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[Q] Web browser lag

Surprisingly dissapointed with browsing speed.
Coming from an LG G2 which was insantaneous in loading pages, my note 4 lags chronically.
This is observed in every browser I've tried.
It should be noted that the pages which the Note 4 loads, have significantly more and larger advertisements.
Symptoms:
1. 2-5 seconds longer in loading pages when compared to the LG G2.
2. Momentary freeze when swipe to scroll.
3. Noticeable jump when scrolling - every time with each swipe.
Has anyone experienced similar issue or able to offer any insight towards resolving?
Your input would be greatly appreciated!

Specify wifi or mobile data

Brava27 said:
Specify wifi or mobile data
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WIFI although havent been able to compare mobile data browsing with the G2.

wolgizee said:
Surprisingly dissapointed with browsing speed.
Coming from an LG G2 which was insantaneous in loading pages, my note 4 lags chronically.
This is observed in every browser I've tried.
It should be noted that the pages which the Note 4 loads, have significantly more and larger advertisements.
Symptoms:
1. 2-5 seconds longer in loading pages when compared to the LG G2.
2. Momentary freeze when swipe to scroll.
3. Noticeable jump when scrolling - every time with each swipe.
Has anyone experienced similar issue or able to offer any insight towards resolving?
Your input would be greatly appreciated!
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I found u Dave muahahahahaha

Same issues here, stuttering, and frame skipping during scroll on chrome, its terrible ANYONE can help?

Download the chrome support for samsung at the playstore and then turn off the option in S-voice wherein you can activate it in any screen by saying "hi galaxy"

drmodify said:
Download the chrome support for samsung at the playstore and then turn off the option in S-voice wherein you can activate it in any screen by saying "hi galaxy"
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I can't download it, its gone. Please share the APK if you can!

I have the same issue and reverted to the stock default browser and it seems the smoothest for me. I had the Samsung support apk installed which did help Chrome a bit but still not as good as stock.

rickydenim said:
I have the same issue and reverted to the stock default browser and it seems the smoothest for me. I had the Samsung support apk installed which did help Chrome a bit but still not as good as stock.
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Can you please share the APK?

I think that the biggest problem is that most web pages are 75% ads, and 25% content that you want.
Web designers are lazy, and they just throw every single ad they can find on there, and they make a mess of things. It is really annoying when you just want to read something and have to go through 14 ads and commercials to read what you went there for.
I think that this is the modern day equivalent of the pop-up. Most have those blocked pretty well, so now all those annoying popups are just integrated into the page itself and it really bogs things down. And I think that in their greedy zeal to force these ads down our throats, they make them less effective because we just learn to tune them out and become numb to them...
If it was an ad or two on a page, I might see it and check it out. WHen it is 9 or 10 I get annoyed and just start flicking past them to get what I want, or I give up and try another page altogether...

It will help a lot if you get rid of the ads. I am using ABP to block all ads easily when in wifi. no need for root.
if you got root adaway is the way to go.
chrome samsung spport library apk:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5vavpnd2zmzlc8i/AACJcPUfLN2NyI_kVgUtm_goa?dl=0
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SquireSCA said:
I think that the biggest problem is that most web pages are 75% ads, and 25% content that you want.
Web designers are lazy, and they just throw every single ad they can find on there, and they make a mess of things. It is really annoying when you just want to read something and have to go through 14 ads and commercials to read what you went there for.
I think that this is the modern day equivalent of the pop-up. Most have those blocked pretty well, so now all those annoying popups are just integrated into the page itself and it really bogs things down. And I think that in their greedy zeal to force these ads down our throats, they make them less effective because we just learn to tune them out and become numb to them...
If it was an ad or two on a page, I might see it and check it out. WHen it is 9 or 10 I get annoyed and just start flicking past them to get what I want, or I give up and try another page altogether...
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No, its definitely Samsung issue, on my LG G2 it flied trough the pages, no stutter at all, but it was on ART, ART is totally broken on Touchwiz...

dazed1 said:
I can't download it, its gone. Please share the APK if you can!
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It should be there as long as you are using a samsung phone. Anyway try this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chrome.deviceextras.samsung

drmodify said:
It should be there as long as you are using a samsung phone. Anyway try this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chrome.deviceextras.samsung
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Тhanks, i tried it, no difference, same frame skipping.......is present.

dazed1 said:
Тhanks, i tried it, no difference, same frame skipping.......is present.
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Are you rooted? And have xposed installed? Maybe its in one of those plugins for chrome. Mine is working fantastic. Try clearing cache and dalvik and reboot. If all else fails use another browser

drmodify said:
Are you rooted? And have xposed installed? Maybe its in one of those plugins for chrome. Mine is working fantastic. Try clearing cache and dalvik and reboot. If all else fails use another browser
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No root

worth a try
dazed1 said:
No root
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enter this in the chrome bar: chrome://flags
Then look for "Maximum tiles for interest area"
and change to 512. This allocates more ram.
You can play with the other settings there as well and reset incase things get effed up :good:

drmodify said:
enter this in the chrome bar: chrome://flags
Then look for "Maximum tiles for interest area"
and change to 512. This allocates more ram.
You can play with the other settings there as well and reset incase things get effed up :good:
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Already tried, this does not improve the scrolling performance at all, thanks anyway

I tried on the Nexus 5 my friend has it, not much of an improvement, guess its Chrome.

dazed1 said:
Already tried, this does not improve the scrolling performance at all, thanks anyway
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Alright this is the final solutions I have found. If it wont work for you then it's the end of the world...
Option one: 1) install samsung support
2) disable javascript and restart chrome
If you need javascript enabled keep it enabled and make sure samsung support is installed
1) enter chrome://flags
2) look for "Enable Experimental JavaScript" restart and reply here for feedback...
Also don't forget to enable the 512 hack as well

Help! Notification Access turns off for many apps

I have a number of apps that I give access to Notifications. (Settings > Security > Notification Access). Apps like Google Wear are pretty useless without Notification Access.
For some odd reason all of these apps will lose their check mark and no longer have access to notifications. Makes my Moto 360 a dead weight on my arm. It's not hard to turn notification back on, I just have to go into settings and check mark it. It's that I have no idea that it's turned off until I start missing important notifications on my watch. It's a real pain.
There seems to be no reason for them to become unchecked, they just do. A reboot doesn't cause this. Seems to happen about once a day.
How can I make sure that all of these apps (7 of them) keep their access to notifications?

Nobody else have this issue?

TabGuy said:
Nobody else have this issue?
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Same issue here on Note 3 (Lollipop). Drives me crazy

Turist said:
Same issue here on Note 3 (Lollipop). Drives me crazy
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I did a factory reset and the problem went away.

TabGuy said:
I did a factory reset and the problem went away.
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Thanks for feedback. I thought about it but hoped to find some other solution.

Am also facing the same issue Note 3 (Sm-N900) running Lollipop 5.0. Every after a while, all check marks are removed and only left on GlanceviewMk, i disabled it but it hasn't fixed the problem. Help Please.

masaichris said:
Am also facing the same issue Note 3 (Sm-N900) running Lollipop 5.0. Every after a while, all check marks are removed and only left on GlanceviewMk, i disabled it but it hasn't fixed the problem. Help Please.
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Me too...
Samsung S4 (i9505) with Albe95 LolliROM v1.0.
After a reboot only GlanceviewMk i selected. I also have Apex Notifier, ExDialer & Light Flow on but these three are disable at every reboot... On 4.4.2 no problem..
Thanks,
Marco

Lyan said:
Me too...
Samsung S4 (i9505) with Albe95 LolliROM v1.0.
After a reboot only GlanceviewMk i selected. I also have Apex Notifier, ExDialer & Light Flow on but these three are disable at every reboot... On 4.4.2 no problem..
Thanks,
Marco
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masaichris said:
Am also facing the same issue Note 3 (Sm-N900) running Lollipop 5.0. Every after a while, all check marks are removed and only left on GlanceviewMk, i disabled it but it hasn't fixed the problem. Help Please.
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Turist said:
Thanks for feedback. I thought about it but hoped to find some other solution.
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Turist said:
Same issue here on Note 3 (Lollipop). Drives me crazy
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TabGuy said:
Nobody else have this issue?
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TabGuy said:
I have a number of apps that I give access to Notifications. (Settings > Security > Notification Access). Apps like Google Wear are pretty useless without Notification Access.
For some odd reason all of these apps will lose their check mark and no longer have access to notifications. Makes my Moto 360 a dead weight on my arm. It's not hard to turn notification back on, I just have to go into settings and check mark it. It's that I have no idea that it's turned off until I start missing important notifications on my watch. It's a real pain.
There seems to be no reason for them to become unchecked, they just do. A reboot doesn't cause this. Seems to happen about once a day.
How can I make sure that all of these apps (7 of them) keep their access to notifications?
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I had this too, and it seems to be fixed now.
Just disable (freeze) glance view mk with titanium backup or any other app. And please let me know if it works for you too

Yes it works!
But I don't exactly know what I've disabled...
What it was for?

Lyan said:
Yes it works!
But I don't exactly know what I've disabled...
What it was for?
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I thought that it's something related to Ambient display, but it seems that it's working fine, and Quick Glance is not working. Now i'm pretty sure it's Quick Glance
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Lyan said:
Yes it works!
But I don't exactly know what I've disabled...
What it was for?
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I thought that it's something related to Ambient display, but it seems that it's working fine, and Quick Glance is not working. Now i'm pretty sure it's Quick Glance

Same problem here
Hello, I have the same problem here with Galaxy Note 3 in Lollipop. Everything keeps getting unchecked in Notification Access. I have an Android Wear watch so it's even more annoying, since I stop receiving notifications on my watch.
Any solution to this that does not involve rooting? I did a hard reset (2, actually) but the problem persists. I have a long trip soon and would like my phone to be as stable as possible since I will be depending on it for guides, GPS, etc.
Thanks!

Notification when I press Power Button

Hello ...
I have the Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016) with Android 6.0.1 from Saturday (NOT rooted ... yet). After a lot of hours searching and setup I have this "problem":
When I press the PowerButton for 2-3 seconds to show the options: Reboot/ShutDown/SafeMode it sounds the Messages notification !! How can I disable this?
Thanks in advance.

I still cannot disable it (without reset the phone)
I wonder if this notification is by default ....???
Thanks

zavag said:
I still cannot disable it (without reset the phone)
I wonder if this notification is by default ....???
Thanks
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Dunno if you can remove it without root, but you can do it with root. You find system sounds at /system/media/audio/ui. There you should find the sound file regarding power menu, then delete it and reboot and that's it.

@zavag
I try to turn it on to reproduce your problem but In my case, I can not even find out how I can turn it on.
Can you tell me...
How you activated it?
On which build are you?
@Henkate
I think it would be rather embarrassing for Samsung if you can not even personalize a notification tone without major changes to the system.
By the way, even if I do not actually think of TouchWiz. For me it's just ugly and overbloat!

I really don't know how it activated. The phone is new and ... you know ... I was searching a lot of settings in order to setup as I like. I googled it ... I found some infos but it didn't work.
On the other hand I don't want to reset (and most I don't want to root it from now) because I spent a lot of hours to set it up.
bronko3010 said:
@zavag
I try to turn it on to reproduce your problem but In my case, I can not even find out how I can turn it on.
Can you tell me...
How you activated it?
On which build are you?
@Henkate
I think it would be rather embarrassing for Samsung if you can not even personalize a notification tone without major changes to the system.
By the way, even if I do not actually think of TouchWiz. For me it's just ugly and overbloat!
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Know what you mean! I think if there is really no other way you are at minimum able to backup your settings in almost any app.
Maybe you like to inform about adb based backup solutions like declared here:
https://www.droidwiki.de/wiki/Backup/Ohne_Root
I also found a tool called Ultimate Backup on XDA:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1844032
If you don't have access to a Linux or at least Windoof computer you can maybe search for how to use adb through androids buit in Linux command shell. Don't know if there is a workaround.
But in my opinion it is already poor from Samsung if one must operate such an effort in order to turn off a notification!
zavag said:
I really don't know how it activated. The phone is new and ... you know ... I was searching a lot of settings in order to setup as I like. I googled it ... I found some infos but it didn't work.
On the other hand I don't want to reset (and most I don't want to root it from now) because I spnt a lot of hours to set it up.
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zavag said:
Hello ...
I have the Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016) with Android 6.0.1 from Saturday (NOT rooted ... yet). After a lot of hours searching and setup I have this "problem":
When I press the PowerButton for 2-3 seconds to show the options: Reboot/ShutDown/SafeMode it sounds the Messages notification !! How can I disable this?
Thanks in advance.
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It's related to some accesibility services. Try to disable them in settings!

MaDaLiNoSt said:
It's related to some accesibility services. Try to disable them in settings!
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I found this while searching internet for other phones. But ... I think that is general infos and no specific....I couldn't disable it.

MaDaLiNoSt said:
It's related to some accesibility services. Try to disable them in settings!
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You are right!
Settings => Accessibility => Vision => Accessibility Shortcut
Was On and I changed it to OFF
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zavag said:
You are right!
Settings => Accessibility => Vision => Accessibility Shortcut
Was On and I changed it to OFF
Sent from my GT-N5120 using XDA Free mobile app
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I am happy that I helped you.

How to stop ActivityManager killing apps due to "high power cost"???

By now you may have heard about Axon 7 killing music playing app issue, if you haven't experienced it yourself already. For me I'm having a similar or at least related issue. The phone would kill my game when I turn off and on screen. After some investigation, below is my observation
1. Doesn't happen all the time. After a fresh reboot, no killing for a while... but after some time using the phone, it starts to happen
2. Not app-specific: After playing a game heavily for a while, the killing starts... only for that specific game. If I play a different game, then only that new game gets killed.
This have driven me kinda crazy. A look at adb logs reveals this:
12-22 12:45:34.229 I/ActivityManager( 1752): Killing 23881:jp.co.happyelements.toto/u0a122 (adj 0): excessive high power cost :jp.co.happyelements.toto
What the actual f***??? Why would ZTE kill my "excessive high power cost" process *after* I turn on the screen (and not when I turn off screen, which was 5 seconds earlier)??? Has nobody in ZTE thought about that apps that has "high power cost" may not be actually "excessive" but totally within reasons and fall into the category of normal every day use?
And no amount of changing the native "power saving" options stopped this behavior. Back in the days I remember there was some root/xposed module that would whitelist apps from being killed by the OS but I couldn't remember the name. So now I have to ask help on how to deal with this idiocy.
Edit: My apologies... I just noticed I posted in the wrong section... mods please move the thread to Q&A section if possible. Thanks a lot.

is there seriously no solution?
This is intolerable

Turn off smart power lol. Not rocket science my friends

icenight89 said:
Turn off smart power lol. Not rocket science my friends
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I did. Didn't help.
If it was that easy, then I wouldne be here asking about it would I?

Yep, have the same problem after trying the same things. Several apps (2 of which I use for monitoring blood sugar levels) will randomly stop updating until either re-launched or the phone is rebooted. I have disabled all power manager options to no avail. Whatever power management system ZTE has implemented, it's FAR too aggressive.
Disclaimer - I haven't pulled logcats, but your description of the problem matches mine exactly. Here's hoping for a fix in Nougat and/or a custom ROM, otherwise I'm moving to a different phone. The A7 has great hardware but the stock software is a bloated mess.

B27 does not have this issue (which is why I downgraded to it). Might be a solution for you until the next upgrade releases.

whoiswes said:
Yep, have the same problem after trying the same things. Several apps (2 of which I use for monitoring blood sugar levels) will randomly stop updating until either re-launched or the phone is rebooted. I have disabled all power manager options to no avail. Whatever power management system ZTE has implemented, it's FAR too aggressive.
Disclaimer - I haven't pulled logcats, but your description of the problem matches mine exactly. Here's hoping for a fix in Nougat and/or a custom ROM, otherwise I'm moving to a different phone. The A7 has great hardware but the stock software is a bloated mess.
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@whoiswes If you are talking about the xdrip app. I too want this app to work with this phone. I tried CM13 and had the app work for hours then at night it stopped working. I only tried it for one night so didn't try different settings. At least this is a positive sign once CM13 becomes more stable or CM14 is released. I heard the app won't work with B27 either.

Found a solution, though it needs root
Code:
pm disable com.zte.powersavemode
then reboot
This totally disables the power saving menu though

phailyoor said:
Found a solution, though it needs root
then reboot
This totally disables the power saving menu though
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Can you freeze it with TB?

Actually no that didnt help just made it take longer

I have the same issue, ram management is too aggressive.

phailyoor said:
Found a solution, though it needs root
then reboot
This totally disables the power saving menu though
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Didn't work

:crying::crying::crying:https://forum.xda-developers.com/axon-7/development/xposed-kill-zte-killer-t3532298

phailyoor said:
:crying::crying::crying:https://forum.xda-developers.com/axon-7/development/xposed-kill-zte-killer-t3532298
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Did this work?

borijess said:
Did this work?
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No because it has nothing to do with powermanager.

doyou37 said:
No because it has nothing to do with powermanager.
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Then why was it posts here?

borijess said:
Then why was it posts here?
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People are desperate

borijess said:
Did this work?
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Yes
doyou37 said:
No because it has nothing to do with powermanager.
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Lol did you even look at it?
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People are desperate
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I made this xposed module specifically to fix the problem described in OP. If you have the exact problem, including the logcat message, then the module should fix it.
If you dont have the exact problem, including the logcat mesage, then go ****post in another thread.

My solution is to whitelist all apps in:
settings -> energy management -> app energy management -> option button (upper right) -> app protection list -> option button -> set all to off
But the problem is that this setting resets everytime you install/delete an app
Edit: Ok i just tried out manually setting all apps to "off", now it doesn't reset the apps when installing an app but the new app ist automatically allowed to be cleaned. So you still have to disallow cleaning for each installed app manually.

Just an FYI, I updated to the Cyanogenmod/Lineage 13 Beta by UDev and one of my problem apps has been running for 18 hours without a single hiccup. Trying the second problem app later today. Not a solution for this problem but from my perspective it definitely pinpoints Power Manager as the culprit.
@borijess - yeah, Nightwatch and xDrip are the 2 apps that I've had trouble with, and so far Nightwatch is working great on CM13 (1228 build).

Nova 3i Bugs

Hi all!
I am a Samsung user genuinely. But since my last phone broke down, it broke my budget too.
Got Nova and here are some bugs.
1) Bluetooth speaker issue. the sound is way late than the video. (Edit: Fixed by going in developer options and changing "Bluetooth audio codec")
2) Camera is not having any kind of stabilization.
3) It hangs like hell and u r not left with any option. Not even restart.
4) Not the fastest 4gb ram phone.
5) The interface of the phone is laggy af ( can be fixed by installing 3rd party launchers).
6) Processor temps are never lower than 60 degree C. Idk if its fine or not but antutu temp sensor always shows it in red text.
These are the ones I could find... tell if u have any.. or at least have found fix for any of them.
BTW...
Today got an update of 288MB which is currently downloading. Hope it fixes some bugs.

Xial Xahab said:
Hi all!
I am a Samsung user genuinely. But since my last phone broke down, it broke my budget too.
Got Nova and here are some bugs.
1) Bluetooth speaker issue. the sound is way late than the video.
2) Camera is not having any kind of stabilization.
3) It hangs like hell and u r not left with any option. Not even restart.
4) Not the fastest 4gb ram phone.
5) The interface of the phone is laggy af ( can be fixed by installing 3rd party launchers).
6) Processor temps are never lower than 60 degree C. Idk if its fine or not but antutu temp sensor always shows it in red text.
These are the ones I could find... tell if u have any.. or at least have found fix for any of them.
BTW...
Today got an update of 288MB which is currently downloading. Hope it fixes some bugs.
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nova 3 or nova 3i?

jioleight said:
nova 3 or nova 3i?
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Its nova 3i... Ofc its mentioned in the post too

Xial Xahab said:
3) It hangs like hell and u r not left with any option. Not even restart.
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You can press power for 10 seconds for force restart right? It's it not working?

Supersonic27543 said:
You can press power for 10 seconds for force restart right? It's it not working?
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When i was stuck at it... I had to wait for the battery to die.... It wasn't working at that time..... For me anyways

Xial Xahab said:
4) Not the fastest 4gb ram phone.
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Take a look at screenshot

hinxnz said:
Take a look at screenshot
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Sold that **** out .... So... Am feeling blessed now?

Xial Xahab said:
Sold that **** out .... So... Am feeling blessed now
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Lol I kinda like mine, except for a few things I guess but I got it for a good deal, well I reckon anyway - $380 NZD.
What did you replace it with?

Hello! These issues, especially the Camera app being buggy, are common.
The performance issue, please go to settings > Battery > Battery Usage and see which apps are using a lot of background usage, then click on the app and there's written 'App Launch', click on that and toggle off the 'Manage Automatically' and also toggle off all of the toggled on things to prevent the app from consuming background usage.
On this device you can also disable/uninstall many apps that if u dont need, please do so, here are some list of apps you can disable which would improve performance:
1. Gmail (replace with another mail client like FairEmail)
2. Youtube (replace with another application like NewPipe)
3. You can also disable playstore and the main Google app.
4. You can also disable Google Play Services, this consumes a lot of background usage, more than HMS! You can replace playstore with F-Droid and you can get FOSS apps.
5. Replace Facebook with Frost for Facebook, or disable background access to it from the previous performance issue guide.
I am not getting performance issue on mine, so make sure u check which apps are using background/battery usage a lot so you'd find out.