Any lags on S6?

[erasat]

Wow...not sure what your deal is but you are really obsessed with me for some strange reason! No, it was not me that posted I lost 30% overnight...that was somebody else's Thread (but I chimed in, along with MANY others, that I was seeing huge standby losses too that were perplexing at the beginning of the week).

You seem not to recall but I responded directly to some of your suggestions and thanked you for your perspective and complimented you on the S5 post you had of YOUR battery savings tips that work for YOU. You have suggested I take my screen down to 20% dim (sorry, can't live with that), you wanted me to turn off Location Services (doesn't work for ME either, I'm sure it's fine for YOU and I'm happy that YOU are willing to give up these and other things to optimize your battery life but I'm not).

I have done a Factory Reset of my phone with zero improvement. What an utter waste of time that was.

You seem to be missing the point here. These are not issues with trying to "optimize" my battery or solve lag - these are software issues that T-Mobile/Samsung/Google need to fix (software flaws that I have no control over) and I'm sorry if me reporting them disturbs you for some reason. I'm one of a small number of people that have been using an S6 edge for 5 days so I thought the community would be interested in my experiences (which are the same experiences many others are having as well).

You seem to think these issues are "mine". This is not my Thread but the OP asked about lag and I have noted lag on my phone from the time I got it on Monday. There is an 8 page thread on XDA Forums of people having the exact same battery life issue I am which seems to be narrowed down to a WiFi bug. It is causing HUGE Cell Standby numbers that drain the battery in Standby. Attached is a pic from last night showing Cell standby and Android system draining my battery down to 57% with almost no use on my part. And, yes, WiFi and WiFi Calling were on - those are important features to me.

I have turned off WiFi (at the suggestion of XDA) and battery life did improve dramatically, but no offense to you but I didn't just pay $1000 coming back to Android for a phone without WiFi and to lose WiFi calling which is needed at my house and usually at my office because of spotty cell coverage. That's a ridiculous solution and I'm not on an unlimited data plan so it wouldn't be a solution for me anyway.

I'm sorry that you feel some compulsive need to criticize me anytime I mention that the S6 has some lag and poor battery life. I get it - you think you have the solution by turning off half of your phone's services.

I've said lots of good things about the S6 in a number of posts and think if these issues can be fixed with a quick update, it will be a stellar phone - one of the best ever made. I am truly hopeful that they fix these issues before YOU get YOURS so that you won't also have to report the same issues (which I wouldn't criticize you for), but I'm not going to sit back and be quiet and be an apologist for Samsung on this when people about to spend nearly $1000 for a phone ask questions about it from those of us who actually own them.

I'm not a Fanboy of any platform and think they all have their merits but the fact is that the S6 does not scroll with good momentum like an iPhone and the battery life, at the moment, is atrocious if WiFi is on. That's ridiculous for a $1000 phone and I'm going to keep sharing my experiences so that T-Mobile/Samsung/Google take some action to fix these issues. Thanks.

NOTE: Almost all this drain came during the S6 in Standby yesterday evening (almost no on-screen time) with WiFi and T-Mobile WiFi Calling on.
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I really won't read all your post as with the first line was enough for me to know that it didn't worth the time to do it. So I stopped reading quickly after a couple of parapraphs.

No, I don't have any problems with you or anybody else here, if you have read ALL my posts you'll see that the only thing I've been trying to do is to help with my past experience with similar issues.

Yes, I remember you thanking me for that post but maybe I missed where you posted what you have done or even some screenshot, for me the above is the first time you have posted and I thank you for that.

Your assumption is dead wrong, I'm not a Samsung guy, my actual daily driver is a OnePlus One, and for the past year I've had an LG G3, Sony Xperia Z3 (2), Note 4, Moto X 2014 and now the OnePlus, so no I don't justify or get mad because of bad comments to Samsung, what I clearly said was that I've been trying to help you and others since I began reading about your issues and I haven't received too much feedback from you.

But you know what, don't worry, my bad, that's what happens when you try to get involved in stuff I shouldn't. I know what I have to do if I find the issues you and others are having, I'll shut my mouth and wait for mine to arrive and if even doing it still shows the behavior that yours is having I'll return it without hesitate.

Good luck.

 

[stevelam]

Regarding the browser redrawing issue, how is connection quality when this happens? I am curious because I noticed the WiFi speed was poor at BB demo units when I saw. Usually their free WiFi is not very good as I had the same slow speed on S5. If this happens on T-mobile unit, I wonder if it's affected by signal quality.

its not an issue with connection quality. every time i've tested it, i let the whole page load first. and then scroll up and down for the mobile sites that load images in on viewport (to save bandwidth) to make sure its cached.

also i'm in canada. we don't have t-mobile up here anyway.

 

[erasat]

its not an issue with connection quality. every time i've tested it, i let the whole page load first. and then scroll up and down for the mobile sites that load images in on viewport (to save bandwidth) to make sure its cached.

also i'm in canada. we don't have t-mobile up here anyway.

Try disabling the Java scripts in the browser and see if it also helps with the redrawing.

 

[stevelam]

Try disabling the Java scripts in the browser and see if it also helps with the redrawing.

why would i want to disable javascript. might as well just turn off CSS while i'm at it.

 

[erasat]

why would i want to disable javascript. might as well just turn off CSS while i'm at it.

Because as I've stated above and in other threads that last year we discovered that our Galaxy Tab S has an issue with browser lags and weird issues that then we discovered that was related to the Exynos chip.

According to other user here disabling this have fixed the lag in the browser so it seems that whatever the issue is with the chip and Java appears to still be there, time to let Samsung know about it.

 

[maverick96]

Disabling things to get something like the browser to work properly turns me completely off from this phone.

 

[Raptor007]

I have owned countless Samsung phones and the one issue is typically the stupid Flipboard app or the carrier bloatware. I have used the Note 4 quite a bit and I had no issues with it, same with the Note 3, Note 2, GS3, GS4 etc. I skipped the S5. Are there little quirks, yes. But playing withe a store demo unit I would expect it to be on the brink of death with idiots trashing it, adding crap to it. Both S6/S6 Edge's I played with worth without issue. I was pleased. This is one persons opinion.

 

[andrewEME]

No lag on gs6 edge

 

[Cool Jeff]

From the S6 vs Note 4 videos they all say on S6 there are no lags at all, while the N4 still has some even with 5.0.1
Dunno if the N4 + S6's TW update will make it as good...

 

[jcp007]

From the S6 vs Note 4 videos they all say on S6 there are no lags at all, while the N4 still has some even with 5.0.1
Dunno if the N4 + S6's TW update will make it as good...

We'll see in a couple of days. I am sure that there have got to be some GN4 users getting the GS6 who can tell us for sure. Both are great in their own right. I am also sure that GN5 users will be happier this year as well.

 

[independentvolume]

Definitely not as smooth as the 6 plus. I don't think android will ever get there, nexus or not. Just too many variables to work with IMO. IOS may be bland, but performance is definitely a plus. Even with the sub par performance I still prefer android for now.

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[billbrobaggins]

Definitely not as smooth as the 6 plus. I don't think android will ever get there, nexus or not. Just too many variables to work with IMO. IOS may be bland, but performance is definitely a plus. Even with the sub par performance I still prefer android for now.

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Have you ever adjusted the animation scale above standard speed? Not that you should have to or want to and i'm for sure not saying it will make an android device more fluid than the IP6 or IP6+ but it does provide some interesting results. Iphone animations are slower than default android animations which seem to give the application a VERY small (but measurable) amount of additional time to open the app. Most users say to decrease the animation scale but i've found increasing the scale/speed provides a more enjoyable experience (most of the time)

I'm not usually one to give unwarranted advice but it may be helpful for you or others. I am a huge android fan but also have a lot of respect for how well iphones work.

 

[edgefever]

I agree ..I run my N6 at 1.5 for the
three settings

 

[independentvolume]

Have you ever adjusted the animation scale above standard speed? Not that you should have to or want to and i'm for sure not saying it will make an android device more fluid than the IP6 or IP6+ but it does provide some interesting results. Iphone animations are slower than default android animations which seem to give the application a VERY small (but measurable) amount of additional time to open the app. Most users say to decrease the animation scale but i've found increasing the scale/speed provides a more enjoyable experience (most of the time)

I'm not usually one to give unwarranted advice but it may be helpful for you or others. I am a huge android fan but also have a lot of respect for how well iphones work.

No I didn't. It was stock out of the box. I really wouldn't feel comfortable moving a bunch of developer settings on a phone I don't own. The only extra apps installed were twitter and Google+ at the time. We really shouldn't expect it to be as smooth either as that's just a setup for disappointment. Think of it like this, Apple is shooting at a barn while android OEMS are taking shots at a moving target.

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[Kalvin Kerns]

Have you ever adjusted the animation scale above standard speed? Not that you should have to or want to and i'm for sure not saying it will make an android device more fluid than the IP6 or IP6+ but it does provide some interesting results. Iphone animations are slower than default android animations which seem to give the application a VERY small (but measurable) amount of additional time to open the app. Most users say to decrease the animation scale but i've found increasing the scale/speed provides a more enjoyable experience (most of the time)

I'm not usually one to give unwarranted advice but it may be helpful for you or others. I am a huge android fan but also have a lot of respect for how well iphones work.

You know, my wife has an iPhone 6 and due to the animations it has it feels slower than my Note 3. However when actually testing side by side, generally speaking the iPhone wins about 90% of the time. This is with my Note 3's animations off or at the lowest setting.

But I will say this, I find iOS boring and absolutely hate itunes (laggy as hell on my asus republic of gamers laptop with an i5 processor and 16gbs ram). Nothing else lags on my system but itunes. It's ridiculous.

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[billbrobaggins]

No I didn't. It was stock out of the box. I really wouldn't feel comfortable moving a bunch of developer settings on a phone I don't own. The only extra apps installed were twitter and Google+ at the time. We really shouldn't expect it to be as smooth either as that's just a setup for disappointment. Think of it like this, Apple is shooting at a barn while android OEMS are taking shots at a moving target.

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I mean, adjusting the setting will not cause any permanent change.. you shouldnt feel uncomfortable. I do disagree though, my nexus 6 is just as smooth as my sisters IP6+ and outperforms in multi-tasking capabilities. Cant speak on the S6 as I dont own one. I think we should expect it to be as smooth.

(curve ball) Honestly though the HTC one M8 performs on par with the IP6 and that is not a joke.

 

[Jdroids]

No I didn't. It was stock out of the box. I really wouldn't feel comfortable moving a bunch of developer settings on a phone I don't own. The only extra apps installed were twitter and Google+ at the time. We really shouldn't expect it to be as smooth either as that's just a setup for disappointment. Think of it like this, Apple is shooting at a barn while android OEMS are taking shots at a moving target.

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Did you get your S6 or just play with demo unit on display? Demo unit always runs demo software that can't be disabled and it causes some lags.

 

[Gray Area]

I've had this phone since Wednesday the 8th. and I can say it's lightning fast! is there hiccups? occasionally you'll see a lost frame when scrolling because I have several widgets on my home screen and it always has to redraw the calendar widget for some reason but other than that it's very fast. It downloads a lot faster than my galaxy s5, actually it does everything significantly faster than my galaxy s5 did.

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[johnnnnnymtl]

I've seen no lag at all on mine. It's speedy and fast.

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[jcp007]

I've seen no lag at all on mine. It's speedy and fast.

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Same here.

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