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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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?
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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....
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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!
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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!
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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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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...
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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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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...
Jooosty said:
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.
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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.
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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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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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Well see...
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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I will be getting mine in a few hours. Any first impressions? Is it worth the wait? How do you feel about the phone? Does the netflix app work?
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Well my local store doesn't open until 11am but they only have 7units so I will be there early inorder to make sure I get one. So another hour and 10 mins I should have mine.
I got it, its sleek very nice
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GPS is is perfect and it locked in 4 seconds and its very stable. The phone itself is very vet nice, love the screen and feels like bigger samsung vibrant, I used the camera and its realty good very sharp and the videos are very high quality.
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Netflix doesn't work, but I'm sure there is a hack
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Got one today, not impressed really.I'm going to unroot it and take it back and order an sgs2 from clove.
No dev work on it yet, don't know why when there is already a thread for the htc sensation which has no release date yet.
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donharden2002 said:
Got one today, not impressed really.I'm going to unroot it and take it back and order an sgs2 from clove.
No dev work on it yet, don't know why when there is already a thread for the htc sensation which has no release date yet.
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i selling my galaxy s2 if you interested! or anyone else that is interested.
email me!
same here...
I'm using a captivate with Speed N Style ROM Purplicious. Infuse looks mostly similar minus the processor and 1080p. Development may follow heavily, and pretty quickly, due to the similarities to i9000.
Got one today but spot working im in downloading mode need stock rom any help plz )):
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Got one today but spot working im in downloading mode need stock rom any help plz )):
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What are you trying to do? Flash it to Gingerbread stock?
bullet358 said:
What are you trying to do? Flash it to Gingerbread stock?[/QU
yes sir i was flash it then stop work im in downloading mode from yesterday need stock rom
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bullet358 said:
What are you trying to do? Flash it to Gingerbread stock?[/QU
yes sir i was flash it then stop work im in downloading mode from yesterday need stock rom
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What were you attempting to flash? CWM?
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What did you guys pay for yours? Where's the best price off contract you've seen?
loving mine. 4.5 inch screen is great. especially when dash mounted. extremely snappy. can't wait for the ROMs, touchwiz 4 is better than 3.
Like a lot of others, i was torn about getting the infuse or waiting for AT&T's version of the SGS2. it sounds great and all, but who knows when that's coming out. Even when it does, i don't know if the dual core will be a huge difference, plus i think i would rather have the infuse's larger screen.
shaunleger said:
loving mine. 4.5 inch screen is great. especially when dash mounted. extremely snappy. can't wait for the ROMs, touchwiz 4 is better than 3.
Like a lot of others, i was torn about getting the infuse or waiting for AT&T's version of the SGS2. it sounds great and all, but who knows when that's coming out. Even when it does, i don't know if the dual core will be a huge difference, plus i think i would rather have the infuse's larger screen.
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worst case, you wait a few months, love the SG2, and then just sell the Infuse.
at least that's my plan.
now I'm off to the mall to buy it
I've been doing the buy/sell/trade with phones since the Iphone 4 came out. I got my Infuse yesterday, and I can honestly say it is more than a phone. Its the first phone I have not been able to use comfortably with 1 hand. The delayed dedicated forum and GS2 will prolly kill this phone. I don't think the dualcore will really matter, but I think the smaller screen of the SG2 will make it more comfortable to use. Until then, I will use the Infuse that I got, as it is by far the best At&t device to date.
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i selling my galaxy s2 if you interested! or anyone else that is interested.
email me!
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Do you still have it? Please pm me.
Rldowney said:
I've been doing the buy/sell/trade with phones since the Iphone 4 came out. I got my Infuse yesterday, and I can honestly say it is more than a phone. Its the first phone I have not been able to use comfortably with 1 hand. The delayed dedicated forum and GS2 will prolly kill this phone. I don't think the dualcore will really matter, but I think the smaller screen of the SG2 will make it more comfortable to use. Until then, I will use the Infuse that I got, as it is by far the best At&t device to date.
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The only thing that was bugging me about the huge screen that I think is impossible to do with one hand is pull down the notifications tab. Installed LauncherPro, used the home button to pull down notifications problem solved. I'm loving the extra real estate and especially when it comes to typing.
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JasjarMan said:
Do you still have it? Please pm me.
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sorry,
someone from ebay already bought it.
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!!!
Watching the live feed right now, and i'm impressed. My S3 can gladly be sold and i'll buy the S4
I really feel like its only necessary to upgrade with every other model. The gs3 is still going strong IMO but to each his own.
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Neverendingxsin said:
Watching the live feed right now, and i'm impressed. My S3 can gladly be sold and i'll buy the S4
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I'm liking alot of the features - but many seem software side and I'm sure the devs would be able to port it over pretty easy....
theyll be a s4 rom for s3 most likely.
and this presentation is hard to watch with all these lame ass actors.
bobloblaw1 said:
I really feel like its only necessary to upgrade with every other model. The gs3 is still going strong IMO but to each his own.
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Well I've got an upgrade so if I wanted to get rid of unlimited data I could. But I think I'm caught up in the hype right now. Some of those camera features look nice though
Using it while wearing gloves is cool.
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I saw nothing that great over my S3, nothing worth an early upgrade anyway.
TouchWiz still looks the same which is disappointing.
I dont run touchwiz ROMS so upgrading seems pointless to me.
Keeping S3. Just want the software upgrades.
Neverendingxsin said:
Well I've got an upgrade so if I wanted to get rid of unlimited data I could. But I think I'm caught up in the hype right now. Some of those camera features look nice though
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Same thing here. Have upgrades but don't wanna lose unlimited data. I think a lot of the software features could be implemented on our sgs3.
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this is what im afraid of... i just got my S3 and now everyone wants to leave... i feel like i made a reailly dumb purchase........ pretty distrought right now..... ive always had the second hand phone the crappy phone now i feel i just got that same scaniro thrown in my face with my S3....
Little comparison.
http://www.droid-life.com/2013/03/1...sung-galaxy-s4-vs-galaxy-s3-vs-galaxy-note-2/
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Only complaint i have cosmetically is those ugly black dots at the top of the phone minus the front camera. The two on the s3 don't bother me but more? I know there censors or something but I think they could have done a better job and making them not so visible. Just my 2 cents. I'll still upgrade, cause I've gotta have the latest and greatest!
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looks like a nice spec bump, but I'm good with the S3 for a while.
ECrispy said:
I saw nothing that great over my S3, nothing worth an early upgrade anyway.
TouchWiz still looks the same which is disappointing.
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Agreed! Nothing really seems new enough to drop my S3. The new smart features are tempting though....
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cammykool said:
this is what im afraid of... i just got my S3 and now everyone wants to leave... i feel like i made a reailly dumb purchase........ pretty distrought right now..... ive always had the second hand phone the crappy phone now i feel i just got that same scaniro thrown in my face with my S3....
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Don't regret it at all lol if you root and unlock, I'm almost positive you'll get a lot of features from the sgs4. I hope so!
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I agree. And some will come. But the devs will do their best to bring us what they can.
http://briefmobile.com/samsung-says-some-galaxy-s4-features-will-come-to-the-galaxy-s3
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S4 is not worth the upradeI would like to see if I can put the battery in the s3 though
Will get it asap I skipped the s3 glad I waited for a better resolution screen and new features.
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Although it seems like a great device, I don't see that "wow" factor over the s3. I have like 5 upgrades that I could use and it still doesn't seem worth it. The software will eventually make its way over here. My hardware never seems underpowered and my battery life is great so my real world upgrade would be for a nicer screen.
Hello I just got my gs4 on Saturday and I have to say that im not as impressed as I thought I would be.
The phone gets quite hot during almost anything. Also is no where near as snappy as my rooted inspire (1.0 ghz single core with less than 1 gb ram). This phone is awesome as far as opening more draining apps like facebook.
I wouldn't think that rooting is needed to be quicker than a 2.5 year old phone...
At this point im considering trading it in for a gs3 or htc one....
And mine is definitely laggy
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Hello I just got my gs4 on Saturday and I have to say that im not as impressed as I thought I would be.
The phone gets quite hot during almost anything. Also is no where near as snappy as my rooted inspire (1.0 ghz single core with less than 1 gb ram). This phone is awesome as far as opening more draining apps like facebook.
I wouldn't think that rooting is needed to be quicker than a 2.5 year old phone...
At this point im considering trading it in for a gs3 or htc one....
And mine is definitely laggy
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If it's getting very hot with little usage then I'd exchange it for another.
Also, an update was released today that pretty much solved the lag issues..
Mine got pretty warm last night while playing a simple solitaire game...
It was also eating battery pretty fast.
I rebooted it and it seemed to go away.
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Hello I just got my gs4 on Saturday and I have to say that im not as impressed as I thought I would be.
The phone gets quite hot during almost anything. Also is no where near as snappy as my rooted inspire (1.0 ghz single core with less than 1 gb ram). This phone is awesome as far as opening more draining apps like facebook.
I wouldn't think that rooting is needed to be quicker than a 2.5 year old phone...
At this point im considering trading it in for a gs3 or htc one....
And mine is definitely laggy
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Are there any services or apps that is causing the CPU/Stay Awake to drain your battery?
My first G4 was horrible laggy as well, but my new one is a dream. See this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2263015
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Thanks for the input guys Ive got a few more days so ill continue to run it. I just got the update so ill let you know if things change.
It does seem better as of right now but ill try it for a while.
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Well the update seems to have helped greatly...or im starting to get used to the heat. I haven't really used a smartphone with out a case really.
Is there anyways to get auto correct working with this keyboard?
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Well the update seems to have helped greatly...or im starting to get used to the heat. I haven't really used a smartphone with out a case really.
Is there anyways to get auto correct working with this keyboard?
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Go to the play store - download the stock jelly bean keyboard - it's awesome. EFF samsung.
Mine gets hot a lot too. . I'm going to keep my eye on this even after update.
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Go to the play store - download the stock jelly bean keyboard - it's awesome. EFF samsung.
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Which one there are a ton and none of them seem to be legit.
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Which one there are a ton and none of them seem to be legit.
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Just search for jelly bean keyboard and it should be the first one.
mine gets stupid hot for the smallest things I surf the web for about five mins and you cant even put up to your ear to make a call TO HOT.. I returned it and got it exchanged and that device is also getting way to hot. I might just return the GS4 seems like a big issue out there I googled the problem and see that most people are having the issue. IDK 7 more days and I.m stuck with it... any other phone would be a downgrade.
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mine gets stupid hot for the smallest things I surf the web for about five mins and you cant even put up to your ear to make a call TO HOT.. I returned it and got it exchanged and that device is also getting way to hot. I might just return the GS4 seems like a big issue out there I googled the problem and see that most people are having the issue. IDK 7 more days and I.m stuck with it... any other phone would be a downgrade.
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There is probably something wrong with your phone and the next one. Bad luck I guess. It never gets hot on normal use for me. The only time it gets hot for me is when playing high end games.
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mine gets stupid hot for the smallest things I surf the web for about five mins and you cant even put up to your ear to make a call TO HOT.. I returned it and got it exchanged and that device is also getting way to hot. I might just return the GS4 seems like a big issue out there I googled the problem and see that most people are having the issue. IDK 7 more days and I.m stuck with it... any other phone would be a downgrade.
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Just get a note 2 trust me it will be an upgrade over this phone.
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Please post the CPU/Stay Awake statistics for some of your higher battery drain apps at the end of the day
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Just get a note 2 trust me it will be an upgrade over this phone.
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Unless you dont mind being mocked for talking on a tablet I would avoid any phone larger than the s4. The note two has its place and it to me is only worthwhile if you carry a purse.... it's a great device but not practical in my opinion, I mean how do you carry that thing?
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In my pocket never had an issue fits perfectly. As far as what others think about it don't matter to me.
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In my pocket never had an issue fits perfectly. As far as what others think about it don't matter to me.
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I wish I wasnt as affected but I hate when ppl comment on how large my phone is...and I think its because I agree and wish it was smaller. A 4.5 or so with the the same build as this s4 would be mich nicer. And by that I mean a screen that efficiently uses the face of the phone.
Its really tough to determine what is the he perfect size screen and I think over time we will become more tolerant of the pocket consumption. I mean look at the inspire or other older 4.2...it was huge for its time but now its really not considered that anymore.
With that said for the time being I think 4.5 with the smallest possible chassis would be the best.
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all recent device getting hot quickly in 3G network
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all recent device getting hot quickly in 3G network
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Not mine. I am in LTE or 3G all day and my phone does not get hot in the least.
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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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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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!
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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.
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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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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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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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