I've experienced declining performance on my Samsung tablet. Moving the app back from SD card to internal memory seemed to help a little. The age of the device may be part of the problem for me. NB. I'm a long term Osmand+ advocate (albeit no expert) so you may prefer to wait for better techie advice. On Wednesday 7 August 2024 at 19:48:09 UTC+1 jot ess wrote:
> Adition, two months later: > I haven't found a solution and the problem persists - but meanwhile I can > tell that it is sporadic. Sometimes Osmand+ runs smooth as it should, > sometimes it has the freezing issue described above and inly after several > minutes it becomes usable. > Any idea anybody? > > jot ess schrieb am Mittwoch, 5. Juni 2024 um 22:02:03 UTC+2: > >> I used to use Osmand+ on my Galaxy Xcover 4s (issued 2019) for a couple >> of years. The app grew bigger, and recently it was so slow I decided to buy >> a newer phone. It had to be with exchangeable battery and be still somehow >> pocketable, so the new one turned out to be an XCover Pro (2021). >> Obviously this is not a brand-new high-end model, but as it is 2 years >> newer and has 1/3 more RAM, I thought Osmand should run smoother than >> before. It doesn't, it barely runs at all! >> Often - but not always! - when I start Osmand or wake up the phone, it is >> responsive only for a few seconds, then freezes, and the OS says, the app >> doesn't react, do you want to kill it or wait? This happened with my old >> phone, but after tapping "wait" and waiting a few seconds, Osmand was >> usable again. On my new phone this happens over and over: Tap "wait", wait >> a moment, new message, tap "wait", ... >> >> After some time it might become usable - and then it actually runs a lot >> smoother than on the old phone. Maybe I shouldn't call it a performance >> issue but a freezing issue? >> >> I have installed Osmand+ exactly the same way as on my old phone - >> actually, it was automatically transferred. Because of the amount of data, >> I have specified the external SD card's /Android/media as storage. This is >> supposed to be slower - but can this be the cause? It seems not to be the >> use of the map that is slow. And the card is a 128 GB Samsung EVO Plus SD >> XC I, U3. I believe it should not be overly slow. >> >> Does anybody have an idea if there is anything I can do? Or any hints on >> the minimum specifications my phone should meet? >> It is currently: Android 13 >> Chipset: Exynos 9611 (10 nm) >> CPU : Octa-core (4x2.3 GHZ Cortex-A73 & 4x1.7 GHZ Codex-A53) >> GPU: Mali-G72 IVIP3 >> >> Best regards >> Joachim >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OsmAnd" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/osmand/db4267e7-4dda-4ab8-a4c9-0ffc4f9c5267n%40googlegroups.com.
