August Update seems to have generally improved performance to me

[DonkeyKonk]

Installed it about an hour ago (UK) and in general the phone seems a noticeably zippier for browsing and opening apps etc.

I am not a tech head, and the update is small, only 13 ish megabytes, but feels like the sluggishness I had been experiencing the last six months has gone somewhat. I had really set my mind and wallet on getting a Pixel 4a, but may stick with this a bit longer if the sluggishness has improved.

Wonder if others are finding the same ?

 

[a1291762]

Installed it about an hour ago (UK) and in general the phone seems a noticeably zippier for browsing and opening apps etc.

You rebooted to install it and that is known to temporarily solve the "ram issues" that android 10 has on this phone.

It's not the update.

 

[TeoXSD]

You rebooted to install it and that is known to temporarily solve the "ram issues" that android 10 has on this phone.

It's not the update.

Ohh, it is the update. This one really made the phone feel snappier, and visibly improved performance. Usually it slugs down to a crawl while I'm testing to see if it's still usable after the update, and even after 24hrs after the update it still works just fine, no hogs, no slow downs, minimal stuttering while heavy multi-tasking.
For example, on 11.0.7, go to Chrome, access fast.com (internet speed test) - it downloads and uploads a test file, so intensive i/o memory usage, and try closing the tab and chrome while still downloading... it's slow, it stutters a lot, it occasionally freezes the device, that doesn't happen anymore in august update. Also the speed limitation I was talking about in my review of 11.0.9 is now gone.

 

[Aadil Gillani]

Ohh, it is the update. This one really made the phone feel snappier, and visibly improved performance. Usually it slugs down to a crawl while I'm testing to see if it's still usable after the update, and even after 24hrs after the update it still works just fine, no hogs, no slow downs, minimal stuttering while heavy multi-tasking.
For example, on 11.0.7, go to Chrome, access fast.com (internet speed test) - it downloads and uploads a test file, so intensive i/o memory usage, and try closing the tab and chrome while still downloading... it's slow, it stutters a lot, it occasionally freezes the device, that doesn't happen anymore in august update. Also the speed limitation I was talking about in my review of 11.0.9 is now gone.

Well I think these ss weren't automated replies after all.

 

[a1291762]

even after 24hrs after the update it still works just fine

Apparently I rebooted this morning so I only have 16 hours of uptime. But I have been rebooting weekly so I feel it is still a bit early to be celebrating.

That said, I did just have XDA stay in memory while I downloaded podcasts, updated apps and opened some pages in both Firefox beta and Firefox (opening pages to copy urls over without sync).

Maybe it was a build.prop tweak. That would be small...

 

[Aadil Gillani]

Apparently I rebooted this morning so I only have 16 hours of uptime. But I have been rebooting weekly so I feel it is still a bit early to be celebrating.

That said, I did just have XDA stay in memory while I downloaded podcasts, updated apps and opened some pages in both Firefox beta and Firefox (opening pages to copy urls over without sync).

Maybe it was a build.prop tweak. That would be small...

Actually what I want to say is I am using l speed and I have changed the RAM management profile to multitasking and that fixes my issue and basically it is it editing the build prop my question is if Xiaomi did the same thing and fix the issue isn't it good I mean I can do it with root but all they did was changed this thing which they could have done a long time ago but do keep in mind whenever I use this profile my battery drains a bit faster not like a lot faster only a little bit faster.

 

[a1291762]

I am using l speed and I have changed the RAM management profile to multitasking and that fixes my issue and basically it is it editing the build prop my question is if Xiaomi did the same thing and fix the issue isn't it good

I found lspeed and friends to extend the time I could run before reboot, not fix the problem.

But now I'm curious so I'm gonna diff the partitions to find out what they changed.

 

[Aadil Gillani]

I found lspeed and friends to extend the time I could run before reboot, not fix the problem.

But now I'm curious so I'm gonna diff the partitions to find out what they changed.

Please do tell what they changed

 

[a1291762]

I'm ... not seeing anything obvious

build.prop changed, but it's just timestamps and versions (ie. normal "make a release" stuff)

only boot, system and vendor were modified

I've attached the diff report (not changes, just modified files), minus a large number of .odex files.

Looks like some media lib bugs got fixed.

I dunno... also, I tried to run the diff on my phone and killed it so my uptime was reset again (finished the comparison on my computer, after converting and mounting the images).

 

[AnonymousAL]

Ohh, it is the update. This one really made the phone feel snappier, and visibly improved performance. Usually it slugs down to a crawl while I'm testing to see if it's still usable after the update, and even after 24hrs after the update it still works just fine, no hogs, no slow downs, minimal stuttering while heavy multi-tasking.
For example, on 11.0.7, go to Chrome, access fast.com (internet speed test) - it downloads and uploads a test file, so intensive i/o memory usage, and try closing the tab and chrome while still downloading... it's slow, it stutters a lot, it occasionally freezes the device, that doesn't happen anymore in august update. Also the speed limitation I was talking about in my review of 11.0.9 is now gone.

I have downgraded to android 8.1 version 9.6.11.0
Tried that thing with fast.com no stutter nothing! I would suggest everybody who is tired with xiaomi updates on this phone to downgrade to android 8.1 like i did and it will remind the reason why you purchased this phone in the first place! Its super fast, super responsive, the statusbar icons dont take to much space, everything is working and games will be in ram even if you minimize at morning and reopen at midnight! I thought i would change my phone because it was useless and now it is faster than i ever remembered!

 

[a1291762]

Nearly 4 days of uptime and my phone is once again killing apps as soon as I leave them.

 

[DonkeyKonk]

Well nearly been a week now since the update, and definitely feels to me.that things have improved at lot in general use.

Not as good as it was brand new, but nowhere near as bad as it was getting the previous few months, and very usable.

Battery life seems to have gotten back to where it was before too.