Phone performance after Android update

My Motorola G13 did an Android update the other day, which has made it slow and shit. It worked fine prior to this.

Coincidence, or is anyone else noticing a drop off in performance?

No. Mine was slow and shit before, so no change.

Any idea what it was?

My Pixel has only just had the August security update and bug fixes so I’d guess Motorola won’t have had their iteration of that yet. No performance hit that I’ve noticed.

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

Boot to Android Recovery and clear the cache…

Different model but the process should be the same.

Clearing the cache doesn’t accomplish anything on a modern Android phone.

After an update it takes a long time to optimise stuff if you have a lot of apps installed. This only happens in the background and lots of stuff can block it. Once it’s finished it should be back to how it was.

Otherwise every time you open an app it’s got to be recompiled on the fly, which is a painfully slow process.

My Motorola G13 did an Android update the other day, which has made it slow and shit. It worked fine prior to this.

Coincidence, or is anyone else noticing a drop off in performance?

As Flaperon sez:

After an update it takes a long time to optimise stuff if you have a lot of apps installed. This only happens in the background and lots of stuff can block it. Once it’s finished it should be back to how it was.

Otherwise every time you open an app it’s got to be recompiled on the fly, which is a painfully slow process.

Exactly the same thing happens with every OS update on iPhones for this very reason, and the fora and news is full of people claiming Apple has broken their phone after an update, and every time they have be told it’s what happens after an update.

I’d use an appropriate emoji at this point, but even my little giff emoji I copy from a 3rd-part web site won’t display any more. *sigh*

*shrugs*

Few cycles of “update all apps” from the Google Play Store and some power cycling. (Only a couple, at most.)

All should be back to normal.

Is only an 18 month old phone, so nothing should be incompatible yet.

My Motorola G5 has gone full slug.

I don’t think it’s the actually OS but the Google changes, like Gmail, searching  etc.

V-Slow after some obvious GUI changes.

Clearing the cache doesn’t accomplish anything on a modern Android phone.

After an update it takes a long time to optimise stuff if you have a lot of apps installed. This only happens in the background and lots of stuff can block it. Once it’s finished it should be back to how it was.

Otherwise every time you open an app it’s got to be recompiled on the fly, which is a painfully slow process.

Still force of habit for me after years of flashing custom ROMs and generally dicking around with Android phones.

That being said, I’ve been dismissing the One UI 6.1 update on my S23 for the past few months now as they generally mess with the Good Lock suite of customisations, so I’m awaiting (without bothering to check) for that to be updated too.

My Samsung was borked by the last update – it made the bluetooth audio all stuttery.

My Pixel 6 got a system update last night…didn’t take long but after a restart it optimised the apps and that took about 45 minutes. Phone hasn’t slowed down, but the update process did take a bit of time with the optimisation steps.
Once done I went to Play store to check for any app updates and there were 7 and they were all quite small, so they got done as well.