Root [Boost Mobile] Any way to get games to actually play? (Rooted ZTE Warp)

Stoken · Oct 27, 2013

Ever since I got my ZTE Warp almost any game I tried to play would either force stop, freeze, or just close without warning. After rooting and speeding up my phone, it still happens. Has anyone found a way to fix this? I kill all of my unused tasks so I don't run out of ram, and I have voltage control set pretty high. My current ROM is HaloBean 7 but it's been like this for every ROM I've tried.

mac55 · Oct 27, 2013

Try setting voltage control lower. May be more stable.

Stoken · Oct 27, 2013

mac55 said:
Try setting voltage control lower. May be more stable.

Tried it with a lot of different voltage levels and didn't make much of a difference. At first it started to be a little faster but then it just rebooted my phone

Skinnyjeans21 · Oct 27, 2013

How did you go about downloading my rom? And what are your settings?

Stoken · Oct 27, 2013

Skinnyjeans21 said:
How did you go about downloading my rom? And what are your settings?

I wiped everything through TWRP and installed the zip. If it makes any difference I had the last version of your rom before. And currently my setting re at 1516 MAX 806 MIN, I/O Scheduler cfq, and CPU Governor to performance. I've tweaked the settings a bit for awhile now and it hasn't really made any difference.

Skinnyjeans21 · Oct 27, 2013

try sio/smartassv2 122-1804, and did you download over 3G or Wi-Fi? Performance will cause "skips" of sorts in processes, smartassv2 is a good balance between battery conservation and performance in that it reduces the skips without bursting the battery.

Stoken · Oct 27, 2013

Skinnyjeans21 said:
try sio/smartassv2 122-1804, and did you download over 3G or Wi-Fi? Performance will cause "skips" of sorts in processes, smartassv2 is a good balance between battery conservation and performance in that it reduces the skips without bursting the battery.

I downloaded the game I've been trying to play right now (Giant Boulder Of Death by Adult Swim) but other games I've tried to play I usually download over wi-fi Just set my voltage controls, I'll test it in a minute. Tryin to get a N64 emulator out of boredom.
Love your rom btw

Skinnyjeans21 · Oct 27, 2013

Ah Giant Boulder of Death... its addicting lol but it works just fine with tons of different settings on my phone. And I mean did you download the rom over 3G or wifi? Downloading over 3G breaks it instantly, but if you downloaded over wifi then its probably just settings or a conflicting app.

Stoken · Oct 27, 2013

Skinnyjeans21 said:
Ah Giant Boulder of Death... its addicting lol but it works just fine with tons of different settings on my phone. And I mean did you download the rom over 3G or wifi? Downloading over 3G breaks it instantly, but if you downloaded over wifi then its probably just settings or a conflicting app.

Oh, I put it in dropbox and downloaded it from 3G. Should I just wipe it and re-install it?

Skinnyjeans21 · Oct 27, 2013

Yeah, wipe it and reflash but this time download over wifi. I very strongly recommend you download things that you're going to flash to your phone over WiFi only, since (1) its just faster and (2) it prevents issues like random force closes and tremendously painful data loss. I've been there myself, camera stopped working suddenly and I lost some of my contacts, texts, app data, etc. Its not fun at all

Stoken · Oct 27, 2013

Skinnyjeans21 said:
Yeah, wipe it and reflash but this time download over wifi. I very strongly recommend you download things that you're going to flash to your phone over WiFi only, since (1) its just faster and (2) it prevents issues like random force closes and tremendously painful data loss. I've been there myself, camera stopped working suddenly and I lost some of my contacts, texts, app data, etc. Its not fun at all

Okay, I'll redownload it when I go to bed (Watching Hulu right now and don't want to tie up my wifi) and see if games run any better. Also, do you know if games like Majoras Mask on N64 emulators run good on the warp?

Sergio22 · Oct 28, 2013

I've been having the same problem. I downloaded CTmod over wifi but the signal was weak. No games work, either they lag or they freeze. A problem I didn't have before my phone was rooted.

Skinnyjeans21 · Oct 28, 2013

Weird I'm not having those issues on my dev unit, and that's where I keep the memory intensive games. I kill 3 birds with one stone, I can test performance, battery life, and I can kill my boredom. The adreno tweaks are the only things that need tweaking though. I've pretty much gotten rid of most of the lag in games in 7. So... conflicting app perhaps?

Stoken · Nov 1, 2013

Sorry for the late reply, was busy the day after and I kinda forgot about the post. Reinstalling my rom made things a little better, but a lot of the games are still laggy sometimes

Slaiyen · Nov 2, 2013

Do you have the games installed to your phone or your SD Card? Also closing memory intensive apps before playing a game may solve this.

Stoken · Nov 2, 2013

I have them all on my SD card, but I've tried moving them off and it doesn't seem to make much of a difference. And I kill all my apps frequently and I usually have around 160 mb of ram left when I start playing games

Skinnyjeans21 · Nov 2, 2013

Moving them to internal makes a difference in a lot more things than just gaming. It decreases boot time and from my tests it frees up ram

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