Not liking the Nexus 5X because of lag

[thomasdtran]

I still like the Nexus 5X with the lag issues. If it had an extra GB of RAM, it would fix the lag issues with Spotify, Camera and Messenger apps since Marshmallow is optimized.

Does anyone else have to restart the phone before it can charge properly with older adapters? It happens at least once a week.

 

[Grabber5.0]

Haven't had any problems with my adapters yet.

 

[drpelpi]

There is some discrete lag changing between apps, very rarely within them, with the BIG exception of the stock camera app. I have dealing with this issue since I bought my N5x and tried every suggested fix, none worked. It is impossible to use the stock camera app, it takes at least 5-7 secs to be ready for a picture, then after a couple of shots it freezes and can not take photos anymore, even closing the app, have to restart the device. I was not expecting this from a brand new nexus phone, very disappointed. I just came from a N5 and the experience was great for the last 2 years, and it still performs much better than the nexus 5x in almost every aspect. Undoubtedly, things have changed and the Google nexus team is delivering a below average quality hardware and/or software this time around. By the way, I have my phone unrooted and 100% stock just as it arrived with all the updates. So no excuses here and no fix from Google till now. It is like going back to the begginings of 2010 first smartphones era. Found this completely unacceptable and asked for a refund.

 

[eaccentsac]

There is some discrete lag changing between apps, very rarely within them, with the BIG exception of the stock camera app. I have dealing with this issue since I bought my N5x and tried every suggested fix, none worked. It is impossible to use the stock camera app, it takes at least 5-7 secs to be ready for a picture, then after a couple of shots it freezes and can not take photos anymore, even closing the app, have to restart the device. I was not expecting this from a brand new nexus phone, very disappointed. I just came from a N5 and the experience was great for the last 2 years, and it still performs much better than the nexus 5x in almost every aspect. Undoubtedly, things have changed and the Google nexus team is delivering a below average quality hardware and/or software this time around. By the way, I have my phone unrooted and 100% stock just as it arrived with all the updates. So no excuses here and no fix from Google till now. It is like going back to the begginings of 2010 first smartphones era. Found this completely unacceptable and asked for a refund.

Ok. I have seen the slow camera too--didnt include it in my consideration of overall lag. I rarely take more than a couple of shots myself anyway, but I agree that having it glitch and stop for processing is below par performance.

 

[eaccentsac]

Hmmm, just took 6 photos in a row. No lag.

I reboot every day. Wonder if that helps?

 

[Jason Bringhurst]

Disabling full-disk encryption will get some performance back, but requires modding. I enabled encryption on my MXPE just to see if ARMv8 was any better. It is, for NAND sequential writes (went from 103MB/s to 98MB/s), but for sequential read, no (from 251MB/s to 144MB/s). Lagged quite a bit more. Run AndroBench to find out how the NAND flash performs in the N5X.

Yikes, Anandtech has NAND flash performance figures (I still can't post links): 116.15 MB/s sequential read, 24.79 MB/s seq. write
Looks like disabling encryption would net the lsrgest gain in performance, if it can be done.

On top of that, this is likely your first introduction to 64-bit Android. It's fully backwards compatible with 32-bit apps, but that eats RAM as there are 32-bit compatibility libraries and native 64-bit ones. Furthermore, Qualcomm's 64-bit binaries are immature, as this is their first stab at 64-bit/ARMv8. If a future update improves performance drastically, you can bet it was kernel or drivers (binaries) based or ... perhaps both.

 

[Titan206]

I also find the lag on this phone unacceptable. I decided to return the phone and go back to my 2013 Moto X. Guess what? I find the Moto X less laggy. A 2013 phone should not be less laggy than a brand new Nexus device. I'm disappointed in Google, and I'm a little more hesitant to go with a Nexus in the future.

 

[aysiu]

I also find the lag on this phone unacceptable. I decided to return the phone and go back to my 2013 Moto X. Guess what? I find the Moto X less laggy. A 2013 phone should not be less laggy than a brand new Nexus device. I'm disappointed in Google, and I'm a little more hesitant to go with a Nexus in the future.

I would go back to it, except the camera is much better (even though the camera app itself sucks), and I dig the fingerprint sensor implementation.

 

[aysiu]

There is some discrete lag changing between apps, very rarely within them

This has been my experience as well. It's not universal, as you can see from the some of the responses in this thread, but it's also not an anamoly.

It is impossible to use the stock camera app, it takes at least 5-7 secs to be ready for a picture, then after a couple of shots it freezes and can not take photos anymore, even closing the app, have to restart the device.

Not exactly a solution, but I've found as a good workaround not to use the camera from the lock screen (either by swiping up from the camera icon or by double-tapping the power button). If just unlock the phone and launch up the camera app exclusively (not after trying it the other way), it seems to work just fine... still a little slow, though not nearly as bad (or completely locking up) as the other way.

 

[Titan206]

I would go back to it, except the camera is much better (even though the camera app itself sucks), and I dig the fingerprint sensor implementation.

That's very true. The Nexus camera is fantastic and I really liked the fingerprint scanner.

I just can't justify sticking with a 2015 phone that has these issues, even for the $350 price tag. It's even more disturbing to hear that the original Nexus 5 performs better.

 

[epicalz]

I purchased a 5X about 2 months ago. It was terrible, while setting up the phone and it restoring a few apps (less than 10), it got really hot and took a very long time to download very simple apps. There was a ton of lag using all parts of the UI. I sent it back. It was the worst smart phone I've ever used.

I purchased another 5X about a week ago and don't really have any of those problems. When I logged in it restored over 20 apps without issues or slow down. The finger print sensor never gets overly hot like my previous 5X did. The only issue with this one is that the speaker distorts really bad at around 75% volume.

That's just my experience with two different 5X's.

 

[eaccentsac]

I purchased a 5X about 2 months ago. It was terrible, while setting up the phone and it restoring a few apps (less than 10), it got really hot and took a very long time to download very simple apps. There was a ton of lag using all parts of the UI. I sent it back. It was the worst smart phone I've ever used.

I purchased another 5X about a week ago and don't really have any of those problems. When I logged in it restored over 20 apps without issues or slow down. The finger print sensor never gets overly hot like my previous 5X did. The only issue with this one is that the speaker distorts really bad at around 75% volume.

That's just my experience with two different 5X's.

Weird. Maybe a bad built?

 

[stuka85]

This has been my experience as well. It's not universal, as you can see from the some of the responses in this thread, but it's also not an anamoly.

Not exactly a solution, but I've found as a good workaround not to use the camera from the lock screen (either by swiping up from the camera icon or by double-tapping the power button). If just unlock the phone and launch up the camera app exclusively (not after trying it the other way), it seems to work just fine... still a little slow, though not nearly as bad (or completely locking up) as the other way.

i fixed my lag reinstalling android via fastboot. its much better now.

 

[randomized]

Is it just my phone, or does the Nexus 5x **** everyone off?

I got rid of my Nexus 6 for a 5x in hopes of going to a smaller, newer, and better phone overall and I've been regretting it ever since the first week of having my phone.

I don't know if it's just camera apps in general or what the deal is, but it's extremely sluggish. Apps like snapchat makes the phone nearly impossible to use at times. Sometimes I have to force reboot the phone because I can't even get the "Power off" pop-up to show. This happens on a daily basis.

Really trying to avoid having to reinstall Android M on it since I dread having to put in passwords, re-configure two-factor authentication for apps, etc. Just a PITA process.

Is it really just me or is it this phone? Not looking to get flamed and I know there's Google, etc., whatever. Haven't really been keeping up-to-date with this phone and its news lately so not sure if I'm just missing a "fix" or something.

 

[cdubb1]

I'm having serious problems with lag and responsiveness with mine. It's the kind of behavior that screams of a memory leak somewhere. The phone gets to the point where I can count to five before the screen responds to a touch. Restarting the phone solves it for two or three days. I'm not sure if this is an app problem, or a system issue, but I never saw performance problems like this with my Nexus 4, 5, 6, or my Moto G.

If restarting fixes it then restart it every day. Only takes a few seconds.

 

[David Alfredo]

I really, really wanted and still want to buy this device, in fact I bought the 32 GB version. I had it for 3 days and had to return it because of the lag issues, I tried everything a human person can try in 72 hours to no avail, the device simply lags in a lot of situations. I know that the CPU throttles aggressively and all that but I was even having lag after hours of not touching the device, definitely something went very wrong when building the firmware for this device or the 64 bit drivers. Also, the battery drain is atrocious, even if the lag issues were solved with a battery life of 2 hours SOT and barely 10 hours standby I would never buy it, there's no explanation for the battery drain.

These are my educated guesses for the glaring issues

- Poor Android 6.x.x coded firmware
- Immature 64-bit Android build provided by Google
- Immature 64-bit Qualcomm's drivers
- Lack of App optimization and Doze compatibility
- LG system app / hardware layer governor not optimized to run as expected, maybe CPU governor.

I'm SURE in 10-12 months the Nexus 5X will be smooth as butter running 6.2.x or 7.x.x Android build including OTAs and the price will have dropped to a ridiculous low point, as much as I want it since I love the design, the camera and the overall feel of the phone the Nexus 5X lag issues and horrible, inexplicable battery life are a deal-breaker.

 

[original00]

I cannot recommend the 5x to anyone. My 5 has much better performance

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[anon(777192)]

It's quite possible an app that is installed on the effected devices is causing those issue with Lag. That's just my opinion... I haven't noticed it.anymore.... At first I did notice bit of a lag with tapatalk But one of the updates I've received seemed to have fixed that.

 

[dcastillo]

I will finally chime in.... My lag had become unbearable :-( absolutely love the phone and everything else about it, but today while on a cruise, i had to power cycle it 4 times because the camera became unresponsive... Even force stopping it wouldn't work... Not sure what to do.... The phone was a gift from a good friend and can't be returned.
My wife even commented that her gn3 was better and we should carry that around the boat....
Pretty much unacceptable in my opinion...

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[izanaki]

I'm hoping its a matter of Google updating the software to resolve the issues with the performance