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[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boktai1000:
Experiencing this issue as well still on 6.0.1 it seems.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jackdubl:
I've noticed no lag at all, even double tapping to open camera. Anyone with lag, I'll say the same thing I've said for years, buy System Panel Pro app and see what is using the cpu when the phone is lagging. 9 times out of 10 it's an app.

And can't all these snap chat issues just be due to snap chat needing to update?
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wangmaster:
My wife switched from an iphone 6 to a nexus 5 (for a test run) then a 5x (to get her on project fi) and no, this is nothing compared to an iphone. Or the nexus 5. Earlier today, I launched the camera app (did nothing else, didn't try to take a picture) tried to exit it, then tried to bring up the recent apps list and this took over 7 minutes.

the issue has to do with thermal throttling is my guess because it only happens the phone is very warm/hot to the touch. However it's not just the camera app. When this happens, trying to launch ANY app takes longer than when the phone is cool. The camera appears to be worse than most apps though, but it's not just the camera that's a problem.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bblzd:
Something is wrong with your device, possibly even a hardware defect.

Thermal throttling is never going to cause a 7 minute delay in your recents menu. At its maximum throttling point the Nexus 5x will use 4x A53 cores at their full 1.44Ghz. Do you actually think 4x A53 cores @ 1.44Ghz would take 7 minutes to load anything? Does a Moto G take 7 minutes to bring up its recents menu? No.

Even at its maximum throttling point the Nexus 5x out performs most Android devices at their maximum throttling points, as can be seen here.

So what can we say about your situation? You mentioned the phone gets unnaturally hot on its own and that's when the performance issues begin. It would be safe to assume that the root cause of your device's problems is whatever is causing your device to over heat randomly on its own like that.

So what could cause a phone to randomly overheat on its own? Well not very much actually, either one of the radios are suddenly under high load or the SoC (various processing) is suddenly under high load. Since this is happening randomly on its own, that would tell me either one of the apps or one of the signals is enabling itself and putting your device into a high load scenario which causes random heat. Since the device is under a high stress scenario (it wouldn't be getting hot if it wasn't) despite not being used, that means when the user decides to actually use the device their actions are stuck behind the random action that is causing the devices performance issues to begin with.

tl;dr either one of your apps or signals is causing your performance issues (likely) or you have defective hardware (unlikely).
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SeriesOfTubes:
What is everyone using snapchat for? I don't understand...
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikeosu:
I've seen very good performance so far on my N5X. Sure a tiny of bit of lag occasionally but that will happen with any phone. It performs circles around my 2013 Moto X (Android 5.1) which was already pretty good. Seems to me that folks with bad lag have an unknown app stressing the CPU or a hardware defect.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iamterence:
To send little pictures with captions to our friends. Some of us DO have friends that use the app, you know.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hopesrequiem:
Burn. Haha nice dude
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] petrus764:
I have zero lag in the camera app, but snapchat is laggy as hell. I think its a sw issue on their part.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tailslol:
well decrypting the device help a lot on general lag .
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matlala:
Hi guys. I have some lags on my new 5X. I using last factory image 6.0.1, MMB29K, data decrypted via fastboot (i know, encrypt is big performance issue) . Last twrp 2.8.7.2, rooted last supersu 2.62-3 and last elementalx 1.02.

I have problem with CPU and camera app because load 100%.

It is normal that the 2. cluster cpu cores sometimes can't control and its offline? When offline, so I can't set up freq and governor. Supersu log us full of red record of absence folder cpu4 in /sys/devices ...

Someone have same problem? Or it is normal? It may be a hardware fault?

Flar2 (ex kernel developer) says it's a stock behavior.

This is some logs and screenshots

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rgfollmexx4ng9y/AABUclwJKQqSnBqY6B7wajYoa?dl=0
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bblzd:
The 2x A57 cores will power down after approximately 12 minutes of 100% sustained load due to thermal throttling. It should be possible to adjust this behavior using custom software.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matlala:
I tryed CM 13 nightly before and 2015-12-10 and 2015-12-14. Both is same state.

Any custom kernel with better thermal throttling and adjustment this? Elementalx has, and I do not know whether, developer of me that has not yet responded.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Paragon_X:
So I am a power snapchat user and had this same problem and might have accidentally stumbled on a possible solution after having a login failure. I enabled the travel mode so it's not downloading constantly. I installed snapprefs and I can't explain why but it's flying now. No lag on window switching or opening the camera. I'm on 6.0.1 December rooted
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gtg465x:
If the Snapchat app is causing any Android phone to peg CPU cores at 100% then there must be something seriously wrong the app... poor coding or a bug. My Nexus 5X performs great on 100% stock 6.0.1 (even encrypted), but I don't have that app.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MushuP0rk:
I contacted google regarding the issue - i tried opening the stock camera app once and it said that it couldn't connect to the camera... anywho, my complaint to google ended up with them sending me a replacement phone.

should receive it early next week, ill test if the camera still lags.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bengrulz:
lot of other people in different parts of the web having lag issues too:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/VDpAhli9X3c

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/3ua0ad/nexus_5x_performance_issues/ (full disclosure i submitted that post, but the replies are what's important)
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MushuP0rk:
Received my new phone. I updated the phone and then mirrored everything on the new like the old, ran snapchat and other camera functions. No lag whatsoever on the new device.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hopesrequiem:
I wonder if the early adopters got lemon devices. Because mine has yet to stutter even once. Even camera opens fast. Take a second to take a pic but I bounce between apps like butter. The speaker on the phone blows but aside from that this phone is dope
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bblzd:
Everyone installs different stuff on their phone though and certain combinations of software seem to be causing either their RAM or CPU processing to be over worked. Most likely RAM related as there's less room to work with on a 2GB unit.

I ordered on the first day and have not been experiencing these slow downs people are describing including stuff like "15+ seconds to launch the camera" where as mine is always ready to shoot in 2 seconds.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nj1266:
What happens to data/info security when you do that?
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hopesrequiem:
Its gets erased. You must start fresh with unencrypted data. So you need to backup anything that's important
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Angga Pratama:
you can try installing my engine tweak

www*mediafire*com/download/g3yevcb1753h9cx/OzoraCyber-Engine_V2.1%5B3.0-%5D.zip
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alwaysbelieve1:
Well isn't that the phone then vulnerable to hack and attack? Why would they have it encrypted by Google if they didn't think it was going to be safer by default?
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikeosu:
Same. I get the occasional expected stutter if I have tons of apps in memory and open a big app. But the camera opens fast and I am still amazed every day how fast apps like chrome open. It's great!!
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tailslol:
the encryption is more a privacy feature,it does not realy protect from malicious apps,it is more if someone try to see what is inside when the phone is shut down or fully locked,but when on , the encryption just slow down the thing...
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alwaysbelieve1:
Well how do i turn it off soon so that I could speed up my phone?
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdk2:
The instructions are here: http://xdaforums.com/nexus-5x/general/guide-how-to-install-custom-recovery-t3231143

The modified boot image for MMB29K is here: http://xdaforums.com/nexus-5x/gener...-beginners-t3206930/post63781454#post63781454
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alwaysbelieve1:
Thanks, but I don't want to root. So does that mean I cannot decrypt?

Also doesn't make the phone considerably faster or just a little bit?
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dshoe:
I have had pretty bad lag on my phone since launch day, constantly hoping an update would fix it. I broke down and called Google support and will be receiving a replacement in 3-5 business days, so I'll report back on whether the new device is an improvement.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdk2:
I haven't decryted my phone but you have to root in order to do so.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tailslol:
well,the bad news is,it will turn off ota update.

just like rooting,so i recommand you root it too.

you need to delete the phone memory with twrp and change the boot image or install a new kernel. there are tutorials on the forum.

to bad google does not want anymore uncrypted phone because of android pay and stuff like that...
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndyGeo:
I've just been on the phone to Google Support to complain about two laggy 5X's (mine & the wife's). Both ordered on launch day.

The agent was a very nice man (didn't get his name) but tried to blame the lag on certain apps that he couldn't name. Claimed that as it's working smoothly in Safe Mode that it's not the devices' fault. My reply was that this is a flagship phone and should be able to handle pretty much anything you throw at it (in terms of a couple of email accounts, facebook, whatsapp, chrome, twitter etc - nothing particularly taxing).

He wanted me to uninstall all apps, reinstall one by one and wait for the device to become laggy, then contact the developer of that app to fix the problem.

Un-be-lievable.

I'll be back on in 48 hours to ramp up "Operation replacement device"

Andy
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 2x4:
4/5ths of the way to loading any page on XDA chrome has been freezing for me for a few seconds.

most of my multitasking lag is also related to chrome....
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] umbrokhan:
what if you get Nexus 5 (2013) 2 year model and install custom ROM Marshmallow Android 6.0 update.

because some people said the 2 year model runs more faster, smoother with no lag.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 2x4:
i tried RBSbrowser, which is based on chromium so its super similar to chrome, but the EXACT same issue occurs.

however, this does NOT occur on lightning, firefox, or any other browsers NOT based on chrome/chromium...
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acolyte192:
Just a heads up people, a Tier 3 rep from Google said that flashing the factory image helps sometimes. Might be worth the shot.

This is really weird. How can this phone have so many random issues?

For me, everything works if I don't use the camera. If I use it, it will become buggy after using it a few times, and the phone will completely slow down, to the point where it's unusable. Then I have to restart it, but after that, it runs fast again, and it will stay fast until I don't start using the camera and it decides to crap out on me.

Could you try restarting your phone? If the problem is a memory leak, it could be that something on your system is holding a lot of RAM to itself, and not sharing it with other apps, which could cause Chrome to work badly, as it is a RAM-hungry app. It's just a wild theory, but it doesn't hurt too much to test it out.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 2x4:
I've tried restarting many times, trying out both chrome and chrome beta, reinstalling both, and and resetting all flags to default. I have zero issues with the camera or any other apps, the phone is super fast everywhere else even during multitasking. I even tried fully wiping system, userdata (data + internal storage), cache, dalvik and starting from scratch completely, to no avail.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acolyte192:
Ah, sucks to hear that, man. I thought that the performance might be restored after a reboot. See, this is what I mean. Chrome functions completely normally for me, while my camera gets messed up after a while. It's just perplexing to me how that's possible. You start isolating the possible causes, and when you hear all the user cases, you're just left with nothing. It makes little sense. I hope you manage to resolve your issue somehow!
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 2x4:
Thanks man. At least in my case the issue is isolated to chrome and chromium-based browsers - I've switched to lightning and now my issues are completely gone, and also got adblock.

Not sure what to suggest with regards to the camera, i love the google camera app myself and haven't really had any issues with it. I presume you've already tried clearing data for the app?
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acolyte192:
I actually haven't, because, after reading what people have tried on the Google product forums, and to no avail, I just gave up on doing anything.

I've done it now, it doesn't hurt. Still waiting for my USB type A to type C cable so that I can connect my phone to my computer, and get a custom ROM, kernel, etc. on it. I wonder if that could make a difference.

I'm monitoring that forum thread, and I'll update here if I find anything out.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 2x4:
I'm running the purenexus rom right now, but honestly I wasn't having any serious camera issues before when I was on stock, just occasionally mild lag when the phone was hot (ie, trying to take a picture after navigation or heavy chrome multitasking). That being said, the camera is definitely faster now.

---------- Post added at 12:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:35 AM ----------

Quick update regarding chrome freezing issue:

Just tried out clearing ALL my data from chrome on both my PC and phone, and all cached sites and data and everything. Problem still present.

As a result i disabled page prefetching (chrome->settings -> privacy -> prefetch page resources) - i originally had it set to only on wifi. this didn't help

Also tried disabling chrome sync, still freezes.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bblzd:
Exactly what anyone in your situation should be doing. Or return it and move on, whatever you feel like.

If the device has no issues before you install/restore apps, and it has issues after you install/restore apps, then one of your apps or restorations is the cause of your issues.

Stomping and complaining isn't going to get Google to fix your 3rd party software problems. It's laughable that you would expect them to.

Maybe this is one of the reasons most OEMs wait a year to update to the latest Android, to avoid their customers using poorly coded 3rd party apps that weren't properly updated to support the new OS features. It would almost be funny if this didn't happen every year with every major Android release that just so happens to coincide with a new Nexus device.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndyGeo:
Thanks for that.

I do think Google should be more supportive: I switched from the HTC M8 to the 5X, same setup, same apps and the 5X is borderline unusable. This from a brand new flagship phone compared to a phone that was 18 months old.

Likewise my wife was using a 2 year old N5 (running 6.0) with no issue. Again, ran the same apps/setup on the 5X and gets frustrated daily with it.

I have never experienced issues like this with a new phone and for the manufacturer to say that because it struggles to run apps which a Nexus 5 can run seamlessly is phenomenal. Especially when, as you can see from this thread, it's a known issue.

Incidentally, the agent advised me to inform developers of leggy apps. He wasnt happy when I reported to him Chrome and Camera. Just dismissed it.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bblzd:
TBH you probably could've figured out which app it is in the time it took you to write up these posts and contact Google support. Best of luck with your problem though, I truly hope you manage to resolve it so you can experience what the device is supposed to be like, and how it has been performing for the majority of its users.

In my 2 months experience this device is lag free. Even with the 2x A57 cores disabled by thermal throttling (after an especially intensive gaming session) the device is only reduced to full Moto G (3rd generation) CPU speeds, which is the 4x A53 cores running at their full 1.44Ghz.

There is no hardware reason why your phone is running slowly. Only software. Unless the issue is present on the device in an "out of the box" state then we can assume your issues are caused by the software you installed or restored.

P.S. many have claimed performance and battery issues restoring their device from another device, which were resolved after a clean install/factory reset without restoring.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 2x4:
To add to this point, it's totally possible that an app that is causing an issue was updated recently and that update is what is causing these issues. For example, I know there was an issue recently with gasbuddy "adding a feature" that caused battery usage to increase significantly. This happened around the same time I got my nexus 5X..... would have otherwise thought it was the phone had i not researched it.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theGekkoST:
Camera is very snappy for me, but Firefox has lots of jitter when scrolling up and down (even after the page has fully loaded). Also, Play Music takes almost 30 sec. to start playing a song from the widget(on my M9 it was 5 sec. tops).
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] Kashif313:
Hello everyone

my phone can enter into hboot screen but when I select fastboot or recovery it hangs and doesn't do anything. Help would be much appreciated.

Thanks
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] bdizzle1686:
A Little more info would help. Plz post a fastboot getvar all, and what kinda stuff were u doing before this happened? Flashing Roma, kernels, mods, etc.?

With the info you've given , all anybody's gonna be able to tell ya is "hey buddy, looks like your phones bricked"
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] Kashif313:
Phone doesn't go into Factbook mode. Phone was S off but bootloader was re-locked.
[Samsung Gear VR] clonednull:
*** ROOT and Gear VR compatible phone required ***

Simply switch between Gear VR and Cardboard Mode.

- Activates or deactivates the Gear VR Service which triggers the Oculus Home auto-start on the Gear VR when plugged in - use the Gear VR touchpad to simulate clicks in Cardboard Apps

- Enables the Gear VR Developer Options inside the Gear VR Service App to toggle "Developer mode" for Low Persistence feature while using Cardboard Apps (much less blurring)

Google Play Link:

Gear VR Cardboard

Credits:

This App was created with Tasker and Tasker App Factory

Changelog:

0.5:

- "Enable Developer Options" script fixed due to Gear VR service update

0.4:

- faster app start by caching variables

0.3:

- improved script to toggle the Developer Options

- added better error reporting

0.2:

Fixed "Open Gear VR Service App" button not responding when "Show icon on the launcher" option was not enabled in the Gear VR Service App

0.1:

Open Release
[Samsung Gear VR] clonednull:
*reserved*
[Samsung Gear VR] Menelkir:
Not sure if I understand. This app makes me able to use cardboard apps with VR or just switch between modes to use cardboard and gear VR?
[Samsung Gear VR] clonednull:
It lets you switch between Gear VR and Cardboard mode.

By deactivating the Gear VR Service the Oculus Home does not auto start when you plug your phone to the Gear VR.

I found it complicated to always freeze the Service with Titanium Backup before running a Cardboard app, so i wrote this little app.
[Samsung Gear VR] Menelkir:
Yeah but.. it doesn't make me using cardboard apps with my VR, right?

Just to understand (I have the two, at least changing modes it's making happy already).
[Samsung Gear VR] clonednull:
Well it depends how you mean "it doesn't make me using cardboard apps with my VR, right?"

If you mean a native Gear VR support for cardboard apps so the Gear VR sensors are used then the answer is no.

The cardboard app will still just use your phone sensors but you can at least enable "Low Persistence" mode (using the "Developer mode" switch in the Gear VR Service app) so cardboard apps no longer are a blurry mess when you move your head arround.

And you can use your Gear VR Touchpad to simulate clicks in cardboard apps (as we have no magnet).
[Samsung Gear VR] NamelessFragger:
It's a bit less kludgier than the App Quarantine widget and even provides a nifty shortcut to the Gear VR Service menus.

Didn't know strobed low-persistence mode persisted after freezing the Gear VR Service, too. Nifty!

All in all, a nice little app, though it could load a bit faster on first tap.
[Samsung Gear VR] Toss3:
[MENTION=1673437]clonednull[/MENTION] getting the following error on my n910c when trying to enable the developer options (rooted): "Error while enabling gear VR Developer Options!". Thanks for the app! :good:
[Samsung Gear VR] clonednull:
thanks for feedback mate, the loading time results from the checks (via adb shell) to determine service / developer options status but i will check out if this can be improved :good:

thanks for feedback, i knew i should have choosen a better error reporting and not only one error message :o

i couldn't test it on a note so maybe it has other folder paths, could you check out with a file browser if the following folders / files are available on your phone:

- /data/data/com.samsung.android.hmt.vrsvc/shared_prefs/com.samsung.android.hmt.vrsvc_preferences.xml (= original preferences xml)

- /sdcard/Download/com.samsung.android.hmt.vrsvc_preferences-mod.xml (= modded preferences xml)

appreciate your efforts :highfive:
[Samsung Gear VR] Pyeboo:
Hi, I am getting the same error message on a Samsung s6 edge. I have checked for the folders you mentioned above but don't have them.
[Samsung Gear VR] clonednull:
Hi mates, just done a version with an improved script to toggle the Developer Options and more error reporting.

Could you please check it out and tell me if it works or outputs an other error message?
[Samsung Gear VR] Pyeboo:
Hi,

I tried your update earlier today, but can't remember the error message I got. It was something like 'error locating file'. Now when I try it the error message is 'error while enabling gear vr developer options %error'.