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Just got Samsung Captivate UI is slow?

Just got a Captivate (AT&T Branded S) the device seems awesome but the UI seems sluggish? Any advice to speed up the UI? I was using a HTC aria and the UI on it was much snappier.

What? how? what is the firmware? any bloatware installed on it?

where did you get it.. do you work for them? i dont see it on the website.

atrain987 said:
Just got a Captivate (AT&T Branded S) the device seems awesome but the UI seems sluggish? Any advice to speed up the UI? I was using a HTC aria and the UI on it was much snappier.
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to speed up ui. try he stalling fix.. with the symlink.. assuming the root hack works.. keep us informed.

Job Secuirty
For my job sake I'm really care not to give out that info. It has AT&T apps preinstalled but I'm not sure how that would affect the UI performance? All I know is the HTC "seemed" much faster than this device .

Please let us know if anything changes in terms of perkiness.
What aspects of the UI seems slow?
Responsiveness of touch?
Let us know whats going on, there are lots of interested people out here!

atrain, you'll likely have to do the lag fix mentioned above, I was in the same boat, the myTouch Slide felt much snappier until I did the fix on my carrier-branded Galaxy.

atrain987 said:
Just got a Captivate (AT&T Branded S) the device seems awesome but the UI seems sluggish? Any advice to speed up the UI? I was using a HTC aria and the UI on it was much snappier.
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OMG! I CAN"T WAIT FOR IT :{
I NEEd the releASE DATE.
guys mind my sudden lost of sanity.

Suppose the firmware revisions are different on those, but guess it doesn't hurt to ask: What's the firmware version on it?
(enter *#1234# in the phone app to find out)

Yes, any more information that you could give about the device w/o compromising your career would be appreciated. As mymansionisabox said, there are tons of people here interested.
To the rest of us: if this guy's legit, & he does indeed have a Captivate in-hand, then we can assume he's an AT&T rep of some sort. If they're giving the handsets out to employees for play-time/testing, release must be pretty close. I do find it odd, however, that he thinks the UI is slow, since the innumerable videos on the web from the 6/29 event didn't show any such lag in the Captivate... The only video that showed any UI lag was the Engadget vid where the person shooting was at a Starbucks & admitted that they were playing w/a pre-production device. All of the videos of the Captivate at the 6/29 event (which came after that Engadget vid) showed no such lag.

t-readyroc said:
Yes, any more information that you could give about the device w/o compromising your career would be appreciated. As mymansionisabox said, there are tons of people here interested.
To the rest of us: if this guy's legit, & he does indeed have a Captivate in-hand, then we can assume he's an AT&T rep of some sort. If they're giving the handsets out to employees for play-time/testing, release must be pretty close. I do find it odd, however, that he thinks the UI is slow, since the innumerable videos on the web from the 6/29 event didn't show any such lag in the Captivate...
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But who knows what kind of "improvements" at&t has done to the firmware since showcasing it?

I tried the galaxy s the other day and the UI is indeed slow especially when live wallpapers are active, also got used to the desire's hardware keys which made using the galaxy a bit difficult, also the interface is a bit boring...
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

atrain987 said:
For my job sake I'm really care not to give out that info. It has AT&T apps preinstalled but I'm not sure how that would affect the UI performance? All I know is the HTC "seemed" much faster than this device .
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Without showing parts of the UI that might disclose your identity... would you be able to make and post a video of the UI and show the issues that you're experiencing? Short of that... as mentioned before... can you tell us the firmware version and if your Captivate is pre-release or if it is the hardware and software that's going to be "officially" released.

Update
I removed the live wall paper and some large widgets and the UI seems better, I think I was just spoiled by how insanely fast the UI is on the HTC aria.
Can you root the Galaxy S without putting a stock firmware on it? I need to leave the AT&T firmware on the device.
Sorry I am noob on android still.

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tamanaco said:
Without showing parts of the UI that might disclose your identity... would you be able to make and post a video of the UI and show the issues that you're experiencing? Short of that... as mentioned before... can you tell us the firmware version and if your Captivate is pre-release or if it is the hardware and software that's going to be "officially" released.
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Its the release build, but yeah sorry no videos.

atrain987 said:
I think I was just spoiled by how insanely fast the UI is on the HTC aria.
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OK, srsly? I may have to call b.s. on OP. Sure, Aria's UI is quick/responsive, but I find it hard to believe Captivate's that much slower, no matter what AT&T might've done to it since 6/29.
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No videos. Fine. Don't think I'm all-in on this crazy train w/o some sort of proof, though.

Okay
The Captivate is awesome once you have a app open like the 720p MKV file I was watching on it earlier, but the UI is sluggish compared to HTC aria.
I came here just looking for tips to improve performance I could care less about "forum glory".

It actually isnt what at&t may have done to the firmware, the galaxy i tried wasnt locked to a carrier, and it was slow, especially when the ocean live wallpaper was active...
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

Well, since AT&T just officially announced availability in 10days, I guess I'm going to have to reverse my stance.
I still can't comprehend how the UI is slow compared to the Aria, though.
**Edit - Samsung confirmed the date/pricing as well. 10days to go, boyos!

UI
It does seem faster now that I have replaced the stock home screen with LauncherPro Beta. Maybe its just the touchwize homescreen that is slow? Again app performance is fine it was just the homescreen UI.

myTouch 4G - the best phone to date

I finally got the mytouch today and i wasnt sure sure what to expext. But now i know.... this baby is a BEAST. Fastest phone i have ever used. The processor blows away the competition, by far! Internet wise, the 4G yeilds 6.5 mbps up 1.4 down. Also this the first Android phone that has smooth multitouch. Not choppy, and no lag. Also dont let pictures of this phone fool you, it is sleek and sexy. I got the black one. I definitely recommend it if you need a new phone or are thinking about getting one. What do you guys think?

bijanian said:
I finally got the mytouch today and i wasnt sure sure what to expext. But now i know.... this baby is a BEAST. Fastest phone i have ever used. The processor blows away the competition, by far! Internet wise, the 4G yeilds 6.5 kbps up 1.4 down. Also this the first Android phone that has smooth multitouch. Not choppy, and no lag. Also dont let pictures of this phone fool you, it is sleek and sexy. I got the black one. I definitely recommend it if you need a new phone or are thinking about getting one. What do you guys think?
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I checked it out in the T-Mobile store this evening. Seemed nice, but the UI really ircked me. It felt laggy and bloated, often lagging between the app drawer and menus. The device has nice hardware, to be sure, but it'll need perma-root to really shine.
I'm trying to decide whether I want to buy a G2 or MT4G, depends which gets full root first, I think. Or if the N2 rumors turn out to be true.
I can confirm the HSPA+ speeds are pretty snappy though. In Phoenix, the '4G' network is live, and I got similar speeds to what you got in the TMO store.

I might have to get one of these to accompany my G2... I like what I am seeing so far

Blackman778g said:
I might have to get one of these to accompany my G2... I like what I am seeing so far
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I have a MyTouch 4G and a G2.. I find myself having a hard time deciding between the two. The MyTouch is so powerful but I love stock Android.. They are both awesome devices.
Sent from my HTC Glacier using XDA App

stop using espresso overlay and install launcher pro instead! works great and is SUPER FAST in the mytouch 4g!

This is by far the sickest phone I have ever used.
Sent from my HTC Glacier using XDA App

Launcher pro plus is the way to go! This phone is More snappy than my rooted souped up nexus

Yes, launcher pro plus adds to what is already a great phone.

bijanian said:
I finally got the mytouch today and i wasnt sure sure what to expext. But now i know.... this baby is a BEAST. Fastest phone i have ever used. The processor blows away the competition, by far! Internet wise, the 4G yeilds 6.5 kbps up 1.4 down. Also this the first Android phone that has smooth multitouch. Not choppy, and no lag. Also dont let pictures of this phone fool you, it is sleek and sexy. I got the black one. I definitely recommend it if you need a new phone or are thinking about getting one. What do you guys think?
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Damn man, only 6.5 KBPS lol.

i must agree... my only disappointment is sense :/ i guess I'm just old fashion
lol and i know everyone says luncher pro but I perfer all aspects of stock (ie gallery for example)

quierotacobell said:
Damn man, only 6.5 KBPS lol.
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LLOL i was thinking the same thing.

If you try the phone at the store, remember that people have been screwing the demo phones up. The one at the store was so full of junk that it crawled.
The one I bought has been flawless. Even with Sense, and I came from an N1!

ekinnee said:
If you try the phone at the store, remember that people have been screwing the demo phones up. The one at the store was so full of junk that it crawled.
The one I bought has been flawless. Even with Sense, and I came from an N1!
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I noticed this as well, and it irritated me, so I went through and started uninstalling crap.
Wish I'd installed LP to test it out, but didn't think of it until I got home.
Torn on the G2 to MT4G. Had my Droid 1 for a year now and I'm itching for something better.

Im loving these speeds
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oh yea and Sprint. i know a place you can take your battery drain and 4G fee
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Bateluer said:
I noticed this as well, and it irritated me, so I went through and started uninstalling crap.
Wish I'd installed LP to test it out, but didn't think of it until I got home.
Torn on the G2 to MT4G. Had my Droid 1 for a year now and I'm itching for something better.
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I always do factory resets on them.
I've had a G2, wasn't impressed with the weight, hinge or keyboard. Basically it was a fat N1 that felt a bit speedier. In comparison, this MT4G is great, super fast, the HTC keyboard is better than stock and the screen is accurate.
All total I've had a Sprint Hero, EVO, G2, Vibrant, and N1. This MT4G is tops by far.

ekinnee said:
I always do factory resets on them.
I've had a G2, wasn't impressed with the weight, hinge or keyboard. Basically it was a fat N1 that felt a bit speedier. In comparison, this MT4G is great, super fast, the HTC keyboard is better than stock and the screen is accurate.
All total I've had a Sprint Hero, EVO, G2, Vibrant, and N1. This MT4G is tops by far.
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The MT4G I played with seemed to only have Swype as a virtual keyboard option, which I didn't care for. On my Droid 1, I use the HTC-IME keyboard for those few times I use the on screen keyboard.
You've obviously had more Android phones than me. I'm looking to buy a new phone for myself for Christmas, should have plenty of options, but I don't see Verizon offering me what I want.
Edit - Seems to be plenty of AOSP builds for the MT3G, a good sign once permanent root is achieved.

Bateluer said:
The MT4G I played with seemed to only have Swype as a virtual keyboard option, which I didn't care for. On my Droid 1, I use the HTC-IME keyboard for those few times I use the on screen keyboard.
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Press and hold on an text input box and select "Touch Input" instead of Swype.

This is definitely T-Mob's best production to date by far. After release of the G2 with the bulk of the physical kb & funky hinge I'm so happy to see a great, sleek, sexy, beast of an Andriod phone on T-Mob.
Bravo to T-Mob & HTC!
Sent from my HTC Glacier using XDA App

coming from the vibrant, i love the quickness of the phone along with how sharp it displays text.
S-amoled is great and all, but its pentile arrangement of pixels renders jaggy-looking text.

I like everything about it except for the following:
1. Genius button. Wish it was software mappable. They shouldn't force us to use it. Just give me a regular search button and then make it an option of what it does when you hold down on it.
2. Speaker starts crackling on loud setting.
3. Wish it wasn't locked down so we could get easy root and swap roms. That goes for all the new phones, really.

AnandTech Benchmarks HTC Sensation

Hands on and Benchmarks of two MSM8x60 Phones - HTC Sensation 4G and HTC EVO 3D
They say more in-depth testing will be coming.

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What is this?

jerrylzy said:
What is this?
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The HTC ChaCha and the HTC Salsa. Some Facebook-centric phones.

The Sensation in the review is NOT "T-Mobile" branded, but the back cover does have the extra connector missing from the EU-Vodafone Sensation.

Can someone explain why the HTC Sensation is stuttering so much in web browsing, especially with Flash enabled? The GSII just smokes it, is it because of a better browser on the GSII?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAuNsHPnK3I

hycian said:
Can someone explain why the HTC Sensation is stuttering so much in web browsing, especially with Flash enabled? The GSII just smokes it, is it because of a better browser on the GSII?
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The short answer - Yes.
The longer answer - Yes, but...
The browser smoothness in the SGS II comes from Hardware acceleration - the only feature from it I really wished would come to the Sensation as well.
I do hope a software update would fix it, though I'm not sure whether that's possible. It seems that in terms of performance, according to the AnandTech benchmarks (back on topic), the Sensation has failed.
Badly.
And I'm afraid that although clearly the bloated (though lovely) nu-sense isn't helping that much. A Stock-based rom would make it run better, but then you'll obviously lose Sense, and the SGS2 with its Stock ROM would still be faster.
I won't cancel my order though. I still prefer it to the SGS II.

Trekest said:
The short answer - Yes.
The longer answer - Yes, but...
The browser smoothness in the SGS II comes from Hardware acceleration - the only feature from it I really wished would come to the Sensation as well.
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wait, so why didn't HTC enable hardware acceleration? seems kind of dumb to me.

xnifex said:
wait, so why didn't HTC enable hardware acceleration? seems kind of dumb to me.
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definitely dumb move from htc...can we port the browser from the sgs2 with hardware acceleration?

It really doesn't work that way.

hycian said:
Can someone explain why the HTC Sensation is stuttering so much in web browsing, especially with Flash enabled? The GSII just smokes it, is it because of a better browser on the GSII?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAuNsHPnK3I
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its not cause the sense ? its hogging the resource ?
with hd2 and non sense its running much faster then sense

Trekest said:
The short answer - Yes.
The longer answer - Yes, but...
The browser smoothness in the SGS II comes from Hardware acceleration - the only feature from it I really wished would come to the Sensation as well.
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I have read this so many times. Many say GS2 browser and TW has hardware acceleration enabled. But I don't seem to find any "official" confirmation of that nor any proof.

The disadvantage of the Galaxy S2-browser is the checkerboard-pattern displayed when scrolling (very similar to the iPhones browser).
When comparing performance, don't forget that the Sensations much higher resolution will put a higher strain on the phones hardware. But the benefit is obvious - much crisper text, more content displayed on a single screen compared to 800x480 resolution phones.

bcpk said:
It really doesn't work that way.
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Of course not but still..it is really annoying that the samsung gs2 has a much smoother browser experience...

nirvana2506 said:
Of course not but still..it is really annoying that the samsung gs2 has a much smoother browser experience...
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And GS2 users can be annoyed they have a lower resolution screen, requiring more zooming, and less text on the screen.

samnada said:
And GS2 users can be annoyed they have a lower resolution screen, requiring more zooming, and less text on the screen.
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maybe but I guess they are not...I still dont get it why the hell htc hasnt managed to make a device with a really smooth UI + browser..I hate that...but I like Sense and its functionality so I'm going for a sensation

I'm waiting to get the Sensation as my first Android device (coming from Blackberry), seen the video comparing the "smoothness" of the SGII vs Sensation, and have to ask... what is the big deal here? Excuse my ignorance if I'm missing something. So the SGII will scroll as smooth as your finger across the screen. How often are you reading a web page by continously scrolling, line by line. At least when I read on my BB, even my PC, I'll scroll a whole page down, read the page, and scroll another page.

Only browser test comparison I care about is Dolphin HD on both.

erp2863 said:
I'm waiting to get the Sensation as my first Android device (coming from Blackberry), seen the video comparing the "smoothness" of the SGII vs Sensation, and have to ask... what is the big deal here? Excuse my ignorance if I'm missing something. So the SGII will scroll as smooth as your finger across the screen. How often are you reading a web page by continously scrolling, line by line. At least when I read on my BB, even my PC, I'll scroll a whole page down, read the page, and scroll another page.
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Good selection on your first Android. I'm glad you are getting a flagship. Hate when new Android users pick a garbage device then think Android sucks.
The big deal... to you would be zero. Either phone would blow your socks off. It only matters to those who want that phone that's 2.5% better performing than the second best phone.

If you look at the sunspider and browsermark benchmarks you can see why its not as smooth or fast or whatever.
Nothing to do with SGS2 being anything special.
Something is not right somewhere going by these scores.

Why are people comparing the Sensation 4G to the Galaxy S II?
Who cares?
The Galaxy S II does not exist for the USA, and probably won't ever exist for T-Mobile users.

Samsung; What You've Done With ICS

I love Android Ice Cream Sandwich. I love the fluid user interface, the futuristic Holo theme, the aptly named Roboto font and its swipe-able UI elements among many other qualities. Hell, I love it so much that I’ve even started eating more Ice Cream Sandwiches ever since it was announced. ( just joking )
ICS is a completely new direction for Android, it is its first version that has a coherent design vision behind it, and its Director of User Experience, Matias Duarte has outdone himself. The care and love he has put in while designing it was pretty self-evident, that is, until OEM’s got their slimy hands upon its shiny, beautiful interface. ( yeah, Samsung, i am talking to you )
The crux of the matter is that Samsung just started rolling out its ICS update for its most popular smartphone to date, the Galaxy SII. And it is horrendous. Absolutely horrendous. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with it, except the fact that it looks EXACTLY the same as Gingerbread. Samsung have taken a revolutionary update to the Android operating system and turned it into an iterative one, which is behaviour that I cannot, in good conscience, condone. I am surprised that Google is not yet up in arms against such a base defilement of its beautiful child.
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Home Screen of SII on ICS - (Courtesy-GSMArena.com)
Samsung’s logic states that it does not want to change an interface that millions of its users have now gotten used to, which, superficially, seems pretty sound. But, the problem is that people were expecting ICS to be an absolutely revolutionary change and as Nokia and Symbian have already shown us, companies should not keep sticking to a familiar UI and ebb the tide of progress while the world around them keeps evolving. It is a cut-throat world right now, you either innovate and move forward or stagnate and die.
Which brings us to future innovation from Samsung. The company is about to introduce its latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy SIII. The question then arises as to what Samsung shall make of the software atop such a seminal device; will they again cater to legacy users and use the same version of TouchWiz as on the SGS2, or will they completely re-vamp the UI to accompany the new device? As the situation stands, both of the options present potential pitfalls. If they stick to SGS2’s UI, the tech industry at large would be completely disappointed, as Samsung would be the only company to blatantly ignore ICS to such an extent. On the other hand, if they do introduce a new UI, they would be fragmenting their own Android smartphone portfolio.
Samsung has already garnered a reputation for being very flaky with regard to their updates. They decided not to update the Galaxy S to ICS at all and all this further confusion might be a potential nail in Samsung’s coffin for the year 2012. That is just how fast a single bad decision travels among the tech fraternity in these times.
I don’t want to sound like an Apple fanboy, but this is one place where Samsung and the whole Android OEM conglomerate sorely need to learn the ropes from Apple. They update their phones regularly and consistently. You can still pick up the iPhone 3GS, launched 3 years ago and it would still have more or less the same experience as a newly minted iPhone 4S, while in Samsung’s case, every subsequent generation of their flagship ‘S’ line has a monumentally different experience. Come on Sammy, wise up!
The good ole' Galaxy S, is not getting an 'OFFICIAL' ICS upgrade, why? Because according to them, the RAM in phone is not enough to run the touchwiz and the other carrier added crapware, even when the Google Nexus S ca be updated to the latest ICS offering, which essentially have the same hardware.
If you take a look at the homescreen of the S II, one which is still on Gingerbread and the other one which is updated to ICS, you can barely notice any difference between them.
So, in the end, i just want to state that if samsung's gonna include touchwiz n it's next flagship, at least please update the touchwiz so that we can tell any difference between Gingerbread & ICS.
P.S. I want to add a link for a youtube video which shows two S II, kept side-by side, one Gingerbread & one ICS, but the forum rules doesn't allow me to post the link.

I agree, but the reason I don't like TW is not because of fragmentation, but because It's just so extremely ugly. I know this is a personal opinion, but I know many people agree with me and I can't see how Samsung can possibly have missed this and continues to use it.
Also the fact that it is so similar to gb TW is stupid. HTC understood that they had to renew themselves and created a, in my opinion, amazing skin
Sent from my Hero using XDA

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yeah! this video, which i want to post, but the forum rules doesn't allow me to do so until i reach the 8 posts.
Anyways, thanks

Habarug said:
I agree, but the reason I don't like TW is not because of fragmentation, but because It's just so extremely ugly. I know this is a personal opinion, but I know many people agree with me and I can't see how Samsung can possibly have missed this and continues to use it.
Also the fact that it is so similar to gb TW is stupid. HTC understood that they had to renew themselves and created a, in my opinion, amazing skin
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yeah, they've completely bungled up the ICS update for S II, only because of the ugly touchwiz. i mean just watch the video once, one can hardly tell the difference between gingerbread & ice cream sandwich, if they want to upgrade the software just to make them look-alike then i guess that their next flagship will be just like their previous, at least when it comes to os

The two biggest cons for me are that Samsung updates horribly slow because of it and that it's plain ugly.
Gingerbread, TouchWiz and Sense are closer to the style of iOS, while Ice Cream Sandwich is closer to the modern Windows Phone 7 style.
I like that much more. The only thing that I find better in WP7 than in iOS and Android is the design of the User Interface.

to be honest I am using a port of the HTC One with Sense 4.0 and Htc did nearly the same thing. If you didnt tell me it was ICS I would think it was gingerbread with a new sense clock widget. I am not sure why the OEMs continue to do this. Maybe samsungs or htcs decisions suite some, but when the first thing I need to do with the HTC port is start yanking apks and adding different launchers to convince myself I am running ICS there is an issue

incredible step backwards. total gingerbread sh!t.
ruins the whole essence of ICS if you ask me.
damn you and your Galaxy Value Pack upgrades too!
I dont want to unlock my phone with my face OK?

Guys you have to understand. We are the 1% of their users. And even some of us prefer ugly UI (MIUI). The OEM will always do this. The UI is their branding on a phone. Most normal users like the way it looks. Personally I have not seem a good looking UI from anyone. All 2 tone colors and flat images. Thank god for custom themes. Lol
If you want regular updates then get a Nexus. When it comes to anything other then the nexus, the carriers have all the control over the updates. (At least in the states)

Some people don't know that you can disable defaults on twlauncher and go to stock launcher instead.

I've made simular comments in the past few months after the first leaked images of the Samsung ICS update.
I argued that what we are seeing is a midcycle update and not the rule of thumb for future devices.
Don't get me wrong, this by no means advocates samsungs decision to strip ICS of its looks and feature set. I'm merely able to understand that many millions of people have bought this phone (millions of very ordinary people) and this isn't like an upgrade from froyo to gingerbread where the notification bar gets changed to black. ICS is a different animal all together.
My mother chose her green screen nokia 3210 over a cybershot Sony Ericsson simply because she wasn't keen on the icon style UI. She has never strayed from nokia since even though they now have icons.
Its a fear of losing customers which has lead to such a timid update and samsung as a brand doesn't have the same innovative swagger as HTC let's say. Where as HTC customers are almost expecting HTC to make everything more glossy and spin around like a disco dancer every two weeks in an update.
My GSII is still amazing with gingerbread. I've changed the launcher which I would have done and will do no matter what they did with ICS. Orange UK will release the ICS update in the coming weeks and my expectations are safely low.
I don't believe this will be the case for the GSIII by the way. Plus I also here that samsung may be the first to offer a choice of the new TW ICS (that's not so locked to the gingerbread experience) and Vanilla ICS.
My fingers are crossed and anyway my next upgrade cycle isn't until next year when jellybean will be out and the GSIV or "the New GS" will be in full swing.
Booooom!
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ICS status bar battery is green! need I say more?
maybe they honestly tried, but with that touchwiz camoflauge, I have to do a double/triple take to see ICS.
SGS2:

Lol see the problem is, samsung believes in only changing the interface and adding true new features in their next flagship phone, unlike iOS where the new interface changes show up on older models. Samsung i hate you, and not by opinion but because i have the tab 8.9 and captivate and you havent done anything to fix their various bugs etc, so i have to rely on custom romsol

It's embarrassingly bad.
Sent from my SGS II

I guess the rational is that too radical a change would upset the uninformed users
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ICS not support ad-hoc!!!
using ICS only 1 hour and i flash it back to gingerbread 2.3.6, at least my gb 2.3.6 can connect to ad-hoc network and ics CAN NOT!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24766415

yeah, samsung are just careless when coming to device maintaining, but i don't care as long as there are devs that make ports and roms that i love, and samsung releases sources !!!

I agree, I have not had a stock firmware on any of my android devices for longer than a day or so in years. I guess that is actually a pretty hurtful statement to the OEMs software though

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Some people don't know that you can disable defaults on twlauncher and go to stock launcher instead.
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Hi, what are the steps to do so?
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[Q] How to completely turn off parallax wallpapers

İ have just bought S6 been huge fun HTC last for years but this year chose S6.
One thing bugs me on S6 that paralax wallpaper how can i turn it off its so much copy from İOS and i do not like. is there a way to do it
Thanks

cihanleanne said:
İ have just bought S6 been huge fun HTC last for years but this year chose S6.
One thing bugs me on S6 that paralax wallpaper how can i turn it off its so much copy from İOS and i do not like. is there a way to do it
Thanks
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I'd like to dissable it too...

guax said:
I'd like to dissable it too...
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No one has repliedi assume maybe there is not way to do

cihanleanne said:
No one has repliedi assume maybe there is not way to do
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I'd didn't found it

cihanleanne said:
İ have just bought S6 been huge fun HTC last for years but this year chose S6.
One thing bugs me on S6 that paralax wallpaper how can i turn it off its so much copy from İOS and i do not like. is there a way to do it
Thanks
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Is this the thing where the wallpaper moves based on how you're holding the phone?

Just get another launcher like nova or something, the parallax effect only works with the touchwiz launcher

Just sold the phone too much iphone copy

Contacted Samsung Support about this. They will forward the request to the developers. If enough people complain and request an option to disable this effect, then it will probably come with the next OTA.

I returned my phone yesterday because of this and got charged $50 restocked fee I was livid! So I ended up buying the phone again today and installing Nova launcher to remove that parallaxitive effect.

[email protected] returning phones because of this

twoeleven99 said:
[email protected] returning phones because of this
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Ur sopposed to get an android to be different from the iPhone and what do they do? sell me a phone that the home screen acts like an iphone...smhh I don't wanna have that piece of sh%= round hurrr, ya feels me dawgs!! That's loyalty towards android, round my hood that's how a brotha gain spect fo anotha, ain't no one gots time fo betrayal. This life full of rats and snakes...
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Whats the problem with installing another launcher if you want to be more android like?
Like nova or Google now launcher

I don't understand people sometimes, this has to the be one of the dumbest reasons ever to return a phone...

Lancerz said:
I don't understand people sometimes, this has to the be one of the dumbest reasons ever to return a phone...
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That's just loyalty. Some people are just sell outs and jump to the nearest ban wagon, not me and a couple of others...

Slicktune said:
Ur sopposed to get an android to be different from the iPhone and what do they do? sell me a phone that the home screen acts like an iphone...smhh I don't wanna have that piece of sh%= round hurrr, ya feels me dawgs!! That's loyalty towards android, round my hood that's how a brotha gain spect fo anotha, ain't no one gots time fo betrayal. This life full of rats and snakes...
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Typing like you talk in real life is so 1990 =p
But yeah, I see your point!! Look below, you can barely tell the difference! Which one is the iPhone?? No one knows..
And FYI parallax wallpaper was on android before iOS. 3D live wallpaper. They just rebranded it. And live wallpaper in general has been around since the Nexus One.

Some people are just dumb returning a phone because you dont like wallpaper? This is android. You install another launcher... make your phone your own. I bought the phone for its hardware... not its software... if your too lazy to make the phone your own... please go back to apple.. so you can be stuck in only one vision of a phone.

returning a phone because of the wallpaper? WOW, and i mean WOW, that's pure unrefined stupidity. It would be like returning a house because you didn't like the color of the paint in the living room.
Copy of the IOS?? since when did parallax become solely associated with the IOS? Parallax effects have been around since the 1990s on NES games, animated shows, flash animations and games, etc.; Did they not consider that the parallax effect is actually just a LIVE WALLPAPER? Which has been with android since android 2.1 before its implementation on the IOS? If at all, the Iphone is actually copying and slowly becoming an Android device.
As for the overall appearance of a lot of Android smartphones' default launchers, is Android really copying the IOS? or are they just being affected by the ever changing preference of the general consumer? How do you actually define the "Android look"??? Is it the "80s retro-futuristic" look or the cheesy customized-friendster-ish look of a lot of themes of the multitude of launchers in Android? Is it the low-res or the 3Dish looking icons that makes an Android smartphone look "Android"? Sheeesh, talk about old relics that don't like change and advancement in technology, i for one, like the sleek and clean-looking icons and the minimalist design on the menus on default phone launchers, but that's just my personal preference, if you don't like it then change the launcher, root it and install a custom ROM or something, but SELLING??? Remember, you don't have a feature phone on your hands with a fixed set of capabilities and appearance, IT'S A SMARTPHONE for crying out loud.
Oh, and loyalty? loyalty is about sticking by someone or something whatever that may happen. They sold their phones because they didn't like parallax wallpapers, doesn't that make them literally "sell-outs"? Also, isn't hating the iOS a bandwagon thing too? Because I rode that bandwagon for the fun of it, other bandwagons include iOS fanboyism, Android fanboyism, PC fanboyism, Console fanboyism(with sub-categories and in-fighting amongst PS4 and Xbox fanboys), hating on Nickelback is also a bandwagon(yes, i've researched for years the core-reason why a lot of internet people hate Nickelback....and i've come to the conclusion that it's really a bandwagon), and a lot more bandwagons, there's a bandwagon for almost every imaginable thing, except for Justin Bieber hate, that's a real thing.

Slicktune said:
I returned my phone yesterday because of this and got charged $50 restocked fee I was livid! So I ended up buying the phone again today and installing Nova launcher to remove that parallaxitive effect.
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No words to describe you sir .they should have charged you 200 .

cihanleanne said:
Just sold the phone too much iphone copy
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Sorry to respond to such an old post but this is the single most stupid thing I think I have ever read. Congrats, you should win an award or something. Like a gilded turd that has been sculpted to resemble an iPhone.