Incredible S slow with Android 4/ICS

Biges · Jul 26, 2012

Hi!
I recently updated my IS to the newest Android 4 and god, it's slow. There is lag everywhere, I click on a icon and it takes like a second for screen to appear. The previous version was much smoother.
I disabled the animations and it seems to helped a bit, is there anything else I can do? Or just revert to the older version?
Anybody else experiencing the same problem?
Thanks

poondog · Jul 26, 2012

Biges said:
Hi!
I recently updated my IS to the newest Android 4 and god, it's slow. There is lag everywhere, I click on a icon and it takes like a second for screen to appear. The previous version was much smoother.
I disabled the animations and it seems to helped a bit, is there anything else I can do? Or just revert to the older version?
Anybody else experiencing the same problem?
Thanks

Thats a known problem with stock ICS
If you flash a custom rom, generally they are faster
for example I had Ice Cold for a few months, rock solid and super fast

sirpellinor · Jul 26, 2012

I bought my incredible more than one year ago and I've never thought to unlock and go with custom rom until i got the last OTA. I was so disappointed i flashed Nik's project x almost the same day. You should really consider trying a custom rom. If you like stock appearance you could try android revolution HD i bet it will perform way better than stock ics

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Biges · Jul 26, 2012

Thanks for your confirmations!

I'll try a custom ROM then.
As for the appearance I use a custom homepage anyway.

jcr67 · Aug 1, 2012

After using CM7 for a while, which was great, I upgraded to IceCold 8.1.1. I found it slow and laggy. Then I updated to Official Stock ICS. Same. I updated the radio to the '11' version. Still the same. Now I am using Ice Cold 8.3. Still the same. I did full wipe, and restored apps with Titanium.

I am very frustrated. I want ICS, but I am thinking of going back to CM7.2. I should be happy with IceCold, but I'm not. Slow, laggy, and lots of 'not responding' messages. Facebook app is the worst - almost unusable.

Any ideas anyone? I have:

IceColdSandwich 8.3 Rossi
4EXT Recovery
Blackrose 2.02 S-OFF

poondog · Aug 1, 2012

Ice cold is not laggy for me at all
How long have you let the ROM settle before deeming it laggy?
What clock speed for CPU? And maybe try go to recovery and clear both cache an dalvik cache, and make sure to do that after every rom flash if you don't already
Just that most of us are having a smooth nearly flawless ICS experience, hard to think only you are having problems

Sent from my Nexus 7

mohitgalaxy3 · Aug 1, 2012

Guys try cool droid ROM, its the best and fastest Rom....

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sCell_ · Aug 1, 2012

@jcr67: It's funny how mine is the other way round. I mean I didn't use the stock ROM (or whatever it is called) and installed CM 7.2 as soon as I got my phone because I didn't like the stock UI at all and I had seen CM 7.2 running on DHD with my cousin so I was kinda impressed. I kept using it until I visited my cousin and comparing both the phones (play store, I had a topic on that) was just awful. My play store searching, loading, agreement would take ages. I had been trying lots of ROMs until I came across Ice cream sandwich ROMs and the speeds were great (Virtuous Vivo) but it was the stock UI again which got me bored. I, yesterday, came across a topic by Nathan about Incredible S ROMs and battery life and after reading each and every post, I knew IceColdSandwich is my next ROM or I am selling this ****. Then and now, this is the best ROM I tried till now. No lag, great UI (after theme installation that was in the topic itself, it's become even greater). The only problem I am having is with my battery life. I had this on other ROMs too. So all I can say is that I am more than just satisfied with this ROM.

Try reinstalling the ROM by after running the SuperWipe script (inside the Android Revolution HD ROM topic.)

Sorry for the long post.

night-shadow · Aug 1, 2012

Biges said:
Hi!
I recently updated my IS to the newest Android 4 and god, it's slow. There is lag everywhere, I click on a icon and it takes like a second for screen to appear. The previous version was much smoother.
I disabled the animations and it seems to helped a bit, is there anything else I can do? Or just revert to the older version?
Anybody else experiencing the same problem?
Thanks

i have the same problem ..

could any one help how to return to official old Android ROM before 4.0. version ?

jcr67 · Aug 2, 2012

Update - It is getting better!

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jcr67 · Aug 3, 2012

Ignore my earlier comments, re IceCold.

I always clear dalvik, wipe etc, when installing. But I repeated this anyway, just to make sure. I let it settle down. It got better. And better. And now I have V6 supercharged it.
It's pretty great now.

Except for the battery life. I'm getting not much more than half a day, without doing much.

aerosmith · Aug 3, 2012

Usually I ensure that the following are disabled unless I really want them:
- WiFi
- Bluetooth
- GPS
- Vibration (keyboard)
- keyboard tones
- USB debugging

Optional: Automatic brightness turned off and set brightness to comfortable level

If you are overclocking it try to use it at usual clock speed. Overclocking consumes more battery.

jcr67 said:
Except for the battery life. I'm getting not much more than half a day, without doing much.

dejemi · Aug 4, 2012

I started to use custom ROM after upgrade to ICS. Laggy, even.the apps & notification drawer also laggy.

larkhillv7 · Aug 4, 2012

for me the latest ota ics upgrade is quite good, just sometimes i can feel that things just dun get smooth enough, made my mind and tried few custom roms. Most of them are just really gud in term of performances and looks. Now im gud to go with ice cold rom, much better than official rom of course, and on the battery issue, just make sure u turn off anything u dun need when u dun need them

nednednerb · Aug 6, 2012

I find ARHD 3.0.1 with V6 Supercharger script properly installed (no KickAssKernelizer cos I want to wait for a custom kernel) and ultrasmooth rosie.apk to be a fairly smooth running experience.

Tip:
I've improved battery life and reduced common running temperature and hence increased performance/stability/speed by simply running GSM only instead of GSM/HSPA unless I'm in a good signal zone and want to browse data quickly. (I'm talking 2G/3G switching in the mobile network settings.. may not be labelled gsm/hspa in some ROMs). This is a good bet, especially when indoors. I live in a basement so signal drops are more steep for the higher frequency 3G signal.

This should be true for any ROM. Anywhere your data browsing is slow to heart-rendingly unusable.. should definitely save battery, reduce temp, and improve text and call reception to switch to GSM only!

Sent from my HTC Incredible S using xda premium

Biges · Aug 6, 2012

OK, I have a simple question: Is any ICS custom ROM as fast as the Gingerbread stock ROM? OR do I need to find a way do downgrade to Gingerbread? Which will be a pain in the bottom parts...

zukri90 · Aug 6, 2012

Biges said:
OK, I have a simple question: Is any ICS custom ROM as fast as the Gingerbread stock ROM? OR do I need to find a way do downgrade to Gingerbread? Which will be a pain in the bottom parts...

There's a thread about this guy enjoying ics as it speeds up the 3d performance.

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dorack_uk · Aug 7, 2012

Biges said:
OK, I have a simple question: Is any ICS custom ROM as fast as the Gingerbread stock ROM? OR do I need to find a way do downgrade to Gingerbread? Which will be a pain in the bottom parts...

I find project X to be really quick and doesn't seem to struggle with multiple apps running I.e spotify, Facebook and chrome.

Easy to flash too!

dejemi · Aug 8, 2012

We Want ICS

For 'We Want CS' I still can see lag when open apps drawer & pull down notification. Anyway, its still better than OTA update.

ericsson3819 · Aug 8, 2012

markj338 said:
Thats a known problem with stock ICS
If you flash a custom rom, generally they are faster
for example I had Ice Cold for a few months, rock solid and super fast

Dear markj338,
i'm new to this, i had same experience with the OTA ICS too, so bad.....

Can u guide me how to s-off , upgrade to icecoldsandwich 8.3.3 ?

Incredible S slow with Android 4/ICS

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