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Improving Performance (Android Tablets)
steven123
01-02-2012
I have an Elonex eTouch 10.1 inch Android tablet (1000ET) with which I have had something of a love / hate relationship. The screen is great for games (angry birds particularly), browsing and video, I like the design, there are some great free apps and games available and it was cheap.

However, aside from the woeful battery life, performance has always been a bit limp. I use Advanced Task Killer to stop any unecessary tasks but even then the framerate seems to dip a lot in more complex levels on angry birds (and rio, it won't even run seasons).

After getting a Netflix subscription I was hoping to stream TV shows and movies to the tablet. First I updated the tablet to Android 2.2 (required for Netflix) using the official manufacturers upgrade, then installed the app for Netflix. Whilst technically it works, it's extremely slow with even the movie icons taking ages to load and playback is like a slideshow (but blockier and lower resolution.

I had heard that the 2.2 upgrade improved performance quite a bit on this tablet but I'm just not seeing it, in fact it seems worse than ever and I also am occassionally getting "this process has stopped responding" error messages making me wonder if the install has gone wrong somewhere.

Is there anything I can do to improve the performance of my tablet or have I got a dud?
Lordy Lordy
01-02-2012
How long ago did Viagra rebrand as Android?

Sorry, couldn't resist.
alanwarwic
02-02-2012
Angry Birds runs on almost anything.
It's ARM 11 and 256MB so ultra slow overall.

I'm surprised Netflix does not work though considering the old ARM 11 stuff often has half decent video decoding.
steven123
02-02-2012
Originally Posted by alanwarwic:
“Angry Birds runs on almost anything.
It's ARM 11 and 256MB so ultra slow overall.

I'm surprised Netflix does not work though considering the old ARM 11 stuff often has half decent video decoding.”

it's a 1GHZ processor though isn't it? I really expected better from it, unless it's a really hobbled processor like the equivalent of a Celeron or even an old Cyrix in PC terms.

I have tried disabling the animations within android, are there any other settings I can change in the OS or with an app that might improve things?

I guess I could sell it but I'd lose a lot as looking on eBay there doesn't seem to be much interest in them anymore.
clonmult
03-02-2012
Originally Posted by alanwarwic:
“Angry Birds runs on almost anything.
It's ARM 11 and 256MB so ultra slow overall.

I'm surprised Netflix does not work though considering the old ARM 11 stuff often has half decent video decoding.”

It runs, but doesn't necessarily run well on everything. It slowed to a crawl on my SanFran to the point of being unplayable.
spendleb
03-02-2012
Originally Posted by clonmult:
“It runs, but doesn't necessarily run well on everything. It slowed to a crawl on my SanFran to the point of being unplayable.”

Agree, it was unplayable on my Archos 101 (until I got rid and bought a Xoom instead!)
steven123
03-02-2012
Originally Posted by clonmult:
“It runs, but doesn't necessarily run well on everything. It slowed to a crawl on my SanFran to the point of being unplayable.”

Yeah, Netflix technically works on the Elonex (when updated to Android 2.2, but the video playback is so slow that the sound ends up way ahead of the video and so is totally out of synch, it seems that the audio starts playing almost immediately but the video is very slow to start (and doesn't really play smoothly anyway.

Even Angry Birds borders on unplayable on larger levels which is a real shame as the large screen makes it perfect for such a game.

Netflix is perfect on my HTC Desire S as is Angry Birds and any other app I chose to run but as colourful and vibrant the HTC screen is I just wish I could play them on the bigger screen of the tablet too.
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