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Help Why is my Rezound so horribly lagging?

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Coming from an iPhone 4, the only major thing that bothers me (apart from the cumbersome HTC skin) is that many things are lagging a lot. In particular browser scroll and pinch to zoom type things. Also, opening and manipulating PDF files with the default acrobat app.

I can't imagine that this is normal since none of the reviews I've seen mentioned that the Rezound is slow. What could I be doing wrong? In particular using the browser is an absolute pain.

Thanks.
 
Some people report that doing a hard reset or a complete data reset tends to help with the lag issues. It's in a thread somewhere. Search is your friend, I could search for you but if I give you a search you eat for a day, if I teach you to search you eat for life...or something like that.... :D
 
It also could be that you have many apps running in memory. Run Task Manager and stop unnecessary tasks. See if that helps at all.
 
Menu>Settings>SD & Phone Storage>Factory Data Reset then choose when you want to wipe.

Have you installed many gadgets or apps that require syncing? Those will definitely slow it down if you have a lot of them... at least it did on mine.

It's snappy out of the box but not so snappy when a bunch of gadgets are running. But hey, it's just a 2 core processor :)
 
Just a note since you are a new user. A factory data reset will wipe all of the data from your phone (apps, contacts, settings, etc.). Basically after the reset the phone will be the same as when it was first powered up.

My advice is to backup everything off of your sdcard and onboard storage (pics, videos, music, etc).

You will also want to make sure your contacts are backed up, with one of three ways. If you have your contacts synced through gmail, you should be good. If not you can set up an account and manually put them in, and after that they will be there from then on. The other 2 options are to use Verizon's backup assistant app, or export to the sd card. I prefer Google syncing my contacts, but backup assistant works too. I have never tried exporting contacts to the sd card, but I hear some people use it.

On the subject of backing up apps, there are two main options. First you can download AppBrain & setup an account with them. This acts like Google/gmail, with you syncing your apps to an account (use your Google account to sign in). You download the app, setup your account, then sync the apps currently on your phone. After you do the factory reset, you go to the market and download AppBrain, and perform a sync. It will then automatically start sycning the apps you had on your phone previously. The other option is to export your apps to the sd card, but again I have not tried this, so I don't know how to tell you how this works.

Hope that helps.:)
 
If you have a live wallpaper running, ditch it for a static one. Demos and the out of box unit I tested all had a common issue of lagging some with live wallpapers. A few reviews also point this out.

Live wallpapers IMO are counter intuitive to a portable device.
 
^+1 on previous responses.

Also, I find the newer HTC browser to be not quite as good as the older one in terms of responsiveness.

I personally like Boat Browser Mini, free in the Market. It doesn't feature tabs and some of the other fancy features of other 3rd party browsers, but it's quite fast and I think the interface seems rather intuitive.

HTC used to have nice compact and fast PDF viewer - they gave it up in favor or Acrobat - pretty good, but I agree it's slow on larger documents.

Here's a rundown of some alternatives -

8 best Android PDF Readers for your Android Device - irnovo - Latest Personal Technology around you!

And if you're considering an office suite of some sort, those tend to have PDF readers in them, as do many ebook readers.

Hope this helps!

PS - Be on the lookout for a runaway syncing process. If you see a constant two circular arrows chasing each other in your notification bar - then -

homescreen > menu > settings > accounts & sync

Go to whatever seems to be endlessly syncing, turn it off, reboot phone, go back and turn it on.

Endless sync loops aren't common but they're not rare either - and one of those can cause lag to beat the band.
 
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