[Galaxy S 4 General] plasmastate:
Hello once again fellow XDA members.

Its quite unbelievable how much buggy the older samsung firmwares were (Specially before MEA) and how far they've come in terms of optimisation and bugfixes. But still, it is far from perfect. So after some thorough testing and using this firmware, I've decided to report my experience of commom bugs/issues that are still remaining.

**Just for your information. The device was Factory reset, before and after flash. Did a clean flash via odin. The hardware state of my device is absolutely normal**

- Camera crash (every time)

How to replicate:

Make sure all your svoice settings are turned off/disabled.

Open camera, goto settings, tap the voice control (mic icon). Congratulations, you've replicated the issue.

This bug was fixed in MEA and maybe also MF5 but here it is, saying hi again on the newer mf8.

- Notification Bar still lags from time to time. Alot when the apps are being installed. All in all, I see some improvement over the previous firmwares though.

- Stock weather widget redraw is still present. Other homescreen redraw is almost gone. Lets just say it doesn't do redraws anymore other than the weather widget.

(If you still experience redraws after fresh flashing, let the firmware run it will eventually stop doing redraws magically) *Personal experience*

- Sometimes (Very Rare) when the home button is pressed in the middle of high cpu load/processing, the background appears black and then takes a while to pop up in the homescreen.

- All famous purple smear is still here untill and unless samsung applies a "firmware wide" fix which will involve keeping the leds on even on at lowest power on pitch black parts. (Like s3 or Note 2) Otherwise, we will have to appreciate full blacks and live with smearing. Its all about tradeoffs now.

- Gallery and contact lag (improved alot) is still there. It simply does not open instantly like on stock android gallery app or stock people app.

*Yes, I've turned off the tag buddy*

- Phone froze while playing Real racing 3. I couldn't even restart. So had to pull out the battery. After I inserted my battery back again. The battery charge level fell down 15% magically. I tried to replicate the issue again by opening too much apps in bg and then playing real racing and it hapenned again. Maybe it has something to do with the app itself but the fact that my phone's battery fell down, means that some issues need fixing on the firmware end.

- The auto brightness slider sometimes wants to take a couple shots of vodka and forget it place. When auto is checked, it still forces max brightness even in a dark room.

For now, I will say that this bug is an offapring of the camera crash issue (as the camera adjusts it brightness to max before opening up, when it crashed the autobrightness was on. So it refuses to bring the brightness down even after xloaing the camera app. A restart fixes this issue)

- Stock browser is nice but the waiting time between switching tabs is too much. This isn't a bug per se but it is still quite annoying for people who switch bw tabs frequently. Also, opening a new tab takes time. In my opinion, the tab page should be shown instantly on press like chrome etc.

You're requested to post your own issues (i9500 on latest MF8 only)

Thank You,

PlasmaState