Samsung Fascinate update to 2.2 results in slow phone?

[Covicka]

I have had my fascinate for about 7-8 months, its never been FASCINATINGLY fast but it was always decent. I got my update on Friday and since then it takes about 30 seconds to get into texts, it takes at least 2 minutes to get facebook fully loaded and I try to delete pictures and it just says "deleting" but it never actually deletes them. I also have to force close so many times, its becoming hectic. Please help.

[NuDroidUsrr · Accepted solution]

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Covicka wrote:

I have had my fascinate for about 7-8 months, its never been FASCINATINGLY fast but it was always decent. I got my update on Friday and since then it takes about 30 seconds to get into texts, it takes at least 2 minutes to get facebook fully loaded and I try to delete pictures and it just says "deleting" but it never actually deletes them. I also have to force close so many times, its becoming hectic. Please help.

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  There is alot of talk that when you update the OS, that you should do a factory reset afterwards, which will clear everything out and start with a fresh device. It will reset back to stock 2.2, so you will not lose the OS update. Samsung suggested this to alot of the other devices that got their updates. Before you do this, please do your homework and research what is involved, and to make sure you have everything you want saved somewhere.

  To do this, you would back up your data, contacts, and anything else you want to save, mark down what apps you installed, and then do a factory reset which will reset the device back to the stock 2.2 device (SETTINGS | PRIVACY). You then restore your data and apps, and it should be good. Any apps that you have bought will come back down from the Market, and you will have to find and install the free apps that you want back on it. I know it sounds drastic, but if you search other threads out in the community, you will see others have done it.

 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR DATA BACKED UP BEFORE DOING THAT PROCEDURE. I am not telling you to do this, so you do this at your own risk.

The SD card will be untouched from the reset.

Hope this helps.

[NuDroidUsrr]

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Covicka wrote:

I have had my fascinate for about 7-8 months, its never been FASCINATINGLY fast but it was always decent. I got my update on Friday and since then it takes about 30 seconds to get into texts, it takes at least 2 minutes to get facebook fully loaded and I try to delete pictures and it just says "deleting" but it never actually deletes them. I also have to force close so many times, its becoming hectic. Please help.

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 I have also heard there is problems with Facebook and the Status Widget on the home screen. Do you run that? That may be part of the problem also.

[Covicka]

Thank you so much. I actually got very aggravated and impatient and called VZW and basically after numerous troubleshooting steps in the end I had to do a hard reset. This fixed my issues. Thankfully. Now the issue is, I keep going back to apps that I previously had to use them..And they aren't there. But I'm extremely thankful for the fix.

Thanks again for your help.

[SkyniteZero]

thats ok they had to send me my fourth fascinate since mine wouldnt upgrade and when it did nots it slow laggs alot and the battery drains faster then it did with 2.1 this phone has been giving me nothing but troubles and VZW isnt doing anything about it i even hard reset it and it still does the same thing.

[Covicka]

Wow, well since then I haven't had problems. That sounds like me with my enV touch, I went through like 5 phones and finally they decided to give me an early upgrade. Thank goodness, otherwise I would have lost my mind. Good luck.

[animal11674]

i have already been through the factory reset...didn't work still have a lag issue sometimes i can't even unlock the the screen.

[#8]

Here is a workaround for the issues of lagging and unresponsiveness.

First perform a factory reset (here is the alternate way since you can’t unlock your screen):

Turn off the phone> Press and hold the Volume Up / Down keys and the Power button simultaneously. When the Samsung logo appears, release only the Power button. >Display will show: 

1. Reboot system Now
2. Apply sdcard:update.zip
3. Wipe Data/Factory Reset
4. Wipe Cache Partition

>From the Recovery screen, press the Volume down key to select "Wipe Data/Factory Reset", press home icon to select option and wipe device.

>Display shows "All user data will be wiped out", press VOLUME Up to continue or VOLUME Down to exit. > Press Volume Up > Press Home to select "Reboot System Now" - device will reboot

Second continue to go through the set up and activation process.

***The “Feeds and Updates" widget seems to be causing the problem.  DO NOT SET UP THE FACEBOOK ACCOUNT IN “FEEDS AND UPDATES.”

Third remove the “Feeds and Updates” widget from the screen.

Once you take these steps you should see improvement on the phone.  Please repost if issues persist.  Thank you.

[Carutledge]

The hard reset seems just too extreme! This morning my phone was absolutely fine and now, its a wreck! I would've never updated, had I known this. What a waste of time and energy. Its bad enough I've got to reconfigure everything. The idea of re-entering info.... How do I even go about backing up my data? And how in the world do I upload it after the reset? Man i'd love to give Verizon a piece pgs my mind!!

[Spyc1]

I've owned this phone since October 2010 - it's been great until now!    I received the update on my Fascinate.. and ever since I can't do ANYTHING on it!!!  The screen will lock and then the screen becomes all horizontal lines.. the only way to "unlock" it is to pull the battery!!

In the last DAY it's froze 11 times!!!!!!  If I try to send more than 1 text to a person - if freezes. If I try to hang up from a phone call - it freezes! If I try to get to the browser - it freezes!  To say nothing of navigating through any programs i've downloaded.

I'm heading to the store tomorrow - I am so agrravated!!!  I'm almost tempted to go back to my EnV3! I'm so sick of this!