Why is my Shield Tablet lagging when switching between apps?

[thecaringkind]

Performance ISSUES

OK. I purchased my shield tablet from a Gamestop about two weeks ago. I am a casual gamer nowhere near hardcore, as a matter of fact I purchased the device with the thought that it would be a very good tablet with the bonus of a great chipset running the show. I really enjoy the stylus and I use it to tool around in my apps and in some games. I also appreciate being able to create handwritten notes as well. All of this is good stuff despite the still INCREDIBLY bad power and volume buttons but now something much more insidious has reared its ugly head.

General performance as a tablet has been AWFUL lately. Super lag, stuttering homescreen, abysmal multitasking with about 5 apps open. Switching between apps has been excruciatingly bad with some apps taking 30 to 60 seconds to resume or even longer to open from my app drawer. Its been THAT bad. Im running the almost stock launcher and all of the Nvidia Updates are installed. I have enabled Developer options but am not running ART and I have my screen animations timed at .5 Overall I am not doing anything out of ordinary use that would cause such terrible performance issues.

ANY SUGGESTIONS? I mean its been two weeks and Im ready to get rid of the thing...

You know what really galls me? I used to have an iPad mini with Retina Display and it NEVER lagged or had any performance issues. The Shield has a BEAST chipset, so I ask...WHAT THE HECK is going on!!!

I didn't want to go the ROOT route but I will if this keeps up. Any input would be great guys and gals. THANKS!

 

[Ultamaynard]

Re: Performance ISSUES

OK. I purchased my shield tablet from a Gamestop about two weeks ago. I am a casual gamer nowhere near hardcore, as a matter of fact I purchased the device with the thought that it would be a very good tablet with the bonus of a great chipset running the show. I really enjoy the stylus and I use it to tool around in my apps and in some games. I also appreciate being able to create handwritten notes as well. All of this is good stuff despite the still INCREDIBLY bad power and volume buttons but now something much more insidious has reared its ugly head.

General performance as a tablet has been AWFUL lately. Super lag, stuttering homescreen, abysmal multitasking with about 5 apps open. Switching between apps has been excruciatingly bad with some apps taking 30 to 60 seconds to resume or even longer to open from my app drawer. Its been THAT bad. Im running the almost stock launcher and all of the Nvidia Updates are installed. I have enabled Developer options but am not running ART and I have my screen animations timed at .5 Overall I am not doing anything out of ordinary use that would cause such terrible performance issues.

ANY SUGGESTIONS? I mean its been two weeks and Im ready to get rid of the thing...

You know what really galls me? I used to have an iPad mini with Retina Display and it NEVER lagged or had any performance issues. The Shield has a BEAST chipset, so I ask...WHAT THE HECK is going on!!!

I didn't want to go the ROOT route but I will if this keeps up. Any input would be great guys and gals. THANKS!

I don't have any fixes for you, but I'm having these problems too. I REALLY want to like this tablet and a lot of things I do like about it, but it performs pretty poorly. My wife has the 2nd Gen Nexus 7 and it easy multitasks faster than this shield.

I've found that it gets really really slow when anything is updating. It also hangs up really badly when trying to wake up. I was having such bad problems with chrome that I had to switch to Firefox, which runs a lot faster than chrome on here.

I'm not sure what the deal is, but if I run across any fixes, definitely post them here.

 

[Andy Bredemeyer]

Re: Performance ISSUES

Sounds similar to my post on the quirks/bugs/annoyances thread. I'll let you know when I get a chance to contact NVIDIA.