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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ekjl:
I know you're exaggerating the problems a bit, but I can see some of the problems you experience. There are instances where it does lag on touch response and I don't see it too often, but it does happen.

Redraw is an issue that's for sure. I've updated to LFB and I still see the redraw but not as often.

I'm running stock on the current LFB firmware and I haven't rooted the phone. I don't install alot of crap on my phone either.

I love the phone regardless; the few minor problems don't deter from the overall experience. It's generally smooth I have to say.

Also, the issues probably have to do with software optimization both with Samsung's firmware and apps from the Play Store. I'm sure as Samsung pushes more updates out, the phone will get smoother and most of the initial problems people experience will be ironed out. This goes the same for Apps in the Play Store. S3 will be the most supported phone so developers will optimize all their apps to run smoother with the S3.

Patience.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] koltrast_:
There are some problems as the launcher redraws and some lag from time to time, but I'm coming from the HTC Desire. To get the experience you get on the S3 on the Desire you have to tweak the crap out of it and it won't even get close to the S3. It's a wonderful phone, you are either overreacting or your phone is defect.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] juliano_q:
There are rare Launcher redraws (and it is happening less on LFB). I don't know how this can be "full of problems". It happens very ocasionally and the redraw is very fast and then the phone is buttery smooth again.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cyrexking:
Im having a slight lag sometimes after leaving shadowgun or a different heavy game such as nova 3 but after few seconds, everything goes back to normal. Nothing major to complain about.

I guess you might have a faulty phone so take it back for inspection and best of luck.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barondebxl:
I think you're overreacting. Lag? No .Maybe stutter but I don't experience that at all unless I have a bunch of apps install while i m using the phone Plus being on checkrom I have yet to have the redraw issue. You need to compare your S3 to the competition to see how butterry smooth that phone is. As far as home button lag, just disable s voice and it will be gone.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Simonetti2011:
Not from Brazil, I guarantee.

As far as the hardware goes, my phone is flawless, like a top grade diamond!

Perhaps you have some buggy widget on your home screen, that is making the home screen app misbehave, and - not being a developer thus not knowing how everything interconnects - starts blaming the device.

You sound like those car owners that blame the manufacturer because the car run out of fuel or because they simply can't drive.

If you think the device is such a mess (that you apparently caused, because you already tried non-stock ROMs on it), just return it.

Maybe Android is not for you... try an iPhone instead.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Poker gypsy:
I'm sorry also but my friends have the same phone and no lag
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Poker gypsy:
He maybe got a bad app and got some kind of virus? I'm sorry but I can't see this phone lagging? And maybe if there was more complaints about it I would say something wrong?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the2rrell:
I can certainly see the bad app/rouge widget messing with your screens.

i had a battery widget on my galaxy Note right before i got the S3 and it would make EVERY Launcher Lag when i had it sitting on my home screen.

was just by chance that i forgot to add it back after installing a new Rom and noticed all the lag/stutter was Gone. so it happens man just check it out, i hope its something as simple as just a bad app/widget.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muhamet:
Buy iPhone and no problems for you if you dhont like Sgs3.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tomatoes8:
I am the pickiest guy in the world. I went from GS2(perfect except battery life), iPhone 4s(Bluetooth, wifi, had to reset, everybody and their grandma has the same phone as me), Xperia S(too thick for pockets, old CPU, yellow screen, USB port flap and placement), and HTC One X(stutter and just about everything).

No problems. This phone is amazing. Believe me, I am super vocal about any little problem myself.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] michael.germany:
IThe S3 was the best compromise for me.

The One X hasnt got SdCard, One S the same + unswapable batteries.

Galaxy nexus also hasnt got SdCard so i went to the S3

I dont like Touchwiz and Samsung Crap, this is the reason I run a custom firmware.

The Phone is blazingly fast.

Regards.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tomerhd:
maybe im overreacting :) ....BUT...on iphone i'd never had those lag problems..never got kicked in the middle of a game or application...

i can't fell the monster CPU it had...

just formatted the phone and installed PARANOID rom...i will try to work few days without installing alot of applications....
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr.m0x:
Quoted for truth. I'm also in the situation where this is the first phone I've owned which I can't really find any issue with. Well the keyboard is kind of lame but easy to replace.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xillius200:
Its because not everyone has had a problem I have only had a low crackling sound but with the temp fix been using its gone so basically I have 0 problems so nothing to complain about, screens good quality for me, good battery and great speed. overall 0 problems now lol the temp sound fix doesn't bother me lol so it really depends on luck the phone from which batch you got it from and your experience/what you want or expected from the phone. This phone has been better than what I expected lol

PS: some people are just picky as well lol what some people may call problems may be nothing to other people :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veyka:
Lets put this simply, if you can't have a calm adult discussion without trolling each other, the thread will end up closed.

Keep it on topic and respectful.

Thank you.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aimara:
you have a faulty phone , send it back to me ...lol
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] twoashj:
scared to read it :/ or scared to get my phone :/
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ceo.mtcl:
Did you guys own galaxy nexus... Just curious to know what kind of weird **** you will come up with for it?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CuBz90:
I've had no problems whatsoever with the SGS3. Every smartphone I have owned has always had a problem, but not this one :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hypera:
I do not have any problems of the phone (yet), besides verizon have the bootloader locked
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonathanyong:
To the OP, what exactly are you expecting from your 1.4 ghz quad core phone? Are you comparing it to your 3.4ghz quad core i7 windows 7 pc with 4 gigabytes of ram? Because even quitting a game from such a machine will result in slowness in windows for a few seconds.

maybe you should excuse your phone with its puny 1gb of ram and give it a break? Because imo the sgs3 is performing amazingly with the limited hardware inside it. People are forgetting that while we're used to nice fast gaming pcs, the hardware inside our phones are still comparatively lethargic.

Also, compared to ios and windows phone, ics is still badly optimised for smoothness in ui. Jelly bean has fixed that so hopefully you'll be happy then. Until then, I suggest you either buy an iphone or windows phone.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] biffsmash:
Home screen redraw is a serious issue on stock, and I guarantee, if one android owner can see it, every single iphone user will see it if they switch over.

It is solved with the services.jar patch which is excellent, but that doesn't mean it's not there on stock.

Seriously wish people would just admit they know about the problem, and unless they've patched it, have it.

Samsung need to fix these tiny issues that should of been spotted in the early testing phase or something.

Aside from the home screen redraw (which is not a dodgy widget, it's android killing the launcher due to lack of ram!), the phone is amazing and blistering fast, with smooth complete software we should be proud of.

I would say to anyone unhappy with it, Root it, install Foxhound 0.9 Rom, and replace the Services.jar file with the patched one to fix redraw and you will have the perfect phone!

To the OP: Your phone is not defective, it is working as currently intended. So root it, or choose something a little more finished.

Peace.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr.m0x:
Yes I have a galaxy nexus as well although I think I will sell it soon.

My complaints about that phone:

battery life not great

no expandable storage

only 16gb of storage (could have lived without expandable storage if they actually bothered to release a 32gb version)

No fm tuner

Dated gpu

Yeah I knew about the storage issue when I got it but never realized just how quickly it would get annoying.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gfranzoi:
I'm having a constant redraw problem here, and my camera doesn't work if I try to use the front camera. Only way to get it back working is by restoring it to factory settings.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] disclaimernotice:
I've never had lags or sudden crashes while in games. However, I did experience several launcher redraws and also browser crashes when opening too many tabs, the latter of which was not unexpected considering the 1gb of ram.

Regarding your statement on where the four cores are, I'd like to remind you that almost nothing has been optimised for quad core yet. I've compared gameloft games loading times between the s2 and s3 and they're almost the same. So we'll just have to wait for the iPhone to have quad core because sadly, all 3d games are ports of ios versions, and thus have no proper quad core optimisation yet.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Simonetti2011:
Now that`s a medicine that will kill the patient!

If the OP is unhappy with a S III, with a Windows phone, he`ll go mad.

Like I said, I find nothing wrong with my S III hardware-wise, but to be honest I have a few grunges with the OS, specially some features that were removed from ICS 4.0.4 but were present in previous versions. Namely, they are:

- UMS support

- ability to move apps to SD card (natively)

- sync`ing notes with MS Exchange (everything else works, but not Notes).

None of these mean the device is laggy or slow, and 2 of the above aren`t even Samsung`s fault. Samsung has, however, replaced the original Notes app with crappy S-Memo, which is kinda worthless IMO.

I don`t like TW, so I rooted and got rid of it. I don`t like several daemons that are preinstalled with stock ROMs, such as news, weather, etc, so I also removed those. I removed a lot of bloatware from the stock ROM so it`s leaner, and that makes it faster, specially to boot up, since there are a lot less intents to receive the BOOT_COMPLETE broadcast. BTW, I also disabled several services from receiving the mentioned broadcast.

In short, what was already fast, got faster. Since you seem to know how to flash custom ROMs, just flash the one of your like and remove everything that is not essential for the OS. Then - SLOWLY - start adding the apps and widgets you want, keeping note of the performance of the device all the time, testing everything, and making sure nothing irrelevant is taking up processing time from the CPU.

I suggest you an app like "System Tuner Pro", because with it you`re able to disable several apps from starting app with the device on boot.

Now, if you want to keep the device stock, unrooted, then be very careful with what home screen app you're using and what widgets you're adding to it. I am pretty sure the sluggniess you're experiecing right now CAN be caused by misbehaving widgets.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aerobharath:
Solution is simple

Go to SETTINGS>DEVELOPER OPTIONS> UNTICK "DO NOT KEEP ACTIVITES" option at the bottom. Bingo... :good:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmd512:
Way to completely destroy multitasking.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] electric0ant:
I came from One X to S3 and I/m glad i made the change, even though i only had the one x for 3 months.

the redraw issue does come up sometimes, but that is a software issue with the launcher I'm sure, one x had the same thing as well, but it was more annoying as it just had a message saying loading with the rest of the screen greyed out. and took longer to fully load the homescreen as well.

I've not had any issue with any games so far, and while playing these games the S3 runs cooler and lasts longer than the One X.

I did like the one x but i think S3 just has a number of things which are just slightly better which all adds up for a better experience imo.

one thing which really annoyed me was the recessed front camera in the one x, it could collect crap in there (mainly dust) and cause pics to look blurry until you cleaned it, and because the hole is so small i would need a cotton bud (q-tip) to clean it properly. i am loving the flush front camera on the s3, just wipe and its clean.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ApophisXP:
Suggest you take it back for a refund.

Its sad to see a lot of people getting this phone just because its the "new" phone around. Without understanding it, Using it as it should and actually understanding it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jeffnz:
Have you checked the Apps you have downloaded as has been said. Changing roms won't help you.

Have a look at what you have done first before blaming phone.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aerobharath:
Explanation needed please!!

I said Un-TICK... not TICK... and correct me if am wrong with the concept behind it.. I respect your reply
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tomboymad:
Go back to iphone. It will be better for everybody.

Everytime I want a new phone I always read a lot about it, I usually go to the nearest shop to try it and when I buy, I have the right expectations about that phone. Maybe the problem of many people is because they buy the most popular phone without knowing if is the right phone for them. They just want to be the coolest guy...

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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ixon2001:
Smartphones are never perfect on launch, never have been those of us that got a Samsung Galaxy S when that first came out suffered alot of problems main one being lag, but eventually it was sorted along with the rest of the bugs.

The S3 been out what less than 2 months, and tbh it the least buggy smartphone i've had on launch to date.

I to suffer from the occasional redraw & audio crackle when listening to MP3's, but i know eventually these bugs will be sorted at some point, so im not to bothered.

The HTC One X suffered from a massive amount of bugs and hardware problems on launch, and to this date some still suffer major problems with it.

so im glad i didn't get one of them.

Personally if you want a Smartphone that doesn't suffer from plenty of bugs, then it best to wait 6 months & buy one then.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sormus:
I had a problem with sluggishness on gs3, but after opening task manager and killing some broken apps (juicedefender for some reason leaked memory like no tomorrow) it went away.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arsaw:
What to complain when I couldn't find any faulty on my GS3. Never use TW. I installed Nova immediately. So no issue with home withdraw. Never been kick off in the middle of the games.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pannocchia76:
Also for me Nova launcher is the best!!!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a67543210:
It's just launch. Bugs will be fixed. That's the reason every platform on earth releases updates.

Occasionally,

1-I get a redraw delay when returning to home screen

2-returning to home screen is faster with the back button than with the home button.

Solution:

1- removing the weather widget seems to speed it up or just change the launcher for a complete cure e.g go launcher, nova etc

2- dissociating S-voice from the home button through S-voice menu definitely speeds up returning to home using home button.

The One second is however nothing that bothers me, plus, this are early firmware releases. The experience is the best for me on any phone I've ever used.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] singapura:
I switched from iOS but have almost no issues at all. On the contrary the SGS 3 is much faster than my iPhone 4 and smooth as silk. Sure there are some small issues. But most are solved with a bit of customisation.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dayloon:
I also just installed nova which has got rid off any lag on the home screen. I think the issue is tw, not the phone
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ronj1986:
I agree with the OP!!! I have random exits while visiting webpages in the browser. Happened with stock & Google Chrome browsers multiple times on LFB firmware.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sitnamzug132:
I love how the topic says "SGS3 full of problems..." and the only problem is a very minor delay in home redraw... I've been really putting my phone through it's paces and I've noticed this issue maybe two times since I purchased the phone a week ago. I admit that it isn't ideal, it is also very minor to me. It doesn't affect my opinion of the phone in any way, and it certainly isn't the deal breaker it apparently is for some people.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apofisapep:
Y have the same problem with mine and its freaking me out. Every time y close the browser or using an app for a long time the louncher redraws, and it taks a few sec to load. I am very desappointed, because my old galaxy note never gived me this kind of problems.

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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] A|ex:
Only problem i have is the button is too thin and not as big as the s2, the phone is very smooth and it feels like it can slip out of your hand real easy.

Apart from that no problems at all, its fast stable, battery is just about 4 days cant ask for any more atm.

The problem i have is the choice between two roms and i know if i change from the version i am on my battery life drops more than half.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crazymary:
Probs

4 days? What's ur secret? I get 1 tops.

My probs/annoyances :

1. Background audio apps get killed by auto memory management. When using Google Listen for podcast, always getting killed when reading tweets. Cyanogenmod fixed ages ago. Can't believe ICS hasn't.

2. Touchscreen too sensitive, makes typing even with swiftkey hard, needs to be adjustable.

3. Volume keys too easy to bump, changes ring volume from vibrate to silent. Needs way to force vibrate and buttons only Control audio/music volume.

4. Max Audio volume isn't loud enough.

5.the camera shutter sound can't be disabled, if anyone knows how to temp root so can delete sound files and then unroot so banking app works, please let me know!

6. LED light is too bright, I need to find a good app for muting notification LED at night.

That's a good start, having come back to Android from iOS some of the apps aren't as good. I miss tweetbot, and UK public transport journey planning apps.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack Barrett:
No problems with mine at all
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smakked:
Smooth as silk for me way better then my piece of crap HTC one x and One XL, those 2 are the worse phone i have ever owned

Sound s like PEBKAC
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aimara:
ermm its because you cant do anything on " iphone " only " jailbreak " ?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gee2012:
:crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying:: Get an iPhone
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aseanity:
So far I am happy with my phone.

The redraw launcher is a bug from Samsung weather+clock widget.

Remove the widget and clear data, after with a soft reset.

No more this problem. There is thread discussing this solution not so far.

But. I do agree this beast doesn't utilize the quad core. But, it takes time for developer to optimize it. The beast just haven't unleash yet!

I do suffer other problems.

The most annoying is when I.clicked on any button or list view. The transition and enter time is was like stucked. But it do enter after the freeze time.

Multi tasking is lagging.

But, I love more than hate this phone.

Amazing sound, great display, great ux(anyone start to.like touchwiz? )

It not the best phone, but it is a better phone than any other phone now
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] radeonxt:
turn off power saving mode.

lols

:D:good::victory:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tanjiajun_34:
Actually to me Omega is more lag than just stock..... For me I just use LFB+Siayh 1.3.8... Done... Off power saving as well. Go to S voice>Settings off the Launch S Voice. Lastly flash Jelly Bean animation.. Smoother to me...http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1738350

Omega rom < Stock for me in terms of smoothness.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Their is very very little difference with any of the custom roms and stock at present .

Mainly a matter of added themes no performance gains .

jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zodiaxe66:
This is true.

And another thing DON'T use task manager/killers this will destroy androids own ram management and will eventually cause lag, because it has to rebuild ram cache every time u kill apps
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droidemere:
My only issue is the phone will shut off or restart by itself from time to time . Haven't really had time to read up on it as to why it happens I'm fully stock with only a few apps. Any ideas ?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raq003:
I am also experiencing problems of lagging upon pressing the home button, sometimes it is very noticeable. Otherwise the phone is fantastic and smooth. I'm hoping I don't have a defective phone and that this issue will be resolved with an update. Fingers crossed!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sxi200:
My phone is smooth as. Absolutely no lag or issues anywhere.

Running sslauncher (no launcher redraws) + checkrom + siyah.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mariusdroid:
Installed cm10 prew5 its a hole new phone my feelings about ICS are they were wen windows vista came out

Jb its feels different stable I'm using it for 1 day prew 5 before that I was using 4 had some problems with sound now its almost perfect
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] delsus:
Not had one shutdown or restart on my phone, could be a US variant issue (this is the international boards) but overall I would say there is a problem with your phone, stock should never force shutdown or reboot.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack Barrett:
Same here. Stock + syah is very smooth.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr Woolf:
Everyone's probably silent because most of us had an sgs1, which was really **** - then most of us bought an equally **** sgs2. I guess we're just so used to **** phones, we don't even notice it now.

Of course op, you probably did the same as me before you shelled out £600 on a phone - you tested every phone on the market, then decided to buy the really **** laggy one?

Man up. You bought the phone, if you don't like it then you're a fool for buying such an expensive device without testing it first. Go whinge elsewhere, this phone's great.