S3 bit LAGGY! - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Anyone's S3 bit laggy? Especially when it comes to unlocking the screen? look at the water effects

No problems with lag here at all. Phone is butter smooth, try a fresh restart.

TheRealKeyboardWarrior said:
No problems with lag here at all. Phone is butter smooth, try a fresh restart.
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Tried. Sometimes when i unlock, u can see the lag as the water effects are not smooth. and when u swipe across screen for different page, u can see that its not really smooth.

check how many things are runing in back ground........
then just swipe them of and then check again
did it improove?

how can that happen

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how can that happen
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Not sure.. but it wont happen all the time.. just once in a while? dont know why or its normal

This happens with mine occasionally and lag in the application drawer.
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It's quite fast without laggy at all time for me.
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S3 laggy no way its got quad core processor why would this lag at all lmao
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Water effects is running like 250 fps or something,smooth as real water
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How fast is the phone

How fast is the phone did the ota slow it down and does any phone have any lag or differnt from one phone like the sensation where one phone lags more then the other
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Speed is relative. This phone is wicked.
BANG! from my shooter...
The EVO 3D has more RAM than the Sensation so it will be faster. I have not noticed any lag what so ever. I performed both OTA updates.
1.2ghz dual core... it will be faster for just about everything than any other phone on the market (well, it will be equivalent to the other dc phones out there...). I messed around with it for about a half hour at the sprint store just now and it seemed snappier than my oc tmo g2 running at 1.5ghz, which is saying something.
Sounds great cant wait till tommerow I know the ram thing but they are saying some phone are running better then others and they have 2 differnt screens
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Faster than any phone I've used so far, or any Android-based tablet.
Slower than my gaming rig.
It's faster than my overclocked Asus Transformer. Yes that's running honeycomb and higher res.
I can open the full espn.com with all flash turned on and it scrolls smoothly and as one review yesterday pointed out you never see the checkerboards it's that fast. When I first activated it and put my google account on I was showing my bro how fast it was (we both have Evos) and we both realized this was much faster, then after that I go to market and realized the whole time I was showing him that the phone was downloading and installing apps, needless to say it was even quicker at opening apps up once that was done.
Real fast. As others have said, there is just no lag, ever. Can't wait to see it overclocked!
Fast as lightning.
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PHONE IS ****ING FAST
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I think it does zero to 60 in 2.2 secs
austontatious said:
Real fast. As others have said, there is just no lag, ever. Can't wait to see it overclocked!
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Dude, you're sick! I like it!
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Oh man tomorrow can't come soon enough! Can't f'ing wait!
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Not fast in benchmarks... But its fast.
donatom3 said:
you never see the checkerboards it's that fast.
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Android doesn't show checkerboards on page loading.
codito said:
Android doesn't show checkerboards on page loading.
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Whatever the blank spots were on my Evo before, that's what I'm talking about.
austontatious said:
Real fast. As others have said, there is just no lag, ever. Can't wait to see it overclocked!
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Why would you need to over clock the fastest phone out there right now that has no lag what so ever.
If there is already zero lag, what would less lag then that be called?
[email protected] said:
If there is already zero lag, what would less lag then that be called?
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...Better?
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Why would you need to over clock the fastest phone out there right now that has no lag what so ever.
If there is already zero lag, what would less lag then that be called?
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+1. Why on earth would anyone feel like they need to OC something that already doesn't have any lag? What would they gain except faster battery drain and overheat??
Fast and smooth, seems like no task slows it down. Apps open faster and run much better. Could not be more pleased with the speed.
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Lag.

Did anyone who got the the Canadian version notice that this phone lags?
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As a former counter strike addict I hear "lag" and think of interped headshots.
But seriously, what do you mean when you say lag? Screen transition lag, app opening lag, web page loading lag?
Mobileburn mentions the obvious lag in their review:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87MAssdMgbw#t=04m022s
jpeg42 said:
Mobileburn mentions the obvious lag in their review:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87MAssdMgbw#t=04m022s
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Gay. That's really disapointing.
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Sarius24 said:
Gay. That's really disapointing.
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Launcher pro will speed up the screen transitions. I found the touch wiz screen transitionas pretty slow but the app drawer fast on my GNote as well. Also if you run your finger along the screen dots it flies.
Yea that sucks but ics will be here in no time
planoman said:
Laucher pro will speed up the screen transitions.
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But then you lose access to Samsung Widgets which are a selling point to a lot of us.
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But then you lose access to Samsung Widgets which are a selling point to a lot of us.
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you mean the touch wiz widgets? I was able to load touchwiz wigets on my skyrocket when using launcher pro. I will try on my GNote. I have launcher pro set up but use touch wiz on my GNote.
EDIT: On my skyrocket using launcher pro, I can install any of the touch wiz widgets. Using the Galaxy Note with launcher pro when I try to install the digital clock or accu weather it says "not enough room on this screen" even though there is nothing on the screen. Interesting. Beautiful widgets works fine...
I'm pretty sure the twitter app on the international note does that as well. To me it just seems like people are phishing for instances where the phone lags. This is apparent at least for the mobileburn video, especially when he was in the browser. I don't believe it to be that concerning, personally. While its important to take note of these things, I say sit back, relax, and enjoy the experience.
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It's Qualcomm's fault. I don't notice any lag unless I use a live wallpaper.
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kotaro_14 said:
It's Qualcomm's fault. I don't notice any lag unless I use a live wallpaper.
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You are not using a stock ROM...
phillyrican said:
Yea that sucks but ics will be here in no time
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Not for your note it won't..
The nexus lags a lot when using a live wallpaper too :/
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He actually didn't find lag in any of the phones basic operation which is what would be optimized. He only found lag in a few specific apps. Making the culprit a software issue for those apps and not a hardware problem necessarily. I know for sure on all the android devices I have the twitter apps lags bad. So as far as I'm concerned there is no noticible lag anywhere. The browser functions were smooth as ever, except for the tab switching which iirc happens on the Int. Note as well.
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So don't use live wallpapers.
It's the same with every other Android. Live wallpapers WILL slow the phone down slightly.
Every hands on review of it shows that it's incredibly smooth. Just wait for the custom ROMs to be out
Maroon Mushroom said:
So don't use live wallpapers.
It's the same with every other Android. Live wallpapers WILL slow the phone down slightly.
Every hands on review of it shows that it's incredibly smooth. Just wait for the custom ROMs to be out
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I don't. I was trying to add a little something so people aren't put off by the phone because it lags with a live wallpaper.
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I noticed small amount of lag scrolling through the app drawer, the most noticeable is in the browser. Lots of checker boarding on wifi and full bar 3g+
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dont worry about lag.i have international version.only time u will see lag is when u wake the device.its because,on the note cpu runs at 200mhz while the note is sleep and does not kick at higher cpu clock unless u launch a app.most of time cpu stays at 200 even scrolling thru touchwiz and app drawer making battery last almost two days.just think of a device running 400mhz with touchwiz.it will be slow as ****.but galaxy note runs pretty good even at lowest cpu clock.you will never see a lag browsing web or playing games.
mintu123 said:
dont worry about lag.i have international version.only time u will see lag is when u wake the device.its because,on the note cpu runs at 200mhz while the note is sleep and does not kick at higher cpu clock unless u launch a app.most of time cpu stays at 200 even scrolling thru touchwiz and app drawer making battery last almost two days.just think of a device running 400mhz with touchwiz.it will be slow as ****.but galaxy note runs pretty good even at lowest cpu clock.you will never see a lag browsing web or playing games.
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Even the att version with the snapdragon? I mean is really that much worse then exynos?
corey_r said:
Even the att version with the snapdragon? I mean is really that much worse then exynos?
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I am not a gamer but from my experience with my GNote and what I have seen in the videos, they are comparable. I think mintu123 was saying that even with the international GNote, you will see come lag when scrolling between screens and the app drawer because the CPU is not running hard and kicks up the speed when you need the processor for apps etc.
I'm not terribly bothered it only has small but noticeable kicks of lag. But wtvr. I love this beast.
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Performance

Hello
Just got my Xperia s and it is evenlaggier than my old arc, especially the launcher stutters with every Single move... Any1 else facing this?
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realfelix said:
Hello
Just got my Xperia s and it is evenlaggier than my old arc, especially the launcher stutters with every Single move... Any1 else facing this?
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Nope smooth
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Nope smooth
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...a as silk...
No problem here..try to hard reset it...
i just got it so how can there be a problem already?!
everything else is fine just the launcher is lagging..
Try full wipe of the phone, everything is smooth here unless i connect HDMI which is a different problem
done the reset and NOTHING changed.. im a bout to return this baby
It's because of gingerbread I think.. I have seen ICS on the Xperia S, and it's an amazing difference. If you can stand it as is for a couple of months then you'll be up for a treat.
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It's because of gingerbread I think.. I have seen ICS on the Xperia S, and it's an amazing difference. If you can stand it as is for a couple of months then you'll be up for a treat.
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I don't think it's gingerbread since most people don't have that problem.
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What the hell and most people were talking about that like its a nornal issue?
People with smooth, compare it with a iphobe 4s, thats what we mean.
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What the hell and most people were talking about that like its a nornal issue?
People with smooth, compare it with a iphobe 4s, thats what we mean.
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Can't see much difference to be honest... I had mine for two weeks now and I can easily say it's as smooth as the iPhone 4s.. And yes my brother had one so I can compare..
My complaints are with some force closes that I face with a couple of apps but that's a different issue which is related to the app itself..
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I mean the scrolling on the home screen with widgets etc
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I don't think it's gingerbread since most people don't have that problem.
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Most people don't have the problem because they are not noticing this "laggy-ness". It's something most people doesn't think about. As for me, I think it works pretty well - but ICS is gonna be better.
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Very visible for me. I hate that. Must.. Be.. Smooth..
Some widgets needs to get tweaked. Very choppy when scrolling to them.
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It really lags but not the widgets just when i scroll through the icons in the launcher it stutters badly,,,
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My phone is insanely smooth, not choppy at all.
Obviously if you have like 5 of those animated weather widgets on a screen it will probably jump a little between screens, but yea, you have 5 animated weather widgets .
Do you have a different launcher? maybe you have a really heavy launcher?
I seriously have no problems, and I am really picky if I have weird lags and such.
Maybe you have a lot of background apps running?
Maybe the update to. 67 could help?
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& no i dont have much running just 370 mb ram free.
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Weird :/
Well I updated as soon as I got the phone, so I have no idea if that is an improvement or not. So I am not sure what to tell you

Lag less s3?????

I just had a question that ......is this galaxy s3 lag less as the iPhone 4s or even better and smooth as butter.........did anyone experience any lag???
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jithendra194 said:
I just had a question that ......is this galaxy s3 lag less as the iPhone 4s or even better and smooth as butter.........did anyone experience any lag???
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If you want a lagless android or close, it will be the sgs3. Even the galaxy nexus had some lag and one x also lags.
All the videos and reviews say sgs3 is buttery smooth and no lag.
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Android will lag even with i7 inside
Yeah he is probably right cause Android is very resource hungry and with many apps open even 1gb RAM is insufficient.
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jithendra194 said:
I just had a question that ......is this galaxy s3 lag less as the iPhone 4s or even better and smooth as butter.........did anyone experience any lag???
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Android phone used to lag but not after galaxy 2 series.iPhone doesn't lag cause its simple and straight it doesn't have **** load of features like android.
My wife iPhone 4s force closes and lag more than my Samsung epic touch .
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I have it, and it is by no means lagless. A custom ROM would do it good.
Comparing to the iPhone, SIII lags less.
varun124 said:
I have it, and it is by no means lagless. A custom ROM would do it good.
Comparing to the iPhone, SIII lags less.
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I don't know my wife iPhone4s lags more than my Samsung galaxy 2 epic touch.
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Yeah, I was going to say the same as some others. I have an sgs2 and its lag free in all the menus, swiping screens and such. In fairness I'm long gone from the stock rom and this makes it in that way an unfair comparison to the stock iphone 4. I would add that I have seen some lag here an there on the iphone and I wonder about it when I see people say its lag free. I would have no quibble with saying its smoother than most android handsets but lag free I cant really agree with.
We'll get there. Jelly Bean anyone?
CoNsPiRiSiZe said:
We'll get there. Jelly Bean anyone?
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That is what people said about ICS.
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Android will lag even with i7 inside
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Lol the phone would burn before you know it.
Ah well, Intel Medfield would probably beat most mobile processors in a year or so.
I think it's snappier then my 4s actually . If stuff lags sometimes (like xda app or chrome) its bad optimized app. Everything else is a smoothie
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Don't believe anything you hear about a "buttery smooth" Android device. They all lag. The SGS3 lags horrendously and the stock ROM is actually slower than an SGS2. The overall frame rate is MUCH lower everywhere. The SGS3 completes operations faster, but the frame rate of any action is low and it looks choppy and stutters. CM9 on an SGS2 is far superior in this regard.
Go to a showroom and use all the latest Android devices one by one and then finally use the iPhone 4S. You'll walk away laughing at the laggy Android devices and at how they continue to fail at this simple UI principle for years in a row. Of course, you should still buy the SGS3 over the 4S.
KurianOfBorg said:
Don't believe anything you hear about a "buttery smooth" Android device. They all lag. The SGS3 lags horrendously and the stock ROM is actually slower than an SGS2. The overall frame rate is MUCH lower everywhere. The SGS3 completes operations faster, but the frame rate of any action is low and it looks choppy and stutters. CM9 on an SGS2 is far superior in this regard.
Go to a showroom and use all the latest Android devices one by one and then finally use the iPhone 4S. You'll walk away laughing at the laggy Android devices and at how they continue to fail at this simple UI principle for years in a row. Of course, you should still buy the SGS3 over the 4S.
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Iphone 4S is lagness. That's all it can offer you, nothing else. Buy 4S to enjoy lagness for 24 hours and practically do nothing with it because you can't.
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Iphone 4S is lagness. That's all it can offer you, nothing else. Buy 4S to enjoy lagness for 24 hours and practically do nothing with it because you can't.
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As long as there is a browser, sms app, phone app and xda app I'm good with any phone
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Arsaw said:
Iphone 4S is lagness. That's all it can offer you, nothing else. Buy 4S to enjoy lagness for 24 hours and practically do nothing with it because you can't.
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Yep, smelling an iPhone fanboy.
Android won't lag if you don't install poor and stupid apps that keep killing your RAM/CPU with their damn background processes and stupid widgets.. but NO! OF COURSE! it's androids fault! It's their fault because i downloaded a **** ton of 10 year old crap apps! Horaay! for narnia!
Seriously.. -_-', My S3 just won't lag at ALL, i know what to install and what to avoid..
And with jellybean coming, you probably won't see much difference.. it's buttery smooth already.
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Yep, smelling an iPhone fanboy.
Android won't lag if you don't install poor and stupid apps that keep killing your RAM/CPU with their damn background processes and stupid widgets.. but NO! OF COURSE! it's androids fault! It's their fault because i downloaded a **** ton of 10 year old crap apps! Horaay! for narnia!
Seriously.. -_-', My S3 just won't lag at ALL, i know what to install and what to avoid..
And with jellybean coming, you probably won't see much difference.. it's buttery smooth already.
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Factory Reset SGS3 and then swipe the homescreen. It stutters and moves with low frame rate. That's lag without anything installed.
KurianOfBorg said:
Factory Reset SGS3 and then swipe the homescreen. It stutters and moves with low frame rate. That's lag without anything installed.
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correction, that is lag with a heap of Samsung crapware installed, aosp ics running smooth as butter already, but then Samsung stole part of its butter from the devs here...
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correction, that is lag with a heap of Samsung crapware installed, aosp ics running smooth as butter already, but then Samsung stole part of its butter from the devs here...
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On a personally optimized device, the best you will be able to achieve is bringing the frame rate up to 60 such that the animation appears fluid. However it still wont scroll properly. As you drag your finger up and down it will random jump back and forth by a few pixels and teleport around or suddenly fly to the top or bottom of the list at warp speed.
your wrong buddy
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correction, that is lag with a heap of Samsung crapware installed, aosp ics running smooth as butter already, but then Samsung stole part of its butter from the devs here...
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I have had the sgs3 now for a week and I hate it, the lag in opening the system apps is shocking, and so.is the lag in opening them, mind you this phone is stock, the only thing I have done to it is root it. I had an xperia s before this, I had gingerbread on it. It had no lag whatsoever, only.a bit on facebook. To be honest this phone is very dissapointing. Gonna get rid of it.

[Q] Temple Run lag

Is anyone else noticing significant lag while either of the Temple Run games?
The free one works fine for me
Hmmm. They're so laggy that it is making me die. I dunno.
Do you have Power Savings ON ?
Its gonna lag depending on your phone. If your rooted overclock your phone.
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Its gonna lag depending on your phone. If your rooted overclock your phone.
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If it lags on the SGS3, something's wrong, as it doesn't lag on my SGS1.... (unless I get a notification while running...
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Is anyone else noticing significant lag while either of the Temple Run games?
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Try playing games that aren't terrible maybe that will help
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If it lags on the SGS3, something's wrong, as it doesn't lag on my SGS1.... (unless I get a notification while running...
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Software optimization
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It doesn't lag on my S3 either. As someone early, make sure the power saving setting isn't on.
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Power savings is not on. I dunno. It maybe because I used titanium backup to load the software. I had a backup on my HTC Vivid and I didn't want to lose my save data. I'll wait until there is an update and then we'll see if it is fixed.
Temple Run was updated yesterday. I had lots of lag on my S III before the new update.

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