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I'm with you. I have a S1 and it is very, very slow. Even using the timer has gotten pretty bad.
 
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Correct. Although I find the raise to wake to be faster and more reliable on S5 and S6 compared to S3, which is what I had before. Could just be in my head, but I don’t think so.
 
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