Am I the only one that notices micro stutter in WP 8.1?

[David Van Ryn]

Using the Lumia 830.

I see this in almost all app's, on the home screen (when swiping finger down mostly), see it in the app's list, the battery app, etc...

People keep telling me there's is fine, but on my phone and my girlfriend's phone it is clearly stuttering. Both 830's

Some native app's scroll without any stuttering, other simply lag.
I tried most of the tweaks suggested on this and other forums with no result. My lumia 820 never had this issue!

Please let me know how your phone is doing.

 

[tgp]

I think all of the WP8 devices I've had have done it, even before 8.1. On my 920 it's very obvious. I just figured it was a "feature!" I notice it mostly in the Settings menu. Slightly, but very noticeably jerky.

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[Onager1286]

Hm this is interesting. I have a 920 and a 635, both with 8.1 and Cyan. If I'm seeing the same thing as the OP, my 635 feels quite a bit laggier than my 920. I attributed this to either a lower refresh rate on the 635 (didn't Nokia tout the 920 as having 60 Hz refresh rate?), or else the Snapdragon 400 chip isn't handling WP8.1 well. I'm not sure, thought my experience might help narrow the issue down.

 

[a5cent]

^ I would disagree with tgp that all WP devices have micro stutter, or at least I have not noticed it. I don't recall seeing any jitter on a L820, ever. However I do agree that the L830 is particularly susceptible to this. I have yet to see it in 1st party apps, but in 3rd party apps micro stutter seems quite common. This will very likely be true of every L830. At least every device I've seen exhibited the same thing.

It's not lag however. The L830 tracks my finger pretty much perfectly. Micro stutter is seen best when scrolling through graphical lists at a medium speed.

 

[npoe]

I have the problem from time to time (not always) and specially when closing an app pressing back until I get to the menu. I'm using a Lumia 920.

 

[Jas00555]

I have yet to see it in 1st party apps, .

Really? You've NEVER seen a 1st party app to this? Fascinating *cough* Xbox music *cough*

 

[nallWhite]

I see it when apps close and the start screen launches. I'm on an 830 and had the same issue on a 635

 

[Ruined]

Its definitely there on my 928, but the 8.1 OS feels faster somehow than 8.0 did despite the stutters.

Overall I like the feel of 8.1 better.

 

[tgp]

I would disagree with tgp that all WP devices have micro stutter,

I disagree with that too, but that isn't what I said. All the ones I have used extensively have it. However, that consists of a 520 and a couple 920s. I have little experience outside of those models. I did have a few 521s as well but I used them very little. I was surprised; it was not the butter smooth experience I was expecting.

 

[realwarder]

I think 8.1 stutters more than 8.0. It most definitely stalls and resumes more, but maybe that's the Band driver being a bit raw. Guess I should try turning that off for a few days.

 

[EspHack]

Its definitely there on my 928, but the 8.1 OS feels faster somehow than 8.0 did despite the stutters.

Overall I like the feel of 8.1 better.

I would take 8.0's smoothness any day, 8.1 tries too hard to be faster and it just looks bad sometimes, a lot of frame skipping

 

[a5cent]

Really? You've NEVER seen a 1st party app to this? Fascinating *cough* Xbox music *cough*

lol, as I recall, so far I have opened that app on my L830 just once... no micro stutter at all and completely smooth (I also had no songs on my device at the time).

 

[aximtreo]

It's there on my M8 for Verizon. Not all the time but seems to happen in program more so than menu's.

 

[David Van Ryn]

I hope WP10 will bring better performance and all-round better experience (less stutter, etc..), they have a very interesting platform on they're hands.
I would hate to see it go away cause of people losing interest.

tried the other platforms and didn't like what i saw, tried Wp and was sold true my old phone Lumia 820, now all i see and read is issues and good hardware under-performing..

In some apps it works flawlessly, internet explorer is the least stuttering of the original app's. And on the 3th party list, i found Insider pro to be working absolutely flawlessly, even in the longer list's scrolling. So it IS possible to make this phone and other Lumia's run the OS and other app's without hick-up's. Go Microsoft, Gooo i believe in this platform and defend it when i can, don't let me down (i know they don't read this, but still wanted to say it )

 

[denzilla]

My 920 is smooth sometimes and stuttery as you describe others. Looks like WP needs a "project Butter".

 

[luMia630]

I see it when apps close and the start screen launches. I'm on an 830 and had the same issue on a 635

if you mean slight lag during animation of returning to start screen remove cortana live tile

 

[mjyumping]

if you mean slight lag during animation of returning to start screen remove cortana live tile

Good find! I really don't pin Cortana on start screen so it's smooth, but I tried to pin it now (to test it) and it really lags after I pinned it! I removed it again and the lags gone.

 

[luMia630]

i have tried to record stuttering in slow motion (240fps) maybe it helps, hope you can see sort of jumping there when swiping with finger on screen in contrast to smooth swiping in the end of video where i lift finger form screen

 

[anon(5518418)]

Yip my L640 does this, it stutters in general.

 

[luMia630]

Yip my L640 does this, it stutters in general.

Glad I'm not alone who see it, I was about to start thinking that OCD gives people powers to see micro stuttering on (according to all reviews) perfectly smooth OS