus 4?

I just got an OPO a few days ago it didn't exactly blew me away. The very first thing I did was install Facebook and Tapatalk to check on scrolling performance (nothing else touched), and surprisingly scrolling was quite jerky, even more so when scrolling through a thread in Tapatalk. I don't know why this happens, I expected it to be extremely smooth for the specs it has.
My Nexus 4 on the other hand has optimized bionic/dalvik libraries and franco kernel so maybe these two are boosting my Nexus 4 quite substantially. I still however get jerky scrolling in Facebook/Tapatalk.
Even so, it doesn't make much sense, my Nexus 4 scored a 21,216 in Antutu, whereas my OPO scored a 38,217 - big difference here but it isn't reflected in real world usage. I swear my Nexus 4 is opening things quicker when I have both phones side-by-side doing the same actions, Nexus 4 is opening things such as Battery Usage or Settings marginally quicker than my OPO.
The next thing I did was enable ART on my OPO and the jerky scrolling was eliminated. I would like to stick with ART but I'm dependant on Xposed framework somewhat.
Most people here seem happy with the OPO in other areas apart from the yellow tint and touchscreen issues, but none have commented on its performance, oddly. Is this because everyone switched to ART once they got theirs? I would have assumed most owners to be using out of the box settings, that is, Dalvik included.
What has your OPO performance been like? Are you satisfied with it?

You could try using Franco kernel if you're remaining on stock 11S and then use dalvik. I prefer art because it'll be the default in Android L anyways. I don't have any stutters or lag.
It's not opo that's the problem, it's the app. It's known that those app and sure problems, try forcing gpu rendering, it could help with lag on Tapatalk if you experience any.
Sent from my One using Tapatalk

zephiK said:
You could try using Franco kernel if you're remaining on stock 11S and then use dalvik. I prefer art because it'll be the default in Android L anyways. I don't have any stutters or lag.
It's not opo that's the problem, it's the app. It's known that those app and sure problems, try forcing gpu rendering, it could help with lag on Tapatalk if you experience any.
Sent from my One using Tapatalk
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Exactly. No matter how powerful a device is there's a limit on how much you can fix by brute force only.
Plus any Nexus 4/5 is going to be as smooth as you can get in Android.
The battery life alone is a world of difference.

Stock android experience on MIUI 6

What should I do in order to get a stock android experience feel on the MIUI 6?
I was thinking about installing the Google Now launcher, any suggestions apart from that?
Also to keep my phone snappy and lag free, what monthly maintenance should I do? I have had horrible experience with my Galaxy Note and do not want to happen that to my Mi4i
Will it be good enough to use it without a screen protector and external cover??

shubhstiws said:
What should I do in order to get a stock android experience feel on the MIUI 6?
I was thinking about installing the Google Now launcher, any suggestions apart from that?
Also to keep my phone snappy and lag free, what monthly maintenance should I do? I have had horrible experience with my Galaxy Note and do not want to happen that to my Mi4i
Will it be good enough to use it without a screen protector and external cover??
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Got my Mi4i today, installed the Google Now launcher and made it default... But this will not change the pull down notification/toggles shade UI or the lockscreen UI... If you want a full level stock lollipop experience, you will have to root it and then modify the ROM/flash a CM ROM, when it becomes available...
If you head over to mi.com India site, you'll get a sim card tray and screen protector from Xiaomi for free on purchase of Mi4i/redmi 2....

Weekly Maintenance: There is nothing as such which u can do apart from keeping it away from bloat wares
Using without Cover & Screen Guard would depend completely on your usage - If you can manage it like that - Go without them. I personally would be using it without any covers and stuff
If you really want a Stock Exp - Flash CM once its ported for Mi4i or any other AOSP Based ROM.

Thanks, but MIUI6 is awesome!
I used to prefer stock android, but MIUI6 just works, it has a solution for almost everything. And it is very very convenient. I am loving the ROM, especially the fusion of the best of android features with the copied elegance of iOS.
Little things like leaving the screen to where the app was last accessed makes a lot of difference.
Battery life is surprisingly awesome.
I got a screen time of 6+ hours after the first recharge, which is mind blowing.
Hope it continues.
Over all the phone is very cool in the hand and smooth in operation

i got 8+ hrs sot on first charge

MIUI 6 is pretty good!
shubhstiws said:
I used to prefer stock android, but MIUI6 just works, it has a solution for almost everything. And it is very very convenient. I am loving the ROM, especially the fusion of the best of android features with the copied elegance of iOS.
Little things like leaving the screen to where the app was last accessed makes a lot of difference.
Battery life is surprisingly awesome.
I got a screen time of 6+ hours after the first recharge, which is mind blowing.
Hope it continues.
Over all the phone is very cool in the hand and smooth in operation
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I agree, I was (perhaps still am) a big fan of the stock experience, but the MIUI 6 is so intuitively designed and looks so gorgeous that I have started liking it!

shubhstiws said:
What should I do in order to get a stock android experience feel on the MIUI 6?
I was thinking about installing the Google Now launcher, any suggestions apart from that?
Also to keep my phone snappy and lag free, what monthly maintenance should I do? I have had horrible experience with my Galaxy Note and do not want to happen that to my Mi4i
Will it be good enough to use it without a screen protector and external cover??
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i got a scratch on screen when it was in same pocket where i kept keys. So don't even think of using without tempered glass or screenguard. :crying:

I feel the same, Some how I do not like MIUI, I always like Stock Android experience.
Only way to experience is b installing Google Now Launcher. But this doesn't work quite well on this device. It shows black pages in App drawer and black rectangular boxes on home page...
Maybe need to wait to get this device rooted.....

miui is lagging like hell, its beauty but is lagging very very very much, i hate it

I just thought the same!
My only reason to stay on MIUI is due to its camera. I was thinking somehow remove all the memory hogging MIUI crap except the camera and install some launcher like Nova.
Need some help regarding which files are safe to remove so the phone + camera app works

non expandable storage kills the mobile or else its good

sharan.nyn said:
I just thought the same!
My only reason to stay on MIUI is due to its camera. I was thinking somehow remove all the memory hogging MIUI crap except the camera and install some launcher like Nova.
Need some help regarding which files are safe to remove so the phone + camera app works
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If you want to switch, flash these -
1)Resurrection Remix (ROM)
2)Snapdragon Camera V2 (Keep the camera quality intact)
3)Viper4Android (Fix bad speaker and greatly improve jack audio)
4)Sensei Kernel (no heating issues - EVER, butter smooth performance all around, nearly a 2 day battery life)
With Snapdragon Camera -
Go to settings, change Contrast, Saturation and Sharpness to Level 6(Sharpness Level 2 is horrible)
Keep in mind that these settings can reset themselves after switching between HDR and normal, so check those first.
Enable Wavelet Denoise Mode too!
For Sensei Kernel -
1) Use zzmove governor for the big cores (high power), interactive for the LITTLE cores (low power).
2) Alucard CPU Hotplug - Max cores on screen on - 8, screen off - 2
3) I/O scheduler - zen, set read ahead to 1024kB
Now head over to Configurations in the Settings menu, go to performance tuning and force GPU for 2D rendering. This will affect battery life a little but will eliminate any kind of lag.
This is all I did and I'm very, very satisfied.

compgenie said:
If you want to switch, flash these -
1)Resurrection Remix (ROM)
2)Snapdragon Camera V2 (Keep the camera quality intact)
3)Viper4Android (Fix bad speaker and greatly improve jack audio)
4)Sensei Kernel (no heating issues - EVER, butter smooth performance all around, nearly a 2 day battery life)
With Snapdragon Camera -
Go to settings, change Contrast, Saturation and Sharpness to Level 6(Sharpness Level 2 is horrible)
Keep in mind that these settings can reset themselves after switching between HDR and normal, so check those first.
Enable Wavelet Denoise Mode too!
For Sensei Kernel -
1) Use zzmove governor for the big cores (high power), interactive for the LITTLE cores (low power).
2) Alucard CPU Hotplug - Max cores on screen on - 8, screen off - 2
3) I/O scheduler - zen, set read ahead to 1024kB
Now head over to Configurations in the Settings menu, go to performance tuning and force GPU for 2D rendering. This will affect battery life a little but will eliminate any kind of lag.
This is all I did and I'm very, very satisfied.
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Thanks for the reply . I will give RR ROM a try too.
Though I have installed the SD camera on MIUI itself but the quality is not as good as MIUI camera. I have to say though SD camera is the only replacement for custom ROMs

sharan.nyn said:
Thanks for the reply . I will give RR ROM a try too.
Though I have installed the SD camera on MIUI itself but the quality is not as good as MIUI camera. I have to say though SD camera is the only replacement for custom ROMs
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Yeah, that's true. Every other camera lags so much.

F2FS - is it worth it?

I've seen many people talking about F2FS but I didn't find any relevant threads concerning it. I want to use it on Sultanxda's CM 13 (I know I need some kind of special kernel or ROM version). My question is - is it worth it? Performance wise? Battery wise? Are there any reliability issues? Thanks!!

I asked this question ages ago as I too was interested...no answer. Basically, do your own research and draw your own conclusions, starting with this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2697069

it worth.
Sultanxda's CM 13 with the Kernel : Sultanxda CAF kernel mod [F2FS-OTG-Y]
1, flash the Recovery :http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/development/bacon-philz-touch-t2861146
format to F2FS
2, Flash ROM
3, Flash Kernel : http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/development/kernel-sultanxda-caf-kernel-mod-t3243307
4, reboot
it's awesome
it will lost all the data in your phone

Day to day usage : you won't notice it
Copy/moving : just slight increments
Risk: slightly
Time to do : depending upon how much files u have in phone, I have nearly 55gb of files so it took quite a while to copy it to pc then move it again in phone.
Worth? : mostly not soo much, but u can try

Definitely worth it. Installing apps and launching them is noticeably faster that ext4, especially in the long term.

You will probably notice nothing with day to day usage. It has been proven that F2FS provides better performance, but it is not something that can be noticed outside of benchmarks. It is like taking the time to flash and configure a custom kernel. Would it be worth the time and effort to get a little performance and battery boost? (custom kernels have a more noticeable difference without the stress of wiping)

No its not worth. I have noticed data corruption on almost every kmsg i got from the device. In my opinion it isnt stable yet.

With the potential headache that can come from it, I do not think it's worth it. With 3gb of RAM and 2.5ghz, I feel the Oneplus One doesn't really need f2fs anyways. Just my opinion though. To each their own

I don't want to save battery....just make my Mi 4i fastest.....

I am using cm 12.1 by Wilson_3q.It is smooth but I am experiencing lag till now(even in solo launcher transition effect.... ).So plz recommend me tweaks or some kernel that will make my phone fastest. I don't want my battery to be saved ....I just want my phone in best performance.

raymond_bqg said:
I am using cm 12.1 by Wilson_3q.It is smooth but I am experiencing lag till now(even in solo launcher transition effect.... ).So plz recommend me tweaks or some kernel that will make my phone fastest. I don't want my battery to be saved ....I just want my phone in best performance.
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I dont know what forum you use to frequent but here we encourage you to read the previous threads. There's a reason why phone manufacturers don't want to use max performance all the time and its not just battery life. 4 cores at 1.7ghz constant can heat up your phone super quick, so just imagine what all 8 cores online will do for you.before anything else, your phone will thermal throttle.
Don't just look at the specs. look at the price point you paid and what the original design was meant to do. want a faster phone, get one that wont heat up so much or get thermal throttled.

davtse said:
I dont know what forum you use to frequent but here we encourage you to read the previous threads. There's a reason why phone manufacturers don't want to use max performance all the time and its not just battery life. 4 cores at 1.7ghz constant can heat up your phone super quick, so just imagine what all 8 cores online will do for you.before anything else, your phone will thermal throttle.
Don't just look at the specs. look at the price point you paid and what the original design was meant to do. want a faster phone, get one that wont heat up so much or get thermal throttled.
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Okkk..,.may be i was little harsh in my thread title. I just want to know some tweaks or some kernel for better performance. That's all

My experience with Mi4i.......
1. It does not gel well, with not so popular apps, hence you may try uninstalling some of the bloatware.
2. Try using some apps like DU Speed Booster, which can advise you about the phones problems and you can take actions there to resolve them. (Does not require root)
3. Not all in-house MI ROM's are good for Mi4i, Try using the most stable ones. perhaps 7.0.3.0, better if you fasboot it. I am not sure about CM, Resurrection etc.
4. Its time to move on, Fpkrt is offering a discount of 2600 in exchange for Lenovo K3 Note (Read User reviews if that excites you)......your best bet is Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 32GB, if you would like to stick to MIUI.

Can somebody explain what I have observed?

Hi fellow S6 users! It seems like that I can only get great 3d gaming performance on marshmallow by flashing space x kernel. Hacker, nog33k, twisted and even arter kernel lags on 3d games such as real racing 3 and modern combat versus.
Even at the same cpu and gpu frequency, all of those custom and even stock kernel lags on gaming but not while on space x kernel.
I have also observed that smooth gaming experience can also be found in ressurection remix by @macs18max. FWIW, Lineage os by team nexus on the other hand, is very choppy in 3d games.
Can somebody explain why is this so?
(Please do note that all of my tests were done after allowing the device to cool down so we can cross out thermal throttling here)

Very obvious answer. Samsung makes their devices slower purposly just to make you buy the next gen even tho the old models are more than enough capable. You only can overclock the GPU with Kernel Auditor or app of this kind. Also you can "Turn on 4x MSAA" option i develower options menu.

AndroidFL said:
Very obvious answer. Samsung makes their devices slower purposly just to make you buy the next gen even tho the old models are more than enough capable. You only can overclock the GPU with Kernel Auditor or app of this kind. Also you can "Turn on 4x MSAA" option i develower options menu.
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Planned obsolescense seems to be the right answer I'm afraid. But the thing is that why can spaceX kernel be smooth in gaming at stock clocks mind you as to compare to other custom kernels which lags horrendously in gaming whatever the clockspeed you set the gpu or cpu. This laggy behavior in games can also be observed in stock kernel of marshmallow or nougat. It seems like the only exception (aside from marshmallow with spaceX kernel) is Resurrection Remix Rom by @macs18max which have excellent gaming performance!

Search logcats in the system buffer with
"SIOP_ARM_MAX"
"limitGPUFreq"
"limitCPUFreq"
after the phone slows down.
Is this it? SIOP_ARM_MAX as the reason looks more like power saving (low frequency, exits slowly after cooling).
First could be filtered with logcat -b system -s CustomFrequencyManagerService, others are random letters.
Search /system/framework/oat/arm/services.odex , might have a list of package names that are throttled differently.
Edit: could be about power saving, or people complaining that the device is hot or warm, or to try to prevent USB failure, or to try to prevent eMMC failure, or to try to prevent battery failure. Maybe not planned obsolescence because it's on the S8 too (but the hardware is better).
Phones with marshmallow ROMs and above.