Any way to speed things up a bit?

[Guest dj9928]

This is an annoyance for me, if this is your first smart phone you probably won't notice it but coming from an iPhone its annoying, browsing through menus is jittery and sluggish and this is with R5 and launcher pro.

I can't understand it to be honest as my iPhone only has 128mb ram and a 400mhz processor and runs beautifully, the blade has 3 times the ram and to be frank runs like crap, even when typing the blade sometimes can't keep up. Yes its only £99 but that shouldn't matter, on paper its actually techincally better than an iPhone, infact its not far of an iPhone 4 technically. On quadrant I was right down at the bottom bar the droid below me.

Edited November 15, 2010 by dj9928

[Guest kwangomango]

This is an annoyance for me, if this is your first smart phone you probably won't notice it but coming from an iPhone its annoying, browsing through menus is jittery and sluggish and this is with R5 and launcher pro.

I can't understand it to be honest as my iPhone only has 128mb ram and a 400mhz processor and runs beautifully, the blade has 3 times the ram and to be frank runs like crap, even when typing the blade sometimes can't keep up. Yes its only £99 but that shouldn't matter, on paper its actually techincally better than an iPhone, infact its not far of an iPhone 4 technically. On quadrant I was right down at the bottom bar the droid below me.

Compared to an iphone scrolling is much more jittery and sluggish but i believe this is mostly the fault of Android 2.1 and not the SF itself. It should be improved with 2.2 but i don't think it will reach the iphone slickness for a while yet, if ever.

[Guest abbas_sheikh]

I dont own iPhone or a big fan of Apple but their products are engineered, software and hardware. Every byte of memory and cycle of CPU counts! It does not answer your question but I am myself curious.

[Guest dj9928]

Compared to an iphone scrolling is much more jittery and sluggish but i believe this is mostly the fault of Android 2.1 and not the SF itself. It should be improved with 2.2 but i don't think it will reach the iphone slickness for a while yet, if ever.

Ah right ok, that explains it then

[Guest popoyaya]

Try using launcher pro on the froyo alpha build, it's a lot smoother, and will only get much better when we have the kernal source and overclocked rom.

[Guest ezablade]

Can't say mine is jittery or slow.. so, here's what I've done to help

Launcher Pro

Advanced Task Killer Free (to close down the numerous apps that load at startup and aren't needed to be running in the background)

Avoid live wallpapers

Ensure the ROM has hardware acceleration enabled

Up the VM from 24Mb to 32Mb

Adfree (kills ads in apps)

Spare Parts to increase the window and transition animation speeds to fast

These may help, like I said, my scrolling is smoooth

[Guest rayraven]

Removing the orange crap and upping the VM heap does wonders.

I couldnt believe how slow a stock san fran was, when i bought one for a colleague.

P.S: It's offtopic, but you shouldnt kill apps on an android device.

Remember, it's costs the same power to keep nothing in ram, as preloading an app, so unless the app is crap[like the orange stuff] or it's eating background data, it wont slow you down by being in memory or cost you battery life.

Read the of explanations android & app devs regarding this, they are in much more detail.

[Guest kendon]

can't say i'm disappointed by the overall speed of the blade, when running with a decent rom. cant compare to stock, never booted one on it :rolleyes: obviously running bladevillain.

[Guest kendon]

Remember, it's costs the same power to keep nothing in ram, as preloading an app, so unless the app is crap[like the orange stuff] or it's eating background data, it wont slow you down by being in memory or cost you battery life.

problem is with tons of apps running in the background doing some stuff (needless random checks of random stuff or whatever). free ram is overrated esp. on android, but cpu power is cpu power.

Read the of explanations android & app devs regarding this, they are in much more detail.

i wish app devs would do that...

[Guest rayraven]

Read these:

http://lifehacker.com/5650894/android-task...ouldnt-use-them

http://androinica.com/2010/05/07/google-an...-are-pointless/

Like i said, unless its an app eating background data, it wont eat cpu/battery.

Install System Panel Lite and look at the app list, it's seperated into background - inactive - system.

Apps that arent used for a while are made inactive by android. Maybe not be in older versions[1.5 or 1.6], but 2.0+ can take care of your phone.

Instead, you can install apps like Watchdog that monitor your phone for runaway processes so you can kill those.

P.S: Oh and those apps you're killing? Android will start those right back as long as there's free ram. It preloads them so they're available when you want them.

So, you're essentially wasting cpu/battery by killing apps, making android restart them. Android isnt WinMo 6.x, it doesnt need looking after.

Edited November 15, 2010 by rayraven