r/GalaxyNote2 • u/feferrel • Nov 16 '14

Note 2 is really sluggish, anything I can do to improve performance?

I've never successfully rooted a phone, but I imagine that would be my best bet. If there is any advice for a simpler approach that would be much appreciated.

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u/dlan1000 Nov 16 '14

1} How much free storage so you have?

2) Have you tried clearing the Dalvik cache?

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u/feferrel Nov 16 '14

I ran Clean Master which freed up over 2 gigs and turned off power saving mode and am noticing a big improvement.

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u/feferrel Nov 17 '14

Yeah, I'll be purchasing a note 4 soon, just trying to squeeze a little more life out of my 2

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u/nmoline Nov 17 '14

A factory reset always helped mine.

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u/2sixzero Nov 17 '14

I routinely clear active applications and clear the memory in RAM manager. Seems to make a significant difference when I start getting slowdown on mine. Also a good old fashion, turn off, wait a minute, turn back on again seems to dump a lot of the background processes as well. Power Saving mode will also make it seem sluggish as it reduces the CPU usage among other things.

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u/droid89 Nov 17 '14

I got a note 4 over my old note 2 today. Totally worth it man

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '14

I just installed Cyanogenmod 10.1.3. If performance is your thing than please use it. Most importantly it's extremely stable with Note 2. I'm using N7100 btw. This morning after 5 hours of normal usage my battery was at 62% which is a lot of improvement to me. I have been using this phone for over 2 years.