Does the LG android skin lag/stutter like samsung's s6/s7 touchwiz? - T-Mobile LG G5 Questions & Answers

For anyone that claims there's no lag on the G4, s6 or even s7 please don't even reply because you are just wasting time. I'm guessing anyone who ever experienced stock android can answer this and hopefully one of them can answer this. Please let me know if it lags and stutters, I am thinking of trying out this phone for 3 months

I have both the lg g5 and s7 edge and my onest opinion the lg g5 does not lag like the s7
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I've owned an S7 and returned it back after dealing with the G5.
So, no the G5 does not lag like the S7.

I see the same. My G5 is quicker and smoother than my S7 edge. The S7E was super smooth but as with most if not all Samsungs lag develops after some time. I love Samsung devices. Heck I always have one around but I will not deny that there is a little lag.
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The phone feels much slower than a Nexus device. My Nexus 6 and Nexus 5x running pure Nexus Roms blew it out of the water. You can tell tho it's the launcher, I never tried the Google now launcher cause tap to wake wouldn't work. The LG launcher seems to focus more on looking smooth and fluid than being fast.
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I use Nova Launcher and it's as smooth as buttered glass. Menus, settings menu, basically everything that has been LG'ed is also plenty fast

DualSportDad said:
The phone feels much slower than a Nexus device. My Nexus 6 and Nexus 5x running pure Nexus Roms blew it out of the water. You can tell tho it's the launcher, I never tried the Google now launcher cause tap to wake wouldn't work. The LG launcher seems to focus more on looking smooth and fluid than being fast.
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If the smooth animation is not desired, one simply has to disable the animation in the developer's options in the settings area.. Not fair to bash the G5 for animation that we actually can turn off. I'm just saying.

I'm clearly bashing the launcher, not the phone.
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Coachmark2 said:
I use Nova Launcher and it's as smooth as buttered glass. Menus, settings menu, basically everything that has been LG'ed is also plenty fast
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Seconded. Put on Nova, custom icons, and changed System settings to a single list - snappy as all get out.

scottricketts said:
Seconded. Put on Nova, custom icons, and changed System settings to a single list - snappy as all get out.
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That doesn't fix the bloated lg ui, same as you can't get rid of touchwiz stutters on 2015 phone's... I tested the s7 and its still not as smooth as a nexus or my htc 10

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Launcher Pro app transition effects on sense UI

Launcher pro has a transition effect for opening and closing apps. It zooms in and out into or out of the applications.
How do you get this same effect in sense UI.
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I'm not sure this is possible. I would encourage using launcher pro. Just select it as default instead of sense. I tried it just this last weekend and I'm much happier with it compared to stock. The level of customization available is crazy. Throw in Beautiful widgets and I have no reason to use the sense launcher.
You don't. LauncherPro owns the hell out of Rosie, anyways. Just get alternative widgets from the Market.
Launcher pro doesn't feel as smooth to me. Sense seems to be the smoothest UI of all the ones I tried.
Also launcher pro lags after a few days without restart for me.
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h3nG said:
Launcher pro doesn't feel as smooth to me. Sense seems to be the smoothest UI of all the ones I tried.
Also launcher pro lags after a few days without restart for me.
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I think you're in the minority on that one. And if you don't get lag until a few days, take the 2 seconds to restart LP every couple days. It's not complicated at all.
launcher pro is awesome. my evo is like a whole new phone now, no problems at all.
just take the time to customize it nicely and buy some of the alternative widgets that make it look like sense. its well worth spending the few dollars.
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Launcher pro doesn't feel as smooth to me. Sense seems to be the smoothest UI of all the ones I tried.
Also launcher pro lags after a few days without restart for me.
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I agree with h3nG.
Sense is smoother than Launcher pro. With 7 screens, there is always a small stutter when opening leap or screen previews in launcher pro the first time its called. But if you don't turn off the screen, on subsequent screen previews it is smooth. I just wish the 1st time was smooth...(that's what she said.)
And that's coming from someone who uses Launcher pro (mainly because I like customizing the dock).
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Launcher pro doesn't feel as smooth to me. Sense seems to be the smoothest UI of all the ones I tried.
Also launcher pro lags after a few days without restart for me.
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I disagree, never had any type of issues w LP, actually it has been smoother than sense for me.
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I'll do some digging. I too prefer sense to launcherpro. You can't deny that there is always a slight stutter when switching screens slowly on launcher pro that just isn't there with sense. I know it is possible because back in my hero days, Darchstar had a rom called DarchLegend which was based on the Legend rom, but he incorporated the zoom effects from stock android. I believe I know how to achieve it so it'll just take a little digging
The only lag I suffer from with LP is when previewing all seven screens. The first two clicks are very stuttery, and then it smooths out, so Sense wins in that, but LP is snappier in every other category...For me at least. I also rarely use the previews feature, so it's not really a big deal.
Let's weigh the pros and cons of LP:
Slight delay when previewing all 7 screens (do people honestly use this?) vs Nearly full customization and many more features than Rosie.
Damn, that's such a tough decision.

Let's Talk Launchers

Hey guys, just got my G2X whooo!!!
Loving it so far, got it home, immediately rooted and put ADW EX on it. I've noticed, however that ADW seems to bog when doing certain multitasking, like live wallpapers for instance. This is relative to the stock launcher that seemed to not be bothered at all by running a live wallpaper.
So my presumption is that ADW is yet to be dual core optimized and is probably using the same core as the live wallpaper and I'm wondering if anyone knows of another launcher that may be better suited to our ivory (dual core) needs.
Thoughts?
I've noticed the same with mine, the stock launcher is BLAZING and smooth but ADW and LauncherPro both stutter and are slow and painful. Just give it time for updates I would imagine.
Yeah I'm sure they'll come in time.
Just wondering if anyone knows of one that's already got the dual core treatment. Was a touch disappointed to try launcher pro and adw and go slower though i guess in this case it speaks to the insanely fast performance of the phone when optimized.
I wonder how the CM guys are going to handle this, since one of it's performance boosters is ADW.
Anyone try Zeam yet? That always seemed to be the quickest one on all of my devices.
Never heard of it.
Gonna try it out now though.
Really though, I think the problem is more so with the dual core optimizations than anything else.
well now im bummed. i love adw. damn it.
and how long does the delivery guy take?
damn. it.
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Marcus Ryan said:
Never heard of it.
Gonna try it out now though.
Really though, I think the problem is more so with the dual core optimizations than anything else.
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Man, Zeam is the best launcher I have ever used. It just got a update too. It doesn't have as many options as ADW or LP but it's much faster.
how does go launcher perform on this phone ?
zeam runs pretty well, but not as quick as the stocker.
I had allot of force closes w/ LP+ on my dual core Atrix, I had to play with the memory usage settings to stop them. If you do, be careful and only change one setting at a time. I had to uninstall/reinstall LP once during my testing because of constant FC. I rarely ever see a FC now, maybe once a week. Its very smooth now also.
When I first used the phone I was mildly impressed. For some reason stock launcher was laggy, but once I installed go I was happy. Only thing that bothers me about the ui now is the white task bar, but hopefully there'll be an update soon (woohoo ginger).
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I've had no problems with stock, so there's where I am now. With my SGS4G I switched to Launcher Pro, but with my G2X I don't feel the need at this point.
My stock launcher was around 30fps and it bugged the crap out of me.
I installed launcher pro and everything is 60+fps and buttery smooth.
It slows down a bit with the 3d app drawer though.
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diablos991 said:
My stock launcher was around 30fps and it bugged the crap out of me.
I installed launcher pro and everything is 60+fps and buttery smooth.
It slows down a bit with the 3d app drawer though.
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Also using Launcher Pro, and I'm having no problems with speed whatsoever. I did notice some lag when I used the homescreen transition effects that LP offers, but I never really used those anyway so it doesn't make a difference to me.
twoeleven99 said:
how does go launcher perform on this phone ?
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i've been using go launcher for the last 3 days with no lag or other issues.
kingpongg said:
i've been using go launcher for the last 3 days with no lag or other issues.
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Same here, i have been using Go Launcher and i have to say i like it much better than ADW have not tried Zeam yet though. but Go is very smooth and i like the customization better.
I'm using ADW but don't use live wallpaper. The 4D app drawer and move wall paper background when sliding home pages, both of which are resource heavy, are really smooth. It might be a combination of ADW and something else you have installed that's slowing you down.

Performance? Stuttering

Touchwiz launcher stuttering when swiping. Even more stuttering while playing music.
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Solution? Don't use TouchWiz.
This phone is just laggy period. You can thank the crapdragon processor.
Yeah. I miss the i777 Exynos. Everyday, I find something that used to be perfect on the i777, but choppy on i727. But when LTE hits California 2-8 months from now, it'll make up for it when I tether.
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Yeah. I miss the i777 Exynos. Everyday, I find something that used to be perfect on the i777, but choppy on i727. But when LTE hits California 2-8 months from now, it'll make up for it when I tether.
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+1 Coming from the I777 where everything was just so smooth I'm still debating whether return it. I'm guessing is a software issue.
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Question is will ICS make things better or worse. I'm willing to give up 10-20% in cpu performance for the five times better network performance.
I got rid of touchwiz. Im using LauncherPro
you have an issue. no lag here at all when swiping even when playing music.. don't blame the proc.
shansmi said:
you have an issue. no lag here at all when swiping even when playing music.. don't blame the proc.
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So maybe I do have a defective unit. But the thing is I'm not just the only one noticing the lag. I could only get 1 return. Osgs2 or a new skyrocket? Have you notice any lag on the twlauncher with a few Widgets? And worst when playing music. Swipe quickly left and right.
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Dxtra said:
So maybe I do have a defective unit. But the thing is I'm not just the only one noticing the lag. I could only get 1 return. Osgs2 or a new skyrocket? Have you notice any lag on the twlauncher with a few Widgets? And worst when playing music. Swipe quickly left and right.
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i run several widgets... beweather, taskmanager, traffic monitor, google search, agenda calendar and 6- 8 bookmarks.
without knowing what those with this issue are running it is very hard to say. do not limit your list to just widgets. list all 3rd party apps and stock apps that you have not removed. also include what rom and tweaks you have done...
Music app lags when it's loading album art. Derp.
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I have 0 lag. Even with stock rom/kernel I had 0 lag by removing the crapwidgets running and installing spare parts to set Anim to Fast.
TouchWiz is definitely not the fastest of UI's anyway, but it is running mint here.
crawlgsx said:
I have 0 lag. Even with stock rom/kernel I had 0 lag by removing the crapwidgets running and installing spare parts to set Anim to Fast.
TouchWiz is definitely not the fastest of UI's anyway, but it is running mint here.
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That might be your perception. Is not smooth PERIOD.
Android PERSE is laggy and choppy.
iPhone is SMOOTH
Launcher pro is nice
Go launcher is a tad laggy.
Maybe ICS.
To all the Android owners that I have talked about that say, their phone is smooth and mint I can tell them look here.... Their reply.. DAMMIT!
highlanderx said:
That might be your perception. Is not smooth PERIOD.
Android PERSE is laggy and choppy.
iPhone is SMOOTH
Launcher pro is nice
Go launcher is a tad laggy.
Maybe ICS.
To all the Android owners that I have talked about that say, their phone is smooth and mint I can tell them look here.... Their reply.. DAMMIT!
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At&T SGS2 was running super smooth for me, no matter how many Widgets, live wallpaper or apps running in the background. The only slight stutter I ve seen on the skyrocket is in the launcher and only visible when running a few Widgets. Could be a firmware issue from "Samsung" not stock android. Comparing perfomance iPhone to android is not fair at the time, if anything compare it to WP7 since there's no multitasking, Widgets, background process, live wallpaper,ect on either phones.
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Stock launcher or 3rd party discussion

I've always installed Nova Pro as the first app on new Android devices due to the better customisation but it looks like a lot of the features are starting to appear as standard on the built in launchers these days.
I've loved the swipe up for the app drawer for years and swipe down for notifications.
What's everyone's feeling on the stock launcher or will you just stick something else straight on?
Anyone know of any killer features the stock launcher has?
For me it's Apex pro. And more than likely it'll go on my s8+ too. Just like you I like the customization. Haven't had a galaxy since the 4 but I'll still prob hate TouchWiz
I have always used Nova Pro also but I do like the look of the S8 so I may see how I go without using if for awhile. It will be a big change for me as I have used Nova for years.
I always use nova pro too since my S3 but I will have a quick look at stock, probably before deciding I hate it and putting nova back on
It may depend on how I can set up the grid on my desktop, in nova I have it set to 8x7 (and may up that for the s8+) so I can have virtually all the apps i need just spread over 2 desktops, and last time I tried stock I couldnt have anything like that, just a few massive icons instead. You don't need an app drawer when you can just stick 30 odd icons over 2 desktops. I also like the infinite scrolling on the desktop.
Question. Do the icons change in Nova when changing themes on Samsung's theme engine?
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Question. Do the icons change in Nova when changing themes on Samsung's theme engine?
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I think so, but then again I've been using icon packs for nova for so long!
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ewokuk said:
I always use nova pro too since my S3 but I will have a quick look at stock, probably before deciding I hate it and putting nova back on [emoji14]
It may depend on how I can set up the grid on my desktop, in nova I have it set to 8x7 (and may up that for the s8+) so I can have virtually all the apps i need just spread over 2 desktops, and last time I tried stock I couldnt have anything like that, just a few massive icons instead. You don't need an app drawer when you can just stick 30 odd icons over 2 desktops. I also like the infinite scrolling on the desktop.
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Yeah grid sizes are very useful. I'll keep using the app drawer though, i only like having 2 pages on my home screen!
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I'll play around with the stock launcher for a bit and go right back to Nova like I usually do.
All are fairly good now days depending on your likes. I use Nova Pro.
I always go with Nova right out the gate
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Haven't used a custom launcher since my S3, as I was content with TouchWiz on my S6, especially with the addition of the theming engine. This time around, might play with some launchers again, but at least at launch, will stick with stock.
Is Buzz Launcher still any good?!i know Themer is no longer supported.
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mjs2011 said:
Is Buzz Launcher still any good?!i know Themer is no longer supported.
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Oh! That's the launcher I used to use on my S3. I liked it, last I recalled, but haven't used it since. Think I was just too lazy to go through the whole customizing process again, and I didn't mind TouchWiz on the S6, lawl. I did take a look in the Play Store and it's still compatible with my S6, so don't see why it wouldn't still work on newer devices.
another long time Nova user here since the S3, but on my current S6 I've actually been using the stock TouchWiz with themes applied and i like it. i'll be using stock on the 8+ for awhile before making any changes. i remember trying apex when it first launched and didn't like it at that time, but if I decide touchwiz is tehsuck then will try pretty much anything available.
Salval said:
I'll play around with the stock launcher for a bit and go right back to Nova like I usually do.
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Same exact thing I do with every phone. I'll mess around with the stock launcher for a month or so but I always end up going back to Nova Pro.
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Been using Next Launcher for a long while...Like it alot..
Nova Pro as always.
I won't even bother trying their launcher, straight to Nova Prime.
I like Nova too but pretty impressed with Samsung's launcher on th S8. It's been pretty smooth.
Smart Launcher Pro here... Got my phone via preorder yesterday and although there are some nice features on the stock launcher, I hate how Samsung has monetized every aspect of it.
Smart Launcher Pro 3 w/ Stealth Icon pack.

Massive lag in scrolling

This thing is really not very smooth scrolling and the worse culprit is Facebook.
Anyone else finding this? UK phone exynos processor.
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I would suggest that FB app is the culprit........had issues on my Note 4, and HTC One before that.
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I would suggest that FB app is the culprit........had issues on my Note 4, and HTC One before that.
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It's a little laggy on my mate 9 pd but nothing like this.
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Nothing unusual on mine
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I'm not seeing that at all and I'm a heavy FB User.
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Scrolling is extremely smooth on my Snapdragon version
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I'm coming from the S7 Edge, using the S8+ now, it's smoother than on the S7 for sure. No lag at all
Experiencing serious scrolling lag in all apps in my s8+ exnos global version
Zero lag on my EU Exynos S8+.
i got the scrolling lag issiue, too Exynos EU (Germany) pre-ordered form samsung directly.
i do have an lag issiue in the gallary app, too .... sometimes i scroll down the screen do not know scrolling down or up and the screen (picture) "vibrates up and down"
I had this when I first installed it. Clear cache from the start up menu. Should help no end.
BTW it made no difference when I cleared cache from the storage setting - do it from the start up menu. Bixby and volume down I think...whilst starting.
The only weirdness I've had is in Nova launcher on the up and down app drawer, when you pull it down slowly, sometimes it judders in small steps until its closed but it only does that if you pull it down really slowly and stop after a few mm. Other than that I've had no lag whatsoever.
Try changing screen resolution then changing it back to what you had it on (FHD to QHD etc) My device smooths out significant. Not sure how this makes sense but it works. Try it!
I had same problem.. i unistalled bixby button remapping apps i had 2 of them... Now its buttery smooth.. try it, i dont remember which apps i had but you can try unistalling remapping apps
If you have any accessibility service enabled, disable it
Mine scrolling is extremely smooth everywhere. No issue at all. I am using Exynos edition with QHD+ resolution.
Same issues on my S8+ Exynos! Slow and laggy!
Yeah, same here. It's really bad on Chrome

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