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Galaxy Note 2 lagging after a few days of use??

I got my phone last monday and today my phone was lagging while swipping through home screens, app drawer and even in settings. It was like project butter was shutdown and I was back to the epic 4g. Thought kind strange giving the specs on this phone.. I have stock jb and no root.
After a restart everything went back to normal.
Just curious, does this happen to everyone here? Is this normal to happen after 2-3 days of use?

teco2010 said:
I got my phone last monday and today my phone was lagging while swipping through home screens, app drawer and even in settings. It was like project butter was shutdown and I was back to the epic 4g. Thought kind strange giving the specs on this phone.. I have stock jb and no root.
After a restart everything went back to normal.
Just curious, does this happen to everyone here? Is this normal to happen after 2-3 days of use?
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You must not be actually closing apps just hitting home I assume but if not then idk the problem
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Yes I did close them... I even tried force closing all. Not sure why the phone was struggling a little.

you didn't enable power saving mode by any chance?
also, android should be fairly good at managing your memory. i believe google doesn't really recommend task killers because whenever you kill tasks that the OS needs, it'll just reload it, which itself consumes resources (maybe more resource than letting the process simply idle). so just leave those processes alone.

Are you running SetCPU? Make sure it didn't accidentally severely under clock you. That happened to me once and SETCPU was running me at 200 mhz for some reason.
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teco2010 said:
I got my phone last monday and today my phone was lagging while swipping through home screens, app drawer and even in settings. It was like project butter was shutdown and I was back to the epic 4g. Thought kind strange giving the specs on this phone.. I have stock jb and no root.
After a restart everything went back to normal.
Just curious, does this happen to everyone here? Is this normal to happen after 2-3 days of use?
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I would double check on all the apps you've previously installed. I'm still on stock JB unrooted as well since released day (Oct 25), not once I've experience any lag that yours producing. Heck I've loaded a bunch of games and apps now my main storage is down to a gig, even then I haven't noticed any slow down. This phone is a beast thats all I can say.

teco2010 said:
I got my phone last monday and today my phone was lagging while swipping through home screens, app drawer and even in settings. It was like project butter was shutdown and I was back to the epic 4g. Thought kind strange giving the specs on this phone.. I have stock jb and no root.
After a restart everything went back to normal.
Just curious, does this happen to everyone here? Is this normal to happen after 2-3 days of use?
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Yeah, thats unfortunate because if anything the phone should speed up after a few days of use. Why don't you just keep it to the 1 thread you started in the GT 7100 forum? You already got 4 pages of responses there. And post a video of what you're talking about because the phone should not lag at all with power savings off.

theoner1 said:
I would double check on all the apps you've previously installed. I'm still on stock JB unrooted as well since released day (Oct 25), not once I've experience any lag that yours producing. Heck I've loaded a bunch of games and apps now my main storage is down to a gig, even then I haven't noticed any slow down. This phone is a beast thats all I can say.
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I agree, i'm leaning towards user error in his case. This phone is on constant steroids.

boodies said:
Yeah, thats unfortunate because if anything the phone should speed up after a few days of use. Why don't you just keep it to the 1 thread you started in the GT 7100 forum? You already got 4 pages of responses there. And post a video of what you're talking about because the phone should not lag at all with power savings off.
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I didn't strat a thread there... just replied to one and it was a different are of problem anyway..
Guys.. I didn't install any task killer, I just force off using that long pressing home button and going into running apps, the phone, no power saving mode on, still unrooted and very few apps. I use Android for 3 years and I looked all the places to make sure settings would not be causing this and it was not.
Really weird problem... it's fine now I just hope it keeps running this way by tomorrow.. I'll let you all know, if anything I'll make a video if I can reproduce.

teco2010 said:
I didn't strat a thread there... just replied to one and it was a different are of problem anyway..
Guys.. I didn't install any task killer, I just force off using that long pressing home button and going into running apps, the phone, no power saving mode on, still unrooted and very few apps. I use Android for 3 years and I looked all the places to make sure settings would not be causing this and it was not.
Really weird problem... it's fine now I just hope it keeps running this way by tomorrow.. I'll let you all know, if anything I'll make a video if I can reproduce.
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Don't close the apps down just back out of them because you'll lag more when your phone sits there trying to open them all up again and cache them. But I agree its a strange problem, if this occurs againit might be something very specific.
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teco2010 said:
I didn't strat a thread there... just replied to one and it was a different are of problem anyway..
Guys.. I didn't install any task killer, I just force off using that long pressing home button and going into running apps, the phone, no power saving mode on, still unrooted and very few apps. I use Android for 3 years and I looked all the places to make sure settings would not be causing this and it was not.
Really weird problem... it's fine now I just hope it keeps running this way by tomorrow.. I'll let you all know, if anything I'll make a video if I can reproduce.
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That's strange. Yeah I would pay close attention to the problem and if it do come back, then maybe you probably have a bad note II. You never know, not everything are created equal. In that case I would take it in for a repair person to check it out.

Is there a way to know if all cores are running on stock Android?
I've also seen some sick battery life in this phone, but not on mine. Yesterday I got 12 hours with about 3 1/2 of screen, with few and short phone calls. What I used the most on this phone was the internet and the browser..
Not sure if these are related.
EDIT.... I installed CPU usage Monitoring and the 4th core stays off most of the time.. when I opened videos and messed with more apps it started working so I'm answering myself on that. Also, I played a video with the pop up function and the cpu only gets to about 30% and not even on all cores... wow.. the processing power here is really impressive.

teco2010 said:
Is there a way to know if all cores are running on stock Android?
I've also seen some sick battery life in this phone, but not on mine. Yesterday I got 12 hours with about 3 1/2 of screen, with few and short phone calls. What I used the most on this phone was the internet and the browser..
Not sure if these are related.
EDIT.... I installed CPU usage Monitoring and the 4th core stays off most of the time.. when I opened videos and messed with more apps it started working so I'm answering myself on that. Also, I played a video with the pop up function and the cpu only gets to about 30% and not even on all cores... wow.. the processing power here is really impressive.
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Check this video this guy posted.
Ashton_Durkhun said:
That's nothing, take a look at this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nh2NSLgaII&feature=player_embedded
The note 2 is AMAZINGLY powerful!
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ac16313 said:
Check this video this guy posted.
Sent from my SPH-L900
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Even though I would never use a phone like that, still very impressive...

Update for Verizon

I just got prompted for 12a (VS98612A). My update was unsuccessful because I'm rooted.
Apparently there are many updates (over 450 MB).
Here is the only link I could find.
http://phandroid.com/2015/10/09/tou...g-out-a-huge-system-update-that-could-fix-it/

I got the update and seems to have wrecked Google Hangout notifications. Was getting them just fine until after the update.
1) checked notifications were turned on .. they were.
2) messages are coming in only after I check.
3) uninstalled and reinstalled hangouts - no change.
4) wiped cache and reset defaults.

Did it help touch screen issues (if you were having them)?

I'm curious about touch screen issues as well. I did not realize how much it bothered me till I used a samsung phone the other day and not a single miss. It was bliss!

mistertek said:
I just got prompted for 12a (VS98612A). My update was unsuccessful because I'm rooted.
Apparently there are many updates (over 450 MB).
Here is the only link I could find.
http://phandroid.com/2015/10/09/tou...g-out-a-huge-system-update-that-could-fix-it/
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Assuming this is a StageFright patch? I'm rooted as well, but if this does patch StageFright, I want it. Any advice on how to get it and stay rooted?

DaBunny said:
Assuming this is a StageFright patch? I'm rooted as well, but if this does patch StageFright, I want it. Any advice on how to get it and stay rooted?
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This

I've got sync issues as well after the update. Not happy about this at all. When the lollipop update came on the g3 the same thing occured. Had to disable ipv6 on the phone or get it working properly on a router.
I have not tried a reset yet.
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Holy cow, I was able to scroll through Facebook without clicking on a story every time I scrolled and liking stupid memes! Using my finger to move the cursor when selecting a word is so much easier now too.
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Do we have confirmed fixes for the touchscreen? Or is it just placebo effect right now. I'd love to hear some honest feedback. I'm currently rooted and running xposed but if reverting to stock and taking 12a fixes touchscreen issues it would be worth it for me [as long as root for 12a will be possible ]

sbutera said:
I got the update and seems to have wrecked Google Hangout notifications. Was getting them just fine until after the update.
1) checked notifications were turned on .. they were.
2) messages are coming in only after I check.
3) uninstalled and reinstalled hangouts - no change.
4) wiped cache and reset defaults.
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Have you tried a factory reset yet?
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gkaz24 said:
Do we have confirmed fixes for the touchscreen? Or is it just placebo effect right now. I'd love to hear some honest feedback. I'm currently rooted and running xposed but if reverting to stock and taking 12a fixes touchscreen issues it would be worth it for me [as long as root for 12a will be possible ]
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For me it's definitely not placebo. Knock on is working great. No problems scrolling now. I got used to it before but now it seems like a new phone. I was getting jealous of my wife's s5 but not any more.
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Looks like just the Google acct isn't syncing, still getting notifications via Facebook. A lot of accounts disappeared in the settings -> accounts menu (Facebook , Microsoft)
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So after a few hours on this update I can tell you that I didn't notice ANY touchscreen misses at all. Also less lag with opening and transferring of big apps. Even tapping the google search bar worked immediately without extra taps or lag. So as much as I like root, it's crazy to figure out what an actual working phone feels like again. Maybe someone will root 12a. Hopefully.
Edit: and no missing account anything on my particular device either.

So if we rooted 11A, do we have to kdz to get the update?

kafreeman said:
Have you tried a factory reset yet?
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Not yet. That is my next step. Have to wait until Monday because I'm running GOOD Work and will need a new pin after the wipe. I also removed and re-signed in to my Google account. Right now notifications with Hangouts are hit or miss. Sometimes I get them, sometimes I don't, sometimes it takes 5-10 minutes.
As for the touch screen issues. I have noticed a major improvement. Can scroll through FB without clicking a picture or a link unexpectedly. Also, better hits when I'm typing a character using the edge of the screen, letters, numbers, and hitting the send button. Registers every time now. Also, noticed that when connected to bluetooth in the car, the radio displays song information again.
So there are definitely a few improvements I've noticed.

sbutera said:
Not yet. That is my next step. Have to wait until Monday because I'm running GOOD Work and will need a new pin after the wipe. I also removed and re-signed in to my Google account. Right now notifications with Hangouts are hit or miss. Sometimes I get them, sometimes I don't, sometimes it takes 5-10 minutes.
As for the touch screen issues. I have noticed a major improvement. Can scroll through FB without clicking a picture or a link unexpectedly. Also, better hits when I'm typing a character using the edge of the screen, letters, numbers, and hitting the send button. Registers every time now. Also, noticed that when connected to bluetooth in the car, the radio displays song information again.
So there are definitely a few improvements I've noticed.
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Camera was also updated. There is an actual "slo-mo" button now. It seems like an update with some meat to it.

sefirosu0522 said:
So if we rooted 11A, do we have to kdz to get the update?
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You could try the super user unroot option and update, probably have to wait for a confirmation to root this version.
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Can someone pull the camera apk and upload it, maybe us on 11a can utilize the update.

sbutera said:
I got the update and seems to have wrecked Google Hangout notifications. Was getting them just fine until after the update.
1) checked notifications were turned on .. they were.
2) messages are coming in only after I check.
3) uninstalled and reinstalled hangouts - no change.
4) wiped cache and reset defaults.
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This update seems to have wrecked all my notifications actually..Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't.
Seems like its only Google applications..

I can definitely say the phone is much smoother than it was before. No more missed letters while typing, and mistaps whole scrolling. Sucks it took so long to get this update, but the phone is working like it should have from day 1.
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scrillakev said:
This update seems to have wrecked all my notifications actually..Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't.
Seems like its only Google applications..
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Did you remove your Google account and set it back up again?
I noticed after the update I wasn't getting notifications when an email arrived. Disconnecting and reconnecting my Google account fixed that.
Otherwise I feel your pain. Hangouts notifications are still hit or miss.
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Snapchat

Shot in the dark I guess but since I got this device, Snapchat has been terribly laggy and almost unusable. Specifically when using the keyboard for text. Sometimes when I launch it, the camera is just black for roughly 5 seconds and then the back camera comes on finally. The chat feature is very slow at times and the entire app seems to stall and crash at least once a day. Anyone else notice this?
A quick google search yielded several recent topics on various forums complaining about the same thing, all on 6.0 Marshmallow. Hopefully it's not just this device.

I'm getting this exact thing

I went through that too. Once I had to restart it to make the camera work again. My tip is do not try use volume keys until it load completely. It just frozen the app in a black screen. Isn't perfect but can be used.

It's probably not optimized as well for 6.0 yet

Snapchat hasn't been perfect for me, but I've never experienced any of those issues. The worst I get is a little delay when pressing the home button.
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I have had this problem we will have to wait for an update!! Basically that's what I've been telling myself lately about marshmallow
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I can tell you guys I had this problem on my Nexus 6 on Marshmallow, it has to be something related to 6.0, I'm on a LG G4 now and snapchat runs just fine.

Kinda laggy for me too. And I can't get it to play a notification sound when I recieve snaps. I have turned it on in settings and I get a notification as normal, but no sound. Does anyone else have this problem?

Just uninstalled it from the n5x will have to limit myself to using it on n72013 it was unusable. Crashes camera failed to load then started to affect the stock camera app, would cause system crashes and could only be sorted with a reboot.

Same here its completely horrible to use of this phone. Phone ****s itself every time I try use it!
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The app has been perfectly fine for me, up until the update I got yesterday. Now I see exactly what everyone is talking about....it's completely unusable now.
Our of curiosity...are you guys all encrypted?
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thesoldier said:
The app has been perfectly fine for me, up until the update I got yesterday. Now I see exactly what everyone is talking about....it's completely unusable now.
Our of curiosity...are you guys all encrypted?
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Decrypted & rooted running Chroma with Elemental-X.

ViRb3 said:
Decrypted & rooted running Chroma with Elemental-X.
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Ok never mind then. I've been decrypted since I got the phone, until I took an OTA recently. It's been crap since then, but I guess it's unrelated
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stock & encrypted and snapchat runs like poo for me. shame because its one of my most used apps :/

Well again Snapchat just updated, and now I'm back to it working fine again....
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The past few updates have been good for me luckily.. Just don't try to send a snap while in landscape, I tried to add text and Swiftkey went all wonky and overlayed the screen even after I pressed Home, had to force close Snapchat and Swiftkey both :/

me too I have same issues the lag and so slowly for texting and even after update marshmallow update 6.0.1 the problem still the same I hope can anyone help me with issue what should to do and thanks you

So I am a power snapchat user and had this same problem and might have accidentally stumbled on a possible solution after having a login failure. I enabled the travel mode so it's not downloading constantly. I installed snapprefs and I can't explain why but it's flying now. No lag on window switching or opening the camera. I'm on 6.0.1 December rooted

Everytime I take video from Snapchat, it produces the sound "dug" at the first second of the video, never put my finger too hard on the phone so it isn't bcs of my finger knocking the screen, anybody know why?
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Pixel Launcher missing news and cards

Over the last several weeks (possibly since the last update), my Launcher feeds aren't consistently displaying. I just get a blank Google screen when I swipe left.
If I open the Google app, then the feeds show up. Refreshing the screen isn't correcting the issue, and I confirmed my settings are all turned on.

Happening to me also.
Deleted data/cache fixes it temporarily

Same here, I just reboot and it works for a while

Same here, usually if I clear cash and stop app then go back and swipe everything pops back up. Weird, thought it was just me.
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A.VOID said:
Over the last several weeks (possibly since the last update), my Launcher feeds aren't consistently displaying. I just get a blank Google screen when I swipe left.
If I open the Google app, then the feeds show up. Refreshing the screen isn't correcting the issue, and I confirmed my settings are all turned on.
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I had this same issue myself and I actually used the google help and after trying everything I ended up going to settings then apps go to Google app or you can go to play store and google app then disable and uninstall updates then reinstall and reboot after doing it and it has seemed to completely fix the problem for me this is going on the third day it has not randomly disappeared on me. I hope it helps guys.

Reporting back that ruling back Google and updating it again has fixed it so far. Hopefully it holds

Same here. Google is turning into a ****ing joke. This is the 4th update this month that ****s something up for me.
The security patch has literally ruined Bluetooth usage for me. Then they update Chrome and I can no longer cast embedded videos from Chrome. Then I get the Google update and it screws up the feed. Now I get the music update and it kills the equalizer almost all the goddamned time.
What a ****ing joke.

After 24 hours, it failed again ?

AndrasLOHF said:
Same here. Google is turning into a ****ing joke. This is the 4th update this month that ****s something up for me.
The security patch has literally ruined Bluetooth usage for me. Then they update Chrome and I can no longer cast embedded videos from Chrome. Then I get the Google update and it screws up the feed. Now I get the music update and it kills the equalizer almost all the goddamned time.
What a ****ing joke.
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Enjoy famed frequent Google updates.

A.VOID said:
After 24 hours, it failed again
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Same here. Best bet probably is going to be reverting back to the previous apk and turning off updates until they fix it. It's what I had to do for Google Play Music.

A.VOID said:
Over the last several weeks (possibly since the last update), my Launcher feeds aren't consistently displaying. I just get a blank Google screen when I swipe left.
If I open the Google app, then the feeds show up. Refreshing the screen isn't correcting the issue, and I confirmed my settings are all turned on.
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Cryingmoose said:
Happening to me also.
Deleted data/cache fixes it temporarily
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jaben2 said:
Same here, I just reboot and it works for a while
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ahent said:
Same here, usually if I clear cash and stop app then go back and swipe everything pops back up. Weird, thought it was just me.
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This is a known issue with the Google App. Can only assume it will eventually be fixed in an update.

OMG! ok.. i'm not going insane... it's happening to other people too... whew...

SquallLHeart said:
OMG! ok.. i'm not going insane... it's happening to other people too... whew...
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Mine seems to be working fine. Maybe they fixed it

Facebook app VERY slow/battery charging slow

Is it just me or is the Facebook app VERY slow? For the past few weeks it's been ridiculously slow for me, I mean taking a full 5-10 seconds to load anything after I tap the app icon. Always used to be lightning quick but now it's not. A couple other apps seem to be a bit slower also but Facebook is by far the most noticeable. ??? Any ideas?
My battery has been draining a little faster than normal lately but even worse than that it seems to be charging very slowly, not like before. I've read the recent March OTA is to blame for that, is that correct? Any ideas for this? I thought about doing a factory reset but that's a hassle setting everything up again. Just tough it out until April OTA? Or another fix?
Thank you!

flooritnfly said:
Is it just me or is the Facebook app VERY slow? For the past few weeks it's been ridiculously slow for me, I mean taking a full 5-10 seconds to load anything after I tap the app icon. Always used to be lightning quick but now it's not. A couple other apps seem to be a bit slower also but Facebook is by far the most noticeable. ??? Any ideas?
My battery has been draining a little faster than normal lately but even worse than that it seems to be charging very slowly, not like before. I've read the recent March OTA is to blame for that, is that correct? Any ideas for this? I thought about doing a factory reset but that's a hassle setting everything up again. Just tough it out until April OTA? Or another fix?
Thank you!
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Don't have Facebook installed at the moment. I gave up social networks for Lent. Have you cleared app data for Facebook and other slower apps?

flooritnfly said:
Is it just me or is the Facebook app VERY slow? For the past few weeks it's been ridiculously slow for me, I mean taking a full 5-10 seconds to load anything after I tap the app icon. Always used to be lightning quick but now it's not. A couple other apps seem to be a bit slower also but Facebook is by far the most noticeable. ? Any ideas?
My battery has been draining a little faster than normal lately but even worse than that it seems to be charging very slowly, not like before. I've read the recent March OTA is to blame for that, is that correct? Any ideas for this? I thought about doing a factory reset but that's a hassle setting everything up again. Just tough it out until April OTA? Or another fix?
Thank you!
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Facebook has been slow for me as well so I'm using Chrome for Facebook right now.

EeZeEpEe said:
Don't have Facebook installed at the moment. I gave up social networks for Lent. Have you cleared app data for Facebook and other slower apps?
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Yup, cleared cache cleared data, all the usual stuff even reinstalled the app made no difference.

vinicioh23 said:
Facebook has been slow for me as well so I'm using Chrome for Facebook right now.
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At least I'm not the only one

Yeah I am also noticing the same problems, I tried uninstalling app and reinstalling it and seeing if it worked but did nothing. Really debating on just getting rid of it all together.

Step 1. Log in
Step 2. Account settings
Step 3. Deactivate account
Step 4. Live a happier life
Facebook needs to die
Sorry my post is no help to you. Just ranting.

yep add another one, this was quite smooth before the march update on my xl, don't know wtf google is doing, but with every update they **** something else up.

If you have Xposed, go into the installer, hit the 3 dot menu on the top right I think, and choose optimize apps now.
If you don't have it installed, seems like you've already done the usual clearing cache/data.
If you haven't already, try a simple reboot of your device?

rickysidhu_ said:
If you have Xposed, go into the installer, hit the 3 dot menu on the top right I think, and choose optimize apps now.
If you don't have it installed, seems like you've already done the usual clearing cache/data.
If you haven't already, try a simple reboot of your device?
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Yeah rebooting does nothing unfortunately

Ady1976 said:
yep add another one, this was quite smooth before the march update on my xl, don't know wtf google is doing, but with every update they **** something else up.
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I totally agree, idk wtf is going on it's starting to really piss me off with everything not as smooth as butter as it was before

flooritnfly said:
I totally agree, idk wtf is going on it's starting to really piss me off with everything not as smooth as butter as it was before
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The only time it goes a bit smoother now is when i reboot the phone, it's like the phone is throttling after a while and slowing down until rebooted, except it's not even lasting a day now.