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Hay i have a galaxy tab on 2.2 was wondering if its noticibly faster using this fix. i saw the scores and it does perform well but is it faster for everyday use?
The lag fix makes no real-world difference in usability, as the Tab (through some miracle, I'm sure) runs very well on stock firmware.
Pretty much the only noticeable lag on the Tab is when you're scrolling quickly down web pages that have active flash content (such as animated adds), and even then, it's not really bad enough to be an issue. If it really bugs you, just use a different browser.
Is the interface and browser smooth like the ipad? I ask because i tried out a couple of stock android tabs like the sony s and xoom at a store and their scrolling and zooming was quite laggy compared to the ipad, same goes for the browser.
The whole issue about the unsmooth scrolling is much better on 3.2 ROMs, like for example Task650 GalaxyTask ROM.
It isn't entirely gone, but I hope this will come with Ice Cream Sandwich/Android 4.0.
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And to answer your questions: Yes, apart from occasional stuttering, it is as smooth as the iPad. Custom ROM/TouchScreenTune App do the trick for me.
Most of the apps in the system support H.W acceleration (browser , etc ) but the UI itself doesn't support it (it will come in ICS ) like the main launcher and the rotation and translations in the system that is why it shutters allot when using live wallpapers that is because the load is n the processor it self not on the gpu but ICS should fix all this issues, as i noticed even alpha builds are smoother than honeycomb
Android will always have more "stuttering" than the ipad. It's pretty simple to imagine why: on an ipad, all there is is a bunch of little standard sized icons. They don't display information, they don't change, they don't move or supply anything more than a link to open your app. They're just little cached images and so the whole interface moves smoothly because there's nothing to see, no work for the processor. Also, the screen is low resolution (1024x768), so there's less pixels to move around.
Android on the other hand has widgets that change and display information. They are not standardized and are often resizable. The whole interface is far more complex than the ipad. And the screen is higher resolution (1200x800) so there's more pixels.
So, sure, if "smooth scrolling of the homescreen" is your top priority, I'd say go with an ipad. It will always be simple and smooth. Emphasis on the simple.
If, on the other hand, you want customizability and information without having to open your apps, and a little jerkiness in the homescreen is OK with you, get an android tab.
Last bit: android allows you to install a different launcher (that's part of what I mean by "customizability"). ADW EX is very smooth...
Many of the roms on this forum can give you HW acceleration.
All i want is a silky smooth browser like the ipad/iphone. Tried android 2.2, 2.3,3.0,3,1,3.2, sense 3.0, sense 3.5, wp7, wp 7.5 NONE I REPEAT NONE can come close to the consistent smoothness of the safari browser. Is there a browser in the android market that can come close, cause i tried opera and its still not as smooth. Hope ICS will make it so.
Safari for ipad /iphone doesn't have flash so for sure it will be smoother , try opera mini it doesn't have flash so it shuld be faster
I've found that hardware acceleration is much smoother without TW. I'm running AOSP 3.2.2 (Overcome ROM) and have not noticed any lag and even noticed scrolling in say, Music, to not jump at all. Smoother than the iPad for sure.
I'm also verry happy with the Launcher in Overcome
Fasty12 said:
All i want is a silky smooth browser like the ipad/iphone. Tried android 2.2, 2.3,3.0,3,1,3.2, sense 3.0, sense 3.5, wp7, wp 7.5 NONE I REPEAT NONE can come close to the consistent smoothness of the safari browser. Is there a browser in the android market that can come close, cause i tried opera and its still not as smooth. Hope ICS will make it so.
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I use dolphin HD with flash loading on demand. It is the best browser I've used on any device so far.
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otaku1984 said:
I've found that hardware acceleration is much smoother without TW. I'm running AOSP 3.2.2 (Overcome ROM) and have not noticed any lag and even noticed scrolling in say, Music, to not jump at all. Smoother than the iPad for sure.
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My experience is exactly the opposite. Touchwiz is so smooth and fluid in ways that regular honeycomb can't touch. The typind lag in the browser in stock honeycomb was enough to ruin the whole experience.
The only overcome rom I see is a touchwiz rom, where is this aosp overcome rom? I'll check it out on the off chance it is better than stock android.
otaku1984 said:
I've found that hardware acceleration is much smoother without TW. I'm running AOSP 3.2.2 (Overcome ROM) and have not noticed any lag and even noticed scrolling in say, Music, to not jump at all. Smoother than the iPad for sure.
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Where did you get Overcome AOSP ROM and that too 3.2.2
It is still TW. Right?
I've had my TF300T for a year now.
I never updated the firmware (still stock 4.1), but it is rooted.
It still does everything I want it to do: Play games, watch videos through Plex, Youtube, and mostly just browse the internet.
My only problem with it is that it could be less "sluggish" when browsing on Chrome, though mobile formatted webpages are fine.
It isn't sluggish enough for me to need to go looking for ways to improve it, however, since my current firmware is ancient, I guess it is time for me to look into my options and see if it is worth my time.
Is there any performance improvement to be gained by updating to the latest stock firmware?
Is there a very stable, well established, modded firmware that makes it run smoother?
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I've had my TF300T for a year now.
I never updated the firmware (still stock 4.1), but it is rooted.
It still does everything I want it to do: Play games, watch videos through Plex, Youtube, and mostly just browse the internet.
My only problem with it is that it could be less "sluggish" when browsing on Chrome, though mobile formatted webpages are fine.
It isn't sluggish enough for me to need to go looking for ways to improve it, however, since my current firmware is ancient, I guess it is time for me to look into my options and see if it is worth my time.
Is there any performance improvement to be gained by updating to the latest stock firmware?
Is there a very stable, well established, modded firmware that makes it run smoother?
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Android 4.4 running with ART and Overclock Kernal is so smoooooth with web browsing and games. Personally, I use CM11, but there are a few others too in the dev section.
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Android 4.4 running with ART and Overclock Kernal is so smoooooth with web browsing and games. Personally, I use CM11, but there are a few others too in the dev section.
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A custom ROM -without ART or overclock-... is that good enough for what the OP wants?
without ART: because it's still experimental by Google and it might cause issues
without overclocking: because it will reduce the battery life of the tablet (and might cause issues)
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Android 4.4 running with ART and Overclock Kernal is so smoooooth with web browsing and games. Personally, I use CM11, but there are a few others too in the dev section.
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Evan_ said:
A custom ROM -without ART or overclock-... is that good enough for what the OP wants?
without ART: because it's still experimental by Google and it might cause issues
without overclocking: because it will reduce the battery life of the tablet (and might cause issues)
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haha, two completely opposite suggestions.
I don't mind losing battery life to overclocking. The tablet stays home almost all the time and we rarely ever get to 50% battery before we are done with the tablet and can leave it to charge again.
Stability isn't mission critical but it sure would suck to have to reboot more than once every couple of days due to a crash.
Now after having read about ART, and overclocking... damn, maybe I want to get into tweaking that mofo and make it nice again.
First, I need to dismantle it to re-align the screen. The damn thing was mis-aligned from the day I had to replace the digitizer
alkizmo said:
I've had my TF300T for a year now.
I never updated the firmware (still stock 4.1), but it is rooted.
It still does everything I want it to do: Play games, watch videos through Plex, Youtube, and mostly just browse the internet.
My only problem with it is that it could be less "sluggish" when browsing on Chrome, though mobile formatted webpages are fine.
It isn't sluggish enough for me to need to go looking for ways to improve it, however, since my current firmware is ancient, I guess it is time for me to look into my options and see if it is worth my time.
Is there any performance improvement to be gained by updating to the latest stock firmware?
Is there a very stable, well established, modded firmware that makes it run smoother?
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If you want an Stock experience you could try CROMi-X will give you the improvements you are looking and a stock look
i agree cromi is the best rm by far for me and the dev is a legend
Sounds simple enough, right? I have tried CodeRom 4.4.x, Cyanogen 10.1 and Remi-ICS. Remi would not load most of the video ads, even after updating to a newer version of the kernel (it would run some ads, but not all). CodeRom will play all of the ads, but only lasts a few hours before it gets so sluggish that the app gets stuck on the loading screen, and I have to restart it. Any ROMS that you guys can recommend that are lightweight, have good video playback, and a low number of other misc problems? PerkTV and Perk Pop quiz are the only two apps I will be running on it, over wifi. I have heard from some on reddit that perk is still a little buggy on Android 5.x, which is why I have been keeping with 4.2+ roms.
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
I'm experiencing famerate lag. Changing orientation, opening apps and transitions through the ui.
Anyone else is experiencing this? And if so you know what's causing it?
My device is encrypted.
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I'm experiencing famerate lag. Changing orientation, opening apps and transitions through the ui.
Anyone else is experiencing this? And if so you know what's causing it?
My device is encrypted.
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Yep, its a serious problem with the OnePlus 5.
Animations, scrolling, everything is a mess on Oxygen OS, to the point where I have unlocked my bootloader to try non-OOS based ROMs.
This thing stutters more than my old S7 Edge, and the Note 8 is significantly smoother than this.
Awesome example of how poor OOS is currently:
Go into Pocket Casts, subscribe to a podcast, open your subscriptions, tap on a tile. The simple animation will stutter like crazy as it opens. Same with play store.
Scrolling is atrocious for such a high specced device. 8GB/SD835 means nothing if smoothness is the worst by far out of any android flagship.
I couldn't even get an answer out of OnePlus support if Oreo would fix things.
Yup, the overall is experience is kinda jittery and laggy, my iPhone 6 and even my Nexus 5 are way smoother.
I've found OOS to be a lot smoother with Blu Spark kernel but even then OOS is so unstable that several times out of nowhere some system wake lock would suddenly go wiggy and prevent the phone from going into Doze. It's happened on three different builds of OOS and it was a different wake lock each time and caused massive idle battery drain. I haven't found any way to fix it other than doing a clean flash of OOS and fresh install of my apps. OOS isn't stable enough to be the stock operating system on any Android phone, let alone a $600 one that advertises itself as a flagship killer.
Don't know what you talking about, I never see a single lag/stutter in my OP5 and actually like OOS even coming from Stock Android (Nexus 6P)
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Yep, its a serious problem with the OnePlus 5.
Animations, scrolling, everything is a mess on Oxygen OS, to the point where I have unlocked my bootloader to try non-OOS based ROMs.
This thing stutters more than my old S7 Edge, and the Note 8 is significantly smoother than this.
Awesome example of how poor OOS is currently:
Go into Pocket Casts, subscribe to a podcast, open your subscriptions, tap on a tile. The simple animation will stutter like crazy as it opens. Same with play store.
Scrolling is atrocious for such a high specced device. 8GB/SD835 means nothing if smoothness is the worst by far out of any android flagship.
I couldn't even get an answer out of OnePlus support if Oreo would fix things.
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Extremely smooth and buttery in 4.5.13
Arny209 said:
Extremely smooth and buttery in 4.5.13
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istrikerx said:
Yep, its a serious problem with the OnePlus 5.
Animations, scrolling, everything is a mess on Oxygen OS, to the point where I have unlocked my bootloader to try non-OOS based ROMs.
This thing stutters more than my old S7 Edge, and the Note 8 is significantly smoother than this.
Awesome example of how poor OOS is currently:
Go into Pocket Casts, subscribe to a podcast, open your subscriptions, tap on a tile. The simple animation will stutter like crazy as it opens. Same with play store.
Scrolling is atrocious for such a high specced device. 8GB/SD835 means nothing if smoothness is the worst by far out of any android flagship.
I couldn't even get an answer out of OnePlus support if Oreo would fix things.
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Yeah, I don't know what's wrong with this phone. I also flashed to LineageOS to see how it would perform compared to OxygenOS, but have you noticed what I noticed? It's still Jitters bits. I have eventually got it smooth with tweaking the kernel settings around until it would scroll smooth. What has me confused is that it happened when I switched rom still, and even after trying a different kernel it still would stutters while scrolling.. so it has me really confused as to what the problem is.
My kernel setup is butter smooth in LineageOS, but only help OxygenOS a bit as it still slightly stutters. It's smooth in chrome, but certain apps like Instagram still stutters on OOS
ddaharu said:
I'm experiencing famerate lag. Changing orientation, opening apps and transitions through the ui.
Anyone else is experiencing this? And if so you know what's causing it?
My device is encrypted.
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yeah noticed this also on stock OOS. IDK whether this is just placeboo effect or not, but it feels much smoother now on my current set-up (xXx ROM + ElementalX Kernel)
Running stock oos with simple gx wouldn't be happier I actually came back from the non oos roms because I missed the smoothness and app opening animations from stock oos .... could you give me an example of UI jitters or where it occurs because I haven't run into any problems . Speaking of chrome smoothness scrolling could be better but I am fine in instagram Reddit (boost app) and wouldn't complain as per opening of play store is also smooth with opener game of apps from play store is fine as well .
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yeah noticed this also on stock OOS. IDK whether this is just placeboo effect or not, but it feels much smoother now on my current set-up (xXx ROM + ElementalX Kernel)
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Ok so I uninstalled some apps and it's smooth more ?
This is lame because I installed a "million" apps on my 3t and this NEVER happened. But anyway
Do you have the elementalX app installed or did you just flash it?
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Running stock oos with simple gx wouldn't be happier I actually came back from the non oos roms because I missed the smoothness and app opening animations from stock oos .... could you give me an example of UI jitters or where it occurs because I haven't run into any problems . Speaking of chrome smoothness scrolling could be better but I am fine in instagram Reddit (boost app) and wouldn't complain as per opening of play store is also smooth with opener game of apps from play store is fine as well .
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Did a speed test after getting rid of some stuff and my OP5 running xXx Rom is faster than my bro 0P5 running stock.
ddaharu said:
Ok so I uninstalled some apps and it's smooth more ?
This is lame because I installed a "million" apps on my 3t and this NEVER happened. But anyway
Do you have the elementalX app installed or did you just flash it?
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I installed the app but just for display color tweaking. I leave the rest untouched. This is the smoothest kernel so far at least to me, our experience may differ tho.
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I installed the app but just for display color tweaking. I leave the rest untouched. This is the smoothest kernel so far at least to me, our experience may differ tho.
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Ok I'll use it when xXx 4.2 is released. :highfive: