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WTF.... my Nexus. Well it got slow...

jova33 said:
V6 supercharger? It works on tablets lol.
Link in my sig
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This script changes the priority on your home launcher(no more redraws) and tweaks your minfrees - basically telling android how much ram should be available and killing off cached apps when it reaches that limit. You have to manually edit your services.jar for jelly bean though.
 
I think I found the solution;

I stopped using the cover that was designed for a Kindle Fire and it works much better now. I think it was registering inputs slightly from the corner holders.... ahhh, I hope this fixes it for good.
 
Same thing just happened to me the other day. My Nexus 7 was "smooth as butter" until the other day. It was lagging really bad to the point that most apps would display a no responding dialog box. I would select "wait" and the program would continue to work, but lagging pretty badly. I tried clearing the cache and deleting some apps to no avail. I eventually performed a hard reset which appears to fix the lag.

By the way, prior to the hard reset I had about 1.3GB free space on my 16GB Nexus 7. I wonder if this was this issue. What are your thoughts?

I forgot to mention that I'm running the stock rom and I'm not rooted.

GP
 
The minfrees are set too low. This thing has a ton of RAM, but for this ROM, at least, they're set to the same as my cell phone. Increase the minimum free RAM the system should have available.....
 
dornier said:
By the way, prior to the hard reset I had about 1.3GB free space on my 16GB Nexus 7. I wonder if this was this issue. What are your thoughts?

GP
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I had a similar experience, loaded a few films for my holiday, which left me with less than 1gb of storage. The device was running horribly slow, factory reset has sorted it though. I wonder how much space we need to leave free in order to keep the butter?
 
My screen was getting unresponsive, don't know if that happened to the rest of you but it was also running sluggish. I did a quick search and read to do a "soft reset". Just hold the power button until it resets. Don't clash shut down just hold it until it reboots. This fixed my problems. I have a feeling there will have to be a fix on the way if so many people are having the same issues. Until then, give it a try.
 
nynvolt said:
My screen was getting unresponsive, don't know if that happened to the rest of you but it was also running sluggish. I did a quick search and read to do a "soft reset". Just hold the power button until it resets. Don't clash shut down just hold it until it reboots. This fixed my problems. I have a feeling there will have to be a fix on the way if so many people are having the same issues. Until then, give it a try.
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My screen was also sluggish, but it's fine now after the hard reset.
 
Questhate said:
I'm having a similar experience.

Mine was lightning fast out of the box. It was very responsive to inputs, and ran apps very well.

Then, about 3 or 4 days ago, it just got slow. It would hang trying to open or close apps. I would get messages saying "<app name> has stopped working". Inputs take a long time to register.

When I reboot the device, it gets back to normal for a while, but eventually starts getting slow once again. I'm wondering if there was an app update that somehow sabotaged my device, but I've been obsessively checking the "running apps" tab, and nothing seems too unusual.

Not exactly sure what's going on.
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Mine too. Seems fast enough on Boot until I get going for a few minutes. Watchdog Lite shows under "cpu Information": User low, Nice low, System low, Idle always above 75% usually above 90%, io low. Don't know for sure what this means.
 
dornier said:
Same thing just happened to me the other day. My Nexus 7 was "smooth as butter" until the other day. It was lagging really bad to the point that most apps would display a no responding dialog box. I would select "wait" and the program would continue to work, but lagging pretty badly. I tried clearing the cache and deleting some apps to no avail. I eventually performed a hard reset which appears to fix the lag.

By the way, prior to the hard reset I had about 1.3GB free space on my 16GB Nexus 7. I wonder if this was this issue. What are your thoughts?

I forgot to mention that I'm running the stock rom and I'm not rooted.

GP
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Yep. I'm having this exact same experience with mine. It is actually painfully slow to the point where I prefer to use my dual-core Evo LTE phone which is a lot smoother. I know this shouldn't be the case.

I'll try a hard reset later, but I'd hate to have to re-install all of my apps.
 
dornier said:
According to the app info in the Google play store, it states not to use it on any device that's not supported. What's your experience?
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It's not available in the play store. It's a script. It's in my sig.
Instructions are I wanna say medium level - if you're never tweaked an android device, don't jump straight into this.
But my experience is I've never experience lag or redraw on my GNex or n7. Works great.
 
As fast as this tablet's hardware is, and with as much as project butter helped, it's a shame android still has this inherent choppiness.
 
nynvolt said:
My screen was getting unresponsive, don't know if that happened to the rest of you but it was also running sluggish. I did a quick search and read to do a "soft reset". Just hold the power button until it resets. Don't clash shut down just hold it until it reboots. This fixed my problems. I have a feeling there will have to be a fix on the way if so many people are having the same issues. Until then, give it a try.
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This advice worked for me like a charm! I decided to approach the problem by trying the least intrusive solution first and then move on one step at a time. nynvolt offered what I saw was the easiest solution to try. After following the instructions my problem went away. I do hope that Google comes up with a solution as I don't think I should have to manage this, but this advice will give me what i need in a pinch. Thanks again nynvolt!
 
Mine has been a speed demon until last night at work. I started noticing that response to my stylus was slow so I tried using my trusty finger. Same thing. The whole tablet was really slow in all responses. Exactly like my desktop PC when it's doing something hard drive and memory intensive. WIFI had NOT been turned on at all for that session. It was at the end of shift so I just shut it down. This morning it seems fine but I'm wondering if something was running in the background and sucking up resources. I have relatively few apps installed but there always seems to be 2-3 app updates every time I turn the darned thing on! I still show 12.3gb free space so space isn't an issue. If it happens again I'll look at the running apps to see what's running at the time. Maybe one of those many updates isn't playing nice.

Joe
 
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