Is it just me, or...

sblees

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Mar 19, 2010

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• Mar 29, 2012

• #1

It seems like every custom ROM (for what I can remember) gets really slow and laggy after using it for an extended amount of time. I've had my captivate for nearly 2 years and have flashed many roms and this phenomenon seems to occur on all of them I have used for more than a month or so.

I reboot my phone at least once a day, and install a minimum amount of apps.

So, is it just me?

Thanks

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b-eock

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Dec 30, 2010

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• Mar 29, 2012

• #2

Could be your NAND or the partition on the SD for the ROM to be installed getting bad... It ins't on my phone though

 

sblees

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Mar 19, 2010

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• Mar 29, 2012

• #3

b-eock said:

Could be your NAND or the partition on the SD for the ROM to be installed getting bad... It ins't on my phone though

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The only thing is if I flash a fresh ROM my phone runs great for awhile.

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sblees

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• Mar 29, 2012

• #4

In addition, I've noticed this phenomenon long ago and with a different phone (I got a couple replacements for other reasons in the past)

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faroid

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• Mar 29, 2012

• #5

Same here, all the roms I've installed were smooth at first and start slowing down with time.

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xhozt

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• Mar 29, 2012

• #6

+3 here ... and now im getting application not found on apps even after a flash .. master clear time ?
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viny2cool

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Oct 15, 2010

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• Mar 29, 2012

• #7

I flashed many GB roms for long time...without doing clean flash (flashing GB stock)...and my phone started lagging like **** on every GB rom out there....this is I am talking about before ICS came out...

then I completely wiped my phone...as much as it allows...then started again by flashing GB bootloader....super smooth again...

But with ICS i am not seeing that issue yet...

 

sblees

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Mar 19, 2010

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Charleston, WV

• Mar 30, 2012

• #8

viny2cool said:

I flashed many GB roms for long time...without doing clean flash (flashing GB stock)...and my phone started lagging like **** on every GB rom out there....this is I am talking about before ICS came out...

then I completely wiped my phone...as much as it allows...then started again by flashing GB bootloader....super smooth again...

But with ICS i am not seeing that issue yet...

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I didn't notice any lag for several weeks or so on ics, but it seems to start lagging eventually. I wonder if it could be that log files start to accumulate over time or something like that and slows down the phone.

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DaNaRkI

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• Mar 31, 2012

• #9

sblees said:

I didn't notice any lag for several weeks or so on ics, but it seems to start lagging eventually. I wonder if it could be that log files start to accumulate over time or something like that and slows down the phone.

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possible, but roughly how many user apps do you have/keep?

In some ROMs in the past there have been memory leaks that would cause this behavior. More often it is a poorly written app that is leaking memory but is not getting killed.
So if it's been a fairly consistent issue take a look at your most commonly used apps. If it's been a flat (across multiple ROMs) issue then consider any long standing apps.

If it helps it may even be a Linux kernel issue, cuz on my PC that runs ubuntu I see a memory leak. Tho with what is effectively 6 GB of RAM I don't run into a slow down issue for weeks.

leaked from my ICS- FUSED SGS I897 contaminating you via XDA app.

 

TRusselo

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Jan 20, 2011

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• Mar 31, 2012

• #10

ics will lag if you are using glitch kernel WITHOUT having the app NStools.

i found this out the hard way. installed NStools (as recomended by glitch page) and my lag went away.


as the day went on, and i used my phone the memory would fill up and not clear as it should, i could even open an app 8 hours after last using the app and it would still be on the same page/info i left it on. the app never gets killed.


sixstringsgs does not agree that NStools affects it in such a way but personal experience says otherwise. i was ready to go back to gingerbread. now i would never consider it.

 

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crandy2

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Jun 16, 2008

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• Mar 31, 2012

• #11

Yeah I've seen this too. Using ext4 helped some. I did some tweaking on occasion, which would cause me to wipe cache and dalvic. Sometimes that seemed to speed it up.

I am now trying the Simply Stock odexed gb rom version 2.0. It has been amazingly smooth the first few days, I hope it holds up.

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b-eock

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Dec 30, 2010

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• Mar 31, 2012

• #12

You can't use EXT4 on an MTD ROM. They were talking about an ICS ROM, not an ICS themed ROM

 

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crandy2

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• Mar 31, 2012

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b-eock said:

You can't use EXT4 on an MTD ROM. They were talking about an ICS ROM, not an ICS themed ROM

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The op talks about flashing for 2 years. That is who my post was addressing.

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b-eock

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• Mar 31, 2012

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I know who you were addressing. And if you read the 99% of the conversation has been about ICS ROMs (WHICH ARE BASED ON MTD file system). So EXT4,3,2 are out of the question

 

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stewi21

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Mar 23, 2010

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• Apr 1, 2012

• #15

chill out b-eock he was just offering his 2 cents, and so are you.

 

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sblees

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Mar 19, 2010

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Charleston, WV

• Apr 2, 2012

• #16

Oddly enough, a couple of days ago I manually turned off my gps and the phone seems to be behaving normally. I'm not sure if it's a coincidence out not.


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