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Laggy on stock 1.6 will 2.1 or 2.2 be better?

Hey guys just wanted to get everyone's feedback on the streak. After having it for a full week now it seems like the home screens are laggy now. Jumping from apps to apps can be slow too. Can I wxpect 2.1 or the updated 2.2 to be this laggy again?
Is the flashed 2.2 laggy at all? I dont want to flash a rom yet since rumor it might come by the 15th. I hope and pray.. I dont have too many apps but this lag is killing me softly. Had iphone 4 before and obviously that will always be a smooth UI then had my captivate with flashed rom on 2.2 and that was pretty responsive...
Anything else I can do on 1.6 to help?
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I run an app called system panel.. And I run it when my 1.6 gets laggy. You can controle the working processes with it and stop the ones who take up to much memory or processing power.
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tosh1 said:
Hey guys just wanted to get everyone's feedback on the streak. After having it for a full week now it seems like the home screens are laggy now. Jumping from apps to apps can be slow too. Can I wxpect 2.1 or the updated 2.2 to be this laggy again?
Is the flashed 2.2 laggy at all? I dont want to flash a rom yet since rumor it might come by the 15th. I hope and pray.. I dont have too many apps but this lag is killing me softly. Had iphone 4 before and obviously that will always be a smooth UI then had my captivate with flashed rom on 2.2 and that was pretty responsive...
Anything else I can do on 1.6 to help?
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My friend had the same strange issue and I believe it was caused by some app he downloaded. All we did to fix this was just reflash to 1.1.1 (now it would be also wise to flash to widely known Dj Steve's 1.2) It's easy and your Streak will work WAY faster.

personally, the 1.6 is a smidgeon laggy, but the 2.x versions are not.
i'd just be patient for 3-4 weeks and wait till the official 2.2 comes out.
Flashing to a XDA-ROM is tricky and troublesome and usually recommended to hardcore gizmo fiddlers.

I can't speak for everybody, but for all those I know owning a Dell Streak have the same problem as you do. We all hope the official Froyo will fix the problem, but it kind of late. I am about 6 months away from my upgrade date. This will be my last Dell. Hope some other will make phone with this size of screen.

When mine gets that way I power it off and back on. This is because I don't know where to find a "reset" app like I had with my Windoze mobile phone. Does one exist for Android 1.6?

I currently use an app called "Fast Reboot" off the market, and it literally just shuts most of the running processes down and boots everything up again. It takes a couple of seconds but it's a hell of a lot quicker than actually rebooting the phone, only for it to take 5-10 mins to start up again. I've not had any major problems using this app but it does have an affect on some widgets like the Battery Smart (android) widget which freezes and no longer shows you how much battery you've got left, but removing and adding it again works fine. Though every so often, I still like to do a proper reboot just in case.

Streak restarting spontaneously on 318

Since upgrading I have never again managed to regain the stability I had initially with Stock O2 1.6. Steve's roms improved performance but suffered increased instability. Now I'm on Froyo 318 it's a fair compromise between performance & stability, but I still don't feel right about the one or two automatic reboots I'm experiencing daily, notably when I'm using the browser for a fairly long time. I'll be browsing for about an hour or more, then the touch control lights flash and the device reboots by itself. I have no task manager or setcpu installed and no performance fix flashed - just 318 rooted with a few apps from the market.
Do I have to accept the reboots as a streak limitation or characteristic of Android 2.2 similar to windows mobile (which initially edged me towards android) ?
Or do I have a faulty device (overheating perhaps) ?
Anybody else experiencing this?

I have this problem also, and I noticed a few times that my phone was just off in my pocket, a few times I noticed it stuck at the dell logo and had to pull the battery and reboot it. I love this phone and all bit the sang thing has little thing that really tick me off
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It's issues like this that makes me not want to do the manual upgrade from the locked 1.6. I had talked myself into maybe doing it today, but now I'm going to hold off and wait a little longer for the official update after reading about people having issues like this.

brianlp said:
It's issues like this that makes me not want to do the manual upgrade from the locked 1.6. I had talked myself into maybe doing it today, but now I'm going to hold off and wait a little longer for the official update after reading about people having issues like this.
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I don't blame you for taking that standpoint, but it looks like there's only 2 of us that have this problem
Could just be we are of the unlucky ones with defective units, whereas you may have no issues at all.

i have this ussue as well.as others do....
mine restarts after unpluging from charger after overnight session... but,to tell you the truth,it is pretty random sh..t so i do not know what to blame-i do not use fixes-just stock 318.
i read that it is not rom related which could suggest h/w issue of the specific sample.
i dont know - one restart every 2 days is not big issue for me so i will wait after next dell upgrade with my fingers crossed.
aaaah,one more thing - some guys posted that loose battery cover was causing their reboots - they solved the problem by placing something (paper?) between battery and the cover in the battery corners. maybe you give it a go too?
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Hey i tried the battery cover solution, it did improve on the number of reboots i was experiencing per day, went down from about 7 a day to 1 maybe 2, but unfortunatly didnt solve the problem completely
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Oh also btw use something slightly thicker than paper (i used a train ticket)
the idea being that the card pushes down the battery so that there arent any loose contacts, hope that helps
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Updated to 318........I guess 5 days ago. Not one restart here. I'm normally the one that always get's issues so I'm thankful I dodged the bullet on this one if it's really that common.

I can't see the battery cover being the culprit in my case, it fits nice and snugly. Thanks for the suggestion though
Just 3 of us with the sporadic reboots?
I'm considering digging out my HD2 from retirement again (I abandoned it due to instability in windows 6.5 and android on sd at the time), but looks like people say Winmobile 7 on HD2 is very stable. If only HD2 had the screen size of this Streak...

seems that others are having the same problem, just that you didnt look hard enough
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914333

As a reminder... Be sure to completely wipe previous versions of your Rom on your streak before doing the QDL. If your streak aint completely clear, traces of the old rom will contaminate the QDL version and you will have glitches and hang ups.
Your reboots are caused because there is a instability problem in the Rom on your phone conflicting within itself causing the unit to shut down crashing the CPU. You need to do a Clean install.
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AT&T Froyo 2.2 ROM v.318 + Perf Mod
Win 7 x64 bit Superuser Rooted

1. Wipe delvik cache via custom recovery via streakmod or clockwork.
2. Format internal sdcard
3. Pull battery for 1 minute
4. Replace battery
5. Use current qdl tool to update to 309
6. Update to 318 via dell update.pig
7. Root with super 1 click 1.5.5
8. Voila
Dell Streak, 2.2 froyo (318), custom kernel, OC to 1.2ghz, quadrant 2002, hspda signal mod,

reset spontane power off
what a problem with my dell streak 5, but after the contacts of battery put paper on the backside paper and sides but it bowing a bit, pressed it back, now the switch on the rear is not working anymore but spontaneously power of or a reset when I got my dell in the bag is gone , the dell is packed in a Otterbox defender case .
so i hope its now gone my power off resets , i loved the dell , but its a messy s*** build.
so don't try this at home !!

highs & lows (a flashers tale)

Just thought i'd post a story ....
Many sleeps ago my streak went in for repair, alas i thought weeks would pass but lo and behold a call was received by two tin cans and string that the streak was ready. All a jitter i clocked off work early, rushed .. well once out of traffic (ie on foot) i rushed to the shop, no! it was not repaired but NEW. Brand new, not just the unit but the box, contents everything.
Considering myself lucky and tweeting thanks to o2 i got home prepared it for flashing, carefully reading the instructions for dj steve's 1.6.1 i began the process.
Flash recovery - check
Flash baseband - check
Flash dsp - er no, distracted by the sight of my young voluptuous wifey i flashed dsp1.mbn to dsp .......
As you might think this is not a good nor healthy idea ... PANIC .... oh no new streak is dead streak, bricked. Feeling somewhat er "small" i began to research eventually realising the light at the end of my self inflicted tunnel was the QDL tool. What i had not counted on nor did i for the next 2hrs was the insane difficulty of installing and using the tool in 64bit windows. Would it install?, even following videos etc hell no.
Fortunately being a geeky (if inept) engineer i have three or four laptops with various OS's for linux, windows etc so winxp it is, QDL tool installed, streak connected, flashed and yeah we have life!! I felt like Dr Frankenstein ... It's alive!!!!
Next onto 1.6.1 ... wrote the cfg file er no the text file, stuck it in the root of the sd card and away we went. Except it didnt go, each time i installed 1.6.1 it either hung on the streak droid logo or cycled through the EPA boot routine. After six flashes or 1.5.1 (working) and 1.6.1 (not working) confused old me searched XDA and found that someone else was confused about the install file.
Finally after 6hrs from receipt of new phone i copied the install.txt to install.cfg and kept both in the root dir and also put both in the android\streakdroid folder and reflashed.
This time i have a working streak on 1.6.1 with scores of 1850 and am now a happy little chap (thanks steve) my only issues now are i chose a resolution of 200 and now want smaller plus the bottom status bar i cant see (transparency?) but i am not flashing again! well till next week.
Moral: flash your phone in peace and quiet
Moral: Use winxp or another 32bit OS
Moral: Don't give up, research
Moral: Buy a big coffee pot or a case of stella just in case things go wrong.
Apologies for the length of post, its rambling nature but after last night, three hours sleep and the highs & lows i felt the need to share.
Cheers,
Lee

If you want to change the LCD density, there's an app on the market, or edit the LCD density line in system/build.prop. download. Root explorer. Or earrings file explorer( enable Root settings in options). Really easy, no flashing required, just a reboot after you've done it.
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Excellent, will investigate 2 moro. Thanks for advice
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One of the app for density is call LCD Density, it works like a champ.

Help! My phone just died - not really sure why

I pulled it out of my pocket since I could feel it heating up and saw it looping on the "Google" screen part of the boot (i.e not loading the ROM).
I'm using the latest SuperAOSP (can't remember exactly which version). Installed it a couple of months ago and didn't touch any of that stuff ever since.
Playing with recovery I get the following message:
"Error mounting /data"
Didn't try formatting /data yet (not sure what the concequences are) and basically didn't do anything. I assume wiping and re-installing the ROM would help, but I'd rather see if there's a way to not go through all that mess.
Meanwhile the phone has been dead for several hours.
Would greatly appreciate your as-fast-as-possible help on this Friday night!

Also - recent activity:
Installed Google+ .apk from here, then uninstalled it; Installed Market Enabler and downloaded Google+ again from the market, in addition to Google Music and Pandora. Uninstalled Music today.
Can't think of anything else that would cause this.

Wiping the data worked but sucked. Plus I don't know what caused it...
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Sorry to hear you lost everything. I would recommend SetCPU with a temp > profile to draw your Mhz down to 800 if it reaches 40C or even sooner.

Osapir said:
Wiping the data worked but sucked. Plus I don't know what caused it...
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Yeah that sucks. Didn't you have a nandroid backup? (or Titanium)

Did you happen to have the phone stuck on the boot annimation but in a dim light? If yes, then this is something known with roms like cm, superaosp,... the exact cause is not known.
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Unfortunately I only had backups from a couple of months ago.
Also, the screen was stuck on the "Google" part and wouldn't even initialize the ROM.
And I have seen the phone reach higher temps than that... I'm really quite clueless.
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Could have been some sort of rom or kernel bug.. what kernel are you using?

Words with Friends on Streak...

Has anyone tried to use WWF on the Streak? When I try to play the game it reboots my phone. And sometimes it will reboot several times before settling down. I finally had to remove it to stabilize my phone. I tried removing advanced task killer thinking it was interfering but it still crashed the phone...

I just got the Streak and I have WWF working fine. I have done nothing to the device.

It ran like crap on my 1.9.1 load. I uninstalled and moved over to WordFeud. Simpler UI but much stabler.

I have no issues whatso ever running WWF on my Streak.
Just stock ROM Froyo 2.2, unrooted
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FWIW - I just upgraded to v4.0 and it's running smooth as silk. Not sure what was going on before...

I spoke too soon. My phone has been rebooting for the last half hour. Started when I was in WWF. Lights flashed three times and whammo! rats...

words with friends runs just fine for me on my streak. Im waiting for Hanging With Friends to come to the Android OS. IPhone already has it now its only a matter of time before it makes its way to the android platform.