Samsung Galaxy S5 Getting Slower

The #Samsung Galaxy #S5 is a former flagship model released by the South Korean giant in the second quarter of 2014. It’s hardware is still considered top of the line today and should be able to provide a smooth user experience. With the help of its Snapdragon 801  processor combined with 2GB of RAM, demanding applications such as games are sure to work without any issues. Several of our readers however are experiencing issues with this device that affects its performance. This is what we will be discussing today as we tackle the Galaxy s5 getting slower, lags really bad & other related problems.

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S5 Getting Slower

Problem: Hello.I have bought a new samsung galaxy s5 since the last november Black Friday in 2015. The first thing after power up, and wi fi connection, was an automatic android update to lollipop, from the factory kitkat. Everything was going perfect, fast, for a few months. What I have noticed, like some coincidence, that in the days when the new galaxy S7 was launched last monday, my S5 started to get slower, battery was draining faster out of nothing. I decided to perform factory reset, but did not helped much. Even with almost no apps installed, the S5 was performing the same way as before the factory reset. I have some paranoid suspicion, that somehow , Samsung may have some so called ” backdoor” access to all devices  to manipulate customers devices , in such manner to determine them to buy newly launched products, in this case , the freshly unveiled galaxy s7, earlier this week. What do you think? Is that possible? As I have read on your internet page, I will try a new factory reset including  wiping the cache partition, in hope that it will help. Thanks for any advice.

Solution: Creating a backdoor access on a device is not impossible to do however I doubt if Samsung would do this. The software updates that they release are available to the different independent software developers, developer who also create custom software for the device. If a backdoor were present then this would easily be detected. The company will also lose the trust of its customers if this were to happen.

The slow and battery drain issue of your phone could be caused by other factors. I highly recommend that you backup your phone data then do a factory reset to check if the problem is software related. Once the reset is done do not install anything in your phone yet. Check first if the issue still occurs. If your phone has a microSD card installed try taking it out as well as this may also be causing the problem.

For the battery drain problem try using a new battery on your phone. If your phone battery is weak, which will make it drain fast, then this should solve the problem.