Blade is sluggish and unresponsive

[Guest dutch6]

Hi all

My blade is running froyo (2.2) from custom ROM MCR r7

I find my phone to be sluggish and unresponsive all the time which I find very frustrating. Theres plenty of memory left and I am using advanced Task Killer to kill apps automatically every 2 hours.

Is there a way to help it become more responsive, or is there another ROM I could try out?

Thanks

Dutch6

[Guest Swimmerboy]

Is there a way to help it become more responsive, or is there another ROM I could try out?

Yes, uninstall an app that will be hurting performance, specifically this one:

I am using advanced Task Killer to kill apps automatically every 2 hours.

[Guest dutch6]

Yes, uninstall an app that will be hurting performance, specifically this one:

I thought app killers were supposed to help performance by killing the running apps.

Thanks for the advice

[Guest Swimmerboy]

I thought app killers were supposed to help performance by killing the running apps.

Thanks for the advice

Froyo and Gingerbread have excellent memory management, and will allow processes to remain in memory provided other things don't require it. This means that if I open the browser, then text messages I can go back to the browser instantly as it doesn't need to load anything.

App killers leave you with a lot of 'free memory' which sounds good at first thought, but if it's free it's not actually doing anything for you: much better to have properly managed 'full memory'.

A more readable write-up can be found here: Why you don't need App killers

[Guest aequalszero]

That was true for 2.1, but the general advice is that 2.2 is internally efficient enough to manage its own memory. You're only adding extra processes by using an app killer.

[Guest dutch6]

That was true for 2.1, but the general advice is that 2.2 is internally efficient enough to manage its own memory. You're only adding extra processes by using an app killer.

Thanks for the replies

I have just uninstalled the app killer and a couple of other apps I dont use any more that were using a fair bit of memory and its like a new phone! Very responsive.

Thanks very much

Dutch 6

[Guest Swimmerboy]

Thanks for the replies

I have just uninstalled the app killer and a couple of other apps I dont use any more that were using a fair bit of memory and its like a new phone! Very responsive.

Thanks very much

Dutch 6

Happy to help - glad it was such an easy fix :)

[Guest DannyDanny]

thanks guys

I read this post and deleted my app killer as well

I have a new phone!

[Guest Casterina]

Froyo and Gingerbread have excellent memory management, and will allow processes to remain in memory provided other things don't require it. This means that if I open the browser, then text messages I can go back to the browser instantly as it doesn't need to load anything.

App killers leave you with a lot of 'free memory' which sounds good at first thought, but if it's free it's not actually doing anything for you: much better to have properly managed 'full memory'.

A more readable write-up can be found here: Why you don't need App killers

I just read the webpage, thank you.. from read the guide.. it helped my phone become more responsive and faster :)