So my wife and I both got s8+ when they first got released. It seemed as if when we first got the phones, they were running flawlessly and fast as hell. Now a month or so later, both our phones seem laggy and sluggish. I always run device maintenance on both to keep things cleared up. Dunno what else to try. Wish we had root already so I can get rid of all this bloat and unnecessary stuff. Any recommendations from anyone? Dunno if maybe debloating apps or programs with a app is possible without root?
Yes. Dont do maintance. My wife did maintance and her phone slowed down, by cleaning and freeing up space. Since she stoped phone been back up to speed
djhulk2 said:
Yes. Dont do maintance. My wife did maintance and her phone slowed down, by cleaning and freeing up space. Since she stoped phone been back up to speed
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Really? That's odd. Why would they have device maintenance in the phone settings then? Lol
Before they didnt have the feature, but was avaible through different apps at the playstore. Now they have their own app that came preinstalled. Im happy with the close all button, easier than maintance
package disabler pro, make the bloat go away (wont free up space but keeps that crap from running)
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Hey all, I'm lookin for a ROM for my Samsung Exhibit II (TMOUS) that strips the bloatware but keeps the functions basically intact. Anyone done that yet?
Even when closed all apps my phone has only 100mb free memory, and when I run FMR memory utility it gets free mem up to 200mb. My phone seems to get slower all the time as well. NO IDEA WHY. I downloaded a virus program which didnt find anything.
So I figured a cleaner rom would be a great start.
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Hey all, I'm lookin for a ROM for my Samsung Exhibit II (TMOUS) that strips the bloatware but keeps the functions basically intact. Anyone done that yet?
Even when closed all apps my phone has only 100mb free memory, and when I run FMR memory utility it gets free mem up to 200mb. My phone seems to get slower all the time as well. NO IDEA WHY. I downloaded a virus program which didnt find anything.
So I figured a cleaner rom would be a great start.
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This thread has links to all ROMs. You can use the rooted stock and remove apps, but jocala's Peach Sunrise is what you probably want. It is based on stock, but debloated with a few tweaks. Really nice.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26859796
Bought a xperia sola which had android 2.3 and i thought it was very fast and awesome for like 5 months. Then thought that upgrading to ICS would be great, but I found it just to slow down my phone. I tried to factory reset it in 2 different ways but still was slow. Got a scratch in the screen and while repairing i asked them to rever it back to 2.3 again. Thought it was decent for awhile but then became slow continuing with 2.3. I thought it would be because I installed some apps etc but it was like half free space on both the internal and the external drive (the sd-card here is called ext_card) so that shouldnt be it.
I then thought it might be a good idea to upgrade again since not only does it have ICS but there was an upgrade as well on top of that. Upgraded it and thought it ran decent but now again I feel it is pretty slow. It usually takes 2-3 seconds to load the picture of someone calling and stuff like that. At times it is a bit more rapid though but usually it is pretty slow.
I do not run a gigantic list of apps so I have no idea what to do really. Considering to root and perhaps overclock slightly but it feels like that shouldnt be the thing since it worked fine for a long time on 2.3.
Would love any sort of help on this one.
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Bought a xperia sola which had android 2.3 and i thought it was very fast and awesome for like 5 months. Then thought that upgrading to ICS would be great, but I found it just to slow down my phone. I tried to factory reset it in 2 different ways but still was slow. Got a scratch in the screen and while repairing i asked them to rever it back to 2.3 again. Thought it was decent for awhile but then became slow continuing with 2.3. I thought it would be because I installed some apps etc but it was like half free space on both the internal and the external drive (the sd-card here is called ext_card) so that shouldnt be it.
I then thought it might be a good idea to upgrade again since not only does it have ICS but there was an upgrade as well on top of that. Upgraded it and thought it ran decent but now again I feel it is pretty slow. It usually takes 2-3 seconds to load the picture of someone calling and stuff like that. At times it is a bit more rapid though but usually it is pretty slow.
I do not run a gigantic list of apps so I have no idea what to do really. Considering to root and perhaps overclock slightly but it feels like that shouldnt be the thing since it worked fine for a long time on 2.3.
Would love any sort of help on this one.
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Flash custom rom, custom kernel with overclock, and use root uninstaller, to remove any program u dont like
Unlock bootloader, Install FXP CM9 no need to OC, you will never have performance issues. And one more advice: Never flash any stock based **** except for munjeni's work he is a real dev. Others pretty much just throw some useless crap like acid sound mod and cybershot mod on their roms and fill it with crap, call it lame names, claim that their rom is the best, when its just a nastily rethemed stock rom i only found fidwlity zx useful so far, because of the most complete xperia z ui.
That's because we have too low ram available on Sola when we have tons of apps installed.
I feel my phone pretty fast, like a clean installation of ICS from scratch but i did some tweaks to it that requires to be root to achieve this.
I disabled almost all unnecesary apps from Sony, denied permision to start on boot to tons of installed by me apps. Those makes the booting a hell slow and slowdown performance when multitasking because they are wasting ram (who needs youtube, google glass or maps running from the start? they just waste ram!). Also i use greenify and seeder (both apps from here, xda) who helps on quick reponse (seeder) and keeping apps hibernating (greenify) when not in foreground use
I am curious because i love this phone and im trying to avoid rooting it... However their is so much damn bloatware on this crap so it slows down to the point i can't even type a text message, My HTC Hero had faster speeds than this phone at certain points and thats pathetic. Its becoming frustrating and ive already thrown this thing across the room twice now (i have insurance and im shocked it hasnt broke yet)
All my syncs are off, Wifi is usually off but it keeps turning on and thats annoying, my screen time out is set for 5 mins, my brightness is low, i have next to no apps installed because it acts up when i do.
Got full insurance? Root the heck out of it! That's not normal for a phone like this, I have the open international version and it's buttery smooth. You might want to wait for 4.4 kitkat which is assumed to come within a month or two so it's up to you.
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Throw it against the wall again and see if that fixes it. Show it who's boss! ?
Thanks Devs. From my VZW G2.
You can "Disable" all the bloat apps. I did that with my Wife's G2 and it runs buttery smooth.
This phone has never been slow, no matter how much crap I put on it.
I'm on stock, have just under ten different launchers on it, all with fat caches, all the original apps loaded and available, always on WiFi/3G, 3gigs music - the way I like it.
It has never stuttered.
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it's worth it just for de bloating and g2 xposed.
This phone isn't slow, ever, apps or not. Something is wrong with your phone.
Read this thread.There are tips about how to make the phone snappier:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2479892
For me the phone never stuttered or lag. Still on stock with no de-bloating done.
If there's a reason to root for me will be to install Adaway & stop the annoying ads. Other than that it's pretty much all set up.
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That is definitely not normal. The stock phone is way more than adequate for your every day use, and I ran it for a good month flawlessly. However, I just liked the themes and extra abilities of being rooted (then, eventually a custom ROM) so I just did that. You can always revert back anyways.
still debating on rooting as well, I still linger around these forums on occasion. I somewhat grew out of the rom flashing, and buying/selling phones. As for the LG G2 , its a solid phone, really enjoying the battery life, yes it probably could be better but 17 hours plus with heavy usage is excellent for me.
Debloating is probably only reason I would root, but you can also hide the apps you don't need and that is holding me over for the time being. I will most like give in to rooting the device :silly: for a few mods,
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Throw it against the wall again and see if that fixes it. Show it who's boss! ?
Thanks Devs. From my VZW G2.
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Hahah :laugh: :good:
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root it that wont hurt your mobile and download app master and uninstall all crapware and u good..
Why wouldn't you root? It's very easy and you can always return back to stock with no issues. I say root it and then do whatever you want with it. Just remember to not change anything if you don't know what it does. If you keep by this one rule, you shouldn't have to worry about bricking it.
I rooted and it's worth it specifically after debloating. You can always go back to stock with the LG tool kit.
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it is worth the root but, maybe its just me, when restoring back to factory you wont be able to update anymore.
If I root my T-Mobile G2, could I change the rooted status to unrooted in the lg root checker? That is the only thing I am worried about. I am running the OTA update non rooted.
I've opened every app on my phone, including torrent apps and high need games, and I was still able to play Need for Speed: Most Wanted at full speed and not even a screen glitch or sound skip. The fact that OP is having lag issues is astonishing.
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kyhassen said:
All my syncs are off, Wifi is usually off but it keeps turning on and thats annoying, my screen time out is set for 5 mins, my brightness is low, i have next to no apps installed because it acts up when i do.
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If you have a Sprint device the wifi issue is likely the connections optimizer, you can turn it off in the settings.
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I went from S4 to this phone! I did the root on first startup! I think that Android is all about doing your own settings and make things just the way you want! If some company sometime release a phoen that I do not need to root and ''make my own'' I will be sad :=)
Full reset. If same, return.
How is it that this phone which should be newer and better than the sgs3 is a slow laggy piece of ****..everything is just super slow on this phone.. anyone have suggestions on how to fix?
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How is it that this phone which should be newer and better than the sgs3 is a slow laggy piece of ****..everything is just super slow on this phone.. anyone have suggestions on how to fix?
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perfectly fine from the get-go for me...try removing bloatware.
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perfectly fine from the get-go for me...try removing bloatware.
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I am running beanstown106's
★[Rom][G900TUVU1ANE6][4.4.2] Stock Root Odex/Deodex/Knox-CarrierIQ-Free[Firmware]★
i removed some of the bloatware but some of the stuff i also like to keep... stilll slow.. anyone know if switching form touchwiz launcher helps?
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I am running beanstown106's
★[Rom][G900TUVU1ANE6][4.4.2] Stock Root Odex/Deodex/Knox-CarrierIQ-Free[Firmware]★
i removed some of the bloatware but some of the stuff i also like to keep... stilll slow.. anyone know if switching form touchwiz launcher helps?
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i'm still on tw and unrooted, works perfectly fine for me unless if i'm hogging up resources
I haven't removed one piece of bloat and still on the stock rom (yesterday installed a custom kernel, but it was actually faster before that. i did it for battery life) and it's still running faster than ever. You might have a defective one.
No problems here, all bloat installed. Actually I have 752 apps installed.
I've used many different kernels and roms, stock and custom.
Only time there is any lag is when the apps are auto updating.
Try disabling any auto update, i.e. play store and Samsung apps.
Either set a schedule or do it manually.
Hope that helps, and I made the jump from s3 to the s5 as well.
T-Mobile Galaxy S5
I would honestly try going back to pure stock and see if you get the same results.
It could be the ROM you're using may have an issue, going back to pure stock can help rule that out.
Alternatively, getting a logcat and seeing if there's a ton of error messages may also do the trick.
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I am running beanstown106's
★[Rom][G900TUVU1ANE6][4.4.2] Stock Root Odex/Deodex/Knox-CarrierIQ-Free[Firmware]★
i removed some of the bloatware but some of the stuff i also like to keep... stilll slow.. anyone know if switching form touchwiz launcher helps?
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I'm on stock rom and rooted. No lag whatsoever. Your running a custom rom and complaining about lag?? There's your issue right there. Most people completely stock don't even have your lag complaints.
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ddarvish said:
How is it that this phone which should be newer and better than the sgs3 is a slow laggy piece of ****..everything is just super slow on this phone.. anyone have suggestions on how to fix?
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Walk that iPhone 5S into the nearest Apple store and ask them to reimage your phone to one without iOS 8 beta....
If you are looking at a replacement, the T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S5 with the latest updates is a very solid performing and non-laggy device.
My S5 works great and is:
1. A stock device with no root or customized ROM.
2. Loaded down with a lot of applications and widgets, but I've tested them over the years on an S3 or Nexus so I have a good idea of what is CPU heavy or battery heavy.
3. On the latest firmware (at least until 5PM PST when the VoLTE update is pushed) G900TUVU1ANE6.
4. Turned off S Voice as I primarily use Google Now.
An extra app I do use that I recommend is "AppMgr Pro III". It helps me determine what applications can be moved to SD Card. Some can be moved, but may impact widgets and what not, so it does a good job of letting you know if that is an issue or not.
Now that you are off your laggy phone, tell us how you love your S5
There are some bad S5's out there, got one yesterday. Lag was terrible, almost impossible to type because of the delay, scored low on Antutu, etc. Phone had other issues too - screen had uneven discoloration to it and bottom touch key buttons were unevenly lit.
Exchanged for another one and it was like night and day. All same apps installed, same settings and this new one has almost zero lag, typing is fine. If your phone has severe lag and stuttering, might be worthwhile to get it exchanged... My first one was a major lemon all around.
Enjoy!
I got it this morning as well.
I am going to wait a week or so to see how it goes for others before I jump in.
I look forward to seeing how it works out for you.
So far so good, I like the built in "optimize" feature to clean out crap that takes up extra storage and/or slows down the phone
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I keep getting an error after it downloads and it won't install for me. Anyone else have a problem with this?
Sprint's bloated firmware!
I have been running the "U" firmware on my S7 pretty much since I got it. Out of curiosity though I flashed back to sprint's firmware so I could test drive the nougat update. God what a bloated mess the sprint firmware is! I had forgotten just how intrusive and bloated it was. Besides the 15 or so useless apps it forces you to install (and a lot of them can't be uninstalled), there are lots of useless processes that you can't stop or disable that are always running whether you're using them or not. I did go ahead and do the nougat update and it is pretty nice. But I flashed back the U firmware to be free of all that sprint clutter, and also because I need my hotspot. I'll just wait until Samsung updates the U firmware to nougat. I can understand when we were supposedly getting "subsidized" phones, that sprint would want to make some more money by putting all these crap apps on the phones. But now that you pretty much have to pay full price for the phones, it's total BS that they still load them up with all that crap.
I'm happily looking forward to the non-bloated, clean U firmware nougat update.
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I have been running the "U" firmware on my S7 pretty much since I got it. Out of curiosity though I flashed back to sprint's firmware so I could test drive the nougat update. God what a bloated mess the sprint firmware is! I had forgotten just how intrusive and bloated it was. Besides the 15 or so useless apps it forces you to install (and a lot of them can't be uninstalled), there are lots of useless processes that you can't stop or disable that are always running whether you're using them or not. I did go ahead and do the nougat update and it is pretty nice. But I flashed back the U firmware to be free of all that sprint clutter, and also because I need my hotspot. I'll just wait until Samsung updates the U firmware to nougat. I can understand when we were supposedly getting "subsidized" phones, that sprint would want to make some more money by putting all these crap apps on the phones. But now that you pretty much have to pay full price for the phones, it's total BS that they still load them up with all that crap.
I'm happily looking forward to the non-bloated, clean U firmware nougat update.
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I'm on the U firmware for the last 8 months, how how and what did you downgrade to, to take the nougat update? Thanks.
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I'm on the U firmware for the last 8 months, how how and what did you downgrade to, to take the nougat update? Thanks.
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I flashed the sprint PL6 firmware with Odin (you have to use the plain CSC file - which will do a full wipe/factory reset, NOT the HOME_CSC file) and was then able to get the nougat update:
https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/120986/G930PVPU4APL6_G930PSPT4APL6_SPR/
I accidentally installed it yesterday, but so far, so good.
I had already disabled all of the bloat with Package Disable Pro, so I guess they stayed disabled. I did not see any new bloat introduced by the install of Nougat.
Seems a bit more refined. Too soon to tell in terms of battery life, but so far seems on par with MM.
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I accidentally installed it yesterday, but so far, so good.
I had already disabled all of the bloat with Package Disable Pro, so I guess they stayed disabled. I did not see any new bloat introduced by the install of Nougat.
Seems a bit more refined. Too soon to tell in terms of battery life, but so far seems on par with MM.
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I was coming from the bloat-free U firmware (so I had to do a full wipe before installing PL6 sprint firmware, which meant I got the full sprint firmware, bloat and all). That's why the amount of bloatware on the sprint firmware annoyed me so much. The contrast between the two is like night and day. The U firmware is so lean and clean compared to the Sprint firmware. As I said before, now that we have to pay full price for these phones, we shouldn't have to put up with all this crapware the carriers load on our phones. The phones are not subsidized any more, we should get a clean, crapware-free phone for paying full price.
If im not mistaken pl2 is the latest firmware for the U. will it update to nougat via OTA on the U firmware?
When I installed PL6 version, I took sim card out, signed in to Google, downloaded Samsung package disabler and disabled all bloatware including boost sim setup and install apps, then inserted sim and none boost crap was installed, just the boot logo on boost main app was installed. I'm bloat free, also in U ROM once I signed into Samsung account, allot of their bloat did install. To prevent that, I backed up all apps and disabled Samsung app and installed all it's apps from backup into fresh U ROM again. I was just testing as I had some time to kill one day.
Oh and nougat is operating very snappy, responsive, about same on battery, got the hot spot shortcut like on U ROM, very nice build.
If anyone is looking for good launcher, I found very nice and light nougat launcher from play store
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cmnlauncher
And disabled factory launcher
Total of about 100 apps disabled so far.
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Got the update this morning. The UI feels snappier. Not sure about battery life. The pop up notifications can now NOT be turned off. But you can disable it with a flag in debug mode. Still getting use to the new UI. The biggest change is maybe the phone dialer. It feels more cluttered as it's now one state rather than in multiple states/apps.
Do you think they will be able to root this new nougat update? Is anyone trying to do this?
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Jesus' Hedge trimmers the battery life on the went to pure ****. I can't get a 10 hour day anymore.
arusiasotto said:
Jesus' Hedge trimmers the battery life on the went to pure ****. I can't get a 10 hour day anymore.
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seems like a factory reset will fix the issue. have you done that yet?
The Android Attorney said:
seems like a factory reset will fix the issue. have you done that yet?
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My wife had the same issue.. android system use caused the battery to drop incredibly fast. Reset fixed it.
Conformed. Reset fixed it. Now I just have to figure out why it's now no longer compatible with QC 2.0 from my battery pack...