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Wow! Seriously?

To begin im not rooted or unlocked and ive read through the stickies and pages at "solutions" but i gotta say this is the worst phone ive ever owned. I figured it would be at least on par with my old g2 or mt4g but they would smoke this paperweight on edge network. Ive factory reset, used task killer, rebooted, called tech support, and im about ready to committ cellular homicide and mail it back piece by piece. I know im not the only one here....who else wants to vent some steam by sharing a nightmare?
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smokeuout said:
To begin im not rooted or unlocked and ive read through the stickies and pages at "solutions" but i gotta say this is the worst phone ive ever owned. I figured it would be at least on par with my old g2 or mt4g but they would smoke this paperweight on edge network. Ive factory reset, used task killer, rebooted, called tech support, and im about ready to committ cellular homicide and mail it back piece by piece. I know im not the only one here....who else wants to vent some steam by sharing a nightmare?
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Um it would quite help if you were to explain the reasons why you don't like this phone? And it would also really help if you didn't judge this phone stock because when its on the stock rom, its a piece of sh*t. I almost ran over this thing.
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It shouldnt have to be rooted to compete with the g2 or mt4g...this beat the iphone 4 in a speed test. This thing lags on every scroll and takes a good 10-15 sec to open anything you touch. This isnt the first one ive experience this with either. Tmobile hyped this up like its hot sh** but its just cold diahrea
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smokeuout said:
It shouldnt have to be rooted to compete with the g2 or mt4g...this beat the iphone 4 in a speed test. This thing lags on every scroll and takes a good 10-15 sec to open anything you touch. This isnt the first one ive experience this with either. Tmobile hyped this up like its hot sh** but its just cold diahrea
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If you are clearly having issues why not custom rom it? I really don't understand why are you refusing to do something that has SOO MANY benefits and zero disadvantages. Sounds like lazyness to me. Shouldn't even bother with xda if you won't even root the phone
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My wife and I both got the SGS4G at the same time she had all of the same complaints and eventually caved in and got a different phone. I on the other hand came to XDA and got help and now I am perfectly happy with the phone. the Vibrant had all of the same issues and its a software problem form Samsung. I loaded a custom ROM and all of the issues I had are gone. the great thing about software is that it can be fixed. Hardware issues are another story of which this phone has none that I have found. It is possible to revert back to stock firmware and software so that its like you never did anything if you want to sell the phone later. So this is not the place to vent about how crappy your stock phone is it is the place to come and load the software needed to fix it.

I'm.with you... I miss my mytouch 4g. Such an awesome phone. So many roms. So fast.
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Honestly this is like if you bought a Ferrari and it had a rev limiter set at 2k with the top speed limited to 10mph but refused to turn off the limiters. The limiters are clearly there and you can clearly turn them off but you refuse to and instead of fixing the issue, you complain saying that you shouldnt have to turn them off and your ford fiesta is faster.
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Honestly this is like if you bought a Ferrari and it had a rev limiter set at 2k with the top speed limited to 10mph but refused to turn off the limiters. The limiters are clearly there and you can clearly turn them off but you refuse to and instead of fixing the issue, you complain saying that you shouldnt have to turn them off and your ford fiesta is faster.
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Lol...damn dude you got me pegged huh? It couldnt be that i dont have a pc right now, and thats one of the requirements to take off your so called "limiters". Think a little before you flame boi. I feel real sorry for the people that dont know anything about root and deal with this steaming pile daily.
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Lol...damn dude you got me pegged huh? It couldnt be that i dont have a pc right now, and thats one of the requirements to take off your so called "limiters". Think a little before you flame boi. I feel real sorry for the people that dont know anything about root and deal with this steaming pile daily.
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I know that rooting the phone isn't simply going to make all the problems go away. I absolutely hated this phone. Then when the new gb roms came out and all the tweaks started pumping out, I actually started to like this "p.o.s". Well why don't you wait till you have a PC and flash a custom rom first before you go flaming away at the device.
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So this is not the place to vent about how crappy your stock phone is it is the place to come and load the software needed to fix it.
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That B.S. dude this is a forum...i dont have to come here and download software. Thats only part of what this sites about. I also like coming here and shoting the breeze about phones..maybe ill talk about dev stuff maybe ill talk about how slow my phone is.
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I know that rooting the phone isn't simply going to make all the problems go away. I absolutely hated this phone. Then when the new gb roms came out and all the tweaks started pumping out, I actually started to like this "p.o.s". Well why don't you wait till you have a PC and flash a custom rom first before you go flaming away at the device.
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i think ur saying stock=crap rooted=good....so you basically agree with me so far...we both hate it stock and when my pc is back up n running ill root and update my review when i got custom rom. But as it stands im at 1ghz slow as hell. And its like i said before i dont want to buy a phone depending on root in order to make it function like its supposed to. If the cpu acted like it was at 1ghz i wouldnt be slammin this p o s.
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just a note you dont ever need a pc anyomre to cough root a phone and flash a diffrent rom at all all yuo need is root explorer and to start off the recovery from krylons cwm final and then the update.zip and then the custom rom or a few of them push the recovery record reboot install zip via update gets u to cwm and then install new rom never once haveing to touch a pc
and if your on froyo u can use the market and get root theres apps that work for that

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That B.S. dude this is a forum...i dont have to come here and download software. Thats only part of what this sites about. I also like coming here and shoting the breeze about phones..maybe ill talk about dev stuff maybe ill talk about how slow my phone is.
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You came here with the sole purpose of complaining about the phone and not showing any interest about doing anything about it. If you want to complain about how bad this phone is try doing it on the T-Mobile forums so at least people who are thinking about buying the phone might be persuaded against it. I fell into it by commenting in the first place and I overlooked the first rule of the internet...Don't feed the trolls.

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You came here with the sole purpose of complaining about the phone and not showing any interest about doing anything about it. If you want to complain about how bad this phone is try doing it on the T-Mobile forums so at least people who are thinking about buying the phone might be persuaded against it. I fell into it by commenting in the first place and I overlooked the first rule of the internet...Don't feed the trolls.
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Ok...when did i say i didnt wanna do anything about it? Your the ones that came and flamed me for speaking blasphemy. I just made a topic for everyone whos pissed at this phones sluggishness to come and vent, maybe tell some funny experience and we all feel better at the end of the day. Thats what venting is to me......guuuussssffrraba.....get it?
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seems the market app may have been removed sent u a link with one that will root any 1.6-2.2 android rom without needing a pc just make sure to pick 2.2 version of froyo should work

Part Four, is that you?
Anyways, I've actually played with my cousin's MT4G (3 cousins have that phone). I honestly wouldn't say that the SGS4G falls too far behind it.
My cousins always complain about the battery life, since they can't even get half a day's worth with the screen at the lowest setting. On the other hand, the SGS4G put up excellent battery life since I got it. I ran it with its first brightness setting and easily got a full day's use out of it.
Speaking of the screen, you can't deny that this screen is quite beautiful.
As for the stock speed of the phone, I kinda have to agree that the MT4G is slightly better. It's not ridiculously faster, but it is faster by a hair. On a more interesting note, my friends had a rooted G2 which lagged more than my stock SGS4G.

bkoon1218 said:
Part Four, is that you?
Anyways, I've actually played with my cousin's MT4G (3 cousins have that phone). I honestly wouldn't say that the SGS4G falls too far behind it.
My cousins always complain about the battery life, since they can't even get half a day's worth with the screen at the lowest setting. On the other hand, the SGS4G put up excellent battery life since I got it. I ran it with its first brightness setting and easily got a full day's use out of it.
Speaking of the screen, you can't deny that this screen is quite beautiful.
As for the stock speed of the phone, I kinda have to agree that the MT4G is slightly better. It's not ridiculously faster, but it is faster by a hair. On a more interesting note, my friends had a rooted G2 which lagged more than my stock SGS4G.
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Ill give you the screen, it is beautifull and that was a big selling point .my battery drains fast and charges slow ive downloaded maybe a couple apps, my display takes 99% of my battery and its at half power if you can believe that. But a g2 that lagged worse? He should get mexdroid or pyromod and start blazing up and down the superhighway. Those were my fav anyway
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seems the market app may have been removed sent u a link with one that will root any 1.6-2.2 android rom without needing a pc just make sure to pick 2.2 version of froyo should work
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Yeah i tried all the one clicks but to no avail...i tried like hell to find superoneclick that didnt require a pc but it doesnt exist yet apparently. Ill probly mess around with your cwm method....thanx for the tip
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smokeuout said:
Yeah i tried all the one clicks but to no avail...i tried like hell to find superoneclick that didnt require a pc but it doesnt exist yet apparently. Ill probly mess around with your cwm method....thanx for the tip
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But don't stay on a froyo rom. I didn't really like those either. The big difference is when you start using a gingerbread rom which you will need a PC for to flash the bootloaders.
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I have two mytouch 4gs. The screen on that phone blows away the sgs4g. The only reason I don't use it is because the wife and daughter have taken them over and stuck me with this thing.
Mytouch4g running Faux123's AOSP rom gets well over a day with heavy usage. About the same as CM.
I like the sgs4g.... its what I'm stuck with for now... but its no where near what the mt4g has to offer.
Better camera. Flash. Better screen. Better wifi.
And AOSP.
This phone with every tweak and rom doesn't come close to the mt4g.
Sorry. But its true.
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CLN 32GB GS3 has only 12GB of total space?

I recently received a CLN GS3 as a replacement phone for my Galaxy Nexus. They agreed to send me a 32GB model. I received it and under the battery on the sticker it does indeed say "WHITE 32GB". So then why would there be only 11.95GB total available? Do I need to format it or something? Has anyone experienced anything like this?
Thanks,
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Balsta said:
I recently received a CLN GS3 as a replacement phone for my Galaxy Nexus. They agreed to send me a 32GB model. I received it and under the battery on the sticker it does indeed say "WHITE 32GB". So then why would there be only 11.95GB total available? Do I need to format it or something? Has anyone experienced anything like this?
Thanks,
A confused GS3 owner
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage
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Get the above app and check out your storage
Pretty simple if its an important file it wont let u delete that file
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Says 12335mb total
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You need to Odin the stock Rom with while using a.pit file. If that does not work it's jacked up and you gotta send it back.
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You need to Odin the stock Rom with while using a.pit file. If that does not work it's jacked up and you gotta send it back.
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Yeah I was hoping not to have to send it back since I've heard some bad things and gotten some pretty horrible CLN devices as replacements before. This one doesn't have any issues other that the storage size and it gets really hot.
Anyway, what's this pit file?
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Balsta said:
Yeah I was hoping not to have to send it back since I've heard some bad things and gotten some pretty horrible CLN devices as replacements before. This one doesn't have any issues other that the storage size and it gets really hot.
Anyway, what's this pit file?
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I have read in the rezound forums of people receiving 16gig versions that were marked as 32 and were suppose to be 32. You will probably need to send it back.

Yup its 16 gb version,send it back for replacement...

You got a free GS3. Don't be picky. Plus, my friend is on replacement #8 so you roll the dice big time asking for a new one.

con247 said:
You got a free GS3. Don't be picky. Plus, my friend is on replacement #8 so you roll the dice big time asking for a new one.
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I'm on my 4th replacement and I think they might have finally got it right this time but if they told him they were going to send him the 32gb version (which would match the storage size of his Nexus) then they should def be sending him the right one... I've heard of several people that have got to choose a new phone but they sure didn't offer me that when I went through about a million Nexus's... LOL I admit that I am picky when it comes to replacement phones but when they get paid every month and I pay an "out of contract" price for a new phone than they should be sending me a replacement that does not have scratches all over it... I guess it all depends on who you talk to... :fingers-crossed:

He can get a 32GB microSD for like $20 bucks. Getting into a replacement loop is not worth the risk lol.

Yeah I was considering it, the only other real problem with it is that it gets super hot with even light use.
Do any of yours do that?
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Yeah I was considering it, the only other real problem with it is that it gets super hot with even light use.
Do any of yours do that?
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thats not good.
My friends bad ones have been run hot, scratched to hell, no wifi, can't keep 3g signal, run hot, no vibrator, etc

con247 said:
thats not good.
My friends bad ones have been run hot, scratched to hell, no wifi, can't keep 3g signal, run hot, no vibrator, etc
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So you think I should try for another replacement then? I don't think it's supposed to be this hot.
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Run a cpu monitor app to see how hot it actually is. Hot to one person might not be hot to someone else. If you get some solid info we could probably give you a better idea of what you should do.
When is it hot? All the time or only when you are playing hardcore games? Running hot is not a good thing to have but some replacements could be much worse. Obviously you can get another one but if it isn't really that hot it might not be worth the risk/annoyance of going through more replacements.

con247 said:
Run a cpu monitor app to see how hot it actually is. Hot to one person might not be hot to someone else. If you get some solid info we could probably give you a better idea of what you should do.
When is it hot? All the time or only when you are playing hardcore games? Running hot is not a good thing to have but some replacements could be much worse. Obviously you can get another one but if it isn't really that hot it might not be worth the risk/annoyance of going through more replacements.
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What would you consider hot? It's hot enough that it makes it very uncomfortable to hold. And it gets hot just having screen on.
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What would you consider hot? It's hot enough that it makes it very uncomfortable to hold. And it gets hot just having screen on.
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Con and myself both coming from the rezound anything up to somewhere around 130F has become normal for me.
An example of where it depends on the person is with the new iPad. People were complaining about it getting to 110F with is a perfectly normal temp to me.
It really comes down to what you are used too, as con said. My rezound would hit 150 when really stressing it. My GSIII hasn't gotten that hot yet.
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Like uncomfortable as it in like just warms your hand well or like it is actually like causing a burn? I agree with nosympathy. The Rez was a warm phone. If you were really hammering the 4G it would get pretty warm.
edit: I keep my phone in an otterbox so mine might as well be alot warmer than I think it is. The phone has to make alot of heat for it to go all the way through the otterbox.

Well it's weird because with experience from every phone I've had before this and iPhones and such, I wouldn't expect any noticeable heat. And then the Qualcomm S4 is supposed to be the coolest running processor, yet this phone is much hotter than any Galaxy Nexus I had.
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Mine doesn't get hot. And I do A LOT of texting like 1000's of texts a day, tons of internet.. My razr would get scorching, this doesn't.
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skater95 said:
Mine doesn't get hot. And I do A LOT of texting like 1000's of texts a day, tons of internet.. My razr would get scorching, this doesn't.
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Not even slightly warm? That seems like that's how it should be. I just don't want to risk it if they're all just as hot - or worse.
Also, any specific ROM you use that helps with that?
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Bye bye GS3

Well today is the last day that I will be a GS3 owner. My DNA is getting here tomorrow and god knows how many times I tried to stay with this phone. The radio issues makes my phone experience terrible.
I really love this phone though but all I can say is farewell GS3.
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Have fun with that DNA....
I'll be happy with my superior device. Have fun with:
11gb memory
Incompatible apps
Giant menu button
Very little support
Heavy Sense
Awkward power button
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1ManWolfePack said:
Have fun with that DNA....
I'll be happy with my superior device. Have fun with:
11gb memory
Incompatible apps
Giant menu button
Very little support
Heavy Sense
Awkward power button
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lol. I hate the top power button on big phones like these. I cant even tell you how many times I've almost dropped my One X because of that.

Lol really now....Ill slap on a new launcher...and enjoy my quad core processor and 1080p screen hehehehe...

Itzvik said:
Lol really now....Ill slap on a new launcher...and enjoy my quad core processor and 1080p screen hehehehe...
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Don't forget an extended battery to go with those...
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I had the DNA, I like the s3 better tbh, but to each their own.

I'll just go into the future and get my s4 and both of you will be crying
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with the M7 coming soon, the DNA is a lost cause,
I had one, and quickly dumped it..
the first HTC I've ever dumped.
I started with the
Eris
Inc1
Inc2
Rezound
Inc4
GNEX
DNA
SG3
very happy with my sg3

Well after these comments I actually went in to the Verizon store and played with it. I like it sense seems a bit different but easy to use. I don't use my phone 24/7 because I work 10hr shifts,...but it should last me a day or two on moderate use. I also played with the RAZR Max HD and it was great..defenetly a phone to look into.
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Itzvik said:
Well after these comments I actually went in to the Verizon store and played with it. I like it sense seems a bit different but easy to use. I don't use my phone 24/7 because I work 10hr shifts,...but it should last me a day or two on moderate use. I also played with the RAZR Max HD and it was great..defenetly a phone to look into.
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Good luck on the 2 days of use....to achieve that, put your screen at the dimmest setting and put airplane mode on.
Honestly man, I'm trying to help you. Everyone wants the new toy. You will not feel any difference from your S3 except the screen. Sense bogs that phone down so hard that the home screen actually has lag.
Top-tier device with lag? No thanks. I played with one last night. My s3 is smoother. If it wasn't, I wouldn't be in here...
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Don't forget an extended battery to go with those...
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Won't forget it just can't do anything with it.
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1ManWolfePack said:
Good luck on the 2 days of use....to achieve that, put your screen at the dimmest setting and put airplane mode on.
Honestly man, I'm trying to help you. Everyone wants the new toy. You will not feel any difference from your S3 except the screen. Sense bogs that phone down so hard that the home screen actually has lag.
Top-tier device with lag? No thanks. I played with one last night. My s3 is smoother. If it wasn't, I wouldn't be in here...
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See, I disagree because I played with it today for at least 30 minutes. The Verizon rep kept coming to me asking me if I needed an upgrade lol...and I did not notice any lag. I opened Facebook and played a few games that were installed on the phone. I noticed that the phone needs a bit of tweaking with notifications and everything but other than that it was faster than the S3. I like the S3 because of the buttery scrolling but that is due to the scrolling affects. If I do not like sense I will just slap Nova Prime on it and be done with it

I dont know how to live with only 11gb of memory.... 3 nandroid backups... 2 rom zips, some music, some naked pics (of my girl of course) and i would be getting that annoying "insufficient memory" crap..
No thanks. I will stick with my Clean-S3 and 48 gb of memory.
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NOOO! Not the DNA!!!
In all seriousness, get the Note2. Very nice step up from the S3. IMHO a 1080 screen is nice, but not worth all the other drawbacks.

You may not see lag at first but once you get all you apps and background services you'll see it lag. Htcs overlay really slows down phones. My s3 on the other hand hasn't slowed down yet even with a ton of apps and services running in the background. Also the s3 will most likely see more updates than the DNA.
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AtariDroid said:
NOOO! Not the DNA!!!
In all seriousness, get the Note2. Very nice step up from the S3. IMHO a 1080 screen is nice, but not worth all the other drawbacks.
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Endorsed. The Note 2 is the phone to have right now...
Look at the Dev support for both phones. Nuff said....

Get WHATEVER you like. No card slot would be a dealbreaker for me, but who knows what other people's needs are. I have a 64gb card in my S III and it's almost full... but I also have a Nexus 7 with only 16gb and I deal with the limitations. Cloud storage is the next big thing for mobile devices, and if you're in a solid 4G area and don't have limited data, why not give it a shot.
Sidenote- I finally got to check out a friends Note 2 yesterday. WAY too big of a phone... for me at least... but it's a great device.

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Get WHATEVER you like. No card slot would be a dealbreaker for me, but who knows what other people's needs are. I have a 64gb card in my S III and it's almost full... but I also have a Nexus 7 with only 16gb and I deal with the limitations. Cloud storage is the next big thing for mobile devices, and if you're in a solid 4G area and don't have limited data, why not give it a shot.
Sidenote- I finally got to check out a friends Note 2 yesterday. WAY too big of a phone... for me at least... but it's a great device.
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I agree, My dad has the note II and its huge....and he has it in an defender otter-box lol every time he bends down to do something his phone falls out of the clip.
I do not need a massive storage because I don't listen to music on my phone..I have a 32g I pod for that. I do take a lot of pictures though so I guess that I would have to transfer them to my PC every once in a while. The phone has more goods than bad but I will look into the lag and if unbearable then I will return it.
Thanks for the replies guys.

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I agree, My dad has the note II and its huge....and he has it in an defender otter-box lol every time he bends down to do something his phone falls out of the clip.
I do not need a massive storage because I don't listen to music on my phone..I have a 32g I pod for that. I do take a lot of pictures though so I guess that I would have to transfer them to my PC every once in a while. The phone has more goods than bad but I will look into the lag and if unbearable then I will return it.
Thanks for the replies guys.
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fyi - You could use "Sweet Home!" application to automatically send your pics in your gallery to your computer when you get to your HOME network and then you could auto delete it as well, if you want. Super neat app.

If you can get two days out of the DNA then you don't even need a cell phone, lol. If you left it sitting on your desk with no use it wouldn't last 2 days. The screen is nice but personally no SD card, hardly any dev support and a locked boot loader are deal breakers.
Spending 30 minutes in a Verizon store is irrelevant when they're making sure you get a sick WiFi and 4g signal!!
I will make a prediction of your actual usage - 24 hours on battery, 5 minutes of screen time!!
I have a friend who works for HTC and have played with every device they have. Personally I think the battery life on their phones make them useless.
sent from my blue police box flying through time!!!

What a POS enough already!!!!!

I traded in my htc one expecting the world (as promised) from my GS4. What an awful mistake. This device has the be one of the worst upgrades ever!!!!! All it does is lag, lag, and lag some more. Its constantly freezing forcing me to restart the phone, getting hot and just driving me nuts. I've officially had it. I cant take it anymore. Im fed up. Im disgusted. I cant think of any more ways to describe what im feeling. Called Att a few minutes ago and now have a black htc one otw. I cant wait to recieve a premium phone thats acts as such.:banghead:
Now to the fan boys. I was one of you until recieving my s4. I am now officially jumping off that wagon. Samsung better do a much better job in the future if they ever hope to see another penny from me ever again!
Thanks
Sal
Ps btw because of the freezing and garbage keyboard this obe thread took about 5 minutes to complete. Woul have taken 2 minutes on the HTC
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sal1311 said:
I traded in my htc one expecting the world (as promised) from my GS4. What an awful mistake. This device has the be one of the worst upgrades ever!!!!! All it does is lag, lag, and lag some more. Its constantly freezing forcing me to restart the phone, getting hot and just driving me nuts. I've officially had it. I cant take it anymore. Im fed up. Im disgusted. I cant think of any more ways to describe what im feeling. Called Att a few minutes ago and now have a black htc one otw. I cant wait to recieve a premium phone thats acts as such.:banghead:
Now to the fan boys. I was one of you until recieving my s4. I am now officially jumping off that wagon. Samsung better do a much better job in the future if they ever hope to see another penny from me ever again!
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Sal
Ps btw because of the freezing and garbage keyboard this obe thread took about 5 minutes to complete. Woul have taken 2 minutes on the HTC
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Whine much?
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Baibai!

sal1311 said:
I traded in my htc one expecting the world (as promised) from my GS4. What an awful mistake. This device has the be one of the worst upgrades ever!!!!! All it does is lag, lag, and lag some more. Its constantly freezing forcing me to restart the phone, getting hot and just driving me nuts. I've officially had it. I cant take it anymore. Im fed up. Im disgusted. I cant think of any more ways to describe what im feeling. Called Att a few minutes ago and now have a black htc one otw. I cant wait to recieve a premium phone thats acts as such.:banghead:
Now to the fan boys. I was one of you until recieving my s4. I am now officially jumping off that wagon. Samsung better do a much better job in the future if they ever hope to see another penny from me ever again!
Thanks
Sal
Ps btw because of the freezing and garbage keyboard this obe thread took about 5 minutes to complete. Woul have taken 2 minutes on the HTC
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try to factory reset it or firmware initialization in kies before you take it back. 50/50 chance it fixes your lag. plus an at&t OTA update happened today that has addressed some lag issues also.

The HTC One is a very nice phone..
I was ready to sell my S4 and get a Nexus 4 because of the lag issues I was having.. I had deleted over 100 apps / processes and had to tweak a bunch of settings just to get the phone usable..
Then today something strange happened..
AT&T released an update that has solved all my issues. This phone is now lightning fast and I am 99% pleased with it..
Enjoy the HTC One as it's also a very nice device!

freebee269 said:
try to factory reset it or firmware initialization in kies before you take it back. 50/50 chance it fixes your lag. plus an at&t OTA update happened today that has addressed some lag issues also.
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He doesn't care, he just came here to troll.

Ahhh spoken like a true fan boy fag. Ive had the gs2 gs3 note2 and now the gs4. Never a complaint untill now. That makes me a real troll.
For the others ill see how the update is and go from there. Maybe there is hooe for this phone. My cousin already got his update and he too was pleased.
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Just exchanged my HTC one in today for one of these bad boys.. both are awesome, the s4 is far more convenient than the one is software wise.. im thinking the camera is slightly better on the s4 also. Htc definitely has it when it comes to design and build quality but reception and wifi is kinda botchy (assuming its due to aluminum casing).
Have fun with your battery life OP :thumbup:
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sal1311 said:
I traded in my htc one expecting the world (as promised) from my GS4. What an awful mistake. This device has the be one of the worst upgrades ever!!!!! All it does is lag, lag, and lag some more. Its constantly freezing forcing me to restart the phone, getting hot and just driving me nuts. I've officially had it. I cant take it anymore. Im fed up. Im disgusted. I cant think of any more ways to describe what im feeling. Called Att a few minutes ago and now have a black htc one otw. I cant wait to recieve a premium phone thats acts as such.:banghead:
Now to the fan boys. I was one of you until recieving my s4. I am now officially jumping off that wagon. Samsung better do a much better job in the future if they ever hope to see another penny from me ever again!
Thanks
Sal
Ps btw because of the freezing and garbage keyboard this obe thread took about 5 minutes to complete. Woul have taken 2 minutes on the HTC
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My initial phone sucked back. Lag, got hot, etc... Swapped that baby out and now with the update, this phone is near flawless for what I use it for. It is so smooth and fast.

Return it and your problems will go away.
Mod, please lock this because there are too many threads that are samiliar this thread. Thanks.
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pkmoazzam said:
Return it and your problems will go away.
Mod, please lock this because there are too many threads that are samiliar this thread. Thanks.
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And you are......?
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Thank goodness. Nobody needs you here anyways.

I'm even more pissed than you. Want to know why? You started another thread about lag. I think anyone that starts stupid threads when there are already 100,876,342,956 stupid threads of the same thing should be banned for life from XDA.
Also, the HTC One is a fantastic phone, but do you think anyone here actually cares if your returning your S4? Return it and get a life chump. Nobody cares.
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OP as it appears you are unhappy with your device, I can provide a solution to your thoughts>>>>Here. Thank You.

Does Your GS4 Seem Laggy?

You know I bought this phone on the premise that even if loaded with bloat the Snapdragon processor in here should be enough to handle it and still provide seamless screen transitions, etc.
Sadly it seems that this phone is laggy. At times when screen transitions it will "stutter" or otherwise "hesitate" causing a poor user experience.
So I did tweak my ROM up some, disabled most of the bloat and the experience is now what I would have expected from it stock.
I also understand that I am coming from my own tweaked ROMS on other high end devices but I just expected more from this.
What do you all think? What phone did you come from?

Yay another thread about the lag lol
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Dallenn said:
Yay another thread about the lag lol
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Can you post where, I want to read up on it. I will close this thread as well.

Will you be creating clean Rom for this?

remixkilla said:
Will you be creating clean Rom for this?
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Yeah, I am debating whether or not to keep this thing.
Its nice but I was kinda expecting more punch from it. Plus its just line I dont need as I also want to keep my Verizon line so its up in the air right now.
I did stock rooted ROMS already from the latest OTA dumps but have not posted them pending testing.
I still have 12 days left to decide....

scrosler said:
Can you post where, I want to read up on it. I will close this thread as well.
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Most of them have been locked, but heres the more popular ones:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2260122
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2264407
Honestly with the bloat frozen this phone is nearly the same as my s3 was out of the box "lag" wise. I love it...
Really hope you decide to stay around, have only ever heard great things about clean rom but have never gotten to try it!

sulpher said:
Most of them have been locked, but heres the more popular ones:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2260122
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2264407
Honestly with the bloat frozen this phone is nearly the same as my s3 was out of the box "lag" wise. I love it...
Really hope you decide to stay around, have only ever heard great things about clean rom but have never gotten to try it!
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Exactly, its the same as an S3 with 1/2 the processing power.
I have Note II and S3 ROMS that are much smoother... I guess its going to be hard to judge until I can tear it apart and do some tweaking to the OS more. It sjust my Note II, stocked seemed faster.
I dont know yet. Just trying to gather opinions. I am sure Samsung will smooth it up. They made huge strides with the Note II.
I'll check out your links tonight. Thanks for posting them!

I was thinking about returning it for the one which is smooth as hell
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I have come from the note 2 as well and its unreal to realize the lag on this. Ive only froze the at&t bloat thinking it was enough but damn....its pretty bad.
Stock Note 2 smashes this. Im hoping if/when the bootloader gets unlocked, scrosler and other devs can make this GS4 into what its meant to be...a beastly device.
For now...its tolerable but its bad now because I expected more from a flagship phone.
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Hey Scrosler, loved your One X roms! As far as the lag goes, it does definitely seem that my S3 was faster. It's made it hell deciding on whether I should keep my S4 or HTC One, since I was going to originally take the One back. Aside from the stuff you probably did already, try disabling the lock screen animation as well as disabling the home button from accessing S Voice (double click the Home button, then go to settings to disable). These are the two things that seemed to have helped the most with lag issues. Still not perfect by any means, but it's much improved. Now if I could just do something about the damn keyboard lag..
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What about gaming. My girlfriend has the s4 and we did a head to head comparison of vice city and her one ran it smoother. That makes no sense to me.
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My wife is not experiencing any of this prolonged lag. Consider us lucky. Ours is pretty solid. The first time I did notice lag was while unlocking the phone with the "majestic twinkle" effect. It did it intermittently. Turned that effect off. Now unlocks smooth. Also turned off all transitions. Much better. Theres no stutters or lag spikes. Its pretty darn good. For a stock experience we are satisfied. If Scot does decide to develop for this phone I am confident it will be CleanRommed.
Comparing it to my Note 2 running cleanROM is totally unfair though

Mines snappy idk what you guys are talking about!
Scott keep it! You leaving the One was a big reason why i switched, and a few of the other inconveniences that comes along with an HTC
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Ah I don't know what to do. I love this device but hate how we have to disable all types of things in order for it to perform right
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Scott I came from your awesome note 2 Cleanrom..please don't leave. Just needs a good developer to teak it a bit.
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Hope you stay Scott as I love your ROM's as well...
But I would not blame you one bit if you ditched it!
I am seriously debating selling mine ( I paid full price ) and picking up a Nexus 4 but will wait until Google i/o before deciding what to do..

Same thing here I'm used to using my own ROMs, so there is that adjustment
But Scott as you know there is only so much that can be done with a ROM at the end of the day Samsung will have to adjust some things which then gives us a better base to work from, I'm sticking with this one till nexus 5 is out
Just my 2 cents
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jetlitheone said:
I was thinking about returning it for the one which is smooth as hell
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I will tell you this...
I had both and the One is 10x more smooth. Thats why I felt let down with this phone. I have to shut off / freeze damn near everything to get acceptable performance out of it. I know in time Samsung will improve but I am dealing wiht the here and now...
surge27 said:
I have come from the note 2 as well and its unreal to realize the lag on this. Ive only froze the at&t bloat thinking it was enough but damn....its pretty bad.
Stock Note 2 smashes this. Im hoping if/when the bootloader gets unlocked, scrosler and other devs can make this GS4 into what its meant to be...a beastly device.
For now...its tolerable but its bad now because I expected more from a flagship phone.
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Thats what I am saying, stock Note II blows this away but the benchmarks are just the opposite.
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Hey Scrosler, loved your One X roms! As far as the lag goes, it does definitely seem that my S3 was faster. It's made it hell deciding on whether I should keep my S4 or HTC One, since I was going to originally take the One back. Aside from the stuff you probably did already, try disabling the lock screen animation as well as disabling the home button from accessing S Voice (double click the Home button, then go to settings to disable). These are the two things that seemed to have helped the most with lag issues. Still not perfect by any means, but it's much improved. Now if I could just do something about the damn keyboard lag..
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Yeah, I tweaked it pretty hard, minor stuff like build pror, caching, etc. Similiar to what I would do if I had a ROM built around it but... still..
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What about gaming. My girlfriend has the s4 and we did a head to head comparison of vice city and her one ran it smoother. That makes no sense to me.
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Yep, I am sure of it. I dont think Samsung has the experience in building with 4.2.2...
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My wife is not experiencing any of this prolonged lag. Consider us lucky. Ours is pretty solid. The first time I did notice lag was while unlocking the phone with the "majestic twinkle" effect. It did it intermittently. Turned that effect off. Now unlocks smooth. Also turned off all transitions. Much better. Theres no stutters or lag spikes. Its pretty darn good. For a stock experience we are satisfied. If Scot does decide to develop for this phone I am confident it will be CleanRommed.
Comparing it to my Note 2 running cleanROM is totally unfair though
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Yeah, but you turned off the cool parts which I like. I always set my transistions to 50%, even in my ROMS but I wont turn them off. The twinkle affect should cause stutter after its done. I see lag just backing out of the Play Store to the desktop it will sometimes stutter. Not just the occasional lock screen lag in which I know you are referring to.
MrPlNK said:
Mines snappy idk what you guys are talking about!
Scott keep it! You leaving the One was a big reason why i switched, and a few of the other inconveniences that comes along with an HTC
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lol, I guess in a way I feel bad... But i never told anyone to buy the phone I do :crying:
I really dont know if I am going to keep this one. Its a whole differnt carrier, and a whole new line that I really dont need. And with the current level of performance its hard to justify keeping it.
This is why I started the thread. To see if it was me and my expectations or if the phone really is laggy.... And from the feedback, its laggy, its not just me.
jetlitheone said:
Ah I don't know what to do. I love this device but hate how we have to disable all types of things in order for it to perform right
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Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You took the words out of my mouth!!!
tosh1 said:
Scott I came from your awesome note 2 Cleanrom..please don't leave. Just needs a good developer to teak it a bit.
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raqball said:
Hope you stay Scott as I love your ROM's as well...
But I would not blame you one bit if you ditched it!
I am seriously debating selling mine ( I paid full price ) and picking up a Nexus 4 but will wait until Google i/o before deciding what to do..
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See. You too, huh?

iB4STiD said:
Same thing here I'm used to using my own ROMs, so there is that adjustment
But Scott as you know there is only so much that can be done with a ROM at the end of the day Samsung will have to adjust some things which then gives us a better base to work from, I'm sticking with this one till nexus 5 is out
Just my 2 cents
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Yes, I totally agree and I think its Samsung lack of experience with Snapdragon on 4.2.2.
I have Nexus 10 which is not as powerful as this phone but its a Sammy processor and there is ZERO lag with dual cores at 1.4 or is it 1.5 GHZ. And thats at nearly 4x the pixels that this has.
I was just expecting this thing to scream when I first got it...

Disable and android go hand and hand since the g1. My only problem with the os is the hardware needed to make this a smooth experince , a lot of work needs to be done with android. Its a great platform but nothing is perfect I guess
But hey android is getting better and better.
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