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Droid X touch screen freezes after unlocking

I noticed lately that when I get a phone call, I can't slide to answer when the phone is locked also when it is sitting for awhile charging or not, when I slide the lock button, the touch screen freezes and takes a few minutes to recover before I am able to make calls, text or use any application.
My DX is rooted andI am running leaked Gingerbread, however I was having the same issue with the Stock rom. I do not use any task killers.
I have installed Droidwall and Titanium back up.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

rdeluis said:
I noticed lately that when I get a phone call, I can't slide to answer when the phone is locked also when it is sitting for awhile charging or not, when I slide the lock button, the touch screen freezes and takes a few minutes to recover before I am able to make calls, text or use any application.
My DX is rooted andI am running leaked Gingerbread, however I was having the same issue with the Stock rom. I do not use any task killers.
I have installed Droidwall and Titanium back up.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Are you overclocking?
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No overclock, no task killers. I use titanium back up and did not freeze or remove any apps. It is strange and reminds me of a laptop coming back from the hibernate estate, it takes a few minutes to reset and then is good to go.

Mine has been doing the same exact thing!

I have removed fancy widgets which is a nice Clock/Weather combo widget but I have a feeling that it might be the culprit.
I'll keep posting any findings and again help from the experts will be greatly appreciated.

We need to compare our installed apps to see if there is a common one. I don't have fancy widgets but I have MUIU clock/weather app and it seems really wonky.

I have pretty much traced this down to a bad MicroSD. Oddly, my PC will still be able to use them. My Nexus One wouldn't even touch the SD card that was freezing my Droid X.
Looks to me like Motorola left something out of its SD or FAT driver.

Is there a fix?

Right on the dot. I removed the SD card and "voila" no more slow downs. I guess must be something. related to the drivers, as you mentioned.
Today, I put back the Sdcard and gotfrom the Market place an overclock applicatkon called Droid Over lo k. So far is going good and very fast, however overclocking is always risky and shortens the life of any processor.
I'll keep you updated.

didn't work for me... seemed to help at first but I got the lock ups again today. About to move on from Motorola.

OK! After trying different combinations such as SD card, no SD card, Rooted, UN-Rooted etc.
Finally, out of desperation, I got my old HTC and pulled out the 16G SD card, put it on my DX and used it for 3 days with no freezes or lock ups so far. The funny thing is that this SD card that I put in, is a low end cheap Polaroid brand.
I'll keep you updated

It is a known fact that the SD cache is low on the Droid X. Higher class cards will have problems unless the cache size is raised. Even than, it's not a guarantee for success. I have a Class 10 card that caused crashes daily until I installed a mod for the cache size. Didn't solve all of my issues, but it stop the crashes.

You are absolutely right. I have been doing ok with the low end card. Recently I got from the market an app called SD Speed which raises the card cache and no matter which card I use now the systrm runs very smooth.
Thank you all for the help and feedback.

Camera Lag.....

Anyone else getting horrible camera lag? When I first got the phone everything was fine, but anymore when I open the camera app, it's like 20-30 seconds before I can even take a picture, sometimes longer. It's been this way the last couple of weeks and is VERY annoying, especially since that's one of the reason I went away from my Nexus 6P....
Anyone have any thoughts? I haven't installed any new apps in that timeframe that would affect it.....

Mine does it often as well, same with trying to use the finger scanner to unlock if the phone has been sitting for a while, it won't work.
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Change from micro SD storage to internal storage if needed
Settings/Developer Options/Tick on "Force GPU Rendering" this should make this beast smoother/snappier" If root available try L Speed/Entropy/fstrim apps found on Play Store! LG V20 & LG G5 are snappy beasts, well optimised with Snapdragon 820 and is better than Samsung. Try removing and putting back your memory card from phone and check the lag gone till all good.

LiquidHonesty said:
Anyone else getting horrible camera lag? When I first got the phone everything was fine, but anymore when I open the camera app, it's like 20-30 seconds before I can even take a picture, sometimes longer. It's been this way the last couple of weeks and is VERY annoying, especially since that's one of the reason I went away from my Nexus 6P....
Anyone have any thoughts? I haven't installed any new apps in that timeframe that would affect it.....
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Just wondering if you have frozen or disabled any system apps before you have an issue with laggy camera app? Because mine went laggy as well after I froze certain system apps. Some apps I disabled causes my SD card to unmount itself as well.
I just restored my TWRP backup and the camera is functioning back smoothly without issues.

Android 7 update made my phone very slow. I am looking on the return policy now

I updated my ZTE Axon 7 to Android 7 and I started hating the mobile.
Issues:
1. Finger print recognition is not perfect.
2. whatsapp is very slow - especially - taking and photo and sending it.
3. phone is deadslow most of the time. i.e. I have to click on some apps and wait for sometime, some cases it closes automatically.
Is there a way to go back to Android 6 or What is the return policy. I bought the phone 1.5 months back in Amazon.
I am really frustrated with this thing and I need to get rid of it.

I am with you on this...same happened to me also.
Phone is too slow, fingerprint is not identifying the print accurately and its too slow, whtasapp is a disaster.
Apps opens too slow.

Same issues here...
I read in the ZTE Forum that a couple people have gone back to MM with the file from the ZTE support website but I am not sure if I want to do that ... or wait a couple days so ZTE will HOPEFULLY come up with a hotfix...
There are a lot of other issues also like verizon SIM is not recognized at all, fingerprint issue, battery drain, slow animations, performance over all....

You may need to move to LineageOS
what aboutLineageOS?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/axon-7/development/unofficial-lineageos-14-1-zte-axon-7-t3545679

+1 all issues mentioned by original poster, I don't know if ZTE actually QC this release or not ? The whole performance is abysmal after update.

Try wiping data/factory reset

vishnu290692 said:
I updated my ZTE Axon 7 to Android 7 and I started hating the mobile.
Issues:
1. Finger print recognition is not perfect.
2. whatsapp is very slow - especially - taking and photo and sending it.
3. phone is deadslow most of the time. i.e. I have to click on some apps and wait for sometime, some cases it closes automatically.
Is there a way to go back to Android 6 or What is the return policy. I bought the phone 1.5 months back in Amazon.
I am really frustrated with this thing and I need to get rid of it.
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You're not allowed to return it

So I've done full factory resets twice, cleared cache, etc. My phone is still about half of what it was on 6.0. Fingerprint reader is what is killing it for me.

+1 I feel this phone is so slow. Is it under clocked? I came from a Zenfone 2 running an Intel x86 and it never lagged. This phone seems so laggy with scrolling, apps etc. Feel a bit disappointed. Is it the Nougat update? Thanks.
Sent from my ZTE A2017U using Tapatalk

My phone has definately lagged a bit sometimes but its been working fine otherwise after the Nougat update. I did a factory wipe and my phone isnt rooted.

Just a thought, don't know for sure, but you should head over to this thread see if this helps you any
https://forum.xda-developers.com/axon-7/development/2-15-2017-axon-7-msm-8996-cpu-vm-ram-t3557392

Aedan762 said:
So I've done full factory resets twice, cleared cache, etc. My phone is still about half of what it was on 6.0. Fingerprint reader is what is killing it for me.
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I've done the same thing. Factory reset 6 times and I've also cleared cache numerous times. I've tried a few things because I also had random restarts that would happen from once every 15 minutes to once every few hours and sometimes not turn back on or get stuck in deep sleep. So far as of now I've tried a few tweaks that seems to have sped up nougat substantially. The auto powers are mode seems to be bugged off the bat with nougat. I've been running in performance mode and have gotten better battery life than in auto mode. Also speed is increased and my restart issue has disappeared thus far. If I were you I'd just tweak the settings and give it a few days. After talking with zte support, they are under helpful and both return options for replacement are obscene at best.

kingoftheafro said:
I've done the same thing. Factory reset 6 times and I've also cleared cache numerous times. I've tried a few things because I also had random restarts that would happen from once every 15 minutes to once every few hours and sometimes not turn back on or get stuck in deep sleep. So far as of now I've tried a few tweaks that seems to have sped up nougat substantially. The auto powers are mode seems to be bugged off the bat with nougat. I've been running in performance mode and have gotten better battery life than in auto mode. Also speed is increased and my restart issue has disappeared thus far. If I were you I'd just tweak the settings and give it a few days. After talking with zte support, they are under helpful and both return options for replacement are obscene at best.
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Yeah, I've done all of those. Nothing seems to help. Facebook app still unusable, fingerprint reader only works about 1 out of 5 times, even after setting up multiple fingers, etc.... I am not a happy person. My phone is completely stock, too. I was laying off doing anything custom to it because of 7.0. Apparently that was a mistake.

Yeh after looking online it seems that almost every phone that got updated to nougat had a plethora of issues until hot fixes were issued. Even the nexus 5x had issues. Seems zte only made sure it kinda worked and then released it because people kept batching about the delay of initial rollout.

Is it me or is the s8 slow?

I've been using my galaxy s8 (G950U) for about two weeks now. I feel like I've been ripped off. This thing gets warm just from streaming music via Pandora. Geekbench scores are better on both my Exynos s7 edge and my old note 5. Then there's the USB C audio lag. As soon as I plugged in usb c headphones, my s8 basically froze to the point of unusable. Anyone else having these problems or did I just happen to pick up a bad phone?

Havent noticed any of your issues.

I haven't tried USB-C headphones, but I am actually very satisfied with my phone apart from the battery. It's fast, responsive, handles everything I throw at it. Don't rely too​ much on benchmarks, it doesn't always represent the day to day use.
Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk

Haven't had it as long as you but i'm on day 4 and so far so good. Hopefully it stays that way.

darkdragonz said:
I've been using my galaxy s8 (G950U) for about two weeks now. I feel like I've been ripped off. This thing gets warm just from streaming music via Pandora. Geekbench scores are better on both my Exynos s7 edge and my old note 5. Then there's the USB C audio lag. As soon as I plugged in usb c headphones, my s8 basically froze to the point of unusable. Anyone else having these problems or did I just happen to pick up a bad phone?
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I had an AT&T version and now an Exynos UK version. Both are incredibly responsive the latter more so. I spent hours yesterday with my phone connected to SideSync configuring it. Not a stutter or stall in anything I did. I can see how an S8 via Dex can emulate a PC. Your issues seem like a one-off. Most likely due to some combination of apps you have installed, something you've disabled or frozen, or a utility run amok (EG: Bixby re-mapper). Do you use SmartSwitch? Some apps don't like to be restored vs. installed fresh. As for USB-C I used it all day yesterday connected to a USB 3.0 port on my PC and regularly to connect my phone to Android Auto. The phone's performance never changed.
Here's how I configure my U.S. phones (it's not necessary on imports):
From a fresh restore from recovery I skip signing in to my Google and Samsung accounts.
I uninstall or disable all the carrier junk and any other apps I won't use.
I don't disable Samsung core apps because they're interdependent and can create problems and battery drain when they look for each other and they aren't there.
I sign in to my Samsung account and disable the syncs I don't use and then update all my pre-installed Samsung apps and download optional ones I use.
I sign in to my Google account and disable the syncs I don't use and quickly disable auto-update in the Play Store so I can control what's installed or updated.
Only after all my apps are in place do I start to play with the settings.
I backed up my AT&T S8+ to Samsung Cloud and only restored my apps, music, photos, documents, phone logs, and MMS history. Moving settings over is a crap shoot if something from the old phone incorrectly overlays something on the new phone. It's more time consuming to do it this way but (knock on wood) I've never had battery drain issues or any other funkiness with a new phone and I go through many. Good luck.

No problem
No problem here, really good performances overall.

Mine runs really well too. Very happy customer

Everything is ok here.. very fast

I have similar experience. My exynos S7E is way faster than this Snapdragon S8. Though I did get the UFS 2.0 version. Probably going to sell it and pick up another exynos.

Mine runs as slow as my galaxy s1...

I'm satisfied with mine. It's a beauty inside and outside ?

BarryH_GEG said:
I had an AT&T version and now an Exynos UK version. Both are incredibly responsive the latter more so. I spent hours yesterday with my phone connected to SideSync configuring it. Not a stutter or stall in anything I did. I can see how an S8 via Dex can emulate a PC. Your issues seem like a one-off. Most likely due to some combination of apps you have installed, something you've disabled or frozen, or a utility run amok (EG: Bixby re-mapper). Do you use SmartSwitch? Some apps don't like to be restored vs. installed fresh. As for USB-C I used it all day yesterday connected to a USB 3.0 port on my PC and regularly to connect my phone to Android Auto. The phone's performance never changed.
Here's how I configure my U.S. phones (it's not necessary on imports):
From a fresh restore from recovery I skip signing in to my Google and Samsung accounts.
I uninstall or disable all the carrier junk and any other apps I won't use.
I don't disable Samsung core apps because they're interdependent and can create problems and battery drain when they look for each other and they aren't there.
I sign in to my Samsung account and disable the syncs I don't use and then update all my pre-installed Samsung apps and download optional ones I use.
I sign in to my Google account and disable the syncs I don't use and quickly disable auto-update in the Play Store so I can control what's installed or updated.
Only after all my apps are in place do I start to play with the settings.
I backed up my AT&T S8+ to Samsung Cloud and only restored my apps, music, photos, documents, phone logs, and MMS history. Moving settings over is a crap shoot if something from the old phone incorrectly overlays something on the new phone. It's more time consuming to do it this way but (knock on wood) I've never had battery drain issues or any other funkiness with a new phone and I go through many. Good luck.
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I only have the AT&T bloatware installed. I also transferred the same apps from my s7 edge to my s8, so I doubt it's any extra apps I installed. Could me having a UFS 2.0 have an effect?

Coming from a Google Pixel, I'd say animations and general smoothness/responsiveness are definitely not up there.
It's not slower, it's just jerkier. I wish Samsung gave the same attention to software polishing as it does with hardware.

it's the bixby button remapper apps
mine was fine, then i installed one of those. then the phone was so sluggish and jerky when scrolling
disabled the remapper, and it's buttery smooth again

lawrence750 said:
it's the bixby button remapper apps
mine was fine, then i installed one of those. then the phone was so sluggish and jerky when scrolling
disabled the remapper, and it's buttery smooth again
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I actually never installed those remapper apps though...

darkdragonz said:
I actually never installed those remapper apps though...
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it must be something you have installed.
do you have any other apps showing in settings>accessibility>services?

Mine is smooth and fast. I disabled the bixby apk's, but only so I didn't accidentally hit the bixby button, not because there was lag or anything. I turn off all animations/etc in developer settings on all my phones since the animations seem pointless. Fastest phone I have had to date, with the Note 7 right there with it. The s7E also very fast. Now going back to my Note 4 - BIG difference in speed, the Note 4 felt sluggish as any 3 year old phone would in comparison.

Very smooth. As fast as iPhone 7 I have.
Try Factory Reset

Phone is awesomely quick even on power saving mode.

darkdragonz said:
I only have the AT&T bloatware installed. I also transferred the same apps from my s7 edge to my s8, so I doubt it's any extra apps I installed. Could me having a UFS 2.0 have an effect?
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I think this is your problem: some people reported issues when transferring programs and settings from one device to another using smart switch and claim all was well after resetting and installing everything fresh. I can't confirm it, since I didn't transfer anything from my old phone except phone book, but then I don't have any issues either.

Slow finger scroll issue

Guys, this might be a solution to the jittery slow finger scrolling that seems to be plaguing “some” PH1 devices.
Before I get flamed, please note I’m genuinely trying to help out this community. I don’t own an essential phone but i’d like to. I own a oneplus 3 and recently experienced exactly the same slow finger scroll jitteryness even though flick scrolling was pure butter. This began to happen on my device all of a sudden and I tried everything (and I mean EVERYTHING!) to get to the bottom of why normal scrolling lists etc was totally smooth but if you dragged your finger slowly to scroll it was horribly jittery or juddery. I even tried different kernels, GPU Rendering toggling etc etc etc. I finally got my slow finger scrolling back to being buttery smoooth again purely by chance.
I removed 2 apps that I had set “on” in accessibility settings. BAM! Slow scrolling changed immediately from horrible to smooth. Now I dont know if it was having both apps enabled in Accessibility settings or just one but I dont really care. All I know is that my phone responded immediately on making this change, no need for a reboot. Why did this make my phone slow scrolling lag? I’ve no idea. But, just to double check it was this I re-enabled the 2 apps in Accessibility settings and guess what, normal scrolling stayed buttery smooth but slow finger scrolling changed back to lumpy, jittery, almost like the text was vibrating as it scrolled on the screen.
I know some of you will think “WTF!” and so did I on discovering this. Why would this innocuous setting make a difference to scrolling???
Anyway, give this a try. I know my phone is different to yours but the way my phone went was exactly like the scrolling on the essential phone in the youtube videos floating around. Horrible!! Afterwards, my scrolling is back to pure butter in all scenarios.
I hope this solves the issue for you guys. Good luck and let me know if this works for you
p.s. just to be clear, my 2 apps were Nova launcher and Caller Name Talker. Setting both these to “off” did the trick for me. In your case I’d advise setting ANY apps you have “on” in Accessibility settings to “off”. If it doesn’t work immediately, try a reboot although my Oneplus 3 didn’t need a reboot :good:

Thanks for the tips!! Unfortunately I currently have Nova Launcher set to "off" in the accessibility settings and don't have the other app you're talking about. I still have the stutter
Good thing is, Essential said they do have a fix for it and will push it out in the next OTA this month

flakko86 said:
Thanks for the tips!! Unfortunately I currently have Nova Launcher set to "off" in the accessibility settings and don't have the other app you're talking about. I still have the stutter
Good thing is, Essential said they do have a fix for it and will push it out in the next OTA this month
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Well if they do manage to fix this issue then I will definitely buy one. Providing of course that they sort out any early batch quality control issues too. This is without doubt the most beautiful phone ever created.
Camera quality is not important to me but smoothness is my thing. Thats why I don’t buy Samsung/HTC/LG anymore. I’ve seen my brothers s7 edge and it’s a disgraceful stutter/lagfest compared to my Oneplus 3. I got fed up of trying to hone laggy “flagship” phones to be smoother years ago. Pure android or as close to it now for me.
Only totally smooth phones I’ve ever known are Nexus, Oneplus and Pixel phones. My current Oneplus 3 is the smoothest android experience Ive ever had upto now and although I was looking to upgrade in 2017 to something with a SD835 chip, nothing apart from Essential phone has perked my interest so far.

Good to know there's an OTA coming. Mine seems worse when I'm plugged in charging. Scrolling twitter it will freeze, then sometimes it jumps around opening links I never clicked on.
Also, anyone have trouble registering presses on the edge of phone? Any settings in the top right take about 4 or 5 presses to open.

The official fix is coming. Essential received a fix from Qualcomm and it will be included in Octobers second update, it also includes latest security patch