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Any experience with Chinese octacore phones?

I'm hunting for a six-inch phablet at an affordable price, and I came across the THL T200/T200C (I think the only difference between them is the internal storage). It's an octacore with 2 gigs of RAM running Android 4.2 on a MTK6592W chip. DX have it for $270 shipped, approximately the equivalent of 200 euro, when the cheapest branded phablet I can find that's actually worth buying is the Huawei Mate, and that costs sixty euro more and has significantly lower-specced hardware.
I'm aware of the risks of buying off-brand phones, but that doesn't mean I shouldn't try to reduce them however possible, so I'm looking for anyone with experience with the T200whatever or in general other octacore phones (which all seem off-brand so far; I can't see any branded ones on sale).
Are octacore processors actually faster? By which I mean, do the OS and apps know what to do with the additional four cores, or is it one of those features added just to increase a number?
If you have one or have used such a phone, can you share your general opinion?

Well, the thing with chinese Androids...
I'd say go for it, just root it and make a full backup as soon as you get it. The reason is because a lot of chinese phones/tablets have a nasty habit of falling into a bootloop for no reason. I've had it happen for several times. This way if you get into a bootloop you can boot into recovery, and restore your recovery. I recommend this for all Androids anyway, but especially for Chinese stuff.
I'd also recommend getting a SanDisk class 10 (or better, like UHS-1) micro SD card and following some generic android guides to swap the internal memory with your SanDisk SD card. So you can buy San Disk's 64GB UHS-1 Micro SD card for 60 bucks from BestBuy (Or even better, their 128GB UHS-1 Micro sd card from Amazon for 119 dollars, and yeah that's SanDisk selling it not a third-party.) This way you have ridiculous internal storage for a ridiculous price (in a different sense of the word "ridiculous").
I don't have any experience with octacore phones/tablets, but as far as I understand the architecture is like this.
2.4ghz dual core = 2.4ghz x 2
so I imagine it would be the same with eight cores.
2.4ghz octacore = 2.4ghz x 8
whether or not Android knows what to do with all that power is beyond me.

Please us the stickies at the top of the forum for this type of discussion

[Q] which is the best 128GB microSD on the market for this phone?

I'm looking for a fast card, I've heard the lower capacity ones like 64GB cards perform better but i simply love the idea of having 128GB's of file storage for media.
TIA!!

xdayala said:
I'm looking for a fast card, I've heard the lower capacity ones like 64GB cards perform better but i simply love the idea of having 128GB's of file storage for media.
TIA!!
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i have this
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Memor...qid=1416689975&sr=8-1&keywords=128gb+micro+sd
very fluid for me i love it!

Pistachio20 said:
i have this
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Memor...qid=1416689975&sr=8-1&keywords=128gb+micro+sd
very fluid for me i love it!
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me too, does what its supposed to do...:good:

I've just ordered an Extreme Pro 64GB based on my research i've had pretty poor read/write speeds in the past and I want the fastest possible.
I'll report back!

I believe there's only 2 brands selling 128GB microSDXC right now. any other brand (that you find on eBay) will be a knockoff and won't actually hold 128GB of data
Sandisk Ultra (there is a v1 and v2... v2 is faster)
v2- SDSDQUAN-128G-G4A
v1 -SDSDQUA-128G-G46A
and Lexar
LSDMI128BBNL633R
so look at both of them and see

Samsung also has 128GB MicroSD cards in EVO and PRO series.
Samsung/SanDisk/Kingston all make their own chips as far as I know, Sony and some others buy from them and re-brand, if I am not mistaken.
Samsung should also be very reliable, considering most phones including iPhones and the Z3 etc have Samsung NAND in them.

abhinav.tella said:
Samsung also has 128GB MicroSD cards in EVO and PRO series.
Samsung/SanDisk/Kingston all make their own chips as far as I know, Sony and some others buy from them and re-brand, if I am not mistaken.
Samsung should also be very reliable, considering most phones including iPhones and the Z3 etc have Samsung NAND in them.
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linky?
Google/Samsung's site doesn't show 128GB microSD
http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/memory-storage-accessories/MB-MP64DA/AM

Sorry, they announced it earlier, but I guess not yet released, 64 is the max I found.
SanDisk is just as good so I guess you should get that.

Does anyone know where to buy an ASUS FonePad 8 16GB ROM & 2GB RAM?

I'm a contract IT worker and I carry a lot of things around, so combining my tablet and phone into one would be great. I currently use another 8" Tab and an LG G2 (along with my laptop, and other cables and external adapters for hard drives, etc) but I'd obviously like to consolidate both to the FonePad 8. However, I'm having a very hard time trying to locate the variation that has 2GB of RAM and was wondering if someone knew of a store that sold them either in the U.S. or directly out of Taiwan. I see a lot of 8GB ROM 1GB RAM versions on ebay, but that's it. My wife has the Lenovo S8-50 2GB RAM with similar specs to the Fonepad 8 and it runs fantastically with the BayTrail Atom. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

handisnacks said:
I'm a contract IT worker and I carry a lot of things around, so combining my tablet and phone into one would be great. I currently use another 8" Tab and an LG G2 (along with my laptop, and other cables and external adapters for hard drives, etc) but I'd obviously like to consolidate both to the FonePad 8. However, I'm having a very hard time trying to locate the variation that has 2GB of RAM and was wondering if someone knew of a store that sold them either in the U.S. or directly out of Taiwan. I see a lot of 8GB ROM 1GB RAM versions on ebay, but that's it. My wife has the Lenovo S8-50 2GB RAM with similar specs to the Fonepad 8 and it runs fantastically with the BayTrail Atom. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=59176561#post59176561

Need Help upgrading to 64gb and 4gb RAM

My Nexus 5 has always full Storage and it p****s me off. I searched for Storage Upgrade posibilities and found a thread from a dude upgrading his storage to 64gb. So i decided to try that too with an spare nexus 5. I also found a post about nexus 5x users upgrading their ram to 4gb. So I researched and found out that the Nexus 5 uses the "H9CKNNNBPTMRLR-NTM" RAM-Chip.
It says that it has 216-ball fbga socket and i searched for similar chips with 216-ball socket with more capacity. Since the snapdragon 800 is a 32-bit chip it'll "only" support 4gb ram (I suggest). I found the "H9CKNNNBPTATDR" and need to know if it has the same pinout as the "H9CKNNNBPTMRLR-NTM".
I cant find enough information about the chips and contacting the Manufacturer doesn't work for me (cant register somehow). Maybe one of you is a dev in a company, which can get into contact with the chip manufacturer. Or you are just better st finding datasheets than me
Hope you can help me

S10e with 8GB or 6GB?

Hello!
I currently have a Galaxy A40 and I am considering getting a Galaxy S10e. The reasons are the slightly smaller size, better screen and specs, but mostly for custom ROM compatibility.
Since all phones since the S10e have gotten taller and been striped of the headset jack and memory card reader, I thought I should invest in an S10e.
My question is about RAM memory. I was thinking I should go for the 8GB version (Exynos) to stay more future proof, but it is quite expensive and only available refurbished.
Is the 8GB version a good idea for compatibility with future ports/ROMs, or is it unnecessary and might not get more custom ROM upgrades because of the 6GB limitation of the way more common version? I'm guessing speed would also increase with the 8GB version, but what would you recommend?

Hi, I have the a couple of Exynos version of the Galaxy S10e and all have 6 GB of RAM.
One runs LineageOS 20, the rest runs Samsung's stock ROM (Android 12)
I have not heard of Custom ROMs having a minimum RAM requirement so I doubt that 6 GB or 8 GB RAM would
hinder you now or in the future to run any ROM for the S10e.
Also performance wise, I would not expect much difference. In my experience 6 GB RAM is more than enough.
But of course it depends on how you use the phone. If you load (a couple of) RAM intensive applications and
constantly switch between them, then 8 GB might give a noticable performance boost in some circumstances.
Is that worth the money? In my opinion, only when the price difference is small. If the 6 GB is (much) cheaper
then by all means, go get one. I fully recommend the S10e, has not dissapointed me yet (had them for more than a year and I bought them used).

Get the european 6 GB version: G970F.
Unlocking the bootloader (for root and custom ROMs) is essential now that Samsung won't update the S10e anymore.
The 8 GB versions of the G970U and U1 won't let you unlock the bootloader (unless you pay someone to generate a custom unlock code for you, but even that doesn't work anymore if your phone has Samsung's latest security update).
So make sure to get the 6 GB G970F instead.
If you can find a non-american 8 GB version, please let me know

Thank you, @rimpelbekkie and @rogier666 for your replies. Since my A40 has 4GB of memory, I was thinking that I should go for a bigger upgrade than 6GB. It should make it more future proof and a nice comeback to anyone with a new phone asking me how much RAM my 4 year old phone has. It would also be nice to have a quite rare version of the S10e, the 8GB Exynos version. But I get your point, rimpelbekkie.
So as my first step, I will buy the $400 8GB S10e (refurbished to new condition). It is supposed to have an Exynos processor. If it turns out that it doesn't, then I will return it and get the $230-$360 6GB version (depending on color and warranty period). I'll let you know, ogier666.