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Slow Upload over WiFi while download speed normal [closed]

I have three phones where the upload speed is terribly slow (below 0.1MBit/s) over WiFi. Download speed is normal. Upload over mobile data is fast. Only when using WiFi, upload is slow. Tried in ...
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Why is the loading of apps and websites sometimes freezing on my Android phone?

I'm using AdAway in VPN mode to block all ads on 3 phones and sometimes apps and sites won't load at all or load slowly. I'm using 4G+ and getting 50 mbps download speed. Phones are Realme Narzo 50 5G ...
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Very slow data transfer between my smartphone (Huawei Y6s) and Laptop (HP Elitebook 840G1)

So, recently I got a new Huawei Y6s and transferred all my data to my HP Elitebook 840G1. It is just 5GB of data with almost 45000 photos. It shows about 1 day on the PC transfer dialog box. I am very ...
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My phone has slowed down after inserting an SD card (Strontium 32GB 85 MB/s UHS-1 CLASS 10 card)

I have no idea why. the card is empty(except the empty folders made by android). The lag is most pronounced while multitasking(for example duo video call in picture in picture mode while i message ...
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What to do when phone is super slow?

My Samsung Galaxy S7 with Android 8 is super sloooow... even happens now that it takes so much time to unlock the pattern screen that it will go black again because of the timeout... when I click into ...
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Motorola G7 takes ~80 seconds to open Discord and some other apps

I have a Moto G7 that is 2 years old. Some apps take a super long time to open. In general, the phone is pretty responsive, but 1/5th of apps are nearly unusable. Right now, I am having pretty ...
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Some apps are too slow on my phone. What can I do to fix this?

Granted, at 2GB ram Mediatek MT6737, I don't have the fastest phone but why is it that I have 2 apps that are very sluggish while others are more, seemingly, graphic intensive yet much snappier? What ...
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How to cure Battery draining and lagging problem

Question How to cure Battery draining and lagging problem I have lyf water 7 ls-5504 mobile it's been rooted through super user to use link2sd and link apps. But before rooting it's have huge proble ...
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what kind of apps can cause high I/O?

The problem is high IO, mainly read 50 to 150 MB/s (shows always as 100% tho), for about one minute of despair, lowering the quality of the android realm user experience. The only way to know for sure,...
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Android devices getting slower over time

At work we have a bunch of Casio handheld android terminals (DT-X400). They do not have any connectivity to the internet (so no updates), almost all apps are disabled except for those we use for work. ...
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Smartphone laggy and slow: when a factory reset is ineffective

First of all, I would like to say that I recognize how tiring it must be to read about people asking for help to solve problems all the time. I tried to not be that person... but here goes my story. I ...
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Phone apps crashing [duplicate]

My apps won't start up if they do its not long enough to use them. Either they just close as soon as i open them or a message reading (app name) has stopped responding and its even apps that I haven't ...
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How to "undo" Android cats easter egg and remove cat power controls on MIUI 12

I have enabled Android 11 easter egg by dialing 3 times and unlocking "11" now I have cat controls enabled when I slide down settings shortcut menu on my Poco F2 Pro (MIUI 12 - 12.2.4), and ...
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Frame stutters appear just when touching/swiping the screen on Android EMUI 8

I have heard about intensive apps causing frame stutters on Android, but this isn't apparently. I'm using a Huawei P10 Lite with Android EMUI 8 (Oreo), and the stutters in this case only happen when I ...
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How to determine which app or service is frequently writing to storage and causing lagging?

When I turn on the screen on a sleeping (but not powered off) high-end Samsung Android 7 Nougat device, the device is often very unresponsive (lagging) for 20-200 seconds. Using the excellent Simple ...
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New Galaxy A10e Galaxy install gets 250mbps over WiFi then slows down to 30mbps after mainstream apps install (nothing special). Why?

I factory reset my Galaxy A10e then immediately install Ookla's Speed Test app. Over Wifi I get 100 to 200mbps on repeated tests. After installing basic mainstream apps like Spotify, Pandora, etc and ...
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Android UI lags / shutters

I often see strange/unexpected slowdown in Android UI irrespective of the device I use. UI suddenly skips frames and all graphical transitions seems to run at a very low frame rate (I would say in the ...
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What to do if my legacy device gets slower when Xposed Framework is enabled?

I'm using Xposed Framework 89 ver. on my Android 7.1.2 AOSP custom ROM: AOSiP which makes it slower but once I disable it my phone gets faster than the state of enabling. What can I do? Is there a ...
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Phone extremely slow, even after factory reset

I have a Samsung Galaxy J5 2016. It's gotten extremely slow and buggy (>10 crashes a day, waiting more than 30 seconds to open default apps, ...). I've done a factory reset, with removal of all ...
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how to fix extreme slowness of android 8.1.0 on "twist mini s431" hardware?

I have a twist mini s431 (512MB RAM, MediaTek MT6580 1.3GHz Quadcore) running Android 8.1. It seems this model is only sold on Brazil. I was extremely unsatisfied because of it's slowness. I read a ...
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Share menu actions are lagging

Whenever choosing an action from the native share menu, the whole widget freezes for a few seconds. It happens every time, no matter what app I want to share to. It seems that the share menu only ...
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Nokia 7.2 running slow with Android One version 9

I have Nokia 7.2 which is running Android One version 9. Since 2-3 weeks there I have observed a visible sluggishness in my phone. For e.g. it takes 1-2 seconds when I turn on/off WiFi or mobile data. ...
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S7 slow practically unusable at app layer

I know this seems a common complaint but I've been through the forums and can't find any solution to this very specific problem. Symptoms: Since returning from abroad 2 months ago, my S7 is barely ...
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If I reset my phone, will it also TRIM the fragmented eMMC?

I know that Android supports fstrim but it only works if the phone is idle for a long time while charging. I think my phone is too fragmented and is lacking performance so I want to reset it but I am ...
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An app on the play store promises to TRIM without root access but I highly doubt if it even works [duplicate]

My phone is new so I can't root it because I don't wanna void my warranty just yet and trimming my phone would also not make a significant difference. Since most other apps on the Play Store promise ...
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This app promises to run "fstrim" without root but I am not sure if it works

I am not sure if this app works. Can someone please help me? My phone is new and in its warranty period so I can't root it yet. I tried this app but I am not sure if it actually did something. Unlike ...
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What can be removed from Android Tablet?

I was recently given a roverpad tesla 10.1 tablet : (https://www.imei.info/phonedatabase/16842-roverpad-tesla-101/) It is total garbage as a tablet but I would like to use as a controller for a mini ...
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Google Pixel video camera keeps freezing and audio often doesn't get recorded

I have a Google Pixel running android Pie, and lately I've noticed that when I record video, the video intermittently freezes, and audio also intermittently doesn't get recorded, with an error message ...
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Is your Galaxy S7 running slow after 11/2018 T-Mobile update?

Several days after receiving this update my phone became sluggish to do anything. Simple things like: swiping to answer calls is taking 2-4 seconds, lighting up a screen when the call is incoming is ...
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Lenovo Vibe p1m suddenly slow

Today I notice my Lenovo Vibe p1m is running slow. It coudn't open Chrome without freezing. The whole UI is basically sluggish. It also couldn't open the flashlight. I have tried removing the sdcard ...
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Why are notification action buttons laggy?

Let me explain my experience with the Android notification action buttons feature, where notifications from apps (often social media / communication apps) have buttons attached that can be used to ...
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How To Check What Apps Is Eating My CPU

My device is so laggy so I downloaded CPU - Z to check my CPU and I see 50 - 70% CPU load I tried Cache deleting and RAM Cleaning but it's still using a lot of CPU Are there any Add-ons so I can ...
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Games laggy in Chrome

I have the following system: Galaxy SIII i9300 with LineageOS 14.1 (latest Nightly), rooted. I would like to play a particular game (I usually do not play browser games) against some one to show him ...
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What is "http://www.168077.com/12078/index.html" this webpage on my Tab browser

I am getting this web page,titled "smart Site" http://www.168077.com/12078/index.html on my Android Tab. Even After resetting to factory setting, it keeps popping up after some time. After selecting ...
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Google Play Games

For me and my friends the Google Play Games App always laggs whenever you're trying to view achievements. Since we all have a Nexus 5X, I can't get any feedback whether it is a common problem. I am ...
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Travelhacks pop up ads

I keep getting a Travelhacks pop up ad. Chrome just opens and the travelhacks site pops up then I get a video ad thing in my notification bar. Idk where its coming from or how to stop it from ...
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Question regarding slowdowns and swiping

2 questions regarding my note 4. My phone randomly slows down / freezes. Especially when calling up a keyboard and start typing, it freezes.. very annoying. I have a feeling, the keyboard is getting ...
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Significant latency with touch/stylus tracking when using notetaking/sketch apps?

I am using a Adonit Jot Pro stylus for sketching and hand writing notes. On my Nexus 5X and even more so on my iPad Air (2013 or 2014), the responsiveness to the stylus is acceptable and/or great. On ...
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fstrim not working

I have a Samsung Galaxy Note II running CyanogenMod 11, so it's obviously rooted. As of recently the phone seems very laggy and much slower than it used to be. So I did some research and tried ...
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LG G5 Slowing down the house internet

The story started about a month and a half ago. At random times the internet speed went down drastically, changing between 0MB/s to 75MB/s (which is my maximum). I have called countless times to my ...
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Why phone performance decreases day by day?

I bought Lenovo A7000 10 months before. It worked fine until last month. But, after marshmallow update phone getting lag on sometimes for no reason. After update battery life is good. But performance ...
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Youtube app black and laggy transitions. S5 plus g901f

Maybe someone know where is the problem? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Z5zNCSlyc As you can see, video box is all black and transition is not smooth. Even on my old s3 it's smooth as a butter.
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Approaches for diagnosing input lag / performance problems

Recently, my phone (A non-rooted Note 4) has begun to exhibit widespread performance problems. All apps and interactions are affected: the UI pauses frequently and even lightweight soft keyboards (...
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Syncing entire SD card makes phone hot/unresponsive

Samsung Galaxy S Relay Android 4.4.4 Cyanogenmod 11 I've tried many different solutions to sync my phone's SD cards with a computer over Wi-Fi, leaving them to run overnight because there's so much ...
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Why is TRIM not supported on encrypted "/data" partition?

I have a rooted Lenovo A369i. I use LagFix (fstrim) to TRIM partitions. Previously it was working well with /data but after I encrypted my phone it doesn't. I decrypted my phone by formatting. But now ...
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Any workarounds for Nexus 5X lags?

I'm one of those struggling with serious lags on my new Nexus 5X phone (Android 6.0.1). The issues are basically those outlined here on Reddit. I normally have ~500MB of free memory left out of 2GB ...
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Duplicate screen lag on Android

Each time I turn on my LG G3 after some pause (30 sec + ) when the display is turned off I get this weird lag. Like the screen is duplicated on half the screen. Then After 2 seconds it get normal. ...
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LG G Flex navigation buttons problem

A couple days ago I noticed a problem who is starting to frustrate me. My LG G Flex (LG-D958) is having laggy navigation buttons. If I open text messages, and my keyboard pops out to write, if I ...
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When should fstrim run?

Based on this cyanogenmod forum thread, I tried to address the delay in running applications and switching between applications on my Galaxy Nexus running cyanogenmod with Android 4.4.4 by running ...
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How to force TRIM on Android device?

With 4.3 enabling the support for TRIM (though I read that it was present since the first JB). I was wondering if there is a way for me to force TRIM on my device? Is there an app that I can sideload ...
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