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Has Asus improved the flash memory used in the new Nexus 7? How is the I/O?
This will be a major factor in others buying the tablet.
Yes they fixed it. Buy one.
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Yes they fixed it. Buy one.
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It's a bit dangerous to make blanket statements like this when you actually have no idea whether this is the case or not, unless you'd like to provide some actual facts/figures to back it up.
How would you like us to test it. Its VASTLY faster than the old N7 no doubt.
Here are some of my Antutu numbers...
35.5MB/sec write
27.8MB/sec read
Andro Bench...
Seq Read: 57.47MB/sec
Seq Write: 17.74MB/sec
Ran Read: 11.99MB/sec
Ran Write: 00.83MB/sec
SQLite Insert: 88.81 TPS
SQLite Update: 100.1 TPS
SQLite Delete: 99.46 TPS
Browser: 75.5ms
Market: 188ms
Camera 183.75ms
Camcorder: 425.25ms
I have about 3Gigs of apps install now, had probably 20 or so running in the background and 40-50 apps overall.
I have one and Comparo of performance between Nexus 7, old Nexus 7, Nexus 4 and Nexus 10*http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013...ce-preview-a-huge-speed-upgrade-in-every-way/
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The only way to really test this is the hard way. Install stuff until it's down to below 1g free then use it for a few days in a row without rebooting. Does stuff start slowing down, problems loading/wifi/scrolling at the same time, etc?
See anandtech review.
Android 4.3 uses fstrim, which helps with i/o speeds. Will even help the old n7
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It's a bit dangerous to make blanket statements like this when you actually have no idea whether this is the case or not, unless you'd like to provide some actual facts/figures to back it up.
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All.that has to be done is read Anandtech review. It has been fixed and a dramatic improvement over previous model. He has several benchmarks and test figures to back it up.
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See anandtech review.
Android 4.3 uses fstrim, which helps with i/o speeds. Will even help the old n7
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Yes, it will help. Various reports from original nexus7 owners said improvement was drastic. Anantech broke it down as to how the new feature in 4.3 works to achieve this. Its something called Ftrim, I believe. It cleans up and prevents device memory.from being bogged down after its loaded with apps and stuff. So users who updated to 4.3 on OG nexus7 are already seeing improvements. I will be updating both of my nexus7's soon to 4.3.
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Anantech broke it down as to how the new feature in 4.3 works to achieve this. Its something called Ftrim, I believe. It cleans up and prevents device memory.from being bogged down after its loaded with apps and stuff. So users who updated to 4.3 on OG nexus7 are already seeing improvements. I will be updating both of my nexus7's soon to 4.3.
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"Fstrim"
I was using it for the last couple of months on my OG N7 and it helped a lot. The app was called 'lagfix', it manually ran the fstrim utility that was present in android 4.2, but not yet implemented until 4.3
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"Fstrim"
I was using it for the last couple of months on my OG N7 and it helped a lot. The app was called 'lagfix', it manually ran the fstrim utility that was present in android 4.2, but not yet implemented until 4.3
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Thanks for.clarification. I've been away from n7 forums for a while. I.came back when I heard they were updating to 4.3. Sad to hear about team eos going a different direction on Roms. Can't wait to test out first hand how 4.3 improves my OG n7's.
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Thanks for.clarification. I've been away from n7 forums for a while. I.came back when I heard they were updating to 4.3. Sad to hear about team eos going a different direction on Roms. Can't wait to test out first hand how 4.3 improves my OG n7's.
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lol keeping up to date with these forums is like a full-time job, so much...stuff. I think i'll take a break once i get my gen 2 setup. What happened with team eos?
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lol keeping up to date with these forums is like a full-time job, so much...stuff. I think i'll take a break once i get my gen 2 setup. What happened with team eos?
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I believe they no longer supporting team eos Rims or.the one at least on OG nexus7. I haven't read up on the details. But I heard they joined up with another group and going to take this rom or collaboration to a whole new level. Sounds like big things in the works now.for.them.
I.just recently flashed cleanrom 4.0 on my on n7. Its the first rom out with 4.3 build. I'm letting it settle for a while. As I have a million apps updating from playstore since I haven't used the device in over a month. But so far everything looking good. Can't wait to really dive Into it and see how she performs on 4.3. This might hold me off for a while on buying newer model. We will see. But I do want it though..lol I have my LG optimus G pro to satisfy my 1080P cravings for now.
I've only had my new Nexus 7 for about 7 hours, but can say it is VERY fast. I was downloading all my apps and did not suffer the SLOWNESS of my previous Asus devices (TF101 and TF300).
To early to say with absolute certainty, but do far it is FAST and SMOOTH. Oh, and the 1920x1200 display is something to behold
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I've only had my new Nexus 7 for about 7 hours, but can say it is VERY fast. I was downloading all my apps and did not suffer the SLOWNESS of my previous Asus devices (TF101 and TF300).
To early for.com to say with absolute certainty, but do far it is FAST and SMOOTH. Oh, and the 1920x1200 display is something to behold
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I can say the same! I downloaded 20 apps after updating my Nexus, and there was very minimal slowness. I am amazed with this baby!
It will be interesting to see the performance reports come in over the next few weeks...
Any videos that I've seen so far show the new N7 demonstrating noticeable lag. In fact the responsiveness seems on par with that of the 2012 model. Worse, in some videos, when compared to my current 2012 with CM and M-kernel.
Anyway, I'll be waiting for at least a month to see how things settle down (can't rely on just a few videos). As it stands now, for my needs and uses, the V2 doesn't seem worth it based on what I've seen...
Coming from Asus TF300T, which is incredibly, unbearably slow and laggy due to i/o problems, this was a huge concern for me.
Set and setting: I've been using it all day now, have 4 games installed and played, lots of facebook and chrome and youtube. My personal benchmark test is to open everything I use, use it for a few minutes, and then download something while browsing the internet and the facebook app.
Results: If my iPad 4 is 100% lag free, and my Nexus 4 is 88%, and the Asus TF300T is 0%, then the new Nexus 7 is about 75%. It's utterly nowhere near as horrible as the TF300T (which is unusably laggy), but not quite as lag-free as an iPad/iPhone or even a Nexus 4.
tl;dr not lag-free if iOS is the standard, but lag-free compared to previous Asus devices famous for having i/o problems.
Its noticeable coming from the OG N7.
Also the new N7 is supposedly faster then the N4 in all the benchmarks. I don't have an N4 but the benchmarks show a good distance gap between the 2.
This is my first non-tegra tablet and it feels wonderful.
Hopefully my Galaxy Nexus can get some benefit from 4.3. Its been horribly sluggish lately. Its a work phone with minimal apps. I'll try the lag fix on it.
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I would think that a great way to find out whether its any better than the 1st gen N7 is to completely fill the new N7 up with a bunch of movies, magazines, music, etc. and see if it glitches out and lags. Thats how I would test it out first. But I don't have one yet.
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Coming from Asus TF300T, which is incredibly, unbearably slow and laggy due to i/o problems, this was a huge concern for me.
Set and setting: I've been using it all day now, have 4 games installed and played, lots of facebook and chrome and youtube. My personal benchmark test is to open everything I use, use it for a few minutes, and then download something while browsing the internet and the facebook app.
Results: If my iPad 4 is 100% lag free, and my Nexus 4 is 88%, and the Asus TF300T is 0%, then the new Nexus 7 is about 75%. It's utterly nowhere near as horrible as the TF300T (which is unusably laggy), but not quite as lag-free as an iPad/iPhone or even a Nexus 4.
tl;dr not lag-free if iOS is the standard, but lag-free compared to previous Asus devices famous for having i/o problems.
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Off topic, but there's an AOKP based ROM that helps phenomenally with the lag. I have yet to notice any while using it. Just my two pennies.
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Getting back to the fstrim, does that mean that it's finally been implemented properly, and that apps like LagFix will no longer be necessary *in theory*?
Hello whoever is reading this,
I'm getting real tired of how slow my phone has consistently been slow for months now. I've tried a bunch of roms and kernels in combination, and while it seems to work smoothly after a clean flash, it slows back down to its usual laggy state within a few days (or even hours!)
I partially blame the age of the phone, as it's old processor probably can't handle all of the customizations being thrown at it that are really being developed for the Nexus 4. But aside from that, everyone in every rom or kernel thread is always raving about how "buttery smooth" or "lightning fast", or whatever else their phone is, claiming performance is awesome. It could just be that all those users are just used to some lag, but I'm really starting to feel like I'm the only one who has such performance issues.
For this reason I'm wondering if it's possible that something hardware-wise might be starting to die, similar to how "cheap memory is killing off Google Nexus 7". Is this possible?
Is there any app that can run hardware tests to check for things like that? I would love to see if my suspicions are correct or totally wrong. Is there anything else I should try?
I'm currently running the latest ak47 rom (AOKP Milestone 2 on top of VANIR (linaro), and using Fancy Kernel. I've found the performance is pretty good compared to other roms I've tried but I still find myself waiting seconds for the app drawer to open, to scroll through pages in the app drawer, etc.
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.
Hmmm... if it is anything related to what was happening with the Nexus 7, then you've probably heard what Android 4.3 did for it. I'm writing this from my Galaxy Nexus, and it hasn't been faster since 4.1; whatever 4.3 did for the Nexus 7 has a similar effect on my GNexus. It took a couple days, but I have my butter back!
Before the update, I was in the same boat as you. Even the keyboard was ridiculously laggy. Now? Buttery. Not Nexus 4 buttery, but buttery.
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Hmmm... if it is anything related to what was happening with the Nexus 7, then you've probably heard what Android 4.3 did for it. I'm writing this from my Galaxy Nexus, and it hasn't been faster since 4.1; whatever 4.3 did for the Nexus 7 has a similar effect on my GNexus. It took a couple days, but I have my butter back!
Before the update, I was in the same boat as you. Even the keyboard was ridiculously laggy. Now? Buttery. Not Nexus 4 buttery, but buttery.
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I didn't hear what 4.3 did, but I gather that it improved the speed? Sweet, maybe I'll try that. My issue is I'm too addicted to AOKP
But I'll have to try a stock 4.3 rom or something and hopefully I'll find the same results as you. Thanks for your input!
My question about an app that runs hardware integrity tests still stands.
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I didn't hear what 4.3 did, but I gather that it improved the speed? Sweet, maybe I'll try that. My issue is I'm too addicted to AOKP
But I'll have to try a stock 4.3 rom or something and hopefully I'll find the same results as you. Thanks for your input!
My question about an app that runs hardware integrity tests still stands.
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No problem! And it provided a lot of behind-the-scenes improvements for graphics processing. It also made FSTRIM turned on by default in the system; it will run whenever the battery is above ~70% and the device is idle. It basically stops the device from needing to perform multiple actions in the storage whenever it needs to read or write. You only notice the effects of it NOT being present over many write cycles, which is why performance may seem to have deteriorated over time.
And yeah, custom just gives you so many choices! But a few days with 4.3 should REALLY ramp up your performance. It takes a little while for FSTRIM to do it's magic. App drawer opens after 0.7 seconds or so, and swiping between pages is quite fluid and responsive.
Glad to be of service! Hope it helps out.
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Aside from 4.3, I've found that if you goto Developer options, and lower the Transition, Window, and Animator scales from 1x down to .5x things seem to move more smoothly. Albeit they only reduce animation times, the visual effect may be enough. I also use Nova Prime launcher and turn animations to "Nova" speed. Things like the app drawer open instantly. Absolutely zero lag. What I'm running is in my sig...
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Hello whoever is reading this,
I'm getting real tired of how slow my phone has consistently been slow for months now. I've tried a bunch of roms and kernels in combination, and while it seems to work smoothly after a clean flash, it slows back down to its usual laggy state within a few days (or even hours!)
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Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.
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This frustrated me for a long time until I came across this app (root needed):
LagFix Free: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grilledmonkey.lagfix&hl=en
XDA thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2104326#fm
"Some Android users suffer from poor performance after some days/weeks of heavy usage. This is due to a well-known TRIM bug affecting these devices. The source of the problem is that internal storage is not properly TRIMmed when needed. It is also well-known fact that running fstrim Linux tool from time to time fixes the issue until internal memory runs out of free blocks. LagFix is a user-friendly implementation of fstrim utility. It allows you to select which partitions to trim (you should leave defaults unless you know what you are doing) and run the process easily."
Android 4.3 finally implements this fix, so if you go a 4.3 ROM, you won't need this.
Yep, like they all said, 4.3 fixes that with things like TRIM, and I can attest to that firsthand.
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I must say that the phone is faster on 4.3, but my battery life is horrible when comparing to 4.1.1 or even 4.2.2, especially when using the phone.
I don't know if it's true or I'm too bugged about it. Could someone please confirm it to me?
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I must say that the phone is faster on 4.3, but my battery life is horrible when comparing to 4.1.1 or even 4.2.2, especially when using the phone.
I don't know if it's true or I'm too bugged about it. Could someone please confirm it to me?
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infact my battery life is improved a lot after 4.3
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infact my battery life is improved a lot after 4.3
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^^^that^^^
and for some reason, one screen time was BETTER than 4.2
I guess it's just bad luck haha.
Gonna test it calmly to be sure.
I have read conflicting reports that some say 4.3 is GOOD on battery for our VZ nexus and some say it was horrible....
what are your findings? better? worse? same?
Most battery comments are subjective in nature.
If you perceive worse battery life then try a different kernel or get a new battery.
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I have read conflicting reports that some say 4.3 is GOOD on battery for our VZ nexus and some say it was horrible....
what are your findings? better? worse? same?
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Its always subjective. Try it yourself.
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I tried 4.3 and it was faster and with different kernel like mpokang it had good speed and battery life compared to 4.2.2. You just need to make sure you turn off wi-fi scanning even when off and something else in search or 4.3 will suck the battery down. My only complaint is my favorite ROM it's still 4.3 and the 3G to 4G tower switching doesn't work properly and as I travel allot this is a deal breaker for me as it drops calls so had to go back to 4.2.2 ROM. I heard the ROM's that are updated to 4.3.1 don't have the radio issues. This issue is also only on Verizon due to no new radio's yet from what I understand.
I've been using the Galaxy Nexus strictly on wifi for a while now. I recently updated it to 4.3, and while performance is GREAT, battery life is suffering, but I've felt no need to change anything because I'm always near a charger.
For me it's only been a bit of an improvement during regular every day use. Although If I try I can actually go almost a full day with one charge.
When i charge it peeps my phone
I was using 4.3.1 and battery seemed stellar. The radios is the big problem. It doesn't like bouncing between cells and 4G didn't seem to work.
http://droid-hive.com/index.php?/to...-aokp-sabermod-49-03-optimizations-11113-431/
His Rom was here but he recently moved.
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I revisited slim 4.3 build 2 seems to be working good will see Monday when I go to work and start jumping towers. Really want to be on PA but didn't work good for me and hasn't been updated in awhile. Hopefully Verizon releases 4.3 and they will revisit and fix it. I think us toro users are not going to get a good kit kat because of Verizon radio deal
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Lmao @4.3. Try 4.4 on ART. I've been on it all of a day but wow! You should have flashed 4.3 a long time ago. Its old news. Battery AND speed are crazy with ART. Could be placebo so I'm gonna wait a week or two to pass judgement but so far so good.
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Lmao @4.3. Try 4.4 on ART. I've been on it all of a day but wow! You should have flashed 4.3 a long time ago. Its old news. Battery AND speed are crazy with ART. Could be placebo so I'm gonna wait a week or two to pass judgement but so far so good.
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Is that a Verizon rom? Because it's the Verizon that was only updated to 4.2.2 and has issues with 4.3+
I looked through the Verizon Dev forums but nothing as you described. If a 4.3+ rom has a fully working non-wonky cellular radio, then please link.
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Is that a Verizon rom? Because it's the Verizon that was only updated to 4.2.2 and has issues with 4.3+
I looked through the Verizon Dev forums but nothing as you described. If a 4.3+ rom has a fully working non-wonky cellular radio, then please link.
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Yes its a Verizon ROM. I don't think any of the 4.3 ROMs had RADIO issues. The Verizon Nexus was Updated to 4.3 through asop including Binaries so there shouldn't be radio issues.
A couple people are reporting issues with 4.4 but it looks like they didn't flash new radios.
Maybe we aren't talking about the same thing? Could you link what you are talking about?
If you want me to link all the ROMs with working radios on 4.3+ that would be to many ROMs.
The problems I have is low signal areas if I have good signal I have no problems on 4.3
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The problems I have is low signal areas if I have good signal I have no problems on 4.3
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This is probably true. I don't have any problems in my home town but in was in another big city and I had great signal but often kept finding my phone unable to grab a data connection. I had to keep resetting to restore it. Toggling airplane mode wouldn't resolve it.
The only I could think of is I was going through a nonserviced area and dropping data and it never reconnecting.
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Lmao @4.3. Try 4.4 on ART. I've been on it all of a day but wow! You should have flashed 4.3 a long time ago. Its old news. Battery AND speed are crazy with ART. Could be placebo so I'm gonna wait a week or two to pass judgement but so far so good.
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Not sure where the 4.4 comment came from...especially since there aren't any stable 4.4 Roms for the GNex yet.
I have bad battery on 4.2 and 4.3. Performance is better though.
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Mpokang with nephelims seem to give me better battery life on 4.3 vs 4.2.2 might be that you can only use 1080 version on 4.2.2 I use cm version on 4.3
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Not sure where the 4.4 comment came from...especially since there aren't any stable 4.4 Roms for the GNex yet.
I have bad battery on 4.2 and 4.3. Performance is better though.
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There are some slight graphical issues and reboots but for being dropped by Google the 4.4 ROMs aren't bad. Hopefully with the new GPU Binaries from TI those issues can get fixed.
The 4.4 comment came from the fact the OP is asking about 4.3 while 4.4 is being tested. I was pointing out he's a little late to the game and to get on it!! :silly:
Feels the same to me, same crappy GNex battery life lol
But it's not worse if that's what your wondering OP
Back on 4.2.2 4.3 still had some small data issues in low signal areas. Really the only thing I want is Bluetooth from 4.3 it works right and id tags come through to my stereo. Wonder if it can be back ported.
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I've had my Galaxy Nexus almost since the beginning, and I've tried a lot of roms.
You probably notice a lot of stuttering and general slowness on your Gnex. The Gnex was fine on 4.0. Something happened in 4.1, and it became slow as death. The only thing that ever seemed to fix this was doing a factory reset on your phone, wiping the data, and reinstalling your rom. People came up with varying ways to fix this slowness problem (root always required, of course), including modifying the dalvik heap growth limit and readahead sizes. Other people used a program called LagFix in the Play Store that basically was a manual TRIM, because there was a problem with certain Samsung phones where they refused to trim the filesystem.
Jelly Bean 4.3 fixed all of that. Google committed some changes to the source that built trim into Android. To put it in perspective, my random read speeds on my phone were 0.4 Mb/sec before installing 4.3. My speeds now are 1.6 Mb/sec. Sequential read/write improved by an order of magnitude.
If you're not on Android 4.3, yet, you really need to do it. Android 4.3 helped my battery life not necessarily because it inherently consumes less power, but because it dramatically improved my I/O speeds; when my phone wakes, it doesn't have to wake as long to access random pieces of storage.
On top of this, ever since I can remember, the radio switchoff between Wi-Fi, 1X, 3G, and 4G on the Verizon Galaxy Nexus has been atrocious. Ever since I got the phone, it would regularly take me 30 seconds to a minute for data to come back up as soon as the phone switched to a different wireless standard. The latest Shiny rom (10/11/13) finally was able to fix that, so my radio switches happen in less than 10 seconds, now.
Finally, I've tried random kernels, including Franco, Trinity, Lean, Tiny, Golden, and GLaDOS. All of them have affected battery life and speed marginally and in various ways (and some of them caused me a lot of reboots after a week, or so, of use), but the one that has really--actually--improved the snappiness of my phone has been the BIGMEM version of Fancy Kernel. Fancy Kernel's thread is here; I'm running on version pre44-3-big.
Hey guys. I borrowed my brother's old Galaxy Nexus while my HTC One is being repaired and I couldn't help noticing it lags. Immensely. I flashed SlimKat build 3 on it and before that I ran LiquidSmooth. I was under the impression that KitKat was supposed to be less resource hungry.
Is it because it's not "official" (from Google)? Would 4.3 run better, say in the form of CM10.2.1 stable?
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Hey guys. I borrowed my brother's old Galaxy Nexus while my HTC One is being repaired and I couldn't help noticing it lags. Immensely. I flashed SlimKat build 3 on it and before that I ran LiquidSmooth. I was under the impression that KitKat was supposed to be less resource hungry.
Is it because it's not "official" (from Google)? Would 4.3 run better, say in the form of CM10.2.1 stable?
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Try Deleting The (Google +) and if its Build in App try deleting it with Root Permission.
this Should Fix that Lag. It did For mine ^.^
The unfortunate reality is that most Galaxy Nexus units have sluggish internal storage, and any background processes that are trying to write to it while you interact with the phone can create lag in processing and the UI. It was such a relief to switch to the Nexus 5.
Mine is not lagging but not fast too.. But with the right rom and kernel and some tweaking its pretty fast for its age
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I flashed back to 4.3. CM10.2 stable and now it runs better but still lagging. Not as much, though.
lets try cm11 remix .....
Let me know how it is.running slimkat right now and I'm getting pretty much decent performance. We all have to remember this phone is older. I've been trying to justify getting the nexus 5. Will wait until the price comes down a little bit
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Hey guys. I borrowed my brother's old Galaxy Nexus while my HTC One is being repaired and I couldn't help noticing it lags. Immensely. I flashed SlimKat build 3 on it and before that I ran LiquidSmooth. I was under the impression that KitKat was supposed to be less resource hungry.
Is it because it's not "official" (from Google)? Would 4.3 run better, say in the form of CM10.2.1 stable?
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It's just the phone. My work phone is a gnex bone stock. And it lags horribly.
Mine is very fast, no lag at all, even after more than 1700 hours without rebooting :good:
Vanir 4.3.1 (final version)
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This thread is active again. I thought I could get my One yesterday but Telecare messed up and sent me one that had even more tint than before, so I'm stuck with this until after May 9th because my carrier store closes for renovation between April 22nd and May 9th..
C'est la vie.
Since someone already opened a topic on this, I would like to chime in. This started happening too to me two days ago and it's driving me nuts. I must have done something somewhere but I just couldn't find any solutions.
As of two days ago, my Gnex started to lag since I flashed Fancy kernel r50. Serious f-ing lag. Nothing I do seems to help. I've dirty flashed my current rom (OmniMetal), I tried reflashing a previous version of the kernel like I've always done, I tried clean flashing everything again, I tried installing another rom (Paranoid Saberdroid) and whatever option available. The lag won't go away. This ain't your average lag. Even TWRP is lagging. Any suggestions?
SOLVED: It was a rewrite problem, what i did was i ran lagfix(fstrim) app and voila! Fast and speedy again.
Really happy with cm 11 remix, almost no lag.
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As mentioned before some of the nexus's suffer from the degrading EMMC performance. Refer to this thread to make sure which side you are on...
hope that helps :good:
I think cm remix is the most stabile/fast ROM now
Keep in mind you came from a HTC One to a Galaxy Nexus.. That's a big loss of processing power. Another thing is if he's had it OC'd a lot the processor may be in it's final days.
My Thunderbolt gave me the same issues while I waited to get my Gnex.
So i have just upgraded from the Nexus 5 and very happy with most things, but the screen seems very slow to respond. The phone is obviously faster and runs very well, but just scrolling up and down lists, it seems like there is a lag between my finger and the picture. Is this normal? It feels like even the Nexus 5 is much more responsive.
I read a few bits about encryption slowing phones down if its not hardware supported. I had intended on disabling the encryption when i got it but soon found it that there is no easy way to do so. Whats the best procedure to do this and would it make any difference?
Thanks.
I had issue with lag, and even had Google send out a replacement because I thought I had a defective phone. It was unbearably slow, especially when using the camera. I finally broke down and rooted my phone and disabled the encryption. It is a night and day difference! I'm kicking myself for waiting so long. There is an all-in-one tool in the original development thread I used and then installed the Pure Nexus rom.
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I had issue with lag, and even had Google send out a replacement because I thought I had a defective phone. It was unbearably slow, especially when using the camera. I finally broke down and rooted my phone and disabled the encryption. It is a night and day difference! I'm kicking myself for waiting so long. There is an all-in-one tool in the original development thread I used and then installed the Pure Nexus rom.
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Thinking lag is a hit and miss because mine didn't lag at all un-rooted and encrypted. Granted that was only like 12 hours of being at work, so an hour usage.
I haven't had any lag on stock encrypted, I have had this phone for 3 weeks, and runs quick and responsive for me
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What do you mean encrypted?
I am getting this phone tomorrow, I want to make the best out of it. Do I root it or do I use stock?
lol0 said:
What do you mean encrypted?
I am getting this phone tomorrow, I want to make the best out of it. Do I root it or do I use stock?
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This device comes with its user storage encrypted out of the box, that way no one can obtain access to your files if you were to lose it. For example the FBI is trying to force Apple to decrypt an iphone for them right now which is bringing a lot of attention to the subject.
Anandtech has shown encryption can lower the storage speeds by about 30% on the 5x versus the LG G4 which uses the exact same NAND. However even at 30% reduced speed the NAND is still considerably faster than both the Nexus 6 and Nexus 5 and theoretically shouldn't cause any issues.
I have no slow downs with my device BTW, it is stock, not rooted, and encrypted as it was coming out of the box.
lol0 said:
What do you mean encrypted?
I am getting this phone tomorrow, I want to make the best out of it. Do I root it or do I use stock?
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bblzd said:
This device comes with its user storage encrypted out of the box, that way no one can obtain access to your files if you were to lose it. For example the FBI is trying to force Apple to decrypt an iphone for them right now which is bringing a lot of attention to the subject.
Anandtech has shown encryption can lower the storage speeds by about 30% on the 5x versus the LG G4 which uses the exact same NAND. However even at 30% reduced speed the NAND is still considerably faster than both the Nexus 6 and Nexus 5 and theoretically shouldn't cause any issues.
I have no slow downs with my device BTW, it is stock, not rooted, and encrypted as it was coming out of the box.
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^^ What he said. And definitely root and flash a custom ROM and kernel. Otherwise you'll be missing out on much of the glory there is in owning a Nexus device. You'll also have more customization options and things should be a bit faster as well.
Alcolawl said:
^^ What he said. And definitely root and flash a custom ROM and kernel. Otherwise you'll be missing out on much of the glory there is in owning a Nexus device. You'll also have more customization options and things should be a bit faster as well.
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Can you suggest me what ROM?
I have the phone, its dope atm. It's also fast as heck!
I love the fingerprint scanner, so beautiful!
lol0 said:
Can you suggest me what ROM?
I have the phone, its dope atm. It's also fast as heck!
I love the fingerprint scanner, so beautiful!
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Before you get settled in, I suggest you try different ROMS until you find one you like. Some are chock full of features, some are more performance minded. Depends on your tastes. I'm currently running Ubermallow ROM, which is in my signature. As for kernels, it's the same story. All have different features and abilities but I'm running Phasma Kernel which focuses on performance.
Experiment. That's the beauty of a Nexus device. There's something for everyone.
Alcolawl said:
Before you get settled in, I suggest you try different ROMS until you find one you like. Some are chock full of features, some are more performance minded. Depends on your tastes. I'm currently running Ubermallow ROM, which is in my signature. As for kernels, it's the same story. All have different features and abilities but I'm running Phasma Kernel which focuses on performance.
Experiment. That's the beauty of a Nexus device. There's something for everyone.
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Thanks, will check them out!