Nexus 5 performance problems bug users; lag and throttling were unexpected

Nexus 5X was released only last month and it’s already facing a lot complaints from users. The complaints center on four issues: encryption, throttling, camera slow-down and lag. The fourth, however, is by far the most unexpected from a pure Android device like the Nexus 5X.

Following the grand success of Nexus 5, the Nexus 5X was supposed to have performed better with its faster system chip, more convenient charging capability, a fingerprint scanner and the latest version of Android 6.0 Marshmallow running at its core, reports Phone Arena. That was the expectation. Reality, however, has been a lot different.

Going one-by-one, the first major issue with the phone is that it can’t run software-accelerated encryption successfully, thus thwarting the phone's performance. The second biggest concern is the camera integrated with HDR+ tends to stall the camera app if you try to click many at one go.

We expect the Snapdragon 808 system chip inside the phone to perform well, but despite the two performance-driven Cortex A57 cores, the Phone seems to slow down at times, thus making the camera fail the third most major issue for users.

Finally, the biggest annoyance is the phone tends to stutter and go sluggish more frequently than is acceptable. Numerous speed tests were later conducted that proved the Nexus 5 outperformed its successor, the Nexus 5X, in a series of tasks. Not expected at all.

Users have to wait every time the phone slows down to increase speed so they can resume their work after a long pause. Though the phone lag complaint has been floating around for some time, many users haven’t reported any such complaints.

Before jumping to conclusions, we’ll have to wait to see if the complaints are truly legit or are eventually proved wrong.

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