Hi guys. I bought an android a week and a half ago, a samsung galaxy S. the touchscreen was really sensitive in the beginning, but now it isn't. I noticed it became slower when i upgraded from 2.1 to 2.2. My friend told me that android phones start to work really slow after a few days. is that true?
Touchscreen lost its sensitivity
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Your friend sounds like an Apple or Blackberry fanboy who knows nothing about Android and feels the need to attack Android because it's better.
Just like on any multi-tasking OS (e.g. MacOS, Windows, Linux, Android, etc), the more stuff you have running on it at once, the lower the amount of memory and CPU resources each process gets. So, "after a few days" if you've installed 500 apps of the type that all want to run at the same time and are checking stuff, updating stuff, analysing stuff, etc, in the background all the time, then yeah it'll be slow, but it's your own stupid fault and the same would apply to any modern device that can multi-task properly. Try putting 100 applications in your Windows startup folder and see how it copes.
If you treat your phone as a phone (only have a few apps that want to run in the background), rather than a PC, it'll be fine.
As for the screen... Android 2.1 to 2.2 will have made absolutely no difference to the sensitivity of your screen. If it's reducing in sensitivity then that's a hardware problem. Water damage is known to cause this.
If you're mistaking responsiveness (time it takes to react to a detected touch) with sensitivity (its ability to detect a touch) then that's different.
Just like on any multi-tasking OS (e.g. MacOS, Windows, Linux, Android, etc), the more stuff you have running on it at once, the lower the amount of memory and CPU resources each process gets. So, "after a few days" if you've installed 500 apps of the type that all want to run at the same time and are checking stuff, updating stuff, analysing stuff, etc, in the background all the time, then yeah it'll be slow, but it's your own stupid fault and the same would apply to any modern device that can multi-task properly. Try putting 100 applications in your Windows startup folder and see how it copes.
If you treat your phone as a phone (only have a few apps that want to run in the background), rather than a PC, it'll be fine.
As for the screen... Android 2.1 to 2.2 will have made absolutely no difference to the sensitivity of your screen. If it's reducing in sensitivity then that's a hardware problem. Water damage is known to cause this.
If you're mistaking responsiveness (time it takes to react to a detected touch) with sensitivity (its ability to detect a touch) then that's different.
That's because it doesn't actually run lots of apps at once. When you swap between one app and another on the iPhone it essentially freezes the previous app. It does't actually do anything in the background at all. The multi-tasking on the iPhone is more of a form of limited task-switching with a small amount of very limited and specific things that can run in the background (such as completing of downloading a file).
It's a trade-off between the need for resources and the stuff you can do on your phone. Android is FAR more powerful an OS than the iPhone OS, and it gives users the freedom to do a lot more (try finding an app like Tasker on the iPhone for example, it's simply not even remotely possible to do 5% of the stuff Tasker does). BUT, this leaves it open to the risk of being slowed down by people abusing and overloading that system.
So, what you said is half right. The iPhone doesn't slow down. But then neither did my first Nokia 10 years ago, which is actually a more accurate comparison in terms of multi-tasking. Android doesn't slow down either if you don't abuse its abilities and force it to run 100 things at once. Android puts the user in control of the balance between speed (few background apps) and power (lots of background apps). iPhone takes that control away and chooses speed every time, but in the process vastly limits its abilities.
It's a trade-off between the need for resources and the stuff you can do on your phone. Android is FAR more powerful an OS than the iPhone OS, and it gives users the freedom to do a lot more (try finding an app like Tasker on the iPhone for example, it's simply not even remotely possible to do 5% of the stuff Tasker does). BUT, this leaves it open to the risk of being slowed down by people abusing and overloading that system.
So, what you said is half right. The iPhone doesn't slow down. But then neither did my first Nokia 10 years ago, which is actually a more accurate comparison in terms of multi-tasking. Android doesn't slow down either if you don't abuse its abilities and force it to run 100 things at once. Android puts the user in control of the balance between speed (few background apps) and power (lots of background apps). iPhone takes that control away and chooses speed every time, but in the process vastly limits its abilities.
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ive also seen some other problems like GPS is not working properly after installing 2.2 in galaxy....
but do not try to install 2.2 in you galaxy....just wait for the officials...
i would say this
but do not try to install 2.2 in you galaxy....just wait for the officials...
i would say this