Bad lag when coming off the net - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

As title, everything else is fine but when coming off the net and going to straight to texing, contacts or calls, there's bad lag, I've turned animation off also disabled s voice and stopped quite a few apps running in the background, but still there. For such a so called state of the art quick phone, this carry on badly Let's it down

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Stu1973 said:
As title, everything else is fine but when coming off the net and going to straight to texing, contacts or calls, there's bad lag, I've turned animation off also disabled s voice and stopped quite a few apps running in the background, but still there. For such a so called state of the art quick phone, this carry on badly Let's it down
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That's because of 1gb ram
The launcher redraws making the phone unusable for a short period of time .
Bad architecture.

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I thought that would be good, obviously it's not......I know the external ram/memory's better but it's the internal one that counts when operating.....so that's it then, I'm stuck unless I change phones

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Stu1973 said:
I thought that would be good, obviously it's not......I know the external ram/memory's better but it's the internal one that counts when operating.....so that's it then, I'm stuck unless I change phones
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I just tested you scenario on my phone running stock rooted rom ELLA guess it depends on what you mean by a bad lag.
Tried from stock browser to messaging and stock browser to contacts and its almost instant just as long as it take to tap the home button to close the browser and tap the icon to open messaging or contacts, can't actually time.
Tried it from a 3rd party browser the same way and the same results basically tap home to close and tap icon to open app for contacts or messaging.
I have not disabled animations or anything like that, but just wondered if you have anything like virus scanners or app managers running on your phone as they may casue delays.

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Nope no virus scanners ect ect running, and anything I found running I didnt need/want (and it was quite a few) I turned off
When I say in real time, it's about 3-5 seconds, that's going back to the home screen coming from the net, it doesnt matter if I press soft key back button or the hard key in the middle, it's bad either way
These phones are expensive enough

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Stu1973 said:
Nope no virus scanners ect ect running, and anything I found running I didnt need/want (and it was quite a few) I turned off
When I say in real time, it's about 3-5 seconds, that's going back to the home screen coming from the net, it doesnt matter if I press soft key back button or the hard key in the middle, it's bad either way
These phones are expensive enough
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Just had a look to see how many processes are running in the application manager and there are 17, it isn't something that has bothered me so I have not stopped anything it just does what it does. I can say the process from pressing the home button to close either the stock browser or third party browser is almost instant at any time, its just press then the app is closed, it isn't something I can time but would guess at about half a second, it realy is just press and its closed.
As I mentioned I am running the stock rooted ELLA non branded UK rom and I don't have any lag anywhere, I know this doesn't help you solve the problem of the lag but if you are on the same rom maybe do a foctory reset, clear the cache and dalvik in recovery then set up the phone again.it will be a littile slow for the first day but after that it should run properly, without lag.
Don;t forget to backup contacts etc if you do decide to do this, it may be worth a try.

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How do I tell if I'm on this ella

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It's either try that or get a diffirent make......this lag's really pissing me off, it's doing it all the time

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Stu1973 said:
How do I tell if I'm on this ella
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Go to Settings > About Phone and see what Android Version, Baseband and Buld number you are on like the below I9300XXELLA is the latest 4.1.2 release for non branded phones, so it should be the same as thins unless you are on a branded version
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It's 4.1.2 but 19300BWELK1 not ELLA is this what's wrong and causing lag
Can I go on the other one to sure it...if it's oing back and I'll get a diffirent make, I'm not having a £400+ phone and this crap
Christ my old HTC Desire S is faster than this depsite less of everything

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1GB RAM combined with poor ram management isn't exactly a good combo.

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What can be done then?...anything..
Or do I need to go for a diffirent make.....I did nearly go for the One X or the Xperia T but thought I'd give this a second chance after the first one was faulty

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Stu1973 said:
What can be done then?...anything..
Or do I need to go for a diffirent make.....I did nearly go for the One X or the Xperia T but thought I'd give this a second chance after the first one was faulty
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Get the i9305 LTE. It's the same as the i9300 only has 2GB RAM and LTE
It's 10 times better then the original S3!

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Stu1973 said:
What can be done then?...anything..
Or do I need to go for a diffirent make.....I did nearly go for the One X or the Xperia T but thought I'd give this a second chance after the first one was faulty
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Get anything decent with at least 2GB's of ram.

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Get the i9305 LTE. It's the same as the i9300 only has 2GB RAM and LTE
It's 10 times better then the original S3!
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How much more expensive though...then again I'll have a look
So I'm looking for 2gb ram if I'd known this on Saturday I'd have asked them
What's LTE?....then again, I'll Google it

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Stu1973 said:
How much more expensive though...then again I'll have a look
So I'm looking for 2gb ram if I'd known this on Saturday I'd have asked them
What's LTE?....then again, I'll Google it
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LTE means Long-term evolution and implies the use of 4G networking. A lot higher speeds than HSPA+.

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I didnt realise it's the Note 2....it's even bigger than the S3, and I'm just about managing with one with this, It'd be 2 hands with the other one
Is there anyway the S3's ram can be doubled or no

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Stu1973 said:
I didnt realise it's the Note 2....it's even bigger than the S3, and I'm just about managing with one with this, It'd be 2 hands with the other one
Is there anyway the S3's ram can be doubled or no
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Yes, kind of. It's called "S3 LTE" and is a different phone from the normal S3. The S3 LTE has the model number i9305 and has similar hardware to the i9300. What differs though is 2GB's of ram and an LTE capable modem chip.

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Ok, but it's a physically bigger phone, and like I say, I'm just managing the size of the S3 with 1 hand, I'd be back to using 2 with the other
Can the S3 be upgraded to 2gb or is that a no no

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Stu1973 said:
Ok, but it's a physically bigger phone, and like I say, I'm just managing the size of the S3 with 1 hand, I'd be back to using 2 with the other
Can the S3 be upgraded to 2gb or is that a no no
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It's a no. You're not getting me, the S3 LTE isn't a bigger phone. Don't confuse the i9305 S3 LTE with the i7105 Note 2 LTE.
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