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Need help resolving Xperia Arc lags issues

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 03:54:26 GMT

Hi,

I owe Xperia arc with update 2.3.3 Build 3.0.1.A.0.145. (Further update 2.3.4 not available in the region yet). I love this phone, but only problem I face is that sometimes is starts lagging in response, specially when I turn on the data traffic and sync. I do not see any reason for this to happen since it is pretty fast otherwise and I assume 1Ghz processor is good enough. Only sometimes it lags, and when it lags it makes it's almost unusable for quite sometime.

Is anyone else also facing the issue? Can anyone guide me towards a possible solution for the same?

I really love this device but this lagging issue kills me big time!

//Vivek

Re: Need help resolving Xperia Arc lags issues

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 04:06:09 GMT

So I can understand your problem better, when you say the phone lags, do you mean opening applications? Any specific apps you are referring?

Re: Need help resolving Xperia Arc lags issues

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 04:09:56 GMT

There is a possibility that the phone can seem slow if too many applications are opened and remain in the back ground.

Re: Need help resolving Xperia Arc lags issues

slimshaddy — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:29:17 GMT

download advanced task killer from the android market..

it'll help to kill apps u dont wish to run..

note: some apps will restart itself cz they cant be terminated..

also go to settings > applications > runing services..

and from there also u can kill apps by clicking force close..

and see if ur Ram is used the least..

Re: Need help resolving Xperia Arc lags issues

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 04:25:48 GMT

I have been facing this issue
Sometimes UI just freezes completely.Its very annoying.

It mostly occurs when I swipe through homescreens or swipe through decks in tweetdeck

One thing i notices was it occurs when app is opened after long time of idle period

TweetDeck, Whatsapp and Official GMail app are the worst in this matter

may be I notice them much because i use them a lot 😛 but never came on dolphin browser

Is this android issue or SE issue?

I googled a bit and read few articles mostly they said that HW accerlaration is culprit

I also read that Samsung implemented it on S2, Is SE following steps?

Re: Need help resolving Xperia Arc lags issues

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 04:27:55 GMT

Arc has 2.3 now

It has been said by many experts that using Task killers on versions beyond froyo will only hamper performance

Re: Need help resolving Xperia Arc lags issues

slimshaddy — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 04:35:30 GMT

hmm..i dint know that..

thanx for telling..

Re: Need help resolving Xperia Arc lags issues

slimshaddy — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 04:39:50 GMT

download this

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.a0soft.gphone.app2sd&feature=search_result

this will help u to have the maximum space in your internal memory..

maybe its lagging cause u have application installed in ur phone memory..

just check it..

also tell us the available and used ram, available and used space on sd card and internal memory..

go to settings > applications > manage applications

and u'll see at the bottom all of the above...

Re: Need help resolving Xperia Arc lags issues

Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:22:42 GMT

http://geekfor.me/faq/you-shouldnt-be-using-a-task-killer-with-android/

In the above article there is this paragraph about RAM not about internal storage but RAM

“Linux however isn’t generally affected by this. While I admit that I don’t know the architecture and reason for this… linux will run the same regardless of if you have 20mb free memory or 200mb.”

I just want to know is this SE issue or whole android faces ocassional slow response.

Re: Need help resolving Xperia Arc lags issues

Sat, 03 Sep 2011 04:08:17 GMT

I do not think it is particularly a SE issue. It can also sometimes be caused by the app itself. eg. if not written well it may not release resources back to the phone properly.

In general any device that relies on CPU, GPU, RAM, OS, etc if there is insufficient resources at a particular time, it will have to prioritise what it does.

If it means to load your programs slower so that it does not crash or shutdown, it will do that.

I too experience lags in my phone. eg. sometimes when exiting out of an application, the screen icons takes a few seconds to fully reload on the screen.

The phone is just like a PC, if it runs out of resources, it slows down.

I have friends with non SE Android phones, they too have lags at times.

All phones have a certain limit before you notice it slowing down a little.

Re: Need help resolving Xperia Arc lags issues

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 08:05:02 GMT

I think the best way make it back to factory setting by doing hard reset......

do you install too many application in the same time?

i cant connect my wifi before, however it works and running smooth after i hard reset my phone.

remind: always backup your data first before hard reset.....

Re: Need help resolving Xperia Arc lags issues

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:33:31 GMT

I have the Xperia Arc about 2 months now and Ive installed the app killer and also a free up cache app. They dont actually solve the issue I find.

The only thing that speeds up my xperia arc is if I delete all my text messages. Navigating through contacts or writing a text message is back at a decent speed.

When I run the cache app after I delete the messages, there is very little in the cache. But if I have 50 messages or more and run the cache app, it is constantly freeing up cache which indicates to me that the stored messages are having some kind of an effect on the cache.

Try that and see.

Pat

Re: Need help resolving Xperia Arc lags issues

rayar — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:38:55 GMT

I too see that if I have too many SMSes, the phone response is slow. I have deleted unwanted SMS and the phone is quick now.

Re: Need help resolving Xperia Arc lags issues

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:43:45 GMT

OK, I did a factory reset and it started to work at decent speed.

Regarding SMS, I have 1000s of SMS in my phone and I took backup and restored it after the reset. My phone still works fine with those number of SMS.

Task Killers din't help a bit and as shared above hampered performnace even further.

I am not sure as to what exactly caused the problem, I dint had that many applicaitons installed either, and of what I had most of them I shifted to Memory card.

Just did a recent update to 2.3.4

Although my phone was working fine for quite small time after the reset, but I again sense a bit that it is getting slower.. Something of which reminds me with the famous MS Windows

I too think may be it's Android thing something with cache or something not necessarily with SE.