Oh I just saw someone on there comment about having just installed the same ROm you did and specifically mentioned the version and why they did it... would have been funny!
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2.2 slow icon refresh
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Oh I just saw someone on there comment about having just installed the same ROm you did and specifically mentioned the version and why they did it... would have been funny!
trothmaster
Lurker
Do you lose root by forcing the update?
trothmaster
Lurker
Hey guys with frg22d I can replicate this ossue everytime if I open an app (browser, google voice, etc) then open keyboard then hit home screen. If I close the keyboard then goto home screen its fine? Crazy stuff!
William T Riker
Android Enthusiast
its been pre-rooted busyboxed and deodexed here
http://androidforums.com/droid-roms/158058-my-droid-world-has-frg22d.html
So I tried a bunch of the solutions suggested here on my wife's Droid. She was having the problem since I forced the first froyo update. Launcherpro didn't help, disabling animations actually caused some weird effects on the dock, and the lag was still hanging out in the stock launcher.
Then I tried switching lp out for adw and things seemed vastly improved; the lag (for the moment) seems to be gone.
That said, as a lp user on my dinc, I don't have this issue and after playing with the two phone with the memory heap size showing, I wonder if it isn't a RAM issue In part. During the lag, the lp heap size is generally way low, like 5 megs versus a 10-15 when it's up and running. On my dinc it never drops like that, and sits around 20 megs. I'm still a novice android user, but could it be possible that the OS is killing the cached homescreens out of RAM forcing the launchers to recreate them each time? Just a crazy thought from a newb! In any case switching the launcher to adw made a huge difference, so of you aren't so heavily invested in lp, you may give adw or any other launcher a shot and see if it helps!
Then I tried switching lp out for adw and things seemed vastly improved; the lag (for the moment) seems to be gone.
That said, as a lp user on my dinc, I don't have this issue and after playing with the two phone with the memory heap size showing, I wonder if it isn't a RAM issue In part. During the lag, the lp heap size is generally way low, like 5 megs versus a 10-15 when it's up and running. On my dinc it never drops like that, and sits around 20 megs. I'm still a novice android user, but could it be possible that the OS is killing the cached homescreens out of RAM forcing the launchers to recreate them each time? Just a crazy thought from a newb! In any case switching the launcher to adw made a huge difference, so of you aren't so heavily invested in lp, you may give adw or any other launcher a shot and see if it helps!
Here's my experience so far with the lag. I am rooted on CM6.0 RC3. The lag issue came up for me and following the suggestion on this forum, I turned off all animation in the display settings. Lag went away. After a couple of days, the lag returned. I went back and turned animation back on. Lag went away. Weird. Anyways, I'm going to wait another couple of days and see if it comes back. Not sure what to make of it. Toggling the animation might be resetting something to cause the lag to go away (only to build back up after a couple of days).
First, you should upgrade to the stable version released recently. Next, you go to Cyanogen Settings and go to performance tweaks. Check the box that says something along the lines of "keep home screen in memory."
That should fix it. I had the same problem and swore off CM stuff until I tried it last night and it worked.
Still, I switched back to the stock Froyo FRG22D ROM this morning because I don't need all that fancy stuff. Just something that works.
monsterenergy22
Android Enthusiast
Still getting it even after turning off animations, will try FRG22D to see if it helps.
Have you tried upgrading to the final release? Your signature doesn't indicate that.
clintiepoo
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I've been watching this thread hoping for a solution. I'm rooted and I periodically have this problem. One thing I notice, however, is that whenever I flash a new rom, even if I don't clear data, the problem goes away. The icons show up fine for a while, but then always seem to go back to having the redraw issues.
slider5634
Well-Known Member
I still don't know the "exact" cause for sure, but after reading about the purpose of compcache (which is built into the LFY1.5 ROM I'm using) I'm starting to get the feeling that this is a memory management issue with 2.2. Please read post #91 in the following link to get more information. It should make sense.
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/4434-froyo-kernels-by-slayher/page__st__80
clintiepoo
Well-Known Member
I just switched to LFY1.5 last night too. Hopefully it will alleviate this issue because it contains compcache. My question is this: is this something that's in the kernel or in the ROM itself? If I switch to another kernel, is it possible the issue would come back?
Lock-N-Load
Android Expert
there are swapper apps for rooted users that make a cache file on your SD card to do the same.. I have been trying one.. I have the same lag as ever with 2.2
clintiepoo
Well-Known Member
I've seen those and read a little about them. The general feeling I got was that they are not necessary in the newer builds of android, and they will decrease your SD card life. I've only gleaned that from a bunch of posts - ymmv. Please report back on how this works for you.
RandolphNY
Well-Known Member
Some much with the latest update (d). I have been trying to use the Live TV app and it did work when I first installed, but keeps failing now. Same on the direct websites (live). does our DROID have a too slow of a processor?
slider5634
Well-Known Member
I think this is a kernel based feature. I filtered through the posts for LFY 1.5 and I've seen several mentions of flashing chevy kernels to get rid of compcache -- some people have had odd issues with compcache. I've been testing this. With compcache on, I have no redraw issues at all. So... IDK. All I know is I'm not having the issue anymore.
CobaltDragon
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I solved my 2.2 lag issue by removing the widget Battery Widget by geekyouup. I removed it from the home screen and uninstalled it this morning, not one instance of icon refresh lag since that
commander769
Lurker
Got the FRG22 update and no improvement, it almost seems worse now. I ended up opening a support ticket with Verizon online and they just called me. They mentioned that the froyo update was really meant for "faster" processor phones than the D1 (then why did they push it), however they logged my case and he mentioned that once he had 3 reports of the issue, he can log a case to Motorola, so start emailing/calling Verizon everyone! In the meantime he suggested I disable the live wallpaper to see if that helps anything...
Running unrooted, manually forced FRG22D, was fine for a few weeks, then refresh starting being an issue. When I first noticed it, it was just a second or two, but now after almost a month, its about 5 or 6 seconds.
Turned off animations and moved two apps to phone (just now), restarted phone, still the same.
I plan on cleaning about 12+gigs of music and video off and see what that does, will report back.
Turned off animations and moved two apps to phone (just now), restarted phone, still the same.
I plan on cleaning about 12+gigs of music and video off and see what that does, will report back.
SpecialEd
Member
I deleted the Battery Widget and my WiFi toggle widget and it certainly seems snappy at this point on my stock 2.2 Droid. Maybe that is the solution....
Anyone else out there want to confirm?
clintiepoo
Well-Known Member
I don't have either of these widgets and I have the redraw problem. Maybe what's happening is you guys are finding the number of widgets the phone can handle. Removing some of these speeds the phone back up.
I get this slow icon refresh issue from time to time. It seems to happen a lot more often when actually using the 'Home' button to get back to your home screen. Try using the 'Back' button to get out of the app your using and back to the home screen instead of 'Home'. See if you see it occur more/less. It's just a theory. The lag bug is very similar to loading up the home screen launcher for the first time. You will see the bottom icons appear immediately, but it takes maybe 5-8 seconds before the icons appear and you can scroll left or right. It happens with any replacement launcher. It usually occurs when having a lot of apps running, and being in the browser on a heavy flash page, and then pushing the 'Home' button to escape out and back to your home screen. It acts as if hitting the 'Home' button has to reload the launcher app from scratch. Perhaps the launcher app is getting killed by the OS for more on demand memory? Maybe they need to increase the launcher OS priority level and give it a DO NOT KILL status? It could also be Verizon's little joke to make you want to upgrade. They may not have motivation to fix this issue 
thoughts? -droidosis-
thoughts? -droidosis-