Really bad lag when typing / generally using S7 Edge - Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers

Hi all,
Has anyone else got really bad lag on their S7 Edge?
I love this phone - but the input lag is incredible. Sometimes i'm unable to type a message for minutes at a time because of the lag. At first I thought Swiftkey was to blame, so I uninstalled and used the Samsung keyboard for an hour or so. Same problem. Re-installed swift key.
I've removed any apps i've installed recently... Cleared cache partition etc... No joy. It happens for up to 5 minutes at a time, maybe twice / three times per day.
I can't seem to locate the cause, and i'm trying to avoid doing a full reset of my phone and lose everything, to maybe end up with the same problem.
Thanks

PIzzimperfect said:
Hi all,
Has anyone else got really bad lag on their S7 Edge?
I love this phone - but the input lag is incredible. Sometimes i'm unable to type a message for minutes at a time because of the lag. At first I thought Swiftkey was to blame, so I uninstalled and used the Samsung keyboard for an hour or so. Same problem. Re-installed swift key.
I've removed any apps i've installed recently... Cleared cache partition etc... No joy. It happens for up to 5 minutes at a time, maybe twice / three times per day.
I can't seem to locate the cause, and i'm trying to avoid doing a full reset of my phone and lose everything, to maybe end up with the same problem.
Thanks
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Do you have the vibration on? If so disable it you'll be good to go
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The haptic feedback vibration?
I'll try it out.

Well at least on an immediate try, there seems to be no lag. I'll monitor and see how it goes. Is this some kind of known issue?

I don't know if it's a widespread issue, but I've read a few reports here and there about it. I seem to have the same issue as well, not as dramatic, though. Typing response sometimes feels sluggish, unresponsive at times (some key presses are not registered), though that seems to happen intermittently. Haven't found a way to get rid of it, though. I've tried clean installs, recent app clean apps, disabling bloatware, not disabling bloatware, different keyboards, etc. It seems to come back every time.

I was using Swiftkey for a while with the S7E and had the lag issue every once in a while. I switched to Google keyboard after the latest update a couple days ago and in my opinion it is better than Swiftkey. The Swype to type is so much more accurate on the Google keyboard. The latest update also got rid of that stupid Holo theme and now has boarders around the keys. That also added an option the change the keyboard height. Give Google keyboard a try and you may end up liking it better.
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Swiftkey is garbage and should not be used by anyone. They added a lot of bloat and stupid animations over time and turned a great keyboard into a lag fest.
The stock Samsung keyboard is as smooth as Google's for me. Very responsive and no lag at all. I'm on exynos, which variant do you have?

Cloxed said:
I don't know if it's a widespread issue, but I've read a few reports here and there about it. I seem to have the same issue as well, not as dramatic, though. Typing response sometimes feels sluggish, unresponsive at times (some key presses are not registered), though that seems to happen intermittently. Haven't found a way to get rid of it, though. I've tried clean installs, recent app clean apps, disabling bloatware, not disabling bloatware, different keyboards, etc. It seems to come back every time.
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Been having that issue on my International EDGE too.
Really thinking of returning it, it makes the phone feel slower than my S5...

Glad it's not just me.
Disabling haptic feedback hasn't helped, same issue and at times its so bad I can't even type.
I'll try ditching swift key and report back.
I'm in the exynos variant.

Im also expirience that. Haptic sound and vibration is off.
I even turned off speling check
S7 edge exynos.
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Remind me the G4 keyboard lag, which LG did fix, maybe some of you should go to the sammy official support, make sure it's widespread.

I have the exact issues as well!! So annoying, G935F here. My old nexus 4 is smoother! Why did I buy Samsung.

Got ir solved all you need to do is to cancel the keyboard swipe action
It seems now my keyboard is very responsive.
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I don't have swipe or vibrate enabled, never have. Laggy and horrid

Absolutely no lag here. You're probably running an app causing it. I have about 150 (I know I know) apps installed and zero lag. I clean it out sometimes and it soeeds things up overall but no lag that's noticeable at all.
~ Faslane
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Try Google Keyboard if you have lag just for ****s and giggles. The latest version is pretty awesome and no lag at all....
~ Faslane
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lvnatic said:
Swiftkey is garbage and should not be used by anyone. They added a lot of bloat and stupid animations over time and turned a great keyboard into a lag fest.
The stock Samsung keyboard is as smooth as Google's for me. Very responsive and no lag at all. I'm on exynos, which variant do you have?
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Couldn't agree more. The latest Google keyboard is my preference and they really overhauled it and added a ton of features but Sammy keyboard isn't bad either but Swiftkey I dumped long ago. It's theme bloated interface is nothing but lag. +1
Fas
~ Faslane
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jrwingate6 said:
I was using Swiftkey for a while with the S7E and had the lag issue every once in a while. I switched to Google keyboard after the latest update a couple days ago and in my opinion it is better than Swiftkey. The Swype to type is so much more accurate on the Google keyboard. The latest update also got rid of that stupid Holo theme and now has boarders around the keys. That also added an option the change the keyboard height. Give Google keyboard a try and you may end up liking it better.
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ABSOLUTELY! It's MUCH better. Swiftkey is faaaar too light anymore and has issues with certain apps etc. Google Keyboard was my go to for ages and is even better now. +1
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the_crevis said:
I have the exact issues as well!! So annoying, G935F here. My old nexus 4 is smoother! Why did I buy Samsung.
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It's not the phone. The S7 Edge is one of the fastest phones on market. Clean out apps and dump Swiftkey.
~ Faslane

both samsung keyboard an swiftkey always sucked so hard, always had lag and unresponsiveness a lot of times, I installed Xperia Keyboard an works perfectly xD, sad is, is not the last version the one ported, but good at all

PIzzimperfect said:
Well at least on an immediate try, there seems to be no lag. I'll monitor and see how it goes. Is this some kind of known issue?
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No its not really a bug per se it just the haptic feedback can't keep up with the touchscreen.
I have mine off and zero lag at all
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Cloxed said:
I don't know if it's a widespread issue, but I've read a few reports here and there about it. I seem to have the same issue as well, not as dramatic, though. Typing response sometimes feels sluggish, unresponsive at times (some key presses are not registered), though that seems to happen intermittently. Haven't found a way to get rid of it, though. I've tried clean installs, recent app clean apps, disabling bloatware, not disabling bloatware, different keyboards, etc. It seems to come back every time.
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Turn off your haptic feedback or vibration it works
"POWWWWER...SPEEEEED !"
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s7freak said:
No its not really a bug per se it just the haptic feedback can't keep up with the touchscreen.
I have mine off and zero lag at all
"POWWWWER...SPEEEEED !"
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Turn off your haptic feedback or vibration it works
"POWWWWER...SPEEEEED !"
Sent from my Echoe Powered Stig driven G935F
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That doesn't fix the issue for me. Have been running my keyboard without any kind of feedback (sound, vibration) and I've tried it with and without feedback and the problems persists. As I said, it's not a constant thing but it looks like some sort of system wide lag that is reflected on the input response. Nevertheless, thanks for the tip.

Cloxed said:
That doesn't fix the issue for me. Have been running my keyboard without any kind of feedback (sound, vibration) and I've tried it with and without feedback and the problems persists. As I said, it's not a constant thing but it looks like some sort of system wide lag that is reflected on the input response. Nevertheless, thanks for the tip.
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+1

Hasn't fixed for me either. Using Google keyboard with swipe and vibrate disabled. So disappointed
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[Q] Any way to make Recent Apps button faster on Lollipop?

Hi guys, I would just like to have everyone know I love my Note 4 N910F but the one I absolutely hate about it is the recent apps button lag is attrocious. I was hoping that the Lollipop update would fix the massive delay/lag when pressing the recents button and although it did a little bit, there's still a massive delay. I used a Galaxy A3 and Galaxy A5 which were both low-mid range phones that had absolutely no lag when pressing the recents button.
I'm currently on Rooted Stock Lollipop, is there anything that can be done to make recent apps pop up more instanty? I'll flash another Lolipop Rom providing it's fast with good battery life and someone can confirm there is no recents delay?
Yes.
Force close facebook app and test recents. As soon as facebook reload itself lag come back again.
I dont use facebook.app. it is turned off and the lag is still here. Less but still is present
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So basically out of all the crazy mods and development that is done on the note 4, nobody can make the recent apps button work without delay on a touchwiz rom...
Have you tried any of the solutions in this thread?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/help/fix-recent-apps-button-lag-touchwiz-lp-t3033000
djsynth said:
So basically out of all the crazy mods and development that is done on the note 4, nobody can make the recent apps button work without delay on a touchwiz rom...
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I know how u feel man. I've tried every trick known to man but nothing permanently stops this insane multitasking lag. My conclusion is that Samsung simply don't know how to fix it yet - because the problem has existed since kit-Kat
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Also for the record I've tried the freezing talk back app & other stuff. Some extras I've tired include singing classic songs to my phone, installing jelly bean wallpapers & recently I've tried holding my breath whilst blinking rapidly. Nothing works lmao
djsynth said:
So basically out of all the crazy mods and development that is done on the note 4, nobody can make the recent apps button work without delay on a touchwiz rom...
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I feel your pain, man. A lot of digital ink's been spent on this. No one seems to have been able to fix this. I think it's a problem with TouchWiz. I was actually curious to see whether the 6/6 Edge still had this problem but I haven't had luck finding a video where someone pulled up the recent apps menu. Frankly, I don't think this is going to be fixed for our device anytime soon, if at all -- heck, many Note 4 users don't even have Lollipop yet.
I even tried looking for a recent apps substitute and mapping the button to my recent apps button but couldn't make it work.
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krohme said:
[/COLOR]Also for the record I've tried the freezing talk back app & other stuff. Some extras I've tired include singing classic songs to my phone, installing jelly bean wallpapers & recently I've tried holding my breath whilst blinking rapidly. Nothing works lmao
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Wait... you didn't try dousing yourself with Chicken blood and walking backwards for a mile??! It totally works!
jpbl1976 said:
I feel your pain, man. A lot of digital ink's been spent on this. No one seems to have been able to fix this. I think it's a problem with TouchWiz. I was actually curious to see whether the 6/6 Edge still had this problem but I haven't had luck finding a video where someone pulled up the recent apps menu. Frankly, I don't think this is going to be fixed for our device anytime soon, if at all -- heck, many Note 4 users don't even have Lollipop yet.
I even tried looking for a recent apps substitute and mapping the button to my recent apps button but couldn't make it work.
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yesterday i had the chance to play with demo unit galaxy s6 and i can assure you the recent app button is very smooth and flawless. By the way the S6 is running LP 5.0.2 .
ammar said:
yesterday i had the chance to play with demo unit galaxy s6 and i can assure you the recent app button is very smooth and flawless. By the way the S6 is running LP 5.0.2 .
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Awesome. Was the home button made of steel and glass instead of plastic?
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I played with a Galaxy A3 and A5 which are low-mid range phones that have their recent apps button working flawless on Kitkat. Yesterday played with both the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge and the Recent Apps button is flawless. Maybe if someone ports a Galaxy S6 Rom over to the Note 4 then we can say goodbye to this problem. Touchwiz is meant to be toned down and lighter on resources on the Galaxy S6.
Disable the talkback service in application manager, will fix your problem
Recent apps faster
The only way is turn off multi window and freeze talkback.
It Sick but there's no other way.
I turn multiwindow back on when i need it
I can't believe it's so simple... I did exactly that and now my alb95 3.5 rom is perfect! Thank you!
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it's supposedly fixed in 5.1.1.

LG G4 performance

So I bought my G4 from T-mobile yesterday as I did the initial install it feels choppy and laggy. After all the google play updates and restart the phone was still laggy when I move from app to app, home screen to setting and back. What I found out that help was changing the layout in Setting from Tab View to List View as you navigate around the phone like what I did previously everything became smooth and no longer laggy. Havent run into any issue with battery drain, wifi, touch screen, heat as most users describe yet will update if I find alternative solution.
After a fresh start (after factory reset, ROM flash, OS upgrade), the system does lots of indexing and set up, leading to a laggy phone and high battery drain. Give it a couple of days to settle down.
Yeah mine was same first startup is slow feels so laggy. But now feels great and battery life is also improved. I disabled most of google apps only have gmail.
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soyelmango said:
After a fresh start (after factory reset, ROM flash, OS upgrade), the system does lots of indexing and set up, leading to a laggy phone and high battery drain. Give it a couple of days to settle down.
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Ahhh indexing that sounds quite about right for a moment I thought because UI itself throttle down the cpu of the phone so it seems laggy. Thanks for info hope it gets better in a couple of days as for apps that are not needed which bloatware apps do u guys disable so it doesnt run in the background and such?
Mine almost seems as if the phone doesn't have the resources to handle high usage. I'm waiting patiently for root so we can slim it down and better utilize cpu scaling (on demand, performance, etc)
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The G4s (And I guess along with other phones) do have a sizable amount of bloatware installed as well. Just looking at the apps pre-installed from out of the box, there's quite a bit for a brand new phone.
Even though my G4 is broken in now, I found that after I disabled a buttload of these apps, it felt a bit snappier.
And I guess as a recommendation since you just got the phone. Replace the text messaging app ASAP! Stock is garbage, after I imported about 10'000 messages from my old phone, it slowed down as if I had it for a while. After replacing it with Textra. It's smooth as butter. Best decision I've ever made, and I generally hate leaving stock app for another one because I prefer less clutter.
Another one is to replace the stock keyboard with something like SwiftKey. This is a no brainer after using the stock keyboard for a while.
Some choose to replace Chrome as well with Firefox, or nochromo.
Just my top 3 recommendations for our G4s. After doing these 3, everything felt a lot better.
spartan268 said:
The G4s (And I guess along with other phones) do have a sizable amount of bloatware installed as well. Just looking at the apps pre-installed from out of the box, there's quite a bit for a brand new phone.
Even though my G4 is broken in now, I found that after I disabled a buttload of these apps, it felt a bit snappier.
And I guess as a recommendation since you just got the phone. Replace the text messaging app ASAP! Stock is garbage, after I imported about 10'000 messages from my old phone, it slowed down as if I had it for a while. After replacing it with Textra. It's smooth as butter. Best decision I've ever made, and I generally hate leaving stock app for another one because I prefer less clutter.
Another one is to replace the stock keyboard with something like SwiftKey. This is a no brainer after using the stock keyboard for a while.
Some choose to replace Chrome as well with Firefox, or nochromo.
Just my top 3 recommendations for our G4s. After doing these 3, everything felt a lot better.
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Yeah took your advice and replace with google stock messenger, swiftkey, and have not try out the nochromo yet
My G4 works just amazing and it is very smooth and snappy. My version is H815L.
Exactly one must wait about two days so it all settled down. A factory reset helps if your phone didn't come with the newest update 5.1 or what not. But yeah
Mine didn't come with too much bloat if at all so I never had any lag issues, but using Textra and SwiftKey helped a with speeding it up. The stock messaging app wasn't cutting it
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soyelmango said:
After a fresh start (after factory reset, ROM flash, OS upgrade), the system does lots of indexing and set up, leading to a laggy phone and high battery drain. Give it a couple of days to settle down.
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Lmao what b.s is that. Couple of days? May be you meant months?
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wadamean said:
Exactly one must wait about two days so it all settled down. A factory reset helps if your phone didn't come with the newest update 5.1 or what not. But yeah
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2 days hah? You guys just invent this stuff or what?
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ambervals6 said:
Lmao what b.s is that. Couple of days? May be you meant months?
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2 days hah? You guys just invent this stuff or what?
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No. There're countless threads where things such as battery life and performance shot up after 2 days.
spartan268 said:
No. There're countless threads where things such as battery life and performance shot up after 2 days.
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Must be a lg thing I didn't know. Thanks.
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It is getting smoother and snappier but still see that animation lag when you're at home screen and press app drawer..do that multiple time and you will see the jitter. BTW I also disable alot of unnecessary app dont know if this come into play and also an option in Battery Setting where it say to reduce game graphic I turn that off:good:. Hopefully it is running at higher cpu/graphic frequency. Question does anyone know what OEM UNLOCK is in Developer menu?
I can play godfire without any issues
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What 3rd party keyboard are you using?

I'm just wondering what keyboard everyone is using. The only reason I'm curious is because my favorite keyboard which is Swift Key doesn't work to well with the Edge display. The keys that are on the edges sit on the edge part of the display making them easy to miss.
jrwingate6 said:
I'm just wondering what keyboard everyone is using. The only reason I'm curious is because my favorite keyboard which is Swift Key doesn't work to well with the Edge display. The keys that are on the edges sit on the edge part of the display making them easy to miss.
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i disagree. i use swiftkey also, and my keys on the edge work just fine. i haven't had a single problem with them. also, for some reason, swiftkey's predcitive type has really gone downhill in the last year. it use to be spot on, and now it seems to mess up many words i type. but it is still my preferred until some other keyboard can show me a reason to switch.
I'm still using Swiftkey, and have no problems with the keys that are on the Edge.
I came from a BlackBerry Z30, so I use the BlackBerry keyboard. Personally I think BlackBerry hs always had the best keyboards, and I swore I'd never use a virtual keyboard...until I used theirs. I've tried a few other VKBs, but nothing comes close to BlackBerry. I know this is a totally subjective topic, BTW.
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stevae said:
i disagree. i use swiftkey also, and my keys on the edge work just fine. i haven't had a single problem with them. also, for some reason, swiftkey's predcitive type has really gone downhill in the last year. it use to be spot on, and now it seems to mess up many words i type. but it is still my preferred until some other keyboard can show me a reason to switch.
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Maybe I'll give it another shot. I just remember hitting the #2 every time I tried hitting the #1. Maybe it was because it was my first day with the phone and I was still getting used to the whole edge thing.
I'm using swype, works great even in the edges.
SwiftKey. Works fine for me.
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I also have the same issue with SwiftKey - keep pressing the wrong keys when they are ont he edge. Perhaps it depends on OS firmware or version? I have Exynos S7 Edge 935F, with XXU1APC8 firmware. It is very annoying and I see lots of mistakes when i type now - ive been a 2 years swiftkey user with S5 - no issues there.
Using swiftkey for now. Haven't had any issues so far with the keys on the curved edges.
lazard said:
Using swiftkey for now. Haven't had any issues so far with the keys on the curved edges.
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JasonJoel said:
SwiftKey. Works fine for me.
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meyerweb said:
I'm still using Swiftkey, and have no problems with the keys that are on the Edge.
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You guys gotta try super swiftkey. Over 100 themes. It's amazing.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1016053
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I'm using fleksy, been using It since my m9 and still use it, super clean, I have a question tho, do you guys know how I can change the damn emojis I don't like the Samsung ones, thanks!
I decided to give SwiftKey another shot and this time around im doing much better with it.
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Swype+ Dragon, working great, I've been using it on my Huawei devices as well, no problem with edges,btw, make sure non of your other fingers touches the edges while typing or else the letters on the edge will become unresponsive.
Those of you using a 3rd party keyboard, did you disable the package for the Samsung Keyboard? I notice that it's still running even though it's disabled and not in use.
captgeno said:
I'm using fleksy, been using It since my m9 and still use it, super clean, I have a question tho, do you guys know how I can change the damn emojis I don't like the Samsung ones, thanks!
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I've replaced them with iOS emoji's. You need root tho.
FlamingCurry said:
I've replaced them with iOS emoji's. You need root tho.
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don't want anything from ios on my phone. ios is a virus. just look how it has affected all the "i"idiots and sheep...
jrwingate6 said:
Those of you using a 3rd party keyboard, did you disable the package for the Samsung Keyboard? I notice that it's still running even though it's disabled and not in use.
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I wouldn't disable it. I'm not sure how disabling it in settings compares to freezing it in Titanium backup, but on the GS3, if the OEM keyboard frozen or deleted, you could run into problems after a reboot, because the phone looked for the OEM keyboard to enter the password or pin the first time around. I don't know that the S7 works the same way, but I doubt it's using any signficant amount of memory or battery so I wouldn't take the chance.
I prefer swiping, the default Samsung keyboard just isn't accurate enough for me so I use Swype which I've found to be the most accurate
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jrwingate6 said:
I decided to give SwiftKey another shot and this time around im doing much better with it.
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May as well just use stock then because that's what it is
Swiftkey for me. No issues with the edge keys. But, I did adjust the size of my keys which may help/hurt that issue.
Shipoftheline said:
I prefer swiping, the default Samsung keyboard just isn't accurate enough for me so I use Swype which I've found to be the most accurate
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May as well just use stock then because that's what it is
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Why? What do you mean it's the same?

Not as fast/snappy as I was expecting ?... Any one else agree? TMO 950U

Hi guys, so I pre-order the S8 and am very happy with the design of the phone but performance has left much to be desired. It just doesn't feel as snappy as lets say my OP3. Granted, OP3 has 6gb of ram but still, the S8 considerably feels sluggish. Chrome browser stutters all the time, even with only a few tabs open for example.
I have tried decreasing the animation/transition speed under devl options (which I know is subjective) but still the same...
Anyone else in the same boat? Anything to remedy this? I am really hoping for Root to be available.
I guess I'm just venting a little lol.
Yeah, I have the exynos version and it feels slow... Making all the animations 0.5x kinda helps but I'm still disappointed.
Let the phone get "broken in". Use it for a few days, things get a lot snappier after the system learns your usage patterns. I'm also getting better and better battery life (first day I barely had 1.5hrs SOT with my regular usage, a week later I was getting 4-5hrs easily, even though my usage pattern did not change).
However wiping the phone will reset this. I experienced this a few times in the past 3 weeks I had the phone.
Totally incorrect, this is the fastest smoothest Android I've ever used. I've been in the iPhone camp since the 6s and had the 7 as well. We all know how fast and smooth the new iPhones are, well this phone is as fast and smooth. I've had it running 7 days straight while opening and running dozens of apps, this is a beast. No lag and smooth af scrolling and navigation. Snapdragon here
To sum it up, this device is a pleasure to use. And no fkin way will I use a stock Android. The Galaxy user experience adds so much added value to the phone.
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Totally incorrect, this is the fastest smoothest Android I've ever used.
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Me too and I've had three. A AT&T S-835 version and two UK Exynos versions. One of the Exynos had a pink screen and got returned. In the context of this thread I'm assuming "fast" means page opens, scrolling, and transitions. All three of my phones performed impressively in those areas. To the point as a long time Android user it makes you go "wow."
There are a bunch of threads here where people are complaining about a variety of performance issues. 99% of the time those problems are user induced. We all love Android's flexibility but it means no two phones are alike. Based on age, quality, and design of the apps people use one or two "bad" apps can create issues across your phone. Then there's the "freezing" crowd who take out an app that another app that's still alive is dependent on and they have issues. Look at the Bixby remapper and the performance problems it created. One thing I've noticed on my Exynos phones is that the Samsung Device Maintenance app does a terrific job of proactively managing power hungry apps and those that remain alive unnecessarily in the background.
As for 4GB vs. 6GB of RAM that doesn't really fly unless you always and intentionally keep a slew of apps running in the background. Every time I've checked I've had plenty of free RAM available and no app I've gone back to in recent apps hasn't been alive when I've needed it. If there's a single app that itself needs more than 4GB of RAM than it's a developer fail because the average Android phone has far less than 4GB of installed RAM.
Have you installed AQEB update?
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Seems AQEB has stuttering in Facebook. I wouldn't be surprised if they've optimised for Snapdragon...
russ18uk said:
Have you installed AQEB update?
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Seems AQEB has stuttering in Facebook. I wouldn't be surprised if they've optimised for Snapdragon...
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What is AQEB???
Thanks
Just change your launcher to Nova launcher and you'll be happy !
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What is AQEB???
Thanks
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New firmware update released today/yesterday.
Bluetooth and app installs are the two things that show performance issues best. When I connected to my truck's Bluetooth, every phone before it took around 20 seconds to connect, but the S8 connected immediately.
App installs are also seemingly immediate as well. I never get any lag or stuttering when installing apps, even while playing games.
That's my benchmark for how fast a phone is. Oh, and cold booting is 30 seconds, S7e on U FW is 38 seconds.
Yeah definetly noticed this too. I still blame Samsung's touchwiz. The S8 took a huge hit last night when I tried video calling on Whatsapp and send a few texts and the same time and damn the phone heated up and lagged hard on me. Hoping the update containing daydream will fix a few of these issues and give us that damn button remapping back.
Smart switch restore and the shortcutter app made my phone sluggish. Factory reset and avoid both made my phone silky smooth with over 100 apps installed.
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Scrolling smoothness

Some phones exhibit choppy scrolling, especially when navigating long web pages when multiple apps are running in the background. Rate this thread to express how you smooth scrolling feels on the LG V30 under such conditions. A higher rating indicates that scrolling is always buttery smooth, even when you're reading a 10,000 word article on "how to kiss a girl".
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Amazing butter smooth scrolling, feels very zippy
we really need to lower the age of consent by a few years
I replied to anther thread that seems to be covering the same territory. So far the phone is super choppy in some places. Mostly web browsing with Chrome. But the LG home launcher also labs really badly. I wouldn't care so much if it wasn't for knock on. Anyone else having issues? I've messed with all the settings I could think of. Next step is factory reset but I'm trying to avoid that.
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Actually, had a thought. I'm using a CPU monitoring app and it seems that cores 5-8 aren't being used much. Maybe it's a chip issue? Or maybe something's wrong with the kernel? I'm mostly a dummy when it comes to this stuff so forgive my wild speculation.
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cyhamada said:
I replied to anther thread that seems to be covering the same territory. So far the phone is super choppy in some places. Mostly web browsing with Chrome. But the LG home launcher also labs really badly. I wouldn't care so much if it wasn't for knock on. Anyone else having issues? I've messed with all the settings I could think of. Next step is factory reset but I'm trying to avoid that.
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Actually, had a thought. I'm using a CPU monitoring app and it seems that cores 5-8 aren't being used much. Maybe it's a chip issue? Or maybe something's wrong with the kernel? I'm mostly a dummy when it comes to this stuff so forgive my wild speculation.
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Are you by chance using any auto fill apps? I was using Lastpass auto fill and it caused lots of choppy scrolling. After disabling it everything was very smooth.
Settings-->Accessibility-->Services
scootier said:
Are you by chance using any auto fill apps? I was using Lastpass auto fill and it caused lots of choppy scrolling. After disabling it everything was very smooth.
Settings-->Accessibility-->Services
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Good suggestion.
That was a great suggestion! Turns out it wasn't Last Pass but some type of Norton web security thing in Accessibility Services that was the issue. Turning that off seems to have fixed the problem
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Mostly Butter but...
I have some strange bounce back happening when I scroll, mostly in Instagram. The rest of the time it's smooth, but not quite as smooth as the Note 8, which I owned for a few weeks. By and large it is as quick as the Note was...
Settings/Developer Options/tick on "Force GPU Rendering" should make the beast smoother faster. if root available try L Speed/Entropy/fstrim apps found on Play Store! If LG G6 gets Android 7.1.2 , the performance should improve smoother over Android 7.0 just like the LG V30 is incredibly smooth and fast due to SD 835. Android Oreo 8.0 should have faster boot times on powering up. LG flagships gets Oreo by the end of this year (November or December)
It's just garbage for scrolling. I couldn't believe that my Galaxy S8 with MORE crap installed actually scrolled smoother on Instagram, Sync Pro, etc.
I always turn off animations in developers settings. Seems really smooth for me so far.
This phone is just as smooth as the Note 8 I had before it. Buttery smooth. I don't use Instagram, but all the apps I use including Chrome, have very smooth scrolling. I'm completely satisfied with this phone.
Edit...3 days of using this phone and I'm starting to see the lag and stutter that people are reporting.
ThugEsquire said:
It's just garbage for scrolling. I couldn't believe that my Galaxy S8 with MORE crap installed actually scrolled smoother on Instagram, Sync Pro, etc.
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Its already been shown you have no credibility and just sprouting bs. This phone is, to steal that somewhat overused term, buttery smooth.
I think you're most likely to see the symptoms if you're used to an iPhone 7 Plus (3 GB RAM) and gone to a V30.
In my experience, it is possible to load up the V30's memory in a way that causes Chrome or Firefox to appear jittery when compared to Safari on the 7 Plus, loaded up heavily in basically the same way.
I notice it but it has not been a particular problem for me. Until I saw this thread, to be honest, I thought it was a Google Android issue v. an Apple iOS method of memory utilization.
George Knighton said:
I think you're most likely to see the symptoms if you're used to an iPhone 7 Plus (3 GB RAM) and gone to a V30.
In my experience, it is possible to load up the V30's memory in a way that causes Chrome or Firefox to appear jittery when compared to Safari on the 7 Plus, loaded up heavily in basically the same way.
I notice it but it has not been a particular problem for me. Until I saw this thread, to be honest, I thought it was a Google Android issue v. an Apple iOS method of memory utilization.
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Considering I've got an iPhone 7 Plus and iOS 11.1 (public beta) hasn't fixed the refresh issue, I can say that the V30 has been a wonderful experience. Multitasking on my iPhone is nearly impossible with refreshes on as little as two apps open. It's frustrating.
I've been using Samsung browser beta. Chrome was not as fluid. Since the switch I haven't had any scrolling delay.
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Considering I've got an iPhone 7 Plus and iOS 11.1 (public beta) hasn't fixed the refresh issue, I can say that the V30 has been a wonderful experience. Multitasking on my iPhone is nearly impossible with refreshes on as little as two apps open. It's frustrating.
I've been using Samsung browser beta. Chrome was not as fluid. Since the switch I haven't had any scrolling delay.
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I cannot imagine why my experience would be so demonstrably different.
Interesting.
I also don't want you to believe that I intended to convey that the V30's little jittering is anything that would keep me from using the device. It's a very minor issue.
To be honest, the V30 seems to be a keeper. I'm rushing headlong toward the deadline for buyer's remorse, and I'm still using it!
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My biggest problem is that after ten years of iPhone keyboards, I can't get used to the combination of LG keyboard and Android prediction, and I'll very often send out messages with an embarrassing number of errors.
George Knighton said:
I cannot imagine why my experience would be so demonstrably different.
Interesting.
I also don't want you to believe that I intended to convey that the V30's little jittering is anything that would keep me from using the device. It's a very minor issue.
To be honest, the V30 seems to be a keeper. I'm rushing headlong toward the deadline for buyer's remorse, and I'm still using it!
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My biggest problem is that after ten years of iPhone keyboards, I can't get used to the combination of LG keyboard and Android prediction, and I'll very often send out messages with an embarrassing number of errors.
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It's weird. I guess every device and its user are going to vary. My biggest issue with the 7 Plus is app refreshes and call/data quality being horrible. Getting one bar in my apartment on iPhone compared with full bars with V30, crazy!
On keyboards, I use Swype on iPhone so for me it was an easy transition. Before iPhone allowed third party keyboards, I was jailbroken. I love trace keyboards.
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George Knighton said:
I cannot imagine why my experience would be so demonstrably different.
Interesting.
I also don't want you to believe that I intended to convey that the V30's little jittering is anything that would keep me from using the device. It's a very minor issue.
To be honest, the V30 seems to be a keeper. I'm rushing headlong toward the deadline for buyer's remorse, and I'm still using it!
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My biggest problem is that after ten years of iPhone keyboards, I can't get used to the combination of LG keyboard and Android prediction, and I'll very often send out messages with an embarrassing number of errors.
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Have a look at the swiftkey keyboard i think it's way more convenient than LGs own and you can customise its design as well, it's very quick and accurate on the predictions and you can use it simultaneously with several languages!
emmanuelw said:
Have a look at the swiftkey keyboard i think it's way more convenient than LGs own and you can customise its design as well, it's very quick and accurate on the predictions and you can use it simultaneously with several languages!
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Thanks very much for the suggestion. I've installed Swiftkey and will be trying it out today.
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