*Guys I felt the phone was buttery smooth, but on certain occasions I.e. lock screen ripple transition into opening your home screen and toggling between messages in the messaging app, the transition would s stutter just a tiny bit. Problem is solved if you go into:1. Settings-> developer options-> and Window animation scale and Transition Animation scale -> change both of those to 0.5x (or 0 for both, for instant reactions). The phone now runs like the beast it was born to be. Try it and let make know your thoughts. Please hit the thanks button if this helps you. Regards, Nik
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*Guys I felt the phone was buttery smooth, but on certain occasions I.e. lock screen ripple transition into opening your home screen and toggling between messages in the messaging app, the transition would s stutter just a tiny bit. Problem is solved if you go into:1. Settings-> developer options-> and Window animation scale and Transition Animation scale -> change both of those to .5xThe phone now runs like the beast it was born to be. Try it and let make know your thoughts. Regards, Nik
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Yup thnx....not its zippy than before
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Thanks for the tip. it definitely made a differnce. I went one step further, and turned off animations completely and it seems even better.
Great! !! Smooth as silk
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Just tried this and unless I'm losing my mind, sure enough it did make the phone more responsive and animations faster. Just hope battery doesn't suffer as a result!
Yep, things do seem to be smoother, thanks OP!
Holy crap, it was like the animations where holding it back.. The multitasking menu appear instantly now! This should be default, thanks!
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This needs to go into a sticky on best GS3 tips.
Excellent suggestion. Thanks.
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Awesome suggestion, thanks!!! Works like a charm.
I hate animations. Since S1, S2 and now S3 the first thing I do is switch them off completely.
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After further testing, anyone else find the battery slightly worse with 0 5x compared to the default 1.0x? Changed on both transitions and window that is.
Oy downside to this unless I'm imagining it.
Just checked and mine were both set at .5 by default. (Orange UK)
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Nice find....thanks.
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Thnx for the tip dude. Hope doesn't affect batt life.
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After further testing, anyone else find the battery slightly worse with 0 5x compared to the default 1.0x? Changed on both transitions and window that is.
Oy downside to this unless I'm imagining it.
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You are imagining it, how could LESS animations cause MORE battery drain.
In theory it could even save battery.
(Something around 0.00000000001%)
Less animations, less to be processed and rendered etc. + Snappier user experience = full of win.
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You are imagining it, how could LESS animations cause MORE battery drain.
In theory it could even save battery.
(Something around 0.00000000001%)
Less animations, less to be processed and rendered etc. + Snappier user experience = full of win.
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0.5x = faster animations and not lesser animations, so it may affect the battery. but who cares, it should be negligble. all we need is a snappier phone at the end of the day.:good:
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0.5x = faster animations and not lesser animations, so it may affect the battery. but who cares, it should be negligble. all we need is a snappier phone at the end of the day.:good:
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Change them to 5x and then tell me that 0.5x would use more battery than that.
Seriously.
Faster (less elaborate) animation means less battery.....
By your logic no animations would be a battery hog.
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Change them to 5x and then tell me that 0.5x would use more battery than that.
Seriously.
Faster (less elaborate) animation means less battery.....
By your logic no animations would be a battery hog.
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as i said i dont mind battery life as changing the animation scale is not going to have any big effect on battery life. turning off the animation will surely improve the battery life but without animation the mobile will look worse.
you are wrong about faster animations = lesser battery.(may be im wrong here too) if 1x animation is done at 0.5x time it takes higher resources. the animation is same but the time is reduced by half.
btw we can discuss things with some cool head here
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nice find mate
thx for this hint :good:
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Does anyone actually like the CRT on mod (where the screen looks like a CRT monitor when turned on). CleanGB ROM has this mod, and it seems to make there be a noticeable delay when turning the screen on. I was wondering what other people's opinions were that had this mod (whether in CleanGB or other ROMs). I've noticed several other people complaining about the screen on lag time in the CleanGB thread, and I was wondering what the general consensus was.
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Does anyone actually like the CRT on mod (where the screen looks like a CRT monitor when turned on). CleanGB ROM has this mod, and it seems to make there be a noticeable delay when turning the screen on. I was wondering what other people's opinions were that had this mod (whether in CleanGB or other ROMs). I've noticed several other people complaining about the screen on lag time in the CleanGB thread, and I was wondering what the general consensus was.
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I don't get any screen lag when turning the screen on.
It may not be related but I do notice that I am getting worse battery life ever since I flashed the mod. Probably just my imagination.
It took me a little while to get used to with CRT on. Might be nice to have the option to flash it individually.
The scrollable status bar seems like way too many unnecessary options IMHO.
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It may not be related but I do notice that I am getting worse battery life ever since I flashed the mod. Probably just my imagination.
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Try wiping battery stats. After I flashed the rom my battery went down 25% over a 5 minute period but after I wiped battery stats that doesn't happen anymore. It seemed like more of a reporting artifact than battery power not being availiable.
I personally love crt on.
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I dont like it personally
I wish there's a way to remove it
Dislike
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I like it
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I can take it or leave it. /shrug
I agree it lags, I don't like it.
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Love it
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No opinion one way or the other.
I'd prefer to not have it, but I wouldn't say I hate it.
CRT animation really completed GB for me.
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Love it, and no lag whatsoever.
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Is there a CWM flashable CRT only mod? I only want to add the CRT animation to my stock (rooted) EI22 but everything I find in themes includes additional changes. Maybe I'm not searching hard enough...
Edit: Nevermind, using Google pointed me to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1339848 which works great.
I'm with Worldwide on this one.
love it so much
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Love it, and no lag whatsoever.
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Same here!
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its great. No lag on legendary
Edit: must amend. I was using Samarai 2.0.8 and it was great. Just trying out 3.2.0 and wake lag is unbareable. Press button one one thousand two screen comes on. Going back to older samauri
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its neat but gets old
I like how it looks, but when I hit the wake button, it doesn't wake right up. Its not a lag per-say, but the phone would wake up -animation faster. I realize its a small amount, but noticeable.
Recently, I've noticed that the CRT-off animation is faster than it normally was. Has anyone else experienced this? I haven't messed with the animation speeds.
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It seems just fine, but I can't really say if it was slower. Do you mean faster compared to another phone?
Well it only appears to be doing part of the notification. I'll do a factory reset and see if that fixes it.
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Completely from memory, it does look a little bit quicker than on previous devices.
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Completely from memory, it does look a little bit quicker than on previous devices.
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I'm guessing I'm not the only one then.
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Oh yeah. It is like twice the speed it was on my HD2. It is nice, but if it was a bit 'slower' it would be more noticeable / showy . hmm. Maybe that is why they changed it.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe slower would have made it look worse because IPS screens don't turn off pixels when displaying the color black.
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I was messing around with the power saving mode just now. I realized that when I tick-on "Screen power saving" I can notice a huge slow down on the whole ui. Now remember everything else is ticked-on including the cpu limiter. But with "Screen power saving" turned off, I couldn't tell the difference between power saving mode and non-power saving mode. Which leads me to conclude the "Screen power saving" is doing some major cpu calculation which might actually not be so great as it defeats the purpose of power saving.
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I was messing around with the power saving mode just now. I realized that when I tick-on "Screen power saving" I can notice a huge slow down on the whole ui. Now remember everything else is ticked-on including the cpu limiter. But with "Screen power saving" turned off, I couldn't tell the difference between power saving mode and non-power saving mode. Which leads me to conclude the "Screen power saving" is doing some major cpu calculation which might actually not be so great as it defeats the purpose of power saving.
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Even I noticed lag while powersaving is on .......
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That power saving mode and blocking mode are the stupidest two things that they pushed on android.. I never used thise things. Also, that screen brightness adjustment in notification menu is so annoying,and I never touched it. And whyv they added those extra toggles in notification menu next to sound,wifi ,mobile data,etc so now everything slides from side to side and I always press something that I don't want. Or maybe there is a possibility to turn those off and I can't find how to..
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defenderko said:
That power saving mode and blocking mode are the stupidest two things that they pushed on android.. I never used thise things. Also, that screen brightness adjustment in notification menu is so annoying,and I never touched it. And whyv they added those extra toggles in notification menu next to sound,wifi ,mobile data,etc so now everything slides from side to side and I always press something that I don't want. Or maybe there is a possibility to turn those off and I can't find how to..
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Toggles can be customized even on stock.
And power saving mode really does save battery, and its customizable.
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adytum said:
Toggles can be customized even on stock.
And power saving mode really does save battery, and its customizable.
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It saves battery but it destroys performance. It is acting like galaxy ace when on power saving mode . Please show me how to customise the toggles, because I can't find out how after 10 days of looking into the settings. Can I move the brightness adjuster too? Thanks
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defenderko said:
It saves battery but it destroys performance. It is acting like galaxy ace when on power saving mode . Please show me how to customise the toggles, because I can't find out how after 10 days of looking into the settings. Can I move the brightness adjuster too? Thanks
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Dear ...go to settings ...display...notification panel...and yes u can remove the brightness adjuster too from thos setings itself
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manish21nov said:
Dear ...go to settings ...display...notification panel...and yes u can remove the brightness adjuster too from thos setings itself
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Maybe I am not seeing it...
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defenderko said:
Maybe I am not seeing it...
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Gues ur on 4.1.1 .......the options are available in 4.1.2
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manish21nov said:
Gues ur on 4.1.1 .......the options are available in 4.1.2
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Yap, I am on 4.1.1 ! Thanks
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Yap, I am on 4.1.1 ! Thanks
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Sorry, didn't realize it is a 4.1.2 feature!
But I don't understand how you can say that power saving mode destroys performance, I hardly notice any difference in normal usage. It's basically just the cpu locked at 1 ghz.
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The screen power saving mode does something with the screen's refresh rate, if you have it on you will notice the screen flickering in a very fast rate, so the slow down in the UI is probably because of the screen is skipping every other frame making it seem like it slowed down when it is not
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The screen power saving mode does something with the screen's refresh rate, if you have it on you will notice the screen flickering in a very fast rate, so the slow down in the UI is probably because of the screen is skipping every other frame making it seem like it slowed down when it is not
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Does make sense, but would that really save a lot of Battery? I think the sweet spot now is to just tick on CPU Limiter while leaving everything off. [Obviously people who use CPU apps don't really need this feature as they can modify the CPU even more] Too bad I really don't use this feature much as of yet but will report back if I find anything new. I'll try to use the phone for a couple days with just the CPU Limiter ticked on this weekend.
If you want to save power on your Note 2, you might use SetCPU, Screen Filter & Juice Defender Plus, these apps help me a lot to save battery.
Because it limits your screens fps to like 40 or 30
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Because it limits your screens fps to like 40 or 30
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I strongly believe it is lower then 30FPS.. Perhaps below 25fps.
HOWEVER if you uncheck Screen Power Saving, the FPS returns back to normal. I usually use Power Saving mode with only Power savings on, this way performance is not affected.
What's interesting is that I've been testing power save mode on some pretty high end games like modern combat 4 and nfs most wanted and you only lose 4-8 fps on average, but it still remains over 30 fps.
This is with all the options ticked in power save mode. For gaming while off the charger, it would help extend the battery quite a bit.
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EP2008 said:
What's interesting is that I've been testing power save mode on some pretty high end games like modern combat 4 and nfs most wanted and you only lose 4-8 fps on average, but it still remains over 30 fps.
This is with all the options ticked in power save mode. For gaming while off the charger, it would help extend the battery quite a bit.
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If that is true, I hardly find a reason to NOT use power savings until more graphics demanding games come out. I'll also test it out on Deadzone.
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If that is true, I hardly find a reason to NOT use power savings until more graphics demanding games come out. I'll also test it out on Deadzone.
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Well those extra fps could come in handy, but if power save gives extra playing time then it might be worth the slight loss.
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EP2008 said:
What's interesting is that I've been testing power save mode on some pretty high end games like modern combat 4 and nfs most wanted and you only lose 4-8 fps on average, but it still remains over 30 fps.
This is with all the options ticked in power save mode. For gaming while off the charger, it would help extend the battery quite a bit.
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Exactly my experience too.
Also, it's not the fps getting capped, lower fps is just a result of capped cpu frequency, but the refresh rate is capped, which could lead to a certain amount of flickering even though I cannot see it. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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So I rooted and froze all I felt comfortable with (almost all of the bloat and non used) and seemed to have a few more moments of jitters. I thought it was my fast moving in and out of apps, or my games causing the hardware to stumble, but now think its totally hardware.
My question is, after switching to force GPU settings in developer options, has anyone noticed it stopping? Or at least a marked decrease in episodes?
Disable HW overlays and force GPU rendering of 2d being the two options I'm using. I just started last night and already I'm noticing things seem much snappier and no stutters.
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So I rooted and froze all I felt comfortable with (almost all of the bloat and non used) and seemed to have a few more moments of jitters. I thought it was my fast moving in and out of apps, or my games causing the hardware to stumble, but now think its totally hardware.
My question is, after switching to force GPU settings in developer options, has anyone noticed it stopping? Or at least a marked decrease in episodes?
Disable HW overlays and force GPU rendering of 2d being the two options I'm using. I just started last night and already I'm noticing things seem much snappier and no stutters.
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I did not have force GPU selected. I just turned it on and will see if it makes a difference.
scottjb said:
I did not have force GPU selected. I just turned it on and will see if it makes a difference.
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Yeah I noticed a jitter now and again, seems it was more placebo than cure. The setting did make the phone a little faster in response though.
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8on3s said:
Yeah I noticed a jitter now and again, seems it was more placebo than cure. The setting did make the phone a little faster in response though.
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Been running it with the force GPU on. I still see the problem but I don't think I see it as much.
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I think its definitely a hardware issue. Seems like most people report it after they flash a new ROM, stock based or not.
i kinda like the jitters
makes me think im having a flashback
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i kinda like the jitters
makes me think im having a flashback
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Lol well that's one way to look at it.
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viper74656 said:
I think its definitely a hardware issue. Seems like most people report it after they flash a new ROM, stock based or not.
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Guessing so then, well screen shakes aren't enough to hate this phone anyways, it's too smooth.
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8on3s said:
Lol well that's one way to look at it.
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honestly, i thought it was me until i saw someone mention it on here, like an eye twitch from trying to focus (i have double vision)
uthkuknwme said:
honestly, i thought it was me until i saw someone mention it on here, like an eye twitch from trying to focus (i have double vision)
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Oh, that doesn't sound like a fun situation. Man the worst situation I had regarding any eye twitching, I was working swing for a few months
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Oh, that doesn't sound like a fun situation. Man the worst situation I had regarding any eye twitching, I was working swing for a few months
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i just have prizims in my glasses, but sometimes when they get tired my vision splits and i have to reposition them. i wish i could wear contacts, but i bet contacts with prizims would be huge
uthkuknwme said:
i just have prizims in my glasses, but sometimes when they get tired my vision splits and i have to reposition them. i wish i could wear contacts, but i bet contacts with prizims would be huge
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And uncomfortable I'm sure. I can't stand wearing my novelty lenses for Halloween for more than a few hours, lol, I know not the same but the best I have to compare to.
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How is the lag and smooth scrolling speed on the phone? Is there any lag that anyone notices? Do the menus and websites scroll really smoothly like the iPhone 5S?
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I don't don't have an iPhone but seams pretty fast with Chrome
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I have only been using s5 in ART mode and its butter smooth everywhere. But sometimes the phone doesn't come out of sleep (the screen remains dark/off) only the capacitive buttons light up and i have to toggle the power button several times for it to work (no power off required). another issue i face is that the camera takes a solid 5 seconds or more to start up from lock screen. May be i should switch back to DALVIK.
Tw launcher lag a bit. To overcome this u should enabled developer option and set each animation by 0.5x. I'm using nova launcher and it's fly
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I remember having this conversation about the GS 2 years ago. Back then it was hard to argue that the phone had lagging issues. And today coming from an s2 the only lag I'm experiencing is in my own mental processing power trying to keep up with this phone
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And I use holo launcher. Its always been good to me.
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Yes there is lag. Especially when comparing to New modern phones like the HTC One M8.
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Let's be serious once and for all.
TouchWiz will ALWAYS be slower than stock Android, so please stop asking if the S5, S6, S7 lag.
Don't expect TouchWiz to be as fast! Ever! That simple.
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Yes there is lag. Especially when comparing to New modern phones like the HTC One M8.
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How is the lag compared to the m8?
I've noticed lag on the s5 while sifting through the camera settings during the camera mode. I think the scrolling on the s5 seems to be a little smoother compared to the m8 based on my testing both phones at a store, but I could be wrong. I also think the iPhone is still somewhat smoother than both phones. I'm hoping for find an android that beats out the iPhone in terms of lag and smooth scrolling.
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I do use Nova but generally the phone feels like it's finally shaken off some of the slow S4 shackles.
My experience so far is that it is a big improvement over the S4. Bone stock so far.
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How is the lag compared to the m8?
I've noticed lag on the s5 while sifting through the camera settings during the camera mode. I think the scrolling on the s5 seems to be a little smoother compared to the m8 based on my testing both phones at a store, but I could be wrong. I also think the iPhone is still somewhat smoother than both phones. I'm hoping for find an android that beats out the iPhone in terms of lag and smooth scrolling.
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If you look on YouTube, there's a video comparison of the lag. The S5 loses every time, but it's microseconds, nothing major.
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If you look on YouTube, there's a video comparison of the lag. The S5 loses every time, but it's microseconds, nothing major.
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So it is microseconds but you still notice it? O.O