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Is the homescreen choppy for everyone?

I went to best buy a little while ago and they had a XOOM display sitting all by its lonesome getting no attention, so I went over to play around with it. The apps seemed very snappy, but switching between homescreens and flicking some of the widgets was quite jerky and choppy.
Is this everyone's experience, or was it just that one XOOM?

I haven't had problems with chop. I have noticed very minor stutters with some 3D effects, but they're barely noticeable.

My experience has been buttery smooth man.
No chop

Same here. Everything has been very smooth!

Interesting. I wonder if it was because it had been left on since 10am.
I even starting trashing widgets from the home screens until all that was left was a few app buttons. Didn't help any.

Mine is fine. The only thing I have noticed it that the screen rotation is slow.
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Screen rotation has always been slow on Android. Doesn't bother me.

Screen rotation on my infected evo is very fast. Almost too fast. Just Ned to wait for virus to make xoom roms. Won't happen but would be nice
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It's choppy/jittery for me using Dolphin Browser. I'm still playing with the thing, so I don't know what else is doing it.

When I put my Xoom in portrait mode, it is laggy for sure 100%, but in landscape is smooth.
Anyone else seeing this?

princeplanet said:
It's choppy/jittery for me using Dolphin Browser. I'm still playing with the thing, so I don't know what else is doing it.
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It's normal, Dolphin isn't yet accelerated by the GPU, like the Chrome browser.

Pretty smooth for me, I noticed a bit of choppiness, but it appears to be random.

I wonder if the demo unit at Best Buy is different. I know that it lost wifi connection with Best Buy's routers while I was there. I asked someone about this and they said it had something to do with the demo unit. Whether that was true or not, IDK, but it worked perfect with tethered to my phone over Wifi.

[Q] Any custom rom's addressing keypress lag?

Softkeyboard or dock, the delay is killing me.

Its a bug i tried stock and prime v1.4 are the same, still cant type in browser, maxthon...
Opera mobile is normal.

The Samsung 10.1 has the same problem (actually worse IMO). Seems to be a Honeycomb issue.

MisterEdF said:
The Samsung 10.1 has the same problem (actually worse IMO). Seems to be a Honeycomb issue.
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Aw, so they need to do a lot to make everything go smoothly.
Now too many unsupported issue.

MisterEdF said:
The Samsung 10.1 has the same problem (actually worse IMO). Seems to be a Honeycomb issue.
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Seems to be a stock browser issue, actually. As others have reported, Opera works fine because it was built from a completely different browser engine.

I found that the lag in the stock browser is minimal if you disable plugins.

Typing lag and potrait frame rate drop; are the biggest reasons why iPad is winning tablet race. U might not think those 2 things are huge issue but have someone who plays with the iPad and give android tab a try will be turned off by this. I know because my brother put down my xformer noticing so much lag and went back to his fluid iPad. Sucks I hope it gets resolved soon

the keyboard lag while typing in the browser is from the browser autocomplete / autosearch. This doesn't make it OK I know. But if you can turn it off (or a rom can turn it off) it should help.
What people are saying about portrait fps I don't know. Scrolling and zooming in the browser and gallery for example go butter smooth whatever my orientation is.

dipje said:
the keyboard lag while typing in the browser is from the browser autocomplete / autosearch. This doesn't make it OK I know. But if you can turn it off (or a rom can turn it off) it should help.
What people are saying about portrait fps I don't know. Scrolling and zooming in the browser and gallery for example go butter smooth whatever my orientation is.
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not to make fun or anything, but u might not have the eyes to notice a frame drop in portate mode, but its def no where near as smooth as landscape

Since this is (was?) The dev forum I was only giving facts, to help find the source. It's not apparent in every app and or every device. Bb

cowballz69 said:
Typing lag and potrait frame rate drop; are the biggest reasons why iPad is winning tablet race.
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Well, that and Apple has been in the market almost 2 years. And they advertise at least once on every prime time show I watch.
Anyway, really happy with my Transformer. I'm impressed with how well the apps. work. EVERYTHING WORKS. It may even be better than my Vibrant. Skype and Netflix are my only two issues? Where are you?
I have another tablet (Elocity A7). Same CPU (Froyo), no browser lag. Incredibly snappy. Anyway, the transformer is a huge setup in quality. 3.1 is awesome so far (after a little getting used to).
Generally the browser freakin' awesome. Everything works (except the click lag issue). Something is definitely up with that. I also miss the click highlighting from Froyo.

O wow I've spent a while trying to sort out this issue, glad its not only me!
The lag is pathetic, this is the only thing left letting me down now. I cant believe this is happening with this great tablet!! Google need to sort this out with up-most priority!!
NOW!

Maybe some1 should try to downgrade it to 2.3.3 to reduce the bug in 3.1 )

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Maybe some1 should try to downgrade it to 2.3.3 to reduce the bug in 3.1 )
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Does this happen on the Xoom? If not then maybe someone could port over the apk?

[Q] Random screen rotation

Hey everyone, loving the tab so far just curious though if maybe mine has a issue that i will need to return in exhange for another. For some reason occasionally my tabs screen will rotate to portrait mode without me even rotating the device. This only happens once every couple of days. Just wondering if anyone else is seeing this and if this is a software or hardware bug?
Thanks.

Falen07 said:
Hey everyone, loving the tab so far just curious though if maybe mine has a issue that i will need to return in exhange for another. For some reason occasionally my tabs screen will rotate to portrait mode without me even rotating the device. This only happens once every couple of days. Just wondering if anyone else is seeing this and if this is a software or hardware bug?
Thanks.
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You're not alone. Happens to mine from time to time also. Funny thing is it never seems to happen when I'm holding it but only when it is propped up in its case.
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Yup, seeing it while sitting stationary in the Desktop Dock with Pandora playing. The desk/dock are not moving at all....so it must just be a software quirk than needs to be fixed.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1141373
Posted this a few days ago. Hope it is just software related?

It happened on my TF and previous 10.1. No worries. It's HC.

It happens to me when i prop it up in bed... No, not watching porn. Not that there is anything wrong with that if I were.

bbeelzebub said:
It happens to me when i prop it up in bed... No, not watching porn. Not that there is anything wrong with that if I were.
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Isn't that the only reason we have Flash?

potrait in 3.2!

i just found that launcher in 3.2 is now as smooth s butter when running at potrait mode. browser speed is also increased slightly. great news to xoom owners

Yeap, in portrait is working really smooth now, I did not use the browser jet... hahahaha
Just one thing, when you change from portrait to landscape or otherwise it still takes some time to adapt, a few seconds but after that... it goes really smooth....
I did tried some mkv files, but they did not work fine for me... I have seen other users that tried them and work fine for them.. I do not know why...

What about upside down? It used to lag badly upside down.
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thats weird my xoom doesn't lag when upside down...I do it often took....well only when I'm charging and am using a dock

binglut9 said:
thats weird my xoom doesn't lag when upside down...I do it often took....well only when I'm charging and am using a dock
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Its typically on desktop during screen rotation. I know I'm not the only one whose experienced it, I've seen it mentioned a few times before. Its really odd because being upside down should be no different, at least I assume.
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sirius b said:
Its typically on desktop during screen rotation. I know I'm not the only one whose experienced it, I've seen it mentioned a few times before. Its really odd because being upside down should be no different, at least I assume.
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You're definitely not the only one. It was a known issue. Happy to say it's fixed now. Though there's a part of me that still wonders how an issue like that ever made it into a major release in the first place.

i think it turns ALOT faster now. Like, I dont mind turning it because it barely takes time anymore.

hatworthy said:
You're definitely not the only one. It was a known issue. Happy to say it's fixed now. Though there's a part of me that still wonders how an issue like that ever made it into a major release in the first place.
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Good to hear, and you and me both wonder that, not only an official release but multiples, from 3.0 through 3.1.
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Thanks for reporting this. It was the only thing I was scanning all the 3.2 posts for, and no one else had chimed in on the matter quite yet.

hatworthy said:
You're definitely not the only one. It was a known issue. Happy to say it's fixed now. Though there's a part of me that still wonders how an issue like that ever made it into a major release in the first place.
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It was explained at Google I/O I think. Basically Tegra 2 couldn't handle rotation, so they were forced to do it in software. They've probably come up with some clever tricks to optimize things since then, thus the boost in performance.

i still get lag in launcher at portrait mode. not as bad as before, but still lagging.
On the other hand, its very smooth upside down.
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yeah now that I've installed 3.2 I don't see much of a difference at all. Still too laggy for me.

how about trying few times of reboot? cause mine really as smooth as butter now.. removed adw too

Home lag on verizon versions?!?! *LAUNCHER REDRAW updated w/ vids*

i don't get it...how has no review shown this at all?
when you go home, the phone lags out for like 2 seconds. you can't switch screens..it's like it's unresponsive for a second or two before it starts chugging along. this wasn't shown in any video at all.
try it with keyboard up or without..you'll notice it with keyboard, because when you hit home, it takes like 3-4 seconds for the keyboard to dropdown and go away..that's bc it's like hung up when you're going home.
anyone else notice this? other than that, this phone rocks.
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the issue is def launcher redraw. when it's redrawing, it doesn't allow you to switch between homescreens or open folders, and it's a delayed response if you attempt to. hopefully our devs can do a modded launcher that won't redraw, or we can get some kinda bulletproof launcher script going.
VIDEOS:
of course when i went to film it, i couldn't get it to do it. took forever, but i finally got something. it isn't the 100% frozen issue, but it shows it getting caught mid-home screen because it's trying to redraw the launcher.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpn-hZnEPqg
**NOTIFICATION DROPDOWN LAG SOLVED**
and here's the super annoying notification dropdown lag on the lockscreen (this happens when youre on the launcher and you unlock..if you're in a settings menu and your phone locks, and then you hit power and do the dropdown on your lockscreen, it WON'T lag like this..it will only lag if the last place you were was the launcher. wtf is up with this stupid launcher? lol)
turns out that you CAN NOT set a homescreen wallpaper to NON SCROLL, or else you get this annoying lag. as long as you set a wallpaper to SCROLL, then it won't lag at all. makes absolutely NO sense, but yeah. just tested.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLWUXOu68d8&feature=youtu.be

Have not experienced this at all yet.

jayochs said:
i don't get it...how has no review shown this at all?
when you go home, the phone lags out for like 2 seconds. you can't switch screens, can't do the dropdown..it's like it's unresponsive for a second or two before it starts chugging along. this wasn't shown in any video at all.
try it with keyboard up or without..you'll notice it with keyboard, because when you hit home, it takes like 3-4 seconds for the keyboard to dropdown and go away..that's bc it's like hung up when you're going home.
anyone else notice this? other than that, this phone rocks.
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Reviews didnt show that cause it might only be you. I've had my phone all day and I have No lag on my homescreens even with a **** load of widgets on them

jayochs said:
i don't get it...how has no review shown this at all?
when you go home, the phone lags out for like 2 seconds. you can't switch screens, can't do the dropdown..it's like it's unresponsive for a second or two before it starts chugging along. this wasn't shown in any video at all.
try it with keyboard up or without..you'll notice it with keyboard, because when you hit home, it takes like 3-4 seconds for the keyboard to dropdown and go away..that's bc it's like hung up when you're going home.
anyone else notice this? other than that, this phone rocks.
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Can you explain this a bit more? I am not entirely sure what you are referring to. I assume you are saying when in a messaging app and you have the keyboard up? My keyboard drops pretty quickly but i am also using thumbkeyboard. I've always had issues with stock keyboards.

jayochs said:
i don't get it...how has no review shown this at all?
when you go home, the phone lags out for like 2 seconds. you can't switch screens, can't do the dropdown..it's like it's unresponsive for a second or two before it starts chugging along. this wasn't shown in any video at all.
try it with keyboard up or without..you'll notice it with keyboard, because when you hit home, it takes like 3-4 seconds for the keyboard to dropdown and go away..that's bc it's like hung up when you're going home.
anyone else notice this? other than that, this phone rocks.
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I just got my vzw g2 and am not experiencing this problem. Will update though if i notice it at all

Mine doesn't do this. Sounds like you got a dud.

lol i doubt i got a dud. although, i did have to return the first one the second i powered it on bc of dust under screen adn dead pixels. they gave me such a hard time because they're a bunch of morons at corporate stores and weren't going to let me exchange it.
had to lay down the law on their asses. bunch of douchebags lol
anyway, doesn't happen everytime...any of you use swiftkey? when youre using the keyboard and you just hit home, it stays up for like, 3 seconds or so. it's getting caught up somewhere with the launcher perhaps.
oh well, no biggie. phones sweet.

must be only you. Mine is faaaast

Confirmed it does it with swiftkey, not iwth stock

lilkhmerkid4u said:
must be only you. Mine is faaaast
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Yeah, I haven't experienced any lag at all. This phone flies.

Guess that's why I never noticed it, I use the google keyboard, still no issues.

No issues at all here either... gonna try to root it later
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ha i should've known it was swiftkey! bah.
i remember when i got the gs4 there were reports of swiftkey literally lagging down the phone by just being installed, even when not in use.
i LOVE that keyboard, but damnit, they really need to optimize it correctly!

Have to agree about SwiftKey. It lags on my nexus 7. It is absolutely frustrating on my gnex. Seems to run fairly well on the nexus 4 and on the s3 with aokp.
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eh just uninstalled swiftkey and it made no difference. it's like when you go home, wait a second and then start scrolling, or else you'll notice lag. i'll just stop trying to be so speedy on my phone

A phone with these specs shouldn't lag. I sure hope the bootloader gets unlocked so aosp can be installed. That made a huge difference on the s3. I personally haven't gotten the phone yet. I am trying out a nexus 4 on t-mobile. Unfortunately, I get no signal in my house. So t-mobile is a no go. I was hoping this could be my next Verizon phone, because my gnex lags terribly. Using this nexus 4 is spoiling me quickly.
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jayochs said:
lol i doubt i got a dud. although, i did have to return the first one the second i powered it on bc of dust under screen adn dead pixels. they gave me such a hard time because they're a bunch of morons at corporate stores and weren't going to let me exchange it.
had to lay down the law on their asses. bunch of douchebags lol
anyway, doesn't happen everytime...any of you use swiftkey? when youre using the keyboard and you just hit home, it stays up for like, 3 seconds or so. it's getting caught up somewhere with the launcher perhaps.
oh well, no biggie. phones sweet.
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Yeah man, sorry I gave you an early approval that SwiftKey was working smooth. It does most of the time, but I have major lag when the keyboard is up and I hit the home button to get out of Hangouts. It takes up to 5 seconds at times. :banghead:
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WizeGuyDezignz said:
Yeah man, sorry I gave you an early approval that SwiftKey was working smooth. It does most of the time, but I have major lag when the keyboard is up and I hit the home button to get out of Hangouts. It takes up to 5 seconds at times. :banghead:
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yup! so it's a combo of swiftkey and i'm thinking the launcher perhaps. i now wait a second before i start moving around in the launcher, or else there will be much lag and delay.

jayochs said:
yup! so it's a combo of swiftkey and i'm thinking the launcher perhaps. i now wait a second before i start moving around in the launcher, or else there will be much lag and delay.
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I have always loved SwiftKey and exclusively use it, but I don't want to get rid of this phone just because of it. You have any other keyboard suggestions?
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nope lol I'm still gonna use swiftkey. the stock one seemed nice but swiftkey is just great
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