using iscroll in android 2.3.2 1.try translateZ(0); .listview, .listview * {translateZ(0);} Instead, if, say, your list is made of LIs: .listview li {translateZ(0);} 2. remove * in css rules 3. remove rounded corner. According to #6, this is maybe wrong. It seems that a list of items is very slow regardless of the amount of list items So, knowing this, I worked on the assumption that there were some rendering kinks. Firstly, I removed the rounded corners, which didn't do anything for performance. Then I started removing the box-shadow and text-shadow. After applying some overrides, performance is now good. It's not great, but it's at least usable. Everything seems to run more smoothly, even transitions. I'd say that removing shadows gave me a performance boost of at least 100%. Which to me makes it worth it (even though it looks a little less nice). 4. text-shadow none ??? According to #6, this is maybe wrong. Copy code * { t