Recently started playing Pokémon Go with my children. On my OP8Pro I've noticed when I swap to field tasks or scrolling through friends list the screen goes really glitchy not sure how else to explain it. Does any one have this phone and notice any weirdness it doesn't do it on my Note 9. Thanks
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Has anyone run into issues w/touch on this device periodically?
I've been having problems with mine from time to time where a touch is registered in the wrong location... like very wrong, I notice this most often when looking through menus in the system settings.
I fight with scrolling properly in a few diff apps. One in particular is pocket informant. Some times I also have trouble switching home screens and the transition starts to twitch when it hits about half screen then ultimately returns to the screen I'm trying to move away from.
If you would like a video I can try to capture it
Is this common or should I start an RMA and get a fresh new A7 on the way?
I've had this problem sometimes. I think it's because the screen is probably low quality or something is.
Ive also noticed that if I bring it too close to my face to see the side buttons in the dark, my breath on the screen makes things jump around spastically.
eskaryo said:
Has anyone run into issues w/touch on this device periodically?
I've been having problems with mine from time to time where a touch is registered in the wrong location... like very wrong, I notice this most often when looking through menus in the system settings.
I fight with scrolling properly in a few diff apps. One in particular is pocket informant. Some times I also have trouble switching home screens and the transition starts to twitch when it hits about half screen then ultimately returns to the screen I'm trying to move away from.
If you would like a video I can try to capture it
Is this common or should I start an RMA and get a fresh new A7 on the way?
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My screen has been touchy as well
I have a pretty minimal bunch of apps installed, and yet when I pull the notification shade down, there is lots of stutter, and seconds-long delay when I try and swipe a notification away. As I use the shade to manage my incoming notifications all day long, this is extremely frustrating on such a new phone.
Anyone else finding this? Any ideas?
Yes me too and it's typical Samsung. Going back to pixel.
I have weird lag on notification and facebook until I take out the accessibility service like enpass autofill. once i have done that, everything runs smoothly.
Same here - I did uninstall a bunch of game and other apps, and since then the problem has gone. Phew. Kinda annoying it's really difficult to pinpoint what app is causing the issue...
alexkaye said:
I have a pretty minimal bunch of apps installed, and yet when I pull the notification shade down, there is lots of stutter, and seconds-long delay when I try and swipe a notification away. As I use the shade to manage my incoming notifications all day long, this is extremely frustrating on such a new phone.
Anyone else finding this? Any ideas?
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YES! Having the same issue with notification shade and also the multitasking view when flipping through apps. I can't figure out what's causing it. For me changing screen resolution fixes it every time until it starts happening again.
I don't have any accessibility services running so not sure that's it. Anybody have any ideas of culprits? I have quite a few apps installed but not sure what could be causing this issue
Same here.
No lag at all.
I wonder how many people experience these things have rooted or something?
I've not had any issues with my S8 since I've had it.
Very strange.
Everyone has different apps, data and usage. You could give me your phone and I would wipe and use it and it would lag. That's the reality
Same problem and same resolution : switching performance profile via edge pan
I just got an update on Verizon S8 - the red tint fix or whatever but so far this has fixed my stutter problem. I'm hoping it lasts but by now I would have seen stutter and it's still very smooth. Crossing my fingers
Bittersweetly glad to see others are having the same issue. I first noticed it when I upped the screen res from FHD to QWHD, so I switched back and that seemed to help for a few days. But, it did creep back. I performed a factory reset, but I don't think that's a permanent fix, either. Occasional reboots seem to stave it off, too. I would really like to get to the heart of the problem. FWIW, I'm on a Snapdragon S8+ on T-Mobile, unrooted. Outside this hiccup, really enjoying the phone.
anyone noticed that when you swipe up to the app drawer, there is a hint of stutter/lag? Thats the only annoying thing for me at the moment.. Everything else seems to be ok!!
If your phone is rooted and you have a custom kernel running, you can see why this happens. Install kernel auditor and drag down the status bar, you can see that the cpu goes up a bit. If you increase the minimum cpu (both big and little) to 1 value higher than what you saw when you dragged it down before then this should fix the issue however I assume it will affect battery life but not sure to how much, you'll have to do some testing.
I'm not sure if it's because I'm rooted or what, but I noticed most basic games lag really bad on my phone, like fallout shelter for instance it locks up for a few seconds every couple of seconds and it's pretty annoying... Any ideas?
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I'm not sure if it's because I'm rooted or what, but I noticed most basic games lag really bad on my phone, like fallout shelter for instance it locks up for a few seconds every couple of seconds and it's pretty annoying... Any ideas?
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Since I've had this phone I have had some performance issues with games and apps. Some of them were very strange (Ie: certain graphics or images showing up as black boxes.) Most of these were fixed via app updates. Still having some strange issues with certain apps being cutoff at the bottom (ie Snapchat just had a black bar on the bottom which makes it hard to send a message because you cannot press the send button.) I am now a month and a half into this phone. I am experiencing lag even while scrolling through apps or switching apps. I am also experiencing strange delays with the keyboard popping up when I touch a text field. It's hit or miss. Overall I still love the phone.
Side question. How did you root?
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I posted a guide to rooting here https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-e4/how-to/moto-e-guide-to-rooting-t3652982
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
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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
Hi all,
I bought 2 Tab A 8 (2019) tablets for my kids for Christmas, installed their favourite apps (mostly small games, YouTube kids, ABC Kids etc). They constantly encounter a weird screen unresponsiveness issue, where the screen won't respond to touches, but whatever they are doing continues to play. I.e. YouTube kids will be playing in the background, but they are unable to use the screen to change videos or fast forward. This happens across all apps. Turning the screen off and on using the power button does work, and seems to return the screen to normal.
There aren't any "nefarious" apps on there.
Any idea what it might be, or anything I can share that might help figure it out? It's driving my kids crazy...and subsequently me.
thats weird im trying to install a different os on mine