Sprint Touch is sluggish with packetloss while tethering

pathogen · #1 (**permalink**) 06-11-2009, 04:03 PM

Got a Touch from ebay after dropping mine in the toilet. It looks immaculate cosmetically but it does not perform as well hardware wise. It seems to be somewhat sluggish very sporadically while scrolling through file lists and performing other intensive tasks.

restoring and backing up with SPB seems to take forever and the screen locks up and slows down considerably.

While tethering I get a tremendous amount of packetloss that is also sporadic.

I tried optimizing using SK Tools and hard resetting.
It just doesn't seem as quick as my old Touch.

The software is up to date at 3.03.651.4. I have no idea what could be causing it and I'm not to fond of trying to get a refund.

Any ideas

trehouse · #2 (**permalink**) 06-14-2009, 08:38 AM

Did you have a backup of your old unit which you can fully restore to this one? I guess you're trying to rule out a software or ROM issue instead of a hardware problem.

Obviously the things which slow you down are low free memory and what's running in the background.

Was the new ROM the same so that you're comparing apples and oranges. I don't know about the packet loss but again, the unit seems to be getting loaded down while processing.

pathogen · #3 (**permalink**) 06-15-2009, 01:29 AM

I used the stock rev a. release ROM from HTC on the old phone. I'm pretty sure this phone uses the same rom as the boot screen had the same software numbers and everything matched up with my old phone. I'm just wondering if there was a custom rom install that I wouldn't know about. I did do a hard reset a few times.

I did do a restore on the backup but it took forever and the phone kept freezing up. The phone is definately useable I don't really notice much of a difference except when typing a text message seems a fraction of a second delayed.