Sluggish G1 fixed - Latitude to blame
Somewhere along the line, my T-Mobile G1 had become less and less responsive. Interface animations were very jerky, the touch screen lagged - something was wrong! I had accepted that being the original Android phone, as later versions of the OS came out, the little G1 would get progressively slower as Android got bigger and did more.
However, the jerky interface started to annoy me. I emptied the browser cache: this helped. I removed some applications: no difference. I disabled the new 'Latitude' feature in the downloaded version of Google Maps and restarted.
Full speed had been restored.
Quite why Latitude caused the phone to perform so badly at all times, I do not know. I didn't think it updated my location that frequently. Anyway, despite being quite a cool feature - I can live without it, in exchange for a nice responsive G1.
NB: When typing this I wondered why a three month old Macbook Pro was lagging as I typed. top revealed TweetDeck.app using 78% of CPU. Computers are rubbish nowadays. ;)
1 comment
Aug 15, 2009
minxlj said...
And you wonder why I'm not bothered about getting Latitude on my iPhone! ;)
