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Hello everyone!

Hi! I'm coming from my first android phone, HTC Desire HD (1 core 1ghz) and on Wednesday I switched to the allmighty S4 i9505. I've been loving it, even though I had it for a such short period of time.
I began rooting and flashing about a year ago on my Desire HD and have been a flash junkie ever since. I must say, flashing kind of takes more time on the S4 than on the Desire HD, probably because of the huge sizes of the ROMs. I hope i'll catch on to this and provide the same helping hand to newer users here as I did at the DHD forums.

Welcome m8
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Hello M8
Welcome, Yes it takes more time for flashing as u mentioned but one thing if you allow me to ask, do u have any heating issues ?
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yes i do, thats the main problem im having. i downclocked to 1.3 and turned off everything that i dont need(sync, wifi, gpa, motion controls etc. ). for that reason i modded my old cpu fan to be powered from usb and use it to cool my s4
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Maybe it's just me but in the first day or 2 my phone did feel quite hot then it just disappeared. Not much heat to speak of for a couple of weeks. Mind you I don't play games.
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i play no games and i still get some heating, i just hang on facebook,feedly,tapalatk etc. nothing serious. ill do some reading now about this heating problem, ill post soon
Update: well some of the stuff you could do is:
Turn off most of the motion controls and air gestures
Turn off s-voice and google now
I downclocked to 1.2ghz , interactive governer and undervolted for 50mV.
Get rid of samsungs bloatware
Disable sync
Disable 3g and wifi when not needed.
Dont play games

YouTube APP Video Playback lags

Hello everybody I have a pretty annoying issue with my brand new note 3 (n9005).
With the newest YouTube app update all the videos are lagging no matter what quality... is this a problem with the newest update? Could anybody test and confirm?? On my note 2 and my girlfriends s3 everything is smooth... The most time I am using force GPU rendering so I tried it with this option enabled and disabled but its the same. With other apps like supertube or of YouTube videos seem smoother...
This is a good video to test:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XSGBVzeBUbk
At the beginning when river is coming there is lag and also when jumping rope at around 04:20 for example...
The question is how such a beast with a snap800 can even lag? o.0
I even have some lag especially scrolling lag in different apps... Is it possible that some apps aren't compatible to the new proccesor yet??
Any feedback appreciated thx
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Cris7ianO said:
Hello everybody I have a pretty annoying issue with my brand new note 3 (n9005).
With the newest YouTube app update all the videos are lagging no matter what quality... is this a problem with the newest update? Could anybody test and confirm?? On my note 2 and my girlfriends s3 everything is smooth... The most time I am using force GPU rendering so I tried it with this option enabled and disabled but its the same. With other apps like supertube or of YouTube videos seem smoother...
This is a good video to test:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XSGBVzeBUbk
At the beginning when river is coming there is lag and also when jumping rope at around 04:20 for example...
The question is how such a beast with a snap800 can even lag? o.0
I even have some lag especially scrolling lag in different apps... Is it possible that some apps aren't compatible to the new proccesor yet??
Any feedback appreciated thx
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nope no lag what so ever sorry mate , are you rooted

Ah sry forgot to mention^^
Not rooted everything stock... The whole Knox thing is keeping me away at The Moment...
I also seem to have the multi touch issue... This is so annoying... Never had issues with my older notes 1,2 and 10.1...
I also had to return it because of the crackling home button... Just got it back and now this... Really dont want to send it back again...
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No issue either, rooted with 0x0 Knox flag.

[Q] My G2 is somewhat Lagging.

Well i just bought the LG G2 recently after i heard it was better than my HTC One... i had.
im somewhat disapointed because its lagging sometimes.. mostly at lockscreen and when i swipe pages.. and stuff.. im hoping its because im not using a costume Rom and an early OS ... and not the 4.4.2 because its not out yet for my D802 .... anybody els is having these things?

Hmmm?
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I think there's a problem !!
I've been using LG G2 D802 international for a month and it is very fast device, no complains except one day I installed flappy birds and It didnt run well, it skipped many frames, but subway surf runs very smooth and also device in normal use is fast as hell .So I did a little test here is my experience: Those games lagged: Flappy bird, jetpack joyride, fruit ninja. Games who ran very good: Need For Speed most wanted, Modern combat 4, subway surf, GTA vice city. How is possible those heavy games runs smoothly but those small games like fruit ninja and flappy bird, lags , I think those games do not support snapdragon 800, I want to ask you about your experience , thank you.

Well comparing to my old Htc one i feel like the g2 in his general use a bit laggier
For example camera,unlocking and browsing betweeb pages
That MAY be becayse in running 4.2.2 but im not sure
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RastaMansta said:
Well i just bought the LG G2 recently after i heard it was better than my HTC One... i had.
im somewhat disapointed because its lagging sometimes.. mostly at lockscreen and when i swipe pages.. and stuff.. im hoping its because im not using a costume Rom and an early OS ... and not the 4.4.2 because its not out yet for my D802 .... anybody els is having these things?
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u r right...i also see sum lag here and there...its very noticable when u switch from dial tab to call logs...i see it everytime...but there is a mod to get rid of lag...but i dont like modding my g2...lets see what 4.4 update brings for us

Yeah im also hoping itll fix the lagging issue cuz this device holds a much better spec sheet than the htc one
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[Q] Games like Temple Run,Temple Run 2,GTA Vice City Lags [Minor Lags[

Hello Everybody,
Well,I guess its over a month since I've bought my smartphone [Grand 2] but I am noticing very minor lags on even low end games.
Well,Grand 2 is well equipped with quite good specifications but Still games like Temple run,Temple run 2,GTA Vice City is lagging.Though,The lags are very minor.Touch is responsive but there's a lil lag in Graphics rendering.
I don't why its happening so,
I tried almost each and everything- Disabled Bloatwares [NO ROOT],Disable S Voice,No widgets at Home Screen,Tried clearing RAM before each gameplay,Changed Windows and Animation scales to "OFF" in Developers Settings but still there no such effect.
I also own a Nexus 7 but I am able to play each and every game without any lag even GTA SAN and GTA VC.
I don't know what's the issue with this Samsung Galaxy Grand 2.
Can anyone please help me out of this trouble?
I am really regretting right now that Why I am bought this smartphone.
Thank you!!

Thats weird. I've been playing a lot of Low-end as well as High-end games on Grand 2 and Rarely experience any lags.
I'm not really sure if this works :fingers-crossed: but you can try downloading Clean Master from the play store. It provides a Game booster feature which says that it'll speed up your games by up to 25%. You can add a game booster shortcut folder on your homescreen and whenever you start games from this folder, it'll speed em up.

I am sure you would have checked it but still, did you bychance have the power saving mode on?
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Indian Devil said:
I am sure you would have checked it but still, did you bychance have the power saving mode on?
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No man! Power Saving Mode is disabled.

+1
i am having the same minor lag issue.

hi
confirm 3D game is very lag, I can't play batman the dark nights rise

Rebellion. said:
Hello Everybody,
Well,I guess its over a month since I've bought my smartphone [Grand 2] but I am noticing very minor lags on even low end games.
Well,Grand 2 is well equipped with quite good specifications but Still games like Temple run,Temple run 2,GTA Vice City is lagging.Though,The lags are very minor.Touch is responsive but there's a lil lag in Graphics rendering.
I don't why its happening so,
I tried almost each and everything- Disabled Bloatwares [NO ROOT],Disable S Voice,No widgets at Home Screen,Tried clearing RAM before each gameplay,Changed Windows and Animation scales to "OFF" in Developers Settings but still there no such effect.
I also own a Nexus 7 but I am able to play each and every game without any lag even GTA SAN and GTA VC.
I don't know what's the issue with this Samsung Galaxy Grand 2.
Can anyone please help me out of this trouble?
I am really regretting right now that Why I am bought this smartphone.
Thank you!!
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update to the latest version this lag had been fixed. and while playing game disabled power saving mode ,close all the running apps and do force stop and clear ram and sometimes phone memory get fulled also caused phone slow so see ur internal memory as well.

Do you mean, HD games want to play well & smooth on midrange smartphone?
Just try to disable unwanted apps like samsung apps etc...
In my experience, maintain ram free above 500mb. Now i can able to play games smooth & without more lag.
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everything is smooth in my grand 2 im using G7102XWUBNH1

grand.galaxian said:
everything is smooth in my grand 2 im using G7102XWUBNH1
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the thing is...after the Kitkat update that is the 4.4,2 every basic game has some minor or considerable lag. Its not the device that has the problem ,its the update that has the bugs. Jellybean never had any such lag in any basic game.

I got solution
alexmercer56 said:
the thing is...after the Kitkat update that is the 4.4,2 every basic game has some minor or considerable lag. Its not the device that has the problem ,its the update that has the bugs. Jellybean never had any such lag in any basic game.
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Head over to my thread : http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-grand-2/general/gpu-tweak-force-gpu-rendering-gpu-t2867166
i already fixed lag in kitkat ... hope it help..

samsung galaxy grand 2 gaming lag. ..
Please help .....I've recently bought a Samsung galaxy grand 2 and installed android 4.4.2 on it as it was requested by samsung.... i decided to try games like asphalt and dead trigger and the problem is that both games stutter for some seconds approx. 5 seconds and then goes smooth again.....it's applicable for all games that I've tried......please help. ...the lag also occurs when we don't have any bulky effects. .......stutters for a few seconds and smooth and goes on like this...... note power saving is disabled. Please help....... :crying:

Weird lag

Hi everyone,
My note 4 seems to start lagging recently after I play games on it for a while. When I close the game, the phone itself lags as well. It's very obvious too when I'm just scrolling through my drawer. Has anyone experienced this? The few times I noticed the lag was also when my battery was low, <25% and I thought it may have been power saving mode. However I checked and power saving mode was off. Also when I use the facebook app any anytime, it has a scroll lag. I noticed that too when I'm browsing on certain sites (ie; XDA).
I tried factory reset and that did not fix the issue and I have the phone too long to exchange/refund

Dont worry bro
Use nova launcher for best experience

same dam problem
miorya said:
Hi everyone,
My note 4 seems to start lagging recently after I play games on it for a while. When I close the game, the phone itself lags as well. It's very obvious too when I'm just scrolling through my drawer. Has anyone experienced this? The few times I noticed the lag was also when my battery was low, <25% and I thought it may have been power saving mode. However I checked and power saving mode was off. Also when I use the facebook app any anytime, it has a scroll lag. I noticed that too when I'm browsing on certain sites (ie; XDA).
I tried factory reset and that did not fix the issue and I have the phone too long to exchange/refund
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I am having the same problem.intalled Nova turned off s voice. UGH PLEASE HELP

I never experienced any lag using stock launcher!, i want to stay my phone the way i first bought it.
if i change my launcher it feels like im not using note 4 anymore!

I'm already using nova. I tired stock browser but sites like XDA still lags when I scroll. Also when I game for a while, the game will start to lag. When I exit to home screen the phone itself lags too! I have to clear the ram for the phone to go back to normal. The weird thing is, the ram was only 2.22gb/2.72gb, it's not even close to max!

Stop clearing your ram now
Try uninstall some background app like facebook and see the effect

Hm interesting, after I last cleared my ram. I've been gaming for 2hrs straight and 0 lag... I've swapped back and forth from game to homescreen to whatsapp etc and no lag at all... Only thing different is I'm charging my phone at the same time. Think charging has something to do with it?

miorya said:
Hi everyone,
My note 4 seems to start lagging recently after I play games on it for a while. When I close the game, the phone itself lags as well. It's very obvious too when I'm just scrolling through my drawer. Has anyone experienced this? The few times I noticed the lag was also when my battery was low, <25% and I thought it may have been power saving mode. However I checked and power saving mode was off. Also when I use the facebook app any anytime, it has a scroll lag. I noticed that too when I'm browsing on certain sites (ie; XDA).
I tried factory reset and that did not fix the issue and I have the phone too long to exchange/refund
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Just got myself an exynos note 4. Very nice phone but aside from a little touchwiz stutter, games such as real racing 3 and clash of clans stutter. My nexus 4 ran them fine. Did a quick antutu benchmark to see whats up and i got 49000 on antutu without flight mode on. What do you think? Benchmarks say my phone should handle them with ease but thats not the case. Anyone with a solution? I already disabled many samsung and google apps. Lag is evident only in games.
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djunited said:
Just got myself an exynos note 4. Very nice phone but aside from a little touchwiz stutter, games such as real racing 3 and clash of clans stutter. My nexus 4 ran them fine. Did a quick antutu benchmark to see whats up and i got 49000 on antutu without flight mode on. What do you think? Benchmarks say my phone should handle them with ease but thats not the case. Anyone with a solution? I already disabled many samsung and google apps. Lag is evident only in games.
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i play 24/7 clash of clans game and i never experienced any lag!

miorya said:
Hm interesting, after I last cleared my ram. I've been gaming for 2hrs straight and 0 lag... I've swapped back and forth from game to homescreen to whatsapp etc and no lag at all... Only thing different is I'm charging my phone at the same time. Think charging has something to do with it?
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You're not using Power Saver, are you?

My note's benchmark seemed normal and I play Clash of Clans as well and it seems okay. The game I play most often is Summoners War and that is what's causing the lag. Come to think of it, I think I had an issue with the lag on my Nexus 5 as well but I might have chalked it up to the phone being old so when this happen on my brand new note 4, it raised a red flag. But still, I'm still confused why the game would lag my phone even thought it there's plenty of memory available.

pedmond said:
You're not using Power Saver, are you?
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Nope, confirm that power saving is not on.

miorya said:
My note's benchmark seemed normal and I play Clash of Clans as well and it seems okay. The game I play most often is Summoners War and that is what's causing the lag. Come to think of it, I think I had an issue with the lag on my Nexus 5 as well but I might have chalked it up to the phone being old so when this happen on my brand new note 4, it raised a red flag. But still, I'm still confused why the game would lag my phone even thought it there's plenty of memory available.
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I just tried clash of clans on my brothers s5. Turns out the stuttering is even worse. Im testing this by zooming in on the base and scrolling rapidly back and forth on a canon for example. I will test this on my nexus 4.i too thought coming to a phone as powerful as the note 4 i shouldnt see any stutters but if its happening on an s5 then i guess its not a hardware issue on my phone but rather an android thing? Tested this also on my iphone 6 with no stutters at all.
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Nevermind there is definitly something wrong with my phone as clash of clans looks like its being played on a 5 year old phone.way to many stutters.
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djunited said:
Nevermind there is definitly something wrong with my phone as clash of clans looks like its being played on a 5 year old phone.way to many stutters.
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I was having the same problem, so believe it or not, the way I stopped it was going into application manager and disabling S Health. I don't know how or why, but this stopped all the lag. After installing Ktoonez kernel, I thought maybe I could turn it back on, but when I did, I started getting the same lag again. I hope this helps because I know it is frustrating

the solution
Keithgordon said:
I was having the same problem, so believe it or not, the way I stopped it was going into application manager and disabling S Health. I don't know how or why, but this stopped all the lag. After installing Ktoonez kernel, I thought maybe I could turn it back on, but when I did, I started getting the same lag again. I hope this helps because I know it is frustrating
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I second Keith's recommendation. My 2-day-old, rooted Note 4 was lagging and was particularly noticeable when scrolling through some web pages or content in Flipboard. But it lagged in other places as well. Also stuttered or paused when playing podcasts. I tried installing Nova Launcher, I tried removing Wanam Xposed, and some other things but it finally went away when I started to disable various Samsung bloatware. The success occurred after I disabled SHealth and some other things (I just happened to do a few all at the same time). I suspect SHealth was the culprit because it was probably running in the background all the time, trying to track my step count.
I ended up keeping Nova Launcher since I gives me some useful customizations, and I love Wanam + Xposed, partly because it lets me get rid of Samsung's Search menu item that always used to appear in my notifications shade.
It's been over a week, now, and no more lag / stutter. Absolutely loving the phone, now.
I haven't gone back to re-enable some of the bloatware in order to confirm that SHealth was the culprit because, quite frankly, I have no interest in the stuff I disabled, anyway.

I have also disabled S health but I never had a problem with Clash of Clans when even I had S health Enabled.. whereas the other game I play (Summoners War) it always start to lag after an hr+ of gaming.

I already disabled s health through the app drawer but that does not solve the problem. Coc will run fine for a few mins and then start to stutter like its not optimized. To test for hardware issues i installed dead trigger 2 and injustice gods among us and they absolutely fly. The problem seems to be with coc. I am using an exynos note 4 on stock rom stock kernel. Any thoughts?
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djunited said:
I already disabled s health through the app drawer but that does not solve the problem. Coc will run fine for a few mins and then start to stutter like its not optimized. To test for hardware issues i installed dead trigger 2 and injustice gods among us and they absolutely fly. The problem seems to be with coc. I am using an exynos note 4 on stock rom stock kernel. Any thoughts?
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return your phone

when your phone starts to stutter after some time playing games, it might be thermal throttling. depending on the game you can notice it more or less.