Application that are slow for me

[geggyta516#AC]

Hi All,

I really like this phone and it's capabilities. I have a few issues that I haven't seen expressed in the forums. I have about 800 contacts in my phone. I have really bad lag and slowness with the phone, contacts, and messaging applications. So bad that many times I get the "not responding" error for these apps. Google voice is also very slow. I have it set to ask me if I want to use Google voice or not and sometimes it takes 10-20 seconds just to get to that screen after I hit the number to dial.

Is anybody else experiencing this? Any suggestions for solutions.

Thanks!

 

[ccoady750#AC]

hmm, maybe turn off the contacts pictures in your phonebook? Or only use your "Favorites" folder, and add your frieds. Your most called contacts is also conveniently placed in that folder already. To do that, just open each contact that you consider for your favorites, and click the start to the right, then once you're all done, click the favorites folder before you close out so it's set as your default contact folder. Your favorites and most frequently called contacts will be in there. Unless you call hundreds of different people a day, that should help.

 

[Chris Kerrigan]

EDIT: ccoady beat me too it.

And btw, 800 contacts!

 

[ccoady750#AC]

EDIT: ccoady beat me too it.

And btw, 800 contacts!

Yeah, I guess with the Facebook syncing, I can see that happening to a lot of people.

 

[geggyta516#AC]

I'm in sales.

How do you disable contact pictures? Also, I disabled facebook syncing thinking that was the problem, but it didn't help.

The other annoying issue is that when i try to reply to an email or text, I start typing but the app sticks at the first letter for anywhere from 10-30 seconds. Are you guys seeing that?

 

[TootNBerry]

You might take the phone back in and have it looked at or do a restore, maybe even start deleting the lastest apps when you started noticing the lag..

 

[Roy Aguilera]

I have 500 contacts and no lag.

 

[ccoady750#AC]

ANOTHER thing I forgot to mention is under contacts>>menu>>account, you can turn off Background data, so your contacts aren't continuously syncing, or turn off Auto-Sync. Try turning off the "Background Data" first. If that doesn't work, turn off the Auto-sync also, or select which sync item you want to turn off (gmail, facebook, etc.)

 

[geggyta516#AC]

thanks for all the suggestions. I've disabled background syncing and we'll see what happens.

 

[geggyta516#AC]

The problem with disabling background sync is that many apps require it, like the Android Market.

 

[PortareAF]

Wow, 500 & 800 Contacts. I can't think of that many people I would want to talk to.

 

[ccoady750#AC]

The problem with disabling background sync is that many apps require it, like the Android Market.

But you can turn it off for contacts, and it'll stay on for everything else if you only turn if off in the contacts settings.

 

[geggyta516#AC]

But you can turn it off for contacts, and it'll stay on for everything else if you only turn if off in the contacts settings.

I'll have to dig into this. The only option i get when I go to contacts-menu-accounts is background data under general sync setting.

 

[lexones]

I'm already on my 2nd droid in a week. It powers off than comes back on. A couple of times my phone would vibrate and the short cut menu would pop up on screen. It also erase all my pictures. It seems like it does things all by it self. Hopefully I won t be experiencing the same situation when i had the black berry storm. Also does one need to purchase the dock, and if so what is the benefits.

 

[chrislitzkow]

No issues with lag from me. Sounds like a restore may be in order....

 

[largeselection]

No lag for me either 515 contacts. Background sync is on.

 

[geggyta516#AC]

all,

thanks again for all the suggestions. I did a rull erase and restore last night and the phone is FAAAAAASSSSSST now! Everything including contacts and messaging. I actually have more contacts in there now as I synced my exchange contact list into google contacts. The other great thing was that it automagically restored all my apps that I had added over the last couple of weeks. This "IS" the droid I've been looking for!

 

[geggyta516#AC]

Amazing! I've made 4 or 5 calls using google voice in the time it took me to make one yesterday. Just Amazing! I think I know what was causing the issue and will type up a root cause later.

 

[Chris Kerrigan]

Glad to see that your Droid is now working the way it should be! No one's Droid should ever pretend to be a Storm

 

[ccoady750#AC]

Glad to see that your Droid is now working the way it should be! No one's Droid should ever pretend to be a Storm

The Storm must have been named by a psychic, lol. Both the S1 and S2 are terrible (in my experience) phones, compared to the droid.