So, my Tab 3 8" has become very slow and it has never been updated, it still has the original 4.2.2. because I intentionally disabled updates because it used to run fast and perfect.
It is 20 months old now and it is in perfect mint condition without any hits, falls, nothing, always to read in bed. This is not relevant, I know, but to make clear it never even fell down and crashed or something.
I bought a Galaxy S3 some months earlier and it also became slow as a turtle around month 20 to the same point of being hard to use and it also kept the original Android 4.1.2.
I have formatted and reset it to factory a couple of times and it is SLOW from the moment you start it. So it is not any app.
I have also disabled all possible things that make it slow such as the energy saving features and so on. I have googled and tried some advices, but it doesn't help at all.
My impression is that these Samsung machines are programmed to stop working after 20 months... which is a robbery.
Any idea or suggestion, please. I still have 4 months warranty but I guess Samsung or Amazon will do nothing about it and I fear Samsung will force-install Android 4.4 KitKat, which I want to avoid at all cost because it loses the text reflow and forced zoom that I use a hell of a lot in Boat Browser.
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Hello everyone,
I've been reading on this forum for awhile and just decided to register. I've got a few questions I am hoping someone can help me out with.
I needed a phone that wasn't locked to a carrier and I could use in multiple countries and I ended up purchasing a Nexus 5. So far, so good. I really like the phone. Liked it so much bought a Nexus 7 (2013) to replace my 5 year old iPad 1. I figured the tablet would be great like the phone and did a factory restore on the iPad and gave it to a friend of my daughter who's parent can't afford to buy such things.
I'm kinda regretting getting rid of that iPad. I'm having nothing but trouble with this tablet. The browser constantly crashes (even after clearing the cache), it constantly freezes and restarts. Apps randomly crash and I always get these little popups saying something has stopped. Too be honest, its driving me nuts.
I did the cache wipe multiple times now. It seems to help for a few hours and then it goes back to its old ways. I'm not having the screen issues some people are reporting so I'm glad for that. My tablet is stock and unrooted running Kit Kat 4.4.4.
My question is this, what am I missing here? Everyone keeps saying this is the best Android tablet, but I'm ready to throw this thing away. I just ordered an Asus Vivotab to try out windows on a tablet, but I still would like to get this Nexus working correctly. I love the size of it and really like having an OS that is not filled with a bunch of junk software.
I think I'm going to send it to Asus and see if they can fix it, but I won't be back in the States for another month and don't want to start that process until I'm home. I appreciate everyone letting me rant a little and I hope some of you all have some suggestions. Thanks again.
If it was bad or if the box you should have exchanged it.
The n7 really is a great device. Still my first advice. Never had any of the issues that you describe.
Edit: If you are unable to exchange it- i suggest running a stock ruu to restore the OS to original. If you still have issues after that it's definitely bad hardware.
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Well, I had this thing shipped halfway around the world to me to begin with. An exchange would be a looooonngg process. Regardless, it wasn't giving me any trouble out of the box. Only started about a month ago.
I appreciate the response though. Aside from doing a factory restore, how do I go about reloading the software? I've done 4 restores from the tablet itself, doesn't fix anything. I don't see any reason to do it again, all it seems to do is waste my time.
I've got an internet connection, a laptop and a USB cable. If you could point me in the right direction I'll give it a go. I'm pretty handy with a windows PC, but don't know much about the inner workings of these mobile OS's.
Oh, and its starting something new now. Apps are randomly dissapearing from the tablet after random restarts. I lost my calendar today. Not just the icon, but the whole app.
It is totally strange behavior. N7 2013 is totally great device, probably there is some hardware issue like broken RAM or similar with your tab. Service sounds like a good solution.
tetakpatalked from Nexus 7 flo
OK everyone. Thanks. I'll get it mailed off as soon as I get back to the states. Hopefully it works out.
Figured I'd post this as a public service announcement to anyone who might be on the Metro PCS variant of the Galaxy S3 LTE ( SGH-T999N also known as the d2mtr around these parts). Mine was a decent phone for the first 6 months or so, no major complaints, but when the 4.3 update hit it destroyed the phone.
Connectivity issues, freezes, TONS of added bloatware ( I was getting unsolicited baseball scores from METROZONE when coming out of my lock screen, and some extra row of shortcuts that would hang out on the left side of the screen and be triggered whenever your thumb would stray anywhere close when scrolling), but worst of all the battery life. The phone would be sitting idly on my desk, and out of nowhere it would get physically hot to the touch, like it was working feverishly on something behind the scenes, but not visibly running anything at all. Pulling the battery would correct this for an hour or so but then it would start back up at random, and burn the battery down to nothing in a matter of a couple hours.
I was very close to ditching the phone after googling around for comprehensible root instructions for the model, and trying a couple of them without success. One of these trials must have corrupted the stock ROM backup because when I eventually tried a factory reset, I couldn't get the phone to read the backup package. This sort of forced me to spend a whole day really wrapping my head around the whole odin/custom recovery/custom ROM ecosystem, and I came out the other side running what seems to be a very stable build of Cyanogenmod 11 on what feels like a brand new phone. It's been off the charger for about 6 hours now and its still at 82% battery.
If anyone's in the same situation on this model, let me know, and I'll get together a list of instructions maybe along with a dropbox link to the package of programs and tools I used. I spent 3 months wrestling with this issue, and I'd love it if someone else could benefit from that expenditure of time and effort.
Phone was sold as is, it turned on but the battery was drained completely and died soon after reaching home screen. I took a plunge since price was $50 tempting Washingtons :laugh: I was 100% sure something is wrong with this device but **** it i did it. Bought a charger and USB cable on the way home and so far it's charging just fine.
Phone is mostly erased at least manually I think, because somebody left his google account as I can see email in the plays store menu and some apps, or maybe this is all the carrier pre-installed junk I'm looking at ? LOL
I don't have much experience with Samsung devices but it's a SM-N900T model with N900TUVUCNB4 4.4.2. from February 2014 according to this site http://www.galaxynote3update.com/galaxy-note-3-odin-factory-stock-firmware-usa-canada/
My question is do I stay on this Android or do I jump to Lolipop ? Wasn't there some memory issues with 5.0 ? Or maybe Custom builds ?
Your first move is to sell it to me for $5
If I was OP, I would fully charge the phone, do full factory reset and run it few days as is to test if everything works,. Once you start updating, especially custom ROM, things can break and you'll never know if it's software or hardware. If everything works fine, then you could decide for yourself what to do next. My biggest worry would be the phone is blacklisted, since Note 3 in good shape sells for $200-$300.
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Phone charged fully I booted it up and after short amount of time it would freeze constantly when bringing up the keyboard (Samsung or google), can't recall which one was first now because I was changing them in settings and nothing helped. Either way it was freezing after typing couple of letters or appear then crash/disappear. All this combined with some crashes from app called Lookout. Google told me to do Volume UP+HOME+POWER and do a factory reset, after that everything works fine now. Changed my sim card and I can place calls with no issues also data works fine but damn there is tons of f***ing poopy preloaded apps in here from Samsung and other garbagio . I think whoever was using this device had no idea what to do with those errors and just stopped using it somewhere around Feb. 2014 because since then basically nothing was updated on it. I'm gonna let it sit for couple of days then probably will upgrade to 5.0 via KIES and maybe replace the battery either way with OEM or maybe something like this ? http://www.amazon.com/Anker-T-Mobile-Compatibility-18-Month-Warranty/dp/B00FF54C8Q/
4xxxxL said:
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Phone charged fully I booted it up and after short amount of time it would freeze constantly when bringing up the keyboard (Samsung or google), can't recall which one was first now because I was changing them in settings and nothing helped. Either way it was freezing after typing couple of letters or appear then crash/disappear. All this combined with some crashes from app called Lookout. Google told me to do Volume UP+HOME+POWER and do a factory reset, after that everything works fine now. Changed my sim card and I can place calls with no issues also data works fine but damn there is tons of f***ing poopy preloaded apps in here from Samsung and other garbagio . I think whoever was using this device had no idea what to do with those errors and just stopped using it somewhere around Feb. 2014 because since then basically nothing was updated on it. I'm gonna let it sit for couple of days then probably will upgrade to 5.0 via KIES and maybe replace the battery either way with OEM or maybe something like this ? http://www.amazon.com/Anker-T-Mobile-Compatibility-18-Month-Warranty/dp/B00FF54C8Q/
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If you're planning on keeping it, you'd be better spending the extra $ on one of these mate: http://www.amazon.com/Zerolemon-Zer...d=1453047493&sr=1-1&keywords=ZeroLemon+Note+3
I'm getting 6 days on a full charge outta mine, compared to 1 day with stock battery (course I'm running a custom rom, but when I was back on stock with my ZeroLemon, I was getting 3 days outta it)
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Phone charged fully I booted it up and after short amount of time it would freeze constantly when bringing up the keyboard (Samsung or google), can't recall which one was first now because I was changing them in settings and nothing helped. Either way it was freezing after typing couple of letters or appear then crash/disappear. All this combined with some crashes from app called Lookout. Google told me to do Volume UP+HOME+POWER and do a factory reset, after that everything works fine now. Changed my sim card and I can place calls with no issues also data works fine but damn there is tons of f***ing poopy preloaded apps in here from Samsung and other garbagio . I think whoever was using this device had no idea what to do with those errors and just stopped using it somewhere around Feb. 2014 because since then basically nothing was updated on it. I'm gonna let it sit for couple of days then probably will upgrade to 5.0 via KIES and maybe replace the battery either way with OEM or maybe something like this ? http://www.amazon.com/Anker-T-Mobile-Compatibility-18-Month-Warranty/dp/B00FF54C8Q/
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Actually you can root the phone easily, even without tripping knox on kitkat, once rooted you could freeze or kill on start up most apps that bother you, that's what I do and problem solved, phone runs like a dream.
pete4k said:
If I was OP, I would fully charge the phone, do full factory reset and run it few days as is to test if everything works,. Once you start updating, especially custom ROM, things can break and you'll never know if it's software or hardware. If everything works fine, then you could decide for yourself what to do next. My biggest worry would be the phone is blacklisted, since Note 3 in good shape sells for $200-$300.
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There is actually an easy way to not worry about the blacklisted issue before you ever buy a phone from someone. You can go to www.swappa.com/esn and check the status of the phone by entering it's IMEI. We buy and resell phones a lot and this is how we check them. You can check up to 10 phones free every 24 hours on the site.
4xxxxL said:
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Phone charged fully I booted it up and after short amount of time it would freeze constantly when bringing up the keyboard (Samsung or google), can't recall which one was first now because I was changing them in settings and nothing helped. Either way it was freezing after typing couple of letters or appear then crash/disappear. All this combined with some crashes from app called Lookout. Google told me to do Volume UP+HOME+POWER and do a factory reset, after that everything works fine now. Changed my sim card and I can place calls with no issues also data works fine but damn there is tons of f***ing poopy preloaded apps in here from Samsung and other garbagio . I think whoever was using this device had no idea what to do with those errors and just stopped using it somewhere around Feb. 2014 because since then basically nothing was updated on it. I'm gonna let it sit for couple of days then probably will upgrade to 5.0 via KIES and maybe replace the battery either way with OEM or maybe something like this ? http://www.amazon.com/Anker-T-Mobile-Compatibility-18-Month-Warranty/dp/B00FF54C8Q/
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Sounds like you did get lucky and come across someone who wasn't tech savvy at all, and had no idea how simple it was to fix. But hey... that's their lose and your gain.
If you do decide to root it at some point and want to run a custom ROM, click on the top banner in my signature and check it out. I think you might just like it.
kevp75 said:
If you're planning on keeping it, you'd be better spending the extra $ on one of these mate: http://www.amazon.com/Zerolemon-Zer...d=1453047493&sr=1-1&keywords=ZeroLemon+Note+3
I'm getting 6 days on a full charge outta mine, compared to 1 day with stock battery (course I'm running a custom rom, but when I was back on stock with my ZeroLemon, I was getting 3 days outta it)
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Yeah man, there is an awesome custom ROM out for this phone. I can't remember the name right off hand, but I'm sure you've heard of it. Haha
pete4k said:
Actually you can root the phone easily, even without tripping knox on kitkat, once rooted you could freeze or kill on start up most apps that bother you, that's what I do and problem solved, phone runs like a dream.
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You can freeze them, but in my opinion if you've gone to the trouble of rooting it, you might as well completely remove the bloatware. If all you do is freeze the apps, they are still there needlessly taking up the internal storage. There are a few lists on here that tells what is safe to remove without fear of messing the phone up.
problem with deleting "bloatware" is two fold: some programs are interdependent and deleting one you don't want may break another you need. Also, I don't know about others, but I changed my mind in the past and reactivated some applications I never thought I'll be using before.
As far as space goes, the whole system uses 4 GB maybe, so you could save 1 GB, if you're aggressive deleting files, probably couple min of 4k video worth. I got 128 GB sd card, problem solved. Maybe different story with Note 5, but that's one of main reasons I never upgraded.
Either way I strongly suggest at least freezing apps and testing before deleting it.
TimboMachimbo said:
Your first move is to sell it to me for $5
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Lmao
Still been using the device to watch stuff on wifi @ home and **** Can't use it as my daily driver it's just to big :0 anyway the other hidden issue that I found out about it is that the charging port is kinda beaten up especially on the left side. Sometimes you can plug the cable in and it won't charge until you apply little pressure on the connectors left side it's time to do this http://www.amazon.com/Charging-Ribbon-Connector-Samsung-T-Mobile/dp/B00H3DZRXC/
Alliance Rom
4xxxxL said:
Phone was sold as is, it turned on but the battery was drained completely and died soon after reaching home screen. I took a plunge since price was $50 tempting Washingtons :laugh: I was 100% sure something is wrong with this device but **** it i did it. Bought a charger and USB cable on the way home and so far it's charging just fine.
Phone is mostly erased at least manually I think, because somebody left his google account as I can see email in the plays store menu and some apps, or maybe this is all the carrier pre-installed junk I'm looking at ? LOL
I don't have much experience with Samsung devices but it's a SM-N900T model with N900TUVUCNB4 4.4.2. from February 2014 according to this site http://www.galaxynote3update.com/galaxy-note-3-odin-factory-stock-firmware-usa-canada/
My question is do I stay on this Android or do I jump to Lolipop ? Wasn't there some memory issues with 5.0 ? Or maybe Custom builds ?
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Flash Alliance 5.0 Lollipop ...best rom for note 3
http://forum.xda-developers.com/not...-alliancerom-n900t-uvufob6-v1-online-t3055309
Replaced the charging port with the $5 one I bought via Amazon... charging worked great but the voice recording and mic in general sounded garbled had to put the broken one back lol :S
The last phone I had was a Galaxy S2 and rooting and installing a new ROM was quite simple. They even had directions+tools to revert back to stock... What's the deal now?
What is dm-verity and how do I figure out if the ROM I want to install has it.. disabled? enabled?
I have no more warranty so I'm not worried about triggering knox.
This latest update has basically fried my battery... the battery discharges in about 3-4 hours using youtube red with airplane mode enabled, and the battery is also quite warm (at least 100 degrees F!)
I just want to be able to disable/enable services I want.
I'm on SM-G925T on 6.0.1/G925TUVS4EPH2, specifically. How do I find compatible ROMs and roots? I don't want to brick anything.
I understand this is a long shot since I see so many other posts with no replies but, I'm kind of desperate. I'm actually worried my phone might explode because of how warm it gets now.
I just got the phone about two days ago, did all the 8000 updates via OTA (phone came with 5.0.2) and landed on the 6.01 EPH2 that you're on and my battery life has been absolutely horrible as well. I'm thinking about returning the phone over it. Idk what to do.
xy34 said:
The last phone I had was a Galaxy S2 and rooting and installing a new ROM was quite simple. They even had directions+tools to revert back to stock... What's the deal now?
What is dm-verity and how do I figure out if the ROM I want to install has it.. disabled? enabled?
I have no more warranty so I'm not worried about triggering knox.
This latest update has basically fried my battery... the battery discharges in about 3-4 hours using youtube red with airplane mode enabled, and the battery is also quite warm (at least 100 degrees F!)
I just want to be able to disable/enable services I want.
I'm on SM-G925T on 6.0.1/G925TUVS4EPH2, specifically. How do I find compatible ROMs and roots? I don't want to brick anything.
I understand this is a long shot since I see so many other posts with no replies but, I'm kind of desperate. I'm actually worried my phone might explode because of how warm it gets now.
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Thus device has been horrile for me too...
I have been trying to find folks who could actually communicate and help a little too..
Had a galaxy 3 in 2010 and a s4 in 2014, both were easy... bootloop, flash again.. not much risks..
Here we cant even remove the batteries and a lot of rhinfs that can make it stuck....
I do have root and twrp recovery btw..
If you want help getting those, just install telegram and search for user DSN .
I can help faster there and also link up to a few rom threads where people are quite active incase for help
I've been modding and ROMing for what seems like almost 10 years, the ROM development on this phone is horrible, I blame Samsung for this, too many variants, had the S6 on 4 networks and S6 edge on 4 networks, Hopefully Google makes a really nice new phone or I'm going to the other side.
I guess it's starting to make more sense now. Samsung obviously tried to squash custom build efforts by releasing so many different variants. It's a bit reassuring that people are having the same problems as I am...
To the person who just got the phone - RETURN IT!
Ironically, after I did a lot of browsing on this site during my morning commute, the phone started behaving better. It's still slow (not in my OP but it's definitely freezing whereas this wasn't an issue before) but the battery life is back to normal-ish levels and it hasn't warmed up on me. Maybe just keep browsing this site? LOL
Thanks, Samsung... I used to love the Galaxy line but this is some real Apple-esque **** (y'know, the whole updating the phone before the next generation gets released and having it run slow as **** thing.) Just Google the issue and there's lots of claims. I remember reading a reddit post where an Apple employee or cell phone repair store employee was saying that he'd have an influx of customers just before a new phone release.
It's all speculation but I wouldn't be surprised. They (Samsung) just did it after S7 got released. Too bad I'm stuck paying $30/month for this phone for the next two years. Never should have updated! It was perfect before all this.
That was me. Return it for what though? There's not much else in the price range that I was able to put down for a down payment that tmobile offers.....I put 276 down and the phone cost 499 total. The G5 is also 499 but I see nothing but complaints about it.......the S7 and S7 Edge they wanted close to 450 down and I just couldn't afford that so I went with the S6 Edge. What else is there?
carnivalrejectq said:
That was me. Return it for what though? There's not much else in the price range that I was able to put down for a down payment that tmobile offers.....I put 276 down and the phone cost 499 total. The G5 is also 499 but I see nothing but complaints about it.......the S7 and S7 Edge they wanted close to 450 down and I just couldn't afford that so I went with the S6 Edge. What else is there?
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Look into the LG G4, maybe. Same era as the S6 but it's got a removable battery and external storage and I think it's easier to install custom software and root, but hopefully you won't need to if it runs well. Do your own research, yknow! Don't blindly follow anyone's advice, obviously. Let me know what you decide.
Whoa, I never noticed the screen lag on this phone until the latest update 10.7. Seems like certain apps are very clunky all of a sudden, like Gmail texting etc. Anyone else noticed this have any advice? this phone used to be super smooth but now it seems very clunky to me all of a sudden. 1905
3 October 2020 lags are still there, somebody else? Any solution? Stock rom
Phone has been lagging for me since one month into its purchase. Its a massive headache as its my work phone.
I regret this purchase. Generally i have to start tinkering with a device 2 years into purchase, but with this, i am going to need to do it now.
Hoping Android 11 fixes the crap that 10 is, or i will be wiping it and hoping for a miracle. I take ages to set things up normally. Would probably root it and make things merry
What lag? It's non-existent on my 7T except when it freezes on chrome (which doesn't happen now, after the latest chrome update).
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Phone has been lagging for me since one month into its purchase. Its a massive headache as its my work phone.
I regret this purchase. Generally i have to start tinkering with a device 2 years into purchase, but with this, i am going to need to do it now.
Hoping Android 11 fixes the crap that 10 is, or i will be wiping it and hoping for a miracle. I take ages to set things up normally. Would probably root it and make things merry
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I can understand you, I'm the same boat. I hope for android 11 fix too.