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{Q} I am starting to think its my girl

Hey guys Im a EVo user and my girl has an Epic.
Now the next statement is with either running stock or a custom rom
Her phones slows way down and reboot its required, wifi is odd sometimes a reboot to connect, and today her battery became rather hot over 100 F.
Is there anything I can try out on her phone?

Sounds like a specific phone harware issue, i dont get overheats or slow downs, no matter how many apps are running at the same time and even if i charge and use mobile ap all the time, still no overheats here.
Ive Done this on both stock and custom roms and no overheats or slow down..

darn, thankyou for a reply, guess I'll update her ROM and start her off fresh

I don't get slow downs either. I leave my wifi on all day and don't have issues connecting. I only overheated once. Shortly after I got my phone I was downloading stuff left and right, playing graphics heavy games like radio ball, and trying to charge my nearly dead battery all at the same time. When I got the overheat message I figured it was a sign that I needed to turn the phone off and walk away for a little while.
Either the phone has a problem, or your girl does. (which were pretty much your choices to begin with)

Yep no issue at all here usually always on wifi and I'm a heavy user. I get no slow down or anything and I'm on stock rom with bloatware removed.
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My phone does slow down after about 2-3 days of uptime. I'm 100% stock, not rooted. Reboot resolves the issues.
After @ 2-3 day uptime the following happens:
1. I've had issues when rotating between home screens where all my widgets & icons disappear, then come back to normal.
2. Also, sometimes my swiping isn't recognized when trying to cycle home screens.
It's difficult to reproduce on demand, thus making my case to Sprint for replacement even more difficult. So I said screw it, just hoping 2.2.1 will resolve the problems whenever its rolled out OTA.
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You may be right. I would get a different girlfriend and see if the overheating/rebooting problem continues. If it stops, we know where the problem was. If the problems continue with the new girlfriend, it may be you.

[Q] Phone very slow, hang, unresponsive

Sometimes my phone will get very unresponsive such that any action takes many seconds to show up, and everything is very choppy. Often I see this when I wake up in the morning, but it happens often enough in general. It's so bad that I can't shut it down normally because it would take over 10 min (I've actually never waited to see exactly how long it would take). Thankfully I just found out about the three finger reset (volume up, camera, power), so I shouldn't have to pull the battery anymore, but it's still a problem.
I don't remember this happening before using custom roms. It happens with both DK28 roms I've tried - Bonsai and Viper. I believe it also occurred on the 2.1 Epic Experience, although I'm not sure. I guess I should try flashing to DK28 stock to see if that works, but it's a pain to set up everything each time. I figured I'd ask here to see if anyone else has had this problem and found a way to fix it. Also, I have a feeling this could be related to WiFi being turned on, but can't confirm yet.

My phone was stuttering yesterday.
But that was only after installing smartbench and using theonscreen keyboard.
However, since I've upgraded to dk28, the phone does take (relatively) forever to shutdown.
It'll go black but the bottom lights would still be on and then like a minute or two later it vibrates and actually cuts off
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When my phone does this, it reminds me that I like to have SeePU installed. It's pretty useful in pointing out the apps that are hogging CPU and most likely slowing down your phone.
For me it's often Touchdown, and I kill it and things are back to normal.

I have found a few things that are useful. When I need to reboot my phone I use quick boot from the market. Works every time. In between I use fast reboot also from the market. Try them and see how they work.
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Thanks for the app suggestions. I like the taskbar icons for SeePU. It's always been useful on my Mac (stats from iStat). Quick Boot makes things easier as well.
Next time my phone hangs, I'll see if some process is taking 100% CPU.

The phone hung again, and it seemed like something was taking 100% CPU, if the taskbar SeePU icon is to be trusted. I wasn't able to figure out what the culprit was though, because the phone pretty much stopped responding. Otherwise I would have loaded Android System Info to check.

can the epic 4g run this lag fix? if not, do we have any other ways to fix the lag?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=784691
edit: nvm

So I was able to view Android System Info while my phone was hanging, but it did now show any processes taking 100% CPU, although the total CPU usage was 100%. My guess then is that the Android 2.2 OS is buggy.
However, I did find people who said leaving USB debugging on would fix it, so I'm going to try that.
For reference:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=826507
http://androidforums.com/desire-hd-support-troubleshooting/244553-100-cpu.html#post2140890

My phone hasn't hung for a while, so apparently enabling USB debugging prevents the hang / lag / crash / 100% CPU. Weird but I'm glad it works
Now the only problem is kswapd0 eating CPU sometimes. I think this is caused by lack of memory, but I'm not sure what I can do about it.

Make things a bit quicker - My experience

I've been trying loads of things to try to make things speed up a bit more with my rooted Bell Atrix running the new Telstra FW, and the 4 things I've found that seem to improve the UI speed that do not require rooting, are as follows:
1. On a fresh reset, use the Atrix to format both internal and external SD cards. For some reason after doing this on a fresh reset, it seemed to speed up the "instant on" when the phone is asleep and you press the fingerprint scanner on/off button to wake the phone. Of course, remember to back up your external SD to your PC prior to doing this.
2. Setting the Wifi to be always on (never sleep when its on).
3. Don't use ATK task killer
4. Don't use SetCPU
Even with all my apps reloaded, and loads of use over the last few days, I found these things to cut the usual 3-5 second wake time to between 1-2 seconds, and for some reason the general UI speed was much better (even using Blur)
I'd be interested to hear any feedback on people who are thinking about starting fresh and resetting their Atrix, and trying the above to compare to what they had.

I'm rocking the telstra with all the blur and bloat deleted not frozen. I deleted the browser because it doesn't let me download apps from the internet. I replaced it with dolphin browser. Deleted email and various other apps like car dock, etc. I underclock to 800 for screen off. I literally replaced every transition animation with an app from jrummy (root required) I use automemkiller to allow more memory for empty apps and honestly I have a lwp running and constant usage and I last 16 hours on a charge and use it constantly! Death to all lag.
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I shall try

My phone has never required more then a second to wake. I see nothing in the list that is even sleep related - and leaving wifi connected all the time is a battery drain.
Sorry, but i only see placebo effect.

chromedome00 said:
My phone has never required more then a second to wake. I see nothing in the list that is even sleep related - and leaving wifi connected all the time is a battery drain.
Sorry, but i only see placebo effect.
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If you are around Wifi more than not, it is best to keep this on "Never"... The Wifi uses way less battery than 3G/4G. Having your phone update using wifi will save battery for sure.

chromedome00 said:
My phone has never required more then a second to wake. I see nothing in the list that is even sleep related - and leaving wifi connected all the time is a battery drain.
Sorry, but i only see placebo effect.
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You must have one special Atrix . The only time mine wakes within 1 second, is within 10-20 seconds of the screen going blank. If its been sleeping for more than 1 minute, it takes at least 3 seconds to wake.

[Q] Freeze and reboot

Hello everbody,
bought 2 weeks ago the Nexus 4 16GB and I'm very happy with it.
But i have the problem, that the device restarts when it is under load, means i play or watch something what needs
the full power of the CPU and GPU.
It happens a lot when i play Iron Man 3 The Official Game or Dead Trigger.
Than the device freezes, can't kill the app or even lock the screen and after 10~ seconds it reboots itself.
Active Wifi, Bluetooth, 3G or not doesn't make any difference.
The only strange thing is, what i discovered after a few crashes, is that the battery gauge stands still before the crash and after the reboot the gauge drops to it assumed level.
Screenshot as attachment.
System: Android 4.3 Stock (with this last mini patch from last week)
Does anyone have a idea how i can fix this?
I tried, to charge the battery while android is off and to turn android at 100% on, but this doesn't help.
Sincerely,
GTrash81

GTrash81 said:
Hello everbody,
bought 2 weeks ago the Nexus 4 16GB and I'm very happy with it.
But i have the problem, that the device restarts when it is under load, means i play or watch something what needs
the full power of the CPU and GPU.
It happens a lot when i play Iron Man 3 The Official Game or Dead Trigger.
Than the device freezes, can't kill the app or even lock the screen and after 10~ seconds it reboots itself.
Active Wifi, Bluetooth, 3G or not doesn't make any difference.
The only strange thing is, what i discovered after a few crashes, is that the battery gauge stands still before the crash and after the reboot the gauge drops to it assumed level.
Screenshot as attachment.
System: Android 4.3 Stock (with this last mini patch from last week)
Does anyone have a idea how i can fix this?
I tried, to charge the battery while android is off and to turn android at 100% on, but this doesn't help.
Sincerely,
GTrash81
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Did you undervolt the CPU?

If this is happening without rooting/etc... then I would definitely get a replacement. It sounds like the processor is overheating and causing a reboot rather than throttling.

Today i checked if the device is getting too hot.
But after 2 minutes playing Iron Man, by 9°C outside (i was on the way to the city, waiting for the train), it rebooted.
So i started the game, deactivated the display and put it on the table. After 4 hours i checked the game and played over 10 minutes without a crash.
So what i think is, that these two don't like Trim (most new feature with 4.3) or the are badly programmed and must reload/refresh objects while playing and Trim must work to clear temporary files.
And they are badly programmed, because i red at the developers page, that a few other people have the same problems.
So excuse me for wasting your time. But hey, to err is human.
Sincerely,
GTrahs81

Weird core usasge I9505?!

Hey all,
I recently noticed the weird core usage of my I9505. Sometimes when I start up the phone, all core are active at the lowest frequence (even when I'm texting or something). Even after for example, a half hour deep sleep. And when I restart it, it's just using one core (when I'm just texting or something), sometimes a second, but then it goes back to using one core. Also, if it's all looking good, it can suddenly start to use 2 cores and never go back to using one. Even through and after deep sleep.
I'm running 4.3 XXUEMI8. Anyone knows if this is normal?
greetz,
swa100
By the way: I'm using greenify, so no bull**** apps are running in the background. I've also deleted all the bloatware. And sync is disabled.