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With all the complaining about this phone flooding the forums, I thought I would post something positive that I found improves the phone. When I purchased this phone I knew nothing about it other then it had a nvidia dual core...I had to have it. 2 hours later while in the market it froze. Removed battery and never turned on again. So back to store to get another. :-( Needless to say phone has been fine since. However I had too had some of the ever popular issues. Decided to root it using one click root and installed nvflash. Backed up stock rom and flashed the gingerbread leaked rom. No more problems. I had a problem with the phone lagging bad while trying to type. Reinstalled Rom and ok now. I use antutu CPU master. I have setup the profiles to my like. I basically turned it down to 608mhz Max and while it is charging it is normal. Phone is not as snappy, but is still fast enough for normal use. This gave me a instant battery gain. Before I couldn't go more then 4 hours without a charger (pretty lame) now I have gone 12 hours of what I consider normal use. So...there is nothing more to complain about other then LG and Google need to get there sh__ together and give us some updates. Pretty bad when you have to do all this to get this phone to work.
Sick of heari.g about the sensation... i am thinking that before the g2x came out everyone thought it was going to solve the world. I think some people just need excuses to have the latest and greatest phones. Come on people the grass isn't always greener.
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90teggy said:
With all the complaining about this phone flooding the forums, I thought I would post something positive that I found improves the phone. When I purchased this phone I knew nothing about it other then it had a nvidia dual core...I had to have it. 2 hours later while in the market it froze. Removed battery and never turned on again. So back to store to get another. :-( Needless to say phone has been fine since. However I had too had some of the ever popular issues. Decided to root it using one click root and installed nvflash. Backed up stock rom and flashed the gingerbread leaked rom. No more problems. I had a problem with the phone lagging bad while trying to type. Reinstalled Rom and ok now. I use antutu CPU master. I have setup the profiles to my like. I basically turned it down to 608mhz Max and while it is charging it is normal. Phone is not as snappy, but is still fast enough for normal use. This gave me a instant battery gain. Before I couldn't go more then 4 hours without a charger (pretty lame) now I have gone 12 hours of what I consider normal use. So...there is nothing more to complain about other then LG and Google need to get there sh__ together and give us some updates. Pretty bad when you have to do all this to get this phone to work.
Sick of heari.g about the sensation... i am thinking that before the g2x came out everyone thought it was going to solve the world. I think some people just need excuses to have the latest and greatest phones. Come on people the grass isn't always greener.
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Not to rain on your parade, but I'd hardly call having to run a leaked buggy rom and then underclock your processor by about 40% just to get it to work properly positive news. That's just more information that confirms how substantial the current problems are. To underclock your phone almost 40% pretty much defeats the purpose of having a dual core phone. If you're going to do that you might as well have gotten a G2 or Nexus S or something. Also to have done all that and have still only gotten 12 hours of battery life isn't really that impressive. I'm not trying to be controversial, I'm just offering a bit of perspective. To lose almost half of your processing power just to match the battery life that other phones (ex. Sensation) can get out of the box using the full processor is definitely not a positive. Quite frankly I find that to be quite the opposite...meaning it's very negative. The grass may not always be greener on the other side, but at least for me, in my opinion...after having tried both sides of the grass..it's definitely greener. While that may change in the future after the cure-all update (the one everyone is praying actually fixes the phone), as of right now the reality of the situation is the G2X needs fixing before its ready for prime time. Until then it's just merely a phone with potential.
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Not to rain on your parade, but I'd hardly call having to run a leaked buggy rom and then underclock your processor by about 40% just to get it to work properly positive news. That's just more information that confirms how substantial the current problems are. To underclock your phone almost 40% pretty much defeats the purpose of having a dual core phone. If you're going to do that you might as well have gotten a G2 or Nexus S or something. Also to have done all that and have still only gotten 12 hours of battery life isn't really that impressive. I'm not trying to be controversial, I'm just offering a bit of perspective. To lose almost half of your processing power just to match the battery life that other phones (ex. Sensation) can get out of the box using the full processor is definitely not a positive. Quite frankly I find that to be quite the opposite...meaning it's very negative. The grass may not always be greener on the other side, but at least for me, in my opinion...after having tried both sides of the grass..it's definitely greener. While that may change in the future after the cure-all update (the one everyone is praying actually fixes the phone), as of right now the reality of the situation is the G2X needs fixing before its ready for prime time. Until then it's just merely a phone with potential.
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I tried both and the sensation just pissed me off. Damn girly phone...lol
G2x is better imo... Stable for me..
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I tried both and the sensation just pissed me off. Damn girly phone...lol
G2x is better imo... Stable for me..
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so very eloquently put...well I'll play along...then I guess that makes the G2X schizophrenic then huh? lol Nah but seriously though I'm not trying to hijack his thread into a "phone a is better than phone b" thread. My thing was I'm just pointing out that his "positive news", really isn't a positive at all..and quite frankly I find it to be an indictment of the device more than anything. So though his intent may have been positive news, it really delivered negative news.
+1.
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With all the complaining about this phone flooding the forums, I thought I would post something positive that I found improves the phone. When I purchased this phone I knew nothing about it other then it had a nvidia dual core...I had to have it. 2 hours later while in the market it froze. Removed battery and never turned on again. So back to store to get another. :-( Needless to say phone has been fine since. However I had too had some of the ever popular issues. Decided to root it using one click root and installed nvflash. Backed up stock rom and flashed the gingerbread leaked rom. No more problems. I had a problem with the phone lagging bad while trying to type. Reinstalled Rom and ok now. I use antutu CPU master. I have setup the profiles to my like. I basically turned it down to 608mhz Max and while it is charging it is normal. Phone is not as snappy, but is still fast enough for normal use. This gave me a instant battery gain. Before I couldn't go more then 4 hours without a charger (pretty lame) now I have gone 12 hours of what I consider normal use. So...there is nothing more to complain about other then LG and Google need to get there sh__ together and give us some updates. Pretty bad when you have to do all this to get this phone to work.
Sick of heari.g about the sensation... i am thinking that before the g2x came out everyone thought it was going to solve the world. I think some people just need excuses to have the latest and greatest phones. Come on people the grass isn't always greener.
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There are no greatest and latest fone. Sensation will have its own problems. My g2x with EB1.04 GB, together with setcpu runs flawless, not a single problem. Thanks to the EB developer(s).
I unplug my phone at 8am and throw it on the charger at midnight. I use it pretty heavily throughout the day. I'm always sending corporate exchange emails, personal emails, SMS, twitter news links, and facebook.. along with wordfeud and kingdoms live a few times a day plus whatever game I find throughout the day.
Pretty happy with battery life. I'm running CM7 and stock kernel. Custom Kernels OC/UV typically have much better battery life. I also don't use SetCPU or anything special. Just stock CM7.
I've only had the G2X for a few days, but so far I've had no problems whatsoever. I checked for the backlight bleeding and luckily my phone doesn't have that issue. Everything else is working great and the phone is amazingly fast. If it helps the date on the box is 5/09/11
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I unplug my phone at 8am and throw it on the charger at midnight. I use it pretty heavily throughout the day. I'm always sending corporate exchange emails, personal emails, SMS, twitter news links, and facebook.. along with wordfeud and kingdoms live a few times a day plus whatever game I find throughout the day.
Pretty happy with battery life. I'm running CM7 and stock kernel. Custom Kernels OC/UV typically have much better battery life. I also don't use SetCPU or anything special. Just stock CM7.
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Ya I use my phone heavily and I go to sleep around 2am and I have around 30 percent by the end of the day. I'm running stock and I just froze all the T-Mobile apps.
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If you download SetCPU or something else that can underclock with profiles, set it so it underclocks to the minimum when the screen is off. Your battery life will go through the roof.
I can go an entire day without a charge.
Something is wrong if you're only getting 4 hours at stock clocks.
Try using the battery calibration app, and then if you can swing the ~$3, get JuiceDefender.
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Not to rain on your parade, but I'd hardly call having to run a leaked buggy rom and then underclock your processor by about 40% just to get it to work properly positive news. That's just more information that confirms how substantial the current problems are. To underclock your phone almost 40% pretty much defeats the purpose of having a dual core phone. If you're going to do that you might as well have gotten a G2 or Nexus S or something. Also to have done all that and have still only gotten 12 hours of battery life isn't really that impressive. I'm not trying to be controversial, I'm just offering a bit of perspective. To lose almost half of your processing power just to match the battery life that other phones (ex. Sensation) can get out of the box using the full processor is definitely not a positive. Quite frankly I find that to be quite the opposite...meaning it's very negative. The grass may not always be greener on the other side, but at least for me, in my opinion...after having tried both sides of the grass..it's definitely greener. While that may change in the future after the cure-all update (the one everyone is praying actually fixes the phone), as of right now the reality of the situation is the G2X needs fixing before its ready for prime time. Until then it's just merely a phone with potential.
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You know your right. I am highly pissed with T-Mobile for not doing a _____ thing about this pos. It is ashame, because I swapped the galaxy s for this one. I have had many android phones and this is by far the worse case I've had. Really just trying to be patient and hope the update will solve issues. I wanted to post something that would possibly help someone else till this infamous update is released. In the phones defense, it is running two 1 gig cores, pretty impressive. There is no battery technology that would allow the capacity needed for this phone and maintain the slim form factor. I can understand that to a degree. I have seen the big battery for this phone and plan on purchasing it. I actually will like the fact that I'll have something to hold on too. My other point was "the latest and greatest phone" is not always the solution. On another note, T-Mobile has absolutely the worse customer service! Very displeased that I am going to be supporting them for 1yr and 11 months yet!
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Please post here your experiences, good or bad, with the official stock Android 5.0 update on the N9005 snapdragon.
The majority of reviews I found so far on the web are not really praising, but of course it's also only a few days since the update is available, so it would be useful if we had a thread with all the facts as to know if it's better to wait for the 5.1 update which I I've heard rumors of that it would be on the way already.
If there are some issues it could save some people from wasting a 1.3Gb download, which is in my case almost my complete monthly allowance on my 3G connection.
Official update, moderate use, some application development, some tweaking here.
Responsiveness is good, ART really is zippy, but the stock bloatware seems to be dodgier than usual. Battery life is 4-5h on idle, phone doubles as a hand-warmer. I hope that feature switches off automatically once spring starts.
Phone is really snappy, performance is great . Of course still had to disable the usual Samsung bloatware. But still faster than my debloated KitKat was. Everything is fluid, and the animations are a nice touch.
No multiuser accounts. Not sure why.
I really hate Heads up Notifications, especially with Whatsapp which I use most of the time.
Heads up is one of the main reasons why I would install it, because all the heads up apps from Playstore have one or another flaw.
I hope Kercharon's comment on the battery was made tongue in cheek, because that wouldn't be very promising, but in fact I've read a similar comment on another site so I'm looking forward to more experiences.
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Heads up is one of the main reasons why I would install it, because all the heads up apps from Playstore have one or another flaw.
I hope Kercharon's comment on the battery was made tongue in cheek, because that wouldn't be very promising, but in fact I've read a similar comment on another site so I'm looking forward to more experiences.
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It was, but the battery drain issue is real, and the phone does get hot. It's probably a misconfiiguration that a factory reset would fix - for a start, disabling the unified daemon (eur) service improved battery life expectancy by a factor of two.
I'll be waiting for a debloated ROM myself, preferrably Note4 based, once it gets released.
I came from leaked lollipop to official version. After updating I have done a factory reset by booting in to recovery. Definitely felt snappier than leaked. So I rooted and removed most of the junk from Samsung. Ram usage is lower compared to previous and battery life looks OK. No troubles so far. I'm happy with this update.
I have no problems with battery life after removing bloatware (daemon, Samsung crap, etc)
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I have no problems with battery life after removing bloatware (daemon, Samsung crap, etc)
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Can you list some of the things you did after install ?
Your battery life seems great
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Can you list some of the things you did after install ?
Your battery life seems great
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Removed unified daemon (huge battery drain), removed all Knox crap, removed weather widget and greenified apps that I don't use so much. That's pretty much it.
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Note4 based...
kercharon said:
It was, but the battery drain issue is real, and the phone does get hot. It's probably a misconfiiguration that a factory reset would fix - for a start, disabling the unified daemon (eur) service improved battery life expectancy by a factor of two.
I'll be waiting for a debloated ROM myself, preferrably Note4 based, once it gets released.
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i am running a Note4 based ROM ( Tweaked_PORT_N4_L_TW_ROM_v3.0_by_g00h ) since almost a month on my Note3 SM-N9005 hlte and it runs like a charm. Bloatware? nope Overheating? nope Battery drain? nope
In normal use (on screen about four and a half hours) battery time lasts for about fifteen hours till phone reminds me to charge or go into ultra power saving mode.
You`ll find the ROM here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-3/development/rom-t3018509
I am noticing some lags some lags while playing a game called Swing Copters! Is this because the game isn't optimised for L yet, or something else?
It's too early to say but the battery life is very good so far, much better than KitKat.
PS: I have one question, has the default auto brightness changed in L? I mean how many nits is it now? I feel that the brightness is a little bit less than KitKat, I don't like it.
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I am noticing some lags some lags while playing a game called Swing Copters! Is this because the game isn't optimised for L yet, or something else?
It's too early to say but the battery life is very good so far, much better than KitKat.
PS: I have one question, has the default auto brightness changed in L? I mean how many nits is it now? I feel that the brightness is a little bit less than KitKat, I don't like it.
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I have noticeable lag in Hill Climb Racing too.
Btw, turning the screen on isn't smooth. It's looks like two steps from black to ON. Does anyone else see this?
Thanks for posting your experiences so far guys it for sure will help me, and probably others as well, to decide if it's worth to make the large download now or better wait a little for a first update.
I also read elsewhere that many of the stock apps like dialer, gallery, clock and calculator have now a white background vs a black one in Kitkat, and which I personally don't like. Is that easily to change or not?
There is also much to do about the completely overhauled Touchwiz, but I'm not sure if it is included in the Note 3 firmware. if so is it a great improvement over the old touchwiz?
Keep in mind that this thread is about the official update only, not the leaked version, and definitely not custom roms.
Please keep your posts coming.
Lag on recent app screen when you press the kill all button.
Battery drain due to Indexing Service, remove it if you don't use S Search or My Files.
i got screen frozen issue in the past 3 morning, after the alarm goes off, and the APEX launcher is not responding.
Just press power button off/on , then every thing seems fine. feel like the phone is in deep sleep, and need 10 or so seconds / and press On button for it to wake up.
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Please post here your experiences, good or bad, with the official stock Android 5.0 update on the N9005 snapdragon.
The majority of reviews I found so far on the web are not really praising, but of course it's also only a few days since the update is available, so it would be useful if we had a thread with all the facts as to know if it's better to wait for the 5.1 update which I I've heard rumors of that it would be on the way already.
If there are some issues it could save some people from wasting a 1.3Gb download, which is in my case almost my complete monthly allowance on my 3G connection.
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for me exynos it's overheat as fu.cked
lollipop is so boring not easy to do custom :good:
From the responses so far it looks as if it is better to give it a pass for the time being.
Could any of these issues mentioned in this thread be related to the fact that most have installed a firmware that is actually meant for another region as their phone is?
Were there also issues when Kitkat rolled out, which later have been solved by updates?
hi everyone
i didn't like lollipop yet cause i have battery drain problem. my battery draining faster than kit kat. also kitkat's performance was better in task manager and most of apps.
If you have read a few previous comments you'd know that other people have achieved good battery life by disabling Samsung bloatwares.
Now here is my taking on the new rom:
I installed it yesterday. It runs pretty fast, battery life is extremely good as well. What's missing is the ability to block individual notifications from showing up on lock screen. Also my moto360 gets disconnected and reconnected quite often, like 3 or 4 times an hour. GPS icon flashes every couple of hours on the corner of the status bar, but it doesn't seem to affect battery consumption.
If you want to use face unlock, you need to install this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/themes-apps/gapps-smart-unlock-android-5-0-t2962765
Here is mine just some wifi and some internet browsing. Have not rooted it yet still observing and playing around.
Hey all !
I am back to O+O since 1 month as I was able to find a bamboo version.
Previously, last year, I owned a normal O+O running CM11 and I was really happy with battery life. I was wable to go trough my working day and then get a drink in the evening and keep battery life until morning.
With the Bamboo one I have now, it is impossible. I am around 10% of battery life near midnight. The only differences I see are :
- Bamboo cover (I don't think it is impacting battery life)
- The phone is 1 year old, perhaps the other owner did something wrong with the phone and ruined the battery
- CM12
I think the answer is in the version of CM ... Can you confirm me that ? Do you know if I can downgrade from 12 to 11 ?
My phone is used at work, not too much, I shutdown useless services and connection as LTE, Bluetooth, NFC, Location, ...
So that's really annoying I am already lowering my usage of this fabulous phone to be able to reach a full battery day and it is getting me sad
Thanks in advance for your help and toughs and excuse my poor english
Lag
fx.lagwagon said:
Hey all !
I am back to O+O since 1 month as I was able to find a bamboo version.
Previously, last year, I owned a normal O+O running CM11 and I was really happy with battery life. I was wable to go trough my working day and then get a drink in the evening and keep battery life until morning.
With the Bamboo one I have now, it is impossible. I am around 10% of battery life near midnight. The only differences I see are :
- Bamboo cover (I don't think it is impacting battery life)
- The phone is 1 year old, perhaps the other owner did something wrong with the phone and ruined the battery
- CM12
I think the answer is in the version of CM ... Can you confirm me that ? Do you know if I can downgrade from 12 to 11 ?
My phone is used at work, not too much, I shutdown useless services and connection as LTE, Bluetooth, NFC, Location, ...
So that's really annoying I am already lowering my usage of this fabulous phone to be able to reach a full battery day and it is getting me sad
Thanks in advance for your help and toughs and excuse my poor english
Lag
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I'm guessing its going to be due to CM12 which has poorer battery life across different devices compared to previous life on Kitkat. You can go back to kitkat or run both via multrom which is what I do. You can compare both and I clearly see that kitkat standby time is far better with probably an extra hour or 2 screen on time. Is your bootloader unlocked? If not your going to need to, to flash back to previous android versions.
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I'm guessing its going to be due to CM12 which has poorer battery life across different devices compared to previous life on Kitkat. You can go back to kitkat or run both via multrom which is what I do. You can compare both and I clearly see that kitkat standby time is far better with probably an extra hour or 2 screen on time. Is your bootloader unlocked? If not your going to need to, to flash back to previous android versions.
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I had also the feeling the issue is caused by CM12 and Jelly bean.
thanks for your idea of multirom, I am going to have a look at that tonight !
fx.lagwagon said:
I had also the feeling the issue is caused by CM12 and Jelly bean.
thanks for your idea of multirom, I am going to have a look at that tonight !
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Its definitely worth it, theres a guide to booting lollipop and kitkat roms alongside eachother in the thread below. Sounds tricky but once you get the right files together its fine.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/guides-mmwolverines-opo-mods-tips-tricks-t3027926
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Its definitely worth it, theres a guide to booting lollipop and kitkat roms alongside eachother in the thread below. Sounds tricky but once you get the right files together its fine.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/guides-mmwolverines-opo-mods-tips-tricks-t3027926
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MultiRom is installed and updated, I am now checking your loink to get the right version of KitKat rom and I'll install it.
I'll come back here with my impressions asap.
Thanks !
Good day.
I have been seeing in some post that after March (APC8) update, because of some mess in android, S7 began to use much more battery.
Did anyone compare it in real life?
Is it worth to downgrade?
If yes, what other function will be lost after the downgrade? (couldn't find any firmware version changelog)
Thank you.
hi, there is a noticable difference in battery life and SoT, I could hit around 6H SoT with my 900F (exynos) with mid/high usage running APC8, it was a very good built.
running BPJ5 atm and hitting around 3H SoT, sometimes little more or less so... yeah i guess its worth downgrading if you dont mind some minor updates and Samsung Cloud, I upgraded mine a few weeks ago, because of Samsung Cloud support and theres Android 7.0 behind corner so I would update anyway. cheers
im still wondering how could Samsung ruin the battery life so bad and not fix it for more than a half year
Im running BPJE latest update. Im on 5hr sot with 18hrs standby
TriceLL said:
hi, there is a noticable difference in battery life and SoT, I could hit around 6H SoT with my 900F (exynos) with mid/high usage running APC8, it was a very good built.
running BPJ5 atm and hitting around 3H SoT, sometimes little more or less so... yeah i guess its worth downgrading if you dont mind some minor updates and Samsung Cloud, I upgraded mine a few weeks ago, because of Samsung Cloud support and theres Android 7.0 behind corner so I would update anyway. cheers
im still wondering how could Samsung ruin the battery life so bad and not fix it for more than a half year
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Thank you for your reply.
From what i have read, it is android source code issue, not Samsung.
Maybe with 7.0 Nougat upgrade and it's enhanced Doze, could be back to the old battery life.
Hansoliv said:
Thank you for your reply.
From what i have read, it is android source code issue, not Samsung.
Maybe with 7.0 Nougat upgrade and it's enhanced Doze, could be back to the old battery life.
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we will see. what is really intriguing is that some users are just fine with post-APC8 updates, like falcon here, i dont get it, really...
I have debloated my S7, no GPS, no heavy gaming.. i just dont get it..
I haven't tried BPJE yet, and I might after seeing this thread. I've tried BPJ1 and BPH6 and battery life was horrible - about 3hr SOT. Switched to APC8 and battery life doubled.
Update: I've now updated to BPJE, and the battery life is really good. Almost as good as APC8. Performance is better on BPJE so it's a good compromise between battery life and performance.
It's bring reported in news that Samsung is working on Oreo for Galaxy S8 and S8+, and that the software version is BQI1.
Well, that is nice. But hey? Did you know OnePlus is already testing the OnePlus 3 Oreo under beta, closed beta actually that is not available to the public.
OnePlus is also targeting a September-end release of public beta of its Oreo for OP5, OP3/3T.
Hell, THAT IS FAST. No?
And what we have on Samsung?
The build nos. of Oreo update under the works.
Well, every OEM has Oreo update under the works. HTC, Motorola, Sony, LG, all of them. Even though they do not put out their Oreo build nos. out, chances are that they will still beat Samsung in the race to Oreo rollout.
So, Samsung, making a news via your unofficial source about Oreo update's supposed build nos that won't make to rollout is really not gonna make Galaxy S fans happy. Availability of a beta build of S8, before or just after OnePlus releases one of its own, would be something that would cheer Samsung's fans.
What do you guys think?
8 generations of beating a dead horse...
I rather have a later release which works more stable than a first-of-the-brands-release which is buggy as hell. Just my 2 cents.
The final release will be in January or February. Deal with it or get another phone.
Zulake said:
I rather have a later release which works more stable than a first-of-the-brands-release which is buggy as hell. Just my 2 cents.
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HTC and LG release new software among the first ones and it was never buggy. Still 5 months after S8 release, battery drain is here, not fixed with 7.0, not even 7.1.1.
#justsayin
srdjanLeo said:
HTC and LG release new software among the first ones and it was never buggy. Still 5 months after S8 release, battery drain is here, not fixed with 7.0, not even 7.1.1.
#justsayin
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donno what battery drain you're talking about. I have none.
Had LG G2 before. Lollipop update was really BAD (performance and battery) and BUGGY, and never fully fixed with official updates from LG. Kitkat update was much better, although still worse than the original 4.2.2
srdjanLeo said:
HTC and LG release new software among the first ones and it was never buggy. Still 5 months after S8 release, battery drain is here, not fixed with 7.0, not even 7.1.1.
#justsayin
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donno what battery drain you're talking about. I have none.
Had LG G2 before. Lollipop update was really BAD (performance and battery) and BUGGY, and never fully fixed with official updates from LG. Kitkat update was much better, although still worse than the original 4.2.2
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Same here, 0 battery drain at all. I can do days with 1 charge. And yes I do use it daily all day long.
The Root said:
8 generations of beating a dead horse...
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Like most of us won't wind up installing the first bleeding edge alpha build that gets leaked here...
tester5224 said:
donno what battery drain you're talking about. I have none.
Had LG G2 before. Lollipop update was really BAD (performance and battery) and BUGGY, and never fully fixed with official updates from LG. Kitkat update was much better, although still worse than the original 4.2.2
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Same here, 0 battery drain at all. I can do days with 1 charge. And yes I do use it daily all day long.
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Well, with HTC 10 I still get around 2-3 days of use, my GF with my old G5 gets 2 days. With Crapsung, if I get full day it is a miracle. And overheating is terrible. You dont have to convince me that this is good battery life because I'm not a child. I know how battery should behave.
But, It was my fault to be a victim of Crapsung marketing. And for sure, this is my first and last Samsung device.
What the hell did you expect! Or is this your 1st Samsung device.
srdjanLeo said:
Well, with HTC 10 I still get around 2-3 days of use, my GF with my old G5 gets 2 days. With Crapsung, if I get full day it is a miracle. And overheating is terrible. You dont have to convince me that this is good battery life because I'm not a child. I know how battery should behave.
But, It was my fault to be a victim of Crapsung marketing. And for sure, this is my first and last Samsung device.
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I could easily get 4 or 5 days use out my s8+ if I used my phone a certain way. Here's my batter life and screen on time with heavy use, video, 3d gaming, calls, WhatsApp, telegram, Skype and on top of all that half the time I was on 4g! Care to show any proof of your supposed HTC 10 battery life
srdjanLeo said:
The moment someone has different opinion he’s trolling. ? well natural response from someone whose IQ is equal to the room temperature in celsius.
Anyway, I said this was my first Samsung device. And it is gonna be my last one. I get that Exynos is better than Snapdragon, camera is great, Sound is poor before adding Arya Sound mod but after it, it is great. Display was the reason why I took this device.
But... battery is really bad. After posting on Samsung community Moderator replied me that 17 hours is pretty great! Wtf? Since when is that the case? iPhones can do better that that. When I use YT or recording for loger than 5-6 minutes, phone gets unbearably hot and starts to be buggy. This also cannot be normal. I red some forums and found out that a lot of people are experiencing this kind of behavior. Custom rom (BatStock 1.4) fixed it partially.
So, don’t be blinded like iPhone freaks, I just think there is a lot of room for improvements.
Also, I am selling it, and it takes a time.
Cheers!
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You can't just generalise the whole handset because of your experience you're one person and I just showed you evidence earlier of my battery life. Going by my own evidence i could just say it's an amazing device, I'm not even running custom roms or kernels, which I do plan to do at some point.
Yeah I suspect we won't have it till December or January. Now will they have an open beta again?
Psyscope said:
Yeah I suspect we won't have it till December or January. Now will they have an open beta again?
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I think so but only for the BTU users.. starting in November?? Time to download the BTU firmware again
What's BTU firmware?
srdjanLeo said:
Also, I am selling it, and it takes a time.
Cheers!
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Apparently you have a defective device. I've had my S8 since the middle of April and I have great battery life and it never once overheated. Would it be fair for you to pass your problem off on someone else? If do, at least inform them of your phones issues so they would be making an informed decision purchasing it.
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Bart3n said:
I think so but only for the BTU users.. starting in November?? Time to download the BTU firmware again
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The S7 got the Nougat Beta in November because of the Note 7 failure. I guess the Note 8 will get Oreo Beta in November but we'll see.
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Gaps between the housing and the glass of the screen were huge (compared to now) and the screen itself had problems
with red tint all across it and issues with burn in after less than a week of use . Since then I dropped it and cracked the screen.
They replaced the whole metal housing of the phone and the screen.
I had overheating issues also if the ambient temperature was more than 35 degrees Celsius and I haven't used more than
one app at a time, even in the background...
Also regarding battery drain. Had this issue with the July update plus my home button started trippin' and auto-brightness stopped working completely.
On the other hand my brother who also has an S8 didn't have any of this issues so I'm willing to bet that it's all up to the batch of device you got. Few of
my friends that got the phone just after the release reported problems from screen to bricked devices!
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Please show respect to all members. There is no need to disrespect each other.
Cheers
noppy22
sofir786 said:
You can't just generalise the whole handset because of your experience you're one person and I just showed you evidence earlier of my battery life. Going by my own evidence i could just say it's an amazing device, I'm not even running custom roms or kernels, which I do plan to do at some point.
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Exactly. I live in The Netherlands and have never heard of bad battery life with an Samsung. The thing is, a Samsung lasts the longest with high brightness. An LCD-device (iPhone for instance) lasts longer with low brightness (0-30%). In general, with the brightness maxed out and mixed usage on pure 4G+ I get about 4-5.5 hours of display on time on a single charge. If you'd do the same on an LCD-device (iPhone 7 Plus) you can expect about 2-2.5 hours of display on time. The story does change completely when using 0-30% brightness, then the iPhone 7 Plus outruns the S8 by quite a few hours (no video watching). I'm on fully stock and liking the device a lot. No lag, fast and reliable just like the S7 Edge which I had before this.
Absolute standby drain is the best on Galaxy A-series phones from my experience. 5-7H of SOT with 100% brightness over 4-5 days is a normal occurance for the A5 2016 which my mom owns (with lots of streaming included, phone calls & skype). Can't do that on my S8 and the iPhone 7 would die within the first 3 hours under the same use-case...
Android Oreo isn't necessary imho. It's nice that we do get the update but nearly all introduced features are features we already have had for many years on the Galaxy S-series. While other manufacturers benefit massively with Android Oreo...Samsung simply doesn't.