Samsung Galaxy S 4, Anyone else see lag?

[crbauhs]

No lag using the pre-installed Swype.

I don't use swype. Just swiftkey. Very disappointed right now I won't lie.

 

[effreyj]

I read a review that said that they only noticed lag when they had the eye tracking and air gestures on and that it was noticeably better when those features were disabled.

 

[planoman]

I get huge lag in SMS. If I try and add a pic to an SMS it stalls for a bit.

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With the size of the pics the S4 takes it is compressing the pics for use with MMS. Not sure it that is UI lag or if anyphone could do pics that size quickly. Just a thought.

 

[rushmore]

Turn off all the new sensors and the lag should go away and add to battery life as well.

 

[madlaw1071]

I'd much rather have some lag(which I dont have) than some of the ergonomic and build quality isses they're having with the One.

 

[dannyd86]

I'd much rather have some lag(which I dont have) than some of the ergonomic and build quality isses they're having with the One.

My BB10 with dual core is smooth as can be.

Sorry had to do it lol

 

[madlaw1071]

My BB10 with dual core is smooth as can be.

Sorry had to do it lol

Good luck with that.

 

[scy121]

My S4 is especially sluggish...the messaging app is very very slow, as is the camera and on several occasions when I attempt to click on an icon there is no response, what gives...I dont want to return this phone but I find no solution online and tech support is nonexistant

 

[gollum18]

Lag explained?
Little free ram.
GS4 system image size !!! - xda-developers

Exactly touchwiz 4.1.2 takes up 800mbs of ram on the s3. That's why I was rooting for 3gbs of ram in the s4. With the way samsung is headed 2gbs won't be enough, unless they upgrade ram type.

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[dcgore]

I see lag all the time, TW is just awful on performance. Simply by changing launchers you can see a difference. I think Samsung took steps backwards with the S4. I am not as happy as when i got the S3.

 

[maverick96]

With the size of the pics the S4 takes it is compressing the pics for use with MMS. Not sure it that is UI lag or if anyphone could do pics that size quickly. Just a thought.

The iPhone 5 and the HTC One have no problems at all compressing a picture into an SMS message. I don't know why Samsung seems to have the problem

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[Eric Kane]

Let me preempt the people using HTC Ones that will reply to this post: "You shouldn't have to change a setting. It should be fixed out of the box."

With that said, there's a simple solution to the stuttering you may be getting. Because it's not visible on 4.2.2, you need to go into "About Device" in settings and find "Build Number". Tap on that 7 times to unlock Developer Options under the More tab in settings. From there, scroll down until you see these 3 settings: Window animation scale, Transition animation scale, and Animator duration scale. These are all set to 1x and are the culprit to your lag. Turning them off will get rid of the animations that are making your phone stutter occasionally. There's visibly no drawbacks to doing this.

Also, if you're not using S Voice and probably won't, you can go into settings for S Voice and turn off the ability to double tap the home button to launch S Voice. Because the home button is capable of doing several things, removing one of those things seems to make it function a lot quicker.

I'm sure Samsung is aware of these animations causing these issues, but if you're not patient and want it fixed right away, thankfully you can do it yourself in 30 seconds.

 

[rushmore]

Turn all the new sensors off and watch lag go down and battery life up.

 

[maverick96]

Turn all the new sensors off and watch lag go down and battery life up.

Sounds like fun. Let me turn off all the cool new features so my phone works properly

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[Eric Kane]

Sounds like fun. Let me turn off all the cool new features so my phone works properly

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That's assuming the phone doesn't work properly with them on, which it does.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S4

 

[maverick96]

That's assuming the phone doesn't work properly with them on, which it does.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S4

Was just throwing some sarcasm around.

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[SteveISU]

I've lowered all the options to .5, disabled every BS app thats on the phone. Still lags/stutters (whatever you want to call it), like a MOFO. Fact is Touchwiz is bloated, almost as bad as John Candy was after he ate an ole 96er.

 

[archer75]

Let me preempt the people using HTC Ones that will reply to this post: "You shouldn't have to change a setting. It should be fixed out of the box."

With that said, there's a simple solution to the stuttering you may be getting. Because it's not visible on 4.2.2, you need to go into "About Device" in settings and find "Build Number". Tap on that 7 times to unlock Developer Options under the More tab in settings. From there, scroll down until you see these 3 settings: Window animation scale, Transition animation scale, and Animator duration scale. These are all set to 1x and are the culprit to your lag. Turning them off will get rid of the animations that are making your phone stutter occasionally. There's visibly no drawbacks to doing this.

Also, if you're not using S Voice and probably won't, you can go into settings for S Voice and turn off the ability to double tap the home button to launch S Voice. Because the home button is capable of doing several things, removing one of those things seems to make it function a lot quicker.

I'm sure Samsung is aware of these animations causing these issues, but if you're not patient and want it fixed right away, thankfully you can do it yourself in 30 seconds.

That did the trick!

 

[mpdofficer514]

I have yet to experience any lag with my SGS4.... I'm not sure what the difference would be but mine is buttery smooth. My previous phone was the One X, so I'm not coming from a sluggish phone.

 

[planoman]

The iPhone 5 and the HTC One have no problems at all compressing a picture into an SMS message. I don't know why Samsung seems to have the problem

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That's why I have a iphone 5 not an S4...lol! In all seriousness, Just a thought on why the slowdown on MMS. My Note 2 always says "picture too large compressing." My iphone 5 is my workphone and I rarely use it for pictures.