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Help Making the X10 more responsive, less laggy

bizkid

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If this was already posted before i'm sorry, after spending some time with google i couldnt find anything about this and i'm actually surprised nobody noticed this yet.

Forget about those task killing apps. Regular programs and widgets like mediascape, timescape and other small widgets are not the problem with the X10. Those all idle happily without sucking any CPU cycles.

The problem is the face recognition service running in the background. You can kill this via Astro and it wont come back until you reboot. This service tries to recognize faces from everything thats displayed on the screen, what a stupid idea. Anyway by doing that it eats 20-90% CPU power while using the cellphone (see photo, Astro idle). I guess this service only truly IDLEs when the screen turns off, so it probably wont save much battery when not using the phone, but the UI is ALOT more responsive without that service running.

I especially noticed the difference with ACV (comic reader) where you had to wait 4-5 seconds for every picture to load, while now without, pics almost load instantly.

Another small but nice "tweak" is simply removing the protective film that comes from the factory on the X10 (the 2nd one). After that the touchscreen get's a bit more responsive.

By the way I never thought the X10 was laggy to begin with, but now it's a real joy to use! :D
 

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It's ofcourse only necessary if that service is actually using CPU cycles on your phone. Some users have the same thing happening, for others it stayed at 0% cpu usage. My guess is something is buggy about that service. I had it running that way for 2-3 days straight using 50-90% CPU resources, killed it, and after a reboot, it started right again. It seems its caught in somekind of loop. My phone is almost brand new (~1 week) and i noticed this right from the start with nothing fancy changed or installed. Hope this will be fixed from Sony soon, till then this is a good workaround. You can also kill the service from the application options, no astro necessary.

This also speeds up the HTC keyboard very nicely. When i got fast with T9 keyboard i sometimes had to slow down, whereas now it's impossible to reach that speed for me, the X10 always keeps up.
 
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hey, what do you mean by astro?? i don't get it
and i don't know how to do it via the application options?
i have a xperia x10
plz help,
thank you

Hi Prawn,

Go to the Market and search 'ASTRO', it's a free app.

When open, click the menu button -> Tools -> Process Manager, this is where you can kill selected processes :)
 
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