I was looking to purchase the HTC One X, I love HTC Sense and I want to know which specific feature takes One X ahead of Samsung Galaxy S3. I am really concerned about it's battery life since it is non removable and only 1800 Mah. I also want to know can we change the notification led light color using a software. Please let me decide which way to go you can list the features below and those using it can give me results.
skhan33 said:
I was looking to purchase the HTC One X, I love HTC Sense and I want to know which specific feature takes One X ahead of Samsung Galaxy S3. I am really concerned about it's battery life since it is non removable and only 1800 Mah. I also want to know can we change the notification led light color using a software. Please let me decide which way to go you can list the features below and those using it can give me results.
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Led only supports red or green. Battery most people get about 2 to 3 hours screen on time with about 18 hours on battery.
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1. HoX is a beautiful phone, S3 just.. isn't.
2. HoX has the better camera app, in my opinion better camera too.
3. Better devs!
4. Tegra 3, mindblowing games
5. Amazing screen, looks just amazing
will444 said:
1. HoX is a beautiful phone, S3 just.. isn't.
2. HoX has the better camera app, in my opinion better camera too.
3. Better devs!
4. Tegra 3, mindblowing games
5. Amazing screen, looks just amazing
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Fully agree with You :victory:
I have and use them both. Here are my views.
1. S3 has the better camera. Just takes much better pics, less noise. A lot better low light pictures too.
2. With a good ROM, the One X battery life can approach 5 hours of on screen time. That's about the same, but not quite as good as the GS3.
3. The One X screen definitely has a better screen.
4. As far as developers go? The same for both really. Rooting is much easier with the GS3 because of the unlocked bootloaders.
5. The build quality of the One X is much better than the GS3.
I use my One X 75% of the time.
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I have and use them both. Here are my views.
1. S3 has the better camera. Just takes much better pics, less noise. A lot better low light pictures too.
2. With a good ROM, the One X battery life can approach 5 hours of on screen time. That's about the same, but not quite as good as the GS3.
3. The One X screen definitely has a better screen.
4. As far as developers go? The same for both really. Rooting is much easier with the GS3 because of the unlocked bootloaders.
5. The build quality of the One X is much better than the GS3.
I use my One X 75% of the time.
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http://m.engadget.com/2012/09/26/lumia-920-low-light-shootout/
S3 is worse in low light from these tests.
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http://m.engadget.com/2012/09/26/lumia-920-low-light-shootout/
S3 is worse in low light from these tests.
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Not in my real life tests. The flash on the GS3 is about 3 times brighter.
In daylight, it's a close match. Still the One X pictures are noisier.
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Not in my real life tests. The flash on the GS3 is about 3 times brighter.
In daylight, it's a close match. Still the One X pictures are noisier.
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I'll take a f2.0 aperture with a wide angle lens - 99 burst mode, proximity multi stage flash and its faster image processing chip over the S3 any day!
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1. HTC One X has the best screen of any mobile phone as of yet, hands down. This is what made me buy the HOX over the S3.
2. The home button of the HOX is non-physical (this is a pro for me, since I broke my home button on my iPhone 4 and it was so annoying)
If battery life is a super high concern for you, then I suggest you take the S3. The One X's battery if using the correct rom/kernel combination can reach 5 hours SCREEN ON time, and with normal use that can last you about 2 days without charging.
Basically, you should have no problems with the HOX if you plan to charge it every day anyway just like any smartphone If you travel a lot and don't frequently have access to a charger however, then just go with the S3.
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1. HTC One X has the best screen of any mobile phone as of yet, hands down. This is what made me buy the HOX over the S3.
2. The home button of the HOX is non-physical (this is a pro for me, since I broke my home button on my iPhone 4 and it was so annoying)
If battery life is a super high concern for you, then I suggest you take the S3. The One X's battery if using the correct rom/kernel combination can reach 5 hours SCREEN ON time, and with normal use that can last you about 2 days without charging.
Basically, you should have no problems with the HOX if you plan to charge it every day anyway just like any smartphone If you travel a lot and don't frequently have access to a charger however, then just go with the S3.
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Battery, really?
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Also, these tests were performed on a much older OS running 4.0.3 on the HTC ONE X whilst 4.0.4 was tested on the S3.
We all know 4.0.4 with sense 4.1 improved the battery even further.....
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I'll take a f2.0 aperture with a wide angle lens - 99 burst mode, proximity multi stage flash and its faster image processing chip over the S3 any day!
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And you will still get worse pictures with the One X. That's just the way it is.
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Battery, really?
Also, these tests were performed on a much older OS running 4.0.3 on the HTC ONE X whilst 4.0.4 was tested on the S3.
We all know 4.0.4 with sense 4.1 improved the battery even further.....
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You like to quote 'studies'. Real life is where it's at. I get nearly 7 hours of on screen time with my GS3, compared to almost 5 hours with my One X.
Real world is where it's at. Not tech sites and magazines.
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And you will still get worse pictures with the One X. That's just the way it is.
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You like to quote 'studies'. Real life is where it's at. I get nearly 7 hours of on screen time with my GS3, compared to almost 5 hours with my One X.
Real world is where it's at. Not tech sites and magazines.
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Well, in the real world I can get over 13hrs screen on time if I'm only reading - S3 wouldn't get close to this.
In the real world, the brightness on the s3 is 60+% less compared to the HOX - not better battery, just crap brightness to increase battery results.
In the real world, you can't see your s3 screen outside.
In the real world, the HOX will be 'significantly' higher battery when being used purely as a phone as the battery idle core gets used.
And about the pictures - your implying that HOX users must be professional photographers, as the HOX picture thread shows much better photos than over in the s3 forum.
Even with the s3 trying to copy HOX camera features with the photo/video - can the s3 even take pictures from already recorded videos? - its burst mode is slower & limited to 20, it doesn't have a wide angle lens, it doesn't have the multi stage automatic flash, & the s3 is only a f2.6 I think.
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^ Yeah, my B.S. meter went off with your 13 hours of screen time while reading.... that just makes the rest of your post B.S. too.
I have both phones. I have used them for a long while together now. Each have their pluses. I prefer the One X. But, there are a few facts that you just can't get around.
1. Battery life goes to the GS3.
2. Camera goes to the GS3.
3. Build quality goes to the One X.
4. Screen goes to the One X. (And this has nothing to do with sunlight legibility, because honestly they both suck at this.)
1) Subjective, but I prefer Sense. Better contact management and social network integration. However Touchwiz has better video code support and better optimised.
2) Subjective, better screen, I prefer the SLCD2 compared to AMOLED. Whiter whites, more closer to natural colours, full RGB, nice and bright. However AMOLED has better blacks.
3) Camera, takes some good shots when set up manually forget auto choose your own settings. Camera app is also better however SGS3 takes better video.
4) Subjective, design and looks. Love the build of the HOX and the matte finish. Looks lively that's not to say the SGS3 looks or feels bad.
5) Tegra, nor as powerful as Exynos but better suited for gaming. Tegra games play and look better.
I've had both phones. Battery life is easily better on the SGS3 for screen on time but the HOX idles well and can last a while. But this is dependent on signal, what's syncing and such.
Other little things I prefer on the HOX the mail app is better, Sense widgets are good, devs are good.
Both are good phones choose whichever you'll be happy with either.
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^ Yeah, my B.S. meter went off with your 13 hours of screen time while reading.... that just makes the rest of your post B.S. too.
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Set brightness to lowest..... give it a go, use the kindle app.
I've done it myself, over 13hrs.
I know someone else has done it similar with PDF's & got 12
SGS3 couldn't get even close to this.
So, whilst your sooo quick to scream BS - give it a go, or STFU.
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Set brightness to lowest..... give it a go, use the kindle app.
I've done it myself, over 13hrs.
I know someone else has done it similar with PDF's & got 12
SGS3 couldn't get even close to this.
So, whilst your sooo quick to scream BS - give it a go, or STFU.
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You can also force the phone to use only the power save core, me and meltus did testing and got stupid battery life, if your only using it to text and talk that's the way to go.
Either way, even if the phone were the same in every detail but shell and GUI I'd bit one x and sense any day.
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chrisjcks said:
Set brightness to lowest..... give it a go, use the kindle app.
I've done it myself, over 13hrs.
I know someone else has done it similar with PDF's & got 12
SGS3 couldn't get even close to this.
So, whilst your sooo quick to scream BS - give it a go, or STFU.
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And why would I want to do something stupid like that? Just saying. I like to actually keep my screens at least 50% brightness.
Maybe you should have just bought a Kindle....
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And why would I want to do something stupid like that? Just saying. I like to actually keep my screens at least 50% brightness.
Maybe you should have just bought a Kindle....
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I have a few kindles, but I always have my phone with me & this isn't always possible with my kindles.
As for keeping the brightness at 50% - you do realise that the HOX is 60+% brighter than the S3?
HTC could easily send out the next update setting the brightness at the lowest to boost battery comparisons.
Maybe put your S3 on max brightness whilst having your HOX on 50% then you will see which has the better battery. (also not cheating by making everything on your S3 black)
Anandtech tests show just how badly the s3 can perform, it was even beaten on just talk time.
Having a dull screen to boost battery is a complete cover-up from Samsung.
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Hey so I am currently using a desire HD rooted running aosp and I love the phone.... the only problem is the battery life ...
I have been thinking about a gnex for a long time .... is struggle to get 12 hours out of this phone without charging through out the day and its killer..
How is the gnex battery life.. are the 5mp pictures still pretty good? And would it be worth getting or should I wait to see the sgs 3 and htc one xl?
Thanks for any input
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Gnex is a killer for sure and the 5mp camera is really amazing for 5mp. As for your conserns about battery life you get a full day with about 3-6 hours screen on time depending how you use it with standard battery!
The quality of photos has nothing to do with megapixel.
MP only determines how pixelated your photo will look if you enlarge it and how much it can be enlarged before you start noticing pixels. Of course there's a threshold when smaller mp greatly reduced the quality of photos, but 5 is far away from it.
In short, photos look great.
Battery life is meh, like most smartphones out there.
The newer phones will always have newer technology and better specs, so the wait is never-ending. If you just ask me whether this phone is worth getting now, then the answer is yes, absolutely.
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The quality of photos has nothing to do with megapixel.
MP only determines how pixelated your photo will look if you enlarge it and how much it can be enlarged before you start noticing pixels. Of course there's a threshold when smaller mp greatly reduced the quality of photos, but 5 is far away from it.
In short, photos look great.
Battery life is meh, like most smartphones out there.
The newer phones will have newer technology and better specs, so the wait is never-ending. If you just ask me if this phone is worth getting, then the answer is yes, absolutely.
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Battery is "meh" on the Verizon LTE Galaxy Nexus. Battery on GSM Galaxy Nexus is fine.
And agreed with technology and specs. Don't beat the hardware race, beat the software race
mopardroid said:
Hey so I am currently using a desire HD rooted running aosp and I love the phone.... the only problem is the battery life ...
I have been thinking about a gnex for a long time .... is struggle to get 12 hours out of this phone without charging through out the day and its killer..
How is the gnex battery life.. are the 5mp pictures still pretty good? And would it be worth getting or should I wait to see the sgs 3 and htc one xl?
Thanks for any input
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All the replies have been great and with the GSM version of the Galaxy Nexus, I do agree that photo quality (instant pictures) is good and battery life has been great for me (coming from Sprint EVO 3D-CDMA).
The only other factor not mentioned has been the price. Not sure if you're purchasing the device subsidized from a carrier with a 2 yr contract or purchasing off contract, but there are certain pricing points with the life cycle of phones in addition to personal budget contraints which could factor into the decision.
The Galaxy Nexus seems to be at a decent price now having been released back in December, the *premium* price for a brand new device, at least for the GSM version, has fallen a bit.
Also, the time frame around the new device release dates could factor into the pricing and timing of waiting or purchasing a new device.
There is an old saying, a bird in hand is worth two in the bush, meaning having it now can be better than waiting on the prospects of something in the future.
All factors to take into consideration! As a side note, would be great to see a device with the off contract and on conract/subsidized prices over time to see where the "sweet" spots are.
Hope that helps more to the great feedback!
The thing about battery life on these newer smartphones is that your usage choices will dramatically affect battery life, and the gnex is no exception. With the screen brightness turned down and 4G turned off, I can get 4 hours of screen-on time. Turn the brightness up on this huge screen or use the 4G or get in an area of bad reception or any number of other things, and that number can drop to 2 hours pretty quickly. But since its a Nexus, there are lots of kernels out there that can increase these numbers, again depending on your usage.
As an aside, this thing sleeps very well. It would probably last two days on stand-by if I didn't charge it up every night.
The gsm nexus gets superb idle time on battery, but the screen drains quick. So for me it averages out great. The time my phone sits on my desk between usage basically stays dead flat. So usage of like 20 min hear and there gives me great battery life. 8 hour work day i have 50% left, with about 1.5 hour actual screen time.
Thanks for all the feedback guys ... I really appreciate it!
When I have data on and brightness well below 50% I usually see the battery drop 10-15% or more in 15 minutes.... so I'm sure the gnex would be better..
The only thing that I'm worried about is the camera but I have 14 days to see if I like it...
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Comparing it with S3 since they are competing.
Is it much faster than One X or wont it make a big differents?
I still have to get my One X so I wanted to know, how long is the battery life with you guys?
Also, the S3's battery is better than the One X. Will it make a huge differences?
And my last question, What are the things you don't like about the One X?
bloodhunter112 said:
Comparing it with S3 since they are competing.
Is it much faster than One X or wont it make a big differents?
I still have to get my One X so I wanted to know, how long is the battery life with you guys?
Also, the S3's battery is better than the One X. Will it make a huge differences?
And my last question, What are the things you don't like about the One X?
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One X looks amazing n s3 looks awful..
One X has a 12 core gpu n s3 a quad core..
Screen of One X is RGB IPS n s3 has the same cheap pentile..
One X has a companion core for battery saving n s3 has nothing like this..
One X has a separate processor for camera n s3 doesn't..
So who rules here man..One X is the daddy of all..
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Yeah I was worrying about the battery but I forgot the ninja core of the One X
I haven't tried the s3, but I have found some cool things that the normal smartphone can't do.
The One X with it's dedicated image processor, called Image Sense, can shoot photos while recording full HD videos.
It shoots 720p slow-mo super smoothly. And very slow.
It can also take pic after pic, (like the spies) quicker than one can blink their eye's.
It's all scratch proof, YouTube HTC one X scratch test.
That's just a few things I have managed to figure out.
In terms of speed, S3 must be faster than One X on benchmark result.
However, I like the build of One X more than stylish then S3.
For the battery life issue, companion core in T3 saves a lot of battery in standby mode. I don't know if such feature also available in S3 (maybe no, so the battery capacity is larger?!). However, when you are actually using HOX, the battery drains quite fast.
What I don't like S3 for another reason is AMOLED, even S3 got a 4.8" screen, PPI is smaller than S2! Also, the color tone is cool and it easily get screen burns!
I don't like HOX:
1) Power button design
2) Quite hot after using it for a while
3) USB goes to the left
I've been experiencing unacceptably horrible battery life with my one x and I've had it just over a week now. Other than that its been an amazing experience using the phone but it feels like the t3 powerhouse under the hood is completely useless when the battery can't power up my phone longer than roughly 2-3 screen hours. While playing games I have to put it on the charger which results in battery overheating so the blazing fast tegra 3 performance in games is of no use either. As a conclusion I have to say I'm really dissapointed just because of the horribly poor battery life
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bloodhunter112 said:
I still have to get my One X so I wanted to know, how long is the battery life with you guys?
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Regular usage (data always on) it gets me through the day. Best android device in terms of battery life I've used so far
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GS2 LTE Korean
HTC Sensation XE
HTC Desire
Galaxy W
Techimplant said:
One X looks amazing n s3 looks awful..
One X has a 12 core gpu n s3 a quad core..
Screen of One X is RGB IPS n s3 has the same cheap pentile..
One X has a companion core for battery saving n s3 has nothing like this..
One X has a separate processor for camera n s3 doesn't..
So who rules here man..One X is the daddy of all..
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Correction:
One x has only quadcore + 1
One x has a separate core for battery saving only used when phone is in sleepmode.
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But anyways, i was kinda disappointed how fast the battery went down in use but dont care much about that after 2 weeks, and i have managed to get the battery to last 2 days and 18 hours.
The camera is good, but the framerate and camera picture quality could be better despite its big lens.
The cpu power is perfect, not slow at all and runs everything smoothly. Even games witch has wicked textures.
Soundquality from both headset and speaker is superb.
And with the 720p screen, tablet apps like photoshop touch are working perfectly!
Just curious, but why is a 4+1 core CPU labelled as quad core?
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My HOX
Gr8 phone enjoying it.
Right, well i moved from a HTC Desire and to begin with i thought that the hox was amazing
My friend at work has a s3 and to be fair there both very fast
I am currently running RD-miui and am getting some amazing battery 12 hours on and still 70% and thats with wifi on sometimes and data on constant (it honestly depends on the rom, on the pkmon rom i was getting barely through a day)
I love the One X, i feel that there is a bit of me that wishes i got the S3 due to so much development happening on it, but from having a htc desire in the past once they are S-Off i know that the development will just fly out
Things i dont like, nothing really at all
The one x is labeled as a quad core because the fifth core is really only a quarter or half of an actual core, and its tasks only include running the phone when in deep sleep
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I couldnt wait for my one x when the one sereies back in february was announced i immediately sold my iPhone 4 (wich i reget this decission later) so i waited patiently for this phone to arrive and the first day it arrived in my country 9 jun i got it and at first was amazed with the phone then what happened is that i was realy dissapointed in one x im a hug htc fan but in terms of quality (not bulid quality but quality control in general) it cant mach its rivals apple and samsung and i hated the galaxy s3 but after a week of using one x i hated more than i hated s3 i mean come on it had so many hardware problems:
The phone got hot while doing normal usage wifi and a little facebook but when gaming it gets really hot even worse with THD games it got extremly hot i thought that my phone is going to melt in my hands.
Battery is not bad its horrible i mean you can barely get 2-3h of screen on time and i found that solution with the companion core is usseles just a gimmick
Screen is one of the best on the market but come on even the screen has problems like screen ripple or screen flicker wich even in the 1.29 wasnt fixed so after 8 days of using i got sick of it and returned it.My advice stay away from this and get s3 or iphone 4s i dont know if s3 is better but knowing samsung im sure it is because my mom has a gs2 and its awsome even in 2012 so this is from a huge htc till today fan from now on im hating htc
Just my 2 cents
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after 30min of gaming the phone gets 54C
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andsa said:
Correction:
One x has only quadcore + 1
One x has a separate core for battery saving only used when phone is in sleepmode.
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But anyways, i was kinda disappointed how fast the battery went down in use but dont care much about that after 2 weeks, and i have managed to get the battery to last 2 days and 18 hours.
The camera is good, but the framerate and camera picture quality could be better despite its big lens.
The cpu power is perfect, not slow at all and runs everything smoothly. Even games witch has wicked textures.
Soundquality from both headset and speaker is superb.
And with the 720p screen, tablet apps like photoshop touch are working perfectly!
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He said the GPU has 12 cores not the CPU
Best phone I have ever had! I dont have a single complaint for this device!
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I was loving it until I figured out that I am plagued by the wifi/bluetooth issue.
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I was loving it until I figured out that I am plagued by the wifi/bluetooth issue.
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I was too realy loving the one x until the hardware problems came...
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Best phone I have ever had! I dont have a single complaint for this device!
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Same here, best phone ever :thumbup:
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I like my One X more than the S3.
Design in my eyes of the One X is smoother/better/stronger
Size is better, not to big in the hands ..
HOX i'm loving it..... battery life is ok since it last me 1 and half day if not much usage on 3G, gaming etc. Camera is very good as for a phone, don't expect it to do wonders like a DSLR CAMERA... As for S3 i not very sure but what i know the design for S3 is awful to me. But both run on qual cores and if u really want to know the detail between them then ask some expert...
..and my worst fear has been realised!!!
20hrs, 5hrs screen time! Stock ROM with shipped firmware...heartbreaking stuff...it's no doubt down to that big old battery but thats mouthwatering for a quad core after 1-2 cycles.
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Plastic crap.
dannysmith43 said:
..and my worst fear has been realised!!!
20hrs, 5hrs screen time! Stock ROM with shipped firmware...heartbreaking stuff...it's no doubt down to that big old battery but thats mouthwatering for a quad core after 1-2 cycles.
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Okay the go ahead and sell your one x and get a s but please keep away from here then.
This is one x forum and if you are so happy about the s3 battery post it there.
This is no offense and no hating.
Have to admit it's a pretty good battery life but it has a bigger battery.
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offenberg said:
Plastic crap.
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I had a feel of it today, it's not as bad as the S2, but doesn't feel as premium as the One X...although I read its made of the same shizzle?!
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dannysmith43 said:
..and my worst fear has been realised!!!
20hrs, 5hrs screen time! Stock ROM with shipped firmware...heartbreaking stuff...it's no doubt down to that big old battery but thats mouthwatering for a quad core after 1-2 cycles.
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On min brightness using only wifi or 3g and the other turned off, Gmail on push, email on once a day but with a few manual refreshes and all other syncing off I can get 4 hours. Are you really going to put up with the fantastic plastic and touchwiz for an extra hour?
The question really is, do you need 5 hours of screen time on your phone? Do you use that? If so, get an SGS3, oh and I want your job!
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Okay the go ahead and sell your one x and get a s but please keep away from here then.
This is one x forum and if you are so happy about the s3 battery post it there.
This is no offense and no hating.
Have to admit it's a pretty good battery life but it has a bigger battery.
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Ok keep your panties on, just an observation I wanted to share. My HOX is worth £320? and an S3 is £500 new, I cant afford it even if I wanted to.
At the moment I am a One X owner and have a right to post here, be it positive or negative...the HOX has plenty of positive points over the S3 but the battery is not one of them (yet?).
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The one x is plastic too.
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I don't get it my battery is fine as long as I'm not gaming. I can get 2 days easy and I use my phone a lot as my work calendar is on it. So I'm always checking it.
I use full brightness faccebook, bookmarks, no WiFi, full hspda data, and most of the stock HTC widgets...
dannysmith43 said:
..and my worst fear has been realised!!!
20hrs, 5hrs screen time! Stock ROM with shipped firmware...heartbreaking stuff...it's no doubt down to that big old battery but thats mouthwatering for a quad core after 1-2 cycles.
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Lol, you know the HTC one X can get around 24 Hours screen on time too, Leave it on Minimum brightness, Airplane mode etc. But that's not an accurate representation, and that will be where the S3 also got that screen time.
Now, Put the One X and S3 on chrome Browser home screen or any white background and watch that Piss poor AMOLED suck itself dry.
Personally, I'm very happy I didn't get the S3.
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On min brightness using only wifi or 3g and the other turned off, Gmail on push, email on once a day but with a few manual refreshes and all other syncing off I can get 4 hours. Are you really going to put up with the fantastic plastic and touchwiz for an extra hour?
The question really is, do you need 5 hours of screen time on your phone? Do you use that? If so, get an SGS3, oh and I want your job!
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Its a great point, very rarely would I use 5 hours of screen time but who could honestly say they wouldn't want it of you had the option?
I had a little tinker with it today, Touchwiz is a bit cartoony for my taste and the AMOLED colour saturation probably doesn't help but it was super smooth, better than ICS on the S2 fo' sho'
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Lol, you know the HTC one X can get around 24 Hours screen on time too, Leave it on Minimum brightness, Airplane mode etc. But that's not an accurate representation, and that will be where the S3 also got that screen time.
Now, Put the One X and S3 on chrome Browser home screen or any white background and watch that Piss poor AMOLED suck itself dry.
Personally, I'm very happy I didn't get the S3.
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I've not made my mind up yet about whether I made the right decision, my mate will have 1 soon so we can compare closely.
GSM Area reckons the S3 can do 5.15 hrs browsing the web compared to 4.15 hrs on the HOX, not sure if that's true though.
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There is no stopping mate ... Always better ones will come along ... I saw at GSMArena LG phone wil FullHD with 446 ppi
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There is no stopping mate ... Always better ones will come along ... I saw at GSMArena LG phone wil FullHD with 446 ppi
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That my friend is the truest of statements!
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I get 5 Hours screen time on my HOX. I am impressed with this beauty!
There was someone complaining about the HOX battery the other day in the Q&A forum. I posted pics there of my battery stats. Standard stock setup, not rooted at all. A couple bloatware apps disabled in app settings and haptic feedback turned off, auto brightness on and all accounts set to auto sync switching between WiFi and 3G a lot (wifi left on as I was popping in and out the house all day). Basically straight out the box running latest update. Had over 36 hrs, over 4 hrs screen time, well over an hour voice calls, browsing, using various other apps, and still had 20% battery! So the HOX battery ain't as bad as a lot of people make out. Sure it could be bigger/better, but unless your hammering Tegra games all day or watching movies on it, the battery in the HOX is sufficient.
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The one x is plastic too.
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The Galaxy S III doesn’t creak or flex, fit and finish are great. It’s just that the materials used are not of the same tier as the premium stuff you’ll find on Nokia or HTC’s latest.
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The blue version looks like a no-name knockoff phone maker is trying to appear ‘premium’ by faking a brushed metal look with plastic. It’s really unattractive.
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There was someone complaining about the HOX battery the other day in the Q&A forum. I posted pics there of my battery stats. Standard stock setup, not rooted at all. A couple bloatware apps disabled in app settings and haptic feedback turned off, auto brightness on and all accounts set to auto sync switching between WiFi and 3G a lot (wifi left on as I was popping in and out the house all day). Basically straight out the box running latest update. Had over 36 hrs, over 4 hrs screen time, well over an hour voice calls, browsing, using various other apps, and still had 20% battery! So the HOX battery ain't as bad as a lot of people make out. Sure it could be bigger/better, but unless your hammering Tegra games all day or watching movies on it, the battery in the HOX is sufficient.
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I can promise you I don't get anywhere close to that with very similar usage...all my syncs are 2 hours, with WIFI on 100% of the time, only time its not connected os the journey from home to work all of 15 mins...
I would be more than happy with that!!!
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So what if s3 got some onscreen time more than 1x. I could send a screen with 7h onscreen with hox if that makes u feel better
It's not healthy to think "the grass is greener on the other side" xD
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LOL I get at least 3.30 hours of screen time every day with VERY heavy use.
Today when I was at 1% my screen time was 4 hours 30 min and I had been surfing for almost 2 hours.
And that's not even my best, this is the best recorded stats so far -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1579392&page=114
I intend to break those stats btw
I am extremely happy with my HOX and the design and specs of the GS3 were in all honesty a huge disappointment to me.
Said before and am saying it again I am proud to have the best current mobile phone in the world.
Cheers!
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I've not made my mind up yet about whether I made the right decision, my mate will have 1 soon so we can compare closely.
GSM Area reckons the S3 can do 5.15 hrs browsing the web compared to 4.15 hrs on the HOX, not sure if that's true though.
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I doubt those stats to be Honest, it depends on the webpages, but a high percentage of web pages have a white background, and due to the nature of AMOLED it uses more battery (Trying) to reproduce the colour white.
Therefore, I doubt it would have a higher browsing time than the One X, but obviously only a side by side comparison would prove so (not leaving it on a page however, so it would be a very boring test browsing for 5 hours)
Hey guys,
I have read so many topic that people complain about HOX battery, so funny!
Please understand that the phone and the battery is same as the care and the fuel tank.
Your car have 20l tank and with full tank, you could run about 200km. Some one could run longer, some one could run shorter but only around 200km. Depends on how you drive, you could run more or less.
You want to feel the power of your car and want to happy with high speed, you should do more acceleration. And of course, your car use more fuel and you run a shorter distance. If you drive your car in very economic way, keep stable acceleration in stable speed, you could run longer distance.
Simple, the phone is exactly like that.
More powerful function, less usage time. Turn every thing off and take your HOX as decoration thing to show to your friend, ha ha, you will have 3 or 4 days of use, even more.
So, please stop complaining about the battery usage. You want supper 3D game, very smooth video, very fast internet, beautiful camera, all tools in your hand... you should not ask to have long time usage. If you want longer, buy other phone (like you buy another car with bigger fuel tank).
Yeah, that analogy works perfectly, the first thing I look at on a car is fuel tank capacity. :screwy:
I agree totally.. I'm forever banging my head on a brick wall with this. If technology is part of your life then invest in it properly.. I have a range of battery extension methods and can / do regularly go a week or more without mains.. but on the other hand when I'm in the office and hammering 3d hd games I know I will be plugged in all day..
I also have another phone.. battery lasts for a week or so without any top up.. but I wouldn't even try and get on social networks with it..let alone try and play the silly 32 colour games.
If battery life matters either invest in the kit so you can charge away from mains or buy a dumb phone.
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The problem with battery is why it runs out so quickly for no reason, I have only watched 3 mins of YouTube on my phone and yet I am on 36%
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It is not our fault. HTC should have used their brains. 1800mah battery on a quad core beast! Seriously! What on earth were they thinking. I have a feeling 2013 is not going to be a good year for HTC.
I agree with the OPs car and fuel tank capacity analogy and it makes good sense, but tell me, isn't it the responsibility of the car maker to put an adequately sized fuel tank in the car, taking into account all factors like space available in the design, size of the car and its mileage? Isn't it completely stupid and careless on the maker's part to make a huge car with a powerful engine, and put in a fuel tank with the same capacity as in a car that's half it's size with an engine that's half as powerful? How does the maker ensure that the car lasts for a long journey without requiring stops at the gas station every few hours? Everyone knows how irritating that can be, so why should it be any different with phones? You'd at least expect the expensive phone you buy to last for a day with moderate use. No one's asking for two days too. Just a day with moderate use is enough. But that's not the case. The One X, if unplugged early in the morning, lasts till evening at best with normal outdoor usage (take outdoor heat into account too) and requires charging. Even with all the battery saving tips like underclocking and the whole routine. All batteries degrade over time, but if the battery is of minimal capacity from the start, and then degrades, and is non-removable on top of it all, then we have a problem. It's just careless to design a phone this way.
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It is not our fault. HTC should have used their brains. 1800mah battery on a quad core beast! Seriously! What on earth were they thinking. I have a feeling 2013 is not going to be a good year for HTC.
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I agree that they should have used more common sense. Their ideal lab tests and battery life results don't match up to real world usage. Look at the Droid DNA. 2100 mAh. That's ridiculous. I don't fault them for making the battery non-removable, because the design of One X requires it and it looks nice. But they could have fit a bigger battery in the phone even if it means increasing the thickness by 1-2 mm. One X battery life is horrendous, and the worst part is you can't just swap in a new battery if it runs out, unlike the Galaxy S3. The Droid DNA/DLX/M7 is going to suck just as much as the One X at battery life because even though it has a bigger battery, the hardware is that much more power hungry. Honestly it seems like the only manufacturer who really knows how to make excellent quality phones with good design (may not be the best, but very good) and great battery life is Motorola. Don't get me wrong, I'm not praising Motorola. Far from it. They have really ****ty policies towards development communities. But they really make well built, well designed phones with adequate or more than adequate batteries. I'm not just talking about the RAZR Maxx. While that IS an exceptional example, a lot of their phones have great batteries. If Motorola could put such a huge battery in the RAZR Maxx without compromising on the design (it's just slightly thicker and heavier than the RAZR), then there's no reason and no excuse for HTC not to. Samsung also used common sense with the Galaxy S3 by including a 2100 mAh removable battery. HTC's characteristic flaw in the past 2 years has been to put ****ty, tiny batteries in all their phones and claim it's due to design constraints. Every HTC phone has a much smaller battery than an equivalent phone by other manufacturers. Another HTC problem is to include include very low intern memory even to their flagship devices. Nexus One, HTC Desire, HTC Desire HD etc. It's their fault they put in such low system memory, and then they don't update their phones because they say the internal memory isn't enough for the new version. Ridiculous. Not to mention their unwillingness to update perfectly capable phones to newer versions. What's with the One V not receiving Jelly Bean while the One X and One S do? It was launched alongside them, and never got even one official version upgrade. Whatever happened to the Open Handset Alliance and Google guidelines for Android updates?
I like HTC, I like their designs, their build quality, and the usability and general feel of their phones. But they're being a crappy company in their policies relating to updates and full unlocking of bootloaders, no doubt about that, and they're also being dumb by not included adequate batteries and enough system memory. Some would say that the low system memory is a deliberate move on their part to avoid updating older phones. Anyway, I'm happy to see that with newer devices like the One series, they're being sensible in this regard and partition memory isn't really an issue anymore. But seriously HTC, stop trying to suck so much. There's a reason Motorola isn't all popular and significant anymore, although they make nice phones like you. Get rid of your ridiculous policies and give us once more a killer, truly open phone like the HD2. The amount on development that is still happening with that phone is insane.
Rant done.
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snipervn said:
Hey guys,
Your car have 20l tank and with full tank, you could run about 200km. Some one could run longer, some one could run shorter but only around 200km. Depends on how you drive, you could run more or less.
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Exactly, the one-x has like a 20l fuel tank, thats the capacity of a motorcycle!
I don't see why people shouldn't be complaining.
When I first got my One X with ICS I barely used to get 8 hrs with a full charge with wifi on.
Now people come up with all kinds of ridiculous suggestions such as turn your auto sync off, keep your brightness at zero, uninstall facebook, disable maps etc. Why do all this? I might as well have a Nokia N series phone if I were to remove the smart from smartphone. Fortunately JB bought a massive battery improvement to my phone.
It would be a different thing if people were moaning after 14-15 hrs of battery life but with ICS I would struggle to get to even 5 pm on a normal day.
A customer pays a chunk of money to get these phones and if it doesn't even meet normal requirements, one has a right to complain.
Spot on. Also if they managed to fit a 2100 battery one the HOX+ why didn't they use it on the HOX because it fits perfectly. I switched from my Evo 3D. I still have the phone in perfect working order and excellent condition. I may start using it again because I can't stand charging my phone twice a day.
If HTC were clever they should have offered HOX owners a battery upgrade and bet they know the HOX has battery drain issues. I wouldn't mind paying for the upgrade either. Getting the S4 next.
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Fortunately JB bought a massive battery improvement to my phone.
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I really hope that's true for most people. So far I'm seeing mixed reports about battery life with JB. I'm just waiting on HTC to release JB kernel source so that Faux123 can update his kernel and try porting his intellidemand governor to it. That thing does wonders on the Nexus 4 and Galaxy S3.
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Spot on. Also if they managed to fit a 2100 battery one the HOX+ why didn't they use it on the HOX because it fits perfectly. I switched from my Evo 3D. I still have the phone in perfect working order and excellent condition. I may start using it again because I can't stand charging my phone twice a day.
If HTC were clever they should have offered HOX owners a battery upgrade and bet they know the HOX has battery drain issues. I wouldn't mind paying for the upgrade either. Getting the S4 next.
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Exactly my point! It's just carelessness on their part. They didn't compromise on design with the One X+ at all. It has exactly the same dimensions as One X. There's no excuse for them to have not included that battery from the start. All the One X+ has is an over clocked processor and a bigger battery. They shouldn't even be allowed to release that as a completely new phone, trying to dupe their customers into believing that their phone is better than the One X. It shouldn't even be a new phone. The processor overclock should have come to the One X as a software upgrade if possible, and when HTC finally figured out that they can actually put in a larger, better battery, they should have honestly, like you said, offered a free or minimally paid battery upgrade for all One X users as an apology for screwing up the battery from the start. That's the least they could do as a responsible company. Rather, they release the exact same phone with enhancements that should have been there from the start, heavily promote it because of those essential enhancements, and earn more profit on it. What about the customers who not very long ago spent a lot of money on a phone that they expected to work just as well? Unethical, if you ask me.
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battery life isnt to bad when using custom rom. i get easy a full day from 8am till 11pm and 2 hours screen on time. if i use it all the time i get around 5 or 6 hours screen on.
before custom rom it was half of that..
Is there something wrong with your phones? I have had my One X since start, and haven't had any drainage issues that weren't caused by an app I had installed. Only after hours of heavy gaming or navigation I have had to charge my phone during the day.
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Presterin said:
Is there something wrong with your phones? I have had my One X since start, and haven't had any drainage issues that weren't caused by an app I had installed. Only after hours of heavy gaming or navigation I have had to charge my phone during the day.
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I think its a case of getting lucky. I have seen posts from people who loved battery on ICS but hate it on JB. And vice versa.
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battery life isnt to bad when using custom rom. i get easy a full day from 8am till 11pm and 2 hours screen on time. if i use it all the time i get around 5 or 6 hours screen on.
before custom rom it was half of that..
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I would have rooted my phone and gone custom but life is easy with S-OFF. I know its not possible at the moment but i'll carry on with stock. Still waiting for the HOX+ batteries to become available then i'll swap it out for my HOX's.
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I would have rooted my phone and gone custom but life is easy with S-OFF. I know its not possible at the moment but i'll carry on with stock. Still waiting for the HOX+ batteries to become available then i'll swap it out for my HOX's.
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Same^
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If you guys are getting battery life that doesn't go through one day, check wakelocks.
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No complains at all. Made a regular usage. 2h talk day, wifi to browse Facebook, YouTube, email, xda. And some mobile Internet. No gaming this time and my One X > 3days without charge...
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No complains at all. Made a regular usage. 2h talk day, wifi to browse Facebook, YouTube, email, xda. And some mobile Internet. No gaming this time and my One X > 3days without charge...
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Jajajajajaaa you are in your dreams or what man? xD for three days of battery you dont have to touch the phone jajajajajja
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Jajajajajaaa you are in your dreams or what man? xD for three days of battery you dont have to touch the phone jajajajajja
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What i said its true man! This days i made a regular use. Used most of the time to talk with a 4h/5h in this 3 days. Im not the type of user that dont touch the phone to get long batery
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Jajajajajaaa you are in your dreams or what man? xD for three days of battery you dont have to touch the phone jajajajajja
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It depends. If he turns off data when he doesn't need it then you can easily get such stats.
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Alright the thread title already says everything.
Is the HTC One X still a good and reliable phone in day to day usage?
Is the Tegra powerfull enough to play current games and get through all daily stuff without problems in form of delays or lags?
Also regarding stock ROMs like CyanogenMod or Paranoid Android, as I'm planning (if I buy that phone) to flash one of these, do they run smooth?
I plan buying the One X because I hate the button layouts of current phones and would be happy to get some opinions.
Thanks in advance!
(If this belongs on the Q&A Thread please move it...)
Everything you said...yes. great phone. I sold my HTC one to come Bk to the x as it just doesn't compare camera etc
All games run sweet
Paranoid etc all smooth..you'll lose camera quality but it still works though
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Nope, not a good phone......it's a friggin' AWESOME phone :laugh::laugh:
Matt
I love the One X, I don't feel any need of buying a new phone this year, it's a reliable phone. I use Sentinel Rom which is an AOSP rom like the ones you mention, I don't like Sense so this has been my daily driver for months, and everything works great, the phone is fast, games run as smoothly as you want them to and so on. My only concerns are the battery and the camera which are.. well, terrible. If you're not in absolute perfect conditions the pictures will be awful, don't even try low light photography, it'll be hurtful, even the flash is useless, you can't get a good photo (it's worth noticing that the results aren't the same with the stock sense camera); and the battery barely lasts a day (by day I mean the moment when you wake up until the moment you go to bed, not 24 hours, 12 hours tops). If you can live with that I strongly advise you to buy this phone. Even more due to his price range which is very mid range and you get a very high end feel phone. The build quality and the screen are outstanding, I'd say that's what it has over his greatest competitor which is the S3. Hope I helped
Yes. And One X>S3.
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Yes. And One X>S3.
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I'm aware of that fact!
What about that Wifi issue? Do many devices have that issue or is it only the minority?
Datzi said:
I'm aware of that fact!
What about that Wifi issue? Do many devices have that issue or is it only the minority?
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I owned 2 htc one x, no issues on both.
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I'm aware of that fact!
What about that Wifi issue? Do many devices have that issue or is it only the minority?
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Quite a lot of One X's have that issue, especially if they've upgraded officially to the 3.18 base
If I were you its a no brainer, get the S3 or even better, the Nexus 4
But the S3 has:
Better camera, better audio, smoother gaming performance, micro sd and better development community
The One X has terrible battery, terrible performance in high end games, I mean some games that are supposed to be optimised (thd) lag on this phone (shadowgun for example) and the hyped features like beats audio turned out to be ruined by the HOX's crappy DAC and the so called super 'Tegra 3' turned out be nothing but a heat creating battery sucker
The only things I prefer of the One X is the build quality and excellent screen but tbh that's not really enough to make this phone 'better' than the S3
I'm not hating on the One X, it's probably the phone that I've kept the longest since I've bought it but tbh, it was a disappointment
Feel free to disagree
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I'm aware of that fact!
What about that Wifi issue? Do many devices have that issue or is it only the minority?
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I also owned 2 One X's and neither of them had Wi-Fi issues. The first one had a gap in between the screen and the body of the phone, it came like that out of the box it made a crack noise every time I touched the display, would like to know what happened with that phone :silly:
One thing I read here that is 100% true is that for the same price you can buy the Nexus 4 which is better in every way, it's something you should consider
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Quite a lot of One X's have that issue, especially if they've upgraded officially to the 3.18 base
If I were you its a no brainer, get the S3 or even better, the Nexus 4
But the S3 has:
Better camera, better audio, smoother gaming performance, micro sd and better development community
The One X has terrible battery, terrible performance in high end games, I mean some games that are supposed to be optimised (thd) lag on this phone (shadowgun for example) and the hyped features like beats audio turned out to be ruined by the HOX's crappy DAC and the so called super 'Tegra 3' turned out be nothing but a heat creating battery sucker
The only things I prefer of the One X is the build quality and excellent screen but tbh that's not really enough to make this phone 'better' than the S3
I'm not hating on the One X, it's probably the phone that I've kept the longest since I've bought it but tbh, it was a disappointment
Feel free to disagree
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lol what are you saying? s3 has compared to one x bad camera and battery in s3 just holds not more then half an hour more then in one x ....gaming...i really don't have problems with gaming now...even with un-optimized games... the one x is way better then s3...but ok you own the s3 so you will say another thing...i already made MANY tests with both...the one x was always better only in speaker volume and battery it was not that good as s3 but ok it's enough...
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lol what are you saying? s3 has compared to one x bad camera and battery in s3 just holds not more then half an hour more then in one x ....gaming...i really don't have problems with gaming now...even with un-optimized games... the one x is way better then s3...but ok you own the s3 so you will say another thing...i already made MANY tests with both...the one x was always better only in speaker volume and battery it was not that good as s3 but ok it's enough...
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Nah lol I don't have S3 (S4), so I should actually be supporting HOX
But seriously battery is way better on the S3, I borrowed my friends one for 2 weeks to see what it was like and on a bloated stock rom with at least 2 hours of gaming, I easily reached 5 and a half hours of screen on time
And come on, everyone knows the HOX flopped when it came to gaming, I mean try and play any gameloft game and it'll lag really badly (Batman, Nova 3, Wild Blood). Real racing 3 on high graphics lags and so does shadowgun. Seriously go download Iron man and tell me it's smooth. Even with Trip's kernel, it was unplayable for me and within ten minutes, CPU hit 75°C
With custom kernels it's fixed a bit but the heat produced is just ridiculous. And the camera of the S3 may not have some of the fancy features of the One X but the quality is quite a bit better
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It is still a great phone... Now that the price had dropped it's a very sweet deal... Any day better than s3....
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There's a basic flaw in all battery comparison posts on this thread. It's only obvious that S3 will have battery life than the HOX simply because the S3 has a large battery capacity - nearly 28% more. Hence, if all else constant, compared to the HOX the S3 should last at least 28% longer assuming both the phones are used in exactly the same way.
It's only fair on HOX to compared to another phone with a similar battery capacity, IMO
The HoX is still an amazingly good phone, no doubt about it.
My other half got a Sony Xperia Z a couple of months ago and there are some obvious hints that Sony's flagship has got some more grunt and has unbelievably good battery life, but the camera and screen are noticeably inferior when compared to the HoX.
I'll be sad when the day comes that I 'upgrade' from my HoX.
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Bought a HTC One a month ago just to give it a try. Great phone, faster than One X, better battery, better sound. For the first couple of weeks, One X sat silently on my desk.
But then, the novelty of One started wearing out and I wanted to sell it before it devalued to much. I've returned to my One X a week ago and I remembered why I love it. It has a GREAT screen, it's light, has a greet feel, it's still damn fast. No need really to upgrade until next year.
@OP: if you can get one for a good price, don't hesitate. Just don't unlock the bootloader (4.2.2 is coming soon) until you test for a while the wi-fi issue that plagues most of the units.
HTC One X is awesome
This phone was a f*ng disappointment of 2012 for me since day one.
You can't have proper live wallpapers (or custom scrollable wallpapers) because some f**head engineer in HTC messed their HTC Sense too much and it consumes way too much RAM.
Battery life just sucks. At first we even had battery drainers inside the operating system (at least THOSE got fixed), the only way I overcome this is by installing HTC One X+ battery.
Look at this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2189653
After a year of use (primarily putting the phone inside front jeans pocket) that f*ng unibody case gets weary and affects how your digitizer is working. I am lucky that I switched from jeans to a suit and I manager to find a way to prevent unibody flexing (I put the phone in the inside pocket of my jacket now).
Update (JB 4.1) promised to roll out in October makes it out only in December.
Every guy in RL that I met with this phone was also very unhappy. Curious that people at this forum are not like that - but after all, only a small percentage of users use this forum. Plus I really think that people unhappy with this phone very rarely enter the forum (like me).
All in all, if you have to buy a 2012 phone, go with Nexus 4. Better in every detail (except slight disadvantages with the screen maybe).
I was one x user for last one year, at least four of my friends bought one x after seeing mine. With all the hype about HTC one I decided to give it a try, amazing boom sound, full hd screen.
Sold my one x in the process. 1 week and I was missing my one x. Sold HTC one and bought another one x and gonna keep this till it stops working. Fantastic device, excellent build quality, looks good naked.
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Headless_monkeyhunta96 said:
Nah lol I don't have S3 (S4), so I should actually be supporting HOX
But seriously battery is way better on the S3, I borrowed my friends one for 2 weeks to see what it was like and on a bloated stock rom with at least 2 hours of gaming, I easily reached 5 and a half hours of screen on time
And come on, everyone knows the HOX flopped when it came to gaming, I mean try and play any gameloft game and it'll lag really badly (Batman, Nova 3, Wild Blood). Real racing 3 on high graphics lags and so does shadowgun. Seriously go download Iron man and tell me it's smooth. Even with Trip's kernel, it was unplayable for me and within ten minutes, CPU hit 75°C
With custom kernels it's fixed a bit but the heat produced is just ridiculous. And the camera of the S3 may not have some of the fancy features of the One X but the quality is quite a bit better
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RR3 does NOT lag at all, nor does Shadowgun, not even in the slightest. But since Gameloft games are s**t I couldn't give a monkeys. NO game I play on the HOX ever lags. ATM I am enjoying Galaxy on Fire 2 HD, full 3D space combat sim, and it's utterly flawless.
The HOX, even after over a year, continues to impress...and I do NOT have one of the exceedingly rare variant 3's or anything like that. I have the worst of the bunch variant 0 (though I think I am lucky in my particular chip just being binned like that). And my battery is the original.
ONE thing I agree on is that it DOES get hot, but that's more a product of manufacturing process. It's manufactured on TSMC's 40nm high-speed process (the companion core being on the low-power process). This means that at full-tilt it has quite a high leakage (heat and power use) but that clock for clock it's switching speed is far superior than, for example, the S3 which uses a FAR cooler-running 32nm LP process.
Tegra 3 was designed to be performance over power. HTC realised their mistake in pairing it with such a poor battery in the HOX, hence the HOX+.
I am NOT going to say the HOX is without flaw, far from it...but it is an incredibly powerful phone with a quality build and a simply SUPERB screen that continues to hold it's own in every application even after an eternity has passed (and over a year in the smatphone market IS an eternity).
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middleof said:
This phone was a f*ng disappointment of 2012 for me since day one.
You can't have proper live wallpapers (or custom scrollable wallpapers) because some f**head engineer in HTC messed their HTC Sense too much and it consumes way too much RAM.
Battery life just sucks. At first we even had battery drainers inside the operating system (at least THOSE got fixed), the only way I overcome this is by installing HTC One X+ battery.
Look at this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2189653
After a year of use (primarily putting the phone inside front jeans pocket) that f*ng unibody case gets weary and affects how your digitizer is working. I am lucky that I switched from jeans to a suit and I manager to find a way to prevent unibody flexing (I put the phone in the inside pocket of my jacket now).
Update (JB 4.1) promised to roll out in October makes it out only in December.
Every guy in RL that I met with this phone was also very unhappy. Curious that people at this forum are not like that - but after all, only a small percentage of users use this forum. Plus I really think that people unhappy with this phone very rarely enter the forum (like me).
All in all, if you have to buy a 2012 phone, go with Nexus 4. Better in every detail (except slight disadvantages with the screen maybe).
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I've run every live wallpaper i've liked the look of without one single problem, even on Sense. I just tend to not like live wallpapers but they run just fine so I have no idea what you're on about there.
Battery life under use does NOT suck...the original battery capacity sucks...and I will admit that was one of HTC's few design choices on this device that really did blow. The battery is too small, but Tegra makes excellent use of it considering it's power requirements, and IDLE battery consumption is EXCELLENT. That's what NVIDIA aimed for, and HIT in my mind, maximum performance during user interaction but minimal power draw in idle to compensate.
After over a year of use the bodywork on my uncased (in all that time) and jeans pocketed HOX has NOT fatigued and the screen is in perfect condition.
Finally I would say that the people you are likely to meet on this forum are those people who utilise their phone to it's fullest possible potential. I am not talking about custom ROM's and kernels, I am talking about just USING the device to the maximum. Ordinary Joe and Jane Public tend not to do this and find many things to b*tch and moan about, in MY opinion..which I think is just as valid as your assessment.
Tigerlight said:
RR3 does NOT lag at all, nor does Shadowgun, not even in the slightest. But since Gameloft games are s**t I couldn't give a monkeys. NO game I play on the HOX ever lags. ATM I am enjoying Galaxy on Fire 2 HD, full 3D space combat sim, and it's utterly flawless.
The HOX, even after over a year, continues to impress...and I do NOT have one of the exceedingly rare variant 3's or anything like that. I have the worst of the bunch variant 0 (though I think I am lucky in my particular chip just being binned like that). And my battery is the original.
ONE thing I agree on is that it DOES get hot, but that's more a product of manufacturing process. It's manufactured on TSMC's 40nm high-speed process (the companion core being on the low-power process). This means that at full-tilt it has quite a high leakage (heat and power use) but that clock for clock it's switching speed is far superior than, for example, the S3 which uses a FAR cooler-running 32nm LP process.
Tegra 3 was designed to be performance over power. HTC realised their mistake in pairing it with such a poor battery in the HOX, hence the HOX+.
I am NOT going to say the HOX is without flaw, far from it...but it is an incredibly powerful phone with a quality build and a simply SUPERB screen that continues to hold it's own in every application even after an eternity has passed (and over a year in the smatphone market IS an eternity).
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RR3 doesn't lag on stock low graphics setting but as soon as you set it at high where it isn't an eyesore, the fps is bearable but is only about 25fps dropping to about 16 in heavy scenarios.
And sorry mate but your simply wrong, even hamdir stated that shadowgun lags and was complaining about how an 'optimised' game doesn't even run well on the HOX. It's not like it runs constantly at low fps but on too many an occasion it drops way below playable for a few seconds during gameplay
And Gameloft may have some terrible customer service and support but they have produced some really good games which I can't enjoy on the One X - Nova 3, Dark Knight and Wild Blood to name a few
And your telling me no absolutely no game lags? That's a bit of a joke considering it's well known how Nvidia put a sh*tty GPU alongside the excellent Tegra 3 processor otherwise. Go and play NFS Most Wanted, GTA Vice City, Dungeon Hunter, Dead on Arrival 2, RR3 on HIGH graphics, etc, etc. and then come back and talk
Man I'm not just hating on the One X for no reason, but sometimes you just have to face facts, the One X disappointed in many areas.
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