Lag is killing me

[deputydog95]

Is there anything that you should absolutely not disable?

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[leroybrute]

Just be careful. There are some apps you can disable that can case some issues. I would disable what you know is just plain bloat and the ones you're not positive about, I would research to make sure they don't cause any issues.

Edit: Here is a link to an application removal list for the S3. You have to be rooted for some. But it shows you what is safe to remove and not.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AqTvctlW89DtdC1qVUlLeVFTV3ZOdUtDclpBdVRQOUE&pli=1#gid=0

 

[anon(883913)]

Try this
1. Install System panel and boot it up, the start screen should show a list of everything that is running including cached applications, etc.
2. Notice the little bar graph looking thing next to the icon for an app? It should be empty for most apps.
3. Scroll down the list noting any app that is using a lot of the graph (it should demonstrate how much that app is using based on how much of the area is light up white.
4. Try force quitting the apps that are showing a lot of usage (except for SystemPanel itself).
5. does the device now feel like its laging? If not then you know it is whatever app you had to force quit and you can either uninstall that app or if it is actually bloatware you can disable it!

Hope that helps!

 

[vr002sh]

I am not sure what you mean but you should not have an issue with wiping partition cache.

Wow - my typing is bad. I meant to say that I use Good (Good for Enterprise) for email, and was worried that I would lose communication with the server and have to have IT reset me. I followed your suggest and did a wipe partition cache. So far so good. After installing Light Flow (due to the heavy battery drain it gave me), the LEDs did not return to factory settings, nor were they what I had set in Light Flow, but somewhere in the middle, with no ability to control them. Now they are working like factory settings. Thanks for the tip.

 

[leroybrute]

Wow - my typing is bad. I meant to say that I use Good (Good for Enterprise) for email, and was worried that I would lose communication with the server and have to have IT reset me. I followed your suggest and did a wipe partition cache. So far so good. After installing Light Flow (due to the heavy battery drain it gave me), the LEDs did not return to factory settings, nor were they what I had set in Light Flow, but somewhere in the middle, with no ability to control them. Now they are working like factory settings. Thanks for the tip.

That is very possible. When you do a wipe partition cache it cleans all your logins and passwords to all websites, forums etc. It does not effect any of my email credentials though. If you do try it, do it at a time its convenient to get yourself set up again.

 

[Roffles]

It was selected. What does power savings mode actually do? I've never paid attention to it till you said something.

I've gone ahead and turned it off for now.

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power saving mode under-clocks your dual-core 1.5ghz processor into a single-core 1.0ghz processor (per the samsung documentation i read somewhere) and it also makes the screen dimmer. i think it also under-clocks the gpu but there is no specific information i could find about this. it could limit other things but these are the main ones i am aware of. the phone will lag if you are multi-tasking, playing games, using flash player, other graphics intensive tasks, or doing anything cpu intensive such as packing/unpacking zip files or viewing large format pdf/tip/png/gif files. i only ever use power saving mode if my battery power dips below 30% and I don't have a spare battery handy. samsung should have programmed a prompt into the touchwiz ui that notifies the user of the degraded performance. i mean, how many people, thinking they have defective phones with this feature enabled, have probably swapped their phones at the verizon store because of this? i bet more than a few.

 

[deputydog95]

Thanks again. Phone is 1000x better since turning off power savings mode and clearing the cache. Thought this phone was a big pos for a minute there

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[deputydog95]

I'm starting to suspect that the Verizon Messages app could be a part of the problem. The phone is most certainly running better with no lag or freezing anywhere else.

However, the verizon messages app is freezing and restarting itself....