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I'll be getting a Desire HD soon and can't wait!
Just thought Id ask about ads in android apps. A surprising number of people don't seem to be so bothered about them. I for one can't stand them though.
I wouldn't even mind so much an ad that comes up when you launch an app or something like that, but having a banner constantly taking up a portion of the screen during a game or whatever is unacceptable
Is it possible to get "full" ad-free versions of most decent apps on Android?
I am not bothered by it because they only appear with data turned on, mine is turned off unless I need to use data.
Also it is good to support free apps and yes most apps will have a donation version that removes the ads.
syl0n said:
I am not bothered by it because they only appear with data turned on, mine is turned off unless I need to use data.
Also it is good to support free apps and yes most apps will have a donation version that removes the ads.
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That's interesting actually, that they only appear when you have a data connection on. Do you end up with a black hole on your screen where the ad should be then or do they disappear completely?
I believe there is some applications that stop the ads.
Adfree i think is one of them.
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I believe there is some applications that stop the ads.
Adfree i think is one of them.
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Yes but as far as I hear Adfree is a poor solution, all it does is basically add entries to your hosts file which still leaves you with an ugly black hole through 1/5 of your screen :/
True, its not the best answer but its a start
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I'll be getting a Desire HD soon and can't wait!
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Oh man, you will LOVE it!!
But as the ads go, they aren't that bad. I was too thinking about this before going Android and now that I see how it is ok, they don't bother me at all.
On some games (such as Angry Birds), they are unbelievably annoying. Other ones aren't as a bad though.
All the paid for apps that i've seen have been very reasonably priced and well worth the money.
Developers work really hard and i for one always pay when i can to help support them.
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On some games (such as Angry Birds), they are unbelievably annoying. Other ones aren't as a bad though.
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You don't need data when playing angry birds. It will remove the ads if you turn it off.
Has anyone used JuiceDefender? I've been testing the free beta and I'm not sure its doing much (set to default balanced). The Widget just says n/a but I thought it should say how much power its saving?
Yeah i've been using it pretty much since day one with my thunderbolt. It definitely increases battery throughout the day. It give me a figure of how much battery i saved when i shut it off and its usually from 1.8x to 2.05
Using since day one with my phone aswell.. This is one of those Apps I believe should come standard on android smartphones. Not only does it save you juice, but the options for settings within the app are pretty useful aswell.. Deft worth the couple bucks..
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I assume you guys aren't using the free version then? Looks like its not having much affect with me, presumably because the free one doesn't control wifi.
got a problem with juice defender ... i use it to stop mobile data and turn it on just when device is turned on
so when someone calls me and leaves a visual voicemail i get the sms message but the audiofile is missing ...
so the phone cant download the voicemail when data is turned off...
is there a way to fix this ??
Do you mean a mms message? If so, as far as I know, mms won't work with "just" wifi. Im pretty sure the data has to be on. As far as a fix, to be honest I haven't looked around..
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mmhh strange .. now it works ... i think it was a temporarily problem with voice mail
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I assume you guys aren't using the free version then? Looks like its not having much affect with me, presumably because the free one doesn't control wifi.
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Free version didn't help me any either.
Maybe this is blasphemous, but after updating to ICS, I am very disappointed. I was looking forward to the better interface and everything that ICS provides, and after installing, it turns out that everything is pretty much exactly the same, except that the phone now supports ICS apps, is more laggy, and (for some inexplicable reason) no longer supports notification bar brightness adjustment.
Granted I've only been playing with it for a few hours, but is anyone else disappointing by this so called update?
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Maybe this is blasphemous, but after updating to ICS, I am very disappointed. I was looking forward to the better interface and everything that ICS provides, and after installing, it turns out that everything is pretty much exactly the same, except that the phone now supports ICS apps, is more laggy, and (for some inexplicable reason) no longer supports notification bar brightness adjustment.
Granted I've only been playing with it for a few hours, but is anyone else disappointing by this so called update?
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personally, I was impressed. but only because I never use tw launcher (nova when ics, holo when gb). lagginess will ensue until you reboot 3 or 4 times. this is normal. let it build it's cache. and idk what you're talking about in notification bar brightness adjustment :/ i never knew it was a feature
Yeah TW sucks. I personally have noticed faster boot times, more responsiveness, and amazing battery life. I have been running with wifi calling all day so far (5 hrs) and still am at 96%. Ditch tw & disable bloat and check it out.
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Yeah TW sucks. I personally have noticed faster boot times, more responsiveness, and amazing battery life. I have been running with wifi calling all day so far (5 hrs) and still am at 96%. Ditch tw & disable bloat and check it out.
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Yeah TW sucks. I personally have noticed faster boot times, more responsiveness, and amazing battery life. I have been running with wifi calling all day so far (5 hrs) and still am at 96%. Ditch tw & disable bloat and check it out.
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Did you remove/delete the bloat, or just freeze it in TB. Is there any bloat that is unsafe to remove? I want get rid of as much as I can to free space and improve perfomance. So far I've deleted Tmobile Mall, Gamebase, and Social Hub...but was afraid to do anymore, not sure what connection they may with other apps etc.
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Did you remove/delete the bloat, or just freeze it in TB. Is there any bloat that is unsafe to remove? I want get rid of as much as I can to free space and improve perfomance. So far I've deleted Tmobile Mall, Gamebase, and Social Hub...but was afraid to do anymore, not sure what connection they may with other apps etc.
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I straight deleted everything TMobile related except visual voicemail and my account. No issues on any of then being critical system dependencies
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Maybe if you had a better phone....
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Maybe if you had a better phone....
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ummmm..... what?
After rooting the phone, I just disabled the bloatware in manage apps. I'll save them in TB and remove them later. I have 3 of these things to tune. Including putting Avast on them and removing lookout.
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ummmm..... what?
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Ditto.
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were you able to uninstall the bloat? if so, how did you root?
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Rooted by re-flashing cwm in odin using the same method as before. Then I downloaded supersu.zip from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1742522 and went into cwm and made a backup and then installed supersu from the zip. Rebooted and opened supersu and updated binary and had root.
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Did you remove/delete the bloat, or just freeze it in TB. Is there any bloat that is unsafe to remove? I want get rid of as much as I can to free space and improve perfomance. So far I've deleted Tmobile Mall, Gamebase, and Social Hub...but was afraid to do anymore, not sure what connection they may with other apps etc.
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List of things I removed through titanium that I knew were safe:
411 & More, Accuweather.com, Accuweather Weather Daemon (used in the widget - I have accuweather premium and don't need these), Application monitor, Bonus apps, buddies now, customize homescreen (tw widget), Game base, lookout (encountered error so I removed the apk from system/app using root explorer), media hub, mobile life (also had error had to remove through root explorer), mobile life contacts, mobile life family organizer, more for me, netflix, samsung account, slacker radio, social hub 1.0 & 2.0, tmo mall, tmo name id, tmo tv, qik video chat, telenav gps (had to remove through root explorer), visual voicemail, yahoo finance, yahoo news, yelp, zinio, zs provider (used with zinio), and access tmo (I actually prefer tmo 'my account' as access t-mo is browser based.).
I am sure that there is more that can be safely removed but some of it I haven't seen before like the system manager app so I didn't touch it.
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They see you trolling...
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Flowbyte said:
They see you trolling...
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rofl
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Trolly troll should try harder...
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Well, here is my first complaint about the S6 (on AT&T). It sure is fast and I have little grief about lag (had some weird lag this morning), but I was disappointed when I finally checked my RAM usage. No 3rd party apps running and everything stock AT&T and Samsung (except TW) disabled. 373mb left. Just 12% of 3gb. This leftover was the usual on my S5 with more stuff running in background. On my S6, about 50mb is background stuff I've added.
Is this how all phones are? All carriers?
It seems that Samsung only added ram and debloating for their own purposes. I'd be loathe to see what would have been leftover if they hadn't slimmed their features.
Rant over. Anyone else getting numbers like this?
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Well, here is my first complaint about the S6 (on AT&T). It sure is fast and I have little grief about lag (had some weird lag this morning), but I was disappointed when I finally checked my RAM usage. No 3rd party apps running and everything stock AT&T and Samsung (except TW) disabled. 373mb left. Just 12% of 3gb. This leftover was the usual on my S5 with more stuff running in background. On my S6, about 50mb is background stuff I've added.
Is this how all phones are? All carriers?
It seems that Samsung only added ram and debloating for their own purposes. I'd be loathe to see what would have been leftover if they hadn't slimmed their features.
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Same here, i need to debloat the device once it can be rooted.
This is how Android works. Unused RAM is wasted RAM in the Android world. Google "Android RAM usage" and you'll see plenty of articles explaining why.
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http://www.androidcentral.com/ram-what-it-how-its-used-and-why-you-shouldnt-care
I thought that is the way android work , Apps will consume portion of your ram so that they will launch quickly once you need it.
I have 1gb free
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I thought that is the way android work , Apps will consume portion of your ram so that they will launch quickly once you need it.
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That much is true, but I have less apps running on my S6 than I did on my S5. That's the crazy part.
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I have 1gb free
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On AT&T?
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On AT&T?
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Yes. I've also eliminated the cell standby battery drain
Uh you are supposed to have ram filled up, that's it works.
Well what do you expect if you can't even disable ****ing facebook.... There are always 2 processes of Facebook running even though you disable the main Facebook app and you have no option to disable those 2 facebook components.
Looking in the pre installed system apps, you might notice that Galaxy S6 is NOT debloatet like everyone claims.
For what ****ing purpose can't you disable these bloatware apps that you don't need or only need if you buy some special hardware and other extras? :
- ANT + DUT (Some bull**** that is required for some special hardware that you can connect your phone with)
- ANT HAL Service (This one is a special kind of retarded, uses up to 100mb ram)
- com.facebook.appmanager (for **** sake i don't want facebook running on my phone, i most certainly don't need it using my network connection for what reason ever, let me disable this god damnit)
- com.facebook.system
- com.sec.chromecast.remote.... (WHYY? Send me a free chromecast then it would make sense to leave this on all the time)
- Gear VR Service/SetupwizardStub/Shell (Why Samsung, just why don't you let this stuff to get disabled, i don't have a ****ing Gear VR, can't you stop wasting my battery and ram for this nonsense?)
- Musik (Such critical program, of course it can't be disabled, must also run in background all the time)
- Samsung Keyboard(Well sorry Samsung, i don't want to use this iPhone copy keyboard, why can't i disable it?)
- SIM-Toolkit
Coming from HTC One M7, I am really disapointed of Samsung S6s bloatware. Won't be long before i root this and remove all of this crap, just waiting to make sure that everything works fine with this phone before i kill my warranty.
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Uh you are supposed to have ram filled up, that's it works.
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The point was how full it is with not much extra running. If it were like that while I had several apps open, your point would be valid.
BBs19 said:
Well what do you expect if you can't even disable ****ing facebook....
Coming from HTC One M7, I am really disapointed of Samsung S6s bloatware. Won't be long before i root this and remove all of this crap, just waiting to make sure that everything works fine with this phone before i kill my warranty.
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Thank you for supplying that lift. I'll keep that in mind whenever I can also root my phone and disable those things. there is so much about the phone that I really do like a lot and it is still way better than the GS5. The camera and processor speed are amazing.
Rooting the S6 has been ready since before it was available for users. I've been rooted and de-bloated for over a week now.
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Rooting the S6 has been ready since before it was available for users. I've been rooted and de-bloated for over a week now.
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On AT&T? Thought it was the one carrier that wouldn't work. That's what I heard. I'd love to be wrong.
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On AT&T? Thought it was the one carrier that wouldn't work. That's what I heard. I'd love to be wrong.
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Ahh, my bad. T-Mobile.
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Well what do you expect if you can't even disable ****ing facebook.... There are always 2 processes of Facebook running even though you disable the main Facebook app and you have no option to disable those 2 facebook components.
Looking in the pre installed system apps, you might notice that Galaxy S6 is NOT debloatet like everyone claims.
For what ****ing purpose can't you disable these bloatware apps that you don't need or only need if you buy some special hardware and other extras? :
- ANT + DUT (Some bull**** that is required for some special hardware that you can connect your phone with)
- ANT HAL Service (This one is a special kind of retarded, uses up to 100mb ram)
- com.facebook.appmanager (for **** sake i don't want facebook running on my phone, i most certainly don't need it using my network connection for what reason ever, let me disable this god damnit)
- com.facebook.system
- com.sec.chromecast.remote.... (WHYY? Send me a free chromecast then it would make sense to leave this on all the time)
- Gear VR Service/SetupwizardStub/Shell (Why Samsung, just why don't you let this stuff to get disabled, i don't have a ****ing Gear VR, can't you stop wasting my battery and ram for this nonsense?)
- Musik (Such critical program, of course it can't be disabled, must also run in background all the time)
- Samsung Keyboard(Well sorry Samsung, i don't want to use this iPhone copy keyboard, why can't i disable it?)
- SIM-Toolkit
Coming from HTC One M7, I am really disapointed of Samsung S6s bloatware. Won't be long before i root this and remove all of this crap, just waiting to make sure that everything works fine with this phone before i kill my warranty.
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You can disable all of those with Package Disabler.
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You can disable all of those with Package Disabler.
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But you still need root for that
I think there is a memory leak tbh..
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No you don't, I did it without root on mine.
Pretty well the same on note 4.. frack I am comming from nexus with 2gb ram, where even after all installed and runing apps is with 1.5-1.6GB free. And the mighty note 4 is like s6 with 3gb ram.. guess what it is rooted, almost all bloat removed or disabled and still top free mem is 1.2-1.5gb after reboot... what the heck?
This is defenetly my last samsung phone! Do not care even if next s-line or note line is with 10gb ram... samsung guys will fill it up with more bloat.
Cheers
For the past three weeks or so I was torn between the M9 and the S6 (G4 is too big for my tastes), but in the end I upgraded to the S6 on T-Mobile this past Saturday from my trusty M8, thinking that the reported RAM and lag issues were minor.
After installing everything I previously had on my M8, I've already started to experience the horrible performance issues others have experienced.
Reading these forums, it seems like many people don't believe the lag issue exists (because theirs doesn't lag), but I'm sure it's dependent on your own smartphone usage. I usually have BT on, connected to BT earphones, my Fitbit Flex, and occasionally a Moto 360. Google Play Music is almost always playing music.
A common use case for myself is this: when I go for a run, I put on my BT earphones, play my favourite playlist, and track my run in my Fitbit app. My M8 handled this scenario well, albeit with some minor stuttering, but overall it was highly usable.
Fast forward to my brand new S6. The same scenario CRIPPLES it.
Here's a video demonstration of what happens.
This is only one common use case among several, in which I've experienced terrible lag or force closures. How Samsung can get away with this is infuriating. It's also mind boggling how not a single media outlet experienced/reported this issue in their reviews.
At this point, I'm deeply considering exchanging this with the M9. Luckily, I'm still within my return window with T-Mobile. I'm incredibly disappointed, since otherwise this would have been a fantastic device.
By the way, I'm running stock T-Mobile, which is on 5.1.1.
Try clearing cache with cache cleaner app. Or flash 5.1.1 via odin.
Try installing the newest android system webview.
It's newer than the play store, once I installed, all my lag problems disappeared.
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google...-44-0-2403-73-arm-arm64-android-apk-download/
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And then you are complaining there is lag?
Perhaps you could remove all of the stuff you loaded, then start from the beginning testing as you go to see what it is you loaded that caused the lag.
Just because you used it on the M8, doesn't mean it will function the same on the S6.
Making a bunch of changes and then discovering you are having issues makes it pretty hard to figure out what caused the issues.
Wow! If you had not posted the video, I wouldn't have believed it. Crazy lag.
Can anyone else replicate this lag dng the same as on video?I wonder if it's just your phone that's behaving this way....
Never had lag like this even when streaming music through Bluetooth and playing GBA emulators at the same time. And I'm still on 5.0.2. I suggest a factory reset. And then as you install apps, one at a time, see if certain ones are bogging down the device.
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i feel like google apps are making the device slower....the chrome, google play music......coincidence??
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And then you are complaining there is lag?
Perhaps you could remove all of the stuff you loaded, then start from the beginning testing as you go to see what it is you loaded that caused the lag.
Just because you used it on the M8, doesn't mean it will function the same on the S6.
Making a bunch of changes and then discovering you are having issues makes it pretty hard to figure out what caused the issues.
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Funny, that is exactly what I expect. In fact, I expected it to perform even better because of the spec bump.
I don't actually have that many apps, and the apps that I do have are not many. I will try a factory reset later, but having to test this out one app at a time is incredibly time consuming and should not be necessary. I've never had such a problem with any of my previous devices. My Note 3 is actually running really well still.
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Try installing the newest android system webview.
It's newer than the play store, once I installed, all my lag problems disappeared.
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google...-44-0-2403-73-arm-arm64-android-apk-download/
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Thanks it's like chrome and Flipboard just came out of hibernation since I tried this [emoji106]
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He has MANY apps running and not clearing them will lag up the phone, ignore the troll guys.
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He has MANY apps running and not clearing them will lag up the phone, ignore the troll guys.
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That's actually offensive. I didn't spend over $800 on this phone so I can complain about it being laggy. I spent this amount because it was supposed to be the most powerful, and hence should not have this problem.
Constantly ending apps every time you want to use your phone for something is ridiculous. The phone should be able to manage this properly, like many other phones can. I can deal with slight lag or stuttering, but to be rendered completely unresponsive is unacceptable.
By the way, I just removed all apps and reran the same scenario, with the same result.
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Honestly I never experienced this lag and im sure neither have 60% of the members here. Take it back to where you bought it and ask for a new one... you might of got a defective batch.
God damn this is hilarious... It has absolutely nothing to do with the phone but how many freaking apps you have open and running in the background, your battery life probably sucks balls too. Try Greenify from the play store and go look at the DHA Tweaks in the original development forum.
edit: if that doesn't work, your phones defective.
Obviously there's something wrong with your phone. No one's using their phone with this kind of lag, and just shrugs it off.
Get it replaced... Why make a thread just crying about it.
@djbutter okay I tested for myself using the fitbit app to track my run and streaming music from Google play music and there IS LAG. The fitbit app seems to use an ungodly amount of RAM on this phone when the fitbit tracking is going on and it will slow the phone to a crawl with the more apps you use/open. I've experienced no lag otherwise.
Sorry if my previous post came off as harsh. IMO this needs to be fixed by fitbit as the app uses too many resources on the S6.
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@djbutter okay I tested for myself using the fitbit app to track my run and streaming music from Google play music and there IS LAG. The fitbit app seems to use an ungodly amount of RAM on this phone when the fitbit tracking is going on and it will slow the phone to a crawl with the more apps you use/10. I've experienced no lag otherwise.
Sorry if my post came off as harsh. IMO this needs to be fixed by fitbit as the app uses too many resources on the S6.
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This is actually great news, because it implies that it's app-specific, and I don't have a defective unit which others have suggested (not-so-politely). Thanks for testing it out.
I also feel like Google Play Music, Hangouts, and/or Bluetooth are messing with my phone's performance.
It's not that my phone is consistently lagging, it just seems to take a huge performance hit when I'm suddenly doing multiple things at once.
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This is actually great news, because it implies that it's app-specific, and I don't have a defective unit which others have suggested (not-so-politely). Thanks for testing it out.
I also feel like Google Play Music, Hangouts, and/or Bluetooth are messing with my phone's performance.
It's not that my phone is consistently lagging, it just seems to take a huge performance hit when I'm suddenly doing multiple things at once.
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Google play music hasn't been so bad for me, but I've disabled a lot of other Google apps because they can be resource hungry. Chrome is particularly bad.
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Wow! If you had not posted the video, I wouldn't have believed it. Crazy lag.
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Me neither, I have never experienced this with my S6, it is smooth as butter
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djbutter said:
This is actually great news, because it implies that it's app-specific, and I don't have a defective unit which others have suggested (not-so-politely). Thanks for testing it out.
I also feel like Google Play Music, Hangouts, and/or Bluetooth are messing with my phone's performance.
It's not that my phone is consistently lagging, it just seems to take a huge performance hit when I'm suddenly doing multiple things at once.
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There are several threads about this already. Samsung really dropped the ball making the jump to arm64. Apps that shouldn't use much memory are, and Google apps are the biggest issue. I have had issues with Swiftkey since I got the S6, so much so that I've stopped using it. I get the impression you're not into rooting really, forgive me if I'm wrong, but there are bandaid solutions for some of these issues floating around. I've personally been messing with the memory management on this phone for months and while we haven't found a real fix, depending on your useage some of the things can help. Recently I realized the reason the phone comes to a screeching halt like you're showing is because the swap is full. Once the swap gets full it hammers performance. I've been making swap bigger which really seems to help in conjunction with other various tweaks. Like I said, no fix but definitely helps.