memory scrubber and daily reboot

[extorian]

Well, I'm the opposite with you kizer - but this also supports the fact that this type of app isn't required. I reboot my phone maybe once every month, and it isn't slow, I use all sorts of apps on it every day. My home screen appears in a few seconds (4, say) at worst, usually 1.

There are a number of threads about what slows G1s down, but in short it's lack of free memory, and too much crap on your home screen (especially widgets).

When you boot your phone, and go into Menu -> Settings -> SD card & phone storage -> (scroll right down and look under Internal phone storage) Available space, how much is left? If you have under 30MB things start to slow down. Under 20 and they'll be very slow. Under 10 and you're screwed. Under 8 and your phone will warn you about it and start closing stuff in a panic state.

If you don't have 30MB free, consider removing some stuff, especially memory hungry stuff like games. The more the better.

Now, on your home screen - everything on there (all 3 screens) has to be accessed, loaded, and drawn on the screen when you go back to it. Widgets are the worst for slowing things down as the program has to be loaded and executed before it can update its widget. This could be made 10x worse if the widget wants to, say, load the latest weather information from the internet before it updates.

When you come out of an application (e.g. hit the home button, or back lots) it doesn't always exit the application and free up the memory. It depends entirely on what the programmer told it to do when those buttons are pressed. This is probably why you're noticing the slowdown increasing as you use your phone. You probably have a shed load of apps running.

My advice to help with the above problem, is to use Advanced Task Manager (worth the very small fee in my humble opinion). It allows you to list all running applications, and kill them off on a app by app basis if you want. It'll also tell you how much free memory you have so you can learn what apps are using stuff.

Right now, for example, I have 9 process running. One of them was Google Maps (which starts up randomly for no reason I want it to), so I killed it off... another 5MB free... it all helps.

[ChrisInAZ]

is it my imagination that the scrolling (esp. the alert slider) gets choppy? i try to avoid hallucinogenics...and windows. (also, a reboot seems to help)

Alert slider and apps menu get choppy for me, apps load slower, and in general everything is slowed down. And this is not just one app. This can be any random combination of apps, at any given time, whether I open them or not. Hell, I can leave my phone at home all day, and when I get home, half the apps I have on the phone, including the market, gmail, maps, etc, are all running. I made a thread about it in the apps section.

I think some of you guys are in denial... or maybe I just got a bad phone. lol

[extorian]

All of the apps you mentioned (market, gmail, maps) are designed to run periodically, and will do. The Market app checks for updates to your apps, gmail gets pinged by Google to push any new emails, and maps runs to do Latitude updates and some other stuff.

That's a lot of memory being used up, which I still suspect is the root cause of the slowdowns you're seeing.

My phone was exactly like yours at one point - so I'm not in denial. I know it does and can happen from first hand experience. I just tidied it up. I uninstalled all apps I hadn't used in the last month and that gave me 30MB of free memory. I then removed everything from my home screens apart from two widgets, and about 5 shortcuts. Since then it's been fine. The widgets where the thing that was slowing down the phone when returning to the home screen.

Try installing Advanced Task Manager and seeing how much free memory you have when your phone is slow. Have a look to see which apps are running in the background.

[ChrisInAZ]

Thanks for the info Ex... I'll give that app a try tonight.