I've owned the HTC Incredible S two years ago and now have had my Nexus 4 for a year. Both phones were stock and smooth. After a while, swiping through homescreens (no matter what launcher), opening/closing apps got a little slower (but the actual running of intense apps/games do not get slower), so I did a factory reset. It got much faster again, but was just that tiny bit slower than new. It slowly slowed down again. I then turned to custom ROMs like CM/PA and it made the phone much faster, but still not as fast as a new phone. Different ROMs still could not reach a new phone's buttery smoothness.
So I'm wondering, does this happen to all phones? Do they all get slower over time? Just a note, I'm extremely sensitive to stuttering on phones, I can tell when a phone is slower when other people can't.
So I'm wondering, does this happen to all phones? Do they all get slower over time? Just a note, I'm extremely sensitive to stuttering on phones, I can tell when a phone is slower when other people can't.