How to Reduce Lag & Boost Performance for Games on a Galaxy S5 or Note 4

How to Reduce Lag & Boost Performance for Games on a Galaxy S5 or Note 4

Since the days of Android Jelly Bean, Samsung has implemented an energy preservation feature known as dynamic voltage and frequency scaling, or DVFS for short. What this essentially does is limit or adjust the frequency of the microprocessor to conserve power and prevent excessive heat from being generated.

While most common users can appreciate this, those of us—namely gamers—would probably enjoy an option to unleash our CPU's full potential by allowing a more consistent frame rate for improved performance and an enhanced gaming experience.

Thanks to the efforts of XDA member HalvicFeedbatch, there's an easy way to manually disable DVFS-throttling, and I'll be showing you how to do it on either the Galaxy S6 or Galaxy Note 4. This may work on other TouchWiz devices, but files will probably be named differently.

Note that there are apps that claim to do the work for you, but we found their implementation to be inconsistent and buggy. The manual process isn't difficult by any means, so that's the method we recommend.

Step 5: Enjoy

Other than your device heating a bit up and some additional battery drain—which may only happen when playing 3D-heavy games—there haven't been many problems reported. I experienced smoother gameplay with graphics-intensive games, but let me know how you fared. Did you notice a difference or is this just a placebo effect?

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