Hey guys,
I'm new to the Note 2 and to xda developpers in general, so be patient if I take time understanding things.
I bought a Note 2 from Videotron (i know its not T-mobile). When my phone is locked and I press the side power button or the home button to turn the screen on, I notice that more times than not, it takes about 2-3 seconds to unlock. That may not sounds like much, but trust me, it gets annoying.
Does anyone know of any solution to this?
Thanks!
Try going into "Lock screen" options in Settings and disabling "Pop up note on lock screen". Also try disabling the ripple effect.
People have also said that changing the animation settings in Developer options speeds it up a bit. Though personally I can't stand doing that.
Your milage may vary.
darkierawr said:
Try going into "Lock screen" options in Settings and disabling "Pop up note on lock screen". Also try disabling the ripple effect.
People have also said that changing the animation settings in Developer options speeds it up a bit. Though personally I can't stand doing that.
Your milage may vary.
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Thanks darkierawr, i was having the same problem. Disabling popup Note has fixed it.
None of those options took the wake lag away for me. I love the phone but i hope this bug gets ironed out along with some of the ui lag i get.
Ive noticed this too. And it is annoyong, the phone is so fast in every other way, the lag seems very noticable on unlock and hitting the home button. My popup on note has always been disbled, and I tried tweaking the developer options as mentioned on another thread, but didnt seem to help.
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My experience with newer Samsung phones, all of them have this issue. I think it has something to do with how the chip goes to sleep, it's how they conserve power. My Sprint Epic4GTouch did it, my Note N7000 did it and now the N7100. All my other phones before those were HTC.
You have to disable S-Voice from settings. That is what it's causing the super slow wakeup.
For me the unlocking the device is fast. But there is a lag in the light to turn on.
I have as much features running so I can learn the device. And have huge amount of apps as always. I also have Nova Launcher and TouchWiz both running. I find by doing that all features work including Page Buddy and yet get the customization the I want. I did disabled lots of auto start background processes that I didn't need to auto run (AutoStarts). That solved lots of delays in the system.
The lag I experience is from the device waking up from sleep. But then all smooth.
Screen Lag from sleep
JaguarXT said:
For me the unlocking the device is fast. But there is a lag in the light to turn on.
I have as much features running so I can learn the device. And have huge amount of apps as always. I also have Nova Launcher and TouchWiz both running. I find by doing that all features work including Page Buddy and yet get the customization the I want. I did disabled lots of auto start background processes that I didn't need to auto run (AutoStarts). That solved lots of delays in the system.
The lag I experience is from the device waking up from sleep. But then all smooth.
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Something else that you can do to eliminate the lag: open the S Voice and uncheck home button open S Voice. The device waits for an extra second to see if you are going to push the home button twice for S Voice and then it opens if you don't.
I have the international version but have the same problem with screen going on when pressing the power button. Disabled S-Voice and Pop-Up note and have some improvement but still it is noticeable slow.
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It's very annoying having to enter my passcode every time my screen wakes up. Is anyone having similar problems? I've tried adjusting times, sleep, wake, etc. I have Widgetlocker installed, anyone?
It's not a bug but a "feature" they've copied over from Honeycomb. The timer setting you can adjust only applies when the phone times itself out. If you hit the power button it immediately locks.
I'm running V9 of the AOKP ROM and it has the option to disable this "feature" (among many others)! I highly recommend it. At the very least, it is possible to remove so other developers may also implement it.
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It's not a bug but a "feature" they've copied over from Honeycomb. The timer setting you can adjust only applies when the phone times itself out. If you hit the power button it immediately locks.
I'm running V9 of the AOKP ROM and it has the option to disable this "feature" (among many others)! I highly recommend it. At the very least, it is possible to remove so other developers may also implement it.
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+1 on this, we should have options, that's what Android is all about, good idea and thank for the reply...
I realized that the homescreen has some bugs especially if you disable the lock screen from settings..
It happened a few time in the past few days..
When I click the home button, the device is on, and I do not need to unlock it since the lockscreen is disabled.
Sometimes, after turning the phone screen on, all my homescreen widgets and the bottom shortcut bar(phone,contact,message,menu) would start to flashing like crazy...
The phone is still responsive, e.g. opening menus, change settings, top menu bar still slides down and up fine, everything is fine operationally except for the flashing widgets and bottom shortcuts..
I turned the screen off and back on, same flashing is present..
I have to power off the phone or restart the phone and it will return back to normal..
I believe this is definitely a software bug... Anyone familiar with this bug?
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My screen lock is turn off btw.
UPDATE:
Also I found out exactly what is triggering this issue..
It has to do with the Developers Options under the Do Not Keep Activities and Background Process Limit..
I am experiencing this issue only when I tick Do Not Keep Activities, and set the Background Process Limit to No Background Process...
Also, today another issue showed up with the same 2 settings ticked Do Not Keep Activities, and set the Background Process Limit to No Background Process.
Basically what it happened is that when I turn on my phone, and open windows such as messages and settings, the phone would automatically attempt to close it down after 2-3 seconds... Also due this time, I received a message, my message tone changed back to the bird chirp default message tone rather than the Pure Bell message tone I setup previously.. When I manage to open the sound settings, I took a quick look and it was still set to Pure Bell, and after a second or so, the phone closed the entire settings window down...
I just press hole the power and click on Restart...
Now the phone reboots, and the phone is back to normal...
When I went back to sound settings, all my own settings are still there
BUT
When I went to the Developer Options, the setting for Do Not Keep Activities, and Background Process Limit where back to the default values.. (Do Not Keep Activities is not UNTICKED, and Background Process Limit is set to Standard Limit automatically by my phone after the reboot.)
I thought it was weird how the phone changed my settings after reboot, and the OS acts weird before I rebooted...
After using it through out today with the default settings for Do Not Keep Activities, and the Background Process Limit, my phone is acting fine.....
Pretty sure this is a SW bug, it is not a HW problem..
I think it did exactly what it should do with those developer options enabled. That was a very aggressive setting use used and does not represent normal operation of the software.
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So this is a known issue?
Yes, pretty much Developer Options are pretty unstable...
The only setting I kept for are Mock Location (for those apps that use GPS without my permission) and the Animation options to 0.5x so the animation is faster.
Turning the Mock Location and Changing Animation Settings do not seem to affect the stability of the Stock ROM
Why on earth would anyone with a phone this powerful want to use those two options anyways!? I would say yes u have those problems with those options on... you have plenty of resources so don't do that to your phone and yes those are "developer options" and typically only temporary testing scenarios for "developers" just leave at default and be happy with much better working phone!
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I use those 2 memory clearing options just to extend battery life.
My phone takes like 1 second to wake up. I know it doesn't sound like much, but I got used to the instantaneous wake ups with my old SGS3 and I thought this phone would be snapier.
Anyone else?
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jlaval said:
My phone takes like 1 second to wake up. I know it doesn't sound like much, but I got used to the instantaneous wake ups with my old SGS3 and I thought this phone would be snapier.
Anyone else?
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I have the same wake up lag.
Everyone has this problem, i dont think anyone has found a fix yet, all i know is that its not the processors fault
haldi15 said:
Everyone has this problem, i dont think anyone has found a fix yet, all i know is that its not the processors fault
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I have both phones and the Note 2 wins 90% of the time and my S3 has a custom rom and kernel so it's pretty beefed up so I think some of us got decent one's..? As you said though... Definitely NOT the processor!
Go to S Voice settings, then disable Open Via Home Key.
That should disable the wake up lag
azhurvadal said:
Go to S Voice settings, then disable Open Via Home Key.
That should disable the wake up lag
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Think that tip is for the "home button lag" fix...?
yeah when you first get your phone and you press home it doesnt go directly to home, it waits a second or two for the second click to activate s-voice but if you disable it (s voice < google search) it will go directly to home
haldi15 said:
yeah when you first get your phone and you press home it doesnt go directly to home, it waits a second or two for the second click to activate s-voice but if you disable it (s voice < google search) it will go directly to home
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Yup! :good:
I've noticed my phone doing the same thing. If it's a couple minutes in between turning the screen on it takes a second. My phone also seems to struggle with some simple transition animations, now.
Where are the S voice settings. I can't seem to find them.
azhurvadal said:
Go to S Voice settings, then disable Open Via Home Key.
That should disable the wake up lag
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No this fixes a separate issue. This fixes the home button lag when using it to go from an app to the home screen.
What the OP is talking about is the delay that you get when trying to wake up the phone, whether it be with the home button or the side button. This seems like a software issue that hopefully Tmobile/Samsung address.
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No this fixes a separate issue. This fixes the home button lag when using it to go from an app to the home screen.
What the OP is talking about is the delay that you get when trying to wake up the phone, whether it be with the home button or the side button. This seems like a software issue that hopefully Tmobile/Samsung address.
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That's weird because I don't experience this issue. There is no lag when I wake up my phone.
However, my phone is the international version so most likely the issue is related to Tmobile bloatware.
Try to disable Svoice home button first. If you still experience this issue, then you should wait for update
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That's weird because I don't experience this issue. There is no lag when I wake up my phone.
However, my phone is the international version so most likely the issue is related to Tmobile bloatware.
Try to disable Svoice home button first. If you still experience this issue, then you should wait for update
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It is not the "SVoice solution related problem". It is a "power/home button to turn on" issue which is totally different.
Every T-Mobile Note 2 has it (I tested it on several of them at the T-Mobile store).
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+1 for T-Mobile version lag
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+1 for T-Mobile version lag
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I was getting lag too. I went ahead and changed the animation scale to .5x and its now instant on.
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try turning off ripple effect on home screen
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try turning off ripple effect on home screen
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Ya, uncheck the ripple effect and uncheck "Popup Note on lock screen".... Night and day difference for me!! And I unchecked Help text too.... Try it out guys... :good: Def better anyways! I don't have it with my International but I do with my T-mobile and I watched a vid by QBKing and he explained how this helped the Sprint version...
( They are in the "Lock Screen option" in the menu....)
shojus said:
Ya, uncheck the ripple effect and uncheck "Popup Note on lock screen".... Night and day difference for me!! And I unchecked Help text too.... Try it out guys... :good: Def better anyways! I don't have it with my International but I do with my T-mobile and I watched a vid by QBKing and he explained how this helped the Sprint version...
( They are in the "Lock Screen option" in the menu....)
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Nice, although i turned back on ripple effect. And the thing I noticed is that if you just turn off and on the screen it takes a while longer. However, if you just turn off the screen, wait a few seconds, then turn it back on, it's much faster.
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Nice, although i turned back on ripple effect. And the thing I noticed is that if you just turn off and on the screen it takes a while longer. However, if you just turn off the screen, wait a few seconds, then turn it back on, it's much faster.
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Hell if you really want it fast then uncheck all that crap in the settings and it will FLY!
I did flash the gt-7100 rom and there is no lag at all now im back to T-Mobile and its laging so we have to wait for the developer to port the gt-7100 rom
The UI on the Note 2 is so slow that even though I only tap the home button, by the time the display wakes it has been registered as a hold and therefore the first thing I see is the app switching list.
- this doesn't happen every time, because occasionally the UI is less laggy
- I'm not using anything that causes the device to be unusually laggy, in fact I have a lot of bloat disabled. I imagine everyone who doesn't use a lockscreen is experiencing this problem
- this isn't an issue for people who use lock screens (obviously)
So how can I make it so waking the device with the home button is always only registered as a press so that the inherent UI lag doesn't cause it to be registered as a hold?
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The UI on the Note 2 is so slow that even though I only tap the home button, by the time the display wakes it has been registered as a hold and therefore the first thing I see is the app switching list.
- this doesn't happen every time, because occasionally the UI is less laggy
- I'm not using anything that causes the device to be unusually laggy, in fact I have a lot of bloat disabled. I imagine everyone who doesn't use a lockscreen is experiencing this problem
- this isn't an issue for people who use lock screens (obviously)
So how can I make it so waking the device with the home button is always only registered as a press so that the inherent UI lag doesn't cause it to be registered as a hold?
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Hi, You can try disabling S-Voice to make home button faster, because S - Voice uses homebutton. try it, it really works
fenchai said:
Hi, You can try disabling S-Voice to make home button faster, because S - Voice uses homebutton. try it, it really works
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Hey thanks, but it's already disabled...
I was trying to be clear that the issue is with the inherent UI lag, so that even though I tap (not hold) home, the UI is so slow that by the time the screen wakes the system thinks I've been holding it the whole time.
Solutions would be:
- bind app switching to something other than holding home
- increase UI wake time dramatically
- other things that I haven't considered
So other phones like the Sony Xperia and LG V-Series phones have a feature where the phone can detect your eyes and/or face while you are reading something on the screen while NOT touching it. This feature is MOST helpful when reading whatever is on the screen and NOT wanting it to shut off either.
For whatever crazy reason, the HTC 10 does NOT have this feature! And when I try to install 3rd party apps in order to make this an option, I always have some issue come up that doesn't let it work. Does ANYONE have a way around this that DOESN'T involve bootloader unlocking and/or rooting????????! It is so frustrating to me that HTC did not think to put this on a 2016 FLAGSHIP natively.
Thanks!
Why not just adjust the screen timeout settings? Not exactly what you're looking for but it'll do the job.
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Why not just adjust the screen timeout settings? Not exactly what you're looking for but it'll do the job.
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Well b/c I wanna save battery life. I'm not ALWAYS reading the screen, and I don't want it to stay on longer than needed. I just can't believe HTC didn't think of this. I LOVE this phone except for 1) This very issue and 2) The fact that when you enable ANY kind of security measure on the phone involving the lockscreen, Double Tap To Sleep ONLY works if you're ON the lockscreen (a lesser issue to me, but still). Both LG and and Sony have this same option, and NEITHER has any issue with it. You just double tap the screen to turn the screen off, and no problem. The apps I got that DID let the double tap to sleep work also disable the security settings, which isn't cool Just can't believe HTC didn't think of this.
They could fix BOTH issues with updates, but who knows if they will.
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hi com,
This app is a step in the RIGHT direction, but it keeps the screen, on where I need something that scans for my eyes and/or face so I can read the screen comfortably and not feel rushed to touch the screen to keep it on.
I'll write to the developer though since he seems cool.
Thanks!!
Set it to 30 minutes or an hour (Which isn't possible on Samsung phones (10 min max so they have to waste unnecessary battery life with useless smart stay which is crap at night), and turn your screen off manually like everyone else.
Custom roms allow holding home button to sleep or various other options.
If you switch to viper ROM, there's a quick setting called "caffeine" it will keep your screen on until manually shut off or set period of time
Jonathan-H said:
Set it to 30 minutes or an hour (Which isn't possible on Samsung phones (10 min max so they have to waste unnecessary battery life with useless smart stay which is crap at night), and turn your screen off manually like everyone else.
Custom roms allow holding home button to sleep or various other options.
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I could do that, but I'd rather not. lol
I ended up finding an app called Wakey which when you get the full version, it keeps the screen on for any specific apps you choose until you either manually shut the screen off yourself or else leave/close out of those apps. So basically it's been resolved.