Rooted s7 edge performance

infinitiwoods12

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Hi guys
I am a long time galaxy user. I have rooted every phone i had. I used s4 s5 note 4 s6 edge note 5 and now s7 edge. Rooting is the first thing i did on all these phones out of the box. So pretty much i never experienced a non rooted galaxy. All these phones are very powerful in terms of hardware. Despite of the powerful hardware all these phones never performed all smooth with the ui navigation or in terms of responsiveness . I understand with s4 s5 and note 4 having old touchwiz, but even with the redesigned touchwiz on s6 edge and note 5 ui is still not smooth. I experienced lag with scrolling and navigating the ui. By the way i removed all bloat i could on all devices. Used xposed mods that supposedly should "increase" the performance.

Last week i purchased s7 edge. As usual i rooted the second i came home.. Removed bloat and have been using all week. Guess what same experience.. Laggy ui. What i mean by lag is.. Scrolling is not smooth. I press the home button while playing a game it Takes a second To come to home screen. I end the call and it takes a good 1 second to come back to previous screen. Keyboard sometimes takes a second to show up. The animation are not smooth. All this lag is present 40% of the time here and there . This is the same type of lag i experienced with all other devices.

So. I taught of giving the s7 edge a second chance without rooting or any mods. Just stock. I have been using the phone since 2 days.. Guess what.. The phone is perfect and 100% lag free 100% of the time.
Now i m in a dilemma of what to do.. But i do really miss some root apps. Is it just me that had this problem with all the phones i used.. I m really disappointed on rooting now. Do i have to sacrifice smoother ui for rooted apps.

Please share your thoughts.
 
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jdizzle316

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Hi guys
I am a long time galaxy user. I have rooted every phone i had. I used s4 s5 note 4 s6 edge note 5 and now s7 edge. Rooting is the first thing i did on all these phones out of the box. So pretty much i never experienced a non rooted galaxy. All these phones are very powerful in terms of hardware. Despite of the powerful hardware all these phones never performed all smooth with the ui navigation or in terms of responsiveness . I understand with s4 s5 and note 4 having old touchwiz, but even with the redesigned touchwiz on s6 edge and note 5 ui is still not smooth. I experienced lag with scrolling and navigating the ui. By the way i removed all bloat i could on all devices. Used xposed mods that supposedly should "increase" the performance.

Last week i purchased s7 edge. As usual i rooted the second i came home.. Removed bloat and have been using all week. Guess what same experience.. Laggy ui. What i mean by lag is.. Scrolling is not smooth. I press the home button while playing a game it Takes a second To come to home screen. I end the call and it takes a good 1 second to come back to previous screen. Keyboard sometimes takes a second to show up. The animation are not smooth. All this lag is present 40% of the time here and there . This is the same type of lag i experienced with all other devices.

So. I taught of giving the s7 edge a second chance without rooting or any mods. Just stock. I have been using the phone since 2 days.. Guess what.. The phone is perfect and 100% lag free 100% of the time.
Now i m in a dilemma of what to do.. But i do really miss some root apps. Is it just me that had this problem with all the phones i used.. I m really disappointed on rooting now. Do i have to sacrifice smoother ui for rooted apps.

Please share your thoughts.
you can try to decrease lag without root by removing all the animations or at least reducing animations from 1.0 to .5....but i actually turn them completely off. This can be done in developer options. You can enable developer options by tapping on the build number 5 consecutive times in the settings
 

infinitiwoods12

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you can try to decrease lag without root by removing all the animations or at least reducing animations from 1.0 to .5....but i actually turn them completely off. This can be done in developer options. You can enable developer options by tapping on the build number 5 consecutive times in the settings
please read the entire post . the phone doesn't have lag if its not rooted...
 
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That's weird, how can it be more laggy while rooted? I just received mine today, and was thinking about rooting it straight away but I've read that tripping knox=no Samsung Pay -and maybe other things I don't know about yet-, so I will wait a little bit and read around to get myself properly informed.

BTW I come from a rooted S4, and it is butter smooth -running the GPE ROM-. As for the 1 second lag when pressing the home button, check if you have any double-press actions configured -like opening the cam, recent apps, google now, flashlight...-, if you configure a duoble-press action you get that 1 second before the one-press action is executed, as that's what the terminal waits to detect/check for a double-press.
 

infinitiwoods12

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That's weird, how can it be more laggy while rooted? I just received mine today, and was thinking about rooting it straight away but I've read that tripping knox=no Samsung Pay -and maybe other things I don't know about yet-, so I will wait a little bit and read around to get myself properly informed.

BTW I come from a rooted S4, and it is butter smooth -running the GPE ROM-. As for the 1 second lag when pressing the home button, check if you have any double-press actions configured -like opening the cam, recent apps, google now, flashlight...-, if you configure a duoble-press action you get that 1 second before the one-press action is executed, as that's what the terminal waits to detect/check for a double-press.
Home button lag is only one of the many lag issues and i m aware of the double press home button issue.. But its not what i mean.. I mean actual unresponsiveness.
 

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Root doesn't have anything to do with lag. If you use the stock ROM with just root access and some root apps it should perform exactly the same as an unrooted phone, unless the root apps you use misbehaving.
That being said, this is the first phone I don't feel the need to root it. I thought about it many times and I once wanted to just do it, but as I downloaded the necessary stuff I realised I don't need it. Package disabler pro lets me disable apps I don't use and block this let's me remove ads. Not quite as efficient as adaway but efficient enough to not be bothered too much with ads.
 
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infinitiwoods12

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Root doesn't have anything to do with lag. If you use the stock ROM with just root access and some root apps it should perform exactly the same as an unrooted phone, unless the root apps you use misbehaving.
That being said, this is the first phone I don't feel the need to root it. I thought about it many times and I once wanted to just do it, but as I downloaded the necessary stuff I realised I don't need it. Package disabler pro lets me disable apps I don't use and block this let's me remove ads. Not quite as efficient as adaway but efficient enough to not be bothered too much with ads.
Just trying to help haha, does the root itself cause the lag? Maybe it's caused by the method by which you have removed the bloatware. If it isn't then I'm out of ideas, perhaps try an alternate root method.
The root method i tried is th twrp and flash supersu. The root apps i use are..
BBS
XPOSED
Wanam
Xstatusbar
Xtouchwiz
Youtubeadaway
Minminad
XPRIVACY
TITANIUMBACKUP
GREENIFY
IFONT
LUCKY PATCHER
Preety much all are popular apps
 

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The root method i tried is th twrp and flash supersu. The root apps i use are..
BBS
XPOSED
Wanam
Xstatusbar
Xtouchwiz
Youtubeadaway
Minminad
XPRIVACY
TITANIUMBACKUP
GREENIFY
IFONT
LUCKY PATCHER
Preety much all are popular apps
So factory reset and root. Check for any lag if none occurs then install some of the root apps, if lag still doesn't occur rinse and repeat. Tedious but just because apps are popular does not mean they won't occasionally play up on new hardware.
 
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So factory reset and root. Check for any lag if none occurs then install some of the root apps, if lag still doesn't occur rinse and repeat. Tedious but just because apps are popular does not mean they won't occasionally play up on new hardware.
Alright bro thanks.. For the reply.. Now that it has been 3 days.. I will now just root and install nothing relating to root and test the performance