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Does the Nexus lag?

x25064 said:
I mentioned the epic touch for a reason. If i could get my hands on one to do a side by side video i would. The eptouch is the most lag free handset on the market. The difference is noticeable. I understand people taking pride in their phones but.. it is what it is. Frankly, the fact that this phone lags with LWP (which NO ONE can refute) is saying enough in itself.
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eyc said:
OTD, if you've got about 10 applications running, and you are on your home screen and you hit the app switcher button, do you have zero lag? Lag, as in, time it takes for the button to respond from the moment you press it.
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OK, I would not normally ever have 10 apps running in the background at once (beyond services) simply because I don't use my phone that way. Since you guys are talking about it though I decided to try it.

Live Wallpaper = Holo Spirals

Apps showing in app switcher:
Amazon Kindle
Browser
Maps
Talk
Voice
Music
Calendar
AccuWeather
Key Ring
Facebook
Google +
Phandroid
Market
Settings

Apps showing as running in settings:
Settings
AccuWeather
App Protector Pro
Facebook
Google Voice
Phandroid
Blood and Glory
CK Zombies
Browser
SyncMLSvc
BIP
Google Services
Maps
Google+
Light Flow
Holo Spirals
Android Keyboard
Google Talk
Market
Music
Browser

Hitting the app switcher button it takes about a 1/2 second to open. Scrolling through apps and widgets in the drawer is smooth and quick. Switching between apps is really fast and moving between home screens doesn't show any stuttering either.

Sorry guys. I'm just not getting lag on my end.

What are you guys running?
 
Idk dude.. you should post a video. And btw in my other thread when I say fanboys I am not talking about you, you've been cool, its here and other forums and posters I refer to. FYI.
 
x25064 said:
Idk dude.. you should post a video. And btw in my other thread when I say fanboys I am not talking about you, you've been cool, its here and other forums and posters I refer to. FYI.
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Dude? lol

No worries, I haven't read your other thread apparently.

I'm a fan of tech more than anything else. Truth is, your definition of lag and mine may be different. I'm used a bunch of different phones and had lag on many of them. This one is running pretty smooth for me though. Since I'm not generally a fan of LWP simply for the battery drain it may be making all the difference. I've never had a phone that could handle them very well for long periods of time though.
 
OfTheDamned said:
Dude? lol

No worries, I haven't read your other thread apparently.

I'm a fan of tech more than anything else. Truth is, your definition of lag and mine may be different. I'm used a bunch of different phones and had lag on many of them. This one is running pretty smooth for me though. Since I'm not generally a fan of LWP simply for the battery drain it may be making all the difference. I've never had a phone that could handle them very well for long periods of time though.
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I know, random, I just didn't want you to see it and think I was directly citing you out or something, is all.
 
Preface: (1) I have hardware acceleration for graphics on. (2) I haven't really used landscape mode.

Previously I had a DX on Gingerbread. I thought that was pretty quick, smooth, and responsive... a bit of a stutter here and there at most.

Have not experienced any response lag nor stutters so far. Fanboy? No. I just call it like I see it, and I have had nothing but buttery smooth and snappy response. No complaints yet.
 
OfTheDamned said:
What are you guys running?
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I have a couple intrusive widget applications installed. By intrusive, I mean that they occupy multiple spots in the widget window -- e.g., beautiful widgets (14 widgets); pure calendar (13 widgets), etc.

When I'm scrolling through the widgets, I get lots of lag.

Honestly, none of the lag bothers me, personally (except for the application switcher lag).
 
Anyone else notice any occasional lag? I almost always notice it when scrolling through the app list. Not even during multi-tasking. Sometimes even changing screens will lag for a split second. Maybe I just had higher expectations after looking at the powerhouse specs of this beast? Could it be just me?
I play around with my wife's 4S every now and then, and while I'm not a huge fan of the smaller screen, that phone always runs smooth as silk.
After coming from my rooted, overclocked OG Droid, I thought I'd be blown away by the speed, but I'm not. Still like the phone though and going to give it a chance.
 
Havent' noticed any lag here. Everything is faster than an outdated idevice.

Perhaps there's something running in the background at a given time, could explain it, but with dual cores, not so sure.
 
yep, lag...anyway to OC it to 1.9 ghz?

regarding what you said about expecting to be blown away, it's like with pc's...the computers get faster but the Os/software gets more cpu hungry and it feels like a gradual improvement over the years instead of leaps and bounds from generation to generation.
 
x25064 said:
I mentioned the epic touch for a reason. If i could get my hands on one to do a side by side video i would. The eptouch is the most lag free handset on the market. The difference is noticeable. I understand people taking pride in their phones but.. it is what it is. Frankly, the fact that this phone lags with LWP (which NO ONE can refute) is saying enough in itself.
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the sgs2 lags with LWP also.... Has been proven in many reviews. I do not use LWP as it is a battery drain, but I have had no lag on my nexus.
 
Only lag I've found is the lwp issue and the fact that swiping left on the lock screen doesn't actually go straight to the camera but rather goes to the home screen and THEN to the camera app.
 
I'd say the only source of lag for me is buggy less-than-ICS ready apps from the Market. It's the software, not hardware. Even then, they don't lag that bad. This phone makes my Incredible look like a baby's toy.
 
Any OS I've ever used, has had some degree of lag. However, it's very minimal on my GN, and enough that I rarely notice, save for situations where I expect it to happen (such as doing app installs while navigating the phone, or some other type of multi-task duty).

It moves along smoothly the other 95% of the time, so I'll keep it.
 
krouget said:
Any OS I've ever used, has had some degree of lag. However, it's very minimal on my GN, and enough that I rarely notice, save for situations where I expect it to happen (such as doing app installs while navigating the phone, or some other type of multi-task duty).

It moves along smoothly the other 95% of the time, so I'll keep it.
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Android has a severe problem with ListViews. There are many improvements (i.e. Contacts is pretty smooth), but it's not a consistently smooth device. If you're moving from Android 2.x over to 4.x, you'll be blown away. But if you've used the competition for any length of time and you value responsiveness and smoothness, then you may feel like throwing said Galaxy Nexus against a wall (I've come pretty close to it).

Intel actually conducted a study into the success of the iPad:

Intel: Windows 7 tablets can outperform iPad 2 | News | TechRadar

They basically reverse engineered the iPad user-experience and concluded that the success of the iDevices is largely thanks to two main attributes:

1. 15ms response time (compared to Android's 150ms+).
2. Consistent 60fps smoothness (compared to Androids erratic refresh rate which is up and down like a yo-yo).

Other experiments have been conducted which show (what some have termed) 'micro-lag' - the small 'lag' (if that's the right word for it) that occurs when the Dalvick Garbage Collector kicks in.

You've really gotta ask yourself why Android tablets are not selling well (Android Tablets Not Selling as Well as Claimed - Yahoo! News) while Apple can't seem to make enough iPads. Could it be because of this issue? IMHO, I point the finger firmly at this issue and Google for burying their heads in the sand and pretending it doesn't exist. Android is synonymous with 'lag', and with good reason.

I'd like to point out that I am NOT a 'hater'!!! I have spent over
 
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