I've noticed that sometime if I'm I'm an app and I push the home button it almost instantly brings me back to my home screen and other times it has a slight half second delay. For example it will be super fast maybe 10x in a row, then it will have a slight delay but eventually gets quick again.
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I experience this every now and then, usually with resource-hungry apps. Not to pretend like I know what I'm talking about (because I don't), but it might also have something to do with redraws on the launcher.
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I experience this every now and then, usually with resource-hungry apps. Not to pretend like I know what I'm talking about (because I don't), but it might also have something to do with redraws on the launcher.
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Oh yeah I'm running nova launcher prime.. No maybe it's just the launcher and not the phone at all? Other than this i really never notice any lag.
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I should mention that I also have aggressive desktop checked on nova launcher. Not sure what it does though. Maybe the next time I notice this slight delay bill restart nova launcher and if it goes away I guess I'll know it's a nova launcher issue which in sure the next update will fix.
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Ok so it's definitely nova launcher. It started having a little delay again, restarted nova, and it was back to normal. Hope the fix it.
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Ok so I actually noticed that when it starts happening, if I close all recent apps, it goes away. Thoughts?
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http://gs4.wonderhowto.com/how-to/fix-home-button-lag-your-samsung-galaxy-s4-0146724/
Have you done this?
Yeah I have. If i close all recent apps then my home button speed is instant.
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If you have S-Voice activated on your phone the S4 will wait about a half a second after you press the home button to see whether or not you press it again to activate S-Voice. If you disable this, it will immediately go to the home screen after pressing the home button. It is not lag, but rather a built in timer.
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If you have S-Voice activated on your phone the S4 will wait about a half a second after you press the home button to see whether or not you press it again to activate S-Voice. If you disable this, it will immediately go to the home screen after pressing the home button. It is not lag, but rather a built in timer.
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I have it deactivated but sometimes it still takes half a second and other times it's instant.
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Are you rooted or running any types of apps or a specialized ROM?
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Nope I'm stock and running nova launcher prime. I did disable around 25 apps that seemed like bloatware.
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I have had this happen a few times . I've been running the CM nightlies and just thought it was something to do with the build.
I turned my kernel to stock settings (I was overclocked) to try to replicate your problem and I guess now that I am consciously thinking about it I have it too, I don't think its a huge deal though. A quarter of a second isn't that bad to me so I don't really care. If I'm overclocked it the animation is instant. It could be the ap switcher animation that lags under high resources. Try disabling that? or OC your phone.
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I turned my kernel to stock settings (I was overclocked) to try to replicate your problem and I guess now that I am consciously thinking about it I have it too, I don't think its a huge deal though. A quarter of a second isn't that bad to me so I don't really care. If I'm overclocked it the animation is instant. It could be the ap switcher animation that lags under high resources. Try disabling that? or OC your phone.
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How do I disable it? Idk how to over clock. I'm not rooted. I'm sort of a smartphone noob. Like I said if I close all recent apps it's instant but other times it's a fraction of a second. It's not nessecarily when I have tons of apps running either.
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In your developer settings, select animator duration scale and turn it to 'off' see if that helps. If not, then there isn't alot you can do unrooted I don't believe.
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In your developer settings, select animator duration scale and turn it to 'off' see if that helps. If not, then there isn't alot you can do unrooted I don't believe.
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Oh yeah, I have all of that off. I actually just turned them all on 1x to see how it felt and it definitely isn't as fast but it feels smoother.
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Yeah I have them all at 1x and haven't touched them, I tend to stay away from most of the things in developer settings
Oh I see. I have them all off now. I uninsulated this app called system monitor lite and it seems like it always runs in the background bcuz how else would it be able to monitor my battery temp etc all day? It might be placebo but ever since I uninstalled it everything seems to be running really good.
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Well I've spent hours trying to figure this out. When I have 0 apps running, and for example I open up the phone app or contacts app, then hit the home button, it responds instantly. However, sometimes once I get a bunch of apps running in the background the home button response can slow to like half a second, almost as if that s voice home button feature was enabled. Do you think the problem here could be that a bunch of apps aren't yet optimized for the s4 so when they are running in the background they are causing some home button lag?
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Is there a way to make the home button respond instantly?
Does anyone else have this problem?
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It has something to do with the Voice control samsung built into the phone, people were saying you can freeze/ delete the app and your home button will be instant, i can personally vouch for this because I'm using CM7, a rom that doesn't have the voice control and my home button actually is instant.
it something to do with the processor and power management.
The delay is present in CM too but not as bad
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it something to do with the processor and power management.
The delay is present in CM too but not as bad
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I thought that had to do with the wakeup "lag" i.e. just waking the phone up from sleep, if you are talking about that yes its present in CM as well. I thought he was asking about home button when exiting out of apps and such, as i noticed a slight delay in that when i was using the stock rom.
I've froze voice commands with Bloat Freezer and this hasn't made any difference :/
Since KG1 firmware, home button lag has been solved. Home button acts normal now.
The OP hasn't explained what his problem actually is, so there's no point telling him to freeze apps!
@jameslfc5
Do you mean it takes a couple of seconds when the screen is off and you wake the phone with the home button, or do you mean it pauses when you're running an app and you press home to go back to your home screen?
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Is there a way to make the home button respond instantly?
Does anyone else have this problem?
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It responds instantly when connected to a charger. So it must be software related. I haven't found any 2.3.3. or 2.3.4 ROMs that remove the lag entirely. I'm sure someone will figure it out though.
When connected to charger the phone does not sleep. So no lag.
I have same problem as OP.
Note - it's not the wake-up delay, which is also annoying. It's the regular "go back to home screen" delay when using the phone.
I'm running Cognition 1.31, and problem was present on Stock ROM, VillainROM, Cognition 1.15 and 1.31.
I had voice control only on Stock ROM, and don't have it now - no difference. Delay is about 0.5-1 second.
Super annoying. Makes it feel slow. Was not present on any of the SGS ROMs.
+1
I just think of an iPhone... it's better in only this thing
CM7 fixes it. I think I know what you mean, I had it in Cognition 1.31 and litee'ning rom. Now I don't or don't even notice it.
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I have same problem as OP.
Note - it's not the wake-up delay, which is also annoying. It's the regular "go back to home screen" delay when using the phone.
I'm running Cognition 1.31, and problem was present on Stock ROM, VillainROM, Cognition 1.15 and 1.31.
I had voice control only on Stock ROM, and don't have it now - no difference. Delay is about 0.5-1 second.
Super annoying. Makes it feel slow. Was not present on any of the SGS ROMs.
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Yeah this is my exact problem I don't think removing voice command has helped to be honest
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Did this actually get fixed in 2.3.4? The home button lag not the waking lag.
Nope.
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Anyone know of a fix?
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if u r using CM then there is no home lag.
THe wakeup lag is still there but i would say very minimal
Hi everyone!!
5 days ago i bough a new galaxy s 3.
This is great device everything is perfect except one thing, the touchwiz 4.
Every time than I close an application it take some time (about 5-10 seconds) than everything comes back. So I decided to do an experiment. I downloaded Go launcher, made him default launcher and until now zero seconds of delay.
Am I the only one who expects that issue??
thanks all
touchwiz is just fine and fast enough. Is it faster compared to go, apex launcher and others? Definitely no but the for the functionality touchwiz gives it is fast on sgs3.
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that's strange, because i am very upset from the reaction of the touch wiz. I only have him 5 days.
I will give you an example.
I play "where's my water" for example and that i press the home button it exits the game but it shows me only background picture and after 5 seconds everything comes back but that i go to app tray it shows nothing for about 10 seconds and everything comes back.
IT's very very annoying.
Oh, you're talking about known issue, UI redrawing, there's already posted a solution for that.
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Oh, you're talking about known issue, UI redrawing, there's already posted a solution for that.
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Can you show me that thread?
tnx
You can disable S-Voice on Home Button double click -> increases Home Button reaction dramatically.
(Double Click Home Button - S-Voice opens, then hit the menu button, options, disable)
That was the first thing that I've done
That's for the home button lag, to fix the redraw set dalvik.vm.heapsize=256m to 192m at /system/build.prop.
You need to be rooted and have a root explorer that mounts system rw though.
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Some body else have that issue??
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Some body else have that issue??
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Everyone has it, but the solution posted above fixes it.
For unrooted devices, just use another launcher!
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Hi everyone!!
5 days ago i bough a new galaxy s 3.
This is great device everything is perfect except one thing, the touchwiz 4.
Every time than I close an application it take some time (about 5-10 seconds) than everything comes back. So I decided to do an experiment. I downloaded Go launcher, made him default launcher and until now zero seconds of delay.
Am I the only one who expects that issue??
thanks all
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It's not just that.
The overall responsivness is slow compared to a up2date Galaxy Nexus.
But seriously, that was expected. It's still touchwiz.
I'm sure there will be a solution in future. ;-)
Tnx guys.
You helped me.
What kind of root you suggest me to do?
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What's bothersome to me is once the phone is in sleep mode and u click the home or power button it takes sometimes 1 sec or 2 or even 3 secs and if you immediately try to scroll unlock the animation on the water is slowed as well. I didn't expect the phone to be slower to wake up then my N900 or LG O3D. Hope next update fixes this issue. BTW i've uninstalled s-voice and disabled any power saving features.
The slow lock-screen problem is linked to an apparent feature that Samsung have made to save battery, basically it puts the other cores to sleep for battery savings.
Some times my galaxy s3 gets laggy ( i mean laggy in scrolling in menu , scrolling thru home screens) , everything. The animations wont stay smooth for a short time.
Im not interested in flashing any custom rom and i think the s3 is pretty fast and smooth with the stock rom , and i even want to keep the features.
Any idea what is causing this ?
Thanks.
Settings - advance settings, change both window and transition to 0.5x
S- voice - settings - uncheck the launch s- voice with double tap of home button.
There is a lag on home button because the phone is waiting to see if you press it a second time to activate s-voice, the above 2 really do help.
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Settings - advance settings, change both window and transition to 0.5x
S- voice - settings - uncheck the launch s- voice with double tap of home button.
There is a lag on home button because the phone is waiting to see if you press it a second time to activate s-voice, the above 2 really do help.
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I already applied these changes before. I disabled some bloatware and its working smooth till now. Lets hope it wont lag
Motogp1 said:
Settings - advance settings, change both window and transition to 0.5x
S- voice - settings - uncheck the launch s- voice with double tap of home button.
There is a lag on home button because the phone is waiting to see if you press it a second time to activate s-voice, the above 2 really do help.
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thanks alot , i use it
its a damn low ram isssue
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If you are using any widgets that have information that automatically updates, remove them and reboot. Reapply them 1 by 1 leaving a while between each. Before adding the next one, check for lags. When you find lag, it's likely the last one you applied is the culprit.
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i also have some problem on my s3. i seems to be lagging (from lock screen to home screen), not as smooth (in temrs of animation, etc) as before. i dont know the cause, i always clear the memory. and the averge % of the 50-60%. the first time it happened, i restore the factory settings, and it become smooth again. but now, it's lagging again. what could have been the cause of it? and how could i fixed this without restoring factory settings again, i dont want to lose my files again. please help. thanks!!!
other info: i only have 3 homescreens, i only use the default widgets except for, 2 apw widgets. my lockscreen app is widgetlocker. ram is 398/780mb
My lag disapeared when i turned of the power saving mode. Had the same problem before.
My lag disapeared when i turned of the power saving mode. Had the same problem before.
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Power saving only causes issues but does not really prolong the battery life (according to my own and other people's tests)
Just keep it off and enjoy the phone.
If you wanted lower specs, get a Galaxy S1...
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Power saving only causes issues but does not really prolong the battery life (according to my own and other people's tests)
Just keep it off and enjoy the phone.
If you wanted lower specs, get a Galaxy S1...
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agree . power saving is useless. if u wanna save battery just turn down the brightness levels
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reduce the number of accounts getting synced
dazkyl said:
Some times my galaxy s3 gets laggy ( i mean laggy in scrolling in menu , scrolling thru home screens) , everything. The animations wont stay smooth for a short time.
Im not interested in flashing any custom rom and i think the s3 is pretty fast and smooth with the stock rom , and i even want to keep the features.
Any idea what is causing this ?
Thanks.
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Since a lot of contact syncs generally lengthen the contact list. If u r logged in to too many social networking sites or other apps like chaton and accounts like samsung account, it generally slows down the phone. Since initially the mobile didnt hv lots of contacts and sync accouts , it was running smooth.
I applied this on my S3 as it was showing the same problem and i dont see any lag now.
Ha! S3 users are experiencing lag! Glad to hear it, not in a big rush to upgrade now...
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DanDroidian said:
Ha! S3 users are experiencing lag! Glad to hear it, not in a big rush to upgrade now...
Swyped from Outer Space
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Your lost
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Your lost
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Doesn't sound like it.
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dazkyl said:
I already applied these changes before. I disabled some bloatware and its working smooth till now. Lets hope it wont lag
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Hey..wat bloatware did u disable?? Havin the same prob..??
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I already applied these changes before. I disabled some bloatware and its working smooth till now. Lets hope it wont lag
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well if that doesnt well, jelly bean makes s3 fast and lag free. just a few weeks away.
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well if that doesnt well, jelly bean makes s3 fast and lag free. just a few weeks away.
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no it makes just the animations run with 60 frames per second, but it doesn't disable lags. on android you will have always lags, because the UI rendering has a low priority.
take it easy guys it's just a phone, even a desktop lags what more for a phone..
let's wait for more years, hopefully people can then throw the work "LAG" to oblivion
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let's wait for more years, hopefully people can then throw the work "LAG" to oblivion
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I dont think android will ever been mostly lag free. even a 200€ windows phone runs more smooth then a 500€ samsung galaxy s3, its a "problem" of android. but for that con, it has good multitasking.
I'm experiencing pretty slow and laggy multi tasking and laggy YouTube. The multitasking was a lot smoother on my gnex. Is this normal or should I go exchange my s3 for a new one.
Now that we have root is there a fix for lock screen lag?
The current root procedure breaks more things so its not worth it even if it did
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The current root procedure breaks more things so its not worth it even if it did
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No check again last night at 2am EST on IRC we finally got shipped OS with root.
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No check again last night at 2am EST on IRC we finally got shipped OS with root.
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yes and all works great. love xda
On my Note it appears to be a TouchWiz problem. I do not have the lock screen enabled as my phone never leaves my side. From sleep it takes approx. 1 second to wake if i press the power button when using TouchWiz. It wakes in less than half a second when i use SSLauncher or Nova!
Not using touchwiz. Nova launcher instead. Still get crazy lag. Seems its across all Note 2. Hoping for a fix.
I was browsing the n7100 forums and someone there asked the same question. A lot of people said that the lag was because of the phone coming out of deep sleep so the only way to fix the lag would be to keep some app running in the background that keeps the phone from sleeping. The only problem with that is that your battery life won't be as good.
why not just download voltage control or similar app and raise the minimum clock speed?
I have no lag at all. My note 2 is faster then my g3
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I have no lag at all.
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It's not lag so much as it is a delay. On my Razr, there's no delay between pushing the power button and the screen coming on. There is a delay on the Note 2 of around a second between pushing the button and the screen coming on.
I don't think it's the lockscreen. I don't see a difference when I turn it off. My guess is the little bit of lag is for hardware reasons.
I've read that this is due to S-Voice waiting for input before the screen completely wakes up. Go into S-Voice and find the setting to wait for input on wake or something similar and turn that off. Lag should be fixed...dont have the phone yet and already giving advice, lol.
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I've read that this is due to S-Voice waiting for input before the screen completely wakes up. Go into S-Voice and find the setting to wait for input on wake or something similar and turn that off. Lag should be fixed...dont have the phone yet and already giving advice, lol.
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No such option at all.
There is a setting within S-Voice, just google it...im too lazy but there's even a video on YouTube of someone explaining it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT5mEUlyMk4
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There is a setting within S-Voice, just google it...im too lazy but there's even a video on YouTube of someone explaining it...
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Went into s voice and there was nothing about that in there. Just wake on command and thats all.
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There is a setting within S-Voice, just google it...im too lazy but there's even a video on YouTube of someone explaining it...
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This video is for home button lag not lockscreen lag. Plu my s voice was all ready disable by home button. This thread is for lockscreen lag/delay not home button.
The Fix for me
Here is what i found turn off s-voice this what i found to fix the lag i think it is running waiting for the wake voice command
do turn it off if you dont use it did and it did the trick it is in the apps drawer so dont look for it in the settings
I thought this was generally accepted to be due to the phone entering a deep sleep and shutting off the CPU cores, thus the delay in waking up the processor and thus the display.
Will do further testing around forced wake locks and hold cpu states.
i disabled the lock screen...so much better! this phone does not pocket dial, so its not needed anyway imo.
Go into your connection settings. Turn on your wifi, right after you switch it on, pull down your notifications bar and keep going up and down with it while the wifi turns on. Does your notification bar get all laggy and stuttery while the wifi turns on?
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Go into your connection settings. Turn on your wifi, right after you switch it on, pull down your notifications bar and keep going up and down with it while the wifi turns on. Does your notification bar get all laggy and stuttery while the wifi turns on?
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yeah. wifi turning on/off and switching to mobile network lags the entire phone down.
kinda does it on every android phone, but it's 10x worse on the gs4 because of touchwiz lol
Yes...but this is one of those things that is super specific to a certain scenario. I never noticed it before.
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yeah. wifi turning on/off and switching to mobile network lags the entire phone down.
kinda does it on every android phone, but it's 10x worse on the gs4 because of touchwiz lol
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Glad I'm not the only one lol. Hey I saw you talking in some thread about gs4 head issues. Mine gets got too but the hottest I've seen it was 41c battery and i was on it and charging it at the same time. Thats really the only time it gets close to 40, is when I'm charging it and using it. Most of the time it seems to be 30-36c when I'm using it. Is this ok?
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It's weird cuz the wifi thing doesn't lag my note 2 at all. I think the new version of android is messed up. Hopefully we get some updates soon. If i had a defected device wouldn't it show up in the benchmarks? I ran every benchmark and get higher scores than any other phone so I know the hardware is good.
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Go into your connection settings. Turn on your wifi, right after you switch it on, pull down your notifications bar and keep going up and down with it while the wifi turns on. Does your notification bar get all laggy and stuttery while the wifi turns on?
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No, this doesn't lag my S4 at all. However, I set "Disable hardware overlays" to always use GPU for screen composing (in developer options). With this option set I haven't noticed a single stutter.
Before this workaround, I used to notice microstutters here and there (it would stutter doing window animation opening up facebook notifications for example).
Word of caution: supposedly this can cause problems for some apps. The only app that has problems is quadrant
I tried that setting but it didn't seem to change anything. All I want to change about the phone is the occasional home button lag I'm experiencing. Sometimes when I hit the home button it takes half a second to respond but when I clear all my recent apps the home button response is instant. Any ideas?
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elucid said:
No, this doesn't lag my S4 at all. However, I set "Disable hardware overlays" to always use GPU for screen composing (in developer options). With this option set I haven't noticed a single stutter.
Before this workaround, I used to notice microstutters here and there (it would stutter doing window animation opening up facebook notifications for example).
Word of caution: supposedly this can cause problems for some apps. The only app that has problems is quadrant
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ive tried that before and haven't noticed anything..and i noticed it resets on reboot too. does yours?
elucid said:
No, this doesn't lag my S4 at all. However, I set "Disable hardware overlays" to always use GPU for screen composing (in developer options). With this option set I haven't noticed a single stutter.
Before this workaround, I used to notice microstutters here and there (it would stutter doing window animation opening up facebook notifications for example).
Word of caution: supposedly this can cause problems for some apps. The only app that has problems is quadrant
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Thank you for this.. I never really had the need to disable hardware overlays, but my snapchat app lags hardcore when going from my snap list to the camera. This has fixed that. Is there any disadvantage to disabling hardware overlays?
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There's a lot of lag on this phone, but still a lot to love!
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