[Q] Screenshots make phone unusable - Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General

Anyone else having this problem? anytime I take a screenshot, the phone LAGS LIKE NOTHING ELSE. And it just makes the phone unusable until i reset it. It happens pretty freaking consistently and I'm getting really fed up with it.

LeoLopezDO said:
Anyone else having this problem? anytime I take a screenshot, the phone LAGS LIKE NOTHING ELSE. And it just makes the phone unusable until i reset it. It happens pretty freaking consistently and I'm getting really fed up with it.
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I just tried it out on some different screens. Smoothest screen shot I have ever taken. No lag or any difference noticed. I am using ART runtime, but I doubt that would make a difference.

Screenshot works perfectly here as well

well this is frustrating. And there's really no way to know what it causing the system to get all bottled up like that right? No real "task manager" to see what's sucking up system resources?

You can turn on a sort of Android version of top in developer options. Go to Settings > About phone and tap the build number 7 times. You will then have a new option in Settings called Developer Options. Scroll down near the bottom and turn on "Show CPU Usage". It will show loads and processes in near real time.
Not sure how helpful this is... Do you get lag when taking a picture? Wondering if it's a bottleneck in writing storage.
Have you tried clearing the cache from stock recovery? Or a factory data reset?

LeoLopezDO said:
well this is frustrating. And there's really no way to know what it causing the system to get all bottled up like that right? No real "task manager" to see what's sucking up system resources?
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Honestly you're probably better off just returning the phone and getting a new one. you're definitely still within your 14 days and should have no problem returning the phone to wherever you bought it. Believe me, if you're having problems from the get go, it's not worth it to hold on to that device. It's extremely possible you got a device with a defect. Just return it.

Related

Auto-Rotate is annoying me.

How can Turn off the autorotate feature? Im Running JFv1.41. I did a search and can only find threads on other phones, I searched under G1, and only learned how to ENABLE it.
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Dredge said:
How can Turn off the autorotate feature? Im Running JFv1.41. I did a search and can only find threads on other phones, I searched under G1, and only learned how to ENABLE it.
Thanks
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open the app "droidsans tweak tools" and there's a button to disable auto-rotate.
I don't see that app... What am I missing?
I know im not crazy. Just a n00b
Are you talking about auto-rotate in the browser or for the home screen?
If it's the browser, you can disable it the browser settings. If it's the home screen, you need to search the market for DroidSans Tweak tools and disable it there.
At some point, you must have un-installed DST if your home screen is auto-rotating.
I bet thats what it is. The guy I bought the phone from did a wipe, and all the apps were lost, but the firmware was still on there.
You guys kick ass. Thanks for your patience. Ive had alot of questions since just yesterday and you guys always help within 5 minutes!
It worked like a charm. I love this community!
Dredge said:
You guys kick ass. Thanks for your patience. Ive had alot of questions since just yesterday and you guys always help within 5 minutes!
It worked like a charm. I love this community!
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i agree...this forum rocks. i'm not very tech savvy, but i was able to root my G1, have apps installed to the SD card, etc, etc...all because of the kick-ass members of XDA.
and before the G1, this community helped me get WM6.1 on my dash.
xda is full of g1 jedis(im not one) they have helped me alot as well..so thanks guys
Is anyone else getting error messages when waking the phone back up? I would occasionally (1 out of 20 times) get an "application 'so-and-so' has stopped responding" and tapping "wait" would continue through the error like nothing else was wrong. As soon as I shut auto-rotate off, those errors went away. It was always a different program, too.
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Is anyone else getting error messages when waking the phone back up? I would occasionally (1 out of 20 times) get an "application 'so-and-so' has stopped responding" and tapping "wait" would continue through the error like nothing else was wrong. As soon as I shut auto-rotate off, those errors went away. It was always a different program, too.
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Happens to me every now and then, not as often though, may be once out of 50 times. See what program it is, if it's one from the market then you can remove it ( I would, I don't need anything on my phone that doesn't run correctly or hogs my precious memory). If it's stock... well.. you're SOL, just wait for Android to implement some better way of managing memory.
Good luck
borodin1 said:
Happens to me every now and then, not as often though, may be once out of 50 times. See what program it is, if it's one from the market then you can remove it ( I would, I don't need anything on my phone that doesn't run correctly or hogs my precious memory). If it's stock... well.. you're SOL, just wait for Android to implement some better way of managing memory.
Good luck
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I've noticed on occasion I also get it with auto-rotate disabled, but not nearly as often. Maybe a couple times so far since I've gotten my replacement last week.
When it would hang, it was pretty much any random process. One time it was Alarm, other times something else, never a particular process. I think it has to do with the phone sleeping and maybe the accelerometer is oriented one way and it wakes up for an event in another position and then hangs - I don't know. It was never really a problem and I don't think the hung processes were wasting battery so I'll just reenable it.

Overly Sluggish

Has anyone else noticed their MT4G being retardedly slow? Like to the point it takes 20 seconds to do anything? It was fast the other day. Became unbearably slow today. To the point it wouldn't recognize touch, lagged between screens, etc. I have pulled the battery and rebooted about 6 times now, in the last 12 hours.
I've done a factory reset 2 times since I bought it on Thursday. Not cool.
weird.. never happened to me.
go into setting/applications clear your browser data sometimes it gets really high and needs to be cleaned...just go thru your apps and clear some stuff maybe thats the problem
It's really odd. I pulled out the SIM. Booted up, and it was fast as hell.
Kinda odd. I also just put the SIM back in, ran it in GSM only mode, and its much quicker.
This happens a lot to me, when I talk on the phone and try to do anything. Mostly, I've noticed that Sense just seems to take a dump here and there with all of the background services running. LaucherPro is a lot faster for me, that much is certain.
The dreadful combination is:
Talk on phone
Scroll through something in Sense
Have Android sync with GMail
When that happens, you're toast.
Jon C said:
This happens a lot to me, when I talk on the phone and try to do anything. Mostly, I've noticed that Sense just seems to take a dump here and there with all of the background services running. LaucherPro is a lot faster for me, that much is certain.
The dreadful combination is:
Talk on phone
Scroll through something in Sense
Have Android sync with GMail
When that happens, you're toast.
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How have you been speeding it back up once this happens? I did a few battery pulls and it was still slow, finally just pulled the sim and it worked. But there's gotta be a more definitive answer. Even if it means manually selecting networks.
I sped it up by ditching Sense and using LauncherPro instead. There is such a huge speed increase that it is insane.
Previous to that, I restarted the phone (which is like an actual shutdown) and turned it back on. Not ideal at all. The phone's software is pretty buggy. The ambient light sensor suffers from the same issues that the iPhone 4 launched with. The screen will sometimes stay on during a call (or flash on-off over and over) until your cheek hangs up the call by accident.
I love this phone, but T-Mo and HTC better be quick with the updates.
Phone has always been lag free for me. Are you on stock rom? Post all after market stuff that you downloaded. Something must be running in the background that's slowing you down. Mine has always been good, and when I flashed to iced glacier rom it flies
I have had problems viewing the photo gallery. It really slows down when I start scrolling through the pictures. I don't know if it is because of the memory card or maybe syncing with facebook. I have about 200 pictures on my card. I've had most of these same ones on my G1 and other phones without this problem.
Sent from my HTC Glacier using XDA App
you can install WatchDog to take a look at what may be eating your CPU. Also I am going to keep going back to it, make sure USB debug is checked. Helped me a lot!
Please post questions in the Q&A section.

[Q] Apps Close At Screen Time Out

I have an issue that is driving me absolutely crazy... When my screen times out, the application that I am using closes. This does not occur on my G2 and I cannot figure out how to stop it from occurring on my Galaxy Tab. I know that I can increase the time before the screen times out, but I would prefer to have the app stay running. Anyone know how to fix this?
Ugh!!!
By default Android does not terminate Apps when the screen times out.
1. Does this happen with ALL Apps?
2. Has it happened all the time or only recently?
If it is recently, have a look at your installed Apps to see if there is something you have either installed or altered at the time the problem was first noticed.
As Beards says it shouldn't do this. What have you done to your tab, because you give us absolutely no information with which we can help you!
I do have Launcher Pro installed, but do not see an option to change the way it behaves when the screen closes. I have noticed that this DOES NOT occur when the tablet is plugged in to a charging source, only when running on battery.
As I mentioned previously, could you answer my previous questions.
Simply mentioning Launcher Pro does not really help in diagnosing the problem. You must be specific otherwise it is difficult to assist.
The use of battery only is interesting but need further info.
Weird.
Have you got power saving mode unchecked in display settings?
Not running an app. like JuiceDefender or similar are you?
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Weird.
Have you got power saving mode unchecked in display settings?
Not running an app. like JuiceDefender or similar are you?
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Yes, this is what I am leading up to, rather than asking direct which may end up sending us on a wild goose chase.

Terrible performance on Oreo

Is anyone else experiencing VERY poor performance after the update to Oreo? Im talking like apps taking 10+ seconds to open, or just not responding at all. It feels as if the phone only has 512mb of ram, I have tried a format, cleared the cache after the update, all the same issue.
My phone is working smoothly...
Try installing latest update...
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/Ze...4141.92927745.1529467536-347108712.1528916551
How is the battery performance? Could you share me screenshot?
Em Kay said:
How is the battery performance? Could you share me screenshot?
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Battery is fine, 2-3 days life.
Naman Vashishth said:
My phone is working smoothly...
Try installing latest update...
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/Ze...4141.92927745.1529467536-347108712.1528916551
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I tried that, it was a lower version than what I was on.
Darcw0lf said:
I tried that, it was a lower version than what I was on.
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What update do you have installed?
Thanks.
Let me know the SoT you're getting?
Is there any black theme present in the new update?
Hello! I'm also.having terrible performance after the Android 8 update. Sometimes it takes over 5 seconds to show the home screen after pressing home, and it also "soft crashes" to the lock screen at random times intervals, no matter if I'm using an app or not. I've tried doing a factory reset twice and wiping the cache from the recovery menu but that hasn't helped. Any advice on this?
Diggie08 said:
Hello! I'm also.having terrible performance after the Android 8 update. Sometimes it takes over 5 seconds to show the home screen after pressing home, and it also "soft crashes" to the lock screen at random times intervals, no matter if I'm using an app or not. I've tried doing a factory reset twice and wiping the cache from the recovery menu but that hasn't helped. Any advice on this?
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Are you using the stock ASUS launcher? Perhaps try another one from the Play Store for a few hours and see if you get the same result.
koimr said:
Are you using the stock ASUS launcher? Perhaps try another one from the Play Store for a few hours and see if you get the same result.
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I have. Tried a few launchers already, hola launcher, Microsoft launcher and Evie launcher, so far, the Microsoft launcher has the better performance, but still does the "soft crash" I mentioned and takes forever to load the home screen sometimes ?(right now I'm still using the Microsoft launcher)
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I have. Tried a few launchers already, hola launcher, Microsoft launcher and Evie launcher, so far, the Microsoft launcher has the better performance, but still does the "soft crash" I mentioned and takes forever to load the home screen sometimes (right now I'm still using the Microsoft launcher)
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Hmmmm.... how is your battery life?
In your settings, what does it say is using your battery the most?
koimr said:
Hmmmm.... how is your battery life?
In your settings, what does it say is using your battery the most?
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Battery life is usually as good as new (I got this phone the past October). I can easily go through a full day with very heavy use (playing games on the phone that use a lot the GPU ) and two days when I don't play that much
Since around 8AM today, the top 3 apps that has consumed battery are:
Messenger 8%
Google play services 3%
Simple rockets 1%
Screen has used 5% and my phone has 74% as I'm writing this.
Diggie08 said:
Battery life is usually as good as new (I got this phone the past October). I can easily go through a full day with very heavy use (playing games on the phone that use a lot the GPU ) and two days when I don't play that much
Since around 8AM today, the top 3 apps that has consumed battery are:
Messenger 8%
Google play services 3%
Simple rockets 1%
Screen has used 5% and my phone has 74% as I'm writing this.
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Hmmm. Ok, look in Settings at the "Storage & Memory" section, poke around and you'll see how much memory some apps have used. Anything look out of the ordinary there?
If you have Dev Options enabled there's an option in there to view running and cached apps as well, might be worth a look.
Unfortunately I'm just guessing as I don't have this problem myself, everything seems to be working now as it did with Nougat for me. I don't consider myself a heavy user though so it's not a good comparison.
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Hmmm. Ok, look in Settings at the "Storage & Memory" section, poke around and you'll see how much memory some apps have used. Anything look out of the ordinary there?
If you have Dev Options enabled there's an option in there to view running and cached apps as well, might be worth a look.
Unfortunately I'm just guessing as I don't have this problem myself, everything seems to be working now as it did with Nougat for me. I don't consider myself a heavy user though so it's not a good comparison.
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Well, then only odd thing that I see is that in the storage and memory, Android OS has almost 1GB of ram being used, while the next process is using only about 200MB which is another system process (Android system) after those two is Google play services.
I have contacted asus support as well, and they only advices me to do a factory reset and if that didn't help, send the device to them "to get it checked" but I'm not willing to lose my phone for over a month!!
I also have had the same battery and performance problems. I did a reset and now all seems good, back to battery lasting 2 days with ease. I have gone into the settings for the auto start manager and that seems to have helped with some issues i had with my home screen taking a few seconds to load. I know this solution wont work for everyone i was hesitant to do the full reset but now wish i had done it after the last update as it has made all the difference
So I have found that having a SD card completly destroys the phone, when I took out my 128gb card the phone performs better, not to the level it should, but I can at least use it now. Is there any way to downgrade it back to android 7? Cause I'm at the point where I'm about to buy a new phone.
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So I have found that having a SD card completly destroys the phone, when I took out my 128gb card the phone performs better, not to the level it should, but I can at least use it now. Is there any way to downgrade it back to android 7? Cause I'm at the point where I'm about to buy a new phone.
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I was wondering if the SD card had something to do... I contacted asus support and they told me that they do not provide the ROM to downgrade, the only way they could help is for you to send them your phone so they can "check it". Which, as I said before, I'm not willing to do it.
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I was wondering if the SD card had something to do... I contacted asus support and they told me that they do not provide the ROM to downgrade, the only way they could help is for you to send them your phone so they can "check it". Which, as I said before, I'm not willing to do it.
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I went through a RMA with asus for my phone once already, took them a month, no advanced RMA process, they sent it back, it broke again in 2 days, then i was without a phone for another month. Their process is pure **** and sending it in won't fix anything, this is nothing but a software issue.
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I went through a RMA with asus for my phone once already, took them a month, no advanced RMA process, they sent it back, it broke again in 2 days, then i was without a phone for another month. Their process is pure **** and sending it in won't fix anything, this is nothing but a software issue.
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Hey, I found this on zentalk, I haven't tried since I still have warranty (even though, I wanna try the unnoficial lineage is 14.1 for the zoom)
https://www.asus.com/zentalk/thread-213377-1-1.html
Diggie08 said:
Hey, I found this on zentalk, I haven't tried since I still have warranty (even though, I wanna try the unnoficial lineage is 14.1 for the zoom)
https://www.asus.com/zentalk/thread-213377-1-1.html
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Thanks for the find! I'm gonna try this right away, cause my phone is essentially unusable at this point.

Android 10 stable UI lag

Hi,
I've noticed a UI lag when switching between apps or transitioning from an open app to home screen. This didn't happen in the Android 10 beta rom. Anybody have the same issue? I clean flashed the stable android 10.
I can confirm this issue in the stable release. But I would like to add that this lag was already in the beta release and is in my testing not app specific. I would clear the cache and make a reboot.
Go into developer options and disable the three animation types. Everything runs MUCH faster with them off.
Floridaplur said:
Go into developer options and disable the three animation types. Everything runs MUCH faster with them off.
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I have, and while it does suppress animations, it actually feels less polished. And anyway, it does not resolve the UI lag which is really visible when using th app switcher. It's dropping below like 10fps. As if some gfx acceleration was disabled or the phone was completely overwhelmed
Anyone found a fix? I experience the lag every once in a while, though it's prevalent enough to be annoying.
I am having this literally every time i use the alt-tab like feature. Oneplus managed to **** up the one thing (butter smooth) Google has been bragging about for several versions ???
A simple fix would be toh format device once, as I have clean flashed and I don't face any lags
Dissable ram boost in system settings
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Dissable ram boost in system settings
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I'm having random lag too. I'l try to disable RAM boost and is if it helps.
fress said:
Dissable ram boost in system settings
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doesn't change a thing. (and am wondering it would. This feature is supposed to make smoothness (even) better, not worse)
Turn off auto brightness .. maybe it can help
I have been reading up on the A10 stable release posts and I saw a lot of people mentioning the issue that you are talking about here.
Many of them suggested a full format. So basically setting up your device as a new device.
I cannot confirm if this works for everyone but a lot of people are saying that after a fresh install they are not facing any issues.
All of the points mentioned above are just what I read from xda and op forum posts. I personally have not made the switch yet and probably wont be doing so soon.
Hey guys. I encountered the same problem on my Nokia 9. Not quite sure why this error doesn't get noticed by more people.
I think I fixed it for me though.
In my case it seemed that the OLED always on screen (which shows notifications and the time) was the problem in my case. It would always show that there are notifications even if there weren't any and that started adding up. So while the rest of my phone ran buttery smooth, the notification bar and lockscreen began looking like a Diashow. 2-5 fps sometimes. What I think is happening is that all these notifications are buggy and the always on screen can't get rid of them.
So my fix was turning that off and then restarting my phone. Since that everything runs smooth again.
If there is another thread I should post this to please tell me but I only found this one.
Hope it helped.
maxsak said:
Hey guys. I encountered the same problem on my Nokia 9. Not quite sure why this error doesn't get noticed by more people.
I think I fixed it for me though.
In my case it seemed that the OLED always on screen (which shows notifications and the time) was the problem in my case. It would always show that there are notifications even if there weren't any and that started adding up. So while the rest of my phone ran buttery smooth, the notification bar and lockscreen began looking like a Diashow. 2-5 fps sometimes. What I think is happening is that all these notifications are buggy and the always on screen can't get rid of them.
So my fix was turning that off and then restarting my phone. Since that everything runs smooth again.
If there is another thread I should post this to please tell me but I only found this one.
Hope it helped.
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I think the issue is just : it's a ****show of awful coding, optimisation and non-existent testing. If manufacturers' programmers put in half the effort debugging their software we as "powerusers" at xda/reddit/... put twisting our brains in and out trying find correlating explanations and workarounds as to why we get UI lags or other absurd bugs (like 5GHz wifi not working anymore) on the 10th ****ing iteration of Android, we wouldn't have all of this. It all boils down to the general idea that because it is consumer grade product, quality check is just a non-subject. Apparent quality is just enough at product launch, and further updates (if they do get round to releasing them) can brake everything without manufacturers being held accountable.
The update showed up on my phone on the 25th, but, I'm NOT updating. 9 is too damn stable for me, & I don't see any "features" in 10 that will benefit me.
After reading all this i am not going to update to 10. Yet happy with 9.17.
Tmob unbranded dual sim op6t.
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I have the OnePlus 6, and have similar issues, that include swapping apps being slow, but not just the swapping of apps, any app that has typing in it, seems to DIE when I start typing. Maybe this is a google keyboard issue or something? I notice the issue most in the Microsoft Teams mobile app. It also tends to only happen when at least 2 apps are open, if it's on it's own, it seems to do fine.
This might just be coincidence but I went into dev settings and turned on "strict mode" and now I can't get it to lag like it previously did.
I just looked at my running services (dev options > running services) and saw that my Bluetooth was using 2.2GB of ram, and youtube was 1.7GB of that. I toggled bluetooth off, then back on and it reset this. I have not modified the strict mode setting above... still have not had any lag, will update this thread if I do get more lag.
MightySashiman said:
I think the issue is just : it's a ****show of awful coding, optimisation and non-existent testing. If manufacturers' programmers put in half the effort debugging their software we as "powerusers" at xda/reddit/... put twisting our brains in and out trying find correlating explanations and workarounds as to why we get UI lags or other absurd bugs (like 5GHz wifi not working anymore) on the 10th ****ing iteration of Android, we wouldn't have all of this. It all boils down to the general idea that because it is consumer grade product, quality check is just a non-subject. Apparent quality is just enough at product launch, and further updates (if they do get round to releasing them) can brake everything without manufacturers being held accountable.
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Lagging issue I've seen many reporting in xda on the stock rom OOS 10.3.0. But 5GHz is working as expected. I can confirm it because I'm using 5GHz WiFI now and then
adondriel said:
I have the OnePlus 6, and have similar issues, that include swapping apps being slow, but not just the swapping of apps, any app that has typing in it, seems to DIE when I start typing. Maybe this is a google keyboard issue or something? I notice the issue most in the Microsoft Teams mobile app. It also tends to only happen when at least 2 apps are open, if it's on it's own, it seems to do fine.
This might just be coincidence but I went into dev settings and turned on "strict mode" and now I can't get it to lag like it previously did.
I just looked at my running services (dev options > running services) and saw that my Bluetooth was using 2.2GB of ram, and youtube was 1.7GB of that. I toggled bluetooth off, then back on and it reset this. I have not modified the strict mode setting above... still have not had any lag, will update this thread if I do get more lag.
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After a night/day of normal testing with this, where I would normally have issues, I have not had and of the lag I mentioned above. This seems to have fixed some things. So, I would suggest that you first check to see what running processes are using all the ram, and then turn on strict mode in dev settings, if that doesn't solve your issues. I also have Ram Boost option turned off.
I experience the FPS drop quite often after the update. It's especially noticable when scrolling pages, switching between apps, pulling down the upper panel. The slowness seems to disappear temporarily after closing all apps. But I can't say that some particular app causes the lag.
UPD: A simple test to recreate the problem. I push the square button to switch between apps. Start swiping finger left-right and watch the animation smoothness. After 5-10 seconds comes the wave of low FPS, which lasts for a couple of seconds. Then the process repeats. The slowness doesn't seem to depend on some exact apps that are open.
UPD2: Well, I've just found out that the problem isn't constant throughout the day. There must be some connection to applications running in the background or something like this.

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