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[Galaxy S III General] Galactus:
Either way stock dialer is SUCKS :D

Sent from the mind of Galactus
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Yes it does. The whole touchwiz ui sucks.
[Galaxy S III General] bluecry:
24 pages of discussion and no solution. Thanks to effin Sammy.
[Galaxy S III General] Poshdaz:
Perhaps if they spent less time trying to dream up useless novelty functions like smart scroll and some of the other bobbins they bloat the thing with, they might have time to address some real issues like this dialer lag.

Maybe they while they are at it they could find a fix to the no service /emergency calls only debacle too.
[Galaxy S III General] swift2fly:
I9305

not sure if this has been stated before but the problem may lie in the ram? My friend just bought the S3 i9305 and his dialer and contacts loads up right away without any lag. Could it be the lack of ram for the i9300 version? his phone is not rooted and is still on v.4.0.4
[Galaxy S III General] Mohdmks:
yeah i notice that and the solution i have for it is to see Jkay post :D
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
What's the point of locking tw apps in memory? The poor ram management will throw them out soon enough.
[Galaxy S III General] Galactus:
The dialer never got kicked out if I used Jkay to lock it. Other things would close instead. Still, the contacts app takes up more ram than my Nova Launcher setup with 5 pages and countless widgets lol. Might buy the Note 3 since the Note 2 my friend has doesn't lag but his wifes S3 has the infamous "Lags and Stucks"
[Galaxy S III General] swift2fly:
i've installed Perseus's most recent kernel and the dailer has been in memory and is loading instantly. i've been testing it...opening all types of apps that i have, including letting my phone sleep over night then opening the dailer, it opened instantly.

sent from where i'm at.
[Galaxy S III General] dodgebizkit:
This is frustrating but for the time being swioe dialer dies a good job

Sent to you watchers of illusion from my castle of confusion.
[Galaxy S III General] mitky82:
Exdialer have sgs3 theme from 25.4 :)

GT-I9300 XXEMC3
[Galaxy S III General] lupajz:
I have this problem with exdialer, if I click on a missed call from notification bar it always also opens contact app. How can I prevent this ?
[Galaxy S III General] Galactus:
Chances are you've set the option in ExDialer to open the stock dialer when you need to clear missed call notifications. Download the exdialer addon

Playstore
[Galaxy S III General] sobo612:
power button lag solution

24 pages and no solution. So guys i got one. No for diary lag but power button lag.

When you push power button it takes 1-2 second to light up display and i discover when you connect USB flash ( It does not matter which ) thrught OTG cable and disconnect it lag is gone. I tested this on 2 SGS3 and its work perfectly. But when you restart phone you will do it again but it works.

Let me know if it work for you
[Galaxy S III General] p33t-r:
I think there is a solution...

I'm using Perseus kernel and Jkay mod. In Jkay you can whitelist launcher and contacts / dialer. Also it removes the home button lag. Works like a charm for me. There is no problem with ram management either, since I use zram with row scheduler. Even with about 200 apps, phone is perfectly smooth. You guys should try it.
[Galaxy S III General] p33t-r:
I think JKay is working (or already released, as it states in thread title) on free app. You can also download the "trial" version, what allows you to launch it 3 times - it's enough to set all the things and backup everything. If you want, you can make a backup, unistall Deluxe Settings, install it again and you still have 3 uses. After you set everything there is no use for app anymore.

Sent from my GT-I9300 powered by Perseus kernel
[Galaxy S III General] p33t-r:
Sorry, didn't know that. Still, for many people, who can buy it, it's the best way to get rid of the most annoying thing in s3.
[Galaxy S III General] MattBooth:
Any substantiation for that? It doesn't cause lag or battery drain on mine.
[Galaxy S III General] calinoii:
Can u please explain what zram is and what does it do ? How to install it,i already have jkay deluxe settings anf I want to get rid of the lag. Thanks!
[Galaxy S III General] MattBooth:
I used my ROM without Xposed for a long time. It doesn't slow down your phone, it doesn't appear in the processes lists as a hog. So, if you can substantiate it, you could probably help the guys behind Xposed... but otherwise you're engaging in hearsay.
[Galaxy S III General] p33t-r:
Zram is an extra space on sd card, which acts like RAM memory, kinda expanding the RAM on your device. That's basically what it does, for specific information you should try Google or xda wiki.

To enable it, you need custom kernel which supports it, I use perseus. It can be enabled in Stweaks app, which is installed with kernel, under I/O tab. In Jkay deluxe settings you have to whitelist contacts/dialer app in Misc settings menu.
[Galaxy S III General] tmac31:
zram is compressed memory on ram not from sd card. the one you talking about is swap from sd card
[Galaxy S III General] p33t-r:
Ah, sorry. My bad. Nevertheless, it does what it's supposed to, especially after new algorithm used in latest Perseus.
[Galaxy S III General] tmac31:
yes its great.
[Galaxy S III General] brightsteel:
Dialer lag still there in s4?

Hello!

Was wondering if the new S4 also suffers from this touchwiz dialer/contacts lag
[Galaxy S III General] kusumalaga:
The solution is to use AOSP or CM10.1 ROM. Dialer and messaging app will open in a flash as soon as you touch it :p
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Bull. The solution is to use a third party app to directly circumvent this issue.
[Galaxy S III General] HassanM:
Likewise....
[Galaxy S III General] tweetatoo:
Agreed, apart from custom ROMs.

I used CM 10.1 and Pardus HD and met no problems whatsoever.

BTW, the time needed from screen unlocking to making a phone call is about 15 seconds in stock ROMs, which is horribly slow! My old Nokia 6300 is a lot faster :D
[Galaxy S III General] dodgebizkit:
I downloaded this jkay mod but had no idea what to do with the extra packages you need to download :( #n00b

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Sent from my right hand, which is surprisingly not busy right now.
[Galaxy S III General] prabhjots:
Not to bump an old thread but the other day I had a run at the S4 at the showroom. The lag is still present even on 8 cores.

Even Samsung Galaxy Chat, which costs less than 1/8th of the S4, has the same 3-4 seconds lag.

It seems like this has become a Samsung signature.
[Galaxy S III General] Barracuda77777:
Agree, this the main reason I flashed cm 10.1, everything I click on is almost instantaneous :)

Sent from my GT-9300T
[Galaxy S III General] gchindi:
I can confirm that the lag is not there on s4 i9505 version, have been testing it from last two weeks... No lag at all... Definitely not as bad as s3...
[Galaxy S III General] shar1r:
As if the lag in the dialer is the only issue. I literally cannot use the gallery under any circumstances since it takes two whole minutes to load.

This is probably my most disappointing upgrade ever. I feel no improvement at all from my S2. The only thing I even like is the multi window - and even that only works sometimes.

I was expecting a buttery smooth super snappy phone with an amazing camera - and I got none of these.
[Galaxy S III General] sirvo:
I have been playing with s4 last days with the last update and I also confirm that both gallery and call/contacts do not show that annoying lag of the s3.

I have been using my s3 for a year now and almost the whole time with cm10. I think unacceptable s3 touchwiz ui. The s4 is improved, smoothly and got me wishing the 4.2.2 update on my s3. This is a real deal to get back to touchwiz.
[Galaxy S III General] v1ks:
Use Quickpic from playstore for gallery, i found the using the stock gallery taking ages and also you cant hide photo folders as it displays everything on your phone.
[Galaxy S III General] shar1r:
I do - that's not the issue. I don't think I should need to bloat up my phone with 1000 alternate apps to achieve basic functions.
[Galaxy S III General] maddes1402:
Hey guys,

When you can´t stand the lag in contacts you should check out Yandex.Shell Launcher!

It is made from SPB Mobile Shell Team but for free. The launcher has it´s own contacts app which opens faster than you can press the button for that function :D

It´s too early for me to give you a full review or to make a conclusion how much it affects battery life or RAM usage. But in the first moment I am really suprised about this launcher.

Best regards, Matt
[Galaxy S III General] BLooD_LorD:
I used to have this lag on original rom, but with custom rom and jkay framework this doesn't bother me anymore
[Galaxy S III General] nipun1188:
Good news!!! Samsung releasing new TW launcher like S4 with no dialer lag. 4.2.2 has been delayed because of that.

Credit sammobile

https://mobile.twitter.com/sammobiles
[Galaxy S III General] ricfenrir:
Well

Well, that's pretty damn sweet tbh.
[Galaxy S III General] swift2fly:
check this thread out. i'm on 4.1.2 and this works for me.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2130044

sent from where i'm at.
[Galaxy S III General] MattBooth:
Anyone handy with decompiling jar's can do this:

Decompile services.jar

Open the smali file

PackageManagerService.smali

Find the method

.method static compareSignatures

Replace it all with this code:

.method static compareSignatures([Landroid/content/pm/Signature;[Landroid/content/pm/Signature;)I
.registers 9
.parameter "s1"
.parameter "s2"

.prologue
const/4 v6, 0x0

const-string v3, "Wanam: PackageManager"

const-string v4, "Skip signature check."

invoke-static {v3, v4}, Landroid/util/Slog;->e(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;)I

return v6

.end method

Credits to wanam.

Then, delete, using a root explorer:

/system/app/SecContacts.apk

OR

rename it to /system/app/SecContacts.apk.bak

Then, download one of the attached files. Either the themed or unthemed. Up to you.

Copy them to /system/app/Contacts.apk

Reboot.

If Contacts (or will be named "People"... This is the CyanogenMOD AOSP Contacts) FC's simply clear the data in Applications Manager and try again.

Works 100%. No issues. No dialler or contacts lag.
[Galaxy S III General] Mebuca:
Using a custom contacts app might be a good idea :)
[Galaxy S III General] fulgeru:
I'm thinking to try third-party app for this :good:
[Galaxy S III General] MattBooth:
It's just inverted :) nothing out of the ordinary. Still Holo :D
[Galaxy S III General] rosmarcelino:
Is there an easy way for noobs like me? :o

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[Galaxy S III General] kusumalaga:
+1
[Galaxy S III General] MattBooth:
Flash this package. It's for XXEMD3... if you're not running that, or XXEME2... Flash at your own risk.

If you want the inverted Contacts, download from here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=42714976&postcount=287

rename it from Contacts-themed.apk to Contacts.apk and put it into the zip in /ultima/app/

EDIT:

Almost forgot, to get the stock contacts back, delete /system/app/Contacts.apk and rename SecContacts.apk.bak to SecContacts.apk, then reboot.
[Galaxy S III General] rosmarcelino:
I am using the last 4.2.2 leak, this zip is only to 4.1.2 right?

EDIT: Tested on 4.2.2 and stuck at Sammy logo.

:(

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[Galaxy S III General] MattBooth:
For 4.2.2, replace the services.jar in the zip I uploaded with this one :good:
[Galaxy S III General] KainHeinlein:
Finally i get AOSP Contacts on stock ROM!!!!!!!!!! thank you very much [MENTION=3443334]Kryten2k35[/MENTION]!!!!!!!!!!!!! the look of asop dialer and contacts are so cool
[Galaxy S III General] AvivEliyahu:
Any way to make the dialer white-blue as the contacts ? :)
[Galaxy S III General] leboreiro:
this happens to me ALOT . is there any mod or flasheable fix to it?
[Galaxy S III General] ArbiterGR:
What he said, switched to PA3.60 yesterday with devil's kernel and everything loads in an instant. Why doesn't samsung optimize their apps on such flagship devices is way beyond me.
[Galaxy S III General] pride_kr:
I would like to use aosp... didn't move because the touchwiz camera still rulez....
[Galaxy S III General] somin.n:
Hi! I want to ask if someone can help solve my problem. I am trying to "port" asop contact/dialer to my stock ROM on my s iii mini. I made services.jar mod and asop contacts app is working great, but I have no dialer app. Where should be the problem? I tried factory reset, clear cache, clear dalvik cache, but still only contact app without dialer :( If someone have idea how to solve it, I will be grateful. Thanks :)
[Galaxy S III General] somin.n:
Thanks for reply, but it doesn't work, still no dialer :/
[Galaxy S III General] jamie.miro:
well i probably didn't get the steps quite well from this post :/

i downloaded the zip , flashed it with cwm, after reboot there's no dialer and contact . Probably i missed out steps. I am on stock 4.1.2 xxemd3 (rooted) . Can you please explain the procedure step wise if possible? Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] tonyt3rry:
I'm on 4.1.2 and I see lag everywhere on my phone I've had enough with it now . come payday I'm trading my s3 in at CEX and putting the extra cash to the nexis 4 I'm not bothered about loosing camera quality and battery and SD I don't use my 32gb now I want a phone that is lag free the s3 is quad core and still manages to use most ram and be slow as hell and still heat up
[Galaxy S III General] 2rgman:
So why not tryng AOSP or CM?

AFAIK the only problems are touch to focus with flash and maybe battery consumption (at least for CM)

Edit:

Sorry, only now i see you are already with ASOP, you have this lags on ASOP?
[Galaxy S III General] tonyt3rry:
ROMs have too many bugs poor battery graphic glitches when scrolling phone heating up under low stress no HDMI no plug and play to name a few been down that route before with supernexus and pa . o and instagram recording videos is like a under 1.3 mp camera
[Galaxy S III General] saroj405:
Fixed the issue

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1735283

This solution definitely fixed the issue for me.
[Galaxy S III General] @Phoenix:
How many contacts do you have?

Remove phone app from memory and open it again, how many seconds take to load the contacts?

The solution you provided only help to reduce the animation time, not the time the app takes to load all the contacts when its not in memory.

Regards.
[Galaxy S III General] saroj405:
I did the same and it loads in 2-3 seconds for me. I have 950 + contacts on my phone.
[Galaxy S III General] igruberger:
New kind of headphone

Sorry, posted in the wrong thread...
[Galaxy S III General] pemell:
Thanks man, this is working wonders on my Galaxy Note 2 ( t0lte )!
[Galaxy S III General] flash1109:
Use xposed app setting. It work for me
[Galaxy S III General] Seicer:
It didn't work for me, it replaced the stock and installed the new one, but it didn't appear in the app list.

Can anyone please make a zip to replace the Sammy phone/contacts app and install the stock Android apps?

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[Galaxy S III General] MoonBlade:
worked on my xxemh1 neat rom thanks
[Galaxy S III General] MoonBlade:
[MENTION=3443334]Kryten2k35[/MENTION] is it possible to do this with aosp dialer from 4.3 ?
[Galaxy S III General] MattBooth:
Probably not until we get a 4.3 release
[Galaxy S III General] kadiremrah:
CodecRom

DSA whois the developer of Stock/AOSP hybrit ROM has solved this problem. He ported the AOSP dialer, contact and phone.apk so everything working smooth. If you wanna change your rom...
[Galaxy S III General] MoonBlade:
Thanks for the info.. but i dont want to change my whole rom just for the dialer. :)
[Galaxy S III General] taran3d:
almost went to apple over this issue

i primarily use my galaxy s3 as a mobile phone and this device sucks at being a phone

everything else it excels at - but as a phone its a disgrace

i almost went back to iphone over this issue - but then i tried exdialer from a recommendation on this thread, and its INSTANT!

i'm going to see how it goes but if i cant get used to exdialer then i'm afraid i'm going back to iphone as i am really busy and it just doesn't help when your mobile is working against you, you just need something thats effortless and just works.

i hate to say this but - you get a galaxy s3 and expect it to be fast but there is pretty much lag with everything especially when browsing the web(i mean interface not loading pages)

t
[Galaxy S III General] HeadBass:
just use 3rd party dialer/contacts like swipe dialer free

no lag switching between call log/dialer/contacts and better gui overall, easy fix
[Galaxy S III General] yken:
We can use 3rd party dialers but why stock dialer laggy?
[Galaxy S III General] Moster2:
Because touchwiz is crap in its current state. Maybe the 4.3 release will improve the performance
[Galaxy S III General] yken:
S4 and note 3 laggy too or this is specific to s3?
[Galaxy S III General] dodgebizkit:
I've heard it lags in s4 but a video in the n3 forum shows contacts and dialer to be faster than on my nexus 4

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Sent by my right hand, which is not otherwise engaged.

{Nexus ⁴ stock unrooted 4.3 with Kii Keyboard.}
[Galaxy S III General] donoli74:
Is this working for 4.3?
[Galaxy S III General] trashkutys:
The 4.3 official Ireland has the same issue.
[Galaxy S III General] andrewwright:
Install exposed framework and app setting's module and then set phone message and contacts to residents in ram. No lag after that my end. Running i9300 with 4.3 stock firmware
[Galaxy S III General] nisverma:
Thank you so much tried your suggestion. Now there is almost no lag.
[Galaxy S III General] andrewwright:
Put tw in resident also and it speeds up a little more. Glad you tried,problem solved sort of with little hassle :thumbup:
[Galaxy S III General] Mick.B:
Awesome fix
[Galaxy S III General] chrcol:
in my opinion this is due to 2 factors.

1 - bad memory management from android. (seems to be even worse on samsung based rom).

2 - heavy dialer/contacts code.

on #1 think back to vista windows operating system, it introduced a feature called superfetch.

Basically there is 2 types of caching, passive caching where something you load stays in memory until that memory required for something else, or it gets flushed out (perhaps been due to the data been updated). This type of caching is generally fine.

There is also preemptive caching where the OS caches data that has not yet been used by anything but does so to try to preempt the user, the idea been when the user first loads an app its snappy and they think wow thats fast, but in my experience of preemptive caching systems they dont work very well. Vista overdid this (superfetch is preemptive caching) and hence got bad feedback.

Android basically does the same thing as superfetch, when you boot up your phone notice how its initially laggy this is due to it preloading apps into ram, then after you wait for a few mins goto the applications manager, tap running, then tap show cached processes, I bet you notice apps listed you have not launched or used recently (maybe not even at all). This will especially be the case shortly after bootup when there is more ram free so it preloads more apps. this is also the reason why when people debloat ram gets freed up because there is less stuff for the OS to preload.

This ultimately means apps like the dialer are more likely to get pushed out of cache due to ram pressure, and when people say free ram is bad they are not strictly right.

If there is a way to turn off this preemptive caching then it will be one of the best ways out there to tune android for the better.

Using xposed as a fix may help somewhat on the dialer, but its also worth pointing out xposed framework itself creates a lot of lag. I spent weeks tryin to diagnose why my s3 has lag in the mehus, in play store etc. it was fast on a clean rom install but then slowed down, I tracked it down to the xposed framework which even with no modules adds noticeble lag.
[Galaxy S III General] andrewwright:
Use a kernel with zram or 4.3 'Sammy found zram :D' and there is no noticed lag my end. I'm running 4.3 neatrom with exposed framwork +apps settings with gxv1.4 kernel. Even on the s4 with its 2gb of ram still has this problem. Not sure note the note3 with its 3gb of ram. Would be nice if we could set things in ram as priority or not and apps settings module does this..sort of anyway.
[Galaxy S III General] chrcol:
its 100% repeatable, its possible you are used to the lag and consider it normal.

maybe I should make a video showing with and without xposed but I am too lazy.
[Galaxy S III General] andrewwright:
You sure its not you're phone? Only person saying it still has lag with exposed
[Galaxy S III General] shadad:
guys ... Samsung just released new room for the S3 I9300XXUGMK6.. did any body tried it and confirm about this issue if its solved or not ? am trying to download it but the link is soo damn slow !

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2344133&page=181&nocache=1
[Galaxy S III General] osouto:
I suffer from xposed framework lag as well,
[Galaxy S III General] andrewwright:
Lag is in s4 and n3 so probably not.

As for the lag...what rom are you on?
[Galaxy S III General] shadad:
am still on Ice cream just because of the lag on the Jellybean. i sacrifice lot of things by being on the Ice cream sandwich just because of the lag on the contacts and the phone app. i tried lot of roms that belong to different countries. no luck at all with jellybean crap roms.
[Galaxy S III General] andrewwright:
Give it till tomorrow and you will have you're answer. Some one will say about it. 4.3 has lag on wake up to lmao. All I can say is next phone won't be a Samsung.
[Galaxy S III General] kikan:
i have this lag from my first galaxy s phone till now...

i have 700 phone numbers and few emails...nothing so special...

hope that somebody will fix this in new android 10???

by

kikan
[Galaxy S III General] tacchan23:
Well, to be honest I don't use my phone for calls too actually. I and also spend a more time modding my phone than actually using it^^

But I still don't understand what's the point in installing the latest custom rom, the latest kernel with the most tweaked performance and so on if it then still takes 2 seconds to open the phone app or wake up the phone from sleep. Those should be some very important issues even for people who only cares about speed/performances/tweaks/mods and not about using the phone for more conventional purposes.

Anyway it's true the fault is 100% Samsung's.

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I have 28 contacts and 2 emails.

It doesn't really make a difference :D
[Galaxy S III General] mitky82:
Most important function in phone is laggy. .. maybe i should buy iphone.... aosp and aokp roms dont have that lag.