My Verizon Galaxy S3 is much slower to do certain tasks then it used to be. I have had it for one year. Most of the slowness is in more complex apps like my calendar or airline apps but even texting is an issue. It used to be when I opened the stock messaging app all of my past posts would show with the phone number instead of the name and contact photo but in the blink of an eye the name and contact photos populated. Now it can take half a second per number to populate (faster than that but it takes two seconds for an entire page). I assume this is not a hardware problem. I have not loaded any particular suspect apps but it could be an app. Has anyone else had this problem?
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Help Galaxy S3 is much slower than it used to be
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funkylogik
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As a quick test. Download App Cache Cleaner and use the widget to clear cache n see if anything speeds up.
If not maybe a factory reset (after backing up important shit) or even a reflash will fix it :thumbup:
If not maybe a factory reset (after backing up important shit) or even a reflash will fix it :thumbup:
KnucklesNilan
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I have definitely noticed a significant slowness or even lag while scrolling from screen to screen.. hangs up for a second then moves, left or right. I don't even have much installed on my phone, most of it is just stock apps. Might try the cache app though.. thanks!
Thanks. This made it a little faster by clearing 500mb of cache but it didn't seem to be 100% full speed (though I am not really sure of that now that it is faster). I also uninstalled Google Now which seemed to use more battery than any other app so maybe it used CPU as well. Any other ideas?
funkylogik
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Only other two options are backing up stuff you wana keep and factory reset, or reflash firmware (factory reset should do it)
Having big apps shouldnt matter. Last week my internal memory was nearly full but phone was still flying..
RAM (amount of apps running at same time) shouldnt really be a problem on the s3.
All i can recommend is factory reset OR, root the thing and put a totally non-samsung (nexus-like) operating system on it like i have.
You could go into Developer Options and Limit Active Processes to like 4 but the s3 shouldnt really need that tbh..
Having big apps shouldnt matter. Last week my internal memory was nearly full but phone was still flying..
RAM (amount of apps running at same time) shouldnt really be a problem on the s3.
All i can recommend is factory reset OR, root the thing and put a totally non-samsung (nexus-like) operating system on it like i have.
You could go into Developer Options and Limit Active Processes to like 4 but the s3 shouldnt really need that tbh..