Team EOS 4.2 MR1 01192013 nightly

[donrull]

Experiencing crashes in various apps. New to this revision.

 

[sonophilos]

EOS4 173 - Xoom Wingray

I am also running EOS4 011913 (173) nightly, and I've been experiencing lag in almost every animation - launcher, notification pulldowns, desktop switches, and especially the app drawer opening and closing. These problems were mostly able to be mediated with a combination of a third-party launcher like Nova, and some gentle adjustments to the System/Performance settings in EOS Control Center.

But I digress. My biggest problem is that there is noticeable audio lag, almost everywhere in the system. Music starts a split second after I hit Play, games' sound effects happen just after the events (Jetpack Joyride is atrocious about this one), and most aggravatingly it seems to be cumulative; running an app longer makes the lag worse. Music and videos don't seem to have it quite as bad as games, but it's still noticeable.

I tried to isolate the problem (wipe everything, reflash, try apps without changing anything first) and it's still recurring, as badly as before. I don't want to give up on EOS yet, but to my knowledge after diligent Googling I am the only person who seems to be suffering this sound delay problem.

It is my sincere hope that the devs will pick up on this two-post thread, or that someone more qualified reports this problem somewhere more noticeable.
-K

--EDIT
"Stock" EOS4 173 was still having the audio lag with all the settings default (and I would hope that none of the settings, which are mostly for the interface, would create this lag), but some other users (whom I'd like to thank, but can't) suggested adding the boot.img (kernel) from CyanogenMod 10.1's latest nightly into the .zip for this, and it seems to have worked like a charm. It remains to be seen if the problem will resurface with prodding into the settings (which I'd really like to do!) again, but there it is.

donrull, I don't know if your problem would be fixed by using the different kernel, but it seems to have fixed a multitude of problems for other users

 

[StickyFingaz]

I noticed the same lag in launcher when I still had the Xoom with EOS4, but I kindda found another workaround(there is a set of tweaks mentioned in the main EOS thread which is a little too much modification for me) to that.
The last option in Power options will hide both the status bar and navigation bar, with those bars gone, launcher just becomes "butter" again.
I then used GMD gesture for all the actions and it was much more acceptable to me, hope this helps with the launcher lag for you too

 

[sonophilos]

I wanted to return to weigh in on my trial and error process, in the hopes that it helps someone else:

In this order:

Wiped /data, /cache, and the Dalvik cache via CWM Touch Recovery.

Flashed the 'stock rooted' JB 4.1.2 to get root, something that was missing before. I don't honestly know if it'll help these issues, but it seemed relevant that I hadn't done that yet. Worth noting, the stock rooted ROM has the absolute smoothest launcher/desktop/app drawer animations I've seen, even over the stock OTA 4.1.2.

Wiped /data, /cache, and the Dalvik cache via CWM Touch Recovery. (Always, between all flashes.)

Flashed the lastest EOS nightly (20130126-174), followed by the latest Gapps package (20130105). Launcher/desktop/app drawer lag was back, and my earlier mentioned SEVERE audio lag (almost half a second) was back, on the keyboard and in apps.

Nova Launcher with 'Fast/Fast/Jelly Bean' animation settings and all the animation settings in Dev Options set to 0.5x was, and remains, the best-looking solution to the launcher lag. App drawer still has a slight, but noticeable, lag, even with only stock apps inside. Switcher lags, sometimes severely, even when entering or exiting a less intensive app like Google Play Music.

This audio lag, though: It appears to be isolated to EOS's updated Tiamat kernel, as it was fixed (as mentioned earlier) by replacing it with the latest from CM10.1. This fixes the audio lag and slightly alleviates the notification bar pulldown lag, but the launcher/desktop/app drawer still needed Nova to seem close to 'butter' again. This also disables OC, the kernel doesn't support it but EOS's settings will still 'let' you, minus the 'lagfree' governor showing up; the only noticeable effect is about 100MB less available RAM at all times, and choppiness in places as a result.

Mentioned earlier, but the audio and video lag I tested BEFORE I started messing with settings like OC; even a brand-spankin'-new flash of this ROM suffers from it. Mentioned this too, I was using Jetpack Joyride to test, because its sound effects are very punctual. Tried some other apps, they suffer the same lag but I guess it isn't as noticeable. (Fruit Ninja you can hear the fruit being tossed AFTER you see it.) No messing about with the settings seemed to alleviate it, which is why I tried the kernel swap.

So basically where I'm at now is either stock-rooted 4.1.2 that looks and sounds gorgeous, but it feature-barren, or EOS's 4.2.1 that technically runs faster, but looks choppy and awkward and sounds about a half second off at all times, or EOS + CM10's kernel, that splits the difference, still suffering the animation lag and the lack of OC, but with OK audio. After five days of messing with this on 173, and today's struggle on 174, I'm about ready to give up on being 'satisfied' with EOS. I really hope this lengthy post reaches someone who can do something about it, since I am not enabled to post in development forums and cannot privately message anyone just yet.

Edit: the 'stock rooted' update is 4.1.2, not 4.1.1 as I posted previously. This seemed like kind of an important oversight.