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My upgrade is in october, but I'm fairly certain I could convince sprint to cut me some slack. Basically, for the past year or so I've used CM7 on my Evo. I like the full customization available in a stock rom. I'm sure CM9 will be available for both of the phones I'm considering at some point, but that will kill the sense features like the amazing new camera which I feel like I need (most of my photos are in doors in low light situations). The evo seems to have better specs over all, bigger screen, off screen buttons (positive), better screen, sexier more resilient built, and I could always use a custom launcher to get my customization on.
The main thing I think I'm missing with both phones are the quick widgets from CM7 - where you pull down the notification bar and there are some quick settings buttons. I really, really like and feel like I need that. Do either phones have that built in? I know the evo will last me longer and be the same price with upgrade. Any tips? Thanks.
The galaxy nexus has had cm9 for a long time. And most roms right now all have the toggles in the notification bar. So your good on that.
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Hardware navigation buttons are not a positive. Have you seem the major ****-up of a job HTC did with em? A huge bar comes up with the menu key. Ya, HTC, you ****ed up.
Trust me. You don't want to be using a phone on an OS built to have on-screen buttons and doesn't have them. Get the Galaxy Nexus over the HTC or get the GSIII if you really need a good camera.
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My upgrade is in october, but I'm fairly certain I could convince sprint to cut me some slack. Basically, for the past year or so I've used CM7 on my Evo. I like the full customization available in a stock rom. I'm sure CM9 will be available for both of the phones I'm considering at some point, but that will kill the sense features like the amazing new camera which I feel like I need (most of my photos are in doors in low light situations). The evo seems to have better specs over all, bigger screen, off screen buttons (positive), better screen, sexier more resilient built, and I could always use a custom launcher to get my customization on.
The main thing I think I'm missing with both phones are the quick widgets from CM7 - where you pull down the notification bar and there are some quick settings buttons. I really, really like and feel like I need that. Do either phones have that built in? I know the evo will last me longer and be the same price with upgrade. Any tips? Thanks.
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The HTC Evo LTE does not have a removable battery..that was my deal breaker ..What u gonna do when u run out of juice or forgot to charge your battery and your out and about??..I needs AN EXTRA BATTERY!!...just in case
Galaxy Nexus is a great phone -- you won't regret getting it. Dev community is awesome for this phone.
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The HTC Evo LTE does not have a removable battery..that was my deal breaker ..What u gonna do when u run out of juice or forgot to charge your battery and your out and about??..I needs AN EXTRA BATTERY!!...just in case
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Well actually, from all the reviews I've seen lately of the One X and S it isn't needed. The S4 is apparently great on battery and some reviewers are even getting 2 days out of it. I was honestly surprised.
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The stock ics rom does not have the quick settings in the notification bar. You will need a custom rom to get it, just fyi
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Well actually, from all the reviews I've seen lately of the One X and S it isn't needed. The S4 is apparently great on battery and some reviewers are even getting 2 days out of it. I was honestly surprised.
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Isn't it the exact opposite? Reading the one x forums here looks like people have overwhelmingly bad battery life. 2.5-3 hours screen time on a good day. Meanwhile the nexus gets 4.5 hours pretty easily.
I went with the nexus. Sprint gave me the upgrade and I'm paying 145 total
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I went with the nexus. Sprint gave me the upgrade and I'm paying 145 total
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Such ****!! Nothing against i just I tried sprint twice and they wont give me my upgrade early and I am eligible june 1st they said the earliest I can upgrade is may 18th
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Such ****!! Nothing against i just I tried sprint twice and they wont give me my upgrade early and I am eligible june 1st they said the earliest I can upgrade is may 18th
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They should let you upgrade early because of the contract buyout thing.
Maybe the GSM gnex gets 4.5 but my late version gets barely over 3 on the extended battery with 3g on and on wifi all day. This is on aokp with glados kernal and display at 20%
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They should let you upgrade early because of the contract buyout thing.
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they wouldn't let me do that or pay a small fee to upgrade, i called customer care twice and went into the sprint store
Only benefit of waiting is that roms will all be here and wont have bugs by the time may 18th comes
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The stock ics rom does not have the quick settings in the notification bar. You will need a custom rom to get it, just fyi
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You don't necessarily need a custom ROM, you can also just download the free app Widgetsoid from the market. Gives you a totally customizable notification toolbar. I do think you have to be rooted though, not sure on that. I'm running rooted stock ROM and have the notification toolbar with the settings I want.
no problem rooting it, though i read it has a locked bootloader, which kind of blew my mind
Just bought my galaxy nexus off of somebody on craigslist, and I absolutely love it coming from an htc amaze 4g. This phone is lightning quick and extremely responsive. I can see grain because of the pentile, and also have the purple issue when brightness is low as well as incredibly low speaker. I'm kinda worried about the limited 16Gb internal memory. Other than that, I prefer this phone over my friends S3!! I love this phone!!!!! My first Samsung! Nice to meet you all! Any suggestions and apps u guys would recommend? I
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Jellllyyybeeeeaaan!!!
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Jellllyyybeeeeaaan!!!
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I really didn't believe reviewers when they said it made a huge difference lol
Its incredible!!!
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Absolutely the best os for any electronic device. It's that good.
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Absolutely the best os for any electronic device. It's that good.
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Hopefully battery isn't too bad on jellybean. My amaze on ics would last about 8 hours of light to intermediate usage and about 1 hour and 15 minutes of screen on time. Anything better than then I'll be happy lol
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Got mine not too long ago too... Jellybean is awesome!
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Got mine not too long ago too... Jellybean is awesome!
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Hopefully battery isn't too bad on jellybean. My amaze on ics would last about 8 hours of light to intermediate usage and about 1 hour and 15 minutes of screen on time. Anything better than then I'll be happy lol
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Only 1 hour?? Most people here get 3 to 4 hours screen on time, some I've seen even 5. You should go ahead and root it and install a custom kernel so you can adjust the color settings to fix that purple tint issue
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Hopefully battery isn't too bad on jellybean. My amaze on ics would last about 8 hours of light to intermediate usage and about 1 hour and 15 minutes of screen on time. Anything better than then I'll be happy lol
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You should be able to get longer than that with the screen on. Are you switching everything on at the same time? e.g. GPS, wireless, LTE (perhaps?), or perhaps having emails sync every minute... Even if it's heavy gaming you're doing you should get longer than that.
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You should be able to get longer than that with the screen on. Are you switching everything on at the same time? e.g. GPS, wireless, LTE (perhaps?), or perhaps having emails sync every minute... Even if it's heavy gaming you're doing you should get longer than that.
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Lol no guys. If anything I would probably get 90 minutes maximum screen on time on my HTC amaze. the battery life on that phone was the worst I've seen in my life. Auto sync off, brightness at 10% , mobile data off, and just some texting.
Also I was thinking of flashing a either kernel, but the phone is perfect the way it is lol. What are other benefits from custom kernel?
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Lol no guys. If anything I would probably get 90 minutes maximum screen on time on my HTC amaze. the battery life on that phone was the worst I've seen in my life. Auto sync off, brightness at 10% , mobile data off, and just some texting.
Also I was thinking of flashing a either kernel, but the phone is perfect the way it is lol. What are other benefits from custom kernel?
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You can change the color profile with a custom kernel to get rid of the purple tint. You can also undervolt and underclock for better battery life. You can overclock too, but the CPU is more than enough @stock for most tasks
First thing I'd check out is Jubakuba's sticky in the Q&A forum, all about unlocking boot loader, rooting, flashing ROMs, etc. Big timesaver is just flash bigxie's 4.1.1 ROM which is rooted, with busybox, gapps, and deodexed. Trinity kernel will let you adjust color, boost volume, and overclock (or underclock to save battery). People also like Franco's kernel. Another good flashable mod is Thyrus's Nav bar w/menu button, which also gives you expanded power-off menu with reboot and recovery options. (Does require deodexed ROM so won't work on stock). And you might want to try a replacement launcher like Nova or Apex.
Or you might just want to enjoy the stock Jellybean experience for a while before modding. Have fun.
Thanks for the responses guys!! I read around and I see I have to use Odin? I'm more of a fast boot command prompt type of guy lol . I'm scared to mess up nexus :/ is performance better with custom kernels? Oh boy I'm going to have do tons of reading!!! Lol.
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Thanks for the responses guys!! I read around and I see I have to use Odin? I'm more of a fast boot command prompt type of guy lol . I'm scared to mess up nexus :/ is performance better with custom kernels? Oh boy I'm going to have do tons of reading!!! Lol.
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fastboot works great with the GNex. I have had this phone for 4 months and I have never ever used Odin
Planning to upgrade to it in about a month. Are there any issues? Like my Infuse had the silent GPS unit recall and that screwed a lot of people. Any issues yet?
None.
Everything works great!
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I came from the infuse, and in comparison the note is unreal.
Hard to believe, but there really is no problems.
Only problem i have is people randomly coming up to me interviewing me about my huge phone
I'm totally pleased with my note. I haven't even felt the need to root it, it's that good out of the box.
The only gripe I have is with the stock keyboard not auto-correcting. It has predictions line swift key has, but auto-correction sucks. The only reason this is an issue is because the stock keyboard is the only one that has handwriting recognition, which is really awesome to have on this phone.
If I'm missing something here regarding the stock keyboard, please let me know, because I'd really love to be able to use handwriting without having to switch keyboards back and forth.
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Only problem i have is people randomly coming up to me interviewing me about my huge phone
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This would be it.
Scribbled with the Note II
Great so far. Loving it more than my SGS3. I was ready to throw my SGS3 against the wall because I couldnt get the battery to last more than 12 hours. My GN2 lasts 24+ with moderate usage.
Went from iPhone 4 to SGS3 now to the GN2 and loving it. Got the GN2 instead of upgrading my current Nexus 7 to the 3G Nexus 7.
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I'm totally pleased with my note. I haven't even felt the need to root it, it's that good out of the box.
The only gripe I have is with the stock keyboard not auto-correcting. It has predictions line swift key has, but auto-correction sucks. The only reason this is an issue is because the stock keyboard is the only one that has handwriting recognition, which is really awesome to have on this phone.
If I'm missing something here regarding the stock keyboard, please let me know, because I'd really love to be able to use handwriting without having to switch keyboards back and forth.
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Yeah, I was never a fan of the swiping. But the auto correction works decently if you swipe it out. It's a learning curve for me too. I'm getting better and after just a day I'm about as accurate as I am with the keyboard I was using before. What finally got me to really try was the multi view. Having the keyboard pop up and float makes it much easier than taking up the whole bottom of the screen. Plus I love that number row.
I would like to see an option to enable the auto correct, though.
I keep forgetting how big this phone is. It still catches me off guard when people say it's big, it really doesn't feel big anymore.
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Hii,, i'm going to upgrade to N2 also but i'm worry about my app data as I'm using titanium backup app and it's great but i think it's working only with rooted device and i don't wont to root the N2,,
So dose titanium back work with it without root i any one can try it for me.... and if not there it any other app which can transfer app data??
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Titanium backup won't work without root. There are some app backup programs that don't need root, but none of them will backup the data. At least none I have found. Why don't you want to root the phone?
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Amazing phone. Fast does everything. Buy the smart dock and u have a full pc and get xbmc u have a full media center.
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Titanium backup won't work without root. There are some app backup programs that don't need root, but none of them will backup the data. At least none I have found. Why don't you want to root the phone?
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It will go out of warranty and why i need to break the security keep it safe....and y know the root steps is dangerous.
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Yeah I had a problem... I got a defective unit whre in low light situations and with brightness all the way down there would be a dark blob like inside the screen. All I had to do was call att though and I got a new phone the next day! Got to love overnight shipping!
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like it so much, i didn't touch my ipad and PC for a while now.......... :good:
may find the phone a bit big but after 2 days you used to it and forget about it and love it even more......
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It will go out of warranty and why i need to break the security keep it safe....and y know the root steps is dangerous.
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Rooting doesn't void your warranty. You can flash back to stock and with triangle away there is no lasting indication you did anything. I don't think there is any real chance of brick from rooting. I haven't seen someone bring a Samsung for a while that wasn't caused by user error flashing something meant for another device. I have seen HTC deny claims due to unlocked Bootloader, but only when dealt with direct, AT&T hasn't been. And I have never seen a report of Samsung denying warranty for something like that.
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Rooting doesn't void your warranty. You can flash back to stock and with triangle away there is no lasting indication you did anything. I don't think there is any real chance of brick from rooting. I haven't seen someone bring a Samsung for a while that wasn't caused by user error flashing something meant for another device. I have seen HTC deny claims due to unlocked Bootloader, but only when dealt with direct, AT&T hasn't been. And I have never seen a report of Samsung denying warranty for something like that.
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I heard rooting does void warranty and triangle away does remove flash count but your status in settings is labeled modified instead of normal. Prolly have to re flash.
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Xelstyle said:
This would be it.
Scribbled with the Note II
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Maybe the next nightly will fix it?
geebr200 said:
I heard rooting does void warranty and triangle away does remove flash count but your status in settings is labeled modified instead of normal. Prolly have to re flash.
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If you reflash the stock ROM bad then use the USB Jig or triangle away, it will show your phone as completely stock. If you keep it rooted with custom ROM you're definitely gonna be labeled as "customized"
Best phone I've ever owned, couldn't be happier. Upgraded to this from the Galaxy S3, and I see a MAJOR boost in performance and battery life. Highly recommend.
Fantastic phone without a doubt! Every ROM I have tried has been superfast.
My only gripe with the phone (and I didn't notice it at first) is that the plastic back makes all kids of clicking/squeeking type noises. Plastic does that. The back feels very cheap made. I have a replacement back coming tomorrow that is made from aluminum. This will make the device feel so much more solid. I will lose a bit of signal strength, but I can't stand the cheap clicking lol.
How many of you were trying to use your rooted stock galaxy s3, and when you were using it, it froze, resulting in a battery pull? I am sick of this. Either after writing a long post, message, or status and it freezes and losing it all, or just now, when I was downloading the MOAR ROM (800 mb), it took an hour and thirty mins, and then at 94% it froze. I returned a galaxy s3 STOCK NOT ROOTED for this same problem, and got another and it still does it. How many of you have the same problem? This is one of the few reasons I wish I havent gotten this phone. Do not get me wrong, I love this phone and all its features, but there are these few tiny things that make me really mad that is does it, that makes me regret it too.
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I had this issue.
Download Fast Force Close from the market.
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I had this issue.
Download Fast Force Close from the market.
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Oh okay. Thank you. I just find it very annoying. Wanted to see if other people had problems like this.
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I can say I'm not experiencing this. Rock solid, could be the Rom you're on, or kernel. Any oc or uv?
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Can't say I ever had this problem...
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I can say I'm not experiencing this. Rock solid, could be the Rom you're on, or kernel. Any oc or uv?
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First phone it happened on stock rom rooted/not rooted (happened on both) and it happens on stock rom rooted on 2nd phone. I dont mess with kernals or CPU or Overclocking/ anythinf like that because i am scared of breaking my phone. So it has been bone stock other than root
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Can't say I ever had this problem...
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Neither have I, I was having overheating issues but found a way around it. Hope a solution comes your way. This does remind of the bad chip issues the orig tmobile galaxys were having tho
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Tell us the full story. It's your phone refurb?
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My phone froze once. I've had it for 9 months. I'd start looking at things like a badly written app or an issue with the SD card if I were you. BTW, you should be able to force a reboot by just holding the power button for 10 seconds.
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First phone was brand new, this one is refurbished.
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Neither have I, I was having overheating issues but found a way around it. Hope a solution comes your way. This does remind of the bad chip issues the orig tmobile galaxys were having tho
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My first one over heated bad. Take it to sprint and they can fix it. Helped me. It was my first big smartphone and I thought it was normal.
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Have never once had this problem on my GS3. Day one purchase too. Sorry to hear that.
I've had freezes due to custom kernel overclocking and undervolt testing, but once I found the right settings, I haven't had a single freeze...and it's been months.
Phone has ran its longest at 2 weeks 3 days 16 hours.
Never had this problem. Rooted since 2nd week in July.
No issues here either; rooted and blue-tified not long after getting it 6/21.
My first phone I had was a dud. The screen would flicker and freeze up. The only way it would fix itself was a battery pull. But it would start doing the same thing within a few minutes. I got my replacement and haven't had problems since. Maybe it's possible you got another dud? There worse thing that can happen is you get another bad phone, or you get a good one. If you'd get another bad one you could just see if they'll let you upgrade to a new phone early. Have a buddy who just that same thing, not with a s3 though.
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Overheating means one of two things.
1. You phone is in an extremely marginal signal location and keeps switching between cells. Lots of radio activity at full power will heat up the phone.
2. An app is using lots of CPU power and/or data and may be "running away".
You should be able to get some clues on this by looking at battery stats to see what's using the most power.
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Have never once had this problem on my GS3. Day one purchase too. Sorry to hear that.
I've had freezes due to custom kernel overclocking and undervolt testing, but once I found the right settings, I haven't had a single freeze...and it's been months.
Phone has ran its longest at 2 weeks 3 days 16 hours.
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Never had this problem. Rooted since 2nd week in July.
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No issues here either; rooted and blue-tified not long after getting it 6/21.
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My first phone I had was a dud. The screen would flicker and freeze up. The only way it would fix itself was a battery pull. But it would start doing the same thing within a few minutes. I got my replacement and haven't had problems since. Maybe it's possible you got another dud? There worse thing that can happen is you get another bad phone, or you get a good one. If you'd get another bad one you could just see if they'll let you upgrade to a new phone early. Have a buddy who just that same thing, not with a s3 though.
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I always thought it was something I did, but I took my first one in and it froze and heated up, now this one just freezes. I don't wanna take the 2nd one in because that is just extra work for sprint and I can deal with it. If my computer worked or I could download the moar rom (or any for that matter) without it freezing or restarting the download I wouldn't have this problem. Oh well. Nothing I can't deal with. Heck, it is a great phone.!
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How many of you were trying to use your rooted stock galaxy s3, and when you were using it, it froze, resulting in a battery pull? I am sick of this. Either after writing a long post, message, or status and it freezes and losing it all, or just now, when I was downloading the MOAR ROM (800 mb), it took an hour and thirty mins, and then at 94% it froze. I returned a galaxy s3 STOCK NOT ROOTED for this same problem, and got another and it still does it. How many of you have the same problem? This is one of the few reasons I wish I havent gotten this phone. Do not get me wrong, I love this phone and all its features, but there are these few tiny things that make me really mad that is does it, that makes me regret it too.
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Must be some rogue app you install consistently.
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Must be some rogue app you install consistently.
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I wonder what it could be though? I mean all I have are top notch apps that are like in the top 100 on play store. I don't download from play store without reading reviews.
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I wonder what it could be though? I mean all I have are top notch apps that are like in the top 100 on play store. I don't download from play store without reading reviews.
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Hard to tell. Perhaps someone here knows a diagnostic to tell which app freezes the phone.
But it's most likely something that runs as a service (under Settings/Apps/Running), probably something you yourself installed. I'd start there first. If you have a quick and reliable way to determine if it will lock up (like running some stress test, maybe a benchmark), perhaps you could "freeze" some of those apps in Titanium Backup and find out which app is responsible.
I'm thinking of getting this phone for cheap. I read about touch sensitivity issues. Is this a problem you guys notice? Anything else I should know?
Sorry if this is in the wrong section. Thanks in advance.
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Have not noticed. Only issue I have is battery and the stats look a lot better on paper
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Have not noticed. Only issue I have is battery and the stats look a lot better on paper
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Damn. Even with the ICS upgrade? This is crazy because I had an Atrix 2 for a while and with 1gb of ram you'd expect it to be okay. But this is that and 1.5ghz dual core.
But for $65 is it worth it? I mean in my city, there's lots of cheap and good phones. But this is the cheapest in its power range.
Should I just shell out a couple more bucks for a better phone?
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Also how is your screen on time?
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the battery issues have been dealt with using wind kernel on a v20f ics rom or cm 10.1.2 with wind wernel
I have never been able to root this phone, so that kind of stinks. My biggest issue is the battery life is horrible!!!! Also stinks that we'll never see JB on here without rooting!!!
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I have never been able to root this phone, so that kind of stinks. My biggest issue is the battery life is horrible!!!! Also stinks that we'll never see JB on here without rooting!!!
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Rooting this phone is easy...what stock ROM are you on? As far as battery life I can go all day without needing to charge. My wife can't say that with her iPhone and people at work who have galaxy s3 and s4 are always charging. Haven't had complaints about battery life since I moved from GB a year ago.
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I found the overheating on the phone pretty bad but since I got cyanogenmod the phone isn't overheating anymore. Anyway I suggest getting it as the phone is pretty good other then a few problems
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I think it depends phone to phone but on a super light usage day I might get 12-14 hrs. On my normal usage like 5-6hrs even with wind kernel and cm10.1. The major plus of the phone is that 2years later it still has one of the highest ppi's available.
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I should mention that The battery is fine on standby. Play some games and forget about it! My software version is V20-c. Its been a while since I tried to root her, but none of the methods worked for me. I've rooted my Kindle Fire and my previous Android phone, so I have rooted in the past. The overheating issue is bad also, but overall, this has been a good phone! The display is beautiful and the processor is quite fast. I don't regret buying this, but wanted to be honest in my overview...
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thedicarlos said:
I should mention that The battery is fine on standby. Play some games and forget about it! My software version is V20-c. Its been a while since I tried to root her, but none of the methods worked for me. I've rooted my Kindle Fire and my previous Android phone, so I have rooted in the past. The overheating issue is bad also, but overall, this has been a good phone! The display is beautiful and the processor is quite fast. I don't regret buying this, but wanted to be honest in my overview...
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To root v20c use this method: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1886460
This works 100% as long as it is installed to c:/ and don't run as administrator.
However if you want to install cwm to install custom ROMs and tweaks (recommended) use this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2044645
This will allow you to install a variety of ROMs that are based on stock that will offset better battery life including game playing. At the very least install wind kernel in addition to better battery life it removes security from the boot loader so you can uninstall bloatware without bricking ie. Google Play movies.
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The battery drain is for me the biggest issue. But with wind kernel and other roms it is much better. It depends on what you want to do with the phone. When you play all the day, yeah then you will charge often. But other phones have same problem. I bought an extender battery. By the way the phone is better in my hands weight of course a little bit higher.
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lviseth said:
I'm thinking of getting this phone for cheap. I read about touch sensitivity issues. Is this a problem you guys notice? Anything else I should know?
Sorry if this is in the wrong section. Thanks in advance.
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It is no problem to change the sensitivity of the screen. After flashing a new rom I change the worth in the system folder once and then the sensitivity is fast and smooth. For this you can use an app of course. But why installing an app when I can do this manually ?
What is the average screen on time around here? Thanks for all the great input!
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Thanks for the info! I will try these methods!
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I have this phone a couple of months, the real big problem with my Nitro was random reboots after ICS upgrade, finally I have to install v18f (ICS leak), with that ROM I solve the random reboots but battery life was horrible so I have to sell it.
fguzmant said:
I have this phone a couple of months, the real big problem with my Nitro was random reboots after ICS upgrade, finally I have to install v18f (ICS leak), with that ROM I solve the random reboots but battery life was horrible so I have to sell it.
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There are a few bad apples out in the wild. They are from the original batch that came out in 2011. But they are just fine in gingerbread. Sorry about your luck man.
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Performance-wise, I went from a Galaxy S III to this phone, and the UI is decently smooth on the stock ROM. On CM it's pretty laggy unless you use Wind Kernel, which makes it a lot smoother. The screen is very sharp - I actually like its screen more than my S III.
However, I've had some bad issues with overheating on this phone. During normal use, it's not an issue, but I've had the phone shut off or reboot during GPS navigation, and when I felt the phone it was downright hot, especially on the back right where it says "8MP HD" below the camera. It got so hot that I couldn't touch it. Battery drain when under heavy load (games, GPS navigation, etc.) is also pretty bad. My 2 amp car USB charger can't keep up with it during GPS navigation, and the battery will still drain even though it's charging.
I've had the phone for a few months, and it is a decent phone overall, but I'd explore some alternatives.
I decided to go with an alternative. I got lucky and found a real good deal. I'm amazed myself. Thanks everyone for your input.
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