Hi guys,
I know the default messenger app does some weird compression with mms a have been using textra on my moto x for a while now but just bought a 6p and really love the look of the default app. Does anyone know of a fix to make it not compress them so much?
Textra works fine but the default just looks nicer
Who is your carrier
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Who is your carrier
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Vodafone Australia. But I've been on many networks and it never worked. Textra works great but not the default.
Used textra for one time but hated that I'd did not allow me to assign colors to individual members of a multi person chat thread. Switched to Messenger and have not looked back. Not sure what compression you are referring to. I have not seen any difference in the way Messenger and Textra handle MMS
OK this is a screen shot of a message received in Messenger and one in Textra. The second image is the Messenger MMS. FYI Textra is set to 300kbs limit. I can also increase this with no issue.
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OK this is a screen shot of a message received in Messenger and one in Textra. The second image is the Messenger MMS. FYI Textra is set to 300kbs limit. I can also increase this with no issue.
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Is there supposed to be a big difference between these images? If I squint really hard I can maybe argue that the second image is more highly compressed.
It definitely seem more pronounced when looking on my phone rather than PC. It may not look much but It does compress quite a lot.
Info of the default app is 270 x 480 30kb
Textra with 300kb limit is 540 x 960 387kb
Google messenger has been damn fine for me. In fact, better than the rest. Especially at MMS. I think it depends more on your carrier limit.
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OK this is a screen shot of a message received in Messenger and one in Textra. The second image is the Messenger MMS. FYI Textra is set to 300kbs limit. I can also increase this with no issue.
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Never noticed anything that drastic in my personal experience. I do however have both the CM (AOSP) messenger app, and Google, and will be comparing the two over the next week or so. They both seem very very similar atm.
moreadon said:
Hi guys,
I know the default messenger app does some weird compression with mms a have been using textra on my moto x for a while now but just bought a 6p and really love the look of the default app. Does anyone know of a fix to make it not compress them so much?
Textra works fine but the default just looks nicer
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I can give you a reason that trumps all...that miscreant @nathanchance loves textra, themablilty and all, so for me, please keep us posted on your quest...seriously, anything but textra seems perfect.
#WhiteUIsMustDie, #EndDarkAppOppression
Lol, #notextraforme
Pics don't compress too much for me. Videos on the other hand do, which I think it's suppose to do. I could be wrong though.
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You're right that the apps compress the images differently, I haven't found a way to change how they do it besides the size limits. The size limits are based on your carrier. AT&T in the states is 1MB (though, this may have since changed), while T-Mobile is 2MB. This is why iMessage is so great, it allows people to send pictures and videos with no limitations (though I think videos are compressed a bit). I don't understand why Google Hangouts compresses pictures if it's all data. I hope Allo doesn't do that.
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So, I just downloaded this bad boy and been enjoying it so far. Definitely a lot better than Fring and Nimbuzz. If there was one thing I would change, it would be the option to reduce the size of the avatars and contacts names on the list. With such a large screen, we would be able to fit most, if not all, of our contacts without the need for scrolling.
Anyways, aside from that, my main concern is battery consumption. What are your thoughts so far? How much drain are you experiencing with it? How does it compare to other Multi-IM apps out there?
Let's get some convos going!
PS - BTW, here's the link for the BETA: http://www.trillian.im/learn/tour-android.html
thanks for the heads up... been waiting for this or beejive for the longest
Android Cloud to Device Messaging?
Does anyone know if it uses the new Android Cloud to Device Messaging? If so that should seriously improve its battery consumption over other IM apps.
I haven't tried Trillian but Meebo works just fine. Meebo also has a nice web client that I have been using for years.
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I haven't tried Trillian but Meebo works just fine. Meebo also has a nice web client that I have been using for years.
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I'm a fan of Meebo too..
akarol said:
So, I just downloaded this bad boy and been enjoying it so far. Definitely a lot better than Fring and Nimbuzz. If there was one thing I would change, it would be the option to reduce the size of the avatars and contacts names on the list. With such a large screen, we would be able to fit most, if not all, of our contacts without the need for scrolling.
Anyways, aside from that, my main concern is battery consumption. What are your thoughts so far? How much drain are you experiencing with it? How does it compare to other Multi-IM apps out there?
Let's get some convos going!
PS - BTW, here's the link for the BETA: http://www.trillian.im/learn/tour-android.html
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Yea i downloaded a few hours ago and its running beautiful. i havent noticed anything when it comes to the battery YET, i will confirm that tomorrow. I also agree with you when it comes to the Avatar size, with my Evo they look way too big. other then that great APP!
Just reading the name "Trillian" makes my blood boil.
I'm enjoying it so far. I like the interface better than eBuddy, and it doesn't show a notification icon while it's running in the background. I'm really impressed with it just being a beta, and I'm looking forward to the updates.
I've been using it and it's the best IM app yet. I'm a bit concerned about battery life though. I receive messages while on background but they're not instant, meaning it looks like the app is polling the server, which would drain the battery as opposed to keeping a push connection.
Update: Okay now all of a sudden my messages are coming right away. Maybe it's push? Also, I've noticed under settings, you can have it send a notification to your push Gmail account when someone IMs you you select "Suspend" instead of "Sign off", which would save a lot of battery.
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Just reading the name "Trillian" makes my blood boil.
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Did you have a thing for her or something?
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Did you have a thing for her or something?
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LOL. Tried it (desktop version) a few times in the middle of the decade. It was always way too bloated and resource-hungry, yet never had any features I actually wanted or needed. I'm sure the Android version is different, but the brand name means I will never touch it.
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i've been using meebo but use trillian on all my PCs. looking forward to testing this out.
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LOL. Tried it (desktop version) a few times in the middle of the decade. It was always way too bloated and resource-hungry, yet never had any features I actually wanted or needed. I'm sure the Android version is different, but the brand name means I will never touch it.
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Yeah, I was never a fan myself. But I kinda got tired of IM in college. Started out in the early days of ICQ and Messenger, graduated to AIM, then I just got tired of other people.
Glad you at least got my reference, though.
tried it, looks pretty, not impressed
Tried it looks ok but I really need a client with true push notifications the cloud iphone Type
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Tried it looks ok but I really need a client with true push notifications the cloud iphone Type
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it actually looks like they are using Push for background notifications. That's what I just read on their blog.
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it actually looks like they are using Push for background notifications. That's what I just read on their blog.
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I gathered that there is some confusion on what suspended means in that asp and so it is not clear to me what exactly they are doing
i loved trillian back in the day... when i actually IMed people. i may download this just to take a look. nice find.
I like it but I definitely think that the avatars are a bit too large on the Evo. Needs a skin to fix that...
Lets see what the battery impact is...
Video chat support?
This issue is really frustrating me as I've never had this with any other phone, and I cannot figure out how to fix it. But in all the browsers, when I open a site like facebook, and someone has posted an image, it is so blurry I cannot make it out. If I click on it it takes me to a very small size image that is clearer, but as I said very small. There is a clickable link for a full size image, but then it goes to download the image on my phone! So frustrating!! Also pictures in people's photo galleries on Facebook are very small and nothing I do will make them larger. I can't pinch to zoom in or double tap the screen, nothing makes the pictures larger. I don't know what's going on?? I've checked every setting I can find, but nothing relates to image size and/or quality.
Am I the only one with this issue? Do I possibly have a defective phone?
If you're phone is displaying other things sharply and it's only Facebook or browser then it's software. You're phone is fine.
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If you're phone is displaying other things sharply and it's only Facebook or browser then it's software. You're phone is fine.
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Okay, well everyone on Sprint would have the same software right? So why isn't there more people complaining about this?? I can't find any info at all regarding this problem. It's bizarre. And it's not just on one browser either, it doesn't matter if I use IE, minidolphin, or Chrome.
People, if your device lags in hangouts, while scrolling through menus, or just seems slow go get it swapped. Its not all touchwiz by any means. You have a defective device.
I just swapped mine out tonight and its literally night and day comparing the new one and the one I returned. The device is far more responsive and actually performs as I was originally expecting it to. And believe me I tried everything but then I thought to myself why on earth should I have to fix a brand new top of the line device? It was ridiculous. Unnaceptable actually.
I went back to my Verizon corporate store and they had zero issues with me swapping it out and there were no restocking fees or anything like that.
I know this has been covered in other threads but most of those have been filled with random side posts that aren't getting to the real point. So please, do yourself a favor and go get a replacement note 4 before your 14 days are up!
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+1 I agreed with you 100%.
Hmm.. weird. I m getting nasty lag in hangouts and a little hank in other places.. I went to try to exchange right now and every store is out.... I did update hangouts on 4 store phones and they all had the same lag when scrolling and sending messages.
I guess I could call customer service but I bet their sold out. Not convinced so many people have a bad device though. . Wonder if it's some software issue..
hangouts lag is not enough to warrant a replacement though. hangouts has lagged since day 1 for me on every device I've owned except a pure aosp rom or device. it's just how hangouts is. it's poorly optimized for each manufacturers skin. Samsung was typically the worst. then LG. then htc. but yeah, hangouts has been laggy since I had the gs4. my tab s is laggy too. it's a combination for me of swiftkey and hangouts. swiftkey lags awfully in hangouts, but in other apps it's ok.
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What's your instagram and Facebook like op?
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People, if your device lags in hangouts, while scrolling through menus, or just seems slow go get it swapped. Its not all touchwiz by any means. You have a defective device.
I just swapped mine out tonight and its literally night and day comparing the new one and the one I returned. The device is far more responsive and actually performs as I was originally expecting it to. And believe me I tried everything but then I thought to myself why on earth should I have to fix a brand new top of the line device? It was ridiculous. Unnaceptable actually.
I went back to my Verizon corporate store and they had zero issues with me swapping it out and there were no restocking fees or anything like that.
I know this has been covered in other threads but most of those have been filled with random side posts that aren't getting to the real point. So please, do yourself a favor and go get a replacement note 4 before your 14 days are up!
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You really need to make a video of what you mean by "lag." Different people have different standards when it comes to describing lag.
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What's your instagram and Facebook like op?
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It was all bad. I don't know if I can relate it to any apps specifically as it seemed like something inherently wrong with the device's software that was loaded. Every app opened slowly. Switching tasks was glitchy and every menu scrolled choppy. It was terrible.
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hangouts lag is not enough to warrant a replacement though. hangouts has lagged since day 1 for me on every device I've owned except a pure aosp rom or device. it's just how hangouts is. it's poorly optimized for each manufacturers skin. Samsung was typically the worst. then LG. then htc. but yeah, hangouts has been laggy since I had the gs4. my tab s is laggy too. it's a combination for me of swiftkey and hangouts. swiftkey lags awfully in hangouts, but in other apps it's ok.
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To counter that, the hangouts lag significantly decreased upon swapping devices. You are correct that there was always some lag in hangouts but on the old note 4 I would open the app and watch the spinning circle for up to 3 or 4 seconds at some points. It also put my keyboard to almost a hault. And the messages glitched every time one was sent. I get none of that now which is so relieving. So in my case it was warranted bc all my issues were solved.
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You really need to make a video of what you mean by "lag." Different people have different standards when it comes to describing lag.
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It was kind of hard to describe. Honestly it just seemed slow. Didn't react to what I was doing hardly ever. There was always a delay that you could see was not touchwiz related. I had a note 3 that was stock at one point and rooted at another and both those devices were beating my brand new note 4. This for me was enough to at least go back and try a second one.
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Hmm.. weird. I m getting nasty lag in hangouts and a little hank in other places.. I went to try to exchange right now and every store is out.... I did update hangouts on 4 store phones and they all had the same lag when scrolling and sending messages.
I guess I could call customer service but I bet their sold out. Not convinced so many people have a bad device though. . Wonder if it's some software issue..
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That's unfortunate man bc a few different places in NH told me they had plenty. I would keep trying daily. And yes I'm sure they could get one mailed to you.
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To counter that, the hangouts lag significantly decreased upon swapping devices. You are correct that there was always some lag in hangouts but on the old note 4 I would open the app and watch the spinning circle for up to 3 or 4 seconds at some points. It also put my keyboard to almost a hault. And the messages glitched every time one was sent. I get none of that now which is so relieving. So in my case it was warranted bc all my issues were solved.
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oh that sounds worse than mine. damn.
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I think when we are talking about lags, we're talking about everything, not just one specific app. The entire phone is lags, like in settings, home screen, launching apps etc...
Mine only lags when I'm downloading apps while doing other things. If that's considered as a defective device then I can still return it, hoping to get a white one.
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Mine only lags when I'm downloading apps while doing other things. If that's considered as a defective device then I can still return it, hoping to get a white one.
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Samsung phones always lag when downloading apps. I don't think that will ever go away.
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Samsung phones always lag when downloading apps. I don't think that will ever go away.
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so did by LG g2. was bad.
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Hey...mine doesnt have any serious lag, as some are mentioming, but it is choppy as hell when scrolling through FB, Instagram, Messenger, Hangouts, etc etc...and web pages are slow loading, even on wifi...i mean, i hated my G3 due to lag, but in these mentioned instanced, it beat the crap out of this. I hate to think i might have made a mistake trading off of the G3
Those with lag issues have you disabled all the bloatware? This was huge for me as soon as I did the device ran smooth. Switched animations to .5 and now we are rocking with no hiccups except I can't update Shealth without it FC launching.
While I think it makes sense, part of "knows" is doesn't make sense. I don't know how a device would be defective and only lags on hangouts. Hangouts lags on my Galaxy S5, Note 4 and G3. Lags on my Tab S 8.4... it doesn't lag on my Original Moto X. I'd love to get my device swapped specially if it is defective but I don't see how it could be the case.
Also, when I first got my phone, hangouts wasn't lagging. I deleted my conversations and it wasn't lagging up until I had a decent amount of messages again...
Installed an older version of hangouts and doesn't lag. I mean, how can this be the phone and not the message?
I think lag on 1 app could be more related to the app itself and not hardware issue. Maybe hangouts isn't optimized to our screen resolution yet...
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While I think it makes sense, part of "knows" is doesn't make sense. I don't know how a device would be defective and only lags on hangouts. Hangouts lags on my Galaxy S5, Note 4 and G3. Lags on my Tab S 8.4... it doesn't lag on my Original Moto X. I'd love to get my device swapped specially if it is defective but I don't see how it could be the case.
Also, when I first got my phone, hangouts wasn't lagging. I deleted my conversations and it wasn't lagging up until I had a decent amount of messages again...
Installed an older version of hangouts and doesn't lag. I mean, how can this be the phone and not the message?
I think lag on 1 app could be more related to the app itself and not hardware issue. Maybe hangouts isn't optimized to our screen resolution yet...
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I was wondering this as well if it was more an issue on the app side rather than the hardware/OS. I have a couple apps/games which just seem to lag horribly but others are stupid fast.
Is there anyway to narrow down defective or just a laggy app?
I only see small lag in hangouts when i search for someone because it looks up also their hangouts chat that is all every other app works fine.
So im good ?
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Hi guys,
I have been using the OnePlus 2 for the best part of two weeks and it has mostly been a good experience for me. I still don't like the fingerprint sensor which works 1 out of 3 times.
I have an issue that whenever I receive an MMS, the resolution is really low when using Google's Messenger app. I was using the same app and carrier with my LG G4 and the GS6 and had never had any issues before. Whoever sends me MMS it's the same. I don't want to try any other app so please don't suggest anything else.
I am on the latest Oxygen OS and my OnePlus version is A2001 and am rooted with xposed installed as well
It's laggier than my Z3! I was NOT expecting this. Scrolling on certain sites is super choppy.
Guys, can you confirm?
UPDATE:
I have performed a factory reset and first impressions are that it is super smooth and silky now when scrolling again. I am yet to sign Chrome into my google account to sync a tonne of my bookmarks and see if this affects performance. Also, waiting on all my 237 apps to install in the background first before carrying out another test too. I will report back once I've done so.
UPDATE 2:
On my previous factory reset, somebody said I should remove last pass, which I did but it made no difference as I still had other accessibility services enabled. So the problem resurfaced.
Okay, so it is all down to accessibility services, IMHO. Once enabled, Chrome seems to suffer from this dreaded laggggg and slow touch response or sometimes freeze and crash on sites like daily mail, XDA and huffpost. I have performed a factory reset and not enabled any accessibility services yet and everything is hunky dory, even with full bookmark and account sync.
I will update when and if problem recurs. All seems well for last couple weeks, thank God.
I find the whole phone slower and more laggy than my S6 Edge. Very surprised by that.
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I find the whole phone slower and more laggy than my S6 Edge. Very surprised by that.
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It's definitely slower but I don't think it's more laggy.
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Haven't noticed, I never found chrome to be snappy on any phone I had.
Has anyone got another lsat gen or current phone other than their 6P to compare and report back?
Try opera beta.
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Try opera beta.
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I appreciate the tip and will actually do that.. Only thing is, I'm looking for a direct solution or fix for Chrome and whether the guys at Google are aware of this embarrassment.
I have bookmarks, PC sync, Pushbullet, ad block, Pocket and other extensions that work seamlessly on Chrome. Terrible shame that it is laggier than my Note OK and Z3 in scrolling and panning etc.
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I appreciate the tip and will actually do that.. Only thing is, I'm looking for a direct solution or fix for Chrome and whether the guys at Google are aware of this embarrassment.
I have bookmarks, PC sync, Pushbullet, ad block, Pocket and other extensions that work seamlessly on Chrome. Terrible shame that it is laggier than my Note OK and Z3 in scrolling and panning etc.
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Well chrome is not laggy here.
Not laggy for me, but a lot of browsers are better
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It's laggier than my Z3! I was NOT expecting this. Scrolling on certain sites is super choppy.
Guys, can you confirm?
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that's absolutely right. chrome is the king of lag. I have had issues with it on all my phones. (N5, N6 and now N6P)
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that's absolutely right. chrome is the king of lag. I have had issues with it on all my phones. (N5, N6 and now N6P)
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Thank you... I thought my 6P was throttling the CPU.
What I would like to know is, how come it lags a LOT less on my other phones?
All of you saying that Chrome lags, which browser are you using?
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All of you saying that Chrome lags, which browser are you using?
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I use Chrome only. Is yours as smooth as say your last device or not? At least when compared to a last gen device?
Mine is laggier than my Z3.
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I use Chrome only. Is yours as smooth as say your last device or not? At least when compared to a last gen device?
Mine is laggier than my Z3.
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Sorry, I wouldn't know because I have had Samsung devices lately and I never used Chrome on them. I always preferred the Samsung browser since Chrome always seemed too bloated.
Now that I can't use the Samsung browser, I was curious what people are using instead of Chrome.
Which site specifically is lagging? It seems fine to me.
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Which site specifically is lagging? It seems fine to me.
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The Daily Mail is just one example. I even had XDA desktop version lagging earlier today. Does anyone know how I can upload a video without a YouTube account, to demonstrate this?
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The Daily Mail is just one example. I even had XDA desktop version lagging earlier today. Does anyone know how I can upload a video without a YouTube account, to demonstrate this?
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Daily mail I was able to just scroll the page up and down the display very quickly. Was smooth when scrolling slower as well.
Are you using ad blocker or anything? Pure stock? Any apps consuming cpu in the background?
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Daily mail I was able to just scroll the page up and down the display very quickly. Was smooth when scrolling slower as well.
Are you using ad blocker or anything? Pure stock? Any apps consuming cpu in the background?
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I'm pure stock, no root. Does Chrome have ad blocking on its mobile app? I don't have any installed from the Play Store neither.
I also noticed that unlike before, Chrome doesn't respond to touch as willingly as it does on my Z3 until the full page and ALL ads/banners are completely loaded and the blue bar is gone... It DOES scroll while loading, just after hesitating first and then being choppy when scrolling. I need to record this and upload someplace. Any ideas?
You should have a YouTube account, all Google's accounts can do this. Presumably you can with whatever account you're using on your nexus device.
Edit: not sure what is going to help though, I don't think just proving it's happening will help as that doesn't get to the root cause.
Get a cpu monitor and make sure no other apps are consuming cpu in the background. I'd the phone warm at all?
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You should have a YouTube account, all Google's accounts can do this. Presumably you can with whatever account you're using on your nexus device.
Edit: not sure what is going to help though, I don't think just proving it's happening will help as that doesn't get to the root cause.
Get a cpu monitor and make sure no other apps are consuming cpu in the background. I'd the phone warm at all?
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Good point. It's now showing itself on the Z3 as well. Simply because I'm now running Sony's concept marshmallow on there. I still have my old Note II and it is still coping better than my marshmallow toting devices.
It isn't warm neither. I think Chrome isn't optimised for Android 6.