I’m really loving the Samsung Galaxy S, I’m only a day in but feel I could probably convert completely from iPhone to Android (and might just do that), but the biggest thing apart from the 3.5mm jack not allowing you to use a loud speaker within a call is multitasking.
Apple decided not to implement multitasking but multislicing for a good reason, it can kill a device. You’ll see from this video that all I’m running is Google Listen podcast player and listening to a podcast and trying to use Greader and the device just keeps freezing. I’m seeing this across the entire device when I’m using multitasking. The Samsung Galaxy S is running Android 2.1 OS but I doubt when the 2.2 Froyo is deployed that this will help in anyway resolve the multitasking freezes I’m seeing.
Youtube link as Embedding seems to be broken at the moment with YouTube new videos.
I agree with you. I have a Galaxy S as well and I hate it when it gets sluggish.
I read mixed reviews about using a task killer. Some say that the Android OS does a good job on its own in handling the memory. I would have liked it to be the case, but I have to disagree.
Let’s hope that 2.2 is better at memory management.
By: Silver on August 30, 2010
at 9:23 am
Have you tried to root it and apply the One Click Lag Fix yet? It really does speed up the device a lot. I do still see slow downs, but as soon as I open up the Advanced Task Killer app and kill the other apps (sometimes I find there’s a good 10+ running) that brings the speed back.
I find the built-in task killer doesn’t seem to kill tasks as quickly as it should, I think it’s basing it on how much memory is free rather than how much CPU utilisation is being taken up. I have set the Advanced Task Killer app to also auto-kill apps but find that doesn’t do a good job too, so if I find myself opening an app and I get a black screen for 5 seconds then I know I have to kill some other running apps.
Unfortunately Froyo 2.2 won’t do much for memory management from what I’ve seen on other devices.
By: Dave Burrows on August 30, 2010
at 1:05 pm