Note 3 Android 5 but its slow...

FatRakoon · 21 Feb 2015 at 13:52

I got a note 3. Its lovely and quick, very responsive etc etc, but the other day, I upgraded it to Android 5 and now its the biggest pile of cack ever.
Even simply typing text into a Message, it often pasues and takes a few seconds to suddenly catch up!

Is there a safe way that I can go back to 4.4 or is there a reason why its so bloody awful on Android 5 and can I do something abotu that?

Thanks.

Rimsy · 21 Feb 2015 at 14:52

did you clear the cache in recovery and do a factory reset after updating?

TheVoice · 21 Feb 2015 at 15:05

Factory reset will likely sort it. Obviously you'll need to then install apps etc again but you'd need to do that if you downgraded anyway. Unfortunately this is a common issue with Android upgrades.

Orcvader · 21 Feb 2015 at 15:15

As above, especially with TouchWiz it seems you need to either clear the cache partition in recovery mode or do a factory reset after an Android OS update to get it to play nice.

FishLicker · 21 Feb 2015 at 16:45

Best practice on virtually any android phone whether skinned or not. I always wipe after a big upgrade.

FatRakoon · 21 Feb 2015 at 17:06

No, I have not done any of that to be honest.

Clear the cache? Ok, I will have a look.

Factory Reset. Yeah, thats definitely needed but no, not done it, so my bad on that.

Right now, I have backed everything up and I am going to d oa full wipe.
I use a program called MobileGo to organise things, and, I have a stupid number of games and apps that are simpyl not really needed so I will only put back the stuff that I have used... After all, I also have tablets that I use for the games etc, the phone is only handy for games now and then.

I will do all that and let you know, thank you guys.

EDIT -
I have gone through the Factory Reset part, its doing that now, and I have decided to erase everything including NOT backing up my data etc to the google servers, so that I will hopefully be starting completely from fresh and be putting in my info ONLY thats I need to. Hopefully!

FatRakoon · 22 Feb 2015 at 09:25

So far so good.
I did not back up my stuff, and when setting it up, it asked if I wanted to get the info from the server, I said no, but I still somehow managed to find 455 contacts on my phone?

I did back up my contacts to .vcf format and so I deleted all my contacts and then added those back ( because they are mostly sorted out and no doubles etc )

Anyway, she seems to be running fairly well now so thanks all.