Jittery scrolling experience in Nexus 6P?

[Nashvi]

I've been testing my new Nexus 6P. In about a week's time and continuous usage, I am experiencing jerky or jittery scrolling experience in my 6P. Almost all the pages whether be a web-page or other apps screen, all seems to be affected. I can see the content flickering. It looks the same as the LED/LCDs TVs with low refresh rate where you could see ghost images in fast moving content. I'm really not liking it.

With more apps added the phone seems to be slowing down. BTW how much is the app memory? The memory (RAM) usage also bumped upto 70% usage even when no apps running. Probably it is normal as Android might be caching the apps for quick launch to avoid lags.

But in all the screen scroll is annoying. I also own iPhone 5S and the scroll is super smooth even when the phone is flooded with apps. It remains butter smooth throughout. But it is not the case with 6P. Has it to do anything with the video hardware/GPU issues or the Marshmallow issues or my device is faulty?

 

[Ed Briggs]

I would try a factory reset and see what happens. If you still have an issue, then you have a faulty device and should exchange it for a new one. The N6p should be buttery smooth.

 

[Go0gle]

It should not be doing that, mine is buttery smooth even on LTE and even with ridiculously unnecessary erratic scrolling up/down on content heavy web pages or apps.

I believe the RAM usage is normal. Android manages RAM very well, and kicks things out when necessary.

I'm not aware of any video hardware/GPU issues.

 

[itch808]

ditto, mines like buttahhhh. factory reset sounds like a good idea

 

[syspry]

Shouldn't even need a factory reset with this phone so soon, sounds like you might have installed a misbehaving app that's messing with overall performance. I also have iPhones and can attest that my 6p easily matches them for fast and smooth performance. If you manage to narrow down what app is causing you issues and remove it and this still persists then I'd start looking at it being a possible defective device. These little mini computers are all subject to potential faulty RAM or CPU's etc. If it happens again on a replacement then I'd most definitely start investigating your apps of choice for a culprit.

 

[Nashvi]

I tried the option of factory reset. And the phone is back to smooth scrolling. I had 72 apps installed in the phone. After factory reset I have installed only the Google apps and the scrolling is fine so far. It does look like some faulty app was interfering with the overall device performance. I'll be spending time to narrow down the fault app that was causing the scrolling nightmare.

But this does raise another question on how Android manages apps resources that interferes with entire System and other apps performance? I had an idea that each apps run in a sandbox to prevent this kind of situation. Looks like there is something more to it.