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Just wondering if any one else has there phone go laggy every now and then. When i unlock the phone, its not even a animation, it just glitches to the other side and unlocks.
Also scrolling is jittery some times.
No matter what i do, i've ran a task manager to kill everything and it helps for about 10 mins.
tryed diffrent ROMS to, was like this on 1.6 and 2.1
Only just starting to annoy me.
Xperia X10a
I think I have the same issue, but only seems to appear when battery is below 50% when its fully charged I rarely see any lag.
Try Fast Reboot app
no lag or at least a noticeable one since i updated to x10a 2.1 fw
aussiesausage said:
Hi
Just wondering if any one else has there phone go laggy every now and then. When i unlock the phone, its not even a animation, it just glitches to the other side and unlocks.
Also scrolling is jittery some times.
No matter what i do, i've ran a task manager to kill everything and it helps for about 10 mins.
tryed diffrent ROMS to, was like this on 1.6 and 2.1
Only just starting to annoy me.
Xperia X10a
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I'm having the exact same experience as you & nothing I try helps.
I used to have a lot when I was on Nordic and then a little less when I was on global and then I reset everything on global once and its really good for me now.
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yesterday i installed task killer full version 3.02 now my phone runs very smooth no lag at all yaysss ...... my advance task killer didn't help un-installed....
Do you really think this an issue? Just let the phone cope with the tasks and it will slow you down "sometimes" by half a second? Are we that anal retentive about time that split senconds count now?
i am using launcher pro plus now, and everything seems ALOT more smooth now to.
should try it out guys/girls, much much smoother for me
highly recommend the optimisation thread... I deleted a load of system apps off my phone that I didn't use...and now it's great.. (Timescape seemed the biggest difference).
Hi, anyone tried autokiller ? Seems to be making my phone rather snappy. Root needed.
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I'm curious... Do you apply/wanna apply a lag fix because your device is actually lagging or is it just the thing to do nowadays? I ask because I have never found a need for one. The only lag I had on the Vibrant was when I first took it out of the box and even that was kinda tolerable. But as things are right now, I really don't see how my device could get any faster and if it could...why? Quadrant scores? What is the real advantage (if any) to having it? .02¢
Lag fix? Never have, never will!
High quadrant scores. Do you see the first thing most people mention when they install the lag fix?
"My quadrant score went from 200 to 2000!!!!!!!!" as if it was an indicator of actual performance.
No good, controlled tests have been conducted.
I don't use it. The one time I did, when it was included in the kernel with BLN, I had horrible battery life. Most people use it to get higher scores. The N1 would run circles around the Vibrant in terms of scores but when in real world testing, both devices are just as fast.
It's not just scores...
It makes your system a bit faster people nowadays do it without needing to and there's nothing wrong with that.
I run a lagfix and it has improved my speed and response.
Without making me lose any battery
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It's not just scores...
It makes your system a bit faster people nowadays do it without needing to and there's nothing wrong with that.
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Point taken, but looking at most of the threads in the Q&A section...it seems that the LF's do more harm than good, especially if you aren't too sure about what you're doing.
Lag fix? Never have, never will!
The lag fix circumvents RFS in many areas.
Galaxy S phones have terrible I/O performance. Notably Database Read/Writes and apps that work generally hit the storage often.
Run Touchdown on a Galaxy S phone without a lag fix and you'll see how sluggish that application runs due to RFS. The workaround is to move the database to the external SD Card (which results in frequent corruptions) or install a lag fix.
It also causes the phone to take an inordinate amount of time to boot up (Media Scanning... etc.) and lag randomly when applications sync and access the storage to write data. It lags when Installing and Uninstalling applications from the Android market as well.
If you think a Lag Fix is only to boost Quadrant Scores (those scores are bunk, anyways), then perhaps you're using a different phone in a Vibrant casing.
There are several applications littered with "laggy on my Galaxy S" in the market.
Also, there is a bug in the Samsung Android 2.1 kernel that breaks some applications. That's why there are apps popping up saying you need 2.2 on your Galaxy S phone to run them (Skype, Yahoo Messenger, etc.).
My Vibrant, both before and after JI6, was laggy to the point of not being usable - until I applied RyanZA's OCLF (I removed OCLF and tried voodoo but soft-bricked the phone in the process). I've never run the Quadrant score analysis - all I care about is usability of the phone, and after the OCLF was applied my phone became usable.
I tried Axura 2.0.x with no lag fixes and, while my phone was generally faster than JI6 pre-lag fix, it still suffered from lag in many user interactions (opening apps, launching email, reading individual emails, using gallery, etc.) I went back to stock + JI6 via ODIN, reapplied OCLF, and was happy again.
Are there different hardware revisions of the Vibrant that might account for the differences in user experience? I've seen many posts from users who claim they never had any lag or GPS problems, and many more (like me) who have been plagued with them.
Most of those users are fanboys and wouldn't admit it even if they fot one of those 5+ second lockups while making their post.
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I'm curious... Do you apply/wanna apply a lag fix because your device is actually lagging or is it just the thing to do nowadays? I ask because I have never found a need for one. The only lag I had on the Vibrant was when I first took it out of the box and even that was kinda tolerable. But as things are right now, I really don't see how my device could get any faster and if it could...why? Quadrant scores? What is the real advantage (if any) to having it? .02¢
Lag fix? Never have, never will!
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It's cause the phone is laggy. I don't usr lag fixes because I don't lile tampering with phones at the system level, regardless, but I have freezes several times a day and have even had my phone completely lock up on me a couple of times - requiring a battery pull.
The less services you have running, and the less apps that sync data runnimg, the less the lag is. The lag happens mostly when the storagr is used (background syncing can cause it, for example).
Yes, people with no twit/fb/reader apps/accounts setup, among other things may be totally fine depending on their usage.
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Once you go Lag Fix you never go back! Lol
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It has made some apps actually usable.
Before the lag fix, the facebook app was basically unusable for me. Any action would have a 5-10 second pause before seeing a result.
Swipe to scroll, wait, click a picture, wait.
I think the facebook app was the worse for me because I did manual updates so every time I launched the app, it would be d/ling and writing while I was trying to scroll around and read stuff.
But in general, it has made my phone usable. Before I did the lag fix, I basically stopped using my phone because it got so annoying having to wait.
I've never run quadrant on my phone actually. I don't even really use root for anything. I did it primarily for the lag fix and the I changed my battery bar so that it's accurate. Everything else I'm happy with.
So, could this just be an issue that only certain phones have? Or, could some of it be mental? Like, if you hear enough ppl say that this is broken or that isn't working...you start to think that yours is broken also? I've never had an issue with gps...and I use foursquare and navigation on a regular basis. But everybody else seems to have broken gps.
Lag fix? Never have, never will!
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Yes, people with no twit/fb/reader apps/accounts setup, among other things may be totally fine depending on their usage.
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This makes sense. Everything besides my work email account is synced manually. FB, TD, etc. And when I get really busy I even cut my data off. But on the other hand, I text and browse constantly. And switch back and forth between appear running simultaneously. And when im not working...
Lag fix? Never have, never will!
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This makes sense. Everything besides my work email account is synced manually. FB, TD, etc. And when I get really busy I even cut my data off.
Lag fix? Never have, never will!
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hmm... I used a JFS lag fix for awhile, and it still hung slightly when syncing.
it did not seem better or worse really.
and the same thing happens on my mytouch so I think its just something that happens, lag fix running or not.
its really not that bothersome, but I do the same as you, I manually sync most everything.
I mean if I'm not looking at my facebook widget constantly, why should it be auto syncing?
lol it only takes a second to push the refresh button
but thats just me.
N8ter said:
It's cause the phone is laggy. I don't usr lag fixes because I don't lile tampering with phones at the system level, regardless, but I have freezes several times a day and have even had my phone completely lock up on me a couple of times - requiring a battery pull.
The less services you have running, and the less apps that sync data runnimg, the less the lag is. The lag happens mostly when the storagr is used (background syncing can cause it, for example).
Yes, people with no twit/fb/reader apps/accounts setup, among other things may be totally fine depending on their usage.
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I have 2 email account, syncmypix, weather apps & news updating every hour and i have never had any lag problems, even running on JI2 stock, much less ever had phone freezes. The ONLY time I had phone freezing was messing with those OC kernels, which I promptly uninstalled.
Let me ask people that run lag fixes this, when playing with the Vibrant at the t-mobile store, why did you choose buy it if you were experiencing this "lag", especially when it was running stock firmware?
edit: I also ran JFS lag fix for a day, but that drained my battery faster than a fat kid ate cake. It was not even noticeably faster either.
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So, could this just be an issue that only certain phones have? Or, could some of it be mental? Like, if you hear enough ppl say that this is broken or that isn't working...you start to think that yours is broken also? I've never had an issue with gps...and I use foursquare and navigation on a regular basis. But everybody else seems to have broken gps.
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Its not mental its on every phone. Unless lagfixed/hacked u have the same fileaystem as us.
The home switchers and unofficial roms are morw mental due to placebo effect - some lag fixes aren't even that good, but people claim tenfold improvements due to placebo effect...
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anthonys2r said:
I have 2 email account, syncmypix, weather apps & news updating every hour and i have never had any lag problems, even running on JI2 stock, much less ever had phone freezes. The ONLY time I had phone freezing was messing with those OC kernels, which I promptly uninstalled.
Let me ask people that run lag fixes this, when playing with the Vibrant at the t-mobile store, why did you choose buy it if you were experiencing this "lag", especially when it was running stock firmware?
edit: I also ran JFS lag fix for a day, but that drained my battery faster than a fat kid ate cake. It was not even noticeably faster either.
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The phone T the store wasn't syncing a google and corp accoumt, plus facebook, plus twitter, and other apps. It simply wadn't prone to lagging, brcausr no user in their righy mind sets their **** up on a display unit just to test it.
Btw, "why didn't you test it for 10 min before you bought it" is getting old.
Their were no other good phones in t-mo when many of us broughy yhis. Couldn't just swap for a g2, mt4g, or hd7.
Many people thought an update would fix it, like the gps.
We were wrong, obviously.
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firefly6240 said:
hmm... I used a JFS lag fix for awhile, and it still hung slightly when syncing.
it did not seem better or worse really.
and the same thing happens on my mytouch so I think its just something that happens, lag fix running or not.
its really not that bothersome, but I do the same as you, I manually sync most everything.
I mean if I'm not looking at my facebook widget constantly, why should it be auto syncing?
lol it only takes a second to push the refresh button
but thats just me.
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If not syncing, then you can miss direct message notifications on fb and twitter.
Symcing manually is unacceptable to many. Don't have to do that on other phones......
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BlackElvis79 said:
Point taken, but looking at most of the threads in the Q&A section...it seems that the LF's do more harm than good, especially if you aren't too sure about what you're doing.
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If you have stock rom then oclf is best and I'm on Axura so my choice is voodoo but I've read it causes too many problems.
People should know what their doing before messing with stuff like that..
They have a forum here to ask all these questions but they do it themselves then when their phones screwed they ask questions...
N8ter said:
If not syncing, then you can miss direct message notifications on fb and twitter.
Symcing manually is unacceptable to many. Don't have to do that on other phones......
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I've done it on pretty much every phone I've owned, but like I said its not really nessicary, if anything its a slight stutter, but either way its not different than other android phones I've used (even my vibrant using a lag fix). its really just my preference to sync manually.
Hello. I recently installed ADW EX home replacement and have noticed my battery being eaten alive! I unplugged it at 100% at 11am and with very minimal use (No wifi, no 3G, no Bluetooth etc...) and by 4pm I was at 60%. Without ADW I would still be in the 80's at least.
Has anyone expirenced this? Is this normal? Why would a new launcher drain my battery?
Thanks.
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Hello. I recently installed ADW EX home replacement and have noticed my battery being eaten alive! I unplugged it at 100% at 11am and with very minimal use (No wifi, no 3G, no Bluetooth etc...) and by 4pm I was at 60%. Without ADW I would still be in the 80's at least.
Has anyone expirenced this? Is this normal? Why would a new launcher drain my battery?
Thanks.
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Yep. I concur. I noticed this also. Pretty snazzy adw but I went back to. LP instead.
Thanks. Crappy thing is I paid $3.50 for it and ony had 15 min to get a refund.... fail. lol
I'm not noticing that at all. What rom/setup are you using? Nero v3 + voodoo for me.
Well Im not rooted so the whole phone is stock. I would like to know how to root and make the tweaks tho. Is that what I need to do? Now Im at 43% without hardly using it in the past 6 hrs.
Check my signatures for guides that I wrote. The noob guide is where I would start.
I see a major problem with this policy.
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Thanks. Crappy thing is I paid $3.50 for it and ony had 15 min to get a refund.... fail. lol
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At times it appears to be buggy, when you move your finger over the app drawer button and it slips out..... That button is toasted.
You have to create a short cut to get back into the app drawer and the settings button from the hardware key is no longer available.
Yes I too wished that I had more than 15 minutes to evaluate the software.
I do pay for other apps in the market, like the rom manager pro, root explorer.
Under this new 15 min policy the end users are stuck with more crap apps that do not perform tasks as advertised such as ..."SystemApp remover"...
I see a major problem with this policy.
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I'm not noticing that at all. What rom/setup are you using? Nero v3 + voodoo for me.
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Same. Great battery life
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At times it appears to be buggy, when you move your finger over the app drawer button and it slips out..... That button is toasted.
You have to create a short cut to get back into the app drawer and the settings button from the hardware key is no longer available.
Yes I too wished that I had more than 15 minutes to evaluate the software.
I do pay for other apps in the market, like the rom manager pro, root explorer.
Under this new 15 min policy the end users are stuck with more crap apps that do not perform tasks as advertised such as ..."SystemApp remover"...
I see a major problem with this policy.
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You can move the trash can.
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No battery drain here. I am running Nero V3 with voodoo and live wallpaper. Very smooth with a quadrant score of 1567. No complaints here.
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No problems whatsoever here either.
Using Nero v3 voodoo enabled with solid battery life.
Loving ADW EX.
I didn't want to say it... but I may be a victim to. After running some tests w/ and w/o, far better battery life w/o ADWEX. Nero3 w/voodoo
Lovellkid
Waiting for an update before I start using this full-time. There are alot of bugs thus far and it still should not have been given a release outside of a beta. The stock GB launcher that came with Nero v3 runs much smoother.
Nero v3 with voodoo n my battery is great. 12hrs plus with heavy use.... downloading, wifi, 3g, text,calling, and wordfued.
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Yes mr.orange303 there are some options to place the trash
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You can move the trash can.
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same here
I noticed not only battery drain but extreme lag, especially when pressing the home button, which is set to only take me to my home screen. I noticed these problems while running nero v3 with voodoo enabled. I flashed axura 2.2.5.6 last night and restored everything including adw ex, updated everything, and noticed a vast improvement in all symptoms described above. Conclusion: either adw ex doesn't play well with nero v3, or perhaps you just need a fresh install of any rom just to clean things up a bit and give adw ex a clean slate to start with. Just thought Id chime in with my experience, hope this helps.
PS ADW EX is awesome! I really like the transitions and animation features. I currently use option 3 for animations, and it looks really cool. Also the hidden dock bars make it easy to sort your apps! Well worth the $3 IMO. I'm sure the bugs will be worked out soon if they're on the ADW end.
I've had for a week or so, no drain no difference, alot of the drain may be settings people haven't tweaked. The only real performance issue I see as less that Launcher pro, is the 3d app drawer displays a tiny bit of hang and a bit of lag. But, that isn't that much of an issue. And, ADW EX is way nicer interface.
I make 60-80 min of phone use per day with 40 average emails and 10 text, and of course all the self indulgence youtube..web etc After 12 hours of use I am usually in the 39-47% range...... I think people game a lot more than they realize and eat up battery that way........ADW EX......Nice App
Thanks everyone! Im new to this forum and really enjoy it.
I must say, I am NOT ROOTED and plan on figuring out how to do it. I think my battery issues could be better if I wasn't running a stock phone. In just the time it took to write this post, my phone drained 1%
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have you actually checked to see what's using your battery, or are you just assuming its ADW?
I used task manager to discover adw cpu was around 60% after pressing home, before I wiped and flashed axura 2.2.5.6.
Not saying its adw, just passing my findings on. Im thinking I would have gotten similar results from wiping and flashing nero back. Something wasnt meshing right and I think the fresh install fixed it, not the switching of the rom. I just went with axura to check out the new version. Im a huge fan of both devs and switch between axura, nero, and eugene's often.
I've noticed that there is a good amount of lag in response to touch input on my rezound. I'm wondering if this is normal for this phone? It doesn't seem to start scrolling until my finger has moved around half a centimeter, especially in some apps like the browser and twitter. I'm stock and unrooted Do I just have a bum phone?
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had this day one with mine. is it new or you've had it for a bit?
i ended up swapping mine out at a vzw store the day after it arose, would take a little, but would consistently lag. if new, try swapping it. if not, backup and try a wipe.
Try using a task killer if you don't already. I normally have this problem when I have too many apps running at once.
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had this day one with mine. is it new or you've had it for a bit?
i ended up swapping mine out at a vzw store the day after it arose, would take a little, but would consistently lag. if new, try swapping it. if not, backup and try a wipe.
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It's a couple days old. I didn't want to exchange it if every rezound is like this, but it sounds like this isn't normal. Thanks!
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This is my first android phone but I came from wm6.5 were the lag seemed to be about the same. I think it's the nature of a multi tasking OS on a phone.
devarshi said:
I've noticed that there is a good amount of lag in response to touch input on my rezound. I'm wondering if this is normal for this phone? It doesn't seem to start scrolling until my finger has moved around half a centimeter, especially in some apps like the browser and twitter. I'm stock and unrooted Do I just have a bum phone?
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On ICS and GB, my notification bar lags, but for ICS I've noticed pointer lag, and jittery browser scrolling. I use the dev tools to show touch input, and there is some lag. I'm thinking that if you change the max events per sec in the build.prop, that should fix the lag, and improve overall responsiveness.
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Try using a task killer if you don't already. I normally have this problem when I have too many apps running at once.
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^No... Just no... Task killers = fail.
hows the os running on the s4? i've heard from other carriers that the s4 seemed laggy. not sure if it was the phone or 4.2.2 that caused this.
I'm not super highly sensitive to micro lag and all that shiz but this is sm0o0o0othness.
It was laggy during set up. It seems to have settled now.
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Butter
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pretty smooth, but small hiccups occasionally
Touchwiz has its hiccups, but installing Nova Launcher eliminates all of that.
Same here, butter.
I found myself immediately installing the stock launcher after getting it. Worked great, but I went and un-installed it last night, and it seems to have cached everything. I haven't seen lag since. SMS App does lag slightly when switching through contacts, but that was to be expected.
On a side note, Am I the only one noticing how FAST this phone charges? 50% in 28 min? Holy crap
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Same here, butter.
I found myself immediately installing the stock launcher after getting it. Worked great, but I went and un-installed it last night, and it seems to have cached everything. I haven't seen lag since. SMS App does lag slightly when switching through contacts, but that was to be expected.
On a side note, Am I the only one noticing how FAST this phone charges? 50% in 28 min? Holy crap
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Butter..
Per charging. The stock charger is 5v 2amp! It charges it amazingly fast however using a computer or any of my other chargers it takes forever. In the case of charging via a computer I feel that it just beats the attrition of using it.
Mine has been incredibly smooth.
Horrible. The lag is extremely noticeable when using the stock SMS and gallery apps. I type a text message, hit back twice, and it takes about 0.5-1 second for what I hit to register. Even when going through the settings there is a noticeable delay, compared to my Note 2 running a custom ROM this thing is slooooowwww.
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Horrible. The lag is extremely noticeable when using the stock SMS and gallery apps. I type a text message, hit back twice, and it takes about 0.5-1 second for what I hit to register. Even when going through the settings there is a noticeable delay, compared to my Note 2 running a custom ROM this thing is slooooowwww.
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how does it compare to your note when it was stock?
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Horrible. The lag is extremely noticeable when using the stock SMS and gallery apps..
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These are the places I notice it the most. My stock SMS app was giving me hell for a while...constantly not responding. I'd hit back 3 times before it would do anything and then it was like fast forward. I have never used a stock SMS app...always GoSMS. I have been giving the stock apps a chance to use the smart features. When I restored my text messages to the S4 I recall it restoring like 17,000 messages. My GF talks a lot! I then realized that the stock app was giving me crap when I was in a thread that was very large. If I went in a new thread or smaller one it worked fine. I went in settings and changed it to 350 messages and 65 MMS and then delete. I assume it did that at some point because now it's moving smooth on all threads.
With the gallery app, none of them ever load the thumbnails right away. There's always some lag with gray boxes and then the thumbnail appears. This has been the case on all my phones....even Note 2.
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how does it compare to your note when it was stock?
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These are the places I notice it the most. My stock SMS app was giving me hell for a while...constantly not responding. I'd hit back 3 times before it would do anything and then it was like fast forward. I have never used a stock SMS app...always GoSMS. I have been giving the stock apps a chance to use the smart features. When I restored my text messages to the S4 I recall it restoring like 17,000 messages. My GF talks a lot! I then realized that the stock app was giving me crap when I was in a thread that was very large. If I went in a new thread or smaller one it worked fine. I went in settings and changed it to 350 messages and 65 MMS and then delete. I assume it did that at some point because now it's moving smooth on all threads.
With the gallery app, none of them ever load the thumbnails right away. There's always some lag with gray boxes and then the thumbnail appears. This has been the case on all my phones....even Note 2.
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I don't remember too much about my Note 2 when stock, but the gallery was extremely slow on that as well. I didn't notice a lag though when going between menus and so forth, so it seems to be a bit worse on the S4.
I used to use GoSMS, but they really went downhill IMO. Lots of spam texts, reminders about other Go software, hardly any free themes anymore, and it got more bloated and slow.
I haven't experienced any lag.
The stock S4 rom is about 2 GB (HUGE). Once we get some debloated roms I think we'll notice a big increase in speed.
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Sorry some of you have had or are having issues. I myself haven't seen any lag at all, it's been butter smooth. Also very snappy when i first got it yesterday but have since turned off about half or a little more of the smart stuff. This will be even more amazing once Dan releases the unlock bootloader and the custom ROMs hit.
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Sorry some of you have had or are having issues. I myself haven't seen any lag at all, it's been butter smooth. Also very snappy when i first got it yesterday but have since turned off about half or a little more of the smart stuff. This will be even more amazing once Dan releases the unlock bootloader and the custom ROMs hit.
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I've turned off every smart stay and airview feature on this phone, froze/uninstalled about 30 apps, and still have the lag. If you're coming from an older phone like the Thunderbolt, GNex, etc. this phone will seem really fast and smooth, but if you're coming from a new phone (especially one with a custom ROM) such as the S3 or Note 2, the S4 seems slower.
Butter here.
I'm running Nova Launcher. The stock messaging app does seem to stumble a tad with contacts but that is usual.
I have a friend running Slim ROM on his Note II, with Gapps the entire ROM is 97MB. I can barely notice the difference of mine and his and I haven't even rooted this yet. There is virtually no delay from tapping a button till it comes up I'm never waiting for anything. If I'm on it for like an hour I might see something barely stutter once or twice during that hour.
I think it is just from 1 phone to another. Some reviews have no lag in the phone at all while some ppl claim lag all over so I don't know.
I did have horrible lag when I first got it. It took several hours to download all my apps (about 30-40). Everything was soooo sloooow. Same keyboard issues mentioned above.
Once I got everything set up and cut off haptic and sound on keyboard, it's been smooth. Rooted on stock rom with nothing froze. But out of the box, it was pretty laggy.
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