Opinion: Is the XP Fast or slow? - Xperia Play General

I'm kind of getting sluggish performance on mine, but only after installing certain applications--even though, I didn't install that many...
Has anyone gotten slow performance on theirs? If so, what was the culprit?

I've never had sluggish performance on this phone :\
I hear of small handfuls of people who do, and don't know what to tell them.

The slowness is caused by bloatware mostly, in my opinion. Rooting is a must for me, never been happier with any phone until I've rooted and removed excess pre-installed apps. Background services of any kind will also bog your phone down. Once my PLAY was optimized, it got WAY faster

Fast at 1GHz. Faster at 1.6. Could be a bit faster sure, but its fine as it is

Slow.
I deleted all the bloatware. Have Ram Manager installed and still slow. I don't know what's wrong.
Do you guys have animations enabled?

Fast. Rooted, OCed, .64 firmware. I'm not waiting for much of anything on this thing.
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GetPatriotized said:
Do you guys have animations enabled?
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Yep, All Animations.
I really wish I knew what to tell people too. I do have it upgraded to 2.3.4, rooted, ADB setInstallLocation optimized and de-bloated, but aside from that I haven't even gone as far as to continue my tradition of slamming Chainfire 3D on everything. And it was smooth even back on 2.3.3 when I was up to my knees in bloatware.
SD card class maybe?? I've heard stories that, while higher class cards are usually good, they result in sluggish performance on smartphones.

Mine is pretty fast as it stands.
I have a task killer app and just installed 2.3.4 on my R800at.
I get a freeze up every now and then but usually only when I forget to kill some apps before loading something. But the homescreen is usually always fast, even when I only have 44mb of ram left.
Task killing+removing bloatware is a definite way to increase performance. Im not overclocked at all and dont have any problems.

colbyfink said:
Mine is pretty fast as it stands.
I have a task killer app and just installed 2.3.4 on my R800at.
I get a freeze up every now and then but usually only when I forget to kill some apps before loading something. But the homescreen is usually always fast, even when I only have 44mb of ram left.
Task killing+removing bloatware is a definite way to increase performance. Im not overclocked at all and dont have any problems.
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How did you get 2.3.4 on your r800at?

mine too slows down after installing so many apps/games eventhough i deleted those bloatware..
i have locked bootloader so no OC.
but now it's fast as brand new after i install the v6 supercharger..

brochador said:
mine too slows down after installing so many apps/games eventhough i deleted those bloatware..
i have locked bootloader so no OC.
but now it's fast as brand new after i install the v6 supercharger..
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I hate to sound stupid but what is v6 supercharger and where can I get it?

benc1213 said:
I hate to sound stupid but what is v6 supercharger and where can I get it?
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You guys should try out cola6 rom
its the fastest thing since sliced bologna

Mines always been fast (till i broke the screen)
the other one im now using seems to be quite laggy when playing GTA 3
though the broken one never lagged once while playing it.

Mines pretty standard, not very slow but maybe some lag here and there. is bloatware the apps that come pre installed?
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benc1213 said:
I hate to sound stupid but what is v6 supercharger and where can I get it?
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Here.
My Play is overclocked to 1.6ghz and I use V6 Supercharger. The only time I get any lag/slow down is for about 15 seconds after booting. Otherwise it's incredibly fast and responsive

Mine is speedy, rooted locked booterload 2.3.4

benc1213 said:
How did you get 2.3.4 on your r800at?
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Flashtool and the generic 2.3.4 firmware. Theres a thread for it in the development forum but it's pretty buried. I feel like a lot of folks miss it because of that. It's pretty easy. No unlocked bootloader needed.
And it definitely speeds up the device. For sure.
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colbyfink said:
Mine is pretty fast as it stands.
I have a task killer app and just installed 2.3.4 on my R800at.
I get a freeze up every now and then but usually only when I forget to kill some apps before loading something. But the homescreen is usually always fast, even when I only have 44mb of ram left.
Task killing+removing bloatware is a definite way to increase performance. Im not overclocked at all and dont have any problems.
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Task killing is in the long run slowing you down and the worst thing you can do. Let Android handle it, give it a week to learn the programs and your patterns and I guarantee it will be better than when you do it. There have been many articles on this.
Hogwarts said:
You guys should try out cola6 rom
its the fastest thing since sliced bologna
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This makes no sense whatsoever. But from you I'm not surprised.
As for the OP, I would call it medium. It can be fast when running certain games and programs. It can be slow other times, like when your Message box has a lot of messages, or you're playing a poorly coded game like NOVA 2 which has all sorts of slowdowns. Mine is bone stock with a Class 4 Sandisk card.

Use Task Killer wisely.
My xperia Play(default everything) is only slow when i have Emulators or Youtube in the backround.
When you are Using task Killer DO NOT Kill Apps that you use alot or Apps That you will be using a little while later.
As this will only take more battery as the apps have to boot up again
instead of having it in the back round.

I bought the play thinking it would be better than my last phone ( htc desire ). I thought sense was bloaty but have to say the play has been disappointing. It handles apps and games as well if not slightly better but its the home screen and widgets that seem to lag. I rooted and tried different launchers and have found go launcher best at giving the most features and widgets without lag.

Related

Ok atrix owners..after rooted and installed custom Rom did you...

see a massive improvment?
1 out of 10, 10 being the MOST improvment what woudl you say you saw after? and which ROM are you using?
It will be interesting to see. I only rooted with aroot. No custom rom.
when i say ROMS, i mean the ones posted in the android dev forum here. more like tweaks, like the gingerblur one, etc...
dvigue said:
see a massive improvment?
1 out of 10, 10 being the MOST improvment what woudl you say you saw after? and which ROM are you using?
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Tbh they don't offer that big of a difference when the phone is on Motoblur there is no lag anyways its just ugly, but Adeo is nice and root is essential imo.
I'm rooted with Gingerblur (latest version) and have many tweaks installed and there really is no lag. There wasn't much lag before with MotoBlur for me but it seems to run better now.
i don't know yet....i'm afraid can't get back :S....I only root my phone with superoneclick and give permitions for isntall non app market
Mustang302LX said:
I'm rooted with Gingerblur (latest version) and have many tweaks installed and there really is no lag. There wasn't much lag before with MotoBlur for me but it seems to run better now.
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I concur, no lag what so ever for me.
motoatrix said:
I concur, no lag what so ever for me.
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im getting ALLOT of lag unlocking the phone, and i am getting it when typing in whatsapp..
and sometimes pressing an app on the home scree, it freezes a tad, and the box pops up to ask if i want to delete it..
im on 1.2.6 (i think that is the correct one) should i update to that leaked sbf?
what were the fixes in that leaked sbf anyway?
Don't expect too much performance wise out of the current ROMs. You can get a custom launcher and locker that will help with some of the things you complained about... then just use titanium backup to freeze all of the motoblur stuff. In terms of performance, that shouldn't be too different from installing something like gingerblur, as far as I can tell. That should help with the problem with launching apps and unlocking.
The other issue (lag with whatsapp) seems like it would be most likely related to the app itself... blur running in the background might affect it slightly, but shouldn't make that much of a difference.
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Don't expect too much performance wise out of the current ROMs. You can get a custom launcher and locker that will help with some of the things you complained about... then just use titanium backup to freeze all of the motoblur stuff. In terms of performance, that shouldn't be too different from installing something like gingerblur, as far as I can tell. That should help with the problem with launching apps and unlocking.
The other issue (lag with whatsapp) seems like it would be most likely related to the app itself... blur running in the background might affect it slightly, but shouldn't make that much of a difference.
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yeah i did all that this morning..not much diff. i wonder if a good SBF in is order? if i was to do that..which SBF is better?
then i can refreeze all the apps and blur stuff..

SGS still laggy compared to other low-end phones?

Hey guys,
So, the wife decided to get an Android and we bought the HTC Wildfire S. This low-end (or mid-range?) device packs a 600MHz CPU, 512MB RAM and Android 2.3.3.
When we first turned it on, I noticed opening-closing apps was so fast that I was shocked, really shocked, compared to my SGS. This was the first time I was able to actually compare two Android phones. She has been using it for like a month now, and the phone is as fast as when we bought it.
On my SGS I am on stock XXJVO + Voodoo Lagfix, nothing else. Just standard apps installed and LauncherPro (paid). However, I feel that opening and closing apps is not as fast as the Wildfire S. It takes a few seconds to change interfaces, and what bothers me more is that it takes like 2 seconds to close an app and show the homescreen (pressing the back button several times, I don't use Home much).
On the Wildfire S you can browse through the interfaces extremely fast, everything opens and closes immediately. There is absolute no lag at all, really, no matter what app you're closing.
My question is, why is the SGS feels so laggy and slow compared to a low-end phone like the Wildfire S? Is it the ROM I'm using? Is it the launcher? I've tried rebooting it, battery pull and everything, but still, its slow.
I'd love to hear your input on this. Have you guys experienced some sort of laggyness when opening-closing apps as well? Or is it just my phone?
Thank you all!
I've compared the Desire S with and without a custom ROM to my Galaxy S, and for some reason HTC Sense is just really fast and with custom ROM was about the same as my Galaxy S. So I guess it's just HTC Sense.
Install Cyanogenmod 7. Makes the SGS far faster than the wildfire s and makes the Samsung ROMs like JVO look prehistoric.
Insanity cm.....all is instant
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Heritz said:
Hey guys,
So, the wife decided to get an Android and we bought the HTC Wildfire S. This low-end (or mid-range?) device packs a 600MHz CPU, 512MB RAM and Android 2.3.3.
When we first turned it on, I noticed opening-closing apps was so fast that I was shocked, really shocked, compared to my SGS. This was the first time I was able to actually compare two Android phones. She has been using it for like a month now, and the phone is as fast as when we bought it.
On my SGS I am on stock XXJVO + Voodoo Lagfix, nothing else. Just standard apps installed and LauncherPro (paid). However, I feel that opening and closing apps is not as fast as the Wildfire S. It takes a few seconds to change interfaces, and what bothers me more is that it takes like 2 seconds to close an app and show the homescreen (pressing the back button several times, I don't use Home much).
On the Wildfire S you can browse through the interfaces extremely fast, everything opens and closes immediately. There is absolute no lag at all, really, no matter what app you're closing.
My question is, why is the SGS feels so laggy and slow compared to a low-end phone like the Wildfire S? Is it the ROM I'm using? Is it the launcher? I've tried rebooting it, battery pull and everything, but still, its slow.
I'd love to hear your input on this. Have you guys experienced some sort of laggyness when opening-closing apps as well? Or is it just my phone?
Thank you all!
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yes its true no matter what roms ive used but comparing to my motorola nd other low end spice i think sgs shld ave been much or twice fast but boldly its not...even my nokia touch is much better than it.but still sgs rules on screen,size,feel...so i wonder when a 2ghz dual core phone comes out,wat will sgs look like....
rocky23 said:
yes its true no matter what roms ive used but comparing to my motorola nd other low end spice i think sgs shld ave been much or twice fast but boldly its not...even my nokia touch is much better than it.but still sgs rules on screen,size,feel...so i wonder when a 2ghz dual core phone comes out,wat will sgs look like....
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I have found that LPP is really laggy with gingerbread update. Maybe, even before. I had been using only launcher pro for more than 4-5 months, and was surprised by the speed, when I switched to another launcher. Some operations, like adding shortcut to applications or even adding widgets would take a long time in launcher pro.
Have you tried other home launchers?
FYI, I have tried some low-end phones (HTC wildfire, Dell XCD 35 aka ZTE Blade) and some decent ones (Nexus S,HTC Desire(not much),SE Arc,SE X10,SGS 2)..
And,I find a proper SGS (custom ROM based on stock+custom kernel ) to be perform similar to a Nexus S or SE Arc.
Since the i9000 launch there was some serious lag problems with the Galaxy S, otherwise lag fixes wouldn't be popular as they were (and probably still are).
Things got better with newer firmware versions but the fact is the problem never really got entirely solved.
Currently I have stock 2.3.4 JVP and after flashing and wiping the phone was really fast. My problem is that as time goes by, and you start installing apps, music, content, etc. the performance decreases noticeably and even benchmarks such as Quadrant start getting lower scores as time passes by.
I've never seen this behaviour in other systems like iOS or WP7, and even on other Androids I believe the problem does not exist or the user doesn't notice it as much as with the SGS.
Quad-core 1Ghz, 3D Samoled+! O.O
Sorry, OT.
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CM7> AOSP > HTC Sense > Samsung TW > LG
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I have no idea what you are moaning about. No issues with the phone. Compared to my Xperia X10a and HTC HD2, this one is very nice indeed.
Ctcng said:
Since the i9000 launch there was some serious lag problems with the Galaxy S, otherwise lag fixes wouldn't be popular as they were (and probably still are).
Things got better with newer firmware versions but the fact is the problem never really got entirely solved.
Currently I have stock 2.3.4 JVP and after flashing and wiping the phone was really fast. My problem is that as time goes by, and you start installing apps, music, content, etc. the performance decreases noticeably and even benchmarks such as Quadrant start getting lower scores as time passes by.
I've never seen this behaviour in other systems like iOS or WP7, and even on other Androids I believe the problem does not exist or the user doesn't notice it as much as with the SGS.
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exactly my thoughts.
I like samsung - i was also considering buying the second sgs, however decided to wait for a nice ice cream at the year end.
In any case, i am disappointed about the money i spent for the sgs.
I had higher expectations - i am talking about stock roms, now jvo, as when im
buying a product, i expect the support to be done by the manufacturer and not
myself, and at my own risk..
And something offtopic: the alarm bug hasnt even been officially fixed right?!!?
Try JVQ at least. It's the best gingerbread rom to date.
Heritz said:
Hey guys,
So, the wife decided to get an Android and we bought the HTC Wildfire S. This low-end (or mid-range?) device packs a 600MHz CPU, 512MB RAM and Android 2.3.3.
When we first turned it on, I noticed opening-closing apps was so fast that I was shocked, really shocked, compared to my SGS. This was the first time I was able to actually compare two Android phones. She has been using it for like a month now, and the phone is as fast as when we bought it.
On my SGS I am on stock XXJVO + Voodoo Lagfix, nothing else. Just standard apps installed and LauncherPro (paid). However, I feel that opening and closing apps is not as fast as the Wildfire S. It takes a few seconds to change interfaces, and what bothers me more is that it takes like 2 seconds to close an app and show the homescreen (pressing the back button several times, I don't use Home much).
On the Wildfire S you can browse through the interfaces extremely fast, everything opens and closes immediately. There is absolute no lag at all, really, no matter what app you're closing.
My question is, why is the SGS feels so laggy and slow compared to a low-end phone like the Wildfire S? Is it the ROM I'm using? Is it the launcher? I've tried rebooting it, battery pull and everything, but still, its slow.
I'd love to hear your input on this. Have you guys experienced some sort of laggyness when opening-closing apps as well? Or is it just my phone?
Thank you all!
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i must say I totally agree with OP ! my sgs is also laggy. I am on f1 sgs2 rom. with galaxian kernel, with ext 4 lagfix and oc to 1.2 Ghz. but still it takes way to long, to open apps of any kind... and it just lags randomly all the time. have reinstalled several times according to instructions so dont tell me to do factory reset
I think the best gingerbread I have tried was jvh. app launch was the nearest to instant I have seen.
but I think the most lagfree experience must be froyo jp6 or jpy with speedmod kernel.
and to be honest since jp6 the browser has been a joke... :-(
its said that jvq browser is better, but only on odexed roms...
sadly I think that the support for the sgs is nearly over... and I have lost faith that samsung will free my sgs of lag :-(
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Try JVQ at least. It's the best gingerbread rom to date.
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Still way slower than my old nexus one running gingerbread. It runs rings around cm7 even. Everything is instant and faultless.
Op is right.
If nexus one had samoled screen and better speakers I'd be like,
what's a galaxy s?
Having said that I prefer the gs1 to nexus s.
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oswade said:
Try JVQ at least. It's the best gingerbread rom to date.
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my bad, that is what i am using.
It was impressive at the beginning, however not anymore.
lag is back, the alarm bug is still on, and some recent random restarts started.
I know there are fixes etc - but its worth noting that the hardware will die unutilised at least when it comes to official roms from samsung.
The lag issue is a common theme with the SGS. Not sure how long you have owned your SGS but I believe the SGS still has better hardware but the lag develops over time.
So when I first got me SGS in June last year, it was great at the start. Then the lag came in and I tried OneClick Lagfix based on xda advice. That seemed to work for a bit but then slowed down again. In November, I flashed my first custom rom (Darky 8.5), the used the Speedmod Lag fix. Same thing, good at the start, then slows down. I kept trying a few others (Darky 9.2, 10.1, DebusRom, ExtraOrdinary, Chebon) and the longest I stayed on before noticing the lag was about 1 month.
One of the steps suggested before a flashing a rom is to undo lagfix and recommended to do a wipe as the freshest install. Doing this seems to refresh the speed as it was at the start (so constant flashing seems to make things quicker).
Something also to try if you don't want to try a new rom or firmware, is to undo and redo the lagfix. Almost like defragmenting but it seems to refresh the system (imho).
I have also heard some of the latest firmwares (JVQ) have better implementations of the filesystem and have heard some people not using lagifx at all. Given you have installed lagfix, you aren't that far from installing a new firmware/rom (just back up your files obviously). I haven't been on JVQ long enough to see if this truly fixes the issue though.
Just my thoughts.
Heritz said:
Hey guys,
So, the wife decided to get an Android and we bought the HTC Wildfire S. This low-end (or mid-range?) device packs a 600MHz CPU, 512MB RAM and Android 2.3.3.
When we first turned it on, I noticed opening-closing apps was so fast that I was shocked, really shocked, compared to my SGS. This was the first time I was able to actually compare two Android phones. She has been using it for like a month now, and the phone is as fast as when we bought it.
On my SGS I am on stock XXJVO + Voodoo Lagfix, nothing else. Just standard apps installed and LauncherPro (paid). However, I feel that opening and closing apps is not as fast as the Wildfire S. It takes a few seconds to change interfaces, and what bothers me more is that it takes like 2 seconds to close an app and show the homescreen (pressing the back button several times, I don't use Home much).
On the Wildfire S you can browse through the interfaces extremely fast, everything opens and closes immediately. There is absolute no lag at all, really, no matter what app you're closing.
My question is, why is the SGS feels so laggy and slow compared to a low-end phone like the Wildfire S? Is it the ROM I'm using? Is it the launcher? I've tried rebooting it, battery pull and everything, but still, its slow.
I'd love to hear your input on this. Have you guys experienced some sort of laggyness when opening-closing apps as well? Or is it just my phone?
Thank you all!
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This shocking,i had the wildfire,and have to say that i experienced totally different things than you.It was laggy,slow.Then i rooted the phone,and changed the sense crap to a different rom,then there was no lag.phone worked smoothly.as for my SGS,the stock thing is laggy.It gets much better only changing the kernel to Galaxian.
I gotta try that Galaxian kernel. Changing to other phone constantly inhabits my mind, to something more reliable.
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nesx87 said:
In any case, i am disappointed about the money i spent for the sgs.
I had higher expectations - i am talking about stock roms, now jvo, as when im
buying a product, i expect the support to be done by the manufacturer and not
myself, and at my own risk..
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Manufacturer? It's not even that simple. A friend has a stock one and it works nicely (for stock). Another friend has another stock one and lags horribly, force closes, freezes, has trouble with dropped calls. The difference? They are on different operators so the crap that they bundle together is so different that it makes or breaks the phone.
Hrithan2020 said:
I have found that LPP is really laggy with gingerbread update. Maybe, even before. I had been using only launcher pro for more than 4-5 months, and was surprised by the speed, when I switched to another launcher. Some operations, like adding shortcut to applications or even adding widgets would take a long time in launcher pro.
Have you tried other home launchers?
FYI, I have tried some low-end phones (HTC wildfire, Dell XCD 35 aka ZTE Blade) and some decent ones (Nexus S,HTC Desire(not much),SE Arc,SE X10,SGS 2)..
And,I find a proper SGS (custom ROM based on stock+custom kernel ) to be perform similar to a Nexus S or SE Arc.
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You were right. LP was lagging the phone as hell, mostly when going back to the homescreen and closing apps. I gave TouchWiz a run for a straight hour, playing games, opening and closing emails, browsing G+, Maps and several other apps, it never lagged when going back to the homescreen, which is what worries me most. I still need to try it on everyday use though.
Time to find another launcher. Any recommendations?

Is your phone slow?

Lately i've noticed my phone becoming infuriatingly slow. I'm not sure what it is exactly, but I don't remember it ever being this slow. Overclocking it gives the tiniest speed boost, but later on the phone becomes unusable and I have to reboot.
Are there any ROM's I could use to get it to run better? Besides stock.
Have you tried to uninstall some apps? Maybe there are some apps which don't work correct.
I recommend you to use a custom rom anyway.
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a-k-t-w said:
Lately i've noticed my phone becoming infuriatingly slow. I'm not sure what it is exactly, but I don't remember it ever being this slow. Overclocking it gives the tiniest speed boost, but later on the phone becomes unusable and I have to reboot.
Are there any ROM's I could use to get it to run better? Besides stock.
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maybe an app like virus killer app is running.(knowing our CPU isnt much great)
Im using gingerbread and dont have problem with speed at all. With stock i has to reboot some time
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i've tried floyobread even it becomes slow when installing apps, so use advance task killer to kill apps.
a-k-t-w said:
Lately i've noticed my phone becoming infuriatingly slow. I'm not sure what it is exactly, but I don't remember it ever being this slow. Overclocking it gives the tiniest speed boost, but later on the phone becomes unusable and I have to reboot.
Are there any ROM's I could use to get it to run better? Besides stock.
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Check the new thread in development forum .
Lag while installing apps I can understand, but my phone generally runs like a dog all the time. It's annoying as hell.
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Check the new thread in development forum .
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What new thread?
I used GingerDX v006 freshly it was smooth and fast but when i installed some applications it slowed down my phone i uninstalled those application but not worked
then i installed GDX v007 i found a bunch of bugs in it and performance same as v006
now i m using v006 with a low performance.
Use GingerDX 008.
Uninstall all system apps that you donĀ“t need.
Use a task killer.
If you do this, it should be smooth.
I think you have to use Advance Task Killer, it helped me a lot. There are some apps that are runnning back and you dont ever notice. This may be the cause of your phone's poor speed.
I'm using GingerDX and I'm really satisfied. My phone is hell fast and I don't use any task killers.
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I would use GingerDX but I do not like the developers attitude towards the whole thing. If there is something you do not like, his response is practically "TOO BAD, its MY rom, I do what I like."
For instance, he blatantly refuses to remove the credits from the lockscreen. That is just a god awful place to put it and that bothers me to no end.
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I would use GingerDX but I do not like the developers attitude towards the whole thing. If there is something you do not like, his response is practically "TOO BAD, its MY rom, I do what I like."
For instance, he blatantly refuses to remove the credits from the lockscreen. That is just a god awful place to put it and that bothers me to no end.
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I think he's perfectly within his rights. He's not coding the rom for YOU. It's his rom for his personal phone that he is willing to share with us for FREE..
Okay. That wasn't what I said at all. My point was is that it bothers me and so I don't use it. End of story.
I still respect the developer and appreciate his work. As I understand quite a bit of his modules are in the ROM I am currently using.

LagLagLag (FIXED!)

FIXED! See my post at the bottom
I moved to straight talk and away from my Evo3D on Sprint last month, and decided I wanted to do a lot of gaming with my next phone, and didn't want to spend a ton of money for a newer unlocked AT&T phone on craigslist. I picked up a play fairly cheap, and I had the bootloader unlocked, rooted, installed Doom Kernel, overclocked a bit, and installed some rom tweaks (still running stock).
However, it seems that the stock launcher, while pretty great ( really like the folders in the launcher, etc) just seems to lag like hell all the time.
I have things overclocked with the smartass governor. Seems like launching of apps seems to take forever sometimes as well, and the problem's gotten steadily worse as I've gone along.
From my android experiences, stock roms are generally this way, so I'm curious if anyone else has similar experiences to mine with the play...and if you've found a nice rom with good gamepad compatibility (I don't ever use the joysticks btw) that seems to take the lag out of the device.
hydrogenman said:
I moved to straight talk and away from my Evo3D on Sprint last month, and decided I wanted to do a lot of gaming with my next phone, and didn't want to spend a ton of money for a newer unlocked AT&T phone on craigslist. I picked up a play fairly cheap, and I had the bootloader unlocked, rooted, installed Doom Kernel, overclocked a bit, and installed some rom tweaks (still running stock).
However, it seems that the stock launcher, while pretty great ( really like the folders in the launcher, etc) just seems to lag like hell all the time.
I have things overclocked with the smartass governor. Seems like launching of apps seems to take forever sometimes as well, and the problem's gotten steadily worse as I've gone along.
From my android experiences, stock roms are generally this way, so I'm curious if anyone else has similar experiences to mine with the play...and if you've found a nice rom with good gamepad compatibility (I don't ever use the joysticks btw) that seems to take the lag out of the device.
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Which class SD card are you using ?
When internal storage gets to about 40ish mbs it starts to chug along.
The 512mb of ram can also be an issue. eg if I'm browsing a very memory hungry website, and I hit the home button, all the widgets and icons will have to reload and it takes a while to get back up to speed.
It's pretty smooth most of the time though. Stock rom, stock everything.
Use SuperCharger V6 to avoid these home launcher reloads
Yeah, supercharger really helps a lot. You should use it
Potato13 said:
Yeah, supercharger really helps a lot. You should use it
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Thanks for the advice
I always seem to have problems launching my twitter client too (Tweetcaster)
seems to lock up a lot
BTW, I have the Xperia Play 4g, so I have 1 gb of ram, not 512...so I wasn't sure it was just a ram issue
I have a class 2 SD card
hydrogenman said:
Thanks for the advice
I always seem to have problems launching my twitter client too (Tweetcaster)
seems to lock up a lot
BTW, I have the Xperia Play 4g, so I have 1 gb of ram, not 512...so I wasn't sure it was just a ram issue
I have a class 2 SD card
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No it has 512mb of RAM and 512mb of ROM.
hydrogenman said:
Thanks for the advice
I always seem to have problems launching my twitter client too (Tweetcaster)
seems to lock up a lot
BTW, I have the Xperia Play 4g, so I have 1 gb of ram, not 512...so I wasn't sure it was just a ram issue
I have a class 2 SD card
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that's your problem, your sd card...
u still use stock sd card that have a bad read speed, try to upgrade a better one lik class 10...
Definitely not a class 10, those are horrible for gaming, I'd rather recommend a class 4.
Si1ver Shad0w said:
Definitely not a class 10, those are horrible for gaming, I'd rather recommend a class 4.
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class 4 or 6 is what u need for gaming imo
Potato13 said:
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how do i install it? i am on root 2.3.4 rogers uk
Here's the supercharger post on XDA:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991276
Just follow the instructions
Si1ver Shad0w said:
Here's the supercharger post on XDA:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991276
Just follow the instructions
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Where were you yesterday morning when I spent like an hour searching the forums and net for that?
BTW, I installed the supercharger script and ran it....and it has made an absolute world of difference.
My phone is usable now

[Discuss][MOD]The Incredible-=V6 SuperCharger=-Stops the Lag But Good!

Refer to [MOD]V6 SuperCharger=-Stops the Lag But Good! thread herehttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991276
Does anyone here think its necessary to use this on our phone running on ICS?
Before this when we are on Gingerbread we have thunderbolt script and it is very popular thread but after we got aosp ICS it seem been forgotten...
So what is your opinion guys
p/s: Sorry if my English is bad
I let it run to waste time.
I used this some times ago on one of the first cm9 builds... but it made things even worse, so i never used it again. In my opinion there isn't any use for it (on CM9)
Why would you want this on ics? Not smooth enough already? Then you need some lube!
I'm using it and it's great. :good:
Had always some slow down after some time on (I almost never reboot my phone), never happens again using option 6 ("Ledded" 100MB).
No launcher redraw, nothing getting killed I do not want to... just perfect setting for me.
Tatsuya79 said:
I'm using it and it's great. :good:
Had always some slow down after some time on (I almost never reboot my phone), never happens again using option 6 ("Ledded" 100MB).
No launcher redraw, nothing getting killed I do not want to... just perfect setting for me.
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so thats mean the only benefits using this is the launcher will not get killed?
I think our ics port (aosp&aokp) is smooth but the only thing i frustrated is when hild back button launcer will also killed
sending from the beast wearing AOKP beuty
awandroid89 said:
so thats mean the only benefits using this is the launcher will not get killed?
I think our ics port (aosp&aokp) is smooth but the only thing i frustrated is when hild back button launcer will also killed
sending from the beast wearing AOKP beuty
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It reconfigures memory management what isn't really needed on ICS. Besides that, it comes with misc tweaks, zipalign, etc.
awandroid89 said:
so thats mean the only benefits using this is the launcher will not get killed?
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It also means my phone never gets in the 60MB-45MB RAM free where I feel it is running a lot slower.
With the 100MB supercharger settings, inactive apps get killed when I get around 75MB free and those apps are the oldest launched ones I'm not using at this moment.
Le option 6
My dear friends...option 6 will rule you. Don't forget to do some OOM regrouping or something like that. It really rocks
Its something useless IMO
Android know how mange ram
Btw I'm on aokp+devil + apex +zram I don't have any launcher redraw what ever I opened
Btw I played with my friend sgs3 and some times when u exit from some apps launcher redraw wtf
sent from another galaxy running by Rootbox & unknown kernel
I think the V6 Supercharger is essential only if you have launcher redraws.
I have been running SlimICS 4.0 with Nova Prime.
I have a pretty heavy setup with 9 home screens all completely full with widgets.
My launcher takes up about 45 MB. Usually after a playing an intensive game or after opening multiple pages in the web browser, returning to the home screen involved waiting for all the widgets to reload.
I currently use Devil 0.99b with a Swap partition, overclocked to 1320MHz and a Die Hard launcher and I never get any redraws anymore.
My OOM values don't stick, but I don't think it's necessary as SlimICS has good defaults.
In short. V6 Supercharger is awesome!
may I ask if this is compatible with slim ics 4.2 with semaphore 1.2.6s?
blacklixt22 said:
may I ask if this is compatible with slim ics 4.2 with semaphore 1.2.6s?
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yep

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