Even Jelly Bean is laggy and stuttering

Where are you getting your "Should be" times from? I have JB on my Galaxy S3 and I also have the Nexus 7 and I do not find it laggy at all.

 

The Nexus lag came with 4.2.2, I am not a developer and I have no idea why. Other then that my rooted S3 w/ 4.2.2 stays lag free for quite a while.

 

So many logical fallacies so little time...

 

You really cannot judge if a phone is laggy based on how fast you think it should be. That would be like me saying "My car should go 0-60 in one second" even though I know this is unrealistic.

 

These are revolutionary devices that have changed the way we live, yet they are only about 5 years old. I think it's ironic that before a smartphone, we would have to pull out a phone book to find a number. But 5 years later we're complaining about 3 milliseconds...

 

Jellybean itself is smooth as butter.

Laggyness on non aosp devices can usually he attributes to the manufacturer skin.

There was some laggyness introduced in 4.2.2 on the nexus 7 but a factory reset cleared it up for most people

It sounds like you need factory resets on both devices. Always do one after an OTA if you start having issues

 

^ +1 Yes a factory reset should fix any issues and lag you're experiencing. I have JB on my S3 and it too is smooth as butter. Sometimes it can happen with OTA's, but a factory reset can resolve it.

 

my nexus 4 and 7 have no lag whatsoever.

my galaxy note which got the official update to jellybean has no lag whatsoever and is now smoother than it was with ics.

my desire hd with it's single core processor with a custom jb rom is lag free.

take the advice and do a factory reset.

 

Sorry Android is not to your liking their is other os for you to explore. Live, love and laugh.

 

they're the same times as your "should be likes"

 

Uh, no, a Nokia from year 2000 isn't faster than those times you mentioned. In fact they are slower. I have a working N70 right here with me and its waaaay slower.

Any lag whatsoever you experience would have to do with the way your phone is set up, not with how Android is optimized or not. The more customizations you have or background apps running, the slower the phone is going to get, just like a PC with many programs running at the same time. Running a launcher, a third party SMS app, a customized lockscreen and some widgets will be slower on the same phone as one running stock with no customization whatsoever.

A good example from my experience would be my own phone. Compared to when running Go Launcher, my phone is much more faster and lag free if I use the stock launcher or a lighter launcher like Holo.

 

I'm not surprised you have a little what you call lag on a galaxy S2.. look how far the tech has moved on since then. I have an HTC One now and all those things open instantly, they did on my One X before it.

My advice is get a new phone if you are able as most newer phones are coming with 2gb memory and ultra fast quad core chips.. the S4 is going to have 2 quad core chips so it shows things are progressing really quickly, you can't expect to have a 2 year old phone and it run things instantly/perfectly. I've never used a tablet yet that was particularly fast, I had a Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 and got that frustrated with how slow it was I got rid of it.

iPhones and W8 phones aren't fast, iPhone is perhaps a little smoother but once you start filling the storage up they start to run slow, open up angry birds even against your GS2 and you'll see. WP7.5 - 8 have such a simple UI they do appear to run smoothly until you start to open apps up, the top spec WP8 isn't half as powerful as a handful of android phones.

 

The average blink of your eye is .3-.4 seconds. So it would be hard to notice half a second of lag. Also, half of what you listed requires a network connection. Which would induce a wait time. It's too bad you experience lag, but the actions on my phone happen instantly. At least, everything that doesn't require waiting for the network.

 

Opening apps in iOS does cause lag. What iOS does is fool you into thinking there is no lag. It displays a screenshot of the app's first screen right away, making it seems that the app has launched. Meanwhile it is still launching and lagging. Android does not try to trick you into thinking it is faster than it really is.

 

I am pretty happy with JB and I haven't really had any issues with it at all. Smooth as butter for me and no issues. Sorry you're experiencing lag on it, are you using any task killers or have a lot of widgets on the homescreens?