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hi guys,
I got my S3 about 3 weeks ago, (a noob in android) i recently flashed the rom to an unbranded version because i hate the bloatware but one thing i noticed is that my ram is really high on the device and when scrolling through the homescreens there's sometimes a delay in response or goes to the next screen with lag. when i go to task manager my ram is always above 500mb of 779mb. Even when i clear the memory it goes down to about 400 but then comes back up.
what could be the issue. don't really have anything running in the background. i did download go keyboard and go sms pro but I'm pretty sure that is not the cause of it. it even happened when i had the branded version of the firmware installed.
any ideas?
Thanks
Go software is very laggy. But yeah I have very few running processes and have high ram usage. I don't know why. It was the same with my s2. But I'm not sure y your laggy. Mines a beast
Wipe cache?
it I do ever get laggy I just hold home button and swipe to end background running processes
Hope this helps mate.
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slking1989 said:
Go software is very laggy. But yeah I have very few running processes and have high ram usage. I don't know why. It was the same with my s2. But I'm not sure y your laggy. Mines a beast
Wipe cache?
it I do ever get laggy I just hold home button and swipe to end background running processes
Hope this helps mate.
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thanks for your response mate,
Ive tried wiping cache stopping useless processes but even after that its still quite laggy and when i swipe to remove that even lags... pretty bizzare
RAM usage is supposed to be high. Please read the link in my signature. The lag must be something else. Possible drawing issue on whatever launcher you have.
InevitableDJ said:
thanks for your response mate,
Ive tried wiping cache stopping useless processes but even after that its still quite laggy and when i swipe to remove that even lags... pretty bizzare
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The GPU may not be very good on the sIII, the GPU controls video, scrolling, animations, ect. But my guess would be that its just a badly coded ROM. Go on the forms for that ROM and see if its a common issue.
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rootSU said:
RAM usage is supposed to be high. Please read the link in my signature. The lag must be something else. Possible drawing issue on whatever launcher you have.
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thanks that actually makes sense about the ram, however its a stock touchwiz launcher would that make any difference? but yea its possibly drawin issues... anything to solve this with?
Did u have problems before you flashed a new Rom? Did u flash a stock unbranded Rom? Or a custom Rom?
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The GPU may not be very good on the sIII, the GPU controls video, scrolling, animations, ect. But my guess would be that its just a badly coded ROM. Go on the forms for that ROM and see if its a common issue.
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its the stock unbranded rom which i got from well sammobile
I9300XXBLFB Download (Thanks To SamMobile!)
Base Firmware: I9300XXBLFB (4.0.4)
Region Europe
Country: United Kingdom
Carrier: Unbranded
Build Date: 26 June 2012
Modem: XXLFB
CSC: OXABLFB
Change List: 782020
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Did u have problems before you flashed a new Rom? Did u flash a stock unbranded Rom? Or a custom Rom?
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It was a bit laggy with the initial rom with the flashing that's why I flashed it with a unbranded rom
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Honestly don't know mate..
Could you perhaps be looking for fault. I mean have you come from another high quality phone. I haven't had any problems so far. I have not heard anyone with the stock Rom having problems.. obviously it's gonna have some bugs. But I haven't heard of this one mate. This is the fastest phone I've had.
Try Google it..
Sorry I couldn't help mate
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Have you tried:
Setting animation speed to 0.5 from 1.0 in settings/ development?
Enabling gpu rendering?
Setting maxheapsize=128 mb (from 256 mb) in build. prop?
Clear both caches, reset permissions, reboot
Also, removing all bloatware helps
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gsw5700 said:
Have you tried:
Setting animation speed to 0.5 from 1.0 in settings/ development?
Enabling gpu rendering?
Setting maxheapsize=128 mb (from 256 mb) in build. prop?
Clear both caches, reset permissions, reboot
Also, removing all bloatware helps
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How do I set the maxheapsize? I and reset permissions?
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InevitableDJ said:
How do I set the maxheapsize? I and reset permissions?
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you need to be rooted, edit /system/build.prop using root explorer or es explorer (the /system file system needs to be mounted read/write first)
you have to reset permissions from cwm (clockworkmod), again this needs root
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you need to be rooted, edit /system/build.prop using root explorer or es explorer (the /system file system needs to be mounted read/write first)
you have to reset permissions from cwm (clockworkmod), again this needs root
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So I did do that and after fixing the permissions and restating the phone I got a message saying unfortunately touchwizz has stopped working
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So I restarted the phone again and it didn't give the problem again and the movement does seem much better now thanks for that. I so know it comes to my next question that when you I exit an app the home screen redraw, and this is why I'm wondering why is my ram usage so high when I'm not using much I can the background or not using any launchers. I'm using beautiful widgets super clock screencast button and spanner month with a live background surely those can't use up 500mb ram can it?
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InevitableDJ said:
So I restarted the phone again and it didn't give the problem again and the movement does seem much better now thanks for that. I so know it comes to my next question that when you I exit an app the home screen redraw, and this is why I'm wondering why is my ram usage so high when I'm not using much I can the background or not using any launchers. I'm using beautiful widgets super clock screencast button and spanner month with a live background surely those can't use up 500mb ram can it?
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android.mimic.ca
Go here and upload your services.jar and follow the instructions, bye bye redraws.
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nodstuff said:
android.mimic.ca
Go here and upload your services.jar and follow the instructions, bye bye redraws.
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Unfortunately that didn't the work for me as I'm using a stock Rom but thanks for that
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Ah, odexed rom.
Well if you ever decide to try a custom/deodexed rom you know how to solve the redraws.
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I use stock lfb with APEX launcher, I get no issues with lags, I use siyah 1.3.7 (for uv and better sound) I've removed loads of Samsung bloatware and phone is great
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Anybody found any lag while switching back to home screen from the browser. Sometime there is lag sometimes no lag... When its laggin..the weather widget will come then the icons.. its frustrating to see this lag on S3,which is the most powerful phone till date. I have tried switching s-voice off and lower the transition to 0.5
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That's the launcher redrawing itself.
Basically because of heavy amount of RAM used by Android, it kills some of the other processes including launcher.
Even I get it and I hate hate HATE it.
There are some solutions but it will require root and it's not very simple.
It's embarrassing to be honest.
Yep I get that too, still Samsung seem to think that the amount of ram the s3 has is sufficient!
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Just locking Launcher in memory or Reducing the OOM priority will fix it. Why is Samsung not fixing it.
If I'm not wrong, the JB leaks doesn't fix it either. The only gripe I have about this phone.
iOS get this right, unfortunately.
Dialer App has the worst lag. contacts take ages to come up. its horrible
eggman89 said:
Just locking Launcher in memory or Reducing the OOM priority will fix it. Why is Samsung not fixing it.
If I'm not wrong, the JB leaks doesn't fix it either. The only gripe I have about this phone.
iOS get this right, unfortunately.
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Jb launcher is fine for me
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I am fed up with this lag.. the pjone is soo fast bu when coming back to homescreen everything lags so badly... any solutions?
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I'm almost certain it doesn't occur in the latest jelly bean leaks - so I'd recommend either updating to one of them or just patiently wait for the official release
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beaver2233 said:
I'm almost certain it doesn't occur in the latest jelly bean leaks - so I'd recommend either updating to one of them or just patiently wait for the official release
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Really JB solves this?? Hey man I have unrooted phone... there are so many JB thread.. can u guide me which one to flash(the one which is most stable).. and before that I also need to root my phone... can u give me the link to CF root or any other... I am on Baseband version DDLH1
On JB I don't have any home screen redraw using Nova Launcher (I had on ICS). Don't know if it still happens with Touchwiz.
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anuragvivek93 said:
Really JB solves this?? Hey man I have unrooted phone... there are so many JB thread.. can u guide me which one to flash(the one which is most stable).. and before that I also need to root my phone... can u give me the link to CF root or any other... I am on Baseband version DDLH1
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Well I can assure you it occurs a lot less (i used to be really annoyed by it on ICS - I'm using LI5 right now and haven't noticed a redraw yet).
You don't need to be rooted if you don't want to be. All you need to do is head here, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1835931 This is the latest LI7 JB leak, flash through Odin (follow instructions on first page) and all should work fine from then on (assuming you have the international galaxy s3).
Please note I think you will lose your data - in that case you may want to be rooted first so you back up your data and then flash the LI7 rom and then restore the data (for apps and games only). In this case just find the cfroot for Galaxy S3 and flash the latest cfroot kernel via Odin (then back up using titanium backup or other app from the playstore).
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anuragvivek93 said:
I am fed up with this lag.. the pjone is soo fast bu when coming back to homescreen everything lags so badly... any solutions?
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Supercharge it 100% with v6supercharger and all your issues would gone automatically.
Im using WAZE as my main GPS software and my problem with it is when I want to multitask by going to TuneInRadio or Chrome,
after a few seconds Waze stops and I have to start waze again, instead of just going to the window I was in.
I was told Samsung kills softwares after you are not using them, but is there a way to disallow this? I want to define that nothing kills waze but me, when exiting.
Any ideas?
If your phone are not rooted, nothing much you can do other than disabled some bloatwares.
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If your phone are not rooted, nothing much you can do other than disabled some bloatwares.
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Im rooted.
What can be done?
Flash Insert Coin. It has the best multitasking you will find for the GS3
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Flash to Samsung JB rom. Apply this mod :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1888081
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Looks like its exactly what I needed.
I was gonna wait for OTA JB, but now Im gonna upgrade to JB and flash this rom when I get the chance.
Thanks.
any Fc with the following mod given above???
I'm not too keen on that mod at all. Rom got noticeably slower using it. I just flashed Foxhound Rom Essentials (Stripped down JB Rom), flashed latest siyah kernel and left it there. Very smooth and apps don't tend to close. I can use Dolphin Browser with Co Pilot in the background and Poweramp running. Go SMS was also in memory as was Whatsapp.
tomerstern said:
Im using WAZE as my main GPS software and my problem with it is when I want to multitask by going to TuneInRadio or Chrome,
after a few seconds Waze stops and I have to start waze again, instead of just going to the window I was in.
I was told Samsung kills softwares after you are not using them, but is there a way to disallow this? I want to define that nothing kills waze but me, when exiting.
Any ideas?
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I use Waze too and I don´t have this problem on ICS Stock Rom.. I can switch between app and Waze keep tracking in background.
For my experience Chrome consume a LOT of Ram but it the best browser I can´t switch to another..
Well, after using the revolt for a while now, my sgs2 has been randomly hanging for no reason. What could be the cause?
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Could be a recently installed app,or changes you have made.
Hmm. My apps are at the minimum and I didn't really make any changes... so I can't figure out the problem
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Hmm. My apps are at the minimum and I didn't really make any changes... so I can't figure out the problem
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didn't 'really' make any changes - 'fraid you'll have to do better than that
The changes I make are about battery, toggles and that's about it
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Yup i experienced this issue since about one week, every day it froze once. Problem is i always make changes, update apps and such. Change launcher settings, add widgets.
I read some people were complaining about recent Dolphin updates restarting sgs2.
Maybe go launcher ex has probles too, i unticked prevent force close.
Maybe battery widget is making problems. I used one that checked battery health and could also say how much time it had left. I changed that one to one that doesnt constantly measure it. Phone didnt freeze since then. (Only one, two days now)
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FrankStealth said:
Yup i experienced this issue since about one week, every day it froze once. Problem is i always make changes, update apps and such. Change launcher settings, add widgets.
I read some people were complaining about recent Dolphin updates restarting sgs2.
Maybe go launcher ex has probles too, i unticked prevent force close.
Maybe battery widget is making problems. I used one that checked battery health and could also say how much time it had left. I changed that one to one that doesnt constantly measure it. Phone didnt freeze since then. (Only one, two days now)
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Problem is I don't use go launcher too. Nor do I use battery widgets...
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I don't know what revolt is, but i gave you some examples, of what might have caused it for me, though i can't be sure it won't happen again, it's too soon. I'll report if it hapens again and i do solve it sometime, if i'm sure what the problem was. For now i think it was the battery widget.
Asuming, it worked before and its not a rom or kernel issue, try to think what apps might cause this and make a post when you solved it.
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I don't know what revolt is, but i gave you some examples, of what might have caused it for me, though i can't be sure it won't happen again, it's too soon. I'll report if it hapens again and i do solve it sometime, if i'm sure what the problem was. For now i think it was the battery widget.
Asuming, it worked before and its not a rom or kernel issue, try to think what apps might cause this and make a post when you solved it.
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Well, I used the rom for about 2-3 days, no problem. After that i did install one game... so I uninstalled it. I'll see again if my phone will hang. If it does not then I'm pretty sure its the game's fault. Because it hanged two times in a single day
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I can confirm, that as soon as i uninstalled the battery widget, and replaced it, it stopped freezing, must be my roms or kernels fault, cause that widget was installed 5 mil.+ times...
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FrankStealth said:
I can confirm, that as soon as i uninstalled the battery widget, and replaced it, it stopped freezing, must be my roms or kernels fault, cause that widget was installed 5 mil.+ times...
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Same goes for me. I uninstalled the game. For 2 days no hang. Its Jaws revenge lol
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Same thing happened again... hmmm.
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Hmm... not for me...
Maybe it wasnt the game afterall... maybe you should try siyah kernel or something.
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If you have ClockworkMod Recovery, try clearing cache, Dalvik cache and fix permissions. Also download SD Maid and CacheCleaner-NG to clear cache from all apps at once, instead of going through them, one at a time.
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Hmm... not for me...
Maybe it wasnt the game afterall... maybe you should try siyah kernel or something.
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I was on siyah kernel when it happened. So I changed to dorimanx now.
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If you have ClockworkMod Recovery, try clearing cache, Dalvik cache and fix permissions. Also download SD Maid and CacheCleaner-NG to clear cache from all apps at once, instead of going through them, one at a time.
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Hmmm. Okay I will try that.
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Whenever i flash a cm10.1 rom, the phone heats up a lot faster than stock rom near the camera(where the cpu is) ...anyone knows why this happens? Already tried tracking apps that might be using the cpu but there are nome. When playing games it gets considerably hotter on cm for some reason
The same with me,also heats up with cm10.2 and ICS...Five minutes online and it becames a bakery.The device is coolest with Jb & Resurrection Remix.
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its probably because there are only drivers for stock rom which is version 4.1.2...=/