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Some things not right on CM7. What rom are you using?
Call wonks, portrait / landscape issues, lockups, just tired. Need a superuser rom.
What's problem-free with audio boost?
None of those problems here, running CM7 7.0.2.1
Same here. None of those for me on 7.0.2
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Flashed 7.0.2 yesterday on my D1, and today flashed back to Simply Stunning 5.2. The 7.0.2 build just doesn't work for me... it's responsive, snappy, and stable....oh, accept that it dumps my homescreen Widgets whenever it rebooted or after prolonged periods of having the screen off (other have this issue as well). I also couldn't manage to get Wireless Tether working on it, even after an uninstall, reinstall, and fresh binaries set up. Other than not having a set of usable homescreens, it seems great though. I'll wait for a new build, and give it another shot...a rare miss from CM.
VZW Galaxy Tab- rooted, KhasMek v5 kernel, KhasMek K-Lean ROM
Big improvements on 7.0.2.1. Most of my previous issues seem to be gone.
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I'll have to check it's out then. I, like a lot of others, was really bemused by the lack of stability. Considering it took so long to get CM7 for the Droid, I was expecting the first release to be well tested and really amazing. Hopefully the issues have been hammered out.
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Been using formels MIUI. If you do go MIUI i would say go with a home replacement like launcherpro/ADW. Cant stand the normal homescreen of MIUI
Dropped CM7 at 7.0.3.... it just wasn't working out for me on a lot of levels. I found Liquid Gingerbread though, and its been absolutely amazing! None of the occasional bloat that comes with CM7, and it's surprisingly more customizable. I was also averaging a 1013 quadrant score on the stock kernel (800 MHz), vs around 825 with CM7. Most importantly, it doesn't drop 3g, which means I can actually use Wireless Tether! All in all, I think I'll be sticking with Liquid for a while...and did I mention? Not a single FC in the 2 weeks I've been on it!
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The CM7 nightlies have finally rid the wonk and the call delay should be fixed in the next nightly.
since a few months I went over to the RoDrIgUeZsTyLe MIUI mod, and by the looks of it right now, I won't be going back.
It's faster and my battery lasts longer.
I've been using cm7 nightly's and get weird lock/unlock issue. Buttons light up, but the screen stays dark.
Rather annoying, I could use a new ROM as well.
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I've been using cm7 nightly's and get weird lock/unlock issue. Buttons light up, but the screen stays dark.
Rather annoying, I could use a new ROM as well.
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this is a bug they are trying to kill. when this happens and i was trying to unlock my device, i just wait a few seconds to let the screen lock itself again which is indicated by the 4 button lights going back off. then press again and the screen should turn on properly this time, swipe to unlock, done.
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this is a bug they are trying to kill. when this happens and i was trying to unlock my device, i just wait a few seconds to let the screen lock itself again which is indicated by the 4 button lights going back off. then press again and the screen should turn on properly this time, swipe to unlock, done.
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Yeah, that's what I've started to do.
Still get screen lockups and portrait / landscape sticks Thinking about blandroid.
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Dropped CM7 at 7.0.3.... it just wasn't working out for me on a lot of levels. I found Liquid Gingerbread though, and its been absolutely amazing! None of the occasional bloat that comes with CM7, and it's surprisingly more customizable. I was also averaging a 1013 quadrant score on the stock kernel (800 MHz), vs around 825 with CM7. Most importantly, it doesn't drop 3g, which means I can actually use Wireless Tether! All in all, I think I'll be sticking with Liquid for a while...and did I mention? Not a single FC in the 2 weeks I've been on it!
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Hay
Where i download liquid ginger rom for nexus
Thanks
I would also like to know where i can get the liquid ginger rom.
Evervolv. I switched to it from cm7 due to the same issues OP is running into.
Call wonks, portrait issues, freezes, no 90 degree... after every update i give it a try and end up back to 6.1.1
From The G Slate
I'd use Blandroid if my power button worked... D:
Tried installing blandroid but rom wouldn't take. It kept installing CM7. Tried rom manager and boot off sd card. Errored out even with signature verification on or off.
Looks like liquid ginger is for the evo.
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Now that both roms have camera support. Which one do you guys consider better overall? I'm on Virtuous Quattro RC2 & I love it but there tend to be too many graphical issues. Is Androdamus any better?
Well, VQ seems faster, but has a really annoying graphic issue. VQ's tweaks are more mature, and I being able to turn off OpenGL rendering in the browser in VQ.
AA9 is less prone to mess up that way, but has other issues. The most annoying glitch in AA9 seems to be the browser at the moment. It lags horribly displaying some pages, and decides to render some others as BLANK.
Just remember that neither one is quite "final" yet.
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Androdamus will IMO always be better because even though Virtuous Quattro has a great team behind it, Androdamus as it was the first pure AOSP build for the Desire Z. Much better than that other one which I dont even remember the name was simply a port and ports suck.
I liked Andromadus but I couldn't use the native tethering on it. I'm not sure if this problem is unique to me or just the rom itself. I had to go back to CM7.
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I liked Andromadus but I couldn't use the native tethering on it. I'm not sure if this problem is unique to me or just the rom itself. I had to go back to CM7.
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Yes, it is evident to me the Andromadus has the ICS trophy for the taking. Yes I say we have the developers fix the browsing issue and claim the prize. Virtuous has good parts that will be incorporated into Andromadum but the virtuous team is already splitting up. Yes its true, I heard one developer got his dicknick off for the first time and called it quits. I guess some developers have lives afterall...
adromadus work much better than VQ, VQ alway have graphic issue for my DZ, now both support camera, i will use adromadus form now on.
I like both.
Running A9 right now because the camera is slightly less buggy. Both A9 and VQ have display glitches. The A9 glitches are on app labels in the launcher occasionally. The VQ glitches are more annoying (but easily fixed with a launcher refresh).
Neither yet does perfect camera or Tmobile wifi-calling.
running RC3 now with the camera fix. have it about a day now and not a single graphic glitch. the camera fix works very good: getting pretty nice pictures with it.
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Well, VQ seems faster, but has a really annoying graphic issue. VQ's tweaks are more mature, and I being able to turn off OpenGL rendering in the browser in VQ.
AA9 is less prone to mess up that way, but has other issues. The most annoying glitch in AA9 seems to be the browser at the moment. It lags horribly displaying some pages, and decides to render some others as BLANK.
Just remember that neither one is quite "final" yet.
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Install Opera mobile. Blows away that craptastic stock browser
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I tried both ROMs.
Yesterday i changed on the A9 to check it out since the camera works.
But i have to say that i like VQ more.
VQ:
+ better tweaks
+ can set cpu speeds
+ camera works fine for me with lgcamera
- annoying glitches (launcher restart fixes)
A9:
+ no / less glitches
+ camera works
+ maybe the source for vision cm9
- 2g/3g switch in drop down doesn't work
- less tweaks
- can't set cpu from settings (resets after i leave the menu)
So i will stick with VQ for now. Have to check out the RC3 later.
IMHO, the VQ is better
V10 is out.
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Got VQ R3 up and running last night. I ran into a few graphical glitches (mainly icons), but haven't seen anything that a simple restart of the launcher couldn't fix. Other than that, its surprisingly stable and fast.
I haven't tried V10 yet; or any of Androdamus roms actually. However, if it does have browser issues, then that's a huge showstopper for me.
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Got VQ R3 up and running last night. I ran into a few graphical glitches (mainly icons), but haven't seen anything that a simple restart of the launcher couldn't fix. Other than that, its surprisingly stable and fast.
I haven't tried V10 yet; or any of Androdamus roms actually. However, if it does have browser issues, then that's a huge showstopper for me.
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Opera works perfectly
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I've tested Andro V9 and VQ and I also have to say that in my honest opinion VQ is faster in general. I had to deal with the graphic glitches from like beta8r3 (Before it was named to Quattro) so it's not that big of a deal really.
What I liked a lot about VQ was the overclocking. There's a lot of freedom (OC'ing up to 1,9GHz - haven't tried that though), I was running it at 1,6GHz and the phone was pretty fast in general - Antutu benchmark capped score at about 3,4K which is pretty darn good considering ILWT caps at about 3,7K (again on my phone).
And what I liked about andro was the fact it was in line with the well known CM7 customizations.
Bottom line is that both roms are still under heavy development and have their strong and weak points alike. Wish we could see some collaborative work between the andro and virtuous devs to get fix graphic glitches/camera and whatnot.
Andromadus ftw. Based on CM9, can't go wrong.
I haven't tried VQ, but Andromadus, being CM-based I can agree is very smooth and runs great for me. Stock camera works for me with some minor glitches and errors. Those having issues with CPU settings, I use SetCPU and it's seeminly working for me.
Have any of you gotten netflix to work on any of the ICS roms?
Andromadus
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Not to knock the hard work of the developers, but what's the go with the revision naming conventions? One rom is in Alpha and the other is a Release Candidate. Surely you can't call your product a 'RC' when there are a ton of known bugs?
I personally feel the 'Alpha' Andro is the more stable of the two (no glitches and camera seems to work a little better for me)
There was no opened thread for stable release of CM 10.1, so i opened it. I haven't installed it yet, is there any major bugs? Has RAM management got any better since RC2?
Yes stable version CM10.1.2 is very good try it out!
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It's very good, i'm testing it right now, very fluid, nice faster animations. I really like new polished CM apps, like Apollo and Trebuchet. cLock and cLock widget are also awesome.
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It's very good, i'm testing it right now, very fluid, nice faster animations. I really like new polished CM apps, like Apollo and Trebuchet. cLock and cLock widget are also awesome.
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Default CM kernel?
Ted Mosby said:
It's very good, i'm testing it right now, very fluid, nice faster animations. I really like new polished CM apps, like Apollo and Trebuchet. cLock and cLock widget are also awesome.
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flash latest devil kernel and u will know what fast is
Yes, default kernel. I am going to try Devil kernel, I have heard numerous recommendations for it. Also I am running this ROM with Greenify like CM10.
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Yes, default kernel. I am going to try Devil kernel, I have heard numerous recommendations for it. Also I am running this ROM with Greenify like CM10.
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you can also try marmite for it but if can compromise a bit of battery for awesome performance u can use devil kernel if no then marmite is a good balance between battery and performance
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you can also try marmite for it but if can compromise a bit of battery for awesome performance u can use devil kernel if no then marmite is a good balance between battery and performance
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I'm reaching 72 hours uptime mark and RAM manager has started to act up. I occasionally feel lag and unresponsiveness when switching apps. Battery time is very good, 2 hours and 45 minutes of Display time, mostly browsing on low signal 3G (l'm on vacation), That's around what I'm getting on CM10 so it's pretty good for me.
I wish I have stronger Nexus device to run this ROM to it's full potential
Its the best rom ever for the nexus S, for the first time ever I have been able to populate my homescreens with lots and lots of widgets and yet it doesnt lag at all with scrolling. And the atrocious ram usage of the RC roms has been fixed with the stable, I can keep my phone running for a few days without any serious issues. This really gives almost new life to the nexus S just make sure you are using greenify.
Has anyone else not been able to get some apps to connect via 3G with this rom? They all seem to work fine on Wi-Fi, it's just with 3G that I'm having problems.
I experience crashes when playing videos using software decoding in MX player. The nightlies also have this problem.
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you can also try marmite for it but if can compromise a bit of battery for awesome performance u can use devil kernel if no then marmite is a good balance between battery and performance
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One question, if i flash another custom kernel on cm 10.1, will i lose any of my data?
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One question, if i flash another custom kernel on cm 10.1, will i lose any of my data?
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no .. but remember to clear dalvik cache before flashing
The stable ROM has exactly the same problems as the previous nightlies (I've installed with full format of cache, data, system, dalvik, whatever):
- after few days it becomes laggish
- unreliable, happends to reboot itself. You can't even get to unlock screen sometimes; it happends even if somebody is calling you and you can't get to answer the phone
- do not use Chrome Browser otherwise it gets even worse
- if you use Swype keyboard the overall performance seems to be worse. With standard Keyboard it gets a little snappier but nothing that could be catalogued as "fine"
- people says it's cool because they keep the rom 1/2 days and then install nightlies or other stuff: when it's fresh from reboot it work fine, lots of free ram
- have more free ram by using Greenify but still the problems don't go away. It's overall heavier than a 4.1.2 (Which for some good reason Google made it as latest release for Nexus S)
- I've tried SlimBean with Thalamus Kernel and it's a little better for some stuff but basically the problems are much similar
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The stable ROM has exactly the same problems as the previous nightlies (I've installed with full format of cache, data, system, dalvik, whatever):
- after few days it becomes laggish
- unreliable, happends to reboot itself. You can't even get to unlock screen sometimes; it happends even if somebody is calling you and you can't get to answer the phone
- do not use Chrome Browser otherwise it gets even worse
- if you use Swype keyboard the overall performance seems to be worse. With standard Keyboard it gets a little snappier but nothing that could be catalogued as "fine"
- people says it's cool because they keep the rom 1/2 days and then install nightlies or other stuff: when it's fresh from reboot it work fine, lots of free ram
- have more free ram by using Greenify but still the problems don't go away. It's overall heavier than a 4.1.2 (Which for some good reason Google made it as latest release for Nexus S)
- I've tried SlimBean with Thalamus Kernel and it's a little better for some stuff but basically the problems are much similar
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What is the problem in giving it a reboot every few days? Nexus S has ALWAYS gotten slower even from the gingerbread days if you didnt reboot in ages.
I honestly think you should do a proper clean install because I really dont have that many problems as you say. 4.2.2 is the smoothest the nexus S has ever been, I am even running next launcher very smoothly and redraws are minimum. On 4.1.2 homescreen navigation was quite jittery with widgets and wallpaper scrolling, on 4.2.2 it literally fly's. That alone is enough reason for me to live with the slightly more ram usage.
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What is the problem in giving it a reboot every few days? Nexus S has ALWAYS gotten slower even from the gingerbread days if you didnt reboot in ages.
I honestly think you should do a proper clean install because I really dont have that many problems as you say. 4.2.2 is the smoothest the nexus S has ever been, I am even running next launcher very smoothly and redraws are minimum. On 4.1.2 homescreen navigation was quite jittery with widgets and wallpaper scrolling, on 4.2.2 it literally fly's. That alone is enough reason for me to live with the slightly more ram usage.
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Never had these problems with earlier Android. The reboot proves what I'm saying: he can't be reliable for long run since its performances degrade automatically.
If you read what I wrote I said I made a full clean install: wiped data, factory, dalvik, formatted data, formatted system.
Everything running great only problem is the GPS bug with Google Maps after exiting the app & turning off GPS for some reason GPS won't turn off only a reboot fixes it but other than that 10.1.2 stable is really great
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running it has been really reliable but I do have ram issues even while using greenify... CPU on conservative mode too
is everybody's lock widgets OK? I seem to get a lot of wonkyness with pocketcasts,etc...
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Who can giv me a working CWM recovery.img i tried several but not wrking.
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Here you are http://www.mediafire.com/?z9ch7hna57pm5ak
i have it in htc explorer and i cant install play store..besides that it is very good
Hi Guys,
I'm new to this forum. Recently bought a refurb HD+ for ~90 bucks on Rakuten. Played around with stock for 10 mins and then decided to get rid of it because it was irritatingly slow. Got CM10.1 on the emmc quick and easy, wayy better than stock B&N ROM (great job devs!)
Anyway, to get to the point, CM10.1 is still somewhat laggy in the homescreen, transitions and in app scrolling. Then I flashed the following zip made by the folks out in the GSII forums
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2360985
There are two versions of the mod available, I flashed the CM version.
Everything is so much faster now! Scrolling, animations all feel zippier. Maybe you guys can check it out and perhaps include it in a future ROM if you think it has anything more than a placebo effect.
PS: In case you guys don't like the mod there's an uninstall package in the linked thread on page 16.
will it drain more battery ??
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will it drain more battery ??
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I'm still testing it out, but it doesn't seem to be draining much more battery than usual. I've also put this mod on my one x and atrix HD phones, the mod actually seemed to improve battery life on both devices.
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I'm still testing it out, but it doesn't seem to be draining much more battery than usual. I've also put this mod on my one x and atrix HD phones, the mod actually seemed to improve battery life on both devices.
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ok, thanks !!
let's try on my nook hd+, but seems not support 4.3, cos network broken after flashed on my n7
Wow, sounds great! I'm a little bit scared of flashing it. Can you guys update on your battery life and stability after applying this? I'll keep an eye out on this thread. Also, how would one remove it if it doesn't work out so well? This sounds very promising.
I turn animations off, so not an issue for me. The device still lags anyway, if you put one app or two hundred. Same lag issues. 1080p, 723mb non allocated ram and the 4470 do not mix well. Maybe it would have done better with 1GB more ram.
Thanks - just tried it against several synthetic benchmark tools and games.
Improvements vary between apps, but its definitely there - no placebo effect here.
Bench tools tried:
- Antutu gained 300 of 9600, not much but it's there.
- Quadrant gained 10%
- Basemark gained slightly more.
- Epic Citadel now gets 43fps at default high performance setting.
Sprite/blitz based games seem to improve a lot for my case;
- Vincent is one (not really a game, but its a fun stress-reliever, useful after reading garbage comments on forums, LOL)
- Shopping Cart Hero is another one. Very smooth, no more lag.
- Candy Crush, a big smoother, but not as much as the other games I tried.
Less noticeable effect on GPU-exclusive games like RR3, Crazy Taxi or MC4
No comment on UI improvement since I disabled all animations and only has 1 home screen.
I just flashed this, and seems to work well so far.
will update again though.
Thank you!!
I flashed the CM version and now my HD+ keeps booting into CWM when I press reboot system. And yes I am using verygreen's emmc ROM. I wonder what I'm doing wrong?
EDIT: Nevermind, flashed it again and it works, gonna take it for a spin now ... wow working very well so far (I noticed as soon as I swiped through my homescreens, UI has a lot less lag now), thanks for the heads up OP!
What is the point of this if you can simply turn off animations in dev mode? Is the lag when activating apps gone? Seems a bunch of settings not indigenous to the hardware could create issues as well as perhaps help some.
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What is the point of this if you can simply turn off animations in dev mode? Is the lag when activating apps gone? Seems a bunch of settings not indigenous to the hardware could create issues as well as perhaps help some.
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I always have all animations off on all my devices. (Main reason why I left iOS)
Still getting noticeable improvements with pure perf installed.
How is the battery drain in sleep mode?
looks good so far
I've not had much time with it after flashing this zip, but so far it has improved responsiveness when going quickly from app to app. It took a while after reboot for things to settle in (was a bit jerky at first), but it now wakes up faster and is less laggy throughout the UI. I usually get 3-4hrs per 1% drain when in sleep (wifi-on), so I should be able to tell right away if this is better or worse.
Anyone try this with Carbon?
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Anyone try this with Carbon?
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I did, worked well but had a few FCs on the tweaked Carbon edition.
I know, it's a 2 year old phone with just 1GB RAM and TouchWiz on top of it.
I've spent the last 2 days trying a LOT of roms to try to make the phone feel faster, because I don't want to buy a new one. I really like this one. The camera is AMAZING, decent battery life, love blocking mode, etc. As a phone it works great: good speaker, strong vibration, great signal, etc.
But there's one single thing that makes this phone feel "old": the speed. Just the speed. If it were faster and more fluid then there would be absolutely no reason to upgrade to the new phones (except, well, maybe more RAM and battery).
Yesterday I tried like 15 AOSP roms: CM11, temasek, ultimaAOSP, NeatROMAOSP, Vanir, AOKP, SlimKat, etc.
Nothing. It's slightly faster, but the problem is the animations. They just look wrong all the time. There's frame drops everywhere. And bugs and crashes, so back to Samsung stock today. Tried another 10 samsung based roms. Nothing new. Speed is still the same and frame drops are still there...
I guess I'll have to end up buying a new phone, but definitely not a flagship. I'm looking at midrange phones that come with AOSP. Found one with 2GB RAM, 13Mpx camera, 2500 battery, 5 inch 720P IPS screen, microSD and dual SIM for 199$. Great price, and comes with 4.4 stock Android.
Tried the phone at the store the other day and it just made my SGS3 look like the midranger, and that with a MediaTek A7 1.3 quad core!
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Exactly. Well,animations are smooth on AOSP with right kernel,but still not as it should be. This phone sucks when it comes to UI performance.
Now I even got broken camera and media playback,too,after stressing it with every new test on my phone.
Well,probably this phone worked the best with 4.1.2. I think it's all about crappy processor,called exynos.
EDIT: Btw,you can try archidroid 1x with his boeffla presets,though. After all,it's not that bad.
I think you are just setting unrealistic expectations if none of those ROMS, without TouchWiz, were any good for you.
There is nothing crappy about the processor mate. your case is an isolated issue. If the archi ROM is not smooth for you then there is something wrong with your phone.
it's always wise to stick to ROMs and kernels which are built using proper sources.
Do not restore a massive amount of data soon after a flash. Let the ROM settle a bit. Trim your device memory once in a while.
Also a megawipe is recommended after so many flashes.
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I put Cyanogenmod CM11 on mine after updating to stock 4.3. It felt like a completely different phone and brought back the speed. It absolutely flies and battery time is double what it was on stock 4.3.
I tested alot of Roms but regading speed and batterylife i use Temasek with Yank kernel. No OC and de S3 flys.
Oh god, it's like reading a thread I could have written myself. I feel you, mate. Got the same damn frustations sometimes.
It seems that whichever ROM "camp" you choose, you're gonna have drawbacks. Tried so many different variants of TW-roms and i just feel they are all too slow and with lags.
Many of the AOSP-roms are quite fast (using ArchiDroid atm which is incredibly fast!) but then you get the problem of crappy camera, no Allshare, tethering issues, many games that have sound-issues and all those random bugs we all know about but try to live with
Perhaps the new Kitkat port can solve these issues but it seems there is a lot of work to be done still. Still I'm glad there's a community like XDA with such awesome people (Like Kryten who posted earlier ) who put the time into developing these things.. Or we would be stuck with even slower ROM's from Samsung.
Is there any way to get rid of it, or at least reduce it?
Install smart droid, further debloat, run greenify and boeffla, custom launcher and its quick, no lag
Even the s5 can't run without lag using Touchwiz.
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Is there any way to get rid of it, or at least reduce it?
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Yes there is, activate Developer Options by tapping on the Build Number in About Phone. In there are 3 settings for animations. The 1st thing I do on every rom is decrease them to 25%. On CM11 and temaseks builds you have a slider which allows you to fine tune the settings instead of the picker which you find on other roms.
My personal experience is that OmniRom is just snappier than any of the others, even when I have a whole bunch of apps open, incoming calls get displayed almost instantly, the dialer and contacts open almost instantly. In my case of course. Everyone has their favourite rom/kernel combination. I have also had great success using Yank555's kernel with the default settings (which include a slight overclock with no noticeable battery drain.
So my temporarily solution is to completely disable the animations in developer settings.
It's a good solution, for now.
My combo right now is stock Samsung 4.3 debloated (many useless apps freezed. Other apps freezed also using Titanium Backup) with Boeffla kernel.
It gets annoying when animations aren't smooth and consistent, but I guess it's expected when Touchwiz is on top and just 1GB RAM.
Taking about RAM, this phone has almost no multitasking also! It's impossible to keep one Chrome or Internet tab open in the background while you do something else. When you go back to the Internet app it has to reload again.
And no custom rom can fix this either. I spent one week with AOSP Vanir rom and didn't had multitasking there either.
What I'm trying to say is that this phone has turned old faster than it should have, precisely because of a bad 4.3 update by Samsung and also just 1GB RAM.
And talking about speed and lag again, trust me, I've tied all the good roms available. It won't matter if you install a custom kernel. If you overclock the phone then battery will last even less than before, and it doesn't make a huge difference in speed animation and fluidity.
I'm sure AOSP roms like CM11 and others do work faster and more fluid in newest phones like G2, SGS4, HTC One, etc. It's because they have a better processor and 2GB RAM.
In the end I think it's the hardware that's to blame for the lag (and bad 4.3 update by Samsung too).
The phone is great otherwise. I love almost everything about it, like I previously said. Most times I can't believe how good the camera is, the screen is enough for me (no need for 1080P), size and weight is perfect, etc.
I would have preferred to own the US SGS3 model with it's 2GB RAM than the EU model. In the long run I think it's better.
But anyway, the lag is not huge, just annoying. And I only notice it when opening and closing apps.
Try entering development settings and change the animator duration scale to 0.5 the transition animation scale to 0.5 and the window animation scale to 0.5
It will make anything faster
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Try entering development settings and change the animator duration scale to 0.5 the transition animation scale to 0.5 and the window animation scale to 0.5
It will make anything faster
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You don't understand it.
It doesn't matter the scale animation (just tried with 0.25, 0.5, 0.75 again), there's still frame drops everywhere.
It doesn't make anything "faster". It's even more annoying watching the frame drops at 0.25.
It's not a solution. There is NO solution to the animation frame drops, not even on custom roms...
Only "solution" is to turn animation scale completely to 0.
I have sgs3 intl and I had a lot of lags and frame drops and I switched to CM 11 nightly and it's became faster and no frame drop and it's like new.
What Android version do you use?
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if you want to have the same camera quality, i suggest you archidroid 1.7.16.
faster rom i ever tried
What lag? My S3 is smmmmoooooooth on CM11
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Sensamic said:
You don't understand it.
It doesn't matter the scale animation (just tried with 0.25, 0.5, 0.75 again), there's still frame drops everywhere.
It doesn't make anything "faster". It's even more annoying watching the frame drops at 0.25.
It's not a solution. There is NO solution to the animation frame drops, not even on custom roms...
Only "solution" is to turn animation scale completely to 0.
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Alright,my last bet will be to go on Archidroid stock based ROM,use it's own boeffla preset setting and turn animations to 1.5x. Animations will be smooth all around,only custom launcher is needed,because when opening or closing apps on touchwiz,it's still stuttery. I'm still using touchwiz launcher,though (lovely animations all around!).
I noticed 1.0x is the worst speed for animations on stock ROMs. I mean,with 1.0x,I notice some fps drops much more when opening a new windows with animations. Like it's too fast for CPU to tune right time for speed and animation and that makes it laggy. So it's all about wrong timing,as 0.5x also feels much more smoother,it's noticeable.
But the 1.5x setting compensates that. No more stuttery animations at all and it feels pretty beautiful. This was my last solution for stock touchwiz ROM,and I'm pretty happy. Try it yourself.
EDIT: Btw,if you also want to keep touchwiz,try xposed app settings,find there touchwiz launcher and tick the checkbox for "resident" option. That way it will keep the launcher in memory hardly,so when you will go back to launcher , shadows under the icons won't redraw and thus stuttery animations will be reduced and will happen much more rare.
On multitasking, try maximising your swap. Never have problems going from Chrome, email, FB etc. Also try removing apps 'receiver' settings, so they don't open on unlock, wifi connect etc..
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There have been a select FEW roms that solved most of the issues you talking about, but they mostly old and the developers have moved on. The truth is, AOSP kitkat isnt optimized for our phones and you most likely wont find a stock based ROM that doesn't lag. I think the main culprit is Jellybean + Samsung together. I don't ever recall ICS having frame drops or lagging really. Samsung did a crappy job optimizing jellybean for our phone. Jellybean is hardware intensive, more than ICS and Kitkat. Seems like it was a temp solution while Google worked on KitKat and now our phone is unfortunately stuck there.
Do yourself a favor and don't get a Samsung if you want proper performance.