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Scrolling smoothness

Some phones exhibit choppy scrolling, especially when navigating long web pages when multiple apps are running in the background. Rate this thread to express how you smooth scrolling feels on the Huawei Nexus 6P under such conditions. A higher rating indicates that scrolling is always buttery smooth, even when you're reading a 10,000 word article on "how to kiss a girl".
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Butter. Just butter. Maybe melted butter.

Very smooth scrolling.

Extremely smooth especially compared to the old Note 4 I used

It took three years but now Project Butter is here. This thing is smooth. Usually with AMOLED screens there's some ghosting and trailing of text when scrolling on a black background. It looks pretty choppy and I find this super annoying about the Note 4. The 6P doesn't have this problem. Scrolling looks buttery smooth even on an AMOLED black background.
I'll never leave Nexus with its, now, flagship competing camera.
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Smoothest phone I've used to date.

just one word: Excellent

Never had a phone as smooth as this

I compared it side by side to a Samsung Galaxy 6 and the 6P was noticeably slower to me than the Galaxy 6.

This phone is by far the smoothest and best device I've ever used. However, I do have issues with scrolling but it's only in apps that use the Android System WebView as the browser. Apps for me like Facebook and RedditIsFun that use this to open up external links like to jump around a lot with scrolling. If I use chrome it's completely smooth.
P.S. if you want a good chuckle, go check out the reviews of Android System WebView.
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fbihawk said:
This phone is by far the smoothest and best device I've ever used. However, I do have issues with scrolling but it's only in apps that use the Android System WebView as the browser. Apps for me like Facebook and RedditIsFun that use this to open up external links like to jump around a lot with scrolling. If I use chrome it's completely smooth.
P.S. if you want a good chuckle, go check out the reviews of Android System WebView.
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So I just uninstalled the updates for this app and everything is completely smooth. Weird.

Way smoother than I am at kissing girls, hence the article reading

Smoothest scrolling I've seen on an Android phone so far

Very smooth scrolling! Definitely outclasses the Zenfone 2 which I had attributed to having some of the smoothest scrolling I'd seen on an Android device beforehand.

superrr butery smoooth!

Awesome, the smooth is beyond godness

This telephone is really really smooth. The best on in my opinion, about that.

Butterlicious
Just a little smoother than my Nexus 4 that it replaced... Awesome... I am amazed that my Z3 compact behaves as if it has terrets in comparison to both (which is 2 years newer than my nexus 4).

It's okay.

Smoothest device I've used so far, only catch is when entering developer settings - can take a second or two to respond. Other than that, everything is awesome.

Hmm glad to see such good feedback on the scrolling smoothness. I bought a note 5 and was very disappointed. So glad to see positive reviews.

Overall speed

Would you say that the OnePlus 5 is "fast" in day-to-day use? A higher rating indicates that you think the OnePlus 5 exhibits fantastic performance. Like, is it as fast as your tears when you watch The Titanic?
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My old phone which I had to replace as it got smashed had a Qualcomm MSM8996 Snapdragon 821 and I though that was fast until I got a OnePlus+ 5 which is in another league.

Well, i am impressed by the overall speed and snapiness (coming from an exynos galaxy s7).
This thing can handle much without overheating! (A nightmare for galaxy s users)

I simply love my experience so far with my OP5.. It is fluid, fast especially considering Android, bright screen, lightning fingerprint.. Coming from s7 edge only 2 months old which was so laggy after installing all the apps.. Hope Android O and other releases allows us to stay smooth and save battery, I may not change my phone for a year (can't say for longer [emoji16])
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for me the backups in twrp and titanium are noticeably faster as is a normal boot. i have yet to get rid of encryption but i think that will add further performance increase.

Looks like i am the only one from "humble" beginnings here. ??. I had a A5 2015 , i thought it was good and not that slow , i was gonna buy s8+ but then i saw op5 and omg its soooo much faster than a5 i am glad i bought oneplus .

I had a Nexus 6 before with overlocked CPU custom Kernel and lineage os on the board, oneplus 5 everything stock, no root, is insanely faster and the battery is much better, i lovee this phone

Awesome

sounds nice

Nice ! i also like it
DSF said:
Well, i am impressed by the overall speed and snapiness (coming from an exynos galaxy s7).
This thing can handle much without overheating! (A nightmare for galaxy s users)
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Thanks for sharing !

Blazing fast
Compared to all the flagships I have ever had my hands on, the OnePlus 5 is the best of all, HTC U11 is very simillar in terms of overall performance.

XDA_RealLifeReview said:
Would you say that the OnePlus 5 is "fast" in day-to-day use? A higher rating indicates that you think the OnePlus 5 exhibits fantastic performance. Like, is it as fast as your tears when you watch The Titanic?
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Hehe nice quote there 'Like, is it as fast as your tears when you watch The Titanic?'.
Any way, I have the OP2 and some of my colleagues and friends have OP5.
When i used it for the first time, it was like you drive a brand new car..
The fingerprint is much fast and recognizes allmost 99 percent of the time.
After checking benchmarks on it, i was totally in love so i diceded to buy him ASAP.
Actually at this moment i'm waiting because there are rumours of a new version with extended battery etc..

8gb RAM version is quick. Really quick.

I'd love to try using one plus 5 which is said to have great speed. However, I am still confused to use it, while I still have galaxy s8 phones, which memilliki OS and spare parts are no less far away with others.
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I m using 6gb version and till date I haven't faced any hiccup of performance lagness etc nothing

Just a Wow phone
This is the phone I would buy again n again irrespective of its successor Oneplus 5T.

Overall speed

Would you say that the OnePlus 6T is "fast" in day-to-day use? A higher rating indicates that you think the OnePlus 6T exhibits fantastic performance. Like, is it as fast as your tears when you watch The Titanic?
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Holy crap is this fast

The device speed is very high.
Antutu,, score 298000

The reviews say it all! Fast as a Japanese, nay Chinese Bullet train. So far a mere hearsay, would test the speed hands-on soon.

Like any SD845, 6GB phone, its smooth and fast as hell. To be expected.

As I stated to a friend who is debating the purchase, the speed is much more than the processor. The animations seem to be designed to make apps appear as through they are opening right away. For example, touching on the notifications uses an animation that expands from the middle of the screen, and then the app is opened by the time the animation ends.

Ridiculous speed.

10/10 and the best of all Android smartphones!

It's not fast, it's instant!

No lag AT ALL, no matter what I am doing.

The fastest phone ever had. My 6T can easily Keep up with an iPhone XS Max.

NO Headphone Jack 3.5 !!

Before i was thinking: it's the same as op6. It's faster.

khalisee said:
Yes that can be a deal breaker if you listen to music a lot. But other than that this device is a BEAST .
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there is no room for tolerance of this retarded move of removing highly desirable feature on the phone for which I am paying high dollar.
hopefully Samsung will not turn to be retarded as Google, oneplus and many others companies who treat their customers as trash !!
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Dont worry even I wish Samsung will not remove the Headjack. But I am not sure about S10 they have removed in their A8s I think.
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they did not !!
Nic2112 said:
I have the OnePlus 6T (8gm RAM) and the Note 9 with me right now (testing devices for our BYOD policy) and side by side, it's simple, the 6T is faster at everything. Opening apps, screen animations, benchmark scores, everything I compared side by side had the same result; the 6T is faster.
There is a cost to the speed though compared to the Note 9. You get about 10% less battery, 1080p screen instead of 1440, no wireless charging, no headphone jack, single rear camera and only one (bad) built-in speaker, no always on display, no notification led...
It's not all bad though, you gain the in-screen fingerprint reader, you have a smaller/thinner phone but same screen size, you can get 8gb or even 10gm of memory for much cheaper than Note 9, and a leaner OS.
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did you flash custom ROM ??
cause Samsung has terrible, one of the worst software on the market !!
I cannot understand the reason why sams cannot just simply provide AOSP out of the box !!
at least for those who net it, it's so easy to that special AOSP edition !!

I have the OnePlus 6T (8gm RAM) and the Note 9 with me right now (testing devices for our BYOD policy) and side by side, it's simple, the 6T is faster at everything. Opening apps, screen animations, benchmark scores, everything I compared side by side had the same result; the 6T is faster.
There is a cost to the speed though compared to the Note 9. You get about 10% less battery, 1080p screen instead of 1440, no wireless charging, no headphone jack, single rear camera and only one (bad) built-in speaker, no always on display, no notification led...
It's not all bad though, you gain the in-screen fingerprint reader, you have a smaller/thinner phone but same screen size, you can get 8gb or even 10gm of memory for much cheaper than Note 9, and a leaner OS.

Nic2112 said:
I have the OnePlus 6T (8gm RAM) and the Note 9 with me right now (testing devices for our BYOD policy) and side by side, it's simple, the 6T is faster at everything. Opening apps, screen animations, benchmark scores, everything I compared side by side had the same result; the 6T is faster.
There is a cost to the speed though compared to the Note 9. You get about 10% less battery, 1080p screen instead of 1440, no wireless charging, no headphone jack, single rear camera and only one (bad) built-in speaker, no always on display, no notification led...
It's not all bad though, you gain the in-screen fingerprint reader, you have a smaller/thinner phone but same screen size, you can get 8gb or even 10gm of memory for much cheaper than Note 9, and a leaner OS.
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- Not sure if the 10% less battery size equates into less battery life (standby and/or SOT).
- As for the screen...if you're not holding it up to a QHD phone, you're eyes quickly adjust. It's not close to the difference between 720p & 1080p.
- Depending on how you use the phone, wireless charging is a wash. Your battery life will certainly compensate. Aside from ashetics (less visible cords with wireless charging), there is almost no benefit over wired charging, especially at these charging speeds.
- Single (bad) speaker? Agreed, except that I feel that the speaker is actually pretty good. Dual speakers would've been boss, though.
For me, the main things that I missed out from with the Note 9 is the dual speakers and the pen. I LOVED using the pen (I came from the Note 8). There are countless times where I was using the phone, and I needed to take a quick note like a confirmation number or phone number. But aside from those two things....I'm good with the 6T. VERY good with the 6T. Like, no "new phone fever" good with the 6T. Simplicity is key, and it delivers on that front.

Great performance!

Fastest phone I've ever used!

Yes, this is the fastest phone in android right now. But an iphone can beat in milliseconds.
The reason is all android apps and IOS apps all are implementing above kernel version.
But in iOS it was directly build in kernel and In android it was build under java
So the runtime application may take some time.in android apps
But the time is not noticeable.

frederick.joe said:
Yes, this is the fastest phone in android right now. But an iphone can beat in milliseconds.
The reason is all android apps and IOS apps all are implementing above kernel version.
But in iOS it was directly build in kernel and In android it was build under java
So the runtime application may take some time.in android apps
But the time is not noticeable.
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I beg to disagree. iOS apps on average are bigger than on Android. For example, Facebook in Android is about 50 megabytes when in iOS is about 500 megabytesb thus taking longer to launch on iOS.
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Community development strength

You're a power user. Can the Samsung Galaxy A70 keep up? Rate this thread to express how "healthy" the development scene is for the Samsung Galaxy A70. A higher rating indicates available root methods, kernels, and custom ROMs.
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You're a power user. Can the Samsung Galaxy A70 keep up? Rate this thread to express how "healthy" the development scene is for the Samsung Galaxy A70. A higher rating indicates available root methods, kernels, and custom ROMs.
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Very poor as of now. Hope the situation improves soon

I use this phone for graphic designing & klwp interface creation. + video editing and gaming.
I've been using nova launcher and klwp on my phone. It handles all and any task I throw at it without any issues. Great phone...

The hardware is Ok i guess. But One UI...... isn't ok at all... below is my Play store comment which i left for Samsung One UI (1 star obviously):
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Really slow compared to Huawei's EMUI launcher or any other. I expected One UI to run much smoother and faster. Slow when searching from home (searching anything); even inside the phone settings, let's say I type any keyword, the loading circle spins at least 3 times before the first result shows up (in EMUI, AOSP, Microsoft launchers everything is fast and instant). If you swipe down at Homescreen, keyboard doesn't display automatically. All in all experience, very laggy. I hate it.
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which is why im waiting for some stable and official Lineage Rom.... I simply cant stand the software part.

Strenght is weak now :/ ... seems A70 is quite difficult device to work with and probably there is no big chance to get better --- without device seeding program like Xiaomi do on XDA .

Question What do you think about the Tegra 2 chip in this phone?

I've seen that it's relatively low powered compared to the competition, but I also own the iPhone 14 pro Max which has the must powerful mobile chip known to man and my findings are that it feels just as fast, possibly faster sometimes due to snappier animations, at least it seems that way to me personally.
When comparing opening times for graphic intensive games and such, of course the iPhone wins but in day to day use, it feels like commonly used apps open as fast or faster and are generally really smooth, definitely not underpowered.
I haven't really used the cameras too much but it does look like the chip does a great job at processing the photos from the average camera hardware.
I like the autotranslate stuff that it can do.
What are your thoughts and findings?
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Additionally, off topic kinda, as much as apple use super high quality components for ram, having double ram in this phone than the iPhone is very noticeable too! No app reload problems whatsoever on this! They're rare in the iPhone but they happen and often at annoying times.
Additionally (2), iPhone is awesome but the Pixel is winning meo ver in many ways.

It's not Tegra, it's Tensor.
I do agree with your performance rundown though. Coming from a OnePlus 9 with a processor that's superior on paper, I have been quite happy with the Pixel 7 Pro, as it has none of the random lags and frame rate drops that plagued the OnePlus 9. The cameras are MUCH better as well.
Don't get me started on how awful the OnePlus 9 was with RAM management. Sometimes I couldn't even log in to sites because I would switch apps to get my 2FA code and the web page would reload. Thankfully, none of that here. In fact I'm rather amazed sometimes when I leave an app and come back 12 hours later and it's still running despite me doing a ton of stuff inbetween.

EtherealRemnant said:
It's not Tegra, it's Tensor.
I do agree with your performance rundown though. Coming from a OnePlus 9 with a processor that's superior on paper, I have been quite happy with the Pixel 7 Pro, as it has none of the random lags and frame rate drops that plagued the OnePlus 9. The cameras are MUCH better as well.
Don't get me started on how awful the OnePlus 9 was with RAM management. Sometimes I couldn't even log in to sites because I would switch apps to get my 2FA code and the web page would reload. Thankfully, none of that here. In fact I'm rather amazed sometimes when I leave an app and come back 12 hours later and it's still running despite me doing a ton of stuff inbetween.
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RAM management is what I hated the most about the OP9 Pro. Closing a bunch of background stuff to give the illusion of efficiency and battery life drove me crazy.

My Pixel 5 (SD765G) always felt snappy and certainly didnt feel slower than the Oneplus 7T (SD855+) it replaced so Tensor not being top of the heap is no problem whatsoever, in the real world you just wont notice even if benchmarks make it look like a snail.

K1nsey6 said:
RAM management is what I hated the most about the OP9 Pro. Closing a bunch of background stuff to give the illusion of efficiency and battery life drove me crazy.
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Oh yeah it was insanely frustrating, especially because my OnePlus 9 didn't have the most amazing battery despite the heavy RAM management!

K1nsey6 said:
RAM management is what I hated the most about the OP9 Pro. Closing a bunch of background stuff to give the illusion of efficiency and battery life drove me crazy.
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It's called the iPhone philosophy. The multi-tasking of Apple phones is absolute toilet, then people bang on about the battery life that results from the aggressive background app management. Yup, but at what cost?

MrBelter said:
My Pixel 5 (SD765G) always felt snappy and certainly didnt feel slower than the Oneplus 7T (SD855+) it replaced so Tensor not being top of the heap is no problem whatsoever, in the real world you just wont notice even if benchmarks make it look like a snail.
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It's crazy! It feels way faster than my iPhone which has the most powerful mobile chip known to man, the only reason I'm not switching over to have the pixel as my main phone is because the iPhone is linked to all my other devices like Mac and iPad.... But, dang, I'm totally won over by this device!