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Root Jittery Home Screen navigation on Froyo ROMs

truelove79

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So I've tried out both Froyo ROMs (KaosFroyo v24 and CELBFroyo 1.4) and when flicking between home screens it's just not smooth at all. I did a full wipe before each install and didn't even install any apps. It does benchmark nearly twice as fast as any 2.1 ROM, but the experience of using the phone just seems slower and laggier on the Froyo ROMs. Am I crazy? Does anyone else get this behavior? Oh, and yes, I do overclock to 748Mhz each time. Even opening apps and scrolling through menus is slow and jittery. I brought this up in another thread and most people mention they don't have this problem and their experience is fast and smooth, but I just don't see that at all on mine.
 
One, after initially flashing the ROM there will be lag for little while as your contacts are syncing. Two, go into your settings and turn off your transition animations. The Eris is BARELY powerful enough to effectively run Froyo. Give it a reboot or two as well.

I just upgraded from Kaos v23 to v24 today and everything is running smooth.

One other thing, if I OC too much I'll begin to notice a decline in performance even before freezing and crashing. Right now I'm at 604/729 and everything is smooth and snappy.
 
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One, after initially flashing the ROM there will be lag for little while as your contacts are syncing.

It definitely acts up even after syncing.

Two, go into your settings and turn off your transition animations. The Eris is BARELY powerful enough to effectively run Froyo.

I simply don't believe this at all. It benchmarks must faster on Froyo and when OCed, the Eris is very capable. It even lags when flicking between home screens on Froyo, you can't tell me this has to do with transition animations. I've turned on full animations in every other ROM i've ever tried and never had a problem. That includes sliding and zooming transitions.
 
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It definitely acts up even after syncing.

I simply don't believe this at all. It benchmarks must faster on Froyo and when OCed, the Eris is very capable. It even lags when flicking between home screens on Froyo, you can't tell me this has to do with transition animations. I've turned on full animations in every other ROM i've ever tried and never had a problem. That includes sliding and zooming transitions.

You're probably right on the animations, although I have no other explanation why my KaosFroyo is running as smooth and snappy as any other ROM I've installed.

I get the impression that Froyo almost has to "settle in" before it begins to run smoothly.
 
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Perhaps I'll give it a try again this weekend. The experience was definitely not pleasant at all, and I used it for probably half an hour or so before giving up and going back to PlainJaneV2
I've probably flashed/wipe at least 5 times. I had many problems with KaosFroyo v23 and I had to flash v24 twice and its finally what it's cracked up to be. Running very fast and stable at 768/525mhz and get about 11-12 hours of batterylife before the setPCU profile kicks in. Give it another shot. Dont be worried you if you flash it once and its laggy...just wipe and flash again. Hope it works out for you. It finally did for me.
 
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for you to feel any difference on smoothness you gotta let the rom sit on your phone for at least a day to get the feel of it you cant just install it play with it for 30 min and expect greatness it takes time when you install new roms

Wow, while this may be true given the evidence, I just can't see it being normal. Is there something weird about 2.2 that causes this because a fresh install of any 2.1 ROM is blazing fast seconds after the install, even when syncing.
 
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Could it be the launchers these builds are using? I'm currently on PlainJaneT2v2.0 as well, but I have tried Kaos and Cyanogen and was not terribly impressed. I wanted to like them, but not using a stock launcher ( like Home ) is why I left.

I've tried those other launchers on Eris stock 2.1v3 and over time, they just didn't perform well.

What about their implementation of OpenGL?
 
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One, after initially flashing the ROM there will be lag for little while as your contacts are syncing. Two, go into your settings and turn off your transition animations. The Eris is BARELY powerful enough to effectively run Froyo.

I very much agree with that after only v23 and now 24 and a short attempt with Cyan last week.

Paring down animations to nothing, tweaking away all of the resource taxing stuff like haptic feedback (or at least shortening it to 10 rather than the stock 35), etc, helps a lot. I have not yet overclocked KaosFroyo v24 yet, but will here in a minute (trying to get some work done ;)).

I am beginning to like 2.2 very much after a bit of serious configuration.
 
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Just a question: Why is it common for people to have to flash a more than once when changing ROMS? What is the issue that occurs when flashing? I'm not tech savvy, but I would like to know why "wipe and reflash" is always the first answer.

Good, basic question.

Flashing is the process of installing the ROM; it's just the word that's used because you're affecting the deeper portions of the system, actually replacing most of it.

Getting familiar with the menus in the recovery area is a great way to begin to understand rooting.

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Wiping paves the way for a fresh ROM install. Sometimes it is not necessary and you will see developer notes saying that.. most often when upgrading from one version of a ROM to another of the same ROM.
 
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One thing I noticed is the higher I went with my clock speed, the worse things got. 710 is stable for me, but if I go any higher, things get laggy. Oh, and changing from SetCPU to OverclockWidget helped too.

All I know, is KF24 on my Eris is super smooth and quick.

edit - I also removed ADW and installed it from the market to help with lagginess and FC's.
 
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been running KaosFroyo for a few days, just flashed v24 last night... havent had any problems... its amazing, i love it, never going back!

when i first rooted my leaked v3 phone, i loaded kaoslegendary rom, which was fine, but i did have some issues. i asked surgeon, and he said that some roms require a factory wipe, flash the rom, then a davlik cache wipe... i tried it, didnt fix some of the bugs i was seeing, but performance was better... if you have been flashing over and over again to try to make it faster, you may want to try it
 
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been running KaosFroyo for a few days, just flashed v24 last night... havent had any problems... its amazing, i love it, never going back!

when i first rooted my leaked v3 phone, i loaded kaoslegendary rom, which was fine, but i did have some issues. i asked surgeon, and he said that some roms require a factory wipe, flash the rom, then a davlik cache wipe... i tried it, didnt fix some of the bugs i was seeing, but performance was better... if you have been flashing over and over again to try to make it faster, you may want to try it

I meant a factory wipe, flash, factory wipe to fix problems, but your method works too I guess :)
 
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lol... i did try the facotry wipe, flash, factory wipe, but it was removing all the apps that were installed with the rom... superuser permissions wasnt there, setCPU wasnt there (on the kaoslegendary rom) and i was having trouble giving processes root access... tried it again with a dalvik wipe instead of factory for the wipe after flash, seemed to fix things.
 
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lol... i did try the facotry wipe, flash, factory wipe, but it was removing all the apps that were installed with the rom... superuser permissions wasnt there, setCPU wasnt there (on the kaoslegendary rom) and i was having trouble giving processes root access... tried it again with a dalvik wipe instead of factory for the wipe after flash, seemed to fix things.

Oh ok, then thats good :) so many different wipes got me confuzzled :D
 
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