Some of the SYSTEM apps could have goten heavier, or even core operating sytem components.
Assuming you don't disable Google Play Services and strip out Gapps, a lot of the bloat could well be there. Google Play Services has long been a known battery-drainer, which implies running a lot of code.
Phones running 3ed party de-googled builds of Android don't seem to slow down as newer Android versions are updated to. That means the Linux kernel and the AOSP core are less likely to be at fault. These phones are an especially good test as they end up running several subsequent versions of modified Android on the same hardware.
You mention T-Mobile. Any phone bought from a carrier instead of bought unlocked and later activated will carry that carrier's own app and bundleware, which consume resources, in some cases attempt to block tethering, and more than once (Carrier IQ and similar) have been caught spying on users.
I don't have anything from GooglePlay on my phone. NOTHING. I do not stream. I do not use ANY apps. ZERO. I use speed tests and consistently find a statistically significant, slower speed from my OLD Samsung with Tmobile compared to my NEW Samsung 5G
Moreover, it is not timeframe dependant. I have checked in the morning, during the day, and in the evening and even in the early morning hours. There is piss poor performance of my new Samsung 5G compared to my old phone.
If it's not a phone provided by T-Mobile they cannot help with the performance of anything but the Internet connection.
If you installed their app you might want to factory reset to get rid of it.
Also, there have been bad generations of hardware from time to time, and phones while ARM based are quite diverse. Two notorious examples of desktop/laptop CPU's that slowed down compared to similarly clocked predecessors were Intel's Pentium 4 and AMD Bulldozer. The latter was a good video editing chip but a hot running slowpoke for anything else. The former could seem like a cross between a toaster and a calculator.
There in lies the conundrum. It is internet speed which is the problem. It is dog ass slow--regardless of where I am, and I bought the phone from the Tmobile website. My suspicion is that they do not have 5G coverage in my area or are throttling 5G signal to keep 4G without performance issues. Photographs/pics regardless of size are also ridiculously slow to upload. I was measuring speed with Ookla and other speed tests--both upload and download.
OK, that probably has nothing to do witn the phone itself. If you want faster service you need either a different spot to connect from or a different network. Only exception is if the signal itself is weak.
The problem is the ONLY thing that has changed is my phone from an old 4G Samsung to a new 5G Samsung. I didn't change carriers. I didn't change location.
I used Ookla and a couple of other internet speed tests--even close and far servers. I took multiple measurements on both upload and download. There is no doubt that 5G is slower.
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Assuming you don't disable Google Play Services and strip out Gapps, a lot of the bloat could well be there. Google Play Services has long been a known battery-drainer, which implies running a lot of code.
Phones running 3ed party de-googled builds of Android don't seem to slow down as newer Android versions are updated to. That means the Linux kernel and the AOSP core are less likely to be at fault. These phones are an especially good test as they end up running several subsequent versions of modified Android on the same hardware.
You mention T-Mobile. Any phone bought from a carrier instead of bought unlocked and later activated will carry that carrier's own app and bundleware, which consume resources, in some cases attempt to block tethering, and more than once (Carrier IQ and similar) have been caught spying on users.
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If you installed their app you might want to factory reset to get rid of it.
Also, there have been bad generations of hardware from time to time, and phones while ARM based are quite diverse. Two notorious examples of desktop/laptop CPU's that slowed down compared to similarly clocked predecessors were Intel's Pentium 4 and AMD Bulldozer. The latter was a good video editing chip but a hot running slowpoke for anything else. The former could seem like a cross between a toaster and a calculator.
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I myself do not ever interact with any carrier's human customer service as I use only prepaid with cash and refuse to give a name or address
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