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[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KamajiH:
I am posting here because I've been through countless forums, hearing many suggestions, but none has helped.

My issue, is lag, and performance issues on my Verizon Galaxy Note 4. At first, it was just a hiccup every now and again, which is Touchwiz, and I didn't really mind it. But now, it's to the point where I cannot experience a fully smooth experience. Every window that opens glitches out and stutters, scrolling freezes and jumps, the notification bar freezes and glitches out, keyboard typing is delayed, and Swype is slow and laggy.

So then, I read online that the Note 4 usually scores above 43,000 in AnTuTu benchmark. Mine scored 28,000. I've cleared the cache partition, I've deleted just about every singe app, I've disabled bloatware, I've done almost everything. There are a few things I DON'T want to do, which are:

- Change launchers. I don't want Nova, or anything else. I like Touchwiz, and I don't care about the occasional hiccup.

- Factory reset. I'd like this to be the last resort, since I already have many passwords, settings, pictures, and music stored on this device.

- Change window animation blahblah in developer options.

I'm starting to miss my Note 3. It ran much smoother, and faster even. What are my options from here? I'd greatly appreciate the help.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Charm8er:
Unfortunately this seems to be a problem that plagues all Samsung android devices. That's why I quit buying Samsung products many years ago. Last week I decided to give them another go with the Note 4 and I do love the phone, but..... it's doing the same things you describe and that I have experienced before. Samsung puts too much bloat that you can't get rid of on the phone and I think that all of that on top of touch wiz just makes for a very poor user experience. I had the droid turbo previously and want to go back to it after only a week with this device.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KamajiH:
Dang! I guess my only hope is for Lollipop to make things smoother.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dwillian:
My Note 4 started lagging almost immediately when it was brand new. I brought the device home, ran the initial setup (which did restore most of my google play store apps that I had used on my previous device), and the lag started almost immediately. I spent far too much time trying task killers, phone cleaners, clearing cache, etc., etc. I finally bit the bullet and did a factory reset.

Doing a factory reset really helped a lot. I did make sure to turn off auto update and auto restore in Google Play Store first. After completing the initial setup I manually installed ONLY the apps that I use regularly .

Factory resetting is a bit of a pain, but not really all that bad. I think it is probably required to solve your problem.

Debloating the uneeded preinstalled apps helps too. See http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2998294 for instructions on how to debloat the Note 4 without requiring root (or voiding your warranty).
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KamajiH:
Alrighty, thanks. I'm working on backing up music and passwords now, and planning on doing a factory reset very soon. And thanks for the link to that debloater software, I'll be sure to try that.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anzion:
Hardware-related?

Sorry but the Touchwiz is terrible stuff is overblown. I haven't really had any stuttering after months of owning the device. The Note 4 came with the slimmest Touchwiz to date and, as you say, the Note 3 had no problems with performance. Yes, its good to debloat, but what you are experiencing seems to be more serious. The fact that your Antutu benchmark isn't close to where it should be is a red flag. My 910V registers 46680. If a factory reset doesn't work, you may try to return it or contact Samsung to see what options you have available to you.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ashwin Prabhunerurkar:
holy**** i was just browsing around forums and i saw this

i have a note 2 on kitkat and it scores 31000 on touchwiz (Ditto note 4 rom)

amazing performace on note 2 thats why i didnt even feel the need to buy note 3 or 4

i dont think touchwiz is the problem specially for a device like note 4

You could try these things to get better performance

use custom kernel and use high freq (Nadia kernel in your case)

root you device and delete all waste apps from system/app and system/priv-app

OR

flash a deodexed rom

Worth case scenario you may have a slow internal storage causing all the lag and problems in that case backup your data and flash a stock rom and re flash a partition table for your device

this would definately solve your problem (had this problem on tab 2 10.1 and this last method worked for me)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anzion:
Unfortunately, none of these are currently an option because the Verizon Note 4 is currently not rootable and the bootloader is also locked.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ashwin Prabhunerurkar:
if it is happening only to you then my guess is it is an hardware problem and get your device replaced

but better backup your device as the verizon people will want to format your device and reflash it before they declare it as a bad device and replace it
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dwillian:
Good luck, hope this works for you. Please let us know if this solves your problem, or not.

Fyi: My Note 4 gets an AnTuTu Benchmark score of 47315 (free app available from Google Play).
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bond32:
Not sure if this is still an issue, but make sure none of your battery saving functions are active. Settings -> Power -> power saving mode, make sure that's off. Just a thought
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pbman1953:
I just Antutu'd mine and got around 39,000 . Then I cleared cache and ram and the restarted, . After the test ran faster, can't say twice as fast just faster. The results were 40,0007. According to the comparisons mine was 5 below the listing for the Note 4. the one item that did bother me is that the S5 was listed one model ahead of mine, but 4 models away from the listed Note 4.

In your case there must be apps running that you don't know of. You have to check running apps in the app manager. Just look on the "ALL" listing and turn off any that you can turn off and don't need. Many of them show " Turn off" but it's grayed out which is total bs to me. Plus from some web searching I've read that the new S6 may be bloat free

Lastly, use Greenify- go to settings/assesibility/Greenify

Report back
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KamajiH:
Doing a factory reset seems to have solved the problem. Also, I didn't sync all my apps over, so that may have caused the problem the first time.

I'm actually scoring good, too. Thank you guys for helping!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pbman1953:
That was the culprit in my case. Huge change that took my model to the top on the list registering 49,987. I'll leave it off for a day or 2 and see what happens to the battery performance. While using the power saver the battery has been stellar. From off the charger at 7:30 am Id have 65% by 7 pm
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fozzir:
As far as lag, to get rid of it just set Window, Transition and Animator scale to "off" under Developer options and you should be good to go. I've done that since the S3 days no problem and phone gets waay faster.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KamajiH:
So here we go again, it's lagging terribly again. The only different thing I did, was install the negative color notification widget from the Samsung store (which I didn't even do last time), so that can't be why it's lagging. There is literally no explanation.

And yeah, I've tried turning off window animation, and etc. That only got rid of opening window lag. But I'm still lagging hard everywhere else.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] outcasted2003:
I have no lag issues at all. This Note 4 is the smoothest operating Samsung phone that I have ever owned. Here's my results:

---------- Post added at 06:09 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:43 PM ----------

I would send it back to Verizon. Must be a hardware problem I'm guessing. Good luck
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dwillian:
You could try Greenify (free version should be fine) and see which apps it suggests be hibernated. Just don't hibernate anything that generates notifications that you need. This has helped me in the past. Some apps like Facebook are notorious for causing battery drain. I uninstalled FB and use a browser link (saved to my home screen) to check my account when I want.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oneandroidnut:
I have no idea what you guys did to your phone mine flirts with 50,000 on antutu every time and is like butter and runs so so cool
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pbman1953:
You're right on the Antutu, mine is about the same.

Maybe who ever has an issue should state on where and what part of the phone

examples-

Internet access and page return speed- connection related

Email access and refresh speed- same as above

Screen swiping speed- Touch wiz, try Nova

Stock apps performance- one's that don't need Int access and ones that do- possibly here could lie the issue

Texting - sending/ receiving ?- with Verizon this is purely connection related

Also, whoever suggested to kill the Face book app , you're 100% right. I use a link now and the whole phone works better

Last- I use the Samsung app- Vitamins. For me, I use is the system cleanup. This goes along with the left menu button clean up and Greenify
[Xposed General] I brito:
When I try to update the framework, I get this error.

Could not extract xposed-disabler-recovery. Zip

Need help. I'm kinda new to this.

Thank you
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dice:
Hi All! I just got a new phone... It's a Chinese phone with no apparent brand.

Unfortunately I tried to root it and while using SP Flash Tool and MK Droid Tools I bricked it :(, Now i've been trying for days flashing different roms for similar phones in the hopes that one will work. One kinda worked but was the wrong resolution and I couldn't use it... I don't even remember which one it was.

Before doing this I tried to back up my images, but I am an idiot and didn't do it right. I have a scatter file and some other images from my original rom... but nothing beyond the recovery partition. Here's the list of files I have from the original phone:

MT6572_Android_scatter.txt

preloader.bin

MBR

EBR1

uboot.img (renamed to lk.img)

boot.img

factory_NONmodified_recovery.img

nvram.bin

pro_info

protect_f

protect_s

seccfg

I have also attached the scatter file in case anyone finds it useful.

If anyone can help me find the missing files or a different factory image, I'd greatly appreciate it! Below are specific details about the phone... maybe there's one that you guys know about that fits it? Also, if i try a different rom... which parts of my original rom should I still flash in, and which parts of the new rom should I flash?

Thanks alot!!

​

Here's what I got, including details from the FCC

FCC Page: http://fccid.net/number.php?fcc=2ADBRK968&id=477292#axzz3RxdczcMd

Product Info/sale: http://oemfone.en.alibaba.com/produ..._5inch_cheap_3G_android_smart_phone_K968.html
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dice:
I think it might take a while till i get any response, so still trying myself.... I'm looking around to see if anyone has a working phone that is like mine, but until then I'll still try roms for devices similar to mine, but i have a question, maybe I should post it on a new thread?

How do i find out what's going on whie the device is booting? it gets to the splash screen, i can get to recovery as well, but I want to know what's going on during the boot process... adb logcat does nothing but say -waiting for device-

Is there another way?

Thanks again!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dice:
I wasn't sure wether I should create a new post or just reply here, so i just went with reply :P

After looking I was finally able to get a dump of the stock rom from someone with an identical phone, and in the spirit of openness, I'd like to share it with you guys if anyone ever needs it.

Link: http://www.mediafire.com/download/9zkfz9n7hyiy8k6/A600_MT6572_ForFlashtoolFromReadBack.zip

You can flash this rom using SP Tools. Also, the phone will not boot immediately after flashing this rom... first you need to start the phone in (bootloader?) mode by holding the vol. Down and power. Once you're there do a factory wipe... technically this should be done in recovery mode, but idk how to do it with this rom because there's no "Yes" option when recovery asks you if you're sure about a factory wipe. Maybe it's hidden with some sort of key combo? idk, do it how you prefer.

Well, thanks, if you have questions let me know
[Samsung Galaxy 5 I5500] Droid-V:
Hello guys, I'm using a SG5 as my alarm and backup phone and I found a ROM called Reincarnation or something like that on MADTeam forum, but the links were offline so I just wanna know if somebody could send me the link for this ROM because it seems to be very interesting, I saw that is a port from Galaxy Ace, is CM7 based and has S5 look.

Sent from my LG G3 D855P
[Samsung Galaxy 5 I5500] Codename50:
Madteam.co is down

Yup Madteam.co is down.

It gives a 502 bad getaway error.
[Samsung Galaxy 5 I5500] belegul:
Did you find it? I could enter yesterday for a few minutes and by casuality downloaded that ROM.

Visit : ROM Reincarnation
[Sony Xperia T2 Ultra] Kinz1980:
I have looked all over and see some threads overlapping other threads, however I am not finding anything for the D5316 Model. I am running Android 4.4.2 Build Number 19.1.A.0.486 The kernel version is from Thu Jul 17 10:07:21 2014. I would like to root and get recovery on it to try a faster rom and get rid of the Sony bloatware. If you have been successful or I missed a link on how to do that please point me in the correct direction...... Thank you in advance.:confused:
[Sony Xperia T2 Ultra] Chena_22:
you can try all root methods available i.e giefroot, rootkitxperia, easy root tool, etc. find them in the cross development section
[Sony Xperia T2 Ultra] bor3d2damax:
EDIT: Apparently, it's working now. All I had to do was reflash the ftf file in flashtool and it was able to keep the custom recovery and boot the phone past it....go figure.

Thanks for posting this, I am having some trouble myself and it's really frustrating. I am able to flash both CWM and TWRP. I am even able to boot into these recoveries but I cannot get the damn thing to boot past it. Pretty sure it's the kernel but I cannot find a place that will tell me step by step as to getting custom recovery on the model of this phone. I am still on 4.4.2. Can you please point me in the right direction?
[Sony Xperia T2 Ultra] Kinz1980:
So you were able to root your d5316?
[Sony Xperia T2 Ultra] bor3d2damax:
Yes I was! I can get you the instructions if you want.
[Sony Xperia T2 Ultra] Kinz1980:
Yes, please do! Also did you get recovery figured out? I am wanting to use xposed.
[Sony Xperia T2 Ultra] bor3d2damax:
Yes,

Basically what you have to do is download Dual Recovery and put it on your SD card or internal storage on the phone. Download Supersu 2.40 and do the same thing. Then go to the CWM recovery thread and download that. Follow the instructions there. Once you finish following the instructions just boot into CWM recovery, then flash Dual Recovery. Reboot the phone and wait until you see the green light. Press the down key once you see the green light. It should take you into TWRP. After that flash Super Su and then you reboot and let it boot all the way, done. Make sure you are bootloader unlocked and have working ADB AND FASTBOOT on your PC
[Sony Xperia T2 Ultra] Kinz1980:
Let's back up for a second.....

Give me a breakdown one more time from the very beginning.

1.unlock the bootloader

2. Download "dual recovery"and place on sd card

3. Download superuser and place on sd card

4. Install cwm recovery

5. Flash the dual recovery.....why? Is there something wrong with cwm?

6.Flash superuser

At what point is the phone rooted? Does flashing SU do that? I have used tools in the past on other phones. This is my first Sony phone.

If you care to, or the time to...could you please paste the links to each step (assuming I have them all correct or I am not missing something)

I really appreciate you helping this much I was ready to give up on this phone, cause I couldn't get any help! :what::banghead:
[Sony Xperia T2 Ultra] j10:
just the topic I was looking for!

mind if I follow this? I just bought this phone yesterday. Looking for a way to get Lollipop on it.
[Sony Xperia T2 Ultra] Kinz1980:
I was hoping to get a reply by now. Which model# do you have
[Sony Xperia T2 Ultra] hoonu:
I just flashed FXP ASOP 2/23 after I was able to get 2/08 running on the device and now the device won't boot past the android logo. I can get it flashboot mode and rewrite the 3 imgs (boot, system, and user data) however it still won't boot.

Any Ideas?
[Sony Xperia T2 Ultra] Kinz1980:
I am just trying to get root and recovery
[Sony Xperia T2 Ultra] Takenover83:
I was able to get root by doing the following.

Flash the cwm boot.img. You will not be able to boot android but you will be able to boot to recovery.

Flash the dual recovery from cwm. Go ahead and flash supersu zip as well.

Reboot. Wait till you see the green light (not pink) flash and press the volume down button to boot to twrp or volume up to boot phils recovery.

I used twrp. Once in TWRP, I flashed the rooted stock firmware (mainly to restore a fully working boot.img), and reflashed dual recovery from twrp. Also flash the newest supersu zip.

Maybe a easier way, but worked for me.
[Galaxy Tab S Themes and Apps] sweetandsoursauce:
Hello folks,

looking for an app on the market that has good features and stability for writing notes with a stylus. for example, practising chinese letters, writing in english etc.

Open for discussions!

Thanks!
[Galaxy Tab S Themes and Apps] sweetandsoursauce:
rally, no1?
[Galaxy Tab S Themes and Apps] Chinaboy5216:
I'm using LectureNotes from Acadoid since a very long time and must say for me the best note taking app around
[Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500] chrissygizmo:
can Samsung galaxy ace plus be software unlocked ? i am looking to try and unlock my device preferably free if possible or as cheap as possible so i would be grateful if anyone could give me a push in the right direction , thanks in advance for your input :highfive::highfive::highfive:
[Android Apps and Games] 1800yolk:
I'm curious if there is a way to minimize how often tasker checks sensors for changes? for instance, I have a task set to silence notifications while face down, but it's not a time critical task for me. I wouldn't mind if it only checked every minute or so. thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] thahim:
There is a setting for sensors in preferences.
[Android Apps and Games] 1800yolk:
nice, thanks! i felt kinda silly for not having checked that, but i appreciate the help
[Note Edge Android Development] deadlyheart4u:
I found this on sammobile

I am using SM-915G Note Edge India, can i flash this one ?

Mod Edit link removed

Please suggest people
[Note Edge Android Development] jtambis6:
Sure. Why not?

I'm downloading it right now, its a 1.8GB file.

I got my Note Edge from Singapore.
[Note Edge Android Development] yltan:
I tried to download but the speed is terrible. It would be great if someone could mirror it.
[Note Edge Android Development] deadlyheart4u:
won't it have network carrier issues at all.
[Note Edge Android Development] ultramag69:
Should work fine on any 915G but please remember there is a slight difference with icons and such as , for some bloody stupid reason, the Aussie courts upheld and granted Apple copyright on some icon sets - generally for NFC. Go figure...
[Note Edge Android Development] jtambis6:
You won't get fast download speed from Sammobile unless you are a member.

I'm getting around 150kb/s averagely.
[Note Edge Android Development] deadlyheart4u:
Mine speed it decent at 250 to 300 kbps
[Note Edge Android Development] deadlyheart4u:
I use mac any guidelines for me to how to flash using jodin 3 as it always ask for PIT Files
[Note Edge Android Development] flipmodeseven:
Can anyone confirm i can flash this?

SM-N915G Singapore.
[Note Edge Android Development] deadlyheart4u:
yes you can bro
[Note Edge Android Development] flipmodeseven:
Thanks bro!

downloading it now.
[Note Edge Android Development] deadlyheart4u:
i have done it amazing. works awesome
[Note Edge Android Development] flipmodeseven:
Bro, if i flash lollipop. Can i go back to kitkat?
[Note Edge Android Development] deadlyheart4u:
yes you can anytime
[Note Edge Android Development] flipmodeseven:
camera button missing from edge panel

Done with flashing lollipop, but camera button is not on the edge panel?
[Note Edge Android Development] deadlyheart4u:
I want to root the device can anyone help ?
[Note Edge Android Development] gimmick56:
HI mate,

read this

http://xdaforums.com/note-edge/general/easiest-root-n915g-t2989909

kind regards
[Note Edge Android Development] malybru:
Mod Edit

Not development

Thread closed

malybru

Forum Moderator
[Samsung Gear VR] mitchellvii:
You know, leading up to my purchase of the Gear VR I watched countless Oculus Rift videos where the user was simply dumbfounded, dismayed and amazed by the complete immersion of the experience. Lots of swearing and laughing. A sense of "no longer being in the real world".

The Gear VR has a better screen than the Oculus Rift and the FOV is just slightly less (96 degrees vs 100 degrees). But to be honest, although it's cool, I am NOT getting that WOW moment where I feel I've been transported to another world. I can see pixels, I can see the binocular effect. Yeah it's cool but for me anyway, not remotely immersive. Perhaps 360 videos would be immersive if they weren't so badly out of focus. I can watch quality HD movies in the Cinema but those are movies on a screen - again not immersive - I'm not IN the action. Games come the closest but Android games tend to be a bit on the cartoonish side. Of the games I've played only Anshar and Darknet give me the sense I'm IN the game, Anshar being the best (I really wish they would release the full game - getting tired of playing one level forever).

So are these people in the Oculus videos just easily impressed? Don't get me wrong, the Gear VR is a fun device and worth the $200, but it just isn't AMAZING for me like all those folks in the videos seem to think the Oculus is. Never once have I felt like laughing or swearing or just being giddy at the experience. It's neat, but for me that's about it.

** Update: Turns out the best most immersive games for the GVR (such as Herobound) require a controller. Since I did not own a bluetooth controller previously I was not aware. Herobound is a very impressive VR game and gives a good sense of immersion. Very promising.
[Samsung Gear VR] mitchellvii:
Maybe it's like hypnosis. Some people are easier to hypnotize than others. Maybe with VR it is just easier for some people to feel IN the environment than others? Dunno.
[Samsung Gear VR] mitchellvii:
I guess the sad thing about the GVR is that we will never have games that can compete with what a PC with graphics card can spit out. There is an app to allow you to play PC games on your Note 4, but the lag over wifi is so bad they are kind of unplayable and you can't hard tether for obvious reasons.
[Samsung Gear VR] stevegee111:
Let it go man. if you dont like it - stop using it. But youve said all there is to say.