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[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alainlafond:
Hello,

I revised all forums to make sure that nobody talked about this before. Hope I revised well...

Next week I'll be traveling in a country where cellular service is very hard to get and expensive. But...

As I'll be away for more than 7 weeks, I would love to get SMS notification when I'll get a voicemail message on my cellular.

As I have international SMS unlimited and I have another cellular localy I'll be able to manage, without having to pay extremely high roaming fees.

I looked a lot on Play store. Maybe my ability to search ain't very good.

Thanks for your help...

Alain
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] estallings15:
SMS works over the same technology as voice. You can disable data and still get them. I'm really not sure what you want. Please clarify.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alainlafond:
Sorry for not being clear. Here's my problem...

I have a cellular with a carrier in Canada, but I'll be gone to Cuba for 2 months.

Getting the notification of a voicemail is $4.00 when I'm there as the carrier charge $4.00 to search and find in roaming.

I have a local phone number in Cuba that can receive SMS freely.

What I need is:

Leave my phone in Canada, and as soon as I'll get a voicemail, my phone would send an SMS to my local caban phone.

This way' I'll know that I have a message and I'll be able to call, with uban phone at $0.67 a minute to get the message.

As I plan to retire in this country next year, it would be more cost effective.

I hope I was clear enought.

Sometimes I don't know if I do understand myself... :eek:

Thanks for helping
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arikfunke:
An Allwinner A10 tablet clone "freezes" regularly but not too frequently while working for a strech of time between 2 and 15 seconds. Described differently: the tablet is useable but the nice "fluid" workflow is abruptly interrupted once in a while...

Situations:

e.g. in firefox when navigating to a new website (though not always)

generally when opening a link in a new tab in firefox when already having a few open,

when working with the tablet while downloading a file, these freezes are more frequent

etc

Using the process overlay option from the developer settings I realised that during this time the "nandd" process is consuming CPU almost exclusively. It does not appear to max out the CPU but during this time none of the other processes consume more than minute amounts of CPU time.

Can somebody tell me:

whether this is "normal" behaviour

whether an update to CyanogenMod 10 is likely to help

where the issue is likely to lie: with slow nand hardware or poor nand driver implementation.

Many thanks.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DerpTurtle:
I happen to have the same problem....does anyone here have any light on this? I couldnt find anything in google and searching here only brings me to the post... :S
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
This is a common issue with clone devices due sub par parts. You will not find much help here.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ibrubeer:
I used to be able to choose which email I wanted to send from in the Android Gmail app. When they updated it to 4.2.1, it would usually not stick and would end up sending it from the default email address instead. I was able to uninstall all updates and regain the ability. BUT, then my phone got the OTA update to Android 4.1.2, and now I can't go back any earlier than 4.2.1 for Gmail. The Gmail update that came out recently (4.3?) doesn't work either. Even when an email is sent to a "secondary" email address, when I reply it goes from the default email address! Any ideas how to fix this? Am I the only one with this problem? :confused:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snapple232:
I was watching some hands on videos of the S4 and was pretty disappointed to see that the interface is laggy in some areas and overall less than perfectly smooth. There's absolutely no excuse for it considering how powerful the hardware is, and shows that Samsung's priorities are all wrong (throwing in a hundred random new features but neglecting the basics of the user experience). But I've seen some comments saying those were just pre-production units. Is that just a fanboy excuse or can we really expect to see a major improvement in smoothness by launch? Is there lag on the Galaxy S3 for anyone who's owned one? UI lag is my biggest pet peeve, and that alone is making me consider the HTC One for the first time despite the S4 beating it in almost everything else.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Closed Source Project:
I have noticed in some S3 vs HTC One videos, that the S3 took considerably longer time to show the homescreen when leaving an app by pressing the home button. In some videos I think I might have seen the same thing on the S4. Maybe it's TouchWiz, maybe it's just that the device is not final or so many other apps were open in the background.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] benwoodcock:
Wait for reviews of final hardware.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilentEYE:
Samsungs Launcher software was always a master on being laggy. Especially at the first releases. But after a few updates this lags flew out.

It will be the same on the S4.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Baldilocks:
Every hands on I've seen so far seems fine to me. If there is any 'lag' going to homescreen, it's because of Touchwiz waiting for that hold or double press for voice control. (Can't remember which it is.)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Livebyte:
Bad software to blame.

An octa-core has no excuse.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BoneXDA:
Beta software to blame.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Closed Source Project:
+1
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boodies:
my note 2 is lag free so there's absolutely no reason for the gs4 to lag with either cpu
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jameslfc5:
This is the reason, that's why the S Voice double press option gets disabled straight away
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barondebxl:
Exactly. Thank God there are still smart people around. Its because it is beta and not final software. Samsung phones are the most fluid phones out there besides the nexus line ( jelly bean era). The S3 had many Jelly bean leaks ( 10 or more) just 2 weeks before the final version was released. The first leak was very laggy, by the 3rd it was starting to be ok, by the 7th or 8th you could feel project butter. The S IV is shipping in a month so whatever lag there is, it will probably be gone.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bagbug:
Samsung's fanboys wont admit it , but the SGS2/3/Note1/2/10.1 lag out of the box.

Just walk in a Staples or a BB and try a Note 10.1. It is extremely laggy.

You need to disable all the crapwares/bloatwares if you want to feel this tablet runs like an iPad.

I never understood why Samsung let their demos(out of the box devices) be so unpleasant to use.

Some are saying Google cant live without Samsung but I say a Motorola Google X available with all the carriers would remove Samsung from the number one Android phones.

Samsung need to be bumped asap
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Baldilocks:
There hasn't been a good Motorola phone since the original RAZR.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dlutz8:
It is very laggy with smart stay and smart scroll turned on. Turn them off and it is much improved.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SlimJ87D:
I wouldn't judge till we saw a final production model.

Of course it's going to lag when you hit home. You have to deactivate S Voice double tap home launch. The SGS4 is going to wait a split second or 2 to see if you hit home again to launch S Voice. Deactivate that and it would have just went home.

I did notice a little bit of lag when the phones were being demoed, but quite honestly these are pre-release models. It could be as simple as the phone not killing its tasks after it opens up 7 or 10 apps. What if the person before opened up a few browsers, the camera, gallery, flipboard, a game, etc?

Again, I'll judge when the thing actually comes out or when GSM Arena gets a hold of a final production model.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barondebxl:
Listen to this guy lol. Note 2, s3,s2 do not lag out of the box, note 1 yes when it didnt have jelly bean, dont know now. Dont know aqbout note 10.1 either. You speak like a hater, keep on hating :p
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XxPixX:
The Jelly Bean update that samsung gave to the galaxy note 1 is probably the worst update I have seen. It is buggy, slow and laggy! Even after removing all the bloat taking it down to 236MB it is still laggy and slow. This is one of the reasons why I am not going to go with any sammy device, poor support and bad optimisation hardware-software wise
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barondebxl:
Yeah i'm not sure about the note1, i had early 2012 when it had ICS. But i had the S3 and note 2, both were fast and fluid with little to no lag at all, especially the note 2 thanks to the 2 gigs or Ram.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Andrewtst:
I play a lot Samsung and own some of it.

Samsung Lagging phone/tablet

- Note

- Tab 10.1 (This one is pure rubbish)

Samsung not so smooth interface

- S II ( franky said that only 4.1.2 france ROM with S III interface run quite well here.. hmm)

- S III International Edition (it actually quite nice now using XperianZe ROM, means latest touchwiz to blame not really capable for 1GB device)

- Note 10.1

Samsung with well acceptable interface smoothness, not smooth interface (some sort like cut frame) was keep to extreme minimal

- S III LTE edition

- Note II

- Nexus 10

Base on above, and current spec, I believe in final, S 4 will running smooth on it interface.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unbenannt:
so whats the reason then for them to exist? if they make the phone laggy? asked no-one in samsung apperently...
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nikzDHD:
Managed to try a retail demo in the shop today wasn't laggy at all. I assume once you've got apps and stuff it's a different story as my current N4 is smooth once fully loaded.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MasK:
Just flashed UAME2. The transition animation stuttering is gone!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vexxx:
With UAME2 transition animations are better but not free from stutter. This phone should be able to do animations completely without stutter.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StuartTheFish:
It can and for me it is doing.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vexxx:
Lucky you. :)

Is your phone completely stock? Have you disabled apps or features?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StuartTheFish:
Like I've said earlier in this thread, I'm on the official XXUAMDN build, and have absolutely nothing disabled.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vexxx:
Tested in stores and white models seems to stutter less than black ones. Could be that black ones get used more in shops. :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jackchong0828:
But HTC one is far better. It's Voice control is unbelievable! ( THAT SHOULD BE CALL LITTLE HI)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StuartTheFish:
Mine's a black one, no issues.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vexxx:
Of course. :)

Do you have built in weather widget in homescreen?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StuartTheFish:
I've got a clock/weather/calendar widget that I pulled from the cm10.1 based rom my HTC sensation used to use. It allows the clock on daydream too. :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nathsgames:
I'm on UME2 stock.

I have every single "feature" disabled. Have transition animations off.

Phone is now useable but still stutters badly.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vexxx:
You don't have touchwiz! But I know, animations are smooth for you in touchwiz also. :)

---------- Post added at 08:44 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:40 AM ----------

Strange. Every phone seems different.

Only thing that sometimes stutters for me is animations. If I turn them off everything is very fast and stutter free. Even with these new features enabled.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StuartTheFish:
Yes I do, I was just trying Nova launcher on it last night, that's all. Touchwiz is still there, and that's what I was using as my launcher until last night. If I'm honest, it's with Nova that I'm noticing a little lag in transition animations! Didn't have any before!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syngensmyth:
What seemed to be lag or freeze was my hand touching the edge of the screen and disabling input. Turning animations off helps the feel.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alus415:
I just switched my HTC One with someone and boy now I regret it , the HTC one is fast and never experienced any lag but my S4 is jittery and lags .

Now I followed advice and turned off animations, s voice, gestures and still experiencing lag.

What I dont get is how is that the s4 with the same processor and clocked faster is lagging this much.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nathsgames:
Crappy software it seems.... it is a lot better with the latest firmware but still no where near good enough... My Note II eats my S4 in every way except benchmarks..
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] G-XtremE:
I switched from note2 to gs4 and gotta say i am really pleased with the performance. The problems I have, and would bash my phone against a wall if it weren't so expensive, is the device rebooting sometimes when entering the camera app, VERY SLOW camera access, excesive overheating ~55C and 10 hrs max battery life. I'm very disappointed with Samsung for fooling me. Shame on me for being fooled for the 1st time. Will not repeat this stupid decision again.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] allgsmnetwork:
It takes patience to release the smartphone quickly they put beta software ... 2.75 gb rom too heavy and too many unnecessary features :confused: samsung has to fix these bugs and immediately moving the ass :victory:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XxSHaDoWxSLaYeRxX:
its technically a quad core.. it doesnt use all 8 at the same time. and my GT-I505 is plenty fast. havent had any lag at all :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GR13V3R:
The lag / stutter is quite ridiculous. Need some updates rolled out to fix it.

Some of my issues:

1. Volume lag: sometimes it takes seconds to actually change the volume, up or down. During this time, even games will stop responding (angry birds space)

2. Lockscreen lag: I notice this when I change the lockscreen wallpaper. Be it static from gallery or wallpaper list and the stock live wallpapers. I will press the sleep, but it won't go to lockscreen. Just black. After 10+ seconds you will hear the lock sound.

3. Bad wakeup: At times it will wakeup and won't respond for a few seconds. Same with widgets with slow loading.

4. Camera lag. The camera is fast and nice, but has a stutter. When taking single photos it will literally stop and take the shot and stutter back to normal. Burst mode has no issues it seems to me.

- Recording, so far it only happened once, while recording video (fullhd) the recording will glitch and cause the video to become distorted. That happened only once so far.

5. I've disabled animations all together due to the stutter and lag. Along with disabling SVoice double tap. I find it sad that I have to do this. Even at times theres still issues.

6. Air gesture is great, but there are times when it will not respond at all. Having me to touch the screen and go thru the page or going in and out of the Internet application. When it does respond, it acts as if it it were catching up to my previous gesture.

7. Using Nova Launcher Prime until they can smoothen Touchwiz.

I just got my Galaxy S4(i9505) on May 20th.. its been a couple days and I like it. I'm coming directly from the Galaxy S3 (i9300). Its new and can expect some glitches to begin with. I'll be updating the hour it comes out.. just disappointed in the lag. But much love to the full hd screen and super sharpness!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] allgsmnetwork:
:good: Little better ROM MDN FR in first list from samfirmware battery ammazing :good:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OsloSwede:
The lag on my i9505 (XXUAME2) is also ridiculous. I will see if I can make a youtube video and show you guys. I will also try to restore the phone completely to see if it helps. I have the latest updates and not that many heavy apps installed. A few widgets here and there should not cause any problem to the winner of almost all benchmark tests. I am surprised that this isn't a more known and discussed issue. I don't understand how some can have completely lag free devices when I'm here with a jailbroken iPhone 4 with a bunch of apps and tweaks installed, that sometimes responds faster than my new S4.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tclocki:
Has this got something to do with the model perhaps? I've never experienced those lags like what Griever said in his posts. I'm on a 9500 btw. I've been using my s4 for 3 weeks now.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JAMIE1000UK:
When watching live streams using video player I get annoying trailing of status bar and nav bar at the bottom. Looks ridiculous. If my partners xperia tipo can manage no lag then why shouldnt this top of the range device manage it?

Samsung needs to pull their fingers out before I get rid for the htc one!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StuartTheFish:
I don't see ANY of these issues whatsoever.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prodigyX:
My i9500 running the latest stock firmware (ME1) is virtually lag-free. Camera, lockscreen, homebutton, etc.. all ultra-responsive.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GR13V3R:
I'm using UAMDM on my 9505. I see UAME2. Should I try that one? I'm not all that savvy on versions and firmwares. Will subscribe and wait for replies on this.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S IV (i9505)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StuartTheFish:
I already asked what's different between the different versions, but nobody replied about it other than a link where they can be downloaded.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GR13V3R:
I'll download it anyway and give it a go and check back here to say if there is a difference.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dynamiks_nyc:
After reading many different topics on here about lag with the Galaxy S4, most people made it seem that TouchWiz is causing a lot of lag. So a lot of users have recommened using Nova Launcher, saying that it runs smoother than TouchWiz. Well I went ahead and installed Nova launcher and made a few tweaks to my home screen and now my device is running extremely laggy compared to using TouchWiz. Is there something I'm missing? Are there some functions in Nova that cause lag that I should disable? I really would prefer to use Nova because the customization options and functions are much better, so if there is something I can do to get it to run smoothly, I would prefer to do that rather than converting back to TouchWiz.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GR13V3R:
I'm using Nova, I think it runs better than touch wiz. I still experience a lot of the same stuttering issues though, if not all. Nova is just my preference since it has a lot of nice features.

In nova settings, I changed everything to Faster than Light. And in developer mode I turned off all animations. It makes the phone so much more snappier.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Seronez:
Yes the phone is a bit laggy sometimes but it's a software issue you can't really believe that a phone with this hardware can possibly be laggy cause of the hardware...hopefully the next update will fix it
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GR13V3R:
I updated to UAME2 firmware. It fixed a lot issues I was having! It's a Lot smoother now.

Sent from my GT-I9505
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lbreak:
Everything about this phone is a laggy joke.

Have you tried the camera? There's a noticeable delay between pressing to capture and the phone actually taking the shot. The S3 was much faster, instantaneous, in this regard.

UI Lag, Camera Shutter Lag, lag lag lag! - Does Samsung even test their phones before rolling them out or is bloating them with more and more crap seen as a success by them?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OsloSwede:
Found this thread and it solved the lag problem for me: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2274597

I am surprised that no one has linked to it before me on this thread.

Uninstall Swiftkey! :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I had no lag before or after Swiftkey. It is far better than stock with it's prediction. Did like the stock number key layout though--:)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StuartTheFish:
Swiftkey is crap anyway, perhaps that's why I never noticed since I used a different keyboard the instant I got it?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UXELLR:
With stockUAME2 my phone is usually stutterfree. But at least once a day it starts to hang. There is lag in appdrawer and browsing trough homescreens.

After a restart everything is fine again. Hope its not like the emc bug in s3, where it finally dies.

Does any have an idea, how I can track down the cause of the problem? Or is my best bet to wait for samsung to improve their rom.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
SwiftKey is not stock. I use the latest SwiftKey beta and no issues.

Sent From My 32gb Samsung Galaxy S4 Running Tapatalk 4 Beta
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CJLewis87:
It does seem a bit odd. I find the device pretty fluid, but agree that you get the odd "jank" here and there. I notice it particularly in the app drawer once in a while, occasionally swiping through home screens, but mostly loading the gallery (seems to take 0.5 seconds to respond) then opening new albums can be a little jerky. I seem to remember a similar gallery issue on the S3 which was later fixed via firmware upgrade. Then again, as people have said, a device with this hardware should absolutely fly; it seems Sammy has some work to do in software optimisation to marry with the top-end hardware.

Incidentally, most of time I find myself with "power save mode" enabled and find this really fluid, at least in comparison to the S3 where frames would drop massively with that mode enabled. I've also disabled S-Voice home button double tap, and changed animations to 0.5x (I don't like turning animations completely off as that spoils the UI experience a little for me).

I read somewhere today that a new firmware build from May 14th and new change log was made available for Hong Kong, so perhaps the United Kingdom BTU update shouldn't be far off which would iron out some of these issues?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UXELLR:
Yes, the phone for me runs great most of the time, even on powersavingmode whitch I seldom use.

I think they have tried, and did a o.k job, to hide the laginess of touchwiz in S4. In s3 there was always some stutters scrolling trough list. For example in settings. Now they have made the list shorter, with tabs of each area, so we don't see it.

But for me now, its the suddenly hang/lag/stuttering thats it's the problem. As if it runs on one core at 800, or something is updating.

I tried closing programs, free ram, tur of wifi, set it in airplanemode, but the only thing that helps is a restart.

And of course don't get me started on the camera shutter lag...moving objects is a blurred mess even in well lit rooms.