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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gsw5700:
Remove all bloatware and corresponding background services, get a good kernel (Franco r5 is great), you'll find phone is much better, in a few months, it will have moved on loads and will be so much better

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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the2rrell:
Yall are the odd ones out then. my phone was actually VERY VERY good at multi tasking out of the box. i could surf the web, play my music, and watch a movie with super video....and never get redraws, or hickups, leave apps open and keep going......i could not get it to do any lagging unless you speaking of the micro stutter in home screens. which is gone now with a custom rom and a few misc things here and there.

yall seem to keep wanting to blame it on the phone.....i dont quite understand this.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deezle:
Out of interest, do you regularly browse whilst listening to music, or is something you have just tested? not kidding, seriously at the end of my tether with this, need a fix!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Weees:
Im having the same problem with my S3 !! Its definitely slower than my older S2......hell its worse than my Ancient Nexus One !!!

It got better after I turned off the power saving feature from the notification bar. While it was on, I couldnt even play a game !! any game would lag like hell......so now atleast games are working as expected, but overall performance is still lagging. Im really thinking of selling this crap and going back to my S2. Nothing in this phone is as good as it claims to be.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] radeonxt:
lols did you even read what power saving does?

go to settings > power saving > learn about power saving - to see what each option does.

you can't just say the s3 is slow because yours is when everyone's s3 isn't.

the funny yet true tag line of intel inside, idiot in chair does apply to phones too.

it isn't the cpu's fault that it's slow if the user is an idiomt.

let me make it clear for you, if cpu power saving was checked in power saving mode it means it underclocks the cpu. so there you go duhhhhhhhhhh hehe

:laugh:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Starchini:
This is so strange. its like you guys are talking about a completely different phone than the one I received. Ive had GTAIII running in the background and surfing the Web without so much as a stutter. No problems with multitasking at all.

This makes me think there must be a hardware fault with your phones. I get em swapped!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deezle:
Think I can do that too but that's not what I'm trying to achieve.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pipilbreve:
few days ago I bought one S3 for me and two S2 for my childs, all with Ice Cream Sandwich.

I had stopped Enervy Saving but S3 is still "slower" than S2.

I mean that using them S2 is more smoother than S3 everywhere.

Scrolling, tapping, digiting on keyboard (it is ugly), ........

Franckly speeking I am not an expert but I dont have a nice feeling using my S3 even without compare it to S2.

I am not happy as you can immagine to soffer this experience and to talk about it but I hope will be a solution on next future.

I think something wrong appened and I hope was not only my mistake buying this really expensive phone.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Weees:
@radeonxt : DOnt give me that crap pretending your the genius. I have been using Android since Tmobile G1 came out in 2008, been modding and making my custom roms with various devices..........so I know very well what power saving does.

What I was trying to say was that power saving definitely made the problem worse, untill I realised that, turning it off obviously speeded things up, but DID NOT give me the same level of performance as that of S2. The reason being that several apps from Samsung seems to be eating up a large chunk of the ram leaving literally a 100mb only for all other apps. (This is a reading made with ALL other apps closed in the background).

I put a CM9 on it just to see how the performance changes and oh my! it seemed like another phone !! So our problem with the laggy performance seems to be related to Sammy's bloatware !!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mwatson:
Using the S3 has made me realise how good the S2 is. I am so close to sending my s3 back. The performance is so disappointing. The only improvement is the screen.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] norpan111:
You must have a faulty device, it's major difference in performance here.. It's doing everything smooth and fast.. Try wipe or custom rom? Cm9?must be some bugs
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Weees:
I just removed the following apps that are preloaded into the S3 (Samsung's bloatware) and BAM.....The phone is FASSST !!! :)

Apps Removed:

AllshareDMC

AllshareMediaserver

Allshareplay

Allshareservice

Chaton

Gamehub2.0

plusone

SamsungApps

Be sure to remove both the APK files and the ODEX files for each of the above mentioned files. Once you do, just restart and enjoy a HUGE difference in performance........my RAM is now only 50% used as compared to almost 90% previously!.

*Offcourse root is needed to take out those apps......they are located under /System/app
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pipilbreve:
thank you for good news but I am new with android so may you tell me how in practice may I remove correcly.

just "clean apps remove for dummies"

:)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the2rrell:
There is bloat rememver Tool in the Dev thread....OR

you can do it manually with a Root file explorer like Root Explorer, or i even think astro file manager.

and navigate to your system/app folder....make the folder R/W and delete the So Called Bloatware from the list of apks.

and REBOOT, and Bam you are debloated......
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ffbf:
I had performance issues too. The widgets reloading every time were really annoying. I'm not sure what the hell was wrong with stock branded Brazilian rom, but that was the problem. I did a lot of tests with different roms, not custom. Not every one will flash a new rom, Samsung should check the branded roms.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matttye:
The S3 makes my S2 look like a slow piece of crap :p

If yours is that slow I expect you've got a rogue app installed or faulty software/device. Try reinstalling the software and, failing that, get the device swapped. The performance difference is night and day.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dave6018:
I have gone from the s2 to the s3 and apart from the redraw it's been an amazing experience, the only time I get redraw is when there are multiple tabs open in the browser with flash rich contents! I found the s2 cr*p with stock ics firmware slow and laggy but with cm9 it was a different story
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sxi200:
I'm running Checkrom V1 which was bundled with siyah kernel and now my S3 blows my S2 out of the water.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] galaktiker:
Hahaha... galaxy s3 is not smooth not fast. Touch wiz always reloads. The behaviour of some applications is very slow. They sell us the phone will with alpha-software and firmware.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nodstuff:
Mine is very smooth and fast.

Touchwiz launcher never redraws for me since I changed services.jar to stop task manager killing the launcher.

I have no slow applications whatsoever.

Change your services.jar here to stop android killing it off by changing oom priorites. It's simple to do.

android.mimic.ca
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UpInTheAir:
Oops, looks like a free "thanks" :)

Anyway, check my signature for [guide] on how to patch your ROM with modified services.jar . You'll need DEODEXED though.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mafiatounes:
My S3 is way faster than my previous One X, S2 and Note! I don't know what you guys are doing but try to disable power saving and remove apps you don't use. I never experienced an Android phone without lag untill the S3, also some upcoming updates should optimize performance.

Written on my Galaxy S3 sent using Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Weees:
Well, for me since I removed all the bloatware my S3's performance has improved significantly and the redraw problems I was seeing before are almost unnoticable now.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pipilbreve:
Do u think is not enought to stop this apps ?

I had try but no big difference
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fool2x:
could it be possible after doing this the internal sd card oem id changed as shown in the picture?

Is there any difference in doing this than using "Factory data reset" from settings?

Did factory data reset from settings again but it didn't revert back.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sebarkh:
and in date info I have year 02/2009 now...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fool2x:
really? what does it say before you do that?

screenshot?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sohebq:
do i only need to remove/freeze the bloatware running in the ram? or i have to remove every app
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] norpan111:
Are you not healthy ? YOUR s3 may not be smooth or fast, mine is so you must have a faulty unit
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AW079:
Check your network connection, widgets requires downloading data from the internet so a slow connection in a poor service area may perhaps be the issue.

Root your phone and flash with Omega 6.0 ROM, do a custom install and remove all bloatware.

I am currently using it and its excellent. No issues, crashes at all that I have personally experienced.

Mine too was awesome out the box, and since rooting and running Omega ROM its even better.

I agree.

Wow, you must be using a different phone, because after two weeks of usage, the s3, for me is the best phone I've owned.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aninim:
Thanks for all the pointers!

But do you guys listening to yourselves???? really???

Is that NORMAL for you to buy the most expensive phone to date and accept any kind of imperfections???

Is that what is expected of a company that big???

Changing ROMs or deleting apps is for improving bad phones or over performance others for those who get the kick from it, that's fine. but why should i settle for less...and have to improve "the best smartphone" ever? ? ?

I was on my Sisters wedding the other day and had to check an old guest list, got my monster phone out and toggled from Gmail to Excel reader... it froze for no reason i couldn't do in 5 Min what I've done in 10 sec with my S2 (stock ROM). it was pathetic...

now there are rumours about a 2GB version, so now tell me that I'm dreaming...

And for those who had it blazing out of the box but still changed ROMs, why? and for how long did you use it as stock to really get to know his blazingness?

I did freeze some of the Korean company, it does free some of the RAM...still lagging on multitasking. even if i'll take it to the shop as some suggest how can i prove that it is a bad one?

Had to let some of my disappointment out, sorry for that...all in good spirit!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mwatson:
I guess there is nothing we can do about it. They aren't going to give us a refund cos its slow and laggy unlike their previous model the S2. I was thinking about selling mine on ebay but i'm locked into a 2 year contract now. always bought sim free in the past. Bummer..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YOCHANAN2007:
i just got the i9300 and it work fine for me (custom rom)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] norpan111:
Running stock rom here without root even, running really fine.. I've set animation and transition scale to 0.5x and it sounds stupid, but it does all difference in the world... Recent apps menu appears instantly etc, redraws of homescreen happens much faster.. Multitasking feels so much snappier also! Just try it... It was unfortunate for you that your phone froze.. But that could happen to any phone even iphone and s2,just saying
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sohebq:
can anyone solve this low ram issue? i don,t have many apps running
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phonecurious:
I have SGH I 747M Rogers version of S 3. I find this one slower than my I727 and battery is pretty warm, any thoughts?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] norpan111:
Yeah, I'm hungry but I'm thinking about going to bed and eat breakfast in the morning instead.. Can't really make up my mind
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jacksonwwl:
i froze all share cast and other all share services...and other un-neccesary program...

do not understand why whenever i went into any program and go back home screen.. i need to wait until all icon display...

wondering is it i put a lot shortcut thr... haha

jz deleted them.. now running fine..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mwatson:
I had to un-install Tasker today. It kept reporting low memory! Wonder if this will get fixed with jellybean?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kevinpunk:
yeah atleast i got one person who can understand me .... i got an really ****ed up galaxy s3 ... i had an s2 and note before .. both were ossum devices

and now i am stuck with a galaxy s3 ... with so many problems ...

cheak out the list maybe you are goona feel good after listening to my problems .....

1. THE SILVER PART ON TOP OF MY GALAXY S3 HAS SOME BLACK SPOTS ... VERY TINY AND THERE IS ONLY 3 OF THEM BUT STILL I PAID 41 K FOR IT .... AND I NOTICED IT AFTER 2 WEEKS OF USE .... SO THEY ARE NOT REPLACING IT

2. BATTERY BACKUP IS TERRIBLE ON MY GALAXY S3

3. MY BENCHMARK SCORE IS LOW LIKE HELL ... MY S3 SCORES HIGHER THAN IT .... ON ANTUTU I GET 8100 .... ALTHOUGH I DONT CARE ABOUT IT STILL I WANT TO SHOW MY FREINDS ... MY CELLS HIGH BENCHMARK SCORES ... I MEAN I PAID FOR IT

4. MULTITASKING IS REALLY BAD ON MY GALAXY S3 ... I OPEN 3 TABS ON CROME ... AND WHILE USING 3RD TAB .. WHEN I MOVE BACK TO 1ST ONE IS RELOAD ITSLEF AGAIN .. AND WHEN I MOVE TO HOME SCREEN IT RELOAD ITSELF ...

5. HOME SCREEN RELOADS LIKE EVERY TIME I DO SMETHING ... ( ONCE I THOUGHT OF OPENING 2 APPS IN MIND AND IT RELOADED ITSLEF ... /JUST KIDIN ? ) BT IT RELOADS LIKE HELL

6. AFTER USING MY CELL FOR 40 OR 50 MINS CONTINUOSLY LIKE CHATTIN OR USING YOUTUBE ... IT STOPS RESPONDING ... SCREEN GOES BLACK AND IT RESTART ITSELF ... SERIOSULY THE PHONE RESTARTS ITSELF.. WTF

7. I SYNCED THE CONTACTS FROM MY OLD GALAXY S2 AND FROM NOKIA 5800 .. NOW IN EVERY CONTACT I HAV ADDITIONAL INFORMATION LIKE B'DAY DATES OR EMAIL ... I CANT RECEIVE OR MAKE CALLS TO THEM ... EVERY TIME I DO THE PROCESS.COM.ANDROID SIGNS APPEARS .. AND MAKE MY PHONE NOT A PHONE BCOZ IT CANT MAKE A PHONE CALL

AND I PHONE WITHOUT A PHONE IS NOT A PHONE .. :p

LOL ALTHOUGH MY CELL IS NOT LAGGY , AND IT PLAYS GAME LIKE NOVA 3 WELL ON POWER SAVING MODE ON ..!!

BT I AM GNA SELL IT SOON !!!!!!!!!! **** this s3 .... it wasted my money ..

now you must be feeling happy right ..!!! .. :(:(:rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Baldilocks:
As far as you 'low performance' goes, do you have Power Saving mode on? If so, it's only running at about 40% capacity.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] felixtom:
yes, just flash a custom rom and everything gonna be fine;)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SexyIceCream:
hmm 40% that much? i couldn't really find a proper thread/link comparing power saving mode to without....hmmm.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clouds5:
I also have some stutter when i fill up my homescreens and swipe around really fast. But i'm pretty sure this is because of the way the stock rom handles CPU scaling. I checked with CPU Spy and the cpu is very often only on 800mhz even though i have power saving mode off. I can actually tell exactly when it goes into 1.4ghz and everything becomes buttery smooth.

You can either use a custom kernel and control the scaling of the cpu by yourself, or wait for Jelly Bean update. From what i've read in the thread about the leak is that they improved scaling and stuff in JB. Also Project Butter should do well :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Baldilocks:
Run Quadrant and AnTuTu with power saving off and then with power saving on. You'd be surprised.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beatsleigher:
Well, yes. I was experiencing that... I was using CheckRom Evo HD... Then I switched to jelly bean, that didn't work at all xD

I reflashed an older version of CheckRom Evo (V. 2) and my phone is working like a charm again! I guess it had something to do with the fact, that I wasn't paying attention to the RAM usage (Which was tromendous) (Hope I spellt that right...) so, just reflash your fav. ROM and all shoyuld turn out good ;)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SexyIceCream:
i just did, and well taking the average, power saving mode seems to slow the phone by just about 20%...but on full stock of course. i'm guessing a custom kernel/rom would get me nearer to 40% :p

P.S. does power saving mode save any battery at all? lol
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moayadsewar:
Same Issue

Hi there,

i have the same problem too, my old SII not has this issue even when its fully loaded with apps and data.

*not a power saving issue.

*rom updated to the latest.

*rooted device.

any fix for this issue?

awaiting the jelly bean (may fix this problem).

Best Regards

Moayad Sewar
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] netchow:
I think Power Save function really saves battery, but then the performance is affected. I personally leave it off.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hefonthefjords:
Sounds like your phone is broken like you got a bad chipset or something...

Even with powersaving on mine is always fast as hell. Faster than anything i have seen before.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paintball23456:
i have 400 apps on my galaxy s3 (unrooted) and i did a test, i opened up all my apps then tried to play modern combat 3 NO LAG!! then i went extreme i opened POP UP PLAY and was playing a 1080p movie WHILE playing modern combat 3 AND guess what? NO LAGmaybe the smallest amount of micro stutter but thats it 400 apps open + pop up play + mlaying mc3 with pop up play playing a movie on the screen = no lag :D your brain is just faulty get a life and if you don't like the s3 dont use it
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pugger:
wow.. what a stupid comment.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paintball23456:
Well, yeah but try yourself and you may be VERY surprised cos this is true. Oh and you just contradicted your self in that comment :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 2531prasad:
Even I experience this problem and the reason is that low ram

The thing is the current application you are using consumes too much of ram and your home screen shutdowns, for making your own current apication run smoothly. And when you press the home button the same your touchwiz launcher. Restarts, and one thing that we can do is wait for the jellybean update and expect to solve the ram problems
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mynics:
try using nobloat application (available at app store or blackmarket) and try to disable or remove application that keeps on running every time you booth your phone. works for me, my sg3 is running smooth. also try third party launchers like Apex or Nova (currently using nova prime) or search some tweaks in the forum. try experimenting im a noob when it comes to andriod but with the help of this forum and GOOGLE im learning inch by inch :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I stay on source builds most always and no lag at all.. Tw jb leaks are also very fast. No performance issues ive seen. I use nova prime launcher and set scroll speed to fast..

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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yasser86:
I run custom rom omega on jb 4.1.2 also bad multi tasking and reloads my running app
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Neolin:
same on archi ROM:/
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sriram231092:
this happened to me when mobile data is on continuously! but not when disabled!:rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Glebun:
revived a 6.5 months old thread for no reason, congrats
[myTouch 4G General] succorso:
For some reason my screen started really draining the heck out of my battery and it's only set on about 35% brightness.

Here are my current stats:

Screen - 65%

Wifi - 14%

Call Standby - 10%

Phone Idle - 9%

Android - 2%

What are your stats? Is the screen eating the battery? Any ideas how to fix this?

Thanks in advance.
[myTouch 4G General] THEindian:
That looks usual
[myTouch 4G General] succorso:
When my screen is on my battery drains about 1% per minute.
[myTouch 4G General] estallings15:
What is your max cpu speed?
[myTouch 4G General] odrecords:
Bad battery?
[myTouch 4G General] vietannamese:
Those stats look normal for the most part, but it also depends on how long the screen was on vs how long the phone was on overall.

Cell standby appears a bit high at first glance, which definitely causes some additional drain if you don't have reception during standby and the phone is searching for reception.
[myTouch 4G General] pettrel:
RE:

Hey,

I am running MIUI ROM 2.6.15

Screen 25%

WiFi 20%

Cell Standby 17%

Android System 16%

MediaServer 7%

Phone Idle 7%

Music 4%

Gmail 3%

Media 2%

Google Services 2%

I used the built-in Battery Calibration to calibrate the battery like last week and I noticed that by the end of the day, I still had at least 30% of battery...

I use it to text, listen to music and talk everyday at night at least 3-4 hours with my girl...

I'd suggest to root phone, try a new rom, or use any calibration apps from play store and follow the instructions... worked with my 2 previous phones.. Huawei Ascend, Motorola Droid 2 Global.. and this is 6th android I have and I love it a lot.
[myTouch 4G General] succorso:
The screen is set to 25%. It's only on for about 45 minutes.

I have rooted the phone and am running a very new rom.
[myTouch 4G General] Metalingus903:
i'm pretty much in the same position, my battery drains 1% per minute :(
[myTouch 4G General] pettrel:
I'm on T-Mobile and their "My Device" app will let you know if you need to replace the battery or not. Give it a try.
[myTouch 4G General] ExtremeNerd:
Are you running an ICS ROM? They seem to be so efficient at everything else that the screen is the major battery sucker. I've played PSX4Droid for a couple hours at a time, and it barely gets above 10% usage.
[myTouch 4G General] lepermessiahe2:
I run 2.3.4 virtuous unity. I can make it 24 hours before I charge it.

But the screen is the highest user of battery.
[myTouch 4G General] b33j7030:
2.3.4 GB here but i honestly say the games and watching videos takes a toll on battery the most.
[myTouch 4G General] critter200:
I used to have awful battery life on ICS and was able to narrow it down to the amazon app store....using like 35% battery.<--disappointing amazon! After uninstalling that I can get about 2-3 hours of screen time. If you're having terrible battery life after flashing a new rom you could try caliberating your battery. I use battery caliberation. When my battery is fully charged I run it, let it drain all the way down then charge it back up. There are probably other caliberation apps out there...or you could delete the battery stats from your recovery. Hope this helps.

edit: just noticed you're talking about Gingerbread, my bad, kinda skimmed over that :) Caliberating your battery could still help though.
[myTouch 4G General] nguyenheli:
background data
[TouchPad Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidwnbrgr:
Hey guys,

I'm getting my Touchpad some time next week and I plan on setting up CM9 after I play around with WebOS for a little bit.

I guess my question here is: which nightly do you use?

I've been looking around various forums and many seem to say that 5/29 is pretty stable (as stable as Alphas are anyways...) so I'm probably going to start with that.

If any of the more recent ones are better, please let me know!

Thanks :D