Placebo Effect? - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have been looking at my girlfriends brand new S3 with stock firmware and i have noticed that ICS is actually smoother than every JB leak i have installed and also smoother than my Omega 26 Rom. My Omega 26 Rom has all of the bloat removed and it doesnt make any difference.
In fact i would go as far to say that hers is smoother than mine!
Im starting to think that all this Rooting and Flashing causes more problems than it might solve!

Smoothness doesn't necessarily mean speed though
Eg. Reset transition speeds to 1 if you have them on 0.5 is a good way of demonstrating what I mean

slaphead20 said:
Smoothness doesn't necessarily mean speed though
Eg. Reset transition speeds to 1 if you have them on 0.5 is a good way of demonstrating what I mean
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Thought I'd find you lurking around here spouting 8ollox.....
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irzero said:
I have been looking at my girlfriends brand new S3 with stock firmware and i have noticed that ICS is actually smoother than every JB leak
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I've noticed the exact opposite. My girlfriend's phone seems so sluggish with stock ICS compared with my JB ROM. I think JB has been really snappy since at least LI6.

irzero said:
I have been looking at my girlfriends brand new S3 with stock firmware and i have noticed that ICS is actually smoother than every JB leak i have installed and also smoother than my Omega 26 Rom. My Omega 26 Rom has all of the bloat removed and it doesnt make any difference.
In fact i would go as far to say that hers is smoother than mine!
Im starting to think that all this Rooting and Flashing causes more problems than it might solve!
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I kinda get what youre saying. I have 3 devices on which I have the new cm10, dli8 and lh1. LH1 wins in all categories except for jellybean smootness of the dli8 leak. ICS is still king.

remember, these are still leaks, may still be bugs...

No. The jellybean is smoother. And cm10 is waaaay faster

People just have different ideas of smoothness. Some people think the Galaxy Nexus with Jelly Bean is smoother than the GS3 with ICS, not a chance, Some stupid people even think that the Iphone 3Gs is smoother than the GS3, which is just plain retarded. Some people think that the iphone 4 and 4s kill even the high end Androids in smoothness, wrong again. Some people think that sense 4.0 isn't a stuttery mess and that the One X is actually close in performance to the GS3, you guessed it, wrong.
Just go with your eyes.
If i were to hazard a guess. AOSP probably has about 30 frames of animation that just cycle every half a second, locked at 60fps. While touchwiz has like 40 frames of animation or more that is usually locked 60fps but not always like JB. So yeah, during the times that ICS touchwiz is at 60 fps, it should appear smoother.
Basically if ICS doesn't drop below 60fps or have memory que issues then technically we wouldn't see project butter. We don't even technically see it. We only notice it when the system chugs, and if project butter kicks in properly, we won't even see that. lol

Well its subjective, you need to ask yourself what do you mean by smoothness? For me its fast respons when opening apps and having no lag or stutterings. For this JB leak li8 does the job
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people keep raving about how smooth the iphone is but it's noticeably slower than android, esp the high end ones.. the smoothness is just there to cover the lags

I have owned 5 iPhone's and I can tell you now that ios strongest point is the consistently fast transitions. You can move around the OS 10x faster than android. Android is filled with loads of pointless animations and transitions that just make it slower.
I found my problem to be a widget called application manager. It caused a stutter in my transition from Page to Page. I minimised this and now it's smooth.
But I'd still argue that there is no difference between my girlfriends ICS and my JB
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Samsung vs AOSP ROMs smoothness?

Im currently using CM9 latest nightly, but as much as I love AOSP, I never feels as smooth as samsung based roms. Why is that? Kernel? Drivers? Optimizations?
If its kernel, which is (Opinion based) the smoothest available?
thnx
Im looking for the smoothest experience, is there a kernel or any t
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ATM cm9 roms have a bit touch issue, so it feels like its not smooth
But when their wasn't any touch issue then people said its much smoother than stock
once you taste aosp ics you never go back
just wait till it hit stable and samsung rom wont even come close
^^^ Thats how I feel. But im kinda picky, thats why I brought it up. I noticed the touch issue and its part of the issue IMO. But can Exynos drivers/optimizations also be contributing? because stock ICS roms get much better framerate in the GPU tests than CM9 (never mind the overall score) So maybe the CPU isnt being used to its full potential
I flashed a buddys Vibrant with Passion ICS and also noticed that a single core 512mb ram last gen phone felt smoother than my exynos monster. Same goes to the Vivid when i tried one at the ATT store that had the ICS update. When i flipped the homescreen carrusell in Sense, it was like when I first saw a motionflow 120hz TV
Hope things get sorted out because I love AOSP and would never want to go back to the cartoony TW
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mike21pr said:
^^^ Thats how I feel. But im kinda picky, thats why I brought it up. I noticed the touch issue and its part of the issue IMO. But can Exynos drivers/optimizations also be contributing? because stock ICS roms get much better framerate in the GPU tests than CM9 (never mind the overall score) So maybe the CPU isnt being used to its full potential
I flashed a buddys Vibrant with Passion ICS and also noticed that a single core 512mb ram last gen phone felt smoother than my exynos monster. Same goes to the Vivid when i tried one at the ATT store that had the ICS update. When i flipped the homescreen carrusell in Sense, it was like when I first saw a motionflow 120hz TV
Hope things get sorted out because I love AOSP and would never want to go back to the cartoony TW
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most of the fixes like video recording were done in hurry ,noobes flaming etc
now the devs are working on cleaning and optimizing the code now
http://codeworkx.de/wordpress/2012/03/30/cm9-status-for-galaxy-s-ii/
You can try with another ROM, I'm currently in Thebyani 3.7 it uses Siyah v3.0rc1 kernel and Vertumus Theme.
Its really smooth and fast and the look it's very AOSP, no TW bloat.

ice cream & lag.

i have a valid question for you guys. every ice cream rom ive tried has given me significant lag/choppiness and heats up my rezound. now today i played with both a gnexus at verizon and a htc one x at at&t and it was smooth as butter. is our issues because of no ota or kernel source? just curious as to what you guys think?
thanks!
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i have a valid question for you guys. every ice cream rom ive tried has given me significant lag/choppiness and heats up my rezound. now today i played with both a gnexus at verizon and a htc one x at at&t and it was smooth as butter. is our issues because of no ota or kernel source? just curious as to what you guys think?
thanks!
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Both I would take a very educated guess in saying. no OTA means it is a work in progress and no kernel source means that the kernels aren't really tweaked out for the ROMs they are running....
my guess is sense bogs us down a good bit. also ics is coded for the gnex.
Without kernel source, we're stuck with what the leak has. From what I've read, that is not good.
I'm sticking with GB until we have source...GB flies for me!
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my guess is sense bogs us down a good bit. also ics is coded for the gnex.
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Yeah, Sense 3.5/.6 are steaming piles of laggy crap, but 4.0 seems really nice.
I have official ics on my unrooted galaxy tab 2. It has the touchwiz overlay but is still superfast. I was worried too that ICS was slow until I got this. I think the omap processor is a better performer on average than a qualcomm too, but not by much.
If you are running the gb kernel and firmware it is hit or miss with ics roms for the rezound. GB will always be faster if running gb firmware and kernel. I hope that the ics kernel is fixed when we get the official ics update and that sense doesnt bog things down. We really need htc to release kernel source and firmware in order to have a solid base for ics roms imo. I love Rez Rom Sense 3.6 ICS though, runs pretty good even on old firmware.
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LunaticSerenade said:
I'm sticking with GB until we have source...GB flies for me!
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GB flies for me too, even running a sense ROM.
I always chuckle when people post how "slow and laggy" sense is.
I get absolutely zero lag running sense 3.5 and figure those posters are probably clueless on how to correctly set up their system.......
tekhna said:
Yeah, Sense 3.5/.6 are steaming piles of laggy crap, but 4.0 seems really nice.
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Actually for me all of the sense 4.0 ports were super laggy. I can say gb seems more fluid but the battery life still stinks on my rezound. That one x is really a nice device but im thinking this may be my last htc. I havent had good luck with the brand.
Thanks for the responses guys.
ICS doesn't lag for me ever, but I dig the Senseless roms for the looks, and indeed, Sense 4.0 isn't optimized for us yet.
jmorton10 said:
GB flies for me too, even running a sense ROM.
I always chuckle when people post how "slow and laggy" sense is.
I get absolutely zero lag running sense 3.5 and figure those posters are probably clueless on how to correctly set up their system.......
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when i went from a sense rom to an aosp rom on my inc2 i noticed a big difference in speed. sense definitely affects things.
ics runs great for me on 3.5/3.6 and on 4.0 its great as well... i have no problems at all
I don't get all these people who have all the battery and heating problems. I think it is user error. I have better battery and better signal since I upgraded to ICS CleanROM.
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I don't get all these people who have all the battery and heating problems. I think it is user error. I have better battery and better signal since I upgraded to ICS CleanROM.
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Agreed, if there were such a range in hardware that some overheated while others were great, I'd expect that HTC's quality control was so bad that half the units that were produced wouldn't even power up. Always get a kick out reading about someone who has warrantied a couple of phones then in the next breath says "I'm running "xyz" kernel and OC'd...
Anyway, would you mind sharing your setup Gray? It might help others to know what a working ICS setup is. What Kernel, Radios and other specifics are you running.
What I find is interesting is that with my first rezound I had a horrible experience when I flashed the ICS leak. Extreme overheating, even worse battery life, but it was nothing that I could have done. It was the radios on some hardware that cause this issue. I sent it back, got another, and reran the leak. Haven't looked back since. It's also worth noting that I have a way better experience with ICS then I did with GB. GB scrolling was always choppy and just overall sluggish. ICS fixed all that along with giving me a battery life ranging from 11-17 hours depending on usage.
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What I find is interesting is that with my first rezound I had a horrible experience when I flashed the ICS leak. Extreme overheating, even worse battery life, but it was nothing that I could have done. It was the radios on some hardware that cause this issue. I sent it back, got another, and reran the leak. Haven't looked back since. It's also worth noting that I have a way better experience with ICS then I did with GB. GB scrolling was always choppy and just overall sluggish. ICS fixed all that along with giving me a battery life ranging from 11-17 hours depending on usage.
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I also have a better user experience, as in runs faster, smoother, and less lag along with better battery life on ice cream sandwich than I did on gingerbread. I think a lot of it has to do with how it's set up and configured. And I understand that some people have genuine hardware problems but it seems that it's causing a lot of people to quickly attribute their issues to hardware and not spend the time to chase down the problem and solve it. Regardless another leaked kernel or an official OTA base will definitely be welcomed and help this beast run even better.
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Agreed, if there were such a range in hardware that some overheated while others were great, I'd expect that HTC's quality control was so bad that half the units that were produced wouldn't even power up. Always get a kick out reading about someone who has warrantied a couple of phones then in the next breath says "I'm running "xyz" kernel and OC'd...
Anyway, would you mind sharing your setup Gray? It might help others to know what a working ICS setup is. What Kernel, Radios and other specifics are you running.
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CleanROM Developer 1.2, overclocked 1.8ghz kernel, AmonRa recovery, new ICS radio, juopuntbear boot, S-Off.
Extremely smooth and no problems at all.
Ill put it in my sig too.
jmorton10 said:
GB flies for me too, even running a sense ROM.
I always chuckle when people post how "slow and laggy" sense is.
I get absolutely zero lag running sense 3.5 and figure those posters are probably clueless on how to correctly set up their system.......
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I don't get any "lag" persay with any Rom I've used. What drives me a little nuts is the stuttery and choppy scrolling in a LOT of apps I use daily. The text and the pictures chop, even though the scrolling motion is smooth. Facebook, zynga apps, internet (if its more than text) messaging app, contacts, reddit news... There are some that don't stutter though. Twicca, tapatalk, menu scrolling, root explorer...
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I don't get any "lag" persay with any Rom I've used. What drives me a little nuts is the stuttery and choppy scrolling in a LOT of apps I use daily. The text and the pictures chop, even though the scrolling motion is smooth. Facebook, zynga apps, internet (if its more than text) messaging app, contacts, reddit news... There are some that don't stutter though. Twicca, tapatalk, menu scrolling, root explorer...
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That annoyed me about GB (stock and CleanROM 1.7.5). Even on ICS, Facebook scrolling is choppy, unless you enable Force GPU rendering. Running ICS with Force GPU rendering is an incredibly smooth experience, and I haven't run into any bugs. I'm surprised it's not enabled by default in all ROMs.
I think that people having a better experience on a hacked(nicely mind you), sense 4.0 rom must have set up Gingerbread wrong. See how easy it is to make a statement like that. I have experienced both ics, and gb, and have always had a smoother experience on gb. I hated how ics scrolling in the browser, xda app, tapatalk, and others was jittery at best. I love some of the elements of ics, but the trade off was too much for me. My phone ran about 11 degrees different between ics, and gb. Also, if you go back to around Christmas, overheating was an issue then. On stock. So apparently, this phone can have heat issues. Don't get me wrong, I love this phone, and I appreciate all the work that goes into making roms. I have been following these developers for quite a while. They are all really good. We are blessed to have them.
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That annoyed me about GB (stock and CleanROM 1.7.5). Even on ICS, Facebook scrolling is choppy, unless you enable Force GPU rendering. Running ICS with Force GPU rendering is an incredibly smooth experience, and I haven't run into any bugs. I'm surprised it's not enabled by default in all ROMs.
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So it is the GPU that's the problem as I thought.... But thankfully it isnt because its not good enough. Lol. It's just because its more limited c

[Q] Galaxy note performance

I dont know if its me but, my Galaxy note i717 tends to lag a lot, i read up online and figured out its due to the Snapdragon S3 processor, which tends to lag a lot. Does anyone else have this issue... what do u do about it...? im thinking about returning it and getting the Galaxy S3. I installed CM9, team perfection rom, and Hybrid and it still lags...
I love the size of the note, and the S-Pen but I really cant have my phone Lagging, it ruins the user experience...
I came from the iphone 4 which was pretty smooth.. it isn't to fast but it didn't lag at all, other than that i think android is a lot better....
Mine is lag free. I'm running Juggernaut AOKP currently, but I rarely saw lag on GB, and never on ICS. Some notes just seem to be more laggy than others. If you're within 30 days, go exchange it for another one, see if its any better. If not, it may be an rogue app, widget, or launcher that is causing it.
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If you phone is rooted have you tried clearing the catches
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If you phone is rooted have you tried clearing the catches
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you mean caches?
that just frees memory right? how does that actually speed the phone up though? because android automatically closes program and frees memory already doesnt it?
I'm running OnlyOne ICS ROM and have zero lag. Give this ROM a try. It is the smoothest ICS ROM I have flashed thus far.
Im running with Team Perfections objection. Zero lag.
It is my understanding that the caches aren't memory, but temporary files for applications that can cause problems. Wipe 'em first, Dalvik cache too.
Try v6 supercharger to null the lag. Rememberber in ics there is no custom kernel yet...
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Yeah I get lag (keyboard stutter, switching screen lag, launcher lag etc). Its annoying, but once modded, I'll have it taken care of.
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I am running the Hybrid or Flap's base roms depending on the day of the week it seems...zero lag.
I returned my first Note due to the backlight bleed on the buttons (white version) and was shocked at how much better the second Note was. Originally I thought I had made a mistake in purchasing it. The phone was slowish and the SPen sucked. It would hesitate at everything that it did. I even did a wipe on it to no avail. The second phone brought a smile to my face. Still does!
The S3 is a nice phone and you wouldn't lose either way.
Gramurai said:
Im running with Team Perfections objection. Zero lag.
It is my understanding that the caches aren't memory, but temporary files for applications that can cause problems. Wipe 'em first, Dalvik cache too.
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I second that. Zero lag here with Team Perfection ICS.
I didnt know the note could lag. I am running CM9 and not a hint of lag ever.
shalom azar said:
I dont know if its me but, my Galaxy note i717 tends to lag a lot, i read up online and figured out its due to the Snapdragon S3 processor, which tends to lag a lot. Does anyone else have this issue... what do u do about it...? im thinking about returning it and getting the Galaxy S3. I installed CM9, team perfection rom, and Hybrid and it still lags...
I love the size of the note, and the S-Pen but I really cant have my phone Lagging, it ruins the user experience...
I came from the iphone 4 which was pretty smooth.. it isn't to fast but it didn't lag at all, other than that i think android is a lot better....
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The phone isn't the issue...it's the software.
Just look at the size of the latest ICS leak. 1.1* gigs.
Then look at CM9-- 150 megabytes.
There you have it...950 megabytes of crap. Just a few crappy lines of code can bring a phone down to it's knees.
Not to mention, i've seen the fastest phones available brought down to their knees. If you have 9 pages of widgets, don't expect your phone to be blazing. It takes a lot more to run a widget than it does a 4x5 row of static icons. That's sooooo 1995.
stock GB rom, no lag
this phone runs AMAZING with ICS, really.. better than my friends HTC one X Tegra 3 CPU. Wait until samsung drops the official ICS update. The only one ROM was AMAZING, however I got a lot of bugs that I could not live with.
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The phone isn't the issue...it's the software.
Just look at the size of the latest ICS leak. 1.1* gigs.
Then look at CM9-- 150 megabytes.
There you have it...950 megabytes of crap. Just a few crappy lines of code can bring a phone down to it's knees.
Not to mention, i've seen the fastest phones available brought down to their knees. If you have 9 pages of widgets, don't expect your phone to be blazing. It takes a lot more to run a widget than it does a 4x5 row of static icons. That's sooooo 1995.
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I am totally agree with you. Don't put too many unnecessary widgets on your screen. Pick the one that's important to you for your every day life. You can have better battery life and a very fast and functional phone.
erick161 said:
Yeah I get lag (keyboard stutter, switching screen lag, launcher lag etc). Its annoying, but once modded, I'll have it taken care of.
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Just as I thought. Flashed this beast finally, and now I'm happy. No lag as of yet. People definitely need to take the plunge if they haven't.
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Jamesyboy said:
The phone isn't the issue...it's the software.
Just look at the size of the latest ICS leak. 1.1* gigs.
Then look at CM9-- 150 megabytes.
There you have it...950 megabytes of crap. Just a few crappy lines of code can bring a phone down to it's knees.
Not to mention, i've seen the fastest phones available brought down to their knees. If you have 9 pages of widgets, don't expect your phone to be blazing. It takes a lot more to run a widget than it does a 4x5 row of static icons. That's sooooo 1995.
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Remember bro- no phone is lag free. Android handles processes EXTREMELY different from IOS.
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I run gb overclocked 1.89 with ghostnote removed no lag
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I will check if the internal space is full. I install all my apps on sd card. After that is lag free.
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Jamesyboy said:
The phone isn't the issue...it's the software.
Just look at the size of the latest ICS leak. 1.1* gigs.
Then look at CM9-- 150 megabytes.
There you have it...950 megabytes of crap. Just a few crappy lines of code can bring a phone down to it's knees.
Not to mention, i've seen the fastest phones available brought down to their knees. If you have 9 pages of widgets, don't expect your phone to be blazing. It takes a lot more to run a widget than it does a 4x5 row of static icons. That's sooooo 1995.
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Really? I'm using onlyone and it was 650mb. I wonder if cm9 is faster is than onlyone.

I think Project Butter is off

Does Project Butter is work on 4.1.1 on Prime. On Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 7 worked more smoothly then Prime. I think Project Butter is off
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Does Project Butter is work on 4.1.1 on Prime. On Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 7 worked more smoothly then Prime. I think Project Butter is off
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You mean on your Prime right ? Cause JB on my prime and many other users here it is working as the name says.
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Everything is working wonderfully smooth on my Prime since the update to JB 4.1.1.
I'll be honest, I only have a weeks worth of experience with Android and the ICS that came on this but smoothness, operability etc... I don't see a huge difference.
Not a complaint. I was fine with ICS and am fine JB. The only thing that seems to have truly changed is the fact that now I don't have the wierd video issue on the left edge in JB.
For me it feels like I save 0.5 seconds on every tap/action with JB, it adds up quite a lot if you use it often. It's certainly not a huge boost, but for me personally it was also fine before. Biggest boost for me is faster switching between apps, with ICA I had some apps which took quite some time to load again if I switched to "desktop"/ an other app.
Also if you feel no difference and you're not satisfied, try a factory reset, according to the feedback thread it does wonders to the performance.
Updated to JB and I also don´t think it´s more smooth....I heard that performing a factory reset does the trick! Im going to try it.
If Project Butter is a v-sync'd 60fps transitions across the whole GUI, then no, I don't think it's quite that on JB on the Prime (just test it back to back against a Galaxy Nexus, you should notice the difference in frame rate)
But... it's still miles better than ICS was on the Prime, and it's mostly smooth in anywhere that counts anyway tbh.
Its smooth here but I will say I have NEVER done a factory reset and my Prime worked great but this time since its the what 2nd major OS update I updated to JB and then did a factory reset so I would do it. :angel:
I've done the factory reset and I have to agree. I'm a little disappointed that this doesn't perform as well as as JB on my Nexus 7. That device just feels like it puts my Prime to shame. It was quicker after the reset but even in performance mode it's not as snappy as the Nexus 7 which is disappointing since in performance mode the Prime has a higher clock speed. They both have the same number of pixels so I wonder if it has to do with the size of the screen. You'd figure since they are made by the same company on basically the same hardware that Asus would be able to have this perform just as well as the Nexus 7.
Yes with JB Prime more faster and smoother then ICS. But Nexus 7 more faster and more smoother. Nexus 7 and Prime have simular hardware, but Nexus more more and more faster and smoother. My Galaxy Nexus with low hardware ( two core) more faster and smoother then Prime with simular resolution
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what you mean off? I'm sure project butter is just code change in JB to make it faster and smoother if codes not used then it simply cant be 4.1.x can it?
I haven't really noticed any difference either. I occasionally feel like there's the tiniest hint of a speed increase, but then I just wonder if I'm only noticing it because I'm looking for it. Haven't done a factory reset, but then I never even filled half of my 64Gb of storage. I was planning on resetting after the update, but now I can't root and so can't backup all my apps.
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Does Project Butter is work on 4.1.1 on Prime. On Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 7 worked more smoothly then Prime. I think Project Butter is off
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user experience is better. i had ics with build.prop tweaks and JB is as fast as that without tweaks
The big difference on JB is the speed of installing apps from Google Play. No more laggy as ICS
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Its smooth here but I will say I have NEVER done a factory reset and my Prime worked great but this time since its the what 2nd major OS update I updated to JB and then did a factory reset so I would do it. :angel:
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At first, I just accepted the OTA and let it update itself. Honestly, after that it was better - but I was disappointing that there wasn't a bigger improvement. So I went ahead and did a factory reset and that seemed to make a big difference for me - for the better. I did lose root along the way and have not been able to get it back. But I would say that after the factory reset, it was definitely noticeably more smooth and responsive than it was under ICS even though under ICS I was rooted and had all apps I didn't want frozen with Titanium backup.
I finally got updated to JB last night (after much hassle), and I instantly noticed that everything is much snappier, smoother, just generally quicker. Opening/closing apps, moving between home screens, scrolling content, etc, is all much nicer for me now.
Project butter is on, but the transformer prime itself is just a tad bit laggy, which is probably what you are noticing.
For me with ICS everything was ok. There were some slowdowns but nothing serious. Browsing was ok. No ANR's except when downloading torrents or something, then everything was slow and had lots of ANR's but just pressing 'wait' on the ANR and everything went ok.
Right now with JB I have noticed that it's not really smoother, it's the same. The widgets sometimes don't load or take like a second to load. In ICS widgets came instantly with the homescreen. When browsing, it's slower to have multiple tabs loading. When downloading torrents everything is REALLY slow and totally UNUSABLE. It was very slow with ICS but still usable.
So actually for me, I didn't see any advancement. I don't understand because everybody is so happy. I really like the tablet I'm just frustrated why it's so bad at multitasking ... why can't it just give priority to the task in focus and let the task in the background go slower? Also it has 4 cores and create stunning graphics and games, it can load maps and all kinds of textures as fast as consoles, why not a simple interface? This just boggles my mind.
I had stock ICS.
I upgraded to JB and then did a factory reset and reinstalled all my aps.
Was ICS just good with me for some reason or is JB that bad with me for some reason?
I think my prime is way better on JB. The benchmarks are close to ICS, but because of the smoothness of JB the user XP is worth it.
No factory reset, restored root with voodoo root keeper. I have sympathy for those who are having problems.
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Project butter is running as default. There is no way (as I know) to turn it off.
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Was ICS faster than JB on S3

I've been an s3 for almost 7 months now. From last few months on touchwiz JB 4.1.2 based ROMs, I feel my phone has become sort of slow (not exactly laggy though), but slow in opening critical phone apps like dialer or contacts, etc Also launcher redraws have become lot frequent now..
I remember when I initially got my phone with ICS, it felt so snappy coming from sgs2 that I didn't move to custom ROM that for few months as I just didn't feel the need. Somehow, its lost that wow now .
Is it because I have gotten used to the speed and craving for something better or was ICS really faster, you guys also feel?
P.S. I don't think its number of apps related as I have roughly the same number of apps now which I was using back then...
I actually feel that it's slightly slower too, but I still prefer jellybean because the lagginess is not very significant and I also use the multiwindow function quite often
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I actually feel that it's slightly slower too, but I still prefer jellybean because the lagginess is not very significant and I also use the multiwindow function quite often
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I don't see too much difference but is true in some times importante apps such as dialer load not as faster as i like.
This behavior i think is in ICS too, or at lesast i remeber
AW: Was ICS faster than JB on S3
The EMR2-build in combination with locked dialer and contacts by JKAY framework is THE MOST fluent phone I've ever expected. No lag at all, full Touchwiz functionality and complete AOSP look. Guys? We have a winner!
|| Typed with my S4 Octa-Beast or my Note 10.1 ||
Op - Relevance? If this phone could run froyo, some things would be quicker.
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Op - Relevance? If this phone could run froyo, some things would be quicker.
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true that, but ironically JB was supposed to make things faster with project butter and all
anyway I was seriously thinking of reverting back to ICS, the only thing which I'm gonna miss would be the improved notifications, don't use multi-window at all and about google now..its a nice concept but still haven't seen good use for it yet. Not sure what else was changed from ICS to JB transformation.
Though i'm not sure, if I can flash ICS simply, as I have upgraded my modem and camera driver. Is there any precautions/procedures I need to follow ?

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