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Hello.
I need your opinions.
I preffer something stable and smooth, and it's GB for me, I flashed ICS, and browsing on youtube is not so well. I need flash content, havent test it with games.
Lol.
Update. Or try ICS custom ROM's
Arc S, Updated here, very pleased. Performance is about the same, or better in other areas.
I rooted and removed some of the included crud, switched to Go Launcher and limited my background apps to 4, and it's running very nicely.
I think most of the problems and gripes are from the less powerful Arc Lt15i owners running hacked roms.
CrazyPeter said:
Arc S, Updated here, very pleased. Performance is about the same, or better in other areas.
I rooted and removed some of the included crud, switched to Go Launcher and limited my background apps to 4, and it's running very nicely.
I think most of the problems and gripes are from the less powerful Arc Lt15i owners running hacked roms.
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Exactly the same here but with stock launcher And it's been really good so far.
lordcookies said:
Exactly the same here but with stock launcher And it's been really good so far.
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Stock launcher worked well (perhaps better than Go Launcher), but I miss the Go Launcher widgets and can't live without them.
Unlocked my bootloader using the testpoint method, and tried some of the custom ICS roms. My phone now feels much, much faster than it did even on GB. It absolutely flies.
Surprised to hear that stock ICS is laggy. Seems to me that if there was ever a good reason to unlock your bootloader, ICS is that reason.
I'm on locked boot loader and have upgraded. Remember for anyone upgrading using flashtool, connect to Sony update service and REPAIR, I flashed last night and I am pretty impressed. I don't know what everyone is moaning about. You even have root already. One thing to do as well is download Apex Launcher which is only available for ICS so go and check out play store and see three phone fly!!
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i am using arc s and had updated.
it feels so much faster with ics. but
ics has some suckish parts like the video camera.
video sucks big time. but i'm glad i had updated.
feels like a big boost for my phone.
Cedi0117 said:
i am using arc s and had updated.
it feels so much faster with ics. but
ics has some suckish parts like the video camera.
video sucks big time. but i'm glad i had updated.
feels like a big boost for my phone.
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I haven't really tried video, but overall I'm quite pleased, music player from Xperia s would have been nice with clear bass, but other than a few things we didn't already have anyway, whole phone is working pretty decent don't know what some people are on about.
Those of you who are having lagging issues, again I ask have you repaired using update service?
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I was trying to get Xperia s player on my ics but I messed something up. And forgot to backup original files.
Can someone upload the ics SemcMusic.apk and also soundenhancement.apk
Cheers
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shtreber
You need to download adobe flash player 11 from the Android market in order to used the flash.
I agree with you I miss my Agenda widget with GO but... alternatively I have APEX with PureCalendar Widget which is working great.
CrazyPeter said:
Stock launcher worked well (perhaps better than Go Launcher), but I miss the Go Launcher widgets and can't live without them.
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ICS Semc Music Apks
Hi Friend,
I am attaching SemcMusic.apk & AudioEffectService.apk
But i cant find soundenhancement.apk in the system app list.
jayman1986 said:
I was trying to get Xperia s player on my ics but I messed something up. And forgot to backup original files.
Can someone upload the ics SemcMusic.apk and also soundenhancement.apk
Cheers
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I came back to GB because of the many glitches in games. Those cannot be solved by repairing using the update service right ?
In back on GB. If you like playing games then ICS is useless.
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I started a similar thread but got closed.
I to was wondering about staying on gb or go with ics, in the end my techie nerd took over and switched to ics, can't say it has any real benefits apart from the show of factor that my arc has got ics.
I was very sceptical because of the negatives that people had,i have not had these issues even when playing games like temple run or angry birds etc...
The only thing I miss is the amount of mods, themes available,i know in time they will come but my techie geek wants them now.
So in short yes upgrade and enjoyB-)
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So, I'm still using GB on my Arc S, and planning to flash ICS, there are two major bugs I've collected from posts on the forum that concerns me:
1. Low fps video recording
Is this only for 720p video or also for lower resolution recording?
2. Games not working smoothly,
Is this only for HD Games, or do games like Fruit Ninja and Angry Birds also have problems?
Been to ICS for less than 24 hours,got back to GB,I owned lt15i,maybe that is the main reason why is it lagging in some parts,but, there is no real big thing in ICS Arc to really shout about.
If i am upgrading,I will probably wait a month or two after it's official launch for my model,for the sake getting everything else easily,because to get recovery for ics on lt15i is real pain right now, in my opinion at least.Depending on which arc you owned,I really think that it will make a difference if I actually owned lt18i.For lt15i,it is a strict no,no for me right now.
malih16 said:
2. Games not working smoothly,
Is this only for HD Games, or do games like Fruit Ninja and Angry Birds also have problems?
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The Games, I played, run as smoothly like with GB, but whenever Ram was full every Game was closed, Games like Cut the Rope and Angry Birds too.
(Sorry for my bad English...)
After a year, Google Play is STILL the laggiest piece of software I have seen on ANY platform. How can Google still have it so laggy? I never use Google play because the experience sucks.
How come Google didn't fire the guy who approved the app with such lags and still haven't solved this issue?
User error.
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retskrad said:
After a year, Google Play is STILL the laggiest piece of software I have seen on ANY platform. How can Google still have it so laggy? I never use Google play because the experience sucks.
How come Google didn't fire the guy who approved the app with such lags and still haven't solved this issue?
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You're alone on this one, I don't have any problems beyond things not updating as fast as I'd want them to be, and some downloads never starting.
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It's a bit glitchy but not enough to make me not want to use it.
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Are we talking about the market? If so mine is nice and smooth, but it was laggy before but they updated it long ago.
When you scroll up or down when browsing apps its sooo lagy! But when you view an app its very smooth. Also transitions on Google play is very choppy.
Maybe this is an ICS issue because its the same on every app
retskrad said:
When you scroll up or down when browsing apps its sooo lagy! But when you view an app its very smooth. Also transitions on Google play is very choppy.
Maybe this is an ICS issue because its the same on every app
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You may need to re flash your phone or something. I am on my GSII and other than the millisecond it takes for the icon to appear the market is very fast and smooth. I can flick my finger and scroll through fifty apps with no issue..... Every click and backspace is smooth..... You might want to try and smooth your phone out..... Seems like issues from flashing a million times. Don't forget to wipe..... And wipe again.
killing is my business, And business is good.
You're holding it wrong. But seriously the only lag you mention might be when you scroll down the page is caching more apps and you're waiting for it to download. The faster your connection the less lag/caching you will experience. Everything else is as smooth as my latency allows. No lag here.
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tylerdurdin said:
You may need to re flash your phone or something. I am on my GSII and other than the millisecond it takes for the icon to appear the market is very fast and smooth. I can flick my finger and scroll through fifty apps with no issue..... Every click and backspace is smooth..... You might want to try and smooth your phone out..... Seems like issues from flashing a million times. Don't forget to wipe..... And wipe again.
killing is my business, And business is good.
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I never flashed my G nex, it's 100% stock since I bought it. Android Market ws also very laggy on my Nexus S, almost the same problem...
retskrad said:
I never flashed my G nex, it's 100% stock since I bought it. Android Market ws also very laggy on my Nexus S, almost the same problem...
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When looking at a long list of apps, scroll the page/screen one app at a time, then you'll have no lag.
Like everyone's said, there's "lag" because the screen is generating/downloading/updating the blank app icons to the app icon's picture.
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I never flashed my G nex, it's 100% stock since I bought it. Android Market ws also very laggy on my Nexus S, almost the same problem...
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I've never flashed my Gnex either, but I don't normally expose myself to a phone...
BOOM.
What? Ur doin et rong, seriously.
Apps are slow to update IMO, but no lag scrolling and such at all for me.
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To the OP you seriously have some really bad problems with android. You were ranting about nexus and the updates now about the play store why don't you go with iOS or windows phone 7. I personally went with iOS for 6 months and yes there is less bugs (yes they do have bugs trust me ) but the system is so closed the you get bored at it ( at least I did ) and the app store takes longer on iOS ( I do still have my ipad tho ) but is just how it is. Nothing is perfect nothing will be. Personally I haven't played with windows phone 7 much so I can't give you any excuses but that it doesn't have the apps and some are too expensive. Please move on if you feel like it, I do no feel the phone laggy and I don't have problems with it. I don't look for something wrong I just use it as normal and so far mine everything works normal .
For the rest sorry for the long post. Please let's move on and forget about this
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try to flash GAPPS again & clear the cache on you play store from settings
Hi guys I have lag while scrolling up and down in some apps and I want to know if there is a fix for this annoying thing.
I've tried a lot of custom rom (samsung based) and kernel so I think is not this the problem. I installed the App seeders too, but nothing.
No lag for contacts, gallery, menu, etc... Only for this apps:
-facebook
-tapatalk
-ebay
-amazon
If there is someone else who have my problem please post here. So I understand is not my own problem.
I'm aloooooone...
that apps not optimized.
4.1.2 messaging app
Nuvolaz said:
Hi guys I have lag while scrolling up and down in some apps and I want to know if there is a fix for this annoying thing.
I've tried a lot of custom rom (samsung based) and kernel so I think is not this the problem. I installed the App seeders too, but nothing.
No lag for contacts, gallery, menu, etc... Only for this apps:
-facebook
-tapatalk
-ebay
-amazon
If there is someone else who have my problem please post here. So I understand is not my own problem.
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i have one. its the stock messaging app from official samsung ROM. this happened after i flashed the official 4.1.2 from France DLL4, since i cannot wait for the OTA updates. i'm from PH btw.
anyone having the same problem after updating to 4.1.2?
Try scrolling cache. It's an option in omega, but I'm not sure if anyone posted it as a standalone mod on xda yet.
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avetny said:
that apps not optimized.
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It may be. I'm now on wicked rom (4.1.2 dll7). And all goes more then fine. Only that problem... But i had this with other rom too.
It even lags when v scroll whatsapp contacts:banghead:
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It even lags when v scroll whatsapp contacts:banghead:
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Yes here micro lags. True
2Gb of ram and we had lag. So it's right prefer apple...
I hope in some kind of solutions
Nuvolaz said:
Yes here micro lags. True
2Gb of ram and we had lag. So it's right prefer apple...
I hope in some kind of solutions
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Its not matter of ram, its just correct optimization from specific apps developers for our big screen
vatis24 said:
Its not matter of ram, its just correct optimization from specific apps developers for our big screen
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Its not the matter of big screen also. I have sgr it lags in it also though i m using cm 10.1 in it with projet butter and i have seen s2 also it lags the size of the doesn't matters at all.
So we had to wait upgrade for the applications.
Apple store in this is better than play store. At The moment.
I hope that in the future this will exchange.
But apple had only 3 device to follow. Android have a lot of device to set. This is the problem.
There are seemingly MANY unoptimized apps. The one that sticks out like a sore thumb is WhatsApp which, without fail, will stutter when scrolling through my chat list.
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Hey! Here's what's bothering me..
GT-N7100, JB 4.1.1. - rooted - Go Launcher EX installed (with go keyboard, go power manager..)
When I swipe through the home screens (3) or go to the app drawer and flip through that, it always "stutters" a bit.. the same thing happens with scrolling the news feed in the Facebook app, scrolling some site in the Dolphin browser or just scrolling the app list in the app manager..
When I switch over to TouchWiz, it's perfectly smooth.. I can have 10 home screens filled with stuff, app drawer fast and smooth, so it seems the Go Launcher is to blame.. BUT - the same problem still exists in facebook and the browser etc. regardles of launcher used. Also, there are no app killing managers installed or active, I use go power manager simply to monitor the battery..
There's plenty of free memory, usually 1GB or more, using a HomeManager to kill TouchWiz or to disable the Go Launcher doesn't help.. could it be some lack of hardware acceleration in those apps or something, I'm not really an expert here so.. I won't go crazy over this as I'm more about using it than looking at it, I'd just like to now if it's something I can fix or my fault or is it something else.. Tried killing all but the neccessary apps through Task Manager, but to no use.. Seems kinda silly to have a quad-core 1.7GH, 2 GB RAM phone that has problems scrolling a web site..
Any advice?
Thanks guys!
Disable scrolling cache
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Just use touchwiz launcher. I don't get why people like go launcher. It looks like cheap Chinese production to me.
Use the stock samsung browser for the smoothest experience. Other browsers, especially chrome, are known for their lag.
I don't use facebook so I can't say anything about it.
In my experience, scrolling on the stock kernel is much much smoother than all the custom kernels.
You can also wait till Google releases the next version of android with improved project butter.
Try using the app called Seeder.
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UtkarshGupta said:
Disable scrolling cache
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well, seems I can't do that in a stock ROM..
darkchazz said:
Just use touchwiz launcher. I don't get why people like go launcher. It looks like cheap Chinese production to me.
Use the stock samsung browser for the smoothest experience. Other browsers, especially chrome, are known for their lag.
I don't use facebook so I can't say anything about it.
In my experience, scrolling on the stock kernel is much much smoother than all the custom kernels.
You can also wait till Google releases the next version of android with improved project butter.
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I don't like TouchWiz. I can't get my main homescreen organised the way I want, the page indicator itself take like a row and a half, I don't have the app drwer options go launcher gives me etc. There's nothing cheap looking in Go Launcher, I don't get what you mean? I don't use Chrome nor the stock browser, Dolphin has a LastPass plugin which I use cause for work, cause I have like 25-30 passwords and don't want the browser to remember them.
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Try using the app called Seeder.
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Installed it, but no improvement, in fact, maybe I'm just imagining it, but seems worse in some cases?
Guess I'll try some custom ROM, like Omega or something. Meant to try out something else anyway, cause of the multiwindow support that can use all the apps, not just some like on stock.
igorvx8 said:
Installed it, but no improvement, in fact, maybe I'm just imagining it, but seems worse in some cases?
Guess I'll try some custom ROM, like Omega or something. Meant to try out something else anyway, cause of the multiwindow support that can use all the apps, not just some like on stock.
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I'm on omega now and I still get stutters. Any sort of scrolling has some occasional lags I've found. Notification bar included.
I notice the same stutters in my One X, s3 and note 2.
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igorvx8 said:
Installed it, but no improvement, in fact, maybe I'm just imagining it, but seems worse in some cases?
Guess I'll try some custom ROM, like Omega or something. Meant to try out something else anyway, cause of the multiwindow support that can use all the apps, not just some like on stock.
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To be quite honest with you mate almost all roms ive tried that are based on the stock rom such as omega, ARHD, Wannamlite, etc all have the same stuttering/lag when scrolling around especially in the settings menu, you could try certain tweaks or mods but the difference is almost unnoticeable.. However, this issue is not present in the AOSP/CM10.1 ROMS, they are very smooth.
Hi guys.
Anyone got serious and annoying lag on the latest SwiftKey? It's so unfortunate, on my GNex it still runs as smooth as butter and no lag but on 2 different note 2 handsets it just runs like a dog. Laggy touches and it'll slow and catch up. Soooo frustrating...
Any help would be appreciated on this one. It almost takes the enjoyment out of having this lovely fast phone and a beautiful screen to thumb type with...
Cheers.
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Meeeeeeeeeeee.
But only for a second when I swipe more than 4 words.
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I too have it but barely noticable!
I guess its because its learnt too many custom words from my sms's.
Long time Swype beta user, I converted to the newest version of the SwiftKey out of pure curiosity, and after trying for some days found that this is a keeper, and it is so fast when I open it and no problems whatsoever with this keyboard, I use also the default keyboard for hand writing with the spen board switcher, just amazing experience, so far. Btw I am using 240 dpi.
About your problem, try cleaning cache plus dalvik cache and reinstalling one or 2 times plus reboot. Hope this will help.
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UtkarshGupta said:
Meeeeeeeeeeee.
But only for a second when I swipe more than 4 words.
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Same here.
In Hebrew if I flow more than 2 words it stops understanding what I flow, so I don't have THAT problem. On English its pretty annoying..
This happens sometimes. Sometimes the keyboard doesn't even disappear or anything like that because it's stuck. Only thing you can do, I imagine, is clear cache, and start again. Pain in the butt! But hey... it's all you can do ATM.
Happens with me too. When too many processes are running in the background, it sort of lags sometimes. Also it has crashed on me twice till now. Not much but just putting it here. You can try clearing the cache and see if that helps in any way!
unlink it from your SMS , facebook and twitter.
I use Swiftkey and no lags at all.
Thanks for all your replies guys.
Yeah have emailed them and got the usual. We work on improving it all the time blah blah. She said to use a task killer... Strange as we all know this isn't the best way to handle memory any more. That'll just ruin things more. Anyway...
Yeah I don't have it linked to any of my accounts, I don't have twitter ect anyway so I don't know what's causing the lag. I wish it was as smooth as my GNex... I don't understand, this phone is twice the specs and it lags on a keyboard, weird...
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Strange, I never had the problem and I use Swiftkey for 3 months (with stock and dualnote roms (actually))
I think you should try to install again your rom, maybe you have some files corrupted and it makes it laggy.
If you are root, you can also try to use Greenify to decrease your ram usage or/and remove some app activities to disable autostart of them. (autostart or system tools app can do that)
Oh ok thanks man.
Yeah I haven't rooted yet. Going to but haven't got around to it haha. So fully stock and I'm having these issues. It's not unusable is just slower than it should be. And my GNex runs it perfect. It's strange.
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Strange indeed, SwiftKey is an app I've never had issues or freezes with, and I restore it with data with TB on new roms like once a month.
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Wow all I can say is that Swiftkey has been giving me lags ALL The time. I'm on MC3 and I"m not sure if it's the update or the program, but I have even reset to factory, started anew, backed up, cleared cache and then restored, I've tried EVERYTHING. Still laggy as hell and then buttery smooth at other times. Strange.
I noticed at times that it took a while or the keyboard won't show up at all. I was using latest Samsung Rom based on xxdmc3 with both Swype and swiftkey. I'm now on ARHD and its doing fine so far. Somehow I think the issue it with the libraries that calls for the keyboard to pop up when needed, and not necessarily from the keyboard app.
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is there an option to use one keyboard for S-pen and another for key-press... like stock for s pen and swiftkey for hand writing??
I've a problem with Swiftkey on Quicksheet (from QuickOffice Pro) either on stock Polaris View :
When I have modified a cell, I can't modify a new one. These softwares freeze. And with the stock Samsung one all is ok.
Have you been facing this ?
Thanks
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Is there any reason to use Swiftkey over Swype Beta? Because Swype works for me flawlessly and I have Swiftkey on my GNex and it seems to me that Swype is quite superior to Swiftkey?
Thanks again guys for your feedback.
Yeah I get all that bad stuff. As I've said I've emailed SwiftKey and they haven't helped me at all. Really disappointed.
I get laggy input and keyboard bring up is sometimes slow too. Geez, this device is quad core and should fly compared to my GNex... My GNex runs it like butter. Never misses a beat. Really confusing.
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