My GS3 lags

[runer112]

It's a shocking title considering the GS3 is regarded as the fastest phone currently on the market. I was expecting a lag free experiment when I payed a butt load of money for it.

Sadly, my phone lags, especially when pressing the home key and returning to my home screen. TouchWiz got way too laggy (With 3 pages in the main screen, nothing more) to the point that I had to switch over to GO Launcher and even then, this one still lags.

I admit, I am an app junkie, but 95% of my apps are organized in folder. Does it depend on how much free Internal memory there is? I have the 16 GB version (With a 32GB SD card) and almost 12 of the available-for-user 14 GB's are full.

Any thoughts? The phone is not rooted/unlocked.

 

[Rev2010]

Oh geez, there are like 95 threads on this and there is a solution:

http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...629-speed-up-your-galaxy-s3-2-easy-steps.html

Don't recall if it also tells in that thread how to resolve the home button lag but it's caused by the S3 waiting a fraction of a second for a second button push (or not) to activate S-Voice. if you don't use S-Voice disable it and no more home button lag.


Rev.

 

[runer112]

Makes since, I just did this and yea I am feeling the phone is shaking off that lagginess. Though, stuff like the home menu widgets/apps still take sometime to load, is there a solution for that? I might not have noticed the effect since I just toyed with these 2 scales ...

 

[HOLLYWOODANT215]

It's a shocking title considering the GS3 is regarded as the fastest phone currently on the market. I was expecting a lag free experiment when I payed a butt load of money for it.

Sadly, my phone lags, especially when pressing the home key and returning to my home screen. TouchWiz got way too laggy (With 3 pages in the main screen, nothing more) to the point that I had to switch over to GO Launcher and even then, this one still lags.

I admit, I am an app junkie, but 95% of my apps are organized in folder. Does it depend on how much free Internal memory there is? I have the 16 GB version (With a 32GB SD card) and almost 12 of the available-for-user 14 GB's are full.

Any thoughts? The phone is not rooted/unlocked.

Go to settings scroll to developer options go to transition animation turn it off and Window animation turn. Off

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[Rev2010]

My home screen icons load instantly, most I even see is a super quick flash and even that is rare. However, I don't use any widgets. Also not sure if it's mentioned in that thread but disabling some of the bloatware apps will help speed up your device. This thread details a lot of it, great advice in there:

http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...57-great-battery-improvement.html#post1972663

*EDIT - I have animations turned off as well btw.

Rev.

 

[funkylogik]

my folders take ages to write and fill with apps sometimes. using a live wallpaper slows things down a lot though.
amount of internal memory shouldnt matter

 

[SerfNuts]

There might be something wrong with your phone or to many apps running in the background. I haven't even changed the animation scale and mine is as quick as ever.

 

[taylorz_412]

I have yet to see any serious lag about once a week I may see a hiccup in the ui

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[funkylogik]

ive just done a test using a still wallpaper and theres zero lag or re-write returning to home from a few heavy apps so guess thats the price u pay for usin LWPs

 

[xKrNMBoYx]

Also just turning pages will stutter with Power Saving on. Atleast it did for both my Galaxy S2 and S3

 

[funkylogik]

yeah power saving is only worth using when youre just usin the phone as a phone. for everything else it has to be off. it underclocks the processor so it makes things really jaggy

 

[rmead001]

Pretty sure I have this same issue and I don't know what to do to fix it.

Whenever I press my home key to get to the home screen it goes to the home screen almost instantly but it takes a few extra seconds for the keyboard to disappear. The samsung weather widget takes an extra second to refresh itself and then everything is ok. I also notice this issue the most when sending a message. I type the message, press send and then the home key to escape out of the messaging app. This is the time I get the above mentioned behavior the most. One of the only things that is driving me nuts about the phone.

 

[dmmattix]

Pretty sure I have this same issue and I don't know what to do to fix it.

Whenever I press my home key to get to the home screen it goes to the home screen almost instantly but it takes a few extra seconds for the keyboard to disappear. The samsung weather widget takes an extra second to refresh itself and then everything is ok. I also notice this issue the most when sending a message. I type the message, press send and then the home key to escape out of the messaging app. This is the time I get the above mentioned behavior the most. One of the only things that is driving me nuts about the phone.

Not for me (just tested it). However I am using SwiftKey so that might be the difference.

Mike

 

[sentinelred]

I have the LTE Galaxy Nexus and I had the same problem, but only with Swiftkey taking an extra second to disappear. After I flashed it to Jelly Bean, that problem went away and I have yet to see any lag anywhere. I won't ever get a regular Samsung phone just because of Touchwiz. I've always thought Touchwiz was too iOS like and thought it bogged down Android.

 

[paulyb37]

I have this issue too. Nothing to do with animation speed settings, s voice or power saving - pressing the home key sometimes (and this varies 'sometimes' can be nearly all the time to occasionally) results in a flash of a black screen then stuttering redrawing of app icons and dock shortcuts. I changed to adw launcher which slightly improved it but this is now as bad. App drawer also occasionally redraws which means I have to wait to choose an app. Like you say not what you'd expect from the 'world's fastest phone'. Will try and capture a video of the issue...

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[funkylogik]

I have this issue too. Nothing to do with animation speed settings, s voice or power saving - pressing the home key sometimes (and this varies 'sometimes' can be nearly all the time to occasionally) results in a flash of a black screen then stuttering redrawing of app icons and dock shortcuts. I changed to adw launcher which slightly improved it but this is now as bad. App drawer also occasionally redraws which means I have to wait to choose an app. Like you say not what you'd expect from the 'world's fastest phone'. Will try and capture a video of the issue...

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ive never had black screen frames when doing that but any time ive had a bit of lag or stutter when returning to home screen (when im not using a live wallpaper) is when i have some heavy apps running in bakground and im pressing home from the browser. im on the international though so half the total ram of the US models

 

[funkylogik]

....its always my clock widget thats last to draw itself so when that appears, i know i can swipe through the other homescreens happily and all the folders will be drawn.. we'r talkin bout fractions of a second here but u seem to notice it on a phone..

 

[paulyb37]

How much RAM is 'average' used and spare? My phone has around 110 spare and 600 odd used. Running processes seem appropriate.

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[funkylogik]

aye im on gt-i9300 and around 600 used is about average i think m8

 

[paulyb37]

Ta, probably not that causing it then!

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