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Its free from the amazon app store.
Dont even know it it works, ill update once i find out.
get it while its still free
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So after downloading a playing there seems to be a few issues.
Should be noted Im Running Vegan-G
Game works.
Looks very low res
The background does not render only active areas are rendered.
i.e. first level, the only thing i can see is a strip of grass and the rest of the UI. everything else is black
Game freezes after a few levels...
Pretty much on par with what everyone else is saying...
Game runs fine on my Nexus S, including the background...
i was honestly expecting more from a known dev like Popcap
After it crashed my tablet the first time I tried to play it, the game runs perfectly. I'm running Vegan 5.1.1 if anyone is curious. Now just if Popcap would bring tablet support to chuzzle.
Amazan dont supply my region where i live. maybe someone can post apk for Plants vs Zombies.
Thanks.
Been waiting for this one to hit android. Awesome that it is free for today.
I think because it is really a paid app, you are out of luck getting it posted here for download. Usually the mods frown on that sort of thing.
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Amazan dont supply my region where i live. maybe someone can post apk for Plants vs Zombies.
Thanks.
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That would be against XDA's rules.
My whole family is addicted to this game. I have it on Mac and I installed Wine on my Ubuntu laptop just for this game. I was really looking forwards to it on my android devices.
Unfortunately, like some other thinks, actually getting it is not as good as the desire.
The app the make you download for the Android store is a pain. It's slow and clunky. Looks like they are using an internal flash or Java or something. The actual download was pretty slow too.
It runs on the G-Tablet, but it is not tablet optimized. It's just larger. Some effects are a little slow. Definitely not optimized for the G-Tablet's hardware.
Update: I'm running CM 7.03.
Worse than that, it seems to crash (freeze) after about 2 levels. I need to play more to see if it is just time, or a certain game event or action.
Edit: Since flash works, you can play the on-line version as long as you have 'net access, but it's only the first few levels. Just go to pop cap games.
It seems to just freeze a lot for me too. Sorta sad. Seems like popcap can do better.
Doesn't work for me
Unplayable for me--opens sometimes, but freezes or crashes before the actual game ever loads. I'm running Vegan 5.1 with Pershoot's kernel. So disappointed!
A good reason to play with different mods/kernels.
Force Closes and reboots tablet. Is anyone running CM7 playing this?
I'm running a cm7 nightly build from a few days ago. The game plays a bit for me but randomly freezes all the time (the music keeps playing), requiring a force close.
I pulled the .apk from my phone with the intent of copying it to my Dell Streak without having to infect the Streak with the Amazon Store.
Plants vs. Zombies checks for the Amazon App, and that the Amazon app has your Amazon user ID and password. If this check fails, it freezes with a black screen, and may be continuing to use battery. It also seems to need an internet connection to authenticate, at least initially.
If you do not want the Amazon app, or for some reason it becomes inoperable, apparently, all purchased Amazon apps will stop working.
I find this totally unacceptable, and IANAL, but this seems to me like at least pretty close to illegal "Tying".
Besides, at least so far, neither of the 2 tied apps seem to work very well. I recommend against installing either app at this time.
This is the worst (OK, not as bad as the Sony rootkit fiasco, but close) kind of DRM/Defective by Design
I hope somebody that can un-dex fixes this, but until then, as far as I am concerned, we don't really have PvZ for Android.
Unistalled the App and the Amazon Store App.
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I'm running CM 7.03.
Worse than that, it seems to crash (freeze) after about 2 levels. I need to play more to see if it is just time, or a certain game event or action.
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Same here. I can play one level fine. I go to the next level and it freezes before I beat that level.
Is there a fix? I was playing with my processor speed, but so far, I haven't found one that will play the game well. I don't know if processor speed matters that much, but I will keep messing with it.
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Processor speeds between 600mHz and 1200mHz don't help. The game crashes for me every time on level 1-9.
It's locking up for me too after a couple of levels in.
I'm running Vegan.
Running TNTLite 4.4.0. Game keeps randomly freezing, sometimes even before getting to the intro screen. Can't really play it.
Vegan 5.1.1 here, and same issues.
Freezes partway through a level, or right after finishing a level.
Works perfect on my Samsung GalaxyS though.
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I pulled the .apk from my phone with the intent of copying it to my Dell Streak without having to infect the Streak with the Amazon Store.
Plants vs. Zombies checks for the Amazon App, and that the Amazon app has your Amazon user ID and password. If this check fails, it freezes with a black screen, and may be continuing to use battery. It also seems to need an internet connection to authenticate, at least initially.
If you do not want the Amazon app, or for some reason it becomes inoperable, apparently, all purchased Amazon apps will stop working.
I find this totally unacceptable, and IANAL, but this seems to me like at least pretty close to illegal "Tying".
Besides, at least so far, neither of the 2 tied apps seem to work very well. I recommend against installing either app at this time.
This is the worst (OK, not as bad as the Sony rootkit fiasco, but close) kind of DRM/Defective by Design
I hope somebody that can un-dex fixes this, but until then, as far as I am concerned, we don't really have PvZ for Android.
Unistalled the App and the Amazon Store App.
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Wow. I just did the same thing. I re-installed the Amazon app store to get PvZ and it told me I had updates to the 3 angry birds I had previously installed through Amazon market in the first week it released. I installed pvz and updated the angry birds apps. Pvz crashes as soon as you try to click on options and after 5 tries to play I made it ababout 30 seconds into the second lvl it locks up. Uninstalled pvz and the Amazon market app. Then I went to check out the updates to my angry birds and it tells me I need to install the Amazon app.
This was not an issue before, the update that was done only made it so I can't play my games without having the Amazon app installed, which by the way always is running in the background.
F~ those guys dude. This skates on the border of illegal and is completely annoying. Way to ruin a good thing Amazon.
Thankfully I have my angry birds backed up with titanium.
works for me using bos 3.3.I will try to play more levels so far I have played 6 levels with no problem. First time i tried it frooze my tablet. had to turn it off then try again. works fine for now.
if only I could get around the bos 3.3 wifi error...
still having troubles with this game. everything else works so well on aosp.
Running Vegan Ginger and a couple freezes and FC's later, it seems to have smoothed out. Works just fine on G2x.
I have no issue with the Amazon AppStore being on here
No dice on BoS/HC 2.4. Installs fine, starts up fine, then freezes.
Popcap officially released Plants vs Zombies for Android through the Amazon App Store. It's free today, but it is a huge download at 73mb, so it has to be over WiFi.
Now, it says that it won't work for our Aria, but I've managed to play through the first 11 levels with relative ease. My phone's OCed to 806, running CM7 nightly, with GO! Launcher Ex. The game looks great, and loads fine. I play through one level, and then go to the homescreen for a minute or so to let the phone cool down (yeah, it gets hot). Then I bring the app back up, and play through the next level.
If it ever gets choppy, I just hit the home button and wait for a few seconds, before resuming. I tried to play through multiple levels back-to-back, but it caused the OS to restart. Taking a break between levels seems to do the trick though.
Also, if you play while charging the phone, you might want to remove the battery cover to help cool it down, if you don't mind losing cell signal.
Yea I got it too, same setup as you w/ CM7 nightly & OC'd to 806. Runs nice and smooth.
Heat hasn't been the issue so much as memory. Every time I exit I have a Tasker low memory warning, and I've had the phone reboot while playing.
I'll try your suggestion of going back to the home screen between levels- also hitting the task killer right before playing to clear all the memory I can.
I got my Aria at the AT&T release last year, so the heat could just be because of the age.
I go into the task manager built into GO! and make sure there's at least 60mb free, and it does fine.
Made it through 21 levels so far without a hitch.
So I set VM heap to 48, and it seems to be helping. Not getting the low memory warning so much anymore. Still murder on the battery though.
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Nice games, takes a long big chunk to load but doesnt heats up my phone. But yes, it's a battery sucker. And phone just restarts with RobotekHD
I played through plenty of levels with CM7, phone OCD to 806, and it didn't restart, lag or anything. Smooth play
VM Heap is on 24.
Works perfectly on Gratia with CM nightly. There is only one bug: the game doesn't save volume settings.
i need zombie farm on android
hi, guys. Can anybody tell me the user save file location of this game? I want to flash my phone and I want to retain my game profile. Please help. Thanks in advance.
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Hi guys,
I've had my HTC One for over a year now and love it except recently it seems to have gone really slow / sluggish and visibly takes ages to do anything recently. For instance today in work I wanted to show someone a photo I took on my camera this morning... I went into the camera app and then clicked the thumbnail at the bottom to get to gallery and it must have taken 30 seconds to open the picture.... as much as I have iPhones, with them I have seen people click and it is pretty much instant....
I have updated it to the latest software (4.4.2) as soon as it was available a few months back and it is completely stock / unrooted etc.
Is there any way to either a) find out what is making it slow or b) get something to make it faster?
To note, I would rather not root / install a custom rom if I don't have to but if thats the only way then please do say so.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Did you install any new Apps that might be hogging resources?
There are process loggers and probably take a look at battery drain to identify apps.
I'd suggest to backup essential information (just in case) and perform a factory reset.
Thanks for the responses guys:
@gotcha69 - I install apps all of the time so it may well be this but I have no idea how to track down which one is at fault, shy of a very long process of installing everything one by one...
@davebugyi - can you recommend a process logger please? Looking at battery app usage this morning, 41% Google Play Services, 40% Android System, 5% MX Player and TV Catchup 2%... does any of that seem unusual?
Was watching a video on the way to work this morning and when I got there, pressed pause and it took a couple of seconds to actually stop the playback. I just cant get my head around a phone more powerful than most desktop/laptop computers from 3 years ago can be so sluggish for simple actions.
Definitely thinking about a factory reset - is there any way to backup apps on a non-rooted phone?
@gk141054 - I use only the built-in app in Android Tuner, but you can try OS Monitor or Elixir 2 or CPU Monitor.
For me GP services a bit too much in my opinion.
To back-up things you can use the accounts sync option on a non rooted device - copy all your stuff into a computer from SD Card, but nothing much can be done with apps. Maybe you can try HTC's backup app (can't help much, since I am rooted and using Titanium backup).
Check your media server
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Thanks for the responses guys:
@gotcha69 - I install apps all of the time so it may well be this but I have no idea how to track down which one is at fault, shy of a very long process of installing everything one by one...
@davebugyi - can you recommend a process logger please? Looking at battery app usage this morning, 41% Google Play Services, 40% Android System, 5% MX Player and TV Catchup 2%... does any of that seem unusual?
Was watching a video on the way to work this morning and when I got there, pressed pause and it took a couple of seconds to actually stop the playback. I just cant get my head around a phone more powerful than most desktop/laptop computers from 3 years ago can be so sluggish for simple actions.
Definitely thinking about a factory reset - is there any way to backup apps on a non-rooted phone?
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I've been having a bunch of trouble recently on my HTC One... some app update (I suspect Twitter for various reasons) has been causing my HTC's media scanner to go crazy, frequently hogging 25% CPU and causing 15% logcat (as measured by CPU Monitor).
I finally solved the problem seemingly by force closing the media server, clearing its data, force stop twitter, clear its cache, and delete it's cache folder (Android/data/...twitter/cache). For good measure, I also cleared .thumbnails (DCIM/.thumbnails, use ES file manager and enable hidden files).
Your mileage may vary...
- Zuki
gk141054 said:
Thanks for the responses guys:
@gotcha69 - I install apps all of the time so it may well be this but I have no idea how to track down which one is at fault, shy of a very long process of installing everything one by one...
@davebugyi - can you recommend a process logger please? Looking at battery app usage this morning, 41% Google Play Services, 40% Android System, 5% MX Player and TV Catchup 2%... does any of that seem unusual?
Was watching a video on the way to work this morning and when I got there, pressed pause and it took a couple of seconds to actually stop the playback. I just cant get my head around a phone more powerful than most desktop/laptop computers from 3 years ago can be so sluggish for simple actions.
Definitely thinking about a factory reset - is there any way to backup apps on a non-rooted phone?
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I have the same lag issues on my M7 as well GK, did you ever find a solution?
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I have the same lag issues on my M7 as well GK, did you ever find a solution?
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I had definitely the same issues with my HTC One M7. I identified Mediaserver as the source of the problem. Mediaserver regularly scans all files on the device.
What I did to get rid of the problem is installing SD Maid (Pro) (no rooted device needed!). Scanning and deleting all the trash files that accumulated in the last 2 years freed about 2 GB of space!
Since then no lag on my HTC One was encountered!
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Hello,
I've updated my Nexus 7 first-gen recently to Android 5.0 and since than have spent a good amount of time using it. I use the tablet for work and fun through out my whole day, so snappiness is a big factor for me. With the 4.4 update, the tablet just got a lot slower, sometimes I needed to wait for a few seconds before I am able to kill a task. Clearing cache didn't fix the issue.
Made me think about that 5.0 update a lot. (Note that I actively started using the tablet only a few months ago. I had it for 2 years but broke the screen 3 weeks after buying it and only now I decided to repair it.)
The 5.0 update it self took a good 45 minutes. When I loaded it up for the first time, man it was buggy, I couldn't complete a single task without it bugging out. All of the Apps and settings were there untouched. The first thing I did, was go into recovery mode and cleared the cache. Then I cleared the cache for every individual app. And that boosted the performance by 100%. Next, the animations, I cut them down to 0.5x and turned on GPU rendering (just for testing) turns out that helped out a lot. I didn't notice a difference in load times, like some articles suggested.
However there are a few quirks, the sound lags behind the slider, so if I crank up the volume to MAX it will take a moment to do so. I often found my self having to tap the apps drawer button more than once to open it. And the killing of tasks is not as easy as before, now you have to slide from one side to the other in order to kill a task you can't just kick it to the side. Also, the auto-brightness is really aggressive so I disabled that. The WiFi status, when you click on a WiFi connection seems to be broken since in portrait mode all the letters are separated, and at first I couldn't make out any of it. And the biggest downer for me is the keyboard, I think they didn't do any favors with it. I have larger thumbs and it will take some time getting used to the keyboard. These are all small things, but they affect my experience.
Now the good stuff, where do I begin? The interface, it's great I like the design and the contrasts. Performance, I guess that's the biggest question since this is not exactly cutting edge hardware. To summarize it, it's good. I haven't had any issues since I cleared the cache, apps are running as they should, games as well, multitasking is as expected, fluid. Later on I switched the animations to 1.5x and 2.5x. no issues there. Boot up times, something completely irrelevant to me, but since there are people that would like to know, it takes around 30-40 seconds to boot up. However, Chrome is still the biggest enemy. If you want something to make your tablet miserable and make you wait and get frustrated because of it's unresponsiveness, you won't need to search far, just get Chrome.
All in all, the update was a step up, and an improvement.
These were my 2 cents on the subject. Hope it was of use to someone.
thanks for the review. I also updated a few days ago when the ota came through. So far, I'm experiencing terrible lag. I don't have anything stored on the N7 and don't have many apps. There is a ton of available storage on my 32gb. I did a factory rest about 3 months ago, as I like to every now and then to give the N7 a fresh start. I think I may have to yet again and keep my fingers crossed. Unfortunately, it's unusable at this point.
My experience has been variable, but not unexpected. In the past I have had issues with installing OTAs resulting in poor performance -- sluggish response to touch, certain apps immediately displayed odd lag, etc. Going from 4.4.4 to 5.0 was no different. So, I performed a factory reset and the effects were stark. The performance is exactly where you would expect it to be for Lollipop i.e. it is smooth.
HOWEVER, all is not well. There seems to be a set of problems that I suspect is related to Lollipop utilizing the ART runtime. Certain apps, even before performing a factory reset, were really really slow when running the first time. I have experienced this before: when I tried out ART when it became available on the Galaxy Nexus. Two common apps this occurs with are Facebook and Mint. Who's to blame? The app developers? Google? Don't know but hopefully these issues get resolved soon.
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thanks for the review. I also updated a few days ago when the ota came through. So far, I'm experiencing terrible lag. I don't have anything stored on the N7 and don't have many apps. There is a ton of available storage on my 32gb. I did a factory rest about 3 months ago, as I like to every now and then to give the N7 a fresh start. I think I may have to yet again and keep my fingers crossed. Unfortunately, it's unusable at this point.
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Ugh, that is quite an issue. Have you tried wiping the cache? You should check your usage, you might be able to find out what's hogging your system, unless it's the OS it self.
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My experience has been variable, but not unexpected. In the past I have had issues with installing OTAs resulting in poor performance -- sluggish response to touch, certain apps immediately displayed odd lag, etc. Going from 4.4.4 to 5.0 was no different. So, I performed a factory reset and the effects were stark. The performance is exactly where you would expect it to be for Lollipop i.e. it is smooth.
HOWEVER, all is not well. There seems to be a set of problems that I suspect is related to Lollipop utilizing the ART runtime. Certain apps, even before performing a factory reset, were really really slow when running the first time. I have experienced this before: when I tried out ART when it became available on the Galaxy Nexus. Two common apps this occurs with are Facebook and Mint. Who's to blame? The app developers? Google? Don't know but hopefully these issues get resolved soon.
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I also tried out the ART on some devices, mine were not even supported. There were a lot crashes but I also noticed some performance improvements.
Does factory reset also wipe the cache?
My Lollipop experience with my 16 GB WiFi-only Grouper isn't as good as yours. First, I thought I messed something up by rooting it with NRT, but after a manual factory image (flash-all.bat failed out of the box) without root it didn't get any better.
Most time its not as responsive as my N5, I've already had 1-2 minute hangs followed by hung apps (Google Search/GNL, system in most cases) and heavy lagging under most conditions. From time to time its getting close to 75-80% of the smoothness experienced on the N5 (which has better hardware, of course).
I have no idea what went wrong, I've already enabled 2D GPU hardware acceleration, but I'll definitely wipe the cache in recovery once more - you never know...
Thanks for the extensive review - Chrome is just a pain in the a** if you don't have at least 2 GB memory available.
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I suggest wiping cache, because you get to keep your apps and settings.
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My Lollipop experience with my 16 GB WiFi-only Grouper isn't as good as yours. First, I thought I messed something up by rooting it with NRT, but after a manual factory image (flash-all.bat failed out of the box) without root it didn't get any better.
Most time its not as responsive as my N5, I've already had 1-2 minute hangs followed by hung apps (Google Search/GNL, system in most cases) and heavy lagging under most conditions. From time to time its getting close to 75-80% of the smoothness experienced on the N5 (which has better hardware, of course).
I have no idea what went wrong, I've already enabled 2D GPU hardware acceleration, but I'll definitely wipe the cache in recovery once more - you never know...
Thanks for the extensive review - Chrome is just a pain in the a** if you don't have at least 2 GB memory available.
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One thing I forgot to mention is that after the cache wipe the tablet was fairly fast but I also went into Settings > Storage, and noticed I have a lot of app data which frankly shouldn't be that much. I then went and cleared cache manually on every app and as it turns out, I managed to scrape off another 1GB there. So, I'm not sure how that would affect the overhaul system performance but it sure helped me get the snappiness I have right now.
Looks like wiping the cache had an impact on performance. I wasn't able to play around much, but it definitely felt faster after first reboot.
Too bad I just noticed my user partion only had 6,x GB (8 GB image obviously) - there are so many ways you could f**k up an Android system - so I'll have to format user data once more, approximately the third or fourth time in the last week.
Sometimes I understand why people fancy those awful Apple devices, but let's hope the speed boost persists.
Go in and delete all the apps in system folder that can be installed from play store and are not needed. After installing the lollipop images you have 11mb in system which seems to be main cause of lag. I freed up like 160 mb and no lag or stuttering. Not sure why google kept things like dialer and other things unusable on the tablet in there.
Also get now launcher and delete launcher.
For even better performance get faux kernel (Set kernel up to his recommendations) and/or install aosp 5.0 F2FS with minimal 5.0 gapps.
Oh I do have a problem with WiFi being weaker on 5.0 though.
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i am getting terrible lag too. last week i updated with the OTA file. wiping the cache improved performance but only for a short time. i guess eventually if ii want the speed back on my 2012 nexus 7 i am going to have to root and go back to jellybean
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Go in and delete all the apps in system folder that can be installed from play store and are not needed. After installing the lollipop images you have 11mb in system which seems to be main cause of lag. I freed up like 160 mb and no lag or stuttering. Not sure why google kept things like dialer and other things unusable on the tablet in there.
Also get now launcher and delete launcher.
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Thanks, that sped up things significantly. It's definitely a memory problem, because event on full stock setup you're getting glances of Lollipop smoothness.
But WTH is Google delivering a potentially lagging factory image? Couldn't they just resize /system by default in order to fit in all apps nicely? Well, that's Android - if it doesn't work, you have tons of options to fix it.
After my old N7 screen broke, I got a new refurbished 16GB unit for about US$100.
Had some bootloader issue earlier while trying to flash lollipop, and had to revert back to 4.2.2. Then it got all the OTA up to lollipop, and is running really well since.
Loving it now, better than most non-lollipop newer tablets around...
Lollipop is big disappointment. I hate new notification (double swipe down to access settings)
I am back on 4.4.4 Slimkat rom with Legokernel and f2fs
now is system smooth without lags
Listening to some of the advice in this thread, I rebooted into Recovery and wiped cache (I did it 3 times, because why not, right?)
In addition, I went into the developer settings and turned OFF "Force GPU".
After doing both of those, my performance seems to have greatly improved (specifically Chrome, which was borderline unusable).
For reference, I flashed the factory image from 4.4.4, and didn't get it OTA.
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Not any more! I have three new iOS devices and things are far, far worse since iOS 8 dropped. Apple now holds the lag crown. At least with Android you can revert back to earlier versions that worked. With Apple all you can do is whimper at the master's feet.
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Go in and delete all the apps in system folder that can be installed from play store and are not needed. After installing the lollipop images you have 11mb in system which seems to be main cause of lag. I freed up like 160 mb and no lag or stuttering.
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UTTER nonsense. Stop it. System being full affects nothing; it's read-only.
Is there a way to disable the storage encryption that is enabled by default? Disabling this apparently had huge performance upgrade for the nexus 6
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Lollipop is big disappointment. I hate new notification (double swipe down to access settings)
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Swipe once with two fingers.
I've done cleaned every thing in this ROM, repeatedly. Hopefully CM 12 will make it work!
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UTTER nonsense. Stop it. System being full affects nothing; it's read-only.
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understand what you are saying but after doing so i have no lag.
Have 2 x 2012 and both were lagging. After trying other things i deleted stuff in system and both are very smooth now. Very happy with them.
Even wiped and re installed one and just deleted stuff in system, to make sure it wasn't something else or a combo of things i did prior.
Hi Everyone. I'm relatively new here, but would appreciate any advice offered.
I've had my M7 for almost 2 years now, and it's been a great phone. My issue is that the phone seems to have randomly become very slow. When I got the phone, I was amazed at how quickly the phone booted. Now when I do a reset, it easily takes 2-3 times as long as it used to. More importantly, the phone will lag when turning on with the power button (to the point where I wonder if I hit the button hard enough, and push it again, causing the phone screen to come on then immediately go off). Responding to texts is slow, the keyboard will occasionally lag opening up. Texting is sometime laggy as well, with words not appearing for several seconds. Scrolling through web pages is also laggy at times. Gaming is relatively fine; I haven't noticed any slow down issues when playing, although I suppose games could load faster, but I can't notice if there is a difference from when I got the phone until now.
The phone has also gotten wonky with adjusting the volume. Sometimes I will try to adjust the volume, but it adjusts the app/games volume instead of the main/ringtone volume (when I'm not in an app or game).
I do have a lot of stuff on the phone, but routinely clean out photos and apps I don't use. I'm using 23.8 gigs out of the 32g available, so I should have plenty of space. I also close out apps regularly, so I don't think it is a memory loss issue.
I've wondered if it is the apps running in the background. It's hard to tell, as the biggest ram offender is "settings." Right now for example, settings is using 76MB of ram, but i have no idea why. I've closed all apps as well. I'm on AT&T, so of course I have a bunch of their crap running in the background, but most of it is relatively small.
I've thought about doing a factory reset, or even rooting, to see if that would help, before I decide to just go ahead and upgrade to a new phone. Any suggestions? Thanks for the help!
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Hi Everyone. I'm relatively new here, but would appreciate any advice offered.
I've had my M7 for almost 2 years now, and it's been a great phone. My issue is that the phone seems to have randomly become very slow. When I got the phone, I was amazed at how quickly the phone booted. Now when I do a reset, it easily takes 2-3 times as long as it used to. More importantly, the phone will lag when turning on with the power button (to the point where I wonder if I hit the button hard enough, and push it again, causing the phone screen to come on then immediately go off). Responding to texts is slow, the keyboard will occasionally lag opening up. Texting is sometime laggy as well, with words not appearing for several seconds. Scrolling through web pages is also laggy at times. Gaming is relatively fine; I haven't noticed any slow down issues when playing, although I suppose games could load faster, but I can't notice if there is a difference from when I got the phone until now.
The phone has also gotten wonky with adjusting the volume. Sometimes I will try to adjust the volume, but it adjusts the app/games volume instead of the main/ringtone volume (when I'm not in an app or game).
I do have a lot of stuff on the phone, but routinely clean out photos and apps I don't use. I'm using 23.8 gigs out of the 32g available, so I should have plenty of space. I also close out apps regularly, so I don't think it is a memory loss issue.
I've wondered if it is the apps running in the background. It's hard to tell, as the biggest ram offender is "settings." Right now for example, settings is using 76MB of ram, but i have no idea why. I've closed all apps as well. I'm on AT&T, so of course I have a bunch of their crap running in the background, but most of it is relatively small.
I've thought about doing a factory reset, or even rooting, to see if that would help, before I decide to just go ahead and upgrade to a new phone. Any suggestions? Thanks for the help!
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Plug the phone into your pc and copy the entire contins of the sdcard to a folder on your pc. when it's done do a factory reset from the bootloader
setup the phone as a new phone and only copy back the stuff you really need and use. This should be done about every 6 months in my opinion
How is your storage? I had the same symptoms a few months ago, and what fixed it was clearing up some space from the phone. It used to have only 2-3 GB space left, and when I removed all the media files I got 12-13 GB free space left, and suddenly the phone is back to snappy again!
When I encountered the same situation, I was rooted and running CM 12, but no amount of wipes would resolve the issue. What I did that resolved the issue was to load the RUU for my HBOOT version, re-root my One, change the system to S-Off (hence not updating the HBOOT version), and then reloading everything. In all honesty, it took about 8 hours if you include the banging my head against the wall trying to download the right files, but the performance is increased about 25%, with the battery performance having increased about 30%. Before, about 4 hours of activity would kill it, now she can handle 5 to 5:45 of activity. I was initially thinking about grabbing a new phone, but the change after reloading everything makes me think that another she'll be good for another year.