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Phonedog just chose E4GT over Nexus

Just watched a video on YouTube and Aaron from Phonedog chose our E4GT over the new Nexus with ics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U0OZndLabg&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Glad you posted it. Made me released a lot of things i was overlooking. It is sometimes hard to accept we have the best.

The only thing it had over our phone is ICS.
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I refuse to go to phonedog after they sued their former writer for his personal twitter account (they wanted to spam his followers).
Leo Laporte, who actually owns both phones, recommended the epic touch over the nexus on his Before You Buy Show.
It is really what is more important to you, hardware (epic touch) or software (nexus).
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not to mention hardware is static vs software hey give it a few months

kingsway8605 said:
I refuse to go to phonedog after they sued their former writer for his personal twitter account (they wanted to spam his followers).
Leo Laporte, who actually owns both phones, recommended the epic touch over the nexus on his Before You Buy Show.
It is really what is more important to you, hardware (epic touch) or software (nexus).
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I just read about this, very lame. I like Aaron, and think he does a great job. Heck, I dig Sydney and her Dog Pound show. But after this, I am going to have to re-evaluate my entire life.....lol.
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bondosho said:
I just read about this, very lame. I like Aaron, and think he does a great job. Heck, I dig Sydney and her Dog Pound show. But after this, I am going to have to re-evaluate my entire life.....lol.
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I don't think you can blame the employees on what the company does, doubt either of these two had the management input in whether suing the previous employee.

ppcpirate said:
I don't think you can blame the employees on what the company does, doubt either of these two had the management input in whether suing the previous employee.
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I know, hence the "lol" at the end. I do believe it's a bad move though, but I can kind of see that those 17k followers were potential traffic to the site, which means more advertiser money. Honestly though, I hope they drop it, or Noah just changes his twitter name.

Cool video. on the network speeds. I'd rather not see so clearly how slow sprint speeds are so I can live in my happy phone land.

The only disagreement I'd have is that there is one other thing the Nexus has on our phone:
That is one beautiful screen...

oldpreowner said:
Just watched a video on YouTube and Aaron from Phonedog chose our E4GT over the new Nexus with ics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U0OZndLabg&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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thanks for the vid, like the other posters I as well overlooked a couple of things. Our phone has amazing specs and it holds its own against other high end android phones and the fruit phone. But i'm not going to lie that lte is pretty sick!
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BethyM said:
Cool video. on the network speeds. I'd rather not see so clearly how slow sprint speeds are so I can live in my happy phone land.
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the area where phonedog is located just seems to have terrible sprint coverage where as if you look at wirefly reviews, sprint 4g gets over 10mbps. that's why I think reviews should be done with wifi instead of carrier signal (phonedog uses 3g for their reviews).

My thoughts on the two phones:
GNexus
Pros:
Great Screen/Resolution
Ice Cream Sandwich
Verizon Network (BLAZING 4G speed compared to Sprint/T-Mobile out here)
Cons:
No expandable memory (but 32GB for LTE model is solid)
Usable screen space - When the menu buttons are visible, it has less physical screen real estate than the E4GT from my hands-on comparison (ignoring resolution advantage).
Awkward shape and "taller" than the E4GT
"Feel" is lacking
Lackluster hardware
E4GT
Pros:
Expandable memory
Shape and Feel
Faster GPU
Cons:
Touchwiz, Touchwiz, and Touchwiz (Which is OK for 2.3, but not ICS IMO)
No Official Ice Cream Sandwich Yet - And when we do get it it will be Touchwiz-burdened
Sprint Network
The only real advantage for me when comparing the two phones was Ice Cream Sandwich. I did not care for the feel of the LTE GNexus and was not happy with Verizon (did not like the price, limited data, or the sales people), so I gave Sprint my business instead and ended up with the E4GT. I LOVE this phone, I just wish that the Sprint network was a bit more robust out here in Colorado.
My two cents anyway.

I think the screen on the ET is much better than the screen on the nexus. the nexus has more pixels but thats it.
as for the other cons I don't get it. First thing I did was ditch touchwiz. that is a "user option" not a con. install whatever launcher you want.
Sprint may be slower but its cheaper and its truly unlimited.
what is the point of 20MB/s if you use up all your available bandwidth in a few days? or even HOURS ?
I am confident sprint will "fix up" the bandwidth issues.
as for verizon they are irrelevant. moot. I can't afford the monthly bill so its a non issue.

If I spent that much money on a GNex, and then took it home and ran a ~1600 quadrant score, I'd wanna just vomit all over myself.
(Yeah, I know the old mantra: "quadrants don't mean sh*t", but still: there's gotta be a lot of credit given to the exynos processor to crank out ~4500 scores right out of the box.)
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If I spent that much money on a GNex, and then took it home and ran a ~1600 quadrant score, I'd wanna just vomit all over myself.
(Yeah, I know the old mantra: "quadrants don't mean sh*t", but still: there's gotta be a lot of credit given to the exynos processor to crank out ~4500 scores right out of the box.)
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Especially since quadrant only registers 1 core
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It only registers one core cause at the time only one is needed. Overclock that badboy or set performance with 1.2/1.2 scaling and check the system info again, I'll wait..
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hayabusa1300cc said:
It only registers one core cause at the time only one is needed. Overclock that badboy or set performance with 1.2/1.2 scaling and check the system info again, I'll wait..
.: sent from my Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch :.
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Lol
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software wise I'll go with the nexus. But when you want a phone with zero lag you need to get the Epic touch .. Ics is coming
From my Samsung GS2 E4GT

mazook98 said:
If I spent that much money on a GNex, and then took it home and ran a ~1600 quadrant score, I'd wanna just vomit all over myself.
(Yeah, I know the old mantra: "quadrants don't mean sh*t", but still: there's gotta be a lot of credit given to the exynos processor to crank out ~4500 scores right out of the box.)
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It may have more to do with ics and the app not being designed for it than the CPU.
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Samsung Note coming to Sprint

I wonder how many people will jump ship?
http://www.sprintfeed.com/2012/01/rumor-galaxy-note-heading-to-sprint/

wtf! I just bought my SGSII yesterday

CES is next Tuesday if you want to take it back.

got it off cl. I can probably sell it and break even (hopefully).

I knew it i knew it i bet it will have wimax and lte haha cant wait
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I personally think its too big, I'm very happy with the E4GT's screen size, its basically perfect for me.

im getting one the same day it comes out, ive been waiting on this

5 inch screen lol. Really?

My only worry is we will have to wait longer for ICS because they will concentrate on the Note. I don't think I will jump ship. Something better is coming the second quarter.
On my Epic mobile phone.

May have to jump on this. One problem might be slower updates than normal due to the modified version of touchwiz that comes along with having the stylus
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I would really love to have this bad boy but not on sprint. I will pass until later in the year to see what comes out on not just sprint but other carriers.
Also if sprint does infact put this out then they better put out the full specs and not try to hide the crippling they do aka E4GT. Sprint better be upfront and honest and not try to pull the wool over any eyes this time.
Cant wait until the true hardware specs comes out. Lets see if sprint uses a 6 year old chip in it like they did the E4GT aka cheaped out.

Holy ****. I'm in. It's been fun guys.
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already have a tablet lol
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Glad to see more options for my carrier .
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It looks like a version possibly for att has surfaced, but it uses a qualcomm cpu like the tmo gs2, hopefully that is not the case or this would be a downgrade. More display real-estate and pixel density with a lesser cpu, no thanks.
If this turns out to be the exynos, that is going to be a hard decision.

Wizard220 said:
I would really love to have this bad boy but not on sprint. I will pass until later in the year to see what comes out on not just sprint but other carriers.
Also if sprint does infact put this out then they better put out the full specs and not try to hide the crippling they do aka E4GT. Sprint better be upfront and honest and not try to pull the wool over any eyes this time.
Cant wait until the true hardware specs comes out. Lets see if sprint uses a 6 year old chip in it like they did the E4GT aka cheaped out.
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What was the E4GT specs that were different to you? I got what I expected to get. The TV out actually working right was a added bonus that my E4G was suppose to have.
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Econ212 said:
It looks like a version possibly for att has surfaced, but it uses a qualcomm cpu like the tmo gs2, hopefully that is not the case or this would be a downgrade. More display real-estate and pixel density with a lesser cpu, no thanks.
If this turns out to be the exynos, that is going to be a hard decision.
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Probably because of the exynos/lte incompatibility. Or is it HSPA+/Exynos incompatibility?

lballer69 said:
already have a tablet lol
Glad to see more options for my carrier .
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+1 5" is to big. The
This phone will not sell well here. I have a hard enough time selling the epic touch at best buy because its size.
Actually you know what, if I put the epic, the note, and the iPhone side by side , customers will notice the puny screen on the iphone and go with the gs2 instead
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cds0699 said:
I personally think its too big, I'm very happy with the E4GT's screen size, its basically perfect for me.
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I second that
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Hmmm......I think i'll get this

CM9 ICS ROM for Rooted Galaxy Note!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoZ2djKmFxk&feature=uploademail
just saying..................

Giving up on nexus

Tried two and that's when I knew I better get out now before my 15 days was over. I must say , the galaxy nexus was the coolest phone I've ever used. Ics is amazing as is the beautiful screen on the nexus.
The dropped calls, bad battery life, below average camera, missed calls, texts that never were, pitiful LTE reception, and defective screen are all a few of the problems I couldn't live with anymore.

Bummer. Good luck with your next phone.
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The poorly executed Verizon LTE model of this phone is really giving it a bad name.

Sorry to hear you have had such a bad experience. I just got mine today and am very impressed with ICS and the display of the phone. I turned off 4G right away as I would rather save on battery life.

Sounds like you got a bad batch of the GN.

Welcome to the HTC rezound and the best ics experience to date. We have incredible reception on LTE.. awesome batttery life, and the screen has a higher pixel density than the nexus could ever hope to achieve.
You will be in heaven, welcome
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Serinety said:
Welcome to the HTC rezound and the best ics experience to date. We have incredible reception on LTE.. awesome batttery life, and the screen has a higher pixel density than the nexus could ever hope to achieve.
You will be in heaven, welcome
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Yea I just got rid of my nexus before my 15 day period. Loving my HTC Rezound.
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What is with threads like these.. So many repeated topics that it makes it hard to find things that matter...
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Serinety said:
Welcome to the HTC rezound and the best ics experience to date. We have incredible reception on LTE.. awesome batttery life, and the screen has a higher pixel density than the nexus could ever hope to achieve.
You will be in heaven, welcome
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May I ask respectfully how old are you?

thephoneguyusa said:
:banghead:
What is with threads like these.. So many repeated topics that it makes it hard to find things that matter...
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100%. Oh what's that...you are not going to use the phone we all have? Thanks for sharing.....
As for everyone else...9 Android devices in a year...not because I am unhappy with them but because I LOVE phones and new technology. My only gripes are how annoying MTP is and the lack of an SD card slot. A kick stand could be cool, but overall.....10/10.
I'm not a fanboy, I just feel like fro the first time in a long time I got exactly what I paid for. No issues here at all.

Equinox102 said:
The poorly executed Verizon LTE model of this phone is really giving it a bad name.
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I would love to see stats comparing failure rates, scratched screens and bugs between the GSM and LTE version. Going on Reddit, XDA and a few other sources the LTE device seems to be far more problematic.

I was going to write a longer reply to this thread, but I'm to busy posting in forums for phones I don't own.

I just don't understand the point (if there is any) of threads like this one. Everyone has the right to their own opinion but what do they expect out of these threads? Do they think people will notice or even care that they didn't stick with a phone or whatever it may be? No offense OP, I just can't understand these threads.
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Equinox102 said:
The poorly executed Verizon LTE model of this phone is really giving it a bad name.
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I see just as many if not more GSM complaints.

KWKSLVR said:
I was going to write a longer reply to this thread, but I'm to busy posting in forums for phones I don't own.
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LMAO! nice one.
And thanks Serinety for my new signature:
Serinety said:
Welcome to the HTC rezound...You will be in heaven, welcome
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VaKo said:
I would love to see stats comparing failure rates, scratched screens and bugs between the GSM and LTE version. Going on Reddit, XDA and a few other sources the LTE device seems to be far more problematic.
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That may be true, but theres clearly an overall higher count of LTE users on XDA here. The international crowd (and US importers) are the minority of the "general user" type conversing here.

My screen has "grain" and the mini popping speaker sound. Plus no warranty and this is still the best Android phone to date IMO
Source: I've owned a lot of Android phones.
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Serinety said:
Welcome to the HTC rezound and the best ics experience to date. We have incredible reception on LTE.. awesome batttery life, and the screen has a higher pixel density than the nexus could ever hope to achieve.
You will be in heaven, welcome
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Yea, I'm sure OP would appreciate the 5 minute battery life, the small lcd screen, and of course the amazing Scorpion chip that is based on 3 year old architecture

My screen had "grain" when I got it, and what looked to be burn in, but those have gone now, and have to say screen is almost perfect.
As for Rezound... I will personally, never use an LCD again unless they stop making LED screens.

Extremely laggy 3G

Hi all,
I'm running Aero's 7-12 CM9 / 10.5 BFS, and have noticed extremely laggy 3G.
Not laggy in the traditional sense though. It's when I open a program that needs to access the internet, it takes 10+ seconds to pull anything down.
Lets say I open Tapatalk. When I click a forum, it will take 10 seconds just to "connect" to forum - to download any data at all.
Same thing in a browser, Opera Mini for example. The first time I open it up, I'll do a google search, and it will be 10+ seconds before it appears any sort of data has been sent. Then I switch over to Reddit News, open my front page, and it's 10+ seconds before anything appears at all. Once it appears, it's fine and fast.
On Wifi no problems at all. But on 3G, each new program I open that uses the internet will take 10+ seconds to connect, then after that it's responsive and fine.
Has anyone else run into this issue at all? I've tried the V6 / 3G supercharger and it seems to have no effect. I don't remember having this problem before, nor do I recall when it started happening.
I'm guessing a clean wipe / reinstall would fix issues, but am curious to see if there are any other solutions out there.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
Best regards,
-Dirk

Ever since I reformatted my sd card my 3g has been a lot faster. Like it's actually usable now and I don't have to get on wifi as much as I can.

Did you just format to fat32 and restore what you previously had on it (i.e. music, pics, etc.)?

fat32 and 64k and I just copied back music and pix. But after that I was even tethering and getting 2 mbps so who knows.

Thanks for cursing me Dirk. My 3g has been dog slow all day now.

ericsdeadinside said:
Thanks for cursing me Dirk. My 3g has been dog slow all day now.
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lol, my bad

Be carefull talking about your phone having slow 3G.... I'm pretty sure Apple has a patent on that don't they? We don't need to give them anything else to sue other companies over! Lol
OP, have you tried any other roms?

cstone1991 said:
Be carefull talking about your phone having slow 3G.... I'm pretty sure Apple has a patent on that don't they? We don't need to give them anything else to sue other companies over! Lol
OP, have you tried any other roms?
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Apple's got nuthin on me! Those dog hating mother flooding harbingers of death and destruction .
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david_hume said:
Apple's got nuthin on me! Those dog hating mother flooding harbingers of death and destruction .
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Lol I meant for HTC's sake. I would rather see their money go towards designing phones or idk maybe updating the ones they already have out to ICS or JB rather than fighting stupid legal battles with crapple.

cstone1991 said:
Lol I meant for HTC's sake. I would rather see their money go towards designing phones or idk maybe updating the ones they already have out to ICS or JB rather than fighting stupid legal battles with crapple.
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I wasn't serious either. But we all know that if HTC tries to fix the 3G, Apple will be all over their butts. That's what happened with the One X anyways.
Its all a ridiculous mess really when you think about it. It's not like HTC started the litigation period anyways.
In the end, we the consumers will always lose.
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david_hume said:
I wasn't serious either. But we all know that if HTC tries to fix the 3G, Apple will be all over their butts. That's what happened with the One X anyways.
Its all a ridiculous mess really when you think about it. It's not like HTC started the litigation period anyways.
In the end, we the consumers will always lose.
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Yep that's probably apple's next marketing slogan "with iPhone you know it will be available when you want it *fine print* because its the only one we didn't have banned." Honestly I have nothing against the iPhone itself other than the tiny screen, but Apple's business practice is down right pathetic. I would rather wipe my you know what with my money than give a dime to that scumbag, elitist, "your phone is selling so you must have copied us, quick lets buy the patent so we can say that we came up with the idea" company.
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cstone1991 said:
Be carefull talking about your phone having slow 3G.... I'm pretty sure Apple has a patent on that don't they? We don't need to give them anything else to sue other companies over! Lol
OP, have you tried any other roms?
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Lol...
I have tried other roms, but not recently (been on CM9 for a while now). I suppose in the interest of troubleshooting I should load up another rom just to make sure the issue is confined to my current CM9 installation.
Will report back when I've done so!

If you use over 2.5G a month and am on a grandfathered unlimited data plan.... You're affected by Verizon's Network Optimization (AKA throttled).
I know I am and it sucks!
-Truckin-

It is because of the kernel you using!!
Try some other kernels.. CFS based..!!

Truckin'Ain't4Sissies said:
If you use over 5Gb a month and am on a grandfathered unlimited data plan.... You're may be affected by Verizon's Network Optimization (AKA throttled).
I know I am and it sucks!
-Truckin-
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Fixed :thumbup:
Most people never get throttled on grandfathered unlimited plans. I know I don't. I have used 15gb a month for 6 months in a row. No throttling here. If you do get throttled it is only after 5gb unless they changed that extremely recently.
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cstone1991 said:
Fixed :thumbup:
Most people never get throttled on grandfathered unlimited plans. I know I don't. I have used 15gb a month for 6 months in a row. No throttling here. If you do get throttled it is only after 5gb unless they changed that extremely recently.
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15GB???? Holy crap, I'm on Pandora, YouTube etc all the time and I'm lucky if I hit 3-4gigs
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Triscuit said:
15GB???? Holy crap, I'm on Pandora, YouTube etc all the time and I'm lucky if I hit 3-4gigs
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I'm a manager at a call center and use groove IP to listen to my reps calls for 8+ hours a day so I don't have to use my minutes. It let's you make calls over 3g and I download a lot of ROMs too.
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Triscuit said:
15GB???? Holy crap, I'm on Pandora, YouTube etc all the time and I'm lucky if I hit 3-4gigs
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This' average use for me
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Has been for the last ~6 years.
I stream Pandora 10-11 hours a day and watch movies daily.
I'll notice (while on the road Truckin') my DL speeds float around 2.25-2.75 Mb/s until I get home (Portland, Or.) and it'll hit 2.5 (Mb/s) but immediately drop to .5
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[Q] Screen brightness auto-changes without any auto-adjust on.

I have all possible options that can auto-control the screen brightness unchecked, and the mode set to Dynamic (even if it's on any other one too), and my brightness set at 45 (again this doesn't matter as I changed it to other brightnesses), but I still see the brightness auto-adjust from time to time. It doesn't matter what app I'm in, or just looking at the home screen. Does anyone else have this happen? Is there a way to make it stay where I have it set? It's not really annoying, but I do notice it, and would like it to stay put.

I had this happen on the S4 and note 3. Supposedly it's a Samsung thing. I did see this though
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It's happening to me I made a thread on it too, I've called Sammy and done everything I could I think it's a software issue or one of the sensors is jacked up. In any event I gave it a few days and it's not getting any better it's very annoying to me so I'm returning my phone and getting another one just to make sure it's not a hardware issue. It's the only reason I haven't rooted yet

Its exactly what you see there TW has A " feature ' that dims screen a bit When Itgets a little hot that ls all it is, not hardware problems mine does It when its hot near the camera
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janjannsen99 said:
Its exactly what you see there TW has A " feature ' that dims screen a bit When Itgets a little hot that ls all it is, not hardware problems mine does It when its hot near the camera
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Well mine is going back anyways so i can rule out Hardware failure before i root it, Also when i talked to samsung about it they said return the device

So you rule out hardware issues? Maybe the software like I said?. And by the way Samsung always says return. Everything...it's their go to answer for everything lol
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janjannsen99 said:
So you rule out hardware issues? Maybe the software like I said?. And by the way Samsung always says return. Everything...it's their go to answer for everything lol
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Listen to what i wrote i said im returning it to rule out hardware issues, if the new device does it then its definitely software and illl wait for some kind of an update or wait for a dev to get a handle on it. S4 from doing research had the same issues so yes most likely its software but i have to rule out hardware by returning it and getting a new device. My Note 2 did not do this so im assuming its a TW 4.3 issue

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Other than that i love the phone , awesome device

In the last week I bought a S3 and a N3.
Both do this almost identically.
I thought I was going nutz...

Returning it won't help. It was happening on three S4s of mine.
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Conclusion: It's not a phone defect.
I have done some testing, and concluded (at least for me) it is software/hardware combo as said previously (heating up). Since I have the phone set up exactly how I want it (rooted and all), and I really don't want to return it since the phone itself is perfect (no physical defects with buttons, screen, etc), I kept a really good watch on when it does it, and it only does it after I have the screen on for like an hour or so, and the phone itself gets warm/hot. If the temp stays below 95F the brightness stays constant. Only if it gets up in the 100s I start to see it, so I do believe it's auto-dimming to cool off the phone. I can live with that since it doesn't get that hot all the time. Mostly playing games, or heavy browsing on the web using desktop mode, and when it does do it the change is slight. I only really notice it on white screens. I was worried since I thought it was a defect, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I'm super happy with this beast. Best phone I ever owned.
On a related note I do remember my GSII doing it on TW. After I put CM on it I never saw it.

Lux is the answer to tame that issue with auto brightness
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Lux is the answer to tame that issue with auto brightness
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No lux is not the answer I tried that too. I just got my new phone after returning it and it does the same thing . As BobbyPhoenix stated I think it's software related too and it's when the phone gets warm and I think how much it adjusts is based on how hot it gets. I guess I'll have to live with it because I love this phone the screen when full blast puts all others to shame. Hopefully a dev will have a workaround soon

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No lux is not the answer I tried that too. I just got my new phone after returning it and it does the same thing . As BobbyPhoenix stated I think it's software related too and it's when the phone gets warm and I think how much it adjusts is based on how hot it gets. I guess I'll have to live with it because I love this phone the screen when full blast puts all others to shame. Hopefully a dev will have a workaround soon
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My wife's S3 does the same on Lux, maybe acts a little different but basically overall it's schizophrenic. It's possible it's goofier with Lux installed. Now there is another layer to manage.

http://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-note-3/320459-galaxy-note-3-brightness-changes-while-viewing-internet-pages.html