Hey all, over the last month my note 4 has been sluggish when opening stock apps and downloaded apps. It is also closing apps down (which is what its supposed to do when it runs out of RAM but not a lot of apps are open). It also restarts itself every now and then (averaging every 4 to 5 days).
The stock apps it has been sluggish opening are messages, youtube and internet (dont use many but i use those 3 a lot) and the downloaded apps are snapchat, eurosport and sky sports score centre. I also use avast but that doesnt seem to run automatically anymore like it did on my note 3.
Any help would be great as it is driving me mad, I have just been putting up with it in hope that it would sort itself out or Lollipop would get released and fix it.
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Hi,
When I received my 3.1 ' update the UI was really responsive do not know what happened now. The pad response has been hopeless since last 3 days. Everything is slow, even when I am typing, I have to wait 2 secs to see that on screen.
I am sorry I don't have a solution but I will agree with you and the Acers sometimes slowness. I install tons of apps and I have noticed the a500 isn't as fast as when I first updated to 3.1 (didn't have many apps installed yet)..... It kinda feels like a windows computer sometimes and needs a reboot or to uninstall some apps that run all the time.
Klaus nailed it
The speed of the OS depends on the clock settings (IMHO, a500 without over clocking is a bit laggy) but the real issue : software you have installed.
Search the market for a copy of ATK and use it to see what programs you have installed are running all the time, even after you use the back button or an in-app option to shut said program down. I stay away from apps that want to keep themselves running all the time unless there is a good reason for the app to do that - twitter, g+, stuff like that - makes sense for it to run all the time, that way you can get push notifications. Use a task manager to scan for tasks that have no logical reason to run all the time, and then check the permissions of that app.
In my experience with the android OS from 1.5 onwards - all it takes is one rogue app or one very poorly coded app to totally lag down or destabalize the entire system.
I am having the same problem. My tab was lightning fast and even better when I oc. Now its lagging behind. I do not know if its something I installed or downloaded but when I found help ill let you know.
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I just got iconia 2 weeks ago and its not refurbished however I feel it is slow web pages take 8 to 12 seconds to load sometime if I'm performing any task it is stuck for 6 to 9second no response n then it works fine. There is a lag usually for 5 to 7 second. Is that normal I didn't root my tablet didn't install a whole lot app yet I just little bummed due to the lag n slowness. Any thing you can suggest or share your experience.
Many thanks
I'm not a fan of the stock browser. It tends to lag and has rendering issues. You might want to try Opera Mobile. ( be careful not to download Opera Mini- it's intended for phones) I've been using it for a week or so and really like it. Better rendering, smoother scrolling, less crashing.
I use dolphin browser works good.
bad browsing experience
I have tried many of the web browsers on the market..
My experience is Some view some sites better then others. I use the stock browser for most sites.There is NO real solution to this issue.avoiding portal type websites. Such as yahoo.com helps. if you need content from there or similar sites YOU can d/load there app from the Marker.
Also try this.. Advanced task killer app .This tool should not be allowed to auto start and run in background. but can be used to diag. a rouge app.
Get Advanced task killer from the market..
try opening it from time to time and see what apps are actually sitting in the TRAY. if you see some apps that you installed and have not used since your last reboot. try killing them and see if this helps.. Use this Tool for one app at a time. If you find the app causing the sluggish internet. See if you can adjust settings on it . Maybe tell it to not START to not push notifications and so on..
NOT All apps play nice . you might just have one of them that decide to steal bandwidth on a constant basis.
Good luck and we all feel your frustrations.. I will point out runny task managers in the background is BAD IDEA. not all apps setting in the try are actually running Many are static and waiting for your input..
Erica Renee.... Memory management Trick #1
I don't experience the lag you are posting about. You may have a misbehaving app on your hands.
I too have experienced random sluggishness at times with the stock browser. Its especially bad on javascript-heavy sites. My bigger complaint, however, is the random typing issues I have, like goofy text selection and seemingly stuck shift states on the keyboard.
This appears to be a problem with the latest update. Beforehand, this lag simply was not there. Some sites (XDA Developers being one) lag with the banner ad at the top loading. This happens on almost EVERY vBulliten 4.x forum. I think a lot of us are hoping this issue will resolve with ICS, since it's doubtful Acer will do much more work with HC.
I will echo what the others have said.
When I first started messing around with my A500 I too noticed a small lag. My solution was to root my device and load a ROM from the ROM list:
http://www.acertabletforum.com/foru...-a500-501-rom-list-updated-29-jan-2012-a.html
Most of the ROMs work much better than the stock android that comes installed on the A500. Also once I had pretty much cached the sites I use the speed issue vanished.
The stock browser lags. Especially when you use your keyboard (there are some videos on youtube) other browsers does not have this lags.
Hi,
I just got another tab because my first one was defective..
I've noticed that there was an update to the google market.. anyway
WHen selecting multiple apps to install 2-3 it used to be fast at installing..
now its very slow, takes over 1 minute + to install even small apps.
On the Galaxy SIII (i9300 at least), there is a 1 to 3 seconds lag when launching either the Phone or Contacts.
I managed to find a workaround (installing JKay framework which add the option of keeping Phone and Contacts in memory so that it only has to load it once, then it's fast each time we launch it again).
But I'd like to know if anyone who has the phone could check if that still happens on the S4?
I'm guessing the problem is lesser since it now has 2Gb of RAM (so it won't get removed from RAM so often), but is it still taking a while to load when launching contacts for the first time after a boot?
Thanks !
Plus one on this.
I have the Samsung Note 1 and the contacts and phone apps also lags heavily.
I think its just the way Samsung develop the app
Same here, default contacts/dialer lags on all Galaxy S phones
Mine seemed fine at first, but freezes randomly and often takes over a minute for the camera app to start.
Tried, but didn't help-
Disabled the factor version of Facebook and the Facebook app manager. Re-installed FB from the play store.
Tried, and helped some-
Uninstalled Action Launcher. Simply switching back to the stock launcher seemed to help moderately at least in the launcher UI. Did not help with the camera.
Removed 128GB SD card. I was using this to store all my pictures and music. Quite inconvenient to go without it, but it did help some. Camera still opens slow, but it is more like 10 - 15 seconds rather than 1-2 minutes.
Tried, and helped a lot-
Developer options- Background process limits set to 'at most 4 processes.' This helped a lot. There was still random slowdowns, but never had a frozen screen for longer than a second or two. Unfortunately this made some apps misbehave, especially facebook when opening via a notification.
Seems to be fixed for the most part on Oreo.