camera issue - Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi
There a annoying problem, whenever I click camera app it takes like ages to open almost abt 8-9 secs
So some time am not able to click imp picture
Let me know if someone has any solutions
Thanks

mihir880 said:
Hi
There a annoying problem, whenever I click camera app it takes like ages to open almost abt 8-9 secs
So some time am not able to click imp picture
Let me know if someone has any solutions
Thanks
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Well I have one depends u ll like or not
That's flashing Adam kernel and camera fix along with it. it makes the Camera open very fast and no reboot issue
However u ll loose warranty and this option is available for both i9505 / i9500
U can find the kernal under android original development
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HEY THX BRO
actually was to hoping to root the thing , but was waitting if could find some other options or some OTA fixing this issue

this is common for all S4 versions, sometimes mine even restarts the phone when opening the camera app... I guess we have to wait for OTA updates.

Jason2k13 said:
this is common for all S4 versions, sometimes mine even restarts the phone when opening the camera app... I guess we have to wait for OTA updates.
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Agree, the camera app is simply too heavy, may have to wait for OTA updates.

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[Q] Camera blacking out at every ROM ?! [No solution]

ok i had my X8 about a month ago and since then i tried every ROM that's out there literally. Recently i settled to froyobread for about 10 days and now floyo 0.25
my problem in both is the cam after taking a few shots, the camera screen black out or the cam button dies on me and i really hate it
i take a lot of pictures and i just hate it when the prefect shot gets lost because of a stupid glitch. i can give away EdgeGlow if there is a ROM that has a fully working cam with no bugs.
the reason for the thread is to ask u X8 users instead of going all over the ROMs again ( i still have them all ) to see the stable cam, Could anyone tell me what's the best ROM to take pictures with?? and please don't tell me to go back to Eclair (2.1)
thank u all
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latest outcome:
ahmedz_1991 said:
ok just to make everyone aware, the problem is persistent even in market cam apps, i tried all the above apps. i guess it's the hardest if not impossible to operate the cam blindly just by guessing parameters in custom roms; gingerbread now is a live example.
anyway i would never back to eclair so i'll have to deal with that bug for now.
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have u try minicm? i think it has a camera fix
ahmedz_1991 said:
ok i had my X8 about a month ago and since then i tried every ROM that's out there literally. Recently i settled to froyobread for about 10 days and now floyo 0.25
my problem in both is the cam after taking a few shots, the camera screen black out or the cam button dies on me and i really hate it
i take a lot of pictures and i just hate it when the prefect shot gets lost because of a stupid glitch. i can give away EdgeGlow if there is a ROM that has a fully working cam with no bugs.
the reason for the thread is to ask u X8 users instead of going all over the ROMs again ( i still have them all ) to see the stable cam, Could anyone tell me what's the best ROM to take pictures with?? and please don't tell me to go back to Eclair (2.1)
thank u all
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Hmm.. camera works perfectly for me...
Dare-Devil Inside said:
Hmm.. camera works perfectly for me...
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did u try taking like 5 pics in succession ??
for me it blacks out but after resarting the cam app it works and the same happens again
ahmedz_1991 said:
did u try taking like 5 pics in succession ??
for me it blacks out but after resarting the cam app it works and the same happens again
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More than 5, whole album actually... when my girlfriend and I are bored xD
kuyagaol said:
have u try minicm? i think it has a camera fix
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like i said i tried all the ROMs but then i wasn't testing all the things but i remember ditching minicm because the power gadget looked like it lacked some colors or scaled up. i guess it's because of the screen size difference between X8 and X10 mini. however i remember the beautiful animations especially for boxes popping up.
just plz confirm that i can take like 10 shots in succession (say with 1 sec delay) without the cam bugging on me
Forget the stock camera apps and use Camera Illusion.
It´s better, doesn´t have errors and has great effects, like negative and that stuff.
I do experienced the same thing..
try other alternative. I'm using Camera Advance Lite, it works perfect.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mnapps.cameraadvancelite
This is the same thing which happens with me. I tried using alternative camera apps like vignette but still the same problem.
After some shots, the camera just blacks out and you cannot take any pics after that until a reboot is made.
codfreak said:
Forget the stock camera apps and use Camera Illusion.
It´s better, doesn´t have errors and has great effects, like negative and that stuff.
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HaN6787 said:
try other alternative. I'm using Camera Advance Lite, it works perfect.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mnapps.cameraadvancelite
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thank u both i will try both apps now
vineet8137 said:
This is the same thing which happens with me. I tried using alternative camera apps like vignette but still the same problem.
After some shots, the camera just blacks out and you cannot take any pics after that until a reboot is made.
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anyway i have to try, i can't just give away my 3.2 MP cam
i'm having the very same problem after few shots is taken the camera just blacks out and the cam app needs to be restarted to make the camera work again and this problem was in every single custom rom i ever tried including the minicm and the froyobread i'm surprised that some of you actually DOESN'T experience this problem......
ok just to make everyone aware, the problem is persistent even in market cam apps, i tried all the above apps. i guess it's the hardest if not impossible to operate the cam blindly just by guessing parameters in custom roms; gingerbread now is a live example.
anyway i would never back to eclair so i'll have to deal with that bug for now.
ahmedz_1991 said:
ok just to make everyone aware, the problem is persistent even in market cam apps, i tried all the above apps. i guess it's the hardest if not impossible to operate the cam blindly just by guessing parameters in custom roms; gingerbread now is a live example.
anyway i would never back to eclair so i'll have to deal with that bug for now.
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i think this bug is not camera app related maybe it's a bug in the camera library....
skyboyextreme said:
i think this bug is not camera app related maybe it's a bug in the camera library....
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if it's camera library problem, anyone able to figure out what's wrong?

A minor update found...india

Today i checked and found a 8.27mb update...it says tz gona stablize thingz...i already have la5
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jai147 said:
Today i checked and found a 8.27mb update...it says tz gona stablize thingz...i already have la5
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Any idea if it does anything other than "stabilize things"?
Yea...it adds a google plus app and i think my whites r improved i guess m jus halucinating
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go for the update... its lb2.. awesome performance overall to date...
anjath said:
go for the update... its lb2.. awesome performance overall to date...
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I flashed it via Odin from LB1. But i m finding it little laggy than LB1.
(Mind u little means actually very less , i found scrolling contacts n msgs was smoother in LB1.)
Though i will be sticking with indian rom
Thanks for the info. Updating now. Will let you know if I find anything new....
performance improvement
I wonder if there are any apps (or easy way) to actually measure the performance of apps and operations on device so we can capture baseline with each update and then compare it when next update arrive. This way we can be 100% assure. It would be good to have on non-rooted device.
screen shot after updating with this new update
Attached is the screenshot of the device after update with this ...
Indian users please confirm if this my device is having the the latest update till date.
vinisini said:
Attached is the screenshot of the device after update with this ...
Indian users please confirm if this my device is having the the latest update till date.
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Yes, you have latest Official Indian firmware.
If you dont mind, may i ask what the red jet icon on status bar is for?
Oh Wow!!
The 1-2 second lag after your phone comes out of sleep mode is now gone!!!
Well done Samsung !!
Kies vs OTA?
I found the LB2 update via Kies yesterday. The initial download took around 3 minutes , the second step took over 30 minutes but did not complete .
I did an OTA update today, and the whole process was done in 10 mins.
What is the difference in the Kies update method vs OTA , why does Kies require more files to update?
Kies replaces complete firmware(abt 550MB) while OTA, just modified/added files only. Size of the OTA update depends on changes in ROM
JulyDerek said:
Oh Wow!!
The 1-2 second lag after your phone comes out of sleep mode is now gone!!!
Well done Samsung !!
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Wow, really? That is my last Galaxy Note annoyance.
Is there any other additions other than google plus ?
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will i loose root if i do OTA update?
JulyDerek said:
Oh Wow!!
The 1-2 second lag after your phone comes out of sleep mode is now gone!!!
Well done Samsung !!
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Are you sure? I got the OTA just now and I can still see the lag.
The startup is very fast in standby. Before this, after pressing home button I had wait for few seconds before the swipe to unlock screen appears. Now it is almost less than a second. Overall performance is also faster.
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Wonder why I am still seeing the lag. My device is pretty much untouched. Didn't even root yet.
EDIT:
I noticed a pattern. If I have an active download in progress (thereby having the "downloading" icon on notification bar), the wake up lag is gone. In normal conditions the lag is still there.
Similarly when the charger is plugged in, there is no lag. Once I take it out, the lag is back.
Looks like the system shouldn't be totally idle for the wakeup lag to disappear.
It is called a wipe, it clears trash from last fw and it is good. You will spent a hour or so to restore your accounts but it is worth it.
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I did wipe the cache on stock recovery but that didn't remove the lag. I don't want to wipe the data and start all over.
I just hope ICS for Note is around the corner.

Slow or reboot when opening camera apps

My I9500 running latest firmware and having this problem, whenever I open camera (either stock app or 3rd party app) it either start up normally about 2 seconds or much slower than normal (5 seconds or more) or completely reboot the device.
Anyone experiencing the same? I don't know whether this is software or hardware issue?
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same to me. after reboot i can open camera app. but next day reboot again.
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Do I9505 users have this same issue? Any expert can have a look and help us know whether this is software or hardware issue? Or is there any fix to this?
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I'm having the same camera issue too and now when i open gallery it will freeze for 3sec then reboot.
jasonjkl said:
I'm having the same camera issue too and now when i open gallery it will freeze for 3sec then reboot.
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What is your version and firmware? Did you notice this problem with the old firmware?
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Bump to see if anyone can help.
I'm currently reverting back to MDE firmware to see if this problem persists.
kennytung said:
My I9500 running latest firmware and having this problem, whenever I open camera (either stock app or 3rd party app) it either start up normally about 2 seconds or much slower than normal (5 seconds or more) or completely reboot the device.
Anyone experiencing the same? I don't know whether this is software or hardware issue?
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I have same problem , my s4 get freeze for few sec and reboot......
I have restored back to MDE firmware using odin and camera still get hanged/rebooted. I'm clueless now as this problem cannot always be reproduced hence I'm really afraid if they would agree to replace my phone... And this issue seems to be on many other people S4, it's just that they haven't encountered it yet.
Has happened to me in a couple of occasions as well!!
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Same here! It tends to happen when I use one of the animated gif modes or the Drama shot. But its irritating. Cuz I was kinda showing off my phone to an iPhoner friend when it happened for the first time. And I was like, WTF! It had to happen just now??
Mine just happen without reasons, several times a day and it tend to happen when I want to use it most lol, and when I want to replicate it in order to make a video about the issue the damn phone just keep working fine!!! Really hope any expert can have an insight about this
Trying to find a solution here using ideas. Is your sd card full of photos?
bouss said:
Trying to find a solution here using ideas. Is your sd card full of photos?
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My sd card is a class 10 32gb with barely 300 photos, but I even tried saving to internal storage, same issue. I try turn off location when taking picture, same. Try revert back to factory firmware which is MDE, same.
This issue won't happen very often but the fact that it has appeared many times when I going out and want to take a picture piss me off greatly, what is the point of a phone camera if it cannot capture the moment that I want?
My old phone (not a samsung but it does not really matter) had this reaction when reaching a bad sector on memory. Before getting sad ideas try a reset. Then if it persists head over to the customer care.
hope samsung will look seriously about this issue!!!i didnt pay premium price for this problem!
Same here tried 3 difrend firmwares
No issue on I9505 here.
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The camera firmware should be independent form the ROM firmware.
Therefore reverting to previous ROM firmware doesn't restore also previous camera firmware.
AFAIK this was the common experience with Galaxy S2 (that I had too), so it's should be the same with S4: it's not possible for the final user to separately flash a specific camera firmware.
Maybe a future ROM upgrade (which could include a new camera firmware) will solve the problems.
No problems here. Can you reproduce the problem?
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I cannot reproduce the issue every time I open the camera, but I would say if I let the phone idle for a while then open the camera then very highly it can hang and reboot, but of course this is not the only case.
But almost everyone can see that S4 camera take too long to start up, and then 1 to 2 seconds to take first focus which is very annoying and you can miss the moment, other phones are not this slow. I really hope this is firmware issue and Samsung can fix it soon, because if it is hardware related then well...
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[SOLUTION] How to fix 4.4 camera (for non-root users)

Hi everyone,
After few days of playing with the 4.4 firmware, I found out that the camera takes very long time to boot, and sometimes it says "Camera not available". But fear not, here's the solution for it, don't need to root your phone or switch back to 4.3 Jellybean.
1. Go to Settings > Apps > All.
2. Look for Camera, Camera common and Camera extension
3. Force stop and clear all the data.
That's it! You're good to go. I hope this helps a lot of people
jeff7424 said:
Hi everyone,
After few days of playing with the 4.4 firmware, I found out that the camera takes very long time to boot, and sometimes it says "Camera not available". But fear not, here's the solution for it, don't need to root your phone or switch back to 4.3 Jellybean.
1. Go to Settings > Apps > All.
2. Look for Camera, Camera common and Camera extension
3. Force stop and clear all the data.
That's it! You're good to go. I hope this helps a lot of people
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This didn't do anything but thanks. It is a bug and poor quality testing on sony's end.
ascariss said:
This didn't do anything but thanks. It is a bug and poor quality testing on sony's end.
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Why so much People have Camera Bugs? I dont have any issue regarding Camera at all and i flashed new KK some Minutes after FR Firmware came out.
Wolfbreak said:
Why so much People have Camera Bugs? I dont have any issue regarding Camera at all and i flashed new KK some Minutes after FR Firmware came out.
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same here, no bug whatsover on camera and i have done a lot, instead pictures are better on kitkat. flashed FR right after NUT rooted it.
Wolfbreak said:
Why so much People have Camera Bugs? I dont have any issue regarding Camera at all and i flashed new KK some Minutes after FR Firmware came out.
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Killer2k8 said:
same here, no bug whatsover on camera and i have done a lot, instead pictures are better on kitkat. flashed FR right after NUT rooted it.
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No idea, I updated with PC Companion and I got the camera bug, but after doing the steps I posted above it's fixed. I agree with the pictures quality improvement on KitKat.
ascariss said:
This didn't do anything but thanks. It is a bug and poor quality testing on sony's end.
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Then I don't know how to fix already. It works on mine tho. Maybe it's because of firmware update instead of clean install? Maybe clean install don't have the bugs lol.
Still no camera for me neither... Tried PCC, also tried complete wipe including boot and internal sdcard. No luck...
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jeff7424 said:
Then I don't know how to fix already. It works on mine tho. Maybe it's because of firmware update instead of clean install? Maybe clean install don't have the bugs lol.
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My camera works, but the start up time is too long, also focusing is not as fast as it used to be. I updated via pcc but in reality such problems are unacceptable for sony, with things not working for some, and working for others after updates.
Funny thing is I had the camera bug and after clearing data and etc it was Ok but I start getting the sound bug right after that weird...now I went back to 4.3 til the next update
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My problem is that the phone overheats too frequently after taking a couple of pics in the day. I never had this issue before the update. Pissed off. For the first time ever, I'm considering downgrading.
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I'm fine. Still on 4.3.
ascariss said:
This didn't do anything but thanks. It is a bug and poor quality testing on sony's end.
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Extremely disappointing considering this came much later than it should have...
I hope Xperia Z users like me, who have to wait even longer, won't face these issues..
Still no foucs
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eclyptos said:
I'm fine. Still on 4.3.
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Ah, yet another pointless reply from eclyptos
I think i dont have the Bug becouse i wiped everything SD Card, Data, System and Cache/Dalvik Cache and i didnt restore a Backup i installed everything manually again on 4.4 so i guess thats why i dont have any bug at all. I saw someone writing about false Structure on SD Card and if you restore Backups, so this might be the tricky Part where Users get the bugs from.
Wolfbreak said:
I think i dont have the Bug becouse i wiped everything SD Card, Data, System and Cache/Dalvik Cache and i didnt restore a Backup i installed everything manually again on 4.4 so i guess thats why i dont have any bug at all. I saw someone writing about false Structure on SD Card and if you restore Backups, so this might be the tricky Part where Users get the bugs from.
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True. This is how have to be done.
some issues, not so major ones though
white balance is messed up, getting a strange white light from nowhere on right side of image when in landscape.
Also, AR effect was hanging up when I clicked a photo before saving it. After the steps in this thread, that one issue is gone, but the main camera is too messed up. 4.2 was better.
till now I was against putting custom roms in my z1, but now, if a rom includes the z2 camera app in a stable config, then I am going for it.
I used the repair option, so far the camera opens normally now and no lag yet. I really don't want to reset my phone each time a new firmware comes out.

wow big lags???

plz tell me why my phone so lagggg?in note 3 it was best but in the 4 it lag like hell
i update from other country my rom to "j4" firm but still the same issue..any help here?
wipe all / factory reset and check again
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wipe all / factory reset and check again
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what do you meen wipe all in recovery i have cache wipe and data factory reset...these?????
it wont erase my firm ?
or i have other way to wipe stuff plz tell me
Something must be wrong with your phone. Rogue apps? in my own experience and also watching tons of reviews online this phone refuses to lag.
I only feel lag when turn on power saving mode and use touchwiz scroll effect
What your device chip: exynos or sd
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honhan0904 said:
I only feel lag when turn on power saving mode and use touchwiz scroll effect
What your device chip: exynos or sd
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my is snapdragon ...its crazy i read tons of review and everybody got lag i made clean install of the rom and i never had like this lag...and my phone is new from 2 days i saw 2 more phones and they the same ..same lagg
it cant be it need to be the best fuc......ing phone in the world with the best brain chip so why lag ...
any body else can maybe help me i didnt put any program on it except viber and whatsapp and facebook thats it ...and ever before i install them i hade same lag
plz help here ....
maybe my firm not good for my device ?
but i know my device is international its open to all company so its not need to be aproblem
rofl, you got some serious issues to deal with. don't know what you did but seems like you f'ed up your phone. factory reset to default everything.
Can you take a video of the lags and upload it to YouTube or a similar platform?
I'd love to see what kind of lags you get.
Is it dropping frames during animations and while scrolling through applications?
Or just delays when opening an application or the recent applications menu?
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rofl, you got some serious issues to deal with. don't know what you did but seems like you f'ed up your phone. factory reset to default everything.
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he keep making thread about how lag the phone and etc..i think he already tried to factory reset too..that's why i said to him maybe he got bad device?
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Can you take a video of the lags and upload it to YouTube or a similar platform?
I'd love to see what kind of lags you get.
Is it dropping frames during animations and while scrolling through applications?
Or just delays when opening an application or the recent applications menu?
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i agree..and i already ask him about how lag it is, and how bad..i want to see too..because he said he see in many reviews that there are lags too..but i never find one review telling lag in note4 though..
liquidz17 said:
he keep making thread about how lag the phone and etc..i think he already tried to factory reset too..that's why i said to him maybe he got bad device?
i agree..and i already ask him about how lag it is, and how bad..i want to see too..because he said he see in many reviews that there are lags too..but i never find one review telling lag in note4 though..
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Probably a troll? because I have not seen one video that showed the Note 4 lagging. And they were trying hard. i watched tons of note 4 reviews lol
boodies said:
Probably a troll? because I have not seen one video that showed the Note 4 lagging. And they were trying hard. i watched tons of note 4 reviews lol
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don't know if it's troll or not..u can see how many threads he make just to post problems with his note..battery issue, lags everywhere, how to wipe etc..
if he really had that all then maybe it's defective unit i think..he should go to samsung and ask them in there..and compare with the test unit in there..
liquidz17 said:
he keep making thread about how lag the phone and etc..i think he already tried to factory reset too..that's why i said to him maybe he got bad device?
i agree..and i already ask him about how lag it is, and how bad..i want to see too..because he said he see in many reviews that there are lags too..but i never find one review telling lag in note4 though..
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ok guys thx for helping after stop few thing like shelth and svoice etc that im not use and google search its seems good now ...
now i have a few lags in the apps like viper but im sure its from the app not from my device.
my lag was little bit from the animation when open and close it was little bit lag but its pain in the ass lollll
any way seems to be 80% good now again thx for your help guys ..if you think about anything else i will be glad to know :good:
bubu23 said:
ok guys thx for helping after stop few thing like shelth and svoice etc that im not use and google search its seems good now ...
now i have a few lags in the apps like viper but im sure its from the app not from my device.
my lag was little bit from the animation when open and close it was little bit lag but its pain in the ass lollll
any way seems to be 80% good now again thx for your help guys ..if you think about anything else i will be glad to know :good:
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well..if u think ur device was lag..try to go to samsung store and compare with the test unit in there, and if it's bad then maybe u get defective unit..just change it with new one
I've got the same feeling after switching from note 3. samsung is used to launch highgly unoptimized firmwares with new flagships. we must wait 2-3 firmwares before all things get right. maybe lollypop
Ok
So the best solution for you is exchange the new one
Maybe your note get some problem
Good luck:thumbup:
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