Help Stock browser scrolling slower after Froyo

[Satur9ine]

Do menu, settings, scroll to plugins and change it to on demand and your problem is fixed. Your flash will load when you click or touch the flash content. Also your pages will load even faster. Good luck and hit the button if I've helped.

Thanks for the tip. I am currently comparing the browser to dolphin hd. Even with the plugin setting changed I think dolphin is working better on froyo so far.

 

[Droidone]

The on demand option works great for me because, the only time I really need flash is for embedded video and flash driven sites. Advertisement can be irritating so its great to avoid those but still have the option to see the valuable flash that you need to see. Great option in my opinion.

 

[RickJ]

A first graders I told you so? Listen up Mr Clown Central, I was mearly stating... wait till the official build comes out until making snap judgments on how Froyo performs. I don't really hear Nexus one owners belly aching about upgrading, and how slow there devices are after Froyo. You have countless non EVO owners in this Forum belly aching on a constant basis on how this sux, and that sux, and how this could be better. Like an episode of a soap opera with so much whining. You would understand if you weren't so busy working for the Big Apple Circus Mr know it all.

Ok, very witty, though again pointless IMO.

I suppose the OP should have entitled his thread 'stock browser scrolling slower after this unnofficial and not-so-finalized-use-at-your-own-risk-build', in order to keep comments like yours at bay.

Whatever, the op got plenty of useful information from both those experiencing a similar situation, as well those who aren't, from folks who have chosen to install this build.

Maybe it's just my ADD, and he wasnt really looking for help from the aformentioned group. Yeah, on second thought, he probably was looking for opinions and not experience.

As far as circuses go, I really need to heed the signs and not feed the animals <insert random animal pic here> Yeah, really no trouble at all in wading through just one more naysayer's post, hell its the nature of trying to get pertinant information on a tech forum.

Forget the random insert, I think this one serves its purpose

Feel free to fire away, this clown will be looking elsewhere, trying to heed his own advice.

 

[evilsandwich]

I got the official HTC update to froyo today and immediately noticed lagging in typing and very sluggish scrolling, yes I turned flash to on demand and cleared all cache

Did a google search of the issue and here I am.
Obviously not fixed in the few day gap between mystery link froyo and official froyo. It's a flaw in both updates it seems.


BTW I typed this on my evo, at one point I was 5 words ahead of whst was shown on screen.. it also causes spell check not to work. Annoying. (yes its the same for taxing and email)

 

[EarlyMon]

I got the official HTC update to froyo today and immediately noticed lagging in typing and very sluggish scrolling, yes I turned flash to on demand and cleared all cache

Did a google search of the issue and here I am.
Obviously not fixed in the few day gap between mystery link froyo and official froyo. It's a flaw in both updates it seems.


BTW I typed this on my evo, at one point I was 5 words ahead of whst was shown on screen.. it also causes spell check not to work. Annoying. (yes its the same for taxing and email)

This turns out to be solvable - follow this procedure:

http://androidforums.com/support-troubleshooting-evo-4g/141369-how-fix-froyo.html

 

[sixwarzone]

I love how to fix Froyo is to factory reset, unbelievable!! That is the equivalent of IT wanting to reimage my pc when I have the slightest problem, why? because that is where Froyo has brought us, to such a fragmented and tangled mess, its better to start over? Might as well start over with an iphone (if it just made phone calls, right?).

 

[EarlyMon]

I love how to fix Froyo is to factory reset, unbelievable!! That is the equivalent of IT wanting to reimage my pc when I have the slightest problem, why? because that is where Froyo has brought us, to such a fragmented and tangled mess, its better to start over? Might as well start over with an iphone (if it just made phone calls, right?).

That's an absolute overreaction.

This is not the equivalent of reimaging a PC.

This is the equivalent of taking a unix system to a known configuration.

The apps that went on your phone have in no way been built in the most disciplined manner possible, the drivers have changed, the kernel has changed.

It would be nice if just like the industrial control software that my firm builds if the update package were to have taken care of the appropriate caches and temporary areas prior to lathering over the upgrade.

It didn't.

Complain all you like, but I'll thank you to not compare advice to that given by your corporate IT staff that you seem to have competency issues with.

The suggested procedure works.

Use it or don't but kindly don't slag it with an unreasonable and untrue comparison.

You may recall that people started getting problems creeping in right from the beginning, with each upgrade having more issues - most especially the 1.47 upgrade. Recall also all of the mindless battery tricks and the Evo's bad reputation for the battery right from the beginning as slathered all over the initial device reviews.

Has it not occurred to you that perhaps your phone has never been right?

It's certainly not now.

The Android developers are not the same as the many middlemen your software went through before coming up with a bloated installation package, chock full of crapware.

Thanks in advance for reconsidering your position on this matter.

 

[sixwarzone]

My apologies, didn't mean to get off topic, helpful tips for resolving this issue such as "on demand" for plugins and clearing cache, gtalk etc... are all helpful but factory resets are a bit extreme. If there are apps that are causing problems, identifying those, or tips for identifying those are also helpful, but throwing everything out with a factory reset does seem a bit drastic. And again, sorry for the PC comparison, but it's unavoidable... there are so many features in these phones now, that the maintenance of it is becoming strikingly familiar don't you think? I'm just not sure people will tolerate this kind of frustration in a phone, with every update, and they will opt out in favor of a closed iPhone environment that's reliable if we continue to get drops such as Froyo (as experienced on the EVO anyways)

 

[EarlyMon]

My apologies, didn't mean to get off topic, helpful tips for resolving this issue such as "on demand" for plugins and clearing cache, gtalk etc... are all helpful but factory resets are a bit extreme.

Last guy that checked in said he followed the procedure in less than a half hour and lost nothing - and that it might have taken less time but he was doing other while going through it.

It's pretty simple.

1. Backup what you have.
2. Reset to a known, clean configuration.
3. Restore from backup.

Android has a higher complexity and lower maturity than an iPhone or a Blackberry or a WinMO.

Risk factor in systems theory is defined as (complexity/maturity) so, yes, Android does represent a higher risk at this time.

It also offers resplendent advantages if properly managed.

A number of us would contend that some mismanagement has crept in.

The suggested procedure is certainly far less drastic and in some ways less problematic than performing a chkdsk and then cleaning registry rot out of a Windows desktop.

A number of Windows programs require a reboot to complete an installation and function.

Combine a few of those desktop functions and this takes less time and complexity.

The suggested procedure is straightforward and effective and may be considered by some to be not so drastic.

This is not a recommended step for ALL Android phones mind you - this is recommended for the Evo.

On other handsets, this move can be perilous.

That has been widely proven by many users on this forum to simply not be the case for this particular device.

If you had a full picture of the number of man hours a great number of us put into this particular implementation for this solution, I believe you'd find it quite well-vetted.

And worthwhile.

The problem with dealing with this sort of problem symptomatically, as you suggest, is that at this point in time, no Android tool exists to let users know if they're actually fixing problems or side effects, and if fixing problems - are they fixing the root cause or a resultant problem?

Not using the same approach to multitasking as an iPhone, you might find that not all data / cache areas are as compartmentalized as you would find on the Apple device.

This approach ensures that the user is not merely fixing a symptom, nor merely fixing a real problem caused by an unfixed underlying problem that will inevitably cause a recurrence of the problem originally thought fixed.

In that light, I would propose that this is far from drastic and is rather quite straightforward.

 

[sixwarzone]

Ok, so I've taken EarlyMon's advice and done the factory reset just as described on the post, and I do have to say that I do see improved performance (with regards to sluggish GUI/text/browsing). I still fill like I'm running naked through the woods without a task killer but I'll give it the 2-3 suggested days before I make up my mind. Note I still have the same Froyo issues that I had before (can't connect to wifi - which I have on a different thread) and the can't play .wav in email (which is my corporate voicemail method). But overall web performance does seem better with factory reset and the clear cache and on-demand plugin setting.