Re: kitkat fcukes my phone
Yep did the same for me. But when I turned it off and on it did another android update and it's been fine since
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Mine has been really laggy since the update
No new update tho, just slow as hell
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turned it off plenty of times mate hoping there'd be some sort of update fix but nothing,
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anyone had any joy or they just living with the slowness?
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I rooted mine to install a custom rom, for some reason i cant install a custom rom, get some verification error when trying to install
So now i have a buggy phone and cant install official updates unless i put it back to stock :D
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is 4.4.2 kitkat or it kitkat a different variation of the 4.4.2 firmware?
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PlauGE
anyone else having problems with there s4 since updating to kitkat, me, my sister and the missus all updated and all having similar problems but ive not read of any of these problems anywhere,
battery life seems terrible for me
apps especially facebook crashes alot, screen dulls and bexomes unresponsive
home button is slow to wake the phone up, doesnt always work
updated partners phone the other day and she hit the roof when the majority of her apps vanished, has the same bugs as mine and its all my fault :(
any news on a bug fix for this, its getting right on my tits it is
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Am in the same boat on 4.4.2 KitKat on a S4 I9505
Battery does not last a day with no live widgets running, only receiving push emails from work exchange.
the signal is worse as well. or drops calls were i used to have great signal.
But the biggest pain is the delay...say i miss a call i pick up the phone to call the person back the screen takes its sweet ass time to turn on.
Am going to look in to going with a custom rom, sick of the samsung blot ware that I don't use as well.
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also, scrolling telephone logs is not buggy, each time you scroll it seems to stick and revert back to the position that you started scrolling from... what a wanky update ffs !
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Zero issues with KitKat on my Nexus devices running KitKat. Assume it'll yet again be Samsung fucking with the ROM.
Try an AOSP ROM - will likely run better.
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Cant install a custom rom to mine as im getting 'E verification failed' anyone know why
Rooted at least a dozen devices over the years, never a problem, both s4's ive had ive had the same problem
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An another problem i have noticed with 4.4.2...In the battery status screen its showing that my WIFI is always on!.
Which its not, wonder if thats contributing to the poor battery life.
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I got myself a Moto G the other week that came with 4.4.2. I quite like it, no lag or anything, but battery life is terrible.
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Have 4.4.2 on my S4, have for a long time and no issues whatsoever although it is a custom rom - cyanogenmod, not sure how you can even use the Samsung touchwiz shit it is errm shit
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You guys can always flash it back to Jelly Bean using Odin !
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flik
You guys can always flash it back to Jelly Bean using Odin !
I'm an android n00b, is it complicated?
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Zippeyrude
I'm an android n00b, is it complicated?
No it isn't
Not fully looked at this but this should do it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ulz-1UYzHBA
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Got my update a few weeks back and i have to say it has ruined the user experience! I can now say i have never had a worse phone than my current galaxy S4!
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My z1's battery has been much worse since being on kit kat. I now get about a day when it was over two. Screen on time drains the battery massively. Rooting, stopping certain apps running at boot time helps but it does seem kitkat works the devices hard when the screen is on, no matter what you do. Even the detailed battery stats show nothing untoward.
Seems Google are turning into Microsoft and requiring bigger and faster handsets all the time, for no good reason. Stripping back the os to essentials like removing customisations and non essential apps seems to be the only way to help. What apps from Google's myriad of offerings you consider essential seems to govern how hard your handset has to work.
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Replying to my own post, I looked into my own battery usage and it seems the old enemy of Google services is back to munch our batteries.
I drilled down into the info from better battery stats and it showed me lots of nlpwakelocks which I know from bitter experience is all to do with location reporting. They had fixed this to a large extent in jelly bean but they have reenabled it in kitkat and lots of apps (no longer just Google ones) now use it.
A quick and dirty fix is to disable location services globally in settings/location but a more elegant method is to disable this per app, using a root tool to either block the wake lock or spoof it. I'm Experimenting with something called wake lock terminator and will report back...