Lag Issue - Titanium system restore messup? - Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

My phone was running great until recently. Rooted the phone, etc, installed a lot of apps. The phone started running sporatically. When scrolling screens there are delays. When listening to scanner audio, it is choppy. My task switcher started acting up, the app that kills pocesses acting up, etc. I tried stopping apps to find what is causing this with no luck. I ran the one click lag fix still no change. The only thing i can think of is I restored system files with Titanium backup and read somewhere that was not a good thing to do. I am still on 2.1 maybe 2.2 will fix things if AT&T get around to it. Anyone have any ideas on where to look for the problem?

The OCLF is utter junk and does nothing but inflate Quadrant scores.

I was getting a message that SD card was corrupted. I formatted it and now system is much better although Visualtaskswitcher will not run...it hangs...which I can live without.
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[Q] What lag?

I've been reading all over these forums about a lagfix that is available, but I can't figure out why I need it. My Captivate seems incredibly fast in everything it does, including reading files off of very slow cards. Is there a way I can see this supposed lag manifest itself?
Run a crapload of apps on the phone. and then see if it comes up. You can even try to install more than 50 apps and see if it comes up. Not sure why you would wanna do this though
Tried that. I started up 22 different apps, one of which was Google Earth, then opened up a HD video to play. Not so much as a hiccup. And I only have a class 2 SD card.
I guess I should be glad that I have no discernible lag to fix.
There are a couple situations I have seen like adding things to the home screen and wakeup lag. Other than that the problem sneaks up during quadrant benchmarks causing the phone to hang really bad. The lag fix works but isn't gonna make it faster in every day situations other than the one or two places it acts up.
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Ohh I got it! Try to install more than 5 small apps at a time from the market. It always just hangs while they get installed
Sent from my phone so excuse the spelling errors
i barely noticed it too.. but I installed lagfix anyway lol .. as you keep using your phone more.. after you use the fix.. and revert back.. you somewhat notice differences in speed.. maybe it's just all in my head though

Random groups of apps failing suddenly at the same time.

Anyone heard of an issue where apps in internal storage just start fc'ing then are essentially deleted? I am running cm6 rc2 which I flashed about 6 weeks ago. I haven't had too many issues outside of the bugginess of the ads launcher which I replaced with launcher pro. This afternoon, I try to start up dogcatcher and it immediately force closes, I tried to access the podcast I was looking for through music mod and that fails as well. I thought I might need to reboot, but when I get back into the system two more apps fail as well as the original failed apps not working. Curious, I look in my application list and the apps are mostly gone except for a few apps that show the generic market app icon, which I take to mean corrupted apps. I was able to go into titanium and restore some of the apps to work again, but I have had a pop up stating mytracks has stopped working, but I haven't even started mytracks since the reboot. I guess what I am worried about is If my phone's internal storage is failing? Is it even possible? Any suggestions?
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I had the same thing happen, everytime I rebooted more apps would become corrupt, I was worried that my internal storage was failing, so I wiped everything and started again from scratch, and haven't had a problem since.
When you say start from scratch are you talking about reflashing cm6? I had been holding out since I have been reading about a lot of issues with the 6 stable version.
I formatted the phone, deleting cache and dalvic cache, and then reinstalled. I was using CM6 at the time so reflashed it, did everything by the book to be sure and it has been smooth sailing since.
Only time I have ever had this issue, on the N1 or G1 was after flashing a ROM and not wiping. Sometimes I could get away with it, sometimes not. Wipe and reflash is what I would do.
Hey Thanks guys.
I went ahead and wiped everything and started fresh with cm6 stable.
I am not sure what was going on . I had done a complete wipe and install from stock to rc2 and it worked great for 4-5 weeks. The only thing I could think of was possibly an issue with K-9 mail. One of things I saw happen fairly regularly (3-4 times a week) after rc2 was installed was that K-9 would suddenly just fc. That in and of itself wasn't too weird, but every time it would fc I would get a low space notification right after, where I kew I had 40-50 mbs of space free. Memory leak or something? Dunno.
All weirdness aside, so far CM6 stable is running great...
I've seen this happen when my the /cache filesystem was full. ('App not installed' , FCs etc). Run a 'df' command in a shell to check.
Clearing the cache would be a temporary solution. Moving the /cache to the sd card using DarkTremor Apps2SD is a permanent solution.
I currently have 178 apps.

Problem - Apps dissapeared, settings reverting to default.

Let's start with some basic information. I am running not rooted stock Froyo 2.2.1, Baseband version I9000XXJPY, Kernel version 2.6.32.9 [email protected] #1, Build number FROYO.XXJPY. Using stock TW Launcher.
In the morning I've moved couple of apps to SD card. Few hours later my battery went flat and the phone turned off. I've replaced the battery with a fully charged one and the phone was booting quite a while and when it finished it started with locale setting screen. At the same time several apps started to force close unexpectedly. When I went through all the initial settings the wallpaper was the same, icons and widget layout was the same. There were many apps missing (I reckon all of them were installed on the SD card). Many apps that remained were either force closing just after starting or had the settings reverted to defaults.
Some examples:
- Android Agenda widget was in its place but settings missing.
- I've reinstalled TwittCaster and moved to Phone - although it looks like the data/settings are being wiped after every phone restart and I need to put my login details every time.
It looks like many of the apps are reverting settings to default every time I restart the phone.
Both my external and internal cards seems fine, I can access and open files (e.g. photos and music) on them.
When I was trying to install some apps from the Market I was getting error messages that the app cannot be installed in the chosen destination, or there is not enough space. But after few tries I've managed to install them. As far as I know there should be quite a lot of available space.
I've tried to unmount/mount external card, take it out and in again. I've formatted cache partition from recovery mode. I've tried to clear RAM with Task Manager.
I would be grateful if someone could help me to diagnose the reason behind all this, help me to fix it and prevent it from happening in future. I really want to understand the problem and the trigger so I can avoid similar problems in the future
I will appreciate any help.
Thanks!
Sorry to bump, but this is really driving me mad.
It appears that I need to reinstall every app as they all closing unexpectedly on starting. after I reinstall them they loosing settings every time I restart the phone. Is it an external or internal card issue or maybe internal memory? Please help!
I have also noticed that Android Market is quite slow on me. Muc, much slower then before it ask happened.
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sounds like hardware failure to me. Its back to factory and exhibiting problems. Why not take it back and have it replaced/fixed?
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Strange problem this...
I guess format, reflash and clean install of apps would be a better option... instead of just re-installing apps...
I just wish to avoid sending it for a repair. This is a new replacement I get several days ago from Samsung, for which I was fighting for 4 months.
Anyway I will try to format and reset everything and build everything up from scratch. But if only I could understand how and why it happened maybe I would be able to prevent it from happening in the future.
Is there a special way I can format sd cards before installing and moving apis there?
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Help, tab very slow after 5-10min

After using my tab for 5-10min after a restart, my tab become very slow, to the point of it being unusable. I haven't installed any new apps, just updated some from marketplace, which I deleted. It started this morning. I'm running stock jjb Tmo usa. My tab is also rooted just to freeze some application with T. Backup.
Anyone else experience this? What could I try?
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install advanced task killer and check what you have running. Kill some apps and see which helps.
once you have found the cause uninstall it and find alternative, If its a system app freeze it or uninstall it with systemapp remover.
I hardreset my tab yesterday, I kept some apps using titanium backup, only the important stuff and I have to say, it's way much faster.
I had several lags and crashes but now Im good
Ok I did a hard reset and my tab was working fine for a few days and now it's back doing the same, going really really slow after a few min of using it. I killed all apps and not even a spec faster... Is it my tab? Should I format internal SD card?
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nysoprano said:
Ok I did a hard reset and my tab was working fine for a few days and now it's back doing the same, going really really slow after a few min of using it. I killed all apps and not even a spec faster... Is it my tab? Should I format internal SD card?
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Sorry to say but don't use Task Killer. It won't help since it only lists what is residing in memory without any other useful info on what to kill.
The most you can do with it , is blindly killing them which doesn't help with the performance or might break something else. The best alternative is Active Apps or watchdog lite which monitors application's CPU usage.
A tip if you just start Android,
Try to use back button ( Close Application) rather than Home ( Put application on standby mode). If you forgot to close applications, try to use Active Apps / Samsung Task Manager to see if anything is left running and close them.
Hope this helps.
Nope, still getting random slow downs. Anyone using launcher pro? After reset, my tab slows down after a few hours. Slow to the point of not being able to do anything but restart.
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nysoprano said:
Nope, still getting random slow downs. Anyone using launcher pro? After reset, my tab slows down after a few hours. Slow to the point of not being able to do anything but restart.
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Had my Tab for several months now using Launcher Pro and various roms without the problems you're having.
Are you using a custom kernel with overclocking and profiles? If so try reverting to stock speed (1000MHz) without profiles.
You could also try a full wipe and reinstall rom without any apps and see what happens. If ok install apps one at a time and test and see which app, if any, causes the problem
look in errlog
download error log from marked and see if u have continues errors.. close any 3d party apps and start the logger, then start any 3rd party 1by1 and see if it generates errors..
I'm running pure stock, us tmo jjb rom. I'm rooted but left rom alone. No overclocking either.
I downloaded log toast, anything special i should look out for? There's a lot of info, don't know what to make of it.
If It keeps happening, might just install new rom.
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Ok so i installed log toast and i was monitoring all the errors on my tab. After a fresh restart, i was looking at this thing get errors for:
E BluetoothAudioGateway.cpp(2573)
Pollhup detected
It kept showing over and over and over, but no slow down...I think it was because i had bluetooth turned on.
So right when it started to slowdown really bad, keep in mind that i kept it on the home screen and wasn't using it, just connected to charger and that's it, i started getting a new error message:
E IMGSRV(2497)
PVRSRVEventObjectWait Timeout!
Anyone know what this means??
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Ok so i installed log toast and i was monitoring all the errors on my tab. After a fresh restart, i was looking at this thing get errors for:
E BluetoothAudioGateway.cpp(2573)
Pollhup detected
It kept showing over and over and over, but no slow down...I think it was because i had bluetooth turned on.
So right when it started to slowdown really bad, keep in mind that i kept it on the home screen and wasn't using it, just connected to charger and that's it, i started getting a new error message:
E IMGSRV(2497)
PVRSRVEventObjectWait Timeout!
Anyone know what this means??
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maybe the rom that you have now has defects which is quite common. if I were you I would flash to overcome version which runs better or return that to samsung for checking.
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It's weird I have been experiencing the same type of things. I'm on defualt Verizon rom with superoneclick rooting. Everything else is stock. Started happening yesterday. Maybe it is linked to the update Verizon pushed out? I'm going to start looking into whether I received the update or not and work from there? Keep us posted nysoprano.
elnews said:
maybe the rom that you have now has defects which is quite common. if I were you I would flash to overcome version which runs better or return that to samsung for checking.
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tried searching for both ure errors, came up blank, even if they would repeat endlessly it would not slow the system down that mutch. U tried a factory data reset right? guess u could flash a alternative kernel/rom and look for same trouble if so u would assume hw problems? sorry for no straight answer.
Is Advanced task killer rubbish?
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install advanced task killer and check what you have running. Kill some apps and see which helps.
once you have found the cause uninstall it and find alternative, If its a system app freeze it or uninstall it with systemapp remover.
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Actually my experience with Advance Task Killer (ATK) is that there is never a remarkable improvement! When you kill apps listed as running sometimes freed memory report seem to be temperamental - reduced, no change, increase...
The shocking thing is that killed processes quickly reappears in the list again!
Is there a better app than ATK out there that truly terminates and frees memory?
Ta.
nysoprano said:
Ok so i installed log toast and i was monitoring all the errors on my tab. After a fresh restart, i was looking at this thing get errors for:
E BluetoothAudioGateway.cpp(2573)
Pollhup detected
It kept showing over and over and over, but no slow down...I think it was because i had bluetooth turned on.
So right when it started to slowdown really bad, keep in mind that i kept it on the home screen and wasn't using it, just connected to charger and that's it, i started getting a new error message:
E IMGSRV(2497)
PVRSRVEventObjectWait Timeout!
Anyone know what this means??
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I am having the identical issue. I have a completely stock AT&T tab (no root, no overclocking, no custom ROM, etc.) I have turned off Bluetooth, and it seems to have fixed the issue. Possibly a Samsung Bluetooth bug?

[Q] Is continuous media scan a JellyBean issue?

I recently moved to HellyBean. It has behaved fabulously on my Captivate. But I'm not sure I want to stay here because of one issue - without killing it (by hand or automatically), the media scanner runs continuously now (continuous 100% cpu usage). This takes the battery down really, really fast. When I have the process killed, battery life is extraordinary!
But I'd like to solve this if possible. Is there a chance it isn't HellyBean or JellyBean related (the way the multiple copies of music was an ICS issue)? The fact that no one else reports anything similar would make me think it's possible. If so, can anyone suggest what might be the issue.
Or what might be the other problems I might anticipate with the media scanner off. It sees my music, and seems to play everything. Camera works fine.
I did a scandisk of my removable SD, and it found no errors, and still gives the same issue on scanning - never stops.
This happened to me on GB with Corn Kernel 7.06a. I booted into recovery, cleared both dalvik cache and system cache, then booted and media scanner went through its startup normally.
you orobably know this:
it takes a long time to boot the first time after clearing caches. just wait for it to finish.
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Thanks for the idea. Thought I had probably tried it before, but it was worth another shot. Unfortunately, it didn't work. CPU usage still pegs out at 100% until I shut her down.
maybe try freezing media storage app with TiBu or system tuner then reboot. Then you can troubleshoot without cpu tied up?
have you booted with external sd card removed?
if you can't freeze it due to cpu tied up, then boot into recovery, turn off init.d, syscontrl tweaks, oc, and whatever else to see if it helps.
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laughingT said:
have you booted with external sd card removed?
if you can't freeze it due to cpu tied up, then boot into recovery, turn off init.d, syscontrl tweaks, oc, and whatever else to see if it helps.
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Two good ideas. The external sd was fine. But I had some crap in the init.d (I don't know how, I thought I had cleared it on the flash) that wasn't decipherable. Deleted that, booted up, and it's fine now. Mega thanks.
Problem is cleared - thread can be closed now, moderator.
I have this same issue on a Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy S II:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1884381
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1889331

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