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Help S2's slow Screen wakeup?

Spewy said:
That sounds rubbish tbh, I have had previous Android phones and all were instant on the wake up.
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I think if the S2 had both cores going at full frequency while not in use, waiting for a keypress, the battery would be drained in no time. It keeps the parts of the phone that maintain connections open, while applying a lot less juice to the CPU cores to maintain longer energy.

The slower screen-on time was one of the first things I noticed with this phone, but it's not really a problem. The phone has MUCH worse other problems than that to be concerned with :o
 
i find the wake up time when in standby fine, but when on the phone if i take the phone away from my ear (for example to hang up) there is a second or so delay and the other person always has to hang up before me.

This drives me mad
 
DarkSky said:
I think if the S2 had both cores going at full frequency while not in use, waiting for a keypress, the battery would be drained in no time. It keeps the parts of the phone that maintain connections open, while applying a lot less juice to the CPU cores to maintain longer energy.

The slower screen-on time was one of the first things I noticed with this phone, but it's not really a problem. The phone has MUCH worse other problems than that to be concerned with :o
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My wake up time is just over a second, which is much slower than my old phone, HTC Desire, which was instant, but my old Xperia X10 used to take a second to wake so it's not too bad, but it is odd considering the power of the phone.

As for MUCH worse other problems, i'm intrigued, as I have no problems with my phone that I know of?

Biff.
 
tikigod19 said:
i find the wake up time when in standby fine, but when on the phone if i take the phone away from my ear (for example to hang up) there is a second or so delay and the other person always has to hang up before me.

This drives me mad
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That's just the proximity sensor making sure it's adequately away from your face to make sure it doesn't accidentally hit a key on the touchscreen by accident while you're still on the phone.
 
biffsmash said:
My wake up time is just over a second, which is much slower than my old phone, HTC Desire, which was instant, but my old Xperia X10 used to take a second to wake so it's not too bad, but it is odd considering the power of the phone.

As for MUCH worse other problems, i'm intrigued, as I have no problems with my phone that I know of?

Biff.
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As has been already explained, the phone goes into a near-sleep mode so it's dual core CPU doesn't suck all your juice in standby.

Slower phones don't do this and basically stay fully awake when the screen is off.

By the 'much worse' problems... compared to my Moto Droid...

- no dedicated camera button
- no physical keyboard
- no dedicated menu/back buttons (I don't like how they're just empty black spaces most of the time)
- fast battery drain
- slow battery charge
- apps (especially games with motion) crashing

The first 3 aren't bugs, just drawbacks with the design. I'm sure there's more I've come across but just can't think of them off the top of my head right now.
 
DarkSky said:
That's just the proximity sensor making sure it's adequately away from your face to make sure it doesn't accidentally hit a key on the touchscreen by accident while you're still on the phone.
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yeah, is there anyway you can customise it so its not so bloody cautious! I'd prefer to occasionally put someone on hold than to wait 2 secs to hang up a call every time!
 
tikigod19 said:
yeah, is there anyway you can customise it so its not so bloody cautious! I'd prefer to occasionally put someone on hold than to wait 2 secs to hang up a call every time!
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HAHA! I thought it was just me! It is annoying, and most people end up hanging up before I even get a chance to! it's just with the people i WANT to hang up on that it causes me problems :p
 
DarkSky said:
- no dedicated menu/back buttons (I don't like how they're just empty black spaces most of the time)
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They are dedicated buttons - not physical buttons, but even when they aren't lit up they are still usable. You can change the timeout for these buttons if you want and have them always on. I've got mine always off; I know what they do so why do I need to see them? :)
 
this seems to have been fixed with the latest firmware that came out 6/10 ZSKF4

edit: nope i was mistaken. sorry!
 
DarkSky said:
- no physical keyboard
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Thank goodness.

Every phone I have ever seen with a keyboard was
a) ugly
b) huge
c) so badly put together that I felt it would break if I typed anything.

Added to that, the keyboards are so tiny that you cannot type properly on them unless you have fingers the size of a three year old.
 
yes, i find phones with slideout keyboards (or even blackberry type phones) to be hard to type on, and the slideout ones designs are terrible, in my opinion. anyway, i find the screen lock thing to be a bit annoying at the start, but im used to it now. at least i understand why this phone has that delay, compared to other phones.. and it unlocks immediately if i lock it with the power button.. so im quite ok with it. i dont think its gona be fixed with an update
 
DarkSky said:
- no dedicated menu/back buttons (I don't like how they're just empty black spaces most of the time)
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You can leave them always on if you like.

I also want to express my disatisfaction with the long wake up time. Ok, the processor is hungry and needs to be underclocked more than the older android phones. But this is not how I want the phone to be and it is annoying. I have tried both hi and low res images on the lockscreen (hi res taken with the sgs2 camera, low res the same image but really zoomed in). The wake up time is ~1.1s in both situations.

Could a future processor governor utilize the temperature, accelerator and proximity sensors to speed up the processor when you remove the phone from your pocket maybe?
 
Why not just get rid of the lock screen and have the SG2 go directly to the home screen with a push of the side button? It might still delay but at least you could be at your home screen.
 
All you have to do is download "Softlocker" from the Market which allows the phone to stay on even if the phone is on standby...not allowing it to go into deepsleep mode.

It doesnt drain your battery either, max 2%...

The same process could be done by leaving an app open such as the musikplayer or anything that
 
Ravey said:
All you have to do is download "Softlocker" from the Market which allows the phone to stay on even if the phone is on standby...not allowing it to go into deepsleep mode.

It doesnt drain your battery either, max 2%...

The same process could be done by leaving an app open such as the musikplayer or anything that
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One thing that hadn't been mentioned is that there is a short delay between pressing the home button, and anything happening. The reason for this is the Vlingo app, and the phone waiting for double home button press. There is a mod out there to remove this functionality, and the associated delay. A few custom ROMs have added this in by default or as an option (I am running Villain ROM, and it has it as an additional option).

After applying this, my Galaxy S2 is as fast waking up from pressing the home button as any other android device I have previously used.

I couldn't tell you if there is any chance of being 'fixed' in an official release, because it would mean disabling the whole Vlingo action.

All the info on this is over at XDA Developers, I won't post a link since it is pretty sketchy stuff at this point in time, and I would only attempt applying it if you are really serious about modding your phone.
 
I must say I'm also very disappointed with S2's slow wake-up... It takes about 1 second for me. The most of S2 owners and fans tend to be very noncritical, but I think that's awfuly slow. Yes, S2 sure is beautiful and amazing, but having paid 600 € for it, I'd expect it to be better then my previous HTC Desire in absolutely everything, which simply isn't the case. It's prettier, its screen is better, it's lighter, it's (sometimes) faster, it has far more space, but it takes 1 second to wake up, 2 seconds to hang up a call, I have to charge it every single night, I can't turn the annoying camera sound off and I had to download an app to turn off the "battery fully charged" notification sound, which woke me and my girlfriend up at night several times... I'd expect some update to appear to fix these issues, but it's now October and there has been none.
 
I actually had the same problem and I found why, atleast for my phone. I put in a new micro-SD card yesterday and noticed that since then...my screen takes about 2-3 seconds to come on after pushing the power button. So I took it out today and it is back to turning on instantly. maybe the phone scans the card whenever you push the button and thats why there was a lag???
 
Exact same issue here.
Apart of the fact that taking the SD out hasn't solved the problem.
Before inserting the SD the phone turned on in milliseconds.
 
I have SE Xperia mini pro and I'm having this problem only after updating to 2.3.4, my phone takes up to 1.5 seconds when waking up, I have to say the battery life got better after updating, so this makes me of the opinion that this has something to do with CPU frequency
 
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