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[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkshaft:
perhaps you need to do full wipe but backup first, or perhaps the game is incompatible with kitkat yet, try to contact Samsung customer service if problem is not fixed after full wipe.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arya335:
I already try to contact to samsung! But they didnt answer my questions!
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cetindk:
I'm also having the same issues. Not rooted Exynos Note 3, just 5 months old phone and its lagging in HD games such as Assassin's Creed Pirates and Asphalt 8. Its such a huge dissapointment as I bought this phone to play HD games.

I also had that screen glitch in Asphalt 8. Try turning off one handed operation and download the app called "Faster Android Booster" from the play store. These 2 things did make a difference in my gaming but the lagging is still there and I'm thinking rooting is the best option to just get rid of the game lags.

I'll be searching a solution without root, tell me if you find anything ;)
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] waqardaman:
High, i'm experiencing this problem as well after updating to 4.4.2 on my note 3. Asphalt 8 lags after a few minutes of playing. but this seems to be the only problem in 4.4.2 for me. i played mc4 aswell but i think it was the same before. But the rest of my experience with kitkat was amazing. i mean common, the UI is quit faster than before. Is this problem related to asphalt 8 or note 3's update? should i revert back? Please tell me a way to revert back to 4.3. cuz i read somewhere that the new boot loader won't allow that. please tell me or give a link to a tut about how i can revert to 4.3 (is it possible with odin?? because i updated to 4.4.2 with odin. the OTA was not available in my country).
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkshaft:
Only N9000 users complaining of this problem??
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] waqardaman:
Yeah. the problem only exist with the exynos version. my mom has the N9005 snapdragon version, in which asphalt 8 runs perfectly fine. i played on it for hours and not a single performance drop. infact it got the update from OTA. i had to manually install 4.4.2 on my Exynos via odin. help. also, please link me to some post on how to revert back to 4.3. very disappointed.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Er. Aditya:
once you update to kitkat theres no turning back and for.once you can try a custom rom.to check if the problem still remains
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] waqardaman:
Ok, so can i flash a custom 4.3 rom?? like this one: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2584610

it's a custom 4.3 rom.....not stock 4.3, so is it possible?? if not, then please tell me which is the BEST and MOST STABLE 4.4.2 custom rom?? :(
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Er. Aditya:
no bro there's no way you can go back .....not even custom roms..... check in my signature you can get the best roms for your note 3 :)
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RaptorMD:
I doubt Gameloft is going to do much to fix it, they will just ignore it like they do everything else, but its worth a quick email to them.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] waqardaman:
Yeah it might be the game's problem. Cuz there's not a single problem for me except asphalt 8's lagging. i mean the screen split and stuff..... those problems are just not there :confused:
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkshaft:
By the way I tired Asphalt 8 v 1 today on my S3 (i9300) and graphics set high, it ran very smooth with no problem at all not even a single lag, so I guess that the game is not yet optimized for N9000.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] waqardaman:
Yeah it's the games problem. Not the 4.4.2 update. Cuz I'm not having any other issue
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] waqardaman:
No no no it's not the game's problem. It's not asphalt 8's problem. I downloaded dead effect, another graphics intensive game, and played on highest possible settings. The game showed exactly same results as asphalt 8. It was silky smooth for the first 10 minutes, then the phone heated up and the game started lagging very bad. Just like before, i returned to the homescreen, let the device cool, and then the game worked fine again for a couple of minutes then started lagging again.

It's the 4.4.2 update's problem. Samsung's problem. lol this is what i payed 699$ for. thank you very much samsung.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] waqardaman:
Is there a way to fix this problem by rooting the phone?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cetindk:
You can root and then install some graphical booster apps like GLTools and Performance Booster (root). Or flash custom kernel, overclock the gpu + cpu etc.

Today I played some Amazing Spider Man 2, I have the Exynos Note 3 and the game's still not that fluid even in Low graphical settings. I'm seriously thinking about rooting.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] waqardaman:
ainisubalanced

I'm talking that even you are on 4.4.2,

Look, it's not note 3's hardware's problem. The Mali you which you get on it is one of the best gpus you'd get on a phone today, the problem is with the 4.4.2 update, the phone overheats and starts lagging. I don't think overclocking will help. It will just make the phone even more hotter. Which means More performance drop. But if your still trying, let us know the results. It's still good if it solves problems. Good luck!
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cetindk:
Yeah actually, I think you are right, overclocking might not be any help. Custom roms or custom kernels might work. I really think there is some serious bug in Samsung's Kit Kat update and you are right, games always start lagging after a while. At first everything is very smooth and all good but after that the phone starts warming up and the games start to lag. I play lots of games, and every single one of them, even 2D games like cut the rope 2 starts choppy framerates after 30-40 minutes later. I don't think it would be ok to just blame everything on the developer in Asphalt 8 or Spider Man 2's case. I know Gameloft makes bad unoptimized games but its clear that there is something wrong in Samsung's Kit Kat update, and unfortunately I'm not that optimistic about a new update from them fixing this issue anytime soon...
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] giveyouflowers:
omg thats the situation that i am in.!

i have Exynos ver note 3. i have the same problem playing asphalt 8 on it. its getting very hot and laggy after 5-8 mins playing of it. i am not sure what the problem is. it could be kk's problem or exynos' problem. i have a friend whose phone is SGS4 Exy version. it performs very well without any issue when i play asphalt 8. his phone has KK same as me. i sent Gameloft a messege about this issue a week ago. but they haven't reply to it.

i guess all we can do is just waiting till next update comes out. i am really sick of playing this shht.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] waqardaman:
Custom roms don't work. i tried each and every 4.4.2 kitkat rom out for note 3 exynos. the problem still persists. don't know about custom kernels.

it's not exynos's problem. it's the kitkat updates problem. since this didn't used to happen with 4.3.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arya335:
So what should we do now?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] waqardaman:
That's what i'm thinking right now. I blew myself buying this high end phone from my part time job money, and it doesn't play HD games! hurrayy!

We need serious help.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arya335:
Hey so can we downgrade 4.4 to 4.3 by odin?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Er. Aditya:
by all means we are stuck on 4.4
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arya335:
I love mc4! Plz there is anything we can do to fix this problem only 1 map I can play with no lag!

Its dog days

And its an epic sniper moment! Lol everyone was doing snipering and me too

And our enemy team was soo frustrated!
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] giveyouflowers:
New updated asphalt8 is now available. Ive just updated asphalt8 with good feelings but this **** let me down again.

The issues we have suffered haven't fixed YET! Not a single improvement was detected by me while playing game for 15mins

the screen split into 6 upto 16 still exists and heating up and graphic frame breaking as well.

It's killing me that i have to wait next update with depression which is about 1 month or more.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cetindk:
I'm not sure but I'm thinking the Gameloft games that are in Samsung App Store are more optimized for Samsung devices than the ones found in Google Play. Can any of you try Asphalt 8 from Samsung App Store? I tried both the Asphalt 8s in Samsung Store and Googlr Play and I'm not sure but the one in Samsung Store seems a bit faster and more smooth. Try if you havent already.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arya335:
I just downloaded the new update... and when I play mc4 I get a huge lag in every 5 sec...its make me mad!...not its happening in mc4 too

Plz if someone haven't updated yet plz dont update......I have done a mistake I hope u havent
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arya335:
I dont know that this update fix or maked more problems...because again I played mc4 and I get no lag issue nor in asphalt 8

And its update was only 28 mb big....
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stanzlavos:
I have the same issue as well. So, what to do now ? I just feel sad !!!

I had an S3 before and it was just such an awesome device !!!
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] waqardaman:
So you're saying you had another 28mb update after 4.4.2?? and asphalt 8 isn't lagging anymore? sure?

Cuz I updated to 4.4.2 manually as there's no ota in my place...so I wont receive any update. please tell if that latest update fixed anything
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] waqardaman:
Newer stability update available in some countries

Since ota was not available in my country, i flashed the 4.4.2 russian firmware with odin..... so i wouldn't know if there was any update available. i was googling about this recently, and i found that a newer 4.4.2 update is available in some countries! after 4.4.2 build N900XXUDNC1, there's this new firmware available in russia, with build number N900XXUDND1.

I'll download and flash to see if it improves stuff! wish me luck!
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cetindk:
Wow I just checked my build number its UDNB1 in Turkey, we are too far behind lol. Hopefully update improves the performance, keep us posted I'm interested :D
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raied115:
Would you please tell us your build number and everything, so we can all try that update.

By the way, I just played Real Racing 3 for almost half an hour, and the phone just got warm, but if I play Asphalt 8 for 8 min, the phone is hot... All the sensors were off while playing...
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] waqardaman:
Lol not just N900XXUDND1, after that, there is one more update! i flashed the latest N900XXUDND2 aswell.

My build no currently, after flashing the latest N900XXUDND2 fiwmware, is KOT 49H. N900XXUDND2,

But, first, let me tell you, this update didn't fix ****. Asphalt 8 is still behaving the same. heat up and lag after 5-6 minutes. I don't have time to test other games. Screw this phone. i'll wait for Oneplus One and buy it when it comes out in june. i swear to god, i'm Never buying any samsung phone again.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raied115:
Will try a custom ROM of that build and report back
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raied115:
After installing a fresh copy of Dr.Ketan's ROM, the ND1 version, and playing Ashpalt 8 for about 10 min, I noticed a lot less heating and no lagging after disabling Samsung DVFS!

Will play a little more and see if I'll have the overheating problem again.

Stay tuned :)

Edit: Dude, the ROM is awesome in managing the SoC and the heating problem is almost gone when no apps have been restored.

I'm restoring everything now and see if the problem still presist.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cetindk:
Oh man, custom roms are awesome but I'm too lazy to root and flash roms etc :D

Do you reccommend the ROM is everything working OK, any force closes, lags in games etc?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raied115:
Hhhhh, for me the ROM is working more than fine! You should try :)

No lags, no FC...
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cetindk:
Oh my GOD! Man you are a genious! I never heard about that Samsungs DVFS before until you mentioned it in your post. I looked it up and thought "yeah that thing needs to go away!"

So I just rooted my phone, installed wanam Xposed and Samsung DVFS Disabler and voila!

No lags in any game, I can even play Spider Man 2 on max graphic settings without any issue! It was barely working on low setting before OH MY GOD!

Before, San Andreas started lagging after playing 10 minutes, now its always smooth, and now I can play all my games with my sixaxis!

An all those customization options in Xposed oh my god i'm just so excited right now :D

Thanks for showing me the right way man, root is the best thing that can happen to any Android device.

Quick question: What do you use to back up before flashing another ROM? I have been using an HTC device before and 4ext was the way to backup, but I'm new to Samsung scene and I don't think 4ext is compatible with this phone :D
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raied115:
I'm glad to hear that it has worked for you! after disabling DVFS, does your phone gets hot/warm while playing high graphic games?

I'm using 3 ways to backup everything:

1. TWRP Recovery. There's an optin for backing up everything there.

2. My Backup Pro app from the Play Store. It's reliable and safe.

3. Titanium Backup. It's AMAZING or restoring apps and system data, and dows amaing job for restoring market links and etc...

I found those, for me, are the best ways to backup everything on my phone.

If you need anything else. I'll be glad to help :)
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] waqardaman:
OMG *_* you guys are Awwsumm!!! just looked out for this DVFS thing, and yeah, that's the problem!!

Just, one more question, can i install this mod on stock rom?? if yes, can i install this on D2? or do i have to flash D1 first (cuz i flashed the THL D2 version)??

And how and from were do i install this?? i saw that wanam's thread where there was this tutorial for installing xposed and disabling dvfs, will that work??
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Er. Aditya:
Yes u can use it on stock rom just needs root and thats the one you need by wanam
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raied115:
Just like he said, you can install it on any Samsung Based Rom. it requires Root of course.

Do you get any heat/Warmth/overheat while playing?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cetindk:
Thanks for the reccommendations, TWRP is awesome for backing up. Its saying there is no option to backup to sd card, only backup to internal but its not a big deal.

Yeah I played Spider Man 2 for 20 minutes on max settings and the phone got incredibly hot. A1 cpu tool showed 80 degrees for cpu temparute. I played San Andreas for 30 minutes, also got very hot it became hard to touch the screen lol. My question: Is there a way on stock kernel to start throttling the cpu when it gets to 70 degrees?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raied115:
Strange that it won't give you the option to backup to your SD CARD...

Try to check it through settings and see what can you find out...

It looks like the Spiderman 2 is not optimized for our Note 3...

As far as I know there is no option to control the SoC throttling without any custom kernel... Maybe you're having the same problem I had with overheating.

Try to disable Samsubg DVFS and opt out the location based ads in Google settings. See if that works for you.

Check if the IndexService service is active... Maybe you have a rouge file or app that is causing this.

Of none of the above helps, try to Factory reset everything (intrrnal and external memory) and try a custom rom.

Good luck!
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cetindk:
I tried many things but no luck, it becomes too hot as the cpu works way too hard to play the games without lag when you disable DVFS. I'm thinking I really need a custom kernel to solve all my problems. Thank you for all your help man, really appreciated.

I have another question, hopefully my last :D

After flashing a custom kernel, what app do you use to control the SoC throttling?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raied115:
Dude, I tried the methods I told you, and it's working well for me now...

I know one software that comes with the kernel of halszk: Synapse. It's awesome but you need to learn how to use it so you will not damage your phone.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cetindk:
Allright will look into that. And if I can't find a solution I'll try Dr. Ketan's rom as a last resort. Thank you.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raied115:
You're welcome :)
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arya335:
Thanks guys!!!!!

Thx for letting everybody know about this bug.......

Going to root hell yeah!!!!!?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raied115:
Nothing a little Googling and some motivation for answers can't solve :)

Please report back with the solution that has worked for you. I'm interested to know what things did you apply from previous posts here and what solved your problem :)

Have a great day my friends!
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] waqardaman:
Perfect!! All games are working fine for me now!! Did a clean rom install, rooted, disabled dvfs, and bang!!!

About the heating thing, I think the phone used to heat up exact same even on 4.3. I played asphalt 8 for about an hour, the phone did heat up, but not untouchable or anything. Just locking the screen makes it cool down very fast.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raied115:
That's great! Glad I could help!

Comapring to what I had (not able to touch the phone after 10 min of gameplay) the situation right now suits me well :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geordiegirl:
hi

i have a few problem with my android tablet. its says i have no memory when there is nothing on it i carnt install anything on it as there is no memory..it boots in chinise and it wont reset or when i try and install or restore it starts 2 then half way through it says aborting

please help
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] androidrocks23:
Hard reset

You Can do a hard reset !!!
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cheesejam:
Hey, my LG G2 recently got water damage so I am getting a new one tomorrow. I rooted my old phone right when the phone came out and put on a custom recovery. I had a few questions for doing this again, because I am not sure if the old methods still hold up:

Should I install the OTA? Are there any downsides of the latest OTA (there has just been one since release right?)?

Assuming I get the OTA, is ioRoot the current/best way of rooting (http://www.droidviews.com/root-lg-g2-after-recent-ota-update/).

What is the best method for putting a custom recovery on? I stumbled upon this in my search: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.shell.freegee_free&hl=en

But I am not sure if this is the up-to-date method. Any answers to these questions would be greatly appreciated, thanks! :)
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WolfmanJack:
IOROOT22 worked fine for me man, I never rooted till after i took the 12b update. Pretty sure it was IOROOT15 were they started throwing in the loki support in order to ease the root process on the G2. As far as recovery goes i downloaded freegee and used it to install TWRP 2.6.3.3 and that worked fine as well. FreeGee also offers CWM and Philz so you can pick your poison. If it doesn't work and the phone bricks or boot loops these two threads will save you life, well maybe not your life but your phone.

SDK ADB how to:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2141817

Flash Stock Verizon Firmware:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2448960

read the second carefully, maybe a couple times if you need to use it. easy to miss a step in the panic to fix your phone. At least it was for me. Took me a couple times of cursing, rereading, then realized i had missed a step.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cheesejam:
Perfect, exactly the response I was looking for, thanks! :)
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WolfmanJack:
No problem man.
[Windows 8 General] dkohalloran:
I am reading up about optimizing of SSD drives and I'm seeing that Windows 8 is supposed to be pretty good with automatically deciding whether to optimize or defragment drives based on what they are (SSD vs HDD). But I have a problem. I just bought an SSD but under the Optimization menu it is showing up as a Hard Drive.

It's a brand new Samsung 840 EVO 500GB and I'm going to be using it solely for music and movies as an external drive. I also bought an Anker external SATA III to USB 3.0 enclosure. I have the drive recognized and everything under the File Explorer but I'm just a little nervous that it's listed as a Hard Drive under the Optimization menu. How can I get Windows to see that it's in fact an SSD?
[Windows 8 General] GoodDayToDie:
Hmm. Leaving aside the fact that "solely for music and movies" is an absurdly pointless waste of an SSD (those are large, contiguous, non-latency-sensitive, moderate-to-low bandwidth files; in other words they are everything that a traditional magnetic disk is good at and an SSD is not) I would guess that the issue lies in the SATA3-USB3 conversion. If there's any drivers available for that enclosure specifically, you could try installing them (though they really ought to have installed automatically). Beyond that... does Windows even schedule automatic "optimization" of removable drives (presumably it *does* see your drive as removable)?

If I were looking for a portable media drive, I'd frankly just return that one and use the money to buy a traditional 2.5" HDD with 2-4x the storage capacity. There's literally not a single reason I can think of to use an SSD there unless you plan on dropping the drive a lot while it's in use (modern laptop drives will lock their heads if they sense a sudden drop, so even there the SSD has only a small advantage). Magnetic storage will give you much better capacity and probably last longer, too.
[Windows 8 General] dkohalloran:
I got the SSD on a really good sale and I'm definitely not returning it, the price I paid for it was absolutely bonkers and I'd be foolish to return it. I figured I'd buy it because I never know when I'm going to see it for the cheap again. I got it for 150 bucks CAD. So when I get a bigger drive in the future I will have an SSD :)

The software that came with the SSD for some reason won't install and the Samsung software won't recognize the SSD. Windows saw it right away as a portable media drive and I went into disk management, created an MBR volume and formatted it under NTFS. This was the only solution because many other users of this SSD have had the same problems as me - it straight up won't be recognized by the software, presumably probably because of the USB 3 connection. That's ok though because the software is optional. This was suggested as a solution and it works perfectly, now I'm just worried about the drive being falsely defragmented by Windows.