ICS Slooooow - AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717

I upgraded my ATT Note to ICS thru Kies.......the phone has now slowed to painful speeds....when hitting return button phone will cycle thru screens repeatedly until I hit power button and restart phone.....any thoughts

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WhiteMountain said:
I upgraded my ATT Note to ICS thru Kies.......the phone has now slowed to painful speeds....when hitting return button phone will cycle thru screens repeatedly until I hit power button and restart phone.....any thoughts
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Master reset the phone see if that helps.
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I recently had to get a warranty exchange after my charging port stopped working a week after upgrading to ICS. When I asked if I'd have to re-update the new device I was told to hold off because there are a lot of kinks that need to be worked out in terms of the compatibility with this device.
That's fine with me because I did a master reset and all and still had the slow speeds, sporadic behavior, black screens, etc. :sly:
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I do not think its a fluke. ICS has a lot of improvements but there is no way its as fast as Gingerbread. I know most people will say I am wrong but Gingerbread is much snappier and its also more simplistic. ICS also eats up more ram but besides speed and ram its very much improved as an OS.

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porkenhimer said:
I do not think its a fluke. ICS has a lot of improvements but there is no way its as fast as Gingerbread. I know most people will say I am wrong but Gingerbread is much snappier and its also more simplistic. ICS also eats up more ram but besides speed and ram its very much improved as an OS.
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I disagree with this, but only to a certain extent. I have noticed varying amount of lag on both GB and ICS. ICS does seem to use up more RAM on consistent basis, but that alone doesn't really mean that it is slower or indicate that it is the slower of the two OS. GB had its problems for me as well.
Overall I enjoy the user experience much more with ICS than I did with GB. That's not too say that its consistently faster, but overall Ill deal with a few quirks for the upgraded OS.

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porkenhimer said:
I do not think its a fluke. ICS has a lot of improvements but there is no way its as fast as Gingerbread. I know most people will say I am wrong but Gingerbread is much snappier and its also more simplistic. ICS also eats up more ram but besides speed and ram its very much improved as an OS.
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In my case ICS is MUCH faster, smoother and solid than Gingerbread on my Note.

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if you all were running a aosp ics rom . it would be lightyears above gb
i recomend rooting and geting on aocp its like night and day compared to touchwizd ics

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Just Use CM9 ICS virtually no lag...

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Just flash a rom already
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Same problem here, mate. I loved the Note with GB, but it's been buggy as all hell with ICS. The biggest problem is looking at the blank home screen with nothing but wallpaper for up to 30 seconds after closing an app. It's a lot better using GoLauncher rather than TouchWiz, but it still suffers from a lot of lag. Hopefully they'll push out an OTA fix to better regulate resources soon.
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Ya root your phone and viola...problem solved...not to mention you get things like beats audio and stuff that makes the phonw 100% awesomer(yea awesomer)
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even if you don't want to run a custom rom, you should at least do the following:
1. Use Odin to flash the latest cwm recovery
2. Boot to recovery, flash superuser to root
3. Clear cache and dalvik
4. Reboot
5. Profit
Then again, running a custom rom would be an even better idea...

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nightside_eclipse said:
Same problem here, mate. I loved the Note with GB, but it's been buggy as all hell with ICS. The biggest problem is looking at the blank home screen with nothing but wallpaper for up to 30 seconds after closing an app. It's a lot better using GoLauncher rather than TouchWiz, but it still suffers from a lot of lag. Hopefully they'll push out an OTA fix to better regulate resources soon.
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Do a complete wipe and update through kies on your pc.

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xCeejayy said:
Do a complete wipe and update through kies on your pc.
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An excellent idea.....:highfive:

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Even after rooting and debloating (which helped) it was still too slow for me, go with cm9 or if you think your ready cm10 lol
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If stock ics is too slow, I think a nice launcher could help if you're not addicted to Samsung widgets. Nova prime or Adwex can speed the home screen up a bunch. Especially with options to reduce scrolling time etc. I thought the stock ics was perfectly fine. I never had any speed issues or complaints, but I was running a debloated, aligned, deodexed version so maybe that had something to do with it.
Obviously best solution is custom Rom though :thumbup:
Good luck peeps.
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