[Q] Slow Moto G and vibration issues
1. I recently got a Moto G XT1032 and updated OTA to Lollipop 5.0.2. I did not use it before updating, it has 500-700 MB of free space, I also erased the cache partition, but the phone is extremely slow. So slow that when opening Facebook for the first time, I have 15-20 seconds of white screen and then it loads, and 5-10 seconds of white screen for WhatsApp, GMail or Spotify. If it's in any way relevant, it's not rooted, I am using Aviate launcher, no other customizations and when using Apus launcher, for example, it's a tad faster. I know Moto G was not supposed to be one of the faster phones on the market even when it was released, but what would you recommend me to do to bring it to a decent speed? Meaning which ROM, script, optimizations, Android version etc. would you recommend?
2. Issues with vibrations: it vibrates a couple of times (for example when typing a couple of letters on the keyboard or when getting 1 notification) and then it stops vibrating. Even when using vibrate test from Test my Android, it does not vibrate and the only way to make it vibrate again is to shake it. After shaking, if I use long vibrate test, it vibrates for minutes, but if I start and then stop it, it stops vibrating on the 3rd of 4th try (probably depends on how hard I've shaken it). On short vibrate test, it stops vibrating after 2-30 vibrations (again, depends how hard shaken before). If test is on and I shake it, it starts vibrating again, so it seems to have trouble starting the vibration. Is this a hardware problem and any idea how to fix it? Did not manage to try solution from http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g/help/guide-fix-annoying-bad-vibration-t2860152 because I don't currently have the tools to open it.
PS: also not sure how relevant it is, but at some point it had a cracked screen and LCD+frame was replaced with something bought from eBay.
I'd try a factory reset. It's something I always did after updating the stock rom via Ota. Just backup your apps and settings. Anyway I'd advice installing a custom rom since my Moto G slowed down too a lot after upgrading to 5.1.
So is it normal for the device to be so slow? I will try in the evening the factory reset and then reinstall the apps (will probably use Helium). About custom roms, I don't need anything fancy and with lots of customizations, just based on Lollipop and fast, what would you recommend?
Sort of because lollipop is far heavier than kitkat and a big os upgrade without a wipe may leave too many trash files in the system. If you want fast roms you should try the aosp based ones. I'm currently using Paranoid.
Bartowsky19 said:
Sort of because lollipop is far heavier than kitkat and a big os upgrade without a wipe may leave too many trash files in the system. If you want fast roms you should try the aosp based ones. I'm currently using Paranoid.
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Thanks, I did a hard reset, reinstalled apps and the speed has improved quite much. At least I don't get "application is not responding" messages and it's as slow as it should for the hardware it has. I would not unlock it and put custom ROM on it, factory reset was enough.
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Hey guys,
I have my Nexus S (9023 variant) for some good 4 months now and I'm still quite happy with it!
Running unrooted stock 2.3.4 version.
However, I seem to feel like the phone is getting a bit jerkier / sluggish than it used to be before. I've noticed an increase in battery consumption of the Android OS process (not the system one) as opposed to before (like in a 100%-0% charge, it used to be 1-2 minutes, now it can go up to 10 mins time usage).. Sometimes going from one app to the other seems to have a noticeable lag. Sometimes the Google Music player is just slow to start playing... sometimes even the swiping of the home screens dies.
Also I used to have 2 days battery life and now some 1.5 days (which forces me to charge every night).
I would suspect than an increase on the Androis OS process would mean an increase in internal task switching.
How can one alleviate the problem ? Is there a way to sort of "cleanup" the system ? Does it degrade over time needing a factory reset or something ? I have some applications installed (some of them I hardly use though) but I suspect that even though those optimizations have their notifications disabled, they can be reacting to some kind of low-level OS events..
Anyway thanks for any thoughts guys!
What ROM are you running? And I would suspect that apps are the main problem if it persists after a reboot.
Stock 2.3.4, unrooted
Guess it's on to uninstall some apps then
Factory reset would solve all your problems I assume. Pity you are not rooted so you can back up your ROM.
I'm actually thinking of rooting soon, because I made some video recordings in a concert and they were plain horrible (distorted). So I might try to install a kernel with voodoo.
I guess I can always manually backup for once...
I have the google services backup activated... doesn't it mean that I can restore all my apps after a factory reset ?
https://market.android.com/details?id=tw.nicky.CleanCache
You can use that to clean up your caches. I suspect a lot of programs installed or one or a few that are pulling your performance down. You could go about this in a few different ways. One is to uninstall everything you've downloaded from the market. That should give you a boost. Or you can start uninstalling programs one at a time until you see your performance increase then that's your culprit. Another idea is to delete all your SMS, MMS, and voicemail. I've seen people with hundreds of texts that after deleting them, notice an improvement.
A cache and dalvic cache wipe would help speed things up. Hopefully that market app above can do both. Normally done through a custom recovery.
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read this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1231840&highlight=slow+crawl
it'll give you good ideas on how to make it faster again
mindwalkr said:
Hey guys,
I have my Nexus S (9023 variant) for some good 4 months now and I'm still quite happy with it!
Running unrooted stock 2.3.4 version.
However, I seem to feel like the phone is getting a bit jerkier / sluggish than it used to be before. I've noticed an increase in battery consumption of the Android OS process (not the system one) as opposed to before (like in a 100%-0% charge, it used to be 1-2 minutes, now it can go up to 10 mins time usage).. Sometimes going from one app to the other seems to have a noticeable lag. Sometimes the Google Music player is just slow to start playing... sometimes even the swiping of the home screens dies.
Also I used to have 2 days battery life and now some 1.5 days (which forces me to charge every night).
I would suspect than an increase on the Androis OS process would mean an increase in internal task switching.
How can one alleviate the problem ? Is there a way to sort of "cleanup" the system ? Does it degrade over time needing a factory reset or something ? I have some applications installed (some of them I hardly use though) but I suspect that even though those optimizations have their notifications disabled, they can be reacting to some kind of low-level OS events..
Anyway thanks for any thoughts guys!
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Nice ideas guys!!
Think I will try to install titanium backup and backup my apps. And since I'm on it, I will also root my phone and install the net archy kernel cause the last time I took my phone to a concert I ended up with 1 hour of unusable footage due to sound issues.
Hey,
I purchased a used Nexus 5, 32GB edition (I think the model is D821) as my then current phone (a Samsung Galaxy S4) somehow had a magically broken screen after setting it down on a bed. I have since been able to access my old phone, but it isn't usable as a daily handset.
Anyways, wen I first obtained this phone, I wanted to be safe so I unlocked the bootloader, downloaded the necessary tools to use adb/fastboot, wiped the phones storage, and then flashed the latest version 5.0.1 LRX22C. After installing the normal things I had on my old phone and rooting the device, I have noticed that I get an absurdly abnormal amount of force closes. Mainly dealing with the launcher.
On a daily basis, the launcher, and it seems to mainly ONLY be the launcher (either Google Launcher or Nova, it isn't application specific) force close, freeze, or become unresponsive. I can come to this conclusion on the following basis:
1) The launcher screen shows the background, but doesn't show the dock or any of the shortcut/widgets on the launcher
2) All I can see is a black screen and the notification bar/tab. This is sometimes evaded by switching to the recent apps button and then switching back using the home button.
3) It will show the screen with all applications, but won't swipe between home screens.
There is no major physical damage to the device, there is a hairline crack from the previous owner.
I am guessing that I could go through the process of downloading the firmware and reflashing it, but I was wondering if anyone had ideas on how to solve it, besides flashing the device immediately. I don't want to go through the hassle of flashing firmwares and setting up a device again, especially during finals week. The problem is annoying enough that it would make me post this, but not annoying enough to spend an entire afternoon dealing with that and re-configuring applications and such.
Thanks for the help in advance.
slixzen said:
Hey,
I purchased a used Nexus 5, 32GB edition (I think the model is D821) as my then current phone (a Samsung Galaxy S4) somehow had a magically broken screen after setting it down on a bed. I have since been able to access my old phone, but it isn't usable as a daily handset.
Anyways, wen I first obtained this phone, I wanted to be safe so I unlocked the bootloader, downloaded the necessary tools to use adb/fastboot, wiped the phones storage, and then flashed the latest version 5.0.1 LRX22C. After installing the normal things I had on my old phone and rooting the device, I have noticed that I get an absurdly abnormal amount of force closes. Mainly dealing with the launcher.
On a daily basis, the launcher, and it seems to mainly ONLY be the launcher (either Google Launcher or Nova, it isn't application specific) force close, freeze, or become unresponsive. I can come to this conclusion on the following basis:
1) The launcher screen shows the background, but doesn't show the dock or any of the shortcut/widgets on the launcher
2) All I can see is a black screen and the notification bar/tab. This is sometimes evaded by switching to the recent apps button and then switching back using the home button.
3) It will show the screen with all applications, but won't swipe between home screens.
There is no major physical damage to the device, there is a hairline crack from the previous owner.
I am guessing that I could go through the process of downloading the firmware and reflashing it, but I was wondering if anyone had ideas on how to solve it, besides flashing the device immediately. I don't want to go through the hassle of flashing firmwares and setting up a device again, especially during finals week. The problem is annoying enough that it would make me post this, but not annoying enough to spend an entire afternoon dealing with that and re-configuring applications and such.
Thanks for the help in advance.
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How did you install the stock firmware? Have you tried wiping cache and dalvik cache in recovery? I'd do that first, and if that doesn't work then try dirty flashing the same ROM (you won't lose anything). If you are still having issues after then flash a factory image with fastboot (do NOT use a toolkit). That should fix it.
_MetalHead_ said:
How did you install the stock firmware? Have you tried wiping cache and dalvik cache in recovery? I'd do that first, and if that doesn't work then try dirty flashing the same ROM (you won't lose anything). If you are still having issues after then flash a factory image with fastboot (do NOT use a toolkit). That should fix it.
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I know this is a very late response.
The initial way that I installed the stock firmware was using fastboot, and installing each .img file separately.
I just re-flashed the factory image again (except for the recovery image), and am waiting for the phone to boot up (it seems like it takes ages for the phone to actually go from fresh install to fully booted), it has been over a 5 minutes now.
But once that is done, I will see what happens. Is there a way to check for bad hardware (I am specifically thinking flash storage)? Maybe that is causing the problem?
Hello,
When Lollipop was announced, they said that it should run smoothly even on lower-end phones (lower than the Moto G, which is what I own). I have tried numerous official releases of 5.x ROMs, but they all seem to have the same problem:
They don't work.
Well, they do work.. kind of. I mean, it boots up, works for about one hour, and then this starts happening:
Apps in the background crash one after another, until they are all displayed as Restarting
Apps with background upload processes such as Pushbullet do NOT work anymore (For example, Pushbullet shows the uploading file notification when I send something, but the process is immediately killed, and the upload never happens. Apps like WhatsApp do not display any more notifications either, since all the services are displayed as Restarting)
The Music app is killed randomly, just because
Apps in the foreground close randomly
Home screen almost always gets killed upon entering ANY application
After one day of usage without a reboot, multitasking completely disappears (i.e. you switch to an app and the previous one just gets killed instantly)
Since almost every non-system critical process gets killed, apps take forever to load
..but it has a new and smooth UI, horray.
Now, I know that this is caused by some memory leak, but I've seen Lollipop on other phones (even the Moto G 2nd generation), and it runs perfectly.
I've gotten tired of having to cope with my phone performing like a Symbian phone from 2008, is there ANY Lollipop ROM for this phone that works?.
Thanks in advance for any tips
Oh and, here's the video that shows how each and every application looks like in the first 10-30 seconds after I open / switch to it:
Looks like I am not yet allowed to link any outside website. Well, just in case you want to see how my phone screen looks like when I use it, the video ID on youtube is KRzvJLc78BA
xD great video
Anyway this happen with custom roms, dont? i mean, should work if you do wipes, etc
PD: i dont installed any rom in my phone (warranty ) but i installed lollipop in a lg l9 and works fine without any problem and very smooth
Have you tried BlissPop or Candy5?
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I really like stock CM12. It's fast, stable, and apps rarely crash.
I have been using cm12 for over 2 months on my Moto G 1st gen now. I have rarely to never experienced any app crash or basically any problem at all. Even the memory leak is fixed by an app called Moto G Multitasker. Just do a clean flash of cm12 (wipe data/factory reset + wipe dalvik + wipe cache) and I'm sure you'll have no problems.
Hi!
I have a third generation Motorola Moto G with 1 GB RAM. I bought it a few days ago, it's brand new, original Android 5.1.1 is on the phone.
The phone has some problems:
- sometimes SwiftKey doesn't react when I start writing... and it might take several minutes
- occasionally when I quit from somewhere, the phone freezes, it takes few seconds, then restart
- I don't get notifications when I get new messages in Messenger (I think it's not the phone's fault, Messenger has same bugs on other phones)
- when the Sleeping mode ends, the phone keep in quiet mode, and the alarm clock don't ring
I tried lots of things, but the phone has the same problems.
I hope you can solve my problems.
Thanks!
Sounds like every single "bug" you describe has absolutely nothing to do with the device, but rather the software you've got installed.
Yeah, these sound like software issues... I would factory default and try running it with just the embedded apps and see if your issues continue, which I suspect they will not. Then slowly add your apps back in a few at a time and try to see where the issue is coming from.
BTW, I use Swiftkey as well... never seen a delay at all, but I do have the 2GB RAM version.
Swiftkey used to be a good keyboard alternative but as far as I'm concerned, it totally sucks now. With the recent versions, I had delays so bad on both my phone and my Samsung tablet that I had to drop it. You can stop the keyboard problem by going stock or try another keyboard, there are tons out there. My favorite is Smart Keyboard Pro, no swipe, but I don't use swipe anyway.
Yesterday I tried a full factory reset, I did not keep any apps. I think it works.
I will install all applications step by step, and I can see which is the guilty.
Thanks the advices!
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And Touchscreen sucks. Ghost touch can be fixed by flashing old touch drivers, but the panel is insensitive and doesn't catch some of the strokes.
It's sort of laggy, when I want to tap on an app to open it, for example, it takes a few taps or sometimes just doesn't work at all.
The problem doesn't seem to be only on one area of the screen though, the whole screen has the same problem.
Haven't installed any recent updates or anything, in case that could be a cause of the problem. I've tried restarting the phone a few times and also wiping the screen but it hasn't worked.
I've also tried using the optimise and clean up options in the Phone Manager, but they haven't improved anything...
The screen was working like normal just this morning, but then around late afternoon the problem started.
I haven't installed a custom ROM or any other major modifications like that, by the way. The phone is pretty much the same as it was since I bought it. EMUI v8.0 and Android Oreo.
Try a factory reset?