Hero progressively slower and eating more battery

[princem131]

It seems like my Hero keeps getting progressively slower and its eating more battery faster. Has anyone else experienced these problems. I'm currently on Fresh 1.1 but I think this has happened before on other roms/versions.

Is the slow down expected over time like winmo? From what I've read it shouldnt be happening. I tried soft reset with no improvement. Hard resets have made significant improvements but then I have to reconfigure all my settings.

Any suggestions for either issue?

[mbaseball3]

phone life issue? maybe hero's are built to last til you throw it due to lagginess to where you gotta get a new one. that, or, til supersonic comes

[Leukay]

mine occasionally gets like that after i get done with an app installing rampage. Try uninstalling some apps you dont need or want, and it should actually speed up. You can also try deleting some old text message threads because that tends to affect speed for me as well

[princem131]

hmm that's interesting and annoying but I'll drop some apps and delete some old text convos. hopefully that helps thanks

[KBZL]

Originally Posted by princem131

hmm that's interesting and annoying but I'll drop some apps and delete some old text convos. hopefully that helps thanks

Interesting and annoying?? So when you install a ton of apps on your computer and try watching a movie while burning a cd and running a slide show of your family it doesnt get slow?? These phones are like small computers, if you bog it down with a ton of new content and dont clear out some space every now and then, yeah, it will get slow.

[princem131]

Originally Posted by kbussen

Interesting and annoying?? So when you install a ton of apps on your computer and try watching a movie while burning a cd and running a slide show of your family it doesnt get slow?? These phones are like small computers, if you bog it down with a ton of new content and dont clear out some space every now and then, yeah, it will get slow.

I cleared out my text and it seemed to help. we'll see for sure after a few days of usage. thanks for the help.

And yes it is annoying IF the apps were part of the problem. I love the Hero but lets be honest even at its best it is laggy. Now, if the addition of what I feel was a moderate amount of apps slows it down and I have to go back and decide which to remove, that, to me, is annoying. I understand that excessive amounts of content will slow the device, but I honestly used the apps I have loaded (some of which I now removed). It's not the end of the world but for a device that utilizes apps as such a central part of the experience I feel its kinda a nuisance to have to pick and choose. I didn't even have all of my screen filled up (tho that is due partially to the fact i use folders for organizing some apps). Not to mention many of the apps are to improve or add things that are basic functions that the OS should have. (improved sms/mms - handcent, file manager, etc.). Not bashing the phone at all just becoming a little frustrated with the lag and having to do "extra stuff" to get it to perform decently. The Hero could have been so much stronger than it is and at times IMO it can be annoying. Hopefully the Supersonic will be what the Hero should've been

Leukay +1 THANKS!

[willpower101]

Originally Posted by kbussen

Interesting and annoying?? So when you install a ton of apps on your computer and try watching a movie while burning a cd and running a slide show of your family it doesnt get slow?? These phones are like small computers, if you bog it down with a ton of new content and dont clear out some space every now and then, yeah, it will get slow.

Haha, another ******* from knoxville I moved from there to murfreesboro cause utk cut down on their technology classes in order to budget more sports. But I kinda miss the dragon and cherahola

I'm pretty sure installing a bunch of programs on a computer doesn't do jack until they are all running simultaneously. (or until it starts affecting hard drive space) The android doesn't seem to want to close any of my apps and release their memory.

Everything i've read about this OS says that apps sitting in the background are supposed to release memory, but mine just take up memory until I close them with a task manager. The browser alone takes up 20mb and i routinely need quick access to it and my tabs, but it kills the os. Take the iphone or the blackberry for example. I can leave plenty of things open on those (backgrounder installed on iphone of course) and have absolutely no problem doing other complex tasks on the phone because the background stuff takes an incredibly small footprint. Unlike how the hero will lag 5 seconds after pressing the "call button" with just gtalk, handcent, browser, and email open in the background doing what they should be doing. I think all we're asking for is to be able to use the thing properly.

[KBZL]

Originally Posted by willpower101

Haha, another ******* from knoxville I moved from there to murfreesboro cause utk cut down on their technology classes in order to budget more sports. But I kinda miss the dragon and cherahola

I'm pretty sure installing a bunch of programs on a computer doesn't do jack until they are all running simultaneously. (or until it starts affecting hard drive space) The android doesn't seem to want to close any of my apps and release their memory.

Everything i've read about this OS says that apps sitting in the background are supposed to release memory, but mine just take up memory until I close them with a task manager. The browser alone takes up 20mb and i routinely need quick access to it and my tabs, but it kills the os. Take the iphone or the blackberry for example. I can leave plenty of things open on those (backgrounder installed on iphone of course) and have absolutely no problem doing other complex tasks on the phone because the background stuff takes an incredibly small footprint. Unlike how the hero will lag 5 seconds after pressing the "call button" with just gtalk, handcent, browser, and email open in the background doing what they should be doing. I think all we're asking for is to be able to use the thing properly.

Im sorry my fellow *******, i did mention that running those programs did slow down the PC. Sorry I wasnt more clear. My only point was stating that these phones are mini pc's and well using multiple apps can cause a bit of sluggishness. I guess I just dont like someone downing a phone that they purchased and didnt do thorough review or testing themselves. I came from a diamond of a little over a year and when I got my Hero, it was like a breath of fresh air. No more flashing constantly in hopes of finally reaching light speed, no more task killing, no more constant lock ups. Wasnt trying to be a *******, I apologize to the OP if I came accross that way.

Oh and BTW, stay in Murfreesboro.

[willpower101]

Originally Posted by kbussen

My only point was stating that these phones are mini pc's and well using multiple apps can cause a bit of sluggishness. I guess I just dont like someone downing a phone that they purchased and didnt do thorough review or testing themselves. I came from a diamond of a little over a year and when I got my Hero, it was like a breath of fresh air. No more flashing constantly in hopes of finally reaching light speed, no more task killing, no more constant lock ups. Wasnt trying to be a *******, I apologize to the OP if I came accross that way.

Oh and BTW, stay in Murfreesboro.

Coming from a mogul i more than understand the breath of fresh air. I'm just saying that i agree with the op that this phone simply shouldn't have the speed problems it does when running maybe 5 or 6 constant apps in the background (or 10, 12, or 15 based on the memory handling, but though i say that it's not immediately relevant.) Yeah a pc slows down if you run a lot of stuff, a phone does too.

But I should be able to have 100 apps installed no problem, be running gtalk, htc sense, handcent messaging, phone, gmail, contacts, voicemail, and a task manager without having only 30mb of memory free and the phone crawling when trying to search through contacts and make or end a phone call. These are basics. Throw an opening of the browser, amazon, or market in there and the thing becomes nearly as annoying as the mogul.

I'm also on fresh 1.1 and it's just silly that If I want to browse the web, i have to force kill everything to get decent input response. (I tend to measure my lag by keyboard and browser response)

[thacounty]

Get a new kernel for better speed and batt life. Also make sure you back out of apps. Pressing home will cause these problems.