Does this make any sense regarding G4 running slow?

[SaltyNuts]

My Samsung Galaxy S4 has this weird issue where it slows down every few months and it won't respond for several minutes when I tap it to turn it on. I have to reset it back to the factory standard, thus wiping everything, for it to start running right again.

I went to the Sprint store yesterday to look at getting a new phone. The guy suggested a galaxy note 5. When I told him I was PO'd at samsung because of this problem, he told me it was from a lack of memory in my phone.

That sounds weird to me. I hardly have any apps (had none in several of the periods before factory reset), have very few pictures, and nothing else other than texts and emails. Its out of memory, really? I have several friends with G4s and this has never happened to them.

Just sounds wrong to me. I ordered a 32 gig SDHC chip just to see if that helps since they are so cheap, but isn't the "memory" they contain really for storage, not used in computing with the processor in the sense that PC memory is used for?

Thanks!

 

[lopri]

That does not sound right. Is it possible that you are syncing something in the cloud every time you reset the phone, thus taking up the storage without you realizing it? Check the available storage when you feel the phone slows down and see what it is. (Settings -> Storage) If you have plenty of available storage and experience such a dramatic system halt then there has to be something else at fault and more specific troubleshoot may be required.