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> Everything feels like it has at least 200ms delay injected, on every transition. I'd honestly pay extra for an iPhone If you are using Android, you are in lu

by est 6y ago

> Everything feels like it has at least 200ms delay injected, on every transition. I'd honestly pay extra for an iPhone If you are using Android, you are in luck. 1. Open Settings > About Phone, Tap the build number 7 times (Or google other methods to open Developer menu for your phone model) 2. Go to Developer options -> Drawing 3. Set all animation scale to 0.5x You'd be amazed to find how fast the phone appears

nivenkos 6y ago
You can also disable animations in the same settings, but I found it broke some applications.
pdimitar 6y ago
Oh yeah, I am aware of that but not using Android for 4 years now. But I think I'll buy a cheap Xiaomi device and play with Android again. Xiaomi optimize their phones quite a bit (even if you have to fight with their ROM to be less spyware).
- zwirbl 6y ago
  I'd rather wait a small bit every time than getting a full blown spyphone, but scaling animation times down does improve the feel quite a lot
  - pdimitar 6y ago
    Fair, but it won't be my main device. Still, you have a point.
  - heywherelogingo 6y ago
    Is OnePlus also in this category?
    - Daho0n 6y ago
      No. Not perfect, not bad.
GuB-42 6y ago
I actually went back to normal speed. Sure, fast animations, but it makes stuttering more noticeable because there isn't a slow animation to cover them up. My phone is a bit old, maybe that's worth it if you have one of the latest flagships with plenty of computing power.
tony0x02 6y ago
TY! I used to put my phone into low battery mode sometimes just to get the speed up from disabled animations.
raminyt 6y ago
This is just a PSA to warn people that this can fail: I just tried this in my lunch break. I have LOS 17.1 on surnia (old, I know). These settings completely disabled my on-screen home button and other UI elements, and setting the anim scale back to 1.0 and rebooting did not fix that, no more home button for now. I probably have to reset the phone, did not find any further info so far on how to fix it (pointers, anyone?). But the UI seemed snappy indeed at 0.5 ... Edit: "other UI elements" including e.g. the Tab switcher in the Lightning browser. The widgets are all displayed, but totally unresponsive.
- raminyt 6y ago
  Solved (?) - I booted into TWRP and rebooted again from there, and the UI elements work again. (No clue what the exact problem was.)
  - HenryBemis 6y ago
    IT Crowd - Have You Tried Turning It Off And On Again? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn2FB1P_Mn8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn2FB1P_Mn8
Griffinsauce 6y ago
This is the first thing I do when I get a new phone. How the default is as sluggish as it is is beyond me.
rbanffy 6y ago
You pretty much nailed it here. It's not speed proper. It's the perception of speed. What the iPhone mastered was the transition starting right away. If you have no transition, the time to start, say, the mail app, will appear long, but since you started the icon blowing up to cover the screen right after your finger press was detected (by your brain) the delay feels shorter because you see something is happening. It's merely cosmetic - the app is still starting during the animation - but , to the user, the animation is part of the process.
- Nullabillity 6y ago
  Err, seems like you got it the wrong way around. That was initially the reason, but these days the animation ends up taking much longer than the actual processing. GP's workaround changes the animation durations to be somewhat closer to the actual time required. But even that's overkill for modern phones. I just tried turning off animations entirely, and things still feel pretty much instant, despite the phone being a few years old at this point.
  - rbanffy 6y ago
    I guess my phone doesn't have enough speed to make lack of animations feel instantaneous ;-) In any case, the animation shouldn't take longer than it takes to start the program.
PaulHoule 6y ago
I have Phillips Hue and Sengled lights at home and I usually disable the "easing" animation on them to reduce the perception of time delay when I push the button... It is maybe 100 of ms of perceived latency I can subtract. It help a lot in that "computer user bill of rights" issue that you start to worry at some point that the button press wasn't registered and might then mash the button with unpredictable effects. (e.g. you might get more customer satisfaction from a crosswalk button that doesn't do anything at all except 'click' instantaneously)
- bombcar 6y ago
  How do you disable the easing?
- lfowles 6y ago
  Funny, because I purposefully bought dimmer switches for bathrooms in my house that added a bit of ramp up time when turning lights on! (Makes it less jarring to turn on the bathroom lights at 2am with just that fraction of a second)
kharak 6y ago
Thank you. Feels like a new phone. Disabled all animations.
Pxtl 6y ago
Oooh, thanks for this. I just applied the animation scale on my Pixel 4A and it feels so much peppier.

by est 6y ago

nivenkos 6y ago

You can also disable animations in the same settings, but I found it broke some applications.

pdimitar 6y ago

Oh yeah, I am aware of that but not using Android for 4 years now. But I think I'll buy a cheap Xiaomi device and play with Android again. Xiaomi optimize their phones quite a bit (even if you have to fight with their ROM to be less spyware).

zwirbl 6y ago
I'd rather wait a small bit every time than getting a full blown spyphone, but scaling animation times down does improve the feel quite a lot
- pdimitar 6y ago
  Fair, but it won't be my main device. Still, you have a point.
- heywherelogingo 6y ago
  Is OnePlus also in this category?
  - Daho0n 6y ago
    No. Not perfect, not bad.

GuB-42 6y ago

I actually went back to normal speed. Sure, fast animations, but it makes stuttering more noticeable because there isn't a slow animation to cover them up. My phone is a bit old, maybe that's worth it if you have one of the latest flagships with plenty of computing power.

tony0x02 6y ago

TY! I used to put my phone into low battery mode sometimes just to get the speed up from disabled animations.

raminyt 6y ago

This is just a PSA to warn people that this can fail: I just tried this in my lunch break. I have LOS 17.1 on surnia (old, I know). These settings completely disabled my on-screen home button and other UI elements, and setting the anim scale back to 1.0 and rebooting did not fix that, no more home button for now. I probably have to reset the phone, did not find any further info so far on how to fix it (pointers, anyone?). But the UI seemed snappy indeed at 0.5 ... Edit: "other UI elements" including e.g. the Tab switcher in the Lightning browser. The widgets are all displayed, but totally unresponsive.

raminyt 6y ago
Solved (?) - I booted into TWRP and rebooted again from there, and the UI elements work again. (No clue what the exact problem was.)
- HenryBemis 6y ago
  IT Crowd - Have You Tried Turning It Off And On Again? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn2FB1P_Mn8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn2FB1P_Mn8

Griffinsauce 6y ago

This is the first thing I do when I get a new phone. How the default is as sluggish as it is is beyond me.

rbanffy 6y ago

You pretty much nailed it here. It's not speed proper. It's the perception of speed. What the iPhone mastered was the transition starting right away. If you have no transition, the time to start, say, the mail app, will appear long, but since you started the icon blowing up to cover the screen right after your finger press was detected (by your brain) the delay feels shorter because you see something is happening. It's merely cosmetic - the app is still starting during the animation - but , to the user, the animation is part of the process.

Nullabillity 6y ago
Err, seems like you got it the wrong way around. That was initially the reason, but these days the animation ends up taking much longer than the actual processing. GP's workaround changes the animation durations to be somewhat closer to the actual time required. But even that's overkill for modern phones. I just tried turning off animations entirely, and things still feel pretty much instant, despite the phone being a few years old at this point.
- rbanffy 6y ago
  I guess my phone doesn't have enough speed to make lack of animations feel instantaneous ;-) In any case, the animation shouldn't take longer than it takes to start the program.

PaulHoule 6y ago

I have Phillips Hue and Sengled lights at home and I usually disable the "easing" animation on them to reduce the perception of time delay when I push the button... It is maybe 100 of ms of perceived latency I can subtract. It help a lot in that "computer user bill of rights" issue that you start to worry at some point that the button press wasn't registered and might then mash the button with unpredictable effects. (e.g. you might get more customer satisfaction from a crosswalk button that doesn't do anything at all except 'click' instantaneously)

bombcar 6y ago
How do you disable the easing?
lfowles 6y ago
Funny, because I purposefully bought dimmer switches for bathrooms in my house that added a bit of ramp up time when turning lights on! (Makes it less jarring to turn on the bathroom lights at 2am with just that fraction of a second)

kharak 6y ago

Thank you. Feels like a new phone. Disabled all animations.

Pxtl 6y ago

Oooh, thanks for this. I just applied the animation scale on my Pixel 4A and it feels so much peppier.