Why S3 so slow?

**trunkmonkey1972** · 08-07-2012, 09:56 PM

Originally Posted by funkylogik

tbh that shouldnt slow down/speed up the phone in any way man. glad its workin tho

Yes, exactly. That's why I was surprised. But it was unmistakably more responsive to everything. Moved all camera and music storage freeing up over half the internal storage. It reminded me of before/after defragmenting a hd that is way fragmented. And I know that's not the same mechanical seek time issue on a SS drive, but it was like that. Oh well, no complaints, I'll take it.

S3 on Sprint - 16gb pebble blue + 64

**Rev2010** · 08-07-2012, 10:16 PM

Originally Posted by pcguys

I'm running with both set to off.
If I notice problems, I'll try the .5 as suggested.

No problems with that, I've been set to off for like a month now with no issues whatsoever. I personally prefer instant response over nice animated fade in's/out's and all that jazz

Rev.

**junior2006** · 08-08-2012, 02:01 AM

according to my experience, the slow reason may be caused by many factors, but the most possible problem is digitizer screen or the phone system, you should check the phone in the two sides.

**pcguys** · 08-08-2012, 04:49 AM

+1 for no animation.

I now retract my "slow comment" - feels zippier !!!

Mike

**alan sh** · 08-08-2012, 06:17 AM

My Quadrant results: SIII international no rooting, rebooted with just Wifi turned on:
Total 3469. CPU 8476, Mem 2697, I/O 3893, 2D 654, 3D 1624

How does that compare with others? Seems low to me (from previous post in this thread)

EDIT - Turned animation off: Got this:

Total 3851. CPU 9053, Mem 2985, I/O 5213, 2D 667, 3D 1339

Large difference is CPU and I/O. Weird.

Alan

**Tkbredx** · 08-08-2012, 08:45 AM

This may seem like a stupid question but you're remembering to clear the ram right? Did you turn the home lag off (where you can double tap and svoice won't pop up)?

**funkylogik** · 08-08-2012, 08:53 AM

i get this quadrant on stock international, unmodified alan

total 5324

**Rev2010** · 08-08-2012, 09:01 AM

Damn, I get like 4740 or something about there with a fresh boot and nothing else really running outside of system stuff (ie. no push email or widgets or anything). Still a great score nonetheless.

Rev.

**funkylogik** · 08-08-2012, 09:02 AM

yeah the dual core is a bit lower on quadrant mate but prob beats the quad core on other tests with its 2gb ram

**javier180** · 08-08-2012, 01:32 PM

I have a quick question. How do you overclock the CPU?

**javier180** · 08-08-2012, 01:33 PM

Originally Posted by Tkbredx

This may seem like a stupid question but you're remembering to clear the ram right? Did you turn the home lag off (where you can double tap and svoice won't pop up)?

How do you turn the home lag off?

**Tkbredx** · 08-08-2012, 01:48 PM

Originally Posted by javier180

How do you turn the home lag off?

click svoice then press the menu button. Go to the settings. I'm not sure what is called but you should see something like double tap home button. Uncheck it.now your phone go to the home screen faster

**funkylogik** · 08-08-2012, 01:53 PM

Originally Posted by javier180

I have a quick question. How do you overclock the CPU?

u have to root the phone and flash a rom with a "kernal" that can be clocked. i had a zte blade, £100 phone (about $150?) which was really crap out of the box but in like 10mins u could carrier unlock it for free, root and custom rom it without a computer, then overclock it to 729mh and it felt like a phone 3times the price. legendary phone

**funkylogik** · 08-08-2012, 01:54 PM

Originally Posted by Tkbredx

click svoice then press the menu button. Go to the settings. I'm not sure what is called but you should see something like double tap home button. Uncheck it.now your phone go to the home screen faster

yeah thats a +1 tip if u dont use svoice

**alan sh** · 08-08-2012, 03:12 PM

Originally Posted by funkylogik

i get this quadrant on stock international, unmodified alan

total 5324

How did you get that? As I said, I rebooted mine which should have cleared all the ram, stray programs etc. I don't have svoice enabled.

Mine is a 1Gb international one and I have a 32gb SD card installed.

Alan

**funkylogik** · 08-08-2012, 03:39 PM

ive got the gt-i9300 16gb version, completely un-modded and 8gb sd card man. can u do a screenshot? urs should defo beat the htc one x on quadrant. u dont have power saving turned on do u? if not then id look in to it coz it should be a lot faster mate

**alan sh** · 08-09-2012, 06:26 AM

I turned off power saving, BT and Wifi and reran the test. It now reads:
Total: 5276; CPU 12840; Mem 4664; I/O 6007; 2D 1000; 3D 1871.

It now beats the HTC One X.

**funkylogik** · 08-09-2012, 11:05 AM

thats more like it man

power saving mode underclocs the cpu

**badelhas** · 08-09-2012, 11:52 AM

Originally Posted by funkylogik

finaly got latest update and everything is faster

You got the update with Kies, wired to your pc?

**funkylogik** · 08-09-2012, 11:53 AM

Originally Posted by badelhas

You got the update with Kies, wired to your pc?

nah it came through OTA mate. im in UK though

**cbeattie411** · 09-21-2012, 05:02 AM

what's "rooted"?

**trunkmonkey1972** · 09-21-2012, 06:09 AM

Originally Posted by cbeattie411

what's "rooted"?

My understanding is that a rooted phone has had all of the manufacturer and carrier software stripped away leaving the user with the hardware architecture and Android OS. It allows way more customization and direct system control. The basic firmware is replaced by a custom 3rd party ROM.

S3 on Sprint - 16gb pebble blue + 64

**badelhas** · 09-21-2012, 06:29 AM

No. That's when you already installed a custom rom. To do that you need to root the phone. Rooting gives you access to settings you don't have with the official rom, including installing a new custom one and installing apps that change certain settings in your os.

**trunkmonkey1972** · 09-21-2012, 07:18 AM

Originally Posted by badelhas

No. That's when you already installed a custom rom. To do that you need to root the phone.

Rooting is all about getting your choice of custom firmware from a website to your PC to your phone memory where you can then boot the phone with it and replace stock firmware by flashing the new one to internal ROM. I suppose you could argue that installing the ROM isn't part of rooting, however I look at it as the final step. Otherwise the stock ROM is still in place and your phone system software hasn't changed.

S3 on Sprint - 16gb pebble blue + 64

**jay28w** · 09-21-2012, 07:46 AM

Originally Posted by pcguys

Maybe my expectations were set too high with all the hype, but gmail still takes a second to load (even if I load it, press home, then gmail again).

I figured if it's all in memory, it should be closer to instant, rather than one full second to load.

Would 4 cores help?

Will JellyBean help?

Don't get me wrong: I love my S3's, but I certainly wouldn't mind more speed switching, launching, etc. (I don't play games so I no basis to just processor performance other than task launching and switching)

Mike

I think it's the gmail update process, not the phone. I maintain about 12 email addresses on my phone, including an Exchange account, numerous Yahoo addresses w/Yahoo app, 4 gmail addresses and even some outlook.com addresses. I have played extensively with the email clients, including reducing the gmail addresses to 1, and every single time the worst performing email client is gmail.

There are other things you can do to speed up the response time for basic navigating and switching apps, etc. These are well documented.