S l o w ! D2 vs my Dx

[mpls1969]

So I bought my wife a Droid 2 for christmas. She likes the keyboard to text better than my swype.

Anyway. Is the Droid 2 supposed to be this slow? It stutters and stops constantly. You cannot scroll the home pages (at first I thought the touchscreen was acting up but I think it's cuz it's slow) and you can't scroll the app section without it freezing up for half a second. Its really annoying.

Should I just go back and get my wife a droid x or fascinate or something?

I installed app killer btw and it makes no difference.

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[microsnook]

Get rid of the app killer, its unnecessary.

Menu>Settings>Display>Turn off animations (this will speed it up)

Also, if you want to root it (easy, instructions everywhere) you can install a custom rom and then the phone should be much faster w/o all of the MOTOBLUR on there. This will allow you to overclock the phone as well, increasing performance.

There is no need to take it back though, mine is speedy as hell!

 

[hookbill]

So I bought my wife a Droid 2 for christmas. She likes the keyboard to text better than my swype.

Anyway. Is the Droid 2 supposed to be this slow? It stutters and stops constantly. You cannot scroll the home pages (at first I thought the touchscreen was acting up but I think it's cuz it's slow) and you can't scroll the app section without it freezing up for half a second. Its really annoying.

Should I just go back and get my wife a droid x or fascinate or something?

I installed app killer btw and it makes no difference.

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The D2 and the X basically are the same inside. I suspect something else is going on.

First, get rid of the app killer. They will do more harm then good. Next, check and see if you have an antivirus installed. Sometimes those friendly folks at verizon will install a program like lookout for you and although it's well meaning, the antivirus is a resource hog. If you have an antivirus uninstall that.

Check that out first and then get back to us. My D2 is lightning fast and runs smooth as silk. I am rooted but it's always been a smooth running phone.

 

[Taegost]

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So I bought my wife a Droid 2 for christmas. She likes the keyboard to text better than my swype.

Anyway. Is the Droid 2 supposed to be this slow? It stutters and stops constantly. You cannot scroll the home pages (at first I thought the touchscreen was acting up but I think it's cuz it's slow) and you can't scroll the app section without it freezing up for half a second. Its really annoying.

Should I just go back and get my wife a droid x or fascinate or something?

I installed app killer btw and it makes no difference.

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The D2 and the X basically are the same inside. I suspect something else is going on.

First, get rid of the app killer. They will do more harm then good. Next, check and see if you have an antivirus installed. Sometimes those friendly folks at verizon will install a program like lookout for you and although it's well meaning, the antivirus is a resource hog. If you have an antivirus uninstall that.

Check that out first and then get back to us. My D2 is lightning fast and runs smooth as silk. I am rooted but it's always been a smooth running phone.

I agree, the Droid 2 and X are almost identical hardware-wise, and even when I run a ton of apps I rarely encounter stuttering and slowness, except when the market is updating a bunch of apps, but I think that's normal and it's not too bad.
Definitely get back to us after checking what Hookbill suggested.

My Droid Does Tapatalk...

 

[pool_shark]

I don't have any lag on my D2 either. I am rooted but not running any new ROM. Blur is not the cause of any slowness.

 

[random190user44]

I don't have any lag on my D2 either. I am rooted but not running any new ROM. Blur is not the cause of any slowness.

In my experience, blur is very slow and laggy. Id recommend the OP simply install launcherpro or any other home launcher.

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[pool_shark]

I don't have any lag on my D2 either. I am rooted but not running any new ROM. Blur is not the cause of any slowness.

In my experience, blur is very slow and laggy. Id recommend the OP simply install launcherpro or any other home launcher.

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I have had my D2 since the day it came out, I never had any slowness with blur. I only installed LP to get the home screen in landscape without having to pull out the keyboard, it had nothing to do with slowness.

 

[random190user44]

Well, then I don't know why motoblur has always been slow and laggy for me. From the first moment I used my Droid x, until the day I returned it for a Droid 2. Both the x/2 have had a slow and laggy motoblur interface for me.

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[mpls1969]

Get rid of the app killer, its unnecessary.

Menu>Settings>Display>Turn off animations (this will speed it up)

Also, if you want to root it (easy, instructions everywhere) you can install a custom rom and then the phone should be much faster w/o all of the MOTOBLUR on there. This will allow you to overclock the phone as well, increasing performance.

There is no need to take it back though, mine is speedy as hell!

I have Advanced Task Killer (that's what I meant when I said app killer) are you saying I should get rid of it? Is it not necessary?


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[Bilgediver]

Correct its completely unecessary, especially when your phone has to clear and refill 512 megs of ram

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[mpls1969]

Hmm. Ok. I just assumed it would help to clear out programs that were eating memory and processing.

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[Bilgediver]

It does, but android puts them back in.

Apps preloaded into memory aren't using processing, and most apps you open and then leave aren't either. Only apps that constantly use the phones resources/sensors use battery that way (e.g. navigating and then you switch to ur homescreen to make a call).

Apps preloaded into memory are there so you can quickly run an app without having to wait. They are generally NOT using processor/battery power.

For a quick check go into your phones settings menu, check under power/battery settings to see what actually is using battery. 9 times out of ten it should be display (unless its standby)

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