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[Nexus S Themes and Apps] barmanham:
I tried going on mmochampion.com on stock browser on the nexus s and the g2 both performed bad.But with dolphin mini much better give it a try I guess if you are using stock browser
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Lou2serious:
I thought the nexus s had 512mb of ram but it doesn't seem to be 512mb at all.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] dinan:
Yea the iOS browser is the smoothest out of all of them, because it's GPU accelerated and renders the tiles after panning, not on the fly like the android browser.

The only way to achieve similar smoothness with android is to use Opera Mobile beta 10 which is ALMOST as smooth as safari, but MUCH smoother than the android browser. The only drawback is it doesn't have flash... but neither does iOS so I guess it's not really a drawback =)
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] lorijuan1024:
i too have this annoying problem i have to click the link a couple of times or wait 15-30 secs then it stars loading
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] deathst:
Anyone tried doing this?

In the browser URL type about:debug and hit go.

Hit Menu->More->settings

Scroll all the way down, Uncheck Show Javascript console and tick Normal Rendering.

Quit from the app and relaunch it.

This Method has improved my browser quite alot...
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Si_NZ:
Firefox 4 also works wonderfully for me, though, no flash either. At least its sync feature is really useful, and tab management is much easier than the stock browser.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] avetny:
Opera 11 !!!!! working excellent ! I wish CM gonna change stock browser for Opera !

(flash working super, no laggy at all even at 800Hgz)

it's the best one
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] WingnutStrikesBack:
second that!

Opera 11 ist absolutly amazing, with this browser i have no lags
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] princeasi:
Yeah this opera browser is doing something really nice, but I have ran across some sites it's had a hard time displaying whereas Browser played them with no problems. Overall very nice improvement over the stock!

Sent from my Nexus S
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Si_NZ:
I find zooming in by tapping on Opera a bit dumb, I seldom get it to zoom to where I want. I've never had this issue with either the stock browser nor Firefox.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] obyn:
I can't click on any links in opera 11. Scroll and zoom is ok even though it feels a little bit delayed.

Anyone else not being able to click links?

Cm n#26

Edit: worked after restart of app. Sorry. Zoom and scroll much snappier now too.

I can highly recommend this browser!
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] :
I can't live without Dophin HD tabs on top. Ditched the stock one long ago...
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] tobice:
Hi,

what's the current status of this problem? I've read that the update 2.3.2 should fix the slow lagging browser... but I couldn't find any info whether it really did... and there's nothing about it in this thread... it seems to me that everybody is switching to some alternative browser :)
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] dario3040:
2.3.3 is not supposed to fix the browser lag.

The reason the browser lags is because there is no hardware acceleration, no browser have that, but some have cpu smoothing though.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] tobice:
I've tried both Nexus S and some HTC phones running 2.3 and the stock browser was much more smoother on HTC than on Nexus S. Does that mean that HTC has hw acceleration and Nexus S doesn't? Or it's just some kind of optimization done by HTC? Either way I find it kind of sad that Google wasn't able to do the same thing for Nexus S which is supposed to be the "flagship" of Android phones.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] k4str0:
Try setting plugins to load on demand in the browser. I've noticed pretty significant speed increases by changing this setting.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] tobice:
There is indeed some speed improvement but HTC (all of them) phones are still faster than Nexus S, even with flash working! I tried the same pages.

At the beginning of this thread some people are describing exactly the same problem. Laggy browser even with flash turned off. Several causes are mentioned in this thread - bad gpu driver from samsung, browser not optimized for Hummingbird, flash not optimizied for Hummingbird.... Anyway I thought that they would fix it after almost 4 months... so I guess they didn't.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] xmRipper:
Use Opera Mobile v11. Its the smootest browser on Android, lag free, super-fast, no checkerboards at all, perfect one.

(PS: Not Opera Mobile v10, and not Opera Mini ... It must be Opera Mobile v11)
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] tobice:
Thank you, I'll try Opera. By the way I tried the stock browser with disabled flash once again and indeed it was much faster. I did the same thing for Galaxy S to compare the performance and it was pretty much the same... so it's not just Nexus' problem. But as I said before, HTC is still much more faster... so I guess the boys from HTC had to do some incredible job in optimization the stock browser.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] mancur:
First, even with plugins set to load "on demand", my Nexus S was stuttering on almost every web page, to the point where it became unbearable to surf non-mobile optimized web pages.

It was so bad I started searching for answers and found this thread. With all the people mentioning Opera Mobile 11 I figured I'd give it a shot and ... WOW. The scroll and zoom speed increase over the stock browser is *astounding*. And, the double-tap zoom is literally instant. And this all works while a web page is still loading, when the stock browser would be on its knees. Opera supports tabbed-browsing and a number of other features, but it does appear to be missing Flash, if that's important to people.

Anyway, another vote for Opera 11 here. Thank you to those who recommended it.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] sagech:
Flash is working on my Opera Mobile 11
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] :
Opera has tabs like Dolphin HD??
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] mancur:
Yes, it has tabs. It's very similar to Google's implementation of multitasking in Honeycomb. The tabs (mini-previews) are behind a single icon on the screen.

They also give you 9 large bookmark previews when you create a new tab, ala Chrome desktop. Very handy.

What did you need to do to enable it? Just download Flash from the market?
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Cmmts:
I tried 2.3.4 without flash (it was on demand before) and I suppose the issue has gotten just a bit better, but nowhere satisfactory. I didn't sell my HTC Desire just to get a much slower browser. Google needs to address this issue asap. Quite embarrassing for their flagship phone.:mad:
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] dwang:
Try the infin1ty rom from the dev section. Its so fast that it makes browsing graphic intensive sites actually tolerable.

I do agree that Google should be embarrassed for the browser performance on their flagship phone. The Nexus one has better browser performance than the Nexus s.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] :
Dolphin, after the update, is unusable so I'm playing with Miren. It's better than Stock but still farts, hiccups, stutters and crashes in places but has real Tabs. I hate Opera in all of it's hideous forms.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Cmmts:
Please, everybody that has the browser issues, star this. That is the best way to keep reminding Google on the seriousness of this issue. This issue need's to be lifted to the first page of android bug reports.

Remember Google's attitude towards the SMS problem (messages going to the wrong people). That issue was in Google's knowledge for quite some time, but they didn't react until the media reacted and they got bad press.

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=13404
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] hanged_man:
glad im not the only one, i tried everything, i thought there was maybe a background process or something slowing down my phone, ive even exchanged my phone for another (due to having other issues as well such as overheating) but its still the same thing. However i noticed it happens in pages with gif images such as phandroid.com and engadget.com and it happens at the top of the page, now the interesting thing when you go to the home screen then return to the page, the stuttering/lag goes away, definitely looks like a software issue to me.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] dwang:
Doubt it will be fixed before ice cream sandwich comes out. Ice cream sandwich promises 2d hw acceleration support.

In the meantime, the latest cyanogen 7 has some sw optimization that improve browser performance. Its not a huge improvement, but an improvement nonetheless and should tie us over until ice cream sandwich comes out on the nexus s and fix the problem for real.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] kevin_ngckk:
WHen will be released?? Icecream
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] hanged_man:
probably in Christmas this year probably along with the upcoming nexus device
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] 12MaNy:
No browser lag here. Lol :p
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] dwang:
try desktop engadget or anandtech, after not rebooting your phone for a day or so.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] uansari1:
I just switched to Dolphin HD..I had no idea what I was missing. It's the closest thing to Chrome on Android.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] serialtoon:
Ive been having some serious browser problems as well. Anyone who states that its "smooth" for them is just BS. its the same all around. if anyone wants to give opera a spin heres the link. i personally like the stock browser, but it obviously has some issues with hummingbird.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.opera.browser
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] mizunox:
I'm having an issue that I think is a little different.

Some pages that I go to will not open at all.

Would someone mind trying www.tsn.ca on your phone?

I get the banner, then nothing. I can leave it for an hour and nothing will appear.

I've disabled plugins, but still no go.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] theimpaler:
www.tsn.ca works perfectly fine here on my Nexus S running 2.3.4. :)
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] mizunox:
Okay so it worked for me after rebooting my phone. Now a few hours later it only loads the banner then hangs again.

very strange. Maybe some kind of memory issue.

Maybe ill flash a new rom and see if it corrects the problem.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] lifeflayer:
I actually have the same issue as you. I have the same version of the phone, rom, and network provider as you as well. It only occurs to me over 3g while everything loads completely fine over wifi.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] mindwalkr:
I've found the stock browser to be a little laggy sometimes but it gets exceptionally bad with websites with plenty of images (plugins on demand set on mine). I've tried Dolphin and it's the same thing. Skyfire and not much smoother either.

However Opera Mobile works wonders!! For a smooth browsing experience I found it to be the best
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] mizunox:
Wow, I'm really noticing the stalling that the OP was talking about too.

You can have a page full of text and it'll be really smooth.. then you hit one large picture and the whole thing turns to crap... barely able to scroll.

Other pages are fine even with pictures, so it's kind of strange.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] tobice:
New Google Mobile Search

Have you tried the new Google Mobile Search on your Nexus S? Especially searching images is _incredibly_ slow but generally the searching experience isn't very smooth. I forced this new search to Opera - the scrolling was 100% smooth but the new icon bar at the top of the page was totally broken. I wonder to whom is this new search meant... iPhone users?
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Cmmts:
Yeah, it's incredible that Google made their search site so slow it's everything except a pleasure to use. I could understand the slowness if I had HTC Hero or something, but I have bought the android flagship phone... Google needs to get their act together.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] ShadowVlican:
gee i thought i was the only one who noticed this lag

i come from an iphone, so i know what "buttery smooth" means... the nexus s is NOT "buttery smooth"

the stock browser SUCKS.. can't handle images very well (try scrolling up and down http://www.anandtech.com/ you'll see what i mean)

i use opera because it's the smoothest browser out there... i've tried firefox and stock browser wrappers like dolphin, miren, etc but they all lag in comparison... i use opera with the stock browser's user agent because web developers don't care about opera (browse the internet with stock opera settings and u'll see what i mean)

btw, do you think this will work? [MOD][JVQ] NEW LAGFREE BROWSER for DEODEXED JVQ-ROMS

here's a video of the lag:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpuaNanxdEE
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] princeasi:
Once I discovered my N1 was able to scroll flash heavy website much smoother than the NS, I got rid of my NS very quickly.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] siffar:
It indeed is smooth :eek:But then I use custom ROMs with TUV11 kernel. Could that be the reason?:rolleyes:
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] tobice:
I'm not sure I understand you correctly. You mean that when using TUV11 kernel, the stock browser is as smooth as Opera Mobile? Which ROM do you use?
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] siffar:
I keep switching between SuperOSR and Liquids Nexus Bread.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] tobice:
And answer to my first question please?:) is the speed of the browser so significantly different? Is it as fast as Opera Mobile?
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] siffar:
In scrolling[Up and down] both have same amount of lag/swiftness, though Opera has upper hand when zooming in and out. That being said, perhaps its due to duration of zoom in and zoom out.

I dont use Flash except for YouTube.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] tobice:
Wow, that sounds good, I'm definitely gonna give it a try.
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] djchad72:
I have the lag too, but Opera Mobile is lag free. Typing, browsing, and loading are much more fluid.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] dfinnegan:
I'm have a Motorola Droid A855 (Droid 1) running CyanogenMod 6.1.2 with a Slayer 2.6.32.9 1200 MHz kernel. It's been running just fine.

I have ROM Manager 2.5.0.9 installed and have been running it for a while; weeks, or months.

Recently, I visited the market app and checked on downloads. I see that a ROM Manager download is in the Currently downloading section and reporting "Starting download..."; for ever.

I have rebooted. I have killed the market app. Always the ROM Manager app is "Starting download..." and never makes progress and never goes away.

Any idea what could be causing this?

I did notice that ROM Manager has had recent updates, but I generally un-check the auto-update box on all apps. Occasionally one gets through with the auto-update set, but I doubt that ROM Manager was one of those. And, who cares, it should not sit in the Starting download state for ever.

Oh, and this is on WiFi, or on Cellular.

Thanks for any insights,

Dave
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] mozicodo:
When I have this problem, clearing the data for the Market App fixes it. You can do this through Settings->Application->Market->Clear Data
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Pegi:
I was also experiencing problems with updating from the market, and found out that I needed to clear out the android_secure folder on my sd card to have less than 231 MB of info in it. I had used Titanium backup to force some apps to sd card and it put doubles in that folder. The market must see space in that folder in order to complete either the download and/or install. After I cleared that folder out I was able to use the market as usual.
[Flipside General] rignfool:
so...

if i deleted the motoblur sticky notes widget and the motoblur weather widget... can i put them back... since i can't get rid of them in the motorola widget menu?

or maybe someone knows what else i have to delete to totally get rid of them?
[Galaxy Tab General] 3dadd:
I'm still trying to get my AT&T Tab back to Stock 2.2 Firmware.

After Flashing with the ATT_Stock.zip from the forum I get the boot audio but picture.

After trying again - it shows FAIL! at the very end of the process in odin 1.7

Do I need to use different set of files and a pit file before I use the stock AT&T file?

I can get the Tab back to life using Euro JM6.

Steps so far:

Stock AT&T out of the box

Flash Odin 1.3 w/Russian Full firmware JJ4 (Hidden Pit & 3 files) then used JJ7 no repart, no pit, then added Modem file

Tried to return to ATT Stock using just the .tar file in PDA and get black screen

Tab went into Phone ! COmputer screen.

Used Odin 1.7 with Euro JM6 in PDA and Tab comes back OK

any advise on what I might doing wrong on the Stock AT&T step?

thanks
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DRBEAN:
Ok guys i need some assistance, when i check the sony website ii says update not available, how is this possible.

Any assistance would be thankful
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] batman_112:
Maybe it is not released yet in your region. You can flash generic firmware from here.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DRBEAN:
Thanks but the thread you send me to is saying that old 1.6 Firmware can not be flashed with this at the moment

?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tony_C:
Cannot go to 1.6, can come from 1.6.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] batman_112:
You can flash from 1.6 --> 2.1 but NOT the other way around.
[G Tablet General] mvaughn12:
Pulled from Engadget site

In case you missed it, this weekend Staples announced that it was no longer offering the 10.1-inch Viewsonic G Tablet because of a "manufacturing defect." Well, as it turns out, Viewsonic is claiming there's really no hardware defect at all -- instead, the manufacturer of the Android 2.2, Tegra 2-powered tablet is reporting that there's really a "user experience issue." Nope, that doesn't sound much better, but according to Viewsonic's VP of Marketing Adam Hanin, the G Tablet saw a fair number of returns because of its sluggish software experience, which was caused by the preloaded Tap and Tap Android layer. A number of issues were also caused by the lack of Flash, which Adobe hasn't yet certified for Tegra 2 (we hear that's finally coming at the end of January). "We believe it is the user experience that caused all the returns, and we are taking important steps forward with the G Tablet," Hanin told us.

So, what are those steps exactly? Viewsonic will be releasing an over-the-air software update before the end of the week and will also provide links for users to manually download and install a beta version of Flash on its support page. Naturally, we asked Hanin why the G Tablet was shipped in this half-finished state at all -- he told us that while Android and Tegra are great platforms, Google's lack of support for larger devices means that companies like Viewsonic have to "go out and put together their own software and app stores." We're not sure that's a great answer -- in fact, it sort of sounds like Viewsonic is trying to blame Google, Adobe, and NVIDIA for its own half-finished and laggy software, when it released the tablet on its accord own to retailers. Either way, we've now seen more than enough terrible "user experience" issues on the early crop of Android tablets
[G Tablet General] bijan588:
Wheres the apology?
[G Tablet General] whosloosin92:
Anyone else see engaget as fairly biased against the gtablet?
[G Tablet General] Neoprimal:
Engadget is biased to anything not sold by Apple. It's been like that for a while. Despite this, they're still the ones to beat as a tech blog so I just ignore the snarky condescending tone they use while reviewing any and all products that compete with Apple's and enjoy the funny commentary by writers and reader alike, as well as appreciate (for the most part) the information they share and news they break.
[G Tablet General] Skyydragon:
Endgadget(applefanboysrus.com) are A-Holes anyway, they are mad that Apple products can't pull away from Android, poor steve jobs can't catch a break, make a phone, android makes it better, make a tablet, android will own that market too.
[G Tablet General] cutterjohn:
Ars Technica is pretty much this way now as well, might as well change their name to Apple Centrica
[G Tablet General] GenBlood:
Viewsonic gambled on the early release of the g tablet and lost. The software

wasn't ready. I got to blame the QA group that works for Viewsonic. They

should know people expect it to work out of box. Slow response to touches,

tap n tap ... looked nice but needed to be quicker. The lack of adobe flash

and market place also was a let down. QA should have just said, " NO ". An

made them fix the tap n tap interface and the other issues before releasing

the g tablet.

The biggest issue is the display screen for the device. They need to release

a better display with better viewing angles. If you have to call the people

that make the displays for Apples iPad .. :p Having the hardware of the

Viewsonic g tablet with the iPad display would ROCK .. :)

Time to make some donuts ...:D
[G Tablet General] cutterjohn:
Screen is bad, but biggest issue by far is the alpha quality UI OOB... just doesn't fly for most consumers.

I think that flash & market support are overrated for most consumers as well. Having flash as a later update is fine as it'll eventually be released by Adobe for Tegra 2, but market? Just too many alternatives, and so far I could've done with no market at all as everything that I've installed so far is available directly from the dev as well as the market...
[G Tablet General] Acturbo:
Gotta agree here. First thing you notice when you pull this thing out of the box is the force close issues, the clock timezone wont stay, its unresponsive and slow. In a world where people demand instant gratification, no one wants to wait for the next update or "fix" becuase it shouldnt need to be fixed in the first place. If I didnt know any better and took my G tab out of the box, I'd be running back to Sears to return it.
[G Tablet General] akodoreign:
You mean like having to hold your phone a particular way or you wouldn't have any signal?

No people are very patient as long as they are informed about what is happening. :D
[G Tablet General] cshehan:
My question is why should Staples apologize? I think everyone here has to admit that out of the box this device had a lot of issues. Your average consumer probably wouldn't even call Viewsonic tech support, but instead would just take it back to the store. I'd imagine the return rate was pretty horrific, so why in the world would Staples want to apologize for pulling an item that I'm sure to the non-technical appears to have hardware issues?
[G Tablet General] wiredmonkey:
I'll be the first to admit the Gtab is far from perfect, but calling it a hardware defect is blatantly false.
[G Tablet General] cshehan:
To a non-technical person if you bought a tablet opened it up and it did say an update and then boot-looped and the only solution was to send it to Viewsonic for repair, that would make them think it was a hardware problem.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] link3988:
After a lot of stress, I finally managed to remote into my windows 7 home premium machine from my TP2.

But the sound doesn't work! :(

I've selected the "Play on this device" option on the Microsoft Remote Desktop Mobile, but whenever I try to play music, I get an error stating that there is no audio device.

I can play music on the laptop I'm remoting into, but not on my phone.

Anybody have any suggestions, please?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] firefox1307:
I am new to these forums and did a search but didn't find anything.

I am trying to change the color of the keys on the keyboard to be all black. Currently, the keys are all white (with the exception of the backspace, next, and a few others), but my sister has a 3G Slide and her on screen keyboard has all the keys as black and I love the look of it. Is there a way to change the color of the keys? I would have thought it would be an option under Language and Keyboard, but I was unable to find it.

By the way, if it matters, my phone is rooted.

Thanks for the help.