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... and using a custom Kernel makes things better? The phone works well on stock ICS but I feel it's quite sluggish and this is disappointing for a phone with a freaking 1.5Ghz Dual Core processor. It's almost as sluggish as ICS was on my old Xperia Ray (which I downgraded because the slugginess was unbearable). I did a full reset and repair of the phone with SUS but nothing changed at all when it comes to smoothness.
Since I have the yellow tinge (not so bad though, in fact I haven't gotten it replaced yet), I'm holding back in doing any sort of modification because I fear they might complain when I finally decide to get it repaired.
I really hate sluggish choppy interfaces and I'd like to know if there is any way to make this phone smoother. Otherwise I might get it replaced, and then sell it as new/just replaced for maximum profit (bought mine used for a good price but it had some scratches on it).
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... and using a custom Kernel makes things better? The phone works well on stock ICS but I feel it's quite sluggish and this is disappointing for a phone with a freaking 1.5Ghz Dual Core processor. It's almost as sluggish as ICS was on my old Xperia Ray (which I downgraded because the slugginess was unbearable). I did a full reset and repair of the phone with SUS but nothing changed at all when it comes to smoothness.
Since I have the yellow tinge (not so bad though, in fact I haven't gotten it replaced yet), I'm holding back in doing any sort of modification because I fear they might complain when I finally decide to get it repaired.
I really hate sluggish choppy interfaces and I'd like to know if there is any way to make this phone smoother. Otherwise I might get it replaced, and then sell it as new/just replaced for maximum profit (bought mine used for a good price but it had some scratches on it).
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I have the same feeling and I am also wondering is there any help after rooting or unlocking the phone.
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I have the same feeling and I am also wondering is there any help after rooting or unlocking the phone.
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there's nothing yet, even if you rooted your phone you wouldn't be able to get rid of it. You COULD try Nova launcher which is a bit smoother than the stock Xperia Launcher (no root needed)
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there's nothing yet, even if you rooted your phone you wouldn't be able to get rid of it. You COULD try Nova launcher which is a bit smoother than the stock Xperia Launcher (no root needed)
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Problem is that I really like stock launcher (all widgets etc.). So there is no hope for now, shame.
Sell it
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you could purge all sony stuff using Titanium backup or smth like that (root needed) and install this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1557091
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but that's a hell of a job
How disappointing. This phone is very powerful but it's so damn slow it makes me rage. Even the browser is nowhere near as smooth as the one on the Galaxy SII or even the Galaxy S.
I'm starting to get buyer's remorse even though I only paid 300€ for it.
If Sony doesn't get their **** together and make their crappy bloat ridden software more smooth than this (it's seriously utterly slow even compared to the iPhone3GS or even compared to my Ray Gingerbread stock with bloatware removed, I'd say it's almost as bad as Symbian), they are going to lose a ton of customers.
I mean, for ****'s sake, scrolling the app drawer noticeably stutters hard like moving a bunch of icons to the left is too much to handle for this phone. Even scrolling the settings menu is so crappy it's embarassing, it's almost as bad as on those early touchscreen phones like the Corby.
The browser is no more fluid than my Ray on Gingerbread. Both are horribly laggy on complex pages.
I know I'm sounding like a whiny user, but seriously, this is a flagship phone. The software itself is good but it needs some serious optimization, as it stands right now, I can only imagine an iphone user (or any other user who can't stand laggyness in user interfaces) cringing after trying the XS at a store for the first time.
I understand your problems, but i've got a rooted phone with KA09 ics rom, apex launcher, force gpu rendering on, windows animation scale off, transition scale 0,5x, dalvik.vm.heapsize=192m, and the phone is fast, no slugginess etc.
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How disappointing. This phone is very powerful but it's so damn slow it makes me rage. Even the browser is nowhere near as smooth as the one on the Galaxy SII or even the Galaxy S.
I'm starting to get buyer's remorse even though I only paid 300€ for it.
If Sony doesn't get their **** together and make their crappy bloat ridden software more smooth than this (it's seriously utterly slow even compared to the iPhone3GS or even compared to my Ray Gingerbread stock with bloatware removed, I'd say it's almost as bad as Symbian), they are going to lose a ton of customers.
I mean, for ****'s sake, scrolling the app drawer noticeably stutters hard like moving a bunch of icons to the left is too much to handle for this phone. Even scrolling the settings menu is so crappy it's embarassing, it's almost as bad as on those early touchscreen phones like the Corby.
The browser is no more fluid than my Ray on Gingerbread. Both are horribly laggy on complex pages.
I know I'm sounding like a whiny user, but seriously, this is a flagship phone. The software itself is good but it needs some serious optimization, as it stands right now, I can only imagine an iphone user (or any other user who can't stand laggyness in user interfaces) cringing after trying the XS at a store for the first time.
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Remove the bloat and use supercharger v6. CM9 for Xperia S will make a huge difference. My buddy has a galaxy nexus and it is only a bit smoother than my Xperia S even with JB. Not enough to make me complain. Use Chrome or Dolphin Engine Beta. Both of those are superior to the stock browser in ICS anyways.
Wow. First time I see someone complaining so much about performances... I (and all the people who have tried it) have no such problem.
Here are the first things you should try, IMHO :
- going in app settings (or task manager) and see which apps use the most cpu/ram. If you don't use them, close them. I use an auto taskkiller (but well configured ;-))
- in ICS, even without root, if you can't uninstall an app, you can always disable it in the apps settings. I did this to disable Facebook, Google + etc. since I don't use them. = disable all useless apps.
- check your auto-update settings and see which apps update frequently (heavy cpu charge).
Finally, if you did all that, and don't have plenty of widgets, your phone may have a problem. Just for your display issues I'd send it back...
Good luck
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Whew.
I have the yellow tinted screen, so I'm not rooting it just now. I also don't have a micro sim yet so I haven't even started properly using the phone. I uninstalled every uninstallable bloatware and haven't installed anything else when I made my last post about poor performance.
I think such an expensive and not to mention flagship phone should grant top tier performance out of the box without having to mess with it so much.
This phone really doesn't live up to it's specs.
Yesterday I installed a couple of games I like, Wind Up Knight and Let's Golf 3, both start out very fluid, but after a while start running slower and slower. I really couldn't believe it when after playing for 10 minutes Wind Up Knight started running worse than it does on my Gingerbread Xperia Ray.
Not to mention, there is no excuse for the UI to be so freaking choppy. Again, my Gingerbread Ray was silky smooth out of the box and it still is after several months since I last formatted it.
I really like the looks and the UI of sony phones, but I was disappointed by ICS on the Ray, so I expected the flagship phone to run a lot better, but it runs just as bad. Sure, it's ok if you use your phone to do calls and messages, but when the phone has such poor performance in general despite being a freaking flagship dual core 1gb of ram phone, and has a tinted screen to top it all off, disappointment and buyer's remorse are inevitable.
I think I'll just get rid of it after I get the screen fixed, and then get the iPhone 5 when it comes out later this year. If I have to put up with terribly unoptimized software, painfully slow official updates, poor compatibility with apps, slow performance, choppy interface, slow browser that is also losing Flash support, games that don't run well and are just unoptimized iPhone ports for the most part, I'd rather give my money to Apple (which is a company I despise), at least their iPhones are fast, get updated (the freaking 3GS is getting iOS 6! While on the Android front most manufacturers are still scrambling to get ICS on SOME of their devices), have the best app, and don't require you tearing your hair out to get the phone work as it should.
I'm looking more and more into the iPhones lately, and the only downside compared to Android, is a more closed OS which doesn't allow for much personalization, but they seem to be much better in everything else. The price is steep but I think it might be worth it in the long run compared to these droids which drop in price so fast they are worth peanuts after less than a year. Sure, I can't install an alternate OS on the iPhone, but if my droid worked fine out of the box, I wouldn't have to bother with custom roms and kernels in the first place.
I'm sorry but that's just how I feel right now about this whole Android and Sony disappointment. Android is a great idea on paper but so far it didn't work out imo, and it's unfortunate that the only real alternative is Apple. Like I said, I'd gladly sacrifice some personalization options in exchange for smooth, functional, fast, optimized UI and apps.
Ow come on dude... :laugh:
just buy an apple and close this thread, please.
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Ow come on dude... :laugh:
just buy an apple and close this thread, please.
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About the Apple, maybe I will. About closing this thread, I can't because I'm not a mod.
I'm glad you are happy with your XS. Maybe I have higher standars when it comes to quality.
Hopefully grass will be greener on the other side, if I really do get an iPhone.
I know it will be greener, you already sound like a real apple user..
I see the trolls learned some new trolling technique now.
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well I'm not really complaining... but he's kinda right.
I must say my AOSP build on my 3 year old Desire Z is smoother than ICS on the SXS thought.. the DZ cannot handle as much apps as the SXS can, but still it's kinda stupid no?
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I did this and it improved homescreen and menu scrolling. Not it's not 100% fluid but it's definitely a lot better than before. Using a LWP makes it lag again though, which is not cool (I really like the cosmic flow lwp).
I actually heard enabling this would make things worse so I left it disabled:
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/updated-adreno-220-ics-gpu-driver-speeds-up-2d-rendering/
Also, I was in a bad mood before, sorry if I sounded extremely unhappy about the XS. I'm just a bit disappointed because I had sky high expectations about this phone.
And finally, does this:
http://www.ptcrb.com/vendor/complete/view_complete_request_guest.cfm?modelid=20799
Mean there is a new update coming?
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And finally, does this:
http://www.ptcrb.com/vendor/complete/view_complete_request_guest.cfm?modelid=20799
Mean there is a new update coming?
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Yes there is. I actually love how smooth it already is and if it improves even more, joy oh joy for me But only if I could show you my device and trust me the last thing you ever wanted would be an iPhone. It's just effing brilliant. And I had the 4S and my dad has S3 and I don't like them over my XS so it is saying something. Regarding updates, Sony is the best and your most faithful servant. I don't have anything to look forward to with an Apple update but with every Android update, there is this wonderful anticipation that can only be felt and not described.
Sent from my wonderful Xperia S
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Also, I was in a bad mood before, sorry if I sounded extremely unhappy about the XS. I'm just a bit disappointed because I had sky high expectations about this phone.
And finally, does this:
http://www.ptcrb.com/vendor/complete/view_complete_request_guest.cfm?modelid=20799
Mean there is a new update coming?
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Everyone has their own opinions so if you feel its not smooth get a sgs3 its so damn smooth. I feel that its smooth cause I came from a x10, I thought that was smooth till I got this phone now I realize how laggy the x10 was
Thanks for posting the link, haven't been checking it so I didn't know there was a new update coming
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I've had the Moto E for 3 months and the headaches started after two weeks. I had been using the HTC 510 for about a year, rooted with a great ROM. I was fine with the ****ty camera and display, but I loved how snappy it was and of course HTC sense. If I ever spend more than $100 on a phonePHONE again, it will be an HTC. My favorite phone I've had was the Droid Incredible 4g LTE, an HTC variant of Big Red's flagship.
Any who, the digitizer for the 510 was getting on my last nerves, so I scooped up the new Moto E at Boost for $50. Great price, but after two weeks I was wondering if it was refurbished. The lag with merely 3-4 basic apps open was staggering. I could soon forget about making a call or text while using navigation. The 3 second lag was unbearable. I did a factory reset yet nothing changed.
I have maybe 10 apps on this POS, banking apps, budget, etc. Nothing heavyweight. The best new development has been the lag on the dialer or even answering calls!
I just cleared the cache, we'll see if this helps.
I'm out of patience and ideas. I really wish I would have gotten the moto G.... My dad has the ZTE Speed, which we all know is vastly inferior, and his phone is refreshing when I pick it up.
I'm going to do the unthinkable next week if this doesn't improve. I'm going to get the iPhone 5s. That's right, I said it. Well, let me clarify: I work for sprint, I get it for $49, unlimited talk text data for 35, twelve month contract. Say what you want about ios/apple, but the 5s is a solid, well built phone
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I've had the Moto E for 3 months and the headaches started after two weeks. I had been using the HTC 510 for about a year, rooted with a great ROM. I was fine with the ****ty camera and display, but I loved how snappy it was and of course HTC sense. If I ever spend more than $100 on a phonePHONE again, it will be an HTC. My favorite phone I've had was the Droid Incredible 4g LTE, an HTC variant of Big Red's flagship.
Any who, the digitizer for the 510 was getting on my last nerves, so I scooped up the new Moto E at Boost for $50. Great price, but after two weeks I was wondering if it was refurbished. The lag with merely 3-4 basic apps open was staggering. I could soon forget about making a call or text while using navigation. The 3 second lag was unbearable. I did a factory reset yet nothing changed.
I have maybe 10 apps on this POS, banking apps, budget, etc. Nothing heavyweight. The best new development has been the lag on the dialer or even answering calls!
I just cleared the cache, we'll see if this helps.
I'm out of patience and ideas. I really wish I would have gotten the moto G.... My dad has the ZTE Speed, which we all know is vastly inferior, and his phone is refreshing when I pick it up.
I'm going to do the unthinkable next week if this doesn't improve. I'm going to get the iPhone 5s. That's right, I said it. Well, let me clarify: I work for sprint, I get it for $49, unlimited talk text data for 35, twelve month contract. Say what you want about ios/apple, but the 5s is a solid, well built phone
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Did you really just imply the iPhone 5s is better than the moto e (2015)?
It's several times the price of course it's better.
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I've been experiencing nonstop lag ever since I took it out of the box. Tried many different system utils and they only slow it down worse. I'm so tired of this. If I could root (stupid locked bootloader) if definitely drop most of the system apps. But unfortunately, it isn't possible yet.
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Yes, they're true. I have a xt1527 and I always had lag until I reflashed a different stock firmware (not the one that comes with the carrier). After that, I used it a couple of weeks and lag started again. I'm unsure what could cause it but reflashing everything solves it.
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Well I can confirm. The issue with this phone is 5.0 which is horrible, 4.4.4 would make this phone fly.
i have been oke with my XT 1527 , yea at the begining there was some lag but since im still using the stock rom and i have xposed i downloaded a module called "Fix Lillipop Memory Leak" and that made the phone fly. There are other memory leak problems in LP but that module succesfully fixes one of the most important ones. Of course i will flash a ROM later but first i wanna make sure there is xposed support for 5.1 and the ROM is stable because right now they have alot of bugs .
ok. So I'm not the only one experiencing unacceptable lag time on the stock rom. I'm on 5.1 and it's running slower than my dad's iPhone 4, which was released in 2010, for the record. I'm seriously considering getting another iPhone 4 although that'll mean losing a number of things. But considering that I'll gain acceptable response times for something as basic as the dialer, I think I'll manage.
I don't know what kind of moto e you guys because mine is just fine and really faster (AOSP with Belive Kernel) So, maybe is an app, videogame or something like that because i don't feel lag at all
I'm using the Virgin Mobile Moto E, and I have a bit of lag on occasions, but not much. Keep in mind, my expectations are low. After using higher end, dev friendly devices for years (Nexus 4, G2, OPO), I experimented with some very basic FreedomPop phones (LG Viper, ZTE Force), but finally gave up.
My only issue with the Moto E is that 1 GB of RAM does not seem to be enough for Lollipop. Specifically the issue is when I'm driving. I have the phone connected via Bluetooth, which activates Car Dashdroid, and I have Waze and a music app running as well. With the Viper on 4.0.4 and the Force on 4.1.2, this would work, though at times be laggy. With the Moto E, there isn't much lag, but the phone can't seem to run all 3 at once, as it'll kill music (doesn't matter the app, I've tried Google Play, Pandora, and Spotify) if Waze is in the foreground, and kill Waze if the music is in the background. Sometimes its fine if I swipe away all the other apps beforehand, but even then I might have to restart music or Waze a couple of times.
I own this phone for less than a week and is slow to be frightening.
Chrome crashes almost always, the keyboard loses touch and is slow.
Using a micro sd 8gb formatted as internal storage and I moved all apps on it.
I disabled some apps and installed the necessary (twitter, telegram, netflix, spotify, whatsapp, postepay, shazam, coc, amazon, az sr, PicSay, my vodafone, safeincloud, google translate)
Hi everyone!
I bought an LG G5 about 3 weeks ago. I was coming from a Xiaomi mi5 (that I loved! But had signal problems in the States) and the LG G5 feels like a single core 512mb of RAM phone. Using the LG launcher it was so laggy scrolling pages, so I switched to Nova launcher and now at least the launcher feels better. The problem is that everything else sucks. Even just using chrome is so painful, scrolling long webpages is not smooth at all, same thing happens scrolling my phone's settings or any other app. Sometimes it seems a little better but after some hard use and some apps opened it starts lagging like crazy and it even freezes. The performance of this phone is awful and I haven't had such a low performance phone in years. Also it gets really hot with normal use. So this is all very weird to me and I'm wondering if there's a problem with my device or if a factory reset could solve my problems. As I got the phone I updated it to Nougat but didn't do any factory reset (since it was brand new and nothing was installed yet). Do you guys think that could be affecting it? How is your phone acting? Is the LG G5 such a crappy, slow and laggy phone or I'm experiencing something abnormal?
Thank you to everyone who will answer this post and try to help!
I just bought an RS988 G5 last week too. I updated to Nougat (21b) and did a factory reset (really wish there was a simple clear system cache option in the recovery).
Anyway, I have not experienced much lag at all. In fact, it is noticeably smoother than my S7. Also, mine doesn't get very warm unless I do heavy tasks like gaming.
I'm actually quite pleased with the G5. Compared to the S7, my only issues are the build quality is definitely a step back. And the software support (from both LG and third-party) is rather weak, especially for our model.
Other than that, I'm pretty happy with the performance, battery life and camera. I'm getting ~20-30min more SoT than my 1-year old S7. Even aesthetically it's not as bad as it is in videos/photos (I have the titan version)... looks much better in person.
Is that your device is a original product? Not buy from those china store? Nowadays have alot of fake phone. I scare that the phone is not G5.
Another thing, between this 3 weeks, do you install any apps?
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I just bought an RS988 G5 last week too. I updated to Nougat (21b) and did a factory reset (really wish there was a simple clear system cache option in the recovery).
Anyway, I have not experienced much lag at all. In fact, it is noticeably smoother than my S7. Also, mine doesn't get very warm unless I do heavy tasks like gaming.
I'm actually quite pleased with the G5. Compared to the S7, my only issues are the build quality is definitely a step back. And the software support (from both LG and third-party) is rather weak, especially for our model.
Other than that, I'm pretty happy with the performance, battery life and camera. I'm getting ~20-30min more SoT than my 1-year old S7. Even aesthetically it's not as bad as it is in videos/photos (I have the titan version)... looks much better in person.
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Thank you for answering! So from what I understand your phone doesn't lag and it's not slow. I think I'll try a factory reset cause the phone I'm using doesn't feel like a flagship at all
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Is that your device is a original product? Not buy from those china store? Nowadays have alot of fake phone. I scare that the phone is not G5.
Another thing, between this 3 weeks, do you install any apps?
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Thank you for answering! I'm sure my phone is an LG G5 original. I bought it from a physical store (Best Buy) and I doubt it's a fake. In these 3 weeks I installed the regular apps that I had in my Mi5 and that didn't affect it at all. I don't think it's because of the apps and if it is then I don't know what to do cause I regularly use all of them and I need them
Does anyone expect the S9/S9+ to go through a honeymoon phase and become standard Samsung: lag and micro-stutters? I am not sure if I can trust Samsung's software, but damn that hardware is amazing.
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Does anyone expect the S9/S9+ to go through a honeymoon phase and become standard Samsung: lag and micro-stutters? I am not sure if I can trust Samsung's software, but damn that hardware is amazing.
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No lag here
No lag on mine. Works the same as my S8+.
It works better than s8 with filled ram. It is almost as fluid and fast as pixel 2 and U11 plus.
I had the S7 Edge and even after 2 years I never had lag. The only difference I noticed was the battery wasn't lasting as long, but that's expected.
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I had the S7 Edge and even after 2 years I never had lag. The only difference I noticed was the battery wasn't lasting as long, but that's expected.
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Is that because of the Exynos processor and how Samsung optimizes their devices better to deal with their own proprietary SoC? I had issues with the S7 lagging with the Snapdragon model. I sold my old one off to my friend and he had to put nova launcher to get rid of the main lag.
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Is that because of the Exynos processor and how Samsung optimizes their devices better to deal with their own proprietary SoC? I had issues with the S7 lagging with the Snapdragon model. I sold my old one off to my friend and he had to put nova launcher to get rid of the main lag.
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It's Exynos yes. Also, I always use Nova so if the lag is with Touchwiz, I wouldn't know.
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It's Exynos yes. Also, I always use Nova so if the lag is with Touchwiz, I wouldn't know.
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Ah, that explains why because many probably do that to avoid possible lag with Touchwiz/Samsung Experience. I am contemplating going with a Pixel 2 now vs waiting for the S9+ Snapdragon model to drop in price. If I get the Pixel 2, I am looking to get the Pixel 3 later on too.
No lag here butter smooth on my exynos version,coming from s8+,one plus 5/5t, Huawei mate 10 pro.
Feels really nice and snappy
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Does anyone expect the S9/S9+ to go through a honeymoon phase and become standard Samsung: lag and micro-stutters? I am not sure if I can trust Samsung's software, but damn that hardware is amazing.
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My S9 plus is running smoothly.
I have had the S9+ for a couple of days and unfortunately, I am experiencing the classic Samsung Lag (TM). One the first day, the phone was smooth as butter but as days went by, I started to experience UI jitters and micro-stutters everywhere. I uninstalled a few apps here and there, removed Samsung Pay from the home screen, deleted bxActions which might be causing the issue, etc., but nothing seems to help. Others report that their phone is lag free which confuses me to no end.
I was burned by Samsung with the S3 and swore to myself to never return. But i decided to give the S9+ a try because of the hardware, and I am super disappointed by this. I might try and reset the phone but I doubt it will help.
no issues with mine, butter smooth. running for a week, with all my software installed. bloatware uninstalled/ disabled.
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I have had the S9+ for a couple of days and unfortunately, I am experiencing the classic Samsung Lag (TM). One the first day, the phone was smooth as butter but as days went by, I started to experience UI jitters and micro-stutters everywhere. I uninstalled a few apps here and there, removed Samsung Pay from the home screen, deleted bxActions which might be causing the issue, etc., but nothing seems to help. Others report that their phone is lag free which confuses me to no end.
I was burned by Samsung with the S3 and swore to myself to never return. But i decided to give the S9+ a try because of the hardware, and I am super disappointed by this. I might try and reset the phone but I doubt it will help.
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I've read other forums to do a factory reset. disable the Samsung apps you don't use. try that. it might help.
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I've read other forums to do a factory reset. disable the Samsung apps you don't use. try that. it might help.
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I did a factory reset before setting up the device, and transferred SMS'es, photos and call history from my old phone (OnePlus5). I even performed the 'wipe cache partition' which seemed to have helped but there is still a persistent micro-stutter almost everywhere. I am contemplating a factory reset but i am not sure if it will help.
Would it be too much to ask u to record a video of you going through normal apps on your phone, just to judge the smoothness on your end?
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I did a factory reset before setting up the device, and transferred SMS'es, photos and call history from my old phone (OnePlus5). I even performed the 'wipe cache partition' which seemed to have helped but there is still a persistent micro-stutter almost everywhere. I am contemplating a factory reset but i am not sure if it will help.
Would it be too much to ask u to record a video of you going through normal apps on your phone, just to judge the smoothness on your end?
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Unlock developer options and change these three things to .5 instead of 1
I'm with some on here with the scare of lag down the road. I have jump on demand so I'm not too worried about it. My s8+ lasted about a month before it started lagging and my note 8 which I still have has lag which started about a month after purchase.
But so far this phone is so fluid and fast I haven't even thought about my oneplus 5t at all and currently thinking about selling it. If this phone keeps this up I might finally be a happy Samsung fan since the note 2.
I know I'm extremely happy with night photos too.
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Software doesn't "degenerate," neither does the hardware. It either works or it doesn't. No in between with computers.
If it slows down, that's your fault, not Samsung. The reason why it may "slow down over time" is because of you playing around with settings, messing around with package disablers (pro tip: this does absolutely nothing to help the battery/performance, it makes it worse), or you download ****ty apps over time.
AP actually mentioned this in the S9/S9+. It looks like with Samsung Experience 9, Samsung has sort of neutered the lag beast -- it started with the Note 8 which, apparently, is still snappy months later. So they're saying there's hope that the improved performance should persist through the S9 series. Here's what they said exactly:
"The Galaxy S9 is the first phone on sale to use Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 845 chipset, and as such, all eyes will be on it to see how the new silicon fares. (As a side note, we don’t have the international Exynos variant, and while that new chip does benchmark insanely well, there remain major questions about its real-world performance chops.)
My experience with the Galaxy S9 in the first week of use has been quite good in regard to performance. Of course, anyone who’s used a Samsung phone in recent years might tell you that while the phones are fast out of the box, that feeling tends to fade considerably with time - and I still found that true of the Galaxy S8. But it seems Samsung may be turning over a new leaf, according to our senior editor Ryan Whitwam, starting with the Note8: that phone has remained fast in the months since he started using it, and I’ve seen few long-term performance complaints on the web.
The S9 is already noticeably snappier than even a brand-new Galaxy S8 or Note8, and so I’m hoping that Samsung’s reputation for slowdown over time is one that we can finally get past. I’ll continue using the S9+ for a while after this review just to see how it ages."
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Does anyone expect the S9/S9+ to go through a honeymoon phase and become standard Samsung: lag and micro-stutters? I am not sure if I can trust Samsung's software, but damn that hardware is amazing.
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The game changer here aside from a slightly more efficient CPU, is the fact that the s9+ has 6GB of RAM. That's gonna be the difference over all on performance. Right now I haven't messed with transitions (in developer options) or done any of the "Optimizations" normally recommended for a Samsung phone and it is lightning fast. I have the Snapdragon version too, not the Exynos. But it's definitely noticeably faster and I had the S8+.
Coming from note 8 this phone is running even more smoothly than my note 8. It's like butter!
I'm strongly leaning on getting the s9+ from At&t. The only problem is that it has a locked bootloader. I've been on the flashaholic routine ever since my first android phone (htc OneX). Should I just purchase the At&t version and probably never get root/custom ROM ever? Purchasing the unlocked version would still be affected since it's the snapdragon version. Would that version (SM-G965U) have s better chance of getting root etc in the future, or is the snapdragon s9+ just locked down?
Hi all, after using for 3 years my trusty Moto G5 plus decided to purchase 7 pro, UK version, using it for a week now. My first Realme phone, good specs. for a mid ranger, was very excited and it ticks all the right boxes for my daily use but there is one, my opinion major issue and Realme needs to address it. All the same apps downloaded to the new phone as I was using in my Moto phone, from day one I have occasional and completely random hang-ups of the phone, it can be any random action, browsing through the settings, opening any random app, once it froze on me even during phone unlock. It becomes completely unusable for about 30 seconds or more, cannot go back or go to the home screen, it just completely locks up. And of course I tried restarting the phone, clearing recent apps, I even re-installed latest build update file from Realme website (RMX2170EU_11_A.26). I also ran benchmark apps like Antutu and Geekbench 5, getting similar results as other user tests.
No difference. It happens every day and it can happen more than once, all random. With much higher specs than my old Moto phone (8GB RAM vs 4GB on Moto, faster CPU, Android 10 vs Oreo...) I did not expect that at all and I think it is not acceptable for this behavior for a brand new phone.
I am thinking of returning the phone unless someone out there has a solution for this, I would really appreciate it as otherwise I like the phone an I would like to keep it. Thanks.
Looks like some unoptimized app is causing lag in background, check assecibility service disable which you don't use. Check battery what are the apps draining
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Hi all, after using for 3 years my trusty Moto G5 plus decided to purchase 7 pro, UK version, using it for a week now. My first Realme phone, good specs. for a mid ranger, was very excited and it ticks all the right boxes for my daily use but there is one, my opinion major issue and Realme needs to address it. All the same apps downloaded to the new phone as I was using in my Moto phone, from day one I have occasional and completely random hang-ups of the phone, it can be any random action, browsing through the settings, opening any random app, once it froze on me even during phone unlock. It becomes completely unusable for about 30 seconds or more, cannot go back or go to the home screen, it just completely locks up. And of course I tried restarting the phone, clearing recent apps, I even re-installed latest build update file from Realme website (RMX2170EU_11_A.26). I also ran benchmark apps like Antutu and Geekbench 5, getting similar results as other user tests.
No difference. It happens every day and it can happen more than once, all random. With much higher specs than my old Moto phone (8GB RAM vs 4GB on Moto, faster CPU, Android 10 vs Oreo...) I did not expect that at all and I think it is not acceptable for this behavior for a brand new phone.
I am thinking of returning the phone unless someone out there has a solution for this, I would really appreciate it as otherwise I like the phone an I would like to keep it. Thanks.
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Hi Visma_2011, did you manage to figure out what caused the issue on your phone? I'm having similar issues with my Realme 7 Pro. And I also migrated all my apps from my previous phone so it is difficult to know exactly which one might be the culprit, if any.
Curious to know if you had your issues resolved.
Hello PakkaZA,
Sorry to hear that, I really wanted to like the Realme phone, and I did like most of the things about it, I would have used it for two or three years but no matter what I've tried, nothing worked and I eventually I gave up and sent the phone back to Amazon for a refund.
Went back to using Moto phone ,not the old one but bough myself a Moto G 5G plus. It has a better chip set (Snapdragon 765), but I think the main reason Realme kept locking up because of their clunky UI, Moto phones are near stock (Vanilla) android and very little of their own gestures and stuff, of which I am a big fan and never had an issue with freezing so far. And I am using same apps as before....I am just surprised that very little users have similar experience as us, it might be that only some phones are somewhat faulty?
Hopefully you will a solution. Good luck .
I have the same issue as you, for me when phone does apps updates through google play store, the phone hang up. my model is the indian Realme 7 PRO with android 10