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Might have a chance to buy one or the other for about the same price.. now that theres ICS for nexus, seems like it might just be great, but Sensation is better hardware-wise and with CM7.1, it seems like Sensation may just be awesome..
so any opinion is welcome
Posted this on Nexus S forum as well
Thanks!
oh and i currently have a Vibrant so either of them is an upgrade
You should go with the Sensation. Hardware-wise, it's leaps and bounds ahead of the Nexus S, and ICS is coming as early as January (You'd figure as much if some carriers are going to push it out in February). CM9 or Sense 4.0 with the Sensation - both equally as exciting. That's just me though.
Hmm it seems ill be happy either way
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Hmm it seems ill be happy either way
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#GS has AMOLED(WVGA) vs SLCD(qHD) in a time of HD displays....
#Sensation has more RAM(should help in ICS & higher versions)
#Humming vs S3(Power VR is on par w/ 220 when OC'd & the dual core is much faster on ICS)
#Design(Contour is nice for phone calls)
#Resale vale(GS would be worth less next year if you sell it then)
#DualGPS(Only in S3 chips, so you will have fast GPS!)
#GS is related to GN in a way, allows GN roms to work on it!
younix258 said:
Might have a chance to buy one or the other for about the same price.. now that theres ICS for nexus, seems like it might just be great, but Sensation is better hardware-wise and with CM7.1, it seems like Sensation may just be awesome..
so any opinion is welcome
Posted this on Nexus S forum as well
Thanks!
oh and i currently have a Vibrant so either of them is an upgrade
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Seems the decider comes down to whether you like sense or CM9 more and personally sense wins for me so I would stick with sensation, just my opinion...
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Oh im an AOSP kinda person and love cm7 and will prob love cm9 too lol
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#GS has AMOLED(WVGA) vs SLCD(qHD) in a time of HD displays....
#Sensation has more RAM(should help in ICS & higher versions)
#Humming vs S3(Power VR is on par w/ 220 when OC'd & the dual core is much faster on ICS)
#Design(Contour is nice for phone calls)
#Resale vale(GS would be worth less next year if you sell it then)
#DualGPS(Only in S3 chips, so you will have fast GPS!)
#GS is related to GN in a way, allows GN roms to work on it!
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So it seems ill be happy either way...
But damn the choice is getting difficult
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Oh im an AOSP kinda person and love cm7 and will prob love cm9 too lol
So it seems ill be happy either way...
But damn the choice is getting difficult
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In cause you were unsure
GN: G Nexus; GS:meant Nexus S, my bad
S3:Soc/Chip in HTC phones; Hummingbird:1GHz Single used in Sammies
220: Adreno 220, it should have similar speed to the GPU in Galaxy Nexus
I'm also an AOSP guy but I'm using Sense right now cause the AOSP camera blows. I'm really hoping Sense 4.0 is a major update/upgrade. It'd be cool if it was a ground-up rewrite, as well as changing the color scheme to match ICS. A gray/white/black/blue sense would be cool.
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In cause you were unsure
GN: G Nexus; GS:meant Nexus S, my bad
S3:Soc/Chip in HTC phones; Hummingbird:1GHz Single used in Sammies
220: Adreno 220, it should have similar speed to the GPU in Galaxy Nexus
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Lol yeah i figured that out but thanks
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HTC sense is great so I would go for sensation. Just bought mine about two weeks ago and I had made my decision fast.
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I have no technical advice but I personally think the sensation feels better in my hands. And Sense really makes AOS very clean looking. Just my opinion...
I would go with the sensation because its dual core and cm9 should be coming to it shortly and official Android 4.0 as well coming Jan.
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You know what worries me about sense and other ui layerings?? Its that they can slow down the phone and being that my ultimate goal is performance, i just cant have that.. if cm9 will come to sensation in dec or jan or at worse feb, ill take sensation
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You know what worries me about sense and other ui layerings?? Its that they can slow down the phone and being that my ultimate goal is performance, i just cant have that.. if cm9 will come to sensation in dec or jan or at worse feb, ill take sensation
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i had a nexus s before and now sensation...one thing about the question, it's like asking if you will buy a pentium 4 computer or a core2duo computer with higher ram...well nexus s imo is a decent equipment but the same as Galaxy S with NFC chip...Nexus S is comparable to Desire HD but DHD is still faster and smoother even with sense...Sensation itself with stock rom is not that fast...BUT come ICS it's gonna be a different story....
One of my friend using Galaxy S2,his phone can run fruit ninja HD quite smoothly,but on my sensation it runs choppy,we also done lot of benchmark,the score on S2 just way higher than sensation,now im wondering is our phone really that powerful,its performance just only like single core with areno 205 phone,let discuss here
That s ii is more powerful in terms of CPU and gpu
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Dont under estimate your sensation than his galaxy S2 because Touchwiz UI is a light and crappy UI while sensation has a rich Nd heavy UI which makes the benchmarks down...
I agree S2 has a Better GpU, but sensation is also not so far behind...
Checkout cyanogen mod-i use hypersensation and faux kernel...it will surely help for benchmarks as well as gamez, but if you want perfect battery life too, you should under clock...
Hope this helps
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brilldoctor said:
That s ii is more powerful in terms of CPU and gpu
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but why on paper the Adreno 220 is more powerful than mali,some reviewer also stated that adreno 220 is more powerful
no, itz not...
MALI is 400Mhz while adreno is 270Mhz
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Generally the s2 is a more powerful device... But its fugly ...
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dexter93 said:
Generally the s2 is a more powerful device... But its fugly ...
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Yeah fugly - F**ing and ugly
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Yeah fugly - F**ing and ugly
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If it weren't the sensation's sexy curves, alum body and red details, I'd had gotten the s2 its a really good device, but they need to work on the design
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Use bricked kernel to make fruit ninja and other games work like they should.
I also want to recommend you flash Gingerbread Sense 3.5 (2.08.401.1) that has much better adreno driver than sense 3.0 and also don't have that fps limitation which make games like fruit ninja choppy and laggy.
Exynos is more powerful, yes. But there's no reason why your phone can't handle Fruit Ninja. I play it all the time with no issues.
Sensation would have given a performance close to GS2 if it was not qHD... Gs2 is not qHD..
Everything runs in high resolution on this phone... That's why Sensation has 25% less performance... But overall Sensation has sharper display compared to GS2...
Gs2 icons looked very soft compared to Sensation
Add to that, Sense UI is more CPU consuming...
jjdoctor said:
Sensation would have given a performance close to GS2 if it was not qHD... Gs2 is not qHD..
Everything runs in high resolution on this phone... That's why Sensation has 25% less performance... But overall Sensation has sharper display compared to GS2...
Gs2 icons looked very soft compared to Sensation
Add to that, Sense UI is more CPU consuming...
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But frankly speaking, qHD doesn't makes much difference ...
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Try rebooting the device and launching the game again.
Our even better, if you can, install a custom rom and you'll see how smooth it becomes.
If it runs smooth on mine it has to fly on the Sensation. Great phone! Very sexy too! Way more than SGS II on my opinion.
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Holiday Comparison
Over the holidays a buddy of mine brought his new rooted GS2 over. We swapped phones to check them out. The GS2 was wicked fast and smooth scrolling and entering various apps. Entering apps like picture galleries was almost instant, which was cool. Connecting to the internet was faster on my Sensation and Sense 3.5 makes Touch Wiz look childish. The build quality of the SG2 was CRAP!!! The phone felt really cheap. And as for looks, no contest. Even iPhones look better. I was considering getting The Galaxy Note(mainly for the screen size), but not anymore. .
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But frankly speaking, qHD doesn't makes much difference ...
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Why? Ever tried to play a game on your PC with high resolution?
The FPS drops intensely... This is what's happening with sensation... I suppose if we run fruit ninja with 800x480, it will be as smooth as with GS2
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But frankly speaking, qHD doesn't makes much difference ...
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it does.benchmarking depends on resolution directly
try over clocking and try the benchmarks again i love the look and feel of my sensation over anything else
GS2 is more powerful, plain and simple. The Exynos processor is way better than ours, A9 architecture vs. custom A8, and it's synchronous vs asynchronous. The GPUs are both very good. The GS2 CPU is what gives it the advantage.
People are overblowing the resolution difference. Yes, it makes a bit of a difference, but not as much as raw horsepower. The Galaxy Nexus has a way higher resolution than the GS2 but it manages to perform about as well (and also better than the Sensation).
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People are overblowing the resolution difference. Yes, it makes a bit of a difference, but not as much as raw horsepower. The Galaxy Nexus has a way higher resolution than the GS2 but it manages to perform about as well (and also better than the Sensation).
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you must have a look at benchmark scores of galaxy nexus... Watch some videos... It's almost the same as sensation and that too because it's HD display...:-/
Yeah, the Galaxy Nexus doesn't do as well on the Sensation on benchmarks. The PowerVR SGX540 is outdated and they underclocked it too I believe. Just compare the NenaMark 2 scores and you'll see the difference.
So I side purchased a HTC sensation to compare wit our G2x and I have to say the G2x is not even comparable with it. The games run so horrible laggy on the sensation and the screen is so unclear compared to IPS display. The only good thing is the camera and even so it still performs horribly in dark places compared to the great flash and focus of the G2x. Here is where Tegra's chip making is superior and I noticed everything from battery life to app loading, multi tasking and even ICS performance was better even if the Sensation has leaked official firmware. So props to all the devs that have made our G2x comparable to such phones as the HTC Sensation and more.
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So I side purchased a HTC sensation to compare wit our G2x and I have to say the G2x is not even comparable with it. The games run so horrible laggy on the sensation and the screen is so unclear compared to IPS display. The only good thing is the camera and even so it still performs horribly in dark places compared to the great flash and focus of the G2x. Here is where Tegra's chip making is superior and I noticed everything from battery life to app loading, multi tasking and even ICS performance was better even if the Sensation has leaked official firmware. So props to all the devs that have made our G2x comparable to such phones as the HTC Sensation and more.
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I think HTC phones are ugly too.
I wish I had a Sensation.
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mackster248 said:
I wish I had a Sensation.
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I traded it for a HTC Wildfire S because of its condition but I'm kind of regretting it :/ Its a good phone but I'm to accustomed to my G2x power.
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mackster248 said:
I wish I had a Sensation.
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You ever actually use one?
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r.snyder said:
You ever actually use one?
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Briefly. Owned a MT4G for a long time before I traded it for this G2x, and loved it. Can't imagine the Sensation being any worse.
missaellpzchvz said:
So I side purchased a HTC sensation to compare wit our G2x and I have to say the G2x is not even comparable with it. The games run so horrible laggy on the sensation and the screen is so unclear compared to IPS display. The only good thing is the camera and even so it still performs horribly in dark places compared to the great flash and focus of the G2x. Here is where Tegra's chip making is superior and I noticed everything from battery life to app loading, multi tasking and even ICS performance was better even if the Sensation has leaked official firmware. So props to all the devs that have made our G2x comparable to such phones as the HTC Sensation and more.
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Did you root the sensation and flash custom roms and launcher? Give us some more details on the testing you did. Lotta factors go in to determining a good comparison, processor, UI, battery etc...
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Did you root the sensation and flash custom roms and launcher? Give us some more details on the testing you did. Lotta factors go in to determining a good comparison, processor, UI, battery etc...
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Yes, full s-off & ran various gingerbread systems including sense, stock, aosp, and miui. But to be fair, since I'm running CM9 on my G2x I loaded Android Revolution ICS Sense 3.6 and even alpha Sense 4.0 to compare ICS functionality. Through out 2 weeks I tested battery life and that's how I came to the conclusion that the G2x is overall better. Their is way more devs on the sensation but because of the size most of each ROM or mod is very unsupported unlike our community where we have a few but very dedicated devs with amazing rom's.
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i owned a evo 3d which is very similar and its not a bad phone. you guys have better dev support honestly.
I dont play games.......so i cant say anything about that
The G2X does have a better display i feel, the hi rez evo 3d one was ehhhh.....
i do miss the larger screen just a little bit but not too much. for me...(abq, nm) I finally get 4g ish speeds. usually 3-5 mbits down everywhere in my city.
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I wish I had a Sensation.
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I have both also. I am selling my sensation because the screen is crap compared to the G2X.
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I love the qHD rez of the Sensation, but after playing with them for around 15 minutes, I liked the G2X more. The screen is brighter, clearer, I like the aesthetics of it, and the 1.3 mp FFC compared to the VGA on the Sensation. The Sensation was thinner I think, but also a bit slower. Not sure if this had to do with Sense running the whole time or the Snapdragon CPU being crap. It has 768 MBs of RAM compared to our 512, so I thought it would handle multitasking better.
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I really wanted the sensation because I do like the look of the HTC devices. Now I want an Amaze but I am very content with the G2x. May pick one up to play around with at some point.
At one point of time I swore by HTC device. After exploring around with different manufacturers ie Samsung, LG etc. I'm not so thrilled by their lower hi class devices such as the Sensation, Evo 3D etc.
I have had my share of ppcs, androids and etc. I adore the performance of my G2x and tegra 2.
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At one point of time I swore by HTC device. After exploring around with different manufacturers ie Samsung, LG etc. I'm not so thrilled by their lower hi class devices such as the Sensation, Evo 3D etc.
I have had my share of ppcs, androids and etc. I adore the performance of my G2x and tegra 2.
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+1 I've owned HTC, Samsung and LG devices and I would put HTC's hardware as dead last out of the bunch. I use a co-worker's Sensation pretty often and there is no comparison between the two devices. The camera, the lone redeeming quality of the Sensation, takes pictures that look good on the device, but terrible once you view them in full size on a tablet or computer. I was tempted to get a Sensation when I bought the G2X because it had a fully functional ICS ROM (albeit one that is a Sense ROM with Sense stripped instead of AOSP). I'm glad I chose the G2X. The Sensation is not a bad phone, just not a great one either.
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+1 I've owned HTC, Samsung and LG devices and I would put HTC's hardware as dead last out of the bunch. I use a co-worker's Sensation pretty often and there is no comparison between the two devices. The camera, the lone redeeming quality of the Sensation, takes pictures that look good on the device, but terrible once you view them in full size on a tablet or computer. I was tempted to get a Sensation when I bought the G2X because it had a fully functional ICS ROM (albeit one that is a Sense ROM with Sense stripped instead of AOSP). I'm glad I chose the G2X. The Sensation is not a bad phone, just not a great one either.
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Heck yeah.. That's very close to my experience also. I'm very glad I choose the G2X too.
When i was shopping around for a T-Mobile device I was looking to go back to a up to date sense device. I read that HTC is going to slim down on sense on future device so it doesn't tax the ram as much as it do.
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Still BOSS 8)
Rock solid,
Beautiful screen
Great sounds
Does everything
Rooted
Running CM9
Very smooth and fast.
Makes the iPhones look positively dinosauric
Absolutely no need to upgrade either.
ADORE
A very nice posting from my brick
Totally agree
Have no plans on changing my Sensation this year, as it does everything i need.
All these 2012 Smartphones don't really offer anything that makes me want to change.
Had mine for 3 months now and looks like I made the right decision absolutely love it look forward to many more months of awesomeness from this phone
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Does everything work with CM9?
pr0x2 said:
Does everything work with CM9?
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Yes.
YouTube is a bit choppy,
But that's it really ....
A very nice posting from my brick
Love the phone! Had a iPhone a few weeks when my sensation was on service (dust inside the display, got a brand new display for free )
After using a laggy iphone, I realized how much i love the sensation.
It's a sensation... Easy as that.
Same here. My Sensation is 6 1/2 months old, it has no scratches and still looks and feels like on the first day. It's an awesome phone, but the ability to run CM9 makes it still more awesome
I am also running CM9 and got it clocked at 1ghz and hahaha even at this speed is super smooth.
I am really glad that we got CM9, it would be hard to get a phone that doesn't get CM9 support to be honest because these companies overlays are full of bloatware and drain battery super quickly.
The real problem with HTC phones is Sense. I got to have it at like 1.7 to be smooth but then the battery sucks really bad. Then if I clock down to about 1.2 which is when I notice a battery difference, it's all choppy and stuttery.
Just yesterday I played with an HTC One S and I don't really envy anything about it.
And I too feel the same way as a previous poster and that is that I don't feel the need to upgrade.
CM9 + Sensation= Fast, Smooth, Great battery life.
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How do I get CM9? I haven't run Cyanogen since my G2X.
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Rackfoo said:
How do I get CM9? I haven't run Cyanogen since my G2X.
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Rackfoo said:
How do I get CM9? I haven't run Cyanogen since my G2X.
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Go to the Android development section, the thread is called Open Sensation. Should be on either the first or second page.
Your phone needs to be rooted and S-OFF, and you need to have the ICS firmware. Flash through recovery after complete wipe, and enjoy.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=40465824
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42231748#post42231748
Well now we can see people working on sense 5 like in these posts and pictures
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Yap, but we should wait for jb first. Once jb was done,we will be more closed to sense5
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i really like vipers rom, if they make it using jb + sense 5.. its freaking awesome!.. its possible..
Sense 5 looks like an awsome framework, can't wait!
Yeah sense 5 will be awesome. But let's wait, until HTC release sense 5 for ville c2. This could take some time as we all know
I tried it, it boots. Everything else doesn't work. We need the ville to get sense 5 so we can port it from there.
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Better than sense 4x
Ivicask said that sense 5 is faster than sense 4.x , because it is better optimised. So sensation will have better respond with , and also better performance. No big reason to buy new phone til 2014...
nikola016 said:
Ivicask said that sense 5 is faster than sense 4.x , because it is better optimised. So sensation will have better respond with , and also better performance. No big reason to buy new phone til 2014...
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Keep telling yourself that
Sensation was released with great hardware but HTC didn't bother trying to futureproof any of it. They just released something they thought was great, and didn't bother to pay attention to the competition. Look at the hardware differences between the sensation and the gs2. Sensation has less ram and no NFC.
hah
on't believe me? Read in vipers 3.0.1 thread latest few pages
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on't believe me? Read in vipers 3.0.1 thread latest few pages
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I see that and I don't doubt that it'll be faster. However it is still sense. Sense is bloated. Heck, I'm running cm10 and I still see lots of lag. I highly doubt sense will ever be a fast as cm.
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sy224048 said:
I see that and I don't doubt that it'll be faster. However it is still sense. Sense is bloated. Heck, I'm running cm10 and I still see lots of lag. I highly doubt sense will ever be a fast as cm.
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im running CM 10 and i have no lag at all. if anything cm10 is the fastest rom i have ever had on my sensation. and i believe sense 5 can be used as a base for some very very fast roms. dont need to keep sense jus desense it and your away
sy224048 said:
I see that and I don't doubt that it'll be faster. However it is still sense. Sense is bloated. Heck, I'm running cm10 and I still see lots of lag. I highly doubt sense will ever be a fast as cm.
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Well, jb works best with 1gb ram, we don't have it so that is the main reason for lag...
KernelDev101 said:
im running CM 10 and i have no lag at all. if anything cm10 is the fastest rom i have ever had on my sensation. and i believe sense 5 can be used as a base for some very very fast roms. dont need to keep sense jus desense it and your away
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Maybe once the kernel of AOSP/JB with ION can be used on cm10 and cm10 based roms,it will have a better performance.
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Maybe once the kernel of AOSP/JB with ION can be used on cm10 and cm10 based roms,it will have a better performance.
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Yes once we have Full ION capability Roms will become much faster with the new memory management ( ION ) because ION is faster than plain old Pmem
Official update?
EfrainTrejo said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=40465824
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Hi,
Will there be an official update for the Sensation XE?
paradice55 said:
Hi,
Will there be an official update for the Sensation XE?
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i highly dought it but the xda devs can help us out with sense 5
paradice55 said:
Hi,
Will there be an official update for the Sensation XE?
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99.999999% No
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It's kinda ironic that even entry level phones from other manufacturers get JB while this doesn't.
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at least we got the developers that make custom roms. i hope there will be a custom sense 5 rom soon.
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but there is less ram around 430mb.
is this enough for muti-tasking?