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Slip Jigs

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Feb 18, 2008
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The checkerboard, or background grid that you see until the actual section of the page loads has always been annoying. Of course it's just a lag waiting for the CPU or video to catch up. Even happens when you scroll back up to view a section of the page that had already loaded. Related issue of scrolling through contacts, email - lag and choppy. Affects apps as well, some more than others. iTV doesn't seem to load the next section until you go to scroll toward it.

So anyone who has lived with this on your previous phones, are you still seeing it on the 3Gs?
 
Well, it all depends. If by chance I'm in an area on Edge, yes - though not as bad as my 1st gen. If I'm on a solid 3G or WiFi, I hardly ever notice the checkered board loading scheme.
 
No, the checkerboard only shows when the page isn't fully loaded and you try to scroll. Once loaded you can scroll as fast as you want and there's no checkerboard.
 
That's true, being on the faster network or wifi indeed helps - I've noticed that in general, when the phone is "multi-tasking" it introduces lag into the interface. What about contacts or email, something that loads into RAM locally - noticeable improvement?
 
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