Hey guys, I've had this phone since it came out and for the past 2 to 3 months, the thing has just slowed down tremendously. I have uninstalled alot of crap and there isnt much on my phone anymore, every few times i turn on my phone and try to do anything it feels laggy. Even going to text msgs the thing is just super slow to load. It was a great phone.... but with the constant use and mis use (accident drops) the phone is dieing.
What should I do instead of getting a brand new phone?
If I do root it and throw on a different rom will this fix the problem?
Should I wipe the phone and start fresh will that solve the problem?
Start by formatting
*pull your pants up and throw away your fake chain*
Which launcher are you using?
When I used Apex it got terribly slow after a few days use. Changed it to Nova and it was much better.
But sluggishness could of course be due to several reasons. I'd go for a factory reset if it's unbearable and nothing else helps.
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Which launcher are you using?
When I used Apex it got terribly slow after a few days use. Changed it to Nova and it was much better.
But sluggishness could of course be due to several reasons. I'd go for a factory reset if it's unbearable and nothing else helps.
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I was using stock then went to Go launcher EX (found improvemen but not enough), Launcher Pro, Currently on Nova ( has been better.. but still sometimes feels sluggish. I think i have to start fresh and hopefully that will bring back some life.
Kulch, you could boot your phone into Safe Mode. This mode runs only the factory apps. If the sluggishness disappears, then one or more installed apps could be causing the problem. Access Safe Mode by pressing the power button as usual, but then long-pressing the Power Off pop up. To get back to regular mode, just reboot.
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Here's the pop up.
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Before formatting (too radical), try clearing the dalvik-cache ... when I used the Samsung Galaxy S, it often worked.
Mine got really slow and sluggish as well....
the best thing I did for it was get Ram Booster Pro and noticed my free ram was hovering in the 100 or less range. Set boost level to aggressive, whitelisted what I wanted to keep running, Set it to auto kill everything every 30 seconds and auto kill at a threshold of 325mb. Blazing like new ever since. it does require root i believe.
Clean Dalvik Cache with Titanium and take a look at the RAM usage of some apps, try freeze them to see how the system works...
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I am using CM7 latest weekely every thing is perfect but now suddenly my phones screen turns on like call is coming and turns back off after 2 sec and this happens randomly.
is this expected behavior?
is there any work around?
My fiancee has an atrix that is totally stock and hers just started doing this yesterday. I would also like to know the answer to this. I was thinking it was a hardware issue with the power button but hopefully i am wrong, that way I dont have to mess with a warranty exchange. Any help would be appreciated.
by any chance have u just start using this app "Memory Booster - RAM Optimizer" if yes then this might be the one, i have just messed around in its settingsd and no screen wakup problems so far
https://market.android.com/details?...xLDEsImltb2JsaWZlLm1lbW9yeWJvb3N0ZXIubGl0ZSJd
No. The only apps that I think might cause this that I have on her phone is beautiful widgets and a data toggle. She has had these apps on there for awhile and the phone just started to act up.
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Both me and my brother own atrix and it happens on both.It was happening on stock 2.3.4 and now on cm7 as well it must be something with the phone not a rom related issue
i also have beautiful widgets, can sk8trix conform that his and his brother phone have this app too. if yes then this might be the cause. or we have to tell each other whole list of apps that we have installed to narrow down the culprit.
On her phone I have all of her apps that are supposed to sync turned off. I recently installed data enabler for her so she would have a data toggle on her home screen. I use advanced task manager to kill her apps by force stopping them. Last night I used it and closed everything and turned her screen off. 5 minutes later it come on for about two seconds and shut off. I have been looking at what apps might be causing this and really dont see anything unusual except for the data enabler and beautiful widgets. I will uninstall both of those and report back later on to let you know the result. Hopefully someone else will come along with a better solution.
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i also have beautiful widgets, can sk8trix conform that his and his brother phone have this app too. if yes then this might be the cause. or we have to tell each other whole list of apps that we have installed to narrow down the culprit.
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I don't use beautiful widgets ever.....I even tried with a clean install no apps installed except stock cm7 apps and google apps and it still happened so I gave up trying to figure it out.
it doesn't shorten my battery life at all so I don't worry however if there is a fix I will use it because it is annoying.
Edit the only time the phones wake up by themselves is right after we hit the power button to turn the screen off or when the phone firat boots and is still locked it will turn the screen off and turn it back on the dim again.
I dont think its cm7 issue cos i was at weekly # 4 and there was no issue then i flashed tuch recovery and after that boot it started happening. Then i flashed latest weekely and reverted back to old recovery. And i agree this only happen when i turn screen off (randomly)
OK here is where I am at now with this problem. I uninstalled both apps and it seems to be ok for the time being, but my fiancee told me she had been receiving weird messages in her notification bar. I looked into it and she was getting ads in her notification bar. So I downloaded AirPush Detector from the market and ran a scan on her phone and it detected a couple of apps pushing notifications. I got rid of the apps and now im back to checking the phone again. I dont know if that AirPush app would help you guys out or not but it would hurt to try.
since i have started this thread my problems have gone away like a little *****, and i dont know how to recreate this problem any more so i am stuck with no problem no solution thing.
12 hrs passed no problem so far.
It was apps in the background running. Airpush helped. I told her from now on no more free apps, i would rather buy them then fight this **** again. I put the data toggle and beautiful widgets back on her phone and it's ok. Thanks for your guys input.
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I use advanced task manager to kill her apps by force stopping them. Last night I used it and closed everything and turned her screen off. 5 minutes later it come on for about two seconds and shut off. I have been looking at what apps might be causing this and really dont see anything unusual except for the data enabler and beautiful widgets. I will uninstall both of those and report back later on to let you know the result. Hopefully someone else will come along with a better solution.
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I am having The same problem with my Samsung Galaxy ace Gt-5830i.
Earlier it had problems with charging and SD card. So we took it to authorized service center. And they said they had formatted the phone and installed stock ROM on it. They also replaced the charger port. But now after two days the phone screen is turning on and off at repeated intervals (for about 2 Seconds). So what might be the problem.
My 4G will be 2 years old in February. It is quite buggy now, it likes to lag a lot or glitch, it's definitely not the lightning machine that it used to be. I saved all of my data and am going to perform a wipe/factory reset and wipe the cache partition (hopefully I am allowed to do that, if not, oh well too late).
Is there something more potent then a factory data reset using the Android Recovery mode while not in the phone OS? It resets the phone but I have the latest OS, which I think could end up keeping all of my bugs. Can I go back to the original OS when the phone shipped and legitimately start over and re-update everything? I logged back in and an app widget was still there with writing on it, some of my pictures, and some icons I moved around. this is after I did a rest outside of the phone, then went in the phone and did another reset. So much for wiping all of my data I guess.
So, if this does not fix the buggyness of the phone, what should I do? The phone likes to press buttons randomly and I have to hit the power button to lock it, and then unlock it for the magic button pressing to stop. This is common. Apps are slow or time out a lot and it takes the phone FOREVER to reboot. It love to randomly restart, especially using pandora or spotify. It takes a long time to connect to Wifi, sometimes I have to go to the wifi settings to wait for it to automatically choose my saved network, which baffles me like crazy.I did have the most recent update of course. I think the finger print scanner also stopped working... or it never did work. Lastly, the vibrating unit doesnt always vibrate, it likes to vibrate on a few keystrokes and it randomly stops, then starts up again. **** this phone. It really makes me want to go to an iPhone... and I am a hardcore windows computer tech and I hate apple, but ****, why cant anyone build a stable OS?
So, assuming my phone works correctly, what should I do to it once it's up and running? I am ready to Root the phone and try some new apps and hacks and what not, especially if it makes the laptop dock mode faster, cause right now it's slow as ****.
Factory reset basically wipes the /data partition.
I would also recommend you do a format of the internal sd, after the factory reset (see storage in the system settings). This way, files on the sd will have no impact on apps as you reinstall things.
Regarding returning to an earlier Rom version, I would not recommend as being part of the solution. Newer Rom version are better usually. Gb by motto is solid.
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Hello all, I've noticed that my S3 gets considerably slow after a few days of not shutting it down. For example, after a reset, tapping home will immediately take me to the launcher, everything reacts immediately, there's absolutely no lag, however, after about 2 or 3 days, things start getting slow, the launcher needs to reload everything whenever I press home, apps don't seem to stay in the memory and have to reload as well. Like I mentioned, restarting the phone fixes everything, and I was even thinking of setting up a Tasker action to restart the phone ad midnight or so every one or two days, but I wanted to know if this could be because of a single app that's being faulty, or normal behavior. Any and all replies are appreciated!
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Hello all, I've noticed that my S3 gets considerably slow after a few days of not shutting it down. For example, after a reset, tapping home will immediately take me to the launcher, everything reacts immediately, there's absolutely no lag, however, after about 2 or 3 days, things start getting slow, the launcher needs to reload everything whenever I press home, apps don't seem to stay in the memory and have to reload as well. Like I mentioned, restarting the phone fixes everything, and I was even thinking of setting up a Tasker action to restart the phone ad midnight or so every one or two days, but I wanted to know if this could be because of a single app that's being faulty, or normal behavior. Any and all replies are appreciated!
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thats normal behaviour on most android phones, unless u have 2gb of ram(still happens but takes longer)
its better if you reboot at least once a day
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My One freezes on me and completely locks up from time to time, mostly when using the browser. It seems that it has been happening more and more frequently. When it happens, I have to keep jamming the home button to get out of it. I always reboot right after it happens hoping to clear it up but sometimes it happens again within an hour or so. It happened on my first One too but I thought it might have had something to do with the ROM I flashed. I'm stock rooted on this one and it is still happening. Does this happen to anyone else?
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I haven't had the phone completely freeze, but have noticed the stock browser will hang up. I am however, able to just press the home button, then enter recent apps menu to close the browser.
Sorry to not have the same exact problem, but that has been my experience thus far. I'm sure it's just a small bug.
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Weird things happen on mine while I have flash player active... I have no problems with enable flash player unchecked in the menu. I only activate it when I really need it which is rare anyway. The browser doesn't need to be restarted after activating it, it just refreshes the page so it not really inconvenient to leave it off until I need it.
Mostly some rogue app.. Just give a list of apps you have and we (users without randoom reboots or hangs) will point out the apps which we have not installed so that you can narrow down to the issue-causing app
I'm having a similar problem
My htc one crashes & reboots a few and even sometimes several times a day. Once in awhile I'll even have to boot from recovery mode as the phone has trouble restarting. It also starts do a bunch of screen captures as a restarting message appears. I've done a factory restart and still experiencing the same problem. I love this phone but am getting so frustrated. Bought my girlfriend the same phone she has never experienced this issue. I think it is either a problem with an app I have installed or possibly an overheating issue (I work outside in the sun, my phone gets pretty warm in my pocket). I'm close to doing a warranty exchange, just hoping its an app problem.
Sounds like an app to me. My last phone did that when an app would crash.
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Maybe it's some applications conflicting with one another. Or a bad app.
I am stock. No root. I got my htc one before the official launch and it has not froze up or did random reboots. Knock of wood.
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I don't think it's an app. I've deleted a whole bunch and froze others and it still happens to me all the time. I have nothing on my One that isn't on my One X and the One X has never frozen on me, EVER. One thing I've noticed is it only happens when using data- stock browser, Chrome, and Pulse news. It doesn't happen any other time. I drove from Colorado to Kansas yesterday and it must have frozen up on me 10-15 times during the entire 8 hour trip. It's getting really frustrating. When I have time I am going to nandroid and wipe and see if it happens on a bare phone, but my money is on that it will.
Hey to all im new with the s9 plus great phone
But one thing drives me crazy.... i bought 2 phones same place excinos and 1 is working great and the other one is very laggy
Itry everything without good result i even restore everything but still lagy its lag in the animation when i open close apps its laggy ....plz your help (i even delet cach when restore)
I got the same issue. When swiping from home screen to apps it has some choppy animation. Overall it is fast but there are some laggy animations. Using s9+ exynos version. Tried hard reset and same result. Then i tried usual reset and it still lags when swiping up and down just a little bit less. Tried multiple times to wipe cache partition and nothing changed. If you know the solution it would be very helpful.
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I got the same issue. When swiping from home screen to apps it has some choppy animation. Overall it is fast but there are some laggy animations. Using s9+ exynos version. Tried hard reset and same result. Then i tried usual reset and it still lags when swiping up and down just a little bit less. Tried multiple times to wipe cache partition and nothing changed. If you know the solution it would be very helpful.
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got nothing too i want anyone to help us !!!!!!
the problem is that i got to my son at the same time same phone and his lag free lollll thats crazy i want to maybe put custom recovery on the phone and then wipe everything and try to install again the stock firm but i dont have yet the oem unlock option to do that cause i always turn off and on the phone so i need to leave it on for 1 week then ill see the oem unlock option
plz anyone who can help about the lagging speak now lolll thx
Do not wipe or reset the phone without knowing what is causing the problem. Deleting cache means the phone will have to rebuild it, which in itself can cause some lags. You should be more specific about which version of S9+ (SOC, carrier) you have, and where and when the lags occur. If your phone lags from start to finish, then you have a defective sample. If animation seems slow, try changing its speed under developer options. If you are talking about slight hesitation when bring app drawer up or swiping to Bixby page, then welcome to Samsung.
Hi, I have the same problem what I did was turn down the screen resolution(middle) and this worked better but I have a little lag still, when I go home screen from an app. did you solve?
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I have the solution
Keep Pressing the turn down volume button and the button that unlock the screen during 10 seconds at the same time and your cellphone will get off then you turn on it. Greetings from Acapulco.