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[Q] Arc lag and slowing down

Hi everyone,
I have been using the Xperia Arc since May this year. A month or less into its usage I noticed it slowing down considerably. I am not bothered much with the apps which might take their own sweet time to open even in the faster phones. However the main reason for concern are the "Message Inbox" and the "Contacts". They take ages to open and more often than not throw up the "force close" noticfication.
This has caused much heartburn and embarrassment to me.
The last time I had this problem an app from the market called "apps2SD" helped me speed up the phone drastically by freeing up the internal memory. As of now, every app that can be moved to the SD card, has been moved. I have 160MB RAM free, 142MB of internal memory free and 2.2GB in SD. It asks for clearign the cache which I do every now and then.
I also have a lot of messages in my Message inbox. Do they have any part to play in slowing down the phone, when opening the "Msg Inbox"?
The processes running are:
Settings
Mail (yahoo)
Messenger (Yahoo)
Xperia arc flash light
Clock
Data monitor
Gauge battery widget
Crash monitor
sonyerric.usb??
google serv
devicemonitor
music
S E sync
Digi clock
setup guide
mtp app
digi clock
secureclockservice
status switch
market
maps
whatsapp
default input​
I have only installed basic apps and games. I am not versed with the advanced applications and I don't know what the "launcher" apps are. Kindly help me.
Thanks in advance.

Sarath_ said:
Hi everyone,
I also have a lot of messages in my Message inbox. Do they have any part to play in slowing down the phone, when opening the "Msg Inbox"?
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I have only installed basic apps and games. I am not versed with the advanced applications and I don't know what the "launcher" apps are. Kindly help me.
Thanks in advance.
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Depending on how many messages and contacts you have (hundreds?thousands?) opening up a huge database can surely slow down your device.
On which firmware are you? did you root your device and/or unlock your bootloader?

The contacts are just what an average person would have. It might be a hundred or barely two hundred at most.
The messages however are many. A vague guess would be around five hundred. It might even be thousand but not much more than that.
My old Nokia N85 had significantly more contacts and messages. Around 250+ contacts and 2000+ messages, but never threw up such a problem or a delay in accessing them. I am emphasising on them, but even the other apps and regular scrolling has shown significant slowing down.
Firmware is 2.3.3 (if it means Android version) Build number: 3.0.1.A.0.145
It hasn't been rooter or has had the boot loader unlocked.

Try to clear your homescreen widget.
See if anything changes in speed.
I believe that running apps consume alot of ram.
Try using titanium and convert system app to user app, just make sure you've back up before doing so.
And clear anything related to ram, useless apps.
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@nujhum
i think that's the point, Sarath_'s device is not rooted that's why Titanium Backup can't be used.
@ Sarath_
Cleaning homescreen widgets and/or applications (settings>applications>manage applications) can help a bit for sure.
Be carefull while cleaning anything other then 'cache' or you might loose some settings also.
Maybe you should consider cleaning out a few messages too

@Nirak
Sorry my bad.
Didnt noticed that.
Since he asking for help, well i suggest @Sarath_ to root his arc, and get started to rid of useless apps with titanium. Dont you agree with me @Nirak?
I guess thats the best solution i can think of now with my locked bootloader.
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sounds like you have an awful lot of messages on the phone, id start by clearing them down.. why keep so many? maybe you can get an app to back them up if you need to?

@nujhum
absolutely agree! rooting and then a good clean up would be the best option to gain space and speed.
I have a locked bootloader to, cuz i'm an android noob and just a little scared to unlock and loose official SEUS to repair when i mess up

Ever find a solution? I have the exact same problem and I'm on Rogers with a locked bootloader...

How.many free ram you have.
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Install SuperCharger V6 and it won't lag anymore.
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pylon42 said:
Ever find a solution? I have the exact same problem and I'm on Rogers with a locked bootloader...
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I am on Rogers too.
Two things you can do to speed things up, detailed in my post here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19441717&postcount=7

Touchwiz forgetting app drawer layout?

Several times I have edited my app drawer order, grouping apps by type on each page (a page for games, a page for internet stuff, a page for utilities, etc.), creating folders, etc. Then I hit Menu > Save, and everything is fine, until I reboot my phone. Then it loses the app order, and a few apps get seemingly randomly moved to their own pages, so the total number of pages grows from about 5 to upwards of 8 or 9. It seems like the most recently added apps get moved, but not always. I move them all back how they should be, but they only stay until a reboot.
Anyone else have this happen? Or better, found out why? Or even better, how to make them stay?

Really? Does nobody sort their apps? Or nobody has had this problem?

xak944 said:
Really? Does nobody sort their apps? Or nobody has had this problem?
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Are you on stock or a custom ROM?
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JohnCorleone said:
Are you on stock or a custom ROM?
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Stock+root.

xak944 said:
Really? Does nobody sort their apps? Or nobody has had this problem?
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I don't sort them in the App Drawer. I leave them arranged alphabetically grid or list. I do arrange the ones I most often use somewhere on the 7 Home Screens though.

They will not stay. It is an annoying problem. I use folders now to group my apps. And I have my apps sorted to stop the spacing issue.
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I will try to replicate it. I am using ADW EX so I will switch it up and see what happens
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Still happening on Starburst ROM 1.5, so the problem it's with TouchWiz and is not ROM-specific.
I made a backup of TWLauncher with Titanium, so when my drawer gets really messed up I restore data from the backup (killing the running process) and it does restore my app layout as it was when I made the backup. Not a solution, but a lot quicker than re-sorting 50 apps. If only I could figure out how to trigger a save of the layout...it seems to just do it occasionally and I can't figure out what triggers it (certainly not when the Save button gets pressed...as if that makes sense).
Had anyone replicated this issue on TouchWiz 3.5? (or is it 4.0... whatever the flashable one is that's newer than what ships with the device).

I know what u mean but for me its all good after i fix it a second time untill i change then itll revert to just before i changed
It only happened to me on 4.5 thiugh
Good thing actual tw4 launcher doesnt have that problem
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xak944 said:
Still happening on Starburst ROM 1.5, so the problem it's with TouchWiz and is not ROM-specific.
I made a backup of TWLauncher with Titanium, so when my drawer gets really messed up I restore data from the backup (killing the running process) and it does restore my app layout as it was when I made the backup. Not a solution, but a lot quicker than re-sorting 50 apps. If only I could figure out how to trigger a save of the layout...it seems to just do it occasionally and I can't figure out what triggers it (certainly not when the Save button gets pressed...as if that makes sense).
Had anyone replicated this issue on TouchWiz 3.5? (or is it 4.0... whatever the flashable one is that's newer than what ships with the device).
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Yes, it's a problem with TouchWiz - I can replicate this behaviour on my S2, factory 2.3.5 ROM without root

Mesquire said:
Yes, it's a problem with TouchWiz - I can replicate this behaviour on my S2, factory 2.3.5 ROM without root
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Bummer. Guess we have to wait for an official update to get an updated launcher.

are you saving the changes ?
You have to make your changes then hit menu again and save changes.
otherwise they don't stick.
after clicking save don't press anything for 30 secs or so
that seems to do it for me
if i save and immediatly go back it doesn't save

xak944 said:
... Then I hit Menu > Save, and everything is fine, until I reboot my phone.
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mjcollum said:
are you saving the changes ?
You have to make your changes then hit menu again and save changes.
otherwise they don't stick.
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Says so right there in the OP.
mjcollum said:
after clicking save don't press anything for 30 secs or so
that seems to do it for me
if i save and immediatly go back it doesn't save
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Okay, I'll do some organizing and give that a try.

hi all,
after updating my galaxy s2 from 2.3.3 to 2.3.5 with kies, i had the same problem about sorting applications page.
i didnt reset my phone before or after updating with kies. first i tought that i might be about this. i was looking for a solution and i read these posts. without resetting my phone i just tried to delete files of TW Launcher.
Settings>Applications>Manage applications>All(tab)
find and tap "TW Launcer"
tap "Clear data" button.
after that my home screen and applications screen look default.
applications screen sorted alphabetical.
i customized my home and app screen again and till now didnt change anyting, i mean didnt forget the layout of apps.
i wanted to share this little unprofessional solution with you =)
if there is a better way i want to learn.
finally i have a question, after updating to 2.3.5, when i tap contacts, it opens slowly, after 1 or 1.5 seconds lag(black screen) it opens. but not always. it happens just sometimes.
do you have the same behaviour?
sory for my english. looking forward to see your answers or comments.

i tried and there is no problem anymore

tuncaycoskun said:
i tried and there is no problem anymore
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How about you share what you did?

xak944 said:
How about you share what you did?
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14th post,
see my firs post

I'm really surprised I haven't seen more people complaining about it but I guess most are not running TouchWiz.
To re-explain the problem I'm having..
You arrange all the applications in different panels the way you want (after you hit "applications" not the home screen panels)
After turning the phone off and on again Or plugging it in to the computer via USB and removing it, all the applications are a mess again. Not the way you arranged them and there doesn't seem to be any logic behind it.
It's not just the way they were the last time you turned the phone off or the last time you plugged in the USB cable.
I also thought having folders in an earlier panel may be causing later panels apps to get bumped around but I've tried it with the folders in the last panel and I get the same randomness.
Similar threads Without a solution:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1324365
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1296060
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1358464

Sms app lag

Hey guys is there any fix for the sms app lag? when openin the thread it lags and when exiting.
Please note I have around 10 thousand sms but on my old Galaxy S2 I never had this problem so I am also running BAMF 4.0.4 and it was working super when I backed up my 7k texts and then it started to little slow which is kind of annoying now.
Any tips on how to make it the way it was? its only 3k difference and I bet this device can handle 100k or more with no issues

I'm going to throw this out there, I know this is a wildly crazy idea, but just delete a few?
Ten thousand SMS's? Do you seriously need ten thousand?

i pretty much delete all messages every 2 months or so.. having too much does lag a bit time to time
cuz i text a lot.. every month i send at least 8000. so in total i will have 16k messages in the app each month (including receive).

king23adrianc said:
i pretty much delete all messages every 2 months or so.. having too much does lag a bit time to time
cuz i text a lot.. every month i send at least 8000. so in total i will have 16k messages in the app each month (including receive).
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Now my question to you is, does it lag like it does for patt2k?

There's no reason to have that many messages. Not to tell you how to live your life, but it sounds like you need to get one outside of texting. If you seriously can't deal with losing all the messages, use a program like SMS Backup+ (free program, backs it up to your gmail.) Otherwise, lock the ones you want to keep and let the app auto-delete like it should.

Kalavere said:
Now my question to you is, does it lag like it does for patt2k?
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not really. just slight lag when scrolling in a message thread

Delete some messages you hoarder.

Nitemare3219 said:
There's no reason to have that many messages. Not to tell you how to live your life, but it sounds like you need to get one outside of texting. If you seriously can't deal with losing all the messages, use a program like SMS Backup+ (free program, backs it up to your gmail.) Otherwise, lock the ones you want to keep and let the app auto-delete like it should.
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Oh I do call and text quite a lot just like the other guy said he texts around 16k sometimes I have the same amount. I see no reason to delete the messeges , but it seems to be little faster with GO SMS
now another thing could the large amount of texts cause the unlock screen lag? like when I unlock and you can see the circle you move to the unlock it like lags for 2-3 seconds. Thanks guys
EDIT: just set to delete each 500 texts and the sms app still lags... the STOCK one would backing up in recovery then wiping everything and restoring help? any ideas? thanks again

patt2k said:
Oh I do call and text quite a lot just like the other guy said he texts around 16k sometimes I have the same amount. I see no reason to delete the messeges , but it seems to be little faster with GO SMS
now another thing could the large amount of texts cause the unlock screen lag? like when I unlock and you can see the circle you move to the unlock it like lags for 2-3 seconds. Thanks guys
EDIT: just set to delete each 500 texts and the sms app still lags... the STOCK one would backing up in recovery then wiping everything and restoring help? any ideas? thanks again
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lol no lags for me in anything... maybe just fast scrolling, then i might see a bit of lags... but in general nope..

king23adrianc said:
lol no lags for me in anything... maybe just fast scrolling, then i might see a big of lags... but in general nope..
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from what I am seeing you are in Canada and you have the GSM version maybe they differ somehow I don't know. I use go sms because the stock one still lags when I find more time I will make backup and do wipe and restore the rom.
Thanks at least I know I was not the only one with (SMS) issue =P

patt2k said:
from what I am seeing you are in Canada and you have the GSM version maybe they differ somehow I don't know. I use go sms because the stock one still lags when I find more time I will make backup and do wipe and restore the rom.
Thanks at least I know I was not the only one with (SMS) issue =P
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i meant BIT not BIG LOL LOL!! typo.. my bad
and yeah i have gsm version

Yes the SMS threads lag a bit, more like choppy. Nothing we can do about it, maybe Google could tweak it with an update.
Even trying other apps like handcent, the lag is still there. Oh well.

RogerPodacter said:
Yes the SMS threads lag a bit, more like choppy. Nothing we can do about it, maybe Google could tweak it with an update.
Even trying other apps like handcent, the lag is still there. Oh well.
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Good to know I am not the only one as the people in 1st page simply told me I text to much lol

patt2k said:
Good to know I am not the only one as the people in 1st page simply told me I text to much lol
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I've always experienced this choppy scrolling with text threads with only 100 or so messages. Its not you, but you could try to delete some. I don't think that will change things though.

[Q] Anyone else notice some lag after the first few days? need help if you have!

So i've only had the phone for a few days and started noticing lag mainly in the settings yesterday.
It was buttery smooth the first few days until yesterday. I'll try to create a clear description of what is happening.
Everything in terms of hitting applications, sliding/switching pages, and browsers seems smooth but I'm getting doubts since settings have started lagging. So as of now, the settings menu is where I really notice the problem. What happens is I would press any of the choices such as display, sound, storage, etc and it would light up blue as a sign that I pressed it. Basically, the blue lighting stutters/lags as it turns into a deeper color and fades away proving that there is some lag. That itself is very irritating on such a powerful phone. The page also lags a bit as it's opening so it's obvious that it does lag. I don't understand why something as simple as settings might be causing this?
have any of you guys noticed this? I tried clearing ram, restarting phone, messing with dev options by changing animation and something else to .5x while enabling "force GPU rendering." I'm running stock touchwiz on baseband T889UVALJ1 if that helps. Keep in mind i'm not really tech savvy so try to suggest things in an easy to understand way please.
Any help is greatly appreciated and I hope you guys can help me fix my problem!

Been using it for the past 1 month plus and I do not have any lagging issues. I am on stock rom as well.

No lag either, been using the Note 2 for 2 months now. Check your apps with BetterBatteryStatts (too many backgroundservices runing).

No lag either. Did u install some crappy apps that run backstage
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Thanks for the replies so far and before I spend some money on apps or what not, is there any way I can post a 5 second animation of what is happening? Kind of like a 5 second gif of my screen? A mix of a screenshot and video so like a screen vid? Are there are any apps that can do that(preferably free). I'll try to find an app that can do that in the meantime and will edit if I find something useful.
Edit: No idea what this is or how it ended up on my phone but could this be the culprit? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tgrape.android.radar
People say it's bloatware and s-suggest from samsung but i'm not sure why it would be shown as an app on the play store website

I have noticed the phone can lag a bit if you have a heavy live wallpaper running.
Just sharing my thoughts on this

did you modify anything? no lags on my N2.

normally i'd say if you leave your phone on for a few days in a row, clear the memory every once in a while (press and hold home, go task manager, ram tab, clear memory) or reboot it, just so you dont have anything residual in your ram.
when android sees that you have 2gb of ram, it doesnt auto kill as many apps as it would if you were to have only 1gb of ram (my note 1 autokilled sooooooo frequently that it was annoying), so your ram ends up getting filled with some apps that you only used once in a while.

SquirtingCherry said:
I have noticed the phone can lag a bit if you have a heavy live wallpaper running.
Just sharing my thoughts on this
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I did have a live news wallpaper before but I disabled it and switched to one of the stock wallpapers and the problem persists..
parrotlarch said:
did you modify anything? no lags on my N2.
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No I didn't modify anything, were you referring to anything specific or some kind of setting?
Souai said:
normally i'd say if you leave your phone on for a few days in a row, clear the memory every once in a while (press and hold home, go task manager, ram tab, clear memory) or reboot it, just so you dont have anything residual in your ram.
when android sees that you have 2gb of ram, it doesnt auto kill as many apps as it would if you were to have only 1gb of ram (my note 1 autokilled sooooooo frequently that it was annoying), so your ram ends up getting filled with some apps that you only used once in a while.
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I wrote that I tried clearing ram and restarting phone but it didn't help. Thanks for trying though

Yeah, I get a bit of lag here and there, specially if I haven't cleared running/background apps in a while.
I just do it from the task manager, and also check out what apps are using the most battery, and possibly therefore are some of the likely culprits.
I actually use this app called Carat, which is an "Energy bug detector app" (whatever that means), but it helps identify apps that are draining the battery, and incidentally, partially contributing to the lag.
Also obvious thing like live wallpapers or touchwiz in general (including all the 'special' Samsung features like smart rotate, smart stay, smart motion) probably add to it to. Nova launcher and a static wallpaper might help.

I'll try to post a video sometime soon showing the lag. It's not serious lag, but it does stutter and lag a decent amount compared to my first few days which is what sucks.

mitchillen said:
I'll try to post a video sometime soon showing the lag. It's not serious lag, but it does stutter and lag a decent amount compared to my first few days which is what sucks.
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Make sure that power saving is turned totally off in settings to avoid UI lag.

ItzMar said:
Make sure that power saving is turned totally off in settings to avoid UI lag.
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Yeah that was one of the first things I tried, didn't help.

This happen to me..If surf net lag this could help..check your network setting.
if your SIM card is 3G,set it to "GSM/WCDMA AUTO MODE" instead of LTE..
Hope it help

william1974 said:
This happen to me..If surf net lag this could help..check your network setting.
if your SIM card is 3G,set it to "GSM/WCDMA AUTO MODE" instead of LTE..
Hope it help
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Well I have a T-mobile Galaxy note II. It should be the 4g LTE variant but lte is not available yet. I think it is the n7105
Under the settings, I only have gsm/wcdma, gsm only, and wcdma only.
I'm not sure what I have to do

Anybody experience lagging on the xda app. Im getting some stuttering when scrolling. Mine's running on full stock rom even when I clear the memory...
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DroidPH said:
Anybody experience lagging on the xda app. Im getting some stuttering when scrolling. Mine's running on full stock rom even when I clear the memory...
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You can try enabling Force GPU rendering in developers options. That usually helps with that, or at least it seemed to in my case. Report back if it actually helped

quick update:
I found a vid and my lag basically looks like this http://youtu.be/0qyijcTeHcU?t=2m27s
Look at when he clicks on display, there is clearly some lag even if it is half a second - 1 second. I'm almost certain that my lag is even worse than that, but not by too much. It's just a pain in the ass after the first few days. Would flashing a custom rom like jedi X 7.2 help out with this since it's running a bravia engine?

MohJee said:
You can try enabling Force GPU rendering in developers options. That usually helps with that, or at least it seemed to in my case. Report back if it actually helped
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Actually it did :good: Unfortunately I've lost 10% battery within minutes of using the XDA App. Unticked...I clicked thanks for your help mate.

Text Messing is lagging???

Hello all been a min since I've posted last, but here goes. My text messaging is the only "app" that lags when I use it. Every other app is running fine and is smooth to navigate through. When I goto text someone it starts lagging and is behind quite abit. Itl take sometimes 5 6 seconds to type the word I just swiped. It is the stock messaging app and I have already ran it into safe mode. It does not lag nearly as much there and is pretty fluent. I can only assume its a bad app or something but idk what it could be. I'm rooted stock and every mod I have came from drippler like the multi tasking so I can have every app in the multi tasker, I have xposed frame work titanium back up, Nova launcher and some others. Whats my best hing to do here?
-Paint pb Balla-

You might have too many messages. Try deleting messages.

Paint pb Balla said:
Hello all been a min since I've posted last, but here goes. My text messaging is the only "app" that lags when I use it. Every other app is running fine and is smooth to navigate through. When I goto text someone it starts lagging and is behind quite abit. Itl take sometimes 5 6 seconds to type the word I just swiped. It is the stock messaging app and I have already ran it into safe mode. It does not lag nearly as much there and is pretty fluent. I can only assume its a bad app or something but idk what it could be. I'm rooted stock and every mod I have came from drippler like the multi tasking so I can have every app in the multi tasker, I have xposed frame work titanium back up, Nova launcher and some others. Whats my best hing to do here?
-Paint pb Balla-
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try backing up the data for your messaging app with TiBu then going into your system settings and clearing the data for your messaging app. how long have you had the issue. was it like that when you bought it? after you rooted it? after using some of drippler's tweaks?
always post as much info as possible when asking for help.

Thanks guys and no its has just been happening in the last 2 months maybe 3 it wasn't doing it after I rooted, I slowly started to notice the decline in performance after a couple of the tweaks from drippler. I've uninstalled a few apps and cleared cache but not for messaging. I need to back the data up like you said. Ill try that. it will not delete my txts I have saved will it? They are very very important to me and can be used in court so its that kind of importance lol. Ole baby momma drama. Thanks again guys. This forum s always so helpful.
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