[Q] Browser Lag worse after new ICS update?? - Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime

Is anyone else experienceing worse browser and chrome surfing experences after the newest ICS update? I was under the impression that the buggs with the waiting dialog boxes and random crashes have gotten worse... Also i know chrome is a beta but its performace has also been worse since the update... I starting to wish i would have held off and waited for a more refined experience...
Anyone else having these issues? Or found a fix? I tried a search and followed a couple guieds about the gpu issue to no avail..

This is not a pitch for the browser I use because I think it is great (or maybe it is...)
I've used Dolphin browser HD and it only gets faster and faster. I'm running on .14 virtuous rom but it was fast even with stock.
I'd suggest you try that browser

yeah.. same here.. notice this more and more each day. some sites better then others. just thought is was maybe a html thing.

I never had browser issues before the update and now it closes all the time. Lags too. I'm just using stock but am going to try dolphin to see if it's any better.

I didnt use the pad for long on honeycomb but the lag is noticible.
as a matter of fact, the first comment i got from a friend who had a playabout on my prime (already on stock ics .14) was that the browser was laggy!
I also noticed that download bars keep flickering throughout the download! (esp apparent when downloading large files)

I just delete my browser's data ad cache from the Apps Menu and it definitely smoothed out a lot of browser issues I have been having since the ICS rollout. I have been using the browser over an hour now and haven't gotten a single "wait/close" error. Pages are also loading smoother.

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[Q] LAG!!!! DEFAULT BROWSER apple demand?

it s only me or are feeling a little lag in the browser? I have the phone and so far, was not having problems, but this day I have noticed a lag in the explorer, but when you activate any flash video it is worse.will have to do with the demand placed apple, as a user I have to say I feel cheated, and it seems unfair that samsung do an update on the phone without user consent.
for all users someone else feels this change?
If only I have a problem, which they believe may be the problem in my phone.
if the problem is that Samsung created an update in no time I found some message that will make the update.
Developers. as we return to the browser before?
Try Dolphin HD.
Flash is a bloated CPU-intensive system, it will usually cause lag.
Samsung don't "push" updates without the users knowledge, updates are via Kies only and require user approval.
Not sure what apple has to do with any of it?
I haven't experienced any lag when watching flash videos that isn't youtube on stock.
I have also not faced any lag but mine is moded and super fast stock browser
Browser )=
Very grateful and very quickly they respond in the forums XDA rocks
My problem to be more specific, after exploring for awhile at the different pages I lose the animation, wath animation? The animation when we reached the bottom of the page when you slide your finger up or down quickly. when this happens it becomes lag, try the rest of the night and restarting it fixes the problem.
Be a configuration problem? If the problem persists, create a video to be seen
Sorry for the apple, I read something about the photo browser APK but it seems it has nothing to do.
Anyway thank you very much to resolve my doubts I love this phone. and one of the things I love most is the browser fluides
Yep, same here, lag on the Stock browser especially when zooming in and playing flash videos. The truth is you just can't have a silky smooth browser in Android like iOS. Though, the most complete web browser remains in Android.
Regards.
No idea what is causing the lag your having
im zooming in and out while playing 1080p flash .....super smooth
ive never ever noticed lag on my phone except when running a custom rom with no lag fix
A lot of custom roms make the browser really laggy but stock its as smooth as ios. Try closing the browser in the task manager and then opening it again. Also chainfire ****ed up the browser.
Browser
I have two questions, it is possible that the update is the problem? 10.3 of the flash, I have chainfire3D how could this affect my browser? always keep it in nvidia plugin.
I HAVE I9100UHKG4
Kernal UHKG7
The point is that the lag started the day yesterday, then I do not think the version of the phone is the problem.
dolpinHD is lag for this cell phone, do not plan to use) = I want my browser before and if anyone can help me with the link to remove chainfire thanks.

ICS Browser temporarily freezes loading pages

Anyone else experiencing this?
On the stock ICS browser, I'll load up a page and while it loads, I cannot scroll until it is nearly done loading... this sometimes takes up a few seconds but it grinds the tablet itself to a halt until it's done.
It affects other apps such as Pulse as well. Did Google/Asus/Nvidia change the way that the browser loads? For example, one could move around freely in the browser and would get a checkerboard pattern and it loaded that section on the fly.
*Problem does not seem to affect Opera...but that has it's own set of issues...
avlon said:
Anyone else experiencing this?
On the stock ICS browser, I'll load up a page and while it loads, I cannot scroll until it is nearly done loading... this sometimes takes up a few seconds but it grinds the tablet itself to a halt until it's done.
It affects other apps such as Pulse as well. Did Google/Asus/Nvidia change the way that the browser loads? For example, one could move around freely in the browser and would get a checkerboard pattern and it loaded that section on the fly.
*Problem does not seem to affect Opera...but that has it's own set of issues...
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I am having the same problem with my stock browser.
Yup. Only happens in stock ICS browser
I've noticed that it also happens in the ICS+ browser (not surprising) but doesn't seem to happen at all in Opera.
Also, if I set Pulse to use Opera as its rendering engine..it seems to work fine.
It's a VERY annoying issue though since I prefer the stock browser other than that issue. If I press anything while the stock browser is in that open state I get the message:
"Browser is not responding. Would you like to close it?"
With the options of "Wait" and "Ok"
I haven't tried Dolphin yet but since it basically seems to be a skin for the stock browser, I would imagine that it would happen there as well.
Hopefully Asus will see this and fix in an upcoming update.
**Also, I tested the Stock browser on the Galaxy Nexus and it did NOT have this issue. I worked wonderfully**
avlon said:
I've noticed that it also happens in the ICS+ browser (not surprising) but doesn't seem to happen at all in Opera.
Also, if I set Pulse to use Opera as its rendering engine..it seems to work fine.
It's a VERY annoying issue though since I prefer the stock browser other than that issue. If I press anything while the stock browser is in that open state I get the message:
"Browser is not responding. Would you like to close it?"
With the options of "Wait" and "Ok"
I haven't tried Dolphin yet but since it basically seems to be a skin for the stock browser, I would imagine that it would happen there as well.
Hopefully Asus will see this and fix in an upcoming update.
**Also, I tested the Stock browser on the Galaxy Nexus and it did NOT have this issue. I worked wonderfully**
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I have the same issue. I think it is in all stock Android browsers. My Viewsonic G-Tab running Vegan-tab Gingerbread edition did exactly the same thing. I think there is some javascript or flash that is trying to load in the background of the page and is timing out. Usually, if I hit Wait on the pop-up dialog, it instantly frees up. Annoying, but normal on flash-heavy pages. You kind of get used to it after a while.
Anyway, it isn't isolated to ICS, the Prime or Asus for that matter. Not sure why the Nexus would be different, except that maybe it is seen as a 'phone' and the Prime is seen as a 'tablet' or 'desktop' in the user agent string.
Don Lettrich said:
I have the same issue. I think it is in all stock Android browsers. My Viewsonic G-Tab running Vegan-tab Gingerbread edition did exactly the same thing. I think there is some javascript or flash that is trying to load in the background of the page and is timing out. Usually, if I hit Wait on the pop-up dialog, it instantly frees up. Annoying, but normal on flash-heavy pages. You kind of get used to it after a while.
Anyway, it isn't isolated to ICS, the Prime or Asus for that matter. Not sure why the Nexus would be different, except that maybe it is seen as a 'phone' and the Prime is seen as a 'tablet' or 'desktop' in the user agent string.
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I never experienced it on the original Transformer running stock Honeycomb or my old Archos 70 running Froyo. While they did sometimes stutter through the pages, they never literally froze my tablet in place for 5 seconds while loading up a page. At worst I would get the checkerboard pattern as things loaded up or the browser would simply force close.
With 4 cores, I'm surprised that a browser could even have this type of effect. I did try enabling the force cpu usage in development options to see if anything made sense to me but unfortunately it made 0 sense to me. Hopefully someone a lot smarter than me can figure it out.
I am having the same exact issues. Any fixes?
sambow87 said:
I am having the same exact issues. Any fixes?
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yeah...switch to opera...
Definitely an ICS browser bug as I never experienced this with Honeycomb. Hopefully we'll see a new Asus update soon.
I have exactly he same issue... I hope there will be a update. Guess I'm going to use opera for now
Same thing here been using Opera it's hella annoying.
Same issue here. Hope they fix it soon. Also my keyboard stops responding in the browser a lot, particularly in google predictive searching.
The fix is coming. Asus knows about all the ICS problems and a fix is coming Mid to Late February.
The topics are stickied on the General area of the Prime.
This may resolve Random Freezing during Page Loads
Please see if this solves this issue for you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22079591&postcount=1
I've noticed it happens when the browser tries to load something at the same time another app is loading something.
Has there been a permanent fix determined yet?
I get this a lot, and while the cache/data deletion trick works for a while, within about 2 or 3 hours of use, the problem comes back...

Browser not responding

I couldn't find a thread about this.
At times when I open a web page with lots of content (images) the page will be loaded just fine until it is almost done. Everything is fine and I can scroll the page. Then it will just freeze until I get the dialog "Browser not responding" asking if I want to close it. However, instantly when I choose "Wait" the browser becomes responsive again and finishes loading the page.
Lately this has been happening a lot more frequently. About every 5th time I load a big web site. Sometimes it happens even here, but it is quite rare.
I've tried this with other browsers and they behave almost exactly the same way, except they freeze for a shorter period of time and it never gets to the "App not responding" dialog. But they will still be frozen for multiple seconds during which I can't scroll the page.
During the freeze none of the Android buttons work but music playing in the background plays without any errors.
This has really started to irritate me so I wanted to know if others are experiencing this.
This far and away my biggest problem with the Prime. I really hope this gets fixed.
Same problem here.
I thought it was related to the common freeze/reboot issue addressed by the latest patches, but it is still occurring with patch .15 (just had one loading this thread).
+1
10chachacha
If you prefer to use the stock browser, download ics browser + from market.
Same as stock but with more features. Works flawlessly on my prime.
My friend also have this problem. Also with the ics+ browser. It works flawlessly on chrome though, so maybe flash is the problem?
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torsrex said:
My friend also have this problem. Also with the ics+ browser. It works flawlessly on chrome though, so maybe flash is the problem?
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No, even if you block flash on the stock browser, this problem randomly happens ... it looks like a problem with Stock and ICS+ browser (well ICS+ uses pretty much the same code base I think), but doesn't happen in other browsers as far as I can tell.
So most probably it's a problem with the stock browser !
For me it happens even if I don't have Flash installed.
It happens with Dolphin browser as well. Haven't noticed it in Opera.
Chrome is a bit different. Occasionally when you scroll down while it is still loading you only see white until after some time it starts to fill the page again. I think it could be related because the duration is pretty much the same as with the freezing issue.
My biggest frustration also.. figured it was possibly related with all the reboot issues also but still happens regardless of what browser I try and I have tried all of them.. I hope this get fixed soon..
That was my biggest complaint about the Prime... Browsing was just not fun because of this. I switched to Dolphin and it's much better.
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That was my biggest complaint about the Prime... Browsing was just not fun because of this. I switched to Dolphin and it's much better.
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You are lucky.. Dolphin no better here and just switched to chrome to post this after Dolphin closed out afterward and happened on chrome.. Please Asus fix this.. main reason I have a tablet is to surf! It is very tiring
from my experience all the browsers (ICS, ICS+, Firefox, Dolphin, Boat, Opera) have flaws, even Chrome Beta which still doesn't recognize the Function keys on the Keyboard dock and somehow interprets a character return when you try to enter an uppercase "B" on the dock.
At this point, I rather Microsoft get involved and just put up an Internet Explorer for Android. All the other browser alternatives have flopped hard to deliver. It would be an ironic twist if a IE for Android just simply worked. (not to mention the Silverlight and Flash support )
yup
Ditto here. Biggest complaint about the prime for me, too... after WiFi and GPS.
I think I've had this happen to me on every browser I've tried. Dolphin, chrome, ics, boat...
jeejee said:
I couldn't find a thread about this.
At times when I open a web page with lots of content (images) the page will be loaded just fine until it is almost done. Everything is fine and I can scroll the page. Then it will just freeze until I get the dialog "Browser not responding" asking if I want to close it. However, instantly when I choose "Wait" the browser becomes responsive again and finishes loading the page.
Lately this has been happening a lot more frequently. About every 5th time I load a big web site. Sometimes it happens even here, but it is quite rare.
I've tried this with other browsers and they behave almost exactly the same way, except they freeze for a shorter period of time and it never gets to the "App not responding" dialog. But they will still be frozen for multiple seconds during which I can't scroll the page.
During the freeze none of the Android buttons work but music playing in the background plays without any errors.
This has really started to irritate me so I wanted to know if others are experiencing this.
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I get the same thing. Figured it was just me.
My biggest annoyence by far, I've got this problem with all browsers on a regular base and it's a big problem that needs to be fixed quickly.
Same problem here even after latest update.
I also noticed this before. The strange thing is that with the same site, on different times, I sometimes do have this problem, and sometimes I don't.
I have same problem the browser freez and chrash and sometimes i get force close
Me too.
I have had the same problem on all the 4.0 builds. With stock, dolphin and chrome browser.
Did a factory reset after .15 update, no better.
The ics browser on my phone does not freeze. Seems its a prime thing. Anyone notice this behavior on any other ics devices?
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So how is everyone's browser after 15?

Because mine sucks. It has reverted to locking up after every 2nd or 3rd page like it did on .11. On a positive note, this is the first update for me with absolutely no reboots, although I would rather have browser working properly again and deal with the 1 reboot a day I was having.
Anyway this isn't really here as a complaining thread, I'm just interested to see if this is commonly affecting people or if I should try a factory reset.
EDIT: sorry for the duplicate thread, I just found the other one that I somehow missed when I was scanning over the other thread topics in this section
Sigh, I got my first reboot AND browser lockup with this update lol. Its OK though between ics+ and chrome I'm fully covered. Reboot has happened once and lockups several times. How can I watch pron if my browser locks up? Answer that one Asus!
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My browser has been slow also it keeps locking up and I have to close out of It and shut down the tasks then i am able to get back into it. .14 I didn't have any of these issues with the browser
i didn't noticed anything still same
but about update .15 was very fast
The freezing issue has went away using ics browser + for me. I have the C1 model if that matters.
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mine is much much better and way more quicker,
However it seems that it now opens a new tab each time I click a link.
slightly annoying however I'll live with it for the extra speed.
I have almost zero browser freezing after the .15 update - been very happy with it
Browser is pretty good, fast and smooth, although i think once it locked up completely and forced a reboot. I dont have random reboots or anything i'm pretty sure that one was caused by the browser locking up.
Apart from that everything's fine. Oh youtube servers totally suck the last few days But that problem occurs on all my devices and for everyone around here...
My browser now sucks with .15. (BCOKAS)
- It's a lot slower.
- It freezes a lot
- It crashes.
- On .11 it was way faster, better and more stable.
- when I turn javascript off it's blazing fast.
Looking forward to .16
OK with ICS+, but Chrome crashed on my first use, second page after .15
Thanks for the input, sounds like I should try the ics+ browser. Chrome seems to be working really well right now for me, but it doesn't have flash which is kinda meh for me. I would really love to know why everyone has such different experiences with updates, but I would be shocked if there was a person alive that actually knew the answer...
My stock browser is the same with .15 as before...slow, becomes unresponsive to taps after a while, and crashes. I use Dolphin instead.
I just got mine a few days ago, updated to 15 as soon as i powered it on. My only issue with the browser is it will randomly close itself, no fc or anything. Otherwise no issues
ICS browser + is faster but has this strange scroll lag for me.
Going to try the new opera mobile version now. (has flash now)
I have had a bunch of issues with freezes and fc's as well don't know what gives
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Have you guys tried going to settings -> apps -> find the browser app and clear its cache? It solved my problems.
I clear cache, cookies, forms, and passwords regularly. It doesn't matter. I have tried incognito so I don't have to do that but it doesn't make a difference. I also have desktop page checked.
Before 15 the only issue I had was GPS and Wifi wasn't stellar.
With 15 I now have reboots daily *sigh* and I also see a lot more "close/wait" popups (mainly in the browser).
My TP only rebooted once when i was on .11 firmware. Now im in .15 and it restarted 3x already. Always when i was in browser having multiple tabs open and watching some flash related stuff. There definately room for improvement
Tablet significantly slower with the latest update. Browsing is also much slower with more lockups. .15 was a massive step back for me as the previous one was working so nicely!

cm9 slowing downn

Feels like over the last month my cm9 has become much slower, especially when loading web pages. Applies in all browsers, but also some apps.
Dolphjn browser has also become buggy and annoyjng.
Does cm9 store some system cache/temp files i should clear? (i dont mean thecache in eachbrowser)
Thx all!
Maybe give cache cleaner ng a try?
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Why don't you try flashing one of the more recent nighties? And why don't you use chrome?
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chrome
found chrome to be a bit buggy, havent found my ideal browser.
mostly been using dolphin, though it tends to load web pages as blank and i have to press reload
stock browser tends to randomly close
chrome drives me nuts as i cant get tabs to close!!
opera seemed weird
maxthon took to long
will try cache cleaner apps! thx, never thought of looking for one
I had that aswell....was using cherrykang for a month or so and it just started slowing down and giving me wifi problems. On top of that if the tablet went to sleep sometimes it wouldn't wake up until i reset it.
Finally i gave up and flashed classicnerd
not having any issues here with my firefox browsing on the latest CM9 nightly.
maybe it's the internet connection?
will try firefox
connection is ok, the whole tablet slows right down, you can see it drawing the various sections of a webpage.
My touchpad has definitely slowed down lately. Both quadrant and Antutu benchmark have dropped considerably. I run the unofficial nightlies, and have the CPU set to 1.7 max, 384 min
I've noticed a very slight improvement the last couple of days.
My thought on this is that it's something I've installed. Too lazy to search it out.......
Edit : ICS Browser+ works great for me.
I guess I haven't noticed the slowdown. I use the unofficial nightlies and i think my TP has been running better than ever. I use Chrome as my browser and haven't had any problems.
What kind of issues do you get with chrome?
Also does anyone know of any Web browser benchmarks for mobile devices? I know certain companies claim their browser loads pages x% faster than others browsers. Just curious more than anything.
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