Quick question: Is ICS faster?

[glen]

Don't all these new updated add features and ultimately slow down the phone?
If someone doesn't need the latest features, would an older version, like Eclair, run faster?

 

[zerogear]

Better memory management, generally faster vs GB of the same spec. If the phone is too old though, it might indeed slow it down.

 

[zerocool84]

Depends on what parts you're talking about being faster.

 

[Bateluer]

Don't all these new updated add features and ultimately slow down the phone?
If someone doesn't need the latest features, would an older version, like Eclair, run faster?

To an extend. On the same phone, for example, an SGS2, ICS will likely run faster than GB on many things because the phone's hardware is able to take full advantage of ICS. A Droid X2, with only a Tegra 2 and 512MB of RAM wouldn't see as large of a benefit.

From personal experience, I will definitely say that on HC tablets that were upgraded to ICS, ICS is a substantial improvement across the board.

 

[Oyeve]

I noticed a rather large overall speed increase on my TF101 going from HC to ICS.

 

[shortylickens]

theres no such thing as a quick question in this forum.

also: yes

 

[Oyeve]

theres no such thing as a quick question in this forum.

True, waiting for this to somehow blow into an apple vs android debate! :whiste:

 

[destrekor]

New OS versions are rarely "add more features, do nothing else"
Unless it's an Apple OS, of course, than the point releases trickle out with rarely much improvement to the core.

But in all seriousness, each Android release typically has had better performance, even with added features, given certain parameters are met. Starting around Gingerbread (2.3), more memory is definitely needed, so if you are running less than 512mb RAM, it is best to stick to a pre-Gingerbread release.

 

[pm]

ICS seems faster to me on my Asus Transformer than GB did. Although the difference is minimal to me.

 

[MiataNC]

ICS is much faster on my AT&T Captivate, but it isn't an official release. I don't know how the custom ROM I am using compares to vanilla ICS.

 

[Deeko]

I'm running it on my Vibrant, which is older hardware. There are some places where it is faster - web browsing, for example, is like night and day, and the UI is generally more fluid. There are some things that are slower - I notice that launching apps takes a more time, and multitasking performance isn't nearly as good.

I presume that, while ICS might have better memory management, a lot of it just uses more memory, resulting in less available, albeit better managed, memory. This could easily cause both of the performance issues I noted.

 

[Binky]

Yes. Scrolling is much more fluid now.

 

[destrekor]

I'm running it on my Vibrant, which is older hardware. There are some places where it is faster - web browsing, for example, is like night and day, and the UI is generally more fluid. There are some things that are slower - I notice that launching apps takes a more time, and multitasking performance isn't nearly as good.

I presume that, while ICS might have better memory management, a lot of it just uses more memory, resulting in less available, albeit better managed, memory. This could easily cause both of the performance issues I noted.

If my Googling has provided accurate info, that phone only has 512mb of RAM.

You will most certainly have multi-tasking and other app-related memory issues when using ICS with that amount of memory.

It's just like the various Windows releases over the years. Windows 7,taken as a whole, is far and away the fastest version of Windows ever - less than a handful of tasks can be performed faster in XP or Vista.
If you don't have enough memory, however, performance could be worse in so many ways.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

To an extend. On the same phone, for example, an SGS2, ICS will likely run faster than GB on many things because the phone's hardware is able to take full advantage of ICS. A Droid X2, with only a Tegra 2 and 512MB of RAM wouldn't see as large of a benefit.

From personal experience, I will definitely say that on HC tablets that were upgraded to ICS, ICS is a substantial improvement across the board.

What do you mean by this? Hardware accelerated animations?

Better memory management, generally faster vs GB of the same spec. If the phone is too old though, it might indeed slow it down.

What do you mean better memory management? If anything the memory groupings for ICS are pretty fucked up too which is why many ROMs use the supercharger script to fix OOM groupings. It's been an issue in Gingerbread and STILL an issue in ICS. In fact this was brought up back in Froyo, but it's been almost 2 years and Google's not doing a thing about it....

 

[glen]

How much Memory is in an HTC G2?
How do I tell what version I am running, HC or ICS?

 

[Brian Stirling]

I have ICS on my SGNexus and am hoping to see my SGTab 7.7 get ICS soon -- I on't like HC all that much and even if ICS wasn't any faster I'd prefer it. The fact that it is likely to be a good bit faster on a tab with 1GB RAM seals the deal for me.


Brian

 

[hans007]

i've never had ICS on the same phone that had gingerbread. friend of mine has a nexus S gsm though, and it has 512mb ram and he says its much smoother than with gingerbread.

i'd say ICS on my gnexus feels smoother and faster than htc sense'd up gingerbread on the rezound i had for a month. but thats hard to compare.

 

[Oyeve]

ICS seems faster to me on my Asus Transformer than GB did. Although the difference is minimal to me.

GB???? Really????