Upon first purchasing my S5, I noticed the option for either runtime and decided to try ART before I even knew the difference between the two. It seemed after I did my research many people encountered issues with ART, none of which I had encountered. This switch was within the first few days of ownership of my new device. I noticed a quicker/smoother TouchWiz and Android experience in general, and after a couple days could tell battery life was improved over Dalvik for sure.
After having my phone on ART for the better part of two weeks, I decided to switch back to Dalvik again to see if I could notice a difference. Although the battery drain wasn't much worse, it was enough to notice a slightly faster drain with heavy usage throughout the week. Chrome launched slower, Nova launched apps just a tad slower and the app drawer was a touch slower as well. In many ways, lots of apps and many aspects of the whole system were. The lag was minimal for sure, but still enough to notice the difference. Maybe it was just my personal perception of things, but it seemed to be more noticeable as the week went on.
Earlier this afternoon I put the device back to ART and feel it's significantly smoother all around and my apps are behaving the way they did prior to switching earlier this week.
The entire Android experience and Samsung TW interface just feels better on my device personally, and I haven't experienced any issues whatsoever with the phone running on ART. If there was any change I've noticed that was any sort of disadvantage, it's that ART seemed to use a tad more RAM with all apps and tasks killed and the phone more or less idle. But I'm talking like .1-.16 at most, which I'm sure is a lot depending on how many apps are running at once but with background processes limited to 4 on my device, I would hope this isn't an issue.
Anyway I just wanted to share my experience with both runtimes and although I'm a novice techie and don't truly understand the full difference between the two, I wanted to share my personal, subjective opinion about my experience with it in case anyone has thought about using ART on their S5.
Cheers
After having my phone on ART for the better part of two weeks, I decided to switch back to Dalvik again to see if I could notice a difference. Although the battery drain wasn't much worse, it was enough to notice a slightly faster drain with heavy usage throughout the week. Chrome launched slower, Nova launched apps just a tad slower and the app drawer was a touch slower as well. In many ways, lots of apps and many aspects of the whole system were. The lag was minimal for sure, but still enough to notice the difference. Maybe it was just my personal perception of things, but it seemed to be more noticeable as the week went on.
Earlier this afternoon I put the device back to ART and feel it's significantly smoother all around and my apps are behaving the way they did prior to switching earlier this week.
The entire Android experience and Samsung TW interface just feels better on my device personally, and I haven't experienced any issues whatsoever with the phone running on ART. If there was any change I've noticed that was any sort of disadvantage, it's that ART seemed to use a tad more RAM with all apps and tasks killed and the phone more or less idle. But I'm talking like .1-.16 at most, which I'm sure is a lot depending on how many apps are running at once but with background processes limited to 4 on my device, I would hope this isn't an issue.
Anyway I just wanted to share my experience with both runtimes and although I'm a novice techie and don't truly understand the full difference between the two, I wanted to share my personal, subjective opinion about my experience with it in case anyone has thought about using ART on their S5.
Cheers
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