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Hello, I just had a galaxy 551 for Christmas, I told my girlfriend to buy it for a gift, I prefer having a 70$ phone instead of a 500$ one and not panic when it slips out of my hand.
Like in computers, I like to get the best of my hardware. In computer it's simple, it's overclock, and maybe a few other tweaks. On Android, that's another story.
So now, the phone is on stock firmware (Froyo), rooted. I use Link2SD - App2SD a lot. But I want more I also feel like the phone is slow in comparison to the Galaxy GIO (S5660) which is on Gingerbread.
What would you suggest me? From what I see, any other ROM will have bugs. I may also lose my phone network connectivity, which is unacceptable in my situation. Cyanogen seems great, but what version should I try? And I can't find ROMS files on this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1526721 , they are all erased from the web sites.
Thanks for your suggestion!
Oh I'm in Canada.
most stable version is cm7.2 created by ajay.al... nothing bug seen so far...
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most stable version is cm7.2 created by ajay.al... nothing bug seen so far...
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Great ! Thank you for this information.
After a few months of having it I think many issues are due to skype. I installed the skype mod but I still have 2 main issues:
- Screen stays ON if I answer a call on my computer instead of the phone
- Complete OS freezes.
Hello again,
thank you so much for the information, I found the rom and the instructions, they were pretty straightforward and I couldn't be happier no more "Do I have the good file" issue. I started the process then I stopped at Gingerbread. I will try it and see how it goes. For now, I'm really happy to have the same features as my girlfriend.
I have a small question, is Cyanogen making the phone much faster compared to Gingerbread? I saw a benchmark on the net that is showing that the phone is twice as fast, is that true? If so, I will not wait to install CM7.2
Hello there new to the Gnex... OK here is my issue. I previously had an S2. On quadrant I was scoring 3600. My GNex is only scoring 2300 on a good day! I do not have a lot of apps, as a matter of fact I have the same apps I was running on my s2. I switched to the gnex for the pure Google experience and the plethora of knowledge on this forum. I've been scouring the different threads reading about all of the different ROMs and kernels out there all I want to do is to make my gnex as fast as the S3. On some other forums I was reading about the SUPER NEXUS which is an S3 rooted with the gnex software. Can you guys and gals help me to solve this issue??? I'd surely appreciate it. My apologies in advance I'm really not all that techy as most of you here but again that's one of the reasons I switched up to the Gnex because of the huge support base . Hey thanks in advance!
P.S. is there a swype gesture feature on this device? Or do I have to download swype? I find it most useful at times when I can't use both hands to type.
Dude benchmarks don't say everything about user experience, and especially not Quadrant. GPU on Gnex is slower than Mali-400 on S2. Plus it has bigger, higher resolution display and thus more pixels to push. It will always score worse than S2 unless you OC it.
Galaxy Nexus still provides great user experience but it cannot compete with todays flagships like S3 in terms of speed. It' a different league. No matter how you try u will not make tiomap 4460 faster than S4 Krait.
Making a GNex as fast as an SIII is simply impossible, you'd fry your hardware before you would even come close to the Quadrant results of that phone.
That being said, I have to agree with the previous reply, pure horsepower isn't everything, and I for one have never experienced any lags or slowdowns.
Then again, I keep my phone clean of anything running in the background, for example I only use ONE widget, and that also only on the Lockscreen (CyanogenMod's cLock).
I have a widget on every homescreen and device still feels snappy. Smoothness remains practically unaffected by those widgets.
I just picked up a Nexus and have been using it lately, I think it's fairly snappy for the age of the device. I was curious on the Quad score so I just ran mine and I'm at 2676 which isn't to hateful....no overclock just a custom kernel and rom
P.S. is there a swype gesture feature on this device? Or do I have to download swype? I find it most useful at times when I can't use both hands to type.
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Since android 4.2 swype is implemented into the stock keyboard.
benchmarks lol
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Haha. I know right.
What about to try some 3D games and find out the result instead of weird benchmarking that say anything.
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Whoa!! Hey people read carefully! I'm new here and to the whole rooting and unrooting whats good and what isn't? Just some simple answers are all that's needed. Thanks to those who helped your input was very helpful.
try using custom kernel like AK
^ive been meaning to give that kernel a try
Really you must uninstall that benchmark, do a lot of read and help yourself. I was a sgs2 user, and i am happy when i switched to gnex. The only thing that bad from this device is camera, s2 is better but i don't care.
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Your GNex will never be as fast as an S3. It just doesn't have the hardware. With that said, benchmarks test a different set of the phone's capabilities relative to the way a normal user uses the phone. I would try out some ROMs and kernels, read up on tweaks for your chosen ROM/kernel combination, and go from there.
And swiping is in 4.2.1 and 4.2.2 stock keyboards. You might need to enable them from the Settings - Language and keyboard menu (I'm not 100% sure because I use Kii).
Want a really fast GNex?
1. Install CM10.1 latest nightly
2. Install Franco kernel
3.Over clock to 1.6ghz
4. Enable force GPU rendering
5. profit
You will get 54fps in epic citadel high quality and never lag. This phone may not "keep up" spec wise but there isn't a game or anything I can't run on this phone. Nothing can challenge my GNex
Join the 1.6ghz GNex master race c:
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R: GNEX RUNNING SLOW !!help!!
ECOTOX said:
Want a really fast GNex?
1. Install CM10.1 latest nightly
2. Install Franco kernel
3.Over clock to 1.6ghz
4. Enable force GPU rendering
5. profit
You will get 54fps in epic citadel high quality and never lag. This phone may not "keep up" spec wise but there isn't a game or anything I can't run on this phone. Nothing can challenge my GNex
Join the 1.6ghz GNex master race c:
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This is not 4chan LOL
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LOL.
Just go buy and S3 and root it with Cyanogenmod.
BANG.
You're done.
AW: GNEX RUNNING SLOW !!help!!
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LOL.
Just go buy and S3 and root it with Cyanogenmod.
BANG.
You're done.
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Brilliant solution, not everyone has enough cash for an S3.
Also, for me at least, the S3 is too big while the GNex ist just about right, and I don't really have small hands.
But everyone has different preferences.
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So I got my wife an S4 as we just switched to T-Mobile, but she's becoming quite frustrated with her phone. She never had problems with games on her S3 and I do not have any problems on my Nexus 4. Would rooting and loading a custom rom alleviate this?
Iczer said:
So I got my wife an S4 as we just switched to T-Mobile, but she's becoming quite frustrated with her phone. She never had problems with games on her S3 and I do not have any problems on my Nexus 4. Would rooting and loading a custom rom alleviate this?
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Yes it would.
Yes I agree a rooted custom rom will definitely help the lag situation. My boys play spiderman, grand theft auto, iron man, etc. all day with no issues.
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So I got my wife an S4 as we just switched to T-Mobile, but she's becoming quite frustrated with her phone. She never had problems with games on her S3 and I do not have any problems on my Nexus 4. Would rooting and loading a custom rom alleviate this?
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Yea, definitely. I've been using Wicked Rom for a while and barely any lag
You could also try rooting and disabling all the bloatware. That helped mine a lot and I have stock ROM rooted using CF-AUTOROOT.
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It's not supposed to lag out of the box. Make sure you don't have Power Saving mode on.
I got mine the other day and have been playing around with it while waiting to activate my service and wow there is a ton of bloatware on this thing out of the box! Coming from Sprint, the GS3 didn't have anywhere near as much as this thing. Definitely going to root and flash a custom rom.
Even if you don't really want to do a Custom ROM, Rooting and installing KTSGS4 Kernel can probably make more than enough of a difference to solve your problems. If you want the phone to be more responsive and run smoother as well as saving battery life at the same time, basically a Win-Win solution, his kernel is the best way to go!
The phone stutters often and it is frustrating! I just switched from the Galaxy Note II to the Galaxy S 4 and simple task like switching between home screens and application screens stutter. Third party applications run perfectly smooth. Face unlock has massive stuttering and I used it on my past devices just fine. The only thing I can think of is that it is powering a 1080P display.
I've been looking around online and all I seen were complaints or people saying they do not experience it. People who have what are some fixes?
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The phone stutters often and it is frustrating! I just switched from the Galaxy Note II to the Galaxy S 4 and simple task like switching between home screens and application screens stutter. Third party applications run perfectly smooth. Face unlock has massive stuttering and I used it on my past devices just fine. The only thing I can think of is that it is powering a 1080P display.
I've been looking around online and all I seen were complaints or people saying they do not experience it. People who have what are some fixes?
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Have you tried checking your background apps? Maybe the processor is busy running something else very resource intensive?
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The phone stutters often and it is frustrating! I just switched from the Galaxy Note II to the Galaxy S 4 and simple task like switching between home screens and application screens stutter. Third party applications run perfectly smooth. Face unlock has massive stuttering and I used it on my past devices just fine. The only thing I can think of is that it is powering a 1080P display.
I've been looking around online and all I seen were complaints or people saying they do not experience it. People who have what are some fixes?
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Try different home launchers, disable s-voice home button, flash a custom rom. I dont use face unlock. Look some more, and post questions in the questions section.
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Flash cm10.1 and your problems are fixed.
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^^^ Don't flash cm10, it's buggy and you lose all the badass tw features. Mine runs butter smooth. Like others have said try flashing a custom tw rom like wicked
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^^^ Don't flash cm10, it's buggy and you lose all the badass tw features. Mine runs butter smooth. Like others have said try flashing a custom tw rom like wicked
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Guess it depends on whether you use any of that stuff. I don't use of it. I got the phone for the hardware and the screen.
Cm10.1 = absolutely lag free. Bar none. What bugs are you referring to? I'm solid over here.
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Guess it depends on whether you use any of that stuff. I don't use of it. I got the phone for the hardware and the screen.
Cm10.1 = absolutely lag free. Bar none. What bugs are you referring to? I'm solid over here.
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The simple fact that you downgrade from the tw camera to the aosp camera is enough for me. Plus the fact that when you record video the volume is way lower. There was also a call bug that sometimes you or the other person couldn't hear each other ( I'm not sure but I think it was fixed). Cm was great for me when I had the Motorola Triumph since the triumph sucked, but cm has always had issues on all my phones that I've owned. Honestly people say it's so much smoother but I don't see a difference from tw and cm.
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The simple fact that you downgrade from the tw camera to the aosp camera is enough for me. Plus the fact that when you record video the volume is way lower. There was also a call bug that sometimes you or the other person couldn't hear each other ( I'm not sure but I think it was fixed). Cm was great for me when I had the Motorola Triumph since the triumph sucked, but cm has always had issues on all my phones that I've owned. Honestly people say it's so much smoother but I don't see a difference from tw and cm.
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No bugs on my end. Could care less about the camera, and yes, the smoothness is apparent as soon as you flash cm. Anyone can tell you that. The only reason to go with TW is the features.
It just depends on personal preference.
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I flashed the 4.3 Google Edition ROM and it is butter smooth along with the face unlock. So maybe it is not the 1080p display. I also noticed ram usage dropped by a good 50%. The TW ROM uses around 900mb-1.1Gb probably due to the bloatware that was on it. A Google Edition phone for only $580 I am happy.
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It's apparently Touch Wiz that makes the phone laggy.I'm expecting Samsung to make this less of an issue with updates since it is a new phone but I didn't want to wait.
I flashed the Infamous rom since I am not willing to give up the Samsung camera features. Then I use Nova launcher within it and it runs much faster.
Horrible touchwiz is what causes the lag, flashed GE ROM. BUTTER SMOOTH, I don't use the Samsung gimmicky features and the only camera mode I use is HDR that's included in the GE ROM
Super smooth, super stable, great battery life, more ram, win!!!
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Just flashed wickedrom, and absolutely no lag. Get all the fewtures of tw without the lag.
Win win.
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Bro if you flash Omega v7 from the "i9505" forums and right after you flash omega, flash ktoonz kernel for the TMOBILE s4, the phone runs BUTTER i mean BUTTER smooth.
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Bro if you flash Omega v7 from the "i9505" forums and right after you flash omega, flash ktoonz kernel for the TMOBILE s4, the phone runs BUTTER i mean BUTTER smooth.
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I did that earlier, but my WiFi wouldn't turn on. Someone explained how to switch radios through oden, but that's a pain.
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I installed the ktoonz kernel on my otherwise stock 4 and it is absolutely 100% smoother.
Stock S4 here with Nova Launcher, NO LAG, here my crappy video, LOL.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY_gMBPMhw0
Beside the lag has the heat given any of you some trouble? I noticed the phone heats up quicker than any of my previous phones but it doesn't seem to cause any harm to performance.
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I've had 2 M919 Galaxy S4's so far.
First one I returned because it was so incredibly laggy, everyone said theirs was butter smooth (all of whom were in denial), I thought I had a defective device. I tried all the custom roms using the Tmobile base and also international 9505 roms. Still did not fix the microstutters. Second one was laggy as hell also out of the box so I knew it was just the device. The latest international 9505 roms seem to make the phone smoother, but there are microstutters still present which should NOT BE THE CASE with a phone that's this powerful, but the biggest offender for me still is web browsing.
Open up the stock browser or chrome and go to theverge.com website, call up the full site and browse around. Pinch and zoom, then pan around. Tell me how incredibly slow it is to use. It seems like I'm using my original Motorola Droid all over again.
I'm sure by the time the Galaxy S5 comes around, Samsung "might" finally come out with a smooth working firmware for the S4, in the meantime I say ditch this device and get the HTC One. That baby is liquid smooth in EVERY operation and rips the S4 a new butt hole when it comes to web browsing smoothness and speed. Hell it even still supports full Adobe Flash even with 4.2.2.
The One is also pushing a 1080P screen so it's not the pixel count that is slowing the S4 down. It's something else. I had initially blamed the S4 lagging because of 4.2.2, reason is on my Note 2 running 4.1.2 it had next to zero lag and it's also running a heavy TW skin. I thought the HTC One was so smooth because it was still on 4.1.2. Well after updating to 4.2.2 on the HTC One, it even GOT SMOOTHER and FASTER.
I have also ran the google edition ROM's on both my S4 and my HTC One, and guess what?? The HTC ONE ran the pure GE ROM smoother than the S4 still!
The GE ROM still has slight microstutter on the S4 which is mind boggling. I noticed it a few times when opening the dialer and gmail app, the animation has a bit of microstuter in the animation when opening up. Something is definitely up with the S4 hardware wise.
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I've had 2 M919 Galaxy S4's so far.
First one I returned because it was so incredibly laggy, everyone said theirs was butter smooth (all of whom were in denial), I thought I had a defective device. I tried all the custom roms using the Tmobile base and also international 9505 roms. Still did not fix the microstutters. Second one was laggy as hell also out of the box so I knew it was just the device. The latest international 9505 roms seem to make the phone smoother, but there are microstutters still present which should NOT BE THE CASE with a phone that's this powerful, but the biggest offender for me still is web browsing.
Open up the stock browser or chrome and go to theverge.com website, call up the full site and browse around. Pinch and zoom, then pan around. Tell me how incredibly slow it is to use. It seems like I'm using my original Motorola Droid all over again.
I'm sure by the time the Galaxy S5 comes around, Samsung "might" finally come out with a smooth working firmware for the S4, in the meantime I say ditch this device and get the HTC One. That baby is liquid smooth in EVERY operation and rips the S4 a new butt hole when it comes to web browsing smoothness and speed. Hell it even still supports full Adobe Flash even with 4.2.2.
The One is also pushing a 1080P screen so it's not the pixel count that is slowing the S4 down. It's something else. I had initially blamed the S4 lagging because of 4.2.2, reason is on my Note 2 running 4.1.2 it had next to zero lag and it's also running a heavy TW skin. I thought the HTC One was so smooth because it was still on 4.1.2. Well after updating to 4.2.2 on the HTC One, it even GOT SMOOTHER and FASTER.
I have also ran the google edition ROM's on both my S4 and my HTC One, and guess what?? The HTC ONE ran the pure GE ROM smoother than the S4 still!
The GE ROM still has slight microstutter on the S4 which is mind boggling. I noticed it a few times when opening the dialer and gmail app, the animation has a bit of microstuter in the animation when opening up. Something is definitely up with the S4 hardware wise.
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I just opened up 20+ apps and didn't get not one micro stutter, running GE ROM. Also Im not in denial cause I hated the TW micro stutter when opening apps. My browser is BUTTER smooth, it rarely gives white spots and its 1 to 1 with my finger. I love it.
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Hope it's OK to post this here as it seems there isn't a forum for this phone yet.
I've got the Samsung Galaxy Fame S6810 on Jellybean 4.1.2 and it constantly lags and freezes.
I've rooted it, used Titanium Pro to freeze every bit of unneeded bloatware I can think of but the phone still lags and freezes.
Even with the cpu profile set to performance it does it.
My old HTC Desire which was also a single core 1Ghz processor didn't have this problem.
In fact my slow as hell HTC Wildfire with slower cpu still didn't do it like this phone!
I would like to try an overclock kernel but after weeks of searching can't seem to find one.
Cyanogenmod would be the obvious answer for a good clean rom but they don't do one for this phone.
Any suggestions or ideas?
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No answers yet? Have seen a whole bunch of posts across various forums and sites looking for roms and kernels for this phone but so far nobody is doing anything for it.
Puzzles the hell out of me as there are elcheapo no name branded phones getting roms but this Samsung one seems to be treated like it has the plague...
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How did you set your cpu governor?
I'm sure your phone runs slowly because of TouchWiz. Samsung and its bloatware make good phones to run slowly
I recommend you to install any Pure Android rom, like Cyanogenmod or AOKP. I'm pretty sure that this roms will remove all the lag :highfive:
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I did it using SetCPU.
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Could it be one of the apps you have installed? Maybe running in the background sucking up much needed RAM? I have seen this happen also with excessive use of widgets. I would suggest keeping an eye on your running apps and processes. See what is eating up that RAM.
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I recommend you to install any Pure Android rom, like Cyanogenmod or AOKP. I'm pretty sure that this roms will remove all the lag :highfive:
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This is the problem... Trying to find custom ROMs for this phone.
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Try PurePerformance or CrossBreeder
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JaviMotta98 said:
I'm sure your phone runs slowly because of TouchWiz. Samsung and its bloatware make good phones to run slowly
I recommend you to install any Pure Android rom, like Cyanogenmod or AOKP. I'm pretty sure that this roms will remove all the lag :highfive:
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Try this. Really help although its a stock rom but it run really smooth
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2582851
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Have managed to get the phone usable using this ROM and the mod mentioned here but lag on closing programs and that frikkin black empty screen while waiting for a program to start or close is irritating.
I suspect nothing short of a pure rom or CM ROM will get this phone to be worth the bit of money it costs.
Most irritating is that you can go buy a cheap sh*t Chinese Android Samsung knockoff phone at half the price of this phone and it runs twice as well as this phone. Samsung really dropped the ball on this phone!
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I'm now using Techno Rom and Apex launcher, this phone is finally usable.
It wasn't an application in the background making it run slow as it did it from day 1 with nothing installed.
Dumping TouchWiz and the Samsung bloatware helped but the phone still lagged like hell.
Switching to Techno rom has now made the phone usable.
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I'm now using Techno Rom and Apex launcher, this phone is finally usable.
It wasn't an application in the background making it run slow as it did it from day 1 with nothing installed.
Dumping TouchWiz and the Samsung bloatware helped but the phone still lagged like hell.
Switching to Techno rom has now made the phone usable.
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Tecno Rom, the SIM is working?
jonaaa said:
Tecno Rom, the SIM is working?
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yes it is!
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Hope it's OK to post this here as it seems there isn't a forum for this phone yet.
I've got the Samsung Galaxy Fame S6810 on Jellybean 4.1.2 and it constantly lags and freezes.
I've rooted it, used Titanium Pro to freeze every bit of unneeded bloatware I can think of but the phone still lags and freezes.
Even with the cpu profile set to performance it does it.
My old HTC Desire which was also a single core 1Ghz processor didn't have this problem.
In fact my slow as hell HTC Wildfire with slower cpu still didn't do it like this phone!
I would like to try an overclock kernel but after weeks of searching can't seem to find one.
Cyanogenmod would be the obvious answer for a good clean rom but they don't do one for this phone.
Any suggestions or ideas?
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It is all because of the 'Touchwiz' thing, bloatwares and the processor made by Samsung to their devices, that's why they lag that much. I remember my friend who used to own a Samsung Galaxy Grand (The device's processor is actually quad-core), and when I've tried to use it, it honestly lags and freezes alot -_- unlike my oldish Xperia Mini with only 1Ghz single core ported with CM11 doesn't act like these Shamesung phones... Software injections and moddded scripts are all placebo effects and 95% of them will not make the phone faster UNLESS someone will make an achievement to port CM10 or even CM11 to this device
Just a tip, whenever you'll buy a device, look for snapdragon processor built device by Qualcomm Those processors from Qualcomm are really good :good: example of these devices with Qualcomm based processors are the Flagship devices, most of these devices are shipped with this processors
TECNO ROM or another custom rom my sim won't work, it stay in offline mode.
Well, i've uninstalled some bloatware's, including TouchWiz. Now i'm using Apex launcher, and, despite consume more Ram, my galaxy is more smoother than before.
where you set it.......
i think you must try juwe ram script and ram manager pro..
it very smooth