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And I absolutely love it. Browser is smooth as silk. YouTube and Gmail app are so slick. Loving new ui and I'm still getting used to getting efficient with navigation.
Also loving Verizon coming from tmo. Microsoft employee discount was pretty sick too. 22% off, no activation fee, $20 unlimited data and free case/screen/car charger.
Only gripe is battery but its understandable with this huge screen and heavy lte streaming.
Previous phones were g1 g2 n1 ns vibrant iPhone 3gs/3g bb9700
If u are on the fence and an android/nexus fan you wont be disappointed!
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I agree. I had mine for few days now and I am impressed - it is far better than I expected it to be. Although I am very jealous of your $20 deal - I am having to pay £34 here in UK :-(
I'm on day number two; I'd been using ICS for a few weeks thanks to the NS4G developer community but it is by far a superior experience on this phone. I was concerned about the big size initially because I've tended prefer smaller-screen phones, however the look and feel of this phone is superior to any other phone that I've used.
I can't comment on battery life yet because I've had it for less than 24 hours, but I tend to find that a week or two of charge/discharge cycles is required before you really know how your phone will perform. Also, OS updates will fix some of the problems some people have reported having.
Most importantly for me, though, is that we have the flagship Android phone. It may not be the most decked-out phone hardware-wise, but when it comes to updates and support we're the cream of the crop, and that makes a douchebag like me feel warm and cozy inside.
EDIT: I am new to Verizon so I obviously am not eligible for unlimited data, but $50 a month for 10GB isn't too shabby. There's no way that I will hit 10GB (though I will probably come close some months!), but it's nice to know I am not going to be stressing checking my data usage after coming from Sprint and true unlimited service.
Ditto. Came from iPhone 4S and this phone is just amazing. I have the $20 unlimited data grandfathered thank god!
The build quality is actually very nice. Its all one piece with the battery cover being the only other extra piece. Plastic is more durable over time than aluminum and glass.
Can't wait for 4.0.3 to come. Vest part is we are getting it first! YAY!
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I'm on Day 4... For me, once I was able to flash the update that adds the hidden menu buttons, I was set (too many apps I have didn't trigger the menu buttons). I love the ICS versions of the apps (especially GMail and the Exchange Email).
Since I'm in a 3G area only (and only infrequently travel to 4G markets maybe once a week), take these results with a grain of salt:
(Proviso - Since I'm in a 3G area that isn't likely to get 4G for a year or so, I set the phone to 3G only so it doesn't keep trying to find a 4G signal.. This may be why I'm having the battery life that I am having)
1st day - continuous email/gmail push and tons of GTalk messages and a lot of "screen on" time - I got about 14~15 hours of battery life.
2nd day - about the same, but with less "screen on" time - easily a day with some room to spare. I only made three phone calls about 10 minutes each, but had over 150 emails spread throughout the day with about 30 texts.
3rd day - Saturday. I unplugged it from the charge at 8 AM and it is still unplugged as of now (Sunday ~ 10AM) and I have more than half the charge.
Signal strength in my house is 1 bar. This is the same as it has been for any other verizon phone (Razr sometimes went to two bar, but it fluctuated back and forth to 1 bar). Phone calls are clear and not garbled by low signal strength.
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I'm on Day 4... For me, once I was able to flash the update that adds the hidden menu buttons, I was set (too many apps I have didn't trigger the menu buttons). I love the ICS versions of the apps (especially GMail and the Exchange Email).
Since I'm in a 3G area only (and only infrequently travel to 4G markets maybe once a week), take these results with a grain of salt:
(Proviso - Since I'm in a 3G area that isn't likely to get 4G for a year or so, I set the phone to 3G only so it doesn't keep trying to find a 4G signal.. This may be why I'm having the battery life that I am having)
1st day - continuous email/gmail push and tons of GTalk messages and a lot of "screen on" time - I got about 14~15 hours of battery life.
2nd day - about the same, but with less "screen on" time - easily a day with some room to spare. I only made three phone calls about 10 minutes each, but had over 150 emails spread throughout the day with about 30 texts.
3rd day - Saturday. I unplugged it from the charge at 8 AM and it is still unplugged as of now (Sunday ~ 10AM) and I have more than half the charge.
Signal strength in my house is 1 bar. This is the same as it has been for any other verizon phone (Razr sometimes went to two bar, but it fluctuated back and forth to 1 bar). Phone calls are clear and not garbled by low signal strength.
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Hey brother; I live in Floresville but work in San Antonio. LTE in the city is good, but I get nothing where I live in the midst of all the oak. Verizon is sending a team here to check my signal strength and I was told that they would likely send me a comped network extender when they see how bad it is in a supposedly strong 3G area.
Normally I wait a week also to decide on battery life, but VZW is offering 50% off their batteries for LTE devices. So you can get the extended for $25.00... I got it, figured either way, now I have an extra.
I got the extended battery as well, won't be here til Monday though. Whatever I did fixed my battery life and I was able to only drain 8-9% over the 7 hours I slept last night. This battery issue will be fixed, it's just a matter of time. It's not the phone being LTE and dual core. It's purely software.
Things I like:
- Speed/fluidity: coming from an OG Droid this is crazy how fast it is. I'd briefly used a Sprint GSII earlier in the year and this is even smoother than that in places. The browser in particular blows me away, it's better than Safari on the iPhone I think.
- Screen: Love it at higher brightness settings.
- Weight: A ton lighter and easier to hold than the OG was.
- ICS: This is going to be really slick once most apps get updated to fully support the UI changes, hardware acceleration etc. Did you guys notice stuff like the changed voice in Google Maps Navigation? It's much less grating now.
Things I don't like:
- Battery life: This is obviously the big one and honestly might be what causes me to return the phone if it's not substantially improved via software/firmware before the return period is up. I blew through both batteries I have yesterday in a period of about 6 1/2 hours. I routinely got a full day out of one on the OG and other phones friends have don't seem anywhere near this bad. I have LTE off and screen brightness down low too. I really hope this is just the OS issues with keep awake etc, but I dunno...
- Camera: It really is nowhere near as good as the ones on the other current phones. Really wish they'd used the sensor from the GSII.
- Signal strength: Definitely am seeing lower signal with this vs the OG, especially indoors at stores and whatnot.
- Screen at low brightness: Count me as one of the people who didn't realize AMOLED had the sheet of linen type look at low brightness. I can live with it but I do hope they get the battery situation under control so I can run it higher than minimum.
- Getting used to onscreen keyboard: Didn't realize how much I used the OG's hardware one until now...
- App incompatibilities: I know this is temporary, but there are several apps I use that are FCing left and right with ICS, especially if I have force GPU acceleration on.
dspcap said:
Normally I wait a week also to decide on battery life, but VZW is offering 50% off their batteries for LTE devices. So you can get the extended for $25.00... I got it, figured either way, now I have an extra.
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I did the exact same thing; even though I have faith that with LTE turned off and screen brightness turned down that this battery will be more than sufficient after a couple of charges, for $25 it seemed stupid not to buy the extended battery now just in case.
I really don't want to change the aesthetics of the phone with a thicker battery, of course, but it was a "what the hell" moment.
I have the extended batt and I feel like it drains a bit quicker than the normal one. I switched back to the normal one and the phone feels great. I will have to report back with battery tests. I had the extended one in there from day one, yesterday around 1300 I put the original batt in and it had about 68% charge. With med usage I was able to make it 23hrs. I woke up and it still had 13% battery left. I came from the bionic and what I notice is that I'm able to get decent if not better battery life with the stock battery over the extended batt. I will report back in a few days.... Love the phone though.
Went to a buddy's Christmas party and I had iPhone users scrambling trying to find that face effect camera app . To funny my phone counted for hours of drunk fun. F***king luv this phone I'm on day three!!!!
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I did the exact same thing; even though I have faith that with LTE turned off and screen brightness turned down that this battery will be more than sufficient after a couple of charges, for $25 it seemed stupid not to buy the extended battery now just in case.
I really don't want to change the aesthetics of the phone with a thicker battery, of course, but it was a "what the hell" moment.
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I thought the same thing about "aesthetics" but after looking at the pictures and videos of the extended battery it looks as if the chin on the rear bottom becomes smooth. No more chin just straight. Which is fine by me!
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I've had it for a few days myself, and find that I'm liking it better than my iphone 3gs. It's rather a relief not being locked into the "walled garden" anymore.
Once thing I noticed was the lack of latency. The 3gs loaded pages fast, but only after a moderate delay. The GN provides an almost instance response.
Anyway. I'm in Canada. No $20 unlimited for me. We get totally screwed here when it comes to cellular stuff, given our little monopoly triad scandal that's in play. I get to pay $70 for a plan that only includes 1GB (and the contract requires us to be happy about it too)
Oh well.
if you are with virgin or bell ask to speak to retention department and request for the 6 gigs for 30 dollars.
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I have the extended batt and I feel like it drains a bit quicker than the normal one. I switched back to the normal one and the phone feels great. I will have to report back with battery tests. I had the extended one in there from day one, yesterday around 1300 I put the original batt in and it had about 68% charge. With med usage I was able to make it 23hrs. I woke up and it still had 13% battery left. I came from the bionic and what I notice is that I'm able to get decent if not better battery life with the stock battery over the extended batt. I will report back in a few days.... Love the phone though.
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Remember that you need to go through a couple charge cycles with a new battery to get optimal results.
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And I absolutely love it. Browser is smooth as silk. YouTube and Gmail app are so slick. Loving new ui and I'm still getting used to getting efficient with navigation.
Also loving Verizon coming from tmo. Microsoft employee discount was pretty sick too. 22% off, no activation fee, $20 unlimited data and free case/screen/car charger.
Only gripe is battery but its understandable with this huge screen and heavy lte streaming.
Previous phones were g1 g2 n1 ns vibrant iPhone 3gs/3g bb9700
If u are on the fence and an android/nexus fan you wont be disappointed!
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How did you get unlimited data for $20, and they threw in free accessories? DId you ask for the accessories or did they just throw them in for you? Shoot im a new verizon customer and i didn't get a great deal like that.
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I thought the same thing about "aesthetics" but after looking at the pictures and videos of the extended battery it looks as if the chin on the rear bottom becomes smooth. No more chin just straight. Which is fine by me!
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If this is true then I can't wait!!
I currently have the galaxy s2. Hows the battery life on the nitro? Cause I had the LG thrill and it sucked and so did the camera. How is that on the nitro?
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Stock, the battery life of the Nitro isn't so great. About in the neighborhood of 8hrs with medium usage. If you don't mind rooting, debloating and tweaking than you can get better results.
The 8mp camera on the Nitro is decent to good. Sharpness, saturation and white balance are about on par with any other higher-end phone. The negative though is it can take up to 6 seconds from 1st shot before you can take the next shot...So this is NOT an action capable camera.
There's another thread with literally the EXACT same subject line as this new thread created, with the last word being the only difference:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1422642
Have a look around first, you'll notice many of your questions have already been addressed
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Stock, the battery life of the Nitro isn't so great. About in the neighborhood of 8hrs with medium usage. If you don't mind rooting, debloating and tweaking than you can get better results.
The 8mp camera on the Nitro is decent to good. Sharpness, saturation and white balance are about on par with any other higher-end phone. The negative though is it can take up to 6 seconds from 1st shot before you can take the next shot...So this is NOT an action capable camera.
There's another thread with literally the EXACT same subject line as this new thread created, with the last word being the only difference:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1422642
Have a look around first, you'll notice many of your questions have already been addressed
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I wouldn't say 6 seconds, dat's a little steep, but definitely not instantaneous; ballpark i say is somewhere around 3 seconds shutter lag, but that might be due to the crappy 16GB class 2 SD Card that comes with most of the P930.
No lag on Class 4 sdcard, rooted, hard reset and debloated.
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No lag on Class 4 sdcard, rooted, hard reset and debloated.
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are you referring to the camera?
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are you referring to the camera?
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Yes.
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Yes.
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what does that cut the shutter lag to? have you tried a faster card than class 4?
I have a class 4 and it takes 2-3 seconds between pictures.
sounds like the class 4 takes a little more than a second off the process. i'm getting ~4 seconds shutter refresh on indoor well-lit snaps, maybe a bit quicker outdoors in full sun.
anyone tried a class 10? usually overkill for a p&s but maybe with this device........
Processing lag is about 2 seconds with class 4 but then I havent seen a phone that was faster. Is class 10 on the market? I saw class 6 but the reviews said that they write speed gain was barely noticable.
Btw this is my second day without recharging mid day so the baterry is not near as bad as evo 4g or any mobile on wimax.
Also for anyone that caress, the touchscreen is a bit different than on sg2 or skyrocket (a bit different response wise). I definitely noticed that I am making less mistakes while typing. It seems way more precise than anything before.
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It's probably related to finger-to-finger difference. My typing on Nitro is way worse then on Atrix 4g, with keyboard buttons smaller then on Nitro.
My typing on my galaxy s2 sucks lol
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The keyboard on this phone actually drives me nuts sometimes. When posting for example, it's incredibly slow to register my inputs. But, over texting it's almost too sensitive. I don't know why but it also registers the first letter twice sometimes. I guess I just have to get more used to it. Wish it can be iPhone keyboard smooth.
just fine
At first I was skeptical of this phone.
Now, it works just well. I can stream music for an easy 6 hrs. I can do the same task I've done on any other phone with pretty much the same battery usage. If I'm having a slow day at work and I know I'm using my phone heavy I will plug it in and use it. Or if i'm driving I will have in charging. it's exactly the same way I treated my iphone or other phones in the past.
The soft keyboard is a bit touch and it does lag pretty good at times..
The phone is fair. There is really nothing out there that my provider can offer (BELL)
It's got the HTC RAIDER (even worse battery life) and the Nexus (no expandable storage) - which was actually the deal breaker. I do not like being restricted to 16gb max. I like to know I can carry another one with me or have a 32gb. I like to carry movies and music..
I still wish there were more phones with FM tuner built in.. That would be perfect!
Just my 2 cents I guess.
I bought the sgs2 skyrocket, exchanged it for the nitro HD, and then returned the device 2 days later. The battery life, even with little use, is bad. I would seriously think long and hard about making the switch.
It doesn't matter to me which phone folks get but 2 days with this phone is simply not enough time to accurately gauge this battery. Hell, I don't think a week is enough
This phone needs a fair bit of set-up, including full drains/charges and bloat cleared out, etc. but after more than a month with this phone I can say the battery is performing entirely different than it did on day 2 and it is not an issue (other than my trying to make it one).
The fact of the matter boils down to this for me:
I wanted the screen and I wanted the LTE. Those features are part of what defines this phone and those 2 features are the top battery drains and would be on any phone.
I agree with what Scott mentioned regarding the battery. A little over a month and now the battery can last much much longer even with gaming and all. Somehow the phone adapts to your usage and becomes more efficient. Not much more, but better than when it was fresh out the box.
scott0 said:
It doesn't matter to me which phone folks get but 2 days with this phone is simply not enough time to accurately gauge this battery. Hell, I don't think a week is enough
This phone needs a fair bit of set-up, including full drains/charges and bloat cleared out, etc. but after more than a month with this phone I can say the battery is performing entirely different than it did on day 2 and it is not an issue (other than my trying to make it one).
The fact of the matter boils down to this for me:
I wanted the screen and I wanted the LTE. Those features are part of what defines this phone and those 2 features are the top battery drains and would be on any phone.
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aquariuz23 said:
I agree with what Scott mentioned regarding the battery. A little over a month and now the battery can last much much longer even with gaming and all. Somehow the phone adapts to your usage and becomes more efficient. Not much more, but better than when it was fresh out the box.
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I'm glad to hear that your experience is similar, says a lot about this device.
Another thing about the battery, it charges fast IMO. I like to let mine go to full drain before charging up and I just did a full charge in 1 hour ~40 minutes and that reflects most charge times for me.
I don't have much experience charging other smart phones but that's a very acceptable time for me.
scott0 said:
I'm glad to hear that your experience is similar, says a lot about this device.
Another thing about the battery, it charges fast IMO. I like to let mine go to full drain before charging up and I just did a full charge in 1 hour ~40 minutes and that reflects most charge times for me.
I don't have much experience charging other smart phones but that's a very acceptable time for me.
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Yup, indeed this phone's battery charges really fast, fastest of course with chargers that give out higher amps. Using the stock charger (1.2 amps) I can fully charge the phone at about the same time u mention, sometimes even faster. Using blackberry chargers (0.8 amps), it takes a bit longer, but still fast. It's nice to see a phone charge that fast. The atrix took a long time to fully charge, and that's not from a full drain too.
"There will be no specific updates coming for the HTC One X to improve battery"
...say HTC.
It can all be found here at techradar.phones
Well what do you guys think? Are you satisfied by the battery considering the HOX's demanding setup? Mine lasts around ten hours with moderate to heavy use. Which is similar to my last phone, the SGS i9000. I found this quite acceptable.
HTC are a very reputable company, and often listen to their consumers (hence HTCdev). Is this latest move a shy away from that?
Would be great to hear everyones thoughts.
then...time to wait for mugen
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More than happy with mine. 2 days on battery with average use. 3 hours screen time during that time, with an hour using sat nav.
Slim
Im happy with mine 8.5 hours mod use data off wen not in use my gs2 lasts 10 galaxy nexus lasts 9 so it aint really that bad plus the screens awesome
Mod Or Die
I'm still waiting to see what mine will manage, before the update I had 11 hours. Come off charge this morning and this is what's left...
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The screen is such a power hog!
Eddzz!! said:
The screen is such a power hog!
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It is considering my brightness is on the lowest, and all network is off minus WiFi.
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I'm not having an high end smartphone to constantly be in battery problems.
I consider the battery usage as a real annoying problem with no option to buy extra batteries.
Who buys a smartphone to use as less as possible???
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Happy here with battery life of One X, battery is even better than it was in SGS2. For me at least. Around ~36h battery time while SGS2 ~30 hours when I was using it.
Gawwd why do people expect something with the resolution of a tv, and the same amount of cores of a high end pc, to not take much battery? I think its a bloody miracle these smartphones last longer than 5 minutes! As I've said before, you wouldn't expect a supercar to be economical?
Plus, the battery is an improvement to my dhd , so that is another miracle, considering the extra horsepower behind the one x
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Gawwd why do people expect something with the resolution of a tv, and the same amount of cores of a high end pc, to not take much battery? I think its a bloody miracle these smartphones last longer than 5 minutes! As I've said before, you wouldn't expect a supercar to be economical?
Plus, the battery is an improvement to my dhd , so that is another miracle, considering the extra horsepower behind the one x
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Where's the like button? I really do wonder what people expect. Get a Motorola if you want the battery to last you for a week.
More than happy with the battery life of the handset. Lasts me from when I leave home in the morning till when I get home at night and then some. Beats having to charge my phone during the day like on my DHD.
People need to get used to charging their phone every night, really don't understand people's issues with that. What's the big deal?
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I know!!! My DHD is on the charger every night! It doesn't bother me
Why would they? It's fine.
To all the "glass half empty" whining types. You guys do know these things charge from USBs right. I got a great solution; plug it in when its running low.
Besides, the battery life is staggeringly good if you think about it. Mine lasts 2 days for simple calling and texting here and there and a whole day for quite heavy usage, browsing, YouTube, calls and so on. 18hours total, 4-4.5 hours screen on, 40/50mb data and 1.5 hours of calls yesterday, put it away at 1%, still not dead 2 hours of standby later.
Mine's OK, not great. I really didn't expect it to be. It'll be interesting to see how the S4 One XL does now that it's shipping. If it's about the same (with LTE off) than it's not a Teg3 issue. If it's dramatically better than we know it's not the display alone causing battery challenges.
I think that no update coming anytime soon is acceptable but no update AT ALL?
Im sorry but f*** that! Why can't they focus abit on the battery, some simple things would be to have less CRAP and bloatware, maybe if they could release 2 versions 1. simplified with the sense camera ONLY and rest ICS and the other with the full sense package that is really no necessary.
The most important thing to remember is that this a a PHONE to make calls and for that it works nicely and the battery lasts if you keep the screen off most of the time, but for a phone like this that was made to do more things I think you need to at the very least have a battery or a software symbiosis that can last for 8,9 hours of screen time.
Its Tegra 3 for f*** sake! With the super-dupe-triple-super-important-kill core2dou like nothing-quad-core-and a dedicated 5 companion core THAT IS SUPPOSE TO DELIVER KILLER BATTERY LIFE.
What is the problem?
I think there is simply too much Sense on the phone, too many uneceassy widgets and other crap that run in the background (oh you can flash cusom rom bla bla, you can freeze services with Titanium backup bla bla, but what if I want to use a stock rom?) bull**** I say, wih such and advanced CPU and memory and so on I do not see why you cannot have better battery life.
My Samsung Galaxy S2 can work for up to 3 days (ok it has a AMOLED ok ok but still, touchwhiz seems to not over run ICS) On stock ICS. Why? Because they have less 'painted over ICS functions that almost makes it run 2 OS's at the same time so maybe its no wonder the battery gets chewed up by all the sense applications.
This just my opinion from observing the phone and all the fanzy sense stuff after a week.
I believe this phone could be better in terms of software (without a doubt).
One thing they have to adress is the camera, why cant the image files be bigger than 2.9 megapixels? This is so stupid considering it has an 8 mpx camera... Also the full HD and 720p records in the latest firmware 1.28xx at approximately 24 fps and it should be 29 or 30. My Asus Prime records at a steady 30 fps at 1080p and 720p and its running Tegra 3 too.
They MUST at some point focus on battery life because if you dont have the juice to run all those fanzy apps and UI then why are they there in the first place?
I LOVE the weather graphics but I could live without it too (If I absolutely HAVE to....) the only thing necessary is the camera sense app because its the only thing that makes the phone unique and very fun and nice (but again whats the point without proper battery life?)
I hope HTC continues to work on making this one of the best first quad-core phone.
Another thing I noticed with SetCpu is that the phone is very high frequencies very frequently, if you install it and use the phone for a day you will see the graph scale, it uses 1.4 abut 40% of the time, but why? I never played games during this period or anything.
Im gonna keep my 1X because I love it and I believe in it and in the HTCdevs if they cant just be more positive perhaps
Cheers!
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Why would they? It's fine.
To all the "glass half empty" whining types. You guys do know these things charge from USBs right. I got a great solution; plug it in when its running low.
Besides, the battery life is staggeringly good if you think about it. Mine lasts 2 days for simple calling and texting here and there and a whole day for quite heavy usage, browsing, YouTube, calls and so on. 18hours total, 4-4.5 hours screen on, 40/50mb data and 1.5 hours of calls yesterday, put it away at 1%, still not dead 2 hours of standby later.
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4-4.5 hrs screen on isn't typical usage that the majority are getting though. Closer to 3 hrs.
It's easier to be quick to judge others when your own device defies the norm for the better.
If you were struggling to get 2.5 hrs , I doubt you'd be as chirpy about it all.
Two words that will help battery life without HTC - "custom kernels"
If you need to see the difference they make just ask in one of faux's threads, e.g. in the Sensation dev forum.
did the update improve the batterie life and if so , does the HOX still run as fast or did things low down ?
Pretty much echo the below , i have had an sgs2 and have an xperia s and this phone with its companion core is at least 33% worse on battery than both of these, and the processor is supposed to be more efficient . The display excuse won't wash much as the xperia s display is at least as bright/power hungry if not more .
I would love to see the exchange / return rates on this handset due to it not living up to its hype , let alone the fault rates.
And i am not whining, i upgraded to one, i like it , i will keep it and maybe one day learn to root it and replace the rom, but lets not kid ourselves its just not a finished polished product in terms of software !
thats my 2p, thanks for reading
james
Johnny0906 said:
I think that no update coming anytime soon is acceptable but no update AT ALL?
Im sorry but f*** that! Why can't they focus abit on the battery, some simple things would be to have less CRAP and bloatware, maybe if they could release 2 versions 1. simplified with the sense camera ONLY and rest ICS and the other with the full sense package that is really no necessary.
The most important thing to remember is that this a a PHONE to make calls and for that it works nicely and the battery lasts if you keep the screen off most of the time, but for a phone like this that was made to do more things I think you need to at the very least have a battery or a software symbiosis that can last for 8,9 hours of screen time.
Its Tegrra 3 for f*** sake! With the super-dupe-triple-super-important-kill core2dou like nothing-quad-core-and a dedicated 5 companion core THAT IS SUPPOSE TO DELIVER KILLER BATTERY LIFE.
What is the problem?
I think there is simply too much Sense on the phone, too many uneceassy widgets and other crap that run in the background (oh you can flash cusom rom bla bla, you can freeze services with Titanium backup bla bla, but what if I want to use a stock rom?) bull**** I say, wih such and advanced CPU and memory and so on I do not see why you cannot have better battery life.
My Samsung Galaxy S2 can work for up to 3 days (ok it has a AMOLED ok ok but still, touchwhiz seems to not over run ICS) On stock ICS. Why? Because they have less 'painted over ICS functions that almost makes it run 2 OS's at the same time so maybe its no wonder the battery gets chewed up by all the sense applications.
This just my opinion from observing the phone and all the fanzy sense stuff after a week.
I believe this phone could be better in terms of software (without a doubt).
They MUST at some point focus on battery life because if you dont have the juice to run all those fanzy apps and UI then why are they there in the first place?
I hope HTC continues to work on making this one of the best and first quad-core phones.
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So I currently have a Vibrant that has CM9 installed and the thing rocks! My battery life is pretty good for moderate to heavy use, and gets me through at least a full work day.
As we all know the Galaxy Nexus GSM is now on sale for $399 straight from google, and I am very tempted to get one. I have read ALL OVER the net that the battery life sucks, I have seen tests done that show it only gets 3 hrs MAX of surf time, gets a decent 8 hrs of talk, and about 6 hrs of video, each tested with a fully charged battery.
SO my question is, is it worth it? Is the battery life as bad as they say? Or will it be better than what I have on my SGS?
Also, how do the picture quality compare to say... and Iphone 4s, etc.
Thanks for your feedback, I am sure it will help more than just me
jzero88 said:
So I currently have a Vibrant that has CM9 installed and the thing rocks! My battery life is pretty good for moderate to heavy use, and gets me through at least a full work day.
As we all know the Galaxy Nexus GSM is now on sale for $399 straight from google, and I am very tempted to get one. I have read ALL OVER the net that the battery life sucks, I have seen tests done that show it only gets 3 hrs MAX of surf time, gets a decent 8 hrs of talk, and about 6 hrs of video, each tested with a fully charged battery.
SO my question is, is it worth it? Is the battery life as bad as they say? Or will it be better than what I have on my SGS?
Also, how do the picture quality compare to say... and Iphone 4s, etc.
Thanks for your feedback, I am sure it will help more than just me
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Do you need a 4.6 inch screen or not? If so, you gotta deal with the consequences of powering such a screen.
For what it's worth, I went from Captivate > Nexus S > Galaxy Nexus and I feel as if the battery life were all the same ball park.
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Do you need a 4.6 inch screen or not? If so, you gotta deal with the consequences of powering such a screen.
For what it's worth, I went from Captivate > Nexus S > Galaxy Nexus and I feel as if the battery life were all the same ball park.
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True, it does seem I wouldn't see much of a difference either way I go. The bigger screen is nice, plus the HD display, and the better camera and added flash, front facing camera, and the major factor is the PRICE POINT!
That is a perfect price point for this phone, I have that itch!!
Standy by time is great. Better than my old sensation 4g. Which had decent battery life to begin with.
My battery can last more than a full day, with the screen on for 4+ hours with a couple hours of streaming music, email, etc.
I think most of the complaints are from the LTE version, and pre software updates that may have helped.
Compared to my sgs4g I get about the same on stock battery. With a qcell 2050 mAh battery I get about an extra 2 hours give or take.
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bobdelt said:
Standy by time is great. Better than my old sensation 4g. Which had decent battery life to begin with.
My battery can last more than a full day, with the screen on for 4+ hours with a couple hours of streaming music, email, etc.
I think most of the complaints are from the LTE version, and pre software updates that may have helped.
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Sweet because I just bought one XD
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i never considered the gsm gnex to have bad battery life even on stock
you can get much better battery life with a custom kernel installed. i can get 2 days of what i consider normal use (phone calls, losts of sms, some mms, facebook, twitter, games on the ****ter ... ) using GLaDOS kernel.
as previously mentioned the majority of the battery woes come from the battery sucking lte antennas ... all lte phones have this issue and really require new battery technology imo
I upgraded from SGS running CM7.1 to GSM GNex in November..
With my Galaxy S I rarely went a full day without having to plug it in for a charge.
With my GNex I have never plugged it in for a charge during the day, and usually have 40-50% battery left before bed (2h screen time). SGN rocks!
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i never considered the gsm gnex to have bad battery life even on stock
you can get much better battery life with a custom kernel installed. i can get 2 days of what i consider normal use (phone calls, losts of sms, some mms, facebook, twitter, games on the ****ter ... ) using GLaDOS kernel.
as previously mentioned the majority of the battery woes come from the battery sucking lte antennas ... all lte phones have this issue and really require new battery technology imo
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That's true too. I'll see how long I can go before I have to flash, whether I have to or not, I can't go long without a flash regardless
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I upgraded from SGS running CM7.1 to GSM GNex in November..
With my Galaxy S I rarely went a full day without having to plug it in for a charge.
With my GNex I have never plugged it in for a charge during the day, and usually have 40-50% battery left before bed (2h screen time). SGN rocks!
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That's good news for me then. Still waiting for my tracking number...
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Me too. Ordered an hour ago and can't wait to get it. The og epic has been great though. I'm going to miss it.
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I have a Vibrant with CM9 and a Galaxy Nexus GSM. I don't have complaints of battery life on either. Both get me through a full day. I definitely get more than 3 hours of web surfing time on the Galaxy Nexus. It's been good enough that I really don't pay attention to battery life.
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For what it's worth, I went from Captivate > Nexus S > Galaxy Nexus and I feel as if the battery life were all the same ball park.
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Almost my exact journey, I just had a different variant of the galaxy s. And I agree with overall battery life being the same. I got the 2000 mah OEM battery and it now outlasts all my previous phones
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Battery life for my friend is great and he got a gsm version personally sucks on sprint, camera is better in iPhone 4S for sure since I got both devices but it doesn't take such a bad pictures, is just mm idk for some reason the lense seems to be better on the iPhone 4S so far I'm undecided in which device should I stay with x
In my usage streaming audio seems to use less battery. Other uses use similar juice.
I had a SGS Captivate before with CM9.
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I am looking to get a new phone and for a while I've been using a windows phone. The Lumia 640(terrible) to be exact. I then got a galaxy s3 from my friend and forgot just how awesome android is. I was looking to get the s5 but then the nexus 5x caught my eye. Now I know the nexus 5x is mid range but with the newer snapdragon 808 chip and the hexacore processor does it beat the s5 in performance? Both phones have only 2GB of ram and although the s5 does have a higher clock speed i cant help but think the nexus could out perfom it. Has anyone had experience with the two phones? I don't know what I should do.
I would say performance will be similar. Do you care about getting official updates? GS5 is EOL, Nexus 5x is good till Sept of next year.
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I would say performance will be similar. Do you care about getting official updates? GS5 is EOL, Nexus 5x is good till Sept of next year.
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I do like the fact that the 5x receives updates faster and runs on stock android. If the performance should be similar than I might go with the 5x because of how fast it charges and because it also has the fingerprint scanner. I know the s5 has a scanner but i don't like how you have to swipe
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I would say performance will be similar. Do you care about getting official updates? GS5 is EOL, Nexus 5x is good till Sept of next year.
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Sigh, that's only like 15 more months of support/updates. I haven't been in this community long enough to know if devs for ROMs continue to take the latest Android source code and make builds for unsupported devices?
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Sigh, that's only like 15 more months of support/updates. I haven't been in this community long enough to know if devs for ROMs continue to take the latest Android source code and make builds for unsupported devices?
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They do, just check the Nexus 4 forums, that phone was released almost 4 years ago and has multiple Android 6 ROMs available. Even the Galaxy Nexus, released in November 2011, has a couple available.
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They do, just check the Nexus 4 forums, that phone was released almost 4 years ago and has multiple Android 6 ROMs available. Even the Galaxy Nexus, released in November 2011, has a couple available.
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even my old galaxy S1 is running MM thanks to xda
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even my old galaxy S1 is running MM thanks to xda
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That's crazy!!
I own these two phones right now. nexus 5X is only better for camera and stock software experience and fingerprint scanner ....rest everything is better in s5( i.e display,battery, sound/speaker, waterproofing, storage options, camera is not bad either but slow focus) i dont see any difference in real life between snapdragon 801 or 808..Funny thing is i can charge s5 much faster with s6 charger as compare to charging speed of nexus 5x with type c cable
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Sigh, that's only like 15 more months of support/updates. I haven't been in this community long enough to know if devs for ROMs continue to take the latest Android source code and make builds for unsupported devices?
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that's the MINIMUM. Nexus 5 got Android M direct from Google and it was past it's EOL date
Does anyone else have anything to say. The thing that really concerns me about the phone is battery life. Is it really as bad as people say? How are colors on the nexus 5x? accurate? and how fast does it really charge?
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Does anyone else have anything to say. The thing that really concerns me about the phone is battery life. Is it really as bad as people say? How are colors on the nexus 5x? accurate? and how fast does it really charge?
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I get about 5hrs SOT if I let my battery run to 0%-5% which I rarely do. Projecting based off of 12+ hrs on battery with 50% left with 2hrs+ SOT. 15% brightness, location off and WiFi on for 85% of the time. BT for 45 mins with music streaming. So, it's solid battery life for me.
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Does anyone else have anything to say. The thing that really concerns me about the phone is battery life. Is it really as bad as people say? How are colors on the nexus 5x? accurate? and how fast does it really charge?
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I'm a pretty light user so I get over a day on a charge. GSAM battery monitor says my averages are 1d 5h average per charge with 6h 15m active. It also says my average SOT is about 4h. Those stats are from about 2 weeks ago when I got the phone. I suspect this is the best I will get and as it ages the life will diminish. Compared to the old S3 I came from this is great. For charging I was at about 14% this morning and with the stock charger went from 15% to 85% in one hour of charging. To me that's pretty fast charge.
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Does anyone else have anything to say. The thing that really concerns me about the phone is battery life. Is it really as bad as people say? How are colors on the nexus 5x? accurate? and how fast does it really charge?
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Battery life lasts a day quite easily, 2 days with lighter usage. It charges very quickly, 25% in just 15 minutes.
More accurate colours than the similar panel used in the iPhone 6s as shown by Anandtech.
You get high end features on this device for a mid range price.
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Does anyone else have anything to say. The thing that really concerns me about the phone is battery life. Is it really as bad as people say? How are colors on the nexus 5x? accurate? and how fast does it really charge?
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About battery life, i'm a heavy user, everything always on (wifi, GPS, bluetooth, data) and I get 3h - 3h30 with 10 % battery left.
About the screen, I own a Galaxy Note II, and I'm really very happy to leave the flashy amoled screen, Nexus 5X's screen is much better for my eyes and the colors are more accurate. I just miss the deep dark of the amoled
Full charge from 10 % takes about 1 - 1h30, it's really fast.
So the battery life is not so good, not enough to last a day for my use, but I charge it on my car going to work and coming back home with a 2A charger and it's also fast.
It is definitely a solid device. I just picked up the Moto X Pure from Best Buy as a Deal Of The Day for $160 off and the camera is quite similar telling me the X does really have a phenomenal camera. The Marshmallow on the MXP is pretty dang stock as well so can't claim anything for either there but would say that the camera is great on 5X personally and the updates are a huge thing for me as well. Screen is phenomenally accurate on 5X but battery is a huge difference. I get around 5H bone stock on MXP and about 3H on Nexus 5X. They both have to be charged at around 8-10% every night and that is all so just telling you through the full day I'll get around those numbers on each device from normal heavy texting and FB Messenger alongside a lot of Bluetooth Audio from GP Music and maybe 30m each day for calls and not much gaming nor anything over 15m of video playing on FB or YT. I'll tell you as well that the signal seems to be slightly stronger keeping LTE in a tiny bit of more places on the MXP as well. The battery life on N5X is terrible compared to what you'd get BUT you also adapt and don't quite use your phone for the useless junk to compensate for it as well. Hopefully it helps SOMEHOW.