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Ics on nexus running so smooth

Is the world aware how good ics is is and how well it runs on the nexus s. Is even the android community aware. This phone needs a new review just because of pics. Probably not but man I got this phone for 100 dollars off Craigslist and man is this a hidden gem. This is the perfect phone for most people.
Man I wish my epic touch had pure ics on it right now.
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Patience grasshopper. We will get our ICS on the ET4G soon enough
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Fataldesain said:
Is the world aware how good ics is is and how well it runs on the nexus s. Is even the android community aware. This phone needs a new review just because of pics. Probably not but man I got this phone for 100 dollars off Craigslist and man is this a hidden gem. This is the perfect phone for most people.
Man I wish my epic touch had pure ics on it right now.
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I agree, this phone was nice with GB but with ICS this machine is amazing. The best part about it is that this is only the begining

Hopefully thismeans we will be the fixed icsics
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I'm quite curious though, is the new smoothness due to the forced gpu rendering? Is anyone runnning stock ICS but without 'forced gpu rendering' checked in dev settings that can give some feedback on its smoothness? I do know that scrolling anywhere now is much smoother compared to GB, almost as if animations were running in a priority thread like they do in fruit phones.

I leave hardware accel off and it is still exceptionally smooth, though not AS much with the stock kernel. Cannot notice much difference between the two with GLaDOS.

I'm pretty much in agreement with the thread starter. The ICS upgrade is amazing. Very smooth and fast. Everything seems so much better just as any upgrade should be. And also the new UI and graphics are great.
Its funny reading everywhere now about just about every handset waiting and or crying for ICS update. Most won't see it till the second half of next year.
I love my nexus even more than ever.
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also I'm running stock ICS rom with stock kernel...the kernel has been slightly modified for voodoo support.
Getting great battery life too. Thankfully none of the infamous 'android OS bug' so far.
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Agreed, ics kicks a$$.
A few things that could have been included that weren't, lucky for us those there's the nova launcher that's shaping up really nice and adds what ics should have had in the first place.
I'm running my phone on background process limit of x3 and no gpu redering with nova launcher and it's amazingly fast and smooth with no lag whatsoever, even when entering the app drawer.
As it's been said, things will only get better and I also think the Nexus S needs new reviews doing on it.

voyager_s said:
also I'm running stock ICS rom with stock kernel...the kernel has been slightly modified for voodoo support.
Getting great battery life too. Thankfully none of the infamous 'android OS bug' so far.
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What kernel are you using? Thanks

voyager_s said:
also I'm running stock ICS rom with stock kernel...the kernel has been slightly modified for voodoo support.
Getting great battery life too. Thankfully none of the infamous 'android OS bug' so far.
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What kernel are u using exactly? I have a very bad battery life + random reboots

raeef said:
What kernel are u using exactly? I have a very bad battery life + random reboots
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Ive been using the stock ICS kernel modified for voodoo support. Its in the stock ICS kernel thread started by eugene373 in the nexus s development forums.
I made sure to wipe cache and the dalvik cache before installation. Im at 17 hours now with battery still at 32 percent with almost 2 hours screen on.
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It blows my mind to think of what will happen in the next six months with this phone. I have a feeling the nexus might go back into production if it keeps getting better.
It kills me my girlfriend has no idea what she is using.
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It really is. I love my NS even more with ICS, altough my experience with it in Gingerbread has only been about 2 weeks. Previously I was using Gingerbread (CM7) in a ZTE Blade and, as an interaction experience (regarding solely the OS), ICS beats it to a pulp. Now it's a waiting game until all the quirks are solved

has anyone tried the microbes live wallpaper. Im using stock ICS, stock kernel, non-rooted and it is just laggy as hell. Rest of the phone is ok, but i wouldnt call it buttery smooth

The microbes live wallpaper is definitely more hardware intensive than most of the others. It would likely be -slightly- better with a different kernel, but i can't see the Nexus S being powerful enough to breeze through it.
Live wallpapers for me use too much battery for too little eyecandy, though to each their own.

Harbb said:
The microbes live wallpaper is definitely more hardware intensive than most of the others. It would likely be -slightly- better with a different kernel, but i can't see the Nexus S being powerful enough to breeze through it.
Live wallpapers for me use too much battery for too little eyecandy, though to each their own.
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At first I thought so too, but now I'm not so sure. It wasn't this bad in gjngerbread albeit 2.3 seemed a lot lighter and less ram intensive than ics. Also I ran the microbes lwp on my old g2 and it ran a lot better than my nexus s. I think its more of a software issue but I'm no dev.
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The only thing killing me is the lack of RAM. I really wished that Google went with 768+ MB.
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Award Tour said:
The only thing killing me is the lack of RAM. I really wished that Google went with 768+ MB.
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They did...in the Galaxy Nexus.
- chris

praveenmarkandu said:
has anyone tried the microbes live wallpaper. Im using stock ICS, stock kernel, non-rooted and it is just laggy as hell. Rest of the phone is ok, but i wouldnt call it buttery smooth
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Im got microbes swimmin around, no issues at all. stock ICS, stock kernel, rooted.
it shows its only using 3.7MB

Note II HWComposer on S3

I tried using Note II N7100's hwcomposer lib file on my CM10.
It is smoother to me than CM10... Just my feeling... Not very sure...
Anyway don't know if its true. I just leave the Note 2's lib file attached below. Try it if you want.
Just copy the file using root explorer to system/lib/hw. When you tries to paste, the phone will just auto reboot. Wait a bit and it will be up again. Then for safety go back and change the permission to like other .so files in that folder.
Don't blame me if anything bad happens... I am not a developer. I am just a noob anyway :/
Works best on CM10 not Samsung rom for me.

I think this just forces it to run in software mode, as it wouldn't actually recognise it. Chances are that software mode is better than using the broken GPU method though.
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jaju123 said:
I think this just forces it to run in software mode, as it wouldn't actually recognise it. Chances are that software mode is better than using the broken GPU method though.
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Hmmm sorry I am not very sure of if broken hw acceleration. But to me at least the user experience is better for me and still able to have the other benefits (except project butter) of Jelly Bean.

It doesn't seem to break GPU rendering, I have force GPU and disable hw overlays ticked and everything is nice and smooth and no problems so far, running for about 30 mins or so.
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both mobile have the same hardware, will this really have an impact?

bala_gamer said:
both mobile have the same hardware, will this really have an impact?
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To me I can really tell that its smoother especially when opening and closing the sms app no longer lags for me.

Could any dev confirm the effect of this?
EDIT:Used the file now and indeed it is better...I'm on Wanam LIB sammy official.
For example i think it fixed that "break" it used to do when scrolling up and down on settings!yay!
EDIT 2:When it works it works ok...but sometimes it doesn't work...
Anyway,back to stock!Thank's OP.

Hmmm best to have dev confirming this. I tried on I9300XXDLIB it ends up becoming even more lag.... But the effect on CM10 is an improvement to me.

Well working fine for now. Don't know if I feel any difference though.
Edit: Probably not a placebo... I feel more responsive scrolling in tapatalk and gmail app.
☞ sent from GS3 or Nexus

installed on slim bean scrolling is better but will have to do more testing though, but its a good start to have a few of the notes features on the siii:thumbup:
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Seems to me that Cody in the CM10 thread said something about using the HW Composer and that it could not just be dropped in and function properly. It was more complicated than that.

donalgodon said:
Seems to me that Cody in the CM10 thread said something about using the HW Composer and that it could not just be dropped in and function properly. It was more complicated than that.
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Yeah. he recommended people not to do it.

Has anyone that has tried actually noticed any drops in functionality?
If not, I'm going to give it a go as well.
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S3 buttery

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=dfaRosAWsdc&desktop_uri=/watch?v=dfaRosAWsdc&gl=SE
look at the video. is our S3 supposed to be that fast. it doesnt lag in settings or anything. mines slow compared to this. my lags in settings an appdrawer etc.
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Here is the video of my S3 and S2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_9JDPrRFvI&feature=youtu.be
Now that's how S3 should fly. Both got 1gb ram so don't say anything bout ram, i even disabled almost all Samsung bloat

if i flash 4.0.4 stock on odin will i have the triangle?
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That's the lte version ... 2GB ram
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yeah but my S2 doesnt lag ****. 1 gb ram is enough for not lagging in settings and doing easy tasks lol?
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I just checked my phone against that video, its as smooth as that, and as quick at opening settings and the like (on a fresh reboot so nothing was pre-loaded in memory).
I'm not sure what people are doing to get all this "lag"
Mines a i9300 device running 4.1 JB

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I just checked my phone against that video, its as smooth as that, and as quick at opening settings and the like (on a fresh reboot so nothing was pre-loaded in memory).
I'm not sure what people are doing to get all this "lag"
Thats a i9300 device running 4.1 JB
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What firmware? im on I9300XXDLID

Mine is quicker even after 4 days with no reboot, and i don't use taskkillers.

endrit9 said:
What firmware? im on I9300XXDLID
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Same firmware as yours...post a video of your lag, I'd be interested in seeing it.
punktnet said:
Mine is quicker even after 4 days with no reboot, and i don't use taskkillers.
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Same, I don't use task killers since I moved on from 2.2/2.3

punktnet said:
Mine is quicker even after 4 days with no reboot, and i don't use taskkillers.
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Okay i'll make a youtube video in 10 min.

I'm on BTU XXDLJ4. It's as smooth as what's shown in the video. No lags. Even with live wallpapers, my phone doesn't lag!

Got to say I never felt my phone being a slouch. But since I jumped from stock ics to the latest Samsung leak, my phone flies. Didn't really debloat anything even, lots of apps and very residual lag if any. Pretty happy with it. Just replaced kernel for dual boot purposes to try out whatever's out there.
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Yes it is super buttery. Moreover i changed to liquid smooth rom and i am on stock kernel. Its been 10+days and till now i never saw any lag and even during launching apps.
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Ok guys video is up in 10 minutes. Finished recording and all. On the video it shows my S3 stutters. And how s2 is a beast...

IntenseTorture said:
Yes it is super buttery. Moreover i changed to liquid smooth rom and i am on stock kernel. Its been 10+days and till now i never saw any lag and even during launching apps.
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Why do people claim this? Are you claiming to have solved something all the hard working cm devs are continually confirming IS a problem?
Wish people would stop posting this rubbish. There is absolutely no denying that all of these ROMs experience a little lag once in a while.
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Its up now!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_9JDPrRFvI&feature=youtu.be

endrit9 said:
Its up now!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_9JDPrRFvI&feature=youtu.be
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Go to Developer Options in Settings and set the "Window Animation Scale", "Transition Animation Scale", and the "Animator Duration Scale" to 0.5x and report back!

DeadSOL said:
Go to Developer Options in Settings and set the "Window Animation Scale", "Transition Animation Scale", and the "Animator Duration Scale" to 0.5x and report back!
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Tried that. Still same bs..

endrit9 said:
Its up now!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_9JDPrRFvI&feature=youtu.be
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First of all, you should have turned on a light in the room before recording!
Secondly, I do not see the big difference, sorry.
You did not do anything substabtial, you were just navigating in the Installed Apps menu in Settings... That's hardly a point of reference.
Good idea but, if you don't mind me saying, poorly executed and it does not prove anything. No offense.

iridaki said:
First of all, you should have turned on a light in the room before recording!
Secondly, I do not see the big difference, sorry.
You did not do anything substabtial, you were just navigating in the Installed Apps menu in Settings... That's hardly a point of reference.
Good idea but, if you don't mind me saying, poorly executed and it does not prove anything. No offense.
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Look the lag when pressing any setting. Example apps. my S2 does not. its more of a beast than the S3 i guess? Look at the first video of the titanium and when he presses settings what happens and then mine. Youll se the difference

endrit9 said:
Look the lag when pressing any setting. Example apps. my S2 does not. its more of a beast than the S3 i guess? Look at the first video of the titanium and when he presses settings what happens and then mine. Youll se the difference
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I was not talking about the first video nor was I commenting about whether the SGS2 is faster than the S3 or not.
I was merely pointing out that your video does not prove anything.

TW Lag an phone Lag...

No matter what TW Rom I'm in I get lag either scrolling thru the main screens or in the menu..Only does it on TWlauncher...well also here an there I get lag..really like this phone but not real impressed with performance...
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Run an aosp/cm/aokp for now and the lag will be gone. Or you can run a rebloated touvhwiz ROM. Or run a custom kernel and overclock. Or just get a different phone if it bugs you that much.
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GBPackerFanForLife said:
No matter what TW Rom I'm in I get lag either scrolling thru the main screens or in the menu..Only does it on TWlauncher...well also here an there I get lag..really like this phone but not real impressed with performance...
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My suggestion is to upgrade to MDL (if you haven't already) and flash a custom TW kernel. This makes a world of difference over stock for smoothness and battery life is still great (depending on the kernel settings used). Other thing you can try is lowering the animation scale in developer options.

How I find Developer options lol
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GBPackerFanForLife said:
How I find Developer options lol
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In About Phone tap your build number 7 times to unlock dev options. Then hit the back button tap dev options and scroll down, if you don't want any animations just turn the three off.

Never had lag issue with the S3 or the note on TW...Samsung really needs to get this phone running like butter right out of the box ya know...
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GBPackerFanForLife said:
Never had lag issue with the S3 or the note on TW...Samsung really needs to get this phone running like butter right out of the box ya know...
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It takes time. The gs3 was not smooth and neither was the gs2 when it first came out. And with updates it slowly becomes better. Be patient.
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i had some bad lag when i was stock.. but now that im running a custom rom and kernel it is just about gone now.. yea i kno people shouildnt have to flash a custom kernel or rom to get rid of the lag but im sure samsung will fix soon

Ya I'm rooted running premium ROM using nova launcher...but this phone should not lag at all...there has to be a major update coming from Samsung I would think...lol for this nice of a phone...
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GBPackerFanForLife said:
Ya I'm rooted running premium ROM using nova launcher...but this phone should not lag at all...there has to be a major update coming from Samsung I would think...lol for this nice of a phone...
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You can always flash the crossbreeder mod....it eliminated all lag on my phone http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2113150

Ya I did the developer options transition scale trick that helped with two launcher lag but I still get a ton when writing long emails in TBD stock email app. A lot of times the keyboard can't keep up AMD gets stuck behind after about a paragraph of typing. Super annoying.
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It personally sickens me that we have to do anything to this phone to get it to work well for us. Samsung needs to fix these issues and make this phone fly like it should with the hardware in it. No changing developer options or using a custom kernel or tweaking.

GiantJay said:
It personally sickens me that we have to do anything to this phone to get it to work well for us. Samsung needs to fix these issues and make this phone fly like it should with the hardware in it. No changing developer options or using a custom kernel or tweaking.
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Amen to that!!!!
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GiantJay said:
It personally sickens me that we have to do anything to this phone to get it to work well for us. Samsung needs to fix these issues and make this phone fly like it should with the hardware in it. No changing developer options or using a custom kernel or tweaking.
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Very much agreed. i personally have minimal lag....there obviously should be none. Hopefully when the next update finally drops the lag will be taken care of.

I had the same issue but once I rooted, removed bloat, disabled some apps and installed a custom kernel all the lag is gone. I'm running No Frills CPU to control the CPU and I have it set at Max 1998GHz, Min 378MHz, Governor= Performance, I/O scheduler= deadline. Not having any issues with battery either. Works Great!
Also I noticed that S Voice was never mentioned. You have to uninstall it or make it so the home button doesn't activate it.

I'm running ktoonz 7/2 kernel with all his settings. Wow it gets rid of all the lag. Plus the phone don't run so hot like it does stock. Nice and cool and fast. I get 24-30+ hours before battery swap. I was also very pissed that out of the box this phone is kind of ****ty. Thanks to our great devs its fixed
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Lag on the galaxy note 10.1 2014

Hi just went to bestbuy to test the overall performance on this tablet. Sad to say that when i tested the exynos variant, I did encounter lag when I was scrolling the home screen. What I mean is that it doesn't feel smooth. Also pulling out flipboard caused lag. Trying to run a couple of applications like s note. It's not major lag that will take away the whole experience. Just lag that you'll notice from time to time even if it's minor. What's your opinion on this and how do you feel about the exynos? Is it still going to be worth it sacrificing a bit of performance for cheaper price and getting it earlier. Should I wait for the snapdragon variant since it might be faster. But it's also going to be more expensive and I won't be needing LTE. I had really high hopes of this tablet too.
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I wonder if it lags even with a third party launcher like Nova Prime or Next?
I hear touch wiz bloat is very heavy indeed.
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Too many variables. How much other stuff was running in the background? Did you do all this testing after a fresh reboot? Who knows what the people before you were doing to it. And every Samsung experience running full blast does take it's toll, all those widgets updating all programs running etc. I'm just saying it's not all doom and gloom... Just tweak it.

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Too many variables. How much other stuff was running in the background? Did you do all this testing after a fresh reboot? Who knows what the people before you were doing to it. And every Samsung experience running full blast does take it's toll, all those widgets updating all programs running etc. I'm just saying it's not all doom and gloom... Just tweak it.
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With Nova Launcher, it flies.

icebergisonfire said:
With Nova Launcher, it flies.
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Even in the my magazine app? I hate the stock tw launcher, I wonder how much resources it takes up

I think early technical analysis showed that the exnyos governor was not exactly optimized. I'm sure this thing will fly with the proper rom. I rommed my note 2 and last year's 10.1 when I felt lag was hindering the experience and both were super fluid after modification. Samsung uses good parts. Tw just tends to be bloated.
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I went to BestBuy and put ios7 on it with ilauncher it was so smooth. Alsoi seem very minor lag on this device. I played why it for 30minutes and it was flying. I saw lag at first but then realized over 20 apps were in the background. Closed them all, cleared ram and it was buttery smooth. The Tech at best buy were going crazy over this thing saying it is the best tablet they have seen thus far.
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I went to BestBuy and put ios7 on it with ilauncher it was so smooth. Alsoi seem very minor lag on this device. I played why it for 30minutes and it was flying. I saw lag at first but then realized over 20 apps were in the background. Closed them all, cleared ram and it was buttery smooth. The Tech at best buy were going crazy over this thing saying it is the best tablet they have seen thus far.
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As well they should. I've always wanted a tablet but I would go into Best Buy and play around with them and just walk away saying 'nope' The specs were getting closer to what I wanted but with this, Samsung hit a home run. Pricey but you get what you pay for. :good:

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As well they should. I've always wanted a tablet but I would go into Best Buy and play around with them and just walk away saying 'nope' The specs were getting closer to what I wanted but with this, Samsung hit a home run. Pricey but you get what you pay for. :good:
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Totally agree on that. All android tablet has come so close. When I saw the 1st gen of the note 10.1 I thought it was the one for me. But with the screen resolution, it was a big let down for me. This year this is the one. Only thing that's stopping me now is the performance.
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I may not be as tech savvy as many of you, but I just got this tablet and the performance is amazing. I have 12 active apps running and I don't notice any lag navigating the menus. I've been working in dropsync and synced a whole bunch of files while messing around with it and still noticed no lag whatsoever. I did notice that it gets a bit warm on the back though.

OmarCarter said:
The Tech at best buy were going crazy over this thing saying it is the best tablet they have seen thus far.
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They probably would say that with any new device. I was at bestbuy the other day helping my sister buy a tablet and a couple of employees saw my Nvidia Shield (I was carrying it in its case) and were amazed by the device

Lol no that wasn't it, he wasn't trying to sell me anything. He was trying to find it how much I'm selling my old one for his friend.
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Sad to say I'm running into lag and random reboots. So far it has been happening while scrolling through play store. It will freeze then reboot.
I need me some root.
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Han Solo 1 said:
Sad to say I'm running into lag and random reboots. So far it has been happening while scrolling through play store. It will freeze then reboot.
I need me some root.
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Have you took the update yet? Mine doesn't have those issues
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I noticed some lag in windows transistions. So what I've done is turn on developer options and changed transition animation scale from 1x to off. Feels much faster. For example, instead of xda kind of sputtering to life when initiated, it just pops up immediately.
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richB7 said:
I noticed some lag in windows transistions. So what I've done is turn on developer options and changed transition animation scale from 1x to off. Feels much faster. For example, instead of xda kind of sputtering to life when initiated, it just pops up immediately.
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Did you make this modification on the new Note 2014....? I ask because I can not find that setting, even after doing a search....?
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Rickgsx said:
Did you make this modification on the new Note 2014....? I ask because I can not find that setting, even after doing a search....?
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got to settings->general->about device tap "build number" 7 times to unlock dev settings.

Thank you... I forgot that I had to do that for the dev setting
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Yeah as mad said
You have to enable developer
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smac7 said:
Have you took the update yet? Mine doesn't have those issues
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Yes, I did take the update. I'm going to do a factory reset and see if that works.