Performance is characterized by the amount of useful work accomplished by a computer system compared to the time and resources used (Wikipedia).
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Huawei G300 not fast enough for Google Racer
So on my Nexus 7 (currently clocked at 1300mb RAM) Google Racer works fine. However, when I use it on my Huawei Ascend G300 (only clocked at ~30mb less RAM) it says it is too slow.
This doesn't ...
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Help samsung galaxy s 3 mini ram lag
I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S3 mini. I do a lot of intense mobile gaming, and I've had my phone for only 2 months now.
I'm having to wait over 10 seconds to load just my calls list from the home page. ...
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Phone becomes slow after updating to Jelly Bean
My Samsung Galaxy Note-1 becomes very slow after updating it to Jelly bean...what should I do???
Please can any body help me??
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What is a typical disk write performance?
My ICS tablet is feeling very sluggish whenever it is in the process of saving data to disk. See my related question.
To isolate the problem further, I rand PassMark Performance Test and my disk ...
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Android 4.0.3 sluggish: nandd process hogging CPU
I have an Allwinner A10 tablet clone. While working the tablet "freezes" regularly but not too frequently for a strech of time between 2 and 15 seconds. Described differently: the tablet is useable ...
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My OS and phone freeze and lag every time the blue “Show CPU Usage” bar appears. What is it?
Lately, I've been experiencing the very unpleasant phenomenon of my almost new S3 completely locking up and stopping responding to input. It's like a very serious lag that has to either be waited out, ...
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How to speed up Android during bootup time?
I'm looking at the bootup time of Android on my embedded device and I'm trying to get a sense for where I can save some time.
1) What are some things that you've done to really help speed up the ...
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Why does my phone slow down after successive ROM updates without wiping?
I have a Verizon Galaxy Nexus (toro). I am running Cyanogenmod 10.1 ROM nightlies and I use CyanDelta Updater to stay up to date.
For a period of about 3 weeks, I updated to the latest nightly nearly ...
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How can I find which app slows down my phone?
I have a Samsung Galaxy S3.
My phone is becoming slow. I don't know how to find the app that slows it down. Can someone help me with this? My guess that the app is FACEBOOK... worst app ever.
After ...
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Samsung Galaxy S has become very slow
My phone recently has begun to become very slow. At certain times of the day, the phone will completely stop working and will have to be turned off by holding the power button. Sometimes, the lock ...
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MicroSD card performance during boot
I have a Nook HD+ and a Nook HD.
When I ran CyanogenMod off of a MicroSD card, the Class I (43MB/s) doesn't even boot! I spent $30 on a 32GB one.
The Class 10 (10MB/s) 16GB booted, but ran poorly
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Why My android device show less RAM and Slow at Jelly bean?
I bought a new Samsung galaxy S Advance(GT-i9070). It came with Gingerbread. It was actually a phone with 768 RAM. I clearly verified this with the shop when I bought it. Last day I upgraded my phone ...
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Does 512 MB RAM Really Enough for Android ICS?
(Background: I never use ICS Phone, so i want to ask about performance)
Some of Android ICS Phone (e.g. Xperia J, Xperia Sola) has 512 MB RAM. How about performance of Android ICS Phone with that ...
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Nexus 10 handwriting apps always lag
So I just bought a nexus 10 and among the many reasons for getting one, I want to take notes with it. I've bought myself a nice stylus that works wonderfully on iPads and my galaxy nexus phone. ...
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Galaxy S GT-I9000 is slow
My GT-I9000 takes ages to come "alive" after powering up. It has been slow for a while, but now it has gotten even slower, anything up to 10 minutes sometimes. When it activates, everything works ...
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galaxy s2 cellphone problem; possible virus
I read that it is used on the computer.
It has been coming up on my Android Galaxy 2 s. It is on at least 3 times at once and up to 7 or 8 at once. They are called kworker/0:1 through kworker/0:4 ...
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Nexus 7 Incredibly Slow
Over the past few weeks, my Nexus 7 running 4.2 Jelly Bean has gotten incredibly slow at times. Sometimes I can count off a full five (or more) seconds for an app to open or even for something as ...
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Do widgets slow down android phone?
I use a lot of widgets (like gmail, calender,weather app , facebook ,music , news etc)and since I have been using them I feel my mobile have become slower than before .
I don't use task manager ...
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High CPU usage from UEventObserver and inputmethod.latin (Nexus S)
I have kept my Google Nexus S up to date with the latest Android O/S since I've owned it and its always had performance problems to varying degrees. I'm currently running:
Android version: 4.1.2
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How to run android phone flawlessly ? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are some general tips on improving overall performance of an Android phone?
I have been using android phone(Sony Xperia Tipo Dual) few months now .However I see ...
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Sony Reader PRS-T1 becomes unresponsive
My Sony Reader PRS-T1 based on Android 2.2 is acting funny.
I had rooted it in the past but is now in the "original" state, upgraded with the latest official firmware.
The problem is that many ...
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sluggish performance due to mmcqd CPU usage
I have an older Droid Incredible running Cyanogenmod 7.2. Recently, I've noticed some sluggishness on the phone that doesn't seem limited to a single app. The CPU Usage Plus app (which I think just ...
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My device is getting slow, apps start misbehaving/crashing. What can I do?
Everything was working fine for a long time. But suddenly the device is getting slower than usual (e.g. apps react slowly when starting an action -- like the RSS reader takes "ages" to open an ...
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Galaxy Nexus slow on WiFi wakeup
Performance question here : my Galaxy Nexus is really slow right after I connect it to a WiFi network after long periods not being connected to the internet. That doesn't happen on EDGE or on 4G, and ...
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Why is my phone slow?
My phone has lately been really slow. When I turn on the screen, particularly if it has been off for a while, the phone is really sluggish. For example, it might take 30 seconds to respond to my ...
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Reduce delay when waking up the phone
The delay between me pressing the power button and the phone actually waking up is annoying. Is there any way to optimize this?
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Could a lack of a working data connection cause spinning threads to freeze up the system? [closed]
The past week I was roaming with a poor contract so I mostly kept the data connection turned off. The phone was performing very slowly over this period. I'm wondering if it's possible for apps to ...
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How to make camera start faster
Everyone knows that start Android camera sometimes is a pain, specially if you wish to take a picture of something that lasts only some seconds. What I want to know is: is there a way or an app that ...
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Samsung Galaxy Note Quadrant results decrease after every offical update
I have got a Samsung Galaxy Note with stock rom. I occasionally make Quadrant test to measure the performance of the device.
Device came with 2.3.6 rom and I measured 3677 points. After I upgraded to ...
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Faster CPU means higher battery consumption?
A friend of mine and I have the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.
His tab is flashed with a custom kernel giving 1.2Ghz instead of the 1Ghz I have by default.
Using antutu benchmark, we saw what we expected, ...
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How to troubleshoot a very slow-starting Maxthon browser?
For the most part I like the Maxthon web browser for Android, but I really dislike that, on my phone at least, it is extraordinarily slow to start-up. When I click on the Maxthon icon, the phone's ...
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How to log and visualize resource usage stats (to identify resource hogs)?
I want to be able to collect up to, say, a couple of day's worth of resource usage statics for my android, at the resolution of individual apps, and ordered according to their shares of the resource. ...
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CyanogenMod performance tweaks [closed]
I'm looking for scripts, one-liners, hidden settings, performance tweaks, tips, apps, anything about how to squeeze even a few percent more speed, battery, RAM out of CyanogenMod (ideally version 9 or ...
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Troubleshoot/ Tune Android performance / speed
I have a Motorola Xoom (not rooted) and new to the Android world (at least as an advanced user).
I've installed several (around 30) games + several (around 30) apps. I've noticed that it became a ...
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Android Ice Cream Sandwich Performance on HTC Vision / Desire Z
I've got a HTC Vision / Desire Z (aka. T-Mobile G2), and I flashed a custom Android Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) 4.0 ROM on it. Unfortunately, performance leaves a lot to be desired.
I've tried the ...
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Viber and Whatsapp update profile slowly
I have a problem that with Viber and WhatsApp.
When I'm browsing my contacts list, the profile images load very slowly. Definitely slower than my scrolling speed. Is this a problem with the ...
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Some advice to speed up Android on Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini
my first Android device is an Xperia X10 Mini. It is a good phone, i'm happy also because i've spent really few money for it ... i've also installed a custom Rom (miniCm7) and now my device is ...
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Does moving apps to the SD card negatively affect performance?
Does moving an application to the SD card negatively influence I/O performance of the app or of Android in any way, in particular loading times?
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Why does my Samsung Galaxy S keep crashing/slow performance? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
My device is getting slow, apps start misbehaving/crashing. What can I do?
I have a Samsung Galaxy S which I've had for less than a year now. It has been working fine ...
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How can I slow down my phone?
I know it seems like a silly question, but here is the situation: I'm debugging an app and my users have reported a bug on slow devices that I can't see on my fast device. Is there anything I can do ...
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Are there guidelines on how much free RAM a phone should have - specifically Samsung Galaxy S?
I have a Samsung Galaxy S (AT&T Captivate) that is rooted. I have various ways to tweak the amount of free RAM the OS leaves on the phone. The default is 48 MB, but I was wondering if I could ...
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Xperia X10i slow
Did anyone experience the x10i to become very slow in any given day? After restarting work for few hours fine and then suddenly become.
Battery drainage is also very quick almost 4hours of some ...
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Picture Gallery Slow & Won't Refresh on HTC G2 w Android 2.3 Gingerbread
I'm having a problem with Picture Gallery not refreshing and loading too slowly on Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread (HTC G2). After I take a picture and then go to add it on foursquare or facebook from ...
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Defragmenting my Android Phone
I just received an email from the vendor of a well known de-fragmentation software package suggesting I can make my phone go faster by plugging it into my PC and using the packages "consolidate free ...
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Is there a way to lower GPU load from Ice Cream Sandwich?
I have seen some mentions (including here on Android SE) that Ice Cream Sandwich may not necessarily run optimally (e.g. will be slow/lag) on devices with slower/older GPUs.
I assume that's due to ...
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Are there specific cases in which a task-killer or “fast reboot” program is helpful?
I know there have been previous questions regarding task killers, but I wanted to ask about two specific cases.
I've heard a debate raging here and on several forums about Android's way of managing ...
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Are there good resources for comparing performance of Stock Motorola ROMs vs. CM7.1?
I'm looking for a good resource for which shows performance comparison - for Droid X - of Froyo 2.2 (stock ROM), Gingerbread 2.3 (Stock Verizon ROM) and any sort of Cyanogen ROM running on Droid X ...
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How do I know which applications slows down the phone?
How do I know which applications slows down the phone, so that I could get rid of them?
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Why does installing applications freeze my DroidX running Froyo 2.2?
I noticed recently that installing any applications caused my Droid X (Stock rooted Froyo 2.2) to freeze for a while - I mean completely freeze, can't go to home screen or pull down Notification bar ...
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Why does my phone slow down after using internet and installing apps?
I have Samsung Galaxy Y. I think that when I use wireless and installing apps, not immediately but after a while the phone slows down considerably.
When it happens I must restart and when it turn on, ...
