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Drastic causes the Lollipop 5.0.2 to be slow on Nexus 7 2013

Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 12:00 pm
by IsaacL5
Hello I am a user of Drastic and I bought the complete version on google play. Currently it is the latest version 2.3.0.2a, but the problem I am about to talk about occurred on the previous versions too.

Here is the problem:
I am using a Nexus 7 2013. Since I updated my system to lollipop, every time after I ran Drastic for a relatively long time (say, 30 min or longer) and quitted it to the main screen, I found that the system would run at an extremely slow speed. There would be a lag for the screen to response to my fingers, other apps would be slow too. The only way to fix this is to restart the system, and then everything is fine again.

I don't know if others are meeting the same problem. But could you have a look at this and give me a response? The app ran perfectly on KitKat 4.4.4. If possible I do not want to return to it.

Thank you very much.

Re: Drastic causes the Lollipop 5.0.2 to be slow on Nexus 7

Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 1:57 pm
by TkSilver
Unfortunatly you have a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor in your tablet and the answer you seek is in annother board on this site. I kinda wonder sometimes the difference between the general forum and the help one.
Exophase wrote:If you're using a defvice with a Qualcomm SoC switch to 16-bit rendering. There's an issue in Lollipop where texture updates over some size are often very slow, and using 16-bit rendering gets around this. It's probably a problem with their drivers.
Basicly here is a temp fix until Qualcomm gets their drivers sorted

Re: Drastic causes the Lollipop 5.0.2 to be slow on Nexus 7

Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 2:04 pm
by Exophase
This should have been worked around on 2.3.0.0, although it's possible the workaround isn't perfect. But the fact that everything besides the app is becoming slow is troubling, and points to deeper issues that are outside of the app's control. Still, worth trying.

There could also be some other app (particularly anything that messes with touch input?) that's interacting badly with DraStic.