I was seriously thinking about factory resetting my S4... it's suddenly slow as molasses... everything lags big time, app performance, screen transitions, app switching... it's really become awful... and I've been using Nova since the beginning. Clogged is a great way of putting it Diane... the phones arteries definitely seem clogged. I have a question though... the 4.4 update is a few weeks away if I believe the carrier so I am wondering what effect factory resetting has on software updates... if I wait until 4.4, and then do a factory reset... will 4.4 still be there or will it bring it back to an earlier version ? My tablet is still too new to experience any clogging but it wouldn't surprise me if it happens in a few months... might just be a TouchWiz thing. My question is pertinent here as 4.4 should also be around the corner for Note 10.1 users. I think I remember reading somewhere on XDA that it is actually a good thing to do a factory reset after a major software upgrade, but I don't remember where I read it and if it's accurate or just some poster's personal opinion.
All good questions. For me, my s4 is fine. I really don't do near as much I that as I do on the Note. I did have a weird experience with the last big update on s4. it totally overwrote all my home screens back to default. no one else seemed to have this and to this day I have no idea how that happened. Now, I routinely save screen shots of my home screens, in case some rogue update does that again. I'll see how things go and see if 4.4 arrives soon, and if it corrects my issues on the Note.