Hi,
I have an EU Yotaphone YD201 running lollipop and noticed that it has been lagging terribly for a few months now. Is this normal for the yotaphone considering that it came out 3 years ago? Often opening apps such as facebook and whatsapp takes around 10 seconds and often pops up with the message "this app is not responding, would you like to close it?". The camera is also extremely slow in opening and often crashes straight after taking a photo (not saving it either). The keyboard always suffers from lagging when typing and often has to catch up after i've finished typing. Is the yotaphone 2 simply outdated in terms of hardware and software meaning I should consider buying a new phone? Or am I the only one having these issues?
I have about 6GB free memory and RAM usage averages around 50%.
Lollipop has been notorious with responsiveness and overall system stability. I had Galaxy S6 that crawled on Lollipop. I would recommend, either to step down to Kitkat (not recommended unless system fluidity is of primacy), or step up to Marshmallow. The EPD optimization is better implemented in Marshmallow and its definitely more responsive. When I bought this phone, Lollipop was already on the boards, I ran Lollipop for few hours before reverting to Kitkat, after a few months, Marshmallow came to the scene.
To the latter half of your concern, the device runs on 801 chipset, it should not stutter unless on contemporary graphic intensive gaming. It should deal with most causal apps with relative ease. However, its age becomes prominent considering its power efficiency, it's prone to heating, though not as bad as 808. Of there were a way to undervolt the CPU, battery concerns could be dealt with in more pragmatic sense.
To conclude, I suggest a switch to Marshmallow.
Thanks! I would flash the RU lollipop to then upgrade to Marshmallow, however my usb port is broken and it appears to be impossible to upgrade otherwise. So I will have to wait for the OTA version, hoping that eventually it comes out for the EU yotaphones
It should be updated to Marshmallow eventually. Might take time though.
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Thanks! I would flash the RU lollipop to then upgrade to Marshmallow, however my usb port is broken and it appears to be impossible to upgrade otherwise. So I will have to wait for the OTA version, hoping that eventually it comes out for the EU yotaphones
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You don't have to flash RU Lollipop firmware in order to upgrade to MM. However the lack of usb-port is a problem. Have you tried downloading the fullFOTA from MM thread, put it into the internal storage and apply it somehow from the recovery? Another option could be using ADB via Wi-Fi. Enable it in the developers options and search for the appropriate app, I think you can apply the MM update using Wi-Fi instead of USB-cable.
Moreover, if you have TWRP I could link here the clean MM installation backup, thus you could "restore the backup" and have MM.
The OP needs to be cautious, lack of USB port means if the recovery fails, the phone would be locked into an inoperable state.
That is a big risk with no USB working .
Don't know if this is about your problem but will post it and you will say. Yesterday I flashed Marshmallow [RU] on my Yotaphone 2 and everything went perfect, except when I want to copy a file, even if its inside the internal storage. Sometimes this extremly lag copying or moving files turned into an error of the filesystem.
Even if this has nothing to do with this post, can someone say something about that?
Thanks people
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This is a basic guide to troubleshoot issue with the Galaxy S (and other devices as well)
STEP 1
Elliminate hardware issue
Since a lot of unoficials firmware are "available" to anyone, you should always start by installing the latest official firmware. Betas, PreRelease and the likes comes with limited support, unstable releases and not fully tested. You'll have to elliminate this source from start if you really want to troubleshoot the isse.
So, Install a stock rom, clean all data and start from a fresh and unstained basis.
If you DO have massive lag
(like in this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fds9eccI9OA)
with stock and clean firmware, don't even go further. You are suffering from an hardware failure. Get it replace and be done with it.
STEP 2
Apps Install
Still on the official FW, reinstall all apps you had in previous release. You should install them One By one and test in between. Since Android is pretty "open source", we are the "qualitiy control" of the apps we install. Some might be the source of the error.
This is a pretty long process if you run / install many apps. But then, if you intend to fix the issue, you might as well take the time to troubleshoot it.
And, while you're at it, you could probably take the time to clean down your applications need Stick with what you need at first. Then expand to the "extras", then expand to the apps "Just to have a look"
STEP 3
Beta / Pre Release Firmware
If you have the heart to deal with it and when you are 100% sure that you don't have issues with stock FW and with all your apps, you can take a peak at testing pre release FW. So, if you have issue with PreRelease you can easely conclude to the source.
excellent topic.
people should follow these guidelines when trying to figure out what went wrong before accusing the hardware to be at fault
For people with issues on power drain during IDLE, perform a HARD RESET then flash to the latest OFFICIAL FIRMWARE in your region and perform another HARD RESET and dont install anything else, disable 3G and see if the problem persists.
The reason why we need to disable 3G is that It can be very unpredictable with battery usage since it tries to pull more power if the 3G signal is quite low.
Normally about 8hrs of PURE IDLE, should just eat 1% battery life the very most.. if your from 100% it may take upto 12-14hrs before that first 1% gets drained.
Hi everyone,
So I have a really really strange issue with my phone lately and that is: I get a lot of graphical corruption and random app crashes (any app, including system apps like the Samsung or Google ones), I did in the past do some overclocking but that was way more than 6 months ago and this issue just popped up about 1 month ago and my battery life is now also really short and the phone can show 40% and shut down or show 20% and shut down and then when I plug it in I get the battery charger indicator with 50%+ battery left.
Now here's an even weirder thing: that is not specific to any ROM and happens on more than one, any TW 5.1.1 ROM I try and even on CM13.
I do use multi-boot but I did test the ROMs even without a multiboot environment and those things still happen.
So I was thinking that it might be that my battery is dead (although apps say it's healthy) as I've seen phones doing that when the battery is close to dead but since I can't really purchase a new battery in my country I would like to ask if someone has an opinion on this?
Could this be a hardware defect or something broken in my "hidden" Samsung-specific partitions or is it just the battery, has anyone else encountered this?
I really would like to know how big of a chance it is that my phone is somewhat of a brick before wasting a lot of money to buy a new battery from an other country.
As you can see most of the photos I took have either missing letters or strangely colored letters but that's because that's the graphical glitches I get most, the worse ones have big parts or even half of the screen totally black, UI elements extended awkwardly with gray outlines, strange colors on-screen and missing whole UI elements.
Sorry for the potato quality....took the photos with my Redmi Note 2 with CM12.1 instead of MIUI7 cause I am too sleepy to wait for it to reboot into the other ROM (and I think I wiped the whole cache+dalvik on my last CM update so the boot would take a long time since it would need to do the whole optimization for MIUI7 as well).
Also a photo of Settings crashing, all I did was just open it, saw the settings list and after a second crash.
NOTE: I am on a 100% clean install right now (wiped EVERYTHING including internal storage) and I barely even managed to get past the setup wizard since it kept crashing.
Thanks for any help/opinions/ideas.
No one knows anything?
How can I get it
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New battery and did a full odin reflash (with SEA pit file), even updated to 6.0, bugs still here but way less frequent, crashes not here anymore after update to 6.0 but still here before even with a 5.1.1 reflash and clean install, seems like the phone is as good as gone, will try to send it to warranty to see what happens but don't expect much since "Knox Warranty Void=1".
Lesson learned: if such bugs start popping up for any of you guys even if the battery is not in a good state you'd end up better just buying a new phone since your note 4 is quite surely done and gone.
Hi, first post. I asked the question on another site some months back about deleting or stopping the install notification about the downloaded, although not installed Nougat update, no answers were forthcoming. My phone on 6.0.1 works great and I have no issues that warrant an upgrade. I have hardly any apps installed on it and really only use it for light internet, photos, the phone and GPS. I don’t really want to update it to Nougat due to some of the horror stories I have read. I am not (yet) very Android proficient.
Can I just leave the downloaded Nougat updated installed, but stop the daily notification to install it?
Or
Can I easily delete the downloaded but not installed Nougat update?
In this case I subscribe to the notion, if it isn’t broke don’t touch it. Maybe I am being too overly cautious.
Current details
Hardware: XT1642.
Version: 6.0.1
Build: MPJ24.139.23.4
Security Update: 1 May 2016
Any help steering me in the right direction is appreciated.
Cheers,
@CC2005
If you remove downloaded files, still it will not stop, then you will get notification for new update available and to download it.
Better if you update to latest version,
otherwise you need to restrict notification for moto updater app or data for it. (I don't remember correctly if those feature existed on MM, as the way it is present in N)
It looks as if I will have to just go ahead and install the OTA Nougat 7.0 update that has downloaded; as there doesn't seem to be a simple way of stopping the notification to install it. As mentioned, I didn't want to install Nougat as it works perfectly now on 6.01, maybe I am just worrying about nothing, obviously Nougat 7.0 doesn't stuff up all devices.
It is still in warranty so if an OTA update causes problems I may be able to return it?
Cheers
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It looks as if I will have to just go ahead and install the OTA Nougat 7.0 update that has downloaded; as there doesn't seem to be a simple way of stopping the notification to install it. As mentioned, I didn't want to install Nougat as it works perfectly now on 6.01, maybe I am just worrying about nothing, obviously Nougat 7.0 doesn't stuff up all devices.
It is still in warranty so if an OTA update causes problems I may be able to return it?
Cheers
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If there is any problems and if it's under warranty, you can surely take it to the service center.
As far as I know, if you get a replacement device, it will be updated to the latest version out of the box. So there is no way going back to MM.
If you still want to use MM, your only hope is custom ROMs.
You can't downgrade the official updates.
Nougat is not that bad. Most of us are waiting for Oreo and I am wondering how are you still on MM
Have a nice Day :good:
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If there is any problems and if it's under warranty, you can surely take it to the service center.
I am wondering how are you still on MM
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I have disabled most of the Motorola notifications "Motorola Update Services", "Motorola Notification" and one or two others. This sometimes prevents the "Install System Update" notification as long as I do not power it off, I put it to sleep by putting if face down. Although most of the time I have to delay the install manually by rescheduling the install time-pressing later etc when the message pops up.
I am a light user, and can get up to 8 days (rarely) usage out of a single charge, I have disabled a lot of Google & other Apps that I don't want to use, and turned off many Google Play Services. Lots of photos, calls and WiFi use I get 2-3 days use, so I am trying to keep the current OS. Also the works reasonably well in very hot weather taking photos and using the GPS-off line maps, it does at times get hot and can suffer camera issues and more so, GPS stuttering and lag above 35C-40+C but shade it from the sun and minimise use and it will work ok.
Cheers & have a great day too.
Ok, I've been operating with Nougat 7.0 for two months now. There are pros and cons and some of the cons I will adapt to as they are only preferences, minor setting and appearance.
My main concerns about the OS update were battery life and heating. Normal use, the battery drains a little quicker without WIFI or Sim data on, not enough to cause concern. But with WIFI and or sim data on, it definitely uses more battery power than before, almost at an average of 10%-15% more-not a scientific analysis. I am not a big data users so again not big concern. Although when using data, downloading, surfing etc, the battery rate depletes at a much quicker rate than before, I would estimate 30%-40% faster. I also notice the battery depletes much quicker when using the camera and the associated heat when using the camera feels (going by sense not measuring it) somewhat higher. The camera and video mode are the one that bother me and I forgot to mention, using offline maps, gps enabled (no WIFI or Sim data activated) the battery use is again higher than before.
So, I would have been better off on MM, yes, but it is what it is and I can work around the battery issue when I know my usage of those features will be heavy. A cheap pocket portable USB charger may need to be purchased.
I haven’t done a factory reset and I have only cleared the cache via settings app. Maybe the next step before a portable pocket USB charger is purchased.
Cheers
Hi
I have just received the update notification that the Oreo 8.1 update is available to download,but when I click to download and install I just get the message....
Download failed,please try again.
My internet connection is fine,and I am not rooted...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
My model is TB-870F
Thanks.
Oh well.....I’m stuck with 7.1.1 then it seems lol
Lenovo have pulled the Ota for the time being as it bricked a fair few so they are fixing it etc.
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Lenovo have pulled the Ota for the time being as it bricked a fair few so they are fixing it etc.
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I would not be surprised if they paused the OTA rollout. This update caused a lot of mess when I upgraded my 8704X:
1) the notification area went crazy (netguard),
2) I lost application read/write access to my external sdcard (I only had read access to it through the built-in file manager) therefore I had to back up its content, reformat it then restore my files. I figured out it was likely due to a permission issue it would have been barely infeasible to solve without rooting,
3) the system application named after Mobile Services started to install apps I did not want,
4) had to clear both cache & data or reinstall a lot of applications which dysfunctioned after the update.
On the bright side, the update brought:
1) a smoother experience. The overall UI interactions seem less sluggish although not fast enough when compared with a SD835. Digressing: could we get a high-end 8-inch Android tablet any time soon?
2) application startup is fixed. Some of my applications (e.g. hangar, ampere) previously did not start at boot,
3) better integration with password managers thanks to Oreo,
4) native night mode (red light),
5) touchpal 2016 keyboard removal (I could previously only disable it).
Finally, my last concerns are:
1) my tablet still cannot act as a phone. The 8704X model may not be able to place a call or some tricky network conf blocks it or I got a defective model. 4G/LTE data works,
2) Oreo is probably the last upgrade and there is no alternative rom development running,
3) (minor concern) I cannot benefit from Netflix HD streaming despite I never rooted/flashed my system.
To conclude, I really feel depressed considering the Android tablet market.
1) I was never really happy after switching from my Sony Z3 Tablet Compact to Lenovo Tab4 8 Plus. Sure, the later is more powerful and has more storage capacity. But the screen is vastly inferior (blueish, ghost touch) and the development scene does not exist as of yet.
2) there are very few 8-inch tablets worth. The Huawei Mediapad M5 may tick few boxes (slightly faster cpu) but the WiFi/BT issues, limited storage options (32Gb max), average battery runtimes are not convincing.
3) the 10-inch offer may be more tempting if you are willing to accept this format, pay the price, and opt for Samsung proprietary interface (e.g Galaxy Tab S3/S4). You cannot obtain more than 4Gb RAM/64Gb storage though.
4) the Pixel Slate is barely a prototype, most users reporting Android compatibility issues. Intel-centric, indecent price, no 4G/LTE connectivity yet, no external sdcard means you must purchase the Core I7/16Gb RAM/256Gb model.
Apple/IOS jail not being an option, I will keep my tab4 for a few months.
I don't like or have a tablet. I prefer phones for everything. My moto z2 force is my favourite at the moment.
Got the tab 4 for the wife to watch zion on it. Sold a 2018 ipad 9.7 for it as she found it too big and heavy.
Oreo update (S001018) worked for me on TB-8704X, but dm-verity is making me nuts, since I cannot go make a backup of my data partition after boot because of forced encryption, which means I have to lose all my settings and apps whenever I want to restore to a previous state - factory reset - which for me is unacceptable. You cannot install Magisk before this happens, and what is rooting without the ability to back up even good for? So I am patiently waiting for someone to port LineageOS or another custom ROM that can liberate me from this mess. So sick and tired of the stock ROM and its limitations. Go to hell, mandatory boot sec-bullies!
Well.... I'm getting crazy with this crap. I can't access the SD card in the external apps (like Perfect Viewer). I tried to reformat it but problem is still not resolved.
If i knew the update should cause all these issues i wouldn't install it, too late now i guess.
Some issues i encountered:
*Es file explorer - disabled\being uninstalled after start up and my tablet is set for timed startup \ shutdown.
*Issues with built in alarm clock app, could snooze it with a shake and now it doesn't even shows the clock when you open the cover and turning it off is pretty frustrating if you want to turn it off quickly.
*BS player issues connecting to SMB home network pc and also, when skipping files it got stuck and needs to be restarted.
So if you read this before installing the update, I recommend to wait for a better fix.
My Galaxy S5 was getting super slow. Often I had to wait 10 seconds or so that it reacts to my touches. I had the latest manufacturer rom installed.
I reinstalled Kitkat manufacturer rom and the device got as fast as original.
So my question is why the device got slow or how could measure what is causing these problems? I have noticed similar effect on other phones, when the same rom is installed for a long period of time.
Too much cache and datas. Try first of all wipe cache from recovery mode and do it once a week. If neither this will work, wipe data (factory restore) always from recovery mode and the phone comes responsive like new untill to much data and caches will slow it again. Don't install to many apps, even this slowers the phone. This happens even on KitKat.
You could also try to install an app called KernelTuner and see if the cpu is always on high load.
Is the battery draining fast or is the touch screen just unresponsive? But there are a lot of possibilities for this issue and if everything is falling apart you could switch to a custom Rom or buy a new phone.
I have the same problem with G900F which is SUPER SLOW after official Marshmallow 6.0.1 update. Stock Rom. It is the worst and slowest Android exprerince I've had so far. Is the solution installing custom Rom if there is any reliable and safe one?
Just install lineage os or debloated stock problem solved
There was/is an issue with the contacts db blowing up to gigantic size which had/has an impact on performance & stability.
My S5 was not affected, and i've been using 6.0. 1 for at least a year.
But today you can expect such behaviour on various occasions with a phone that has only 2GB of ram and a Snapdragon 801(which should still be competitive with the MediaTek SoCs in cheap phones, at least.).
E.g. my fav weather app WetterOnline becomes a resource hog sometimes on my S5 till the dreaded "app not responding" message, but not on my more powerful LG G6, and on other occasions the app runs super smooth again.
Something as basic and simple as a weather app should perform well on any device except the oldest or most basic ones.
My S5 became snappy after downgrading to Lollipop. Keep in mind it came with Marshmallow when I bought it brand new.