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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] SysAdmNj:
Im just going to throw this out there. Do you think your sd cards have anything to do with it? Maybe take your sd card out and reboot see if that helps? *shrugs*
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] freebee269:
by the way, pc apps still "lag" on i7's if they are not coded with efficiency. this is what alot of people complain about with android. throw a bunch of hardware at the OS to mask the deficiency of the OS. i like my gs4 also, but hardware upgrade doesnt solve coding problems. this is why some people are saying their gs3 thats a year old is giving them a better user experience than their gs4. but i do think once custom roms get on the gs4, with all the bloat and added crap that samsung and at&t have added, and with the custom roms only being 400mb vs. 2gb, this phone will fly and we will get what we thought we were going to get when we bought it from the store.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mobeast17:
I love it! Way better than sprint, sprint still doesn't have lte in Cleveland. And I just seen an article from TmoNews saying that Cleveland is in the list for getting LTE from T-Mobile in June!! So I'm excited
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Pappy35:
Funny thing is I had all kinds of problems with my S3 like those described here. I rooted it, debloated, ran Cyanogenmod, nothing really helped. The real killer was battery life. I was lucky to get through a day and often noticed if would be burning hot while packed away in the holster (not being used).

Now I have the S4 and am averaging 3% per hour battery drain with anywhere from 3-5 hours of screen time. No lag AT ALL. Everything works.

I'm not disputing the experiences reported here but wondering how it could be that the same device could have such a wide range of user experiences (from awesome to horrible).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] sabre31:
This is not true I rooted and got rid of bloat which should have never been there and phone still lags compared to note 2 or HTC one. Only thing that can help this phone is aokp or cm as those will be fast.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Rhamza161:
false? how so? I was saying the experience is limited by the form factor. It may be an awesome phone with great components but it isn't going to give the same user experience as a computer would be able to. I have issues on my $1500 computer, I don't expect a phone that I paid $200 (with a contract, not the devices actual cost) to be lag free if a more expensive piece of equipment also has lag when opening programs/applications. My expectations of a lag free phone are not dashed because they were not there in the first place. I'm just saying that if the phone was flawless out of the box, I would be amazed. It has a few lag issues, very few in my case at least, and I'm okay with it because it is *not* bad. I can wait a month for custom ROMs to fix the issues and become even more than it is now, but until then, I still love the phone and will not complain.

Please explain to me how this is 100% false information.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] slider2828:
It seems that multi window multi tasking thing really rapes the performance of the phone....

Also Kies released ATT's package, so maybe try to reinitialize the phone through Kies. I am hearing its helping with the lag.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Mrkrackie:
Phone processors and computer processors are not even the same architecture, not really comparable.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Becool0130:
That makes no sense man. You trade the HTC One at end of buyers remorse and now your stuck with A s4??!

If all you wanted to do was to TRY the s4 then why not just go to the store and play with both? Smh

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Its settled then. Get the HTC One ;) All probs gone right?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] SlimJ87D:
Freeze touchwiz and use Nova launcher?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Z51:
I get no lag whatsoever. Before or after my root. Im debloated now and its amazingly fast.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] falconeight:
This thing is as bad as the first tablet they made. It just lags and lags. Sure I can un-install everything but thats not supposed to be the case. The software on this phone is jacked up and there is no arguing against it. When typing the letters can't keep up yet thats not an issue on my dual core nokia. Im also tired of watching my angry birds stutter across the screen as I shoot them. Watching letters dim as I scroll is another annoyance.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] plmiller0905:
People if the phone lags, exchange it for a new one. I had lag on my previous S4 and complained about it like crazy. However, I went back to the store and exchanged it and this one has no lag at all. I'm not rooted or de-bloated and it flies.

And for everybody saying the Note 2 is better, it is....but that's only because it's been out for awhile now so all the kinks are mostly worked out. Whereas with the S4 and the One just being released ...unfortunately there may be s few issues with them. Almost every time a device is released, a update soon follows... look at the Sprint S4 and the International One... they just received updates. So I'm sure that our update is coming soon.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Zer0_:
Just picked up my Koodo S4.. Didn't have any additional bloatware installed aside from the Samsung apps.

When I was trying to kill my battery (wanted to kill the battery before my first charge) I was running multiple games and apps at the same time, and I honestly did not experience any lag.

However, i will be honest, I was getting some lag with the Samsung keyboard, but after I switched it to the stock 4.2.2 keyboard, the lag was gone. :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Grant H:
I have a similar experience. Exchanged my phone and now it works as it should.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] borillako:
My device ain't suffering any lag, or anything at all....i haven't even rooted yet...so I think there might actually be some problems with this first shipment and i just got lucky!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dethrat:
Or maybe your definition of lag is different.

After all this lag crap is very subjective
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] calvin35:
I like Samsung and presently own theS3 but I have to agree. In my opinion the S4, relatively speaking, is the worst performing Galaxy phone so far.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] blackplague1347:
I didn't say anything about buyer's remorse. It was just curiosity. In fact, my goal was to prevent buyer's remorse.

And I don't know what it's like in your local AT&T store, but mine always has phones sitting out that are all kinds of screwy thanks to people who don't know what they are doing playing with them. Using them is all but a waste of time. And thinking that you can get a full experience with a display phone is a little silly in the first place (in my opinion anyway).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] plmiller0905:
I have to disagree.. Let's not forget the Captivate, Mesmerize and yes the Epic 4g...am total failures in my book.

The S4 is by far better than them
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Becool0130:
BRO! you clearly said it was at the end of your 14 day REMORSE PERIOD. ATT Does not give you more than 14 days to decide if you want the phone or not.

Either you implied it or its all written on the wall above o.O. Bro, now your stuck with the S4 while you "TRY" it for the next 2 years or so lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] calvin35:
Sorry I meant galaxy s devices. I actually did owna Captivate and other than the messed up GPS I feel that it performed well for it's time and it's hardware. To me the Galaxy S4 does not do that. Check out Phonedogs unboxing of the LG Optimus Pro. That thing runs circles around the GS4 and it's an LG for crying out loud.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] colts187:
This phone with a little lag still runs circles around most everything else
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] porkaysi:
does anyone think this is an AT&T specific problem, alot of reviews say this phone is fastest android phone and many do not quote lag as a huge deal or any at all. those phones have been sprint and t-mobile variants, i have yet to see an AT&T specific review.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] shadowronemus:
I have the HTC One developer edition and picked up the AT&T GS4 and have been shocked at the amount of lag doing almost anything on the GS4, I have a GS3 and Note 2 and have never experienced any lag. I may take it back and try another one but as is is almost unusable. I have zero lag on the HTC One and will definitely be keeping that but I expected so much more from Samsung. I will say the battery life is impressive on both.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] GeorgeP:
I think the problem is probably with a small number of ATT users. I don't have any lag on mine and have not seen discussion of the issue outside of this forum.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=_ZvcdM3TZnc

Here is comparison of the speed of the ATT S4 and ATT HTC One. He concludes that neither have lag, but that overall S4 is slightly faster.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] rschauby:
The One is not having QC issues. There are a few people who are anal about micrometers. The phone is darn near perfect.

But if a lie makes you feel better...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] raqball:
Really??????

I went through 3 HTC One's in 10-days and finally decided to change over tho the S4..

Don't play that fanboy crap, it makes you loose all credibility..

If you are so happy with your phone, why are you on an S4 forum???

I have not went back the the One forum since I traded it in...

Freaking kindergarten in this place!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] rschauby:
Your individual anecdote does not define a trend.

I've still got an upgrade available for my wife's line so I'm browsing every forum I please. I'm interested in the S4 as I love my S3.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] raqball:
Play games / lie much?

Yawn....

This fanboy, kindergarten, juvenile and immature crap gets old real fast...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Dxtra:
I play with one at the store and I completely agree with everyone in here the phone Lags. LG optimus g pro it is.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] colts187:
The way the smartphone industry is right now is really annoying with how often they release something better. After all the phones get 1080p, 13 mp cameras, quad core/2gb of ram and a nice form factor what else really can they do? Hopefully its better battery life. All I'm trying to say is its usually less than three months that any given phone is on top of the world. I get buyers remorse no matter what. Though not as bad anymore because these handsets are so competitive.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jiwengang:
You are damn right it should be Battery Life, this even comes more important than other things.

Every new released smart phone from now on should have at least a battery life of Note 2 or Razr Maxx, before making pitches to other features.

A battery-dead 1080p LTE phone is just a brick for a while. You can't do anything about it, of course, without paying for extra swap batter or bring a smaller battery bank charger around
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] pokedroid:
This guy is the definition of anti-fanboy... Chill out dude. I know this isn't productive to the conversation but after reading as few pages of this I got fed up.

At any rate, steve said don't get the at&t s4 because of the locked boot loader, not because of anything related to device quality. T-mo and at&t s4's are fairly similar, and it is a matter of when, not if the s4 will get official support. If someone takes up the mantle and begins to maintain the build for the device, cm could easily slap an "official" stamp on his work and there's your development community. Other devs pull the work from github, add their unique identifiers and now we have too many aosp ROMs to deal with.. Similar to the HTC one just a slower process. These phones will all have great futures given the hardware and surefire dev support for such high quality devices. I have the one and every day I've had it I've wished I had the s4.. I also work for at&t so I see both phones every day. The one is okay, but the odd styling of the camera hardware and the trouble coming fro, the dual speakers, I'm not sure if I'll be able to hold out through the rest of my R&E policy before swapping for an s4. The aluminum body is also without question causing my cell radio some fatigue. Never had such poor signal anywhere in my city with 5 other at&t devices.

I will say, no lag though. I wish these phones weren't both so great and this decision were easier :/
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jasonatate:
I don't get all the "lag" threads. I just picked this thing up a week ago, and it is a BEAST! I immediately disabled some "features", without root. I have found that it is very smooth, and the battery life is phenomenal. I'm not seeing any lag. It's way smoother than the HTC One X I still have. I'm running CM10.1 on the One X, and the stock S4 blows it away. The new ONE is a beautiful phone, but it still lacks a microSD slot and a removable battery. Now that I have rooted it, it gets better and better.

As far as duplicating Google apps, almost all manufacturers do this to some extent. That's one of the things they do to try to set their devices apart in the fragmented Android world. For me, if I wanted the "pure" Google experience, I would have bought the Nexus.

Bottom line, I'm loving this phone, but it does take some tweaking out of the box. If I didn't want to tweak my phone, I wouldn't be on XDA, and I probably would have bought an iPhone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dgfriedl:
It's anecdotal, but I received two defective HTC Ones back to back on launch day. The first one got warm and the power button stuck leaving it in a boot loop, even after the battery was dead and the phone cooled down. The second unit could not keep a data connection, either wifi or LTE. Both problems were apparent within the first hour of use, while I was populating the apps from my account. Both had gaps between the plastic and metal. I might have stuck with it to try a third unit but I didn't care for the screen (weird, I know) and all of my contact photos looked like they were on the other side of a confessional divider (WTH?).

My S4 has been excellent. I don't see anything that I would describe as lag. I am running Nova Prime and Swiftkey, but have not rooted or frozen any bloat. Gallery can be crap at times but the problem seems limited to that app and I have several gig of photos. QuickPic is flawless.

-darren
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] thehavock18:
You have issues
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] damon20r:
I had a SMH moment and realized I had not rebooted my phone since I got it 2 days ago and it has been getting a little more battery life since, (2 hourish) but it's still well below what I would expect and below what most people are getting. I'm thinking about going down to Best Buy where I got it and seeing what there experience has been.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] El Jefe Cangri:
I had a little lag on my s4, once I disabled the bloatware and I cut back the animation to 0.5x and enable gpu, goodbye lag, hello butter smoothness. Seriously this thing is fast and as for the test scores kicks the HTC One ass on every review score I've seen. If you have taken back your S4 for a One, good for you, you're gonna miss out on the best Android phone available and stay out of these forums.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] qrstn:
Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but if you disable "Open via the home key" in the settings for S Voice, it reduces the delay when you push the home key.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Skizzy034:
Getting flamed for being ANTI fanboy? LOL. Now I've seen everything on XDA. Calm down man, it was only my opinion.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] borillako:
When i say no lag i mean it. I've used the Nexus 4 and have seen the HTC One do its thing, it doesn't take any time at all to open apps or anything, i press a button he reacts instantly. If it even took half a second i would already consider that lag, but its not happening. Like i said, maybe i got lucky...P.S. my phone was made in Korea and not china, ive seen a thread saying that that is one of the factors of the devices with lag...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] MrToastedAndroid:
Great read and replies 10/10 OP
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] sulpher:
Why are you even over here on the s4 forum...? Oh right, trolling.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] AxAtAx:
I haven't seen the lag either...once you enable the developers menu and setup your animation settings..this device is fast and smooth. i'm sorry..but the phone is bada$$.

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He is probably posting his message from a demo model at the friggin store, or he really don't have one at all.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] madquack:
When will people learn not to feed the trolls? You're just as bad as he is, stop empowering him.
[HTC One S] kpetrie77:
I recompiled framework-res.apk from the T-Mobile US 3.14.531.11 stock rom with the apn.xml fixed. This takes care of locked APN's and browser redirects when you tether. The file was something I needed for my own use but thought I would share if anyone else wanted it. Instructions to make your own changes are in the second post.

To install:

Download framework-res.apk

Move or copy to /system/framework/framework-res.apk (overwrite the stock file or rename the original file first and leave it in the /system/framework/ folder.)

Fix permissions to rw-r--r--

Restart from the power menu

Go into the phone's settings menu to mobile data and reset APN's to default. Select T-Mobile US.

Restart from the power menu

Sign back into your accounts, Google, Dropbox, etc.

Download:

Modified framework-res.apk: http://d-h.st/TrT

Original file if you wanted to undo this:

Original framework-res.apk: http://d-h.st/G5y
[HTC One S] kpetrie77:
Quick guide on how to do this on your own for other version or carrier's roms.

You will need:

APK Multi-tool - http://apkmultitool.com

Original framework-res.apk from /system/framework/ on your phone

Install and setup APK Multi-tool on your computer using the instructions on their site

Copy framework-res.apk to *\APK-Multi-Tool\place-apk-here-for-modding\framework-res.apk

Run *\APK-Multi-Tool\Script.bat to start APK Multitool

Select option 9 "Decompile apk"

When APK Multi-tool is done, navigate to *\APK-Multi-Tool\projects\framework-res.apk\res\xml\ and edit apn.xml with the apn information needed for your carrier. When done close and save.

Go back to APK Multi-tool window and select option 11 "Compile System APK files"

During the build process you will be asked:

The next few steps are optional

Enter yes - this creates a second folder from the original apk for files that have not been modified

Navigate to *\APK-Multi-Tool\keep\ and delete resources.arsc

Navigate to *\APK-Multi-Tool\keep\res\xml\ and delete apn.xml

Hit Enter in the APK Multi-tool window to finish the build process

The new apk will be in *\APK-Multi-Tool\place-apk-here-for-modding\unsignedframework-res.apk
[HTC One S] TJD319:
Awesome, thanks a lot!

Question; Is this a perm fix? When I had a Sensation and this method was used, it had to be done before first boot and didnt always stick.
[HTC One S] kpetrie77:
So far they have. The change should stay permanent once you reset the APN entries to default in settings - that erases all the old entries in /data.
[HTC One S] M9x3mos:
I did this to mine right after the update came out and did have to do it before first boot.

So I did have to master reset after I made the changes but has been permanent.

Just the same mod as the old version too. The update didn't change the way this was done.
[HTC One S] kpetrie77:
I set everything back to stock and started the process over again. No master reset needed at this end. I missed two reboots in the steps. You will also need to sign back into your accounts. No, this isn't anything new. Posted the instructions instead of just the files in case anyone wanted to learn how to do it for themselves.
[HTC One S] M9x3mos:
Wouldn't let me simply reset default apn to reload them sadly.
[HTC One S] kpetrie77:
It would be nice to know why but not going to ask you to undo everything. If I pm my email would you mind sending me the framework-res.apk you used so I can poke around?
[HTC One S] DirtySant0:
This worked but only for a temporary time. I got a push notification from Tmobile indicating that they were locking down my USB tether efforts.

:(
[HTC One S] portis:
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[HTC One S] ayoraider07:
So...is it safe to use this mod? I want to tether my tablet...so the browser UA may fly undetected by tmo ....what do u think? I have unlimited data plan btw
[HTC One S] TheArtiszan:
What kind of tablet do you have?

I modded my file like that a while back even before the update and this one and allows me to tether my asus android tablet no problem.

And unlimited over 20 gb now :D
[HTC One S] ayoraider07:
Nexus 7
[HTC One S] epsiblivion:
is there a way to automate the tasks in a script? last time I tried this, it broke the phone. had to reboot and replace original file so it will display correctly. and editing from adb is a ***** (no root on commercial build via adb). broke as in forceclosing, stopped, etc.
[HTC One S] ryanshew:
It can't really get any simpler then it is. He has already done everything, all you have to do is download the the modified framework-res.apk, then copy/paste it into /system/framework and choose overwrite/replace with any file manager. Make sure permissions are correct. Then reboot.

You need root to modify system files and at the very least an unsecure boot.img flashed

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[HTC One S] epsiblivion:
yeah I did all that. if I try to do it on hte phone with a root file manager, it would overwrite the file then the screen would bug out since the framework was replaced while it was drawing the screen.
[HTC One S] ryanshew:
Yeah, you just need to reboot.

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[HTC One S] epsiblivion:
i retried. overwrote the fhile and it just automatically rebooted. then it goes black. I'm on the UnKnown rom 1.7.1. stock rooted. now it won't boot into phone at all. adb commands don't work either. device not detected.

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well the framework-res.apk doesn't like me. I fixed the black screen by just using adb to push the original file back and rebooted. works fine again. no tether mod though
[HTC One S] ryanshew:
Mount /system in twrp and use the file manager under advanced to copy paste it

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[HTC One S] Itbelikedat:
how do you Fix permissions to rw-r--r--?
[HTC One S] kpetrie77:
You can use adb shell or terminal to chmod 644 on the file or a root file browser. Need to set to rw-r--r--
[HTC One S] kpetrie77:
Normal and expected. Fix permissions first and reboot. I think not fixing permissions is why it caused the bootloop. You can also fix permissions in recovery.
[HTC One S] Jewcifer:
I followed the instructions in the second post for CM10.1 T-Mobile, got it installed, verified the APN was replaced and working, and I'm still getting redirect message when tethering, even when I use third-party tethering apps like Clockworkmod's Tether. I can still tether by just changing my browser's UserAgent to Android Browser, which I guess is just a minor inconvenience.