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Farewell

So guys as u can see by my signature I have traded my one x for a nexus thanks for being an awesome communtity hope you guys will soon get this stable jb smoothness
Its freaking insane
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I'll be right behind you!
Billy

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A nexus? I have one bro, don't do it.
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True jb is cool and all, but if your leaning towards samsung why not get the latest and greatest. You already had the latest and greatest HTC, then downgraded....
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i feel the same way. also have my HOX up for sale. will be getting a S3. never buying a ATT branded HTC phone again

I've got the S3, GNex, and HOX and I'm also thinking about selling the HOX. Between the three, I find myself using the S3 and GNex the most. I love the HOX, but if I sell it now I can put the money aside towards the next Nexus phone when it's introduced. Decisions, decisions.

Nice OP! Don't worry its a great phone as long as your getting the GSM version...I have both the hox and the nexus, I use them both and love them both.

I'm too poor to switch phones every month
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Yeah I got the gsm nexus and 100 dollars for my one x
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just bought my minty fresh INT S3 . HTC i am dissapointed

daddioj said:
just bought my minty fresh INT S3 . HTC i am dissapointed
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How much is an international s3 going for?

expertzero1 said:
I'm too poor to switch phones every month
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lol..so am i. My friend got the one x and didn't like it so he gave it to me for my birthday
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Yeah I got the gsm nexus and 100 dollars for my one x
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not a bad deal at all. Have fun with the most hackable phone on earth
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gunnyman said:
How much is an international s3 going for?
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used i would say 400-500
new i would say 500-600

aooga said:
lol..so am i. My friend got the one x and didn't like it so he gave it to me for my birthday
not a bad deal at all. Have fun with the most hackable phone on earth
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used i would say 400-500
new i would say 500-600
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Yes i got mine brand new Pebble Blue for 590

One of my lines has an upgrade in November. I'll see what's available then. Even bone stock the HOX is a fantastic phone.

gunnyman said:
One of my lines has an upgrade in November. I'll see what's available then. Even bone stock the HOX is a fantastic phone.
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oh it def is. but this whole lock down thing is pissing me off. i already had the INT hox and was plauged with defects. then to the S4 fantastic but this whole lock down. i am sure i'll be kicking myself if and when S-off comes avail. but i miss the S-line of samsung products. now only iff the HOX screen was in S3 damn would be one perfect ass sex phone.
by NOV prices should drop drastically . but me i hate waiting :good:

if the galaxy nexus had better hardware it might actually be worth it for me..
but untill then i wouldnt want to downgrade just for vanilla android (as much as i'd love it0
definitely thinking about getting a nexus 7 / 10 though!

The_Zodiac said:
if the galaxy nexus had better hardware it might actually be worth it for me..
but untill then i wouldnt want to downgrade just for vanilla android (as much as i'd love it0
definitely thinking about getting a nexus 7 / 10 though!
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i know i wish i had a choice of Nexus 2 i would so buy it!

The_Zodiac said:
if the galaxy nexus had better hardware it might actually be worth it for me..
but untill then i wouldnt want to downgrade just for vanilla android (as much as i'd love it0
definitely thinking about getting a nexus 7 / 10 though!
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can't say enough about the n7, amazing device for the price...
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And more people would rather have inferior hardware. Phone is already beastly as it is. Don't know how much more you could possibly want out of a phone performance wise.

An unlocked bootloader and root? Impossible right now on the new firmware. The HOX is a beastly device and Joe public has a lot to be happy about. However its not an ENTHUSIASTS device. AT&T made sure of that.

[Q] Phone to replace my NS i9023

Hi,
I believe the title says it all. I was pretty sure my next phone will be Google Experience. I really love the community and opportunities with this. I had Sony Xperia for about a month and it was terrible with support. But Nexus 4, apart from being much more expensive when bought from a shop and not from Google (which doesnt sell to Czech Republic), has one thing that I really hate - a battery that cant be easily replaced. Im used to carrying one spare (or more when on a longer trip) on me and I can easily switch them even when staning on a crowded bus. I couldnt do that with N4.
So, do you find this to be such a serious issue I consider it to be? And what other phones would you recommend, please?

Galaxy Nexus. Or hacked Galaxy S3 as a second choice. Maybe an HTC One X with CM10 could be a really sexy phone too.
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Galaxy Nexus would be the best, no doubts. Don't go for N4, it doesn't seems to go good so far. A few bugs have already been discovered.
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Note 2 with cm10 :thumbup:
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superng888 said:
Note 2 with cm10 :thumbup:
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Isnt it a bit ... big ... ?

If u wanna stay nexus, go galaxy nexus, the prices should even be lower due to the n4 being out
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The Nexus Series has its own reputation and of them all, its Development support. While the Nexus 4 is claimed to be bugged with buzzing sound and no Out-of-the-box OTG, it couldn't be considered better than the Galaxy Nexus. The same being the reason for me to buy Galaxy Nexus too, in a month or two.
I too find Note series a bit big for a smartphone to carry in our pockets. No offense to anyone's opinions
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FirePoncho86 said:
If u wanna stay nexus, go galaxy nexus, the prices should even be lower due to the n4 being out
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Sadly, no because the new flagship doesn't even intend to stand near the Galaxy Nexus. But the price is fine enough for such an amazing device. :highfive:

I think Note 2 is the best choice!

I would go for the Galaxy Nexus. :good:

How much cheaper is the galaxy nexus in your country?
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cpanos said:
How much cheaper is the galaxy nexus in your country?
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Galaxy Nexus is €295, Nexus 4 is €458, its more than €150 difference. And the inability to change battery with N4 is bad too. Looks to me that I will go for Galaxy Nexus.
BTW should we even talk together? Your country keeps our citizens arrested for espionage!

Keep in mind that the galaxy nexus has poor battery life.
We hold your devs hostages! Pay the ransom so we can solve our financial problems!
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Is anyone waiting to get the Nexus 5 because of potential defects?

I definitely want to get a Nexus 5 (battery and camera issues aside), but all the reported defects with either the speakers, scratches on the screen, loose buttons, etc are giving me pause. I'm thinking about waiting a month or so until the inventory at the stores gets another batch from LG.
Is anyone else waiting to get the phone until new inventory is replaces with new batches/revisions of the inventory?
How long do you think I should wait before the next batches come out? How long are you waiting?

Just get it. I've had zero issues with the phone.
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No defects, no light bleed, tight power button, tight volume button.
Perfect.
JDI Panel
South Korea
Black
16GB

no mine is fine. 32gb white everything is tight and beautiful display none of the "bleeding" or whatever shananagins that is allegedly going on.

Echo most of the statements here about good quality device. Still can't believe the value for the price. I've used mostly Sony devices for the past seven years. They launch at one and a half the cost and update the software at least six months after it's released.
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Mine works perfectly. But sadly I'm returning it. At&t (straight talk) had better signal yet there is no LTE. I'll be sticking with Verizon. Signal is not as strong but I get LTE in 90% of places.
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This phone is flawless. I think most of the "problems" are just people exaggerating or people whose desires are insatiable

That defect thread is poison...
Don't worry about it. That's just a handful of people with issues, it doesn't mean every N5 is defective. If you want one now, get one now. If it has some horrible issue, exchange it for another one. Simple as that.

I don't want to ruin your party but I have 7 dead pixels on my screen and believe me I'm not exaggerating I guess it just comes down to each person experience with their units, I would recommend based on mine to wait.
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There were 4 or so revisions of the Nexus 4. It's never wrong to let manufacturers work out the kinks on the first sacrificial lambs.

I'm not really worried about the "defects", I'm waiting more for the dev scene to get cookin... I know I'm gonna wanna flash something as soon as I get the phone. I'm also on Sprint and things seem to be pretty hit or miss with them right now, so I'm giving them time to get it sorted (hopefully).
Just don't wait too long, or you might find yourself trying to decide between the n5 and galaxy s5...
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I'm definitely waiting.
Rushed into getting the N4 in first batch last year and regretted that decision.
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xchasa said:
I'm definitely waiting.
Rushed into getting the N4 in first batch last year and regretted that decision.
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Same here, but how much should we wait is the question? A month or two or even more?
This could be tracked with the serial numbers of the devices I guess, considering posting a thread about this in a couple of days.
Hopefully they update the inventory in Germany soon.

Manbot27 said:
There were 4 or so revisions of the Nexus 4. It's never wrong to let manufacturers work out the kinks on the first sacrificial lambs.
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Yet my Rev 1 is just fine, and always has been.

Another vote for just getting it. 16gb white, ordered within 5 minutes of release and everything works great.
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ricecake2000 said:
Mine works perfectly. But sadly I'm returning it. At&t (straight talk) had better signal yet there is no LTE. I'll be sticking with Verizon. Signal is not as strong but I get LTE in 90% of places.
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Why not aio? I believe you get lte too.
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ricecake2000 said:
Mine works perfectly. But sadly I'm returning it. At&t (straight talk) had better signal yet there is no LTE. I'll be sticking with Verizon. Signal is not as strong but I get LTE in 90% of places.
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How fast is the speed on straight talk?
Even on HSPA+ I get 16 down with the nexus 5, which is more than enough for anything I personally do on a phone. Including streaming movies.
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Yet my Rev 1 is just fine, and always has been.
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So because you didn't have any issues that means the thousands of other phones out there never had any? Yes that's intelligent logic.

Manbot27 said:
So because you didn't have any issues that means the thousands of other phones out there never had any? Yes that's intelligent logic.
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Many in these forums go out of their way to look for issues (rattling buttons - give me a break - they float in the casing over the actual electrical contacts).
Lots of products get revved throughout their life cycle. It doesn't mean all previous revs were defective.
You can wait if you want to. Hell, I'll probably wait for the nexus 6 as I just don't see this one as that much of an upgrade, and a newer, better one is less than a year away.

I got my N5 day after release day and it is flawless, not a single problem.
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Is dumb as the statement may sound, those who feel like waiting should, those who don't, shouldn't.
I'll explain why.
Those who can quickly get pissed of that their phone doesn't have "nipples" (N4 reversion), or the smallest most insignificant change, should wait.
For most people, that never an issue, and they should buy soon, but for me, I was childishly willing to pay $30, to trade with a newer reversion... Luckily I didn't get the opportunity to
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Sound died?

After an airplane flight and listening to music on my Nexus, I realised that it stopped working as a whole (with headphones in and speakers). Opening Apollo results in a crash after selecting a song and sometimes static noise can be heard when usual background music plays. (E.g starting Need for Speed) I've read a couple of other threads saying that getting an RMA from Google is the best option but I'm currently overseas so it'll have to wait. Is a factory reset the second best option? Has anyone else experienced anything similar? It's as if the speakers just blew ceased to work.
Thanks!

Factory reset is the FIRST best option. RMA is always the LAST resort.
Take backups. This is the order:
1) factory reset
2) Reflash ROM
3) Return to full stock
4) RMA

rootSU said:
Factory reset is the FIRST best option. RMA is always the LAST resort.
Take backups. This is the order:
1) factory reset
2) Reflash ROM
3) Return to full stock
4) RMA
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You wouldn't happen to know why my computer spits out an error every time I try to flash the radio file under step 3 would you? It simply says error: cannot open 'radio-hammerheard-m8974a-1.0.25.0.23.img' . Flashing the first hammerhead .img worked fine.

loolnicetry said:
You wouldn't happen to know why my computer spits out an error every time I try to flash the radio file under step 3 would you? It simply says error: cannot open 'radio-hammerheard-m8974a-1.0.25.0.23.img' . Flashing the first hammerhead .img worked fine.
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Are you flashing it manually? Perhaps it's a typo. Check the file exists.

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Are you flashing it manually? Perhaps it's a typo. Check the file exists.
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Oh it was, sorry. Sigh it's still not working. Every time I hit the soft keys the speakers make a fuzzy/static sound. I guess RMA is the only thing left to do.

loolnicetry said:
Oh it was, sorry. Sigh it's still not working. Every time I hit the soft keys the speakers make a fuzzy/static sound. I guess RMA is the only thing left to do.
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If you have flashed all the images and still have the sound issue, yeah RMA

rootSU said:
If you have flashed all the images and still have the sound issue, yeah RMA
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Just realised that an RMA is for devices received within 15 days of shipping right? That means I'm not eligible for one..

You get a 1 year warranty
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Ah right, thanks for your help!

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I traded my Note 3 plus $150 cash for my brand new Nexus 5 32gb. Does the warranty transfer over to me? Once I went through the gmail setup I received an email from Google thanking me for my purchase of a Nexus 5.
I'm assuming that google thinks I'm the original owner that purchased the Nexus 5.
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Here's a pic
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OuncE718 said:
I traded my Note 3 plus $150 cash for my brand new Nexus 5 32gb. Does the warranty transfer over to me? Once I went through the gmail setup I received an email from Google thanking me for my purchase of a Nexus 5.
I'm assuming that google thinks I'm the original owner that purchased the Nexus 5.
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You traded a note 3 plus 150 cash to who sounds like you kinda got ripped off, sorry to go off topic
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You traded a note 3 plus 150 cash to who sounds like you kinda got ripped off, sorry to go off topic
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In my case I don't think I did. Mind you it was a "brand new" Nexus 5 32gb worth $400 also $150 cash which brings the value to $550. A used Note 3 is worth around that price.
Also before I obtained the Note 3 I basically "ripped off" the previous owner by trading my Nexus 4 16gb plus $60 cash (he originally wanted $100). All in all I made $90 profit plus my dream phone (bnib Nexus 5). I think I made out like a bandit and I'm happy with it.
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OuncE718 said:
In my case I don't think I did. Mind you it was a "brand new" Nexus 5 32gb worth $400 also $150 cash which brings the value to $550. A used Note 3 is worth around that price.
Also before I obtained the Note 3 I basically "ripped off" the previous owner by trading my Nexus 4 16gb plus $60 cash (he originally wanted $100). All in all I made $90 profit plus my dream phone (bnib Nexus 5). I think I made out like a bandit and I'm happy with it.
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hmm im about to get me one next week myself, any huge differences you notice?

Isn't a bnib nexus 5 from the play store only worth $450? Sounds like you overpaid by about $100.
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hmm im about to get me one next week myself, any huge differences you notice?
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They gave you 150?
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Back on topic, did you try different headphones? Did you flash different ROM and test it?
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nemofbaby2010 said:
hmm im about to get me one next week myself, any huge differences you notice?
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I definitely miss the over saturated HD Amoled screen over the IPS found on the N5 (although the N5's IPS screen is surprisingly gorgeous as well). I also miss/don't miss the screen size. It was just too big for one handed operations which I definitely love. The N5's speaker sounds a bit louder but a bit distorted compared to the N3 (Note 3). Camera quality seems to be about the same despite the 13mp shooter found on the N3.
If I were to compare them to a vehicle I'd say that the N5 is similar to a Ferrari and the Note 3 is similar to a Range Rover. The N5 is a very speedy, performance device whilst lacking the beautiful features that that the N3 has to offer which some might say is a gimmick.
I must admit I only used the IR blaster (TV remote feature) once and that was to show off, air gestures and S pen all fall in the same category as a gimmick but it was fun to show off.
The N5 is somewhat bland but I love it. No lag so far (but I've only owned it for one day so that might change with use). The N3 did have a bit of lag but nothing to cry over.
CONCLUSION: Both are great phones. To me its a matter of larger screen vs smaller screen, bland but super speedy software vs a heavy, slightly slower one packed with features. OUT OF THE BOX I didn't really need to download any 3rd party apps for the N3. The N5 was a slightly different story.
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GGWC808 said:
Isn't a bnib nexus 5 from the play store only worth $450? Sounds like you overpaid by about $100.
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I guess you read what I said wrong. I traded my "used" Note 3 for a "brand new" Nexus 5 32gb (which is worth $400 from Google) and the guy I traded gave me $150 cash.
All in all it was a pretty even trade if you add up the $400 Nexus 5 + $150 cash (that he gave me) = $550. My used Note 3 was worth around $500 to $550.
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Screen responsiveness on the Note 5

Have anybody notice how responsive is the screen on this thing? Sometimes I barely touch the screen, and it detects it. I'm very happy with the phone. Coming from the Note 4, and loving it so far. Even the battery life, that had me worried for a while. But now, loving it!

Yeah i noticed the same thing as you. You can pretty much hover your finger over and icon and it will open the app. Pretty damn sensitive.

You have no clue how great this feels coming from the LG G4.
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You have no clue how great this feels coming from the LG G4.
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I was thinking the same thing. I loved the G4, but the screen was just too unresponsive. I also never realized how much more I enjoyed a button on the front and sides. Much more useful for motorcyclists who dock their phone on the handlebar.
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I had the GP, 1+ and Nexus 6 as well as all prior notes. My note 5 blows them all away. Battery is outstanding too. Got 10 hrs sot (posted in battery thread).

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You have no clue how great this feels coming from the LG G4.
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This is excellent news! I can't wait to trash this raggedy ass G4! I hate this phone.
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busab said:
This is excellent news! I can't wait to trash this raggedy ass G4! I hate this phone.
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I hated it too....thank God I had Tmobile JUMP and I was able to get out of that phone
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Wow, in surprised how much unanimous hated there is toward the G4. I have never used the G4, but assumed it was a great phone. I loved my Note 4, but started to not love it so much when Lollipop hit. I really love my Note 5 and the screen is amazing resolution and responsiveness.
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shook187 said:
I hated it too....thank God I had Tmobile JUMP and I was able to get out of that phone
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I'll be able to JUMP again on September 28th. I'll probably change to jump on demand at that time.
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Wow, in surprised how much unanimous hated there is toward the G4. I have never used the G4, but assumed it was a great phone. I loved my Note 4, but started to not love it so much when Lollipop hit. I really love my Note 5 and the screen is amazing resolution and responsiveness.
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It's mostly the unresponsiveness of the screen that makes me not like it. It's irritating.
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Glad I wasn't the only one. Thought I had a defective digitizer.

Yep also upgraded from a G4 which has horrible screen responsiveness. Only thing that bothers me on the Note 5 is when I pick a song in Spotify as I put my phone down it chooses another song. DOH!