I don't own the phone so I was wondering if the animations of the ui are smooth just like the smoothness of the iphone 4 which basically never lags
thank you
-sandro- said:
I don't own the phone so I was wondering if the animations of the ui are smooth just like the smoothness of the iphone 4 which basically never lags
thank you
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The lags are usually due to heavy garbage collection of the Android OS. I'm not 100% if TouchWiz on the i9000 is hardware accelerated but I found it to be a mediocre experience. Best bet is to use an aftermarket launcher like LauncherPro.
well if you find LancherPro better then touchwiz is not HW
Simple really, hows the experience with sense 6 vs gpe? I love sense 6 but ive had aosp or cm roms on all my previous androids and debating if i wanna move over on this phone too. By experience i mean like features, graphics, functionality, speed, BATTERY, etc. ESPECIALLY BATTERY AND SMOOTHNESS.
I am on cm12 nighty. I can say that battery is better than with a sense rom. Don't ask me why, I think it's because cm don't run so much apps in background. Speed and smoothness are flawless. It runs like a river. The graphics are the same I think. Sense was pretty good at it and I don't see a difference. It's also clear, detailed etc. But I must confess that I miss the sense camera features. Blinkfeed was successfully replaced with feedly. HTC TV app also runs smooth.
I mean reallyyyy it just lags lags and feels that someon is strangling those octa-cores i had a note 3 before and i already can tell you this phone is a downgrade in terms of software. The only thing that stands in this phone is the gorgeous display. I could have said lollipop on note 4 is garbage but thats what it is. Please share your experience and let samsumg know that iphone 4 is still getting updates faster than samsungs latest flagship
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Lollipop is definitely faster than Kitkat for me.
It's also faster than the Note 3.
You are correct about the slow updates though.
Same thoughts as Nuu...besides the slow updates mine is smooth as on 5.01 =)
No complaints as all...cept maybe faster Multitask button....
same for me too lag in multitasking button, and laggy call screen and some bugs. without these its just great for me fast and reliable and good on battery too. performance is on par with my s6 edge and note 4 is way better in multitasking and ram management.
sirwanesmail said:
I mean reallyyyy it just lags lags and feels that someon is strangling those octa-cores i had a note 3 before and i already can tell you this phone is a downgrade in terms of software. The only thing that stands in this phone is the gorgeous display. I could have said lollipop on note 4 is garbage but thats what it is. Please share your experience and let samsumg know that iphone 4 is still getting updates faster than samsungs latest flagship
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Agreed, but that's why CM12 exists: blazing fast and quick on the updates (currently on lollipop 5.1.1). Other option would be to sell the Note and buy the new LG G4 for example
You do know that you could just install a 3rd Party Launcher onto your Note 4? You don't have to stick with touchwiz.
gekkehenkie11 said:
Agreed, but that's why CM12 exists: blazing fast and quick on the updates (currently on lollipop 5.1.1). Other option would be to sell the Note and buy the new LG G4 for example
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If you don't care about the camera or s-pen, CM12 would be an option. The camera thing has always stopped me from using CM on my Note 4 and my S3. I nicely debloated TW based rom and a different launcher like Nova is what I always did. YMMV.
Stock touch wiz is pretty crappie I've not had the lag like you described but just not a huge touch wiz fan.
you can get a sped up launcher in the apps section which helps quite a bit and makes it as snappy as I can be. But as above you best bet is a 3rd party launcher.
Do some debloating or use Simplrom which is already heavily slimmed down And has very good speed.
and we have 12.1 in the pipeline which should be good also.
Don't write ya note 4 off yet
pappcam said:
If you don't care about the camera or s-pen, CM12 would be an option. The camera thing has always stopped me from using CM on my Note 4 and my S3. I nicely debloated TW based rom and a different launcher like Nova is what I always did. YMMV.
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The samsung touchwiz cam is quite a nice *free* app and I understand some people might miss it. And it's definitely better than the CM stock camera app, I don't like that one too much neither, it's just too basic. But luckily there are some quite good 3rd party cam apps out there nowadays. My previous favourite was FV-5 camera, but I'm now really hooked on Snap Camera. You can download a trial in the playstore, see if you like it. Picture quality in TW using a 3rd party cam is always the same as in CM, so that's good way to judge if you like it.
And about S-pen, that works great in CM12, out of the box, including hovering. Sure, out of the box it's a bit less integrated into the system, but there are some really nice apps for it if you want some more integrated s-pen functionality, mimicking pretty much Touchwiz, including a similar s-pen popup menu and for example cropped screenshots. See the video here for example: http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software/app-app-samsung-devices-provided-stylus-t3000448 With this app you pretty much have the same S-pen functionality as Touchwiz.
Yes i can do that but the skin and the thing that kills the cpu is touchwiz which is in setting + dialer + snote + etc and all those cannot be changed by another launcher
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Its wierd but ive been using nova for years. But stock tw launcher is faster than nova in 5.0 i noticed that on my friends phone. He had stock and i had nova but app opening response etc was faster on tw there is basically delay on nova. So i rolled back to tw
And i think slowdown problems could be about apps. Cuz i had wierd slowdowns on 1st update but boc3 totally fixed all problems for me like i said my problems are multitasking button delay(which exist on my s6 too i dont expect a fix for it), call screen delay and gpu bug other these its really a great update for me.
https://youtu.be/8Gk8WoVjxiA ... put at 5:15 .. then watch .. if TouchWiz is garbage what the pure android is ?
willowpc said:
https://youtu.be/8Gk8WoVjxiA ... put at 5:15 .. then watch .. if TouchWiz is garbage what the pure android is ?
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The Nexus probably has encryption enabled, which slows the device down. And is this an Exynos ? That device seems to respond faster in Touchwiz than the snapdragon.
gekkehenkie11 said:
The Nexus probably has encryption enabled, which slows the device down. And is this an Exynos ? That device seems to respond faster in Touchwiz than the snapdragon.
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Yes, it's the Exynos version, and if we active the Knox continues protection, doesn't change nothing, some users even reported that activing this feature improves the overall performance.
not seeing the issues you are seeing.
Stock Samsung Lollipop is better than Stock Samsung KitKat for sure.
senectus said:
not seeing the issues you are seeing.
Stock Samsung Lollipop is better than Stock Samsung KitKat for sure.
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Love posts like this. You did not see it, so naturally did not happen
Touchwiz is laggy in places and this is not something that even surprises anyone anymore. Use a nexus 6 for a few days and come back to note 4, yea the lag can get to you at times. However its fine as an overall package and that's all that matters.
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Love posts like this. You did not see it, so naturally did not happen
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I'm not saying it doesn't happen, I'm just not seeing it on my phone.
This is useful information which means there are *conditions* for the problem to show itself.
If the guy is really interested in knowing why there is a discrepancy in experiences he will ask me for more details in my setup.
Is that even a conversation samsung itself knows that TW is laggy but the whole point of this just look at Sense UI on the old m7 i mean even its 3 years old but it feels faster than note 4 which has that fancy octa core processors. But you see the point is that it doesnt matter how many cores you have under the hood. Optimization is the key . if i have buggati veyron with flat tyres i would be outrun by a golf. Let me say again the whole point of this is to let samsung hear our plea and respond
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sirwanesmail said:
Is that even a conversation samsung itself knows that TW is laggy but the whole point of this just look at Sense UI on the old m7 i mean even its 3 years old but it feels faster than note 4 which has that fancy octa core processors. But you see the point is that it doesnt matter how many cores you have under the hood. Optimization is the key . if i have buggati veyron with flat tyres i would be outrun by a golf. Let me say again the whole point of this is to let samsung hear our plea and respond
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It would be nice if they even gave us the choice of an AOSP rom with their camera and some TW functions. With a custom kernel and TW apps frozen, TW is fine and doesn't lag too much but to do this you need to root and invalidate your warranty.
OD2 build for 910G is blazing fast!! the way kitkat is meant to be .. the previous version boc6 was not up to the mark. Probably 910F and other users will feel the difference once u get OD series roms
C5503 Xperia ZR owner here. Currently on 4.4.4 and everything is smooth and zippy. I wonder if that snappiness and speed will remain if I upgrade to 5.1? I heard reports of poor battery life on lollipop.
Worth upgrading?
Certainly the performance and snappiness have increased on LP. And the whole UI is butter smooth. I think its worth to upgrade to LP if you don't care about the battery life. Battery life is poor compared to KK but its not totally worse. Also make to upgrade 5.1 and not 5.0 as its has tons of bugs.
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ariftwister said:
Certainly the performance and snappiness have increased on LP. And the whole UI is butter smooth. I think its worth to upgrade to LP if you don't care about the battery life. Battery life is poor compared to KK but its not totally worse. Also make to upgrade 5.1 and not 5.0 as its has tons of bugs.
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Poor Battery life on lollipop is a deal-breaker. I think i'l stick with 4.4.4. Thanks for the feedback!
muru2 said:
Poor Battery life on lollipop is a deal-breaker. I think i'l stick with 4.4.4. Thanks for the feedback!
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Wise decision . Me too doing the same.
After a longtime. I updated to 5.1.1 from 4.4.4 some 20 days before. It is nice many aspects. Battery life is also ok. Phone is very smooth. If you are using xposed. Be careful with evry xposed app. First time in my life i caught up with bootloop for installing serjr. But learnt many things after that.
Overall LP 5.1.1 is nice with smooth and many good features.
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How's the performance and battery on the latest version of Nougat?
Overheating still exists?
How about the A57 CPU cores disabled debacle that existed in earlier nougat versions?
I rolled mine back to 6.0 much much better, my alarms did not work, could not make phone calls..... I think Nougat is a mess on the z 3 plus