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Did my Xoom just get faster?!

I picked up the Xoom on launch day and I've been pretty content with it so far, but I won't hide the fact that the device has a lot of random laggy moments, stutters, and glitches. Opening the app drawer looked like it was at 10fps, scrolling through the home screens would lag quite often, etc.
I don't know what happened, but after I just went into the android market to update my applications I swear my Xoom got a speed increase. Going through homescreens is super snappy now, it was never this smooth before. The app drawer looks great when you open/close it now, and everything just seems so snappy now. I was getting a little annoyed by all the home screen lag and random stutters, especially with a dual core processor that just shouldn't happen. I know other users have reported lag as well, has anyone else recently noticed a speed increase?
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Since its that then im willing to bet that you had an app that was (before update) making your xoom seem slower than it should. Now that the app was updated, Xoom runs smoother. Thats my guess.

HorsexD said:
Since its that then im willing to bet that you had an app that was (before update) making your xoom seem slower than it should. Now that the app was updated, Xoom runs smoother. Thats my guess.
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People say that, but I doubt it dude! One application couldn't make the entire device sluggish like that

Arcadia310 said:
People say that, but I doubt it dude! One application couldn't make the entire device sluggish like that
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One application can hijack your Xoom and hose it up. All it takes is one....

I also noticed the lag, and mine is gone now too. When I added my google account, all the apps from my phone were loaded onto my Xoom, plus it was downloading all of my picasa web pics. It was cool, but way too much going on and it installed way too many apps that were probably not cool with honeycomb.
I removed all of the apps and rebooted, and things run perfectly now.

I agree with horsexd. I haven't really felt much lag...well besides in the accelerometer which I think was intended.

I noticed a drop in lag after restarting after initial boot.
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Same after restart my xoom is lightening speed.
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I have found that once I got more comfortable with the xoom, I was going straight to what I needed. Not clicking too many things and going back because I meant to open something else.
I have the same experience on my phone.

Hmm. I've been in the market for the past 30 minutes and nothing has changed for me.
Rebooting my XOOM.
The honeycomb boot screen seems to be a bit faster.
[edit] I call shenanigans. The app screen is still choppy when I hit the apps drawer button.
Seems the same to me. Aside from pulling up the app drawer, it's been pretty snappy since I got it.

whenever mine gets turned on, the little honeycomb looking animation is usually choppy. I think once it ran smooth, but it was uber choppy on this first turn on.

I haven`t restarted my xoom but once since I got it and its blazing fast all the time.
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Is there a fix for laggy/choppy scrolling w the Xoom? Perhaps a FPS increase?

I bought one. I love it. Do not want Ipad, I want to stay with Android and will.
However - the scrolling is not smooth, there is no denying that. Is there a way to fix this?
I remember when I first got my Evo I had to root and put in a kernel that increased FPS. Is there an option for that yet?
Thanks.

My scrolling is smooth - i am overclocked, have been since the first 5 minutes of taking it out of the box.
I thought that I read we didn't have a cap on the FPS.

Use a new launcher like launcher pro
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Ok. I'll try the LauncherPro when I get home. Thanks for the suggestion.
Did you get some choppiness before you switched launchers? Or before you OCed?

The stock launcher is very laggy... if you use launcher pro you can set how fast the menus open. Get spare parts out of the market and you can configure how fast either things open too
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The stock launcher is perfect. Really no need for a new launcher. I did experience some lagging but have to say that once I overclocked my XOOM it runs smooth as butter.

bishop72 said:
The stock launcher is perfect. Really no need for a new launcher. I did experience some lagging but have to say that once I overclocked my XOOM it runs smooth as butter.
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I guess we had different stock launchers lol. Have u tried others to compare?
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No and now I'm worried that my Xoom is different than other peoples'!
Maybe my best bet is to upload a quick video of it. If I can even figure out how to do that.

Sprockethead said:
No and now I'm worried that my Xoom is different than other peoples'!
Maybe my best bet is to upload a quick video of it. If I can even figure out how to do that.
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Just try wht I said first it'll help
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ok.
I'll report back.

This is going to sound really stupid, but make sure it's right side up, in landscape orientation.
All other orientations are far less smooth (on the homescreen at least). Even 180 degree landscape is horrible. Only the standard orientation, with the Motorola logo in the top left, works well.

willverduzco said:
This is going to sound really stupid, but make sure it's right side up, in landscape orientation.
All other orientations are far less smooth (on the homescreen at least). Even 180 degree landscape is horrible. Only the standard orientation, with the Motorola logo in the top left, works well.
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Such a true statement, it doesn't sound stupid. It is odd to me why it should matter
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"SetCPU" to over-clock it and "VM Heap Tool" to increase the heap to above 32 (i set mine to the max(48?)). After that, my stock launcher is smooth as butter in any orientation.

curtisc19 said:
"SetCPU" to over-clock it and "VM Heap Tool" to increase the heap to above 32 (i set mine to the max(48?)). After that, my stock launcher is smooth as butter in any orientation.
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Mine lags abit, so i take it I will have to root the xoom ? for increasing cpu?

Yes, you will need to root the Xoom. You can get the one-click root over on the Development side of this forum.

That is just retarded... in order to have my xoom running smooth and how it should, I have to root. Does that make sense to anyone.
This is not exceptable... FAIL
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The only time I found it not running smooth(before I rooted) is if i dragged my finger across the screen to scroll. If i just tapped the side, it was crisp.

Xoom or Doom!!!!
i guess it is all comes down to personal preference. cuz my Xoom is pretty smooth and i am running stock. i don't think anyone has a Super Xoom or a Doom Xoom. it is the same hardware, just that some people see fast different. get a thunderbolt if you wanna be super fast. or take the risk and overclok (something i'll never do), cuz there is obviously a risk factor to it. low battery for one, i won't be trading battery power for speed anytime soon. and then you xoom might not have a long life. it might be fast now, but we all watch nascar and see what happens when you go too fast, you CRASH!!!!. and within a year you could end you with a Doom Xoom. (dead Xoom).
cuz if this thing was safe to be overclock, i have said in other thread, uncle Moto would have been the one to do it, and would have brag and claim that they have the fastest tablet on the market @ 1.5Ghz. we all know it can be push even further. but with the cons, i won;t take my chances. i don;t need the nano second it will take to load an app, am fine with the extra second it will take me to load a web page. and scrolling is normal as it has been since i got mine. plus others have tried launcher pro and experience better. but do what you feel, just don;t come back crying foul about how you tablet didn;t last, and try to blame motorola for your fault.

How high are y'all overclocking? Hows the battery life?
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Also make sure you do not have a livewallpaper running
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Micro lag

Does the one who has s2 still experiencing micro lag or is it ios wp7 fluid? My phone hopefully arriving 7 may
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I had a quick go on this today and it is fluid and smooth. As fluid as WP7 id say, and WP7 is smooooooth!

Got widgets galore, loads of apps on and running, fancy live wallpaper and its still sooo smooth.

Tried other launchers?
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Micro lag?! Jesus wept...

What do you mean by lag? The delay between your input and the action occurring or the smoothness of the UI? Android has never been as "responsive" as iOS or WP7 in terms of pinch-zooming and flicking up and down lists but it's usually faster at opening/switching applications. The animations can be smooth with Android, but if you try pinch-zooming on the iPhone or a WP7 phone you'll notice that it directly tracks your fingers and zooms instantly and smoothly, while Android will have an ever so slight delay between your finger movements and the zoom actually happening.
I don't have this phone (yet) but it looks to be the "smoothest" and "fastest" android phone out there, but it's still not as good at finger tracking as iOS or WP7. I get the feeling this is due to the UI not being GPU accelerated because of different hardware between phones, whereas iOS and WP7s are standardized.

I can safely say this phone has no lag/latency/delay between input and response even with 5 screens full of widgets and bucket-loads of background apps.

Micro lag??? What's next nano lag???

i'll also say what others have said. its freaking smooth. even SPB shell runs smoothly with multiple app running in the background.and it initially loads in less then 4 sec.

UncleScar said:
I can safely say this phone has no lag/latency/delay between input and response even with 5 screens full of widgets and bucket-loads of background apps.
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Is this the case after heavy use and many installed applications? I'm sure it is but many phones only show signs of lag after it has been used and has many applications installed.

Techno79 said:
Is this the case after heavy use and many installed applications? I'm sure it is but many phones only show signs of lag after it has been used and has many applications installed.
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Not to be rude, but then its probably best only asking that question in a few weeks?

stoney73 said:
Not to be rude, but then its probably best only asking that question in a few weeks?
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That's true. And no worries, no rudeness came across. So many discussions about the phone recently, I forgot it's only been a couple of days for the lucky few
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Techno79 said:
That's true. And no worries, no rudeness came across. So many discussions about the phone recently, I forgot it's only been a couple of days for the lucky few
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i know, am waiting for mine to be delivered. So far I feel like a nasty beggar looking in at the exclusive restaurant watching the fatcats dine on fillet steak.....only ever so slightly melodramatic on my part lol.

I've had the phone for two days now and I think if you have had an android device before... you know that annoying stutter you would get when installing apps from market regardless of what was running etc etc.... This phone does not slow down at all I installed like 80+ apps yesterday and not once did I have to wait on the phone to catch up which even on my s1 I would experience delays...
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There's no lag from this phone, smooth as you like.
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thanks for all answers cant wait til i get mine 6 may they say

Can someone convince me to keep my tab..

I bought this a few months back don't get me wrong its a excelebt device. But im finding it slow and anoying to the poiny i want to get rid of it, im fed up with how apps can run on there own without permission and slow the hell out of the tab and kill battery i fibd it silly how the default launcher widgets dobt fit the screen. Apps dont look good at times due to the screen resolution etc. Can someone convince me otherwise ps i do use other laubchers they just lag. Only way you get a lag free tab.is if you have no apps
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Not sure why your lagging so badly my tab never lags maybe u got to much stuff installed u dont need id look at getting a task manager app and reducing the apps you have open at once.

I dont have loads of apps open i was trying to use.the one built in.go launcher i dont evan.have loads of apps installed my nexus has far more apps installed and its insane
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What are you running? If stock then carrier had probably crippled it even with their junk ware. Suggest running overcome kratos, or stock non-carrier gingerbread-can find both in the dev section. They work very fast with no bad lag.
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Convince us first why there is a need for us to convince you.

I'm running gingerbread stock, no kernals just plain stock.
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Run the ROM/Kernel from Overcome and you will have your speed back.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1205990

Or we could send around 4 big blokes with various tablet devices to show you the error of your ways....

Overcome is good, but I prefer CyanogenMod, completely sans TouchWiz. Both are great, and you should definitely switch to one of them. You will gain a lot of performance and battery life back, for sure.

Might be a rogue app. I run the 'Fast Reboot' to dump stuff before and after a game, seems to help. The 2.3.3 update made things far smoother too.

Thanks for the replys cm put me right off i used it with my nexus i had constant reboots and a greenish screen animation bug
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formerglory said:
completely sans TouchWiz.
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........?
Whats "sans TouchWiz"

SANS means "Without (French)"
http://www.internetslang.com/SANS.asp

I'm running the old gingerbread prep rom that came packaged with the overcome rom. I had such great speed from this that I didn't even bother to move onto overcome.
Apart from the occasional stutter, everything is very smooth, particularly web browsing. This prep rom is just stock ginger with root, and it's almost perfect. All of the ginger builds are largely identical so I can't see how you could have ginger and bad lag unless you have an app bogging it down.
Have you tried a factory reset and started fresh?

Use Fast Reboot
its free on the market, it made my tab run whole lot faster than it was.
ofcourse after installing Kratos and overclocking to 1.3Ghz it runs a lot better, but i still use Fast Reboot. it simulates a restart without doing one, causing all processes to close and come back up.
very nice app.
you can buy the paid one for scheduling it to run at times when memory usage is too high

I dont like doing factory resets my uses the tab for them farm like money games and its anoying starting from scratch
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keep your tab bro. still so many areas to explore your tab.

i see what you mean op....my tab is a beautiful device.... hardware wise.. but going from mango to sluggish android is horrible... how i wish i could install wp7 or windows 8 on my tab....

or u can try task650 rom too

ATN24 said:
or u can try task650 rom too
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It looks nice, but I expect it won't work on the P1000 (7") Tab.

GS3 vs N4 multitasking

A quick question for you lucky people who have got your N4s:
What's the multitasking like? I'm hoping it must be flawless with 2gigs of RAM?
Can someone who has GTA3 tell me if you can pick up exactly where you left off, if you've gone out of the game to do other things for a while? On my current phone GS3, it has the annoying habit of kicking me back to the beginning of the last mission I started if I leave the game for any reason. Is this a RAM limitation on my phone, or does GTA3 do this on all phones?
EDIT: I should mention I'm using the international GS3 i9300, that only has 1GB RAM.

setspeed said:
A quick question for you lucky people who have got your N4s:
What's the multitasking like? I'm hoping it must be flawless with 2gigs of RAM?
Can someone who has GTA3 tell me if you can pick up exactly where you left off, if you've gone out of the game to do other things for a while? On my current phone GS3, it has the annoying habit of kicking me back to the beginning of the last mission I started if I leave the game for any reason. Is this a RAM limitatio on my phone, or does GTA3 do this on all phones?
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Flawless
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barondebxl said:
Flawless
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Without a doubt... Flawless.

Multi tasking/over all experience is orgasmic.
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My biggest problem with my older phones was that they would constantly close out the apps that I needed to stay open like contacts, messaging, phone. It annoyed me that my old clam shell phones would instantly open contacts and my G2 couldn't open then faster than 4 seconds or so. This thing leaves all those open and they all open instantaneously.
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Flawless x2. Seriously, apps stay in memory for a considerably greater amount of time than my Atrix 2, and obviously longer than my Captivate. It makes switching to almost anything smooth and snappy.
Flawless.
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What the other guys said - it is really great. No app loses it status, even if you have open quite a few of them. Switching between apps is absolutely fluent, no hiccups no waiting, nothing!

This should set the expectations of every Android phone.... Stock Android.

FatalityBoyZahy said:
This should set the expectations of every Android phone.... Stock Android.
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Agreed
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To be honest with you, multitasking has completely amazed me on the N4. On the Gnex, apps would close right away. With the N4, I go back to the browser at the end of the day, and the page I loaded hours earlier is still in memory In fact, I have yet to see my phone go below 950mb RAM remaining. I really think 2gb was overkill (1.5 would've easily done the job), but hey, I'm not complaining Also, keep in mind that I don't use any widgets at all, and I have very few things running in the background aside from Skype, so others may have a different experience.
Edit: As for GTA, it might be the game doing this. For example, Livingsocial is really annoying like that too. It doesn't matter if you just hit home and come back right away, it'll start from beginning. Yet, World of Goo, a much more demanding app, will come back exactly as I left it even when I leave to browse the internet for a while. Some developers really need to get with the program. I personally don't have GTA, so I couldn't tell you specifically.

Perfect. No other word to describe it. So much so I've noticed the phone stuttering a bit when scrolling (like a TINY bit, much less than any other android phone normally) and out of instinct opened the task killer to find 30+ applications all RUNNING. Including GTA3,

kn100 said:
Perfect. No other word to describe it. So much so I've noticed the phone stuttering a bit when scrolling (like a TINY bit, much less than any other android phone normally) and out of instinct opened the task killer to find 30+ applications all RUNNING. Including GTA3,
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OK, I know its good, but 30 RUNNING? You do realize some stay in the launcher but aren't running, right? So you clicked them and they all didn't need to reload? I find that hard to believe. Someone should do a stress test of how many apps you can open before they need to reload when you go back to them and post it on YouTube
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