Anyone compared this to Evo 3D/V?

[adaaaam]

Has anyone with the Connect 4G owned or know someone who owns the HTC Evo V 4G on Virgin (Evo 3D on Sprint), which is similar in price/specs? If so, how do they compare? Also, what is your out-of-the-box Quadrant score?

One reviewer said you would never have guessed this had a dualcore Snapdragon because the homescreens lagged sometimes. I've held and used an Evo 3D and I had no doubt it had a dualcore. I'm curious as to why with such a similar setup the LG would be noticably slower.

 

[bawlz mcnutt]

I've had the Evo V 4G for a few weeks and it was an amazing phone, unfortunately I've had one too many problems with Virgin Mobile and decided to go back to Metro.

I do recall getting about 2600 in quadrant out of the box and yes the home screen and menus did seem to run smoother than our Connect, but VM's version of the Evo 3D came with ICS and HTC Sense 3.6 so that might have had something to do with the difference in smoothness.

In games/apps I appear to be getting about the same performance out of both phones, not to mention once the LG Connect is rooted, there is a smoothscroll patch flying around in the rooted section which does seem to resolve allot of the choppiness issues in menus and such.

But yea out of the box Evo V was a better phone hands down, rooted? both phones perform about the same.

 

[adaaaam]

What were your problems with Virgin? Also could you do a Quadrant on your stock Connect?

Also the smooth scroll patch makes it sound like lists don't scroll smoothly on the LG?

 

[bawlz mcnutt]

What were your problems with Virgin? Also could you do a Quadrant on your stock Connect?

Also the smooth scroll patch makes it sound like lists don't scroll smoothly on the LG?

I opened my account with VM back when they had the $25 a month plan, I was grandfathered into it, but they forced me to pay the current rate of $35 a month once I switched to the Evo V (I thought the 4G was worth the extra $10 a month though) but they also double charged me that $35 for that month.

Finally my old Optimus V (which I set up a new account for and gave to my daughter) kept showing as if it was coming from MY number every time she would send an MMS text which resulted in her friends and certain family members (that I didn't want having my cell phone number) texting/calling me to ask "who's this?", that took like 3 calls to VMs "Live Advisers" before they finally fixed it.

So basically after 6 calls in a span of a few weeks to try to resolve various issues I just gave up on them.

I'll go ahead and restore my stock backup to run that quadrant test and give you the results, gimme a few.

Edit: OK I'm getting 2669 in Quadrant stock and I am seeing a noticeable difference in scrolling smoothness (applications screen, homescreen, settings) between Stock and Broken Out Rom with the PDroid/Smoothscroll/Data Throttle Mod patch.

 

[adaaaam]

So the Connect scores similarly out the box to the Evo V but it scrolls like shit till rooted? If you installed Opera which scrolls very smoothly would it be even smoother with the patch? When you say the homescreens and drawer scrolls smoother, is it the same launcher even? If so is the patch fixing the stock launcher or would all apps benefit?

 

[bawlz mcnutt]

Apparently the issue is caused by a feature in Android called "Scrolling Cache".

I won't claim to know exactly what the feature is supposed to do, all I know is the scrolling cache in Android 2.3 is flaky as hell and tries to do what its supposed to do in areas where its not needed (settings menu, app drawer, web browser, games...etc).

Some applications have scrolling cache off by default or give you the option to shut it off manually, so it would be safe to assume that you won't notice a difference in scrolling speeds before and after the patch in those applications. the smooth scroll mod basically just shuts off the scrolling cache feature entirely throughout the OS.

The HTC Evo V from Virgin Mobile comes with Android 4.0, the scrolling cache feature in that OS appears to work much better than it did in 2.3 thus the reason that phone seems to run smoother out of the box.

I used to own a Viewsonic G Tablet, it came with Android 2.2, out of the box that device was garbage but it was a great tablet once it had a custom rom installed (my favorite was Beasty). When Team-DRH released a public beta of ICS for the G-Tab earlier this year I installed it immediately, one of the very first things I noticed was how much smoother the scrolling speed was in ICS over the older versions of android and now I have a better understanding of why.