Galaxy S4 Lock Screen Clock Lag

[STARGATE]

I had that lag on my Photon 4G. But never seen it on my Galaxy S4.
Now I'm using the S-View case and the clock is still fine.
Maybe not all GS4 devices have that lag?

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[MAK85]

Dashclock works great, with no lag. Extensions are cool too.

 

[STARGATE]

Dashclock works great, with no lag. Extensions are cool too.

Are there different kinds of clocks to choose from?

I might try it sometime in the future if I get bored of the stock one.

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[garublador]

Are there different kinds of clocks to choose from?

I might try it sometime in the future if I get bored of the stock one.

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There's a handful of them, but they aren't all that different. There's 5 digial and 2 analog and I haven't seen any way to add more.

The really awesome thing about it is the extensions. They can add other information to the widget like battery usage, cell strength, weather, a quick link to Shazam, Tasker variables/tasks, stuff like that.

 

[jeffreii]

There's a handful of them, but they aren't all that different. There's 5 digial and 2 analog and I haven't seen any way to add more.

The really awesome thing about it is the extensions. They can add other information to the widget like battery usage, cell strength, weather, a quick link to Shazam, Tasker variables/tasks, stuff like that.

Yeah I'm pretty surprised there aren't way more options for how the clock looks...or a way to change the size...but I picked the one with the bold hour number and normal font minutes and I'm really happy with how it looks.

 

[MAK85]

Yes there are different clocks to choose from for lock screen. I use DashClock and there is no lag and is customizable with extensions

Are there different kinds of clocks to choose from?

I might try it sometime in the future if I get bored of the stock one.

Sent From a Galaxy S4 Away!

 

[thefiasco]

Have they fixed the fact that when you get an SMS it shows up on the default home screen instead of the dashclock home screen?

 

[bspieler81]

I have this issue with the S4, please allow me to elaborate. The biggest annoyance I have with this is not being able to use an alarm clock. When my phone is in "sleep" (black screen), I'm pretty sure the time doesn't change. Since the time doesn't change, my alarm clock wont go off at the time its supposed to since it doesn't know what the current time. It's only when I tap a button (home-screen-button or power button) that awakens the screen will I see the time refresh (maybe a 1 sec lag from old time to current time). I just got the phone, upgraded from the S3 which didn't have this issue. I would prefer not to hard reset/format the phone if anyone has any luck with any clock apps mentioned here or if this is an OS issue which might cause any app to not keep time the way it should. Thanks.

 

[garublador]

I use my S4 as an alarm clock pretty frequently and haven't had any issues with it not going off. I think the lag is from the widget not keeping up with time while the phone is asleep, not that the phone doesn't keep time while it's asleep. It should be pretty easy to test for yourself, though.

 

[Christine Sinko]

Mine lags too, but it didn't start until after the last software update push from AT&T a few weeks ago...:-\

 

[coretekk]

Have the same issue with the S4. Clock needs more than a couple of seconds to update. Really annoying, my HTC was working fine all the way with android 2.xx.

I also encountered the alarm not going off at the right time. Instead it was set to the time I previously saved in this home-screen-widged-alarm which was 1 hour to early.
So I guess the "alarm not going off" is some other weird bug.

 

[rbarnes65]

I've had my S4 for four months and I am not experiencing any lag.

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[Bodrul]

I have the same problem. It is really annoying, I need to quickly check the time a lot when I'm at work. Anyone know how to fix this?

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[Emilio Ziere]

Hi,

I had the same problem. I just bought the s4 and got this delay in the clock of my screenlock. Also the personal message wasn't showing. I did the following and it helped because i dont experience any delay at all anymore: Go to settings > My device > Lock Screen. from there you can go to widgets lockscreen and then you see that there is an option for clock OR personal message. Mine was on personal message, which i find very useless really by the way, so i changed it to only clock. problem solved somehow. Maybe the personal message widget is causing the delay because at first i did not have a problem at all until i changed my personal message. (to make it more personal than: "life companion")

Hope this can be the solution for all of you.

 

[Felderburg]

I have an S4 mini, and I did not have this issue until the Kit Kat 4.4.2 update a few days ago. Switching from personal message to clock seems to have solved it, but the phone was provided by work, so my personal message was work's number to call if found. If someone is nice enough to return it, how will they know where to go now?

Also, it appears that lock screen issues are a kit kat thing: How to fix Android 4.4.2 problems on the Galaxy S4 - AndroidPIT

 

[bobbydb1]

I charge and restart my S4 every morning when I get up. That fixes this problem for me. After the restart it always displays the correct time.

 

[acsurfer]

This problem is solved after I update to Android 4.4.2

I was have the problem before Android 4.4.2