Hi there, if however my thread is redundant, please advise me to close this thread and further bring my inquiries in a more appropriate thread. Thank you
Anyway, recently, I have had an issue with my Ascend P7, and I have since sent it to the service centre to get it fixed as it was beyond my inept capabilities and knowledge of the android phone.
And since returning from the service centre, I have noticed a lag/delay everytime I press the home button. I.e., I'm smoothly browsing Google Play and upon pressing the Home button, there is a very noticeable lag, manifested as a lag/delay in the app icons populating my homescreen, as well as the clock widget lagging behind to appear (not the time lagging behind the actual time following my timezone) on my homescreen. But soon after it populates my homescreen, there is a few short seconds of lagginess? and then it returns to it's smoothness as usual. This occurs everytime I hit the home button from an open app or everytime I try to clear the memory.
Anyone might have known what could have been the culprit? Also, I don't have any games installed on my phone, just a few social apps to go with it. Otherwise, my phone is pretty empty. In terms of theme customization, I'm still using the stock themes preinstalled with the phone.
Please advise me on what should I do with hopes to help alleviate this lagginess/delay.
Thank you
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Maybe im expecting too much:
When I press gallery, almost 1/3 of the time only 1 or 2 categories come up and no thumbnails. Then i exit and press again and a few more things show up. Then i exit again and usually the 3rd time or so the app opens properly.
Also, about once every 2 weeks i press an app and it opens a different app. And this happens with multiple apps. The only way to fix it is to reboot.
I dont use a task manager
I reboot the phone every couple of days
I wipe the phone about once every 1 or 2 months
Is one of the above practices ruining my device?
I bought the phone and i havent done anything custom to it. Why does my polished 2.1 firmware work like a 5th grade science experiment?
Have occasionally noticed that the gallery app does not pick up all images and categories... something with the media scanner... try using the media scanner in the dev tools app or unmount and remount ur sd card...
Never had any problems with apps opening wrong apps... this is very strange... I have no idea why this is happening and quite frankly, I can;t think of anything which would serve as a possible solution!
Occasionally I've had the latest picture taken not show up in the gallery, but that's it. Stock O/S is great.
Never had it open the wrong app.
I don't run a task killer, don't reboot & have never wiped.
About the app opening the wrong app thing I guess its good news if I'm the only one. Is it possible that I've downloaded an app that is causing it? Or is it more likely an OS issue? it seems a little cheesy that the phone does this, if I could fix it without rebooting that would be a step in the right direction...
Likely an app you downloaded, or just something a little off about the flashing of your update, or a bad RAM memory block at the wrong place.
As for the gallery, I thought I had that issue a bit too, but I noticed that more than anything it just takes a really long time to open fully if it has been kicked out of the cache.
As for the original question posed in the thread title, Android is still Beta in a lot of ways. 2.0/1 is a huge change in many ways from 1.6. It sounds like 2.2 is going to be a bit of a change as well, but instead of changing nearly everything, it is going to build of 2.0/1 plus add in some changes. I am willing to bet that until the release after Gingerbread (the OS after 2.2, aka FroYo), not sure what the "H" release will be codenamed will we see an OS that isn't "Beta" in enough ways for me to call it non-Beta personally... then again, so far Android is less buggy than windows mobile, better than Blackberry even, and on par with iPhone OS, if not better in these regards.
Just like an OS for a computer, same holds true for a smartphone, there are going to be bugs, there are going to be bad programs/apps, and so forth.
I think you should wait for FroYo, if Android still doesn't meet your standards, root and flash some of the custom ROMs. Enom is very stock like, but fixes many of the little bugs, as does Cyan, although with Cyan you do get a few more bugs in some of the development apps and what not.
Just a thought, but maybe you're suffering from the occasional wacky touchscreen issue?
So it's not that it's just opening the wrong app, but the screen is registering a touch in a different place, it's usually most noticable when typing. If it is that, then a simple lock/unlock will solve it, no need for a reboot.
Hello Chefs (and all you microwave re-heaters..you know who you are..)
I have a request for a feature either as a standalone app, or implemented into a rom. Maybe, it's not possible. I don't know.
What I would love to see is a simple task killer (no gui) mapped to the 'hangup' button on android phones. When I'm running an app and I want to close it, I hit the hang up button, and it kills the currently running app. This seems to me to be intuitive, would streamline task management/eliminate unneeded apps running in the bg, and make Android much more user friendly.
Order of Operations would work something like this.
User starts an App (Browser)
If the user hits the hangup button, Browser would be killed and the screen would return to the home page. A second click on the hangup button would turn off the screen and lock the phone.
If the user hits the home button, the app stays running in the background, and when the user clicks Browser again, the app returns in it's current state with the last loaded page available.
Like I said, it seems pretty simple and straightforward. I know it would require a rooted phone, but it seems like it would give maximum flexibility to the user and allow them to kill the apps that they want when they want to. But maybe it's not possible. So please, let me know. Thanks for the great work guys.
And what would you do if you had a call running in the background?
WHY do you want to kill the running application? It won't do anything once you switch off of it except consume memory, and if more memory is needed, the task killer will take care of that for you.
If you need this you either:
* fail to understand how the user interface works in android (including reclaiming of processes)
Or
* are running applications by developers who didn't design the application to work correctly on android.
The button you are looking for is the back button. It will background the app immediately and allow it to be overwritten as soon as anything needs memory.
Has anyone else had an occasional scrolling lag in situations? It's happened to be on the Program List where the Program icons don't load immediately. Also, most noticeably in apps such as Beezz the scrolling is laggy... Is it just me, or are others experiencing the same...?
Early bump as I'm trying to decide whether a Hard Reset is in order, maybe I installed something that didn't fare too well. Thanks guys.
80% (if not more) of the 3rd apps are NOT optimized (or rushed diplomatically saying) for Windows Phone 7 OS. HTC Hub for example wasn't as fast as the new update for it.
I can make a slight lag (more of a chopping than lag) ONLY IF I visit WPCentral page which chops on my browser than after 4-5 minutes it disappears. So I am pretty sure it's not optimised well rather than a lag because let's face it , the hardware is there and the OS is damn fast.
Have you also experienced start menu icons taking their sweet times to show up?
I've seen some choppiness on 3rd party apps. Agreed that it is a developer issue as they learn how to make apps for wp7. beezz is better than it was, but for best results, m.twitter.com is your best option.
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Have you also experienced start menu icons taking their sweet times to show up?
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In almost 1 month of use, never I have. To continue my initial post, that is one of the reason why I haven't installed many 3rd apps. Personally I hate having a sleek OS and then enter an app and feel like Android.. In fact besides YouTube and Adobe Reader I have only 4 other apps installed.
Same here. I can repeatedly reproduce the program list icon thing by scrolling to the bottom of the list, then hitting the home key, it'll fly to the top of the list and you'll see "white stars" before it switches to the home screen instead of the icons. Happens in random situations too, this is just a consistent occurrence..
I'd like to point out that as a developer, the choppy scrolling is a platform issue with the way Microsoft have design listbox scrolling - Silverlight defaults to virtualising the list box and recycling the listbox items - and this works fine of the PC where there is enough processing power to recycle and virtualise whilst you scroll. However, with Windows Phone 7's limited processing power, and Microsoft's very unoptimised seeming implementation, listboxes can't virtualise data fast enough. Ergo, voodoo is needed to get it working to scroll smoothly You could turn off virtualisation, but then that greatly increases RAM usage, which in Silverlight is already and lot, and then you get comparatively long load & draw & render times, and blargh. There's no one good way to do it yet for long lists - not until Microsoft go and optimise the Silverlight platform better.
I'm assuming the program list icon thing is to save RAM - you can also get it with the Home screen tiles if you have a lot of tiles on it - and saving RAM is something Windows Phone is going to like to do, seeing as the apps and the Silverlight platform use up so much RAM
i had my hd7 for almost a month now and experienced lag on it. there was also an instance that icons of the apps i installed via market place took a few seconds to load up. theres also this occasional slow response time of the unlock screen. i still have 9gb of space though
Hi people...
As you are aware Galaxy S has maximum of 7 home screen and it can be easily removed or added from EDIT option or NEW pinch grid edit option.
But my problem is, that i am not able to remove home screen panels, every time i try to do it the twlauncher hangs and ask for force close.
Surprisingly right now i am having 9+1 (hidden) home screens.
What should i do now?? ...i am ignoring formatting option.
Regards
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Come on please reply something i am still stuck with 10 home-screens and i guess because of that my phone hangs frequently.
i don't want to format my phone because all the downloaded contents like Hero of Sparta, Splinter Cell, Bother in arms 2 and similar downloaded game data will be lost + all the saved/played game will be lost too.
OR
Please suggest me some good application which can backup my all apps + its settings or saved data.
Regards
Issue solved. No help from here, i did a format.
Please close this thread.
Hi XDA,
I have a problem. After a random amount of time, my recent apps list is empty and it'll just show the text that says something like "this is where you recent apps appear" and the only way I can fix this is with a reboot and upon that reboot when I hit the button to show the recent apps, all the apps I had running before are there. This is a problem because it takes away functionality and after I have so many background apps running that I can't swipe away I have apps that will close randomly or restart such as Maps and Pandora. Pandora especially has just been quitting and Maps has some serious bugs that may just be app related and not related to a huge list of running background apps.
Anyone encounter this issue and/or know of a fix? Or will I be forced to do restarts whenver it starts showing me an empty list?
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Hi XDA,
I have a problem. After a random amount of time, my recent apps list is empty and it'll just show the text that says something like "this is where you recent apps appear" and the only way I can fix this is with a reboot and upon that reboot when I hit the button to show the recent apps, all the apps I had running before are there. This is a problem because it takes away functionality and after I have so many background apps running that I can't swipe away I have apps that will close randomly or restart such as Maps and Pandora. Pandora especially has just been quitting and Maps has some serious bugs that may just be app related and not related to a huge list of running background apps.
Anyone encounter this issue and/or know of a fix? Or will I be forced to do restarts whenver it starts showing me an empty list?
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Hi, i think it's a lollipop bug, memory leak called. Search for more information. 5.>1 will fix this.