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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
Yes, but Nokia doesn't need to get the data from Facebook, Google Plus, Skype. If you disable that in Samsung, the speed dial will be faster.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wednesday13:
Lol no. Are u stupid? Datas from Facebook Google etc are stored on phone's memory.

Maybe we need 32 cores in order to reduce the dialer lag
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Baldilocks:
What dialer lag?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
And still need to get them, dumb. Open the gallery, is lag free ? The phonebook is updating and syncs the status and availability of people
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gowings23:
How's Nova running on the S4 without root? My S4 should be here next week and I plan on using Nova. My buddy's S3 was terrible when he used anything but the stock launcher and I'm hoping that isn't the case with the S4.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tuxonhtc:
FYI.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wednesday13:
Try opening it without data connection. Does it still lag? Lol. Stupid excuse. Facebook integration? How about poor software integration?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Metalli-Nut:
Make The Lag Go Away

If you want to make your GS4 to be MUCH faster, do this:

go in your phone Settings-> Developer options and turn off -> "Windows animation scale", "Transition animation scale" and "Animator duration scale".

Now check how much snappier your phone is.

***You can also turn on "Force GPU rendering" but SOME applications don't like that, so you can try it, but if you find you start having problem with some of your applications, turn it off.

From Kremata's Post
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sevencloud:
Gs4 lag

I have this phone for Sprint and confirm the lag. I have the One for AT&T and no lag issues at all.. I think TW is a lil heavy on the bloat/gimmicks. SMARTSCROLL sucks for the most part, haven't tried the rest of tje new features yet, I'm liking the One better so far, but I'll give the S4 a few more weeks to iron things out before I just sell it or keep it...
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lbreak:
Can you please close all apps on the S4 each time before running:

1- Dialler

2- Contacts

3 - Gallery

And report on how slow they are to open.

I recall these being slow in both the S and Note series. My old man's Galaxy Ace loads them faster! The simplest apps in the entire phone! :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prodigyX:
Nova runs far smoother than Touchwiz on my i9500. I would say the biggest difference (lag-wise) is scrolling through widgets in the app drawer. Nova is butter, but Touchwiz is a jerk

I couldn't get SmartScroll working well initially either, but once you get the hang of it, it's really good. I actually use it in the browser a lot now
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gremlininthesystem:
cant wait to try it =]
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prodigyX:
Where do you disable the S-Voice double-press option on the S4? Can't find it :silly:

Update: Found it. Doesn't make a difference. Still about a half-second delay between pressing 'home' and response, whether double-press is enabled or not
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sevencloud:
There's about a half second delay when opening after closing all apps. I'm really disappointed with the lag issues. Not sure why Sammy wouldn't iron the kinks out before releasing the phone. I feel like I feel like it was rushed to steal HTC's thunder
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Grant H:
I went to the AT&T store yesterday to play with the Galaxy S4. It was buttery smooth, so I purchased one to replace my Galaxy S3.

The only services running on this phone is data, wifi, gps, multiwindow and sync. I have turned off all that extra bull crap like air view, air gesture, smart stay and scroll....

Hate to say it, but my Galaxy S4 has lagg all over. It its not bad enough to return the phone, so I'll hope that a future update takes care of this.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testinguser:
So the store s4 had no lag, but the one you got had lag, despite turning off all the bloatware?

These stories of lag are depressing as it was one of the main reasons I switched away from the evo3g way back when.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Skander1998:
You guys suffering from lag need to be just a little patient, a software update will polish everything really soon like it happened with the S3.

You are basically running the first "kinda ready" firmware.. lol
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ste1164:
Still, something that basic should have been ready when the phone first came out.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Skander1998:
That's Samsung, I assure you it's getting fixed though, if they mess the S4 up, they're really in trouble.. and the logical answer here is they won't..

I also noticed some HTC One fan boys around here "Experiencing issues" with their Galaxy S4's *uhm* "Posted by an HTC One" in other topics :p (Kinda off topic but had to say it somewhere)

It's not a really *big* deal, your phone comes with software support, it will get an update soon, if it doesn't and you still find issues, complain at the store, you didn't get what you paid for. ;)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ste1164:
Well I am not one of those fanboys, people do it from both sides. But samsung need to work on optimising their software instead of throwing more "features" onto it.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aliHTCDHD:
It lags cos of the android 4.2 poor optimisation and becuase of touchwiz. When purchasing s4 45% of the 16gb model is already used that's just how much it is bloated with software. The must smoothest phone I've seen is the HTC one which all reviews have said to be extremely snappy. If HTC one is a option then check it out.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Skander1998:
I completely agree, I'll probably get a custom rom ASAP when they get released.

And, yeah I wasn't hinting at you, but we have a very close example nearby here ;)

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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ste1164:
Well you should ignore said person and get the phone that suits you. I'd love for people to get the HTC One and help HTC out but it wont happen. I also wouldnt want people to get a phone they don't enjoy so I dont force opinions. I just wish people from both sides wouldnt insult each other over a phone.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aliHTCDHD:
I'm not a fan boy I'm just saying htc one is very responsive something that been said by OTHER people so if lag is a issue on s4 than you could consider that. Just becuase I mentioned HTC one doesn't mean I'm a fanboy moron :mad:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Baldilocks:
I want my phone to have a physical home button and have dedicated menu/back keys. That kind of leaves the HTC One off the table. That and the Blinkfeed or whatever it's called is just odd.

I don't have any lag problems with my Galaxy S4.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testinguser:
I wonder why most of the formal reviews did not mention the lag, or perhaps I missed it. Anyone have a link to a professional/formal review describing how horrible the lag is (as is being promulgated here).

I get mine tomorrow, so we shall see. I have to say this does put a damper if true. I plan to turn off s-air and scroll and anyother s-nonsense. Which btw, does anyone have a list?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I don't have S4 yet. But, on my One S which is running 4.2.2 I set animations to .5 and check the box to Disable HW Overlays. Runs very smooth. Mine are under developer options also and I am rooted. So, didn't think these were available on a non-rooted device. Assume they are since you mentioned it--but, since I have always been rooted on my phones, don't know--don't remember
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Baldilocks:
Wouldn't disabling HW Overlays put most of the graphics load on the CPU? I think the GPU would be a better choice.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
You can try either way. The one I posted just works very good for me--:)

There was some warnings on doing it awhile back--forget what--but I have zero issues and buttery smooth

Not sure what it will do on S4

So, I guess those options are there on a non-rooted phone also?

Of course, I have advantage of nandroids and can experiment--

Tried GPU, it seems to work ok also--:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jooosty:
After first stating no lag noticed earlier in the thread, just wanted to update with my first lag experience.

Set the lockscreen to ripple effect and to have quick toggles and then I noticed the phone started lagging. Restarted the phone and changed the settings back and now we're good.

Sent from my Note 2 hehehe (:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lbreak:
Samsung won't fix this through a software update. Their previous galaxy and note line are still all like this
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asdamixedherbs:
the Galaxy S4 review on whathifi.com talks about the lag a fair bit.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skivnit:
Everyone hints at stutters not lags
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asdamixedherbs:
erm no it's lag??
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenwchan:
I have done this on my previous Android devices to success but I actually cannot find this menu on the S4 now that they have these tabbed pages now. Could someone please help me find the develop's option menu?

Thanks.

Ken

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Oops, never mind, I found it (Google is your friend). It's actually pretty funny to find ("You are 5 steps away from being a developer"...) Like an Easter Egg

(Tap on Build Number 10 times or so)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eggman89:
I am a S3 user, but I believe the following lags are still there:

1) Dialer / Contacts lag?

I read the comment about Gingerbread code and FB sync, but I don't want to sync FB with my contacts. Why do I need to wait 3 secs for Dialer to load.

If I wanted, I would use HaxSync or something.

2) Home Redraw:

Has it ever happened in ancient Symbian, iOS, Windows 7 or 8 that you want to go to the home screen and you need to wait 5 secs before you can use the phone?'And if I wanted to use the dialer app. Another 3 secs.

8 freaking seconds before I get out of my app and press the dialer. dafaq?

How is it acceptable for a so called powerhouse like S4 to have such a lag and redraw.

Why not lock the launcher in memory. I can't understand why Google maps and Facebook keeps on alive on the RAM but the launcher doesn't.

Isn't spending 70-80 MBs of 1.8GB of ram on locking the launcher and making the experience smooth better than having Maps track my location and eat my battery all the time?

3) The Home button lag even after disabling the S-Voice.

It takes about a half second before going to the homescreen? ANd there's a good chance the homescreen is redrawing.

Have a look at 2 years iPhone 4 with quarter the ram less than quarter the processor. Even after you press home screen after playing a game , it instantly goes to the home screen and the swiping won't shutter . (ANd I hate Apple).

4) Waking up phone from deep sleep

Not only does it take more than a second to wake up the phone, but after waking up it take a second or two before phone performs smooth.

None of the Sony or HTC or even OPPO phones do it. So WHy samsung?

I'm sure none of these lags have gone from S4, as these are software issues that has been there for a long long time.

I'm sure you can one can always some explanation, like going up from 200MHz to 1.8 GHz takes time and stuff. Or Gallary keeps on syncing.

But as an end user I don't care . I don't want to root my cell and install Supercharger or Xposed framework to get the basics of phone work.

I'm here on XDA to install mods and ROMs to make my phone work better than before. Having a mod for increasing the speaker sound , I can understand.

Having a ROM with call recording function inbuilt and additional stuff I can understand.

But having to root my cell to to keep launcher and Dialer in memory is something inexcusable.

When I can see similar phones (HTC One) , and inferior phones (iPhone 4) excelling on these BASIC tasks, it just breaks my heart to see Samsung fail in those.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] exec99:
Is it really that bad? On my old Galaxy R i9103 (ics 4.0.4) after freezing bloatware and s-voice phone is essentially lag-free (minus dialer app which still has 0.5-1 sec lag sometimes). I've never seen home redraw on my device, when I press home button I'm instantaneously(!) on the home screen and then there is no stuttering when swyping thru home screen, apps, settings - never. When I first saw GS3 I couldn't believe it's not as smooth as my i9103. I didn't buy it. I thought I'll buy GS4, because it will probably has much more ram and stuff and will be smooth as butter. I'm shocked that they did nothing with these lags. If they coulnd't fix it till now when will they? Or maybe it will become a standard samsung "feature"?? Shame on you samsung!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eggman89:
I don't have S4 with me, so don't make an opinion w.r.t my post.

Might be Samsung has fixed it.

But AFA I can tell, these are touchwiz issue and won't go no matter how many cores you use.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raynan:
This is because of the s voice double tap to launch option. If you disable it, it will snap straight to the launcher.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prodigyX:
I have the i9500 and after closing all apps, I tried launched the above 3 items. Each loaded in 1 second or just-under, and all features (Smart stay, Smart scroll, Air view etc) are enabled.

Even starting from an open app, pressing home, then opening dialer takes less than 2 seconds
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nathsgames:
I am returning my S4 today. The lag makes the phone unuseable.

The new features are one big gimmick and don't work.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ilabs:
It seems Samsung is pushing out an about 72mb OTA update to devices which bumps up the modem to MDM, and sammobile shows UK, Italy, Brazil and Germany have got the updates. Some are also saying that Samsung has fixed some lag issues. Anyone from these countries, any news?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skivnit:
Either bull****ing or badly configured phone. Mine does not lag at all and all the so called gimmicks work just fine for me. I can scroll with moving my eyes and use hand gestures. Everything is fine except for the smearing but that doesn't bother me.

Swyped from another galaxy
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nathsgames:
POS, friggin thing overheats, freezes, lags. It's a toy, nothing more, nothing less﻿. I took my second one back today as it was just as bad as the first.

How could you destroy such a great product +Samsung Mobile ? I mean I am returning mine today as the lag just makes it unuseable. The extreme lag. Also just a real pain to do anything like heaven forbid, change an icon on the Homescreen or move a widget. Also none of the new features work. And the camera next to almost doesn't respond. Oh, and you can't email a picture from the Share menu on the picture itself. I also didn't find it very bright at all and overall just horrible. For a new or light user maybe OK. But for a Samsung lover it's just horrible. Touchwiz has just gone horrible.

And in Gallery, the photos hardly ever load. If they do, they can freeze the whole phone. If you actually get to view a photo, and turn the phone sideways, the photo stays in portait. You have to press a button to rotate the photo! And vice versa.

You can't even replace the bottom row of icons and you have to go Menu - Edit just to move an icon or resize a widget. It just plain sucks. The lag is inexcuseable.

And the email program has changed from black screen to white screen, making it really hard to view the emails.

Overall the colours are really garish and cartoony. You really can't tell it's a 1080P screen. It also doesn't feel like 5".

When you compare the Galaxy S4 to a HTC One or an LG Optimus G you can tell there's a lot missing in the Samsung.

I would say the Galaxy S4 is on par with quality and brightness of the Sony Xperia Z.

And that's saying something.﻿

I have owned every Galaxy phone since the Galaxy S. I use a Note II daily. I love Samsung

But they have destroyed the Galaxy name with the S4.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Obagleyfreer:
Seems like you're just trolling to me dude......

"How could you destroy such a great product +Samsung Mobile ? I mean I am returning mine today as the lag just makes it unuseable. The extreme lag. Also just a real pain to do anything like heaven forbid, change an icon on the Homescreen or move a widget"

There is no extreme lag on my device. Sure it does lag but as you have already owned Samsung devices you would know this is very normal for first releases of firmware, it gets ironed out in future updates.

Changing icons and moving widgets on my device is easy. simply hold the icon or widget and move........not really sure why you can't do it?

"Oh, and you can't email a picture from the Share menu on the picture itself"

Yes you can.

"And in Gallery, the photos hardly ever load. If they do, they can freeze the whole phone. If you actually get to view a photo, and turn the phone sideways, the photo stays in portait. You have to press a button to rotate the photo! And vice versa."

Photos load fast and easily for me.

"Overall the colours are really garish and cartoony"

I agree here, but this has always been a Samsung thing. I just use movie mode, simple.

I do agree with you that there a few issues that need to be ironed out and there is some lag but my device is nowhere near as bad as you're saying.

If you are actually being genuine about your problems then you have just been unlucky and obviously have a faulty device.

I have had my phone a week and never had 1 freeze, sure the odd bit of lag here and there but not worth moaning about.

Overall (apart from the purple smearing, which is driving me nuts) I am enjoying this phone.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nathsgames:
As a Samsung fan - why would I troll?

Just because you got a good one, it doesn't mean bad ones aren't out there. And I just happened to get two lemons did I?

Ring my Telstra store - Australia Fair Southport Australia and ask for Luke or Stephen. They will confirm my experiences.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Baldilocks:
At least we know it's not just the AT&T version that's laggy.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidugly:
I have a "made in Korea" ATT version with no lag,

a Korean "made in Korea" octa version with zero lag ( crazy fast ),

and a "made in China" international version, spanish language from expansys with super tiny lag when returning to home screen,

no heat on any of them.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Baldilocks:
My stuttering AT&T version is Made in Korea.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nathsgames:
My dreadful Telstra version is made in Korea.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jooosty:
How do you find out where it's made?

Also I have no lag or screen smear or pink tint. Happy here haha

Sent from my Note 2 hehehe (:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Baldilocks:
It says on the box AND under the battery.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ausboy 2011:
Get stutters through touch wiz and through setting menu telstra s4 korea
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Baldilocks:
The worst part is the 3-4 seconds it takes for the gallery to open.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ilabs:
Has the latest update with the MDM modem helped with the lag in any way?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AMDPOWERFIST:
Got mine from the local Bathurst Fone Zone (telstra re-distributor) and mine is working fine. Very little stutters every now and then. But as its been said over 50 times or more already. It gets ironed out.

The kernel is currently 3.4...... my S2 (custom kernel) was up to 3.9y when i finished with it.

This just shows how far behind the S4 IS at the moment, but give it time and it will catch up and be FAR better.

Early days yet people, very early days (only came out a week and 3 days ago)

Chillax more, you'll live longer
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Krimsonmyst:
Naths,

I don't know if what I'm about to say will help you, but I have a feeling you might have been extraordinarily unlucky with 2 dodgy handsets. I'm also in Australia, and got my S4 from Telstra in their Brisbane Central store.

My handset occasionally gets a stutter when closing apps and returning to homescreen, but 99% of the things you're describing don't happen to me. All the things you've described are certainly not present on my phone.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lostsoul:
Would like to know that too!

If not, I'm gonna root my MDF version
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snapple232:
Does where it was made really affect performance?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skivnit:
I don't get that much lag on gallery. Maybe 1 sec delay not more

Swyped from another galaxy
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lbreak:
Samsung won't fix the obvious lag issues with an update. If they were interested they would have done so on the S3, which, even on the latest firmware, is a lag-hore. My S3 Dialer takes a good 5 secs to load at times when I haven't opened it in a while. All stock firmware on TW.

I think Samsung's programmers just have no idea when it comes to optimisation.

I am a huge Samsung fan but am on the brink of getting the one simply due to the embarrassing lag issues.

Worse than that is the Australian firmware which doesn't auto-rotate photos, doesn't allow one to change dock icons, doesn't allow you to mute the camera shutter sound, and many other stupid limitations.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] halo0:
Aren't these options only available on stock android phones? I don't see the developer options section on the GS4.

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Thanks. :) Using 0.5x scale on all animations does make it feel faster.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nathsgames:
This and more, here is my list of issues:

- Images in Gallery don't auto rotate (did on Note II)

- Dropbox image synching freezes Gallery (worked perfectly on Note II)

- DLNA All Share doesn't work (worked perfectly on Note II)

- Email is white background (I want it black) (was on Note II)

- Can't share images to email from the image share menu (could on Note II)

- Phone gets very hot (Note II didn't)

- Battery life is terrible (Note II was excellent)

- Can't change bottom row of icons (could on Note II)

- Can't easily edit desktop icons or widgets, at least not without going Menu - Edit (could on Note II)

If anyone can tell if it's dodgy firmware and that rooting will allow this then yippee I'm there!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StuartTheFish:
They are still there, they're just hidden on all 4.2.2 roms. Go to about phone, and tap on build number (I think) 7 times.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidugly:
so far there seems to be no difference in build quality between the Korean version vs the Chinese version.