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Commando 4G LTE REALLY Slow

Hello all,

I've had my Casio Commando 4G LTE since January of this year. I noticed in late June that it was starting to slow down. In the middle of July it had gotten so bad that I ended up doing a factory reset on it because the phone was pretty much useless it was so slow. The reset seemed to help for a while, but that slowness is back. I really don't want to have to do a factory reset again, so does anybody have any suggestions?

My phone is not rooted, and I'd like to avoid rooting if I can. It is slow in all aspects. It even has a hard time loading the white Verizon welcome screen (it can take upwards of 5 minutes to get past that screen). It's also slow with all apps, regardless if they are on the SD card or not, or if they're factory apps or not. The calling app is probably the worst. I will load to the button dial screen, then I'll click on the "favorites" tab and it will take at least a minute to switch to it. If I check my voicemail it's so slow that it can't bring up the buttons so that I can type in my password (which literally makes it impossible to check my voicemail).

At first the phone would act like this for the first 10 or 15 minutes after it was restarted, but now it acts like this 24/7.

I've tried different launchers - no change. I've deleted recent new apps - no change. I've deleted apps I rarely use - no change. I have plenty of storage left on the phone and on the SD card. It's currently using 678 MB of 800 MB of RAM. None of the apps using RAM seem excessive. The biggest ones are Facebook, Amazon, Kindle, and Google Keyboard.

Has anyone else experienced this? It's driving me crazy. It's like I have my first generation Commando again.

The phone is a M050, it's running 4.1.2, kernal version 3.4.0

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
 
I am the original owner.

I ended up deleting even more apps and disabling some of the factory apps to open up some more RAM. This seems to have helped a little bit. It's still not as fast as what it was when I first bought it. Also, it seems to be worse when I do a normal restart, and better when I do a hard restart by removing the battery. I'm considering trying to get it replaced. We'll see. At least it's usable for now.
 
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I experienced the same thing and mine wasn't rooted either. It wouldn't matter if I disabled apps, went wifi or 4g. Moved apps from the SD to the phone and vice versa. It just got slower and slower. Additionally, the power drained ultra fast e.g. 5 hours from full to fully drained and inoperable.

Luckily I have an extended warrantee with Verizon and I took it in and had them look at it. Got a replacement from Verizon a couple days later. Works like a champ again.

I'm going to be a bit more vigilant about what I install too. After a while, we tend to install toy after toy and who knows how they're going to interact.

Good luck, and hopefully you have some return support.
 
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I came here this morning to post the exact same thing you are having issues with. My phone is rooted and it is so slow that nothing seems to work.

Replaced the stock launcher with NOVA launcher which for a few days was very fast at transitioning between screens.
Also replaced the stock SMS and GOSMS with TEXTRA and again it was fast for a few days and then it started to slow to the point I want to throw it away.

Since I'm rooted, is there a way to see the memory allocations to see what is hogging all the memory? I have plenty of memory on the phone now according to TPP.

In addition is also gets very hot sometimes, due to the battery discharging, but I cannot see what is on. I turn all the things off and it still runs hot, sometimes, not all the time.

This is a replacement phone that was purchased on ebay. I have had it for almost a year and did not have any issues when I first got it.
Also on M050 and 4.1.2.

It runs like an old Windows 98 computer with too little memory! Bad analogy, but its really that slow!

HELP!!!!
 
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I think replacing the phone is the only fix. Had a strange, unfix-able issue like this myself. All the sudden, my data would not work. Tried reset & everything. Just had to send it back. It seems like the hardware in this phone tends to burn out easy. Maybe that is why they are doing away with the GzOne phone line from Casio. Good luck!
 
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It's not hardware, it's software. There are at least 5 similar posts on this site alone. This started for me after the update in April/may, m050 I guess. The phone would sometimes start up using only one cpu core, or the system process would just max out the cpu for no apparent reason. The latest update 070 has seemed to almost eliminate the one core issue, but the system process will still just randomly take over the cpu for god knows how long. They also added a bunch of bloatware crap, so even when the system isn't trying to burn my phone to the ground for no reason, simply opening the browser on some news pages is too much for the 1GB ram. I'm like a day from sledgehammering this pos into little pieces. It was fine before the update, then like a switch was flipped.
 
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<snip> I'm like a day from sledgehammering this pos into little pieces. It was fine before the update, then like a switch was flipped.

Exactly - the most recent update has turned my phone into a source of intense frustration for me. I'm not sure if it'll be the stress that causes an aneurysm or the heat from the phone is going to burn a hole in my femoral artery, but this thing is going to be the death of me, I'm certain.

Gonna try a reset, I guess.
 
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One problem a friend fixing my commando 4G told me about was this model of phone being notorious for having bad(or factory second, not sure of proper term) NAND chips from the factory... My "replacement phone" I got from a friend had the scrolling android of death...
Think android-x86 boot never-ending... The guyguy fixing it said a PUSHED update was the culprit, and that it wrote to a bad or the wrong NAND block.he is baking on a new NAND chip as we speak I hope...
 
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