On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 07:19:06 AM Andrew McGlashan wrote:
I see very slow response, particularly when Google Play is updating apps. I sometimes have to restart my S3. It most definitely doesn't perform as well as it should.
The internal flash storage on those phones is quite slow. When big writes happen (such as the copying of large files for app installation/upgrade) everything goes slow. It's just a limit of the affordable technology 2 years ago.
When everything is working okay, it is snappy enough, but it far too often isn't responsive. I've not has a phone that needed as many reboots due to the device being too unresponsive running a buggy Android version. I have set it up with encryption, but it shouldn't make that much difference to performance and usability.
I haven't noticed any Android version performing consistently well. But I haven't done much with Android 5.0, so maybe the latest version fixed the ongoing problems with response times that affected all previous versions (but probably not).
Bluebox Security Scanner app [1] shows that the current stock version of Android that Samsung /cares/ to provide is vulnerable to the FakeID [2] bug and also (outside that app from other knowledge) the stock web browser is also subject to a very security issue as well [3].
Now, I don't use the stock browser, so that helps me somewhat. And I only download apps from the Play store, so the FakeID bug is /less/ likely to cause an issue, but it sure can still, even using official app sources!
Andoid is badly designed in this regard. They should have made it more like Debian and allow upgrades of apps independent of the core OS.
Samsung makes up the vast majority of Android users and so many are stuck on version 4.3 with these problems. Therefore, Samsung brings down Android's reputation a great deal. Other manufactures seem to care more about updating the software so that their customers have safer devices.
As most users don't care about such things I don't think that Samsung is bringing down Android's reputation.
My Galaxy S was retired long ago.
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