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I really like 95% of this phone but I can't get one with no major issues. These are the things that are making me considering switching to an S3
- battery life still isn't great on the latest update. S3 should be much better
- inconsistent wifi - I don't have the hardware problem on this one (previous ones have) but staying in the same spot, I still a signal which fluctuates alot, where other devices recieve a consistent strong signal
- Chrome browser - really like this most of the time but I frequently just get a blank white screen and no amount of reloading works - it affects any website and all open tabs.
- overheating..especially when on charge (playing games) it flashes red/green or even just browsing (on low brightness) it gets very warm to touch (high 40's degrees C shown on Batter Monitor Widget)
I'm on stock BTW and am not a root-er so I'm not considering other ROMs. Had an S2 previously, liked it but not too keen the gingerbread look which the S3 seems to have stuck with on their ICS touchwizz) Any advice appreciated.
The S3s wifi is awful I have both. The S3 also gets very warm when playing games and charging. The issue with chrome is the app not the phone. Mine does it on the s3. The battery life would be better of you had more than one battery. As far as a single charge goes they are about the same.
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Chrome is like this because it's beta man. It's not because of the phone. I have this problem too.
Use Opera, it's perfect and damn fast.
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ste1164 said:
The S3s wifi is awful I have both. The S3 also gets very warm when playing games and charging. The issue with chrome is the app not the phone. Mine does it on the s3. The battery life would be better of you had more than one battery. As far as a single charge goes they are about the same.
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Fair enough on the Chrome thing. I thought the s3 battery is meant to be a fair bit longer lasting (it's more powerful for starters). Guess these phones will run hot, just didn't expect it to stop charging as it's overheating when just browsing etc.
Which of the two handsets do you prefer?
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The S3s wifi is awful I have both. The S3 also gets very warm when playing games and charging. The issue with chrome is the app not the phone. Mine does it on the s3. The battery life would be better of you had more than one battery. As far as a single charge goes they are about the same.
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Flash siyah kernel, it.has.excellent battery life.and.extended wifi.range and you can undervolt or.overclock with.the.built.in.app. on average i.get just over 4 hours screen on time, some report even.five hours, i guess it depends how much you.under volt. Longest battery lasted with moderate use was 36 hours
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I prefer the one x myself & I know you can mod it but I was basing this as if it was stock no mods. & the s3 lasts a bit longer but not a major difference. I was plugging them in the same time.
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Have both s3 and hox. I use the hox over s3. The pros far outweigh the cons. Especially if you dont intend to root and use custom roms. Stock cheezwiz on sgs3 is just pathetic. Sense is miles ahead and with the latest update it rocks. Stay with the hox.
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I have the htx one x my colleague has the s3 we don't notice any significant difference in the battery life. The HTC does not last playing sonic for the tigra. Also if wifi is intermittent the battery drains fast.
I get a day easily under normal use though.
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Stop worrying about these chidlren toys .. Buy a note 2 when it comes out...
I think the One X is better with the new base(2.17), and with Jelly Bean it's gonna be awesome, so don't get an S3!
I'm on my 3rd hox now, WiFi is really bad have to be in the same room as router, not acceptable if you ask me.
Yes this is a great phone but I can't keep hanging around for getting a phone works as it should.
Shame on HTC
I've just ordered gs3 from Asda online for 450 coming Tuesday.
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HOX beats s3 already with new update and with andro 4.1 it gonna be awesome.
Amazing and awesome ness won't fix my last three phones that had **** WiFi, neither will jelly bean or 4.1
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Kickasskev said:
Amazing and awesome ness won't fix my last three phones that had **** WiFi, neither will jelly bean or 4.1
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Why are you still here? Move on.
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Why are you still here? Move on.
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Because he has an HOX so of course he's entitled to be here. And enough with defending HTC and bashing the disgruntled customers. They're entitled to voice their dissatisfaction. Just because you dont have to change many times to get a defect free handset doesnt mean you can rely on that to claim that HTC has done a good job w the manufacturing process. You're HTC's customers, not their employees. NO need to get worked up when somebody complains about a real issue.
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Amazing and awesome ness won't fix my last three phones that had **** WiFi, neither will jelly bean or 4.1
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Withe the last 2.17 released no WiFi issue at all if you already on this release and still have this problem you should check your router.
In other hand don't believe that the S3 is better than the one X , the first thing you gonna miss is the one X brilliant display.
Wish you the best
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Because he has an HOX so of course he's entitled to be here. And enough with defending HTC and bashing the disgruntled customers. They're entitled to voice their dissatisfaction. Just because you dont have to change many times to get a defect free handset doesnt mean you can rely on that to claim that HTC has done a good job w the manufacturing process. You're HTC's customers, not their employees. NO need to get worked up when somebody complains about a real issue.
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You're the only person that sounds worked up. If you or he hate the product, move on. Why is that so hard?
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Good to hear that people have also problems with the Chrome Page loading and I am not the only one. Hope they will fix it soon since it actually lost the Beta status few weeks ago.
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Kickasskev said:
I'm on my 3rd hox now, WiFi is really bad have to be in the same room as router, not acceptable if you ask me.
Yes this is a great phone but I can't keep hanging around for getting a phone works as it should.
Shame on HTC
I've just ordered gs3 from Asda online for 450 coming Tuesday.
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Make sure it's not a WiFi antenna disconnection, make sure that your router is not on a channel where there's loads of interference, make sure that your phone is on 2.17.
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pingu01 said:
I really like 95% of this phone but I can't get one with no major issues. These are the things that are making me considering switching to an S3
- battery life still isn't great on the latest update. S3 should be much better
- inconsistent wifi - I don't have the hardware problem on this one (previous ones have) but staying in the same spot, I still a signal which fluctuates alot, where other devices recieve a consistent strong signal
- Chrome browser - really like this most of the time but I frequently just get a blank white screen and no amount of reloading works - it affects any website and all open tabs.
- overheating..especially when on charge (playing games) it flashes red/green or even just browsing (on low brightness) it gets very warm to touch (high 40's degrees C shown on Batter Monitor Widget)
I'm on stock BTW and am not a root-er so I'm not considering other ROMs. Had an S2 previously, liked it but not too keen the gingerbread look which the S3 seems to have stuck with on their ICS touchwizz) Any advice appreciated.
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1. S3 isn't, AMOLED EATS battery compared to S-LCD2. Unless you get another battery, in which case you'll blow the One X away.
2. Make sure there isn't any interference on your router, and make sure that the fluctuations are not affecting actual use of WiFi.
3. Chrome does this for everything.
4. Overheating will happen if you charge while playing games. Don't do it on these phones unless you really want to destroy it early from overheating. If you're going to charge it, leave it alone and stick with light use. Undervolting can also help with these issues, but if you go too far you will cause the phone to randomly go into bootloops that require a power button hold down to fix, or having the phone fall into a sleep of death.
WiFi signal fluctuations may also just be the phone's signal indicator actually being more representative of true signal. The only way to really know is to look at something like WiFi Analyzer and compare the dBm.
It's the same problem I've had with all three phones, when I squeeze the top right of the phone the reception goes full, but the first few weeks of using the phone the WiFi is perfect.
I'm pretty gutted that I'm movin on because I really like this phone, I'm not the biggest fan of Samsung but its the only other equivalent at the moment, I've had the hox from day 1 and its been great while the WiFi works, that's the only reason I'm changing, other wise I'd be HTC all the way
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Does this phone have any wakeup lag when the power button is pressed like the Note 1 has? Does the screen on the Note 2 come on instantly when the power button is pressed?
Mine has a slight lag. My S3 does as well. It kind of drives me nuts.
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Same here..
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You should take advantage of that to know that your phone is well sleeping and not awoke
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You should take advantage of that to know that your phone is well sleeping and not awoke
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My Nexus sleeps well and it has no wakeup lag. Same as HTC phones - no wakeup lag. I've been really considering a Note 2 but if it has wakeup lag like my SGS2 and Note 1 had (and it sounds like it does) I'm not touching one.
No lag at all.
Same lags here... And sometimes, when i press home button, phone doesn't wake up...
I removed shortcuts on lockscreen, (placebo effect), and it seems to wake up faster sometimes...
It's like all new Samsung phones... We need many updates to have something running great !
I think it is because of softkey lights. I have a Galaxy Ace with softkey backlights and a Galaxy Fit without backlights for softkeys and I notice that the Fit has very less wakeup lag(almost instant) when compared to my Ace which takes 2 sec to wake up. Both are almost the same specs and have the same type of firmware.
No lags, if your phone is in deep sleep, ofc it will take more time to wake up.....
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No lags, if your phone is in deep sleep, ofc it will take more time to wake up.....
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As I said before, my Nexus deep sleeps fine and there's no wakeup lag. HTC phones don't have wakeup lag either. So the "deep sleep" argument is not correct.
You can watch youtube, there are few tutorial to "fix" that. all you have to do is to disable S Voice when pressing the home key.
Go to s voice's settings and disable 'open via the home key' and 'wake up command'
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Hmm that's not cool lol. Considering I'm getting one and my One S has zero lag waking up. Maybe its a touchwhiz thing? If it is then I bet a different ROM like CM10 or AOKP will be the resolution
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I have disabled s voice totally via titanium backup..no lag
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Thank you for asking this question. My htc has zero lag too and I know all the Sammy's I've seen do. And return to home screen (redraw?) lag.
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why do people care about this is saving you batter inst t it jesus you people can never be satisfied
I have no lag either
Just buy the phone you wont be disappointed
You will always find people ready to slag phones off and half the time they have never even owned the phone!!!
I have note 1 and note 2 and note 2 is way way better sreen is sharper brighter
Altho I can tell differece in size but if you never had note1 you wouldnt
Camera better
Smoother ui
Jb is sweet and butter smooth
Batt way better im a heavy user
Im glad I upgraded from note1
Phone can only get better once the devs start on it but at moment im happy on stock jb altho 320dpi is huge and cant wait to get tsblet mode but not if it means loosing features
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The wake up lag represents that the phone is in deep sleep. It is a feature of Samsung processors, the deep sleep state so it can last very long on standby.
Sounds like sloppy design to me, it should at least be an option you can disable. It would be good to read something technical on the subject if you have a source?
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because of google play???
moved to new thread.
This is the link from the T Mobile android dev. I have it on my i317and it made big difference http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1970870
jeremyandroid said:
This is the link from the T Mobile adroid dev. I have it on my i317and it made big difference http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1970870
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Wow that's awesome, I got a Note 2 with the warmer whites and I was hoping someone would be able to make the screen brighter. Now I have to wait for the ota update for multi window in order to root and be able to apply this!
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This is the link from the T Mobile adroid dev. I have it on my i317and it made big difference http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1970870
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Works here...thanks for the find.
Why would anyone want to increase brightness on their note 2?!?! Lmao I feel like at halfway it's already too bright.. At max it looks like I'm carrying the Sun in my pocket haha!
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Why would anyone want to increase brightness on their note 2?!?! Lmao I feel like at halfway it's already too bright.. At max it looks like I'm carrying the Sun in my pocket haha!
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In most circumstances, the Note 2 has more than enough brightness, but out in the sun, the extra brightness may help a bit at times.
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In most circumstances, the Note 2 has more than enough brightness, but out in the sun, the extra brightness may help a bit at times.
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Exactly and some of us got a Note 2 with the crappy warmer whites issues so extra brightness helps there. My OG note is brighter in the white color range than my Note 2.
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Exactly and some of us got a Note 2 with the crappy warmer whites issues so extra brightness helps there. My OG note is brighter in the white color range than my Note 2.
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ya i thought was the only one qith the warmer whites. this did make it a little better . i wonder if ita possible to reduce the warmness of the whites. because when i look at the phone at a certain angle the whites look great
I ended up with warm white color as well. This helps a little but not too much.
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Definitely a noticeable difference. Never thought about looking to see what the other forums are doing
Doesn't work for me. It keeps installing wrong. Idk it's weird. Oh well. Not that big a deal. I mean it's only ten percent.
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Android_Noob_2k12 said:
Doesn't work for me. It keeps installing wrong. Idk it's weird. Oh well. Not that big a deal. I mean it's only ten percent.
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Thats strange .Sorry about that. However you are the first to report an issue. It made a nice difference on my phone I actually put it as a system app in my Rom. What Rom are you on?
JDEVIL LK7 ROM
jeremyandroid said:
Thats strange .Sorry about that. However you are the first to report an issue. It made a nice difference on my phone I actually put it as a system app in my Rom. What Rom are you on?
JDEVIL LK7 ROM
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u used this tool for a while. and i have also make restarts. after the reboot i opened "a brighter note" and the screen will be a little bit brighter.
suddenly, with no change on my note 2 it doesn´t works anymore. i deinstalled it and installed fresh. no go. is there a workaround or a hot tip for me ?
Worked for me just changed it on my homescreen and saw a difference, how much will this effect my screen life overtime, is there a real chance of overheat at 10% ?
Is it me or is the auto brightness on the screen quite poor compared to stock? With stock, I remember I could see the screen change all the time.
Also, the notification color LED looks....off. Blue is much lighter, red looks different. But blue isn't nearly at blue nor as bright.
Also the network status thing seems to change a lot...I can go from LTE to H+ to H to 3G all in the same spot within 10 minutes. While in stock it was always on 4g or LTE anywhere I went.
The notification for voicemail is un-deletable for some reason....
The call quality on CM10 is quite poor compared to touchwiz, It isn't bad, but it isn't nearly as good. It seems CM10 lacks the last settings for this kind of stuff. I am not sure if anyone else thinks so. If not, how can I fix this?
Last thing, Is there a good alternative to the Touchwiz camera? I'd love to have HDR, all the filters, and modes back from the Touchwiz camera. I believe HDR is coming in 4.2. There are a lot of camera apps, but very few have HDR AND other features. They have one or the other. Isn't 4.2 bringing HDR?
Thanks guys. So far I am loving CM10. Everything runs far smoother and looks prettier. Best of all, I'll probably have 4.2 by the time the OTA updates comes out for AT&T.
Can't answer all your questions but with regards to the camera app every one I've tried is garbage. You're better off forgetting that your phone can take pictures until 4.2 comes out.
Edit: actually every one isn't garbage, but like you said they're all missing 1 feature or another or they're unintuitive or slow.
Pro capture is decent but lacks HDR and the panorama mode is a pain to use (not as bad as stock android but it doesn't make sense the way it works). Give that one a shot.
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The reason your service is changing frequeantly isn't actually a problem or anything wrong. With CM10 it is reporting the actual signal your phone is getting. With touchwiz it's reporting what you could be connected to. Basically on your stock TW the actual signal will change from LTE to H+ and 3G to save your battery from constantly staying on the LTE connection. Your service doesn't indicate this change because that would annoy most users. On CM10 this change is reported. It's actually the same behavior of your internal radio but you are just seeing it fluctuate more as it is doing it's job to save your battery.
Glad you asked about the camera though. It's the only thing holding me back from flashing because I like to take lots of pictures and the quality just isn't there.
Anyone have some help on the other questions
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Can't answer all your questions but with regards to the camera app every one I've tried is garbage. You're better off forgetting that your phone can take pictures until 4.2 comes out.
Edit: actually every one isn't garbage, but like you said they're all missing 1 feature or another or they're unintuitive or slow.
Pro capture is decent but lacks HDR and the panorama mode is a pain to use (not as bad as stock android but it doesn't make sense the way it works). Give that one a shot.
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So turns out that this app does in fact have HDR but it's called 'reduced noise'. So that's taken care of. The only other annoying thing is the constant popups telling you to buy the full version, but I think it's on sale for 99 cents now. Or at least it was yesterday
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No Secure LTE or WIFI
i've had CM 10on my gs3 for almost a month. now i can't login to any app that requires a secure connection. anyone know why and is there a way to fix without wiping?
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So turns out that this app does in fact have HDR but it's called 'reduced noise'. So that's taken care of. The only other annoying thing is the constant popups telling you to buy the full version, but I think it's on sale for 99 cents now. Or at least it was yesterday
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Interesting. How did you figure out that "reduced noise" is the same as HDR? Does it actually merge two exposures? If not, it may help scenes that would otherwise be over/underexposed, but it's not really HDR...
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Interesting. How did you figure out that "reduced noise" is the same as HDR? Does it actually merge two exposures? If not, it may help scenes that would otherwise be over/underexposed, but it's not really HDR...
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I was doing some research into the app and in 1 of the reviews that I found the reviewer said that. It does take 2 pictures and then merges them.... but I haven't had a chance to test it out properly
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I was doing some research into the app and in 1 of the reviews that I found the reviewer said that. It does take 2 pictures and then merges them.... but I haven't had a chance to test it out properly
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That is what HDR does. It over exposes and under exposed the picture at different ISO settings. It would take one picture at 200 ISO and the other at 800 ISO. This allows you take a picture where it is light where is is normally dark and dark where it is normally light. This prevents a picture from being too dark in some parts and washed out it others.
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I was doing some research into the app and in 1 of the reviews that I found the reviewer said that. It does take 2 pictures and then merges them.... but I haven't had a chance to test it out properly
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If true, that's very cool!
Hi all,
I have a Galaxy S4 I9500, I keep my brightness at full all the time. When I finish playing games even "subway surfer" for 10 minutes, and exit to the desktop, I find that brightness is lowered alittle bit & increase gradually to the previous state which is full brightness (from 5 to 10 seconds). Could this be a result of that when playing games, the device uses the 1.6 quad core CPU and upon exit it takes alittle time (those 5 to 10 seconds) to shift to the 1.2 quad core CPU?
Really need your help.
Thanks alot.
Have you unticked the Auto box? You should.
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Do you have powersaving mode enabled? Is the Screen Power saving box checked?
Pepo7M said:
Hi all,
I have a Galaxy S4 I9500, I keep my brightness at full all the time. When I finish playing games even "subway surfer" for 10 minutes, and exit to the desktop, I find that brightness is lowered alittle bit & increase gradually to the previous state which is full brightness (from 5 to 10 seconds). Could this be a result of that when playing games, the device uses the 1.6 quad core CPU and upon exit it takes alittle time (those 5 to 10 seconds) to shift to the 1.2 quad core CPU?
Really need your help.
Thanks alot.
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It takes milliseconds to switch CPUs not minutes. You most likely have auto brightness turned on.
Can I ask why you're posting in the T-Mobile section when you have an international device?
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elesbb said:
Can I ask why you're posting in the T-Mobile section when you have an international device?
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Can I ask why you are posting in the gs4 section when you obviously have a last gen device ?
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KillaHurtz said:
Can I ask why you are posting in the gs4 section when you obviously have a last gen device ?
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Youre kidding me right? Lmao. To answer your question, because im smarter than you and i can still help out even though i don't have the device. And i was saying that because they would get a lot more help/replies if they posted in the proper device forum. Duh.
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Youre kidding me right? Lmao. To answer your question, because im smarter than you and i can still help out even though i don't have the device. And i was saying that because they would get a lot more help/replies if they posted in the proper device forum. Duh.
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Given your poor grammar & punctuation, I seriously doubt that.
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Given your poor grammar & punctuation, I seriously doubt that.
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Considering the fact i am not in english class, nor am i writing a book, essay, etc. thats sad you judge my performance on my english. lmao. what a joke you are. im done now. i have made my point. whatever you say, and any insults you can pull, don't bother me any. my thanks meter is way higher than yours so ive obviously done more than you have.
Performance ? lol
S4 Brightness Vs. Overheating...
Thank you all for your reply, I keep my brightness at full all the time. and auto-brightness is disabled. i came to find out that the brightness dimming and returning to full again, is only when the phone is overheating. i read an article about a phenomena like this but for the Xperia Z, it says that this is normal as it's a way that warns you that the phone is overheating and to preserve the screen and the battery. Do you think that this is also true and normal for the S4 I9500? Thanks.
BTW, I'm really sorry for posting about I9500 here, but i'm really new to forums and i just didn't know what to do.