Help Abysmal performance on freshly-wiped Note

[braindancer]

Recently I noticed that my Note (N7000) is getting slower and slower, everything is taking a long time. So I googled a bit and saw that people recommend doing a factory-reset on the phone.

I did it a few hours ago, and only reinstalled some basic apps, so it's close to being clean. However the performance that I see in AnTuTu benchmark is still horrible, much slower than the averages that they have in their database for Note. In particular, the floating-point operations are 25% of what they're supposed to be?.. See screenshot, these numbers just suck...

Is there anything I can do, or this device is just slowly dying?

 

[Caleb L]

Did you ever drop the device in anyway? Any sort of water damage?

When I used to have a iphone I dropped it a few times & it seemed like once you dropped a phone they seem to have perforamance issues & something is never right....

just my two cents - im sure someone else could chime in on this

 

[tdodd]

Here's my Note, running stock German JB ROM with Philz kernel for root. No performance tweaks other than freezing some apps I don't want running. I have changed DPI from 320 to 240, which might possibly impact GFX performance, but I neither know or care as I want the extra screen estate.

 

[ifb-online]

Why change the screen DPI?

 

[tdodd]

Changing the DPI from 320 to 240 as I have done makes everything on the screen smaller, which means you can fit more onto the screen at once, whether that's more icons, more words on a website or email, or, for some software, additional features are revealed which make use of the additional "space". Basically it makes the extra pixel resolution of the Note far more useful, compared to inferior handsets of 18 months back. Of course, now everyone is jumping on the high resolution bandwagon, but I wonder how many are making that extra resolution actually useful.

Have a look at this discussion thread, where some poor guy with an Xperia Z is seeing no advantage from his crazy high full HD resolution compared to by humble Note and its "weedy" 1280x800.

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[ifb-online]

Thanks for that - just as long as you realise the screen resolution can't be changed and that you are simply using less pixels to display characters (and lowering the resolution of what you are displaying) that's fine. I prefer pixels per inch (PPI) - dots per inch (DPI) is really about printed dots and you need several to make one printed pixel. I personally don't feel the need to change the display settings.

 

[tdodd]

Yes, I totally understand the resolution is fixed. DPI is the terminology used within the Android community for this setting. For total DPI flexibility on a per app basis, and a whole lot more besides, I think perhaps Paranoid Android is the way to go.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2115167

Personally I'd rather not be running a "work in progress" as my daily driver.