[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] xMoKax:
This is gonna be a pretty long story with photo's. I want to show you my situation as accurate as possible, so if someone can help me with this, that'll be amazing.

Has anyone here been noticing their phone lagging?

Swipe to unlock used to have fluid animations, not anymore. It hardly recognizes my gesture to unlock the device, I have to do it a few times.

Swiping through pages there are lag. Scrolling through App Drawer there is lag, especially in the Widgets section.

This phone has 4 cores and Project Butter, I don't get it. I'm thinking it could be from my SD card? Since it's only 16gb, and a class 4, it's taking longer for the phone to read the information on it? I think some of the apps I have are saved on the card (not sure how, but I think it is).

Anyway, if it's not from the SD card, do you guys have any idea why it would just be lagging like this? Are any of you guys experiencing performance hiccups?

I know I shouldn't be acting this way, but the phones less then a month old, and it should be smoother and faster..

I had 3 different launchers on my phone: Nova, Apex, Go, and I uninstalled all of them. Prior to uninstalling them, I never really set either one of them up, so there were no widgets on any of the launchers on the homescreen.

Here are a bunch of screen shots of the apps that I had on my phone, and how my phone was behaving..

Here are the apps that I have downloaded:

Here is my Device storage, and I don't understand why I have OVER 5GB of Miscellaneous stuff..

Here are all the apps that are running in the background, some have been running for over 400 hours!

And from all of those apps that are running, I disabled most of them, based on this list [http://forums.androidcentral.com/verizon-galaxy-s-iii/202816-safe-disbable.html] of Apps that are safe to disable:

I ran a test on Quadrant Standard and my phones getting 37-41 fps in the 2d and 3d rendering. My total score was at 4239, much lower then the HTC One X.

I was at the Verizon store today...

Two Words: Factory Reset.

Man, such a big difference in performance! I think one of the apps that I had installed was causing the lag, I just gotta figure out which one.

After I did the factory reset at Verizon, I did the Quadrant Standard Benchmark, I scored 54xx, and then I scored 62xx with an fps of 55-63, and I got real happy. Fast forward 3 hours and I do the same benchmark, and now I'm scoring at 42xx again with an fps of 40, and I got disappointed. I just don't get it. Is it defective? Is it not defective? I dunno.

The only app I have installed so far is the Quadrant Standard app, everything else is complete stock.

My Device Memory is 386 MB used and 10 GB free.

When it comes to RAM, 760 MB used and 1 GB free.

Inside the Quadrant Standard app, I clicked on System Information, and I got:

CPU

Current frequency: 1,100 MHz

Max frequency: 1,600 MHz

Min frequency: 200 MHz

Cores: 4

Architecture: 7

Memory

Total: 1834220 kB

Free: 289936 kB

Inactive: 266112 kB

GPU (OpenGL)

Vendor: ARM

Renderer: Mali-400 MP

Version: OpenGL ES 2.0

Max texture units: 8

Max texture size: 4096

Max lights: 8

I know I don't have a screen shot, but I noticed that in Quadrant Standard, it says that my Max Frequency is 1,600 MHz, and that my Current Frequency is 1,100 MHz. My friend has the Note 2 also (Different Carrier), and his Max Frequency is 1,600 MHz also, but his Current Frequency is 1,600 MHz too!

Why is my frequency so low? Is that the cause for my phone not performing the way that it's supposed to? Is it a defect? Would I have to get my phone replaced, or would I be able to fix it myself?

I'm thinking of flashing a ROM on it also (never done this before), and I don't know if that will fix the problem or make it worse.

Currently, I still have only one app downloaded on my phone, and that's the Quadrant Standard app, everything else is stock.