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aaronjohnmarek
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did it ask you to wait or force close?
mrwhizeguy
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Yea it did
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rune caper
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Hmm... did the phone restart after that?
The Lord Therion
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Nah didn't restart, but I have noticed the phone running slow lately, and I been getting some apps crashing
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Brookwood
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WAY TOO COOL TO FART
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no one has any ideas?
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I_am_the_best
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nope, not too much insight. "running slowly lately" is interesting though. it's very difficult to say without knowing which apps you have installed and which sites you've been browsing.
since it's obviously not "normal behavior" for android or the G1, there has to be some set of variables causing this.
when did it start? what did you install around the time it started? any reason to not just use MyBackup to copy phone stuff to SD and then copy your entire SD using your PC and then do a factory reset? just seems too coincidental that you're phone is running slowly and now this is happening. would be great to figure out if there's a "known issue" here, but at this stage, it sounds more like user-initiated fuzz - i.e. an installed app, content from browsing/apps, etc.
holler back if something turns up though.
since it's obviously not "normal behavior" for android or the G1, there has to be some set of variables causing this.
when did it start? what did you install around the time it started? any reason to not just use MyBackup to copy phone stuff to SD and then copy your entire SD using your PC and then do a factory reset? just seems too coincidental that you're phone is running slowly and now this is happening. would be great to figure out if there's a "known issue" here, but at this stage, it sounds more like user-initiated fuzz - i.e. an installed app, content from browsing/apps, etc.
holler back if something turns up though.
king Joshua the first
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outside of my myspace, google, n4g.com, i havent really surfed too much..
Apps:
Bartender
Bonsai Blast
Brain Genius
Bubble
Budget Droid
Compass
Gmote
Hello aim
Imeem
Moon Phase
Myspace
Pac Man
Picsay
Pkt Auctions
Shazam
Snapphoto
Steel
Video Player
Wikimobile
Yellowbook
thats the only ones i have out of the norm
I didnt notice though, after it happened, it stopped running as slow, then i made sure to clear my browser, and it ran faster, i still have a few lil hang ups, but nothing like it was. Thx for the input though... It was defintally weird... hasnt happened since though, havent notice random apps crashing either since then...
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Apps:
Bartender
Bonsai Blast
Brain Genius
Bubble
Budget Droid
Compass
Gmote
Hello aim
Imeem
Moon Phase
Myspace
Pac Man
Picsay
Pkt Auctions
Shazam
Snapphoto
Steel
Video Player
Wikimobile
Yellowbook
thats the only ones i have out of the norm
I didnt notice though, after it happened, it stopped running as slow, then i made sure to clear my browser, and it ran faster, i still have a few lil hang ups, but nothing like it was. Thx for the input though... It was defintally weird... hasnt happened since though, havent notice random apps crashing either since then...
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Is just begging to get her ***** stuffed
hmmm, all seem pretty innocuous. if clearing cache/browser data helped out though, definitely could've been something "temp" in nature. a few of those apps are "active" in nature, but i have a handful of those and haven't had an issue...that's not all that scientific of an approach though.
good thing it's cleared up a bit. i would definitely shoot for running-perfectly though, as that's what i'm gettin' out of mine. albeit android has some performance/resource issues.
good luck!
good thing it's cleared up a bit. i would definitely shoot for running-perfectly though, as that's what i'm gettin' out of mine. albeit android has some performance/resource issues.
good luck!
Hi,
I received the same error today,
I receive this error every time after i reboot my phone now, i enter my pin to unlock my sim then after a few secs this error comes up.
it gives me the option to "force close" or "wait", if i wait the phone seems to work ok.
this started happening after i reformated my sd card then tried to copy over a music file onto the music folder on the sd card.
the size of the file is 27MB in size.
I received the same error today,
I receive this error every time after i reboot my phone now, i enter my pin to unlock my sim then after a few secs this error comes up.
it gives me the option to "force close" or "wait", if i wait the phone seems to work ok.
this started happening after i reformated my sd card then tried to copy over a music file onto the music folder on the sd card.
the size of the file is 27MB in size.
Micky richards
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It depends on a lot of things. If clearing your cache worked and brought your phone back into stability, then one of your apps is running in the background and leaking memory (or you have a lot of background tasks running eating up ram) -- forcing a page file to handle memory management.
That's my best educated guess anyway.
That's my best educated guess anyway.
The error literally means what it says. That the activity that runs when you press your home button (or return to the home screen) is not responding. If you click "Wait" a few times, and it still comes back with that message and isn't responding you might have a problem.
When you go back to the home screen (desktop), your phone has to do a bunch of things. Processes don't remain running in the same way as they do on computers or other phones. Instead, their "state" is saved. When you go back to the application, the state is loaded and it all looks like it was before.
This saving of the application's state takes some time. Especially if it's something that uses a lot of memory like the browser, or perhaps a game.
Meanwhile, there are other processes running. Some of them it has to deal with immediately. These would include managing connections, dealing with any incoming calls/messages, acknowledging signals from the network, if the GPS is running it'll be calculating stuff related to that, etc.
Also, the home activity itself is trying to do a bunch of things... clear your screen, redraw the desktop image, draw the icons on top of it, restore the desktop's state (e.g. if the menu was open, etc). A previous poster mentioned he was trying to scroll the desktop at the same time too - all these things use up the CPU power of your phone.
While all of that is going on the operating system is timing how long all these activities are taking. If they take over a set threshold (usually a few seconds at most) the operating system gives you the option of closing or waiting for the activity to complete. This is what you're seeing.
Hence, if clicking "Wait" works, even after several waits, it just means your phone was busy doing stuff it has to do.
If it clicking Wait several times doesn't stop the error displaying, then indeed the activity process might have hung, and in the case of the activity you mention, closing it is fine as the operating system will automatically restart it as needed.
Why is your phone getting slow? Well, activities running in the background from various applications you install can add up. If the phone is low on memory the operating system tries to close as many activities as it can to free up memory... this might mean a whole bunch of activities are trying to save their state at the same time.
When you go back to the home screen (desktop), your phone has to do a bunch of things. Processes don't remain running in the same way as they do on computers or other phones. Instead, their "state" is saved. When you go back to the application, the state is loaded and it all looks like it was before.
This saving of the application's state takes some time. Especially if it's something that uses a lot of memory like the browser, or perhaps a game.
Meanwhile, there are other processes running. Some of them it has to deal with immediately. These would include managing connections, dealing with any incoming calls/messages, acknowledging signals from the network, if the GPS is running it'll be calculating stuff related to that, etc.
Also, the home activity itself is trying to do a bunch of things... clear your screen, redraw the desktop image, draw the icons on top of it, restore the desktop's state (e.g. if the menu was open, etc). A previous poster mentioned he was trying to scroll the desktop at the same time too - all these things use up the CPU power of your phone.
While all of that is going on the operating system is timing how long all these activities are taking. If they take over a set threshold (usually a few seconds at most) the operating system gives you the option of closing or waiting for the activity to complete. This is what you're seeing.
Hence, if clicking "Wait" works, even after several waits, it just means your phone was busy doing stuff it has to do.
If it clicking Wait several times doesn't stop the error displaying, then indeed the activity process might have hung, and in the case of the activity you mention, closing it is fine as the operating system will automatically restart it as needed.
Why is your phone getting slow? Well, activities running in the background from various applications you install can add up. If the phone is low on memory the operating system tries to close as many activities as it can to free up memory... this might mean a whole bunch of activities are trying to save their state at the same time.
Putting Music on your phone itself shouldn't cause a problem, but the cache of the music information (the genre, artist, album name, etc) may... Or it could be that the music info hasn't been cached yet (it's not had a chance to scan all the MP3s for this data, so it's slow... just like the first time you view new pictures in the gallery).
Simple way to check... Go to Settings -> SD card and Phone storage... How much space do you have under Internal phone storage?
Simple way to check... Go to Settings -> SD card and Phone storage... How much space do you have under Internal phone storage?
JonasLove<3
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The Internal Memory refers to the internal memory, not the SD card, so increasing the size of your SD card won't make any difference. There is no way to increase the size of your internal memory, other than getting a completely different phone.
27MB is loads. Worry when it gets to like 10MB.
A reboot from time to time does often seem to fix problems like this.
27MB is loads. Worry when it gets to like 10MB.
A reboot from time to time does often seem to fix problems like this.