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Am I the only one who finds the Browser in Android painful to use?
Slow, clunky, jerky no matter whether your on 3G or Wifi?
Henchman said:
Am I the only one who finds the Browser in Android painful to use?
Slow, clunky, jerky no matter whether your on 3G or Wifi?
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Are there any better full html browsers for other mobile platforms that are significantly better? I don't recall iPhone's browser being significantly faster (natch, as they both use webkit for a core). iPhone scrolls more smoothly but the Android browser doesn't do the annoying checkering if you scroll out of the rendered region.
jashsu said:
Are there any better full html browsers for other mobile platforms that are significantly better? I don't recall iPhone's browser being significantly faster (natch, as they both use webkit for a core). iPhone scrolls more smoothly but the Android browser doesn't do the annoying checkering if you scroll out of the rendered region.
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I'm not talking about the iPhone.
I'm talking about the crap performance of the G1 browser.
And yes, the Android browser should be better. Not the same or worse than any other available web browsers.
Isn't that the POINT of Android?
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I'm not talking about the iPhone.
I'm talking about the crap performance of the G1 browser.
And yes, the Android browser should be better. Not the same or worse than any other available web browsers.
Isn't that the POINT of Android?
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Well, I think for a full html browser the Android browser is doing a pretty decent job? You should keep in mind that some of the lag associated with loading a page over 3G is due to the lag associated with a wireless air interface. So that fifth of a second will never go away no matter how fast the cpu or how efficient the browser code.
I wasn't trying to say you were talking about the iPhone. Rather, I was trying to establish a context for overall mobile browser performance.
I havent been to happy with it lately...I let it slide for a while thinking it was because I only have EDGE in my area, but i went to Wash-DC a few weeks ago and it still sucked on 3G.
If you have root on your phone, consider Cyanogen's stable build (3.2 at the time of writing). I switched to that from JF's 1.51 and I've noticed a drastic increase in performance in everything (not just the browser). I also have noticed no appreciable degradation in battery performance. I highly recommend it.
You may take my advice with a grain of salt though since your complaint is with the browser performance. I have no data plan so all my net access is done over wifi.
I just got my G1 about a week ago. If it had not been for cyanogen's build, I would have taken the phone back and lived with an iPhone (I don't like software keyboards or Apple).
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If you have root on your phone, consider Cyanogen's stable build (3.2 at the time of writing). I switched to that from JF's 1.51 and I've noticed a drastic increase in performance in everything (not just the browser). I also have noticed no appreciable degradation in battery performance. I highly recommend it.
You may take my advice with a grain of salt though since your complaint is with the browser performance. I have no data plan so all my net access is done over wifi.
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Cyanogen's ROM's rock.
This latest one is awesome, and smooth.
Just wonder why it wasn't like this out of the box.
I'm hoping to see a Cyanogen version of Hero soon.
I, too, dread using the browser. I use opera mini 9 times out of 10. I find that it takes a minimum of 20-30 seconds to OPEN the stock browser, let alone do anything. Why must it always refresh the page that it was last on when you reopen it? I am always reaching for Menu -> stop.
Recently I set the homepage to about:blank
This helps a little for what it's worth.
Swapper used to work well to help with the browser suck, but it's not yet compatible with cupcake and it definitely had it's quirks
Try Steel. Much faster and better designed in my opinion. The sliders rule. Check out developer's website for beta cupcake version, it rocks.
The only thing that really annoys me is that whole refreshing thing. I look at a text message and then I have to refresh a page it took a minute to load in the first place? Aggrivating, As for overall performance, yes for a full HTML browser on a handheld its pretty damned good. Content heavy pages will always load slower on it and honestly I havent uses a better mobile browser than it (with the exception of Opera Mobile [not mini]).
performance issue !!
To be honest i love the performance of the browser untill i find myself in an area that only just has GPRS but not 3g or edge coverage.
GPRS is just not fast ata all and thats all iv found to affect performance, try comparing it to say internet explorer mobile or opera on any windows mobile device !!
also try browsing while connected to wifi network, it flys !!
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As I mentioned earlier, consider trying Swapper to help with the browser. It has been updated to work with android 1.5 now
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=483110&page=4
My experience with the browser is pretty good. The only thing I don't like about it is that when we press stop, it usually stops at a blank page. Or when we press back, we can't tell if it's going back yet, so we (I atleast), press it twice and it goes back twice. Or when we press back, it doesn't stop loading right away, it waits a few seconds or sometimes even full loads the page that it's currently loading.
Other than lack of multitouch I don't see too much of a difference between the iphone in rendering or speed. IMO the G1 and Iphone browsers behave like chrome and safari respectively, and are pretty much the same.
http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.mhuang.overclocking
I'm not very happy with the broswing on the HTC Dream (Rogers user here in Canada) It renders pages fantastically, I've gotten used to the panning around and such when the fit-to screen doesn't really do a great job.
The major issue I have is the fact that when I switch to another application, no matter what app, when I come back to the broswer the page seems to reload. Also, if I start to load a page and switch to another app, when I come back to the browser it seems as though it was waiting for me to come back before finishing the page load I tasked it to do while I was off in another app.
Is there an option I'm missing that can stop this from happening? It's annoying. I'm used to my Sidekick LX loading a webpage while I'm doing something else! This device is much more powerful, why can't it multi-task as well? ARRGH!
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I'm not very happy with the broswing on the HTC Dream (Rogers user here in Canada) It renders pages fantastically, I've gotten used to the panning around and such when the fit-to screen doesn't really do a great job.
The major issue I have is the fact that when I switch to another application, no matter what app, when I come back to the broswer the page seems to reload. Also, if I start to load a page and switch to another app, when I come back to the browser it seems as though it was waiting for me to come back before finishing the page load I tasked it to do while I was off in another app.
Is there an option I'm missing that can stop this from happening? It's annoying. I'm used to my Sidekick LX loading a webpage while I'm doing something else! This device is much more powerful, why can't it multi-task as well? ARRGH!
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It's a caching issue. There simply isn't enough available to have the browser/webpage sitting in cache while you perform other tasks.
In comparison to a Sidekick, I'd rather have a G1 that renders pages correctly in lieu of loading in the background.
don't get me wrong, I love how the G1/Dream renders webpages. I suppose it's just something I have to get used to.
I loved the SK because it was such a work horse. I didn't need to view any flashy pages, and the server side magic they did with webpage rendering to fit on the SK screen is something I wish my G1 could do. The SK could also switch back and forth between apps without lag, the short cuts responded quickly, and there was no "Oh... what? Oh... I see what you want to do!" feeling that Dream gives me every once in a while.
In all honesty, if Fido (i'm in Canada) had not decomissioned my hiptop data plan, thus killing my SK, I'd still be using it.
Having said all that though, as my sig says, I miss my SK (it did have it's issues with non-loading certain pages) but I'm starting to love this little device I've got my hands on now. I love it for its potential, I just hope that it lives up to it! The market is fantastic and when we get root (again, we are in Canada using Rogers branded htc devices) I'm sure I will be even happier.
i<3andr0id said:
don't get me wrong, I love how the G1/Dream renders webpages. I suppose it's just something I have to get used to.
I loved the SK because it was such a work horse. I didn't need to view any flashy pages, and the server side magic they did with webpage rendering to fit on the SK screen is something I wish my G1 could do. The SK could also switch back and forth between apps without lag, the short cuts responded quickly, and there was no "Oh... what? Oh... I see what you want to do!" feeling that Dream gives me every once in a while.
In all honesty, if Fido (i'm in Canada) had not decomissioned my hiptop data plan, thus killing my SK, I'd still be using it.
Having said all that though, as my sig says, I miss my SK (it did have it's issues with non-loading certain pages) but I'm starting to love this little device I've got my hands on now. I love it for its potential, I just hope that it lives up to it! The market is fantastic and when we get root (again, we are in Canada using Rogers branded htc devices) I'm sure I will be even happier.
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Right, I get what you mean. I came from various Windows Mobile devices and it took me a while to get used to Android. After I did though, I'd find myself using somebody elses non-Android phone and going "wait, it can't do that?? they still make phones like this??"
Awesome.
don't even get me started on winmo... I had a winmo phone for the interm between my sk decomission and the htc dream release in canada. It took me forever to get it setup in a way that I could live with it.
I love the ui of the dream/g1. Eveything is so intuitive. After only a few days of using my dream, I used a friends winmo device and I actually touched the screen because I had become so accustomed to doing so with my dream. I was all, "oh! that's right, i have to click with this button. how quaint!"
Ok, so stock Vibrant "lag". What does this mean, precisely? I'm a rooted but otherwise stock JI6, and I don't see any lag anywhere on the phone.
If I were to be experiencing this lag, what would it look like?
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Ok, so stock Vibrant "lag". What does this mean, precisely? I'm a rooted but otherwise stock JI6, and I don't see any lag anywhere on the phone.
If I were to be experiencing this lag, what would it look like?
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Get Xscope V5 (V6 is buggy) browser for free x-labs.net and use it for a day or two. Notice how slow it loads webpages sometimes. Or try Miui Browser (not in market) GUI lags a little too
The LAG that most people are talking about is when you switch windows or open a new app. Sometimes when doing this, the phone will seem to freeze for a moment before going to the new app or page.
With Voodoo lagfix, I have not seen this happen once, where with stock it happened all the time.
If you have rooted your phone and gone down the mod rabbit hole, lagfix is well worth it.
I installed a LagFix recently like I did months ago and saw no huge change in performance (barely any change really) This "lag" problem is about as overblown as it could be. Firefox runs as smoothly as it can (it's not that smooth, beta and needs 40MB of ram on my phone. JFD firmware was did have some lag issues though that we're a problem. Some serious lag was solved by a factory reset or by reloading the OS. The lagfix isn't worth the reduced app space or lesser reliability. If you have no problems with how your phone is running, don't bother with any hacks like that.
Some people randomly got major lag when updating from JFD to JI6. A data wipe solves it.. and they couldn't be happier.
The 'lag' that you see people complaining about does not happen on all phones, all the time.
And I need to remind you to be careful about installing any lagfix. Read up on what it does and how it may affect your phone BEFORE installing it.
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The LAG that most people are talking about is when you switch windows or open a new app. Sometimes when doing this, the phone will seem to freeze for a moment before going to the new app or page.
With Voodoo lagfix, I have not seen this happen once, where with stock it happened all the time.
If you have rooted your phone and gone down the mod rabbit hole, lagfix is well worth it.
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Agreed, you might think the phone is fast now but when you install the lag fix you'll definately notice a difference.
It amazed me when I had to go back to stock (after soft bricking my phone) and I had to install rom manager from the market while everything was stock and it was crazy how slow it was.
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I installed a LagFix recently like I did months ago and saw no huge change in performance (barely any change really) This "lag" problem is about as overblown as it could be. Firefox runs as smoothly as it can (it's not that smooth, beta and needs 40MB of ram on my phone. JFD firmware was did have some lag issues though that we're a problem. Some serious lag was solved by a factory reset or by reloading the OS. The lagfix isn't worth the reduced app space or lesser reliability. If you have no problems with how your phone is running, don't bother with any hacks like that.
Some people randomly got major lag when updating from JFD to JI6. A data wipe solves it.. and they couldn't be happier.
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Gonma take our two vibrants to tmo and use my camcorder to rexord us using different phones after fresh reboots soon to shut up idiots like u.
The lag issue is far from overblown.
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N8ter said:
Gonma take our two vibrants to tmo and use my camcorder to rexord us using different phones after fresh reboots soon to shut up idiots like u.
The lag issue is far from overblown.
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N8ter is a troll, just read their posts. Where did I say "fresh reboot"? Nowhere!
N8ter said:
Gonma take our two vibrants to tmo and use my camcorder to rexord us using different phones after fresh reboots soon to shut up idiots like u.
The lag issue is far from overblown.
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Am interested in seeing said video.
Here is a video I took a while back. I'd be interested in seeing the lag. I know someone with a DROID X, behavior is exactly the same when opening apps. It was the same when I installed the lag fix.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl1Q2qlRNwE
I'm on stock JI6, non-rooted.
I think what I'm experiencing is considered lag.
It doesn't happen all the time but it is annoying when it does.
Sometimes it'll take 10 seconds for an app to launch.
It's especially bad if I have more than a couple of apps going at the same time.
Some of this can be worked around, keeping as few apps going as possible. I don't use a task killer, I just back out of apps instead of switching home and keeping the app in memory.
There are certain apps where it seems to be worse in.
The Facebook app is horrible to the point where I don't use it but I'm not sure if that's the app or the phone. I can't scroll a page without the phone locking up for 3-4 seconds. Clicking on anything takes about 3-5 seconds for it to register.
I'm pretty disappointed in Samsung in general with their software. The hardware is great, the software just sucks.
One of these days I'll get around to installing another ROM.
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I'm on stock JI6, non-rooted.
I think what I'm experiencing is considered lag.
It doesn't happen all the time but it is annoying when it does.
Sometimes it'll take 10 seconds for an app to launch.
It's especially bad if I have more than a couple of apps going at the same time.
Some of this can be worked around, keeping as few apps going as possible. I don't use a task killer, I just back out of apps instead of switching home and keeping the app in memory.
There are certain apps where it seems to be worse in.
The Facebook app is horrible to the point where I don't use it but I'm not sure if that's the app or the phone. I can't scroll a page without the phone locking up for 3-4 seconds. Clicking on anything takes about 3-5 seconds for it to register.
I'm pretty disappointed in Samsung in general with their software. The hardware is great, the software just sucks.
One of these days I'll get around to installing another ROM.
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You obviously have something else going on here.. Facebook runs with no problems on my phone. If you flash another rom everything will be wiped, just the same as what I said above. The FB app taking 10 seconds to load and locking up the phone is NOT normal behavior.
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You obviously have something else going on here.. Facebook runs with no problems on my phone. If you flash another rom everything will be wiped, just the same as what I said above. The FB app taking 10 seconds to load and locking up the phone is NOT normal behavior.
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I think you're right. It doesn't make sense that facebook would be so bad.
Everything else is pretty much okay.
I think I'm going to try one of the other ROMs. Just need to find some time.
Also, I'm dreading having to go through the whole process of reinstalling and reconfiguring everything. I might have to try titanium backup so that I don't have to do that.
I have a Verizon SGT and am starting to hate it. It constantly freezes up for a few seconds when loading a page in the browser and then when it finishes loading and I double tap to zoom, it zooms in and everything is fuzzy for a few seconds (freezes again also) before everything is sharp. None of my friends have a tab so I'm not sure if this is normal for our tabs.
My tab is rooted (z4) and I've tried sgstools and OCLF to try to fix it, but nothing has helped so far. I've also done a factory reset but it doesn't really work because apps are all still there. If this is normal behavior, will flashing a new ROM help? What ROM would you recommend for a Verizon tab? My firmware is stock dj11. I've flashed many ROMs on my Moto Droid, so I'm not opposed to a new ROM if that's all it will take.
Roger
use miren browser, it's on market
come back after you try it and give some feedbacks
It's not just the browser, but the browser freeze is the most common freeze for my tab. I've tried other browsers and read about Miren but haven't tried it yet. I'll give it a shot but it won't solve the general OS freezes.
Roger
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I have a Verizon SGT and am starting to hate it. It constantly freezes up for a few seconds when loading a page in the browser and then when it finishes loading and I double tap to zoom, it zooms in and everything is fuzzy for a few seconds (freezes again also) before everything is sharp. None of my friends have a tab so I'm not sure if this is normal for our tabs.
My tab is rooted (z4) and I've tried sgstools and OCLF to try to fix it, but nothing has helped so far. I've also done a factory reset but it doesn't really work because apps are all still there. If this is normal behavior, will flashing a new ROM help? What ROM would you recommend for a Verizon tab? My firmware is stock dj11. I've flashed many ROMs on my Moto Droid, so I'm not opposed to a new ROM if that's all it will take.
Roger
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I would have to say that's not normal. If I had to wait "a few seconds" for the thing to get it's act together every time I did something the least bit intensive, such as loading a web page with ANY browser, I would have exchanged it for one that worked correctly. You may want to consider that. My Tab isn't as smooth as my iPad but it's pretty close. Yours should be too. Custom roms and the like should be a distant option because, just like with phones, not one of them is ever 100% reliable.
Is it possible that these kind of things (lags and freezes) are caused by too little free memory? My Tab seems to run better and faster when I delete a few device based apps. Of course I screw things up again by adding new apps, lol.
I had the same problems AFTER I tried OCLF; Try undoing OCLF and anything related to it.
Install a good rom and OCd kernel. Mine runs better than any other Android device I've owned.
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Install a good rom and OCd kernel. Mine runs better than any other Android device I've owned.
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That doesn't help. You shouldn't need to overclock to have a decent experience. My Verizon Tab worked just fine right out of the box without any of the pausing the OP has mentioned. Overclocking is a bandaid over a problem that isn't going to go away if you ignore it. Exchange the device for one that works correctly and then overclock it to make it better. Besides, if the CPU can't handle an overclocked speed then the OP is really screwed.
This sounds like a similar scenario to me. I had a stock euro tab and was starting to hate it as well until I flashed it with a new rom. Now it's awesome and what you'd expect it to be in the first place. I dunno why the telcos bloat their stock roms up with so much ****. Rooting is not going to do much for your situation.
Get rid of the stock rom and you'll never look back. If you are after a bloatless, but stock like experience, then use Rotohammer JMIv2 and make sure you convert the file system to EXT4.
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This sounds like a similar scenario to me. I had a stock euro tab and was starting to hate it as well until I flashed it with a new rom. Now it's awesome and what you'd expect it to be in the first place. I dunno why the telcos bloat their stock roms up with so much ****. Rooting is not going to do much for your situation.
Get rid of the stock rom and you'll never look back. If you are after a bloatless, but stock like experience, then use Rotohammer JMIv2 and make sure you convert the file system to EXT4.
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+ 1 Also check your memory usage.
I got ATT tab and a Dell Streak. Both of them are doing that. Inresponsive for a few seconds, but if I poke the screen repeatedly, the app or browser will close by itself or the thing just reboot on it own. Maybe it's Android glitch? Start to hate Android now.
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I got ATT tab and a Dell Streak. Both of them are doing that. Inresponsive for a few seconds, but if I poke the screen repeatedly, the app or browser will close by itself or the thing just reboot on it own. Maybe it's Android glitch? Start to hate Android now.
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You'd better go by an iPad. That'll fix your issues.
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Since recovery and download mode is pretty reliable on this device, i took the courage to mod the tab and of course It wasn't a short process to achieve it, i tried every rom and kernel.
So my suggestion, try the overcome. It's so snappy you could not go wrong by switching to that ROM and kernel. I always have the GPS, Bluetooth, HSDPA turned on and on top of that i usually browsing and hearing music or playing some games while i'm in the car. Before i switched to overcome, multi tasking is sluggish, it would lags if messages, emails or tweets kicked in and the music would jitter. And now all is smooth as butter.
Although i have the oc version, i usually limit it on 1 Ghz underclocked depends on how long i would be outside. Battery life is still good, around 4-5 hours to reach 50% with GPS, HSPDA and Bluetooth always turned on and some browsing, plus some gaming, GPSing and calling.
All thanks to the developers, who know what they themselves and people want! Cheers!
Screw the ipad. No flash is like the year before the year 2000 man!
Be careful with the specifics of the advice you are getting here. You have a CDMA tab and these GSM tabbers kernel and ROM suggestions will bork your tab if you do what they did verbatim. The basic advice is good, if you are comfortable with flashing a kernel and working through the issues it entails then you will be rewarded for your effort with a smoothly operating device. Right now your best (only?) option will be the KhasMek kernel available in the Galaxy Tab Android Development section of the forum.
The kernel did enough for me, so I have not tried the ROM yet myself as I have not felt the need.
Hit up boush / khasmek he made my tablet lovely
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It seem that 25% of all the apps I try on the wifi zoom crash and force close. Pandora, slacker, just to mention two.
Is it a Honeycomb issue or xoom issue?
Will it ever get better or are some of the older apps never going to work?
I also have trouble with web sites that have flash video using either the standard browser or firefox.
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It seem that 25% of all the apps I try on the wifi zoom crash and force close. Pandora, slacker, just to mention two.
Is it a Honeycomb issue or xoom issue?
Will it ever get better or are some of the older apps never going to work?
I also have trouble with web sites that have flash video using either the standard browser or firefox.
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Everything will work soon - XOOM has been out a month now only and it's the first device with Honeycomb. Samsung, LG and others have announced their own Honeycomb devices and Google has their dev conference (Google I/O) coming up soon which will also help. Like previous years people think they'll be giving out free XOOMs to devs so that will help.
Look at Android - when 1.5 came out you could have said the same thing but now look we're at 2.3 and the apps are plenty. You just have to have some patience and enjoy the ride!
I'll say is more like 45%
Since geting the wifi version on Sunday I been having a lot of fc on apps I use daily. I'm begining to regret selling my archos 101 to get this
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Other than the chrome browser being sluggish and closing when it feels like it, all the apps I have work as intended. This includes pandora. I don't use slacker.
Agree. There still needs to be time given to get the devs up to speed on honey.
Search for the nook version of pandora it works great
Fwiw : the only app that FC on my Wifi Xoom was the XDA app. Solved that by dl'ing tapatalk. All other apps work fine for me. And my browser works fine. Not laggy at all. Only one FC in 4 days of heavy use. Don't know if its hardware, firmware, or the apps and web pages that are different.
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I'm getting a lot of FCs too.
what I did is downloaded spare parts and put compatibility mode and it seemed to make apps that fc'ed work make sure and reboot though
Have 117 apps in my drawer, and uninstalled numerous others for random reasons. Only FCs I've had are Facebook.
Only difference I can think of is using ROM Manager to fix filesystem permissions. Always fixed FCs on my phone after ROM switches.
I keep seeing mentions of XDA, but the app has worked perfectly for me from day 1 on my Xoom. Same with Pandora.
All of that aside though, it has been in CONSTANT use, almost every waking moment, since a few days after release.
EDIT: Different critter though, that WiFi thing? I can't say that is true, because these have popped up about 3G as well. Try running the permission fix, if you're rooted.
I get a lot of FC's and it seems like a lot of apps crash.. Def not a good feeling, but the fact that I can do a lot that the iPad can not, i am going to stick with it. I know it will get better.
But in my world, I have gone from old Windows Phones (pocket PC's) Palm OS's to iPhone, to Android, and a lot of other I think.. I mess with all of them, hack them in some way of ROM's outside software or whatever.
I seem to make them ALL unstable, and with that being said, FC's are not new to me. BUT I will say that the Xoom seems like the most buggy, but it's also the newest at time of purchace. witch makes me think that it will just get better, as 3.0.x and 3.1.x etc come out. I am almost sure that Moto will upgrade it.
X fingers!
but no matter what, I hope you and everyone else, keeps supporting the openness of the Android platform!
Other than Facebook and a Bible app, I have had 0 FCs among my 41 apps. ??
Xoom certainly has its issues. They seem more severe than the nexus s issues as far as software stability is concerned. Some legacy apps work flawlessly, others are horrible and crash or generally misbehave. I haven't had any os instability though, just individual app crashes.
This os is a big jump. The devs need to take notice and start building compatibility. A good thing to start with would be adding that one line of code to enable hardware acceleration. Some apps are laggier here than on older android devices. You can tell when that's been added to an application when it's as smooth as butter.
I'm pretty happy with it though. Currently just need to find a good news reader that's not pulse (ie need 2 way Google reader sync). Currently I'm using Newsrob, but it's not optimised for tablets. But at least it runs!
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Xoom certainly has its issues. They seem more severe than the nexus s issues as far as software stability is concerned. Some legacy apps work flawlessly, others are horrible and crash or generally misbehave. I haven't had any os instability though, just individual app crashes.
This os is a big jump. The devs need to take notice and start building compatibility. A good thing to start with would be adding that one line of code to enable hardware acceleration. Some apps are laggier here than on older android devices. You can tell when that's been added to an application when it's as smooth as butter.
I'm pretty happy with it though. Currently just need to find a good news reader that's not pulse (ie need 2 way Google reader sync). Currently I'm using Newsrob, but it's not optimised for tablets. But at least it runs!
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Check out 'NewsR'. It's awesome and the dev is working with me on iterating it pretty fast so it'll get better fast.
I know it's $3 so maybe try it quick since you have 15 mins for refund but you won't be dissapointed. Just keep in mind this is only a second release but he's got an aggressive roadmap ahead.
Hello,
I've had my tf101 for a few months now and it has been good but it doesn't live up to my laptop at all. I can't browse as quickly as I am used to and although it's great for travelling, I keep missing my laptop.
It has been good to use, don't get me wrong but nowadays it's difficult to use the browser. Both browser and ics browser+ keep freezing and I honestly feel like returning it. I've had it for 5 months but am I right in that Amazon won't let me return it after this long?
I'm not sure how to sell it either as I don't want to sell something to someone that I am not happy with 100%. Honestly, it's a good tablet but I really miss my laptop (I'm a fast typer and browser so perhaps this is why it freezes as I a too fast) but I also don't want to root it and add custo roms so perhaps someone else who can do that will be better with my tablet.
Anyone else passed on their tablet? is it too late to return it?
The stock browser definitely has it's problems, have you tried installing chrome or firefox and seen how that works for you? Unfortunately keyboard lag is not something android seems to be able to get a grip on - but that's an issue across many devices.
You can still sell it and just be honest about your experience in the product description; there will still be people willing to buy it.
First, you should try another browser, as alan said (chrome, firefox, skyfire, dolphin etc...) and another keyboard (slidekey for example).
And if it doesn't work, may be is it because of another program, so may be reset the tablet will fix the problem ?
Good luck
I realized that slow internet connection will cause the freezing of the browsers or even fc.
I had the same experience with the browser and had initial buyers remorse too. My advice is to Root, I know you said you didn't want to...you won't regret it. I love the Revolver Rom with the Harmony kernel overclocked to 1500. This setup has been very good to me, and I've tried them all (including JB). If you still won't root, try changing the channels on your router to a less commonly used channel (this helped some, when I first got my tf101). Additionally, this is something I just found out this week, try moving really close to you wireless router (like a foot away) and se if your speeds/browser experience improves. My router is behind my TV and for ****s and giggles I did a speed test from my couch 10 feet away and got half the speeds! 30mbps near the router and 15mbps at the couch. I'm not sure if it's a weak wifi antenna in the Asus, or a weak router broadcast. Anyway...just my 2 cents...hopefully it helps somewhat.
SilverViking said:
Hello,
I've had my tf101 for a few months now and it has been good but it doesn't live up to my laptop at all. I can't browse as quickly as I am used to and although it's great for travelling, I keep missing my laptop.
It has been good to use, don't get me wrong but nowadays it's difficult to use the browser. Both browser and ics browser+ keep freezing and I honestly feel like returning it. I've had it for 5 months but am I right in that Amazon won't let me return it after this long?
I'm not sure how to sell it either as I don't want to sell something to someone that I am not happy with 100%. Honestly, it's a good tablet but I really miss my laptop (I'm a fast typer and browser so perhaps this is why it freezes as I a too fast) but I also don't want to root it and add custo roms so perhaps someone else who can do that will be better with my tablet.
Anyone else passed on their tablet? is it too late to return it?
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Are you still on the stock rom?
It's not a question of the browser. Do you know that time when a normal computer is too slow and you need to clean it or even format it to take all the junk off? So that's is what's going on with your tablet.
You can full wipe to the Android system and it will be like new again but if it was me i would root it and installed a custom ROM as they come all tweak and way faster then the original ones...
If you want to give it a smooth touch install a launcher. It will be awesome :good:
you should install Firefox Aurora
I never had any issues with the stock browser on honeycomb. Problem was honeycomb sucked. Loaded prime with honeycomb and still had no issues, but used dolphin more. Once ICS came out, the stock browser was greatly improved. I favor it over dolphin now. I did have an issue with the browser "freezing" but it wasn't unresponsive, it just wouldn't load pages after a few minutes of use. But, the issue happened with dolphin and chome as well. turned out to be the rom i was using. Chrome sucks anyway. No flash and it's a lot slower than the pc version.
There's a problem with Chrome - it always freezes. when I go to, say, homescreen (after freezing) and back to chrome, it has turned to simply black screen. And I have to kill the app and start over. It happens quite often. Otherwise it would be the best browser as it can do certain things in certain websites that none of those other browsers can.
As for OP's problem.. well, maybe laptop would be better, as android tablets still can't compare with it, no matter what they say. They're not just for anywone. Not yet.
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There's a problem with Chrome - it always freezes. when I go to, say, homescreen (after freezing) and back to chrome, it has turned to simply black screen. And I have to kill the app and start over. It happens quite often. Otherwise it would be the best browser as it can do certain things in certain websites that none of those other browsers can.
As for OP's problem.. well, maybe laptop would be better, as android tablets still can't compare with it, no matter what they say. They're not just for anywone. Not yet.
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Same problem here. Chrome freezes every 5 minutes, no idea why
The browser isn't much better, although it crash less often it is quite slower....
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Well, after 1.5 years and many, many ROMs - even JB now, the browsers still suck. Freezes, crashes, losing of tabs. It's the problem with Transformer most likely because it seems that my phones are free of those problems and didn't see similar reports from users of other brand tablets.