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I don't have a good first impression of my S6.
The stock rom eats 8G of the internal storage.
It has a terrible lag, and jitters all over the place. Even just scrolling up and down in the settings screen is laggy. The lag in Chrome gets very frustrating very quickly
Too much bloatware. A whole microsoft suite (among other things) that I will never use and cannot uninstall
Touchwiz launcher, its not really great
On the plus side
the finger scanner is good.
The screen is really nice, but I suppose rendering all those pixels is whats causing it to lag like crazy.
Pleased that samsung made a theme chooser. At last we can remove the awful default turquoise colours.
But I immediately know I'm going to have to root and put a custom rom on here to get it working to my satisfaction .... is there any ROM recommendations to remove all lags, stutters and bloatware?
Is it just me? I am surprised I don't see a ton of people complaining about this
Im on xtrestolite deo mod and have no of the problem i had with stock u could always get titanium backup and freeze all that bloat might help. I know that when i ran stock it would often run out of ram. Now i have betwewn 1 and 1.4gb free.
Wait for the Marshmallow update and judge it again then. Samsung redesigned the whole TouchWiz thing launcher, icons, performance everything. From what I read from the beta is really promising and fast.
Never saw any lag, stock or otherwise. I did occasionally have some low ram redraws on stock, but on roms those are long gone. Maybe take a look in your application manager at what's running and see if there's any unnecessary junk running that's eating your ram. Did it start or persist from any old software, or show up from new software ie updates?
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Never saw any lag, stock or otherwise. I did occasionally have some low ram redraws on stock, but on roms those are long gone. Maybe take a look in your application manager at what's running and see if there's any unnecessary junk running that's eating your ram. Did it start or persist from any old software, or show up from new software ie updates?
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Me too, no lag at all, with stock BUT... if you run MM BETA and then go back to 5.1.1 you will see a very "slow device"
This phone does lag like hell, I had one about 7 months a go and that wasn't too bad.
Picked one up last week and the difference is shocking now, have tried different launchers and no difference.
Makes me laugh how Samsung can't seem to make a phone that is smooth. I have even swapped this out for another one.
All this guff about no more lag in the press conference.
Never had any issues even before I rooted and put a stock modified rom, only thing I would have liked better is battery life, but I get a days use out of it atleast
No offense, but anyone saying the S6 doesn't lag or stutter must either not know what we're talking about or have low fps eyes ?. This phone is an absolute lagfest on stock firmware.
Try scrolling in Google+ or even Tapatalk and you'll see dropped frames all over the place.
Just about the only thing that helps is flashing a custom kernel and enabling enforced mode (try Unikernel for size). That makes a world of difference.
yes I have the s6 since 4 months now. before I had a oneplus one. this was fast. but the s6 is very Laggy. however it has the best benchmarks but the Ui it's definitely Laggy on every edge. so I had a lot of other devices before. for me the most qualcom devices are running smoother. but there are some other positive aspects on the s6
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st0kes said:
I don't have a good first impression of my S6.
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It has a terrible lag, and jitters all over the place. Even just scrolling up and down in the settings screen is laggy. The lag in Chrome gets very frustrating very quickly
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Lag?? U sure, mate? I'm using the S6 for more than a few months now and there is no lag in the UI. Maybe some minor frame drops occasionally (I'm sensitive to those , most people don't notice them), but no lag. It's not normal.
Mine is stock with some native apps disabled. Also I jave turned off the smart manager protection. And I can compare it with Nexus 5. I'v had many Android devices and I know what I'm talking about.
st0kes said:
I don't have a good first impression of my S6.
The stock rom eats 8G of the internal storage.
It has a terrible lag, and jitters all over the place. Even just scrolling up and down in the settings screen is laggy. The lag in Chrome gets very frustrating very quickly
Too much bloatware. A whole microsoft suite (among other things) that I will never use and cannot uninstall
Touchwiz launcher, its not really great
On the plus side
the finger scanner is good.
The screen is really nice, but I suppose rendering all those pixels is whats causing it to lag like crazy.
Pleased that samsung made a theme chooser. At last we can remove the awful default turquoise colours.
But I immediately know I'm going to have to root and put a custom rom on here to get it working to my satisfaction .... is there any ROM recommendations to remove all lags, stutters and bloatware?
Is it just me? I am surprised I don't see a ton of people complaining about this
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buy another phone. it's that simple.
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Lag?? U sure, mate? I'm using the S6 for more than a few months now and there is no lag in the UI. Maybe some minor frame drops occasionally (I'm sensitive to those , most people don't notice them), but no lag. It's not normal.
Mine is stock with some native apps disabled. Also I jave turned off the smart manager protection. And I can compare it with Nexus 5. I'v had many Android devices and I know what I'm talking about.
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I've also owned countless Android devices (including Nexus). Most recently I came from an OPO and a Z3C before the S6. GUI lag/stutter is a pet peeve of mine with Android, and while the OPO was almost perfect after some optimization and the Z3C turned out OK, the S6 is frankly a joke in comparison. Especially considering its theoretically superior performance.
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buy another phone. it's that simple.
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Do you always give up so easily?
I think I'll try the Samsung marshmallow firmware, cheers for the tip @Riardon ... if its just the same I'll try some custom roms.
I'm kinda glad others confirm the lag/stuttering and its not just me.
For comparison, the phone I am replacing is a S5 running Exodus rom, there is absolutely zero lag or frames dropped in any scrolling or animations. It really makes the S6 look bad. Not what I expected as the S5 is like 18 months old now.
Here is a quick video I made for the non-believers out there. S6 is on the left. It doesn't matter that the video is not in focus (because of my finger getting in the way), the point I am trying to make is scrolling should be smooth on a new, expensive Android phone, I am astonished at how bad it is on the S6. Other places in the phone are also bad, Chrome is the worst though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKos5oFPyo
Keep in mind, however, if you do root you will most likely trip the knox counter on your device. This could cause some problems with warranty, and you would not be able to use Samsung pay on the device. If these things don't matter to you. Rooting is okay.
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Here is a quick video I made for the non-believers out there. S6 is on the left. It doesn't matter that the video is not in focus (because of my finger getting in the way), the point I am trying to make is scrolling should be smooth on a new, expensive Android phone, I am astonished at how bad it is on the S6. Other places in the phone are also bad, Chrome is the worst though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKos5oFPyo
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Keep in mind, however, if you do root you will most likely trip the knox counter on your device. This could cause some problems with warranty, and you would not be able to use Samsung pay on the device. If these things don't matter to you. Rooting is okay.
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Rooting/flashing ROMs/kernels can be done without tripping knox by using the engineering bootloader. You'll find great tutorials here on xda.
My S6 has never lagged, not even on stock. I found it to be smooth in generally and I am someone who looks at framedrops and any other possible slowdowns.
Also guys don't forget to check your apps. It may sound weird but some well known apps causing some extra lag on top of what TouchWiz has. For example I found out that SwiftKey on my devices creates some extra lag and it's slower than other keyboards. Some apps are just not optimized well and this the reason some guys see worse lags and stutters than others. This one is tricky to determine those apps but you have to experiment. TouchWiz as it is now yes it's laggy but not worse than older TouchWin on S5 for example. Still needs work but Marshmallow is promising. Wait until then guys you may surprised pleasantly. Unfortunately some apps on Android running like sh***t and we blame the phone sometimes. And remember to always keep your phone at minimal. Disable all extra stuff you don't use and use only the apps you actually use often or truly need. This is for all phones not only for this one.
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Can't access your video for some reason...
Rooting/flashing ROMs/kernels can be done without tripping knox by using the engineering bootloader. You'll find great tutorials here on xda.
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If I understand correctly using the engineering bootloader results in the loss of use of the fingerprint scanner.
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If I understand correctly using the engineering bootloader results in the loss of use of the fingerprint scanner.
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Correct. So worth it imho though.
Hi my friends, well... I write this thread because I want to know if you are in the same situation. 2 weaks ago my cellphone becomes laggy and I don't know why, it was fast and when I felt that it turned slow I did a factory reset and it didn't works... If someone have a solution if will very grateful
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Hi my friends, well... I write this thread because I want to know if you are in the same situation. 2 weaks ago my cellphone becomes laggy and I don't know why, it was fast and when I felt that it turned slow I did a factory reset and it didn't works... If someone have a solution if will very grateful
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Mine did the same thing after the last update, I think android just sucks at not getting laggy, not sure why google wont take this stuff seriously.
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Mine did the same thing after the last update, I think android just sucks at not getting laggy, not sure why google wont take this stuff seriously.
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That's not a Google problem. There are hundreds of possibilities why the phone becomes slow. Without providing any useful information, help impossible. So better to write some facts about the phone model, bootloader status, and what rom and other things you flashed. Then we can have a look.
I just turned on Battery Saver & Lag Is Gone my phone is flying. I have no idea why (I know it turns some sync stuff). I just find the speed change interesting. I am running Stock 6.0.1 Marshmallow. On a G Plus XT1644.
Try it out Settings>Battery>3 Dots Top Right>Battery Saver> Turn On.
Anyone got any ideas?
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Yes! same as me , but I didn't update anything, just like that boom is really slow, I tried everything, clean storage, wipe cache, wipe dalvik, delete some apps, check wakelocks, I don't know what to do, don't want to factory reset the whole thing!
To be honest, I never found this phone to be really lagging. I always owned budget phones and this has been the best one yet.
Yea the heating issue in sd 617 can't be appreciated much though.
Got serious lag issues with my phone. At times it is zipping fast.. and st times it makes me wait for couple of minutes just to dial a number. Tried everything under the sun
Hello,
I'm noticing I'm getting a lot of input lag. Scrolling or swiping feels off. Using custom launcher like Nova, scrolling in app drawer is horrible so it is unusable. First few seconds screen is reacting fine and following my finger just right, but after that there is horrible delay between them. Same thing on Instagram app and some other apps etc... What can I do? Im not using LastPass or something similar.
Probably need to wipe data/cache for the launcher and apps that are not playing well or may be factory reset if above doesn't help.
It doesn't help. Even after factory reset lag is there.
These kind of lag and software problems I had in the era of the LG G2. It is very sad to see that LG didn't optimize their software after many years.
Honestly, I don't notice that. I don't think it's typical.
There are many complaints, sure, but lag on input isn't one.
I hate giving this advice, but maybe factory reset? That really isn't normal at all.
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These kind of lag and software problems I had in the era of the LG G2. It is very sad to see that LG didn't optimize their software after many years.
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Yes, I have it too. Cant do anything about it, problem increases with custom launcher, there is perceptible lag when clicking and app opening.
It might be fixed after the Oreo update.
Yeah we all have the same problem. Someone notice it, someone don't. I think they won't fix the problems, because the same problems are there few years ago and today is still the same.
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Yeah we all have the same problem. Someone notice it, someone don't.
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Uh, no. What you complained about was pretty serious:
Using custom launcher like Nova, scrolling in app drawer is horrible so it is unusable. First few seconds screen is reacting fine and following my finger just right, but after that there is horrible delay between them. Same thing on Instagram app and some other apps etc...
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While it is true that some of us are more sensitive to this sort of issue, if it's really that bad, there would be nobody NOT noticing it. I am not terribly picky about some kinds of lag, but any kind of scrolling issues drive me crazy and I can't complain about the G6 overall (some apps have weird behavior regardless of the device).
My first thought when I read this description was that it must be a bad app that is sucking up resources. But you said it continued after a factory reset, which would eliminate that. Or, did you mean "after a factory reset and setting everything back up the way I had it"?
Where you live, can you go play with one in a retail store and see if it's the same?
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Uh, no. What you complained about was pretty serious:
While it is true that some of us are more sensitive to this sort of issue, if it's really that bad, there would be nobody NOT noticing it. I am not terribly picky about some kinds of lag, but any kind of scrolling issues drive me crazy and I can't complain about the G6 overall (some apps have weird behavior regardless of the device).
My first thought when I read this description was that it must be a bad app that is sucking up resources. But you said it continued after a factory reset, which would eliminate that. Or, did you mean "after a factory reset and setting everything back up the way I had it"?
Where you live, can you go play with one in a retail store and see if it's the same?
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Yes, after factory reset and without setting things up input lag is still there. I had LG phones in the past and all of them have this kind of lag and touch latency issues in custom apps and launchers. So now I know that is the LGs thing. I was sure they were fixed the problems after few long years so that's why I go for their new flagship - LG G6. Unfortunately I was wrong that things were fixed and now the past continues to live.
Settings/Developer Options/ tick on "Force GPU Rendering" should make the beast smoother/snappier. If root available try L/Speed/ Entropy/ fstrim apps found on Play Store. Do install a custom kernel and play with Kernel Adiutor.
Oh... After toggling 'Disable HW Overlays' under developer options all the problems have disappeared. But this is not permanent fix unfortunately. I don't know what the LG thinks and why the LG thinks and why this problem exists for few long years on their devices.
How could LG be responsible for custom 3rd party apps?
I had lag on Google play games app too some times ago on my G6 and an app update for the games app fixed it, not LG!
Krysdyan said:
How could LG be responsible for custom 3rd party apps?
I had lag on Google play games app too some times ago on my G6 and an app update for the games app fixed it, not LG!
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What are you talking about? I have the same lag and stutter in LG based apps like LG stock launcher and all other apps where scrolling and swiping is necessary.
No such thing is happening on the phones of other manufacturers like Samsung, HTC etc.
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What are you talking about? I have the same lag and stutter in LG based apps like LG stock launcher and all other apps where scrolling and swiping is necessary.
No such thing is happening on the phones of other manufacturers like Samsung, HTC etc.
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Then you should try to fix it with a Software repair on LG Bridge because it will flash the whole firmware again, better than factory reset, because if an faulty OTA caused it, you can't fix it with factory reset.
And please don't mention Samsung and say that there are no lag issues...
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Then you should try to fix it with a Software repair on LG Bridge because it will flash the whole firmware again, better than factory reset, because if an faulty OTA caused it, you can't fix it with factory reset.
And please don't mention Samsung and say that there are no lag issues...
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Okay, that will fix all the problems on the brand new device which came with latest software preinstalled.
This
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt1TwhqrEAI
Same thing on my US997 model. This is absolutely horrible. I went from my honor 8 (broke the screen good) to an LG G6 expecting a device I could find love in. I'm not enjoying this phone very much.
Beyond oddball touch input lags making Gboard keyboard useless on occasion, the overall software experience on this phone is borderline stupid. I don't know where people can even have the room to complain about huawei's EMUI interface at all in comparison to LG's factory firmware.
My work provided phone S8 is a wondrous device all around compared to my new personal G6. This is upsetting.
I'll gladly repair my Honor 8 and go back to that and get rid of this G6 if oreo updates don't improve things. The input lags bugs, inability to disable camera audio, horrible front facing camera, inabilty to link notification&ringtone volume, oddball notification sound setting issues, terrible screen-grab funtions, slow fingerprint reader, lack of notification led (should have known this before purchase, oops), cheap ass rotating mass vibrator, annoying as hell content sharing panel that shifts options RIGHT as you click on an app, etc... This phone is annoying. I loved my honor 8, EMUI rocks.
Rant over. lolz
I don't know if it really works, but I used a touchscreen calibration app on my T-Mo G6 and have pretty much no issues. It was slightly laggy before I used the app.
Never had such lag.
I have an unlocked s8 G950U (US snapdragon) model and it's laughably slow. For instance I can have an app open and the phone will grind to a halt when a call comes in unable to accept or reject it for 5 seconds or so. It runs fine but the responsiveness is not there.
Typically I would take a phone flash a custom rom on it and tweak the kernel to get it to work right. It's my understanding that the locked bootloader will greatly limit what I can do in this regard, so the best I can do is flash the same factory rom again.
Does anyone have any recommendations for this issue? Am I expecting too much?
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I have an unlocked s8 G950U (US snapdragon) model and it's laughably slow. For instance I can have an app open and the phone will grind to a halt when a call comes in unable to accept or reject it for 5 seconds or so. It runs fine but the responsiveness is not there.
Typically I would take a phone flash a custom rom on it and tweak the kernel to get it to work right. It's my understanding that the locked bootloader will greatly limit what I can do in this regard, so the best I can do is flash the same factory rom again.
Does anyone have any recommendations for this issue? Am I expecting too much?
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Mine runs unbelievably fast I even have it underclocked some bassicly stock rooted and debloated
only lag I ever see is opening the notif bar
no such issue here for me, one of the fastest and smoothest phones i've ever held in my hand, would recommend a factory reset or at least cache clearing from recovery, it helps to do it from time to time
Gasser.Atef said:
no such issue here for me, one of the fastest and smoothest phones i've ever held in my hand, would recommend a factory reset or at least cache clearing from recovery, it helps to do it from time to time
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I'm sure that would help but the phone is 2 months old. Factory resets every two months would be horrid, at least we have an SD card slot so I can keep all my documents there during the reset..
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I'm sure that would help but the phone is 2 months old. Factory resets every two months would be horrid, at least we have an SD card slot so I can keep all my documents there during the reset..
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if the phone is only 2 months old then there is something wrong, my first factory reset was after 8 months of purchasing the device and it wasn't out of lag or it not being responsive, maybe you should try a factory reset or maybe a different firmware ( an official one ) to see if the problem is solved even after 2 months of using
and you don't have to necessary lose your data, with smart switch you can backup everything, except apps data itself, but pretty much everything else from call logs to apps, photos and music on both phone and SD card can be backed up and restored in minutes
No such issues here. The phone is smooth as melted butter. Am on Oreo beta. SE 9.0 is much better than SE 8
try a settings reset in settings, might help, together with clearing cache.
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no such issue here for me, one of the fastest and smoothest phones i've ever held in my hand, would recommend a factory reset or at least cache clearing from recovery, it helps to do it from time to time
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Than hold one oneplus5T haha kills the s8
It's pretty sad that the user who paid close to a thousand dollars has to resort to wiping their data, because Samsung is so incompetent at creating software that stays smooth after use...
My device has never been wiped and I got it on the 20th of April last year, battery life is excellent as always, but app opening animations are 20 fps and the UI stutters when doing normal things like switching between apps. It'll be interesting to see what the Oreo / SE9.0 update does for smoothness, I might even think of doing a factory reset if performance doesn't improve after the update.
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Than hold one oneplus5T haha kills the s8
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i didn't really like it. its not a matter of just how smooth and fast the device runs, but for me as for overall features, s8 is the best phone in the market right now
Hi all,
My phone performance is terrible, everything runs slow and lagging since I took the update. Phone performance was very good before. Anyone else experience this and have any ideas to bring performance back to par?
Thanks for any help.
Factory reset or full wipe after updating to a new firmware. Also, do not restore Google apps, just start from a scratch.
I also have serious lag, it feels like a budget phone. I've had this phone since it launched, and installed every update without precaution. This is the first time experiencing these issues.
Frame rate is terrible, especially while scrolling. Delays in pressing buttons or launching apps have grown from milliseconds to sometimes two or three seconds. No other problems(aside from poor design choices). It feels like aggressive power throttling, not memory issues.
As soon as I saw that so much manual power management has been replaced by a "learning" system, I'm skeptical that the usual fixes will do anything for my problems, especially considering there is no other malfunction. Anyone else?
G950U
bigalbklyn said:
Hi all,
My phone performance is terrible, everything runs slow and lagging since I took the update. Phone performance was very good before. Anyone else experience this and have any ideas to bring performance back to par?
Thanks for any help.
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Samsung Galaxy s8 SM-G950W. Yes. Ever since the update, my Samsung is losing files., running slow and unable to use previously used apps. Substranum, fonts etc.
It's Samsung way of saying - "Buy galaxy S10"
I didn't fell any difference at all in performance.
Hansoliv said:
It's Samsung way of saying - "Buy galaxy S10"
I didn't fell any difference at all in performance.
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Well, that's what I was waiting to hear. If ppl aren't universally having the issue, then a factory reset may cure the problem. I'll give it a try soon.
Yes i just got bad performance after installing pie (custom rom, so i always factory reset or it wont work) but yeah after 14 days my phone start to slowing down like old smartphone and the apps is not starting correctly (e.g i must start magisk manually or the root wont work (the app cant detect if phone is rooted even when magisk hide is off)).
I try the LightROM and ALEXIS and both have this problem (performance way worse on lightrom). I know this isnt their fault but the samsung fault (maybe because its early relase? Or...).
Note : performance is normal in the first day, but after 14-30 days the phone start to acting weirdly (the apps behave weirdly) dunno why.
Btw i use SM-G950FD
After restarting about 5 times, then manually clearing cache partition, I was able to get smooth performance. Unfortunately, I still have to restart at least once a day to prevent lagging animation. This is with light usage: streaming, facebook, email.
I turned on "reduce animations" in advanced features, and set the animation scales to 1.5 with dev options. This seems to help prolong smooth operation, but I still have to restart daily. Next step is factory reset, I have a lot to backup...
fresh install thru odin and start all over again is really good solution. at the beginning i also experiencing lag
Mine has an issue of having the fingerprint not working after it was changed. I have to do one of the following:
1. Restart and boot via safe mode then if it works, reboot again
2. Restore Settings from synced backup
3. Reset Settings
So much of a hassle.... I am thinking of rooting this soon.
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I didn't fell any difference at all in performance.
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My company bought Samsung J4plus on good deal from Three, has super sensitive reception, my own S8 only get EDGE or worse, J4 has 4G all over!!
anyone know if s9/S10 that good??
bigalbklyn said:
Hi all,
My phone performance is terrible, everything runs slow and lagging since I took the update. Phone performance was very good before. Anyone else experience this and have any ideas to bring performance back to par?
Thanks for any help.
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Had the same problem so flashed official firmware (for my carrier, downloaded from sammobile) with Odin. This part can be done without of rooting your phone.
Do this first (back up your data before as clear flash will delete everything), and test after if it works well. If not, root it (https://forum.xda-developers.com/sa...w-to/guide-root-install-twrp-samsung-t3747535) and install adaway from xda labs.
If you root the phone or install TWRP, e-fuse will break and you cannot go back after that. Warranty will be void and the Samsung fit app won't work anymore.
Fortunately, there are workarounds on a rooted phone (https://tinyurl.com/yy37gnwv) so that is not a big deal, at least for me.
Not sure when you root it if wave pay services will work so do some research first.
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fresh install thru odin and start all over again is really good solution. at the beginning i also experiencing lag
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Has your lag subsided after time? Mine appears after a night's sleep. It never fails: Restart in the morning, smooth scrolling all day. Next morning, laggy, stuttering scrolling until I restart again. I've uninstalled all unused apps and left power mode on high performance. No change. As soon as I wake up, animation lags like a budget phone. Everything else is reliable, just not the animation.
Of course, I don't actually know what's going on, but I'm willing to bet that this new power management system that we can't control is to blame. If I have to go through all the odin, etc steps, I may just roll back to oreo. Pie is prettier, but I want my smooth operation back.
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My company bought Samsung J4plus on good deal from Three, has super sensitive reception, my own S8 only get EDGE or worse, J4 has 4G all over!!
anyone know if s9/S10 that good??
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S10e gets similar reception to my A8(2018). When I got the A8 I had a S8 before that, and i don't remember there being any difference in signal. I live in poor signal area, so if a phone had bad signal, I'd probably remember because I owuldn't have any signal at all.
This is really quite unacceptable. I took the OTA update and the lagging began. I've never had an issue with an OTA update. I've never done a factory reset after an OTA update either. Flashing custom ROM is different but this is from Samsung...
Does anyone have a solution that doesn't involve daily reboots or a factory reset? I just find that really inconvenient.
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This is really quite unacceptable. I took the OTA update and the lagging began. I've never had an issue with an OTA update. I've never done a factory reset after an OTA update either. Flashing custom ROM is different but this is from Samsung...
Does anyone have a solution that doesn't involve daily reboots or a factory reset? I just find that really inconvenient.
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Yes, I agree. It's hard to know at whom who to point the finger. Google, Samsung, or both. Regardless, it's very disappointing, and hurts my impression of both companies.
I'm currently allowing the phone to run for 7 days to see if the root method listed above by robyos may be feasible for my tmo s8.
If manually restarting is the only hurdle for you, it can now be set to restart automatically (I guess they anticipated this?) Settings > device care > three dots > auto restart.
It feels like a duct-tape band-aid, but it's there. After my 7 day test, I'll probably give this auto-restart a try. However, I'm concerned about the terribly annoying tmo jingle at each restart.
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Yes, I agree. It's hard to know at whom who to point the finger. Google, Samsung, or both. Regardless, it's very disappointing, and hurts my impression of both companies.
I'm currently allowing the phone to run for 7 days to see if the root method listed above by robyos may be feasible for my tmo s8.
If manually restarting is the only hurdle for you, it can now be set to restart automatically (I guess they anticipated this?) Settings > device care > three dots > auto restart.
It feels like a duct-tape band-aid, but it's there. After my 7 day test, I'll probably give this auto-restart a try. However, I'm concerned about the terribly annoying tmo jingle at each restart.
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I'm thinking the problem may be googles not Samsung's...I had a OnePlus 5 for almost 2 years. At some point after the pie update it would stutter while scrolling or during animations intermittently. Even a factory reset didn't fix it. The phone was still fast but it was aesthetically annoying seeing the stuttering.
I drown the phone in the ocean on vacation this month and had to replace it so I got a used s8. I haven't had the same issue with scrolling but I've only had it for a couple weeks so far on a fresh wipe. It had some "normal" Samsung lag that the OnePlus didn't have while opening apps and it doesn't keep nearly as much in memory (4gb vs 8 GB RAM). But I'm still thinking the problem may be with pie itself since people were complaining about stuttering on both Samsung and OnePlus phones.
Hopefully my s8 is not affected and it's only certain ones experience it.
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totally not satisfied with the Pie update, I wish I did not upgrade my fast S8.....
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350Rocket said:
I'm thinking the problem may be googles not Samsung's...I had a OnePlus 5 for almost 2 years. At some point after the pie update it would stutter while scrolling or during animations intermittently. Even a factory reset didn't fix it. The phone was still fast but it was aesthetically annoying seeing the stuttering.
I drown the phone in the ocean on vacation this month and had to replace it so I got a used s8. I haven't had the same issue with scrolling but I've only had it for a couple weeks so far on a fresh wipe. It had some "normal" Samsung lag that the OnePlus didn't have while opening apps and it doesn't keep nearly as much in memory (4gb vs 8 GB RAM). But I'm still thinking the problem may be with pie itself since people were complaining about stuttering on both Samsung and OnePlus phones.
Hopefully my s8 is not affected and it's only certain ones experience it.
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Wow! It's sad to hear an 8gb phone would still have the same issue. I wonder if this has to do with power management. Perhaps it's squeezing a tiny percentage of battery life out of saving some frames. It drives me crazy and gives me a headache. I wish they'd provide a simple switch for whatever this is.
This os feels like they ventured into breaking what works in an endless quest to fix what wasn't broken. Perhaps some team of programmers is celebrating minute improvements, but it's coming at the expense of the consumer, who never signed up to be the guinea pig. Each update seems to remove or break basic reliability and functionality that we paid for. I feel like I paid a premium price to become a software tester.
So reboots don't seem to fix the lag I'm experiencing when opening and closing certain apps. This phone was plenty fast before for me. Other issues are present now too. Auto adaptive display brightness doesn't work as well. I also really think it's sheet that you can't disable GPS and have the battery saving mode anymore! WTF Samsung.