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Daily usage for the LG 2x

Hi all,
For those already using the LG 2x as their daily phone, may i just ask how's the performance in terms of daily usage? Some reviews says it's speedy, so does benchmarks but i have also read reviews that said it should be much better considering that it's dual core and at times, there's some slight stuttering due to the custom froyo skin that LG has.
I'm presently using a Nexus S and it's smooth as butter running custom roms and oc kernel. I'll probably be able to sell off the phone at no loss and top up something like USD120 to get the LG 2x when it arrives in Singapore in the next 2-3 weeks.
Anyone here that have tried both phones and able to provide me with some insights on if i should bother switching? How's the real life use (browsing net, playing music, batt life while playing games etc) difference felt between the processing powers of the two phones?
As it is, the Nexus S can do everything i want except for those Tegra 2 only games. I don't really need a 1080 HD video capability, HDMI mirroring and the 16 Gig space, although limiting is not a deal breaker for me.
Has there been any indications that it'll be able to run custom roms and kernel soon? i know paul from modaco is looking into it at the moment.
Thanks all!

Hi there, I'm also considering between Nexus S and Optimus 2x.
Would appreciate any feedbacks from the users here.

About custom roms - Paul said yesterday that today would be available beta of clockworkmod for download, everything seems that O2X will be great phone for custom roms and stuff Probably there will be functioning Clockwork Mod and developers cooking even before you even get your O2x )

It is lightning fast, and much faster than the Nexus S on stock 2.3. I know because I tried them side by side.
The reviews are correct though, there is some stuttering. I'd say it's annoying as hell, but I'm an impatient guy when it comes to tech-gadgets. I'm sure it's only software issues that will be addressed, either by LG or by custom ROM's.
Sometimes it takes about 5-10 seconds to open the apps list when adding them to the home screen, and sometimes it's as quick as expected.
Sometimes it will stutter while scrolling but most of the time it's smooth as butter. You can clearly tell that there's nothing wrong with the performance because of the smoothness, but there are undoubtedly some serious flaws in the implementation causing intermittent stutter that needs to be addressed.
Playing games is as smooth as I've ever seen. It's simply amazing; There's no stutter or lag AT ALL, so the stuttering you see in the menus seem to be fairly isolated. So far I have tested Angry Birds and AB Rio in addition to Fruit Ninja + Samurai II from Tegra Zone. Samurai II on the TV looks better than a Wii game and is closer to PS3 to be honest.
Another evidence of the incredible performance is the Gallery app. My jaw dropped to the floor when I saw how quick and smooth it is. My Nexus One is like an old Sony Ericsson with Symbian in comparison. If you haven't tried an SE phone with Symbian, consider yourself lucky.

One thing also worth considering is the fact that Froyo is not really optimised for DualCore phones. When gingerbread hits the LG 2x then the speed difference between it and other single core phones should become even more apparent.

the only problem i have with o2x is LG's poor implementation of the LG skin on it. LG's UI w/c i believe can easily be fixed by tweaks/updates or custom roms. that's why im quite happy that g2x will come with vanilla android froyo.
hope LG recognizes the 'MINOR' flaws and stuttering when on the menu/app drawer. but besides that, all other things like browsing, gaming, camera, texting, calling etc are Great and is superior than any other phones in the market as of the moment.

MeX_DK said:
One thing also worth considering is the fact that Froyo is not really optimised for DualCore phones. When gingerbread hits the LG 2x then the speed difference between it and other single core phones should become even more apparent.
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Gingerbread isn't currently optimized to take advantage of the dual core devices either... Hence the information about a version 2.4 of Gingerbread dropping in April. http://goo.gl/b7P0g

I had mine for 8 days now and Im still not used to how fast it is!
My last phone was a HTC Hero, wich I really cant compare it to, but I have played around a lot with iPhone 4, Samsung Galaxy S and Desire HD and my phone eat em for breakfast. Mutitasking games like Angry Birds and Reckless Drivning is really fast and smooth.
Even though 02X dont have 2D accelerated graphics and iPhone 4 does, the smoothness in the menus are pretty much the same.

Amazing fast phone used my old desire (moved to my wife) and it scared the heck out of me found it very slow go figure lol
My son and I uses both the 2x and coming from desires...
Love the screen over the amoled great quality only notice with black when playing not a full screen movie... But the again almost not seen this...
Browsing the net is great and fast deciding which browser to use dolphin mini or opera the latest with flash.
Actually we found the camera great and the sound is great too...
Running myself launcherpro and the diskspace room 1.45gb to store apps beside the sd.
That's what i hated with my desire lol 148 mb
Battery life is building up nice now after 12 days 38 hours normal usage and heavy 8 hours...
lol and we have gorilla glass too
Bottom line an amazing fast phone just love it.
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The stutter/lag I saw some of seems to be as good as gone after upgrading with all the latest stuff from MoDaCo.

Ok guys just a quick one... Checked out the phone for quite a bit at the retail shop...
First Impressions...
It's both fast & slow at times. However believe that this should be able to be addressed via software eg custom roms etc... Games tried all seem smooth. Opening of apps at times there was lag but it was somewhat random and can't quite pinpoint. Other times it was fast.
Installed Golauncher, ADW and LauncherPro and all seemed to work alright. Do note was just a quick one at the shop...
For those into it...
Quadrand Std - 2600 - 2700 +
Linpack Score - 36 MegaFlops...
Neocore - er sorry don't recall & first time running it... 75???
Nothing else really significant to say except that in a nutshell this phone has potential...

phone lagging?

Awesome phone but the phone is bit laggy.. anyone else facing the same problem or is it just me?

No lag for me, super smooth
I have loads of apps too

I would say its a little laggy, but anyone who comes from a Galaxy s2, like me, will say its a bit laggy. But it will get better with future updates, that I am sure of.

After doing a quick comparison today between three units, I can say the 1st two were super silky smooth whereas the 3rd demo unit (cheapest) was laggy; probably it had to much happening in the background. Ice Cream Sandwich should address this.
youtheshsagar said:
Awesome phone but the phone is bit laggy.. anyone else facing the same problem or is it just me?
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I recommend the V6 Supercharger script. Seemed to help for me. I'm running Sheep ROM.
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It is pretty much accepted that the more's release rom, much like the galaxy s2's original rom, is laggy. It is also generally believed that like the s2, Samsung will work out all the kinks and get the note as snappy as the s2.
We will see what happens. It's not that laggy though, and its hard to notice unless you compare it directly with an s2.

So far for me lag only happens on using different launchers. Other than thy he phone is zippy as hell. Currently on XXKK9, Socrates only complains is occassional bad call quality complain from certain people I call. Some say it's great some not so.
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I find the note to be very very fast.
There is some subtle studdering, when browsing, and I see no reason that wont get cleaned up on an update.
This device rocks!
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It's laggy compare to my old phone, HTC Inspire which is single core,1.Ghz. I don't get it
Lag is the only thing I am not happy with Note.

For first few days it was super smooth but now i can witness some lagging.
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Yes, its a little laggy.

djowett said:
I recommend the V6 Supercharger script. Seemed to help for me. I'm running Sheep ROM.
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Good advice. Just installed V6 9 RC4 with Nitro Lag Nullifier on Sheep ROM. Smoother + improvement in all synthetic benchmarks. Looks good so far. Thanks!
More tips for people complaining about lag:
- get some KK9/KKA ROM
- change CPU governor from ondemand to interactive.

padlad said:
I would say its a little laggy, but anyone who comes from a Galaxy s2, like me, will say its a bit laggy. But it will get better with future updates, that I am sure of.
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i see that too

phone lagging
when you click on the msg app & phone app it takes some time to open?
i was using sgs2 before i never had this issue

hi guys,
how long does your Note needs to wake-up?
mine needs about 1,5-2sec

i go back and fourth between the Note and the S2 running the exact same setup and S2 is noticeably quicker

GTA 3 is lagging like hell :/

I just downloaded GTA 3 for Android and it is lagging like hell.. Very annoying it is so smooth on Xperia Play

XER0123 said:
I just downloaded GTA 3 for Android and it is lagging like hell.. Very annoying it is so smooth on Xperia Play
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Hmmm the Xperia is identical to GS+ apart from a slower clocked CPU, it just goes to show the software that samsung have stuck on this phone is dog**** and slow.
You could try the better GPU drivers for our phone have a look here.

POST LINK BRO EVO3D WITH ORIGINAL MARKET.... CAN'T FIND IT
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BackDaws said:
Hmmm the Xperia is identical to GS+ apart from a slower clocked CPU, it just goes to show the software that samsung have stuck on this phone is dog**** and slow.
You could try the better GPU drivers for our phone have a look here.
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Thank you i already installed them last week but GTA 3 is still very lagging :/

XER0123 said:
Thank you i already installed them last week but GTA 3 is still very lagging :/
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we are stuck with it until Samsung start supporting our device more, the cheaper Galaxy W is getting all the support it needs i knew i should of bought that one instead.

1st: next time post such stuff in the Q&A thread
2nd: the first thing i noticed, other than that the whole stock software is crappy, is that RAM performance is not well customized, try using the supercharger script and set the minfrees for 512mb RAM, i think ur problem lies there.. i use the stock rom with stock kernel, i free ram with the stock task manager before launching it and GTA3 runs just fine

rayiskon said:
1st: next time post such stuff in the Q&A thread
2nd: the first thing i noticed, other than that the whole stock software is crappy, is that RAM performance is not well customized, try using the supercharger script and set the minfrees for 512mb RAM, i think ur problem lies there.. i use the stock rom with stock kernel, i free ram with the stock task manager before launching it and GTA3 runs just fine
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Oh Man :/ I really miss my iPhone 3GS.. It was really smooth without any scripts, roms, mods...
My SGS+ is running 1.8 ghz , but still laggy, low fps on games compared to iphone 3gs..

XER0123 said:
Oh Man :/ I really miss my iPhone 3GS.. It was really smooth without any scripts, roms, mods...
My SGS+ is running 1.8 ghz , but still laggy, low fps on games compared to iphone 3gs..
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Please don't talk about any apple product here xd

XER0123 said:
Oh Man :/ I really miss my iPhone 3GS.. It was really smooth without any scripts, roms, mods...
My SGS+ is running 1.8 ghz , but still laggy, low fps on games compared to iphone 3gs..
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the hardware on the S+ is really great for a single core phone, but the software sucks, if we had a lil more developing in our section we would've had the real deal , even though there are a few custom roms out there. my friend who owns an iphone 4 always repeats the fact that he doesn't need to do anything additional to his phone and that "it just works", and we have to accept that fact, even though, with the right software we can get a better product than the iphone 4
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Please don't talk about any apple product here xd
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if Apple makes a better product then we gotta admit it and give them the credits for that. there is no need for any Android vs iphone mood. Competition is healthy, it can only make our phones better.

rayiskon said:
if Apple makes a better product then we gotta admit it and give them the credits for that. there is no need for any Android vs iphone mood. Competition is healthy, it can only make our phones better.
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1. This discussion belongs in the general discussion thread not in the development section.
2. Unless you intend starting a flame war I would suggest that singing the praises of a certain fruit associated manufacturer in an Android forum is not a great plan.
3. If you want to compare phones then make sure they are in the same price class. So if your going to match Android against the fruit munger phone then you need to compare with the galaxy nexus or galaxy s ii.
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NO
Im playing the game right now and it runs smooth, you cant even see framedrops.
this game was made for the 9001, i only heard of people having problems with the normal galaxy. maybe you need to get your phone fixed or clear up some ram, because what you're saying is simply not true.

+1 GTA 3 lag on my device
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If you want dead space HD shoot me a msg! It looks awesome as ****
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AFAIK GTA3 is supposed to run on devices with a dual-core processor (iPhone 4S, SGS2, Sensation etc).
I guess it's not a marketing trick (like it was in case of most "tegra only" games) and the game really needs 2 cores for runing fine and smooth.
Anyway, i dont think we lost something big

Its working perfectly on my Sensation, brilliant gameplay and smooth frame rates...

Meh I'm gonna wait for some Vice City before putting GTA on any if my phones. After Vice City was released, I can't even play GTA III anymore...
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GTA 3 on my I9000 runs perfectly, I don't know what you lot are complaining about. You must be on a bad Rom

I'm using sgs+ and GTA 3 is running smoothly no lag whatsoever...
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gingerbreads said:
GTA 3 on my I9000 runs perfectly, I don't know what you lot are complaining about. You must be on a bad Rom
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and what perfect rom do you have my friend?

burner07 said:
and what perfect rom do you have my friend?
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Im running Cm7 with Chainfire3d installed. It is on Glitch's kernel at 1.2 GHz. it runs well. Im already up to the 2nd island!

Jetpack joyride to android

Saw this at their facebook page its coming this week...
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Am i the only one who is having extreme fps ups in this game ? I mean other devices dont have any problems at all.. the fps is just too high
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No ,you're not the only one. I am too , when we get jellybean and butter it will hopefully be limited to 60fps

Same here I thought there was something wrong with the game

Micronuub said:
Am i the only one who is having extreme fps ups in this game ? I mean other devices dont have any problems at all.. the fps is just too high
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A couple of weeks ago i noticed the same thing on bubble shoot. Even though at times the game was running on normal fps (making it totally smooth and playable), sometimes the fps sort of 'broke loose', the game was running much faster but with a lot of stutter. Felt like the phone was exceeding the normal game speed, resulting in many skipped frames. A few months ago i had a large conversation about this w Sandro (member here), where we sort of concluded that this kind of behavior takes place almost in all interactions on the o2x (UI, programs etc). My shock was when i revived my old Acer Liquid E for my gf. After flashing CM7.2 (just noting that both the Liquid and the o2x are running the same OS) and installing Go Launcher, i realized that even though the transitions between home screens appeared to be slower in speed, they were totally smooth. The UI maintained a stable fps at all times. This doesn't happen on GO Launcher on the o2x. The phone seems to always 'try for more', overriding the normal speed (fps) and resulting in dropped frames.

Ximo F. Verde said:
A couple of weeks ago i noticed the same thing on bubble shoot. Even though at times the game was running on normal fps (making it totally smooth and playable), sometimes the fps sort of 'broke loose', the game was running much faster but with a lot of stutter. Felt like the phone was exceeding the normal game speed, resulting in many skipped frames. A few months ago i had a large conversation about this w Sandro (member here), where we sort of concluded that this kind of behavior takes place almost in all interactions on the o2x (UI, programs etc). My shock was when i revived my old Acer Liquid E for my gf. After flashing CM7.2 (just noting that both the Liquid and the o2x are running the same OS) and installing Go Launcher, i realized that even though the transitions between home screens appeared to be slower in speed, they were totally smooth. The UI maintained a stable fps at all times. This doesn't happen on GO Launcher on the o2x. The phone seems to always 'try for more', overriding the normal speed (fps) and resulting in dropped frames.
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This has been my main problem with the optimus 2x and has annoyed me since the day i got it. But if we did get working jellybean with butter, hopefully this issue should be resolved due to the 60fps limit.

andy010101 said:
This has been my main problem with the optimus 2x and has annoyed me since the day i got it. But if we did get working jellybean with butter, hopefully this issue should be resolved due to the 60fps limit.
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I know how u feel mate. watching my 3yr old Liquid being smoother in launcher, android menus really pissed me off. I agree that this is the most annoying thing in the o2x.
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True, its not only jetpack joyride with this problem, i tried underclocking or chainfire but it only made it more choppy.
Any solutions for this problem you think?
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Micronuub said:
True, its not only jetpack joyride with this problem, i tried underclocking or chainfire but it only made it more choppy.
Any solutions for this problem you think?
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I don't think there is a solution to it right now...
I'd that makes you happier it does the same on the xperia mini.
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General Impressions about LG Optimus L7

Hey guys,
I would like to hear some suggestions about this phone, pros/cons etc... is it worth buying?

Berat1337 said:
Hey guys,
I would like to hear some suggestions about this phone, pros/cons etc... is it worth buying?
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subway surfers and temple run lag.

dr.hafez94 said:
subway surfers and temple run lag.
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on jelly bean they don't

I haven't tried JB on this device but I have only heard good things about it, however once you root and tweak it this is a really good phone (and inexpensive), you don't even need a custom ROM, just a better launcher than the stock one and Super Charger V6 do the job. It has a good battery life and charges fast. So far I like it, even though I originally planned to get a Motorola Razr but couldn't get one in the end.
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I am a noob in smartphones and i am really scared to root my phone. I have flashed stock v20a and that was really scary for me
Is root that good ?
I am very satisfied with jelly bean. Applications load faster, stock home runs without lag. Games run smoother than before, camera is faster and alot more. But what annoys me alot is usage of ram. On ICS i ran smart launcher, whatsapp and viber and it used around 250 mb. Now it uses at least 300 if not more.

Worth getting at any cost. Good smartphone, change launcher and it is good as is, but if you want to get more of it, tweak it, and then it will BEAST.

At this price it is probably the best Android smartphone with Jelly Bean. Armored glass Gorilla Glass 4.3-inch screen, 512 MB ​​of RAM and 4GB of ROM, 1GHz CPU, the camera 5mpx, very good performance materials, well fitted, slim form, network HSPA+, battery 1700mAh, NFC.

acheron350 said:
on jelly bean they don't
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They do not lag on ICS too.
The phone is GREAT i have it and it's working as smooth as butter...