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Phone App is sloooooowwwwwww on Sprint Hero...

My phone app has been slow since I got my Sprint Hero. But lately, it has gotten extremely slow. Almost unusable... it's slow to open, respond to input and ring when someone calls. Any ideas, tips or tricks on what the deal is?
I thought about trying to cut down my contact list to see if that helps, but I really hate the idea of not having all my contacts available on my phone.
Any other ideas to speed this thing up?
Thanks!

I'd try reflashing and if you dont want to go to that extreme I'd try to make sure to reboot the phone daily

Are you using a task manager? Also I find a reboot every 3 or 5 days is usually a good idea unless you clear out some of the memory hogging processes like Gmail storage and such. Generally I'll notice a bit of lag if I fall under 30mb of available memory.

I have considered reflashing, but was trying to see if there were any other solutions first. I've reflashed a few times and keep finding that after while, the phone app consistently slowed down.
I typically reboot about every 3-5 days... lately a little more. Rebooting has been much more effective that task killers.
I've read that some folks had problems with slow contacts, but is it also affecting their phone apps? How many contacts is too many for this thing? Is 130+ contacts too many for this phone to handle?

mine does EXACTLY this ... but only after I pull the phone off of charge.. the charge light stays on.. and bam.... its slow.... only fixes with a reboot

I have a lot of contacts
I have 1400+ contacts and my pone is not too slow.
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Mario

I like to use the "all people" widget its located under the live folders when adding stuff to your homescreens. Basically it just has a list form of your contacts.
Then when you select one it loads up the people app

I found out that some of the apps, were causing the problem, I started uninstalling apps, I guess most of the apps are made for 1.6 maybe because we are on 1.5 causes some kind of issue. that's just my theory...
In the mean time, you can try that.

I find the phone app very slow in response. It's very aggravating.

I noticed on the Fresh Rom, there is a note that the Location service may be what is causing the slow down in the phone app... I turned off location service yesterday and noticed an immediate response increase with the phone app. I'm not ready to call this a fix yet, but I am going to keep the location service off for a little while longer and see if it helps.
If anyone else is seeing the phone slowness, give this a try and let us know your results...

It does work. And for the sake of clarification, it's a 1.5-wide problem and affects all 1.5 ROMs.

Are you using the Facebook linking? I noticed when I had this feature on the phone and contacts apps. It's a cool feature but not worth the slow down.

jziggy618 said:
I noticed on the Fresh Rom, there is a note that the Location service may be what is causing the slow down in the phone app... I turned off location service yesterday and noticed an immediate response increase with the phone app. I'm not ready to call this a fix yet, but I am going to keep the location service off for a little while longer and see if it helps.
If anyone else is seeing the phone slowness, give this a try and let us know your results...
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Does that mean that Locale wouldn't work? I'd rather deal with the slower dialer if so.

Yes, I am using the Facebook linking. I could see that killing it too. I wish it would just import pictures and info over to my Google contacts. Any ideas on how to do that?
And yes, turning off the location feature will disable general location info from the phone. However, it can be re-enabled from settings...

It's a problem that has to do with apps using seperate threads to check your location, which builds up over time causing the location services to eat clock cycles like Rosi O'Donnel eats candy on Halloween. Disabling location services is a temporary fix, and Flipz thinks he's solved the problem in his 1.1 release by using Android's location services instead of HTC's

I have to agree with the abcdfv, fresh 1.1 has completely eliminated the annoying phone lag for me...amazing work. Now if someone could address the keyboard lag this phone is ready to rock...

tstack77 said:
I have to agree with the abcdfv, fresh 1.1 has completely eliminated the annoying phone lag for me...amazing work. Now if someone could address the keyboard lag this phone is ready to rock...
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Are you linked to a Facebook account and running fresh 1.1, and there is no lag in the people(contacts) app?

I have a linked Facebook account on my Fresh 1.1 ROM and while there is an almost negligible lag in the phone/contacts application still, it is drastically snappier and quick to response compared to the Stock ROM.

jdlumley said:
Are you linked to a Facebook account and running fresh 1.1, and there is no lag in the people(contacts) app?
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I have most of my contacts linked to their respective facebook and flickr pages. Coldsweat says it best as "an almost negligible lag"...still present but not an issue in the slightest (.5 seconds). I am experiencing the same change with the contacts as well.
Give it a shot and post your results...I was very impressed.

FYI, I turned off Facebook sync (synced Facebook pics with SyncMyPix), dropped my slot cycle index to 1 and installed the Fresh 1.1 ROM. Holy crap. This thing is a screaming fast new phone
For those who are rooted (and not aware), Fresh ROM has come a long way and is really, very impressive. It's very fast and some of the interface mods are very attractive.

OTA update 100 percent awake time.

So I updated my EVO to fix the qik problem as mine would not sign in.
Now I noticed I have 100 percent awake time and the battery is draining fast.
Anyone have this problem? I searched around but didn't see a mention of it anywhere. I have not rooted yet at all just setup the phone then did the update. Had no problems before the update.
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Mine seems to randomly stay awake too (but not always!)
Download the spare parts app from the market and in the battery history section, check the partial wake usage to see what's keeping the phone awake.

Mine seems to randomly stay awake too (but not always!)
Download the spare parts app from the market and in the battery history section, check the partial wake usage to see what's keeping the phone awake.
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Ya I had that installed seems to android system and calendar.
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Hero Flashbacks!!!

Well there is something going on with calendar as it will be 100 percent awake if calendar is running soon as I kill it with task panel the phone sleeps.
Damn it
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I'm also seeing the 100% wake after the ota update. I'm downloading spare parts now to check if it's the calendar.
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Today: 5 hours off the charger...5 hours awake time ONLY by the calendar. It's pretty impressive. I'm trying unchecking the calendar sync portion of gmail sync and charging it up to see how it performs for the second half of today. >.<

I killed the calendar app and my phone is finally going to sleep. This is probably it. I was getting the same result in spare parts. I installed auto task killer to kill the calendar in case I ever do open it.

I killed it also and the battery is performing MUCH better after a few hours by comparison. I wonder what it is about it that's not letting go properly.

Nothing here after update, Up is 10 hours, awake is 3 hours...my poor pocket empire is feeling neglected!

Are we all using the HTC calendar widget?

nachyochez said:
Nothing here after update, Up is 10 hours, awake is 3 hours...my poor pocket empire is feeling neglected!
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Do you sync with google calendar?

sph33r said:
Are we all using the HTC calendar widget?
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I am using the widget. I turned off all calendars except the Exchange one I need, and it still has the partial wake lock. Anyone find a workaround? We need a new thread for this?

sph33r said:
Are we all using the HTC calendar widget?
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I disabled the widget but that didn't stop it.

Looking into the logcat output, I saw on each sleep/wake cycle, 'SocialNetworkSyncmanager' acquiring a wakelock all the time (or, what seemed like a wakelock from the logcat).
Couldn't find exactly what that was, but noticed Footprints was running (wtf is that thing). Force closed that **** from Settings > Applications > Manage Applications, and now no 'SocialNetworkSyncManager' wakelock logcat messages.
Looking in Spare Parts, it seems that Calendar is no longer 100% of the partial wakelock time. Hrm. Will keep testing, but really need rundown time tests tomorrow to really get an idea of this works.

I had no idea footprints was part of the calendar. I never used it on windows mobile but I'll try disabling that too.

I am also running the widget but seems to make no diff if I use it or not.
I will start investigating the log cat see if matches the mentioned above.
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donatom3 said:
I had no idea footprints was part of the calendar. I never used it on windows mobile but I'll try disabling that too.
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Me either. We'll see. Now I really want root so i can uninstall the Sprint crapware (NFL, "Navigation" meta-app, Footprints, FriendStream). Sheesh.

mchang said:
Me either. We'll see. Now I really want root so i can uninstall the Sprint crapware (NFL, "Navigation" meta-app, Footprints, FriendStream). Sheesh.
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The only two of those that are sprint are NFL and navigator. The rest are all htc.

donatom3 said:
The only two of those that are sprint are NFL and navigator. The rest are all htc.
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True. Let me restate it then: I want a clean rooted image so that all that crap isn't in there, including the HTC and Sprint stuff!

[Q] Does the Facebook App Drain Your Battery?

I've been getting great battery life but then recently noticed that I hit 50% by lunch (when usually, I hit 50% by 10-11pm, after unplugging in the morning like everyone else).
Then, I noticed that FB was showing me notifications after installing it a few days ago. I tried to find a way to disable notifications in FB, but there is no such option, so is it basically running all the time in the background? Makes ya wonder what Zuckerberg is tracking in the background?
I'm uninstalling FB tonight and see if I can get back the awesome 1.5-2 day battery life I'm used to.

It does drain battery terribly but I don't think its because of notifications. I think the chat refusing to close is causing a partial wake issue. Download spare parts and Facebook is always running. Probably best to just use the site.

I never have any problems with the facebook app. You can disable notifications in the settings.
I cant really speak to the chat problem. I have been signed out of chat since that feature was added.
So if you are having issues, try disabling notifications and signing out of chat. See if that makes any difference.

flickmaker said:
I never have any problems with the facebook app. You can disable notifications in the settings.
I cant really speak to the chat problem. I have been signed out of chat since that feature was added.
So if you are having issues, try disabling notifications and signing out of chat. See if that makes any difference.
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Cool, I'll put FB back on after a few days and try those suggestions. I wanna make sure that it was the culprit in my poor battery life.
I just left a comment for them about this in the Market. I'm also going to install it back again and uninstall it from the Market and mark it as Defective, so they get a second hint.

Neo3D said:
Cool, I'll put FB back on after a few days and try those suggestions. I wanna make sure that it was the culprit in my poor battery life.
I just left a comment for them about this in the Market. I'm also going to install it back again and uninstall it from the Market and mark it as Defective, so they get a second hint.
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It's for sure the chat....just make sure you stay signed out of it and you wont have the drain issues.

I dropped the FB sync settings down to once or twice a day and that was a huge help on battery life. I don't use the widget, so instant status updates have no value to me and this allows the profile pics to stay relatively up to date.

I noticed the widget causing the most battery drain.
I think i will stick to the site.

New version of the Facebook app just came out. Version 1.5.1 if i recall. Might help those of you having battery drain issues.
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Known Apps that prevents phone to sleep.

I just like to compile a list of apps to stay away to preserve battery life by staying away apps that prevent your phone from going into sleep.
On the related subject, does the following apps and tools prevent phone from going to sleep. Can anyone verify?
Gmail auto-sync
Android Assistant with auto boost
Current widget
Spare Parts
Thanks

franklin20uk said:
I just like to compile a list of apps to stay away to preserve battery life by staying away apps that prevent your phone from going into sleep.
On the related subject, does the following apps and tools prevent phone from going to sleep. Can anyone verify?
Gmail auto-sync
Android Assistant with auto boost
Current widget
Spare Parts
Thanks
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Current widget is fine (even reporting every minute, drain is negligible), as is g-mail auto-sync as long as the interval is reasonable say hourly or longer, whats causing issues with spare-parts?

how do you reduce the intervals of auto-sync, because I couldn't find this option on my dhd.
For spare parts, I was just asking.
I heard the stock sms messaging app drains a lot of battery too, so I am switching to Go sms and see if it helps.

franklin20uk said:
how do you reduce the intervals of auto-sync, because I couldn't find this option on my dhd.
For spare parts, I was just asking.
I heard the stock sms messaging app drains a lot of battery too, so I am switching to Go sms and see if it helps.
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I'd say that the sms app draining is just another rumor. And for the first post none of the listed drain much. My settings everything on (3g) and not current widget but battery monitor widget and the average drain when idle around 3-5 mA with occasional peaks, due to data transfer while syncing. Also whatsapp on and various other background apps. Oh and CM7 latest build.

i really hate gmail
it gives huge spikes..

Where I check my Partial Wage Usage with SpareParts
I am getting these items
Dialler (Most usage)
UID 10030
Android System
Maps
GO SMS
Messaging
Calender Storage.
How can I disable Maps and the stock Messaging app? I don't why they are there since I have location turn off, gps turn off. And I turn off auto-retrieve and notification for my default messaging app.
What exactly is Dialler? what does it do?
Can anyone help. My phone is burning insane amount of battery during stand-by.

Spare parts? I think it works ondemand basis. I think YouTube is another app preventing sleep.
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ghostofcain said:
Current widget is fine (even reporting every minute, drain is negligible), as is g-mail auto-sync as long as the interval is reasonable say hourly or longer, whats causing issues with spare-parts?
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How do I manually set the intervals of gmail sync? I can't find it.
Many thanks

franklin20uk said:
How do I manually set the intervals of gmail sync? I can't find it.
Many thanks
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I haven't found any way to do it, people say you can change it when you factory reset, but otherwise, you can't

Maybe Gmail uses push, so updated on demand... (just guessing)

yes, auto-sync practically is push mail, but there isn't an option you can change it to fetch intervals instead?
I can use the stock email app, but its so crap!
Anyone know any decent email client solution for android?

franklin20uk said:
Where I check my Partial Wage Usage with SpareParts
I am getting these items
Dialler (Most usage)
UID 10030
Android System
Maps
GO SMS
Messaging
Calender Storage.
How can I disable Maps and the stock Messaging app? I don't why they are there since I have location turn off, gps turn off. And I turn off auto-retrieve and notification for my default messaging app.
What exactly is Dialler? what does it do?
Can anyone help. My phone is burning insane amount of battery during stand-by.
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same here, maps is a real pain in the arse. It really does drain my battery.

thenocturnalnurse said:
same here, maps is a real pain in the arse. It really does drain my battery.
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If there's some strange drain by maps have you tried manually closing it from the settings-applications while you don't actually use it? That should do it.

thing is I killed it using android assistant and they just start pop up again.
and I haven't even used it to begin with.

Vispe85 said:
If there's some strange drain by maps have you tried manually closing it from the settings-applications while you don't actually use it? That should do it.
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franklin20uk said:
thing is I killed it using android assistant and they just start pop up again.
and I haven't even used it to begin with.
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+1 mate, I haven't used it in the first place and I tried force closing it and it still comes back.

franklin20uk said:
thing is I killed it using android assistant and they just start pop up again.
and I haven't even used it to begin with.
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Yep, that's the problem with closing apps with task killers etc, if android thinks it should be running it will restart it

Titanium Backup has been preventing sleep on my phone recently for some reason.

ghostofcain said:
Yep, that's the problem with closing apps with task killers etc, if android thinks it should be running it will restart it
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I'm not using task killers, but still maps is there preventing my phone from sleeping for like 1-2 hours my phone is running 48% while in reality I'm not touching it nor even waking it from sleep. It just ticks me off.

franklin20uk said:
thing is I killed it using android assistant and they just start pop up again.
and I haven't even used it to begin with.
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Seriously if you use the "killed selected" option to terminate these processes it will just drain more battery. These processes will get restarted as soon as they are killed. That's the android way. I am already thinking dumping this function in my app - Android Assistant. The reason I let it stay is there are still some android 2.1 users and they need this feature.
If you are thinking about saving battery, root your phone and uninstall all unneccessary battery-draining apps
or use the normal way to save battery: turn off gps, bluetooth, wifi, lower screen brightness etc.(and these are also available in Android Assistant )

I un-installed maps and im good to go since i use Co-pilot
No problems with titanium backup pro

Uninstalling Facebook app saves up to 20% of Android battery life

This is more of a just letting people know just kind of post. I, personally, uninstalled Facebook from my devices in 2012, and haven't been happier. but, many people still use the Facebook app. and for those that use it, here is some info about it that many of us already know, but many others do not http://www.theguardian.com/technolo...ok-app-saves-up-to-20-of-android-battery-life

I've been using fast for facebook and I haven't seen anywhere NEAR the battery drain I did with the official app.

hp420 said:
I've been using fast for facebook and I haven't seen anywhere NEAR the battery drain I did with the official app.
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Just downloaded Fast, love it so far. One question though, does it offer push notifications, or should I enable SMS notifications. I do think the web view is a bit slow to start but other than that its good. I like their native part of the app.

I just use the browser. The app uses a lot of memory as well.

mikeprius said:
I just use the browser. The app uses a lot of memory as well.
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I use the browser for Facebook as well, I'm even happier using the browser

Harry44 said:
Just downloaded Fast, love it so far. One question though, does it offer push notifications, or should I enable SMS notifications. I do think the web view is a bit slow to start but other than that its good. I like their native part of the app.
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I don't use push notifications, but I'm almost positive the app does allow it. This one is so much more fully featured than the stock app, I can't imagine them cutting such a standard feature like push notifications.

hp420 said:
I don't use push notifications, but I'm almost positive the app does allow it. This one is so much more fully featured than the stock app, I can't imagine them cutting such a standard feature like push notifications.
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Actually, I just spoke with the developer. Unfortunately there are no push notifications do to a limitation set forth by the Facebook API.

Harry44 said:
Actually, I just spoke with the developer. Unfortunately there are no push notifications do to a limitation set forth by the Facebook API.
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That sounds a little strange, since chrome mobile allows FB notifications. Regardless, maybe allowing FB notifications in chrome is at least a possible temporary work-around.

hp420 said:
That sounds a little strange, since chrome mobile allows FB notifications. Regardless, maybe allowing FB notifications in chrome is at least a possible temporary work-around.
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They could possibly not be using the chrome api, and instead using a simple webview. If they were to bring chrome to their app for their webview then it would work.

57% battery, have been opened the facebook app a few times... 2% drain from facebook.
If you haven't had the facebook app on your phone since 2012.... You may not be the right person to comment on it?

scryan said:
57% battery, have been opened the facebook app a few times... 2% drain from facebook.
If you haven't had the facebook app on your phone since 2012.... You may not be the right person to comment on it?
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Agree. My most rececent charge lasted 36 hours to get down to 5%.
- 3:45 SOT
- 2:19 calls
- Facebook only used 5% over that period. Held the phone awake for a total of 9 seconds.
I'm on the beta using 62.0.0.19.77. Notifications and chat turned off.

scryan said:
57% battery, have been opened the facebook app a few times... 2% drain from facebook.
If you haven't had the facebook app on your phone since 2012.... You may not be the right person to comment on it?
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I had Facebook on my both my nexii at the time, tablet and phone. on my tablet, it was never ever opened. on my phone, it used between 15-25% most he time, with very little use. on my tablet, for months it used 15-40% battery, again never ever opened nor set up. and I have family and friends that have Facebook installed, people who refuse to remove it. so I see how Facebook goes, first hand. I'm more than happy using their website.

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Agree. My most rececent charge lasted 36 hours to get down to 5%.
- 3:45 SOT
- 2:19 calls
- Facebook only used 5% over that period. Held the phone awake for a total of 9 seconds.
I'm on the beta using 62.0.0.19.77. Notifications and chat turned off.
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notifications are a big part of it, but even just having it installed has made my devices run like a gimped weasel....it's a severe resource hog, and removing the app immediately clears things up. There is no way to deny it's the root of the problem when you see this happen on device after device, over the course of 5 years as an android user....sorry, but you are never going to convince me the app isn't the ultimate source of many many issues on peoples' devices.

Try metal for Facebook

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notifications are a big part of it, but even just having it installed has made my devices run like a gimped weasel....it's a severe resource hog, and removing the app immediately clears things up. There is no way to deny it's the root of the problem when you see this happen on device after device, over the course of 5 years as an android user....sorry, but you are never going to convince me the app isn't the ultimate source of many many issues on peoples' devices.
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You are very right. FB and Messenger are both on the top of the worst coded android apps and it is well known that they drain battery like mad. Lucky for me other then my kids no one I know even uses FB anymore.

Always has been a bad battery drainer. No idea why but one would think they would have had it rewritten by now. I despise FB and been far happier since leaving them anyway.

Hm... Removing Facebook app saves 20% of Android battery life but the REAL battery saver to do is delete facebook all together & get back 90% of your life. Think how much battery you'll save not staring at your phone for 6+hrs.

I don't have battery issues with the Facebook app, but I stopped its background sync, and I also don't have messenger installed. In general, social media apps are the worst battery abusers as they typically sync in the background a lot by default.
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It looks to be true. I uninstalled the Facebook app and from the day 1 my SOT has exceeded 5 hours on daily bases. Before, with the FB app installed I would usually get something like 3 to 3 and a half hours of SOT.
Now I just use FB on Chrome and it looks good.
Oh and yeah, the N6 rooks

If you look at a logcat with FB installed it will show you the drain. It is one of the worst coded apps available